Speaker 1: This is the OTP.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Wells, joined by Rett Bryan and coach mac
Speaker 2: Dave McGinnis. You guys, the twenty twenty five NFL Draft
Speaker 2: is over. It has officially ended today with a final
Speaker 2: press conference from general manager Mike Borganzi and President of
Speaker 2: Football Operations Chad Brinker. So I figured that now we
Speaker 2: should all get together, like we should sit and talk
Speaker 2: about this, put a bow on it, wrap up what
Speaker 2: all of this means, and then talk a little bit
Speaker 2: about the future and where we can head. Does that
Speaker 2: sound good to you?
Speaker 3: Yes, that's good. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2: So for starters, did everyone have a good draft experience?
Speaker 2: How do you guys feel? We had a bunch of
Speaker 2: content on Titan's radio. We were all over the place.
Speaker 2: Did you guys have a good time?
Speaker 3: I did, Yeah, I do. I mean we've been living
Speaker 3: with each other for quite a while now, it was
Speaker 3: it was good. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, we're gonna have a weekend of parts.
Speaker 3: What he's saying, I'm not too tired of both of you.
Speaker 2: But well, that's good. No, that was a very informal
Speaker 2: way of asking. But you guys do a ton of
Speaker 2: prep work. We talk about it for months and months
Speaker 2: leading up to it. Do you feel like you got
Speaker 2: to use all of your information? Do you have any
Speaker 2: leftover ret nuggies that didn't make it in number one?
Speaker 4: It pertains to one of the draft picks, for sure, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I've got to I've still got a leftover nuggie. I
Speaker 4: would like in this just in something people can relate
Speaker 4: to young people getting married. You know, there's all this
Speaker 4: planning and forethought to the wedding day, huge day for
Speaker 4: the bride. I mean, all of that build up. She
Speaker 4: wants everything to be perfect and then like that, it's over.
Speaker 4: And that's kind of what this. It's just a big
Speaker 4: build up, only they're building, you know, a roster here.
Speaker 4: And I love what they did structurally. They came into
Speaker 4: the office with six picks, ended up with nine due
Speaker 4: to a couple of trades. And I know we're going
Speaker 4: to dive into that, but I think they got some
Speaker 4: nice players to get this thing rolling.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 5: When you start putting the draft together, I mean the
Speaker 5: thing that I enjoyed doing. I mean we looked at
Speaker 5: over two hundred and fifty players. I mean we went
Speaker 5: through that made up our draft boards, so that and
Speaker 5: you only get you only get to pick nine of them.
Speaker 3: But the way we.
Speaker 5: Do it, we do it so that we've got information
Speaker 5: for our listeners. That's why we do it like this.
Speaker 5: And plus, I mean it helps, it helps all of
Speaker 5: us when we're broadcasting games because now we know who
Speaker 5: these players are. We know who they are because not
Speaker 5: only the players that we picked, but the players across
Speaker 5: the league. We can say, I remember when he was
Speaker 5: in the draft, Remember what we said about him, here's
Speaker 5: his strong points, Let's see how he's developing into a professional.
Speaker 5: I mean, all of those things. That's that's why I
Speaker 5: keep all thirty nine of these notebooks, because I've got
Speaker 5: a good file on who these players are in the league.
Speaker 5: And it's important. Yeah, I love doing it, and it
Speaker 5: was we did a just all honesty. We did a
Speaker 5: real thorough job, which is what we do. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: we had a lot of fun doing it.
Speaker 4: And the head coach saw the mac red board.
Speaker 1: That was pretty cool, yeah, and he seemed into it and.
Speaker 3: He didn't throw it on the floor. He looked through
Speaker 3: it and it was good. Well.
Speaker 4: One of the reasons he didn't is because you have
Speaker 4: a long pedigree in this league. If it was my board,
Speaker 4: he'd be like, yeah, that's nice, son, have a good day.
Speaker 1: He'd probably want to see my board.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, okay, that's fair, of course, let me
Speaker 4: see Amy's draft board.
Speaker 3: I agree with that, Amy. Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, it'd be a real, real hodgepodge of craziness. But
Speaker 2: what is not a hodgepodge of craziness. The Titans nine
Speaker 2: draft picks. Let us review them really quickly, just in
Speaker 2: case anyone missed what happened over the last couple of days. So,
Speaker 2: with the number one pick in the NFL Draft, the
Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans selected quarterback cam Ward.
Speaker 1: Then in two at pick number.
Speaker 2: Fifty two, they selected linebacker Oloa femi Ola Dejo. Round three,
Speaker 2: pick number eighty two, the Titans took safety Kevin Winston
Speaker 2: Junior out of Penn State. Then in round four, things
Speaker 2: start getting a little bit interesting. The Titans had three
Speaker 2: picks in that round. At one oh three, they took
Speaker 2: wide receiver out of Florida Chim ray Dka. At one
Speaker 2: twenty they took the tight end out of Texas Gunner Helm,
Speaker 2: and then pick one thirty six they took wide receiver
Speaker 2: elk iomanor the wide receiver out of Stanford now at
Speaker 2: one sixty seven. In round five, pick one sixty seven,
Speaker 2: they took guard Jackson Slater. He was from Sacramento State,
Speaker 2: and then they had two picks. In round six, pick
Speaker 2: one eighty three, they took Marcus Harris, a corner out
Speaker 2: of California, and then finally pick one eighty eight, they
Speaker 2: took Klel Mullins, a running back out of Michigan.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: Those are the Titans draft picks, all nine of them.
Speaker 2: And the pundits seem to like this draft for the
Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans. A lot of response, a lot of high
Speaker 2: grades a's and b's from the national media. Mac, I
Speaker 2: know you probably don't put a lot of stock in
Speaker 2: those grades, but.
Speaker 3: Tell me why, your guys tell me what you see?
Speaker 1: Nothing that is you know who?
Speaker 3: I like it, likes it our draft room.
Speaker 1: Okay, I like it.
Speaker 3: Like the fact that the Titans like it.
Speaker 1: My question to you, Oh, I'm just being honest.
Speaker 2: Is why why do you think that draft class is
Speaker 2: being so well received on a national level.
Speaker 5: Well, because people that know what they're doing, know how
Speaker 5: they set up the draft, and know how they when
Speaker 5: they traded back what they were trading for. And also
Speaker 5: it's the same way that we put our board together
Speaker 5: is you look at pods of people as to where
Speaker 5: intrinsic value is.
Speaker 3: See, you get a lot of names, and then.
Speaker 5: People will say when it comes up, well we need
Speaker 5: a receiver or we needed this, so we needed that. Though,
Speaker 5: what you need is a player that fits what you're
Speaker 5: trying to do in conjunction with everybody else that you're
Speaker 5: trying to take on your board.
Speaker 3: And that's what's extremely extremely important.
Speaker 5: I mean, I every what I like read is when
Speaker 5: we first started this back after the season, this first notebook,
Speaker 5: we have every player that they took in this book
Speaker 5: somewhere because we went over those names and we went
Speaker 5: all the way, we went all the way to sack State.
Speaker 3: And what's important is is that you're.
Speaker 5: And they spend they spend as much time as we spend.
Speaker 5: They spend infinitely more time, and they've got more resources.
Speaker 5: They've got a lot more resources than we do. So
Speaker 5: the people that are looking at it that know what
Speaker 5: it is in the league, the reason they respected because
Speaker 5: they were looking to go that makes sense, that makes sense,
Speaker 5: that makes sense.
Speaker 3: That's why they like it. Now.
Speaker 5: Some of the goofle loops that just write stuff. Doesn't
Speaker 5: move my needle at all.
Speaker 1: That's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 2: Now, Ritt, you mentioned earlier that at the beginning of
Speaker 2: this kind of draft process it had six picks. They
Speaker 2: ended up picking nine players. That's pretty impressive for a
Speaker 2: first time GM working with a first time personnel group.
Speaker 4: Right, I think it is. But it also speaks to
Speaker 4: his experience as his whole body of work with the
Speaker 4: Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 3: And you got to.
Speaker 4: Remember the last handful he was assistant general manager. I mean,
Speaker 4: he wasn't just walking around with some kind of empty title.
Speaker 4: I mean he was boots on the ground doing the work.
Speaker 4: And then I think the collective that they brought together
Speaker 4: between Chad Brinker, president of Football Operations, and he spoke
Speaker 4: about it in the press conference about being able to
Speaker 4: dip out of the war room and go handle some
Speaker 4: meetings with other things that are on the purview of
Speaker 4: his duties and then come back in to know that.
Speaker 4: But when you're talking about when you have Reggie Mackenzie
Speaker 4: and you have Dave Ziegler who have been general managers,
Speaker 4: they have an all star crew in there, and then
Speaker 4: you mix in the talent evaluators in the Scouting department
Speaker 4: all that. It's a great, great group of people, and
Speaker 4: I think Mike Porganzi, you know, it kind of spoke
Speaker 4: to what he's about and what his vision is, what
Speaker 4: their vision is aligned because you know, you make that
Speaker 4: picket from thirty five right here in this room. We
Speaker 4: were recovering this on last Friday night, and you pick
Speaker 4: up a picket fifty two overall, and then you add
Speaker 4: in a third rounder you didn't have so that you
Speaker 4: didn't go from thirty five to one oh three, which
Speaker 4: is a long way to fall to see names come
Speaker 4: off the board, and then you make a day three
Speaker 4: trade with Baltimore Ravens so that you go back into
Speaker 4: the bottom of the fourth round to take elicioman Or
Speaker 4: from Stanford. They not only address need, they got some
Speaker 4: depth position stuff.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 4: I think all these guys have interesting stories that we
Speaker 4: all like to tell. But I think the whole body
Speaker 4: of work I'm with Mac. I like that they like it,
Speaker 4: and I think time will tell on the rest of it.
Speaker 4: You mentioned Ola with femi Ola Day Show, so that
Speaker 4: was the guy they picked at fifty two and when
Speaker 4: they traded down from thirty five. He is his family
Speaker 4: is from West, the western part of Nigeria in the
Speaker 4: Congo area of Africa. And their language they speak, which
Speaker 4: they speak, what I understand frequently when their family unit
Speaker 4: is together, Ola with Emi in their language means God
Speaker 4: loves me, and so I think that's why he wants
Speaker 4: it to be referred to by his full name, even
Speaker 4: though Femi is his nickname. But you just look at
Speaker 4: the production in these guys, and then Kevin Winston Junior
Speaker 4: at eighty two, Let's face it, they needed a safety.
Speaker 4: Kevin Winston Junior would have been much higher drafted in
Speaker 4: this draft had he not had the ACL. He played
Speaker 4: and the season opener for Penn State felt a tweak
Speaker 4: and practice that next week try had to go played
Speaker 4: about a series or two in the next game, and
Speaker 4: then he had to have ACL surgery. He's far enough
Speaker 4: removed from that he'll be all right. But had he
Speaker 4: been healthy, he'd have been taken early on Night two
Speaker 4: instead of where he was at eighty two. And then
Speaker 4: you just start picking through this stuff. There's some very
Speaker 4: interesting like Kalel Mullings the last pick. He's a converted linebacker.
Speaker 4: He's still learning the running back position. But what I
Speaker 4: like about that is he brings the physicality in his
Speaker 4: style of running, plus his his stuff could translate to
Speaker 4: being a core special teams guy and maybe the third
Speaker 4: running back.
Speaker 5: That's a that's a huge part of a huge part
Speaker 5: of that. I mean you said that, you said that
Speaker 5: so well, that that's pretty common thread that runs through
Speaker 5: these guys. They're really they're really football dudes. I mean
Speaker 5: it's it's you can tell throughout their careers. It's been
Speaker 5: very very important to them. Some of them have overcome
Speaker 5: some things to get to it, to get to what
Speaker 5: they've done. And also it shows that you don't have
Speaker 5: a group of PREMI ma, donna, dudes. I mean, you've
Speaker 5: got guys that They've got guys that were willing to
Speaker 5: do what the team needed them to be and then
Speaker 5: they took it and ran with it. So I mean,
Speaker 5: as I say, because they're happy with it, I'm happy
Speaker 5: with it. But as we were going through the draft,
Speaker 5: you know, all three of us sitting here, and they
Speaker 5: would take them and then we list would just check
Speaker 5: it off our list over here and.
Speaker 3: Go okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 5: That that to me made me, you know, feel good,
Speaker 5: because I knew they feel good.
Speaker 4: Well, and you go back and you look at you
Speaker 4: read their bios. It's littered with they were obviously multi
Speaker 4: sport guys, but they were captains on their team. They're leaders.
Speaker 4: These are foundational style pieces and some of the later
Speaker 4: rounds maybe you develop into more there. But the football
Speaker 4: character is that needle is pegged.
Speaker 3: The other thing that.
Speaker 5: With the transfer portal world that we're living in now,
Speaker 5: when a player transfers from somewhere where he had a
Speaker 5: a legitimate position as a captain and goes to his
Speaker 5: new place in the spring, and then is elected captain
Speaker 5: with that new group, that tells you that that trait.
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Speaker 2: way that Chad Bricker described what they were looking for
Speaker 2: in his press conference was big, fast, tough football players
Speaker 2: who love winning more than anything else. And it was
Speaker 2: just that simple. It wasn't something he had to think about.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like that's the answer. Is that such a
Speaker 2: clear and concise description of what they're looking for. Is
Speaker 2: that the makings of a strong identity for a football
Speaker 2: team that maybe didn't have such a specific guiding identity
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Well, let's let's let's go to the last part of that.
Speaker 5: We said that love winning that comes after you're willing
Speaker 5: to put the work into winning.
Speaker 3: That's what that I mean. And that's and that's what
Speaker 3: Chad is meaning with that.
Speaker 5: If you really, if you really, truly, everybody, I haven't
Speaker 5: found a player yet in all the years I've been
Speaker 5: doing this that didn't like the feeling of winning.
Speaker 3: Now, the subset of those of that group is very small.
Speaker 5: That's willing to put all the work in when nobody's
Speaker 5: watching that it takes to do that on a consistent basis.
Speaker 3: This is hard. It's hard.
Speaker 5: The preparation is hard, the practice is hard, the mental
Speaker 5: stre hard. All of those things are important, But if
Speaker 5: you've got guys, put a group of guys together that
Speaker 5: are willing to do all of that to get to
Speaker 5: the end result and win together as a group. That's
Speaker 5: what you're looking for, because it's really easy, you know,
Speaker 5: for somebody to say, coach, I love to win. All right, now,
Speaker 5: let's go out here, not just today, not just tomorrow,
Speaker 5: not just when you're really feeling good, because we all
Speaker 5: wake up some mornings not feeling great. And especially when
Speaker 5: you're doing something as exhaustive as playing professional football is,
Speaker 5: and in the National Football League as a player and
Speaker 5: a coach, you've got to be willing to you know,
Speaker 5: the word grind gets used a lot, but when you've
Speaker 5: lived it and you know what it is, you've got
Speaker 5: to have those guys that are willing to do it
Speaker 5: and on a consistent basis.
Speaker 3: I think that's what he's talking about.
Speaker 4: The other thing I would follow up with mac on
Speaker 4: that too. Someone asked general manager Mike Borganzi in the
Speaker 4: press conference about the cultural shape of things, and he
Speaker 4: had and I'm paraphrasing, but it was a quote something
Speaker 4: of the the to the effect of, if we get
Speaker 4: enough of these guys in there, that will build culture
Speaker 4: and I think there's you know, when you look at
Speaker 4: this team on paper, they're very young. I mean, there's
Speaker 4: there's a few guys that are older in this but
Speaker 4: they're I mean when you're looking at Amani Hooker and
Speaker 4: you're looking at Jeffrey Simmons as the two longest vested
Speaker 4: you know that were actually selected by the team, that's
Speaker 4: saying something. So you're gonna need the football character, the
Speaker 4: people that put into work when nobody's looking. And I
Speaker 4: think that's the other identity of this draft is every
Speaker 4: one of these guys, in their own individual ways coming
Speaker 4: to this town and this team have put work in
Speaker 4: and I think will continue to do so.
Speaker 5: Also, who the mindset of the quarterback that you selected
Speaker 5: is huge. That's huge because and I've never sat down
Speaker 5: yet and talked with him face to face and don't
Speaker 5: have to because just just from what I can ascertain,
Speaker 5: every time he opens his mouth and he starts to speak,
Speaker 5: he's saying something with a purpose.
Speaker 4: Can I pause on that for a second because I
Speaker 4: want to PSA for the ot people. If you have
Speaker 4: not listened to that OTP that Amy Wells did with
Speaker 4: Cameron Ward, go, it's eleven minutes it's not a great commitment.
Speaker 4: Just go listen to it. You'll get a better idea
Speaker 4: listening to that young man talk and listening to the
Speaker 4: background he's from. I mean, his family dynamic has clearly
Speaker 4: shaped him into the man that he is. There's a
Speaker 4: couple of funny things in there. You need to hear
Speaker 4: about family game night. That's funny canceled, but he said,
Speaker 4: I'm not afraid to get into somebody's ass when I
Speaker 4: need to. Like, the dude's a natural born leader. He's
Speaker 4: earned the stripes coming up to this point. Now he's
Speaker 4: going to have to move into this lane. I don't
Speaker 4: think he's going to have any trouble with that part
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: But I just I learned a little more about him
Speaker 4: from your your great interview with him from last week.
Speaker 5: I mean, you're the only one sitting at this table,
Speaker 5: in this group of wizards, in this wizard round table here.
Speaker 3: Let's talk to him. Do you come with a way
Speaker 3: with that sense? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely.
Speaker 2: He is so even keeled to the point where you're
Speaker 2: almost like like he's very comfortable and not in a
Speaker 2: casual way though, just in a quiet confidence kind of way.
Speaker 2: He's just delightful to talk to, very kind, very respectful,
Speaker 2: was a great person to talk to, a great interview,
Speaker 2: but also like isn't afraid to kind of poke the
Speaker 2: bear a little bit because he has that quiet confidence,
Speaker 2: So he'll give you a hard time, he'll kind of
Speaker 2: mess around with you a little bit, which I think
Speaker 2: is great. I think that's one of the ways that
Speaker 2: you really connect with people. But he also seems to
Speaker 2: have a really good understanding of his surroundings.
Speaker 1: Almost he does a great job.
Speaker 2: Of reading the room and reading the people within the room,
Speaker 2: and I think that that is something that is such
Speaker 2: that's not something that's developed, that's something you're born with.
Speaker 2: You like people can read the room or they can't,
Speaker 2: and it is just innate. And he had such a
Speaker 2: great ability to meet each person that he was interacting
Speaker 2: with because I watched him, you know, as he went
Speaker 2: when we bring the first round pick in spoiler alert
Speaker 2: for those of you who don't know when the first
Speaker 2: round pick comes in for the very first day, right
Speaker 2: after he's picked, and he does the media and he
Speaker 2: does all kinds of stuff. We ask him to do
Speaker 2: about eight hundred and sixty five different things, so he
Speaker 2: is all over the building, he's meeting with a ton
Speaker 2: of different people, and he's doing a lot of different things,
Speaker 2: whether it's photo shoots or interviews or talking to the
Speaker 2: media or shaking hands with this person or that person.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot asked of them on their
Speaker 2: very first day, and he did such a great job
Speaker 2: of every room he walked into, he met every single person,
Speaker 2: and by the time he left the room, he knew
Speaker 2: everybody's name, and he interacted with each person in a
Speaker 2: very different way that felt so familiar to them. And
Speaker 2: so that's why I think he is such a natural leader,
Speaker 2: is because he can instantly walk into a room and
Speaker 2: recognize that, like, this person wants to be dealt with
Speaker 2: different than this person, Like this person will appreciate this
Speaker 2: kind of humor. This person won't think that's funny at all.
Speaker 2: I need to talk to this person that way. That
Speaker 2: is something that you're born with. And so aside from
Speaker 2: all the football stuff, being able to do that, that's
Speaker 2: just an amazing skill set as a human.
Speaker 5: Well, and the other thing about it is and I'm
Speaker 5: glad that you bring that up, because I've done this
Speaker 5: so many years. Bring those guys are operating on about
Speaker 5: two hours of sleep.
Speaker 1: He said he got exactly one hour of sleep.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's universal for those guys, especially those guys
Speaker 5: that go to the draft, that asked to be at
Speaker 5: the draft. I mean it's a horror wind. It's four
Speaker 5: or five day a horl wind there doing the same thing.
Speaker 5: So to still be able to muster the wherewithal to
Speaker 5: do that and understand the importance of the first impression
Speaker 5: where you are, because I mean I can tell some
Speaker 5: stories about guys coming in with one hour sleep that
Speaker 5: we had to wake up off a couch, Yeah, trying
Speaker 5: to get him to do the next thing. So that's
Speaker 5: those are legitimate points that you're making that you've observed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he was definitely a tired pup, like
Speaker 2: especially by the time I got to him at the end.
Speaker 1: Of the day.
Speaker 3: He had been through the car wash.
Speaker 2: The man had been through the car wash. But I
Speaker 2: mean he kept going and he gave everybody one hundred
Speaker 2: percent even if he did not have one hundred percent
Speaker 2: to give.
Speaker 4: The more I heard him speak in that OTP, there's
Speaker 4: just this country charm and quiet confidence. It's like you
Speaker 4: were sitting there talking to Steve McNair. Yeah, that's how
Speaker 4: he handled himself, and I was reminded of that the
Speaker 4: more I heard him talking that OTP the other thing
Speaker 4: I would say. I went back and I watched a
Speaker 4: couple of his games yesterday afternoon. Do you rest ever
Speaker 4: ret Well, I mean I do, but it was it
Speaker 4: was good to just be able to.
Speaker 3: Can I can I say this? Red?
Speaker 5: She asked, if you ever rest? He was very pleasant
Speaker 5: with one hour sleep. Can you be more pleasant?
Speaker 3: Sure? Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4: I didn't know it was unpleasant, but sure, okay. Watching
Speaker 4: him operate in the pocket, and I know this is
Speaker 4: going to be a whole different ballgame for him literally
Speaker 4: in this league. But there's this confidence in just the
Speaker 4: way you talked about his spatial awareness and just the
Speaker 4: way he didn't get rattled. He didn't And the wolves
Speaker 4: are coming, and I know the wolves in this thing
Speaker 4: is that's a whole different animal.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 4: There's something about the way he carries himself. I just
Speaker 4: I don't know. I just kept I went back. I
Speaker 4: was like, this, this is going to be a lot
Speaker 4: of fun.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: One of the things that's a good point, Rich because
Speaker 3: one of the things he's very self aware.
Speaker 1: Yes, incredible to me.
Speaker 3: That's the one thing when he's asked by a coach
Speaker 3: about he is one of his.
Speaker 5: Strengths, he said, I can see space spatial awareness on
Speaker 5: the field.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was just very impressed by him, and I'm excited
Speaker 2: to see him as he gets into the locker room
Speaker 2: and gets with the rookies when they're in the building,
Speaker 2: and then.
Speaker 1: Also with the vets and to see that dynamic.
Speaker 2: It's just going to be really fun to watch throughout
Speaker 2: the off season program and through training camp watching him
Speaker 2: grow and really find his footing and get more comfortable.
Speaker 2: I do think it's interesting that as we're looking at
Speaker 2: this draft class here six editions on offense, three on defense. Mac,
Speaker 2: do you think there was a concerted effort to add
Speaker 2: young talent around this young quarterback so that they can
Speaker 2: all develop together. Is that something that would be beneficial
Speaker 2: for him and his development?
Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely, it absolutely was.
Speaker 5: Now a lot of it, A lot of it has
Speaker 5: to go with you know, how their board looked, how
Speaker 5: their front board looked. Is that as the vertical at
Speaker 5: horizontal started to come off and they started to trade.
Speaker 3: But absolutely, and I mean that that helps, that helps
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 5: It sure does now, sooner or later, whether they're young
Speaker 5: guys that came in with him, are there veterans that
Speaker 5: he's around. He's got to assimilate with all of them.
Speaker 5: Everybody's got to assimilate together. But to your initial point, sure,
Speaker 5: sure there was you know, said, how can we utilize
Speaker 5: this guy within the framework of what he likes to
Speaker 5: do offensively and so what we're going to work together
Speaker 5: as a.
Speaker 3: Group to do.
Speaker 4: Here's the other thing that because you're right, and in
Speaker 4: day three, I'm my god, they gotta go all offenses
Speaker 4: the first four selections right or offense the other part
Speaker 4: of it in a bigger picture, got scored more than
Speaker 4: eighteen points a game?
Speaker 1: Yeah, got to yep, that would be helpful.
Speaker 4: So some of these guys are going to be counted
Speaker 4: on for that stuff.
Speaker 3: That's a valid point. Read well.
Speaker 2: A word that came up in the press conference over
Speaker 2: and over and over again with speed. Speed was something
Speaker 2: that seems to be another point of emphasis Mac. Why
Speaker 2: was this team needing speed so much?
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I mean, this team was injured, right,
Speaker 5: You had guys had to fill in that weren't good.
Speaker 5: There weren't starters, they didn't have enough requisite speed.
Speaker 3: You can you can never be.
Speaker 5: In this league too fast, right, you can never be
Speaker 5: too fast. Now, some of the other things have to
Speaker 5: fit into it, and you have to be able to
Speaker 5: function that speed.
Speaker 3: There's a difference between just running.
Speaker 5: I mean, I've been at workouts where we've brought in
Speaker 5: Olympic athletes that were speedy guys. But then when you
Speaker 5: start putting a ball in it start throwing it at them.
Speaker 3: They were ducking it like where you're throwing it at me, So.
Speaker 5: Potatoes a sudden you get people throw stuff at me.
Speaker 3: What were we doing?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: You got you gotta have football speed. Football speed is
Speaker 5: different than just running fast in a straight line. But
Speaker 5: play speed, play speed, and you you'll hear You'll hear
Speaker 5: the evaluators talk about it.
Speaker 3: You heard our guys talk about it. He's good with
Speaker 3: the ball.
Speaker 5: In his hands, he or he's got a GPS to
Speaker 5: the ball on defense, he can get to the football
Speaker 5: because you've got to be able to You got to
Speaker 5: be able to incorporate your speed into the flow of
Speaker 5: the ball game.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 5: Straight line speed and football speed are two very distinctly
Speaker 5: different things.
Speaker 4: Jim Ray DK four to three four at the combine. Wow,
Speaker 4: thirty eight and a half inch vertical leap ten eight
Speaker 4: broad six eight two in the three cone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but see and now right there, right there, what
Speaker 5: he said six' eight two in the three. Cone now
Speaker 5: he can change, directions he can start stop. CHANGE i,
Speaker 5: mean you, know we talked about it earlier in one
Speaker 5: of the. OTPs if y'all missed, it go, BACK i
Speaker 5: can listen to.
Speaker 4: IT i Mean elkioman or four four four but one
Speaker 4: five six in his first. Ten, yeah and see thirty
Speaker 4: eight and a half.
Speaker 5: Vert because those those things also matter, too because it's
Speaker 5: not just straight vertical speed that you're incorporated into. It
Speaker 5: but the reason that they do that they have some
Speaker 5: of those other qualities amy that.
Speaker 3: Supplement that. Speed you can never be too, fast.
Speaker 5: But you've also got to be able to be fast
Speaker 5: enough to play, football which is incorporates a lot of
Speaker 5: change of, direction a lot of start and.
Speaker 3: Stop you, know a lot of those things have to.
Speaker 4: Happen that corner they took From Cal Marcus. Harris by the,
Speaker 4: way there's some good players in this draft from That cal.
Speaker 4: Program four four five at the, combine run four to
Speaker 4: three eight at is pro, day but one five seven
Speaker 4: and one five five in his first ten thirty thirty
Speaker 4: six and a half inch, vert a little over seven
Speaker 4: and the three. Cone BUT i mean forty two pass,
Speaker 4: breakups eight interceptions to the.
Speaker 3: Ball he's got some twitch to. Him, yep he's got.
Speaker 5: Twitch you know That our good Friend Peter sermon was
Speaker 5: the defensive coordinator.
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Speaker 2: Otp in other, news The titans have also added another
Speaker 2: free agent wide, Receiver Tyler. Lockett for those of you
Speaker 2: who are not familiar With Tyler, lockett let me tell
Speaker 2: you a little bit about. Him he played in one
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty one win games with one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty four starts in ten seasons with The Seattle. Seahawks
Speaker 2: that would be from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty. Four
Speaker 2: they selected him in the fifth round of the twenty
Speaker 2: FIFTEEN Nfl. Draft during his, career he has recorded six
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty one receptions for eight, thousand five hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety four yards and sixty one. Touchdowns last, season
Speaker 2: he played in seventeen games for the second straight. Year
Speaker 2: he had forty nine catches for six hundred yards and two.
Speaker 2: Touchdowns he is a three Time All pro selection as
Speaker 2: a return. Specialist he can kind of do.
Speaker 1: Everything he's a pros.
Speaker 5: PRO i, mean this guy is alleged In, Manhattan kansas
Speaker 5: At Kansas.
Speaker 4: State, YEAH i think that last year's, STATS i think
Speaker 4: that broke a four or five year consecutive streak of
Speaker 4: thousand yard receiving seasons for him. TOO i, mean he's mister, dependable.
Speaker 4: Reliable he's clearly durable because he's you, know and you
Speaker 4: get to his, age you're gonna have some dents and
Speaker 4: things to show up and all Those i've always had
Speaker 4: an immense respect for. HIM i, mean and, again you'd
Speaker 4: hope that one of these fourth fifth round receivers ends
Speaker 4: up if they have a career anywhere near. That titans
Speaker 4: had a great. Draft well the YEARS i was in
Speaker 4: THE Nfc wes at The.
Speaker 5: RAMS i, mean this is a guy when you Played
Speaker 5: seattle you had to figure out where he.
Speaker 3: WAS i mean's he's a pros? Pro he's a.
Speaker 5: Pro and you talk about intent when you bring people
Speaker 5: in for certain. Reasons before this draft, started that room
Speaker 5: was light on, numbers the receiver, room but it's also
Speaker 5: very light on.
Speaker 1: Experience, yeah it was the young.
Speaker 3: Room well well, yeah young without much.
Speaker 5: EXPERIENCE i mean you Had Calvin ridley basically the experienced,
Speaker 5: player and then a lot of then a lot of
Speaker 5: young dudes trying to make their. Mark that was a
Speaker 5: that was a great. GET i love the fact when
Speaker 5: they signed, him.
Speaker 2: So is his is the intent for him to be
Speaker 2: obviously a contributor on the, field but just as big
Speaker 2: a contributor in the classroom and in the locker.
Speaker 3: Room that's what you. Get, yes that's exactly.
Speaker 5: WHY i, mean you can't how many times have y'all
Speaker 5: heard me say you can't manufacture? Experience, Yep and you
Speaker 5: can't manufacture the value of, experience especially with a this
Speaker 5: is going to be a young. Team we've already said.
Speaker 5: It this is a young football. Team this team is,
Speaker 5: Is this team is. Refitting it's refitting everywhere That you've
Speaker 5: got to have some vets that understand how this. Works
Speaker 5: but they have to be the right kind of. Vets
Speaker 5: and he's one of. Them well do you think you?
Speaker 4: Know to that, Point Bryce oliver got to where he
Speaker 4: was getting some playing time down the, Stretch Bryce oliver
Speaker 4: already had some examples to show him how to be a.
Speaker 4: Pro here's another solid person to continue to meld and
Speaker 4: mold him into what he needs to be and more,
Speaker 4: importantly what The titans want him to.
Speaker 5: Be. Yeah, WELL i just experienced it in all my
Speaker 5: years of coaching in this, league because a really good
Speaker 5: veteran can mentor a younger player and accelerate their comfort
Speaker 5: and they're learning in the league even much quicker than
Speaker 5: a coach, can much quicker because they're with they're with
Speaker 5: them more.
Speaker 2: So The titans have their draft, class they have their
Speaker 2: undrafted free agents who we are not discussing.
Speaker 1: Yet we don't know the final.
Speaker 2: List but they are actively working on getting that group
Speaker 2: of people.
Speaker 5: Together actively is a good word because we should we
Speaker 5: should do.
Speaker 3: It we could do a whole segment on the way
Speaker 3: that process.
Speaker 1: Is it's.
Speaker 5: Wild, okay go, Ahead, yes WELL i just had a
Speaker 5: flashback to thirty one years of the, wild wild cool
Speaker 5: down or. Something are you over with four telephones in my?
Speaker 5: Ears oh, No Old ricado running in here and telling,
Speaker 5: me don't talk to that guy right, now said see
Speaker 5: How i've already got.
Speaker 1: Him don't talk to.
Speaker 2: It oh, No, yeah that is definitely a crazy process
Speaker 2: that at some point we'll have to completely pull back
Speaker 2: the curtain and do the whole thing because the undrafted
Speaker 2: free agent kind of, SWARM.
Speaker 1: I think we call. IT i don't even know. What
Speaker 1: it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Town so they are still actively working on getting that
Speaker 2: group of people.
Speaker 1: Together obviously our draft classes.
Speaker 2: Set they have a solid group of free agents that
Speaker 2: they brought in during the first wave of free, agency
Speaker 2: a couple more after the draft With Tyler. Lockett there
Speaker 2: could be. More there's usually a second wave in the
Speaker 2: post draft. Time you're, right but now the real work,
Speaker 2: begins Right, Mac now we've got to get them in
Speaker 2: the building and see what they.
Speaker 5: Got, well it's all been, WORK i, mean it's to this,
Speaker 5: point it's been real. Work and now now what you
Speaker 5: get to do is you GET i mean it's kind
Speaker 5: of like, YEAH i mean you try to get all
Speaker 5: your seeds and you plant your. Seeds now you get
Speaker 5: to water and watch it. Grow this is what's. It
Speaker 5: this is as a. Coach this is why you. Coach
Speaker 5: this is why you're in. It this is why. You
Speaker 5: you can't wait to get in the room with these.
Speaker 5: Guys you can't wait to get them on the. Field
Speaker 5: you can't wait to go through the whole process with.
Speaker 5: Them this is THE i, guess the real adrenaline pump
Speaker 5: time for.
Speaker 3: Coaches it really.
Speaker 2: Is this is the time we are going through. OTAs
Speaker 2: there in phase one right now of the off season.
Speaker 2: Program OTAs begin in a couple of weeks and then
Speaker 2: we have the mini, Camps Mandatory mini, camp we have
Speaker 2: Rookie mini camp before, that getting guys in, here getting
Speaker 2: them in the, classroom getting them on the field a
Speaker 2: little bit to. Do each phase has its own set of,
Speaker 2: rules but getting them on the field doing some work
Speaker 2: and starting to see where this team is before they
Speaker 2: take a little break and then they come back and
Speaker 2: it's training camp and it's gonna.
Speaker 3: Be, uh you, know of, course with the three preseason.
Speaker 5: Games it's a little bit unusual training, camps you, know
Speaker 5: if they've said that they may be away for a
Speaker 5: couple of weeks too with training, camps so that always
Speaker 5: makes it. Different but, yeah it's a linear, progression but
Speaker 5: you can't you can't.
Speaker 3: Skip any of these.
Speaker 5: Steps, yes and what you just laid out amy is,
Speaker 5: true but you. Can't every step is. Important you can't
Speaker 5: just be looking ahead to the next step if you
Speaker 5: have to complete each step in the progress so that
Speaker 5: when it comes time to decide which of these guys
Speaker 5: you're going to keep on the fifty three to begin,
Speaker 5: with that you've done all the prep, work just like
Speaker 5: they did three and a half months prep work on this.
Speaker 2: Draft, well the good news is there's going to be
Speaker 2: some semblance of football in the. Building it's not entirely
Speaker 2: the real thing obviously there we're still ways off when
Speaker 2: it comes to games and that kind of. Thing but
Speaker 2: having people in the, building having them work, out seeing
Speaker 2: them on the field a little.
Speaker 1: Bit it feels feels a little bit more. Normal, well
Speaker 1: the feels better.
Speaker 3: The football building comes, alive players.
Speaker 1: Are, Here, yeah it, does.
Speaker 5: Because everything comes together and it's JUST i, MEAN i
Speaker 5: love everything about. IT i, mean that's why professional Footballs
Speaker 5: i've been in over half my adult, life and it's
Speaker 5: just it never gets.
Speaker 3: Tiresome, PROBABLY i promise.
Speaker 1: You, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Ritt do you have any final thoughts to wrap up
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty FIVE Nfl. Draft you put in so
Speaker 2: much work getting ready for, This do you have any final?
Speaker 4: Thoughts, NO i Just i've enjoyed doing all this draft
Speaker 4: coverage with both of y'all and the feedback that we've
Speaker 4: all gotten about. IT i think it's been, positive And
Speaker 4: i'm just looking forward to kind of learning more about
Speaker 4: these young men that have been selected and the ones
Speaker 4: that'll come in is undrafted free, agents and learning their
Speaker 4: stories and telling their stories On Titan's. Radio that's WHAT
Speaker 4: i love as just as much as about, anything because
Speaker 4: they're just people like we. Are they just have the
Speaker 4: coolest job in the world and they have to have their.
Speaker 4: Name they get to have their name played on their
Speaker 4: uniform and play in front of a bunch of.
Speaker 5: PEOPLE i can't wait to go to practice every, day
Speaker 5: stand there with you two and watch and talk about,
Speaker 5: it and standing there With rett while he's timing the.
Speaker 2: PUNTERS i, mean does it's about it's about hang, time clocking.
Speaker 1: Time we're getting, there.
Speaker 4: Well just taking role and learning numbers because there's lots
Speaker 4: of new numbers and vases and you, know all that
Speaker 4: stuff to try to learn and. PEOPLE i, know people
Speaker 4: around here probably Think i'm, crazy but it is an
Speaker 4: exercise for me, mentally just to familiarize myself with faces
Speaker 4: and numbers and all that.
Speaker 1: Stuff this roster is so.
Speaker 2: Different i'm going to have to make flash cards this.
Speaker 2: Year i've been able to get by the last couple of.
Speaker 2: Years i'm gonna need flash cards.
Speaker 3: Again, well it's just because it's it's all so.
Speaker 5: IMPORTANT i, mean it really. Is AS i, SAID i
Speaker 5: really enjoy watching practice with you.
Speaker 1: Too, likewise we like to watch practice with.
Speaker 3: You indeed sometimes.
Speaker 1: Every time here it is all.
Speaker 2: Right, WELL i think that wraps it up here for THE,
Speaker 2: Otp thank you for listening to another edition of The
Speaker 2: Official Titans. Podcast For Coach mac For Rep, Rian I'm
Speaker 2: Amy wells and this has been THE otp