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Speaker 1: This is the Official Titans Podcast, presented by Farm Bureau

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Speaker 1: Health Plans with Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith and we're

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Speaker 1: joined by Titans General Manager John Robinson. John, thanks for

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Speaker 1: being with us this morning. Good to be back all again. Michael,

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Speaker 1: you guys are doing well. It's good to be back

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Speaker 1: on the OTP. And we always welcome Amy Wells and

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Speaker 1: we also welcome season ticket members. We have Amy another

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Speaker 1: live audience for this. John Robinson addition of the OTP.

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Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying having live audiences for these shows. I

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Speaker 1: think we thrive with an audience, or you do, Mike,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if we thrive, but

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Speaker 1: we love having and we love having the season ticket

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Speaker 1: members as a part of it. And Amy. We want

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Speaker 1: to take their questions again for the GM. Tell them

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Speaker 1: to Twitter and use hashtag oh tp Q. We'll be

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Speaker 1: able to see your questions and I will ask them

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Speaker 1: of the general manager right here. General manager, how have

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Speaker 1: you recovered from the draft being over with No, it's

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Speaker 1: had no issues. Technically, we came away with some really

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Speaker 1: good football players. Attack the post draft process after you know,

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Speaker 1: the draft kind of wound down there, and then you know,

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Speaker 1: to look at players and bolster this team. John, what

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Speaker 1: have you been doing in the last couple of days

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Speaker 1: since the draft ended. Yeah, updating our depth chart, Um,

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Speaker 1: getting a little bit of rest, um, trying not to

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Speaker 1: lot of stars have emerged from the twenty twenty draft,

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Speaker 1: none more so than your daughter's Taylored Bailey. Their their

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Speaker 1: role in what we got a chance to see from

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Speaker 1: the Robinson household was fantastic. Give us your final review

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Speaker 1: of how they did and what the response has been. No,

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Speaker 1: spin off from the draft. This is the otp presented

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Speaker 1: by Farm Bureau Health Plans. We have a live audience

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Speaker 1: for this edition with John Robinson Titans season ticket members

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Speaker 1: Amy Wells. One more time before we jump into some

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Speaker 1: otp qes we got at Tennessee Titans dot com. Tell

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Speaker 1: people how they can send in their questions right now.

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Speaker 1: Head on over to the Twitter machine, use hashtag otp Q,

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Speaker 1: He it wants to know what was it like drafting

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Speaker 1: What are our free agent priorities post draft? Yeah? I

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Speaker 1: And John, that's what you want. You want those rabid

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Speaker 1: means we're definitely a go and we're going to teach

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Speaker 1: this thing up and get after and trying to make

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Speaker 1: another run at this thing. So get involved with the

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Speaker 1: twenty second Element Tennessee Titans dot Com slash st M.

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Speaker 1: Back to the questions on the OTP, amy Wells is

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Speaker 1: taking them at Twitter hashtag OTPQ. Do you want the one?

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Speaker 1: You want me to do? One? You do one? Mike, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to Huntsville, Alabama and Joseph with the

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Speaker 1: question that I think a lot of people has have

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Speaker 1: of our first through third round draft picks, that of

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Speaker 1: course being Isaiah Wilson, Kristen Fulton, and Darrnton Evans. Do

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Speaker 1: you anticipate they will make much of an impact on

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Speaker 1: the field this fault. Yeah. I mean, we certainly hope

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Speaker 1: they do. We hope all these guys, you know, all

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Speaker 1: the guys that we picked in our undrafted guys come

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Speaker 1: in and compete and and find a role and find

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Speaker 1: a way to help the team win. That's why that's

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Speaker 1: why we picked them. Um, that will be depending up

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Speaker 1: on them, you know, how quickly they can, like I said,

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Speaker 1: assimilate themselves to our offense or defense. Um. But those guys,

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Speaker 1: I know the type of makeup players that they are. Um,

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Speaker 1: they're excited to be a part of our football team.

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Speaker 1: They want to contribute. Um. They all talked about watching

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Speaker 1: our team last year down the stretch in January, how

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Speaker 1: excited they were to kind of watch you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: the underdog items make a run and stoked to be

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Speaker 1: a part of our team in our organization. I want

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Speaker 1: to ask you about the fourth guy that you picked

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Speaker 1: in terms of order, and that was in the fifth round,

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Speaker 1: and we're talking about Laurell Murchison from NC State, Big merch.

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Speaker 1: What do you like about him on the defensive line?

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Speaker 1: His his tape excited a lot of people after you

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Speaker 1: picked him. Yeah, I mean he was a guy honestly,

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Speaker 1: we uh when I closed up shop on Friday night,

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Speaker 1: I had kind of circled him, um as a guy

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Speaker 1: that I was hoping would be there. You know, it

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Speaker 1: was gonna be sixty seven picks that we were going

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Speaker 1: to have to weather. Um, but he was a guy

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Speaker 1: that had some position versatility along the along the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage their own defense. You know, he's played three techniques.

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Speaker 1: He's played over the tackle at four technique, a little

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Speaker 1: bit outside at five technique, and he's paid played over

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Speaker 1: the center at knows um, so he can play several

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Speaker 1: different positions. Um, he's got good feed, he's got good hips.

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Speaker 1: You know that's important for those defensive linemen when they're

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Speaker 1: trying to rush in there, or can they can they

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Speaker 1: flip their hips? Can they get on the edge of

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Speaker 1: some of those guards and centers and try to get

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Speaker 1: through a small gap to get to the quarterback. Um,

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Speaker 1: And he's got good length, you know, so you know

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Speaker 1: we'll work with his technique, but he was a productive

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Speaker 1: player there there at NC State, and UM, we were

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Speaker 1: just excited that he was still there in the fifth

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Speaker 1: round when we were picking. All right, here's a question

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Speaker 1: from hashtag o t p Q. This is from Seth.

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Speaker 1: He says, great draft. Really excited to watch the new

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Speaker 1: Titans this season. Can you discuss the decision of drafting

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Speaker 1: Cole McDonald. What did you see that you liked that

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Speaker 1: we may not necessarily get from watching his combine performance? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he I mean, he was a guy that he was

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Speaker 1: an early declared junior. He'd put up a ton of

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Speaker 1: yards out there. UM at Hawaii. He had to stay

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Speaker 1: up probably a little late to watch that those Hawaii games.

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Speaker 1: I think that was midnight football UM on ESPNUM. But

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Speaker 1: he was a guy who had really good athleticism. He

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Speaker 1: got the good size. I think he ran high four

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Speaker 1: or five slow four six is at the combine. UM,

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Speaker 1: big arm can make all the throws or some technique

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Speaker 1: things that he's got he's got to kind of work on,

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Speaker 1: and he's already doing that. UM. He said us some

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Speaker 1: video in the week leading up to what you know, mechanically,

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Speaker 1: some things he's trying to tweak. UM. He had outstanding

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Speaker 1: meetings with Arthur Smith or a coordinator, and Pat O'Hare,

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Speaker 1: a quarterback coach. They raved about his intelligence. Um, and

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Speaker 1: you know in the seventh round, he was a guy

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Speaker 1: that who had had a ton of tools. Um that

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Speaker 1: if we can just kind of keep working with him

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Speaker 1: and keep improving him, you know, we think he can

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Speaker 1: help our football team. So um, that was kind of

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Speaker 1: the decision and that went into picking him there. Like

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Speaker 1: Will on Twitter asks, does the league have to formally

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Speaker 1: approve trades before they are announced? Yeah? So what happens

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Speaker 1: is like once when a team, like when when we

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Speaker 1: swapped a seventh with Kansas City there in the seventh

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Speaker 1: round for their sixth next year, we will get on

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Speaker 1: the phone with thee I'll talk to Kansas City, we'll

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Speaker 1: work out the trade details or any team that you're

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Speaker 1: trading with, and then somebody from our organization will call

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Speaker 1: the command center at the league, somebody from the other team,

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Speaker 1: Kansas City in this example, they call and they confirm

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Speaker 1: the deal from both sides, and then once the deal

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Speaker 1: is confirmed, they announce it and you're off and running,

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Speaker 1: all right. Last question comes from our OTP cues from

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans dot Com and by the way, always sended

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Speaker 1: your questions to us. Oftentimes we have great guests on

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Speaker 1: the OTP, like John Robinson who can answer them. This

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Speaker 1: one is from Kenneth in Cordova. He said, if the

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Speaker 1: season had to start today, roster as is, do you

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Speaker 1: feel confident in the team's ability to rush the passer? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think so. I mean I think that you know,

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons is going to be back and stronger this

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Speaker 1: year to provide some interior pass rush. Harold Landry's back. Correa,

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Speaker 1: who really played well down the stretch for us, is back.

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Speaker 1: We added Vic Beasley. Coach Rabel does a great job

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Speaker 1: with with scheming up rush, you know, whether that's blitzing

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Speaker 1: the nickel or firing a linebacker, whether it's Rashaan Evans

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Speaker 1: or Jayon Brown or David Longum. We feel like we've

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Speaker 1: got some guys and we've got big Deakuon in the

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Speaker 1: middle in there to push the pocket and power rush.

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Speaker 1: So I think that group of guys in the front

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Speaker 1: seven along with you know, with the scheme that coach

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Speaker 1: Rabel has in place, that we can get after the

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Speaker 1: quarterback and affect the affect the pocket John, great stuff overall, Amy,

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Speaker 1: and I really appreciate you joining us on the OTP

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Speaker 1: presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. Remember, you get the

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Speaker 1: home field advantage with healthcare coverage from Farm Bureau Health Plans.

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Speaker 1: They've been protecting Tennessee and since nineteen forty seven. And

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Speaker 1: that the season ticket members that I've heard from awfully excited.

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Speaker 1: You needed a tackle boom, You needed a corner boom.

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Speaker 1: You needed a running back boom. You needed a versatile

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Speaker 1: defensive lineman boom. I mean, first four picks, the top

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Speaker 1: four needs. At least, as it appeared from the outside,

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Speaker 1: you were able to hit in this draft, and very

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Speaker 1: rarely are you able to strike at four different places.

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Speaker 1: In that way, it sounds like four booms there, Mike gets,

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Speaker 1: uh what we're looking for. Boom boom, bom boom. And

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Speaker 1: again I like like, I like the player's skill set

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Speaker 1: on the field, but I like them as people even more.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're they're great guys, and they're gonna fit

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Speaker 1: in well with this with this football team, and they're

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Speaker 1: they're gonna help us win games on Sundays. Amy, I

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Speaker 1: love the checking end feature that you're doing right now.

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Speaker 1: I love the one with Jeffrey Simmons that you've got

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Speaker 1: out there right now. It looks like Big Jeff's doing

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Speaker 1: a good job. He is. I'm just floored by how

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Speaker 1: many of our players got puppies during the offseason. That's

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Speaker 1: really all I care about is how are you working out?

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Speaker 1: What are you needing to stay healthy and for football?

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Speaker 1: And can I see your new dog? That's basically the

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Speaker 1: entirety of what I'm doing right now. Well, Aby, I

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Speaker 1: have a new dog too, Molly, who's Oh, she's actually

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Speaker 1: in here right now. So a lot of people did

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Speaker 1: get new dogs, but John more interested in Jeffrey's continued

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Speaker 1: progress and and he has been continuing to work on

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Speaker 1: getting the health of that knee to one and being

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Speaker 1: even better in twenty twenty. Yeah, he is. I got

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Speaker 1: I got a video from my rehab staff the other day.

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Speaker 1: He's in there working and he's holding he's standing on

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Speaker 1: like a medicine ball looking thing with one foot, and

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Speaker 1: he's got a kettlebell over his arm and he leans

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Speaker 1: forward and he's switching the kettlebell and balancing. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't do that on like concrete, let alone on

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Speaker 1: some type of medicine. So yeah, he is. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he is really really working hard and it's just got

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Speaker 1: He's got rare athleticism, you know for a man that size.

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Speaker 1: So excited to see him back in inaction here pretty soon. Now,

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Speaker 1: your daughters did blow up the Internet and Twitter and

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Speaker 1: everything with their performance through the draft. But you had

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Speaker 1: a picture when you were with us last time that

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Speaker 1: blew up the internet. You and the eight pound bag

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Speaker 1: of Eminem's. Did the eight pound bag of Eminem's make

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Speaker 1: it through the entire weekend? Is there anything left? Can

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Speaker 1: we get an update? So? Um, funny story after night one, Um,

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Speaker 1: I did take the bag and I put him in

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Speaker 1: a bowl that we could kind of sample there, and

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Speaker 1: I kind of forgotten they were behind me. I forgot

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Speaker 1: kind of about him. And the draft had was over

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Speaker 1: night one in the books. I'm closing everything up and

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Speaker 1: I go down to our kitchen to take throw away

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Speaker 1: some bottles, and I noticed one of our dogs is missing,

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Speaker 1: our young one, Dexter. I go back to find Dexter

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Speaker 1: beside the minem bowl and he's going, oh no, he

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Speaker 1: part took of I don't know how many. He's alive.

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Speaker 1: He's fine, good, But there was slabber on the side

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Speaker 1: of the Eminem bowl and there were several wets, so

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Speaker 1: none of the Eminem's were eaten during the draft. However,

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Speaker 1: our dog Dexter didn't knock a few down post draft

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Speaker 1: on Thursday night. Dexter's Okay, Hey, John, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: We always enjoy being with you and exciting time for

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Speaker 1: the Titans and their fans. As you add new players,

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Speaker 1: I know you have more work to do. There'll be

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Speaker 1: more news coming out over the next few weeks. Is

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Speaker 1: you'll work this roster all the way up to the

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Speaker 1: start of camp. That's your stop, that's the plan. We

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Speaker 1: can't wait to get back out on the grass. We

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Speaker 1: want to thank Brian Myers and Ashley Farrell for making

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Speaker 1: this happen for us. For Amy Wells and John Robinson,

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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith thanking you for being part of the

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