WEBVTT - The OTP | NFL Scouting Combine Finale

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<v Speaker 1>Dave McGinnis and the ever reliable Rhet Brian. I'm Mike

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<v Speaker 1>Keith and we are back at Ascension St. Thomas Sports Park, home,

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<v Speaker 1>sweet home from Indianapolis. I would say it was a

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<v Speaker 1>great trip. It was a great trip. It was incredibly efficient,

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<v Speaker 1>which I like. I like it when we can get in,

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<v Speaker 1>we can see a lot of people, get a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of work done, get a lot of information for Titans fans,

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<v Speaker 1>and then get out of there. We came back before

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<v Speaker 1>Dave McGinnis, did you stayed till Monday? Monday morning? Who

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<v Speaker 1>was that? This was a great trip? It really is.

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<v Speaker 1>This is very valuable to me since, I mean for

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<v Speaker 1>what we do and for the quality of content that

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<v Speaker 1>we put out also for our draft show. Plus I've

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<v Speaker 1>been to every one of them. I don't want to

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<v Speaker 1>break my streak. But the thing about it was is

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<v Speaker 1>those dates from Thursday to Sunday. I mean, you know

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<v Speaker 1>you're six seven hours in Lucas Oil. But the amount

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<v Speaker 1>of people I'm able to talk to while we're watching,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, everybody work, and then just the conversation that

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<v Speaker 1>goes on between groups. I mean, it's it's really valuable.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh And I absolutely love it. I mean, and so

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<v Speaker 1>to me this time of year, for what this is,

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<v Speaker 1>this is one of my favorites. Do you have specific

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<v Speaker 1>people you watch the combine with? Yes, Okay, yes I do,

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<v Speaker 1>and especially especially groups of people and assistant coaches, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>watching because most everybody's else is up in the suite,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, everybody else is up in the sweet But yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and then I have you know, people that I that

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<v Speaker 1>I talked to, that I've talked to for years, that

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<v Speaker 1>we all keep it, you know, within a pretty within

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<v Speaker 1>a pretty tight circle. Ret, Brian, what did you enjoy

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<v Speaker 1>most of us combine? I enjoyed all of it. I

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<v Speaker 1>mean it was great. I thought learned a lot, saw

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of you know, things that I liked, saw

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<v Speaker 1>some people who could help the Titans. Excited for you know,

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<v Speaker 1>this whole process. I'm always ready for it, all right.

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<v Speaker 1>But before we dive in a couple of things, we've

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<v Speaker 1>got to mention right off the top. The Titans ticket

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<v Speaker 1>office has shared this with me, and I want to

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<v Speaker 1>share it with the ot people. They are saying that

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<v Speaker 1>the Titans are putting on sale the Fireball Fast Pass

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<v Speaker 1>this Friday, all nine home games. That's the preseason and

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<v Speaker 1>the regular season home games. You know, one of the games,

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<v Speaker 1>who's in London, A home games in London this year

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<v Speaker 1>that's not included in this. All nine games at Nissan

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<v Speaker 1>Stadium three hundred and fifty dollars. Wowo. Price will jump

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<v Speaker 1>to four hundred dollars on April first. Not an April

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<v Speaker 1>fool's joke. No, not a joke. Limited quantities available, also

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<v Speaker 1>not a joke. Here's how the Fireball Fast Pass works.

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<v Speaker 1>You get a three hundred level ticket to all nine

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<v Speaker 1>home games in twenty twenty three for three hundred and

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<v Speaker 1>fifty dollars. That's less than forty dollars a ticket. Now

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<v Speaker 1>you get a different seat every game. But here's the key.

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<v Speaker 1>If you purchase a Fireball Fast Pass, you have playoff priority.

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<v Speaker 1>That's huge, So the Titans get to hose playoff games.

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<v Speaker 1>You get a chance to buy tickets to be there. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to give you a little bit of a

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<v Speaker 1>complicated web address. But this is important and I know

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<v Speaker 1>the OT people can follow it. Tennessee Titans dot com

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<v Speaker 1>slash Tickets Slash Fireball Dash Fast Dash Pass. Okay, I

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<v Speaker 1>know that's a lot, yeah, but you can do it.

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<v Speaker 1>But you can do it because you're smart. Tennessee Titans

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<v Speaker 1>dot Com Slash Tickets Slash Fireball Dash Fast Dash Past.

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<v Speaker 1>This will be updated Friday morning with the correct information

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<v Speaker 1>and the purchase link. So if you're thinking about doing

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<v Speaker 1>the Fireball Fast Pass, even if you can't make all

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<v Speaker 1>the games, it's still worthwhile, you know, for three or

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<v Speaker 1>four games because you're in. Yeah, the Fireball Fast Pass

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<v Speaker 1>is one of my favorite things that the Titans do

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<v Speaker 1>because most of the time all you want is a

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<v Speaker 1>foot in the door. You just want to be in

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<v Speaker 1>Nissan Stage. Well, and we understand. Would we like for

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<v Speaker 1>you to buy a season ticket, Yes, and you can

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<v Speaker 1>buy those right now. We would love it if every

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<v Speaker 1>one of the OT people had a season ticket, but

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<v Speaker 1>it's not reality. That's not reality. We know some of

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<v Speaker 1>you are listening in different parts of the country, in

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<v Speaker 1>different parts of the world wherever. So again, one more time,

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<v Speaker 1>Friday morning, they go on sale. You can immediately dive

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<v Speaker 1>Fireball Dash Fast Dash Pass. Well, Mike, I've got one

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<v Speaker 1>for you and for the OT people as well, especially

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<v Speaker 1>if that link is driving you to drink a little bit,

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<v Speaker 1>which it shouldn't because it's really not that bad. Y'all

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<v Speaker 1>can do it. You guys can do it. But really,

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<v Speaker 1>we don't do that every week. No, we don't do it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's one time for something special. Just type down what

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<v Speaker 1>Mike said. It's not that big of a deal. But

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<v Speaker 1>Is it three or six? You can choose. You can

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<v Speaker 1>either get three or six. Oh, you decide Okay. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not like a We're not just going to throw

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<v Speaker 1>you some and maybe you get three, maybe you get six,

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<v Speaker 1>you get four or five? Yeah, yeah, we just I

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<v Speaker 1>mean we're all drinking here. Yes, you get how many's

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<v Speaker 1>in the box? No, you select three or six, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>depending on the package you choose. Join the Foolish Club

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<v Speaker 1>today and elevate your wine game while showing off your

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<v Speaker 1>Titans pride. And I will say, of the wines that

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<v Speaker 1>I have tried, which I think is all of them,

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<v Speaker 1>which figures nomenal, Wow, phenomenal. I'm not even mad at that,

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<v Speaker 1>because whatever Mike's gonna say, what he's gonna say, they

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<v Speaker 1>are good. Yeah, they're really good. In my house is

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<v Speaker 1>a huge fan of the Pinot Noir. It's really really good.

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<v Speaker 1>We always have some in our house at all times.

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<v Speaker 1>Definitely worth it, highly recommend. All right, So we've got Fireball,

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<v Speaker 1>fast Pass Friday, We've got the Foolish Club talking wine.

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<v Speaker 1>Now let's talk combine. There we go, all right. The

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<v Speaker 1>man who may love Coachmack more than anybody in the

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<v Speaker 1>world is the Reese's Senior Bowl Executive director Jim Naggy.

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<v Speaker 1>He loves Coach Mack. He loves to talk to Coach Mack.

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<v Speaker 1>Who who doesn't. That's true? All right, So I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>read your Jim Naggy quote, Coachmack, and I want you

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<v Speaker 1>to translate it for those of us who've not done

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<v Speaker 1>this for a living in the way that you have.

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<v Speaker 1>Jim Naggy said, quote combines over plenty of data to digest.

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<v Speaker 1>Now the time to recheck our eyes on the tape.

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<v Speaker 1>Can't be afraid that maybe saw it wrong. Don't have

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<v Speaker 1>to be right until April. Remember the quote unquote, evaluation

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<v Speaker 1>process is a process, Coach Mack. What does Jim Nagge

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<v Speaker 1>mean by that statement? Evaluations is a fluid moving being.

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<v Speaker 1>And whatever you have, you can't form any concrete opinions early,

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<v Speaker 1>and you don't get set in your ways on anything.

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<v Speaker 1>You take all of these pieces. It's just like you

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<v Speaker 1>take a big puzzle and you look at the picture

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<v Speaker 1>on the box. You know what it's supposed to look like,

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<v Speaker 1>and you pour it out on a desk and start

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<v Speaker 1>piecing it together. These are the pieces and you cannot

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<v Speaker 1>get don't be what this is saying, don't be an ie.

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<v Speaker 1>I learned that so fast in my young career instant evaluator. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>don't be an ie. Take all the information and be

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<v Speaker 1>willing not only to bend, but be willing to change.

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<v Speaker 1>You know your ideas, have an idea of what your

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<v Speaker 1>opinion is, but respect the opinion of others and also respect,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, the process. People always talk about the process,

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<v Speaker 1>but this is an ongoing it's lacking to me, but

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<v Speaker 1>it moves all the time, and sooner or later it's

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<v Speaker 1>going to form into a solid being that comes on

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<v Speaker 1>the three days of the draft. That's when that comes.

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<v Speaker 1>But right now, it's exactly what he means, and everybody

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<v Speaker 1>that's done it for as you say, a living is

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<v Speaker 1>doing that right now. People don't like that. People want

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<v Speaker 1>immediate answers. You know, who's where or where? Where are

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<v Speaker 1>we picking? When you picking what's next? It's not the

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<v Speaker 1>way it works. So coach, give me an example of

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<v Speaker 1>a player too that you need to recheck your eyes

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<v Speaker 1>on the tam Luke Schoonmaker tight end from Michigan, and

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<v Speaker 1>I need to take it to take a look at

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<v Speaker 1>him again again. Now at the combine six five two

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<v Speaker 1>fifty one four sixty three. I didn't know he was

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<v Speaker 1>that fast. One five nine and a ten, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I like that, and then thirty three and a half

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<v Speaker 1>vertical jump doesn't blow you away, but at ten seven

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<v Speaker 1>broad kind of tells you the guy has got a

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<v Speaker 1>little something too. I need to watch him again. I

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<v Speaker 1>need to watch Luke Schoonmaker and the other guy need

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<v Speaker 1>to watch Lucas van Ness from Iowa. Van Ness is

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<v Speaker 1>not a starter, you know. And he played a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of four eye four eye, which means Mike Keith is

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<v Speaker 1>a tackle. I'm looking right straight at him. I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>line up on his inside eye and do a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of things inside. When you watch him, you don't see

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<v Speaker 1>what he probably will be in the National Football League.

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<v Speaker 1>Six five two seventy two four or five eight forty

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<v Speaker 1>thirty four inch arms, you know, eleven inch hands or

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<v Speaker 1>one six four ten which was excellent broad jump of

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<v Speaker 1>nine ten of three cone. This is what caught my attention.

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<v Speaker 1>Seven point zero two. That's really good for a man

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<v Speaker 1>six five two hundre seventy two pounds seventeen reps on

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<v Speaker 1>the bench. Mike always talks about short arm guys are

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<v Speaker 1>better on the bench. This is a long arm guy.

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<v Speaker 1>So I need to watch Lucas van Ness from Iowa,

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<v Speaker 1>again knowing that I'm going to be watching some limited

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<v Speaker 1>reps because he was not a starter. But this is

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<v Speaker 1>a football player, all right. I want to bring in

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<v Speaker 1>Reet Brian and keep coach Mac and I want you

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<v Speaker 1>to bounce back and forth on this. Who are some

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<v Speaker 1>of the players who potentially improved their stock with NFL teams,

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<v Speaker 1>not improved their stock with the draft analyst and the fans,

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<v Speaker 1>but improved with the teams with their work In Indianapolis,

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<v Speaker 1>a young man I got to interview and talked to

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<v Speaker 1>for a moment at the Senior Bowl. He's a defensive

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<v Speaker 1>lineman from Northwestern Tommy at a bare six two two

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<v Speaker 1>hundred eighty two pounds, arms thirty three and seven eights,

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<v Speaker 1>hands ten and a half. He had a bench press

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<v Speaker 1>of two twenty five thirty times, vertical leap thirty seven

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<v Speaker 1>and a half inches, broad ten foot five inches, three

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<v Speaker 1>cone drill six point nine zero, short shuttle four point five.

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<v Speaker 1>All of those in the ninetieth plus percentile for a

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<v Speaker 1>guy two hundred and eighty two pounds. So he's quick,

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<v Speaker 1>and he has long speed, and he has long arms too,

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<v Speaker 1>and he has long arms. Two headed snake from me

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<v Speaker 1>I'm pulling Amy Wales, but they're at the same school.

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<v Speaker 1>Jakoian Bennett from Maryland, Okay. Cornerback four three and the

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<v Speaker 1>forty that takes your tension real quick, five eleven, one

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and eighty eight pounds, one four eight ten forty

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<v Speaker 1>and a half vertical jump and eleven ten part. That's

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<v Speaker 1>an athlete. I didn't realize he was all that when

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<v Speaker 1>I'm watching. But right on the other side at Maryland

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<v Speaker 1>is Dante Is d'ontay Banks, Okay four three five six

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<v Speaker 1>foot one ninety seven. They've got a track team there

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<v Speaker 1>at cornerback one four nine ten forty two inch vertical

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<v Speaker 1>eleven four broad jump. Two athletes. They've uped their stock.

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<v Speaker 1>I will see those, gentlemen, and I will raise you.

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<v Speaker 1>Wide receiver from West Virginia Bryce Ford Wheaton, a redshirt

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<v Speaker 1>senior from West Virginia six four two twenty one, ran

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<v Speaker 1>a four three eight forty yard dash at that size,

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<v Speaker 1>a forty one in vertical leap. His twenty yard shuttle

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<v Speaker 1>was four point one five. Lots of explosion there for

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<v Speaker 1>a guy that is. This is not a wide receiver

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<v Speaker 1>class with lots of big, fast, prototypical wide receivers. So

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<v Speaker 1>anybody that's meets those measurables and heightened weight you start

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<v Speaker 1>paying attention to because there's a lot of shorter, smaller,

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<v Speaker 1>rich with talent, wide receivers that can help you. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>slot receivers and the like. They're just not a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of big guys. Stay with the receivers. At Perry from

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<v Speaker 1>Wake Forest, this is a bigger receiver. Sixty three and

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<v Speaker 1>a half, thirty three and a quarter arms four four

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<v Speaker 1>seven in the forty one five nine one five nine ten,

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<v Speaker 1>and thirty five in vertical eleven one broad. So you've

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<v Speaker 1>got an athlete. When you watch him on tape, he's

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<v Speaker 1>got he's long guy, quick feet. Here is what he's

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<v Speaker 1>got to me. This is a high ceiling, lower floor guy.

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<v Speaker 1>But when you watch him on tape, the one thing

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<v Speaker 1>you start dinging him on is erratic hand. So you

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<v Speaker 1>go back and you look again and you see. But

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<v Speaker 1>at Perry Wake Forest, let's go with a tight end.

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<v Speaker 1>In this from Old Dominion, Zach Koontz six foot seven,

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<v Speaker 1>two hundred and fifty five pounds, thirty four inch arms,

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<v Speaker 1>hands ten and two eights wing nearly eighty four inches

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<v Speaker 1>ran a four five five forty and a forty inch

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<v Speaker 1>vertical leap. Now our friend Daniel Jeremiah talked about this

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<v Speaker 1>is one of the best tight end draft classes in

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<v Speaker 1>the last decade. This is a guy who is a

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<v Speaker 1>middle round prospect who can help you and clearly shows

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<v Speaker 1>with the size he has explosion to go with it.

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<v Speaker 1>But that is just one of many tight ends that

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<v Speaker 1>will have their names called that weekend. Sydney Brown safety

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<v Speaker 1>from Middllinois. This is a five ten, two hundred eleven

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<v Speaker 1>pound just dynamole, you know. And when you watch him

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<v Speaker 1>move down there on the floor at Lucas Oil ten

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<v Speaker 1>and one quarter hands four four seven in the forty

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<v Speaker 1>one five one ten forty and a half vertical jump

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<v Speaker 1>broad ten ten bench twenty three. So you've got an athlete. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>when you watch him on tape, you start to eat.

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<v Speaker 1>There's always minuses. You start to look his hips a

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<v Speaker 1>little tight, got ten career interception six in twenty twenty two.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a ball player. One last one for me,

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<v Speaker 1>and that is ut Chattanooga Mocassin McLendon Curtis, offensive lineman

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<v Speaker 1>six six three twenty four arms thirty five inches, so

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<v Speaker 1>his wing is a round eighty four hands ten and

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<v Speaker 1>two eights. It's a monster person. We met him at

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<v Speaker 1>the Senior Bowling and Mobile. His forty now for six

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<v Speaker 1>six three twenty four is five two four, but his

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<v Speaker 1>ten yards split that first ten yards one point eight five.

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<v Speaker 1>The mark that is noticeable in that is round one

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<v Speaker 1>seven four. But for six six three twenty four, right,

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<v Speaker 1>he's moving in that ten yards where it's gonna matter

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<v Speaker 1>in the trenches so he can pull. Yes, Okay, if

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<v Speaker 1>I were still coaching, this is a school visit, I'd

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<v Speaker 1>want to go see. I want to go to Kansas State.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to watch Felix a new k Uzama. This

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<v Speaker 1>is a guy to me, six three two h fifty

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<v Speaker 1>five pounds. That to me, when you look at him,

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<v Speaker 1>this is a guy that you look at and you

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<v Speaker 1>say there may be something there on the third day.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, So I've got another Jim Naggy quote for

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<v Speaker 1>you guys, he said. Florida quarterback Anthony Richardson is an

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<v Speaker 1>immensely talented physical specimen, yet a significant roll of the dice.

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<v Speaker 1>At the same time, there's no nuance to the Richardson

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<v Speaker 1>eval yet TV Networks will debate it for the next

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<v Speaker 1>two months. April is going to be brutal. I'll ask

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<v Speaker 1>Rhett first, and then Mac you can chime in. Did

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<v Speaker 1>Richardson do enough to fully sell a team to pick

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<v Speaker 1>him in the top half of the first round? Absolutely?

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<v Speaker 1>And the answer that is he was already there and

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<v Speaker 1>he cemented it. You look at the measurable six four

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<v Speaker 1>two forty four hands ten and a half inches. We

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<v Speaker 1>always talk about the quarterbacks hands, but a four four

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<v Speaker 1>three times second forty forty and a half inch vertically,

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<v Speaker 1>now that's the explosion of the athleticism that everyone has

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<v Speaker 1>been talking about out It's the arm and the other

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<v Speaker 1>things and the actress that go was it. If you

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<v Speaker 1>want to fall in love with a quarterback, take a

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<v Speaker 1>look at him when they finished up all of those

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<v Speaker 1>short routes and things, the drills, everything, but look at

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<v Speaker 1>a go route. He's got the touch. He had the

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<v Speaker 1>touch there clearly those things that he will have to

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<v Speaker 1>refine and work on. But yes, the answer is yes.

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<v Speaker 1>One of the most impressive physical workouts I've seen in

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<v Speaker 1>a long time. At the combine, I've seen every one

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<v Speaker 1>of them that was impressive, and he just kept doing it.

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<v Speaker 1>It wasn't like he did one thing good and then

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<v Speaker 1>one thing a little bit, and he was very very

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<v Speaker 1>consistent and going along with what Red says. When he

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<v Speaker 1>was throwing, he was in rhythm. He was throwing in rhythm.

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<v Speaker 1>He was very confident, very impressive. So the answer to

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<v Speaker 1>that question is absolutely y and effortless. Flicked the ball

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<v Speaker 1>sixty yards on a go route like it's nothing. Coachback.

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<v Speaker 1>Richardson's performance at the Combine did surprise some, but really

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<v Speaker 1>no one who watched him play high school ball or

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<v Speaker 1>college ball. He's like Cam Newton in terms of his

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<v Speaker 1>size and that other worldly athleticism. Is Cam Newton the

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<v Speaker 1>proper comp for Anthony Richardson in terms of risk reward?

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<v Speaker 1>Or can you think of another player? Dante Culpepper Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>out a UCF in ninety nine, the ninety nine draft.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, and I go back a while with this,

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<v Speaker 1>but you know, I pulled my book out on Culpepper

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<v Speaker 1>from the ninety nine just like I got this book here.

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<v Speaker 1>Sixty three and three quarters two fifty five. Okay, hands

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<v Speaker 1>nine and a half four five two forty at two

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<v Speaker 1>fifty five. All right, one five seven ten three cone

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<v Speaker 1>seven two one thirty nine inch vertical jump at two

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<v Speaker 1>fifty five broad jump of ten in the ninety nine draft.

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<v Speaker 1>That was a Tim Couch, Donovan McNabb, a Keeley Smith draft.

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<v Speaker 1>And then look, this guy played for eleven years and

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<v Speaker 1>at Minnesota he was outstanding. I coached a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>defenses against Dante Culpepper. He was a problem running. I

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<v Speaker 1>think he set he set season records in two thousand

0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.600
<v Speaker 1>and four, single season season record for most total yard

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<v Speaker 1>He's produced by a quarterback in two thousand and four.

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<v Speaker 1>It's Dante Culpepper for me. Wow. Mac, when you moved

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<v Speaker 1>back to Nashville from California, did you bring your box

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<v Speaker 1>of old notebooks? Does like I've got to make sure

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<v Speaker 1>I get some bedding. I've got to get my clothes.

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<v Speaker 1>I got yeah, refrigerator. I gotta get my box of

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<v Speaker 1>old notebooks. We're not all worried about all that other stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted my boxes of notebooks. I can get by

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<v Speaker 1>without that other stuff. I got plenty of people to

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<v Speaker 1>take me in, But those absolutely I did, because I've

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<v Speaker 1>I've got thirty seven years of them. Wow. But Mac,

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<v Speaker 1>those banker boxes full of those notebooks, it's because up

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<v Speaker 1>until the last half dozen of them, your mortgage was

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<v Speaker 1>riding on it. Yeah, I mean it was. It was important.

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<v Speaker 1>That's why it's important to you now. It was the

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<v Speaker 1>way I'm made a living and so this is I'm

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<v Speaker 1>still making a living somehow. Yeah, that's fascinating. I want

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<v Speaker 1>to keep talking about quarterbacks though, Sorry about the tangent.

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<v Speaker 1>Quarterback Bryce Young is someone that we were all kind

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<v Speaker 1>of talking about going into the combine, and he measured

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<v Speaker 1>a shade over five ten, Yet zero people seemed to care.

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<v Speaker 1>There was no conversation about it. Rhet Were you surprised

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<v Speaker 1>by the fact that everyone was like, okay when he

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<v Speaker 1>measured as short as we expected him to be. No,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'll tell you why. Look, we all had an

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<v Speaker 1>idea about what he was gonna measure in at, in

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<v Speaker 1>his hand size and the whole thing unless his pituitary

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<v Speaker 1>gland kicks had to overdrive him. But he's not going

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<v Speaker 1>to grow overnight or whatever, and just brought up like

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<v Speaker 1>a jack and the beans dog. The weight is what

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<v Speaker 1>I was looking at, and he registered in at two

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<v Speaker 1>oh four. You can tell he had been working to

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<v Speaker 1>put on that because you want to quell some of

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<v Speaker 1>those concerns about play strength and durability. I was looking

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<v Speaker 1>at the weight more than anything. Mac. I'll defer to you.

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<v Speaker 1>We knew he was short. He said it better. Alabama

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<v Speaker 1>listed him at six feet one ninety four. We knew

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<v Speaker 1>he was short on an Alabama phone book. Yeah, you

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<v Speaker 1>knew he was short. But he's productive. I mean, he's

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<v Speaker 1>a productive he's a dealer, and you knew that. You

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<v Speaker 1>knew that going in. I would have loved to have

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<v Speaker 1>been in a meeting room with him. That's what I

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<v Speaker 1>would like to do, because he's supposedly is really good

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<v Speaker 1>at that. But you're you're looking at a productive player.

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<v Speaker 1>So there was no there was no shock or surprise

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<v Speaker 1>to anybody that was there, and everybody in the National

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<v Speaker 1>Football League was there that when they measured and they went, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't know he was short. We knew he was short,

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<v Speaker 1>all right. So let's continue with this question. Who was

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<v Speaker 1>more impressive in Indianapolis, Ohio State quarterbacks? CJ. Stroud or

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<v Speaker 1>Kentucky quarterback will love its c J. Stroud. CJ. Stroud

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<v Speaker 1>to me, had the best quarterback workout of any of

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<v Speaker 1>them other than Richardson. Richardson had some more to prove

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<v Speaker 1>just because but CJ. Stroud location of the ball smoothness,

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<v Speaker 1>just c J. Stroud without a doubt in my mind. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>moment of truth for both Rhett and coach Mac. Rhett

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<v Speaker 1>goes first. Rhet Brian finished this sentence. The top four

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<v Speaker 1>quarterbacks in the twenty twenty three NFL Draft will be

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<v Speaker 1>select within the first blank overall picks nine. So the

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<v Speaker 1>top four quarterbacks will be selected in the first nine

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<v Speaker 1>overall picks. Okay, Coach Mac, your turn. The top four

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<v Speaker 1>quarterbacks in the twenty twenty three NFL Draft will be

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<v Speaker 1>selected within the first eight eight overall picks, Amy Wells,

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<v Speaker 1>does that surprise you? Yes? That surprises me. That just wow?

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<v Speaker 1>Did we think that going up there? No, But there's

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<v Speaker 1>a quarterback draft, guys, and there's a desperation for quarterbacks. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>we just talked about what CJ. Stroud and Anthony Richardson

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<v Speaker 1>did while everyone in the eyes were all on them. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>now that's not the end all be all, but we've

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<v Speaker 1>seen how that pump your stock up. Well, and Levis

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<v Speaker 1>did a good job too. He might not have been

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<v Speaker 1>as spectacular as the others were, but the feeling was

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<v Speaker 1>he did a good job. Right. If you were Will

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<v Speaker 1>Levis fan, going in right, you were Will Levis fan

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<v Speaker 1>coming out, which is what needed to have happened for him,

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<v Speaker 1>which is what needed to happen for him. I can

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<v Speaker 1>give you a quarterback that didn't happen real well for him.

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<v Speaker 1>You didn't ask me this question, Well, sure, so I

0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:09.159
<v Speaker 1>won't till you ask me the question. Coach, give me

0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:13.080
<v Speaker 1>a quarterback that you don't feel like. The twenty twenty

0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:16.879
<v Speaker 1>three NFL combine went well for Max Duggan, the quarterback frog.

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<v Speaker 1>He was TCU widely erratic. He was It wasn't good

0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:24.320
<v Speaker 1>to him. You know, they say Stetson Bennett did well too, right.

0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:27.160
<v Speaker 1>Stetson Bennett first of all, stepped down there and ran

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<v Speaker 1>really fast like we knew he would four six seven, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and then just continue to throw and through very well.

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<v Speaker 1>But yes, Stetson Bennett is kind of the faced us

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<v Speaker 1>forgotten man in all of this with his two national

0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:44.720
<v Speaker 1>championship trophies, and so he is, that's right. And everybody

0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:48.240
<v Speaker 1>thought he was a game manager, and I think as

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<v Speaker 1>the season went along he showed more and more and

0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:52.639
<v Speaker 1>that it did it to combine. He's more than just

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<v Speaker 1>a game manage. He'll end up He'll end up in

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<v Speaker 1>a camp It's now halftime of the OTP presented by

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<v Speaker 1>you use your Duncan rewards? What do you purchase with

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<v Speaker 1>your Duncan rewards? Ice? Lattes, latte? Ice? Lattees? You too? Well? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean I love a good ice. What you purchase?

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<v Speaker 1>What have you used your Duncan rewards for? I've got

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<v Speaker 1>to say I was kind of chuckling because of Rhett,

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<v Speaker 1>but the last six or seven things I've bought have

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<v Speaker 1>been the same. I use mine on a breakfast sandwich,

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<v Speaker 1>which was quite a delight. But can you go there

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<v Speaker 1>and not get coffee? The answer is no, I can't sandwich.

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<v Speaker 1>I get coffee. I get the egg and cheese. Yes, yes,

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<v Speaker 1>that's a good go to. Yes on the English, muffin

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<v Speaker 1>on the English. But that's good. I do croissant. What's

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<v Speaker 1>wrong with you people? Okay, well, we're more refined than

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<v Speaker 1>There's nothing more refined than a crossan. Maybe, thank you

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<v Speaker 1>Duncan for the interlude, right there, Coach Mack from the

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<v Speaker 1>chatter that you picked up at the combine and you

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<v Speaker 1>talk to everybody, who is a player who will go

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<v Speaker 1>in the top ten that you thought would go lower

0:24:18.200 --> 0:24:22.960
<v Speaker 1>than that before last week? Richardson, Yeah, without a doubt,

0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:27.840
<v Speaker 1>without a doubt Richardson, Anthony Richardson, he says, all right, well,

0:24:28.160 --> 0:24:30.320
<v Speaker 1>slightly different version of the same question. Who is a

0:24:30.320 --> 0:24:33.879
<v Speaker 1>player who will go in the first round that you

0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:38.399
<v Speaker 1>thought would go lower than that before last week? Lucas

0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:42.320
<v Speaker 1>van Ness, Okay, I think everybody's coming around to what

0:24:42.520 --> 0:24:47.119
<v Speaker 1>that package is me included. He's not a workout warrior. No.

0:24:47.760 --> 0:24:50.400
<v Speaker 1>And the thing is too, I mean, if you if

0:24:50.440 --> 0:24:52.680
<v Speaker 1>you look at Iowa and you look at kirk Feren's,

0:24:53.480 --> 0:24:57.440
<v Speaker 1>they start their upperclassmen, they start their older guys. Doesn't

0:24:57.480 --> 0:25:00.320
<v Speaker 1>mean you're gonna play all the snaps. But when you

0:25:00.359 --> 0:25:02.719
<v Speaker 1>hear the whole thing about him not being a starter,

0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:07.080
<v Speaker 1>if you don't know about their program, and Daniel Jeremiah

0:25:07.119 --> 0:25:10.639
<v Speaker 1>told us this, you know that's why he's never started

0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:13.160
<v Speaker 1>a game is because he wasn't one of the older dudes.

0:25:13.280 --> 0:25:16.480
<v Speaker 1>It's it's an old school program that does it that way,

0:25:17.320 --> 0:25:20.120
<v Speaker 1>you hit it right on the head, and the more

0:25:20.160 --> 0:25:22.440
<v Speaker 1>you dig on the film, you go, Okay, I get it.

0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:26.080
<v Speaker 1>Let's talk Tennessee volunteers. Three of them have gotten at

0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:30.240
<v Speaker 1>least some first round chatter. Let's go fast here. I'll

0:25:30.280 --> 0:25:32.520
<v Speaker 1>throw out the name and you tell me based on

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<v Speaker 1>what you saw and heard at the combine, if this

0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:38.840
<v Speaker 1>player is going in the first round. Jalen Hyatt still

0:25:38.880 --> 0:25:45.160
<v Speaker 1>going in the first round. Possible, possible, Darnell Wright, yes,

0:25:46.040 --> 0:25:48.560
<v Speaker 1>bottom a first round now bottom of the first, Hendon

0:25:48.720 --> 0:25:53.520
<v Speaker 1>Hooker early second, but could sneak in second round, second round.

0:25:53.680 --> 0:25:56.720
<v Speaker 1>All right, Rhett, what's the buzz coming out of Indie?

0:25:56.760 --> 0:25:59.800
<v Speaker 1>On the other vall Wyatt out Cedric Tillman. It's what

0:25:59.840 --> 0:26:02.520
<v Speaker 1>I've been talking about with the wide receiver class. I mean,

0:26:02.560 --> 0:26:05.040
<v Speaker 1>he sixty three, two thirteen, so he's one of the

0:26:05.040 --> 0:26:08.600
<v Speaker 1>bigger receivers in this draft and helped himself, in my opinion,

0:26:08.640 --> 0:26:12.679
<v Speaker 1>four five four forty thirty seven, invert his ten yards

0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:16.840
<v Speaker 1>split one point five three for a guy six three,

0:26:17.040 --> 0:26:21.760
<v Speaker 1>two thirteen in a class that again doesn't have a

0:26:21.800 --> 0:26:24.680
<v Speaker 1>ton of big prototypical wide receivers that have been productive,

0:26:25.200 --> 0:26:27.840
<v Speaker 1>and he's healthy. That's the big thing with him. He

0:26:27.960 --> 0:26:30.120
<v Speaker 1>was all smiles at the podium that day, and then

0:26:30.119 --> 0:26:33.080
<v Speaker 1>the next one was over the weekend. He showed out

0:26:33.440 --> 0:26:36.239
<v Speaker 1>in my opinion, but it's because he's been healthy. He

0:26:36.320 --> 0:26:41.000
<v Speaker 1>has got combat catches on tape against the best competition

0:26:41.080 --> 0:26:45.359
<v Speaker 1>in the country. He did nothing but help himself. This

0:26:46.000 --> 0:26:50.120
<v Speaker 1>guy will be early second day because of a lot

0:26:50.119 --> 0:26:53.560
<v Speaker 1>of reasons. But he's got verified tape. You don't have

0:26:53.640 --> 0:26:56.199
<v Speaker 1>to guess at what he is as a football player.

0:26:56.480 --> 0:26:58.640
<v Speaker 1>You didn't know all those numbers that Rhet put out,

0:26:58.640 --> 0:27:01.919
<v Speaker 1>which are really good, but he is a verified combat

0:27:02.040 --> 0:27:04.879
<v Speaker 1>catcher and those are valuable in this league. Well, and

0:27:05.080 --> 0:27:07.960
<v Speaker 1>Rhett said it, I think very well early there are

0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:12.560
<v Speaker 1>not a lot of widely regarded big receivers in this draft,

0:27:12.560 --> 0:27:16.359
<v Speaker 1>coach correct, And that's one true. But what he's got,

0:27:16.600 --> 0:27:19.440
<v Speaker 1>you are not projecting with him. You've got it on

0:27:19.560 --> 0:27:22.439
<v Speaker 1>tape in the Southeastern Conference, which is as good as

0:27:22.440 --> 0:27:26.480
<v Speaker 1>you get. Every year. It feels like there are outstanding

0:27:26.800 --> 0:27:30.199
<v Speaker 1>players who during the lead up to the draft we

0:27:30.280 --> 0:27:32.800
<v Speaker 1>hear every single little thing that's wrong with them for

0:27:32.800 --> 0:27:36.720
<v Speaker 1>whatever reason. Who, in your opinion, Coach Mac is the

0:27:36.800 --> 0:27:40.320
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty three draft prospect that media folks and draft

0:27:40.400 --> 0:27:45.240
<v Speaker 1>experts are overanalyzing and overdissecting and are just completely overthinking

0:27:45.320 --> 0:27:48.320
<v Speaker 1>Peter Scronsky. I mean, if I had one conversation, I

0:27:48.359 --> 0:27:50.520
<v Speaker 1>had twenty seven. There is he a guards the attackle?

0:27:50.800 --> 0:27:53.200
<v Speaker 1>Is he a guarters the attackle? And finally I started saying,

0:27:53.280 --> 0:27:56.199
<v Speaker 1>draft him and play him because he's going to be

0:27:56.200 --> 0:27:59.000
<v Speaker 1>there for twelve years. Draft him and play him. Don't

0:27:59.040 --> 0:28:01.679
<v Speaker 1>overthink this. And I'll say the same thing about a

0:28:01.720 --> 0:28:03.600
<v Speaker 1>different position group, and this is the one that is

0:28:03.640 --> 0:28:05.879
<v Speaker 1>not one of the deeper ones. But this guy's the

0:28:05.920 --> 0:28:07.640
<v Speaker 1>head of the class in that group, and that's safety.

0:28:07.680 --> 0:28:10.920
<v Speaker 1>Brian Branch from Alabama. He ran a four five eight

0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:15.719
<v Speaker 1>forty And so everybody's like, I don't know, how did

0:28:15.720 --> 0:28:21.879
<v Speaker 1>they say that again? I don't know, but stop, he's

0:28:22.119 --> 0:28:24.919
<v Speaker 1>played again, like you said about Cedric Tillman against the

0:28:24.960 --> 0:28:28.000
<v Speaker 1>best every week. He's the top of this safety class.

0:28:28.640 --> 0:28:30.720
<v Speaker 1>And you talk about a guy who made an impression.

0:28:30.720 --> 0:28:34.240
<v Speaker 1>I mean, what a smart young man and a leader.

0:28:34.240 --> 0:28:35.480
<v Speaker 1>And I mean I hurt all of that at the

0:28:35.560 --> 0:28:39.640
<v Speaker 1>podium with him. Give me him. Let's go. Anything under

0:28:39.680 --> 0:28:42.800
<v Speaker 1>four six is fast. Yeah, it's like, hello, I don't know,

0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:45.520
<v Speaker 1>I don't know what I mean. Maybe you gave him,

0:28:45.560 --> 0:28:48.680
<v Speaker 1>you gave him the police. Stop. Please, here's my Please

0:28:48.800 --> 0:28:52.800
<v Speaker 1>stop Will Anderson, please stop with this stuff. But oh,

0:28:52.920 --> 0:28:56.280
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Darnell Right dominated Well, guess what. Darnell

0:28:56.400 --> 0:29:01.280
<v Speaker 1>Right is really really good. Darnell Wright had a tremendous day.

0:29:01.520 --> 0:29:03.720
<v Speaker 1>Will Anderson didn't have a good day. But I'll tell

0:29:03.760 --> 0:29:07.680
<v Speaker 1>you what. He started as a freshman, just walked on

0:29:07.800 --> 0:29:11.720
<v Speaker 1>campus in the front seven on the National champions on

0:29:11.800 --> 0:29:15.320
<v Speaker 1>the best defense in America. He is a serious dude.

0:29:15.880 --> 0:29:19.720
<v Speaker 1>I would take him right now anytime. I mean, that

0:29:19.760 --> 0:29:22.680
<v Speaker 1>guy is a player. I think he's going top five

0:29:22.800 --> 0:29:25.320
<v Speaker 1>or six and all this stuff. Though, well we don't

0:29:25.320 --> 0:29:29.800
<v Speaker 1>know about Will and I don't know. Listen Will Anderson.

0:29:30.000 --> 0:29:33.360
<v Speaker 1>Oh but can you believe this talk? I mean, I'm

0:29:33.400 --> 0:29:35.920
<v Speaker 1>sitting here listening to these people. I'm going Darnell Right

0:29:36.120 --> 0:29:38.760
<v Speaker 1>is really well. The Tennessee tape gave us pause. What

0:29:39.000 --> 0:29:41.720
<v Speaker 1>one game in his whole career. There is one thing

0:29:41.760 --> 0:29:44.920
<v Speaker 1>that I have gained from the Coach Max school of ball.

0:29:45.080 --> 0:29:48.000
<v Speaker 1>Everybody gets beaten on a given day, and sure you do.

0:29:48.080 --> 0:29:50.560
<v Speaker 1>If you're if you're a defensive back, you hadn't lived

0:29:50.600 --> 0:29:53.520
<v Speaker 1>until you gotten your doors blown off by somebody. Will

0:29:53.560 --> 0:29:55.920
<v Speaker 1>Anderson is a top five prospect in this draft, maybe

0:29:55.920 --> 0:29:57.760
<v Speaker 1>in the top two or three. Let me just say

0:29:57.840 --> 0:30:00.560
<v Speaker 1>this about Will Anderson, and this is probably an other question,

0:30:00.640 --> 0:30:03.280
<v Speaker 1>but we're on Will to Anderson. Now. He impressed me

0:30:03.400 --> 0:30:06.400
<v Speaker 1>so much at this combine for this reason. First of all,

0:30:06.440 --> 0:30:09.480
<v Speaker 1>he's first in line because they go alphabetically, but he

0:30:09.680 --> 0:30:13.320
<v Speaker 1>is a player of major note in this draft. He

0:30:13.360 --> 0:30:17.640
<v Speaker 1>did every drill, every single drill he performed, and he

0:30:17.680 --> 0:30:21.040
<v Speaker 1>performed it uh to his utmost ability. And then they

0:30:21.080 --> 0:30:23.200
<v Speaker 1>asked this group, about three or four of them to

0:30:23.280 --> 0:30:26.240
<v Speaker 1>stay afterwards when the group was done, to run the hoops,

0:30:26.600 --> 0:30:28.920
<v Speaker 1>to run the hoops, to get a hoop. He stayed

0:30:29.000 --> 0:30:31.280
<v Speaker 1>right there. Well, I stayed right there and jumped up there.

0:30:31.400 --> 0:30:36.360
<v Speaker 1>And to me, this guy is a legit dude, legit. Look,

0:30:36.400 --> 0:30:39.080
<v Speaker 1>if you don't think he's a player, then you're gonna

0:30:39.120 --> 0:30:41.680
<v Speaker 1>have problem finding a player. Well, but I don't even

0:30:41.760 --> 0:30:45.280
<v Speaker 1>think he's hard. I'm no evaluator of talent in terms

0:30:45.360 --> 0:30:48.480
<v Speaker 1>of all the debt, but that guy can play. He

0:30:48.560 --> 0:30:51.240
<v Speaker 1>played at Alabama. And you you may be listening to

0:30:51.280 --> 0:30:54.120
<v Speaker 1>the OTP right now, and you may not like Alabama. Fine,

0:30:55.320 --> 0:30:58.840
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Maybe they're not very good. No, they're

0:30:59.120 --> 0:31:03.920
<v Speaker 1>They're fantasic. Their coach is fantastic, their ability to evaluate

0:31:03.960 --> 0:31:08.720
<v Speaker 1>and develop talent is fantastic at every level. Give them credit,

0:31:09.200 --> 0:31:11.200
<v Speaker 1>you know for what they do. There are a lot

0:31:11.200 --> 0:31:13.720
<v Speaker 1>of great players in the NFL right now who came

0:31:13.760 --> 0:31:18.520
<v Speaker 1>from Alabama. So he's got a pedigree, he's got the size.

0:31:18.800 --> 0:31:21.600
<v Speaker 1>I mean, Will Anderson is what you want on defensive.

0:31:21.640 --> 0:31:23.200
<v Speaker 1>I don't think the Titans are going to end up

0:31:23.240 --> 0:31:25.200
<v Speaker 1>with him because I think he's going to go before

0:31:25.240 --> 0:31:28.080
<v Speaker 1>the Titans could even pick him. But the bottom line

0:31:28.240 --> 0:31:32.240
<v Speaker 1>is he's a winner in the NFL. If he doesn't

0:31:32.400 --> 0:31:35.480
<v Speaker 1>end up being it's a much bigger upset to me

0:31:36.160 --> 0:31:38.280
<v Speaker 1>than if he ends up being a Pro Bowl. See,

0:31:38.320 --> 0:31:40.240
<v Speaker 1>I don't get to interview these guys like I used to,

0:31:40.520 --> 0:31:43.160
<v Speaker 1>you know, when I was deep into the coaching part

0:31:43.160 --> 0:31:44.640
<v Speaker 1>of it. But I still look at it as a

0:31:44.680 --> 0:31:48.000
<v Speaker 1>coach and just going back by what I said, watching

0:31:48.040 --> 0:31:51.160
<v Speaker 1>what he did, just watching his mannerisms, and then the

0:31:51.200 --> 0:31:54.480
<v Speaker 1>way he approached this even being a premier player, because

0:31:54.480 --> 0:31:56.280
<v Speaker 1>he could have run a forty and said that's enough.

0:31:57.440 --> 0:32:01.120
<v Speaker 1>Every drill that means something through my coaching eyes when

0:32:01.160 --> 0:32:03.160
<v Speaker 1>I'm watching the type of player you're going to get

0:32:03.160 --> 0:32:05.760
<v Speaker 1>in your locker room. He likes to play, Yeah, and

0:32:05.800 --> 0:32:08.760
<v Speaker 1>he's not afraid to compete, right, And I mean that's

0:32:08.760 --> 0:32:11.600
<v Speaker 1>like a Harold Landry for this for this team. Harold

0:32:11.680 --> 0:32:14.280
<v Speaker 1>Landry likes to play. I think it's one of the

0:32:14.320 --> 0:32:17.960
<v Speaker 1>biggest things the Titans missed last year on defense about

0:32:18.000 --> 0:32:21.560
<v Speaker 1>not having Harold is the way the number of snaps

0:32:21.600 --> 0:32:23.280
<v Speaker 1>he gives him, the sacks and the tackles, and he

0:32:23.280 --> 0:32:25.240
<v Speaker 1>plays the run, he'll drop into coverage. I get all that,

0:32:25.560 --> 0:32:28.160
<v Speaker 1>but that guy likes to go. He just wants to

0:32:28.200 --> 0:32:31.000
<v Speaker 1>be on the field contributing. He wants to go, he

0:32:31.040 --> 0:32:34.400
<v Speaker 1>wants to go hard and having that just within a

0:32:34.520 --> 0:32:38.280
<v Speaker 1>defense everybody else All right, Amy, you're gonna start this one.

0:32:38.400 --> 0:32:41.240
<v Speaker 1>What was the best story? Your best story from the

0:32:41.240 --> 0:32:44.800
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty three combine. I think I guess my favorite

0:32:44.840 --> 0:32:47.480
<v Speaker 1>story of the twenty twenty three combine has been Anthony

0:32:47.600 --> 0:32:51.920
<v Speaker 1>Richardson and watching him week after week, day after day,

0:32:51.960 --> 0:32:54.960
<v Speaker 1>it feels like his stock rises in a way that

0:32:55.000 --> 0:32:59.280
<v Speaker 1>you can almost physically see because the conversation it felt

0:32:59.280 --> 0:33:02.240
<v Speaker 1>like every day was like all right. I mean, here's

0:33:02.240 --> 0:33:04.120
<v Speaker 1>a guy. He was kind of he was only one

0:33:04.200 --> 0:33:07.080
<v Speaker 1>year starter at Florida. We don't really know, but you know,

0:33:07.200 --> 0:33:09.280
<v Speaker 1>he seems to have some things on paper that we like.

0:33:09.360 --> 0:33:11.000
<v Speaker 1>And that was like, well, we'll get him to the combine,

0:33:11.000 --> 0:33:14.280
<v Speaker 1>we'll measure him, we'll see well, then he measures pretty good,

0:33:14.280 --> 0:33:16.080
<v Speaker 1>and well we'll get him on the field and see

0:33:16.120 --> 0:33:17.720
<v Speaker 1>what he does. And then he works out really well,

0:33:17.760 --> 0:33:19.520
<v Speaker 1>and then it's like, well, we gotta meet this guy.

0:33:19.560 --> 0:33:21.760
<v Speaker 1>Maybe he sucks, and then people are saying, well, he

0:33:21.800 --> 0:33:27.400
<v Speaker 1>doesn't really suck that bad. It just keeps getting better

0:33:27.440 --> 0:33:30.200
<v Speaker 1>and better. It feels like you can physically see this

0:33:30.240 --> 0:33:35.120
<v Speaker 1>guy rising up boards every single day, and it's wild.

0:33:35.200 --> 0:33:39.520
<v Speaker 1>I can't remember a time where one guy changed opinions

0:33:39.640 --> 0:33:43.520
<v Speaker 1>or change the conversation around what those opinions could be

0:33:43.640 --> 0:33:50.320
<v Speaker 1>throughout the NFL so consistently every single day. It feels like,

0:33:50.360 --> 0:33:52.560
<v Speaker 1>i mean, even throughout the course of doing this podcast,

0:33:53.120 --> 0:33:55.600
<v Speaker 1>my evaluation of him and my thoughts about him have

0:33:55.800 --> 0:33:58.800
<v Speaker 1>changed from before we started too. After you guys were

0:33:58.800 --> 0:34:02.040
<v Speaker 1>talking about his workout and your evaluations of him, it

0:34:02.200 --> 0:34:05.040
<v Speaker 1>just seems like he's rising higher and higher every time.

0:34:05.440 --> 0:34:08.800
<v Speaker 1>We'll see what happens as he goes on his thirty visits,

0:34:08.840 --> 0:34:10.600
<v Speaker 1>you know, when he starts to meet with clubs on

0:34:10.640 --> 0:34:12.960
<v Speaker 1>a more intimate level and start to really get in

0:34:13.000 --> 0:34:15.440
<v Speaker 1>there and have you know, start to hear the rumors

0:34:15.480 --> 0:34:17.279
<v Speaker 1>and things kind of milling about about what he's like

0:34:17.280 --> 0:34:18.920
<v Speaker 1>when he gets on a white board, and what's he

0:34:19.000 --> 0:34:21.360
<v Speaker 1>like when he meets with staffs and that kind of stuff.

0:34:21.680 --> 0:34:24.120
<v Speaker 1>But it has been wild to me how much the

0:34:24.239 --> 0:34:26.920
<v Speaker 1>opinion of him has changed in such a short amount

0:34:26.920 --> 0:34:31.520
<v Speaker 1>of time. Your story, coach, your favorite story. Sellon Peyton's

0:34:31.520 --> 0:34:34.440
<v Speaker 1>coming back. Ah, I was a big in circles. I

0:34:34.560 --> 0:34:36.120
<v Speaker 1>moved with and I talked to Sellen for quite a

0:34:36.160 --> 0:34:38.360
<v Speaker 1>while there. And the fact that he got Mike Westoff

0:34:38.360 --> 0:34:39.960
<v Speaker 1>to come out of retirement. If you don't know Mike

0:34:40.040 --> 0:34:42.680
<v Speaker 1>Westoff's name, I mean, this is a special team's guru

0:34:42.760 --> 0:34:46.040
<v Speaker 1>of all gurus, you know. I mean he started in

0:34:46.239 --> 0:34:48.640
<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty two. He and I passed in the hall

0:34:48.920 --> 0:34:52.120
<v Speaker 1>at TCU. I was coming into TCU. He thought he

0:34:52.160 --> 0:34:54.440
<v Speaker 1>was done. He wrote his book Check it Out. I mean,

0:34:54.800 --> 0:34:56.919
<v Speaker 1>he wrote his book his books called Figured it Out.

0:34:56.920 --> 0:34:59.280
<v Speaker 1>He wrote a book. He figured he was done. Twenty eighteen,

0:35:00.280 --> 0:35:02.279
<v Speaker 1>bone cancer's got a rod in his leg. I mean,

0:35:02.440 --> 0:35:05.839
<v Speaker 1>the whole thing. But Sean Payton and then I talked

0:35:05.840 --> 0:35:09.000
<v Speaker 1>to west Off, talked to him into coming back and

0:35:08.680 --> 0:35:11.319
<v Speaker 1>so and so that was very interesting to me, and

0:35:11.440 --> 0:35:14.400
<v Speaker 1>just Sean Payton being back because that whole thing in

0:35:14.440 --> 0:35:18.000
<v Speaker 1>Denver last year was a disaster and now it's not

0:35:18.040 --> 0:35:20.520
<v Speaker 1>so much a disaster, and so that was a big

0:35:20.560 --> 0:35:24.920
<v Speaker 1>story for me. You know, I always watch to see

0:35:24.920 --> 0:35:27.160
<v Speaker 1>a guy who maybe didn't have a whole lot of

0:35:27.600 --> 0:35:30.600
<v Speaker 1>production that you wanted to see in college, came from

0:35:30.680 --> 0:35:35.040
<v Speaker 1>high profile program and then really turns it on at

0:35:35.040 --> 0:35:37.440
<v Speaker 1>the combine and it turns out he's got a great personality.

0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:41.600
<v Speaker 1>That's Nolan Smith from Georgia, and they were one of

0:35:41.640 --> 0:35:43.719
<v Speaker 1>the first groups to work out last week and he

0:35:43.840 --> 0:35:45.560
<v Speaker 1>blew it away. You know, he had a great forty

0:35:45.560 --> 0:35:48.960
<v Speaker 1>time and forty inch vertical and the whole deal. And

0:35:49.000 --> 0:35:51.800
<v Speaker 1>then he had this awesome interview with Stacy Dales off

0:35:52.120 --> 0:35:56.040
<v Speaker 1>Network on field the next morning. As I'm coming my

0:35:56.080 --> 0:35:58.919
<v Speaker 1>way down to you guys, I run into Stacy Dales

0:35:58.960 --> 0:36:00.799
<v Speaker 1>and I said, Hey, great interview with him, What a

0:36:01.080 --> 0:36:03.520
<v Speaker 1>cool young man, And she goes, oh, thank you for that.

0:36:03.560 --> 0:36:05.440
<v Speaker 1>But I defer to him, and I was we were

0:36:05.480 --> 0:36:07.920
<v Speaker 1>just talking about the person that he appears to be,

0:36:07.880 --> 0:36:10.600
<v Speaker 1>because he was the one guy I told you of

0:36:10.640 --> 0:36:12.839
<v Speaker 1>the first group that spoke at the podiums that week.

0:36:13.680 --> 0:36:17.200
<v Speaker 1>He held court for twenty minutes, and it just it

0:36:17.239 --> 0:36:20.320
<v Speaker 1>wasn't that he was just ripping, you know, Rodney Dangerfield

0:36:20.360 --> 0:36:22.879
<v Speaker 1>one liners. I mean, he had there's a person there

0:36:23.360 --> 0:36:29.200
<v Speaker 1>who is likable. He just notices. He's observant, Like in

0:36:29.280 --> 0:36:31.839
<v Speaker 1>his interview with Stacy Damis, he's talking about the new

0:36:32.160 --> 0:36:34.920
<v Speaker 1>restaurant that they have at the University of Georgia's campus

0:36:34.920 --> 0:36:36.960
<v Speaker 1>and the lady that runs it and shout out to her.

0:36:37.040 --> 0:36:38.920
<v Speaker 1>He knows he's one of those people that he knows

0:36:38.960 --> 0:36:41.120
<v Speaker 1>everybody in the He'll know everybody in the building when

0:36:41.160 --> 0:36:44.359
<v Speaker 1>he comes into whoever drafts him. And it was just

0:36:44.600 --> 0:36:48.680
<v Speaker 1>an interesting to see that young man operate in what

0:36:48.760 --> 0:36:51.120
<v Speaker 1>Coach Mac always talks about being every day's an interview.

0:36:51.239 --> 0:36:53.400
<v Speaker 1>I think he passed the interview For me. It was

0:36:53.680 --> 0:36:57.360
<v Speaker 1>Houston and Indianapolis and their changes and what they're gonna

0:36:57.400 --> 0:37:01.080
<v Speaker 1>look like going forward, a new coach in each place,

0:37:01.719 --> 0:37:05.360
<v Speaker 1>basically new staffs in each place. Both probably going to

0:37:05.480 --> 0:37:08.719
<v Speaker 1>draft a quarterback in the top five according to where

0:37:08.760 --> 0:37:10.960
<v Speaker 1>they end up right now, Houston's two and Indy's four.

0:37:11.000 --> 0:37:13.880
<v Speaker 1>We'll see where they stay. But it is the dawn

0:37:13.920 --> 0:37:17.799
<v Speaker 1>of a new era for those two teams. So you've

0:37:17.840 --> 0:37:20.879
<v Speaker 1>got that to consider. And Jacksonville very much is walking

0:37:20.920 --> 0:37:24.520
<v Speaker 1>around like the champs right now. They are the champs

0:37:24.600 --> 0:37:28.439
<v Speaker 1>and they've got Calvin Ridley who's been reinstated to go,

0:37:29.080 --> 0:37:32.359
<v Speaker 1>you know, with Christian Kirk and Evan Ingram was franchised,

0:37:32.400 --> 0:37:35.640
<v Speaker 1>and they got Zay Jones and you know, Travis etn

0:37:35.800 --> 0:37:39.400
<v Speaker 1>and I mean they are fully convinced they got it.

0:37:39.440 --> 0:37:42.160
<v Speaker 1>And Doug Peterson's talking about our window is open, and

0:37:42.239 --> 0:37:45.839
<v Speaker 1>here we go. They lost nine games last year, they

0:37:45.880 --> 0:37:48.040
<v Speaker 1>went they went ten and nine. You know, if you

0:37:48.080 --> 0:37:50.920
<v Speaker 1>consider the playoffs. Now, they got hot down the stretch

0:37:50.920 --> 0:37:52.680
<v Speaker 1>and they improved the second half and they were the

0:37:52.680 --> 0:37:56.200
<v Speaker 1>best team in the division. But I think everybody is

0:37:56.280 --> 0:37:59.520
<v Speaker 1>kind of sleeping on the Titans right now. Anybody who

0:37:59.560 --> 0:38:03.200
<v Speaker 1>thinks that Titans are rebuilding is making a bad mistake.

0:38:03.360 --> 0:38:07.440
<v Speaker 1>So maybe Jacksonville's time. We've got the two people who've

0:38:07.440 --> 0:38:10.680
<v Speaker 1>made the big changes also in the division, and now

0:38:10.719 --> 0:38:13.080
<v Speaker 1>I think everybody's waiting to see what the Titans do

0:38:13.719 --> 0:38:16.759
<v Speaker 1>as we move toward free agency and the next look. Well, Mike,

0:38:16.800 --> 0:38:18.160
<v Speaker 1>we had a chance to talk to a bunch of

0:38:18.160 --> 0:38:23.080
<v Speaker 1>different people, including all of the all of the play

0:38:23.120 --> 0:38:26.279
<v Speaker 1>by play guys for everyone around her PAFC South. That

0:38:26.400 --> 0:38:29.279
<v Speaker 1>was an interesting conversation. But I would be interested to

0:38:29.320 --> 0:38:33.480
<v Speaker 1>know who was your favorite person that we interviewed at

0:38:33.520 --> 0:38:38.279
<v Speaker 1>the combine. Cynthia Freeland. Yeah, I'm fascinated by the analytics

0:38:38.360 --> 0:38:42.120
<v Speaker 1>part of it. I'm fascinated by what she does and

0:38:42.560 --> 0:38:44.960
<v Speaker 1>how they gather that, and I'm trying to learn as

0:38:45.040 --> 0:38:48.799
<v Speaker 1>much as i can about how all of that works.

0:38:48.800 --> 0:38:52.040
<v Speaker 1>Based on the fact that the Titans are going to

0:38:52.080 --> 0:38:54.480
<v Speaker 1>be more of an analytics based team. They were headed

0:38:54.520 --> 0:38:58.560
<v Speaker 1>that way with John Robinson and he had started to

0:38:58.600 --> 0:39:01.239
<v Speaker 1>make a lot of turns towards that, and obviously Ran

0:39:01.320 --> 0:39:04.840
<v Speaker 1>Carthon comes in from a San Francisco franchise that uses

0:39:04.920 --> 0:39:08.520
<v Speaker 1>them in a very different way, and I'm interested to

0:39:08.600 --> 0:39:13.759
<v Speaker 1>learn what that means towards what our players are gonna

0:39:13.840 --> 0:39:16.480
<v Speaker 1>look like in terms of how they stack up and

0:39:16.520 --> 0:39:19.320
<v Speaker 1>what they're looking for, but also specifically how the roster

0:39:19.400 --> 0:39:22.000
<v Speaker 1>will look. So she she provides a lot of insight.

0:39:22.040 --> 0:39:23.440
<v Speaker 1>We got to talk to her for a lot, well,

0:39:23.440 --> 0:39:25.560
<v Speaker 1>I should say coach Matt got to talk to her

0:39:25.560 --> 0:39:29.279
<v Speaker 1>for a long time year. He spent a lot of

0:39:29.320 --> 0:39:32.920
<v Speaker 1>time with her. But we got to listen and she's fascinating. Yeah,

0:39:33.000 --> 0:39:35.920
<v Speaker 1>for me, it was Judy Batista, a long time writer

0:39:36.040 --> 0:39:40.040
<v Speaker 1>of NFL media, a lady well respected to her circles. Uh,

0:39:40.320 --> 0:39:43.440
<v Speaker 1>you know you talked about, you know, reading her columns

0:39:43.440 --> 0:39:45.840
<v Speaker 1>and things for a long time the same way, and

0:39:45.880 --> 0:39:48.800
<v Speaker 1>you know, very connected with the league and the top people,

0:39:48.840 --> 0:39:52.120
<v Speaker 1>and really enjoyed the visit with her, and you know,

0:39:52.280 --> 0:39:56.040
<v Speaker 1>the the top storylines that are evolving for the new

0:39:56.080 --> 0:39:59.080
<v Speaker 1>fiscal year, Santhia Freeland without a doubt, kind it written

0:39:59.120 --> 0:40:01.120
<v Speaker 1>down Mike and had didn't talk about this. I mean,

0:40:01.160 --> 0:40:04.680
<v Speaker 1>I don't text with him like Peyton Manning does. But wow,

0:40:04.960 --> 0:40:06.920
<v Speaker 1>you know it's funny you'd say that I've just got

0:40:07.520 --> 0:40:11.080
<v Speaker 1>I've just gotten a text right now, I've just got

0:40:11.239 --> 0:40:17.080
<v Speaker 1>that I've just gotten floor before. No, we're not editing

0:40:17.120 --> 0:40:19.919
<v Speaker 1>this right now. I have just gotten a text from

0:40:20.080 --> 0:40:27.160
<v Speaker 1>Archie Manning. Outstand. Uh he he texted me wrongly, he said, Mike,

0:40:27.239 --> 0:40:32.560
<v Speaker 1>this is Archie wrong text. Sorry, all the best Archie.

0:40:33.239 --> 0:40:38.279
<v Speaker 1>So that just happened literally one minute ago. That's the

0:40:38.440 --> 0:40:42.399
<v Speaker 1>best to my point. Wait, that's awesome. My dad still

0:40:42.400 --> 0:40:45.400
<v Speaker 1>contends Archie Manning was better than Eli or Peyton. By

0:40:45.440 --> 0:40:48.880
<v Speaker 1>the way, He's correct. Archie Manning was a hell of

0:40:48.880 --> 0:40:51.239
<v Speaker 1>an athlete. Yeah, that's just on a really bad team.

0:40:51.320 --> 0:40:53.480
<v Speaker 1>Was on a really bad team. His contention is if

0:40:53.520 --> 0:40:56.560
<v Speaker 1>he played in these kinds of offenses today, he would

0:40:56.560 --> 0:40:59.480
<v Speaker 1>be Patrick Mahomes. Yes he was that. He was that

0:40:59.640 --> 0:41:04.480
<v Speaker 1>spec tacular as an as an overall athlete. This really

0:41:04.520 --> 0:41:06.880
<v Speaker 1>took a left turn, all right. So coach McK and,

0:41:06.920 --> 0:41:10.520
<v Speaker 1>I say, Centia Freeland, Amy, who do you say? I say,

0:41:10.600 --> 0:41:13.200
<v Speaker 1>Judy Battista, like Rhett So there you go. We all

0:41:13.239 --> 0:41:15.040
<v Speaker 1>were doubling up. Then do you think it was bad

0:41:15.040 --> 0:41:17.160
<v Speaker 1>when I said to Judy Battista, I started reading your

0:41:17.200 --> 0:41:20.080
<v Speaker 1>columns when I was a kid. Yeah, I wouldn't as

0:41:20.120 --> 0:41:22.799
<v Speaker 1>a general rule. Well, and she's not much she's like

0:41:23.160 --> 0:41:25.760
<v Speaker 1>just months older than I am, so that that wouldn't

0:41:25.800 --> 0:41:28.080
<v Speaker 1>have been true. I did say. I did tell her

0:41:28.120 --> 0:41:32.200
<v Speaker 1>after the fact, though, that I started reading her stuff

0:41:32.239 --> 0:41:34.839
<v Speaker 1>in the early nineteen nineties just as a fan of

0:41:34.880 --> 0:41:39.040
<v Speaker 1>the NFL. Loved the NFL followed the NFL closely, and

0:41:39.560 --> 0:41:44.280
<v Speaker 1>she was one of those before Adam Schefter and before

0:41:44.560 --> 0:41:48.960
<v Speaker 1>Ian Rappapord and all of the quote unquote insiders. Really

0:41:48.960 --> 0:41:53.479
<v Speaker 1>the only insider was Chris Mortenson. That was it. And

0:41:53.719 --> 0:41:58.000
<v Speaker 1>Judy Battista got stuff. And she was an excellent reporter

0:41:58.120 --> 0:42:01.520
<v Speaker 1>and excellent writer. And she has a lot of the

0:42:01.560 --> 0:42:06.680
<v Speaker 1>good on field stuff, but rules changes what's gonna happen

0:42:06.840 --> 0:42:11.239
<v Speaker 1>in Washington, stuff like that. I mean stuff that comes

0:42:11.239 --> 0:42:13.759
<v Speaker 1>out of the owner's meeting, well, the stuff that comes

0:42:13.760 --> 0:42:16.920
<v Speaker 1>out of Park Avenue. If something's coming out of the

0:42:17.040 --> 0:42:20.040
<v Speaker 1>NFL office, Judy Batista gets it. And that's what makes

0:42:20.040 --> 0:42:22.160
<v Speaker 1>her so interesting to me, because you can talk to

0:42:22.200 --> 0:42:26.160
<v Speaker 1>her about anything and she knows something about it, and

0:42:26.280 --> 0:42:28.920
<v Speaker 1>she knows it from an angle that you either haven't

0:42:29.000 --> 0:42:33.040
<v Speaker 1>heard or haven't considered, because her sources are so much

0:42:33.160 --> 0:42:36.680
<v Speaker 1>different than anybody else's that you're getting in the NFL.

0:42:36.840 --> 0:42:39.359
<v Speaker 1>And I just I think she's so cool and she's

0:42:39.400 --> 0:42:42.040
<v Speaker 1>so smart. And I started reading her when she was

0:42:42.040 --> 0:42:44.560
<v Speaker 1>at the New York Times, and so I always just

0:42:44.680 --> 0:42:47.839
<v Speaker 1>thought that she was the pinnacle of sports reporting, and

0:42:47.840 --> 0:42:54.160
<v Speaker 1>so being able to talk to her was, oh yeah,

0:42:54.200 --> 0:42:58.120
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, she's like one of the political reporters or

0:42:58.520 --> 0:43:02.520
<v Speaker 1>the White House reporters of the congressional reporters, are one

0:43:02.520 --> 0:43:05.759
<v Speaker 1>of the financial reporters on Wall Street that you when

0:43:05.760 --> 0:43:08.560
<v Speaker 1>they come on, you go, yes, I'm watching that. Judy

0:43:08.600 --> 0:43:11.920
<v Speaker 1>Batista is not getting things off Twitter. No like that is.

0:43:12.239 --> 0:43:15.680
<v Speaker 1>She is a whole different level. It's a franchise. Yeah, yep,

0:43:16.400 --> 0:43:20.120
<v Speaker 1>she's just cool. She is an absolute franchise. Well, great

0:43:20.160 --> 0:43:25.360
<v Speaker 1>job Amy Wells in Indianapolis. Great job Brett Brian coach mcnos.

0:43:25.360 --> 0:43:27.919
<v Speaker 1>He does a great job and everybody loves him. And

0:43:28.160 --> 0:43:32.080
<v Speaker 1>h Ashley Farrell, fantastic job. Thank you so much for

0:43:32.120 --> 0:43:34.640
<v Speaker 1>all you did. I don't know if you've enjoyed ten

0:43:34.719 --> 0:43:38.479
<v Speaker 1>straight days of the OTP ot people. Maybe it's too much.

0:43:38.800 --> 0:43:42.560
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, I don't know. Maybe it is. I mean,

0:43:42.600 --> 0:43:45.040
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I mean, I'm not really sure. Maybe

0:43:45.040 --> 0:43:49.000
<v Speaker 1>it's too much. So maybe you've thought to yourself, please stop,

0:43:50.040 --> 0:43:52.880
<v Speaker 1>please stop with all these OTPs. If we're bothering you,

0:43:52.960 --> 0:43:56.399
<v Speaker 1>We're one. This is the last one for for a minute. Yeah,

0:43:56.400 --> 0:43:59.399
<v Speaker 1>well we'll see if now we told you the thing

0:43:59.440 --> 0:44:03.960
<v Speaker 1>in the gym Why OTP Mailbag Show on Sunday, and

0:44:04.040 --> 0:44:09.200
<v Speaker 1>he mentioned the non tampering policy, UM, that we can't

0:44:09.560 --> 0:44:12.120
<v Speaker 1>set around to do any speculation that we do know,

0:44:12.760 --> 0:44:19.360
<v Speaker 1>we don't know, I don't know anything, um, because the

0:44:19.520 --> 0:44:22.800
<v Speaker 1>whole thing is, uh, if we do, we'll get fined

0:44:22.880 --> 0:44:25.399
<v Speaker 1>or fired or and I don't want really don't want

0:44:25.400 --> 0:44:27.880
<v Speaker 1>to do that. That would be that would be a negative.

0:44:27.880 --> 0:44:30.759
<v Speaker 1>It could ruin your day. Yeah. Yeah, So we're not

0:44:30.760 --> 0:44:33.279
<v Speaker 1>going to do that. We're not. And what it means,

0:44:33.320 --> 0:44:38.160
<v Speaker 1>seriously is we can't discuss any speculation positive, negative, or

0:44:38.239 --> 0:44:42.280
<v Speaker 1>in between, because the league has made it clear, because

0:44:42.440 --> 0:44:46.480
<v Speaker 1>we Amy and I are team employees, that anything we

0:44:46.560 --> 0:44:50.279
<v Speaker 1>say in regard to speculation could be seen as an

0:44:50.280 --> 0:44:54.879
<v Speaker 1>effort put forward specifically by the team to sort of

0:44:55.120 --> 0:44:59.680
<v Speaker 1>change a mindset or throw somebody off or whatever. U

0:45:00.040 --> 0:45:03.560
<v Speaker 1>as if we were being given information in order to

0:45:03.640 --> 0:45:05.879
<v Speaker 1>put it out there in a way to help our

0:45:05.960 --> 0:45:11.440
<v Speaker 1>team's position. And that's a competitive advantage issue that has

0:45:11.920 --> 0:45:15.120
<v Speaker 1>come into being now with the non tampering period coming in.

0:45:15.239 --> 0:45:19.640
<v Speaker 1>So if there's news that specifically we can talk about,

0:45:19.800 --> 0:45:22.840
<v Speaker 1>if something has happened, then we will come on and

0:45:22.880 --> 0:45:24.600
<v Speaker 1>talk about it. The thing that I would caution you

0:45:24.640 --> 0:45:29.160
<v Speaker 1>about the majority of the reports that will come out

0:45:29.840 --> 0:45:33.440
<v Speaker 1>about various things around the league, I'd say in excess

0:45:33.440 --> 0:45:40.319
<v Speaker 1>of ninety five are true. But just remember that until somebody,

0:45:40.760 --> 0:45:44.160
<v Speaker 1>until a team has made an official move, or a

0:45:44.239 --> 0:45:49.719
<v Speaker 1>player has made an official move or anything, it's not

0:45:49.880 --> 0:45:54.399
<v Speaker 1>or they've taken their physical. Nothing is official until the

0:45:54.440 --> 0:45:57.880
<v Speaker 1>teams say it's official. Not because the teams are like

0:45:58.280 --> 0:46:00.600
<v Speaker 1>we are the Wizard of Oz and we're doing not

0:46:00.680 --> 0:46:03.360
<v Speaker 1>for that reason, which is why I'm saying the majority

0:46:03.400 --> 0:46:05.560
<v Speaker 1>of the great majority of the reporter you will see

0:46:05.680 --> 0:46:08.600
<v Speaker 1>is correct. But that's the hold back that I would

0:46:08.680 --> 0:46:13.200
<v Speaker 1>caution you on because every year there's a situation where

0:46:13.280 --> 0:46:15.319
<v Speaker 1>so and so has agreed to terms. You have a

0:46:15.360 --> 0:46:18.400
<v Speaker 1>Carlos Krea deal like in baseball, where he'd agreed in

0:46:18.480 --> 0:46:20.640
<v Speaker 1>terms of the Giants, he'd agreed to terms of the Mets,

0:46:21.000 --> 0:46:22.719
<v Speaker 1>and he didn't end up with either one of them.

0:46:23.160 --> 0:46:26.640
<v Speaker 1>And that happens in football. There's always a guy who

0:46:26.640 --> 0:46:29.880
<v Speaker 1>flunks a physical or a trade doesn't go through the

0:46:30.000 --> 0:46:34.439
<v Speaker 1>right way, and that's why you have to just as

0:46:34.440 --> 0:46:37.520
<v Speaker 1>coach Mack says, hold your water yep, keep your powder dry.

0:46:37.680 --> 0:46:45.239
<v Speaker 1>Tis the season for Twitter to just go ballistic. So yes, right.

0:46:45.239 --> 0:46:48.640
<v Speaker 1>A lot of the things that you'll see probably correct. However,

0:46:49.600 --> 0:46:53.320
<v Speaker 1>there's a lot that has to happen between the initial

0:46:53.360 --> 0:46:56.200
<v Speaker 1>report and it actually being final, and there are a

0:46:56.239 --> 0:46:58.560
<v Speaker 1>lot of things that can change within that. So until

0:46:58.600 --> 0:47:03.759
<v Speaker 1>a team says this happened, it's because it has officially

0:47:03.960 --> 0:47:08.040
<v Speaker 1>legally it is done. It goes into the wire transfers

0:47:08.080 --> 0:47:11.080
<v Speaker 1>at three o'clock Central time. If it doesn't appear on

0:47:11.160 --> 0:47:14.080
<v Speaker 1>the wire transfer that they put out every day at

0:47:14.120 --> 0:47:18.040
<v Speaker 1>three o'clock Central, it's not official, and we come in

0:47:18.120 --> 0:47:21.240
<v Speaker 1>when it is official, legally done, we have to post

0:47:21.280 --> 0:47:25.000
<v Speaker 1>the transactions on NFL communications dot Com. There it is there,

0:47:25.000 --> 0:47:27.520
<v Speaker 1>it is. Yeah, that's exactly right. So that's the we

0:47:27.560 --> 0:47:30.440
<v Speaker 1>want to tell the OT people the facts about you know,

0:47:30.840 --> 0:47:35.120
<v Speaker 1>all of this and hopefully through the course of starting

0:47:35.200 --> 0:47:41.240
<v Speaker 1>a week ago Monday and through today Wednesday, March the eighth,

0:47:41.280 --> 0:47:43.759
<v Speaker 1>we're just very appreciative that you've tuned in. Hopefully you've

0:47:43.800 --> 0:47:46.000
<v Speaker 1>gotten some insight. Our hope is that you can go

0:47:46.080 --> 0:47:49.040
<v Speaker 1>to work and talk to all your friends and be

0:47:49.080 --> 0:47:51.319
<v Speaker 1>the smartest one in the group. That's how we want

0:47:51.360 --> 0:47:54.640
<v Speaker 1>to help the OT people most and entertain you as well.

0:47:54.719 --> 0:47:57.759
<v Speaker 1>So for Coach Mack for Amy Wells, for Rett Bryan,

0:47:57.880 --> 0:48:00.920
<v Speaker 1>for Ashley Farrell, I'm Mike Key, thanking you for listening

0:48:01.160 --> 0:48:05.000
<v Speaker 1>to the O T T. Welcome to the Big Show

0:48:05.480 --> 0:48:10.120
<v Speaker 1>where the legends go. Everybody knows it's our house, fighting

0:48:10.200 --> 0:48:14.040
<v Speaker 1>thought Tennessee, making it to read Greatness is meant to

0:48:14.120 --> 0:48:14.160
<v Speaker 1>be