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Speaker 1: Very welcome you to the OTP, the Official Titans Podcast. Today,

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Speaker 1: Titans Radio's draft duo of coach Dave McGinnis and Rhet

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Speaker 1: Brian joined me Mike Keith to talk about quarterbacks in

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty NFL Draft. Gentlemen, welcome, Thank you, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Good to be here with your right to me with you. Yes,

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Speaker 1: all right, Coach mac. Is this quarterback crop good as

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Speaker 1: it compares to other years? Well, I mean it's a

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Speaker 1: good crop, and I think one of the reasons for

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Speaker 1: that not only their ability. Mike, Let's talk about the

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Speaker 1: recognizable names that people understand that have had some production

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Speaker 1: in college that is significant. You've got a national champion

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Speaker 1: in Joe Burrow to a Tongo Valoa, Justin Herbert who's

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Speaker 1: got a huge, huge arm when we watched him. Look

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Speaker 1: at Jacob Eason, the things that he's done up there

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Speaker 1: in the Northwest, and then Jalen Hurts. We all know

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Speaker 1: what he did, you know, not only for Alabama, but

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Speaker 1: then when he transferred you to Oklahoma. So I think

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Speaker 1: it's a good crop. I don't think it compares to

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Speaker 1: the Jim Kelly that group you know that came out

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Speaker 1: of course when they were coming out, Nobody knew that

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Speaker 1: they were going to have the careers that they did have.

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Speaker 1: But this is a very recognizable group and there are

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Speaker 1: some players in this group that will be immediate starters

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League. All right, So, rhet, let

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Speaker 1: me ask you this, and then coach you follow. Do

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Speaker 1: you think these quarterbacks may not end up being as

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Speaker 1: highly thought of because of the number and talent available

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Speaker 1: in terms of the veteran quarterbacks who were out there.

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Speaker 1: And I understand why you're asking that, because on the

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Speaker 1: free agent market, Philip Rivers, Tom Brady, Ryan Tannehill, Marcus Mariota,

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Speaker 1: Jamis Winston, Teddy Bridgewater, to name just a few. I

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Speaker 1: get that, but no, because of the philosophies on teams

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Speaker 1: wanting to mold their on quarterback to whatever it is

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Speaker 1: they're doing offensively. And here's the biggest one. Angel quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: come into Premier this league either have one or you don't.

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Speaker 1: You draft one, and you hit on that pick, you're

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Speaker 1: on the cheap for the next three four years. That's

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Speaker 1: a very very good point. But this is the biggest

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Speaker 1: quarterback group, and let's say the quarterback availability in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League of viable quarterbacks that have started, we see.

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Speaker 1: We saw the value when we brought an eighty eight

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Speaker 1: People are going to understand the difference that that makes.

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Speaker 1: If they're in immediate need of a quarterback. This group

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Speaker 1: Somebody's going to take them. That will not preclude them

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Speaker 1: It might preclude them from drafting them later. All right, coachback,

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Speaker 1: you have always said that the quarterback draft is different

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Speaker 1: from the regular draft. Please explain what you mean by

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Speaker 1: because if you don't have a quarterback in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League, all you essentially have is a highly paid

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Speaker 1: rugby team. That's all you have because you cannot You're

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Speaker 1: not going to advance without a quarterback that's viable. We

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Speaker 1: saw what happened a productive quarterback. Not that Marcus Mariote

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Speaker 1: is not a viable quarterback, but he wasn't producing at

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Speaker 1: that point at point in time, and when Ryan Tannehill

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Speaker 1: came in Mike he did produce, and we saw the

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Speaker 1: difference that that make so you have to have a

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Speaker 1: you are willing to do anything that it takes. If

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Speaker 1: you're a quarterback hungry club, you will move up in

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Speaker 1: the draft and bypass other players that are rated quote higher,

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Speaker 1: as far as just overall across the board, horizontally, horizonally

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Speaker 1: across the board. They are rated higher because you have

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Speaker 1: So bottom line is, if a team has a board

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Speaker 1: a prospect they have rated more highly because they have

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Speaker 1: to have a quarter That's one hundred percent true. I've

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Speaker 1: seen it happen every year that I've been in the

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Speaker 1: been a long time. All right, Rett Brian, how many

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Speaker 1: What do you like about Jordan Love Dave McGinnis. He's

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Speaker 1: got the physical attributes in the traits. He throws a

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Speaker 1: Mikey has athletic skills galore. While he didn't answer all

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Speaker 1: have been some comparisons made in terms of his athletic

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Speaker 1: he's not Patrick Mahomes. Okay, he's not. I vetted Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes when he was coming out. And when I compare quarterbacks, Mike,

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Speaker 1: work to refer back to. Sure, I don't compare quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks that now have had the training in the

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Speaker 1: and look, he's he's he's close, but he's not Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes in my opinion. All Right, what do you like

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Speaker 1: He's got a huge arm. He's got a huge arm.

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Speaker 1: of your theory about quarter backs and what the quarterback

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Speaker 1: So Rhett, you go first, and then coach Mack, I'm fascinated.

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Speaker 1: first of all, huge arm, big, prototypical size quarterback kid,

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Speaker 1: talking about just film evaluation. The reason he's not in

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Speaker 1: to coach Mack's point, more of a first read guy,

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