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Speaker 1: dot com with Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith at This

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Speaker 1: is Calvin Ridley Wide Receiver, Tennessee Titan. Welcome.

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Speaker 2: Thanks.

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Speaker 1: I like saying that. Calvin Ridley Wide Receiver, Tennessee Titans. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it does sound good, it does sound good. It works.

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Speaker 2: It is Calvin Ridley Wide Receiver, Tennessee Titan.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nice.

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic. The news of your gring to the deal

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Speaker 1: surprised a lot of people on Wednesday. Yeah. I know

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Speaker 1: you weren't surprised because you're in on it, you're talking

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Speaker 1: to your agent. But in terms of the Titans being

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Speaker 1: in the running for your services, were they in it

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Speaker 1: all along or did they pop in and win at the.

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Speaker 4: End, I honestly for them. For my agent, I said

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Speaker 4: what's up with the Titans? I kind of said that,

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Speaker 4: and then they really were in I think from him

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Speaker 4: telling me, you know, I only talk to my agent

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Speaker 4: to tell them. But when I had after the season,

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Speaker 4: I gave him a list and I put the Titans

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Speaker 4: in there, and he they were interested in me also,

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Speaker 4: so thank god.

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Speaker 1: All right, so why were the Titans on your list?

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Speaker 4: When I got out of the season, I knew I

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Speaker 4: was probably gonna be a free agent. I was just

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Speaker 4: looking around, you know, you know, all the you know,

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Speaker 4: potential spots I can go, and you know, just the

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Speaker 4: rosters and everything and quarterbacks, and I don't know, I

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Speaker 4: just was like, you know, I looked at Tennessee with

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Speaker 4: my brothers, and we looked at the you know, the

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Speaker 4: game like a game or two, and we looked at

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Speaker 4: Will and we you know, we looked at the receivers

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Speaker 4: and we were like, you know, could be a potential

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Speaker 4: spot for us, so let's put them on the list.

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Speaker 4: And you know, it's kind of was at that point

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Speaker 4: from there, but uh Na, But what I really was

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Speaker 4: thinking was, you know, I think.

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Speaker 2: I could come over there and help them.

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Speaker 4: I think I could come over there and they'll give

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Speaker 4: me the ball. Well that's what I mean, honestly, That's

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Speaker 4: kind of how I was looking at it in and

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Speaker 4: and I know teams are always making their team better

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Speaker 4: all the time, so it's like, who knows.

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Speaker 2: How good we're going to be?

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Speaker 5: Was one of the things that impacted that decision. The

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Speaker 5: fact that there is an opportunity for you to get

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Speaker 5: a lot of playing time and the opportunity for you

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Speaker 5: to make those plays that you want to be making.

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Speaker 2: That that was that had a lot to do with it.

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Speaker 2: It had a lot to do it because I was like,

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Speaker 2: you know, man, I want I want.

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Speaker 4: I want to show these people, you know, not only that,

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Speaker 4: but I like to get the ball. I want to

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Speaker 4: be someone they look at. It's like we want to

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Speaker 4: get on the ball and all the time. And he can,

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Speaker 4: he can definitely help us, especially.

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Speaker 2: Like in the red zone.

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Speaker 4: You know, a lot of areas I can score tchest downs.

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Speaker 4: I just wanted to put myself in a position where

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Speaker 4: I can, you know, you know, get the respect and

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Speaker 4: you know, obviously from my work out it and me

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Speaker 4: doing what I got to do. But at the end

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Speaker 4: of the year, I wanted to, you know, my team

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Speaker 2: You know, I had a you know, I had something

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 5: DeAndre Hopkins is someone who you are familiar with. You

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Speaker 5: guys know each other. How much did his presence on

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Speaker 3: It's got to be complimentary to what you're doing, yea, right,

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Speaker 4: Obviously, when I was looking at it, I didn't want

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Speaker 4: So yeah, obviously, when I was getting to the point

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Speaker 4: lot a lot of people, you know, Jeed wars just

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Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, it's gonna be a lot of

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Speaker 4: I was like, a no braining right now, I'm going

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Speaker 4: the coach is looking at like that guy is gonna

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Speaker 2: I was like, you know, they're gonna use me. They

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Speaker 4: I know Nick Nick just came from Jacksonville. So I

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Speaker 2: I mean, what am I doing?

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Speaker 1: Nick's over there.

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Speaker 2: I have a good relationship with Nick.

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Speaker 4: We could talk and it's just I was like Will

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Speaker 5: So Mike mentioned earlier all the swirling media wondering where

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Speaker 5: you're gonna go, what you're gonna do. Are you surprised

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Speaker 5: by how few people really understand how many elements go

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Speaker 5: into this. I mean, you're considering a wide range of

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a yeah, this was it was really cool, honestly,

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Speaker 4: Like you're talking about free agency, that was the first

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Speaker 2: I thought it was really cool. It was really it was.

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Speaker 4: A lot of emotions in it, but it was really

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Speaker 4: cool because you're like in control of where you go

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just it's a lot of emotions because you know,

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Speaker 2: You wanna live. It's just like a lot of emotions.

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Speaker 4: But it's a very very cool process, and I think

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Speaker 1: Ford Lauderdale Guy. Coconut Creek High School.

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Speaker 2: Yes, oh no, no, no, no, Monarch High School.

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Speaker 1: It's in Coconut Creek. Was free agency, similar to being

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, but you know you can't talk to

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Speaker 4: they only could talk to your agent.

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Speaker 2: But it's kind of like that, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Once obviously, once you get you just don't get the

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Speaker 2: You get it from your agent. So it's kind of

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Speaker 2: it is kind of like.

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Speaker 1: Not calling you at home, but they're not calling my

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Speaker 1: mom or you know my you know. Well, speaking of

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Speaker 1: you being young, do you remember your pre draft visit

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Speaker 1: here in twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 4: I will never forget it. You know why, because I

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Speaker 4: got a ticket leaving here. You got I actually was

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Speaker 1: I was just d right. Yeah, you know I got

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Speaker 4: Yeah really yeah, awesome, Dan, Well that's where we live.

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Speaker 4: So I was coming out. I drove from Huntsville up.

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Speaker 4: Did my visit. It went pretty well. Drove back on

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Speaker 2: I got pulled over.

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Speaker 4: I got a ticket, so I've never got fast. I

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Speaker 4: was in uh like seventy something.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I remember your visit here because we did an interview.

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Speaker 2: We did, we did, we probably did.

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Speaker 1: Let's check it out. No, well, even Ridley wide receiver Alabama,

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Speaker 1: they say wide receiver prospect draft. When you hear that,

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I am.

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Speaker 4: I definitely think I put in the work and I

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Speaker 4: definitely deserve it. And I mean I go to I

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Speaker 4: played for Alabama, I had, you know, three great seasons

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Speaker 4: I am the best receiver in the draft.

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Speaker 1: Don't you have to if you're going to be an

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I definitely have a lot of respect

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Speaker 4: but I just think I am the better receiver.

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Speaker 6: In the draft.

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Speaker 4: And I do have to have some type of confidence

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Speaker 2: So, yes, I am the best receiver.

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Speaker 1: I love this talk about your game go on and

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Speaker 1: on about several parts, but I want to ask you

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Speaker 1: about one thing, specifically your route running. You're said to

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Speaker 1: be now from out of college for years. How did

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Speaker 4: I think just about watching other guys and uh trying

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Speaker 6: And uh, I'm the type of guy who's uh.

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Speaker 4: I can watch film on Amari Cooper, Julio uh ab

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Speaker 4: and I think I try to do that, and I

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Speaker 1: You know, who do you model your game after?

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Speaker 4: I think I'm counting really to be honest, but I

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Speaker 4: I I do have a couple uh guys that I

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Speaker 4: a lot of other guys, but I think those four

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Speaker 4: are the ones I watch race.

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Speaker 1: What pieces do you take from there? Or have you

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Speaker 1: taken from their game? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Like a guy like ab Man, he just gets open.

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Speaker 4: He's known to get open no matter what, so I

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Speaker 4: I try to like see how what does he doing? Like,

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Speaker 4: I just want to figure some things out he's doing.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm real cool guy, I mean real cool. I

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Speaker 4: I'm'a laugh. It's funny. I'm'a laugh. That's one thing about me.

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Speaker 1: When you answer the phone on April the twenty sixth

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Speaker 1: That almost made me cry.

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Speaker 1: I didn't have braces anymore, but your teeth are perfect,

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Speaker 1: You've got to be proud of this moment. We're so

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Speaker 1: You have no idea how happy we are to have

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Speaker 3: So Titans fans, he's a good guy. He's a great guy.

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Speaker 1: We're just talking. I remember watching that video which I

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'd never seen that.

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Speaker 1: The Jameis Winstons and people. All these people who have

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Speaker 5: Well, in those situations, our evaluations of someone is very

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Speaker 3: You know, those pre draft visits.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, there was something going on that day where

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Speaker 1: And combing, and yeah, I was twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 5: You knocked yourself out and still went on and he

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Speaker 1: It's a bad look. Yeah, but again we didn't know

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Speaker 5: Now, I'm just happy that we did those because we

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Speaker 3: That was really spec It was fun.

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Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. All right, Let's hit

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Speaker 1: First of all, Taja Spears is no longer number thirty two.

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Speaker 5: I'm still struggling with the single digits. I know it's

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Speaker 1: And thirty two is a great number.

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Speaker 3: Thirty two is a great now.

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Speaker 1: But two as a back oh, Mike, so wonderful.

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Speaker 5: I know it's old news. This is not a new

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe Tony Pollard. What about Tony Pollard and and

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Speaker 5: I like that right now. That is something I like

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Speaker 1: He was twenty in Dallas. Twenty is open right now.

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Speaker 1: But he has not been assigned a number. Yeah, as

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Speaker 5: A number, but the double digits, Tony do it Man

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Speaker 1: Right. Second thing, Nick folk back is the Titans kicker

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Speaker 3: Consistency is key.

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Speaker 1: I love it, Uncle Nick. He'll be forty during the season.

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Speaker 1: Next year.

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Speaker 3: We'll throw a party, all right.

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Speaker 1: Uh cheetoh' woozy is fun?

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Speaker 5: He I mean he has been someone who, throughout his

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Speaker 5: him with the Titans. I'm excited to see what he's

447
00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,239
Speaker 5: going to be able to do in a defense that

448
00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,399
Speaker 5: has the potential to look a little bit different than

449
00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:02,760
Speaker 5: what we've seen in the past, and I'm just really

450
00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,280
Speaker 5: fired up about that. And I like that he understands

451
00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:09,440
Speaker 5: that he has a name that's hard to say, and

452
00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,240
Speaker 5: he's very patient about it.

453
00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:16,040
Speaker 1: Well, and okay, so I didn't look good in that OTP.

454
00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,439
Speaker 1: It didn't come across. It didn't come across well that

455
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,160
Speaker 1: it's a wu yee.

456
00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,400
Speaker 3: It's a lot better, thank you.

457
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,320
Speaker 1: But I don't think I'm going to say it like

458
00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:28,680
Speaker 1: that on radio and television.

459
00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:30,439
Speaker 3: I don't think he'll be able to.

460
00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,080
Speaker 1: I don't think I will either. And then I've gone

461
00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:36,720
Speaker 1: back and done some research about how other people have

462
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:41,720
Speaker 1: said it. It's just so dramatic at a pronunciation I

463
00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,760
Speaker 1: think a woozy. The americanization of it, which he says

464
00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,800
Speaker 1: is fine. I think it's much easier to say in

465
00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:49,920
Speaker 1: the speed of a game.

466
00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:54,000
Speaker 5: And I think that I really appreciate that he gives

467
00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:58,160
Speaker 5: you an out with that. He says in my language,

468
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Speaker 5: this is how it's said in the American English, this

469
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:03,359
Speaker 5: is how it said.

470
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Speaker 3: This is cool because I understand.

471
00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,440
Speaker 1: But how do you think he says it when he

472
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,160
Speaker 1: walks into a room, puts out his hand and says, hi,

473
00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 1: I'm cheeto.

474
00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:13,520
Speaker 3: I'm guessing it depends on the room.

475
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair. Yeah, but I'm saying, if he's just

476
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:17,520
Speaker 1: meeting us.

477
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Speaker 3: He probably says a woozy, A.

478
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,120
Speaker 5: Woozy, Yeah, yeah, just recognizing.

479
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Speaker 1: But I'm really charm because I try to get guys

480
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Speaker 1: names the way they want them.

481
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Speaker 3: It's funny, and I know that that bugs when you

482
00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:32,000
Speaker 3: don't get it right.

483
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Speaker 1: It bothers me because like another of the pre draft

484
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Speaker 1: interviews we did a couple of years ago was Kenneth Walker,

485
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:44,000
Speaker 1: who's originally from Memphis, played at Wake Forest in Michigan State.

486
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,439
Speaker 1: Now he's with Seattle Titans had him in for a

487
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,199
Speaker 1: pre draft visit, so we did the interview. When he

488
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,240
Speaker 1: walked into the room, I extended my head and I said,

489
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,040
Speaker 1: good to see you. I said, do you prefer Ken

490
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,560
Speaker 1: or Kenny or do you prefer Kenneth. He's like, oh,

491
00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:00,920
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I said, no, no, it matters. I said,

492
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 1: you are going to be in the National Football League.

493
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,360
Speaker 1: You will have reached the highest level of this sport.

494
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 1: You've earned this, So whatever you want to be called,

495
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,200
Speaker 1: you tell me. He goes, I'd like to be called Ken.

496
00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,719
Speaker 1: I was like, good for you, great, can well? I mean,

497
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,640
Speaker 1: I think that's great. Because I think you I think

498
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,520
Speaker 1: you earn that right, and I think you want to

499
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,359
Speaker 1: call people what they want to be called. Yes, but

500
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:33,119
Speaker 1: Ken or Kenneth Walker is a lot different from cheeto,

501
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:41,000
Speaker 1: a wooz Yi or a woozy if you're going fast, yeah,

502
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,680
Speaker 1: because I mean on the radio, you're going fast.

503
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Speaker 5: And you're saying words that are not And this is

504
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,080
Speaker 5: hard to describe. I might sound very silly saying it,

505
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 5: but football words are there's a lot of like harsh

506
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 5: consonant words in the things that you're saying and the

507
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,199
Speaker 5: words that you're using to describe. There's not a lot

508
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,920
Speaker 5: of flowing language when you're talking about football and it's

509
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,919
Speaker 5: loud and you're projecting and the way your mouth moves

510
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,640
Speaker 5: to do that. It would be hard to go from

511
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:14,960
Speaker 5: football words that are harsh and direct to a very flowing,

512
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,959
Speaker 5: kind of delicate language. It's all in the way you

513
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 5: move your mouth as a broadcaster.

514
00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 3: I know that was a bizarre I'm moving on.

515
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's okay, No, But I mean I think

516
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:25,959
Speaker 1: you're right.

517
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 3: I think it's real.

518
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 1: I'm sharing with the OT people together. That's why I'm

519
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 1: sharing with the OT people, because it is real.

520
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,880
Speaker 3: I was trying to justify I do now I feel.

521
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:37,679
Speaker 1: Like, no, no, no, I just how you said. It

522
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 1: was just so much fun, especially after you told me

523
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 1: to mind my business yesterday in the interview with kenn No.

524
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Speaker 3: I said, I didn't have time for you, is what

525
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 3: I said. Well, you could do whatever you needed to,

526
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,680
Speaker 3: you didn't have time for I didn't have time for you.

527
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,200
Speaker 1: Have you got any harsh judgment about that from anyone?

528
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 3: No, people.

529
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 5: I think people genuinely understood that we needed to can

530
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 5: continue on.

531
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 1: You and Kenneth Murray were having a moment.

532
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 5: How many people do you speak to in the National

533
00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:07,400
Speaker 5: Football League where they're like, yeah, I went scuba diving

534
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,639
Speaker 5: last Tuesday and you're like, oh, sure you did. Like

535
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,880
Speaker 5: that's a conversation I've never had with a human before.

536
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 5: I'm from Missouri. It's not like there's water there. Yeah,

537
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 5: you're not scuba diving unless you can see some stuff

538
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,120
Speaker 5: that you probably don't want to see in that lake.

539
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 5: It's nasty. People don't scuba dive in the lake. So

540
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Speaker 5: I don't interact with scuba diving.

541
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Speaker 1: This great. So now she's the spokesperson for Explore Missouri.

542
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 1: Show me Missouri.

543
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Speaker 3: You don't want to not as a scuba diver like

544
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 3: walk through a cave.

545
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Speaker 1: Alright, Lloyd Cushion Berry is big.

546
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Speaker 3: He is big. Wow, did you know he was that big?

547
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:52,159
Speaker 1: Yes, there were some people who thought he was certainly

548
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 1: going to be a guard, and there was one of

549
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,919
Speaker 1: the reasons that they liked him so much as a

550
00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: prospect across the board is that he could really play anywhere.

551
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 1: I mean, he's tackle size and that's the anchor in

552
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: the middle that he's going to give them And what

553
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,119
Speaker 1: he's going to mean to Peter Scaransky on the left

554
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 1: and whomever ends up being the right guard. I mean

555
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: it's a big deal.

556
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,919
Speaker 5: Well him just talking about his arm size and I

557
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,159
Speaker 5: had never really thought about it, but as a center,

558
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 5: you don't usually see people with arms that are that big.

559
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 5: And wow, the advantage that it gives him in so

560
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 5: many different ways, just from a leverage perspective.

561
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 1: Well, a lot of the centers are really stocky guys,

562
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,679
Speaker 1: the six one six two three hundred. I mean, there

563
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: are people who weigh three point fifteen, but there aren't

564
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 1: people who are big like this. I mean, when he

565
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,919
Speaker 1: walked in the room, you thought tackle because of the

566
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: arms and the just the way he's the way he's built.

567
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Speaker 1: I mean he is. I mean it's like we call

568
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons big Jeff. He's big like that as an

569
00:25:55,440 --> 00:26:00,439
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, I like it. Yeah. Same great Kenneth Murray,

570
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,200
Speaker 1: your scuba diving friend.

571
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:02,880
Speaker 3: He's great.

572
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,120
Speaker 1: Not hired to be a ziz Al Shier in this defense.

573
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: I think there is some feeling among people that he's

574
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: supposed to be the guy running the defense. I think

575
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 1: what they want him doing is just running.

576
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I disrupting.

577
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 5: I got the feeling that he was brought in to

578
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 5: being disruptive is a great word, that force. He is

579
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 5: there to get after the quarterback, get after the football.

580
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:33,160
Speaker 5: Rekavoc is what I kind of feel like is more

581
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 5: going to be his role, not so much the orchestrating

582
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 5: of the defense as a unit.

583
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 3: Just get in people's way man.

584
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: Nick Westbrook. Akine is back.

585
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 3: Very exciting.

586
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 5: He's I mean, he's been such a consistent person within

587
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 5: this offense to where no matter what his role is,

588
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 5: he's able to just step in and do what's asked

589
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 5: of him. He's a gritty guy, you know, he doesn't

590
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 5: mind doing whatever he needs to be if that's starting

591
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 5: in a game. Great if that's coming in as a

592
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 5: rotational guy. Also great if that. I mean, we've seen

593
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 5: him do so many different things over the years. He's

594
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 5: familiar with this organization, familiar with the receiver's room, kind

595
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 5: of where they've come from, where they're going. I think

596
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,400
Speaker 5: that's a great choice just as a stabilizer for that unit.

597
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: Well, he's not there to take snaps away from Calvin

598
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 1: Ridley or DeAndre Hopkins. No, he's there when those guys

599
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: need a rest because he can play all three positions.

600
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: He's there because he can be up on game day.

601
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: He can be I mean, he's really signed to be

602
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: part of your forty eight because he can be up

603
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: on game day due to the fact that he can

604
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: fill all the receiving spots. He can be a core

605
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 1: special teams player, which makes him part of the forty eight.

606
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 1: If you need him to go play, if somebody gets

607
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 1: hurt he can't, he can play and be effective. He

608
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: has certainly done that. I mean, that's what good NFL

609
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: rosters are made up of. Are not just the great

610
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: players and the highest paid players. It's the good, solid

611
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: football players who can help you across the board.

612
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,679
Speaker 5: That ends up being the foundation of your team is

613
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 5: those players. And so yeah, I think that having him

614
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 5: remain as a part of this team is good for

615
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 5: the Tennessee Tip.

616
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 6: Yes.

617
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:26,160
Speaker 1: And that's the thing is he's being signed to help

618
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,959
Speaker 1: you on Sundays in whatever way that is.

619
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 3: And honestly, if you have a team full of Calvin Ridley's,

620
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 3: what you end up with is chaos.

621
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 5: Well, I mean you have then not everyone can be

622
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 5: that guy, right, there's just not there's one football.

623
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 3: Not everyone can be the man.

624
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: Well, what did Calvin Ridley just tell us? Yeah, I

625
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: want the ball?

626
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 3: Yeah?

627
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: Nick Westbrookakine is not going to say that. He's going

628
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: to say if I'm open and I need to get

629
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: the ball, I'd like to have the ball. Sure, I'm

630
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: a receiver. Yeah, But they're different strategies that I want

631
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley to say I want the ball. I want

632
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins to say I want the ball. If you

633
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: don't have players like that, you don't win, right.

634
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 3: But if all the players are like that, sometimes you

635
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 3: also don't.

636
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: Then nobody blocks. Anybody tackles, and it's right.

637
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 3: You need the block and tackling people.

638
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: Okay, So, as we wrap up Texans have made a

639
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: trade with Minnesota. Texans have sent their number one pick

640
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: at number twenty three to Minnesota for pick number forty two,

641
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: and then an exchange of some picks, and then the

642
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: Texans get Minnesota's number two pick next year. So the

643
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: Texans are out of the first round, but they have

644
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: two second round picks and they have an extra second

645
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: next year. And now Minnesota has eleven and twenty three. Interesting,

646
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: so what are they going to do with eleven and

647
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: twenty three. Most people think they're going to package them

648
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: and go up to get one of the time quarterbacks.

649
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah says this morning that he is hearing right

650
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: now from his NFL sources four of the six picks

651
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: in the draft, which begins on April the twenty fifth,

652
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: will be quarterbacks, and that Minnesota will likely move up.

653
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: They'll take eleven and twenty three and package it to

654
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: go up and get Drake May from North Carolina.

655
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 3: It's I mean, it makes a lot of sense.

656
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: Oh, but what's really exciting is if four quarterbacks go.

657
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 3: What is left on the board, Well.

658
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. What does that move closer to Tennessee? Yeah,

659
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: because with the Chargers trading Keenan Allen to the Bears,

660
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: the Chargers need a wide receiver. You would have to

661
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: figure at number five they're going to take a wide receiver.

662
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, you would think.

663
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: So. Then I mean, if we know one pick's a receiver,

664
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Speaker 1: and we think four of the first six are quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: then what does that move towards the Titan.

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Speaker 5: That's the interesting thing about where the Titans are picking

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Speaker 5: is even though the Titans aren't in the market for

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Speaker 5: a quarterback, you've got to pay attention to the whole

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Speaker 5: quarterback dance because it impacts who remains on the boards

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Speaker 5: and then are pushed down so much that you have

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Speaker 5: to a you have to want something like that to happen,

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Speaker 5: because that's incredible. The more quarterbacks that can go early,

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Speaker 5: the better for the rest of us back here.

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Speaker 3: That is fascinating.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, but then there are also rumors today

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Speaker 1: that New England is very interested in trading with Chicago

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Speaker 1: for justin fields. So then would New England be that

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Speaker 1: team at number three that wants to get out for

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Speaker 1: a team like Minnesota, because if they have their quarterback

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Speaker 1: in fields, then they're not being one And so does

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Speaker 1: that get more interesting? With how everything rolls, and would

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Speaker 1: you see New England. Let's say hypothetically they make the trade,

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Speaker 1: they drop back to eleven, would they want to then

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Speaker 1: move up and get something at say seven, and be

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Speaker 1: willing to offer a third round pick or something else

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Speaker 1: in order to get that.

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Speaker 5: New England Not drafting in the draft is a tradition

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Speaker 5: unlike any other.

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Speaker 1: It truly just we should get Jim Nantz to say that.

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Speaker 5: Though they hoard draft picks, they never actually pick any players.

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Speaker 3: It's the craziest thing.

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Speaker 1: Do you think maybe they figured out that's why they

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Speaker 1: are where they are right now.

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Speaker 3: I think there's a really good chance they're regarding some

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Speaker 3: choices right now.

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Speaker 5: But you know, they've got a lot of new stuff

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Speaker 5: going on and maybe it'll all turn out fine. But

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Speaker 5: the Patriots not picking anybody? Sure, Yeah, that's a movie

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Speaker 5: I've seen.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for Amy Wells, I, Mike Keith,

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Speaker 1: thanking you for joining us for the O T we

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Speaker 1: go to the big show where the legend's going.

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Speaker 3: Everybody knows who's it's a