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Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis, Rhettbrian, and Brent Hubbs from vaulquest dot com.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith. Day two of the NFL Draft is

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Speaker 1: in the books, the Titans making the biggest splash of

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Speaker 1: the night, going up and getting Kentucky quarterback Will Levis

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Speaker 1: with the second pick in the second round, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of people have opinions on this. It is certainly

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Speaker 1: a huge news story. Coach mac, that is the nature

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Speaker 1: when you pick a quarterback.

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Speaker 2: That's a nature when you pick a quarterback, and especially

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Speaker 2: when you move up to get one in the second round,

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Speaker 2: you know that was bypassed in the first round.

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Speaker 1: But any pick.

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Speaker 2: That's made, Mike, it's gonna have to play itself out.

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Speaker 2: These players are going to have to come in here

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Speaker 2: and work and these coaches are going to have to

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Speaker 2: develop them. That's what the draft is all about, you

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Speaker 2: know it, trying to grade a draft when the draft

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Speaker 2: is made, you know, really doesn't make any sense at all,

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Speaker 2: and people will have opinions, as you said, plus minus

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Speaker 2: are indifferent. But the work still has to be done,

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Speaker 2: and the work is just now beginning. When these guys

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Speaker 2: show up and start to show up, you know, for

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Speaker 2: their first indoctrination in the National Football League, and then

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Speaker 2: coaches start developing them. That's what you do.

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Speaker 1: Brent Hubbs, You've covered the SEC for a long time.

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Speaker 1: You have seen Will Levis play regularly. What have been

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Speaker 1: the problems in his game that you think if people

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Speaker 1: are not excited by this selection that they would cite

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Speaker 1: the most well.

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Speaker 3: I think it's decision making and the fact that he

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Speaker 3: did not play very well this past year. A lot

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Speaker 3: of reasons why, according to a lot of people that

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Speaker 3: are in his corner, a lot of people who aren't

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Speaker 3: in his corner, you know, cite that. That's something you

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Speaker 3: got to deal with and you got to accept. I

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Speaker 3: just think that he didn't play his best this past year,

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Speaker 3: which created red flags, especially based on the decision making.

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Speaker 1: And he had a lot of hype he did.

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Speaker 3: He had a ton of hype, and in a lot

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Speaker 3: of ways there was he wasn't going anywhere.

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Speaker 4: But down, you know.

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Speaker 3: And the other thing that I think works against any

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Speaker 3: this case, is for the last five days, he was

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Speaker 3: the guy who got all the hype all of a sudden.

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Speaker 3: Now Vegas has got odds on where he's going to

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Speaker 3: be picked. It's in the top five, and all this

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Speaker 3: other stuff. And then he goes in a free fall

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Speaker 3: and he falls. Well why is he falling? What are

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Speaker 3: the questions?

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Speaker 1: What happened?

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Speaker 3: He interviewed bad this, that, the other show, you know,

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Speaker 3: all of the means, toe surgery, all these types of things,

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Speaker 3: and it was written by several people out there. He

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Speaker 3: of the draft the last four days, and as a

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Speaker 3: result of that, there was a negative connotation on him.

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Speaker 3: Starting on day two of the NFL Draft.

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Speaker 1: The Titans seemed sure about him. They were very up

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Speaker 1: on him all along. They had good visits with him

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Speaker 1: Red Brian, They spent a lot of time with him overall,

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Speaker 1: The people in his camp that we talked to on

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Speaker 1: Titan's radio tonight. Feel like this is a perfect match

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Speaker 1: from your sense? What did like so much about Will

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Speaker 1: Levis from the Titans perspective that allowed them to make

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Speaker 1: the second round and make the move.

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Speaker 5: Well, first of all, his measurements and the size of

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Speaker 5: him being, you know, the size of a quarterback that

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Speaker 5: a big arm regardless of decision making in those things.

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Speaker 5: But I think they got to learn a little more

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Speaker 5: kind of got out of this. But and hearing Ran

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Speaker 5: Carthon and Mike Rabel's press conference after the third round closed,

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Speaker 5: you know, Rahn said we had to trust our board.

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Speaker 5: He's highly ranked and had a chance to improve the

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Speaker 5: team even so said, you know, but he's going to

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Speaker 5: have to earn it. He's the third quarterback behind Malik Willison,

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Speaker 5: behind starter Ryan Tannehill. Smart and a diligent worker. That's

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Speaker 5: a couple of the things that general manager Ran Carthon

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Speaker 1: Ty J Spears, running back from Tulane, was taken at

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Speaker 1: number eighty one by the Titans. It seemed to take

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Speaker 1: a lot of Titans fans Aback Rhett. I'll let you

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Speaker 1: go first, since you are maybe his biggest advocate. Why

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Speaker 1: do you consider this a good pick regardless of position?

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Speaker 5: Because he is a three down back. He can catch

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Speaker 5: it out of the backfield, he is very quick in

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Speaker 5: change of direction, and he's proven he can do it

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Speaker 5: in big moments with the way he finished up his

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Speaker 5: college career and certainly in the bowl game in the

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Speaker 5: Cotton Bowl against Southern Cal. I mean, four touchdowns on

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Speaker 5: the ground, two hundred and five yards against the top

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Speaker 5: gave tu lane, you know, a two lane versus a

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Speaker 5: big Pac twelve team. He just seems like the kind

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Speaker 5: of player that ran carthon. Especially Mike Vrabel. He's a Titan.

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Speaker 5: He's a tough, tough dude. I called him a dog

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Speaker 5: the night that the Titans took him, you know, and uh,

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Speaker 5: and he certainly is that.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 5: The questions that start to come from that is, well,

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Speaker 5: you had these receivers on the board, What about a

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Speaker 5: wide receiver, what about a tight end? What you know, Look,

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Speaker 5: there's clearly something there they like, or they wouldn't have

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Speaker 5: taken them where they did.

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Speaker 2: Well, Absolutely right, and that's it. I've been in that

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Speaker 2: I've been in that room for a long time making

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Speaker 2: those decisions. No coach or no general manager, no matter

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Speaker 2: what the circumstances, makes a pick that's gonna make that

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Speaker 2: they think it's gonna make their team worse. That's not

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Speaker 2: why you're in it. I mean, you've got a lot

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Speaker 2: on it, you got your team riding on it, you

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Speaker 2: you're making the best decisions that you think are going

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Speaker 2: to make your team the best. And then that's what

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Speaker 2: you go with. And I'm gonna go back to what

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Speaker 2: I said to your first question. Now you've made these decisions,

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Speaker 2: and you're gonna add some more players tomorrow. Now you've

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Speaker 2: this thing play out, you know, over over a period

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Speaker 1: Brent Hubbs, part of the reason we had you here

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Speaker 1: is not just your time to the University of Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: but your coverage of the SEC. And as we look

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Speaker 1: through one hundred and two picks, the Southeastern Conference continues

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Speaker 1: to dominate the draft.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not a surprise, you know, with everybody in the

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Speaker 3: college football world believes and sells outside of the Big Ten,

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Speaker 3: but everybody in the South sells. You know that this

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Speaker 3: is the this league is the closest to the National

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Speaker 3: Football League from an athletic standpoint. I think that showed

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Speaker 3: itself in Night one of the draft, and I think

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Speaker 3: it carried through through nine two of the draft. A

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Speaker 3: lot of really good players, a lot of really good athletes,

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Speaker 3: competition that they play week in and week out in

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Speaker 3: this league. Remember, these guys in this draft that were

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Speaker 3: tape than other previous draft teams have because of that

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Speaker 3: particular year. So not a surprise. I think it's the

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Speaker 3: nice draft too, but I'm not surprised at all where

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Speaker 3: the SEC stands.

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Speaker 1: And for Tennessee, five players, five offensive players taken in

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Speaker 1: the top seventy five.

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Speaker 3: Now you got four offensive players in Byron Young as

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Speaker 3: the fifth player. Four offensive players taken in the top

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Speaker 3: seventy five, more than anybody else in the SEC. It's

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Speaker 3: a selling point for Tennessee did not go as high

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Speaker 3: as some people thought once Darnell Wright was picked at ten,

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Speaker 3: but it certainly turned out to be a nice night

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Speaker 3: for Tennessee from a draft standpoint, with the two receivers drafted,

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Speaker 3: Hendon Hooker going to the Lions, and then finishing out

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Speaker 1: I was able to have a chance to visit with

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Speaker 1: Peter Skearansky, the Titans offensive lineman drafted at number eleven,

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Speaker 1: last night, as he made his first visit to Ascension

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Speaker 1: Skaransky on the OTP it's only fitting that we would

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Speaker 1: the newest Titan. Peter Skaransky. Welcome to Nashville, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: Ascension Saint Thomas Sports Park, and welcome to the Tennessee Titan.

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Speaker 4: It's great to be here. Yep. How did the Titan?

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Speaker 1: Now, you did not take a pre draft visit here?

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Speaker 4: I don'n that was my first time.

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Speaker 1: So were you surprised when you got the call from

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Speaker 1: the Titans.

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Speaker 6: I had an interviewed with the Combine and you know,

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Speaker 6: offensive White coach came to my protay too, so I

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Speaker 6: had a good amount of interaction with them. Really didn't

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Speaker 6: was pretty luckily I went to somewhere that I didn't visit,

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Speaker 6: and I always kind of hope that Titans will be

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Speaker 6: one of the teams that came in came and picked me,

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Speaker 6: and so not super surprised, but very very grateful and

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Speaker 1: For most of us watching you get off the plane

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Speaker 1: when you arrived in Nashville, Yeah, for those of us

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Speaker 1: who didn't have a chance to do it, we would think, man,

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Speaker 1: that would be so fantastic. Yeah, was it as good

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Speaker 1: as what you hope?

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Speaker 4: It was very cool.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, quick trip down from Chicago, but very cool experience

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Speaker 1: What have your interactions with Mike Vrabel been like so far?

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Speaker 1: Has he been giving you a bunch of business about

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Speaker 1: But that's the whole thing about you is with with

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Speaker 1: What's the first thing you want to do is you

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Speaker 6: From football perspectives, just you know, learn, learn the playbook

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a Titans fans, it's hard to decide what's the

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Speaker 1: Duncan final OTP thoughts, Ret Brian, you first, what are

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Speaker 5: Some talented guys who are still on the board. I mean,

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Speaker 5: they don't picked all round five. There are receivers there

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Speaker 2: Well, and what you look at and you heard Mike

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Speaker 5: And Mike, by the way, just he reminded me of it.

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Speaker 5: Coach Mack did day three that was ran Carthon's territory

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Speaker 5: We're rolling the dice and working the board.

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Speaker 1: All right, Titans, right now, it's sixty five players. They

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Speaker 3: Well, I think starts a couple places for Tennessee. One,

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Speaker 3: There's still some guys around the SEC that I'm curious

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Speaker 3: So there's still a lot of good players out there,

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Brent Hubs, thanks for joining us. Thanks Mike

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Speaker 1: you guys are the best. Thanks for anchoring us over

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Speaker 2: Well, you know how much we enjoy the draft, and

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Speaker 2: they're still more drafting. There's still more drafting to do.

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Speaker 2: This is always a great time of year when you

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Speaker 2: start putting together a new team. Let's get him in here.

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Speaker 2: Once you get him rounded up. Let me say something

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Speaker 1: For coach Mac for RHTT, Brian for Brent Hubbs and

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Speaker 1: Thanking Brad Willis and Philip Noel and our fine Titans

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Speaker 1: the O T Welcome to the Big Show.

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