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Speaker 1: They've been protecting Tennessee and since nineteen forty seven. Don't

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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith. Good to see you, miss Wells, and

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Speaker 1: in person. As a matter of fact, Mike Keith, it

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Speaker 1: is so cool to be in person. But I'm realizing

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Speaker 1: why you are what you are just two Titans fans everywhere,

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Speaker 1: and why I am not on the same level as

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Speaker 1: you because you have sitting in front of you a

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Speaker 1: So proud of you for being very prepared. Well or

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Speaker 1: not well, yeah, I mean there might be nothing written

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Speaker 1: all of this supposedly started Monday at eleven, so this

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Speaker 1: is four plus days of the off season. It didn't

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Speaker 1: so it's somewhat well and some of it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: really fun. How did that happen? Amazing? But the Titans

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Speaker 1: all right. So the Titans have agreed to terms and

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Speaker 1: formally announced the following free agents. Denico Autry defensive lineman Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: They've also reportedly agreed to terms with a defensive back.

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Speaker 1: But because this is the official Titans podcast, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: stay official. This is not reportedly the Titans podcast. This

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Speaker 1: But sounds like they have another defensive back on his way.

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Speaker 1: So John Robinson has been very busy. Resigns. Jay Brown linebacker,

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Speaker 1: last week. Sorry, I mean they're they're a few like that.

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Speaker 1: this week. Of all of that, what's the biggest surprise,

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Speaker 1: Otpre bud Dupree, Welcome to the Tennessee Titans. We're excited

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Speaker 1: knew he was a massive number and he's thirty one

425
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,880
Speaker 1: years old. He played well last year though. Yeah, it

426
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:45,399
Speaker 1: was just a matter of age, what the number was.

427
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,640
Speaker 1: You had to come up with some money somehow. And

428
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,199
Speaker 1: I mean he was just a victim of circumstances. He

429
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 1: did as coach Mack said last week, I'll repeated, he

430
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 1: did nothing wrong. He's just caught in circumstances. Yeah, And

431
00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 1: this we all knew was going to be a hard

432
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 1: year for free agency because you just can't keep everybody,

433
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 1: and with this Titans team it's especially hard because there

434
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 1: are a lot of playmakers that were in that weird

435
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:17,680
Speaker 1: kind of perfect storm of age meets your contract being

436
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,639
Speaker 1: at a certain point meets how much you are worth,

437
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 1: which it's a very hard kind of thing to navigate.

438
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 1: And so we knew there were going to be some

439
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: people who were going to be let go simply because

440
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,159
Speaker 1: they hit that spot perfectly. It's not great time to

441
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 1: be in your thirties, oh and be a football player,

442
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 1: it's not. And then you get into a situation like

443
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:42,400
Speaker 1: where a Dory is, where he's due ten plus million,

444
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 1: and if you take that number off the books, you

445
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,360
Speaker 1: get all ten million back, right, you don't have a

446
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 1: cost moving forward. In most of the other cases, outside

447
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 1: of Malcolm, it was about a player's salary based on

448
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:02,719
Speaker 1: where he is as a player. Is he a quote

449
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 1: unquote certain dollar player. And the other thing was about

450
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 1: availability from the recent past and potential availability going forward. Right,

451
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: has this guy missed time and are you worried about that?

452
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 1: And are you worried about that with what might happen

453
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,640
Speaker 1: going forward, because you want the roster to be as

454
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 1: healthy as possible. But I think while there was some

455
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:33,240
Speaker 1: freak out initially, and I mean there was, you know,

456
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,400
Speaker 1: there was big time freak out, you know, right off

457
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 1: the bat, when John U and Corey were gone within

458
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:45,640
Speaker 1: minutes of one another, seemingly on Monday. It was understood

459
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 1: when the Titans landed Denico Autry and landed Bud Dupree

460
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: later in that day, because people are saying you're trading

461
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 1: offense for defense in some cases, you're coming up with

462
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 1: cap space because you have to have it, and you're

463
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 1: seeing virtually every team in the league do the same thing, right, Yeah,

464
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,159
Speaker 1: And you make a good point about availability because in

465
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 1: a year where money is so tight across the league,

466
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,959
Speaker 1: you can't afford to be investing a lot of money

467
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 1: in a player that may or may not see the

468
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 1: field for substantial amounts of times, so you've got to

469
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 1: do whatever you can to get the most amount of

470
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,160
Speaker 1: bang for your buck, which sounds very insensitive when you're

471
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 1: talking about human being doing a job, but that's kind

472
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: of where you're at right now. Well. The other thing, too,

473
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: is you can't wake up in November and have millions

474
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 1: and millions of dollars tied up in players who are

475
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 1: on IR yep. Absolutely, because you don't have the extra

476
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 1: built in that you've had in previous years. I'll never forget.

477
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 1: We got to the end of the two thousand and

478
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 1: five season. We're playing the Detroit Lions, and we have

479
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 1: seven ten thousand dollars left under the cap. Entering the

480
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: final game. We have either five or six guys hurt

481
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 1: who can't play. We can only replace one guy. One

482
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 1: guy aby call up from the practice squad. We called

483
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: Marico Pored us up from the practice squads. Still a

484
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 1: great guy, one of my all time favorite Titans. He's

485
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: still around the team and has done security things over

486
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,360
Speaker 1: the years. Fantastic human being. He was the only guy

487
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: we could call up because I think his number as

488
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 1: a call up was like thirteen five. So the Titans

489
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 1: finished the year like thirty five hundred dollars under the cap.

490
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: This is shaping up like that kind of year. Yeah. So,

491
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: I mean, if you've got questions about someone's availability potential,

492
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 1: you're having to sit there at this moment and go

493
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,199
Speaker 1: even if you don't want to, right right, It's not

494
00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:00,199
Speaker 1: an indictment on their character or their work ethic or

495
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: their ability to perform. This is coming down to dollars

496
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: and cents and what can you do for us on

497
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: the field. Here's what I think this season is going

498
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: to come down to. I think this season is going

499
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 1: to be a lot like what we saw for Tampa.

500
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 1: Tampa seven and five through twelve games and then they

501
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 1: don't lose again. They're like a basketball team in the

502
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament this weekend. Who gets hot. I think it's

503
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: gonna take teams time to really gel because it doesn't

504
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 1: look like we're gonna have the full gathering of OTAs.

505
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: You're gonna have veterans switch teams, a lot of teams

506
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: are gonna get younger, a lot of teams are going

507
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: to rely on their draft. So the injury factor is

508
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: maybe even more important because if you lose a bunch

509
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:55,160
Speaker 1: of dudes and you're sitting there with forty million dollars

510
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: or fifty million dollars worth of players on IR at

511
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 1: the end, you don't have a chance to make that

512
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: run at the end. One of the things Tampa had

513
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: they were healthy. Yep. It always comes down to health, always, always,

514
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: like that is the big defining thing in December and January.

515
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 1: If you have a healthy team, you can make something happen. Well,

516
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: look at the Titans, Yep. Physically, let's face it, I

517
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: think the Titans were out of gas. Yes, yeah, And

518
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 1: I'm talking about not having Lawan, not having Sam Brylow.

519
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: I mean over and over, you know, not having had

520
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,880
Speaker 1: the guys in the secondary. They were just not a

521
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:36,199
Speaker 1: healthy football team at the end, right, and you know,

522
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: not having Jayon Brown. I think it made it made

523
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: a difference. Tamp on the other hand, very healthy, headed

524
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: down the stretch and look at Kansas City banged up

525
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: in the offensive line, banged up at a couple other places.

526
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: But I think it's a bigger factor this year to

527
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 1: me because I think teams are gonna have more turnover

528
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: due to the tightening sal recap this year. Right, You're

529
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of younger players a lot of

530
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: guys who are more inexperienced, who are stepping into bigger roles,

531
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 1: who probably can do that, but it takes time to

532
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: get adjusted. And yeah, it's going to be interesting to

533
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: see how the cards fall and what teams look like

534
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: in September as opposed to November. Let's hear from John Robinson.

535
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: I had a chance to visit with him Friday afternoon

536
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: to talk to him about the week. That was a busy,

537
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: busy week that saw him have to make a lot

538
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: of moves and a lot of decisions on a lot

539
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:43,239
Speaker 1: of from John, has been a remarkably busy week. You

540
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: have signed six new Titans, you have resigned four Titans,

541
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: you have released players. You have also seen some of

542
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: your players sign with other teams. So, with all of

543
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: this going on during the crazy start to free agency

544
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, what were the factors that you considered

545
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: most important as you developed your philosophy about how you

546
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: were going to handle this week. You know, the goal

547
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: is to try to improve the football team, at least

548
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: in this portion at the start of the roster building process.

549
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: You know, we got the draft coming up on a

550
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: little over a month, but had to make some puff

551
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: decisions on some players. You know that I've been here

552
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: for the last couple of years, added some new pieces,

553
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: and we continue to, you know, to kind of look

554
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: and see what's left out there in the free agent

555
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: world and who might fit our football team. All Titans

556
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: fans were interested to see what you would do in

557
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: free agency at the edge restroer position. You go out

558
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 1: and you get Bud Dupree from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Why

559
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: was he the best answer for the Titans? I remember

560
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: Scott and Bud when he came out of Kentucky was

561
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: a first round pick, outstanding career there in Pittsburgh. He's big,

562
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: he's long, he's fast, disruptive off the edge, high motor

563
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: player that works to get to the ball, whether it's

564
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: run or pass. He affects the affects the pass, or

565
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: affects the set of the tackle. There's just a lot

566
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: of factors, you know that we think we'll really fit

567
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: well in here to our defense. Did Eco Autry comes

568
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: over from the Colts? Seems to be a complimentary player

569
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 1: to dupri in terms of his size and strength. What

570
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: was it about Autry that really grabbed your attention? Now?

571
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:18,959
Speaker 1: The fact that we don't got to play against him

572
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: twice a year, and now that's certainly helped that he's

573
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,719
Speaker 1: with us. But you know, he's a really versatile player.

574
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: He can rush from the five technique. He can play

575
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: down on the guard as a three technique. I mean, heck,

576
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: can you even play him some down on the nose tackle.

577
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: He can stand up, he can drop into coverage a

578
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: little bit, just a really kind of unique chess piece

579
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: to move around on the front to try to get

580
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: us an advantage up there. Adding depth at the cornerback position.

581
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: The veteran Generus Jenkins, better known as Jack Rabbit at

582
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: this point in his career, still playing really good football.

583
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: His speeds still the name of his game. He covers

584
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: his guy, you know, Jack Rabbit, Rabbit gets on his

585
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: guy and he covers him up. He's feisty, he's aggressive.

586
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about not letting his guy catch

587
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: the ball, and something we believe in and something he

588
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: believes in. And we're excited to add him as well.

589
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: In terms of the resignings, you get jay On Brown

590
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: back at the linebacker position. Why was jay On a

591
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,719
Speaker 1: priority for you? Jan's played a lot of good football

592
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: here for us, you know, in the kicking game. On defense,

593
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 1: he's a productive player for us, a good communicator there

594
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: at the linebacker position, making sure that the coverage in

595
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 1: the front matched up. You know, certainly when he went

596
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: out last season, in the twenty twenty season, you know,

597
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: we had some guys that stepped up, but he's made

598
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: a lot of plays and we missed him. So to

599
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: get him back in his young veteran presence, if you will,

600
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: in the front seven was key for us. All four

601
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: of your tight ends from last year's team free agents,

602
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: you've resigned two of them, Jeff Swam who was the newest,

603
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: and Anthony Ferster, who's been with you for three seasons now.

604
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: Those two guys priorities for the Titans. Why did they

605
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: fit in that course so well for you going forward? Yeah?

606
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: Two different you know, styleistically, the way they play the game,

607
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: the way that we use them, the way that they

608
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: help our football team. They're they're different players. Jeff's more

609
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: of an on the on the ball into the line

610
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. He likes the block, he likes it gritty,

611
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: he likes it dirty. But he's a big target. You know,

612
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: he made some big catches for us. You know in

613
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season, and Foster's you know, he's good

614
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: in the slot, he's money on third down. You can

615
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: sift him around and move him around on some different

616
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: types of blocks than we use Jeff at and uh

617
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: that that tandem back with us was it was important

618
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: for us. John, you made it clear that your sixth

619
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: free agency period as a general manager would be the

620
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: most unusual. You said that beforehand, and it seems like

621
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: it has been unusual overall. Has anything about how it

622
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: is unfolded all around the league surprised you at all? Yeah,

623
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: you never know. With free agency, it's you know, it's

624
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: kind of the it's kind of the wild wild West.

625
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: Once the you know, that window opens where you can

626
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: start to have those discussions and you see guys, you know,

627
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: come to terms with other with other teams, and you know,

628
00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: we lost some guys this year, you know, some key members,

629
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: and you hate to lose those guys, but that's the

630
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: way the NFL goes. You know, you've got to you've

631
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: got to be prepared for that, and you have to

632
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 1: make some decisions on where you're going to allocate your

633
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: resources to how you're going to construct your team. I'm

634
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: excited about the guys that we have back, and I

635
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: wish those guys that you know that have moved on

636
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: to other teams nothing but the best, except for when

637
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: they playoffs. John, how do you see the next week

638
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: a free agency going for the entire league? Yeah, I

639
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 1: think the dust is starting to settle a little bit.

640
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: You know, you're starting to see some of the some

641
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: of the numbers come down on some players. You know,

642
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 1: we've still got some some lines in the water on

643
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: a couple of guys. I don't know how active will

644
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: continue to be. We're just going to kind of monitor

645
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: the situation, see if it's the right fit for some

646
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: guys that they're still available to come on the team,

647
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 1: and really continue to focus on preparing for the draft. Yeah.

648
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,280
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask, does your preparation really turned back

649
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: more toward the draft now? Yeah. I'll be on some

650
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: pro days next week. You know, we've got some zoom

651
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 1: calls with prospects. You know, we've probably already done I

652
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 1: don't know if seventy to eight the initial zoom calls.

653
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,479
Speaker 1: And know our coaches are talking to these guys as well.

654
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: Our scouts are on the road going to pro days

655
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 1: that data is coming in. I've watched a couple of

656
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 1: pro days video wise that's coming through our server system. So,

657
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: you know, continuing to evaluate these prospects, seeing how they're

658
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: gonna fit, getting to know them, you know, over zoom calls,

659
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: which is it can be a little difficult, but you know,

660
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 1: we're managing through it and we're gonna make the best

661
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: of it. Finally, John, with all the challenges that you

662
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: entered the week with, really every team had challenges, but

663
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 1: from your specific standpoint, are you pretty pleased how the

664
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 1: first five days of all this is going for the

665
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. Yeah. I mean, I think the guys that

666
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 1: we've added to the football team were guys that we targeted,

667
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: Guys that we were excited to try to go after

668
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 1: and get. There were some other guys that, you know,

669
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: we had some talks with that you know, we just

670
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,240
Speaker 1: couldn't get to where they were financially with other teams.

671
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: But I I'm excited. I'm excited about these guys. They're

672
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 1: excited to be here. What we've got going here the

673
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 1: locker room, the types of guys that we have here,

674
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: the style of football we want to play. Players talk

675
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 1: about it, and it was cool to hear, you know,

676
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: these new additions come in and visit with him and

677
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: talk to talk to them about you know, what other teams,

678
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 1: what other players around the league think about our program.

679
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,399
Speaker 1: It's nothing the first class and they were excited to going.

680
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: So to sum up John Robinson there Amy Wells, I

681
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,240
Speaker 1: would say, so far, so good. That's what I would

682
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: probably go with is that he seemed satisfied with the start,

683
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:36,399
Speaker 1: even though he probably didn't get everybody he wanted. He

684
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 1: knows there is more work to do, but it's very

685
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: clear from him and from other gms and from watching

686
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: around the league. I think the process really slows down

687
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: more dramatically than normal as we go into, you know,

688
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,919
Speaker 1: moving towards a week of full free agency. Yeah, there

689
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: was a lot of excitement early, like there is, but

690
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: I don't think there's going to be that strong second

691
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: wave that we're used to seeing because we also have

692
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: to remember the draft is upon us, it's close, and

693
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: there's still a lot of weird quirks to this year's

694
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: draft process. Last year, there were dramatic changes in how

695
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: things were happening because the world was shutting down around

696
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: us as scouts were getting ready for the twenty twenty draft.

697
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: Now the twenty twenty one draft is a little bit different,

698
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: but there's still a lot of virtual components. There was

699
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: no combine this year. There's a lot of pro days

700
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: that are happening. Everybody's got to get all of their

701
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: notes together, get their entire scouting department in the room,

702
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: and start to have those conversations. So I think backburner

703
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: is not the right word, but I think that free

704
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 1: agency falls from the forefront for a lot of teams.

705
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: I agree. I think you put it well there. I've

706
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 1: always said there are three phases of free agency. There's

707
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: the initial rush, there's Phase two that leads up to

708
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: the draft, and then there's the third phase, which comes

709
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: after the draft and sort of drips all the way

710
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: to the start of training camp. Like Jeff Swain was

711
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:11,479
Speaker 1: last year, Jeff Swain gets picked up in August this year,

712
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: I don't think the second phase is I think it

713
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,959
Speaker 1: looks more like the third phase. I think you're gonna

714
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: see drips. I think you're gonna see guys get grabbed.

715
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: But I know what Titans fans are saying right now.

716
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: They're saying, Hey, we need a wide receiver. Well, okay,

717
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 1: let's look at what the wide receiver market is right now.

718
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster didn't get what anybody thought he was

719
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: going to get. He goes back to Pittsburgh at eight

720
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: million dollars a year on a one year deal. You're

721
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of one year deals with receivers, and

722
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: the Titans may well grab one of those veterans on

723
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 1: a one year deal. The other thing we know, though,

724
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: could be as many as eight receivers picked in the

725
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: top fifty of what is another great wide receiver draft.

726
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: So if you only have eleven million dollars on the

727
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: book books right now, are you going to invest three

728
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: or four million in a veteran wide receiver when you

729
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: know AJ Brown and DK Metcalf and guys like that

730
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 1: went in the second round two years ago. I mean,

731
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: you're able to find some of those players that cost

732
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: you a lot less and might even be better players,

733
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: and you could take that money, hang onto it for

734
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: a minute and do something else. It's the same with corners, ye. Now,

735
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: if you want a starter, you might have to take

736
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: a corner in the first round. You might not have

737
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: to take a wide receiver in the first round. It's

738
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: a very good year, a very good year to have

739
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: extra draft picks, and the Titans do. Yep. If I'm

740
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,879
Speaker 1: a general manager for an NFL team, which thank god

741
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: I'm not, but if I were, what I would probably

742
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: be doing now is turning most of my attention to

743
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 1: the draft because drafted players are cheaper. Fill my roster

744
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 1: with those, and then let's see what we're still working with.

745
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,399
Speaker 1: Let's see what who's still out on the market. Let's

746
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,919
Speaker 1: by that point maybe training campus come around, maybe we've

747
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,320
Speaker 1: had some workouts, maybe I can see what we've got,

748
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: and then you start to plug and play a little bit.

749
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: That's how I'm approaching this well. And I think some

750
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: agents are gonna go to teams right now because there

751
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 1: are more players right now than there are jobs, and

752
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: there are more players than there is money at this moment. Yep.

753
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: And so I think an agent's gonna pick up the

754
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 1: phone and call John Robinson and say, Union Corner, I've

755
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 1: got a guy, he fits what you do and will

756
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 1: come there for a year. At this price, I think

757
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 1: you're going to get into some let's make a deal

758
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: with some players being smart knowing that not only are

759
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 1: they gonna have to go somewhere on one year deals.

760
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: That's not a revelation, but I think guys are going

761
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: to target places where they think they can be successful

762
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: because while the market is going to go up some

763
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: next year, we don't know and may or may not

764
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:16,720
Speaker 1: bounce back. Get fooled by the TV contract talk, Folks

765
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,959
Speaker 1: don't get fooled because that doesn't hit until twenty three.

766
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: The seventeenth game is going to be the reason the

767
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: salary cap goes up from one eighty two five. The

768
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 1: majority of the you know that's the three it's gonna

769
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: go back up next year. The question is how much

770
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: does it go back up. But it's not going to

771
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 1: accelerate because of the TV contracts next year. There are

772
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: still losses to pay off from twenty twenty, and the

773
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 1: players are forty eight percent partners of the owners yep,

774
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 1: And so the owners are paying part of it and

775
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: the players are paying part of it. In terms of

776
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: the losses, the actual loss the cap would have been

777
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: had they taken all the losses this year, the cap

778
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: would have been one hundred and fifty five million dollars,

779
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: would have dropped by forty three million dollars. Yeah, Instead

780
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,919
Speaker 1: it's one eighty two five, because they're like, Okay, we'll

781
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 1: sort of mitigate this this year so we don't have

782
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 1: a disaster, because we think as we pick up some

783
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: more revenue this next year, than we can offset some

784
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: of the losses. That's the idea. And you know, so

785
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: they kind of made a deal. But the owners made clear,

786
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: if we have a twenty twenty season and you guys

787
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: all get paid, you'll get all your money. But you

788
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: know they're gonna be some haircuts in twenty twenty one.

789
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see the next three years.

790
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: I think in ten years we will look back at

791
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one twenty two seasons as somewhat of

792
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: an anomaly. Do you know what they're projecting the cap

793
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: to be like in ten years? No? Like three eighty

794
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: three eight zero. Do we get some of that? You

795
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,760
Speaker 1: know the answer to that. That's a big n o folks. Nope.

796
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: But with these TV contracts, with the streaming deal with Amazon,

797
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: with all the bits and pieces that are out there,

798
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: if you're a young player, you're gonna be just fine.

799
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,399
Speaker 1: If you can make it to twenty twenty three, you're

800
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: gonna be just fine. Because that's the year it will

801
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: accelerate dramatically. But a lot of the decisions that a

802
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 1: John Robinson and his thirty one other compatriots as general

803
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: managers are having to make is based on this year

804
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:42,879
Speaker 1: the numbers down and next year you don't know, right,

805
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: and you have to plan for the I don't know

806
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,320
Speaker 1: of next year, Right, That's what you have to plan

807
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 1: for because while this year is strange and hard to maneuver,

808
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: you can't get caught unaware in twenty two. Right, this

809
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 1: you couldn't plan for, Right, twenty two you can because

810
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: you didn't know there was going to be a pandemic

811
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:08,240
Speaker 1: when you were signing deals in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen.

812
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 1: You had no idea, right, So you couldn't anticipate that

813
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: this was going to hit this way. But I mean,

814
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: if you look around the league at some of the

815
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: players who have been waived, I mean, the Titans released

816
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: three of their four starters in the secondary. There are

817
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 1: teams I think the Raiders have released three starting offensive linemen.

818
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: I mean, it's where you can take out the numbers

819
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: and where you think you can add back the players.

820
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,839
Speaker 1: It's a difficult situation. I have to say that I

821
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: feel so much better today than I did this time

822
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:47,240
Speaker 1: last week. Well, that's good, Mike, because of Bud Dupree,

823
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: because at Denico Autry, because of Genorris Jenkins being able

824
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 1: to get these players as much as anything. And I'll

825
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,319
Speaker 1: say it and people probably think I'm overstating it, because

826
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: I love him and I do Jayon Brown. To get

827
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 1: jay On back, we were playing better on defense when

828
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 1: jay On got hurt. We were stopped Baltimore that day,

829
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: had given Jackson another hard time, had done a good

830
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: job overall, and there it was we lose kind of

831
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: that signal caller. He's such an important guy to Vrabel.

832
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:26,919
Speaker 1: He and Vrabel have that tight relationship. Mike relies on him,

833
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: and when when the Titans lost him, it changed everything

834
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,320
Speaker 1: so much. From a first of all, he makes a

835
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,280
Speaker 1: lot of plays. Second, he's a good coverage linebacker, thirty

836
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 1: calls the defense yep. And I want to see him

837
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: play with Bud Dupree, with Harold Landry, with Big Jeff,

838
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: with den Eco Autry. I think it's gonna be good

839
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: for Rashaun Evans as well. So good, so far, so good.

840
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: I think that's the title of this week's OTP right,

841
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,879
Speaker 1: what a what a catchy title. It is like that,

842
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: I really really do well, Amy, when it comes to

843
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: your healthcare coverage, you should be the one to make

844
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: the call, not not anyone else, just me. So call

845
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,800
Speaker 1: Farm Bureau Health Plans. They've been protecting Tennessee and since

846
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: nineteen forty seven. Now, I guess I keep saying a

847
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: week in the books, it's not really because the legal

848
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: tampering was really not part of free agency. It's really

849
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: I mean a couple days. Well, I mean technically, as

850
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: we tape it, it's been forty eight hours. Not really. Yeah, yeah,

851
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Speaker 1: but a week is round a week. There was news

852
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Speaker 1: for a week if the week that was well, it's fun.

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Speaker 1: It is fun boy. It feels good to have things

854
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,959
Speaker 1: to talk about and to have real Titans news. Well,

855
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: when they got de Nico Autry, I thought I was

856
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought I was gonna jump. I was

857
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,919
Speaker 1: so happy we haven't blocked him yet. Well, we don't

858
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: have to anymore, not anymore. And then bud Dupree, I

859
00:46:56,120 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 1: mean that was like Christmas. Yes, there was much jubilation

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00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 1: in the Wells household. Yeah, as these were announced. Yeah,

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00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: because because the bud du Pre thing It's like, we Wow,

862
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: we really got bud dupre Yep, we really did. I

863
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: mean that was a big one to land those two guys.

864
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: I mean, your defense was better on Monday immediately, and

865
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: you know, now there's more work to do. You know,

866
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 1: they've got to figure out I mean, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think a Monty Hooker is a factor in this decision

868
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Speaker 1: because I think a Monty's got a chance to play

869
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Speaker 1: at the safety spot with Kevin Byard. I think Kevin

870
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: Byard may benefit from having these guys up front because

871
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, some footballs are going to be

872
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 1: thrown up in the air that people don't want to

873
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:45,240
Speaker 1: throw right, absolutely, and Kevin Byrd gets the chance to

874
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: focus on making plays and not focus on the constantly

875
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:53,799
Speaker 1: changing personnel around him. We help. It's fair, you know.

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00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: I think I think the Tennessee Titans got better this

877
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: week either two. In spite of the fact that there

878
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:04,399
Speaker 1: were subtractions of good players at good people. I think

879
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: the Titans got better work to be done, undoubtedly, And

880
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see what happens. But I think you're right.

881
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: I think the focus, as John sort of alluded to,

882
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Speaker 1: I think the focus turns to draft now, and it's

883
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 1: hard to believe the draft is six weeks away. Mike

884
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: time is flying. A lot of the heavy pro days

885
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 1: are in the next two weeks, and the pro days

886
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: are a big deal with no Combine. You said it, Yeah,

887
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 1: they are, I mean, and it's so interesting to me

888
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:38,319
Speaker 1: how all of these pro days are working and how

889
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: everything is so valuable now because having been to Pro

890
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: days before, they were important, but a lot of guys

891
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: had already done it at the combines, so this was

892
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: more just it almost felt like a formality, right, It

893
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: felt like a senior sendoff. You know, you have a

894
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: lot of guys who are working out. There's a couple

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00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: guys who maybe won't do things at their prod because

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00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 1: they did at the Combine, or who are doing things

897
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: at their pro day that they didn't do it the Combines.

898
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: So you're there for like one or two big moments

899
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 1: and everything else is just giving guys a shot. But

900
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: now pro days are pressure. They're the deal. It's a

901
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:18,479
Speaker 1: high pressure situation. This is your moment and we can't

902
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 1: go and we can't go, I mean, Pro days are

903
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: finally good and we can't get kid Like what in

904
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Speaker 1: the world? Yep, oh well, but it's just it's very

905
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Speaker 1: interesting to me because Pro days have always been something

906
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: that's kind of a lack situation. You see a lot

907
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: of people, they're working out defensive linemen, and then you

908
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 1: see all of them their eyes get real big, and

909
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 1: you want us to hit You want us to hit you.

910
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: You're you're an NFL head coach. You want us to

911
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: whack you one and he he does. He wants you

912
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: to he wants you to hit him. It's awesome. That's

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Speaker 1: the best part of Pro Days, the best part of

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Speaker 1: the OTP. Amy has work with you, thank you for

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00:49:56,840 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: and Ashley Farrell and Brian Myers think thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: I'm just cob smacks a little sneaky. I'm sorry. Nice thing.

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Speaker 1: There we are back to your regularly scheduled programming. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well that does it for this update on the OTP.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff for Amy Wells. I'm Mike Key. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us and listening to the Official Titans podcast, The

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Speaker 1: Oats where the Legends Go. Everybody knows it's our house.

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Speaker 1: Greatness is we got sighting butter running through a v