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Speaker 1: I'm Amy Wells. Thank you so much for listening to

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Speaker 1: this edition of the Official Titans Podcast, better known as

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Speaker 1: the OTP. Speaking of nineteen forty seven. A guy who

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Speaker 1: has been coaching roughly that long, coach Mac Dave McGinnis.

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Speaker 1: He's here with me and Mac. We are talking all

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Speaker 1: things draft. We're just going to barrel through a bunch

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Speaker 1: of questions that the people want to know about the

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Speaker 1: upcoming twenty twenty one NFL Draft. Are you ready, Amy Wells?

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Speaker 1: I'm so down with doing this. Let's go. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm so ready to do this. I can't think of

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Speaker 1: anybody I'd rather barrel through something with than Amy Wells. Well,

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Speaker 1: I like that fervor, I like the excitement. Can you

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Speaker 1: believe that the draft is here? Basically, you know, we

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Speaker 1: had a lot of time to work on the draft

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Speaker 1: this year, you know, just because you know there was

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Speaker 1: and it's a it's a lot different because we had

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Speaker 1: no combine Normally we're all together at the combine. You know,

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Speaker 1: for that week, there's there are college days, you know,

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Speaker 1: school workouts that you normally can go to the Senior Bowl,

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Speaker 1: which I did not go to this year. You didn't

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Speaker 1: just a whole lot of for me film evaluation and

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Speaker 1: So I'm so ready for this and it'll be fun. Well,

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Speaker 1: you've got your mac notebook, your MacBook here, so it's

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Speaker 1: time to rock and roll. And I want to start

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Speaker 1: with wide receivers because when talking about the Titans pick

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Speaker 1: at twenty two, a lot of the national media people

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Speaker 1: have maybe said that the Titans could pick a receiver

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Speaker 1: at that spot. In your evaluation, which receivers have a

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Speaker 1: skill set that really best fits with what the Titans

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Speaker 1: of years. You know, there's two guys and again they

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Speaker 1: you know, they may not be at twenty two or

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Speaker 1: they may not be twenty two, but you I'm taking

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Speaker 1: relevant as to a skill sets that match what the

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Speaker 1: Titans do offensively, rather than just draft position Couldarius Tony

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Speaker 1: from Florida. I like him, you know, I like him

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Speaker 1: a receiver. He's a runner, he's a return man. He

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Speaker 1: which is one type one back three wides. You could

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Speaker 1: that that there's a receiver at LSU that gets all

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Speaker 1: the all the talk is Jamar Chase. I like Terrace

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Speaker 1: But he's a good combat guy, which I like. He's

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Speaker 1: good history of taking a school second receiver. A J.

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Speaker 1: and this is a big receiver draft, amy, it really is.

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Speaker 1: unique with this draft to me, Amy is this because

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Speaker 1: of there's so many altered offensive personnel groups now that

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Speaker 1: are you know, used to be eleven personnel or multiple

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Speaker 1: If Fiati Melifonwu from Syracuse, now, I mean this is

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Speaker 1: play for you in the year one. Yes, the Tennessee

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Speaker 1: Titans are picking at twenty two, and historically teams want

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Speaker 1: And so that's when it starts. But it's really predicated

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Speaker 1: here and get this. Let's let's get ahold of the

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Speaker 1: because you don't know what's happened before that pick to

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Speaker 1: begin with. So we do know that Trevor Lawrence is

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Speaker 1: But when we look at quarterbacks, what about by us

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Speaker 1: Zach Wilson? What makes him potentially the SA get quarterback

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