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Speaker 1: to learn about our history in Tennessee. With Rhett Brian

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Speaker 1: and Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith. What is the seventy

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Speaker 1: sixth gift? You have? The twenty fifth anniversary gift? The

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Speaker 1: fifty year anniversary gift seventy five? Somewhere between diamond and platinum.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, if you make it to

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Speaker 1: seventy six, ye should get whatever you want. That one

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Speaker 1: should be like a choose your own Adventament's right. Well,

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Speaker 1: the folks at Farm Bureau Health Plans have been doing

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Speaker 1: it well since nineteen forty seven, so they deserve a

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Speaker 1: nice prize. That's yeah, I mean definitely deserved to choose

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Speaker 1: their own gift. Glad Rhet Bryan is here and I

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Speaker 1: sent you to Saint Thomas Sports Park. Glad to be here,

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Speaker 1: got myself out of the draft bunker, and uh, guy Lee,

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Speaker 1: it's honest, man. Three weeks, that's it. It's crazy, that's it.

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Speaker 1: Three weeks. Ratt, what are you doing three weeks out, Like,

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Speaker 1: what's the prep process look like for you? Okay, So,

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Speaker 1: as you well know, coach Mac Dave McGinnis, the head

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Speaker 1: coach of Titans Radio, and I have been working together

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Speaker 1: basically since the season was over, and you know, we

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Speaker 1: all went to the Combine, went to the Senior Bowl,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. Right now, so we have comprised initially

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Speaker 1: what was the top one hundred, which we had We

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Speaker 1: always had discussions like you would in a war room

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Speaker 1: about this guy should be considered. That end up meeting

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Speaker 1: some late day two or night two prospects into areas

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Speaker 1: of that would be you know, day three into the

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Speaker 1: undrafted free agency. And so we've got probably one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty five guys that we're sorting out. We looked

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Speaker 1: at all three hundred nineteen that went to the Combine,

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Speaker 1: so but we're at one hundred and fifty five hundred

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Speaker 1: about to set the board horizontally and put them in pods.

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Speaker 1: So what's really important about this in terms of your

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Speaker 1: numbers is it ties directly into what Titans Radio is

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Speaker 1: going to do on Thursday and Friday night. That's exactly

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Speaker 1: the point. There's more than enough to cover those first

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Speaker 1: three rounds of pick by pick coverage we will have,

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Speaker 1: and then I'll be doing updates on the network itself

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Speaker 1: on an unanchored feed twice an hour from ten to

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Speaker 1: about four to help with rounds four through seven. And

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Speaker 1: so I'm going to be able to know need to

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Speaker 1: know what these guys are like. And obviously, you know

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Speaker 1: there'll be a ton of undrafted free agents. There always is,

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Speaker 1: will end up being chis that we'll see throughout OTA's

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Speaker 1: mini camp and training. But you and Mac are focusing

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Speaker 1: right now mostly on guys who will be drafted more

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Speaker 1: than likely while we're on the air Thursday and Friday

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Speaker 1: nights one and two. So what we're gonna do is

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do Titans Radio draft coverage starting at six

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Speaker 1: on Thursday the twenty seventh, three weeks from today. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: the majority of our Titans radio stations will pick it

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Speaker 1: up again. Of course, it's anchored by our outstanding flagship

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Speaker 1: stunned year after year of how many radio stations choose

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Speaker 1: to carry our draft coverage. And it starts at six

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Speaker 1: The first night, it's going to be Rhett, Bryan, Dave McGinnis,

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Speaker 1: me and the great Ramone Foster who will join us.

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Speaker 1: second night it will be Rhett Coach, Me and Brent Hubbs.

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Speaker 1: to be a big star. William Patterson And thanks for

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Speaker 1: didn't know about this. Yes, the what a Burger breakfast

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Speaker 1: All right, So a lot going on. Let's start off

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Speaker 1: with the current team. How about we do that? Yes? Okay, um,

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Speaker 1: three two sixty seven, fifth year tight end West Virginia.

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Speaker 1: The reviews of this from all of the scouting services

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Speaker 1: Oh it's so awesome. It makes me so happy. I think,

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Speaker 1: just like I think about the Duncan. Duncan Rewards program.

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Speaker 1: used your Duncan Rewards points on at Duncan and Irish cream? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Iced coffee. That sounds good and it was fantastic, And

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Speaker 1: you want. America runs on Duncan. All right, Uh, back

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Speaker 1: to one of our very favorite topics, which is mock drafts.

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Speaker 1: Todd McShay this week put out his mock Did he

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Speaker 1: do two full rounds or three full rounds? I think

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Speaker 1: he did he did at least two because he had

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Speaker 1: two interesting picks for the Titans, Ohio state wide receiver

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Speaker 1: Jackson Smith in Jigba at number eleven and then at

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Speaker 1: number forty one Arkansas linebacker Drew Sanders. That's who Todd

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Speaker 1: McShay had the Titans picking. Jim Wyatt did his column

433
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Speaker 1: this week where earlier in the week he took thirty

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Speaker 1: mock drafts and went through them, and we've got the

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Speaker 1: rundown here of how the thirty went. One mock selected

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hyatt wide receiver Tennessee for Tennessee. One mock selected

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Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson quarterback Florida for Tennessee. Another mock selected Nolan

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Speaker 1: Smith edge Georgia for the Titans. What do you think

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Speaker 1: about that one? Do you think he makes it to eleven? Yes,

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Speaker 1: you do, only because you know his real showing was

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Speaker 1: at the combine because he had been out of it

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Speaker 1: for a while. But yeah, I do think he makes

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Speaker 1: it to eleven. Amy he didn't make it much past

444
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: that though. Do you think Anthony Richardson makes it to eleven?

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00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: That would be something Do you think he does? I

446
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,239
Speaker 1: don't think so either. I don't think either of these

447
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are going in the top seven or eight picks.

448
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: Maybe in the top five. Okay, Tyree Wilson Edge Texas

449
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: Tech coming off foot injury. Yes. One mock said he

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Speaker 1: is going to the Titans. One mock had the Titans

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Speaker 1: taking Darnell Right, offensive tackle Tennessee for Tennessee, and then

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Speaker 1: two selections in mocks said that the Titans will end

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Speaker 1: up with Quentin Johnston wide receiver, Texas Christian big wide receiver. Yes.

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Speaker 1: Six two mocks have the Titans selecting Brodrick Jones, offensive tackle, Georgia.

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00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: A lot of people think he'll be there at eleven.

456
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: There is the things I'm reading and seeing. I think

457
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 1: he's picking up team to maybe be one of the

458
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 1: favorite picks a couple of teams in this We'll we'll

459
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: see if he's there to live. And I think Darnell

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00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: writes another one too. Oh, he's picked up significance. Darnell

461
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: Wright is a guy that if he went ninth, it

462
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't shock me. You know, He's one of those guys

463
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: that somebody may like so much. You know, we've heard

464
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: Paris Johnson and and we've certainly heard Peter Scronsky from

465
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: Northwestern both and because you've heard it, you've just assumed

466
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: they're the two top guys, right, Yeah, well that doesn't

467
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: mean anything. I mean, for all we know, Darnell right

468
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: in the eyes of fifteen NFL teams is the top guy. Yeah,

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00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: because we're not in those words, we're not in those rooms.

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Speaker 1: Just because everybody's been saying it's Paris Johnson and Peter

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Speaker 1: Scronsky and even Broderick Jones. I mean maybe Broderick Jones

472
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: is one, and Darnell writes too, and you know who knows,

473
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: And it's maybe because maybe that's the reason, the reason

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00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: that we're to have that you know, stigma attached to

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Speaker 1: him is that he did so well at right tackle

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Speaker 1: for the Valls in twenty twenty two. But guess what,

477
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: he's played left tackle as well, And so how many

478
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: times have we seen in the last handful of years,

479
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Speaker 1: a team draft a guy that was specifically at one

480
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Speaker 1: position for a while and did well but ends up

481
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: playing in and out of the line. I mean again,

482
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: there's three or four examples. Darnell is a rookie. Darnell

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00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: Wright can play left tack, Yeah, he can. And here's

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Speaker 1: the other thing that's amazing about Darnell, right, because if

485
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Speaker 1: you're a Tennessee fan or if you're an SEC fan,

486
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: you've known about him forever. I mean, he was a

487
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: five star coming out of Huntington, West Virginia. He's played

488
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Speaker 1: since the minute he got there. He's still not even

489
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Speaker 1: twenty two, really, right with all these with all these

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Speaker 1: twenty four and twenty five year olds, and because of

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Speaker 1: how COVID has just sort of that COVID season just

492
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Speaker 1: warped our time frame. We assume everybody's twenty four. Yeah,

493
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: everybody's twenty five. Time is a construct now, right, it

494
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: just doesn't make sense, right, So no, and he's an

495
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Speaker 1: example of what you're talking about. We're going to those

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Speaker 1: two nights of the draft, we're going to be discussing

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Speaker 1: twenty five year old rookies, and in that case, somebody

498
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Speaker 1: who's younger but has gotten that extra year of eligibility

499
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Speaker 1: from the NCAA because of said pandemic. And some of

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00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 1: these guys have played in sixty games in college, right,

501
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: which is crazy. Jerome Carvin at Tennessee, he holds the

502
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Speaker 1: record for most games appeared in in the history of

503
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Speaker 1: that program. He's appeared in. He appeared in sixty games

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Speaker 1: in college. Isn't that crazy? Think about the and this

505
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: is just more overall, not just one group specific. Think

506
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Speaker 1: about the type of human you're getting who is a

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00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: little bit older, has that experience. I mean, if you're

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Speaker 1: an NFL team just looking at this craft at this class,

509
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Speaker 1: You've got a licking your chops. These are adults, right,

510
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: I mean, You're not getting a bunch of kids. That's

511
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Speaker 1: why I think the whole thing that they're making about

512
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Speaker 1: hindon Hooker's age. I think it's an advantage, yea hundred percent,

513
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: because you see how we saw how he was a

514
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Speaker 1: part of the Senior Bowl without being a part of

515
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Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl and without being told to do it

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00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: correct and saw natural leadership ship skills I saw and

517
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Speaker 1: at twenty five, I'm just thinking about this and I'm

518
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Speaker 1: just bringing this person up as an example and I

519
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: know we're going to talk about but Anthony Richardson's twenty

520
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 1: years old. Well, you think about how you were from

521
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Speaker 1: age twenty to twenty five, and we all have done

522
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: stupid things in anything in that range. But twenty five

523
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: is a lot different from twenty years old, and especially

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Speaker 1: in this right here, you're getting in Hindon Hooker. You're

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00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: getting a guy who is a grown man who can

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Speaker 1: come in and command a huddle. And he's not the

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Speaker 1: only one. I mean, they're across the board. I think

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Speaker 1: there are close to one hundred players eligible for this

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Speaker 1: draft who are twenty four or older. Adults. Adults. Yeah,

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00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a different type of person. It's not

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Speaker 1: a better or worse per se, but you are getting

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Speaker 1: human beings with a very different persone. Some of a

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00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: very disagree. I have to think it's Betters. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think. I mean because when you're like, when you're

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Speaker 1: picking groups of people to do internships and whatever business

536
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: you're in, businesses always would rather have a graduate student

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00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: than an undergraduate. Yeah, because that two three four years

538
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: of difference is just a different mindset. I guess the alternative,

539
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: especially in the sports realm, is potentially longer time with

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00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: their bodies and their athletes. You know, you have a

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Speaker 1: longer upside in terms of what your body is capable

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00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: of doing. Because if you're nineteen twenty years old, you're

543
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: not as run down, you're not as beat up. You

544
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: can go a little longer recoveries different I can see.

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00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: I can see the athletic side of wanting a bunch

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Speaker 1: of young kids, but on the other hand, having adults

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00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: who are able to handle this world that they're about

548
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: to walk into, be able to handle all the off

549
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: the field stuff, really understand how to study, how to work,

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00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: how to take care of themselves. You want that. And

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00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: most of them, because of nil, have now handled money,

552
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: which is also great, which is a great pitfall for

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00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: many that we have covered in drafts before, right, and

554
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: so now that is a game. I saw Daniel Jeremiah

555
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: tweet about that the other day, and I thought, you're

556
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: exactly right. Some of these guys already have some money. Well,

557
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: and even if you only got five grand, and even

558
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: if you've blown the five grand, wouldn't you rather blow

559
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: five grand than blow five million? Bingo? Yep? But the

560
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: thing about this whole because you learned I mean, we

561
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: all learned with money. We all blew money at some point.

562
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: We all overdid our credit card at some point. I mean,

563
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: all of that happens, and you learn from it, you

564
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:14,760
Speaker 1: figure out how to handle it. Some of these guys

565
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: have actually done that now. And not every nil deal

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00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: is Nike or some major corporation. Some of it is

567
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 1: Freddy's Chicken Barn down the road, and he pays you

568
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars to do local spots. Right, that is

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00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: still nil, And that's still five hundred dollars, And you've

570
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: got to learn how to manage that job. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: let's continue with this, so I said. Broderick Jones was

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00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: mocked to the Titans twice in Jim Wyatt's thirty mock

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Speaker 1: drafts that he looked at. B Jean Robinson running back

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00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: Texas mocked to the Titans twice among the thirty. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that he was. He even in the first

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Speaker 1: list we had, no, I don't know. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he was. Paris Johnson was the leader the first time

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00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 1: we did this on the OTP. Paris Johnson was the

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Speaker 1: most mocked player to the Titans. He was mocked to

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00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:15,280
Speaker 1: the Titans four times. In this list of thirty, Will

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00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: Levis quarterback Kentucky was mocked to the Titans four times.

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Speaker 1: Among these thirty, Peter Scronsky, offensive tackle Northwestern was mocked

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Speaker 1: to the Titans five times. In Jim Wide's study. Number

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Speaker 1: one on the list this time, Jackson Smith in Jigba

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00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,320
Speaker 1: wide receiver Ohio State mocked to the Titans six times.

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Speaker 1: This is a dramatic difference then when we broke down

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Speaker 1: the thirty last time. Last time, over twenty of the

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Speaker 1: thirty were offensive tackles. This time around, vastly different, friend

589
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: and this comes from what the Titans have been able

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00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: to do in free agency, which I think is part

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00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: of the success. Is they have filled enough needs that

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00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 1: they have started to make themselves a bit less predictable.

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00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: It's clear right there, just in these mock predictions or guesses.

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00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: But yeah, and Jackson Smith and Jigba has probably put

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Speaker 1: himself as the number one receiver in this draft class.

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00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: It would be Quentin Johnston from TCU if he had

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00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: a better line of work. He's got a great body

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Speaker 1: of work. I mean t TCU had played in the

599
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 1: National Championship for six but for such a big physical receiver.

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00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 1: There's questions about his combat catching skills, right Jackson Smith

601
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: and Jigma. There's also questions about him, but the results

602
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 1: revolves around health because he had a leg injury or whatever.

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00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: It was only played in free game four catches I think.

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00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: But the year before over sixteen hundred yards, over five

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00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty and over six hundred and some odd

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00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: yards more than his current teammates at the time in

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00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: Christal Lava and Garrett Wilson, who were both thousand yard

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00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: plus receivers as a rookie in the NFL. In twenty

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00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 1: twenty eight ninety five passes, he caught more passes for

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00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: more yards than two NFL receivers. But I mean, you

611
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 1: look at DeVante Smith. There's questions about his weight and

612
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: he is a bit slight and people are saying, but

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00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: I mean, has it DeVante Smith proved that he can.

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00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: He'll be fine. And let me tell you the other one,

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00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: the Bijon Robinson from from Texas. Listen, Mike, Mike, I

616
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: don't think you'll get in any argument out of me

617
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: that he may be one of the top two or

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00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 1: three players in this draft. I'd take it to put

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00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: his aside that he's a running back. Oh, I mean,

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00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: I think he and Will Anderson are the top. It's

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Speaker 1: one and two. However, you want to put it right,

622
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 1: because you're talking about a guy at five eleven, two fifteen.

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Speaker 1: He has if you see him, he has this way

624
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 1: of sinking his hips and getting low to evade a

625
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:12,720
Speaker 1: tackler and shifting his weight without losing any lateral speed.

626
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: And that is why he has over two hundred broken

627
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: tackles in college in three years at Teas had one

628
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: hundred and four of them last year and twenty three

629
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:26,240
Speaker 1: hundred yards after the after contact and then on seventy

630
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: seven targets out of the backfield four drops. So he

631
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: is a true three down back weapon. And I'm telling

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00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: you at pick eighteen is where I could see him

633
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: going to if somebody doesn't take him in the top ten.

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00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: Because the Detroit Lions are sitting there at eighteen, and

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00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,959
Speaker 1: there's one position that they've consistently picked since the man

636
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: retired in nineteen ninety nine, the Hall of Famer Barry Sanders,

637
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 1: and they've tried to land a running back that's their guy,

638
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be somebody's guy, and he's gonna make

639
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: him a dang good or did they take him at

640
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: six with the other first round pick, and then do

641
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: they take because they've got so much capital in the

642
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 1: first two days, do they take eighteen and put it

643
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: together with something else and call, say the Titans at

644
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 1: eleven and trade up and get a quarterback who's fallen there.

645
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: And that's also a possibility. The other thing with them

646
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: with Detroit at six. Jeffrey Okuda from Ohio State has

647
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: not worked out for them, and Devin Witherspoon from Illinois

648
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: may be one of the best corners in this draft,

649
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:43,439
Speaker 1: had a hamstring that he had after the Senior Bowl,

650
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: and Combine followed up with a great Pro day. And

651
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: I just can't help but think, if there's not a

652
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: trade scenario at six, they take a top defender right there, Well,

653
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 1: that leads me into what I want to discuss here

654
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: for just a second, And it's all this stuff that

655
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: has been going around about the Titans looking into dealing

656
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: with Arizona up to three. Are you ready for this?

657
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: Do we need our wine read before this? Yeah, it's

658
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: good time to get a glass of wine. It's time,

659
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: that's right, Unless you remember the Foolish Club that's right, Well,

660
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: there it is, Rhett. That was great. Let's go. If

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662
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663
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: gonna do, or just really excited and need to calm down,

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Speaker 1: dot com. Okay, yeah, So Daniel Jeremiah is on his

674
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,720
Speaker 1: podcast which is outstanding. He and Bucky Brooks Move the Sticks,

675
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: Move the Sticks. If you if you don't listen to

676
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 1: any podcast outside of the otp Ot people, I have

677
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,479
Speaker 1: several I would recommend that would be one of them

678
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: that's on and listen. It's so good. The reason so easy,

679
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: and you could you just put it on. You're like,

680
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: this is so good. He he and Bucky are good together.

681
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: They are and now listen. He's likable as the day

682
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 1: is long to begin with, because he's a great guy.

683
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 1: But the second part of it, for anyone who knows

684
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: him from the NFL network or his time, you know,

685
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 1: in front of the television, is an analyst. He has

686
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: done this for a job through three different where for

687
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: me he has more validity to me, it's because he's

688
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: had a mortgage riding. Well, and let me take that

689
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: a step further. So if you've worked in the league,

690
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: where do you have friends in the league? So if

691
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 1: you have ends, what do you do? You talk to him?

692
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: He can talk to people who are his friends who

693
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 1: are in the league. I think you're saying he is connected.

694
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: He is connected, Yes, for real. Some draft analysts evaluate

695
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: players and then do their mocks. And that's fine because

696
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: they can do the ratings. But and not to say

697
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: that they're not knowledgeable. There are some people that you

698
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 1: pay attention to, or pay more attention to, because you

699
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:37,399
Speaker 1: know they are talking to people. They are getting the

700
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: wins of change or whatever's out there. They're getting the

701
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: field Daniel was the first person to say you need

702
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on Richardson out of Florida going

703
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 1: into the combine. He said, I'm hearing from everybody that

704
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: Richardson is going to be a first round pick. We

705
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 1: had not thought of him that way until Daniel Jeremiah

706
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: said that. And he said that because he, as he mentioned,

707
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: he was talking to people and he was hearing his

708
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 1: name everywhere. So then people started putting Richardson in the mocks.

709
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: And now Richardson may go as high as three according

710
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: to some people. Yes, Anthony Richardson with thirteen starts, with

711
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:30,240
Speaker 1: thirteen starts, but in college. But that didn't come from Daniel.

712
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 1: And then he you know, he had a great combine.

713
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 1: He a great pro day. I mean you see the

714
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,760
Speaker 1: physical part of him. I know there are people listening

715
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: to the OTP right now who may disagree because as

716
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: Rhett said, only thirteen starts. He's not saying he's going

717
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: to be a star in the NFL. He's not saying

718
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: he's a sure thing. He sang, this is what he's hearing,

719
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: and those are two different things. So Daniel says, don't

720
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 1: sleep on the Titans moving potentially up to three or whatever,

721
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,399
Speaker 1: because he was hearing a lot about the Titans are

722
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: kicking tires everywhere. He didn't say the Titans are definitely

723
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: trading up to three. He did not say that. He

724
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: did not say the Titans have made an offer for three.

725
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:25,359
Speaker 1: But I think what you have to remember at this

726
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:31,320
Speaker 1: moment in time ot people is there are always teams

727
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,240
Speaker 1: that are wild cards. We just talked about one Detroit.

728
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: Seattle is another one. Seattle has picked five, they have

729
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: picked twenty, they have picked thirty seven, they have picked

730
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 1: fifty two. So two ones and two twos. There's a

731
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: lot they could do, or they could just make those picks,

732
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: but they have draft capital. They're also afraid not to swing.

733
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: New England's another one. New England's an interesting team. But

734
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: I think for the first time in several years, the

735
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: Titans are one of these teams. Okay, all right, I agree,

736
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: And I'm just saying they may make all six of

737
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 1: their picks at exactly the spot they will. That can happen,

738
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: or they can dance. And the reason that I'm saying

739
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:22,879
Speaker 1: this is the mandate that came from ownership with what

740
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 1: happened that led them to this point. So they changed

741
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: general manager. They had a successful general manager, never had

742
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: a losing season. When John Robinson was let go, the

743
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: Titans were still seven and five. But the reality is

744
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 1: Amy Adams Strunk felt like this franchise needed a slightly

745
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: different direction, a change of course in order to go

746
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: to the next level. And so the mandate is there

747
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: for the head coach, who obviously was not hired by

748
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: this general manager. He was. He's in his sixth year.

749
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: Not many coaches in the NFL right now have been

750
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: in the same place for the last five seasons and

751
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: are still in their right Yeah, so the head coach

752
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: clearly has jews, should have jews. The GM comes in

753
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: from one of the best run organizations in the NFL,

754
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 1: and that's why they're gonna kick every tire. I think

755
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna be. You're gonna hear them mentioned, and I

756
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,759
Speaker 1: don't think it should be any surprise. I just don't.

757
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: I think the thing that the OT people have to

758
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: be careful about is that as remember we heard the

759
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: rumor a couple of months ago they called Chicago to

760
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 1: see about the number one pick when Chicago still had

761
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: the number one pick. Do we know that happened? I

762
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 1: don't do I think it could have happened. Yes, I do,

763
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:59,240
Speaker 1: because I think you're at eleven. It's so interesting because

764
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,800
Speaker 1: this is not a rebuild, that is not the design

765
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,959
Speaker 1: of what is going on in this building right now

766
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 1: at all. This is a retool to figure out how

767
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: to take the next step, and so at eleven you

768
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: can go up a lot easier than if you were

769
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: picking next year at twenty one. Yeah, that's very interesting.

770
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: You can also you've got something good to trade at

771
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 1: eleven if you want to go down, and then you

772
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:35,879
Speaker 1: could always go down and then go back up. I mean,

773
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: you don't have a fourth round pick. What do you

774
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: go from seventy two to one forty seven between picks

775
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 1: something like that. It's a haul. I would say this

776
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:49,839
Speaker 1: to Titans fans, hang on, you know, because let's say

777
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: there were something in the works to go to three,

778
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 1: it probably won't happen until Draft night, because to me,

779
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: it would happen if after pick two your guy is

780
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 1: there at three, yes, and you want to jump in

781
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,360
Speaker 1: front of Indianapolis. Let me circle back for a second

782
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,360
Speaker 1: to what you said to set this up about Daniel

783
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah. Did you hear his follow up comments? On

784
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: Pat Pat McAfee, I did. And what he basically said was, boy,

785
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 1: that that story took on a life of its own, right,

786
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: but even a story, right. And what he was he

787
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: went back to say, hey, listen, I heard brass from

788
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: other teams or scouts whoever saying, boy, that Titans really

789
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: are vetting quarterbacks. They are more than just like they're not.

790
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: I mean, they're doing more than just their due diligence,

791
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: let's say. And he said, all I said was don't

792
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: sleep on the Titans at summer eleven because of that.

793
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: And he said, now people have taken that and run

794
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: with it like it's like see, I think it's not,

795
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 1: but it's possible. It's possible. And I think he's right

796
00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:02,839
Speaker 1: that the Titans are sort of everywhere right now. It's

797
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: a fluid situation. It's a it is and you know,

798
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: when you get into this and you you make the

799
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: change the way they did, and you you change the

800
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: course of things, everything goes on the table and some

801
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 1: of those things you're like great, and then some of

802
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,320
Speaker 1: those things you're like, oh, we didn't want that to happen.

803
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: You have to do that. Yeah, yeah, this, I mean,

804
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: when when you do this you're saying, we're we're trying

805
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: to not only keep this thing going, but we're trying

806
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 1: to move it out. I said on the OTP immediately

807
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 1: when John Robinson was let go, and I said it

808
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 1: on radio shows and made it clear that the reason

809
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 1: she did it Amy Adam Strunk did it when she

810
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: did it is there were so many big moves that

811
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 1: had to be made in the offseason, and she decided

812
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:00,759
Speaker 1: that she wanted someone else to make the those decisions,

813
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: and that's why she did it then, so she could

814
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:08,759
Speaker 1: have ran Carthon hired eventually on January twentieth to be

815
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: ready to dive in and do what he's done. And again,

816
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: I just think this is a team to keep an

817
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 1: eye on. But I don't put any big stock into anything.

818
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: I said, doctor's office yesterday and I saw a guy

819
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: hadn't seen in years. He goes, so we're picking at

820
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: number three, and I said, well, we don't have the

821
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 1: third pick because oh, I thought we made the trade.

822
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: So it's God from It's God from any smart guy.

823
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: But I mean he doesn't follow it like we do.

824
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: He has a real job and family and things are

825
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 1: going on well, unlike unlike us that's true. And you know,

826
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:51,320
Speaker 1: if you don't live it every day like what we do,

827
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 1: it's you don't keep up with every single nuance. You

828
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 1: just had a buddy at work walking by and say, h,

829
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: the Titans have third pick. Now, well we don't, right,

830
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,319
Speaker 1: and we may not, but they could, but they could.

831
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're doing percentages, I think there's a

832
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: better chance they trade down exactly. Now, that doesn't get

833
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: anybody excited. No, no, well, what do we do well?

834
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: We did that? Well, it's because for the fundamentals of

835
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 1: this team, you need probably at least eight rookies to

836
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: make this roster, and I'm talking about to continue to

837
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: build the base after the good draft class last year,

838
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,239
Speaker 1: and also for salary cap reasons. Yea, And you want

839
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,840
Speaker 1: production on this team like what they got out of

840
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: the rookie class last year, fifth most snaps in the

841
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:42,799
Speaker 1: league out of rookies. You would love to get that

842
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 1: kind of production again because you got rookies and they

843
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: played well and they have upside. But then again, you're

844
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 1: also somewhat tight against the cap. I think you know

845
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: you and I've talked about this. Ret the cap thing

846
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:59,320
Speaker 1: is a bit misleading because what everybody's saying the Titans

847
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: have against the cap right now is just top fifty one. Yeah,

848
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,359
Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna have to do. They have not

849
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:10,240
Speaker 1: drafted or drafted, so the money is not there. Well,

850
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:13,879
Speaker 1: it's gonna have. You're you're gonna have. Everything's not over,

851
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:17,879
Speaker 1: that's right, the ride. The ride is not over, which

852
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: is why do you trade? Do you not trade? All

853
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 1: of these things factor into this massive puzzle. Hey, ot people,

854
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: it is so fun, Mike. The whole part about trading down,

855
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,840
Speaker 1: which I think is the more likely scenario. I agree

856
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: with you, right. You mentioned a minute ago you need

857
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 1: a stop gap between rounds three and five. Oh yeah,

858
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: and we'll think about who you got in the fourth

859
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: round last year. And listen, this draft from pick forty

860
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 1: to ninety nine is loaded. I mean there. You you

861
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: want some help, you can get some help, can get

862
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 1: some and I think there's gonna be somebody want to

863
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:00,879
Speaker 1: come up to eleven and get a player in that

864
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: spot to where you can get a good offer, move

865
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 1: back some and still get your guy and maybe get

866
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,360
Speaker 1: a three and a five. Yeah yeah, or you I

867
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: mean you know, but with eleven, somebody may say, hey,

868
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: we'll offer you a player for eleven that maybe you

869
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 1: can't turn down. So I think you're gonna listen to everything.

870
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 1: Don't just I guess this is what I would say.

871
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: Don't just beam in. Don't just laser focus in on

872
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 1: one thing and think that's the thing. No, you did

873
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 1: the thirty thousand foot view big time and that's not

874
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 1: as much fun, you know, no, No, but you'll be

875
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: a little more prepared for what may or may not happen, right,

876
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 1: I mean, I think everything, as Amy says, I think

877
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,840
Speaker 1: there's a whole lot on the table. May absolutely yeah,

878
00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: it's I think it's remarkable how fluid is is right

879
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: now and fun. But I'll tell you I've had a

880
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 1: great week. I want to I want to mention this

881
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 1: and this will go back to the REFT. First, I

882
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: want to mention thank you to Jeff hay Slip and

883
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 1: Missy hay Slip at w j j M in Lewisbourg.

884
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 1: They they had me down Tuesday night and um, let

885
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: me have the opportunity with Kyle and Mike to call

886
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 1: the Marshall County spring Hill baseball game on w JJM.

887
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 1: Look at you, man, it's so much fun. On Power

888
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:34,399
Speaker 1: ninety four, Power ninety four. I had so much fun.

889
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:39,920
Speaker 1: It was so nice of them to invite me. And

890
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 1: then today was local day here, so the local prospects

891
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 1: came in and I had a chance to interview two

892
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:53,279
Speaker 1: fantastic young men. John Ford is a linebacker from Ut

893
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 1: Martin who played his high school ball at Overton. He's

894
00:54:56,200 --> 00:55:00,239
Speaker 1: a Bobcat. John Ford is nearly twenty five years old.

895
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 1: He had an all star career there at Martin. Outstanding

896
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: six year player as you would expect, and it was

897
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 1: fortunate enough to get to talk to him about not

898
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 1: just his football but his life. Impressive guy. I think

899
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna love him. Here's John Ford on the Old People.

900
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 1: John Henry Ford the second the defensive player of the

901
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: Year in the Ohio Valley Conference for the first time

902
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: in UT Martin history. How do you like hearing that? Honestly,

903
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:47,719
Speaker 1: I love it. You know. I don't talk too much

904
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: about my accomplishments too much, so when it's when people

905
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: talk about it makes me makes me happy to you know,

906
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 1: I was able to accomplish something, make history. I'm looking

907
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: forward to make more history down the road. That's good stuff. Now,

908
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 1: the thing that everybody says about you is that number one,

909
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: you're an alpha. I would say yes, especially when I'm

910
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 1: on the field and I demand greatness out of all

911
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 1: my teammates. I pushed them to the max, and so

912
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 1: we got to back to back championships. The teammates are great.

913
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 1: We got a guy here, Colden Dowd is potentially you

914
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 1: could be drafted. We push each other. What I was

915
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: told about you is that you don't win back to

916
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: back OVC championships without John Ford's push in that locker

917
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:32,239
Speaker 1: room that started after a two win season when you

918
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:35,280
Speaker 1: weren't even really that big a player on the team,

919
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 1: that you were one of the guys, if not the

920
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 1: lead guy who took that locker room, pushed that locker

921
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 1: room and helped change that culture. Is that the best

922
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 1: compliment you've ever gotten? Honestly, Yes, because that is the

923
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:50,359
Speaker 1: first time I've heard that. Honestly, I mean, I take

924
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 1: a lot of pride and where I was at me,

925
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 1: me and my roommates Colden Lane Ye, we were all

926
00:56:55,719 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 1: just talking like we gotta do better, like we're not

927
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:02,359
Speaker 1: this two and nine team, and contact that the heart

928
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: with the coaches. Coaches put a role on us. We

929
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 1: embraced it. I loved what I read when I went

930
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 1: through your stat line in twenty twenty two. You had

931
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 1: over one hundred tackles. You had tackles for loss, which

932
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: you would expect from a linebacker, five sacks. You led

933
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 1: the team in interceptions the year before you finished your

934
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: career with seven interceptions. You had passages defense, you had

935
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 1: forced fumbles. You registered in every statistical category, and that's

936
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 1: really important for a linebacker trying to come into the

937
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,959
Speaker 1: NFL because you have to have versatility. Do you think

938
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:39,360
Speaker 1: that stat line proves your versatility? I do. I spend

939
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:41,960
Speaker 1: a lot of time trying to compare myself to a

940
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: lot of the bigger, bigger school guys and looking at

941
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: that stat line. Obviously the level competition is different, but

942
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 1: the SATs don't lie to film, don't lie. So I

943
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 1: do take a lot of prode in and I do

944
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: think that that shows resatility. I do. I do think

945
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 1: my stat line shows rescitility in that. John Henry Ford

946
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: the second has already been to the Super Bowl. Explain

947
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: how you did that and what you did at the

948
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: super Bowl. That was like a work program through the

949
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 1: University of Tennessee of Martin with doctor Davis He's a

950
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: great guy. What he does he takes a group of

951
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,920
Speaker 1: students to the Super Bowl every year, and I was

952
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: able to go on that trip. What I was was

953
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 1: a talent wrangler. So I showed my talent, which was

954
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:25,960
Speaker 1: Marcus Allen. Was a great guy. Man. I got to

955
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 1: hang out with Marcus Hollis. I got to hang out

956
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: with Marcus Allen all day, showed him to his different

957
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 1: places where he had to be got in there on time.

958
00:58:34,120 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 1: It was a talk to him. After my job was done,

959
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:38,920
Speaker 1: they actually invited me to come with them to their

960
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 1: to their booth and just kind of hang around. Obviously

961
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 1: I was still working, but that was a great experience. Man.

962
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. If I could, I would definitely go back.

963
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: I'm no longer student there, but if I could definitely

964
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: go back, it was very, very very worth it. You

965
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 1: got your degree in business, have you finished the NBA

966
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:56,320
Speaker 1: program or are you still going to work through that

967
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: once pro football sort of get settled. That's exactly what

968
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: I planned on doing. Um I finished with actually two

969
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: degrees business management, sports and management, and then UM I

970
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 1: started my NBA but I did not get a chance

971
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 1: to finish. I tied. I took a break so that

972
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 1: I can focus on football and get everything out of it,

973
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 1: and then um, I will start that back once football settles.

974
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: And what jumps out to me about that is I

975
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 1: know about ut Martin's NBA program because I've had a

976
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 1: couple of friends go through it. It's not easy to

977
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 1: get into, and it was not automatic for you to

978
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: get in, even though you were a graduate and you know,

979
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: captain of the football team and everything. It was. It

980
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: was definitely tough, tough. That's that's ended up. That's actually

981
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 1: how I end up getting my second degree to try

982
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:38,920
Speaker 1: to get my g GP up. I was off like

983
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:42,160
Speaker 1: point zero two points, but it's a very vigorous program,

984
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: so they didn't allow that. I tried to peel in everything,

985
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 1: but it didn't work. So I end up getting another degree.

986
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 1: I buy my GP up over the what I needed.

987
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: They let me in and UH had a great season.

988
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: Had a little boy. So let's talk about John Henry

989
00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 1: Ford the third. So that's all I'm going up for you.

990
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, when was he born? He was

991
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 1: born the first. He was born on a Sunday, August

992
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 1: twenty eighth, the week of our game. So I didn't

993
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:12,080
Speaker 1: even practice that week. I was in the hospital with him.

994
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:15,160
Speaker 1: You were busy. But during the summer, you're working at

995
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: the beer distributorship in Weekly County all the time, going

996
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 1: in like four o'clock in the morning, so you're going

997
01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: to hospital or going to doctor's visits with your wife

998
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 1: or girlfriend. So you're going to doctor's visits with your girlfriend.

999
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:31,919
Speaker 1: You're getting up four o'clock in the morning to work

1000
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,880
Speaker 1: at the big beer distributorship there in Weekly County. How

1001
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 1: do you even train? I trained when I got off work. Well,

1002
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,360
Speaker 1: depending on the day, sometimes it was longer than others.

1003
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:46,760
Speaker 1: Typically I'll be done around five. I'll go home, get

1004
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 1: something to eat, give me a little energy drink, and

1005
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 1: then go train. Tell me about John Henry Ford the third.

1006
01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:56,280
Speaker 1: He's amazing man, He's a big blessing. Like every time

1007
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: I see him, what's a fat man? What's the man?

1008
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 1: He just smiuthted. It brings joy to my heart every time. Man,

1009
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:04,760
Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing it for. That's exactly what I'm

1010
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: doing it for. But but I throw out all these things.

1011
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: Six years at ut Martin two degrees, you got into

1012
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 1: the NBA program. I believe you're gonna fish. If you

1013
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: say you're gonna finish it, I believe you're gonna finish it.

1014
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:18,640
Speaker 1: You all this stuff going on with your girlfriend having

1015
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:22,040
Speaker 1: a child, You're very involved, You're you're taking your time,

1016
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 1: You're working at the beard distributorship. You're a guy that's

1017
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:27,680
Speaker 1: going to see stuff through. Oh, most definitely. If I

1018
01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 1: put my mind on it, I'm going to finish and

1019
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:33,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do give everything I got in every facet.

1020
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:35,600
Speaker 1: And I'm not a half excuse me, my lingua was

1021
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:38,200
Speaker 1: half ass guy and I got my mind is something

1022
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: I have to see it through. And the bottom line

1023
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:43,840
Speaker 1: two is that's how you play on the field. That's correct. Yeah,

1024
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 1: I mean you're person is also your person on the

1025
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 1: field that carries over That's true. All right, So Overton guy,

1026
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 1: what does it mean to be here at Ascension St.

1027
01:01:56,040 --> 01:02:00,520
Speaker 1: Thomas Sports Park? Honestly, it's a great feeling, man. And uh,

1028
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 1: not too long ago. Maybe it was last year Theo

1029
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 1: Jackson he ended up getting drafted and we were talking.

1030
01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:08,000
Speaker 1: I was talking to them equipment guys about the O

1031
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 1: and Ugo who also came here for a little bit. Um.

1032
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 1: It's just amazing, man, Like I said, Uh, to him earlier.

1033
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 1: When I came in through the building, my heart was

1034
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 1: just racing, like wow, like this is my future, this

1035
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:24,680
Speaker 1: is my future. So on kind of speechless. Look, key,

1036
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 1: do you think you did today? I think I did amazing. Um.

1037
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:29,040
Speaker 1: I think I was able to show my own ability

1038
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:33,480
Speaker 1: getting in and out of breaks following directions. Um, catching

1039
01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 1: the ball. I think I did well. How good he was?

1040
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 1: That that's pretty great, very cool. John Henry Ford third son,

1041
01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:58,560
Speaker 1: Nice nice, Okay, the other young man. I love this

1042
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:02,040
Speaker 1: story because he went to Franklin H School. I know,

1043
01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 1: I know Mitch Ross Mitch ROSSI sounds like a fullback.

1044
01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:10,600
Speaker 1: Dudn't he absolutely? Mitch ROSSI, mister, yeah, he sounds like

1045
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 1: a wrestler. A wrestler. Well, he was a rugby player.

1046
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:17,360
Speaker 1: He didn't know. I knew that though he was. He

1047
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 1: was pretty well. That was kind of lucky. I might

1048
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 1: know somebody at Franklin Donnie Webb is High School who

1049
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 1: was my daughter. He picked up, He took the initiative,

1050
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:33,960
Speaker 1: he took who Donnie Webb really good football coach? Um

1051
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 1: who was his head coach at Franklin High School was

1052
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 1: my daughter's teacher for a class in eleventh grade. So

1053
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:43,680
Speaker 1: I know Donnie in need. He just one of those

1054
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 1: old ball coaches, you know, Donnie Webb, Mike's mighty goodness. See, boys,

1055
01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:51,880
Speaker 1: could talking to you. I don't know Mike. Well, So

1056
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 1: I talked to Mitch Rossi today and Mitch Rossi was

1057
01:03:55,160 --> 01:03:58,000
Speaker 1: so excited to be at Ascension Saint Thomas Sports Park.

1058
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:02,680
Speaker 1: And he's an interesting because he's that fullback, h back

1059
01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 1: tight end, really good special teams player. And if you

1060
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:11,360
Speaker 1: watch Georgia play Ohio State in the national semifinal, he

1061
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:13,200
Speaker 1: was in there the whole game. I'll tell you this too.

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01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 1: If you really want to have some fun, google Mitch

1063
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 1: Rossi Ohio State and watch some of his blocks. So fun.

1064
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:26,960
Speaker 1: As much as you like violent confrontation, this is my afternoon,

1065
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:30,520
Speaker 1: This is your anon. This might be your guy like that,

1066
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 1: this might be your guy. Well, and what a great

1067
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:36,920
Speaker 1: young man too. Um. But Donnie Webb told me some

1068
01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:41,080
Speaker 1: great stories and the best part was when they finally

1069
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:45,919
Speaker 1: moved him to carry the ball at Franklin High School.

1070
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:50,320
Speaker 1: Um they were coach, Webb said, yeagers, I don't know

1071
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 1: why we didn't do that sooner. I love a coach

1072
01:04:55,240 --> 01:04:58,840
Speaker 1: that can admit that and that's a good coach. So

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01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:02,920
Speaker 1: here's my conversation with Mitch Rossi, who played at Franklin

1074
01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 1: High School and then at Ohio State on the So

1075
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 1: let's do Mitch Rossy, this is your life. When did

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01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:23,720
Speaker 1: your family moved to Franklin, Tennessee and about nineteen ninety nine?

1077
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:29,360
Speaker 1: All right, So you went to Grassland Elementary and Middle.

1078
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:34,880
Speaker 1: I went to CPA Preschool, Christ Presbyterian, Grassland Elementary, Grassland Middle,

1079
01:05:34,920 --> 01:05:37,600
Speaker 1: Franklin High School, and then Ohio State. Alright, so is

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01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 1: your family originally from Ohio? Yes? Both. My mom is

1081
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 1: from the Tiffin area and my dad's from Cleveland, Ohio.

1082
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:46,240
Speaker 1: All right, so you had a tight We'll get to

1083
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 1: that in a minute. So you go to Franklin High School.

1084
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:52,000
Speaker 1: They're running the triple option. I think it was your

1085
01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 1: junior year. You're playing tight end. Yes, I was. I

1086
01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 1: was playing tight end in linebacker junior year. Okay, So

1087
01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:01,560
Speaker 1: at some point in the junior year, was it the

1088
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 1: Mount Juliet game where the man who is the primary

1089
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:08,520
Speaker 1: ball carrier known as the B back gets hurt and

1090
01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 1: they have to put you at B back. That's correct. Yeah,

1091
01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:14,280
Speaker 1: me and another guy started splitting it in between and

1092
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:16,040
Speaker 1: I was still playing a lot of defense. But yeah,

1093
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:18,200
Speaker 1: that was when the change happened. And so all of

1094
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:20,960
Speaker 1: a sudden they're like, oh, look he can really carry

1095
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:24,680
Speaker 1: the ball. And then you become the District offensive player

1096
01:06:24,680 --> 01:06:27,640
Speaker 1: of the year. Your senior year, Franklin goes ten and three.

1097
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:31,800
Speaker 1: I mean you had you had a really exceptional statistical

1098
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:34,080
Speaker 1: senior year, Yes, sir, I mean we had a great team,

1099
01:06:34,160 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 1: the great group of guys. You know, we all really

1100
01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:39,680
Speaker 1: committed to each other that season, and we really wanted

1101
01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:41,160
Speaker 1: to make it a special year, and I think that

1102
01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 1: we did and it was awesome. You're recruited by FCS

1103
01:06:44,480 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 1: schools largely because even though Franklin is a big and

1104
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 1: successful program, they've had a lot of D one prospects

1105
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:53,600
Speaker 1: over the years. People can't really figure out what you

1106
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 1: are in college, right, So I joke about it, but

1107
01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,040
Speaker 1: I was kind of a jack of all trades and

1108
01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:02,520
Speaker 1: master of none. So I want to know. You're being

1109
01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 1: recruited by what we used to know as one double

1110
01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:09,120
Speaker 1: A teams primarily, and you decide to walk onto Ohio State.

1111
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:12,400
Speaker 1: Now we've heard your families from there, but a lot

1112
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:14,520
Speaker 1: of people don't make that jump. How did you do that?

1113
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:16,840
Speaker 1: I always love I was an Ohio State fan, an

1114
01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:20,000
Speaker 1: SEC country in my whole life. But my good friend

1115
01:07:20,040 --> 01:07:22,800
Speaker 1: Max Ray was a four star offensive tackle at Franklin

1116
01:07:23,240 --> 01:07:25,960
Speaker 1: and we had he had a connection to a high

1117
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:28,440
Speaker 1: state through one of our coaches at Franklin, and they

1118
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:31,200
Speaker 1: started recruiting Max, and then they started to take a

1119
01:07:31,200 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 1: look at me, and me and Max both went on

1120
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:35,360
Speaker 1: a visit together and they thought it'd be great if

1121
01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:37,640
Speaker 1: we came together. And I got a preferred walk on

1122
01:07:37,720 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 1: offer on my visit there. And then you started playing

1123
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:45,720
Speaker 1: regularly on special teams your red shirt freshman year. Yeah. Yeah,

1124
01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:48,840
Speaker 1: I started playing on some kickoff return and some field

1125
01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:52,520
Speaker 1: goal my red shirt freshman year, and then after that

1126
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:56,240
Speaker 1: my third year, I played all fifteen games or whatever

1127
01:07:56,560 --> 01:07:59,919
Speaker 1: every season in Ohio State, one of the top five

1128
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:03,320
Speaker 1: have programs in the country on a regular basis. Gives

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01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 1: Mitch Rossi a scholarship win. It was the fall of

1130
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:12,080
Speaker 1: twenty and twenty right that. It was unbelievable. I mean,

1131
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:15,240
Speaker 1: it was just just a dream come true that I

1132
01:08:15,240 --> 01:08:18,200
Speaker 1: had had since, you know, since I was five years old,

1133
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:20,280
Speaker 1: since I first picked up a football, And you know,

1134
01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:21,840
Speaker 1: that was the goal I had and when I went

1135
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:25,280
Speaker 1: there and it was just so fulfilling. My parents invested

1136
01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:29,160
Speaker 1: so much in me time and money and traveling for

1137
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:31,800
Speaker 1: those first three years, and you know, it was really

1138
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,360
Speaker 1: that scholarship was just kind of like a statement of,

1139
01:08:34,760 --> 01:08:36,719
Speaker 1: you know, the hard work that I did to show

1140
01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:38,599
Speaker 1: them that I was appreciative of all they had done

1141
01:08:38,600 --> 01:08:40,479
Speaker 1: for me. So that was really the biggest thing. Was

1142
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:43,479
Speaker 1: for my mom and my dad, all the sacrifices they made,

1143
01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:45,559
Speaker 1: and that was something I could point to and be like,

1144
01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: you know, this is this is what I can give

1145
01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:50,320
Speaker 1: back to you. But a big part of your story academics,

1146
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:53,600
Speaker 1: because academics was a big reason that Ohio State was

1147
01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:57,679
Speaker 1: ready to take you as a preferred welcome. Yeah, unbelievable

1148
01:08:57,760 --> 01:09:00,800
Speaker 1: business program at Ohio State Fisher College of Business and

1149
01:09:01,160 --> 01:09:05,240
Speaker 1: some really great professors and very serious college of Business there.

1150
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:08,839
Speaker 1: And so i had graduated four years with a finance

1151
01:09:08,880 --> 01:09:12,440
Speaker 1: degree and now I'm about twenty days away from graduating

1152
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:15,320
Speaker 1: with my masters from the business school as well. At

1153
01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:18,400
Speaker 1: Ohio State. One of the big memories those of us

1154
01:09:18,439 --> 01:09:23,360
Speaker 1: from the outside saw of Mitch Rossi was the semifinal

1155
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:26,840
Speaker 1: game against Georgia. You ended up playing almost the entire game.

1156
01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:30,120
Speaker 1: And so take me through that game and what you

1157
01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:32,400
Speaker 1: thought you were able to show that night against the

1158
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:35,160
Speaker 1: eventual two time national cham You know, I just had

1159
01:09:35,200 --> 01:09:36,960
Speaker 1: for some reason, I had a feeling like that was

1160
01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:39,160
Speaker 1: gonna be a big game for me, and I took

1161
01:09:39,160 --> 01:09:41,800
Speaker 1: the prep really seriously. It was a really important game

1162
01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:44,320
Speaker 1: to me because the closest I've ever played to home

1163
01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:47,280
Speaker 1: in Atlanta and playing an SEC team. I felt like

1164
01:09:47,320 --> 01:09:50,840
Speaker 1: I had something to prove there. And you know, Kaide

1165
01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 1: went down and I thought maybe it was gonna be

1166
01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:56,880
Speaker 1: a quarter or a series, and then you know, he

1167
01:09:57,439 --> 01:09:59,320
Speaker 1: never comes back and we find out at halftime that

1168
01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:01,880
Speaker 1: he you know, he he was in the hospital. Um.

1169
01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 1: So at that point, I was just like, you know,

1170
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:06,040
Speaker 1: this is my time. I've been wanting this for so long.

1171
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:08,599
Speaker 1: Just stay in the moment and make the most of it.

1172
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:10,479
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm proud of what I did. I

1173
01:10:10,520 --> 01:10:13,680
Speaker 1: gave everything in that game, um, and it was an

1174
01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:18,440
Speaker 1: awesome experience. You played a lot of special teams in Columbus,

1175
01:10:18,479 --> 01:10:22,320
Speaker 1: you played a lot of fullback, But what stands out

1176
01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:24,240
Speaker 1: to me is you touch the ball twelve times in

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01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:27,439
Speaker 1: your career. At three times you scored touchdowns. So my

1178
01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:30,599
Speaker 1: question is is it true that all Mitch Rossi does

1179
01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 1: is score touchdown. I don't think that's necessarily true. That

1180
01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:37,559
Speaker 1: might be what uh you see. I guess that that's

1181
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:41,559
Speaker 1: that's that's the one beautiful kitch against great run against Toledo.

1182
01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:44,760
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that. It was awesome, um, But

1183
01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:47,439
Speaker 1: definitely a lot of work in the dark to lead

1184
01:10:47,479 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 1: to that moment of you know, just biding my time

1185
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:53,080
Speaker 1: and being on scout team and trying to win every

1186
01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 1: special team's drill and get on those rosters. Um, that

1187
01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:58,800
Speaker 1: led to that. You know, So it was just a

1188
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:01,400
Speaker 1: culmination of a lot of work in the dark that

1189
01:11:01,479 --> 01:11:04,600
Speaker 1: led to those couple awesome moments which you've scored touchdowns

1190
01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:08,839
Speaker 1: for Ohio State. You've always got that. Well, but it's awesome,

1191
01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 1: It's fantastic. I've talked to Eddie George about the same thing,

1192
01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:15,040
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's a good thing. All right. So you

1193
01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:17,559
Speaker 1: know a little bit about the Titans. I understand you're

1194
01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:21,599
Speaker 1: familiar with the history. I even hear you're maybe an

1195
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:25,640
Speaker 1: amateur general manager type guy with that. You follow it

1196
01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:28,880
Speaker 1: that closely. Yeah, I love the Titans. Um, it's been

1197
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:32,080
Speaker 1: my team growing up always, you know, ever since ninety

1198
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:35,720
Speaker 1: nine when I was born, when the infamous call the

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01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 1: Great Game, and I tease my old roommate that was

1200
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:41,080
Speaker 1: from Buffalo all the time about that at a boy, Yes, sir,

1201
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:43,880
Speaker 1: and um, yeah, you know I'd love, I'd you know,

1202
01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:46,320
Speaker 1: absolutely love. You know if if the Titans brought me on,

1203
01:11:46,439 --> 01:11:48,679
Speaker 1: you know, I would deliver coffee. I would do anything

1204
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:52,640
Speaker 1: to provide value to this organization. And yeah, I'm a

1205
01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:55,000
Speaker 1: huge fan and will continue to be forever. We're having

1206
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:57,519
Speaker 1: a lot of fun talking, but what are you in

1207
01:11:57,560 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 1: the NFL? How do you see away to a fifty

1208
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:03,720
Speaker 1: three or to a practice squad or to just get

1209
01:12:03,760 --> 01:12:07,320
Speaker 1: that crack like you did at Ohio State. Yeah, I think,

1210
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:10,040
Speaker 1: you know, I just I gotta have somebody that sees

1211
01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:11,920
Speaker 1: something in me and has a plan, you know made

1212
01:12:11,920 --> 01:12:15,759
Speaker 1: whether it's special teams or fullback. You've seen that role

1213
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 1: grow a lot lately. It's kind of revolutionized over the

1214
01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:22,160
Speaker 1: past couple of years in the Shanahan offense. I guess

1215
01:12:22,160 --> 01:12:24,240
Speaker 1: that would be the ultimate goal and then in between

1216
01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:26,280
Speaker 1: there it'd be similar to my journey at Ohio State.

1217
01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:29,280
Speaker 1: Just you know, maybe on the practice squad giving as

1218
01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:32,360
Speaker 1: good a look as I can provide value and then

1219
01:12:32,439 --> 01:12:34,840
Speaker 1: cut my teeth on special teams and then go from there.

1220
01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 1: It's Kyle use Check sort of the guy at the

1221
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:41,240
Speaker 1: top of the pyramid that everybody, like Mitch ROSSI wants

1222
01:12:41,280 --> 01:12:43,519
Speaker 1: to be. Absolutely. I don't know how many people there

1223
01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:47,200
Speaker 1: are like me out there, but absolutely Kyle us Check

1224
01:12:47,400 --> 01:12:50,559
Speaker 1: is you know, I'd watch his film and try to

1225
01:12:50,680 --> 01:12:52,599
Speaker 1: learn from things that he does. And yeah, he's at

1226
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:55,160
Speaker 1: the pinnacle other right now, and he's an awesome player.

1227
01:12:55,240 --> 01:12:59,120
Speaker 1: Two final questions. First of all, Franklin's good in football.

1228
01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:01,280
Speaker 1: They're good a lot of sport. Franklin's good in football

1229
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:03,479
Speaker 1: when you were there, what they were really good in

1230
01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 1: was rugby, which which you took part in. I mean,

1231
01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 1: would you win two state championships in rugby? Yes, Sarah

1232
01:13:10,280 --> 01:13:12,439
Speaker 1: to two state championships. I did not think that you

1233
01:13:12,479 --> 01:13:15,360
Speaker 1: were going to know that, But I'm from Franklin. Come on,

1234
01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:19,599
Speaker 1: So how much does that experience or how much has

1235
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:24,080
Speaker 1: that experience sort of helped you in your football journey

1236
01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:28,280
Speaker 1: in terms of being able to be adaptable due to

1237
01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:33,200
Speaker 1: the fact that that sport is similar but slightly different

1238
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:36,040
Speaker 1: in a lot of different ways. Right, So, there's a

1239
01:13:36,040 --> 01:13:38,760
Speaker 1: ton of great things that you can learn from rugby.

1240
01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:41,879
Speaker 1: The most importantly the thing is that there's no blocking,

1241
01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:45,400
Speaker 1: So every encounter with a tackler or a runner is

1242
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:47,800
Speaker 1: open field. There's no in between. So you learn a

1243
01:13:47,800 --> 01:13:51,599
Speaker 1: lot about open field tackling, open field running, attacking a defender,

1244
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:55,000
Speaker 1: splitting defender. So I mean it's translated for me. I

1245
01:13:55,040 --> 01:13:57,920
Speaker 1: could tell immediately when I was playing linebacker at Franklin

1246
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:00,240
Speaker 1: High School that I was getting better at tackling just

1247
01:14:00,280 --> 01:14:03,479
Speaker 1: because I'd be in so many uncomfortable open field tackling

1248
01:14:03,479 --> 01:14:07,320
Speaker 1: positions in rugby, and it translated super well, and I yeah,

1249
01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:10,920
Speaker 1: those skills still to this day are allowing me to

1250
01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:13,840
Speaker 1: be successful at fullback at Ohio State and hopefully from

1251
01:14:13,840 --> 01:14:16,639
Speaker 1: here on out. Alright, last question, You are the Fairway fullback.

1252
01:14:16,840 --> 01:14:22,320
Speaker 1: That's right. Tell everyone listening what the Fairway fullback's program

1253
01:14:22,479 --> 01:14:24,680
Speaker 1: is and how you get that started and what it

1254
01:14:24,840 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 1: is so Fairway Fullback is just you know, with U

1255
01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:32,360
Speaker 1: the nil stuff starting, you know, I started to think

1256
01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:34,720
Speaker 1: about it and ways that I could capitalize and I

1257
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:37,080
Speaker 1: felt like, you know, I was kind of a relatable

1258
01:14:37,120 --> 01:14:39,599
Speaker 1: guy for fans, is a hard worker, kind of a

1259
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:43,160
Speaker 1: normal guy from Franklin. From Franklin plays golf at Temple

1260
01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 1: Hills Country at a way, yes, sir, And you know

1261
01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:48,960
Speaker 1: it's just a way for me to kind of express myself.

1262
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:51,280
Speaker 1: And one of my coaches actually made the shirt just

1263
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:53,800
Speaker 1: kind of as like going into the beginning of the

1264
01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 1: season as like a reminder of you know, who I am,

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Speaker 1: what my identity is, and some confidence and you know

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Speaker 1: I love to golf. Um, My dad, you know, has

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Speaker 1: been taking me out to Temple Hill since I was

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Speaker 1: a little kid, and um, that's that's part of my identity.

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Speaker 1: And then also the toughness of being a fullback, so

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Speaker 1: that kind of a is my brand. I guess how

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Speaker 1: many shirts did you sell? Not that many, but I

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Speaker 1: can get if you want one, I'll get you man.

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Speaker 1: I'm medium guarantee. I got it for him, and he's

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Speaker 1: got his own teachers. Really fair way fullback says I'm

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Speaker 1: getting one. You heard it, he said, I'm getting one. Well,

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Speaker 1: there you go. That's excellent. I me too. But to

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Speaker 1: see these guys come in here, these local prospects and

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Speaker 1: do a great job, Um, how thrilled they are. I mean, boy,

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Speaker 1: you see some hustle this day. I mean, they got

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Speaker 1: a little extra juice because most of them. John Ford's

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Speaker 1: a Titans fan, Mitt Rossi's a Titans fan, these other

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Speaker 1: guys that I mean, it just you know, it was

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Speaker 1: a pretty cool day. It's a special day. It's been

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Speaker 1: a good week, no doubt about it, and we've got

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Speaker 1: so much more to go. Thanking our friends at Farm

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Speaker 1: Bureau Health Plans for sponsoring the OTP, Thanking Rhet Bryan

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Speaker 1: for coming over and joining Amy Wells and me. Thanking

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Speaker 1: Ashley Farrell as always for putting up with all three

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Speaker 1: of us, and thanking you most of all for listening

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Speaker 1: to the team. Welcome to the Big Show where the

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Speaker 1: Mansens go. I never bought and knows its