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Speaker 1: On today's OTP Road to Nashville, Titans Online dot COM's

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Speaker 1: Jim Watt takes a break from writing meat stories a

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Speaker 1: potential options at number nineteen. Amy Wells and the NFL

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Speaker 1: That's today on the OTP Road to Nashville, and we

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Speaker 1: start now. It's two days until players are drafted in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the OTP Road to Nashville. My name is

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Speaker 1: Mike Keith, joined by Amy Wells. We are NFL today.

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Speaker 1: We are NFL today. I like it, Yes we are.

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Speaker 1: We are supporting the entire event. That's it. Equal opportunity here.

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Speaker 1: And look who our guest is. It's a great Jim

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Speaker 1: Wyatt jacket. Are you cold? A little wind breaker? Is

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Speaker 1: it raining? A little drafty speaking a drafts, a little

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, did anyone else just hear him say

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Speaker 1: told us what was it? He told us last week

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Speaker 1: See we rehearse this in the parking lot at Lows.

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Speaker 1: On the weekends you have club meeting flowers where Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Now you have just bumping weekends we do. Wow. How

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Speaker 1: about if you're joining us live, thank you, and also

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Speaker 1: want to tell you you can ask us questions during

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Speaker 1: But that comes later in the program. By the way, Jim,

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Speaker 1: I checked it out. First twenty days of April. He's

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Speaker 1: way cholesterol is excellent. This is an intimate episode, that's right.

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Speaker 1: He brought up. Yes, Jim later in the program, will

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Speaker 1: take a full physical. We're glad to have you with

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, two different season ticket member

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Speaker 1: The Boss, Amy Adams Strunk. It was fantastic Amy Wells

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Speaker 1: but what would you play before we get away from him?

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00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,880
Speaker 1: Curious if you pick Williams, where do you he could start?

426
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 1: A guard? He could start a tackle. Yeah, that's what

427
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 1: you could. I mean you can, I mean you could

428
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: do whatever. He may be a center. I mean some

429
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: people think he's a center someday. I mean, this guy

430
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 1: can just play. I went, however, with t J. Hockinson

431
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:24,199
Speaker 1: from I've watched. I'm not a tape guy. I'm not

432
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: an expert, but t J. Hawkinson would never come off

433
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:34,400
Speaker 1: the field. He blocks, he catches, he runs, he I mean,

434
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,959
Speaker 1: he is so good. He might be one of the

435
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,919
Speaker 1: two or three surest things in this draft. And I

436
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 1: mean he's a matchup nightmare. He has good size. That again,

437
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:52,159
Speaker 1: if you've watched his block reel, I mean he flattens dudes.

438
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 1: And I know there are people who thinke tight end.

439
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: And I don't think he falls to nineteen. I don't

440
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,439
Speaker 1: think he it's by Green Bay at twelve. I'm hoping

441
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: Jacksonville does not take him at seven because I don't

442
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,360
Speaker 1: want to deal with him. But he's a really good blocker.

443
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,160
Speaker 1: And then he looks like Dallas Clark after he catches

444
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,439
Speaker 1: the ball, and I guess, and we've referred to it

445
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: on the OTP road to Nashville. I'm still a little

446
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: burned about the fact that Jason Witten is still in

447
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: the league and that we could have taken him. So,

448
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: I mean, when you and I just think at nineteen philosophically,

449
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: and you've touched on it some with Simmons and you've

450
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: certainly touched on it Jim with Wilkins, if you can

451
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,959
Speaker 1: get that guy who's just gonna be a good player

452
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 1: for you for years, that you're not saying, Okay, we're

453
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: doing this for week two of this year. No, we're

454
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 1: doing this because we're gonna get five good years. That

455
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,640
Speaker 1: guy's just really good. Yeah, I just don't want him

456
00:26:53,640 --> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 1: to go to Jacksonville. He looks a bit like Carl

457
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: Kluge and uh, you know from just from appearance, but

458
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:08,719
Speaker 1: he runs better. Yeah, but you'd love another guy like

459
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: that to come to the locker room who's got that

460
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: personality and that work ethic and he is a phenomenal player.

461
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: I mean old fans really good, the guy that's been

462
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 1: projecting times. But Cockinton's better. I mean, he can do,

463
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: he's a better blocker. I think he's he's going to

464
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: be a better pro in my mind. And um, I

465
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: wouldn't hate that pick. I mean people would the first

466
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: thing you'd say here is well what about Delaney, Well,

467
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: you know Delaney is is going to is heading into

468
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,120
Speaker 1: his fourteenth season. I'm not even can't play forever. It's

469
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: another weapon. But yeah, but I'm just saying this guy,

470
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, this guy is so good. Yeah, I'm

471
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 1: with him, And it doesn't have anything to do with

472
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: what we have or what we don't have. I'm just

473
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: saying I want good players, and I want guys who

474
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 1: can score touchdowns and and he can do that. That's

475
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: why I also considered Hollywood Brown, who I'm look. I mean,

476
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 1: that guy's just I think he's fun. So so what

477
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,640
Speaker 1: would I take? But if I'm picking, I'm with you.

478
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:07,360
Speaker 1: I think your percentages say defense because of need. But

479
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 1: John has set himself up where he doesn't have to

480
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: do that. He can he can just say, you know,

481
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 1: this guy is so good. I'm I'm not going to

482
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: leave him there. And all we've heard, you know, not

483
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 1: only from John, but from everybody that knows the draft

484
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 1: and studies the draft. This draft is deep on the

485
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: defensive line and ed rusher. So you could take an

486
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: offensive player and then get your defensive guy fifty one

487
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: who do the social media folks say they could not

488
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: pass up at nineteen. It's all over the road and

489
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: some people aren't playing by the rules because they're picking

490
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: like six, you only get one pick at nineteen, guys,

491
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: all right, I've got no offense. Dexter Lawrence T. J.

492
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: Hawkinson like you, DK Metcalf, got Brian Burns, Montes Sweat,

493
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown, Someone's in Mike Keith. That was nice. Yeah,

494
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: that's here's another Brian Burns. Like I mean, everybody that

495
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: has been in the mock drafts is basically someone that

496
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: if they fell to nineteen, Titans fans would be pleased.

497
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a look, just as we kind

498
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: of fill you in. Just over forty eight hours away

499
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: from the first round. These are the teams that figure

500
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: to have big Thursdays because they have multiple picks in

501
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: the first round. Oakland has three, they go at four,

502
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: and then the picks that they got from Dallas and

503
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: Chicago twenty four and twenty seven. The Giants have Cleveland's

504
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: number one pick at seventeen. They also have their own

505
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: at number six, and then Green Bay has picked twelve,

506
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: which is theirs, and then they have picked thirty from

507
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: New Orleans that came in last year's deal for Marcus Davenport.

508
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: So those are the teams that figured to have a

509
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: big Thursday the teams that will be doing nothing on Thursday, watching,

510
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: maybe eating hot chicken. Cleveland doesn't pick until forty nine.

511
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: Dallas doesn't have a pick until fifty eight. New Orleans

512
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: we mentioned, traded their pick, so they won't go until

513
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 1: the end of round two. Chicago doesn't go until round

514
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: three at eighty seven. Now that doesn't mean they can't

515
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: trade future picks to get back in the first round,

516
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: but right now those teams are not in it. That

517
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: means one more night of sleep for Chicago's staff. They

518
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: are going to be sleeping on Thursday night, all right.

519
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: So teams that have the capitol to move up. Jim White,

520
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: take a look at this list. Oakland has four of

521
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: the first thirty five picks, so if they make a

522
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: pick at four and then say they want to go

523
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 1: back up in the teams to grab somebody else, they

524
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: can do it. The Giants have those picks right there

525
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: at six seventeen, thirty seven and one oh eight. Summer

526
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: speculating that that pick thirty seven may go to Arizona

527
00:30:55,440 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 1: for Josh Rosen. If the Cardinals decide to select kyler Y,

528
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: keep an eye on Jacksonville because after seven they have

529
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: an early two and then an early three, and then

530
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: a compensatory a late three. Green Bay we mentioned the

531
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: two ones. They've got a two and a three. Houston

532
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: is a team that's being talked about moving up, potentially

533
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: to grab an offensive lineman or a corner. They may

534
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: move up from twenty three, and they could do that

535
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: because they have back to back picks in the second round.

536
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: Indianapolis has the Jets number two, so if Indianapolis wants

537
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: to package twenty six and thirty four, they would have

538
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: the opportunity to jump up. They also have their own

539
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: two and then their own three. There's talk that Kansas

540
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: City may deal twenty nine and sixty one to Seattle

541
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: for defensive end Frank Clark. That could be so instead

542
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 1: of moving up, maybe they just trade those picks and

543
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: then look at New England. Doesn't New England? How do

544
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: they have like nineteen picks every year and they're all good?

545
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: New England has six picks in the first one oh one.

546
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: So if they want to go up in the first round,

547
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: if they want to really make some things happen crazy

548
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: on day two. I mean, they've got all of those options.

549
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: I'm just not even interested in that, Like New England

550
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: get out of here. If we're tired of it, well,

551
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: then let's go to the back that up graphic teams

552
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: that may want to step back. The Jets are a

553
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: team at three that may want to because you see

554
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: the hole from three and then they don't pick again

555
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: till sixty eight. Seattle, if they're gonna deal Frank Clark,

556
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: then they want to add picks because they only have

557
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: four and they pick at twenty one. Then they don't

558
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: pick again till eighty four, so they may want to

559
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: do that. Baltimore goes from twenty two to eighty five,

560
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: So while Baltimore does have more picks than just those two,

561
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: they have that major gap. And then there's some thought

562
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: at the Rams, who pick at the end of the

563
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: first round and then twice at the end of the

564
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: third round, may want to gather some more picks to

565
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: get in the second round. So those are good candidates

566
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: to back up. So that's a little bit of a

567
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: look at that man all happening soon. It's I can't

568
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: believe the whole time, we're going through all that and

569
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: there's so many possibilities. It's forty eight hours away, eight

570
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: hours away, and the writers, I mean, you talk about

571
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: being in a good position with so many picks early now,

572
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: depending on who you'll listen to, they'll tell you there's

573
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: anywhere from fifteen to twenty two, twenty three first round

574
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: guys in this draft. I mean, I think the Titans

575
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: are in a pretty good position sitting at nineteen. But

576
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: if you're outside of that number, and again everybody's board

577
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: is different, then I think that's when you maybe try

578
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: to get up and get another premier player. And I'll

579
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: be curious too, who makes the leap? All right, you

580
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: had a chance to visit with the new Mike Mayock.

581
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: I did antwork and he's not new. He's Daniel Jeremiah.

582
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: We know him well. He's a former scout. He played

583
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: quarterback at Appalachian State. He does the Chargers games on

584
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: radio with Matt money Smith. It's great broadcast, by the way.

585
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 1: They do a fantastic job. And you've got an opportunity

586
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: to just pepper him with questions yesterday. Yep, I'm so

587
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,439
Speaker 1: excited to hear it. So set it up and throw

588
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 1: it to it. Well, we talked about a whole bunch

589
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: of different things. We were able to address the latest news,

590
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: everything to get you ready for the draft, but we

591
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: also talked about him and how he's prepared for his

592
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: first year as the guy. Daniel, do you feel extra

593
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: pressure this year being NFL Network's ranking draft analysts? Not really,

594
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: It's I have too much fun to feel pressure with

595
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: the role that I'm in. I mean, it's it's been

596
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 1: nice to have been on the set and have been

597
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: around the group and see how it's all done. So

598
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: I just tell everybody to ask how different is this?

599
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,800
Speaker 1: I said, Well, instead of talking second, I'll talk first.

600
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: But it's basically the same job. Has it changed the

601
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: way that you prepare at any point leading up to

602
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: the draft a little bit? And just in terms of,

603
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:18,399
Speaker 1: you know, some of the videos that will roll out

604
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 1: during the draft that you know I have a chance

605
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: to have a little bit of an impact on those

606
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: in terms of the exos and what we want to

607
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: really focus on and you kind of carve out the

608
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: direction we're going to go there. But once the draft starts,

609
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,240
Speaker 1: in terms of you know, being able to discuss players,

610
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: discuss teams, how it fits or you like it, you

611
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: don't like it. It's the same preparation that I've always done.

612
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: So just a little tweak there with some of the

613
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 1: video stuff. In your latest Top fifty, you had Nick

614
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: Bosa at number one. Tell me why I'm a Nick

615
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: Bosa guy. I have been since I went to the

616
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl and saw him against USC and saw that live.

617
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: And you go back to last year's draft, I mean

618
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: that was one of the knocks on Sam Darnold was

619
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't play well against Ohio State. Well,

620
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: there's a reason why I didn't play well against Ohio

621
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: State because Bosa was hitting him every other snap. So

622
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 1: that was my first time I've really seeing him live.

623
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 1: And then I know he was injured this year, But

624
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: every time he's been on a football field and I've

625
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: watched the tape, he's dominated. He's found a way to

626
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 1: have a big time impact on the game. So, you know,

627
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: doing the Charger games as well and seeing you know,

628
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: big brother and the impact that he's had, I'm sure

629
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: that has a little bit of influence because it is

630
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: somewhat the family business. It seems like all we've been

631
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: hearing about is Kyler Murray and Arizona. What do you

632
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 1: think is going on now? Look, it could change like that.

633
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: I still believe Kyler Murray's at being the first overall

634
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: pick to the Cardinals. I know there's been some buzz

635
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: out there that maybe they go in a different direction,

636
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 1: But to me, it feels like the toothpaste is kind

637
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: of out of the tube with Josh Rosen and to

638
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:40,280
Speaker 1: try and you try and put that relationship back together

639
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,319
Speaker 1: would be a little troublesome to me. It seems to

640
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: me all signs pointing towards a new quarterback there and

641
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: now I'm just anxious to find out where does Josh

642
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,720
Speaker 1: Rosen end up. That'll be in a compelling storyline to follow.

643
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: You have Jeffrey Simmons listed as the number fifteen player

644
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: in this draft. Given everything that has happened with him,

645
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,720
Speaker 1: with his acl with the incident coming out of high school,

646
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,399
Speaker 1: do you still believe that he is a first round pick?

647
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: I believe, if healthy, he's a top five player in

648
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: this draft. That's how talented he is. I think he

649
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: will go in the first round. It's probably more likely

650
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:13,839
Speaker 1: towards the bottom end of the first round, where you've

651
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 1: got some teams like you're picking at the bottom of

652
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: the first round. You're winning games, You've got a little

653
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: more security. You can take a chance on a guy

654
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: might have a richer year. You have to sit out

655
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: the entire season. So I do think he goes in

656
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: that area. You know. I'm glad you mentioned you know,

657
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: some of the issues, not just the ACL there's the

658
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: video that's out there, unfortunate situation with him that happened

659
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 1: when he was in high school. And when you talk

660
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: to everybody at Mississippi State, he's been a model citizen.

661
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: They've had absolutely no issues and they all vouch for him,

662
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 1: not just as a player, as a person. And I

663
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: think the teams that have done their homework on that,

664
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 1: you don't love the situation. By any stretch, teams have

665
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: become a little more comfortable with him. Another Mississippi State guy,

666
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: Montes Sweat. He has a heart condition. So some people

667
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: are reporting that he's coming off of team's boards. Number one,

668
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: do you even think that's true? And number two, how

669
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 1: far do you think he's falling? Yeah, I've talked teams

670
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 1: that have removed him, you know, over the last couple

671
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,879
Speaker 1: of days. So we see this every year where there's

672
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,879
Speaker 1: some some medical situations. Some teams are going to remove

673
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: him from the board. Other teams that are going to

674
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: be cautious and maybe okay, he drops down a little bit,

675
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: and some teams, based off the condition and the medical

676
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,240
Speaker 1: expertise they have on hand, feel comfortable with the situation.

677
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: So the good news for Montez it just takes one team.

678
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to be a favorite of

679
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: all thirty two teams. You don't have to be on

680
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: all thirty two draftwards. You only need to be on one.

681
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: So that'll be interesting to see where he ends up.

682
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: If you have a choice between Simmons and Sweat, who

683
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: are you taking? I think Simmons is a better football player,

684
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: so I would say I would take Simmons, although you

685
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: know it's again it's two complicated situations. I think if

686
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,399
Speaker 1: the doctors were okay on Sweat and felt good about

687
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: that situation, I could see somebody lean in that direction.

688
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: Speaking of guys that are coming from the same team,

689
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: do you have a favorite defensive prospect coming out of Clemson? Oh, gosh, yeah,

690
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: there's so many of us. To me, it's Christian Wilkins.

691
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 1: Because you're trying to find interior pass rush so rare

692
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 1: to find those guys. So to me, that skill that

693
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: he presents be able to rush the passer inside and

694
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: then generate some negative plays in the run, you know,

695
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 1: with his quickness. To me, he's a top ten player

696
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: in the draft. Now. I'm a big fan of the

697
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 1: rest of the group, and I think we'll see three

698
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 1: of them go in the first round on Thursday night.

699
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: But fad to choose one, I'd go Wilkins. Darnell Savage

700
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: crept your top fifty for the first time. What stands

701
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: out to you about him? He just plays fast. You know,

702
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: he ran fast and sometimes you'll see guys that run

703
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 1: in the four threes, but it doesn't really correlate, doesn't

704
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: translate to the field with him. When you study him,

705
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: you see him just flying around and I like the

706
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: fact you could play him in the slot. He could

707
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: play some man coverage, he can play as the high safety,

708
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 1: and then he's still tough and physical when he fills

709
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: the alley. He just doesn't have that prototype size that

710
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: you're looking for. But in a league, that's the balls

711
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: going up in the air as much as it is

712
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: the ability to cover up put a little more emphasis

713
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: on that. Michigan outside linebacker Chase Winovich also Major Top

714
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 1: fifty for the first time. What pushed him into the

715
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 1: top fifty. I got to the point where I just kept,

716
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: you know, looking at names and kind of he'd been

717
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: hovering around that range, and I say, you know, this

718
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 1: guy just is too active. He makes too many plays.

719
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: He tested really well, ran in the four five, so

720
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: he shows you he's athletic. And at some point in

721
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: time You're like, Okay, why why don't I like this guy?

722
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: Why don't I have him in there? I didn't have

723
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: an answer, So at that point in time, I just said,

724
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 1: you know what, second round range, in that bottom of

725
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: the fifties where he belongs. All right. I saved the

726
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: hardest question for last, the money question in the twenty

727
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 1: nineteen draft. Who are the safest bets? Who are the

728
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: guys that you feel sure about? I'd say Garrett Bradbury

729
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: for the center from NC State, is one of the

730
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,399
Speaker 1: best center prospects I've seen over the last few years.

731
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: You look at Ryan Kelly, who was coming out of

732
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: college goes to the Indianapolis Colton really has emerged the

733
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,919
Speaker 1: best center in the NFL. In my opinion. I think

734
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 1: Bradbury's He's got the ability to be a perennial Pro

735
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,919
Speaker 1: Bowl player, So I feel like he is a very

736
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: safe player. And then you know, if you're gonna look

737
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: at somebody else. And probably my favorite player in the

738
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: draft is t J. Hockinson, you know from Iowa, who's

739
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 1: an in line tight end. Everybody knows how good a

740
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: blocker he is. I think when we praise him so

741
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 1: much as a blocker, it gets lost. This guy gets

742
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: open and catches everything. So to me, he's at Jason

743
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: Witten clone, and as people around the state, no, he

744
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: turned out pretty good. You're here in Nashville. Are you

745
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: just ready to get this thing started? Oh my gosh.

746
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: If there was a fast forward button, I would be

747
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: pressing it as hard as I could right now. What

748
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: a good guy and does a great job. Daniel Jeremiah

749
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,399
Speaker 1: kind enough to stop by the facility yesterday and visit

750
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 1: with you. Absolutely, we had a lot of fun. There

751
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: was a lot to discuss. Yes, well, we focused a

752
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,839
Speaker 1: lot on players and who they're going to pick, who

753
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: the teams are going to pick, who the Titans are

754
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: going to pick. But one thing we want to focus

755
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 1: on here on the OTP road to Nashville. Is who's

756
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: going to make the literal pick, the actual picker. Now

757
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:51,320
Speaker 1: you know that John Robinson is going to make the selection.

758
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 1: He's going to call it in, but he's not going

759
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: to write it down and hand it in. The two

760
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 1: gentlemen with us in the studio when you see some

761
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: election square and you see the Titans, it will be

762
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 1: Anthony Pastrana, the director of football Technology, and Joey Barranco,

763
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: who is the assistant equipment manager. Gentlemen, are you prepared

764
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: for your task? We're ready to go. Yeah, we're ready

765
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 1: to Have you been practicing? Have you been talking things through? Well,

766
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: my daughter is in kindergarten now, so she has a

767
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: little book that you can write letters. And who's the

768
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: actual writer? Anthony du Anthony. Now, so it is one

769
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: person the phone guy and one person is the writ

770
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,439
Speaker 1: it guy. Well, we both listen to the phones heads

771
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: that similar to this um and then what will happen?

772
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: John will call in the pick to us and we'll

773
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: we'll find out in the book. We have a booklet

774
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: that has all the names in it. We'll find the name,

775
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 1: write it down, check it over, check it twice. Things

776
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,799
Speaker 1: like that, how did you get selected for this role?

777
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: That's a great question. I think John would be the

778
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: be the person asked that question too. I'm not really certain.

779
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I know we got an email one morning

780
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: of brut Joey about five in the morning, five in

781
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: the morning, five of them. It was a joke. I

782
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: really didn't know what to think. You know, anytime you

783
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,240
Speaker 1: get an email that early in the morning from your boss,

784
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: you panic a little bit because you're like, what is

785
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: wrong at the office, and then takes a second for

786
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: the you know, for the eyes to kind of get

787
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: focused in on the phone to see exactly what's written down.

788
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: I was kind of in shock because like, what is

789
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: this again? So, you know, that was kind of my

790
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: initial reaction when I saw the email. What would your

791
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: normal duties be during the draft you have any Yeah,

792
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: usually I would just stay back here and when we

793
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 1: made our first pick, we would make the jersey in

794
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 1: the back get that ready, and if they need anything

795
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: in the draft room, we kind of helped them out

796
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 1: do things like that, just kind of be a runner

797
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: if we needed to do anything for the guys upstairs.

798
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: So you're working on all the tape to be called film,

799
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: but you're you're taking care of everything that goes with that. Anthony,

800
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:57,439
Speaker 1: you run a crew of how many now we have

801
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: two full time people and then we have to part

802
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 1: time people. So we've we've ballooned up to five people

803
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: now because once we get going. When you started, it

804
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: was you and Kenny Sparsino, and that was it. That

805
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: was it. It was to two people. And then of

806
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 1: course then you know, we had Craig come along, and

807
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,839
Speaker 1: it was Craig and I Ford for a good number

808
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: of years, and then you know, we started just kind

809
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: of evolving, and you know that required more people and

810
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: more hands and more bodies, and you know, that's that's

811
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:25,800
Speaker 1: kind of how we've we've kind of involved. And I

812
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 1: think we've seen that across Iron Tower organization over the

813
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: last couple of years. So I think that it's just

814
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: you know, part of time and the evolution. So with

815
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:38,320
Speaker 1: Joey working in equipment, APU working in video, you guys

816
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: really have no skills that help when it comes to

817
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 1: taking a player, right. I try to be absolutely I

818
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: really try and pay as a little attention as I mean,

819
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 1: that was so right. I tell people all the time,

820
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 1: I you know, I'm a video guy. I'm not a

821
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 1: I'm not a scout. What are the other people who

822
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 1: are going to be in selection square? Normally like Sake

823
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 1: who does it for Minnesota, who does it for Newing?

824
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: It's usually guys like US video guys, equipment, maybe an

825
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: ops guy, things like that. But um, yeah, those are

826
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: the guys that usually usually are there too. And it

827
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 1: varies from team to team. I mean, there's a handful

828
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 1: of teams that are exactly like us, and there's some

829
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,879
Speaker 1: teams that it might be some other exact from from

830
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: some other part of their organization. So it just varies

831
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: from team to team. This isn't the first year you

832
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 1: guys have done this, That's what you're fourth, because weren't

833
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: the people who did it before, someone from Houston that

834
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: had done it for forty years. For mister I want

835
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: to say, there was someone who lived in New York,

836
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: lived in New York, okay, friends and mister Adams, and

837
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 1: that's the draft was always in New York at that time.

838
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 1: So how it kind of evolved where John wanted to

839
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 1: have some different people, you know, I'm not I'm not

840
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure, but it evolved and here we are.

841
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:57,800
Speaker 1: So when Titans fans see you sitting in selection square

842
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: at the Skermerhorn, where they see you on television, what

843
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: should they know about about what you're doing? So I

844
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: think it's just you know, you What what we're doing

845
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 1: is we're listening back in. So the headphones have are

846
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: the direct phone line back into our draft room. Sometimes

847
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,439
Speaker 1: that phone is open, sometimes it's on mute. So that's

848
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 1: what we're listening for. And then basically what we're doing

849
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: is we're just relaying any information from the selection square

850
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:27,280
Speaker 1: back to the draft room. So and so just picked

851
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 1: this player. This next team is on the clock. This

852
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 1: is how much time we have, just kind of going through.

853
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: When we start getting a little closer to our pick,

854
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:37,479
Speaker 1: and we'll start counting them off, Hey we're now five back,

855
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 1: four back, Just that kind of stuff. Then when the

856
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: team directly in front of us picks, they actually have

857
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: runners from the NFL behind us, and they will have

858
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:49,399
Speaker 1: a two way radio so you don't have to run

859
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: to pick up. We do not. There is no more

860
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: running than we just hand the card to someone behind

861
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 1: us and then they take the card. They actually radio

862
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,040
Speaker 1: who we pick to this to the head table and

863
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 1: then they in turn you know, let everybody else know

864
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,879
Speaker 1: who we pick. So I see Mike has a card

865
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:08,439
Speaker 1: right in front of you. Well, that's what we want

866
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,439
Speaker 1: to do. We want to test you guys out here

867
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 1: on the OTP. So we're gonna give me each of

868
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: you a card and give you a pen, and we

869
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: want to see who can fill this out more accurately.

870
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: And we'll go ahead and give you. We're gonna say

871
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna pick nineteen. Okay, So so you can go

872
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 1: ahead and write that in. We're just round one nineteen

873
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 1: and uh, I'm going to throw out just a name

874
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: and we'll see who can fill out the card more

875
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: quickly and more accurately. The spelling count set. Okay, But

876
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: I mean you know, I mean, this is your job.

877
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: You're supposed to know this. That's true, all right? So

878
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: are you ready? Get ready? They look ready? T J.

879
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: Hawkinson tight end to Iowa. Here we go. So Anthony

880
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,839
Speaker 1: is normally the writer. But what we're gonna find out

881
00:47:55,880 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: here is should it be he's from Iowa? He's from Iowa.

882
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: We're at ten seconds now, boy, I hope we're not

883
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: down to the final position. Did you say was a

884
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: tight end? I don't think I spelled it right, But

885
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: Joey's joy eighteen seconds is very nice hand, right, are

886
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: you supposed to what is this line from? Well, that's

887
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 1: only if it's if we trade it so we can

888
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: get a little, a little, you get a little, maybe

889
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 1: Joey should that can get dicey as far as like

890
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: if there's a big trade that happens, that happens four

891
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: or five teams and you have to write every team

892
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: it's from into there. How much pressure in all seriousness,

893
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 1: how much pressure do you guys feel about this? Because

894
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: you're you're very professional about it. Yeah, you're always professional

895
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 1: at how you do your jobs. But I'm surprised at

896
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 1: just how serious you guys are. Are you afraid John's watching?

897
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: Is that? No? I kind of I kind of see

898
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: it as um. The first time we did was kind

899
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:02,319
Speaker 1: of like an opening kickoff of the first regular season game.

900
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 1: Your heart's kind of thumping, you're nervous because it's the

901
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 1: first time you did it. UM. But now I think

902
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,320
Speaker 1: it's just kind of kind of routine and we know

903
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:12,239
Speaker 1: what to expect. The first time we did it, we

904
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: didn't know what to expect, what was happening around us,

905
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 1: things like that, so I think it's gotten easier over

906
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. Is there going to be

907
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 1: anything different about doing it in Nashville as opposed to

908
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,399
Speaker 1: traveling to some of these other cities. I don't think

909
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: we don't have to get on an airplane. Their anthony

910
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: good with this, Captain Obvious, that's a really nice thing.

911
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 1: I enjoyed not having to battle the air. Sort of

912
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: provisions do you have? And when do you assume the

913
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: position at the table? I mean, how quickly do you

914
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: can you get up and leave? Do you We have

915
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:52,359
Speaker 1: a meeting I think five thirty on Thursday, and then

916
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 1: right around six o'clock we'll call We'll call Carly here

917
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: upstairs to get the phone lines by rants to make

918
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: sure that everything is going the way it should um,

919
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: and then we'll just kind of mute it, and then

920
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: we'll get on the phones probably about six forty and

921
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: just kind of sit and listen and just kind of wait,

922
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:12,360
Speaker 1: do you get snacks? That's what I'm saying. There's snacks,

923
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: there's dinner. Um. Usually we'll kind of rotate, you know,

924
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 1: a couple before our pick if we we're gonna be

925
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 1: there obviously ready to go to both of us. But

926
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: after the pick we can kind of get up and

927
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 1: kind of Usually the first two days, you know, Friday

928
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: or Thursday and Friday, you know, the rounds aren't particularly long,

929
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: so and there is a lot going on, so you know,

930
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: really you don't really get up and move around. Saturday

931
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: get you know, when it's a little more spread out,

932
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: you know, you might need to stretch the lakes. So

933
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 1: it's not like the You're not like the commissioner. You

934
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: don't just do round one and then head out and

935
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 1: hand it off to somebody else. You guys are doing

936
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 1: the whole thing. We're there for the whole thing. It's

937
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 1: quite an honor. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely. I mean it's

938
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 1: a lot of trust. I mean, you know, you think

939
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:56,799
Speaker 1: it's just right in a car, but you know it's

940
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 1: it's a lot of trust and people here to make

941
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 1: sure they have the right people didn't, you know, not

942
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: mess it up, just get it done and like I said,

943
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 1: be professional about it and go about your business. Very

944
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 1: cool stuff, It is really cool. I mean, what an experience.

945
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: It's you get to be part of something that people

946
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 1: can only dream of being close to. So that's so cool.

947
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: Good stuff. Well, Anthony Pastrana, Joey Baranco right here. So

948
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 1: when you see them, you'll say, tell your friends, Oh,

949
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:28,879
Speaker 1: that's Anthony and Joe. They have very good, very good.

950
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: You're very good writers. Work all your long team is

951
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: you know, just the kindergarten notebook. There you go, all right? Well,

952
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 1: coming up on the Wednesday OTP, one day before players

953
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 1: are picked in Nashville, Guess who's back? Coach Dave McGinnis,

954
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 1: Coach Mack will be here, and guess who else is here?

955
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: C J two K Chris Johnson in the house first

956
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 1: round pick in two thousand and eight. You know what

957
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:02,919
Speaker 1: number he was in terms of the round I was getting.

958
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: Guess twenty two. He was the twenty fourth pick of

959
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:08,839
Speaker 1: the two thousand and eight first und He's a pretty

960
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:12,439
Speaker 1: good player when he guesses. As as far as dealing

961
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 1: with him on equipment, Joey, how was it to deal

962
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 1: with CJ on equipment? He was giving a lot of demands. No,

963
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,800
Speaker 1: he wasn't too demanding. But he was one of Nike's

964
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: SMU guys, which means he's a special makeup guy. So

965
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: what did special makeup? Special makeup? So he had his

966
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 1: own shoes, so you had to design his own shoes

967
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: every year, and his own gloves um and then he

968
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 1: had special girdles that had pads all in them that

969
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 1: were sown to what where his knee was, to where

970
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 1: his thigh was, things like that. So if he took

971
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: a hit in a certain area, we can measure out

972
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: where it was and Nike can make a girdle just

973
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 1: for him for what he needed. So that's fascinating. Yeah,

974
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: So my job every week was just to make sure

975
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 1: he had the right shoes. We would he had three

976
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 1: or four different kinds that he could pick from each week,

977
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 1: and then the same with gloves. So we just made

978
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 1: sure he had what he needed. Wow, do you have

979
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: a social media question? Well, more just a shout out,

980
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 1: says big ups to the video Slash Training and equipment crew.

981
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:08,279
Speaker 1: Thank you for spotlighting these guys. He says, you're the

982
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 1: unsung heroes of very nice Thank you. That's good stuff,

983
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: isn't that you're tapping you ab right here in the house.

984
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,880
Speaker 1: That good conference travels right here. What's at conference Rivals

985
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: is that you are conference right our conference rivals. I'm

986
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 1: surprising the miners and the blazers. Miners and the blazers,

987
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: you mean that's not all over the place. Well, yeah,

988
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:32,400
Speaker 1: I mean we can't. That's another show we did after this.

989
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: People don't know the bonus can do that on Bill

990
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: Maher after Hours whatever you call it. All right, Well, good,

991
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:45,080
Speaker 1: thanks for stopping by, Thanks for having me, Thanks you

992
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 1: for what you do, Anthony Pastrn and Joey Branco for

993
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: those guys in for Amy Wells. Mike Keith reminds you

994
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: that it is two days before players are drafted in Nashville,

995
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: and uh, we're fired up, man, We're down town yesterday.

996
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: It's awesome. Thanks for joining us for the OTP Road

997
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: to Nashville. Have a great day, everybody,