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Speaker 1: Thomas Sports Park in Nashville. I am Mike Keith from
Speaker 1: her luxurious Penthouse hotel room in Kansas City, site of
Speaker 1: the eighty eighth NFL Draft. Amy Wells Joints is. How
Speaker 1: are you, Amy?
Speaker 2: I'm great, Mike Keith. Not exactly the penthouse, but like
Speaker 2: decently high up. I mean, we have a good view,
Speaker 2: so I'll take it.
Speaker 1: So the real name of the NFL Draft is the
Speaker 1: Annual Selection Meeting. So it is formally the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three Annual Selection Meeting in Kansas City. Mode. What's the
Speaker 1: vibe in Kansas City right now?
Speaker 2: It's not as formal as Annual Selection Meeting implies. It's
Speaker 2: definitely not that formal. But there is a buzz around
Speaker 2: this city. There is a buzz just around the players.
Speaker 2: We had the opportunity to see them a little bit earlier. Today,
Speaker 2: there are emotions that are all over the road. Guys
Speaker 2: were talking about everything from being very cool and chill
Speaker 2: to being like very emotional about what this moment means.
Speaker 2: So there's I mean, there's just an array of feelings.
Speaker 2: But in terms of being in the city, there's definitely
Speaker 2: an atmosphere here. There is definitely a buzz about what's
Speaker 2: going on. I was in a ride share a couple
Speaker 2: days ago and they were like, well, are you in
Speaker 2: Kansas City? You know there's a draft going on here?
Speaker 2: Is that what you came for? And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess you could say that. I guess I came
Speaker 2: here for the draft. And they're just very fired up
Speaker 2: about They're very proud to be hosting this big NFL
Speaker 2: event in their city and that's fun to be around.
Speaker 1: Is there one main storyline that permeated through all of
Speaker 1: the players with whom you dealt.
Speaker 2: Today, Well, there was obviously there's the main storylines about
Speaker 2: being approximately twenty four hours out. You know, everybody's getting
Speaker 2: ready and there's a lot of conversation about how to
Speaker 2: spend the time because after the community event this morning,
Speaker 2: these prospects had a lot of free time between their
Speaker 2: next event being the Red carpet show, which is right
Speaker 2: before the actual draft starts. So how people are feeling
Speaker 2: their free time, what they're doing, how they're kind of
Speaker 2: shaking off the nerves. A lot of guys were discussing
Speaker 2: that throughout the reporters. The storyline that everybody's talking about
Speaker 2: is what in the world is going to happen with
Speaker 2: these quarterbacks. It's just everybody has different opinions. Everybody has
Speaker 2: a kind of a different different bend to what is
Speaker 2: going to happen when teams are actually on the clock
Speaker 2: on Thursday. So it's an exciting place to be. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of questions and frankly zero answers. We're not
Speaker 2: going to know until tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So there's seventeen players who are there. Yes, So theoretically,
Speaker 1: if all seventeen were to go in the first round,
Speaker 1: which they probably won't, but if that happened, there would
Speaker 1: be fourteen guys who are not there who would be selected.
Speaker 1: And I mean, we'll see if all seventeen go, but
Speaker 1: it seems like a much smaller number of players in
Speaker 1: person than in years past. Is that fair?
Speaker 2: That is absolutely fair. I think that COVID really showed
Speaker 2: a lot of people that staying at home is okay
Speaker 2: because I mean, listen, ESPN, the NFL, all of these
Speaker 2: work together to send cameras, they send people to whatever
Speaker 2: location the top draft picks are going to be. The
Speaker 2: guys are expected to go in the first round, whether
Speaker 2: they are here in the green room or they are
Speaker 2: having a watch party somewhere, are still going to get
Speaker 2: that like moment. You know, it might not be walking
Speaker 2: across the stage, but they'll get some sort of a
Speaker 2: moment that will be televised and we all get the
Speaker 2: opportunity to watch it no matter where they are. But
Speaker 2: I think that the couple years of everybody staying back,
Speaker 2: a couple of years of everybody having the opportunity to
Speaker 2: have you know, a kit mailed to them, as opposed
Speaker 2: to making all of these travel plans and frankly risking
Speaker 2: the chance of ending up sitting in the green room
Speaker 2: and not getting picked all the way through night one
Speaker 2: is kind of scary. And I think that that's something
Speaker 2: that some guys don't even want to take the chance.
Speaker 2: And then there's some guys that genuinely just want to
Speaker 2: be able to celebrate this moment with their family and
Speaker 2: their friends and the people that they feel like help
Speaker 2: them get here. So I think there's a lot of
Speaker 2: things that kind of contribute to fewer guys coming out.
Speaker 2: I will say that the Commissioner, Roger Goodell was at
Speaker 2: the community service event that we saw the prospects at today,
Speaker 2: and they were very excited to meet him. He was
Speaker 2: a very popular man amongst the prospects. They all wanted
Speaker 2: to shake his hand and make sure that they had
Speaker 2: the opportunity to interact with him before what they're hoping
Speaker 2: is the big moment with the bear hugs and all
Speaker 2: of that on the stage.
Speaker 1: Who of the players that you dealt with today, if
Speaker 1: any impressed you.
Speaker 2: They all were kind of impressive. I was very struck
Speaker 2: by this class that everybody seemed very well spoken and
Speaker 2: very thoughtful. There weren't too many people giving throwaway answers.
Speaker 2: There weren't too many people who were just kind of
Speaker 2: blowing off reporters, which can happen sometimes there's a lot
Speaker 2: of things going on and there's a lot of people around.
Speaker 2: But nobody really was disinterested in having a conversation with you,
Speaker 2: and I thought that that was very impressive. Will Levice
Speaker 2: was fielding some questions that were a little tricky, and
Speaker 2: I think he handled that with grace, and I think
Speaker 2: that he was a good talker. Someone like Bijeon Robinson
Speaker 2: was so excited to be interacting with the kids on
Speaker 2: the field today. They did some like play football drills
Speaker 2: and some flag football things, so he was clearly very
Speaker 2: excited to be down on the field with everybody and
Speaker 2: interacting with them. But I mean, really, there wasn't anybody
Speaker 2: that we spoke to that I was like, well, he
Speaker 2: didn't really like he was too cool for school. They
Speaker 2: were all great. So I'm excited about this class, and
Speaker 2: I'm excited that of everyone that I was able to
Speaker 2: kind of watch and interact with, there wasn't a guy
Speaker 2: that'd be like, not that one. So that's good. That
Speaker 2: makes me feel good.
Speaker 1: All right. Draft Night Thursday night. Our coverage on Titan's
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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be pretty wild at sixth
Speaker 1: and Peabody. I think our Titans nation is excited about
Speaker 1: this draft and obviously too, there is excitement here after
Speaker 1: what happened in Nashville last night. So we are heading
Speaker 1: into draft day tomorrow with big mo I will say,
Speaker 1: we're tired. We're running on excitement, We're running on caffeine.
Speaker 2: Are you running on duncan?
Speaker 1: We're running on duncan, y'all. I'll get to that in
Speaker 1: the moment. But the bottom line is, I mean, there
Speaker 1: is e motion and feeling in this building right now
Speaker 1: because virtually every employee was there at the Metro Council
Speaker 1: meeting last night to say we understand how big this
Speaker 1: is for our organization. I mean, the discussion was this
Speaker 1: stadium issue. If it passes, tonight being last night, If
Speaker 1: it passes, then this is one of the great moments
Speaker 1: in franchise history. And everybody wanted to be there for that,
Speaker 1: and everybody wanted to be there to support Burke night
Speaker 1: Hill and the people who really helped to pull this together.
Speaker 1: And it was funny. We did not get in last night,
Speaker 1: We did not get into the room for the public
Speaker 1: hearing portion, But as the supportive speakers came out, they
Speaker 1: got standing ovations and you should have seen the look
Speaker 1: on their face. It was, you know, it was like
Speaker 1: a ballgame. The other side was not ugly. There was
Speaker 1: nothing that I saw between the two sides that ever
Speaker 1: got ugly. You certainly respect someone's opportunity to disagree with you,
Speaker 1: you get that. And they had the points that they
Speaker 1: felt were relevant. But in the end, from a political standpoint, Amy,
Speaker 1: we knew the votes were there and so no matter
Speaker 1: how long it took, in the end, the votes were there.
Speaker 1: And now we are going to build a stadium with
Speaker 1: a roof starting sometime in twenty twenty four, will break ground.
Speaker 2: Now, Mike I was a able to stream the meeting online.
Speaker 2: I watched it from Kansas City, but you were actually there,
Speaker 2: you were able to be a part of that moment.
Speaker 2: I'm wondering if you could just describe kind of what
Speaker 2: it was like the lead up to it and then
Speaker 2: the actual vote. What were you guys feeling. What was
Speaker 2: it like to be a part of something like that,
Speaker 2: Because you're one hundred percent right, this is a historical
Speaker 2: moment for this franchise.
Speaker 1: It really is. Let me say, first of all, I
Speaker 1: was not in the room for the vote, okay, because
Speaker 1: when they extended the public discussion period, I did not
Speaker 1: know how long that was going to go. And right
Speaker 1: now I'm doing a lot of things with our Titans
Speaker 1: radio partners throughout the Mid South. I had one very
Speaker 1: early this morning, so I couldn't make it to two
Speaker 1: in the morning. I did that last week. I was
Speaker 1: there for nine hours. Last week. I made it until
Speaker 1: until eleven o'clock, and then I said, you know, I've
Speaker 1: got a got to be away because I've just got
Speaker 1: to be up so early, and what we have tomorrow
Speaker 1: and Friday and Saturday to do. You know, there's just
Speaker 1: so much, So there wasn't going to be room for
Speaker 1: all of us in the room anyway, and so that
Speaker 1: probably worked out better for me. I'm kind of disappointed
Speaker 1: because I would have liked to have been there for
Speaker 1: the moment, right, But I think you know, you know,
Speaker 1: when you got a winner, and there had been such
Speaker 1: tremendous organization. Kate Gara who works with us, had done
Speaker 1: such a fantastic job, Savannah Howie who works with her,
Speaker 1: had done a fantastic job. So many other people had
Speaker 1: done had done big things at dulpho Birch with his
Speaker 1: speech last night, he of course one of our leaders
Speaker 1: in this organization, and there were just so many people
Speaker 1: who had done a great job. You wanted to be
Speaker 1: there to support them and to be excited for them,
Speaker 1: because to see them pull this off was a big deal.
Speaker 1: I mean from where we started with hey, let's refurbish
Speaker 1: Nissan Stadium to you're kidding me, it'll cost that, to
Speaker 1: here's an idea for a new building, to here's the
Speaker 1: way we're going to finance the whole thing together, to
Speaker 1: now you've got to get it through Metro Council. I
Speaker 1: mean it will when you see the vote totals. The
Speaker 1: vote totals were substantial. It was a winner everywhere it went.
Speaker 1: Last night it was twenty six to twelve. You know,
Speaker 1: the process though, of making the sausage wasn't that easy
Speaker 1: because if that vote didn't clear last night, then they
Speaker 1: were going to have to go back to the drawing
Speaker 1: board and basically start over in July, right, And so
Speaker 1: you know, there were a lot of procedural things that
Speaker 1: had to go on again. Our side, the pro side,
Speaker 1: had a winner, knew it had the votes. The other
Speaker 1: side was hoping they could stall it. And if they could,
Speaker 1: then procedurally it would have to go to July, and
Speaker 1: between now and then, who knows what happens. Right time
Speaker 1: is beneficial when you're doing that kind of political fight.
Speaker 1: But I think in the end, the thing that I
Speaker 1: was so proud of is the way our organization handled everything.
Speaker 1: I'm very proud of the way they've structured this deal,
Speaker 1: which I think is a great thing. The taxpayers won't
Speaker 1: pay the burden anymore, which is a great, great, great
Speaker 1: thing for all of Davidson County. And the other part
Speaker 1: of it, too is this venue is going to change
Speaker 1: the overall trajectory of the franchise again. And I saw
Speaker 1: the first one open. I know what it is done
Speaker 1: for Nashville. I mean, I grew up in Middle Tennessee.
Speaker 1: I understand the full impact of it, and I think
Speaker 1: this new stadium with a roof, with a translucent roof,
Speaker 1: is going to totally revolutionize what Nashville is towards that
Speaker 1: next level. And it's just mind boggling in how exciting
Speaker 1: it is amy because I never thought I would get
Speaker 1: to see that happen again, and that has always been
Speaker 1: one of my favorite parts of this journey, was to
Speaker 1: see this thing hit and blow up the way it
Speaker 1: did in such a cool way. And now it has.
Speaker 1: Now I have the chance to see it go again.
Speaker 1: I'm very fortunate, and I think everybody feels great here
Speaker 1: today about the fact that you know, the plan was
Speaker 1: a winner, and if you read the plan, you understood
Speaker 1: it and you understood the terms, and everybody takes away
Speaker 1: really good things out of this in the long term,
Speaker 1: and I think twenty five years from now we'll be
Speaker 1: saying the same thing we did about building Nissan Stadium
Speaker 1: in the late nineties. This will something you'll say, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this was a big time winner and we were lucky
Speaker 1: to have it.
Speaker 2: So this is obviously a huge victory and this is
Speaker 2: so exciting, but we still got to get a stadium here.
Speaker 2: So what what are the next steps? Now? How do
Speaker 2: we continue to get closer to this goal?
Speaker 1: I think it's a lot of the planning, a lot
Speaker 1: of the you know, who's going to do what. You've
Speaker 1: got to bid a lot of jobs, and you've got
Speaker 1: to figure out some more things in terms of specifics
Speaker 1: with architecture. I mean, the first thing they obviously have
Speaker 1: to do is make the press box as luxurious as possible.
Speaker 2: We made to fill with food and great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we've got to We've got to have
Speaker 1: a conversation, right right, Probably not, but I mean you're
Speaker 1: so you're doing all the details, you'll be getting materials in,
Speaker 1: and the groundbreaking it would feel like would come about
Speaker 1: this time next year. Uh, maybe a little earlier, maybe
Speaker 1: a little later. The build is less than two and
Speaker 1: a half years in terms of what the feeling is.
Speaker 1: And so this facility being and we've said it on
Speaker 1: the OTP all along, twenty twenty seven was always going
Speaker 1: to be more likely, right, and that that was going
Speaker 1: to be the aim, and that's going to be the
Speaker 1: aim of this amy that we're that we're pointed towards
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven season to give to give plenty of time.
Speaker 1: And the reason for this is if you're in a hurry,
Speaker 1: costs escalate. If you can stay with the plan and
Speaker 1: do everything the best way, you know how, you can
Speaker 1: stay within your budget more properly. And I think that's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent what they're going to try to do,
Speaker 1: and that's that's what the plan is. And you know,
Speaker 1: that's what's so exciting.
Speaker 2: It's like, if you're building a house, if you have
Speaker 2: a time crunch and you need to get into that house,
Speaker 2: you're gonna do whatever it takes to get it done.
Speaker 2: If you have time as you are building your home,
Speaker 2: you can you can give things a chance to breathe,
Speaker 2: if you can get the appropriate equipment and tools that
Speaker 2: you need, and you don't necessarily have to go over
Speaker 2: budget because you're able to do things in a different timeline.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're able to stick to the plan. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you're not You're not like, oh gosh, we've got to
Speaker 1: you know, we've got to grab this material so quickly
Speaker 1: and we have to pay extra for it to get
Speaker 1: it here. And you know that's Listen, anybody who knows
Speaker 1: about building anything knows. It's not an exact science. And
Speaker 1: I'm not sitting here saying, oh, it'll all just you know,
Speaker 1: fold together. But I think the one thing you do
Speaker 1: know is if you have time and a plan, you
Speaker 1: are much more likely to be able to stay with it.
Speaker 1: Like when the building was built here in the late nineties,
Speaker 1: they knew that thing had to be ready for the
Speaker 1: start of the ninety nine season because there was nowhere
Speaker 1: else for the team to go right, and it was
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, there will be. There will be many updates,
Speaker 2: I am sure. But this is exciting. This is a
Speaker 2: big day for the Tennessee Titans. This is this is
Speaker 2: a victory day.
Speaker 1: And tomorrow heads off of big three days for the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. As we get ready to get into the draft,
Speaker 1: I am dying to know what Daniel Jeremiah and Charles Davis,
Speaker 1: both of the Network think, Amy Wells, who would you
Speaker 1: like to share with us first, as you had a
Speaker 1: chance to talk with both of these gentlemen there in
Speaker 1: Kansas City.
Speaker 2: Well, Mike Keith, I did have a chance to talk
Speaker 2: to both of them, and I think that we should
Speaker 2: start with Daniel Jeremiah because I wanted to talk to
Speaker 2: him a man who has a lot of experience with
Speaker 2: teams as a personnel person, and I wanted to talk
Speaker 2: to him about some of the behind the scenes of
Speaker 2: what is happening within those war rooms within the days
Speaker 2: leading up to the draft. So we talked a little little,
Speaker 2: you know, logistics, We talked about process, and I was
Speaker 2: trying to get a better understanding, and so I'm excited
Speaker 2: to share my conversation with Daniel Jeremiah with my friends
Speaker 2: here at the ANTE. Daniel Jeremiah, it feels like it's
Speaker 2: been a lifetime since the last time we talked to you,
Speaker 2: you in Indianapolis at the scouting Combine, and I know
Speaker 2: a lot of things around the league has changed, and
Speaker 2: a lot of people's draft boards have changed from where
Speaker 2: we were in Indianapolis and some of the initial evaluations
Speaker 2: that teams would have had to Now, how different are
Speaker 2: draft boards? How different are teams setups? I'm asking you
Speaker 2: procedural questions because you know a little bit better than
Speaker 2: anybody else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that you know what's happened. Everybody always
Speaker 3: freaks out and they say, how does a player move
Speaker 3: up or down? You haven't played any games. This is
Speaker 3: the silly season. You're getting carried away with all the
Speaker 3: wrong stuff. And then I would just point out, well,
Speaker 3: there's a couple of things. Number One, everybody in your building,
Speaker 3: especially your coaches, haven't watched any of these players, so
Speaker 3: they're getting to the process late. That can impact whether
Speaker 3: they move up or down. Like, Hey, this guy's he's
Speaker 3: a good player. I agree with the scouts, but he
Speaker 3: doesn't fit us, so we'll move on. And then there's
Speaker 3: the fact you're gonna get medical information that's gonna help
Speaker 3: some guys, it's gonna hurt some other guys. And then
Speaker 3: from the meeting process, right, you might you know, you
Speaker 3: might love a player on video, and then you bring
Speaker 3: them into your building and you're like this is not
Speaker 3: gonna work, Like this is just not a fit. So
Speaker 3: all those different factors, you know, go into the process,
Speaker 3: and that's why you see a board you know in
Speaker 3: April might look.
Speaker 4: A little different than the one you see in January.
Speaker 2: How much does the media play into that and those decisions.
Speaker 2: We know there's mock drafts. We know there's reports that
Speaker 2: come out throughout the six to eight weeks in between
Speaker 2: workouts of the combine and everything in the draft. We
Speaker 2: know that there may or may not have been some
Speaker 2: news on Reddit the other night that exploded the Internet
Speaker 2: for a couple hours. All of these things, do they
Speaker 2: really play into the process or is it more just
Speaker 2: fun for those of us that are outside the war room.
Speaker 4: I think it's.
Speaker 3: Fun for those outside the war room. This is an
Speaker 3: old phrase. This is an old man's phrase. But I'll
Speaker 3: say doesn't amount to Hillebean's inside the draft room. So
Speaker 3: it just doesn't It doesn't carry any weight.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: You know, they might keep track of mock drafts to
Speaker 3: just see if they get a general sense of where
Speaker 3: some players might go, but it's really not going to
Speaker 3: all their impact their thinking or their process as they
Speaker 3: get towards the draft. But makes our job fun and
Speaker 3: it gives us a lot of things to talk about
Speaker 3: and then you know, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: You've got to imagine that relationships are more what people
Speaker 2: are leaning on scouts. With relationships with people they know
Speaker 2: from other teams, former teams that they've been a part of,
Speaker 2: former co workers. That has to give a little more weight, right,
Speaker 2: those conversations and interactions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think you talk to teams that have
Speaker 3: you know, you might have somebody that left your building
Speaker 3: and he might have a relationship somewhere else. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's a lot of third party information. But at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, your job is to order the
Speaker 3: players one to one fifty or whatever your number is
Speaker 3: on your draft board, and it's paint by numbers.
Speaker 4: Just if you if you're.
Speaker 3: Doing a fantasy football draft in your mom's kitchen with
Speaker 3: your buddies from high school.
Speaker 4: It's the exact same thing.
Speaker 3: You come up with your rank, you cross them off
Speaker 3: one by one as they get picked, and you take
Speaker 3: the best available player that's left.
Speaker 2: The Tennessee Titans have a new general manager and Ran Karthon,
Speaker 2: so there are some question marks around what the Titans
Speaker 2: may or may not be doing. Picking at eleven, you
Speaker 2: have to think that he's enjoying this position because there
Speaker 2: are so many avenues that he could go down, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that they're you know, they're in
Speaker 3: a in a process right now or in a period
Speaker 3: where feel I feel.
Speaker 4: Like they need bulk.
Speaker 3: They needed, they need an infusion of some talent, and
Speaker 3: I think more is better than less. So there's talk
Speaker 3: of them moving up and maybe that's, you know, maybe
Speaker 3: that's where we end up.
Speaker 4: Maybe CJ.
Speaker 3: Stroud doesn't go to and they invault all the way
Speaker 3: up to three and take him. But to me, I
Speaker 3: think it almost makes more sense with where they are
Speaker 3: that they they go the other way if they're.
Speaker 4: Going to move.
Speaker 2: As we're talking about these players and everything, there are
Speaker 2: always some surprises that we see in the twenty four
Speaker 2: ish hours leading up to the draft. We're in that
Speaker 2: period right now. Are there any things that you are
Speaker 2: keeping your eye on, Daniel Jeremiah as we get closer
Speaker 2: to the first round of the NFL.
Speaker 3: Dri Yeah, I think the you know, one of the
Speaker 3: interesting things to me is is kind of the offensive
Speaker 3: line run.
Speaker 4: Like there's different runs.
Speaker 3: I think the expectation is we're going to have an
Speaker 3: early offensive line run.
Speaker 4: So when does that start.
Speaker 3: That's there's talk that Arizona could started at three and
Speaker 3: so all of a sudden, now we're going to see
Speaker 3: those offensive linemen fly off the board. And then the
Speaker 3: next thing to me is when the wide receiver run starts.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think obviously Tennessee factors into that
Speaker 3: where they are. You look at Green Bays not far behind,
Speaker 3: they could be in a wide receiver team.
Speaker 4: And then to me, the fun really is when you.
Speaker 3: Get to like twenty, Like when you get to twenty,
Speaker 3: you can make a case from twenty to thirty one,
Speaker 3: there's like seven teams that could be in the wide
Speaker 3: receiver market. I think that's where what you were talking
Speaker 3: about earlier, having maybe a little bit of a knowledge
Speaker 3: of that this team likes this particular type of player.
Speaker 3: Maybe we can move up a few spots and make
Speaker 3: sure we.
Speaker 4: Secure our guy.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of position groups that have a lot
Speaker 2: of depth this year. Tight Ends, offensive linemen, defensive backs.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of places where there's depth for teams.
Speaker 2: That's great news for players. Is that to their detriment
Speaker 2: a little bit?
Speaker 3: I want to be the only good player at my
Speaker 3: position in the draft. I don't want to be in
Speaker 3: a crowded room full of great players at your position.
Speaker 3: But there's still you know, when the premier positions ed, rusher, corner, defensively,
Speaker 3: it's a really deep group. But teams that are always
Speaker 3: in need, so that's not gonna impact them. To me,
Speaker 3: it's probably gonna impact the tight ends, you know, just
Speaker 3: because it's a really good group of tight ends. So
Speaker 3: that to me is the group that might be negatively
Speaker 3: impacted by the depth.
Speaker 2: What are you the most excited to see it? Round one?
Speaker 2: What question are you hoping gets answered on Thursday night?
Speaker 4: The heck are the Houston Texans gonna do?
Speaker 3: I mean with the second pick of the draft, Like
Speaker 3: normally we have a pretty good feel. It's like, okay,
Speaker 3: you kind of just go auto like your brain goes
Speaker 3: on autopilot, and it's like, okay, okay, we've made it
Speaker 3: to pick eight. Okay, now we don't know so all right,
Speaker 3: what happens? I don't know who the picking at number two,
Speaker 3: so that's gonna make for a fun night.
Speaker 2: We hope they pick someone who's not very good at football.
Speaker 4: I figured you might be leaning in that direction.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Daniel Jeremiah. We appreciate this time.
Speaker 4: The Great Sea is always.
Speaker 1: That's Amy Wells with Daniel Jeremiah here on BOTP. I've
Speaker 1: got to mention this before we move on. Hey, Titans fans,
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Speaker 1: for tomorrow night on Titans Radio six and Peabody. We
Speaker 1: start at six. Brad Hopkins will be joining me for
Speaker 1: the six to seven hour and then for the all
Speaker 1: thirty one picks tomorrow night. It'll be RTT Brian coach,
Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis and also Ramon Foster, who former NFL lineman
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Speaker 1: So it was a tease. I like how you did it.
Speaker 1: You went with Daniel Jeremiah's interview first and that was
Speaker 1: a dandy. Now it's time to hear from our friend
Speaker 1: Charles Davis, who's covering another draft for NFL Network. Set
Speaker 1: it up if you will, please, Ammi wills Well.
Speaker 2: Charles Davis is someone who of course is a friend
Speaker 2: of the OTP. We talked to him a lot, and
Speaker 2: I was thinking about it as I was preparing to,
Speaker 2: you know, spend some time with him, and I realized
Speaker 2: the last time that we had talked to him was
Speaker 2: in Indianapolis at the scouting combine. So I figured that
Speaker 2: I should just go back to the last conversation that
Speaker 2: we had had and pick up where we left off.
Speaker 2: And we were talking quarterbacks when we last saw Charles Davis,
Speaker 2: So it felt like that was a really good place
Speaker 2: to start today's conversation. Charles, when last we talked to
Speaker 2: you in Indianapolis at the combine, you said Bryce Young
Speaker 2: is the best quarterback in this draft, and no one
Speaker 2: could convince you otherwise. A lot has happened between now
Speaker 2: and then. I'm giving you the option to change your
Speaker 2: mind if you want to. Is Bryce Young still the
Speaker 2: top quarterback in this draft?
Speaker 5: Amy, after further consideration and all these months later and
Speaker 5: a lot of watching of tape and talking to people
Speaker 5: and analyzing, He's still the best quarterback in this draft.
Speaker 5: For me. I told you then, it'd take a lot
Speaker 5: to change my mind because I was forced up to
Speaker 5: cake a little bit the measure of him as a person.
Speaker 5: Spend some time and then watch him and observe him.
Speaker 5: I asked a GM a few years ago, why did
Speaker 5: you pick this person for a draft one of the
Speaker 5: other thirty one gms in the league, and he said,
Speaker 5: because I needed an adult in the room. I'm not
Speaker 5: saying the other quarterbacks are on adults. That's not my point.
Speaker 5: I'm sure someone gonna go Charles David says, the oh
Speaker 5: quarterbacks are an adult. I'm not saying that. But this
Speaker 5: kid is an adult, even at a young age. I
Speaker 5: watched him do something one time, and I won't give
Speaker 5: it up because it's not fair to him. But he
Speaker 5: did it where he made a decision that is a
Speaker 5: twenty four seven three sixty five quarterback lifestyle decision. But
Speaker 5: he did with no fanfare. See if I had done
Speaker 5: what he had done, I would have mad sure everybody
Speaker 5: knew I did it because I wanted everybody to know
Speaker 5: I made the right decision. Watch me, He quietly made
Speaker 5: the right decision and other people didn't figure it out
Speaker 5: until much later.
Speaker 4: Like where's Bryce?
Speaker 5: I thought, But that's just him. That's what I sense
Speaker 5: from him. Then when I watch him play, you know
Speaker 5: he does everything you need, throws it on time, on
Speaker 5: the three to five step drop creates when he needs to.
Speaker 5: If he needs to pick up a first down with
Speaker 5: his feet, he can do that and sting you avoids
Speaker 5: big hits for the most part, most quarterbacks do. Jalen
Speaker 5: Hurst took a monster hit last year, almost the real
Speaker 5: Philadelphia season, and he's thicker, so people are scared of
Speaker 5: This has every throw that you need to make in
Speaker 5: the arsenal. But that doesn't mean he can throw through
Speaker 5: the car wash and the ball comes out dry. He
Speaker 5: doesn't have the gun, but he's got every throw you need.
Speaker 5: And we're getting less of this, but I think it
Speaker 5: still counts when you're old like I am. He Willie Anderson,
Speaker 5: the rest of the Alabama teammates played that bowl game
Speaker 5: against Kansas State, not a college football playoff game and
Speaker 5: not ceremonial snaps. And he made a throw in that
Speaker 5: game on a back side fitted over the top of
Speaker 5: a corner before he hits the pylon. That was as
Speaker 5: good as an't throw I saw last year. And when
Speaker 5: I went back and watched it again and realized that
Speaker 5: corner he threw it over. It is probably a second
Speaker 5: round pick, gonna be a starter in the NFL. Named
Speaker 5: Julius Brents at Kansas State, who I love. This kid
Speaker 5: is the real deal. Makes very few bad decisions. I
Speaker 5: saw one against LSU down near the goal line, very
Speaker 5: late on the play. But you're not gonna find many
Speaker 5: of those. So he's still my number one.
Speaker 1: C J.
Speaker 5: Stroud was my number two. That didn't change. Hendon Hooker
Speaker 5: became my number three, and if he hadn't hurt his knee,
Speaker 5: we would have a major battle about who the number
Speaker 5: three was. Anthony Richardson was my number four, and we'll
Speaker 5: love us my number five. Richardson give him a year,
Speaker 5: but if you draft him, don't say we're gonna give
Speaker 5: him a year and then in game five you're playing.
Speaker 5: Patrick Mahomes is one of the few that sat out.
Speaker 5: Carson Palmer sat out inire season. Stee McNair sat out
Speaker 5: pretty much two seasons. Chris Chandler right, Sometimes it does work,
Speaker 5: but I understand if you draft a kid high, it's
Speaker 5: hard to keep him on the bench. You know, the
Speaker 5: person signing the checks tends to walk into meetings and
Speaker 5: go so, how's the young man coming along? And that's
Speaker 5: usually code for I'd like to see him play.
Speaker 2: Aside from the quarterback position. What other position group has
Speaker 2: the most question marks going into Night one of the
Speaker 2: NFL Draft.
Speaker 5: We don't have the linebackers we normally have, But I
Speaker 5: think that that is part and parcel with the running
Speaker 5: backs because we're not a heavy run oriented football playing
Speaker 5: group now, college or pro. The linebackers of the old
Speaker 5: school guys with the big nick roles, the twurn and
Speaker 5: fifty five pounds, and they're not there anymore. They're pumped up,
Speaker 5: strong safeties that are running around. But there's good players
Speaker 5: that's just maybe not in the first round, you know,
Speaker 5: so it's not quite the same. I think interior offensive
Speaker 5: line is similar. Osiris Torrence from Florida is probably the
Speaker 5: only guy I'm seeing recently mocked in the first round.
Speaker 5: Maybe a center if you like a center, like a
Speaker 5: Joe Tipman from Wisconsin or John Michael Schmidt if you're
Speaker 5: being real specific. But for the most part, interior offensive
Speaker 5: line not getting that kind of love. But I'm gonna
Speaker 5: give you what I'm crazy about. That's Steve Avila from
Speaker 5: TCU guard center. I want to play him at center.
Speaker 5: I want to put him at center and let him
Speaker 5: beat people up and handle the big noses. Over the top.
Speaker 5: I love Steve Avila.
Speaker 2: Is he your dark horses? He someone who could show
Speaker 2: up a little bit earlier than what people are expecting.
Speaker 5: I think so, especially once we start the run on
Speaker 5: offensive linemen inside. Heck, he might even be able to
Speaker 5: find his way. Some people may like him better than Torrence.
Speaker 5: He's a good player, but I know a lot of
Speaker 5: people look at him as a guard. I like him
Speaker 5: as a center. But that's just me.
Speaker 2: That's your opinion is very valid, Charles Davis. That's that's
Speaker 2: why we're here.
Speaker 5: As my dad was say, it's worth the paper it's
Speaker 5: printed on, Davis.
Speaker 2: The Tennessee Titans are picking at eleven new general manager,
Speaker 2: and Ran Carthon got to be a great spot for
Speaker 2: him because there's so many different options at that number
Speaker 2: eleven position.
Speaker 5: Right, I can't wait to see Ran trade up to
Speaker 5: three right out of the gate. Let's get this thing going.
Speaker 5: Brand new general manager. He's gonna pull a nuclear loosh
Speaker 5: from Bull Durham. He's gonna announce his presence with authority.
Speaker 5: Not just kidding, but let's be honest about it. It's
Speaker 5: something that has been discussed. I'm not saying the Titans
Speaker 5: have I'm just saying, all of us yacky yak yak. Right,
Speaker 5: we're talking about this like crazy three with the Cardinals
Speaker 5: is a prime spot. Who wants to go up and
Speaker 5: get The person that they want is Anthony Richardson. The
Speaker 5: one who's coveted is Will Levis. The one that's coveted
Speaker 5: is CJ. Stroud, the one who knows I'm saying quarterback,
Speaker 5: I don't know that there's another player you're coming up
Speaker 5: for to go all the way to three. We got
Speaker 5: pooled a bunch of years ago. The same came way
Speaker 5: up to twelve and we were like, what quarterback? And
Speaker 5: they drafted Marcus was the Davenport out of Utsay we
Speaker 5: all want. Didn't see that one coming. So you never
Speaker 5: know how it goes. But here's the other part. What
Speaker 5: if some of these quarterbacks move back a little bit
Speaker 5: and now a quarterback or two is still sitting there
Speaker 5: at ten Right now, if you're Philadelphia, you're probably calling.
Speaker 5: You're like, phone's open, we'll move back a couple still
Speaker 5: get the probably the guy we want who wants to
Speaker 5: make the deal. Then we can find out if Tennessee's
Speaker 5: in really in the quarterback market at that point Are
Speaker 5: they in an offensive line market because they definitely need
Speaker 5: offensive linemen. Tackles are gonna be the premium. Is that
Speaker 5: where they go? Did they get the first bite at
Speaker 5: the receivers? Is it Jackson Smith and Jigba? Is it
Speaker 5: a speedier guy like a Zay Flowers? Who's more of us?
Speaker 5: But Smith and jigbaz A Flowers, Jordan Addison who I love.
Speaker 5: They're all mainly sli You want big, you gotta go
Speaker 5: to TCU and Quinn Johnston. And he's come out of
Speaker 5: a heavy run offense, a lot of go routes, a
Speaker 5: lot of post routes, a lot of overs, but the
Speaker 5: route tree will have to be worked on. Reminds me
Speaker 5: of Damarius Thomas come out Georgia Tech. Maybe because they
Speaker 5: were heavy option offense. He asked about twenty five thirty
Speaker 5: yards a catch, but he became a really good route runner.
Speaker 5: If you believe Quinn Johnson can do that, then he's
Speaker 5: a guy keep an eye on.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: I love how we're all like, oh, we got an
Speaker 5: answer here, we got an answer. We gotta answer here.
Speaker 5: And as soon as someone makes a move it's tell over,
Speaker 5: didn't see that coming.
Speaker 1: Charles Davis and Daniel Jeremiah, who you've heard from earlier,
Speaker 1: will be on NFL Network starting Thursday night, and we
Speaker 1: look forward to their coverage our coverage against Thursday night
Speaker 1: at six that's sixth Central Time from sixth and Peabody,
Speaker 1: our coverage on Titan's Radio presented by Pinnacle, and we're
Speaker 1: looking forward to having a great crew at six and
Speaker 1: Peabody and Amy Wells and Ashley Ferrell both in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: What is your role going to be during the draft
Speaker 1: as you await the pick?
Speaker 2: Well, so we are going we will be at the
Speaker 2: red carpet before the draft even starts. You know how
Speaker 2: I love to get in there and analyze everybody's outfits
Speaker 2: and really take some time watching everybody as they show
Speaker 2: up with their family and their head coaches from college,
Speaker 2: and there's just a ton of pageantry and I'm here
Speaker 2: for it. So we'll be doing that, and then we
Speaker 2: will be in the media center in the workroom essentially
Speaker 2: watching it on TV like everybody else, waiting for our
Speaker 2: chance to pick. So we will just be kind of
Speaker 2: hanging out, making sure that all of our stuff is
Speaker 2: in order, and then once the pick happens, we're going
Speaker 2: to meet up with them, assuming that they are one
Speaker 2: of the players that are in Kansas City. We're gonna
Speaker 2: do everything we can to meet up with them and
Speaker 2: have conversations and bring Titans fans as much access to
Speaker 2: what their experience is like as we possibly can. I
Speaker 2: do have to say I'm pretty jealous. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to be at sixth and Peabody because besides the like
Speaker 2: yeeha and the old smoky of it, all those tacos man. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to hate on the NFL
Speaker 2: Draft because that's not nice, and I'm so happy to
Speaker 2: be here, but the food situation is consistently tragic. Like
Speaker 2: I have never been to a draft and fell, oh
Speaker 2: well fed.
Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa you mean there's not good food in Kansas City.
Speaker 2: There is good food in Kansas City. None of it
Speaker 2: is for the media. So, like, do I just smell
Speaker 2: barbecue as I'm walking through the streets of Kansas City. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: I do. It's phenomenal. But on Draft night, when they
Speaker 2: put all sports reporters, the hungry of genre of human
Speaker 2: is sports reporters, they put them all in a room
Speaker 2: and they bring out we'll say chicken fingers and put
Speaker 2: them down. They're gone in twenty seconds. You don't stand
Speaker 2: a chance. You better run and hide because you will
Speaker 2: get run over before you will get a chicken finger.
Speaker 2: So you end up eating like half a bag of
Speaker 2: Frito's and you find a bottle of water on a
Speaker 2: windowsill and just take it because it's probably hasn't been
Speaker 2: touched yet, and that's what you're gonna eat for the night.
Speaker 2: It is hard work. A lot of people have great
Speaker 2: accommodations during the draft. The green room stocked with food.
Speaker 2: All the best food you could want is in the
Speaker 2: green room with the players. I do not have a
Speaker 2: access to that. I have access to a single bag
Speaker 2: of Freeto's, and that will be it for me.
Speaker 1: Can you hear the tiny violins play?
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that this is a bad gig I have.
Speaker 2: I am so excited to be here, I'm so fired
Speaker 2: up for Thursday night. But when I think of those
Speaker 2: white duck tacos at six and Peabody, my mouth starts
Speaker 2: to water and I get very excited.
Speaker 1: Yep, we're sorry you're going to miss him, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Cause I know you'll eat it. But you're gonna eat
Speaker 2: like ten in one night and it's mighty.
Speaker 1: And I'll take pictures and put it on my new Instagram.
Speaker 2: I know you will. Mike, you've been kissing the Instagram game.
Speaker 2: I'm I am just blown away by your social media savvy.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: It's been great. You're a fun follow.
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Speaker 1: That's going to wrap up the Wednesday OTP our. Next
Speaker 1: OTP Andy Garrison, who texts me every five minutes wanting
Speaker 1: to know where the next one is. The next one
Speaker 1: he's a friend, so he knows I'm kidding, will actually
Speaker 1: be immediately following the first round, our Titans radio crew
Speaker 1: will do an OTP and we will have that ready
Speaker 1: for you pretty quickly after the first round ends. We'll
Speaker 1: do the same thing on Friday night, and then we'll
Speaker 1: have a wrap up on Saturday night of what we
Speaker 1: are hearing that's out there, along with the players who
Speaker 1: have been picked. It's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I hope you're able to find some good food tonight
Speaker 1: and tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Though, Oh absolutely. I mean really, I just walk outside
Speaker 2: and start to like smell the air like a dog
Speaker 2: and just walk towards whatever I'm smelling because there's so
Speaker 2: much good barbecue around here.
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Speaker 2: Yep, all of the above. I'm in all right, Arthur,
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is. It's a difference.
Speaker 1: They don't have a lot of food there. Yes, they
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of They don't have a lot
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