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Speaker 1: sweet home from Indianapolis. I would say it was a
Speaker 1: great trip. It was a great trip. It was incredibly efficient,
Speaker 1: which I like. I like it when we can get in,
Speaker 1: we can see a lot of people, get a lot
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Speaker 1: and then get out of there. We came back before
Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis, did you stayed till Monday? Monday morning? Who
Speaker 1: was that? This was a great trip? It really is.
Speaker 1: This is very valuable to me since, I mean for
Speaker 1: what we do and for the quality of content that
Speaker 1: we put out also for our draft show. Plus I've
Speaker 1: been to every one of them. I don't want to
Speaker 1: break my streak. But the thing about it was is
Speaker 1: those dates from Thursday to Sunday. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: you're six seven hours in Lucas Oil. But the amount
Speaker 1: of people I'm able to talk to while we're watching,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody work, and then just the conversation that
Speaker 1: goes on between groups. I mean, it's it's really valuable.
Speaker 1: Uh And I absolutely love it. I mean, and so
Speaker 1: to me this time of year, for what this is,
Speaker 1: this is one of my favorites. Do you have specific
Speaker 1: people you watch the combine with? Yes, Okay, yes I do,
Speaker 1: and especially especially groups of people and assistant coaches, you know,
Speaker 1: watching because most everybody's else is up in the suite,
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Speaker 1: most of us combine? I enjoyed all of it. I
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: Now let's talk combine. There we go, all right. The
Speaker 1: man who may love Coachmack more than anybody in the
Speaker 1: world is the Reese's Senior Bowl Executive director Jim Naggy.
Speaker 1: He loves Coach Mack. He loves to talk to Coach Mack.
Speaker 1: Who who doesn't. That's true? All right, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: read your Jim Naggy quote, Coachmack, and I want you
Speaker 1: to translate it for those of us who've not done
Speaker 1: this for a living in the way that you have.
Speaker 1: Jim Naggy said, quote combines over plenty of data to digest.
Speaker 1: Now the time to recheck our eyes on the tape.
Speaker 1: Can't be afraid that maybe saw it wrong. Don't have
Speaker 1: to be right until April. Remember the quote unquote, evaluation
Speaker 1: process is a process, Coach Mack. What does Jim Nagge
Speaker 1: mean by that statement? Evaluations is a fluid moving being.
Speaker 1: And whatever you have, you can't form any concrete opinions early,
Speaker 1: and you don't get set in your ways on anything.
Speaker 1: You take all of these pieces. It's just like you
Speaker 1: take a big puzzle and you look at the picture
Speaker 1: on the box. You know what it's supposed to look like,
Speaker 1: and you pour it out on a desk and start
Speaker 1: piecing it together. These are the pieces and you cannot
Speaker 1: get don't be what this is saying, don't be an ie.
Speaker 1: I learned that so fast in my young career instant evaluator. Okay,
Speaker 1: don't be an ie. Take all the information and be
Speaker 1: willing not only to bend, but be willing to change.
Speaker 1: You know your ideas, have an idea of what your
Speaker 1: opinion is, but respect the opinion of others and also respect,
Speaker 1: you know, the process. People always talk about the process,
Speaker 1: but this is an ongoing it's lacking to me, but
Speaker 1: it moves all the time, and sooner or later it's
Speaker 1: going to form into a solid being that comes on
Speaker 1: the three days of the draft. That's when that comes.
Speaker 1: But right now, it's exactly what he means, and everybody
Speaker 1: that's done it for as you say, a living is
Speaker 1: doing that right now. People don't like that. People want
Speaker 1: immediate answers. You know, who's where or where? Where are
Speaker 1: we picking? When you picking what's next? It's not the
Speaker 1: way it works. So coach, give me an example of
Speaker 1: a player too that you need to recheck your eyes
Speaker 1: on the tam Luke Schoonmaker tight end from Michigan, and
Speaker 1: I need to take it to take a look at
Speaker 1: him again again. Now at the combine six five two
Speaker 1: fifty one four sixty three. I didn't know he was
Speaker 1: that fast. One five nine and a ten, you know,
Speaker 1: I like that, and then thirty three and a half
Speaker 1: vertical jump doesn't blow you away, but at ten seven
Speaker 1: broad kind of tells you the guy has got a
Speaker 1: little something too. I need to watch him again. I
Speaker 1: need to watch Luke Schoonmaker and the other guy need
Speaker 1: to watch Lucas van Ness from Iowa. Van Ness is
Speaker 1: not a starter, you know. And he played a lot
Speaker 1: of four eye four eye, which means Mike Keith is
Speaker 1: a tackle. I'm looking right straight at him. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: line up on his inside eye and do a lot
Speaker 1: of things inside. When you watch him, you don't see
Speaker 1: what he probably will be in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Six five two seventy two four or five eight forty
Speaker 1: thirty four inch arms, you know, eleven inch hands or
Speaker 1: one six four ten which was excellent broad jump of
Speaker 1: nine ten of three cone. This is what caught my attention.
Speaker 1: Seven point zero two. That's really good for a man
Speaker 1: six five two hundre seventy two pounds seventeen reps on
Speaker 1: the bench. Mike always talks about short arm guys are
Speaker 1: better on the bench. This is a long arm guy.
Speaker 1: So I need to watch Lucas van Ness from Iowa,
Speaker 1: again knowing that I'm going to be watching some limited
Speaker 1: reps because he was not a starter. But this is
Speaker 1: a football player, all right. I want to bring in
Speaker 1: Reet Brian and keep coach Mac and I want you
Speaker 1: to bounce back and forth on this. Who are some
Speaker 1: of the players who potentially improved their stock with NFL teams,
Speaker 1: not improved their stock with the draft analyst and the fans,
Speaker 1: but improved with the teams with their work In Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: a young man I got to interview and talked to
Speaker 1: for a moment at the Senior Bowl. He's a defensive
Speaker 1: lineman from Northwestern Tommy at a bare six two two
Speaker 1: hundred eighty two pounds, arms thirty three and seven eights,
Speaker 1: hands ten and a half. He had a bench press
Speaker 1: of two twenty five thirty times, vertical leap thirty seven
Speaker 1: and a half inches, broad ten foot five inches, three
Speaker 1: cone drill six point nine zero, short shuttle four point five.
Speaker 1: All of those in the ninetieth plus percentile for a
Speaker 1: guy two hundred and eighty two pounds. So he's quick,
Speaker 1: and he has long speed, and he has long arms too,
Speaker 1: and he has long arms. Two headed snake from me
Speaker 1: I'm pulling Amy Wales, but they're at the same school.
Speaker 1: Jakoian Bennett from Maryland, Okay. Cornerback four three and the
Speaker 1: forty that takes your tension real quick, five eleven, one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty eight pounds, one four eight ten forty
Speaker 1: and a half vertical jump and eleven ten part. That's
Speaker 1: an athlete. I didn't realize he was all that when
Speaker 1: I'm watching. But right on the other side at Maryland
Speaker 1: is Dante Is d'ontay Banks, Okay four three five six
Speaker 1: foot one ninety seven. They've got a track team there
Speaker 1: at cornerback one four nine ten forty two inch vertical
Speaker 1: eleven four broad jump. Two athletes. They've uped their stock.
Speaker 1: I will see those, gentlemen, and I will raise you.
Speaker 1: Wide receiver from West Virginia Bryce Ford Wheaton, a redshirt
Speaker 1: senior from West Virginia six four two twenty one, ran
Speaker 1: a four three eight forty yard dash at that size,
Speaker 1: a forty one in vertical leap. His twenty yard shuttle
Speaker 1: was four point one five. Lots of explosion there for
Speaker 1: a guy that is. This is not a wide receiver
Speaker 1: class with lots of big, fast, prototypical wide receivers. So
Speaker 1: anybody that's meets those measurables and heightened weight you start
Speaker 1: paying attention to because there's a lot of shorter, smaller,
Speaker 1: rich with talent, wide receivers that can help you. You know,
Speaker 1: slot receivers and the like. They're just not a lot
Speaker 1: of big guys. Stay with the receivers. At Perry from
Speaker 1: Wake Forest, this is a bigger receiver. Sixty three and
Speaker 1: a half, thirty three and a quarter arms four four
Speaker 1: seven in the forty one five nine one five nine ten,
Speaker 1: and thirty five in vertical eleven one broad. So you've
Speaker 1: got an athlete. When you watch him on tape, he's
Speaker 1: got he's long guy, quick feet. Here is what he's
Speaker 1: got to me. This is a high ceiling, lower floor guy.
Speaker 1: But when you watch him on tape, the one thing
Speaker 1: you start dinging him on is erratic hand. So you
Speaker 1: go back and you look again and you see. But
Speaker 1: at Perry Wake Forest, let's go with a tight end.
Speaker 1: In this from Old Dominion, Zach Koontz six foot seven,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty five pounds, thirty four inch arms,
Speaker 1: hands ten and two eights wing nearly eighty four inches
Speaker 1: ran a four five five forty and a forty inch
Speaker 1: vertical leap. Now our friend Daniel Jeremiah talked about this
Speaker 1: is one of the best tight end draft classes in
Speaker 1: the last decade. This is a guy who is a
Speaker 1: middle round prospect who can help you and clearly shows
Speaker 1: with the size he has explosion to go with it.
Speaker 1: But that is just one of many tight ends that
Speaker 1: will have their names called that weekend. Sydney Brown safety
Speaker 1: from Middllinois. This is a five ten, two hundred eleven
Speaker 1: pound just dynamole, you know. And when you watch him
Speaker 1: move down there on the floor at Lucas Oil ten
Speaker 1: and one quarter hands four four seven in the forty
Speaker 1: one five one ten forty and a half vertical jump
Speaker 1: broad ten ten bench twenty three. So you've got an athlete. Now,
Speaker 1: when you watch him on tape, you start to eat.
Speaker 1: There's always minuses. You start to look his hips a
Speaker 1: little tight, got ten career interception six in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: This is a ball player. One last one for me,
Speaker 1: and that is ut Chattanooga Mocassin McLendon Curtis, offensive lineman
Speaker 1: six six three twenty four arms thirty five inches, so
Speaker 1: his wing is a round eighty four hands ten and
Speaker 1: two eights. It's a monster person. We met him at
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowling and Mobile. His forty now for six
Speaker 1: six three twenty four is five two four, but his
Speaker 1: ten yards split that first ten yards one point eight five.
Speaker 1: The mark that is noticeable in that is round one
Speaker 1: seven four. But for six six three twenty four, right,
Speaker 1: he's moving in that ten yards where it's gonna matter
Speaker 1: in the trenches so he can pull. Yes, Okay, if
Speaker 1: I were still coaching, this is a school visit, I'd
Speaker 1: want to go see. I want to go to Kansas State.
Speaker 1: I want to watch Felix a new k Uzama. This
Speaker 1: is a guy to me, six three two h fifty
Speaker 1: five pounds. That to me, when you look at him,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that you look at and you
Speaker 1: say there may be something there on the third day.
Speaker 1: All right, So I've got another Jim Naggy quote for
Speaker 1: you guys, he said. Florida quarterback Anthony Richardson is an
Speaker 1: immensely talented physical specimen, yet a significant roll of the dice.
Speaker 1: At the same time, there's no nuance to the Richardson
Speaker 1: eval yet TV Networks will debate it for the next
Speaker 1: two months. April is going to be brutal. I'll ask
Speaker 1: Rhett first, and then Mac you can chime in. Did
Speaker 1: Richardson do enough to fully sell a team to pick
Speaker 1: him in the top half of the first round? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: And the answer that is he was already there and
Speaker 1: he cemented it. You look at the measurable six four
Speaker 1: two forty four hands ten and a half inches. We
Speaker 1: always talk about the quarterbacks hands, but a four four
Speaker 1: three times second forty forty and a half inch vertically,
Speaker 1: now that's the explosion of the athleticism that everyone has
Speaker 1: been talking about out It's the arm and the other
Speaker 1: things and the actress that go was it. If you
Speaker 1: want to fall in love with a quarterback, take a
Speaker 1: look at him when they finished up all of those
Speaker 1: short routes and things, the drills, everything, but look at
Speaker 1: a go route. He's got the touch. He had the
Speaker 1: touch there clearly those things that he will have to
Speaker 1: refine and work on. But yes, the answer is yes.
Speaker 1: One of the most impressive physical workouts I've seen in
Speaker 1: a long time. At the combine, I've seen every one
Speaker 1: of them that was impressive, and he just kept doing it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like he did one thing good and then
Speaker 1: one thing a little bit, and he was very very
Speaker 1: consistent and going along with what Red says. When he
Speaker 1: was throwing, he was in rhythm. He was throwing in rhythm.
Speaker 1: He was very confident, very impressive. So the answer to
Speaker 1: that question is absolutely y and effortless. Flicked the ball
Speaker 1: sixty yards on a go route like it's nothing. Coachback.
Speaker 1: Richardson's performance at the Combine did surprise some, but really
Speaker 1: no one who watched him play high school ball or
Speaker 1: college ball. He's like Cam Newton in terms of his
Speaker 1: size and that other worldly athleticism. Is Cam Newton the
Speaker 1: proper comp for Anthony Richardson in terms of risk reward?
Speaker 1: Or can you think of another player? Dante Culpepper Okay,
Speaker 1: out a UCF in ninety nine, the ninety nine draft.
Speaker 1: You know, and I go back a while with this,
Speaker 1: but you know, I pulled my book out on Culpepper
Speaker 1: from the ninety nine just like I got this book here.
Speaker 1: Sixty three and three quarters two fifty five. Okay, hands
Speaker 1: nine and a half four five two forty at two
Speaker 1: fifty five. All right, one five seven ten three cone
Speaker 1: seven two one thirty nine inch vertical jump at two
Speaker 1: fifty five broad jump of ten in the ninety nine draft.
Speaker 1: That was a Tim Couch, Donovan McNabb, a Keeley Smith draft.
Speaker 1: And then look, this guy played for eleven years and
Speaker 1: at Minnesota he was outstanding. I coached a lot of
Speaker 1: defenses against Dante Culpepper. He was a problem running. I
Speaker 1: think he set he set season records in two thousand
Speaker 1: and four, single season season record for most total yard
Speaker 1: He's produced by a quarterback in two thousand and four.
Speaker 1: It's Dante Culpepper for me. Wow. Mac, when you moved
Speaker 1: back to Nashville from California, did you bring your box
Speaker 1: of old notebooks? Does like I've got to make sure
Speaker 1: I get some bedding. I've got to get my clothes.
Speaker 1: I got yeah, refrigerator. I gotta get my box of
Speaker 1: old notebooks. We're not all worried about all that other stuff.
Speaker 1: I wanted my boxes of notebooks. I can get by
Speaker 1: without that other stuff. I got plenty of people to
Speaker 1: take me in, But those absolutely I did, because I've
Speaker 1: I've got thirty seven years of them. Wow. But Mac,
Speaker 1: those banker boxes full of those notebooks, it's because up
Speaker 1: until the last half dozen of them, your mortgage was
Speaker 1: riding on it. Yeah, I mean it was. It was important.
Speaker 1: That's why it's important to you now. It was the
Speaker 1: way I'm made a living and so this is I'm
Speaker 1: still making a living somehow. Yeah, that's fascinating. I want
Speaker 1: to keep talking about quarterbacks though, Sorry about the tangent.
Speaker 1: Quarterback Bryce Young is someone that we were all kind
Speaker 1: of talking about going into the combine, and he measured
Speaker 1: a shade over five ten, Yet zero people seemed to care.
Speaker 1: There was no conversation about it. Rhet Were you surprised
Speaker 1: by the fact that everyone was like, okay when he
Speaker 1: measured as short as we expected him to be. No,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you why. Look, we all had an
Speaker 1: idea about what he was gonna measure in at, in
Speaker 1: his hand size and the whole thing unless his pituitary
Speaker 1: gland kicks had to overdrive him. But he's not going
Speaker 1: to grow overnight or whatever, and just brought up like
Speaker 1: a jack and the beans dog. The weight is what
Speaker 1: I was looking at, and he registered in at two
Speaker 1: oh four. You can tell he had been working to
Speaker 1: put on that because you want to quell some of
Speaker 1: those concerns about play strength and durability. I was looking
Speaker 1: at the weight more than anything. Mac. I'll defer to you.
Speaker 1: We knew he was short. He said it better. Alabama
Speaker 1: listed him at six feet one ninety four. We knew
Speaker 1: he was short on an Alabama phone book. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: knew he was short. But he's productive. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a productive he's a dealer, and you knew that. You
Speaker 1: knew that going in. I would have loved to have
Speaker 1: been in a meeting room with him. That's what I
Speaker 1: would like to do, because he's supposedly is really good
Speaker 1: at that. But you're you're looking at a productive player.
Speaker 1: So there was no there was no shock or surprise
Speaker 1: to anybody that was there, and everybody in the National
Speaker 1: Football League was there that when they measured and they went, oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't know he was short. We knew he was short,
Speaker 1: all right. So let's continue with this question. Who was
Speaker 1: more impressive in Indianapolis, Ohio State quarterbacks? CJ. Stroud or
Speaker 1: Kentucky quarterback will love its c J. Stroud. CJ. Stroud
Speaker 1: to me, had the best quarterback workout of any of
Speaker 1: them other than Richardson. Richardson had some more to prove
Speaker 1: just because but CJ. Stroud location of the ball smoothness,
Speaker 1: just c J. Stroud without a doubt in my mind. Okay,
Speaker 1: moment of truth for both Rhett and coach Mac. Rhett
Speaker 1: goes first. Rhet Brian finished this sentence. The top four
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the twenty twenty three NFL Draft will be
Speaker 1: select within the first blank overall picks nine. So the
Speaker 1: top four quarterbacks will be selected in the first nine
Speaker 1: overall picks. Okay, Coach Mac, your turn. The top four
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the twenty twenty three NFL Draft will be
Speaker 1: selected within the first eight eight overall picks, Amy Wells,
Speaker 1: does that surprise you? Yes? That surprises me. That just wow?
Speaker 1: Did we think that going up there? No, But there's
Speaker 1: a quarterback draft, guys, and there's a desperation for quarterbacks. Well,
Speaker 1: we just talked about what CJ. Stroud and Anthony Richardson
Speaker 1: did while everyone in the eyes were all on them. Now,
Speaker 1: now that's not the end all be all, but we've
Speaker 1: seen how that pump your stock up. Well, and Levis
Speaker 1: did a good job too. He might not have been
Speaker 1: as spectacular as the others were, but the feeling was
Speaker 1: he did a good job. Right. If you were Will
Speaker 1: Levis fan, going in right, you were Will Levis fan
Speaker 1: coming out, which is what needed to have happened for him,
Speaker 1: which is what needed to happen for him. I can
Speaker 1: give you a quarterback that didn't happen real well for him.
Speaker 1: You didn't ask me this question, Well, sure, so I
Speaker 1: won't till you ask me the question. Coach, give me
Speaker 1: a quarterback that you don't feel like. The twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three NFL combine went well for Max Duggan, the quarterback frog.
Speaker 1: He was TCU widely erratic. He was It wasn't good
Speaker 1: to him. You know, they say Stetson Bennett did well too, right.
Speaker 1: Stetson Bennett first of all, stepped down there and ran
Speaker 1: really fast like we knew he would four six seven, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then just continue to throw and through very well.
Speaker 1: But yes, Stetson Bennett is kind of the faced us
Speaker 1: forgotten man in all of this with his two national
Speaker 1: championship trophies, and so he is, that's right. And everybody
Speaker 1: thought he was a game manager, and I think as
Speaker 1: the season went along he showed more and more and
Speaker 1: that it did it to combine. He's more than just
Speaker 1: a game manage. He'll end up He'll end up in
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Speaker 1: wrong with you people? Okay, well, we're more refined than
Speaker 1: There's nothing more refined than a crossan. Maybe, thank you
Speaker 1: Duncan for the interlude, right there, Coach Mack from the
Speaker 1: chatter that you picked up at the combine and you
Speaker 1: talk to everybody, who is a player who will go
Speaker 1: in the top ten that you thought would go lower
Speaker 1: than that before last week? Richardson, Yeah, without a doubt,
Speaker 1: without a doubt Richardson, Anthony Richardson, he says, all right, well,
Speaker 1: slightly different version of the same question. Who is a
Speaker 1: player who will go in the first round that you
Speaker 1: thought would go lower than that before last week? Lucas
Speaker 1: van Ness, Okay, I think everybody's coming around to what
Speaker 1: that package is me included. He's not a workout warrior. No.
Speaker 1: And the thing is too, I mean, if you if
Speaker 1: you look at Iowa and you look at kirk Feren's,
Speaker 1: they start their upperclassmen, they start their older guys. Doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you're gonna play all the snaps. But when you
Speaker 1: hear the whole thing about him not being a starter,
Speaker 1: if you don't know about their program, and Daniel Jeremiah
Speaker 1: told us this, you know that's why he's never started
Speaker 1: a game is because he wasn't one of the older dudes.
Speaker 1: It's it's an old school program that does it that way,
Speaker 1: you hit it right on the head, and the more
Speaker 1: you dig on the film, you go, Okay, I get it.
Speaker 1: Let's talk Tennessee volunteers. Three of them have gotten at
Speaker 1: least some first round chatter. Let's go fast here. I'll
Speaker 1: throw out the name and you tell me based on
Speaker 1: what you saw and heard at the combine, if this
Speaker 1: player is going in the first round. Jalen Hyatt still
Speaker 1: going in the first round. Possible, possible, Darnell Wright, yes,
Speaker 1: bottom a first round now bottom of the first, Hendon
Speaker 1: Hooker early second, but could sneak in second round, second round.
Speaker 1: All right, Rhett, what's the buzz coming out of Indie?
Speaker 1: On the other vall Wyatt out Cedric Tillman. It's what
Speaker 1: I've been talking about with the wide receiver class. I mean,
Speaker 1: he sixty three, two thirteen, so he's one of the
Speaker 1: bigger receivers in this draft and helped himself, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: four five four forty thirty seven, invert his ten yards
Speaker 1: split one point five three for a guy six three,
Speaker 1: two thirteen in a class that again doesn't have a
Speaker 1: ton of big prototypical wide receivers that have been productive,
Speaker 1: and he's healthy. That's the big thing with him. He
Speaker 1: was all smiles at the podium that day, and then
Speaker 1: the next one was over the weekend. He showed out
Speaker 1: in my opinion, but it's because he's been healthy. He
Speaker 1: has got combat catches on tape against the best competition
Speaker 1: in the country. He did nothing but help himself. This
Speaker 1: guy will be early second day because of a lot
Speaker 1: of reasons. But he's got verified tape. You don't have
Speaker 1: to guess at what he is as a football player.
Speaker 1: You didn't know all those numbers that Rhet put out,
Speaker 1: which are really good, but he is a verified combat
Speaker 1: catcher and those are valuable in this league. Well, and
Speaker 1: Rhett said it, I think very well early there are
Speaker 1: not a lot of widely regarded big receivers in this draft,
Speaker 1: coach correct, And that's one true. But what he's got,
Speaker 1: you are not projecting with him. You've got it on
Speaker 1: tape in the Southeastern Conference, which is as good as
Speaker 1: you get. Every year. It feels like there are outstanding
Speaker 1: players who during the lead up to the draft we
Speaker 1: hear every single little thing that's wrong with them for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. Who, in your opinion, Coach Mac is the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three draft prospect that media folks and draft
Speaker 1: experts are overanalyzing and overdissecting and are just completely overthinking
Speaker 1: Peter Scronsky. I mean, if I had one conversation, I
Speaker 1: had twenty seven. There is he a guards the attackle?
Speaker 1: Is he a guarters the attackle? And finally I started saying,
Speaker 1: draft him and play him because he's going to be
Speaker 1: there for twelve years. Draft him and play him. Don't
Speaker 1: overthink this. And I'll say the same thing about a
Speaker 1: different position group, and this is the one that is
Speaker 1: not one of the deeper ones. But this guy's the
Speaker 1: head of the class in that group, and that's safety.
Speaker 1: Brian Branch from Alabama. He ran a four five eight
Speaker 1: forty And so everybody's like, I don't know, how did
Speaker 1: they say that again? I don't know, but stop, he's
Speaker 1: played again, like you said about Cedric Tillman against the
Speaker 1: best every week. He's the top of this safety class.
Speaker 1: And you talk about a guy who made an impression.
Speaker 1: I mean, what a smart young man and a leader.
Speaker 1: And I mean I hurt all of that at the
Speaker 1: podium with him. Give me him. Let's go. Anything under
Speaker 1: four six is fast. Yeah, it's like, hello, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I mean. Maybe you gave him,
Speaker 1: you gave him the police. Stop. Please, here's my Please
Speaker 1: stop Will Anderson, please stop with this stuff. But oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Darnell Right dominated Well, guess what. Darnell
Speaker 1: Right is really really good. Darnell Wright had a tremendous day.
Speaker 1: Will Anderson didn't have a good day. But I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. He started as a freshman, just walked on
Speaker 1: campus in the front seven on the National champions on
Speaker 1: the best defense in America. He is a serious dude.
Speaker 1: I would take him right now anytime. I mean, that
Speaker 1: guy is a player. I think he's going top five
Speaker 1: or six and all this stuff. Though, well we don't
Speaker 1: know about Will and I don't know. Listen Will Anderson.
Speaker 1: Oh but can you believe this talk? I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here listening to these people. I'm going Darnell Right
Speaker 1: is really well. The Tennessee tape gave us pause. What
Speaker 1: one game in his whole career. There is one thing
Speaker 1: that I have gained from the Coach Max school of ball.
Speaker 1: Everybody gets beaten on a given day, and sure you do.
Speaker 1: If you're if you're a defensive back, you hadn't lived
Speaker 1: until you gotten your doors blown off by somebody. Will
Speaker 1: Anderson is a top five prospect in this draft, maybe
Speaker 1: in the top two or three. Let me just say
Speaker 1: this about Will Anderson, and this is probably an other question,
Speaker 1: but we're on Will to Anderson. Now. He impressed me
Speaker 1: so much at this combine for this reason. First of all,
Speaker 1: he's first in line because they go alphabetically, but he
Speaker 1: is a player of major note in this draft. He
Speaker 1: did every drill, every single drill he performed, and he
Speaker 1: performed it uh to his utmost ability. And then they
Speaker 1: asked this group, about three or four of them to
Speaker 1: stay afterwards when the group was done, to run the hoops,
Speaker 1: to run the hoops, to get a hoop. He stayed
Speaker 1: right there. Well, I stayed right there and jumped up there.
Speaker 1: And to me, this guy is a legit dude, legit. Look,
Speaker 1: if you don't think he's a player, then you're gonna
Speaker 1: have problem finding a player. Well, but I don't even
Speaker 1: think he's hard. I'm no evaluator of talent in terms
Speaker 1: of all the debt, but that guy can play. He
Speaker 1: played at Alabama. And you you may be listening to
Speaker 1: the OTP right now, and you may not like Alabama. Fine,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they're not very good. No, they're
Speaker 1: They're fantasic. Their coach is fantastic, their ability to evaluate
Speaker 1: and develop talent is fantastic at every level. Give them credit,
Speaker 1: you know for what they do. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of great players in the NFL right now who came
Speaker 1: from Alabama. So he's got a pedigree, he's got the size.
Speaker 1: I mean, Will Anderson is what you want on defensive.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Titans are going to end up
Speaker 1: with him because I think he's going to go before
Speaker 1: the Titans could even pick him. But the bottom line
Speaker 1: is he's a winner in the NFL. If he doesn't
Speaker 1: end up being it's a much bigger upset to me
Speaker 1: than if he ends up being a Pro Bowl. See,
Speaker 1: I don't get to interview these guys like I used to,
Speaker 1: you know, when I was deep into the coaching part
Speaker 1: of it. But I still look at it as a
Speaker 1: coach and just going back by what I said, watching
Speaker 1: what he did, just watching his mannerisms, and then the
Speaker 1: way he approached this even being a premier player, because
Speaker 1: he could have run a forty and said that's enough.
Speaker 1: Every drill that means something through my coaching eyes when
Speaker 1: I'm watching the type of player you're going to get
Speaker 1: in your locker room. He likes to play, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he's not afraid to compete, right, And I mean that's
Speaker 1: like a Harold Landry for this for this team. Harold
Speaker 1: Landry likes to play. I think it's one of the
Speaker 1: biggest things the Titans missed last year on defense about
Speaker 1: not having Harold is the way the number of snaps
Speaker 1: he gives him, the sacks and the tackles, and he
Speaker 1: plays the run, he'll drop into coverage. I get all that,
Speaker 1: but that guy likes to go. He just wants to
Speaker 1: be on the field contributing. He wants to go, he
Speaker 1: wants to go hard and having that just within a
Speaker 1: defense everybody else All right, Amy, you're gonna start this one.
Speaker 1: What was the best story? Your best story from the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three combine. I think I guess my favorite
Speaker 1: story of the twenty twenty three combine has been Anthony
Speaker 1: Richardson and watching him week after week, day after day,
Speaker 1: it feels like his stock rises in a way that
Speaker 1: you can almost physically see because the conversation it felt
Speaker 1: like every day was like all right. I mean, here's
Speaker 1: a guy. He was kind of he was only one
Speaker 1: year starter at Florida. We don't really know, but you know,
Speaker 1: he seems to have some things on paper that we like.
Speaker 1: And that was like, well, we'll get him to the combine,
Speaker 1: we'll measure him, we'll see well, then he measures pretty good,
Speaker 1: and well we'll get him on the field and see
Speaker 1: what he does. And then he works out really well,
Speaker 1: and then it's like, well, we gotta meet this guy.
Speaker 1: Maybe he sucks, and then people are saying, well, he
Speaker 1: doesn't really suck that bad. It just keeps getting better
Speaker 1: and better. It feels like you can physically see this
Speaker 1: guy rising up boards every single day, and it's wild.
Speaker 1: I can't remember a time where one guy changed opinions
Speaker 1: or change the conversation around what those opinions could be
Speaker 1: throughout the NFL so consistently every single day. It feels like,
Speaker 1: i mean, even throughout the course of doing this podcast,
Speaker 1: my evaluation of him and my thoughts about him have
Speaker 1: changed from before we started too. After you guys were
Speaker 1: talking about his workout and your evaluations of him, it
Speaker 1: just seems like he's rising higher and higher every time.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens as he goes on his thirty visits,
Speaker 1: you know, when he starts to meet with clubs on
Speaker 1: a more intimate level and start to really get in
Speaker 1: there and have you know, start to hear the rumors
Speaker 1: and things kind of milling about about what he's like
Speaker 1: when he gets on a white board, and what's he
Speaker 1: like when he meets with staffs and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But it has been wild to me how much the
Speaker 1: opinion of him has changed in such a short amount
Speaker 1: of time. Your story, coach, your favorite story. Sellon Peyton's
Speaker 1: coming back. Ah, I was a big in circles. I
Speaker 1: moved with and I talked to Sellen for quite a
Speaker 1: while there. And the fact that he got Mike Westoff
Speaker 1: to come out of retirement. If you don't know Mike
Speaker 1: Westoff's name, I mean, this is a special team's guru
Speaker 1: of all gurus, you know. I mean he started in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two. He and I passed in the hall
Speaker 1: at TCU. I was coming into TCU. He thought he
Speaker 1: was done. He wrote his book Check it Out. I mean,
Speaker 1: he wrote his book his books called Figured it Out.
Speaker 1: He wrote a book. He figured he was done. Twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: bone cancer's got a rod in his leg. I mean,
Speaker 1: the whole thing. But Sean Payton and then I talked
Speaker 1: to west Off, talked to him into coming back and
Speaker 1: so and so that was very interesting to me, and
Speaker 1: just Sean Payton being back because that whole thing in
Speaker 1: Denver last year was a disaster and now it's not
Speaker 1: so much a disaster, and so that was a big
Speaker 1: story for me. You know, I always watch to see
Speaker 1: a guy who maybe didn't have a whole lot of
Speaker 1: production that you wanted to see in college, came from
Speaker 1: high profile program and then really turns it on at
Speaker 1: the combine and it turns out he's got a great personality.
Speaker 1: That's Nolan Smith from Georgia, and they were one of
Speaker 1: the first groups to work out last week and he
Speaker 1: blew it away. You know, he had a great forty
Speaker 1: time and forty inch vertical and the whole deal. And
Speaker 1: then he had this awesome interview with Stacy Dales off
Speaker 1: Network on field the next morning. As I'm coming my
Speaker 1: way down to you guys, I run into Stacy Dales
Speaker 1: and I said, Hey, great interview with him, What a
Speaker 1: cool young man, And she goes, oh, thank you for that.
Speaker 1: But I defer to him, and I was we were
Speaker 1: just talking about the person that he appears to be,
Speaker 1: because he was the one guy I told you of
Speaker 1: the first group that spoke at the podiums that week.
Speaker 1: He held court for twenty minutes, and it just it
Speaker 1: wasn't that he was just ripping, you know, Rodney Dangerfield
Speaker 1: one liners. I mean, he had there's a person there
Speaker 1: who is likable. He just notices. He's observant, Like in
Speaker 1: his interview with Stacy Damis, he's talking about the new
Speaker 1: restaurant that they have at the University of Georgia's campus
Speaker 1: and the lady that runs it and shout out to her.
Speaker 1: He knows he's one of those people that he knows
Speaker 1: everybody in the He'll know everybody in the building when
Speaker 1: he comes into whoever drafts him. And it was just
Speaker 1: an interesting to see that young man operate in what
Speaker 1: Coach Mac always talks about being every day's an interview.
Speaker 1: I think he passed the interview For me. It was
Speaker 1: Houston and Indianapolis and their changes and what they're gonna
Speaker 1: look like going forward, a new coach in each place,
Speaker 1: basically new staffs in each place. Both probably going to
Speaker 1: draft a quarterback in the top five according to where
Speaker 1: they end up right now, Houston's two and Indy's four.
Speaker 1: We'll see where they stay. But it is the dawn
Speaker 1: of a new era for those two teams. So you've
Speaker 1: got that to consider. And Jacksonville very much is walking
Speaker 1: around like the champs right now. They are the champs
Speaker 1: and they've got Calvin Ridley who's been reinstated to go,
Speaker 1: you know, with Christian Kirk and Evan Ingram was franchised,
Speaker 1: and they got Zay Jones and you know, Travis etn
Speaker 1: and I mean they are fully convinced they got it.
Speaker 1: And Doug Peterson's talking about our window is open, and
Speaker 1: here we go. They lost nine games last year, they
Speaker 1: went they went ten and nine. You know, if you
Speaker 1: consider the playoffs. Now, they got hot down the stretch
Speaker 1: and they improved the second half and they were the
Speaker 1: best team in the division. But I think everybody is
Speaker 1: kind of sleeping on the Titans right now. Anybody who
Speaker 1: thinks that Titans are rebuilding is making a bad mistake.
Speaker 1: So maybe Jacksonville's time. We've got the two people who've
Speaker 1: made the big changes also in the division, and now
Speaker 1: I think everybody's waiting to see what the Titans do
Speaker 1: as we move toward free agency and the next look. Well, Mike,
Speaker 1: we had a chance to talk to a bunch of
Speaker 1: different people, including all of the all of the play
Speaker 1: by play guys for everyone around her PAFC South. That
Speaker 1: was an interesting conversation. But I would be interested to
Speaker 1: know who was your favorite person that we interviewed at
Speaker 1: the combine. Cynthia Freeland. Yeah, I'm fascinated by the analytics
Speaker 1: part of it. I'm fascinated by what she does and
Speaker 1: how they gather that, and I'm trying to learn as
Speaker 1: much as i can about how all of that works.
Speaker 1: Based on the fact that the Titans are going to
Speaker 1: be more of an analytics based team. They were headed
Speaker 1: that way with John Robinson and he had started to
Speaker 1: make a lot of turns towards that, and obviously Ran
Speaker 1: Carthon comes in from a San Francisco franchise that uses
Speaker 1: them in a very different way, and I'm interested to
Speaker 1: learn what that means towards what our players are gonna
Speaker 1: look like in terms of how they stack up and
Speaker 1: what they're looking for, but also specifically how the roster
Speaker 1: will look. So she she provides a lot of insight.
Speaker 1: We got to talk to her for a lot, well,
Speaker 1: I should say coach Matt got to talk to her
Speaker 1: for a long time year. He spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time with her. But we got to listen and she's fascinating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for me, it was Judy Batista, a long time writer
Speaker 1: of NFL media, a lady well respected to her circles. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know you talked about, you know, reading her columns
Speaker 1: and things for a long time the same way, and
Speaker 1: you know, very connected with the league and the top people,
Speaker 1: and really enjoyed the visit with her, and you know,
Speaker 1: the the top storylines that are evolving for the new
Speaker 1: fiscal year, Santhia Freeland without a doubt, kind it written
Speaker 1: down Mike and had didn't talk about this. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't text with him like Peyton Manning does. But wow,
Speaker 1: you know it's funny you'd say that I've just got
Speaker 1: I've just gotten a text right now, I've just got
Speaker 1: that I've just gotten floor before. No, we're not editing
Speaker 1: this right now. I have just gotten a text from
Speaker 1: Archie Manning. Outstand. Uh he he texted me wrongly, he said, Mike,
Speaker 1: this is Archie wrong text. Sorry, all the best Archie.
Speaker 1: So that just happened literally one minute ago. That's the
Speaker 1: best to my point. Wait, that's awesome. My dad still
Speaker 1: contends Archie Manning was better than Eli or Peyton. By
Speaker 1: the way, He's correct. Archie Manning was a hell of
Speaker 1: an athlete. Yeah, that's just on a really bad team.
Speaker 1: Was on a really bad team. His contention is if
Speaker 1: he played in these kinds of offenses today, he would
Speaker 1: be Patrick Mahomes. Yes he was that. He was that
Speaker 1: spec tacular as an as an overall athlete. This really
Speaker 1: took a left turn, all right. So coach McK and,
Speaker 1: I say, Centia Freeland, Amy, who do you say? I say,
Speaker 1: Judy Battista, like Rhett So there you go. We all
Speaker 1: were doubling up. Then do you think it was bad
Speaker 1: when I said to Judy Battista, I started reading your
Speaker 1: columns when I was a kid. Yeah, I wouldn't as
Speaker 1: a general rule. Well, and she's not much she's like
Speaker 1: just months older than I am, so that that wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been true. I did say. I did tell her
Speaker 1: after the fact, though, that I started reading her stuff
Speaker 1: in the early nineteen nineties just as a fan of
Speaker 1: the NFL. Loved the NFL followed the NFL closely, and
Speaker 1: she was one of those before Adam Schefter and before
Speaker 1: Ian Rappapord and all of the quote unquote insiders. Really
Speaker 1: the only insider was Chris Mortenson. That was it. And
Speaker 1: Judy Battista got stuff. And she was an excellent reporter
Speaker 1: and excellent writer. And she has a lot of the
Speaker 1: good on field stuff, but rules changes what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: in Washington, stuff like that. I mean stuff that comes
Speaker 1: out of the owner's meeting, well, the stuff that comes
Speaker 1: out of Park Avenue. If something's coming out of the
Speaker 1: NFL office, Judy Batista gets it. And that's what makes
Speaker 1: her so interesting to me, because you can talk to
Speaker 1: her about anything and she knows something about it, and
Speaker 1: she knows it from an angle that you either haven't
Speaker 1: heard or haven't considered, because her sources are so much
Speaker 1: different than anybody else's that you're getting in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And I just I think she's so cool and she's
Speaker 1: so smart. And I started reading her when she was
Speaker 1: at the New York Times, and so I always just
Speaker 1: thought that she was the pinnacle of sports reporting, and
Speaker 1: so being able to talk to her was, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she's like one of the political reporters or
Speaker 1: the White House reporters of the congressional reporters, are one
Speaker 1: of the financial reporters on Wall Street that you when
Speaker 1: they come on, you go, yes, I'm watching that. Judy
Speaker 1: Batista is not getting things off Twitter. No like that is.
Speaker 1: She is a whole different level. It's a franchise. Yeah, yep,
Speaker 1: she's just cool. She is an absolute franchise. Well, great
Speaker 1: job Amy Wells in Indianapolis. Great job Brett Brian coach mcnos.
Speaker 1: He does a great job and everybody loves him. And
Speaker 1: h Ashley Farrell, fantastic job. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: all you did. I don't know if you've enjoyed ten
Speaker 1: straight days of the OTP ot people. Maybe it's too much.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. Maybe it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I'm not really sure. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's too much. So maybe you've thought to yourself, please stop,
Speaker 1: please stop with all these OTPs. If we're bothering you,
Speaker 1: We're one. This is the last one for for a minute. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well we'll see if now we told you the thing
Speaker 1: in the gym Why OTP Mailbag Show on Sunday, and
Speaker 1: he mentioned the non tampering policy, UM, that we can't
Speaker 1: set around to do any speculation that we do know,
Speaker 1: we don't know, I don't know anything, um, because the
Speaker 1: whole thing is, uh, if we do, we'll get fined
Speaker 1: or fired or and I don't want really don't want
Speaker 1: to do that. That would be that would be a negative.
Speaker 1: It could ruin your day. Yeah. Yeah, So we're not
Speaker 1: going to do that. We're not. And what it means,
Speaker 1: seriously is we can't discuss any speculation positive, negative, or
Speaker 1: in between, because the league has made it clear, because
Speaker 1: we Amy and I are team employees, that anything we
Speaker 1: say in regard to speculation could be seen as an
Speaker 1: effort put forward specifically by the team to sort of
Speaker 1: change a mindset or throw somebody off or whatever. U
Speaker 1: as if we were being given information in order to
Speaker 1: put it out there in a way to help our
Speaker 1: team's position. And that's a competitive advantage issue that has
Speaker 1: come into being now with the non tampering period coming in.
Speaker 1: So if there's news that specifically we can talk about,
Speaker 1: if something has happened, then we will come on and
Speaker 1: talk about it. The thing that I would caution you
Speaker 1: about the majority of the reports that will come out
Speaker 1: about various things around the league, I'd say in excess
Speaker 1: of ninety five are true. But just remember that until somebody,
Speaker 1: until a team has made an official move, or a
Speaker 1: player has made an official move or anything, it's not
Speaker 1: or they've taken their physical. Nothing is official until the
Speaker 1: teams say it's official. Not because the teams are like
Speaker 1: we are the Wizard of Oz and we're doing not
Speaker 1: for that reason, which is why I'm saying the majority
Speaker 1: of the great majority of the reporter you will see
Speaker 1: is correct. But that's the hold back that I would
Speaker 1: caution you on because every year there's a situation where
Speaker 1: so and so has agreed to terms. You have a
Speaker 1: Carlos Krea deal like in baseball, where he'd agreed in
Speaker 1: terms of the Giants, he'd agreed to terms of the Mets,
Speaker 1: and he didn't end up with either one of them.
Speaker 1: And that happens in football. There's always a guy who
Speaker 1: flunks a physical or a trade doesn't go through the
Speaker 1: right way, and that's why you have to just as
Speaker 1: coach Mack says, hold your water yep, keep your powder dry.
Speaker 1: Tis the season for Twitter to just go ballistic. So yes, right.
Speaker 1: A lot of the things that you'll see probably correct. However,
Speaker 1: there's a lot that has to happen between the initial
Speaker 1: report and it actually being final, and there are a
Speaker 1: lot of things that can change within that. So until
Speaker 1: a team says this happened, it's because it has officially
Speaker 1: legally it is done. It goes into the wire transfers
Speaker 1: at three o'clock Central time. If it doesn't appear on
Speaker 1: the wire transfer that they put out every day at
Speaker 1: three o'clock Central, it's not official, and we come in
Speaker 1: when it is official, legally done, we have to post
Speaker 1: the transactions on NFL communications dot Com. There it is there,
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, that's exactly right. So that's the we
Speaker 1: want to tell the OT people the facts about you know,
Speaker 1: all of this and hopefully through the course of starting
Speaker 1: a week ago Monday and through today Wednesday, March the eighth,
Speaker 1: we're just very appreciative that you've tuned in. Hopefully you've
Speaker 1: gotten some insight. Our hope is that you can go
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Speaker 1: the smartest one in the group. That's how we want
Speaker 1: to help the OT people most and entertain you as well.
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