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Speaker 1: dot com with Ramon Foster, Dave McGinnis, Reetbrian, and Amy Wells.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith. The Titans, Night one of the NFL

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Speaker 1: Draft select J. C. Latham, a big, big man, an

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman, a tackle out of Alabama, nearly six six

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Speaker 1: three p forty Rehetbrian. His measurables off the charts because

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Speaker 1: he's a man of size off the charts.

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Speaker 2: He absolutely is. And you're talking about a guy that

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Speaker 2: you know carries the weight. He doesn't look the weight

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Speaker 2: that he rings in at it at three forty two.

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Speaker 2: So you talk about an arm of thirty five and

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Speaker 2: one eighth inches, wing of almost eighty five inches, and

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Speaker 2: big old Bear Paul's eleven inch hands. He is a

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Speaker 2: mammoth human being.

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Speaker 3: This is exactly what the Titans needed. I mean, this

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Speaker 3: is exactly what you had to come out of this

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Speaker 3: first round with, I mean just anything else. When you're

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Speaker 3: looking at it, you know, to reset this football team.

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Speaker 3: You had to reset the front of this football team,

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Speaker 3: especially on the offensive side of it. I'm so excited,

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Speaker 3: first of all that we were able to get him,

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Speaker 3: and second of all, I keep saying this, but this

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Speaker 3: is true. And if you get a chance to come

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Speaker 3: to the training camp to watch. I went down on

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Speaker 3: the field Wednesday just to watch Bill Callahan work with

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Speaker 3: I wanted to watch, and I wanted to see because

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Speaker 3: he has earned a reputation for a developer of talent.

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Speaker 3: And you pair a coach like that with some elite talent,

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Speaker 3: now you've got something working. And here's the other thing too.

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Speaker 3: Everybody else will come up to that standard, and that's important.

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Speaker 3: We talked about that a little bit. You talked about

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Speaker 3: the numbers that we have there. The guys that have

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Speaker 3: been here get a reset, but to come back up

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Speaker 3: to the standard that this guy will help set along

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Speaker 3: with and Peter Skeronsky is a wonderful player, and then

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Speaker 3: along with Cushion Barry at center, this is gonna be

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Speaker 3: it's gonna be a different looking offensive line pretty quick

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Speaker 4: And also this too, man, I'm huge on this. You

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Speaker 5: I think you can watch his visuals of him getting

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Speaker 5: drafted to Night and you see he's not shy.

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Speaker 1: He's very outwork.

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Speaker 4: He knows he's good.

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Speaker 5: And when you come into a place like this where

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Speaker 5: you have like minded younger veterans around you, Peter is

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Speaker 5: so on and so forth, those guys get an opportunity

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Speaker 5: to adapt each other's personality and set a stand there

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Speaker 5: for not just that offensive line room coach mat y'all

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Speaker 5: know this man. Most coaches want the leaders of their

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Speaker 5: because of the biggest they also got the biggest numbers

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Speaker 5: in the building. Also, we talked about as twelve quality

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Speaker 5: Him being one of the focus points of this group.

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Speaker 5: To me, it goes so far with where you reset.

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Speaker 5: This franchise is standard on what you want to do.

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Speaker 5: So that's what I like about him too, with this

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Speaker 1: Good he gets, He's gonna play left. Yes, yes, that's

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Speaker 1: that's that's what they were able to do. How hard

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Speaker 5: One thing that I was super static to hear him

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Speaker 5: He dropped over twenty pounds already. That right there was

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Speaker 4: Rolling of him. He looked good. He bounced around.

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Speaker 5: It matters, right, Like those are the things that you

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Speaker 5: You just question his footwork. How he was gonna continue

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Speaker 1: Okay, Amy, Well, so you and I work inside Ascension

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, and you have to think about it.

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Speaker 7: Brian Callahan is creating his team, and part of creating

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Speaker 7: your team is making sure that the culture, the identity,

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Speaker 7: evaluation of players is not just okay, what are you

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Speaker 7: And Ram was talking about how he's a big kid,

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Speaker 1: And when Rand has talked and you visit with Rand

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Speaker 2: He's flat out told us Mike, it's the number one

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Speaker 1: It's almost like Dan Hurley with Connecticut basketball, after he

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And what's the first thing that Brian Callahan says

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Speaker 2: that's the thing that has to be checked off the list.

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Speaker 2: So if he's a cultural fit, he loves the game.

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Speaker 2: He is an enormous human being who is super talented.

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Speaker 2: And then I'm just getting excited thinking about the man

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Speaker 2: that Ran calls big coach Bill Callahan getting to mold

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Speaker 1: And when Brian Callahan and Ran Carthon talk about culture

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Speaker 1: criticizing the Mike vrabel ear at all in terms of

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Speaker 1: It's just when you make a change, some things change

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Speaker 1: and you have to have people who fit into what

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Speaker 4: It's a reset.

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Speaker 1: It's a reset.

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Speaker 3: It's a reset.

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Speaker 4: It is exactly what it is. It's a reset.

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Speaker 3: And you know, talk about Latham. And you know when

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Speaker 3: And that's what you got to have up front.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you know, when you.

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Speaker 3: Look at it, I mean, Ramon's sitting right here next

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Speaker 3: Football League, you've got to have just a little bit

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Speaker 3: And again, I can't say enough about the guy that

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let me read you this. JC Latham was

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Speaker 1: born in Mississippi, but was largely raised south of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: He was a left tackle at IMG Academy after starting

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Speaker 1: a season. Crimson Tide coaches had him for forty one

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, this is what you want and this

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Speaker 1: There're laughing at the Trench King.

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Speaker 7: I'm laughing because he is the self pro claimed Trench King,

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Speaker 1: More than Malay calling himself the Yak King.

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Speaker 8: Right, It's so much better than someone Yeah, not only

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Speaker 8: that when you do that, though, to your point, I

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Speaker 8: own nickname is this?

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Speaker 4: Though? You better follow it up.

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Speaker 7: Exactly if someone else says it. It's like he's noticed

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Speaker 7: deliver on that. Nick.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think he loses a lot of fights.

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Speaker 1: I'm just that's great. I mean, let's fake big. People

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Speaker 5: That down when we go on the road, I walk

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Speaker 1: That is parting the sea, sir, that is that is

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Speaker 1: But overall, I mean, there were just two trades in

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Speaker 5: To me, I think bow Knicks fits exactly what Sean

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Speaker 5: Sixty two guys move side to side. Sean Payton, of course,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I could see that.

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Speaker 5: But when you look at your guy that you can

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Speaker 5: I lived that life that Sean Payton is going to

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Speaker 1: They couldn't go up because they're still hurt by the

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Speaker 7: I think some of this was need based. Obviously, the

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Speaker 7: Hey we're going to have bigger players that we're gonna

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Speaker 5: Are we are We also looking at a world in

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Speaker 5: fourteenth straight is very eye opening to me, and of

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Speaker 5: course you throw the quarterbacks in it, but in today's

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Speaker 4: Seven on seven, not going under the center, right.

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Speaker 1: That's it. And I mean the picks that went in

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Speaker 1: But the bottom line was it was outside players. You know,

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Speaker 3: Well here's the other thing too, Mike. And again you know,

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Speaker 3: it's pretty spot on. I'll just say that right here.

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Speaker 1: It's just right. It's just right. I mean, we're exactly right.

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Speaker 3: I won't say it more than twelve times by the

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's none. Let's move to tomorrow night, starting

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Speaker 1: with pick thirty three. You know it's it's not a

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Speaker 1: great interior defensive lineman year. No, it's not a good

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Speaker 1: It's not a fabulous tight end year after Bowers. Nope.

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Speaker 1: So so do people in that top area of the

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Speaker 3: That's exactly how draft rooms are thinking right now. You know,

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Speaker 3: it used to be you'd reset your draft. Remember when

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Speaker 3: got to reset after thirty two picks. So that's exactly

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Speaker 3: what all of these rooms are doing right now, Mike,

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Speaker 3: This is the point of time as to where your

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Speaker 4: What barring big time, barring a trade.

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Speaker 2: This is exactly what the Titans are gonna go through

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Speaker 2: because yes they have thirty eight, but they have nothing

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to have a three unless

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Speaker 1: not think it was likely that the Titans would trade

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Speaker 7: I definitely think it's compelling and I think I could

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Speaker 6: I could see it happening.

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Speaker 7: I don't think it would be something bananas where.

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Speaker 6: They traded super far back, but yeah, if there.

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Speaker 7: Was someone who was willing to trade and give them

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Speaker 3: Everybody's thinking the same way. You've got to have somebody

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Speaker 6: Somebody, And that's the thing that's a part.

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Speaker 3: You're not gonna call and say, hey, do you want

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Speaker 3: that said we've got a guy here, would you be

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Speaker 3: willing you know, would you be willing to? That's that's

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Speaker 3: the key to this thing and what we're talking about

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Speaker 3: the mindset in all of these draft rooms. I mean,

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