1 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: On today's OTP Road to Nashville, Titans Online Senior writer 2 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: editor Jim Wyatt joins us to discuss the owners meeting 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: and takes a look at the most recent mock drafts, 4 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: and Amy Wells sits down with Marcus Mariota in Hawaii 5 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 1: to talk all things football with the Titans starting quarterback. 6 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: All that and more next on the April second edition 7 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:50,480 Speaker 1: of OTP Road to Nashville. It's twenty three days until 8 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: players are drafted in Nashville. Welcome to OTP Road to Nashville. 9 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith with Amy Wells. Hello mate, Day two 10 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: of the OTP are continuing series throughout the month of April. 11 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 1: We will have a show every single weekday, every day, 12 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: every day, every day. By the way, thank you to 13 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,119 Speaker 1: folks for the response. We have just been overwhelmed by 14 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: the fact that a that you watched our first show 15 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: and didn't think it was an April Fools joke that 16 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: we said we were doing one every single day. Some 17 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: people did it first. I had no idea because I 18 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: didn't think of when we were planning this, and we 19 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 1: actually started planning this back in January. We got the 20 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: really crazy idea that we would do a show every day, 21 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: and so April first was the obvious target because it's 22 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: the start of draft month, the NFL is getting into town, 23 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: things are beginning to happen, so it only made sense. 24 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: I never thought of it as April Fools Day. See. 25 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: I had the thought because people had asked me on 26 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: social media if it was an April Fools joke. And 27 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: I don't really get into the April Fools vibe, so 28 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: I didn't really give it much credit. Day two is 29 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: going to be where we make our money because people 30 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: will see it was not a joke. We're back and 31 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: you're sitting down with Marcus Mariota in Hawaii, which is 32 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: really really something. Oh yes, we'll also have that. Never 33 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: pass up a trip to Hawaii. No, you know, don't 34 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 1: do that. No, but great, Great for you, and you 35 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:17,519 Speaker 1: did a great job with it, and I know people 36 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: cannot wait to see it. But we're also excited because 37 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: Tuesdays on the OTP Road to Nashville. Jim Wyatt Jim 38 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 1: Watt is here, senior writer, editor Titans Online dot Com. 39 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the studio here at st Time of 40 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: Sports Park. Welcome back from Phoenix. Glad to be here 41 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: owners meetings? How was how was the Arizona built more 42 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: for you? It was nice. It's a spectacular resort. I 43 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: know Amy's been there before, and you know, it's a 44 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: good thing about staying on property. Is it your own property. 45 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: You're in close proximity to everything that's going on. If 46 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: you need to find the owner of the GM or 47 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,239 Speaker 1: the head coach, or there's a press conference, you're right there. 48 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: You can get to it in a hurry. The ad 49 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: news just staying at the at the main hotel. As 50 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: if if you want to take a break and relax 51 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: at the pool, you better not do it. Yeah, you 52 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: can't really do that. The underwalks by and you're they're 53 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: just to find a far pool, that's all. But you 54 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: know that other people might be trying to find a 55 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: far pool, uh too, So maybe you could find some 56 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: people that you want to see And that's cool, that's true. 57 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: But I know they're not sending me out there to 58 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: sit at the pool. So so uh but it was good. 59 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: It was a busy week and uh, you know, certainly 60 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: talked to the to the head coach not only a 61 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: separate interview but also with an hour long coaches breakfast 62 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: out there, had a couple of conversations with the GM, 63 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: talk to Amy Adam Strunk, and then you know, you 64 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: obviously see a lot of people from across the league 65 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: and have press conferences there, uh throughout the weekend, so 66 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: very uh. You know, before I started working for the team, 67 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: when I was working at Tennessee and never covered the 68 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: owners meetings, I don't really know the benefit of it 69 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: until I went for the first time as a member 70 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: of the organization. Great access, Just a ton of information 71 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: you get from there at a time when free agent 72 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: is pretty much wrapping up and your gearing toward the draft. 73 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 1: Let's move towards the morning headlines and take a look 74 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: at Titans news to begin all, thirty two teams released 75 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: their offseason dates yesterday. The Titans players will be back 76 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: here in thirteen days, which is April the fifteenth. The 77 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: OTA's late May into June, so three of them. The 78 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: week of May the twentieth, I'm not mistaken. That's Monday, Tuesday, 79 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: Thursday the twentieth, twenty first, and twenty third. The next 80 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: week is Memorial Day, so it's actually Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. 81 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: Do I have that right? I think so, And then 82 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: the next week four days Monday through Thursday. Thus those 83 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 1: are your ten OTAs, and then the Manda Tory Mini camp, which, 84 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: as it says it's mandatory everybody has to be here, 85 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: means that the team will practice the eleventh, twelfth, and 86 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 1: then they will break the thirteenth and then be gone 87 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: until what is normally the last Friday in July to 88 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: start training camp. So essentially the same schedule as last year. Jim, 89 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 1: that's try. It'll be interest to see which of these 90 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: practices will be open to the general media. Obviously we 91 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: have an opportunity to wash these practices, but I know 92 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: the fans get a better look. I guess when they're 93 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: open and you can you can film stuff that's going on, 94 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: and usually I think what Mike Vrabel did last year's 95 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: he would have picked a day in the middle of 96 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: those three during the course of the week and make 97 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 1: those open, so there will be Titans on the field work, uh, 98 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: you know, during the course of May. And then obviously 99 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: in June we're gonna have a rookie camp. I don't 100 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: know if the date. That date's not here, I think 101 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 1: that's maybe May the tenth weekend. There generally it's the 102 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: second weekend after the draft. That's normally when it is, 103 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: but then guy have cleared the threshold of exams if 104 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: they are taking classes in the spring semester. Yes, and 105 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: I think that's on a Friday, Saturday. And I think 106 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: you know some weekends are you know past years it's 107 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: been that Friday has been the open date. I think 108 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: last year was a Saturday. What's those guys get their 109 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: feet wet a little bit. So that's something to look 110 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 1: forward to as well. You know what I'm looking forward 111 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 1: to and looking at these dates, I want to see 112 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: if that June thirteenth, the last day a mandatory minicamp, 113 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 1: is actually a practice. It never is, It never is. 114 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: But I'm saying, what a surprise if everyone shows up 115 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: thinking they're gonna go play laser tag and they've got 116 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:38,359 Speaker 1: to go out on the field, and that would be 117 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: the first time a twenty two years, it would be 118 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: the first time I'd ever seen that. Well, and it's 119 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: always super secret. It's always this top secret, don't tell everybody, 120 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: but we're going to the movies, like everybody knows. Yeah, yeah, 121 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,479 Speaker 1: that would be the shocker is the guys show up. 122 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: It's like Okay, we got a surprise practice. Yeah, that's 123 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: what I'm looking for. That would shake They never happen. 124 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: We will ever happen, I think all right. Headline number 125 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: two Seattle Seahawks. John Schneider is their general manager. He's 126 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: fantastic at his job. Talking to the Seattle Times at 127 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: a charity event last night that he hosts, which is 128 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 1: actually a wonderful thing, and he was talking about their 129 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: situation with the draft and the fact that Seattle only 130 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: has four picks in this draft sounds like the Titans 131 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: tween twenty one, eighty four, one twenty four and one 132 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: fifty nine. And he says John Schnyder saying he's not 133 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: cool with four picks in the draft. I think this 134 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: is a team that is desperately looking to get back 135 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: and maybe looking to make some sort of deal, some 136 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: sort of blockbuster deal, because John Schneyder loves to pick. 137 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: Since he's been the general manager of the Seattle Seahawks, 138 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: they have drafted more players. They have made more draft 139 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: picks than any other team. Really, they've well, that's wrong. 140 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: They have made more moves overall than any other team. 141 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: I didn't say that properly. I apologize but I mean 142 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: they are active, active, active, But at twenty one, you're 143 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: wondering who's looking to get up? Why is that interesting? 144 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: The Titans pick at nineteen, So does somebody make a 145 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: deal with Seattle to get up to twenty one? And 146 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,440 Speaker 1: that's something that the Titans have to be cognizant of 147 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 1: because then it makes dropping back. You've got to be, 148 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: you know, super interested in what's going to happen there. 149 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: I think about a team like Indianapolis who needs an 150 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: edge rusher, who wants some defensive line help, who is 151 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:56,079 Speaker 1: always interested in offensive lineman and tight ends and things 152 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: that you here mentioned with the Titans. Indianapolis has all 153 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: these extra picks. Did they try to move up. We'll 154 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: talk about Indianapolis later in the show, but that's one 155 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: to me, that's one to watch. I would agree. And 156 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 1: uh I mentioned Titans had four picks, obviously had six 157 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: to start and end up with with four, and Seattle 158 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: in a different situation where they're trying to accumulate more picks, 159 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: So their move would be to move backs, maybe even 160 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: out of the first round altogether, in order to just 161 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: gather picks. I mean they could trade multiple times to 162 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 1: do it. I say, if you're a Titans fan, keep 163 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 1: an eye on what Seattle does, because you've you've not 164 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: only got to look ahead of you, but you've always 165 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 1: got to look in your rear view mirror. Two last year, 166 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 1: the Titans did what they did, jumping up with Baltimore 167 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 1: to get Rashaun Evans because they knew Pittsburgh was going 168 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 1: to take him. They knew New England was trying to 169 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: get up. I mean, you've always got to know who's 170 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. I call it mister Robinson's neighborhood. That's 171 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: that's what I back to Eddie Murphy, back to Eddie 172 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 1: Murphy on Saturday Night Live, mister Robinson. But I'm always looking. 173 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: I'm looking like three in front and then I'm looking 174 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 1: three four behind him, because that's who you're that's who 175 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: you're dealing with. It's very interesting who is in mister 176 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: Robinson's neighborhood. You don't even remember that. You're not old 177 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: enough to remember Eddie Murphy doing that year. Okay, whooped? He? Hell? 178 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: All right? Who said that? Who's Gadsden, Alabama's owned? Freddie 179 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 1: Kitchen's who's the head coach of the Cleveland Browns? Talking 180 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:39,320 Speaker 1: about the fact that his team reported yesterday. Everybody is 181 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: all excited because Odell Beckham Junior is there, and it's 182 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: like they're putting together this rock star All Star team. 183 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:53,359 Speaker 1: Everybody's saying, on paper, the Cleveland Browns are better. He goes, yeah, 184 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: that's yeah, we're better on paper. Whooped? He Hell, all right, 185 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:02,359 Speaker 1: that's Freddie Kitchens and who's right, perfect, perfect for Cleveland. 186 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 1: He is going to be a perfect match. He's got 187 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: a great personality. He's a funny guy. They're gonna quote 188 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:11,200 Speaker 1: him all the time like that. How good are the 189 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns on paper? They're really good? I mean they 190 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,199 Speaker 1: really in the last two years have just like you said, 191 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: assembled an all star team. There are these names coming 192 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: through there. The OBJ move was just crazy. Um, there 193 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,839 Speaker 1: are so many aspects of this team that you look 194 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,959 Speaker 1: at and say, well, there we go. The Browns are 195 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: real and then something always seems to happen. So on paper, yes, 196 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: they're better, but again, Whoopedi Hill. And the time, you know, 197 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 1: you talk about the coach having a personality, mean the 198 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: team as a personality. Oh yeah, I mean I love 199 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: the quarterback, I love his attitude and love the swigger 200 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:52,839 Speaker 1: that he plays with. And now he's got some guys 201 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: around him at the receiver position, you know, Uh, not 202 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:01,320 Speaker 1: only in OBJ but in Landry good running backs. Obviously 203 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:04,559 Speaker 1: one of them gonna be suspended for eight games. Uh, 204 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: got a good tight end. Uh. I think they've I 205 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 1: think they should be considered the favorite in that division 206 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:13,679 Speaker 1: with the way other things are going. Obviously a lot 207 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 1: of moves in Baltimore. Pittsburgh, you know, lost two really 208 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:21,719 Speaker 1: key players from that team, and they've had a lot 209 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 1: of turmoil they've had to deal with. Bengals, Uh, you know, 210 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: certainly have been at better stages during their you know, 211 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: during their time in that division. So I say the 212 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:34,559 Speaker 1: Browns ought to be the fact, would you pick them? 213 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: I would No. I don't trust just at a general principle, 214 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: you would not. Well, I don't trust them yet. I don't. 215 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen with this coaching staff. 216 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: I don't know how all of these personalities are gonna 217 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: gel together. I don't know. Mummmmm Nope. I think the 218 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: best move they made though, was hiring Tide Munkin as 219 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: their offensive coordinator. Really, he's a really really good um coach, 220 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: good football coach, good offensive coach. I think he will 221 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: do well with Baker Mayfield and incorporating Jarvis Landry and 222 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: Nick Chubb and Beckham and the whole gang. What's most 223 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: fascinating about the Browns as we are twenty three days 224 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: from the draft, their draft is not a big story 225 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: because they don't have a first round pick. All that 226 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: draft capital that they had acquired is now gone. Yeah, 227 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 1: because they've either used the picks or they've traded the picks. 228 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:28,959 Speaker 1: At this point, their first pick doesn't come until number 229 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,319 Speaker 1: forty nine, which is unusual for the Browns because the eight. Yeah, 230 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: we see them hoarding picks and then kind of making 231 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: some interesting we'll come creative decisions. But usually the Browns 232 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: operate the same way that I operate in fantasy football. 233 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: They love the draft, don't really care as much about 234 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: the actual season in the past, which is how I 235 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: play fantasy. I love to draft. But now now, now there, 236 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:56,559 Speaker 1: I mean, there were seven eight and one a year 237 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: ago after going one and thirty one, they were seven 238 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: eight and one. But they do have a rookie head coach. 239 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: That's a game on the Titans schedule next year in Cleveland. Wow, 240 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: And that leads me to something that I want to 241 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: hit before we move on. So we always do this. 242 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 1: We play the little game, the Titans opener. We think 243 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: there's a very good chance that we see the schedule 244 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 1: two weeks. Generally it's the week before the draft. I 245 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: think the Titans are going to open in Cleveland. I 246 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: think that's the opener. They've opened against Pittsburgh the last 247 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: two years. But I think with them being the marquee 248 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: story that they are, they're going to push the Pittsburgh 249 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 1: and the Baltimore games back on their schedule. And I 250 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: think it's going to happen. If you haven't studied it, 251 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: here's a look at the Titans opponents. So this is 252 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: where people could go or where the Titans could go. 253 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: All right, the home games Kansas City, the Chargers, New Orleans, 254 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and Buffalo Away, Denver, Atlanta, Oakland. I don't 255 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: even want to say Oakland because I don't want to 256 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: go to open Um. I'd rather go to Oakland in December. 257 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: That's not happening. No, we'll go when it's really hot 258 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: and very uncomfortable. Denver, Oakland, Atlanta, Carolina, Cleveland. So I'm 259 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 1: taking in the pool that doesn't actually exist. Mike Keith 260 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: says at Cleveland, that's my prediction for the oak Here 261 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: are some other predictions, and I'll give you a second, 262 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: Jim Wyatt, and I'll give you a second. Amy Will. 263 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: Now these other predictions, you're getting roll off from our 264 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: team out here. Ashley Farrell at Jacksonville, Okay. Jeff Harding 265 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: at Oakland. Mike Douel Kansas City. I think you actually 266 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: said at Kansas City. Though we don't go there, I 267 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: mean you'll be you can go to Kansas City while 268 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 1: we Yeah, he just go for the bar's going. It's 269 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 1: a good play, it's a good spot. I like going 270 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: to Kansas City, Mike Keith says at Cleveland. Rick says 271 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: at Houston, he's got a division game to open. Jim 272 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 1: Watt Titans opener. All but one of the five first 273 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: picks are road games because the Titans almost always, it seems, 274 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: get stuck with a road game. I'm going to say 275 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: that the Tidans are gonna open up because the Tampa 276 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. Uh. Kind of a repeat of the two 277 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: fifteen season, this time at home. Marcus Barriotecaus James Winston 278 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: Nice in year five, ye all right, so you're going 279 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: with that, Amy Wells, that's a really good story. It's 280 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: a good story. I think we're going to end up 281 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: at Oakland. At Oakland, Yeah, it's just inconvenient and uncomfortable 282 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 1: enough to happen. Yes, ye, all right, so we've got 283 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: two at Oakland. I guess the winner could receive a 284 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: Titans draft hat. I like that. It's a nice way 285 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: we work in a draft head. I think this draft 286 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 1: hat is going to Morrison Hall in Chapel Hill, North Carolina? 287 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 1: Is that the official? Have you not seen it? With 288 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 1: the stars on there? Didn't watch? Well, okay, you didn't? 289 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,920 Speaker 1: You say you did? Wait a minute, so you're in 290 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 1: the hang on a second here. I watched the beginning, 291 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 1: but then I had word did it at the beginning? 292 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: He had work, he didn't watch. We had the first 293 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 1: look in person at the hats. I went over and bottom, 294 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 1: that's a good hot. I had to get a picture 295 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 1: of that and tweeted out before the Yeah, like nobody knows, Jim, 296 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,120 Speaker 1: it's only been out for twenty four hours to show. Yeah, 297 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: way to be all over, Jim. Okay, so here let 298 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 1: me hand it to you. Look on the inside, there 299 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,199 Speaker 1: is the state flag of Tennessee on the inside, and 300 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 1: so the hat is designed with the state flag in mind, 301 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: which is why it has the three stars on the front. 302 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: This says property of Mike Right, head coach, Mike Right. Um, no, 303 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:51,439 Speaker 1: he's not gonna be drafted. He What do you think 304 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 1: about that? It's growing on me. Yeah, it's it's time. 305 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: If I had said it yesterday, maybe I could say 306 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: I like it. Let's see the young people like it. 307 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 1: I like it. Well, that takes me out of that question. 308 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: Someone who lives in Morrison Hall in Chapel Hill, North 309 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 1: Carolina like, so, I think that's probably where it's going. 310 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:14,639 Speaker 1: Shout out to my boys at unc Hey. Before we 311 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: get yes too far away from the home opener conversation, 312 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: can we just acknowledge how awesome the Titans home schedule 313 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: is going to be this year? And this is very organic. Yeah, 314 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: we didn't plan this, But if you haven't bought Titan 315 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: season tickets, what in the world are this is the year? 316 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 1: I mean Kansas City and the Chargers in New Orleans 317 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: and Tampa and Buffalo and then the three You know, 318 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 1: we only play in the best division in football, So 319 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,360 Speaker 1: only division in football where all four teams have gone 320 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: to the playoffs in the last two years, and the 321 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 1: only division in football where last year there were three 322 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,679 Speaker 1: teams with a winning record. I'll tell you what. So 323 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 1: for any of those for any of those folks who 324 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: have been dogging the AFC South, look it up. All 325 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: four teams. The team that was picked to win the 326 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 1: AFC South last year finished last, and they went to 327 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 1: the AFC Championship Game the year before. And in fairness 328 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: to Jacksonville, they had a ton of injuries, a ton. 329 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 1: Now they've got a new quarterback who gotted a team 330 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: to a Super Bowl win not long as they did, 331 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 1: he sure did. And Houston and Indianapolis aren't going anywhere either. 332 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: All right, So let's talk about draft stuff and what 333 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: you learned at the league meetings. You had a unique 334 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:35,639 Speaker 1: perspective to spend some time with some of the league 335 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 1: folks in talking about the Nashville Draft. What did you learn, 336 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 1: Jim Why? Yeah. Peter O'Reilly, who has been very involved 337 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,199 Speaker 1: in this process all the way through, that's who we 338 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:47,160 Speaker 1: talked to when the official draft announcement came in Atlanta. 339 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 1: The owners meetings and May leading up to the announcement, 340 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: and he pretty much said, we're gonna start to feel 341 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 1: it in Nashville starting this week. One hundred tractor trailer 342 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: filled with all kinds of staging and other equipment's going 343 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 1: to be used to set up the stage that's supposed 344 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 1: to arrive in Nashville layer this week. You're gonna start 345 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 1: to see wraps on buses. You're gonna start to see, uh, 346 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 1: you know, flags coming from the light poles downtown. You're 347 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: gonna start to see signage, uh, you know, not only 348 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: at Bridstone but in other areas surrounding downtown. I have 349 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 1: to be driving through downtown over the weekend. I know 350 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,919 Speaker 1: there's a traffic signal box right there in front of 351 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: Hard Right Cafe, I think Hilton and Fourth Butch Spirit 352 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: and I talked to him as well. He said, I 353 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 1: think there's one there, and there's gonna be the Convention 354 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: Center Marquee. There's also a draft logo there and all 355 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 1: this is going to be amplified during the course of 356 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:45,879 Speaker 1: the week as they get geared up. As far as 357 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 1: traffic and heights impacted, I don't think you're gonna see 358 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,159 Speaker 1: a lot of that until we get closer to the 359 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: end of this month. Uh, Nissan Stadium is where a 360 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:56,400 Speaker 1: lot of this activity is gonna take plus to take 361 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: place because early, because it's just not gonna impact things, 362 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 1: you just don't have to trafit flow through there. So 363 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,199 Speaker 1: you're going to see that move faster, but you know 364 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 1: it's here and you're going to start to feel it 365 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 1: more starting this week. That's a good lead in to 366 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: the second part of our interview with Matt Shapiro, who's 367 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: the NFL Vice President of Events, Strategy and Integration, discussing 368 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 1: the evolution of the draft from where it began to 369 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: what the expectation is for how this whole thing is 370 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 1: going to flow in Nashville April twenty five through twenty seven. 371 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:36,119 Speaker 1: How has the draft evolved from the vision perspective of 372 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: the league from let's say those Radio City Music Hall 373 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: days to what you hope to see this year. Yeah, 374 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: I mean, you're exactly right. You think about those images 375 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: of a commissioner writing on a chalkboard in a hotel ballroom, 376 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: and just what it's become now is pretty incredible. I 377 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: think every year we go to a city, we sort 378 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: of have that moment where we stand on the footprint 379 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: of where the draft could be. I think about it 380 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, it's kind of standing on those on those 381 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: rocky steps. Think about it here in Nashville, looking down Broadway, 382 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,479 Speaker 1: at At and T Stadium in Chicago, at all these places, 383 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,400 Speaker 1: it's become something that that's really incredible and really special. 384 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 1: So I think we've needed to prove that concept out. 385 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: I think we do it time and again and sort 386 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,360 Speaker 1: of go from the state of the vision too. Here 387 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: we are, it's Thursday night and we're moments away from 388 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: kicking this thing off, and people showed up, and the 389 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: screens are working, and the prospects are here, and it's 390 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: just been incredible run. So I think every year we 391 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,119 Speaker 1: really raise the bar. Every year we go to that city, 392 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 1: we think about what's special in that city, what makes 393 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: it unique? And again I think, you know, you look 394 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,439 Speaker 1: at a Chicago, Grant Park was the best place to 395 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: be there. You look at Philadelphia, where else could we 396 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 1: be but Benjamin Franklin Parkway. You look at Dallas, what's 397 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: the most impactful thing there? This incredible stadium. You look 398 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: at Nashville, we gotta be downtown, lower Broadway, honky Tonks 399 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 1: near the stadium. All this So every time we go somewhere. 400 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: What's really unique about the Draft is, unlike some of 401 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: our other events that are very much based in a stadium, 402 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: we have a pretty blank canvas here, and I think 403 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: what we try to do is make sure that we're 404 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,359 Speaker 1: painting it in a really unique way in every city. Matt. 405 00:22:56,359 --> 00:23:00,479 Speaker 1: As we start the one hundredth NFL season, Nashville becomes 406 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: the ninth different city to host an NFL draft. How 407 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 1: does the league view the Nashville experience as its own 408 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: thing different from the other eight cities that have ever 409 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: hosted the draft. Yeah, it's going to be more unique 410 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: than anything we've ever had, and again it's nothing against 411 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: those other cities. I think every city brings in what's unique. 412 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: Although I'll say the Draft has become this very sort 413 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: of free, open, fun fan festival. I think even without 414 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 1: the Draft, if we weren't here April twenty fifth through 415 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: twenty seventh, I'm sure Nashville would be excited and rocking 416 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 1: and feel like sort of a big fan festival in 417 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,199 Speaker 1: some respect anyway. So from the beginning, it's really been 418 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: about marrying the Draft and Nashville and coming together. And 419 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,640 Speaker 1: I think there is also going to be pretty incredible 420 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 1: so we're really excited to see that come to life. 421 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: Good stuff, good good stuff for Matt Shapiro, the NFL 422 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 1: vice president of Events, Strategy and Integration. As we're twenty 423 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: three days away. Absolutely, Jim, I have a lot of 424 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 1: questions I want to ask you about owners meetings because 425 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: I wasn't there this year. I was in Hawaii. Um 426 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: first I saw that Amy Adams Strunk was talking about 427 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: changes that are going to be made to the light 428 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: blue jersey. Can you tell me about that and what 429 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: that means? Yeah, and Mike could speak to the you know, 430 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 1: working with the jerseys, probably as well as anyone because 431 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: you've got to make such quick calls on place. Uh. 432 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 1: But I got a lot of questions obviously during the 433 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 1: course of last season because those Titans jerseys were worn 434 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: twice early obviously in the opener at Miami and then 435 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, and then you didn't see them again. And 436 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 1: what the team is going to do. And it's not 437 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 1: if you if you bought one of these light blue jerseys, 438 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 1: I don't think you feel like you've got to scrap 439 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 1: it to buy a new one because those changes are 440 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 1: pretty subtle, but they're gonna make a slight modification. Whether 441 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,400 Speaker 1: they're going to increase the size of the numbers on 442 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 1: those jerseys. They're gonna keep them navy. They're just gonna 443 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: be a little bit thicker. And she said they test them. 444 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 1: She had someone with the league, obviously with the jersey 445 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: designer that that observe these from the press box, you 446 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 1: can see them a lot better. And that's what you're 447 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 1: going to see you on the field in twenty nineteen. 448 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 1: Just a thicker I think three quarters of an inch 449 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: on the numbers. Uh where you just gonna see them 450 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: a lot better. Mike, what was that like for you? Torture? 451 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: And the torture and the torture of it was that 452 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: I love those jerseys. Yea, I love them. And when 453 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,479 Speaker 1: you watch the shots that we have up from the field, 454 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,199 Speaker 1: the numbers look fine. But from where we are in 455 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,439 Speaker 1: the press box and in Miami, we we don't have 456 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 1: a good broadcast position. But and I thought at first, 457 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: well that's the reason we can't see him. But then 458 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 1: when we came home and you still you couldn't they 459 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 1: wash out? And so she asked me, I was one 460 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 1: of the people, I mean, And she didn't base her 461 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,719 Speaker 1: opinion on me but she said, what did could you say? 462 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,679 Speaker 1: And I told her the truth. I said, absolutely not. 463 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,360 Speaker 1: She asked a lot of people, and that's her. I mean, 464 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 1: that's what I think makes her so spe ashualies. Fans 465 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 1: talk to her, her family, talked to her, friends talk 466 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: to her. You just could not see the numbers well enough. 467 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: And so that's her. She's gone and done something about it, 468 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,920 Speaker 1: which I think is fantastic. And the two places where 469 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 1: they wore them, I mean Miami, you were in a 470 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: different corner of hard Rock Stadium than I was sitting, 471 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 1: but it was it was difficult to see him from there. 472 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 1: And then obviously in Jacksonville with the sunshine and you're 473 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: at the very top of the stadium. I mean it 474 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,360 Speaker 1: was it was hard. And that's you know, I can 475 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 1: identify after seen a replay, You've got to make the 476 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 1: call live where when it's happening, and uh, and it's 477 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,239 Speaker 1: tough to do. Well, went in doubt, just make it up. 478 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 1: Half of the stuff Mike says on the radio did 479 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 1: not happen. Yeah, And I do get the sense. I 480 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: mean I get a lot of questions about whether whether 481 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,560 Speaker 1: old oilers throwbacks which are retired. I mean they want 482 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: to wear these. I mean, these are the ones that 483 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: I think fans like and certainly she likes, and I 484 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 1: think you see obviously a lot more of them, and 485 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 1: I think you'll be to I think it's cool that 486 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 1: she makes the change, but I also think it's cool 487 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: that she makes the change in a way that the 488 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: people who bought that jersey for themselves don't have to 489 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: go buy a new one, and I think that's a 490 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: that's a great thing. Her comments on Marcus Mariota at 491 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: the owner's meeting characterize those if you would, well, I 492 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: mean she I think everyone in this organization has been 493 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 1: supportive of Marcus all the way through, and John Robinson's 494 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,159 Speaker 1: comments at the end of last season and Mike Rabel, 495 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,919 Speaker 1: they've all said, you know, they want Marcus Mariota to 496 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: be this quarterback moving forward. And that's what she said 497 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 1: as well. I mean, uh no, this is this team 498 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: and actively in contract negotiations with him, you know, no, 499 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 1: But does this team want Marcus Mariota to be the 500 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: starting quarterback and the franchise quarterback not only for twenty 501 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 1: nineteen but beyond. Yes, And that's what she said, and 502 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: that's what she wants to see now he's going to 503 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: have to perform well, he's going to have to stay healthy. 504 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,200 Speaker 1: I mean, God forbid something happens to him in September 505 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: where he's sideline for a long stretch, you know, or 506 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: he doesn't perform well. I don't think that's what anybody's 507 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 1: thinking now, but those things, you know, certainly would affect 508 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: thinking moving forward. But as she looks ahead to this season, 509 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,399 Speaker 1: as she looks ahead, she wants Marcus to be the 510 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,919 Speaker 1: quarterback for this team. And and now we'll just have 511 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,679 Speaker 1: to see how things transpired during the course of the season. 512 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:34,120 Speaker 1: Another person who everyone has been talking about is Derrick Henry. 513 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 1: You spent time with Mike Vrabel and John Robinson. What 514 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 1: did they have to say about him going into your four? Well, 515 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 1: I mean I thought that was pretty They were pretty 516 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: strong in their comments in the way he into last 517 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 1: season kind of put him to the position where he's 518 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: going to be the offense. Not not the offense, but 519 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: he's gonna be the main part of this offense. They 520 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: want to ride him in September like they did into 521 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 1: se And that's what John Robinson said, That's what Mike 522 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 1: Vrabel said. Amy Adams Strunk obviously you know raved about 523 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: him as well. Obviously they're gonna have to do it, 524 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: and it's gonna be behind an offensive line that's still 525 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: in the process of being rebuilt. We're not going to 526 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: see Josh Klein when I can see Quentin Spain in 527 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 1: here where I can see Roger Saffold alongside, you know, 528 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 1: of course Taylor One and Jack Conklin, and still some 529 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: other questions there have been. Jones I expect to be 530 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: back in the equation, but there's still a spot to 531 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,719 Speaker 1: be had there those that group's going to have to 532 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 1: perform well. Derek Kennery's gonna have to run well in 533 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: order to continue to get those carriers at the start 534 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 1: of the season, but they made no bones about it. 535 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: I mean, they want Derreck Henry to be U. The 536 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 1: offense is going to start with him this season, which 537 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: is different than last season. Give us the update that 538 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 1: you heard on Delaandy Walker to share with Taytan's fans. 539 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: He is what Mike Vrabel called is he's gonna be 540 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: part of a I guess an individual performance plan. I 541 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: think I'm in the right terminology on him and that 542 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 1: he's going to you know, some days he'll be outside 543 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 1: working with the team. Some days he'll be inside in 544 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: the pool, some days he'll be on the treadmill. I 545 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: think all the guys that are coming back from injuries, 546 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: whether it's Delanney, whether it's John u whether I don't 547 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 1: think Marcus is necessarily going to be in that plan. 548 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 1: But I think anybody that was slowed or has had 549 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: some kind of offseason surgery, they're just going to monitor 550 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 1: them throughout the course of the offseason. I mean, the 551 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 1: games as not played in April, they're played in September 552 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 1: and beyond, so they don't want to do anything that's 553 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 1: going to hinder his progress. I get the sense that 554 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 1: he's made great progress and is going to be in 555 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 1: a good position when the program starts on April the fifteenth, 556 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 1: but that means he could be limited and they may 557 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 1: watch him a little bit. Were you surprised when Mike 558 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: Rabel said that Kevin Pumfield might get a chance to 559 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: be the starting right guard. Not, well, I surprised it 560 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:52,840 Speaker 1: in the way he said it. I mean, I guess 561 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: I end up really thought about Kevin in twoy eighteen 562 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 1: and understand anymore about why he wasn't in the mix. 563 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: Elady because they couldn't afford to put him in the 564 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: mix it guard early last year because he was needed 565 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 1: to play tackle as Jack Conklin was coming back from injury, 566 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 1: and then of course Taylor Wine had to deal with 567 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: with an injury himself with the concussion. He was needed 568 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 1: a tackle and he wasn't wasn't ever in the mix 569 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 1: it guard, and then by the time those guys healed 570 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 1: up a little bit, then Kevin Palm feels out for 571 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 1: the season. So Mike Vrabel said, the reason, one of 572 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 1: the bigger reasons he decided to come back here because 573 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: he was told he was going to be in the 574 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 1: mix at guard starting this season. So I thought that 575 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 1: was pretty revealing. Does that happen? I mean again, I 576 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: don't think we're done there as far as editions go. 577 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 1: So while he's gonna be in the mix, I wouldn't 578 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 1: necessarily pencil him in at the starting lineup at this point. 579 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: One of the things that you do that I love 580 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 1: at Titan's online dot com is you tour the mock draft, 581 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 1: and you have just done one, you have toured thirty 582 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 1: recent mock drafts. I think John Robinson's plan is coming 583 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 1: into focus nicely and that is, he's sort of got 584 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 1: everybody confused. Ten different guys are named as the Titans 585 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: pick at number nineteen in the most recent mocks. We 586 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:24,200 Speaker 1: have them up for you. The most popular is Noah Fant, 587 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 1: the tight end from Iowa. Christian Wilkins, the highly intelligent, 588 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 1: talented defensive tackle from Clemson is two. Number three shocks me. 589 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 1: Marquis Brown, the wide receiver from Oklahoma who can flat go. 590 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 1: But I mean that one surprises me that people would 591 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 1: marry the Titans and Brown. Brian Burns doesn't surprise me 592 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,960 Speaker 1: at all. He's an outstanding edge rusher, and then the 593 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 1: rest of him no shock Dexter Lawrence, Garrett, Bradberry, DK 594 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 1: medcalf IRV Smith Junior, T J. Hockinson, and Cleveland Ferrell, 595 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 1: which is actually how you say ferral ferral, not like ferrel, lga, 596 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:08,920 Speaker 1: like will fer He's mentioned with the Titans as well. 597 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 1: So what strikes you about the mock drafts? Well, I 598 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 1: think this the wide range of picks. I think what 599 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,960 Speaker 1: and somebody made a comment underneath it yesterday and that 600 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 1: you can look at it this year and say, there's 601 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 1: probably not a guy on this list that you would 602 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:26,960 Speaker 1: want on the team. I mean, obviously some of them 603 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 1: seem to make a better fit than others, but this 604 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 1: is a pretty good group of players that you're selecting, 605 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: and it has chains from when I first started. You know, 606 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 1: the first time I do these, it may be in 607 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 1: February before free agency starts, and then I do them 608 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,719 Speaker 1: with a greater regularity as we get closer the draft 609 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:48,800 Speaker 1: and free agency needs have been filled, and some of 610 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: these guys are obviously more in tune with what's happening 611 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: in others because they're checking with their sources, their scouts, 612 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: and they're getting last up until the most fascinating one 613 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 1: is is the day of the draft, because that's when 614 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 1: some of these guys that are pretty hard to core, 615 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,720 Speaker 1: UH analyst and do these do this for a living, 616 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:13,400 Speaker 1: They're getting last minute updates from maybe what the draft 617 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,359 Speaker 1: boards look like for some of these teams. So some 618 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,839 Speaker 1: of these guys that are being pegged for teams at 619 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 1: nineteen potentially could move way up because they're not gonna 620 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 1: being rained. Some of them could completely drop back. That's 621 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,640 Speaker 1: when we get the biggest read on these. But UH, 622 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:31,800 Speaker 1: I just think it's interesting the wide range of players 623 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 1: that were looking at here could the Titans select no offense. 624 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 1: I mean it's I asked John Robinson about the tight 625 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,719 Speaker 1: end position and ask him that specifically and said, hey, 626 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:46,279 Speaker 1: a lot of these Mike drafts have you picking tight 627 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,239 Speaker 1: ends that he the way he answered the question was 628 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 1: we're looking for more of a depth guy. We're not 629 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:57,359 Speaker 1: looking for somebody, you know, at number nineteen. But then 630 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,280 Speaker 1: when I kind of circle back around to it against 631 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,239 Speaker 1: so you wouldn't take a tight end of nineteen, and 632 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: he kind of hesitated a little bit where left me 633 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 1: with a little bit of doubt. He's the heck of 634 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 1: a player, and if you pick a tight end at nineteen, 635 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,359 Speaker 1: that's not a knock on de Laney Walker. I mean, 636 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,560 Speaker 1: we've got to realize that Delaney Walker is getting ready 637 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:20,360 Speaker 1: to be thirty five years old. You know, he can't 638 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,000 Speaker 1: play forever, although he certainly doesn't show any signs of 639 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,200 Speaker 1: slowing down until the injury. So here's what I would 640 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: say to that. Two thousand and three, the Titans have 641 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,160 Speaker 1: pick number sixty. They take Tyrone Calico, the wide receiver 642 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 1: from MTSU, and Jim was there when he got hurt too, 643 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,680 Speaker 1: so I think Jim will agree with me that if 644 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,600 Speaker 1: Tyrone Calico does not hurt his knee at Dallas, Yes, 645 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,759 Speaker 1: if Roy Williams doesn't horsecollar him and one of the 646 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 1: plays that led to the rule and basically ended his career, 647 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,600 Speaker 1: he was never the same guy after that. Tyrone Calico 648 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,439 Speaker 1: I think would have been a good NFL player. Put 649 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:59,480 Speaker 1: that aside. Nine picks later, Jason Witten was selected. If 650 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:03,200 Speaker 1: you knew you could get somebody who is just special 651 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:08,319 Speaker 1: regardless of the position. If you're sitting there in that 652 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: room and you say, I don't know, can we pass 653 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:17,400 Speaker 1: this player up? Is one of those tight ends? Is 654 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,680 Speaker 1: it IRV Smith? Is it Hawkinson? Is it? Can you 655 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,400 Speaker 1: pass them up? Or can you do that with a 656 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:27,040 Speaker 1: player at another position? I think that's the balance of 657 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,880 Speaker 1: the board is when you're there, you just say, man, 658 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:35,680 Speaker 1: this player, regardless of position, is a difference maker that 659 00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,640 Speaker 1: we can't pass up. Well. And you also see teams 660 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 1: kind of get into a groove when they're drafting, and 661 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:45,320 Speaker 1: it seems to be you're either drafting to win right 662 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:49,400 Speaker 1: now tomorrow, or you're drafting to win in a couple 663 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,720 Speaker 1: of years. You're drafting for the future. So that's what's 664 00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,320 Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see is if the Titans 665 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,959 Speaker 1: are adding pieces that say we are one or two 666 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,319 Speaker 1: guys away, we want to do this right now, or 667 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,400 Speaker 1: if they're saying this guy's special, this guy could be 668 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,040 Speaker 1: a player for us down the line a little bit. 669 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,959 Speaker 1: We'll have to see, but it'll be interesting to see 670 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,880 Speaker 1: where the Titans kind of go with. But at that moment, 671 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,279 Speaker 1: the Titans had Frank Whitchik at the end of his 672 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,719 Speaker 1: career what turned out to be his last year. They 673 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,799 Speaker 1: had Aaron Kenny. I mean, they had tight ends. But 674 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,840 Speaker 1: if they got there and they had decided listen, Jason 675 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,839 Speaker 1: Witten and Jason Witten lasted until the sixty ninth pick 676 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,960 Speaker 1: of the draft, so everybody agreed. You know, there was 677 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,200 Speaker 1: nobody was like the Tom Brady think. There was nobody 678 00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,839 Speaker 1: who thought this. You know that he would do what 679 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:42,160 Speaker 1: he has done right, But you you at those moments, 680 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,600 Speaker 1: can you do that? Can you pull that trigger? Just 681 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,680 Speaker 1: like the trigger they pulled in the third round with 682 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:51,080 Speaker 1: Durell Casey, which has turned out to be a pretty 683 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,480 Speaker 1: dog gone good pick. I don't think it's crazy, I 684 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,680 Speaker 1: really don't. I mean, and again, this tight ends have 685 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,920 Speaker 1: been a popular pick fans, been a popular pick for 686 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,719 Speaker 1: the Titans since February, and he can run and and 687 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,799 Speaker 1: now that this team has found another rusher and camera way, 688 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:06,800 Speaker 1: this team has filled one of his guard spots and 689 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,480 Speaker 1: Roger Saffold. Obviously, Adam Humphreys was a big addition. You know, 690 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:14,759 Speaker 1: you got your backup quarterback in Ryan Tannehill. I think 691 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,680 Speaker 1: you've got more options as a result of what's happened 692 00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,080 Speaker 1: so far, and you can always plug holes with other 693 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,239 Speaker 1: guys that are still out there in free agency. So 694 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,840 Speaker 1: I don't look at tight End and think this is 695 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,200 Speaker 1: crazy talk. I mean, I think it's a I'm not 696 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,560 Speaker 1: saying it's gonna happen, but I think it's it's not 697 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,160 Speaker 1: outside the rum of possibility. What leads us right into 698 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:37,320 Speaker 1: our next topic, which is the Division and we wanted 699 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:41,160 Speaker 1: to preview the Indianapolis Colts and what they're into right 700 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,799 Speaker 1: now while Jim was here, because obviously the Titans are 701 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,800 Speaker 1: looking for special players to potentially knock off a Colts 702 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,920 Speaker 1: team that one night of their last ten games, lost 703 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,040 Speaker 1: in the divisional round, but was truly as hot as 704 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:59,200 Speaker 1: anybody going into the playoffs and played well at the 705 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,439 Speaker 1: end of the year. They have chosen to resign their 706 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,600 Speaker 1: own guys, which is a big part of what they did. 707 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,160 Speaker 1: Mark Lewinsky, one of their guards, is back. So now 708 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,160 Speaker 1: they are assured of having all five starting offensive lineman 709 00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,239 Speaker 1: back Margus Hunt played well in the offensive line, and 710 00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,839 Speaker 1: then Pierre de Sere and Clayton Gathers playing in the secondary. 711 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,200 Speaker 1: They've added a pass rusher in Justin Houston along with 712 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:27,960 Speaker 1: a free agent wide receiver and I'm talking about Devin Funcis. 713 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,600 Speaker 1: So only two of those guys there you see the 714 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:36,800 Speaker 1: restricteds the two unrestricteds. Funcis and Houston would be next. 715 00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:42,440 Speaker 1: And then they have kept their restricted free agents as well, 716 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:48,400 Speaker 1: including wide receiver Chester Rogers, and that list is solid. 717 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,160 Speaker 1: So they've done a good job their needs. Guess what 718 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,839 Speaker 1: edge rusher? They need a second wide receiver to go 719 00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,320 Speaker 1: with t Y Hilton. They want to add that second 720 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:06,320 Speaker 1: wide receiver, safety and also linebacker. There they are edge rusher, 721 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:10,040 Speaker 1: wide receivers, safety, and linebacker. And then let's look at 722 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,840 Speaker 1: their picks. I don't want to, well you have to, 723 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,719 Speaker 1: you're on the show. They have a late first round 724 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,719 Speaker 1: pick and then they have the Jets second round pick 725 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 1: at thirty four. They have fifty nine eighty nine one 726 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,680 Speaker 1: twenty nine, one, one sixty four, one ninety nine and 727 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,880 Speaker 1: two forty. They can draft all those players and continue 728 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:35,040 Speaker 1: to keep their payroll low and they are still over 729 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,040 Speaker 1: I think seventy million dollars under the cap right now 730 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,080 Speaker 1: was the last figure I saw. Those tend to fluctuate, 731 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,839 Speaker 1: but they have plenty of money, or if they want 732 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:45,839 Speaker 1: to make some kind of deal and go up and 733 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:49,399 Speaker 1: get a special player, they can sort of do what 734 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:53,320 Speaker 1: the Titans did a year ago and try to target spots. 735 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:57,399 Speaker 1: The Colts are in the catbird seat, Jim why they are? 736 00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,400 Speaker 1: And I talked to John Clayton at the owner's meetings 737 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,920 Speaker 1: and I was asking a Titans related question and he 738 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,760 Speaker 1: spun it toward the Colts and pretty much, uh said 739 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,360 Speaker 1: what I think a lot of people feel, and that 740 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:12,799 Speaker 1: they're they are the team to beat in the AFC South. Now, 741 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,680 Speaker 1: the Titans obviously want to have something to say about that, 742 00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:20,080 Speaker 1: and we'll have something to say about that, but got 743 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,160 Speaker 1: to figure out a way to beat these guys. I 744 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,279 Speaker 1: like what they've done. I think they've got a really 745 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:30,880 Speaker 1: smart general manager. They've obviously got a quarterback who was 746 00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,960 Speaker 1: returned to form, and uh, you know, adding justin Houston, 747 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,799 Speaker 1: I think will provide a boost. But you but you're 748 00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,480 Speaker 1: rolled off the draft picks. I mean that they're in 749 00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,759 Speaker 1: a pretty good spot as being able to able to 750 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:45,920 Speaker 1: fill some more needs. Their offensive line is in great shape. 751 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:47,839 Speaker 1: I mean they proved that last year and how they 752 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:54,200 Speaker 1: protected Andrew Luck. So you'll look at the division and 753 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,520 Speaker 1: I think I think the Colts of the team you 754 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:00,759 Speaker 1: have to worry about the most. Me stop you there, 755 00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:07,000 Speaker 1: last question for you? Are they the AFC favorite? With 756 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:11,120 Speaker 1: what's happened and uh in New England and and Gonkowski 757 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:16,040 Speaker 1: retired if he stays retired. Uh, I think you could 758 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,000 Speaker 1: make a very strong case for that. I think you 759 00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:21,760 Speaker 1: can too, Jim White, great stuff from you as always. 760 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,760 Speaker 1: How do people follow you on Twitter at j Wyatt Sports? 761 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,640 Speaker 1: Is how you follow me on Twitter and Instagram? And 762 00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,319 Speaker 1: uh be writing stories on Titans on line and now 763 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,160 Speaker 1: I'll put those stories on Facebook as well. So what's this? 764 00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,240 Speaker 1: Give us a hit on the story today? Uh? Today, 765 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:42,680 Speaker 1: I put it put out the mailbag and uh every 766 00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:46,839 Speaker 1: Tuesday and Saturday, and uh, it's just crazy where these 767 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,279 Speaker 1: questions come from. Maybe take a picture of the draft 768 00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,160 Speaker 1: hat there. That's a good look at hat. Yeah, that's 769 00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,280 Speaker 1: got to start pumping this up here on the OTP. 770 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,600 Speaker 1: We have to start pumping it up out leave now. 771 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,439 Speaker 1: Maybe Jim will watch the show between now and next Yeah, 772 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,040 Speaker 1: that would be really nice. One reason to watch this show, 773 00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,759 Speaker 1: Thank you, Jim, Thank you. One reason to watch this 774 00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:09,759 Speaker 1: show is Amy Wells and her fine reporting, especially her 775 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:15,319 Speaker 1: fine reporting from Hawaii. Yeah, yesterday we saw you at 776 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,640 Speaker 1: the golf tournament with Marcus Mario to the Motivate Golf Tournament. 777 00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:22,040 Speaker 1: We found out a lot about what he's doing for charity. 778 00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,600 Speaker 1: Today we take a different turn and you had a 779 00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,759 Speaker 1: chance to sit down and, as we like to say 780 00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:30,799 Speaker 1: in the South, talk ball absolutely number with number eight. Well, 781 00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,239 Speaker 1: I mean we went all that way. We had to 782 00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,120 Speaker 1: ask him some football questions, but really I had to 783 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:40,400 Speaker 1: start asking by asking him how much time he actually 784 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:53,960 Speaker 1: gets to spend in beautiful Hawaii. What does the offseason 785 00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,160 Speaker 1: kind of look like for you? Are you bouncing around 786 00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,680 Speaker 1: a lot? Are you here? What does a typical day 787 00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:00,320 Speaker 1: or a couple days look like for you during the 788 00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:04,080 Speaker 1: off season? Oh, you know what, this office has been 789 00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:07,040 Speaker 1: a little different from me usually this time of the year. 790 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,680 Speaker 1: I'm in California with my agent and the trainer that 791 00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:15,719 Speaker 1: I work with. But through the season, and you know, 792 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,760 Speaker 1: really what kind of happened. I wanted to come home 793 00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,480 Speaker 1: and really just kind of be around people that I 794 00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:25,880 Speaker 1: loved and supported me. So I really spend probably since January, 795 00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,000 Speaker 1: I've been in and out really being here in Hawaii, 796 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:29,920 Speaker 1: which is the first time I think I've been home 797 00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:32,799 Speaker 1: for more than maybe a month at a time since 798 00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:34,400 Speaker 1: high school. So it was nice to be able to 799 00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,120 Speaker 1: be here, to train, to rehab, to kind of do 800 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,560 Speaker 1: everything here at home. It's kind of fun. You get 801 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,320 Speaker 1: you get to be kind of the Middle Pacific. You 802 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,120 Speaker 1: don't get many of his phone calls, you don't get 803 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,719 Speaker 1: many media requests. So it's been nice to be able 804 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,680 Speaker 1: to do that and to enjoy some time off where 805 00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,239 Speaker 1: I can feel a little bit more recuperated and ready 806 00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:56,080 Speaker 1: to go back to Nashville. So is it safe to 807 00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,080 Speaker 1: say that this place is kind of your sanctuary? Yeah, 808 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:03,120 Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt. Um, you know, and like we 809 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,160 Speaker 1: talked about it, it takes a village to raise a child, 810 00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:08,200 Speaker 1: and every time I come home, I feel there's there's 811 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,360 Speaker 1: like a little protection, you know, they all kind of 812 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,560 Speaker 1: you know, no matter what I'm doing you know, whether 813 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,279 Speaker 1: I'm at the beach or you know, playing golf or 814 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,680 Speaker 1: working out, you know, people tend to just say hello, 815 00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:22,799 Speaker 1: you know, show their support, and for me that means 816 00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:24,480 Speaker 1: a lot. And uh, it's nice to be able to 817 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:28,480 Speaker 1: come back, come back here and enjoy that. Tell me 818 00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:30,920 Speaker 1: about how you're feeling right now. You're feeling good, You're 819 00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:32,920 Speaker 1: feeling like things are getting back on track for you. 820 00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,520 Speaker 1: I would say, so, yeah, Um, you know, I'm getting 821 00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,840 Speaker 1: close to feeling a whole lot better. Um, you know, 822 00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,160 Speaker 1: it's taking a little bit of while, a little while. Um. Well, 823 00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,680 Speaker 1: that was what was kind of weird for me, was, uh, 824 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,080 Speaker 1: this offseason. It wasn't necessarily like hey you can do 825 00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:49,799 Speaker 1: more reps and you can feel better. It was like, hey, 826 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,600 Speaker 1: you shouldn't do anything and you'll feel better. Um. So 827 00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:56,000 Speaker 1: it was kind of a different aspect for me. Um, 828 00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:58,080 Speaker 1: you know, I've always kind of felt more is better, 829 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,080 Speaker 1: but this time, you know, whether the doctors, whether it's 830 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:04,360 Speaker 1: you know, the rehab people here or with Todd and 831 00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,759 Speaker 1: those guys, it was more, hey, you know, let's let's 832 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:11,000 Speaker 1: just take some time off and get your body right. Um. 833 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,279 Speaker 1: So I'm feeling a lot better. I'm looking forward to 834 00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:16,239 Speaker 1: being back in Nashville and continuing that process with Todd 835 00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,560 Speaker 1: and those guys. I think, um, you know now with 836 00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,760 Speaker 1: new coaching strength, the conditioning staff. Um, you know, we're 837 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:23,600 Speaker 1: excited to be able to get back forward. As a 838 00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:28,080 Speaker 1: guy who's not used to taking that slowdown period, do 839 00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,560 Speaker 1: you feel like you're itching a little bit? Oh yeah, back, yes, absolutely, 840 00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,800 Speaker 1: and h the excitement you know, it always comes around, 841 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:36,359 Speaker 1: but you know, I can't really feel it this year, 842 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,680 Speaker 1: and um, it's it's fun because again, you know, we 843 00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,000 Speaker 1: got a good core group of guys that have been 844 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,640 Speaker 1: there since really my rookie year. Um, and we've kind 845 00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,759 Speaker 1: of always consistently got better. Um, you're going to put 846 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:51,080 Speaker 1: three winning seasons together is an awesome foundation now to 847 00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:52,799 Speaker 1: skill take the next step. And I think we're ready 848 00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,919 Speaker 1: to do this. You're going to have your core group 849 00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,680 Speaker 1: of guys in terms of skill players back, everyone's still 850 00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,800 Speaker 1: going to be there. Plus the of Adam Humphreys. Is 851 00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:03,759 Speaker 1: there a lot to be excited about for you. You 852 00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:05,839 Speaker 1: have a lot of things to play with now for sure, 853 00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:09,680 Speaker 1: for sure, and you know it as we continue forward. Um, 854 00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,360 Speaker 1: you know, the the young core group of receivers that 855 00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,240 Speaker 1: we got are going to learn and continue to grow. Um. 856 00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:16,879 Speaker 1: You know, I'm excited for Corey. He made a huge 857 00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,399 Speaker 1: step last season. You know, Taji is another guy that's 858 00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,080 Speaker 1: continuing to grow. And then you got Tay who can 859 00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:24,080 Speaker 1: really just take the top off of the defenses. So UM, 860 00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:25,680 Speaker 1: you know, I'm excited to get that core group of 861 00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,960 Speaker 1: guys again back together. And then when you throw the 862 00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:30,280 Speaker 1: old guy de Lanny back in there, um, it's definitely 863 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,560 Speaker 1: gonna help. So you know, no matter what, we've got 864 00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,160 Speaker 1: a great team. Um. You know, we all just got 865 00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,560 Speaker 1: to continue to work and to listen to Art. I 866 00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:40,040 Speaker 1: think Arts got a great vision for us, um, and 867 00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,600 Speaker 1: then from there just go out there. Import You're really 868 00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,480 Speaker 1: familiar with Arthur Smith. He's been around for a long time. 869 00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:48,879 Speaker 1: Why do you think he's going to be the guy? Well, 870 00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,600 Speaker 1: I think he you know, for one, just loves the game. 871 00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:55,680 Speaker 1: His passion, his drive. You know you could see it 872 00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,480 Speaker 1: with the with how he coaches the tight ends. UM, 873 00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,920 Speaker 1: and now he's able to take that and really kind 874 00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,440 Speaker 1: of spread across the entire offense. And I'm really excited. 875 00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,960 Speaker 1: He's a great mind. M somebody that I feel has 876 00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:09,719 Speaker 1: been around the game on both sides. Of the ball. 877 00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,640 Speaker 1: So I'm really excited. I'm really excited to learn from 878 00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:14,720 Speaker 1: him because I think he's got such a good feel 879 00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:17,880 Speaker 1: So we're you know, I think everybody's really excited to 880 00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,680 Speaker 1: get back. Marcus Mariota, why are you excited about the 881 00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:23,759 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen season. I think we have an opportunity to 882 00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:27,279 Speaker 1: make the next step. I'm excited to get healthy. I'm 883 00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:30,400 Speaker 1: excited to go back out there with our guys again. 884 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:33,520 Speaker 1: We've got a solid foundation and for us right now, 885 00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,160 Speaker 1: I think we're always kind of getting better. I think 886 00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,600 Speaker 1: Coach Rabel's got a vision for us, and um, as 887 00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:43,000 Speaker 1: we continue to push towards that vision, I think wind 888 00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:50,600 Speaker 1: up where we want to get. That just got me 889 00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,080 Speaker 1: fired up, didn't It just got me fired up for 890 00:48:53,120 --> 00:49:00,200 Speaker 1: two reasons, Amy Wells. It feels like he's rested, His 891 00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:06,040 Speaker 1: batteries are charged physically and mentally. Is that was that 892 00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:09,319 Speaker 1: your takeaway sitting down with him last week? Oh? Absolutely, 893 00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,399 Speaker 1: he's ready to get the band back together and get 894 00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,200 Speaker 1: started again. He's ready to go. He's itching to get back, 895 00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:17,920 Speaker 1: as he said, And um, but how could you not 896 00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,719 Speaker 1: be recharged in a place like Hawaii? What a beautiful 897 00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:24,040 Speaker 1: place to get your get your mojo back. Yeah, it's 898 00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,160 Speaker 1: a good place to be. My parents were there last 899 00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:29,640 Speaker 1: week and they and they came and they came back saying, 900 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:31,960 Speaker 1: you know, I've just talked to him briefly, but saying 901 00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:36,200 Speaker 1: the same thing is that you understand why he feels 902 00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,880 Speaker 1: the way he does about where he's from because that 903 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:43,200 Speaker 1: culture is so special. No offense to anybody else, but 904 00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:48,000 Speaker 1: that's just such a unique, wonderful place to be from. 905 00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,680 Speaker 1: And uh, really a great thing for him to have 906 00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:55,200 Speaker 1: this opportunity at this point in his life at twenty five, 907 00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,640 Speaker 1: getting ready for this big year. Absolutely everything that we 908 00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,400 Speaker 1: see about Marcus Mario and we say, oh, that's that's special. 909 00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:05,680 Speaker 1: He's a special guy. That's how a lot of people 910 00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,880 Speaker 1: are there. And it was just so cool to see 911 00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:12,120 Speaker 1: the people that raised him and the people that made him. 912 00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,560 Speaker 1: And it was a really special trip and we have 913 00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:16,359 Speaker 1: so much more to share that I'm excited to did 914 00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,719 Speaker 1: a great job. You did a great job. I know 915 00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,239 Speaker 1: people will appreciate seeing that interview. They want to know 916 00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:22,680 Speaker 1: what's going on with the quarterback. You know who else 917 00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:24,560 Speaker 1: does a great job. I'm proud of this guy, tokes 918 00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:28,319 Speaker 1: Aquoy You Tennessee Titans marketing coordinator. Who's here with us? 919 00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:31,000 Speaker 1: How are right? Did you start with us as an intern? 920 00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,440 Speaker 1: I did? Yeah, did look at it? And now he's 921 00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:37,400 Speaker 1: a marketing coordinator. Yeah, Murphy's for a guy we're proud 922 00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:41,439 Speaker 1: of you appreciate it. Yes, my office tolks right, he's 923 00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:43,960 Speaker 1: my bodyguard for a year. All right. Now, he's got 924 00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:47,520 Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff going because with this draft, we've 925 00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,480 Speaker 1: told everybody one of the reasons we're doing OTP Road 926 00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:52,839 Speaker 1: to Nashville is all of the things going on with it. 927 00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,040 Speaker 1: So let's let's hit some of the high points. Of course, 928 00:50:56,280 --> 00:51:01,560 Speaker 1: through a Titan social media contest, someone could have an 929 00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:05,600 Speaker 1: amazing experience the first night of the draft, but then 930 00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,719 Speaker 1: for days and weeks to come, what can you win 931 00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,840 Speaker 1: and how do you enter this? So we are running 932 00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,600 Speaker 1: a music city experience through the NFL and their NFL 933 00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,400 Speaker 1: one hundred. They wanted each team to do a unique 934 00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:22,400 Speaker 1: eventum unique experience for their fans, celebrating obviously the one 935 00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:26,200 Speaker 1: hundred hundredth season. And so this experience that we have 936 00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:29,200 Speaker 1: includes two tickets to a concert Nissan Stadium, a tour 937 00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,360 Speaker 1: of Nissan Stadium. You mean you get to pick the concert. 938 00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,040 Speaker 1: You get picked the concert. Yeah cool, which is a 939 00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:36,960 Speaker 1: great yeah, great experience. Attraction passes, attraction passes. So the 940 00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:41,400 Speaker 1: CBC UM, the Convention of Visitor corp UH decided to 941 00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,920 Speaker 1: give us an attraction pass. So thirty different attractions throughout 942 00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:48,560 Speaker 1: middle Tennessee. Um, you get a two person passed to it, 943 00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:52,160 Speaker 1: which is an awesome, awesome, awesome experience. Um, we'll give 944 00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:55,480 Speaker 1: them a Titans swag bag as well, UM, which includes 945 00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:59,799 Speaker 1: a Titans helmet. Um, you get by my helmet. I know, 946 00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:04,919 Speaker 1: the new helmets are very sweet. They're totally sweet. Yeah, 947 00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:06,799 Speaker 1: so you get. But let's look at this thing at 948 00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:11,560 Speaker 1: the bottom. Yeah, so this is so April twenty fifth. Yep, 949 00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:16,240 Speaker 1: we say. And with the nineteenth pick, the Tennessee Titans 950 00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:20,759 Speaker 1: select to Sequoia, you know. And and so you come out. 951 00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:23,960 Speaker 1: You give the commissioner the big hug. If I win 952 00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,480 Speaker 1: this contest, I get to walk up and hand this 953 00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:31,040 Speaker 1: hat yep to the player. Yep. So backstage, you're backstage 954 00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:34,680 Speaker 1: the obviously the players backstage, they're celebrating with their family. 955 00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:36,799 Speaker 1: I do anything to do that. They get a walk 956 00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:39,959 Speaker 1: right by you. You're the one hand in the hat 957 00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,239 Speaker 1: right to that player. Before he gets we enter this, 958 00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,200 Speaker 1: so you'll be entering it via social media. Um. So, 959 00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,600 Speaker 1: we have a landing page on our website, which is 960 00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:50,360 Speaker 1: I believe it's Titans Online dot com slash a Draft 961 00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:57,080 Speaker 1: MC m c E Music City Experience. There. It is 962 00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,600 Speaker 1: well played there, it is well done. Well. That's not 963 00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:01,880 Speaker 1: the only thing that people can win, though, right. You 964 00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:05,799 Speaker 1: can also win a chance, to make sure I'm saying 965 00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:09,320 Speaker 1: this right, a chance to announce one of our draft 966 00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:12,880 Speaker 1: picks live from the draft stage on day three. That 967 00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:15,480 Speaker 1: can't be real. That is real. That is real. So 968 00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:20,000 Speaker 1: we'll announce that contest next week Monday. Um. And yeah, 969 00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:25,040 Speaker 1: you're gonna come back on Monday or if you need me, 970 00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:28,480 Speaker 1: I'll be here. Um. But yeah, you'll you'll you'll be backstage. 971 00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:30,600 Speaker 1: You'll get a hang out back there. Um. And then 972 00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:33,680 Speaker 1: obviously as as Day three is going on, when Titans 973 00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,920 Speaker 1: are making their pick, we'll announce you. You'll get to 974 00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:37,880 Speaker 1: walk out there on the draft stage with the card 975 00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,560 Speaker 1: um and announce in front of hundreds of thousands of 976 00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:44,359 Speaker 1: people downtown NFL Draft Experience. Yep, it's gonna be big 977 00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:48,280 Speaker 1: time cool at Nissan Stadium. We heard a lot about 978 00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,239 Speaker 1: Dallas you don't think it's cool, No, you just a 979 00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:55,120 Speaker 1: big time cool And that just really got me. That's better. 980 00:53:55,760 --> 00:54:00,239 Speaker 1: Is there anything Titan centric in the NFL experience the 981 00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,919 Speaker 1: campus of Nissan Stadium, There is, there is, And so 982 00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:06,920 Speaker 1: inside the big Draft Experience, which I'm hoping every single 983 00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,960 Speaker 1: fan gets a chance to go and go and enjoy UM. 984 00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:13,040 Speaker 1: On the Play sixty clinic field, we'll have a little 985 00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:17,000 Speaker 1: Titans area kind of activation space with photo ops, will 986 00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:21,759 Speaker 1: have giveaways, um, We'll have alumni autographs, cheerleaders will be 987 00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:26,680 Speaker 1: participating UM that Thursday at twelve when the Draft Experience 988 00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:29,839 Speaker 1: opens for the first time, our Blue Crew drum line 989 00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:33,840 Speaker 1: will be out there performing. Yeah, which they're They're fantastic obviously. 990 00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:36,759 Speaker 1: Amy Amy loves them as well. Our owner, she's she's 991 00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,160 Speaker 1: a big fan of them. They got her drumsticks as 992 00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:41,359 Speaker 1: well that she she always has and she'll go out 993 00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:43,839 Speaker 1: there and play with them sometimes before four game day. 994 00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:46,560 Speaker 1: That's so cool. All right, here's a question for you. 995 00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:49,640 Speaker 1: If I'm a fan and I want some Titan swag, 996 00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:52,239 Speaker 1: where am I going to get that swag? You're gonna 997 00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:54,200 Speaker 1: go to our to our area on that Place sixty 998 00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:56,680 Speaker 1: field to go get some Titan swag as well. We'll 999 00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:59,080 Speaker 1: have our street team, which is our tighten up team, 1000 00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,719 Speaker 1: that will be all over downtown, all over draft experience. 1001 00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,399 Speaker 1: They'll have backpacks, you'll see them. They'll have game day 1002 00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,160 Speaker 1: jerseys on and hats. They'll just be handed out, just 1003 00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:11,759 Speaker 1: free swag to everybody. All right, sweet, Look, so let's 1004 00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:14,239 Speaker 1: get to the big one. We've heard there could be 1005 00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:20,719 Speaker 1: a big announcement today about what famous person or persons 1006 00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:24,080 Speaker 1: is making the Titans fourth round selection. So can you 1007 00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,360 Speaker 1: tell us? I can tell you. I can tell you 1008 00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:30,360 Speaker 1: now Officially, uh Grammy Award winning band uh Cage the 1009 00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:34,160 Speaker 1: Elephant will be announcing our fourth round pick. Bowling Green, 1010 00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:37,520 Speaker 1: Kentucky's Kentucky's. I love those guys, Yeah, huge Tay one 1011 00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:40,440 Speaker 1: Taylor fan, they love them. Oh yeah, yeah, that's awesome. 1012 00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:44,839 Speaker 1: That's really cool. Yeah, from life from the draft stage. 1013 00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:47,839 Speaker 1: Those are friendly looking guys. They are well, they're from 1014 00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:51,240 Speaker 1: Bowling Green. There, you gotta be good people. To Sequoia. 1015 00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:53,400 Speaker 1: Thanks for stopping by, of course, happy to be all right. 1016 00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:55,600 Speaker 1: You can stick around for our Take three segment, which 1017 00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,160 Speaker 1: is going to have to go fast. Amy wells Take 1018 00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,680 Speaker 1: three tell them how they can send in their send 1019 00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:03,919 Speaker 1: questions to me at Titans Amy, send them my way 1020 00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:06,680 Speaker 1: and we'll get him. Asked right here on the OTP 1021 00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:09,200 Speaker 1: road to Nashville, Mike Keith, here's the first question, and 1022 00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:11,960 Speaker 1: this is all the way from Germany. Carl from Germany. 1023 00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:16,080 Speaker 1: From Germany, he asked, how will the change to having 1024 00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:19,760 Speaker 1: Arthur Smith as the offensive coordinator impact the Titans offense? 1025 00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,600 Speaker 1: And how will that change the way John Robinson approaches 1026 00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:24,920 Speaker 1: the draft. I think the good news is it doesn't 1027 00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:29,240 Speaker 1: have to impact anything because they don't have to change much. 1028 00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:32,640 Speaker 1: And in doing so, I think he can pick the 1029 00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:35,600 Speaker 1: pieces in parts or sign guys who are out there 1030 00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,280 Speaker 1: who sort of give the Titans a boost. There's nothing 1031 00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:42,200 Speaker 1: they have to do, it's what they decide they want 1032 00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:44,799 Speaker 1: to do, which is why sticking with Arthur was such 1033 00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:48,520 Speaker 1: a good move. Jane from Brentwood asks who would be 1034 00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:53,879 Speaker 1: your dream guest on the OTP. Who's yours? You want 1035 00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:56,879 Speaker 1: me to go first? Sure? Justin Timberly. I agree. I 1036 00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:00,719 Speaker 1: think that he would be the best guest that we 1037 00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:05,000 Speaker 1: could have. He's a local guy sports see, he loves sports. 1038 00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,920 Speaker 1: He's funny, funny. Yeah, that is my guest, justin Timberlake. 1039 00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,439 Speaker 1: If you're listening to the OTP Road to Nashville Police, 1040 00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:13,919 Speaker 1: Come bere time to get on board. Yeah, you've done 1041 00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,920 Speaker 1: the Grizzlies. We're for the Grizzlies to hop on the Titans. 1042 00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:19,560 Speaker 1: This is football, so yeah, we would love to have you. 1043 00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:22,160 Speaker 1: Mine's actually Garth Brooks. Oh, that would be a good 1044 00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:26,200 Speaker 1: Greth Brooks love sports. I know Nashville guy understands what 1045 00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:28,680 Speaker 1: a big deal this draft is. I would just like 1046 00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:31,120 Speaker 1: to sit and talk ball with Garth Brooks. Would he 1047 00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:33,280 Speaker 1: bring Tricia? You're right? If he would, that would make 1048 00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:35,720 Speaker 1: me even happen. That would be so great. Okay, here's 1049 00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:39,680 Speaker 1: the last question. Austin from Chattanooga says, where is coach Mack? 1050 00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,080 Speaker 1: When is he going to be on the show. He's 1051 00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:44,240 Speaker 1: sitting right there tomorrow. All right, there you go off. 1052 00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:48,280 Speaker 1: That leads us into Dave McGinnis is on the OTP 1053 00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:52,360 Speaker 1: Road to Nashville tomorrow. It's only fitting that with Dave 1054 00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:56,120 Speaker 1: McGinnis on the show, we will be previewing edge rushers 1055 00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:59,520 Speaker 1: and he will also take us through the new rule 1056 00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:04,760 Speaker 1: which allows pass interference to be reviewed impact on the game. 1057 00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:08,479 Speaker 1: All of that a lot of Coach Mac meaning we'll 1058 00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:11,160 Speaker 1: just wind him up and let him go. It'll be 1059 00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:16,400 Speaker 1: the OTP Road to Nashville tomorrow with Coach Mack. Before 1060 00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:19,280 Speaker 1: we let you go one more time to Sequoia. Where 1061 00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,080 Speaker 1: do people go to register for the Music City experience? 1062 00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:25,600 Speaker 1: So going to either on social media. We'll be tweeting it, 1063 00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,360 Speaker 1: We'll be posting on Facebook, Instagram. But as well Tightens 1064 00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,880 Speaker 1: online dot com, slash draft MC, and you could do 1065 00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:36,200 Speaker 1: this on the stage draft in the stagey. Thank you 1066 00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:39,760 Speaker 1: of course, maybe Well's great job happen here. Thanks to 1067 00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:42,840 Speaker 1: everybody for being with us. Cage the Elephant will make 1068 00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:44,960 Speaker 1: the fourth round pick for the Titans on April the 1069 00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:49,520 Speaker 1: twenty seven. It's awesome. Lots of good stuff happening twenty 1070 00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:52,560 Speaker 1: three days until players are drafted in Nashville. Have a 1071 00:58:52,560 --> 00:59:00,520 Speaker 1: great day, everybody. One day a learn