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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith in Mobile, Alabama, preparing for the seventy

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Speaker 1: third Reese's Senior Bowl. The game is now at Hancock

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Speaker 1: Whitney Stadium on the campus of the University of South Alabama,

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Speaker 1: and as I've had a chance to go to that campus,

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Speaker 1: very impressed USA the Jags, as they are well known

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Speaker 1: in this part of the world. They have something going on.

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Speaker 1: Their stadiums beautiful. As I mentioned, the campus itself is

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Speaker 1: very pretty good place to have the Senior Bowl. It'll

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Speaker 1: be the American team against the National team on Saturday

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Speaker 1: at one thirty Central. But the daily practices are just

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Speaker 1: as important as the game because the practices are conducted

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Speaker 1: in pads, and there's hitting, and there's competition, and there's intensity.

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Speaker 1: You have almost all of that on every single play

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Speaker 1: in practice. More importantly, there are players. Now there probably

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Speaker 1: is not a player who will be taken in the

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Speaker 1: top ten or even the top fifteen in this year's

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Speaker 1: NFL draft. In Las Vegas. NFL draft expert Daniel Jeremiah

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Speaker 1: just put out his top fifty this week. At Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: quarterback Kenny Pickett is the highest rated senior bowler. He's

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Speaker 1: at number eighteen. Well after Pickett comes a flood of

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Speaker 1: senior bowlers, as Jeremiah ranks, Florida State edge rusher Jermaine

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Speaker 1: Johnson at number twenty, penn State outside linebacker Arnold Eba

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Speaker 1: Katie at number twenty four, Northern Iowa offensive tackle Trevor

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Speaker 1: Penning twenty fifth, Central Michigan offensive lineman Bernard Raymond twenty eighth,

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Speaker 1: Liberty quarterback Malik Willis number thirty five. North Carolina signal

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Speaker 1: callers Sam Howell number thirty six. Alabama defensive tackle Fedarian

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Speaker 1: Mathis is thirty seventh on Jeremiah's list, Georgia defensive tackle

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Speaker 1: DeVante Wyatt thirty eight, Massive Minnesota offensive tackle Daniel fala

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Speaker 1: Lele all six eight, three hundred eighty seven pounds of

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Speaker 1: him is forty first. Colorado State tight end Trey McBride's

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Speaker 1: zone wide receiver Jalen Tilburn at forty three. Alburn cornerback

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Speaker 1: Roger McCrary at forty five, Coastal Carolina tight end Isaiah

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Speaker 1: forty nine on Daniel Jeremiah's list. You get the picture.

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Speaker 1: There are players in Mobile this week. Phil Savage put

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Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl on an upward path, and Jim Nagee

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Speaker 1: has taken it even further as executive director. Today, the

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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl is no longer some autograph session. It's truly

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Speaker 1: the first step towards the draft in terms of quality

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Speaker 1: and numbers. Nine hundred medium members are covering it this week,

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Speaker 1: and all thirty two teams have an army of people

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Speaker 1: here in Mobile, Alabama. Jim Nagee is very proud of

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Speaker 1: that and proud of the way the Senior Bowl has

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Speaker 1: got here four years ago and really try to pattern

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Speaker 1: this after an NFL personnel department, So we scout these

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Speaker 1: players just like the teams do. We had seven former

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Speaker 1: NFL scouts hunt our staff this year, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty years of experience it's a lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: of proven eyeballs, right, those guys know what they're looking at.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, we have a country broken up. Just do

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Speaker 1: the buying from the players. You know, we really used

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Speaker 1: got Arnold Ebaketty from Penn State, who you know we're

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Speaker 1: You know, a guy like D'Angelo Malone from Western Kentucky

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Speaker 1: If you are shopping for a tight end, Jim Nagee says,

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Speaker 1: Robbins tight end group. There's there's a lot of different flavors.

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Speaker 1: We usually struggle to get six guys in this game.

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Speaker 1: to them? Six straight winning seasons, playoffs for the last

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Speaker 1: five years, in three straight. What's the key in this

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Speaker 1: Continuing to build it, Mike, like we have every year.

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Speaker 1: You know, this isn't the first time that we've you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of little things in this offseason. Yeah, probably. So.

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Speaker 1: You know, there was a lot of noise made last

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Speaker 1: with what we've believed in and we certainly paid you know,

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Speaker 1: But it's not like it's a massive overhauler let me

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Speaker 1: ask you one team question specific to Derrick Henry since

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Speaker 1: we're in Alabama. Did he come through the playoff game

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Speaker 1: You know, he's a volume runner. He's proving that over

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Speaker 1: just to get him back out there. John Robinson with

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Speaker 1: and that is the seventy third Senior Bowl this Saturday

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Speaker 1: at one thirty from Hancock Whitney's Stadium. With John Robinson.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith, thanks for joining us. That's Titans general

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Speaker 1: manager John Robinson. I end this edition of the OTP

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