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Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis and the ever reliable Rhet Brian. I'm Mike

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Speaker 1: Keith and we are back at Ascension St. Thomas Sports Park, home,

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Speaker 1: sweet home from Indianapolis. I would say it was a

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Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis, did you stayed till Monday? Monday morning? Who

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Speaker 1: was that? This was a great trip? It really is.

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Speaker 1: This is very valuable to me since, I mean for

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Speaker 1: people you watch the combine with? Yes, Okay, yes I do,

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Speaker 1: and especially especially groups of people and assistant coaches, you know,

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Speaker 1: we all keep it, you know, within a pretty within

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Speaker 1: a pretty tight circle. Ret, Brian, what did you enjoy

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Speaker 1: most of us combine? I enjoyed all of it. I

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Speaker 1: mean it was great. I thought learned a lot, saw

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Speaker 1: some people who could help the Titans. Excited for you know,

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Speaker 1: this whole process. I'm always ready for it, all right.

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Speaker 1: But before we dive in a couple of things, we've

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Speaker 1: the Titans are putting on sale the Fireball Fast Pass

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Speaker 1: this Friday, all nine home games. That's the preseason and

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Speaker 1: That's huge, So the Titans get to hose playoff games.

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Speaker 1: because whatever Mike's gonna say, what he's gonna say, they

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Speaker 1: Now let's talk combine. There we go, all right. The

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Speaker 1: world is the Reese's Senior Bowl Executive director Jim Naggy.

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Speaker 1: He loves Coach Mack. He loves to talk to Coach Mack.

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Speaker 1: read your Jim Naggy quote, Coachmack, and I want you

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Speaker 1: And whatever you have, you can't form any concrete opinions early,

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Speaker 1: a camp It's now halftime of the OTP presented by

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Speaker 1: I mean I love a good ice. What you purchase?

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Speaker 1: What have you used your Duncan rewards for? I've got

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Speaker 1: to say I was kind of chuckling because of Rhett,

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Speaker 1: but the last six or seven things I've bought have

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Speaker 1: that's a good go to. Yes on the English, muffin

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Speaker 1: on the English. But that's good. I do croissant. What's

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Speaker 1: wrong with you people? Okay, well, we're more refined than

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Speaker 1: There's nothing more refined than a crossan. Maybe, thank you

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Speaker 1: Duncan for the interlude, right there, Coach Mack from the

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Speaker 1: chatter that you picked up at the combine and you

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Speaker 1: talk to everybody, who is a player who will go

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Speaker 1: in the top ten that you thought would go lower

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Speaker 1: than that before last week? Richardson, Yeah, without a doubt,

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Speaker 1: without a doubt Richardson, Anthony Richardson, he says, all right, well,

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Speaker 1: slightly different version of the same question. Who is a

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Speaker 1: player who will go in the first round that you

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Speaker 1: thought would go lower than that before last week? Lucas

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Speaker 1: van Ness, Okay, I think everybody's coming around to what

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Speaker 1: that package is me included. He's not a workout warrior. No.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is too, I mean, if you if

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Speaker 1: you look at Iowa and you look at kirk Feren's,

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Speaker 1: they start their upperclassmen, they start their older guys. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean you're gonna play all the snaps. But when you

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Speaker 1: hear the whole thing about him not being a starter,

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Speaker 1: if you don't know about their program, and Daniel Jeremiah

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Speaker 1: told us this, you know that's why he's never started

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Speaker 1: a game is because he wasn't one of the older dudes.

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Speaker 1: It's it's an old school program that does it that way,

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Speaker 1: you hit it right on the head, and the more

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Speaker 1: you dig on the film, you go, Okay, I get it.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk Tennessee volunteers. Three of them have gotten at

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Speaker 1: least some first round chatter. Let's go fast here. I'll

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Speaker 1: throw out the name and you tell me based on

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Speaker 1: what you saw and heard at the combine, if this

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Speaker 1: player is going in the first round. Jalen Hyatt still

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Speaker 1: going in the first round. Possible, possible, Darnell Wright, yes,

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Speaker 1: bottom a first round now bottom of the first, Hendon

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Speaker 1: Hooker early second, but could sneak in second round, second round.

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Speaker 1: All right, Rhett, what's the buzz coming out of Indie?

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Speaker 1: On the other vall Wyatt out Cedric Tillman. It's what

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Speaker 1: I've been talking about with the wide receiver class. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he sixty three, two thirteen, so he's one of the

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Speaker 1: bigger receivers in this draft and helped himself, in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: four five four forty thirty seven, invert his ten yards

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Speaker 1: split one point five three for a guy six three,

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Speaker 1: two thirteen in a class that again doesn't have a

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Speaker 1: ton of big prototypical wide receivers that have been productive,

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Speaker 1: and he's healthy. That's the big thing with him. He

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Speaker 1: was all smiles at the podium that day, and then

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Speaker 1: the next one was over the weekend. He showed out

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, but it's because he's been healthy. He

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Speaker 1: has got combat catches on tape against the best competition

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Speaker 1: in the country. He did nothing but help himself. This

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Speaker 1: guy will be early second day because of a lot

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Speaker 1: of reasons. But he's got verified tape. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to guess at what he is as a football player.

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Speaker 1: You didn't know all those numbers that Rhet put out,

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Speaker 1: which are really good, but he is a verified combat

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Speaker 1: catcher and those are valuable in this league. Well, and

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Speaker 1: Rhett said it, I think very well early there are

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Speaker 1: not a lot of widely regarded big receivers in this draft,

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Speaker 1: coach correct, And that's one true. But what he's got,

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Speaker 1: you are not projecting with him. You've got it on

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Speaker 1: tape in the Southeastern Conference, which is as good as

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Speaker 1: you get. Every year. It feels like there are outstanding

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Speaker 1: players who during the lead up to the draft we

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Speaker 1: hear every single little thing that's wrong with them for

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Speaker 1: whatever reason. Who, in your opinion, Coach Mac is the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three draft prospect that media folks and draft

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Speaker 1: experts are overanalyzing and overdissecting and are just completely overthinking

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Speaker 1: Peter Scronsky. I mean, if I had one conversation, I

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Speaker 1: had twenty seven. There is he a guards the attackle?

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Speaker 1: Is he a guarters the attackle? And finally I started saying,

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Speaker 1: draft him and play him because he's going to be

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Speaker 1: there for twelve years. Draft him and play him. Don't

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Speaker 1: overthink this. And I'll say the same thing about a

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Speaker 1: different position group, and this is the one that is

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Speaker 1: not one of the deeper ones. But this guy's the

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Speaker 1: head of the class in that group, and that's safety.

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Speaker 1: Brian Branch from Alabama. He ran a four five eight

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Speaker 1: forty And so everybody's like, I don't know, how did

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Speaker 1: they say that again? I don't know, but stop, he's

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Speaker 1: played again, like you said about Cedric Tillman against the

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Speaker 1: best every week. He's the top of this safety class.

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Speaker 1: And you talk about a guy who made an impression.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what a smart young man and a leader.

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Speaker 1: And I mean I hurt all of that at the

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Speaker 1: podium with him. Give me him. Let's go. Anything under

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Speaker 1: four six is fast. Yeah, it's like, hello, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what I mean. Maybe you gave him,

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Speaker 1: you gave him the police. Stop. Please, here's my Please

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Speaker 1: stop Will Anderson, please stop with this stuff. But oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Darnell Right dominated Well, guess what. Darnell

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Speaker 1: Right is really really good. Darnell Wright had a tremendous day.

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Speaker 1: Will Anderson didn't have a good day. But I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what. He started as a freshman, just walked on

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Speaker 1: campus in the front seven on the National champions on

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Speaker 1: the best defense in America. He is a serious dude.

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Speaker 1: I would take him right now anytime. I mean, that

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Speaker 1: guy is a player. I think he's going top five

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Speaker 1: or six and all this stuff. Though, well we don't

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Speaker 1: know about Will and I don't know. Listen Will Anderson.

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Speaker 1: Oh but can you believe this talk? I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: sitting here listening to these people. I'm going Darnell Right

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Speaker 1: is really well. The Tennessee tape gave us pause. What

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Speaker 1: one game in his whole career. There is one thing

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Speaker 1: that I have gained from the Coach Max school of ball.

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Speaker 1: Everybody gets beaten on a given day, and sure you do.

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Speaker 1: If you're if you're a defensive back, you hadn't lived

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Speaker 1: until you gotten your doors blown off by somebody. Will

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Speaker 1: Anderson is a top five prospect in this draft, maybe

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Speaker 1: in the top two or three. Let me just say

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Speaker 1: this about Will Anderson, and this is probably an other question,

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Speaker 1: but we're on Will to Anderson. Now. He impressed me

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Speaker 1: so much at this combine for this reason. First of all,

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Speaker 1: he's first in line because they go alphabetically, but he

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Speaker 1: is a player of major note in this draft. He

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Speaker 1: did every drill, every single drill he performed, and he

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Speaker 1: performed it uh to his utmost ability. And then they

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Speaker 1: asked this group, about three or four of them to

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Speaker 1: stay afterwards when the group was done, to run the hoops,

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Speaker 1: to run the hoops, to get a hoop. He stayed

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Speaker 1: right there. Well, I stayed right there and jumped up there.

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Speaker 1: And to me, this guy is a legit dude, legit. Look,

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Speaker 1: if you don't think he's a player, then you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have problem finding a player. Well, but I don't even

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Speaker 1: think he's hard. I'm no evaluator of talent in terms

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Speaker 1: of all the debt, but that guy can play. He

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Speaker 1: played at Alabama. And you you may be listening to

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Speaker 1: the OTP right now, and you may not like Alabama. Fine,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they're not very good. No, they're

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Speaker 1: They're fantasic. Their coach is fantastic, their ability to evaluate

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Speaker 1: and develop talent is fantastic at every level. Give them credit,

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Speaker 1: you know for what they do. There are a lot

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Speaker 1: of great players in the NFL right now who came

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Speaker 1: from Alabama. So he's got a pedigree, he's got the size.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Will Anderson is what you want on defensive.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Titans are going to end up

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Speaker 1: with him because I think he's going to go before

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Speaker 1: the Titans could even pick him. But the bottom line

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Speaker 1: is he's a winner in the NFL. If he doesn't

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Speaker 1: end up being it's a much bigger upset to me

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Speaker 1: than if he ends up being a Pro Bowl. See,

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Speaker 1: I don't get to interview these guys like I used to,

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Speaker 1: you know, when I was deep into the coaching part

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Speaker 1: of it. But I still look at it as a

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Speaker 1: coach and just going back by what I said, watching

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Speaker 1: what he did, just watching his mannerisms, and then the

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Speaker 1: way he approached this even being a premier player, because

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Speaker 1: he could have run a forty and said that's enough.

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Speaker 1: Every drill that means something through my coaching eyes when

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Speaker 1: I'm watching the type of player you're going to get

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Speaker 1: in your locker room. He likes to play, Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: he's not afraid to compete, right, And I mean that's

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Speaker 1: like a Harold Landry for this for this team. Harold

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Speaker 1: Landry likes to play. I think it's one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest things the Titans missed last year on defense about

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Speaker 1: not having Harold is the way the number of snaps

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Speaker 1: he gives him, the sacks and the tackles, and he

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Speaker 1: plays the run, he'll drop into coverage. I get all that,

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Speaker 1: but that guy likes to go. He just wants to

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Speaker 1: be on the field contributing. He wants to go, he

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Speaker 1: wants to go hard and having that just within a

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Speaker 1: defense everybody else All right, Amy, you're gonna start this one.

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Speaker 1: What was the best story? Your best story from the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three combine. I think I guess my favorite

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Speaker 1: story of the twenty twenty three combine has been Anthony

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Speaker 1: Richardson and watching him week after week, day after day,

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Speaker 1: it feels like his stock rises in a way that

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Speaker 1: you can almost physically see because the conversation it felt

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Speaker 1: like every day was like all right. I mean, here's

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Speaker 1: a guy. He was kind of he was only one

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Speaker 1: year starter at Florida. We don't really know, but you know,

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Speaker 1: he seems to have some things on paper that we like.

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Speaker 1: And that was like, well, we'll get him to the combine,

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Speaker 1: we'll measure him, we'll see well, then he measures pretty good,

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Speaker 1: and well we'll get him on the field and see

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Speaker 1: what he does. And then he works out really well,

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Speaker 1: and then it's like, well, we gotta meet this guy.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he sucks, and then people are saying, well, he

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Speaker 1: doesn't really suck that bad. It just keeps getting better

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Speaker 1: and better. It feels like you can physically see this

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Speaker 1: guy rising up boards every single day, and it's wild.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember a time where one guy changed opinions

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Speaker 1: or change the conversation around what those opinions could be

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Speaker 1: throughout the NFL so consistently every single day. It feels like,

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Speaker 1: i mean, even throughout the course of doing this podcast,

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Speaker 1: my evaluation of him and my thoughts about him have

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Speaker 1: changed from before we started too. After you guys were

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Speaker 1: talking about his workout and your evaluations of him, it

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Speaker 1: just seems like he's rising higher and higher every time.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what happens as he goes on his thirty visits,

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Speaker 1: you know, when he starts to meet with clubs on

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Speaker 1: a more intimate level and start to really get in

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Speaker 1: there and have you know, start to hear the rumors

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Speaker 1: and things kind of milling about about what he's like

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Speaker 1: when he gets on a white board, and what's he

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Speaker 1: like when he meets with staffs and that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: But it has been wild to me how much the

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Speaker 1: opinion of him has changed in such a short amount

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Speaker 1: of time. Your story, coach, your favorite story. Sellon Peyton's

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Speaker 1: coming back. Ah, I was a big in circles. I

638
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: moved with and I talked to Sellen for quite a

639
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 1: while there. And the fact that he got Mike Westoff

640
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: to come out of retirement. If you don't know Mike

641
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: Westoff's name, I mean, this is a special team's guru

642
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: of all gurus, you know. I mean he started in

643
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two. He and I passed in the hall

644
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: at TCU. I was coming into TCU. He thought he

645
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: was done. He wrote his book Check it Out. I mean,

646
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:56,919
Speaker 1: he wrote his book his books called Figured it Out.

647
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 1: He wrote a book. He figured he was done. Twenty eighteen,

648
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: bone cancer's got a rod in his leg. I mean,

649
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 1: the whole thing. But Sean Payton and then I talked

650
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: to west Off, talked to him into coming back and

651
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 1: so and so that was very interesting to me, and

652
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: just Sean Payton being back because that whole thing in

653
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: Denver last year was a disaster and now it's not

654
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: so much a disaster, and so that was a big

655
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 1: story for me. You know, I always watch to see

656
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: a guy who maybe didn't have a whole lot of

657
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: production that you wanted to see in college, came from

658
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: high profile program and then really turns it on at

659
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: the combine and it turns out he's got a great personality.

660
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: That's Nolan Smith from Georgia, and they were one of

661
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: the first groups to work out last week and he

662
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: blew it away. You know, he had a great forty

663
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: time and forty inch vertical and the whole deal. And

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Speaker 1: then he had this awesome interview with Stacy Dales off

665
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: Network on field the next morning. As I'm coming my

666
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,919
Speaker 1: way down to you guys, I run into Stacy Dales

667
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: and I said, Hey, great interview with him, What a

668
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: cool young man, And she goes, oh, thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: But I defer to him, and I was we were

670
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 1: just talking about the person that he appears to be,

671
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: because he was the one guy I told you of

672
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,839
Speaker 1: the first group that spoke at the podiums that week.

673
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: He held court for twenty minutes, and it just it

674
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 1: wasn't that he was just ripping, you know, Rodney Dangerfield

675
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,879
Speaker 1: one liners. I mean, he had there's a person there

676
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: who is likable. He just notices. He's observant, Like in

677
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 1: his interview with Stacy Damis, he's talking about the new

678
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: restaurant that they have at the University of Georgia's campus

679
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: and the lady that runs it and shout out to her.

680
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: He knows he's one of those people that he knows

681
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: everybody in the He'll know everybody in the building when

682
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 1: he comes into whoever drafts him. And it was just

683
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: an interesting to see that young man operate in what

684
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Speaker 1: Coach Mac always talks about being every day's an interview.

685
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Speaker 1: I think he passed the interview For me. It was

686
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: Houston and Indianapolis and their changes and what they're gonna

687
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: look like going forward, a new coach in each place,

688
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 1: basically new staffs in each place. Both probably going to

689
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: draft a quarterback in the top five according to where

690
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: they end up right now, Houston's two and Indy's four.

691
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: We'll see where they stay. But it is the dawn

692
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: of a new era for those two teams. So you've

693
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 1: got that to consider. And Jacksonville very much is walking

694
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: around like the champs right now. They are the champs

695
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,439
Speaker 1: and they've got Calvin Ridley who's been reinstated to go,

696
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: you know, with Christian Kirk and Evan Ingram was franchised,

697
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: and they got Zay Jones and you know, Travis etn

698
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: and I mean they are fully convinced they got it.

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Speaker 1: And Doug Peterson's talking about our window is open, and

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00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 1: here we go. They lost nine games last year, they

701
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: went they went ten and nine. You know, if you

702
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: consider the playoffs. Now, they got hot down the stretch

703
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: and they improved the second half and they were the

704
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: best team in the division. But I think everybody is

705
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: kind of sleeping on the Titans right now. Anybody who

706
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: thinks that Titans are rebuilding is making a bad mistake.

707
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 1: So maybe Jacksonville's time. We've got the two people who've

708
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Speaker 1: made the big changes also in the division, and now

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Speaker 1: I think everybody's waiting to see what the Titans do

710
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 1: as we move toward free agency and the next look. Well, Mike,

711
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: we had a chance to talk to a bunch of

712
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: different people, including all of the all of the play

713
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: by play guys for everyone around her PAFC South. That

714
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: was an interesting conversation. But I would be interested to

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Speaker 1: know who was your favorite person that we interviewed at

716
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: the combine. Cynthia Freeland. Yeah, I'm fascinated by the analytics

717
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: part of it. I'm fascinated by what she does and

718
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: how they gather that, and I'm trying to learn as

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00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 1: much as i can about how all of that works.

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Speaker 1: Based on the fact that the Titans are going to

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Speaker 1: be more of an analytics based team. They were headed

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00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: that way with John Robinson and he had started to

723
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: make a lot of turns towards that, and obviously Ran

724
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 1: Carthon comes in from a San Francisco franchise that uses

725
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: them in a very different way, and I'm interested to

726
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: learn what that means towards what our players are gonna

727
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: look like in terms of how they stack up and

728
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 1: what they're looking for, but also specifically how the roster

729
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: will look. So she she provides a lot of insight.

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Speaker 1: We got to talk to her for a lot, well,

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Speaker 1: I should say coach Matt got to talk to her

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Speaker 1: for a long time year. He spent a lot of

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Speaker 1: time with her. But we got to listen and she's fascinating. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for me, it was Judy Batista, a long time writer

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Speaker 1: of NFL media, a lady well respected to her circles. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know you talked about, you know, reading her columns

737
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 1: and things for a long time the same way, and

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Speaker 1: you know, very connected with the league and the top people,

739
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: and really enjoyed the visit with her, and you know,

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Speaker 1: the the top storylines that are evolving for the new

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00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: fiscal year, Santhia Freeland without a doubt, kind it written

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Speaker 1: down Mike and had didn't talk about this. I mean,

743
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: I don't text with him like Peyton Manning does. But wow,

744
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: you know it's funny you'd say that I've just got

745
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: I've just gotten a text right now, I've just got

746
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: that I've just gotten floor before. No, we're not editing

747
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,919
Speaker 1: this right now. I have just gotten a text from

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Speaker 1: Archie Manning. Outstand. Uh he he texted me wrongly, he said, Mike,

749
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: this is Archie wrong text. Sorry, all the best Archie.

750
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: So that just happened literally one minute ago. That's the

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Speaker 1: best to my point. Wait, that's awesome. My dad still

752
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 1: contends Archie Manning was better than Eli or Peyton. By

753
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 1: the way, He's correct. Archie Manning was a hell of

754
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 1: an athlete. Yeah, that's just on a really bad team.

755
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: Was on a really bad team. His contention is if

756
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: he played in these kinds of offenses today, he would

757
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: be Patrick Mahomes. Yes he was that. He was that

758
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: spec tacular as an as an overall athlete. This really

759
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: took a left turn, all right. So coach McK and,

760
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: I say, Centia Freeland, Amy, who do you say? I say,

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00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: Judy Battista, like Rhett So there you go. We all

762
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: were doubling up. Then do you think it was bad

763
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: when I said to Judy Battista, I started reading your

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00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: columns when I was a kid. Yeah, I wouldn't as

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00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 1: a general rule. Well, and she's not much she's like

766
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,760
Speaker 1: just months older than I am, so that that wouldn't

767
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: have been true. I did say. I did tell her

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Speaker 1: after the fact, though, that I started reading her stuff

769
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: in the early nineteen nineties just as a fan of

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Loved the NFL followed the NFL closely, and

771
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:44,280
Speaker 1: she was one of those before Adam Schefter and before

772
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: Ian Rappapord and all of the quote unquote insiders. Really

773
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:53,479
Speaker 1: the only insider was Chris Mortenson. That was it. And

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00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: Judy Battista got stuff. And she was an excellent reporter

775
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: and excellent writer. And she has a lot of the

776
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 1: good on field stuff, but rules changes what's gonna happen

777
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: in Washington, stuff like that. I mean stuff that comes

778
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 1: out of the owner's meeting, well, the stuff that comes

779
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: out of Park Avenue. If something's coming out of the

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00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: NFL office, Judy Batista gets it. And that's what makes

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00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: her so interesting to me, because you can talk to

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00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: her about anything and she knows something about it, and

783
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: she knows it from an angle that you either haven't

784
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: heard or haven't considered, because her sources are so much

785
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: different than anybody else's that you're getting in the NFL.

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00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 1: And I just I think she's so cool and she's

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00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: so smart. And I started reading her when she was

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00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: at the New York Times, and so I always just

789
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 1: thought that she was the pinnacle of sports reporting, and

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00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 1: so being able to talk to her was, oh yeah,

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00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she's like one of the political reporters or

792
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: the White House reporters of the congressional reporters, are one

793
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 1: of the financial reporters on Wall Street that you when

794
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: they come on, you go, yes, I'm watching that. Judy

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00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 1: Batista is not getting things off Twitter. No like that is.

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00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: She is a whole different level. It's a franchise. Yeah, yep,

797
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: she's just cool. She is an absolute franchise. Well, great

798
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 1: job Amy Wells in Indianapolis. Great job Brett Brian coach mcnos.

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00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,919
Speaker 1: He does a great job and everybody loves him. And

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00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: h Ashley Farrell, fantastic job. Thank you so much for

801
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: all you did. I don't know if you've enjoyed ten

802
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:38,479
Speaker 1: straight days of the OTP ot people. Maybe it's too much.

803
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. Maybe it is. I mean,

804
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I'm not really sure. Maybe

805
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: it's too much. So maybe you've thought to yourself, please stop,

806
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 1: please stop with all these OTPs. If we're bothering you,

807
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,399
Speaker 1: We're one. This is the last one for for a minute. Yeah,

808
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,399
Speaker 1: well we'll see if now we told you the thing

809
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: in the gym Why OTP Mailbag Show on Sunday, and

810
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: he mentioned the non tampering policy, UM, that we can't

811
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: set around to do any speculation that we do know,

812
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: we don't know, I don't know anything, um, because the

813
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 1: whole thing is, uh, if we do, we'll get fined

814
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,399
Speaker 1: or fired or and I don't want really don't want

815
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 1: to do that. That would be that would be a negative.

816
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: It could ruin your day. Yeah. Yeah, So we're not

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00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: going to do that. We're not. And what it means,

818
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: seriously is we can't discuss any speculation positive, negative, or

819
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 1: in between, because the league has made it clear, because

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00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 1: we Amy and I are team employees, that anything we

821
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 1: say in regard to speculation could be seen as an

822
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:54,879
Speaker 1: effort put forward specifically by the team to sort of

823
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: change a mindset or throw somebody off or whatever. U

824
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: as if we were being given information in order to

825
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:05,879
Speaker 1: put it out there in a way to help our

826
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 1: team's position. And that's a competitive advantage issue that has

827
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: come into being now with the non tampering period coming in.

828
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: So if there's news that specifically we can talk about,

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00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 1: if something has happened, then we will come on and

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00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: talk about it. The thing that I would caution you

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Speaker 1: about the majority of the reports that will come out

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00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: about various things around the league, I'd say in excess

833
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 1: of ninety five are true. But just remember that until somebody,

834
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: until a team has made an official move, or a

835
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: player has made an official move or anything, it's not

836
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:54,399
Speaker 1: or they've taken their physical. Nothing is official until the

837
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: teams say it's official. Not because the teams are like

838
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: we are the Wizard of Oz and we're doing not

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Speaker 1: for that reason, which is why I'm saying the majority

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00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: of the great majority of the reporter you will see

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00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: is correct. But that's the hold back that I would

842
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: caution you on because every year there's a situation where

843
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,319
Speaker 1: so and so has agreed to terms. You have a

844
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 1: Carlos Krea deal like in baseball, where he'd agreed in

845
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: terms of the Giants, he'd agreed to terms of the Mets,

846
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 1: and he didn't end up with either one of them.

847
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Speaker 1: And that happens in football. There's always a guy who

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Speaker 1: right way, and that's why you have to just as

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Speaker 1: coach Mack says, hold your water yep, keep your powder dry.

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Speaker 1: Tis the season for Twitter to just go ballistic. So yes, right.

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Speaker 1: A lot of the things that you'll see probably correct. However,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot that has to happen between the initial

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Speaker 1: lot of things that can change within that. So until

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Speaker 1: a team says this happened, it's because it has officially

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Speaker 1: legally it is done. It goes into the wire transfers

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Speaker 1: at three o'clock Central time. If it doesn't appear on

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Speaker 1: the wire transfer that they put out every day at

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Speaker 1: three o'clock Central, it's not official, and we come in

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Speaker 1: when it is official, legally done, we have to post

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Speaker 1: the transactions on NFL communications dot Com. There it is there,

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Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, that's exactly right. So that's the we

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Speaker 1: want to tell the OT people the facts about you know,

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Speaker 1: all of this and hopefully through the course of starting

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Speaker 1: a week ago Monday and through today Wednesday, March the eighth,

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Speaker 1: we're just very appreciative that you've tuned in. Hopefully you've

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Speaker 1: gotten some insight. Our hope is that you can go

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Speaker 1: to work and talk to all your friends and be

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Speaker 1: the smartest one in the group. That's how we want

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Speaker 1: to help the OT people most and entertain you as well.

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Speaker 1: So for Coach Mack for Amy Wells, for Rett Bryan,

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Speaker 1: for Ashley Farrell, I'm Mike Key, thanking you for listening

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Speaker 1: where the legends go. Everybody knows it's our house, fighting

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