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Speaker 1: is Mike Keith. Welcome to the Offseason Program edition of
Speaker 1: the OTP. It's here, Mike Keith. The off season Program
Speaker 1: has arrived. Nine weeks of off season program, so the
Speaker 1: players are back here at Saint Thomas Sports Park. When
Speaker 1: I started, and I guess really for the entire time
Speaker 1: up until twenty eleven, the off season program was sixteen weeks.
Speaker 1: They would come back roughly at Saint Patrick's Day and
Speaker 1: then they would get out of here just before the
Speaker 1: fourth of July. Wow, that's lengthy. Now it's nine weeks
Speaker 1: and it comes in three phases. You want to run
Speaker 1: down of what the phases are? Just for fun? Yes,
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know this. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's interesting. So Phase one is two weeks long. So
Speaker 1: it's the first two weeks. Phase one activities strength and conditioning,
Speaker 1: physical rehabilitation only. No coaches allowed on the field or
Speaker 1: to participate in or observe activities. Now, if guys want
Speaker 1: to go out and throw or kick on their own,
Speaker 1: they can do that, but that's it, right, So that's
Speaker 1: the first two weeks. So in essence, it's getting back
Speaker 1: in the building, it's work out. That's it period. That's
Speaker 1: why a lot of guys don't return for the first
Speaker 1: two weeks because they feel like, well, I can do
Speaker 1: that on my own if I have something going, if
Speaker 1: I'm doing a kitchen remodel, or if they're kids in
Speaker 1: school where else, they may choose to stay away because
Speaker 1: then they don't have to be gone quite as long.
Speaker 1: So very rarely do you have teams with perfect attendance
Speaker 1: for phase one. Well, and a lot of guys have
Speaker 1: their own kind of training regiment that they are in
Speaker 1: the groove right doing that they've been doing since January February,
Speaker 1: you know, So they kind of stick with their own
Speaker 1: thing until one of the phases where you can do
Speaker 1: a little more things. Okay, So this phase will go
Speaker 1: from now through the draft weekend, yes, so then we'll
Speaker 1: start another phase on made the second that is Phase two.
Speaker 1: At lasts three weeks. Coaches are allowed on the field
Speaker 1: on field. Workouts may include individual or group instruction and drills,
Speaker 1: but the offense and the defense have to stay apart. Yes,
Speaker 1: they can't go against these They cannot go against each other,
Speaker 1: either as teams or individually. Obviously, no live contact, no
Speaker 1: team offense, team rills, none of that. So what it
Speaker 1: comes down to is from May second through May the twentieth,
Speaker 1: it's just the offenses on one side of the field
Speaker 1: and the defense is on the other side of the field,
Speaker 1: and they work individual separate, they work team separately. Yes,
Speaker 1: all right, So then we go to Phase three. This
Speaker 1: is why it gets good. Phase three. If you're a
Speaker 1: high school or college football fan, you know about spring practice.
Speaker 1: Right most of our favorite colleges are in the process
Speaker 1: of wrapping up their spring practice right now, where they
Speaker 1: just have. Phase three is basically the NFL's spring practice.
Speaker 1: That's a good analogy. No pads, no, but the final
Speaker 1: four weeks of the offseason program shall consist of four
Speaker 1: weeks with a total of ten OTAs. During Phase three,
Speaker 1: all coaches allowed on the field. Team offense versus team
Speaker 1: defense drills are permitted. No live contact. Again, players can
Speaker 1: wear helmets. Yes. As a matter of fact, sometimes teams
Speaker 1: want them to wear helmets all the time, players may
Speaker 1: wear jointly approved protective shirts. And so you're practicing offense
Speaker 1: against defense, you're practicing defensive back against wide receiver. You're
Speaker 1: playing football. Yes, all three phases for the period are voluntary. Correct.
Speaker 1: You don't have to go to any of this none.
Speaker 1: Per the CBA, the three day mini camp, which is
Speaker 1: at the end of the off season program is mandatory.
Speaker 1: That is the only thing that can be mandatory in
Speaker 1: the offseason. So Phase one, which we're in now, two
Speaker 1: weeks of basically working out, hanging out with the strength
Speaker 1: and conditioning coaches. They can go on the field and
Speaker 1: watch guys work, but the regular ball coaches cannot. Phase
Speaker 1: two offense on one side, defense on another side for
Speaker 1: practices with coaches. Phase three spring practice basically without pads,
Speaker 1: without contact, and everybody can be out there leading into
Speaker 1: the mandatory minicamp. So we have just begun Phase one.
Speaker 1: As you've probably read, heard and seen, everybody is not here,
Speaker 1: but again not a huge shocker. That's normally the way
Speaker 1: that goes. Yeah, what people are missing right now is
Speaker 1: some in the class stuff and lifting, which not that
Speaker 1: big of a deal. All right. Five guys spoke to
Speaker 1: the media today, Yes, highlighted by pro bowler Kevin Byard,
Speaker 1: who has a new haircut which I really like. Big
Speaker 1: fan of Kevin Byard's new haircut. He doesn't care about
Speaker 1: my opinion at all. I don't really think anyone does,
Speaker 1: but I would like to publicly say I really like it.
Speaker 1: It's short, he looks nice. Guys always look nice with
Speaker 1: short hair. Yeah. I just think short hair doesn't ever
Speaker 1: go out of style. Yeah, I just think he looks good.
Speaker 1: Long hair comes back in at different points. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: there are different looks for long hair, but short hair
Speaker 1: never goes out of style. I'm a very classic girl.
Speaker 1: That is a classic haircut. Just he looks smith standard.
Speaker 1: He looks good. But you're sitting here with a guy
Speaker 1: who could never grow his hair long. So long ish me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of it's got some movement. Yes,
Speaker 1: your hair has movement. My hair hasn't changed since nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty six. Well, I mean that's a style issue. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to the actual length of it, it's long,
Speaker 1: is it's away. My hair is always short always. I
Speaker 1: tried to grow out long at one point and it
Speaker 1: grew in different directions. I mean, it really looked bad.
Speaker 1: Oh that's yeah, fortunate that was late eighties. That's a
Speaker 1: different story. I guess. In my mind, short is like
Speaker 1: buzzed and long is like will move when the wind blows,
Speaker 1: and then like really long is like arrow Smith. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's like whoa mm hmm yeah, like an eighties rock
Speaker 1: band type of But if the wind blows and your
Speaker 1: hair moves, you have longest hair. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about, but anyway, Kevin Byrd has a smooth
Speaker 1: new haircut. His press conference began with folks noticing it.
Speaker 1: Here's Kevin Byard from Saint Time of Sports Park today
Speaker 1: at the beginning of Phase one. I'll first of all,
Speaker 1: why the haircut? Yeah, I don't know, man, I guess
Speaker 1: you know some just it was on my spirit. Man said,
Speaker 1: I need to switch it up a little bit, um,
Speaker 1: you know, getting low older now, so I cut the
Speaker 1: hair down. Probably gonna keep it like this for a while.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna have to get used to it. I'm
Speaker 1: getting used to it too, so na, man, I got
Speaker 1: a little bit more time for that. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, my dad's like that. No, my dad's like that.
Speaker 1: So it's hereditary, So I'm trying to hold on as
Speaker 1: long as possible. That's honestly why I was growing my
Speaker 1: hair out. Offseason after your loss to Kansas City in
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship or this one, um was tougher. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously being one game with from the super Bowl was tough.
Speaker 1: This offseason was tough as well. More tough because you know,
Speaker 1: just dealing with all the different questions and having to
Speaker 1: talk about you know, you guys had nine sass, you
Speaker 1: lost the game. Honestly, May I was just tired of
Speaker 1: talking about it, you know. You know, it's one of
Speaker 1: those deals would have, could have, should have, just you know,
Speaker 1: odds on the prize. I was looking forward now thinking
Speaker 1: about this year, thinking about the team that we have,
Speaker 1: think about the group in the nucleus of the guys
Speaker 1: on defense that we still have coming in this year.
Speaker 1: So I'm super excited, uh, kind of glad to be
Speaker 1: back in the build and kind of get the same
Speaker 1: rolling again level that this defense can get to. Like,
Speaker 1: what's the next step for you guys as a human
Speaker 1: trying to be the top defense in the NFL. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the goal. Obviously, coming off of twenty twenty. The
Speaker 1: goal was kind of trying to find an identity, find
Speaker 1: out who we are as a team. And I think
Speaker 1: as the year went along, we start playing better and
Speaker 1: better and better, and we got dominant towards the end
Speaker 1: of the year. So I think it's all about taking
Speaker 1: from that from last year and on to this year
Speaker 1: and trying to be the top defensive NFL. Loving the
Speaker 1: starters and the coordinator. I don't think so if I
Speaker 1: can remember, I don't remember that. Like I said, I
Speaker 1: thought it was big for us going through this offseason,
Speaker 1: especially keeping that front four together. That was big for me,
Speaker 1: especially being a safety. Want to have those guys getting
Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterbacks, allowing us to do a lot
Speaker 1: of different things in the back end as far as disguising,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Shane and all the coaches have been
Speaker 1: working hard this offseason trying to figure out different ways
Speaker 1: to affect the quarterback but also disguising and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: mixing up coverages. Harrison, when you do have to reset,
Speaker 1: what does that take to my reset in my mind?
Speaker 1: Or just that when you do have the new coordinator
Speaker 1: when there is roster turnover, Oh yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: you know, you're getting to know, you know, a whole
Speaker 1: new coach. You know, you had to build trust and
Speaker 1: communication between the coaching staff and players. Obviously learning the
Speaker 1: defense new terminology. But you know, obviously when Shane, you know,
Speaker 1: Shane had been here, the defense hadn't changed that much.
Speaker 1: But obviously the personnel was a little different. And obviously
Speaker 1: talking going back to twenty tw the execution just wasn't there.
Speaker 1: Sometimes communication with them, you know, we talked about that
Speaker 1: ad nauseam or whatever. But you know, just this year,
Speaker 1: obviously having the main group of guys is all about
Speaker 1: taking that next step and just continue trying to get better.
Speaker 1: So how do you guys take that next step? And
Speaker 1: you know it starts now. You know, obviously we're just
Speaker 1: you know, working out, rehabbing. Some guys are rehabbing. We're
Speaker 1: just working out in conditioning, but just being in meetings.
Speaker 1: For me personally, obviously I'm here trying to continue to
Speaker 1: learn and development get better as a player, but obviously
Speaker 1: being more of a mentor kind of being in that
Speaker 1: role a little bit more. Obviously I've always always been
Speaker 1: a leader, but mentoring guys like ka lip Elijah continue
Speaker 1: to helping David Long you know, elevated his game and
Speaker 1: that that's kind of my mentality, and that's kind of
Speaker 1: something I've been married nating on the whole offseason, just
Speaker 1: obviously being a leader, but mentoring some of these young
Speaker 1: guys who are trying to take that game to the
Speaker 1: next level. You skip maybe the first couple, not these,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you were, these are not, but
Speaker 1: the practices and that the Union was putting a lot
Speaker 1: of word out that they wanted guys to stay away,
Speaker 1: and there was a COVID. Has a union been talking
Speaker 1: this year in the same way. I mean, I haven't
Speaker 1: really been in those talks, you know. I think obviously
Speaker 1: around this time of the year, it's a whole big thing,
Speaker 1: you know, with you know, the media obviously talking about
Speaker 1: guys who's showing up, who hasn't shown up. You know,
Speaker 1: this is all voluntary, you know, and I kind of
Speaker 1: try to mind the business that pays me by minding
Speaker 1: my own business. But I understand that some guys feels like,
Speaker 1: you know, if they want to show up when we
Speaker 1: start practicing playing football, then that's when they choose to do.
Speaker 1: I'd already been here working out with Frank and doing
Speaker 1: different things like that. So I just say, hey, there's
Speaker 1: no point of me just not showing up just to
Speaker 1: not show up. So I want to be able to
Speaker 1: be around the young guys, try to get better and
Speaker 1: things like that. But you know, this is a voluntary
Speaker 1: part of the offseason, and for some guys obviously been
Speaker 1: on a team like this where you know the system
Speaker 1: is kind of already set as far as you know,
Speaker 1: the culture and things like that. So you know, for
Speaker 1: guy choose to take a little bit more time out
Speaker 1: to be with their family. You know, we're not gonna
Speaker 1: hold anything against anybody who is your stretch. Some people
Speaker 1: say no carry over from year to year because everybody
Speaker 1: starts obviously year old zero again. But in your mind,
Speaker 1: is there carry over and unfinished business from last year? Yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously it's unfinished business because we didn't win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you're talking about carryover or momentum
Speaker 1: of whatever taken on from one year to the next,
Speaker 1: you I feel like, as a player, and it's always
Speaker 1: been my mentor that you got to start all the
Speaker 1: way over. You have to reset your mind. I went
Speaker 1: first team Pro last year. That's not gonna do anything
Speaker 1: for me. This year. I had to continue to work hard,
Speaker 1: take the same step that I took last year, being
Speaker 1: in the meeting room, studying hard, doing all those little
Speaker 1: things over and over again. And that's how you be
Speaker 1: consistently great. You talk about guys like, you know, we're
Speaker 1: talking about the guys like Tom Brady and all those guys.
Speaker 1: Those guys do the small things, the details. You hear
Speaker 1: young guys in the building saying he's stills working like
Speaker 1: he's a rookie, And I think that's what it takes
Speaker 1: to try to be great. So yeah, it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of carry over because obviously the system hasn't changed,
Speaker 1: the defense hasn't changed, but we still had to take
Speaker 1: all those little small steps and all those details that
Speaker 1: we took when we weren't great in twenty twenty and
Speaker 1: trying to do the same things this year. Body else's
Speaker 1: kind of going on in the AFC this off season.
Speaker 1: What kind of challenges everybody facing this conference? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean the a FC is loaded loaded with a lot
Speaker 1: of talent, especially quarterback talent. Obviously, watch you know, receivers
Speaker 1: change different teams and things like that, so you know,
Speaker 1: going to every single year, there's going to be things
Speaker 1: like that as far as roster turnovers in the league.
Speaker 1: But you know, in recent years, I don't really remember
Speaker 1: it being this much, you know, and that month of
Speaker 1: March is kind of exploded with you know, Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: coming to the AFC, So it's gonna be huge on
Speaker 1: us on defense, being able to play very well, getting
Speaker 1: pressure on these quarterbacks, trying to make these guys make mistakes.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm already getting the beat on trying
Speaker 1: to watch as much film on quarterbacks, not only just
Speaker 1: in my division, but just all the teams that we played,
Speaker 1: you know, starting from the NFC East to the AFC West.
Speaker 1: I'm studying film and not necessarily studying for game playing
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but I'm just watching the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Like if I just keep watching, keep watching, maybe I
Speaker 1: can pick up a little things here and there. So
Speaker 1: when we actually it's trying to play those guys in
Speaker 1: that week, I maybe you can go back into my notes, like, hey,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, I got some notes from this and it
Speaker 1: trying to carry over. You know, the Bank team offseason, Kevin,
Speaker 1: when you were up for a contract extension, how did
Speaker 1: you you know, did you ever think of you know,
Speaker 1: maybe I don't show maybe that gives me leverage. What
Speaker 1: was what was sort of your approach knowing that you
Speaker 1: were up for an extension that Yeah, I mean my
Speaker 1: approach is, you know, I wanted to show up, you know.
Speaker 1: And I don't think it's nothing against anybody that doesn't
Speaker 1: show up, because, like I said, this is voluntary. I
Speaker 1: don't think that, you know, it can go either way.
Speaker 1: But me personally, I felt that I knew I was
Speaker 1: going to get paid. You know. I just think it's
Speaker 1: just a process that you had to go to when
Speaker 1: you're talking about negotiations and agents and things like that,
Speaker 1: I kind of understand when you're looking at and that's
Speaker 1: pretty much a lot of different teams around the league,
Speaker 1: those big money contracts, especially extensions, it tend to happen
Speaker 1: right before a training camp. But you know, I was
Speaker 1: already gonna be working out anyway, so I wanted to
Speaker 1: come in here and continue to learn and continue to
Speaker 1: try to get better as a young player. Uh So
Speaker 1: that's that's just what I did. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, like I said, I kind of just
Speaker 1: mind the business that pays me. You know, some players
Speaker 1: who who you know, maybe go to social media as
Speaker 1: they're you know, kind of talking about the new contract
Speaker 1: extension too. Do you think, in your opinion, is that
Speaker 1: help Does it not help in those cases? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it does or not. You know,
Speaker 1: like I said, if somebody wanted to get on social
Speaker 1: media talk about what they want to talk about it,
Speaker 1: then that's on them. I don't think I honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't think it does any any bad. I don't think
Speaker 1: it does any good. I think it's just all about
Speaker 1: what a personal decision and what they want to talk about.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a you know, it's a free country's
Speaker 1: free speech. So, like I said, just me personally, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't do too much talking and stuff like that
Speaker 1: on social mediaunless, like I said, I'm posting on Instagram
Speaker 1: or whatever. But like I said, man, I think these
Speaker 1: things they all worked, they all work themselves out. And obviously,
Speaker 1: if you're talking about AJJ is one of the best
Speaker 1: receivers in the league, and obviously you know Vayblee and
Speaker 1: John Dave talking about him being here. So I have
Speaker 1: no concerns about aj not coming in, being in shape,
Speaker 1: coming in here, ready to produce, and being the same
Speaker 1: type of guy. He's always been success six or seven years.
Speaker 1: You guys have got different slogan. It's good, degrade, some
Speaker 1: finished business, things like that. As you come back right
Speaker 1: now as a leader, is there a slogan you guys
Speaker 1: have or a message you give to your teammates? Um,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it's a necessarily slogan. Obviously, this has
Speaker 1: been the first day. Verybe hasn't been here today. He's asked.
Speaker 1: He has a deal that he's dealing with as far
Speaker 1: as so next tomorrow we'll have a team me and
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he'll have a slogan that will kind
Speaker 1: of carry on too this offseason. But just being poised
Speaker 1: and just trying to I'm just getting better. I mean
Speaker 1: that's kind of what I just preached. Everybody getting better.
Speaker 1: You know, you either either getting better you're getting worse.
Speaker 1: You never stayed the same. So just as a team,
Speaker 1: we're just trying to get better. You've seen this place
Speaker 1: completely transformer in any excitement or desire to try to
Speaker 1: make it into a new stadium in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: twenty that's a long time from now. Like honestly, just
Speaker 1: me being a player, man, that's so far out. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it'll be super exciting for the city of Nashville to
Speaker 1: getting new stadium. Obviously a lot of stuff comes with that,
Speaker 1: with the Super Bowl bids and things like that. But
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, man, I don't think I'm under contract
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six, So once that time gets there,
Speaker 1: then I'll be trying to get excited about playing a
Speaker 1: new stadium. See in that stadium and nah Grass, But
Speaker 1: we all know if it's a dome, it's probably not
Speaker 1: gonna happen earlier. How different or things gonna be for
Speaker 1: him all of a sudden being one of the older
Speaker 1: guys in that room, you think, Yeah, I mean it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm want of the older guys in the whole locker
Speaker 1: room now, And it's funny how I've been a rookie
Speaker 1: and now I think I'm the second oldest guy in
Speaker 1: the dB room now. It's pretty crazy. But obviously, talking
Speaker 1: about David Long, David Long plays with a lot of confidence,
Speaker 1: players with a lot of passion. So I'm just excited
Speaker 1: to see his progression as a player. Obviously, you still
Speaker 1: have cunning him in the room. You have a young
Speaker 1: guy and Monti Rice who's gonna take his next step
Speaker 1: as well. But I think just the passion that he
Speaker 1: plays with him, this type of confidence that he has.
Speaker 1: He's already a leader, you know what I'm saying, just
Speaker 1: in his own right, and I'm just excited to see
Speaker 1: him this offseason just continue to take that next step. Yeah, Kevin,
Speaker 1: given you know how little he played last year and
Speaker 1: really enjo Yeah, it's super important. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: by coming in working out and stuff like that. Throughout
Speaker 1: this offseason, he's been here every day, so he's been
Speaker 1: here working, he's been studying with Midge and the coaches
Speaker 1: and things like that. So I'm obviously going to be
Speaker 1: excited when he's able to clear, to be able to
Speaker 1: get out on the field and kind of get those
Speaker 1: reps in because that's the main thing we're talking about
Speaker 1: a guy who's had some injury issues the past couple
Speaker 1: of years. It's just those valuable reps that you miss,
Speaker 1: radifice and practice are in the game. So the more
Speaker 1: he gets more reps, the more comfortable he'll gets, the
Speaker 1: more his confidence to continue to build. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm excited for him. Talking about the AFC loading up,
Speaker 1: he said, well, you guys have been building a program
Speaker 1: steadily for years. When you have that foundation, that cultural foundation,
Speaker 1: How helpful is that no matter who's coming in and
Speaker 1: out to be able to rely on that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think you see it. I mean it's probably
Speaker 1: more prevalent in basketball, but in football you can't really
Speaker 1: you can't really buy championships like that. You have to
Speaker 1: have the foundation first. Then you bring piece into that foundation,
Speaker 1: and then that's when you talk about winning championships. So
Speaker 1: we have the foundation, and obviously last year we brought
Speaker 1: some pieces together. We wasn't able to put it together.
Speaker 1: But that culture and the piece you know, as far
Speaker 1: as the things that verybody hasn't stilled in us as
Speaker 1: the team and obviously having a lot of core leaders
Speaker 1: on this team, that's what carries over. If you want
Speaker 1: to talk about things that carry that's what carry over
Speaker 1: from year to year. Just that culture that we building
Speaker 1: this up to us as leaders and the veterans to
Speaker 1: continue to harp that onto the young guys and some
Speaker 1: new guys has come on them the team this year. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm excited and excited to get this
Speaker 1: staining rolling Man. Last season, you mentioned how important it
Speaker 1: was to bring back Harold. Now that you guys have
Speaker 1: him resigned, just how how how excited are you and
Speaker 1: just you know that the defensive ability to take that
Speaker 1: next step just because you have him back. Yeah, Man,
Speaker 1: I talked about last year. Man, I feel like we
Speaker 1: have the best front for in the league. And I
Speaker 1: was super adamant about bringing Harold back because, like I said,
Speaker 1: me being in safety, man, having those front four guys
Speaker 1: reckon having in those backfields benefits in the run game
Speaker 1: or obviously getting after the quarterback. You know, it makes
Speaker 1: my job a lot easier. So happy to have all
Speaker 1: those guys back, and looking forward to those guys you know,
Speaker 1: trying to I know they have some big, lofty goals
Speaker 1: as well, probably trying to lead the league in sacks
Speaker 1: and all that different stuff. So super excited about working
Speaker 1: with those guys again. Can you speak about your your
Speaker 1: charity event on Thursday? Yeah, So Thursday, U. I'm actually
Speaker 1: an honorary co chair for the Rally Foundation, and this
Speaker 1: Thursday is gonna be Rally on the Runway where I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be twelve ten to twelve kids that
Speaker 1: are either dealing with cancer right now or have beaten
Speaker 1: cancer and it's called Rally in the one way because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get me a lot of my buddies on
Speaker 1: the team. We'll be walking the kids down the runway.
Speaker 1: You know, they'll strut their stuff and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I mean, honestly, man, it is a life changing event. Uh.
Speaker 1: The first time me going was my rookieyear and Jarell
Speaker 1: Casey was an honorary chair and he passing along to
Speaker 1: me and just hearing the stories and just seeing the
Speaker 1: parents and obviously being a parent myself now, I think
Speaker 1: one of the worst moments in a parent's life is,
Speaker 1: you know, getting that news from a doctor saying that
Speaker 1: your child has cancer and watching your child go through
Speaker 1: chemo and all that stuff is definitely life changing. So
Speaker 1: for me personally, it's something that me and my wife
Speaker 1: obviously we do a lot of things in community, but
Speaker 1: I've been working with the Rally Foundations just my rookie year,
Speaker 1: and like I said, it's definitely life changing. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be good to, you know, get some of my buddies
Speaker 1: out obviously there and some of the young guys to
Speaker 1: be able to see what it means to give back
Speaker 1: into the community and what it means to to like
Speaker 1: you said, to have those life changing moments and honestly, man,
Speaker 1: just give me your time and just talking to these kids. Uh,
Speaker 1: it can mean, it can mean everything to him, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be super science. Like I said, this
Speaker 1: is Thursday, is gonna be a marathon. Music works. That
Speaker 1: is Kevin Bayer, who was here today. Austin Hooper, the
Speaker 1: new tight end't spoke. Yes, David Long, the linebacker who
Speaker 1: figures to be a starter, spoke and I thought he
Speaker 1: was good. Elijah Molden, the team's nickelback, had an opportunity
Speaker 1: to address the media, which was kind of a great thing.
Speaker 1: Just got married, he did. Yeah, that was an interesting story.
Speaker 1: He told about that his wife set up everything and
Speaker 1: he just sort of showed up and didn't know what
Speaker 1: was gonna happen. That's how weddings work. I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: how it goes. Well, you better know you're married. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna happen. You have one job as a groom
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be hit there. You're gonna be hitched
Speaker 1: to this woman. Nope, just show up, walk where she
Speaker 1: tells you to turn around, look at the camera. Smile
Speaker 1: a couple of times, you touch nothing else. Wow, that's it.
Speaker 1: He's I think he did it right. Smart man, wrong sentiment.
Speaker 1: Just don't even get in her way. Let her do
Speaker 1: her thing. Ben Jones also spoke today and he was
Speaker 1: his Ben Jones self, outstanding. Ben Jones kicked off the
Speaker 1: whole thing because he was just the picture of stability
Speaker 1: for Titans. Yeah, you can't do anything without Ben Jones.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad he's still here. Me too, And apparently
Speaker 1: some people in the mocks noticed he's still here because
Speaker 1: the great Jim Wyatt Tennessee Titans dot com. And he
Speaker 1: is great, Yes, the legend, lovely fellow. You should follow
Speaker 1: him at sports, on Twitter and Instagram and everything else
Speaker 1: he's on. He makes the rest of us look bad.
Speaker 1: He does. I don't think Jim's on TikTok. So he
Speaker 1: ran through thirty mocks and they have narrowed in a
Speaker 1: week last week. Twenty different players in the thirty mocks.
Speaker 1: This week down to fifteen. Two guys were mocked to
Speaker 1: the Titans five times. Penn statewide receiver Jehan Dots and
Speaker 1: Tulsa offensive tackle Tyler Smith both mocked to the Titans
Speaker 1: five times. Devin Lloyd, the linebacker from Utah, mocked to
Speaker 1: the Titans four times. Nakobe Dean linebacker Georgia. Treylan Burke's
Speaker 1: wide receiver Arkansas mocked to the Titans three times. Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: quarterback Kenny Pickett at Central Michigan offensive tackle Bernhard Ryman
Speaker 1: both mocked to the Titans two times. The other players
Speaker 1: mocked to the Titans Christian Watson, North Dakota statewide receiver,
Speaker 1: Sam Howe quarterback North Carolina, Zion Johnson center guard Boston College,
Speaker 1: Desmond Ritter quarterback Cincinnati, Jermaine Johnson, edge rusher Florida State,
Speaker 1: Trevor Pennig offensive tackle Northern Iowa, Trent McDuffie, cornerback Washington,
Speaker 1: Kenyon green guard Texas A and m You know what
Speaker 1: this tells me, Mike Keith Amy. They still don't know,
Speaker 1: is the first thing. Because we're still even in terms
Speaker 1: of position group, we're still pretty much all over the road. However,
Speaker 1: there is a lot of redundancy starting to be Yeah,
Speaker 1: it tells me that we're starting to zoom in. We're
Speaker 1: starting to what are we a week out from the draft,
Speaker 1: and we're starting to get a little bit closer, weakened,
Speaker 1: some change. Well, people are beginning to think they have
Speaker 1: a bead or more of a bead on the Titans
Speaker 1: and what they're going to do at number twenty six. Yes,
Speaker 1: I like it, But Mike, I really really just like
Speaker 1: about this draft that people don't know. I'm enjoying the
Speaker 1: non quarterbackness of the whole thing. I am enjoying that
Speaker 1: people don't really know what's about to happen, and that
Speaker 1: there are so many other position groups being talked about.
Speaker 1: This is a squirrelly draft, and I really really like it.
Speaker 1: There is talk that the first ten picks of this
Speaker 1: draft maybe guys who don't touch the football, and if
Speaker 1: that's the case, I'm told it would be the first
Speaker 1: time that had happened in over eighty years. Doesn't that
Speaker 1: excite you? I think that's so cool. Sure, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I don't know that it excites me necessarily, but
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting that it could be edge rushers,
Speaker 1: it could be offensive linemen, it could be corners, it
Speaker 1: could be linebackers, but it could be all guys who
Speaker 1: don't touch the football. I mean, after years of having
Speaker 1: the same which quarterbacks going to go to number one?
Speaker 1: Year after year after year. This is great, this is great.
Speaker 1: I love it, you love it? Okay, Well, Titans fans
Speaker 1: are certainly enjoying talking about their favorite players and their
Speaker 1: favorite scenarios that are out there for the Titans at
Speaker 1: number two, twenty six, and you're pretty much hearing everything, right, anything,
Speaker 1: anything and everything. One of the things that you're hearing
Speaker 1: the most on talk radio, social media articles that you
Speaker 1: read would be about the Titans trading back. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on this, Mike. So I hear fans call
Speaker 1: in and they say I would like for the Titans
Speaker 1: to trade back, and then I hear people who host
Speaker 1: the shows or whatever say, well, teams have to want
Speaker 1: to trade up. True. The thing that I'm not hearing
Speaker 1: that there's another factor in that, and that is do
Speaker 1: the Titans get a fair offer to trade back? Because listen,
Speaker 1: if you call up, you know, because everybody's got the
Speaker 1: whole Detroit trading up for the Titans spot. Because Detroit
Speaker 1: has thirty two and they have thirty four. They have
Speaker 1: the Rams pick in the draft at thirty two in
Speaker 1: the first round the Matthew Stafford trade, and then they
Speaker 1: have their own second round pick at thirty four. Right,
Speaker 1: So I mean if they if they want to trade
Speaker 1: from say thirty two up to twenty six, well, I
Speaker 1: mean the Titans aren't going to take a seven for that.
Speaker 1: It's like if you call up and go, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: give you a bag of balls. I mean, that's then
Speaker 1: they're not gonna do that. So the third part of
Speaker 1: it is you've got to be willing to trade back.
Speaker 1: You've got to have somebody who wants to trade up,
Speaker 1: and you've got to have an offer that makes you
Speaker 1: willing to go back. Right. And you know, it's funny
Speaker 1: because how you judge the offers oftentimes starts with a
Speaker 1: chart that Jimmy Johnson made when he was the head
Speaker 1: coach of the Dallas Cowboys, and it's been revised several
Speaker 1: times by different people, but it's still the basic bible
Speaker 1: for how you get to a starting point. Think about
Speaker 1: buying a car or trading a car. You think about
Speaker 1: the Kelly Blue Book, right, Jimmy Johnson's Draft Trade Evaluation
Speaker 1: chart is the Kelly Blue Book of making a trade.
Speaker 1: It basically assigns of value to each right trade that
Speaker 1: could happen. So let's have a little fun here. Hypotheticals
Speaker 1: because I've heard this so much. Let's say Detroit wants
Speaker 1: to trade up with the Titans. So let's start off
Speaker 1: with the scenario that they want to go thirty two
Speaker 1: up to the Titans spot at twenty six. So the
Speaker 1: Titans are going to end up with thirty two. But
Speaker 1: what else are they going to get. Well, according to
Speaker 1: the Jimmy Johnson Trade chart, pick twenty six is worth
Speaker 1: seven hundred points. Pick thirty two is worth five ninety. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a difference of one hundred and ten. So based
Speaker 1: on those numbers, what Detroit would have to give up
Speaker 1: is their compensatory number three, which is worth one hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve points. That's pick ninety seven, pick ninety seven.
Speaker 1: So that's just if you go off the chart. Another
Speaker 1: thing that you could do, if you just go off
Speaker 1: the chart is the Titans trade twenty six and ninety
Speaker 1: for thirty two and sixty six, okay, and so they
Speaker 1: would actually be able to move up twenty four spots
Speaker 1: in the third round. The difference in those two picks
Speaker 1: is one hundred twenty points. The sixty six pick is
Speaker 1: worth two sixty, the ninetieth pick is worth one forty.
Speaker 1: So you're saying in terms of round numbers, that's how
Speaker 1: you could do it. They could either get a late
Speaker 1: third to move back, the Titans could or they could
Speaker 1: move up in the third round. They could flip flop
Speaker 1: places twenty four spots in the third round, so then
Speaker 1: the Titans would have thirty two and sixty six instead
Speaker 1: of twenty six and nine. Right, that's just if you
Speaker 1: go on the chart. But when you trade a car,
Speaker 1: there's more than that's right, there's a blue book value,
Speaker 1: but it never just goes by that. It goes by
Speaker 1: a couple other things. First of all, do the Titans
Speaker 1: have any other offers? Right? Well, if they don't, then
Speaker 1: maybe Detroit just says, yeah, we'll give you this three
Speaker 1: and that's it. Good luck, have a nice day. If
Speaker 1: the Titans do have other offers, and or Detroit is
Speaker 1: hot and bothered to get to twenty six to grab somebody,
Speaker 1: maybe somebody increases the offer. So if Detroit is very motivated,
Speaker 1: maybe they do multiple picks to jump around, or maybe
Speaker 1: they throw in a pick for next year, like a
Speaker 1: three and next year's draft to sweeten the pot. Right, Yes,
Speaker 1: so however you make the deal is how you make
Speaker 1: the deal. Now, Let's say Detroit takes that second round pick.
Speaker 1: This is hypothetical, this is thirty four, and they want
Speaker 1: to go thirty four to twenty six, so they want
Speaker 1: to come back into the first round and trade a
Speaker 1: second round pick to get in the difference in the
Speaker 1: two picks. Again, pick twenty six, according to the Jimmy
Speaker 1: Johnson chart, is seven hundred points, pick thirty four is
Speaker 1: five sixty, so a difference of one hundred forty points.
Speaker 1: So at that point, if you take the value, Detroit
Speaker 1: should have to trade thirty four. Also that early third
Speaker 1: round pick at sixty six and one seventy seven for
Speaker 1: the Titans picks at twenty six and ninety. That's what
Speaker 1: they should have to do. But that's just the numbers.
Speaker 1: The Titans probably could get the early second round pick,
Speaker 1: the early third round pick, and the late third round
Speaker 1: pick in exchange for twenty six and ninety, so that's
Speaker 1: how the numbers work out. But again, these charts are
Speaker 1: just a starting point. They are a suggestion, and many
Speaker 1: of them have done their own, but they are still
Speaker 1: based on the same set of numbers. It's very interesting
Speaker 1: that teams have found a way to basically quantify every
Speaker 1: move to assign some sort of value to any move
Speaker 1: that you can make. And it's kind of helped to
Speaker 1: standardize the NFL in that it gives everyone a basic
Speaker 1: idea of how much it costs to do different things.
Speaker 1: It's almost like a monetary value. So each move has
Speaker 1: a certain amount of costs. So then it's not just
Speaker 1: I'll give you two hot dogs and a piece of
Speaker 1: chicken right for your steak. Like, there's a little bit
Speaker 1: more there that you're dealing with. Well, you know who's
Speaker 1: being serious and who's not right. I mean, because if again,
Speaker 1: if Detroit calls John Robinson and offers him a sixth
Speaker 1: round pick to move up six spots from thirty two
Speaker 1: to twenty six, that's not a serious offer right now.
Speaker 1: If John Robinson is desperate to get out of there,
Speaker 1: maybe he takes it. He's probably not, no. But the
Speaker 1: thing is, if Detroit is desperate to get to that spot,
Speaker 1: maybe they say we'll give you sixty six instead of
Speaker 1: like flip flopping, they'll give you. We've seen more flip
Speaker 1: flopping in recent years. I wonder why that is. A
Speaker 1: lot of it is salary cap related, because people have
Speaker 1: the pool of money that you have to spend on
Speaker 1: your rookies, on your draft picks. Yes, and so you
Speaker 1: don't want to end up with It's like some of
Speaker 1: these teams have twelve or thirteen picks, it's doubtful they
Speaker 1: will make them all. They will spend them. Maybe they'll
Speaker 1: make nine of them, and they'll spend them in different
Speaker 1: ways towards getting players they want this year or towards
Speaker 1: next year. It becomes draft capital. It's totally draft capital.
Speaker 1: And you're looking at the Titans. The Titans right now
Speaker 1: have seven picks. They have a one, three, they have
Speaker 1: two fours, They have a five and two sixes. So
Speaker 1: I mean in Detroit, for example, has two ones, They
Speaker 1: have number two and number thirty two. They have a two,
Speaker 1: which is overall number thirty four. They have two threes,
Speaker 1: sixty six, and ninety seven. Then they don't pick again
Speaker 1: till one seventy seven. They have four picks laid in
Speaker 1: the draft. I mean, does John Robinson want their seventh
Speaker 1: round pick just to be able to grab somebody else
Speaker 1: as a throw in part of the deal, Like, for example,
Speaker 1: pick two seventeen that they have is worth four point
Speaker 1: six points on the Jimmy Johnson scale. Pick two thirty
Speaker 1: four is worth one point yeah, So do you get
Speaker 1: them to throw in two picks just so you can
Speaker 1: grab a team like the Titans. Not a bad move
Speaker 1: because the Titans are gonna need several rookies to make
Speaker 1: this roster due to how tight their salary cap is. Right,
Speaker 1: and if it's a low cost seven yeah situation for
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions, it's also a low cost in terms
Speaker 1: of paying the actual human move for the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: So if you hit on somebody, it's pretty great. I
Speaker 1: think the Jimmy Johnson Draft trade value chart is really
Speaker 1: interesting just from the Again, I use the Kelly blue
Speaker 1: Book analogy. People say, oh, the Kelly blue Book says
Speaker 1: you should give me this for your trade. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but right now, we don't need that many sedans, right,
Speaker 1: so we're only going to give you eighty percent of it.
Speaker 1: Or as the market is right now, we need all
Speaker 1: the used cars we can get, so we'll give you
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty percent of it because we can
Speaker 1: turn around and sell your car for more. It's about
Speaker 1: supply and demand and more importantly, desire. Yes, because if
Speaker 1: you if you see a guy and you want him, badly.
Speaker 1: You think he fits your need. You you're afraid the
Speaker 1: team right behind is going to take him, and you're
Speaker 1: willing to throw more at it because you're desperate to
Speaker 1: get this player. Well, then maybe you make a better offer.
Speaker 1: But it's the whole thing. But I don't understand why
Speaker 1: they didn't trade back. Well, they didn't trade back in
Speaker 1: most instances because they didn't get a good offer, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's not just John Robinson saying I
Speaker 1: want to trade back. He needs someone who is a
Speaker 1: trade partner that is willing to make a good deal. Yes,
Speaker 1: he can't just decide I want to trade this back
Speaker 1: like it's it's not a one sided decision. Well, the
Speaker 1: other part of it too is sometimes, like let's say
Speaker 1: hypothetically again, John Robinson is sitting there at twenty six,
Speaker 1: and he has four players there he still likes. Well,
Speaker 1: if he knows he can pick up an extra three
Speaker 1: or four or whatever and still get one of his
Speaker 1: guys at thirty two, maybe he'll take face value and
Speaker 1: go ahead and deal back in order to have a
Speaker 1: little bit more capital. But if he's got two guys
Speaker 1: there he still likes, you're gonna have to make him
Speaker 1: a better deal in order to make the trade. It's
Speaker 1: all very interesting. Well, it's here's the most the most
Speaker 1: interesting part of this thirty two picks in the first round. Correct,
Speaker 1: There is no way that an NFL team in most
Speaker 1: years has thirty two first round grades on players. So
Speaker 1: when you pick in the twenties, very rarely do you
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to pick a guy that you have
Speaker 1: a first round grade on it. Caleb Farley, Jeffrey Simmons, different, right,
Speaker 1: different guys. They were thrilled. I mean they were running
Speaker 1: the card up in both of those situations because those
Speaker 1: were players that it was anticipated would go much more highly.
Speaker 1: So you get to that point where it's tricky and
Speaker 1: you're either gonna make a pick. And I remember seeing
Speaker 1: Floyd Reese make a pick one year and he thought
Speaker 1: he had this player. He was so excited about this player,
Speaker 1: and then Kansas City took his guy one pick in
Speaker 1: front of him. Well, then he was sitting there desperately
Speaker 1: trying to get out. He's like, I don't want any
Speaker 1: of these guys in this pod. I don't think they're
Speaker 1: worth a first round pick. I want to move back
Speaker 1: into the second round. I'd feel comfortable taking this guy
Speaker 1: in the second round, but not in the first. He
Speaker 1: couldn't find anybody who would make a trade, ye, And
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, sure, Floyd will give you a
Speaker 1: seven and a kicking tea, you know, I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: And so he couldn't make the deal, ended up having
Speaker 1: to take a player that he never wanted. He came
Speaker 1: out of the draft room and I remember saying him
Speaker 1: and I said, hey, congratulations, like, thanks a lot, which
Speaker 1: is not the response. No, no, And you know, but
Speaker 1: sometimes you're buckled into these situations. Now, would you rather
Speaker 1: have had six straight winning seasons and be picking in
Speaker 1: the twenties? Yes, yeah, I'll take that every time. The
Speaker 1: chart thing is very interesting to me, as a person
Speaker 1: who doesn't understand a lick when it comes to numbers,
Speaker 1: I can look at a chart and I can understand,
Speaker 1: which I appreciate. I like that this is this is
Speaker 1: a very understandable numbers thing. Well. The other part of
Speaker 1: this too is it's quick. Yes, And that was part
Speaker 1: of the reason. Is because Jimmy Johnson the Cowboys would
Speaker 1: get somebody on the phone and they would say this
Speaker 1: for this, and so they would have somebody in the
Speaker 1: room who could do the quick math to say, go
Speaker 1: back and ask for a six with that right, because
Speaker 1: these happened fast. They happened fast. You're on the clock
Speaker 1: because the first round I mean, for example, I was
Speaker 1: looking at this today and a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: don't know all of this because they know it when
Speaker 1: the draft comes around, but not the other fifty one
Speaker 1: weeks of the year. Ten minutes per selection in round
Speaker 1: one used to be fifteen. That's a long day. Round
Speaker 1: two seven minutes, rounds three through six five minutes, Round
Speaker 1: seven four minutes, that's the pick time. Well, the other
Speaker 1: part of that too is you not only think you
Speaker 1: only have ten minutes when you're on the clock, but
Speaker 1: let's say you're getting to pick twenty two and your
Speaker 1: phone starts ringing about pick twenty six. Well, then instead
Speaker 1: of having potentially an hour with four times fifteen, you
Speaker 1: only have forty minutes, which generally becomes shorter because people
Speaker 1: don't take as much time. So that amount of time
Speaker 1: that you have to make these decisions and get things
Speaker 1: into the league normally the trades are set up not
Speaker 1: while you're on the phone, but before you get there.
Speaker 1: And the interesting point in that is not all teams
Speaker 1: take the full ten minutes or it. Some teams take
Speaker 1: the full ten minutes regardless. Yeah, it's just to see
Speaker 1: if they will get a phone call, just to see if. Well,
Speaker 1: it's like the whole thing. If you're in a situation
Speaker 1: where someone offers you a herschel Walker trade like what
Speaker 1: happened with the Dallas Cowboys and Jimmy Johnson, well then
Speaker 1: it okay, you're gonna consider that. If you're offered a
Speaker 1: Ricky Williams trade like what the New Orleans Saints made
Speaker 1: with Mike Ditka for Ricky Williams, while you say, well,
Speaker 1: we won't consider anything. We're doing this, We're picking this guy.
Speaker 1: We're not trading this guy regardless. If you get a
Speaker 1: herschel Walker trade offer, if you get a Ricky Williams
Speaker 1: trade offer, maybe you take that. Maybe maybe it is
Speaker 1: something that you just can't turn down. That's also interesting
Speaker 1: because there's the whole emotional aspect of it as well.
Speaker 1: There's the motivation aspect of it. There's the need aspect
Speaker 1: of it. So while there's data and numbers and analytics
Speaker 1: and all of these things that are very concrete, there's
Speaker 1: also such a huge human element to it. That's just
Speaker 1: what makes this also well because it's about desire, heart's
Speaker 1: desire for the player. Teams fall in love with players
Speaker 1: and just say I have to have this guy. Yep.
Speaker 1: I love his skill set, I like his makeup. I
Speaker 1: like what he brings to us. I think he puts
Speaker 1: us over the top. I think he can be this.
Speaker 1: I think he can be another Joe Montana, or another
Speaker 1: Ronnie Latt or another Tony Dorset or you know. They
Speaker 1: see what they want to see in these guys and
Speaker 1: they have to have him, and somebody else may not
Speaker 1: see it at all. They may say that guy stanks.
Speaker 1: I would take him, And that's the human part I think.
Speaker 1: In talking about the trades and why the Jimmy Johnson
Speaker 1: draft trade chart may be interesting in our scenario this
Speaker 1: year in terms of our Titans radio coverage, if guys
Speaker 1: are taken who don't handle the ball with the first
Speaker 1: ten picks, then once you get to eleven, twelve, thirteen,
Speaker 1: you're gonna start taking guys who handle the ball. Right,
Speaker 1: Guess what people trade for guys who handle the ball? Interesting? Interesting, Interesting,
Speaker 1: Mike Keith, this is just the coolest draft. It's I
Speaker 1: don't know why you're not as fired up as I am.
Speaker 1: I mean about draft. I'm totally fired up. I'm fired
Speaker 1: up to see our guys. I'm fired up to see
Speaker 1: our guys. I admit that it was good to see
Speaker 1: player cars in the lot here at St. Thomas Sports
Speaker 1: Park today. Do you just feel when the parking lot's
Speaker 1: not all empty and there's movement in the building and
Speaker 1: got lee. I mean, we've been in so many different
Speaker 1: places due to COVID and construction, and now we're all
Speaker 1: in one area again. So having people kind of filling
Speaker 1: this space, this new space that we're all still kind
Speaker 1: of moving into at Saint Thomas Sports Park, it just
Speaker 1: felt good. And now we're talking about this draft and
Speaker 1: it's this exciting draft and it's I mean a great
Speaker 1: one for the Tennessee Titans because of the amount of
Speaker 1: options that they have and there's so many crazy things
Speaker 1: that could happen. It's just an exciting time in football world.
Speaker 1: Might always well, I mean that's the NFL now, I mean,
Speaker 1: April's the draft maze. The schedule release June, OTAs and
Speaker 1: mini camps. July is the start of training camp. August
Speaker 1: is the start of preseason. September is the start of
Speaker 1: the season. You have football in October, November, December, and
Speaker 1: now into January, mid to late January, you've got all
Speaker 1: kinds of great playoffs. February you've got the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Then you go right back into the wind again with
Speaker 1: you know, all of the things that started and even
Speaker 1: some things start before the Super Bowl with Senior Bowl
Speaker 1: and Shrine Bowl and then moving towards the combine, and
Speaker 1: you know even before that Pro Bowl. The NFL never stops. Now, no,
Speaker 1: it really doesn't. I Mean the time that you kind
Speaker 1: of call the the off season or kind of your
Speaker 1: downtime is getting smaller and smaller just because things are
Speaker 1: becoming I mean, there's more things to do, and the
Speaker 1: league is really capitalizing on more events, which makes them
Speaker 1: a bigger deal, which makes them more exciting to talk
Speaker 1: about and to cover. And what a great industry, What
Speaker 1: a great industry. I'll tell you what I'm feeling some
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Speaker 1: anything else you want to say. No, I'm just fired up, Mike.
Speaker 1: I'm just excited. I think I've I've given enough emotion
Speaker 1: to this podcast for the fired up Amy Wells, I'm
Speaker 1: the somewhat belieguered Mike keieth At a little more. Thank
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Speaker 1: of the road, trying to hang in there, trying to
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