WEBVTT - The OTP | Draft Recap 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.200 Dance is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:16.000 Get the home field advantage with healthcare from Farm Bureau 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:20.200 Health Plans. They've been protecting Tennesseeans for seventy five years. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.240 My name is Mike Keith. I am joined by Titans 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:27.240 Radio's draft duo of Rhett Brian and coach Dave McGinnis. 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.400 Have we recovered? I think we recovered and I think 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.760 we acquitted ourselves very well. Mike really enjoyed the two 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:35.960 days of the draft and then Rhet and I in 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.479 the studio while you were handling. They're at Nissan Stadium 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.360 with a lot of fans. That was great. Draft fest 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:46.400 was outstanding. So yes, we're ready to go recharged. Let's 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.480 do this. Let's do this all right. So we want 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:53.279 to go through the story of the twenty twenty two 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.840 draft for the Titans, and that story for us is 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.960 on the air on Titans Radio at the Grand Hoigh 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:05.120 watching the draft come down and everything unfolded. And so 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.760 the Titans are scheduled to pick twenty sixth. After the 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:13.960 sixteenth pick is made John Dotson, the LA Chargers are 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.560 going on the clock, and then I have to gather 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:22.080 Rhett Bryant, Dave McGinnis, and our broadcast partner Ramon fostered 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:26.160 together along with Philip Noel and Brad Willis, who are 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.920 running the show for us at the Grand Hyatt, and 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.720 I have to give you some news, and that news 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:36.880 is the Titans are trading AJ Brown to the Philadelphia 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.920 Eagles in exchange for the eighteenth pick and the one 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.600 hundred first pick. Coach Mack, what was your reaction when 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.600 you heard this news? This is the draft. I mean, 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.800 we were prepared, as anybody that even puts on a 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.440 draft show. So we were prepared. But you have to 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.320 be prepared for the unknown, and that was one of 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.560 the unknowns. And so when you got us together, I 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.880 knew you weren't just gathering us up that early in 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:02.920 the draft to say, hey, fellas, you're really doing a 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:09.720 good job. Halfway through, boys, we're rolling halfway. You guys 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.600 are really doing a nice job. I'm really glad you're here. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.680 I knew something big was up, and clearly it was 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.200 what you have to do when something like that happens 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.280 in draft rooms. And then, just like we had to do, 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.120 then you have to recalibrate. You have to recalibrate you 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.680 have to reset. And so it's much like coaching in 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:29.280 a game. You can have all the game plans that 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.880 you want, Mike, but when you have to adjust. When 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:35.040 once the game started, and we were adjusting right in 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.160 the middle of the game. So the Chargers are on 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:41.000 the clock, the Titans are now one pick away. Reett Brian, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.079 your thoughts when you hear the news that A. J. 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:47.080 Brown is no longer a tight little shocked, But when 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.280 you look at it in hindsight like we are right now. 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.840 When you think about the craziest offseason in NFL history 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:59.960 in free agency and how wide receiver value in dollars 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.080 and guarantee money went up exponentially, even crazier than we 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.959 ever thought, it kind of puts everything into contacts. It's like, Okay, 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.680 this makes sense because clearly the Titans are in a 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.320 place financially because they've had six straight winning seasons they 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.240 can't afford to pay everyone. But that's with time to 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:21.120 think about it. While sitting there in the hey, I 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:25.280 was like, okay. And at that point too, we're dealing 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.720 with two things. We're on Titans radio, We're on one 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.240 oh four or five zone in Nashville and We're on 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.240 a lot of our Titans radio stations throughout the mid South, 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.200 and thanks to them for carrying our Thursday night wall 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.840 to wall coverage in our Friday night wall to wall coverage. 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.760 So you've you've got that. But we also have several 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.520 hundred people in the room with us at the Grand Hyatt. Yes, 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:54.120 from the twenty second element. So I'm debating do I 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.920 read the Adam Schefter tweet at this point, which is 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.680 that AJ Brown has been traded. So it's like, well, 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.880 if you're doing your job, you got to read the tweet. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:09.520 The crowd did not really like the tweet very and 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.040 to your point, let me just say this. You always 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.960 do your job, and that's being professional. And when we 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.400 do this job, we have to take our personal feelings 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.600 completely out of it and be professional and do it 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.440 just like you do anything else in this business. It 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.320 is a business. But when you said they didn't like it, 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.400 that's fair. And then we were delivered a pair of socks. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.559 First of all, never been at a draft party and 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:37.160 received a negative reaction ever, ever, and so we got that, 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.440 and then we're delivered the pair of socks. Explain that red. Okay, 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.279 let me back up just a second, just prior to 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.200 the pick and you making the announcement. I went back 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.560 and listened to the archives, and there was you could 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.520 hear because people are on their phones, a gasp, a grunt, 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.560 a growl, mur there was a murmur in the room. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.440 And then when you said it, then boom. Okay, So 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.480 there's a gentleman that is sitting in a table almost 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.200 directly in front of us. Now he spaced out plenty far. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.240 He's probably twenty yards away, and he is in all 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.120 of his AJ Brown gear and a flame head that 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.800 was a giveaway when you walked into a game from 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.880 two three seasons ago, whatever it was. And he is 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.080 very upset, very upset. And so he had proceeded to 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.800 take off his AJ Brown's socks that he had purchased, 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.320 probably at the pro shop at the stadium, because they 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.440 have him in Derrick Henry and you know they're we're 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.640 assuming he had them on. I think this question has 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.560 been asked to me. I don't know the answer. Can 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.520 I just say this, okay, why would you just bring 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.680 a pair of socke I don't know and put him 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.880 in your pocket? Totally fair question, but I don't know 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.560 the specific answer. So I'm leaving open the possibility that 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:49.760 he had them in his pocket. My guess is he 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.920 had them on He is so disappointed with the news 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:57.599 that he basically slams them down on the broadcast table 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.279 right by Dave McGinnis's position. And it's at this point 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.599 the Titans have made the pick of Traylan Burks from Arkansas, 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.880 the first round wide receiver number eighteen. Rhett is talking 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.600 about this while this is happening. He's talking about Traylan Burks, 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.720 who you love. He's my favorite pick of the draft. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.679 He's your favorite. I was able to tell Traylan Burks 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.359 that on Friday when I met him. I'm like, you 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.719 were my favorite pick of the draft. But you're describing 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.200 this while the socks are being placed on the table 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.839 at the Grand Hide, and the gentleman does not seem 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.400 happy with you personally. Let me just say this. He 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.760 stayed at the party at the Grand Hyatt until it 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.680 was announced that John Robinson had traded out of pick 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.839 twenty six, which he immediately gathered his things and left. 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.920 But in that another what hour, whatever that was, If 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.280 looks could kill, I would not be here right now. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:51.200 He didn't. He stared me. As the young folks say, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.159 he mean mugged me for over an hour. I think 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.520 Rhet's exact words were, while this man was put in 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:01.599 his socks on our table, Traylan Burr is my crush 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.839 in this draft. Yep, he is my draft crush. That's 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.640 what triggered him. And I did not realize this, but 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.600 at some point during the hour of mean mugging, he 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.920 had removed his AJ brown jersey and threw it on 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.120 the table he was sitting at. Okay, So so this 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.440 is this is quite a moment for all of us. 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.280 And if you are listening, if you are one of 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.280 the ot people, you have your own story about this 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.720 moment because it was shocking. But the other part of it, too, 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.200 was the football key in all of this, which was 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:38.960 John Robinson finding a way to make this stay quiet 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.280 with help from the Eagles. And I would have, I 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:45.520 would guess, with help from the agent and with everybody involved, absolutely, 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.440 because that had to be part of the deal. They 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.280 knew if they were going to make the trade for 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:55.160 eighteen that they wanted Treylan Burkes, and if this had 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.320 gotten out three hours earlier, somebody would have jumped him. 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:02.200 No doubt, no doubt, And Mike, this happens quite a bit. 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.600 I can go back to all the experiences I've had 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.600 in draft rooms when you make deals like this, especially 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.960 you know, a major deals. It happened with the deal 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.160 that the Titans and the Rams made when they flipped 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.160 the number one. If you remember that, John Robinson and 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.800 Jeff Fisher both agreed to keep it quiet. Well, it 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.239 had to on our end here. Absolutely, we were called 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.160 into a meeting in John's office. I had been called 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.560 back from this very studio where we are at Cumulus 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.920 Media right now to come back to the office because 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.560 the announcement was going to be made. And then there 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:40.040 was the realization on the Rams part, we don't want 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:44.400 to announce this tonight because it's Kobe Bryant's last game 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.920 in LA. That's absolutely why. And the Rams have just 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.680 gotten to La. And so John told eight people in 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:52.800 his office. And John really didn't know any of us. 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.480 He told us, he goes, this has to stay quiet. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.400 It's going to be released at eight o'clock in the morning. 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.080 And I'll ever forget. I didn't sleep a wink that 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:06.280 night because if this gets out, I'm thinking John Robinson's 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.280 gonna blame me and I'm gonna lose my job. So 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:09.920 you're one of the eight in the room, right, I'm 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:11.200 one of the eight in the room. But they're gonna 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:16.880 assume it's the broadcaster who's blabbed, who's blabbed, because broadcasters 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.800 are famous for not being able to keep their mouth shut. Well, 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.560 I've learned over the years to keep my mouth shut, 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:27.280 but as a section of workers, broadcasters are the biggest 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:31.400 gossips that you will meet anywhere. Well, and to me, 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.200 I was on the other end of that, and that 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.199 immediately when all of this was going on in La 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.040 Jeff Fisher brought it up and said, look, and what 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.160 you said, Mike, The Rads had just gotten there. It 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.280 was a massive move, and we don't want to we 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.800 don't want to supersede anything going on with Kobe Bryant 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.079 and the Lakers at this time. Sure, the same thing 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.280 was said on our end. Look, there was a real 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:55.000 small circle of people that knew that, and it happens 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.480 a lot in this league. But you're right now, basically 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:59.839 these days with you know, with all the social media, 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.320 I mean, you've just got to learn. And as I say, 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:04.960 I've done this a long time. You know that I 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:06.920 get a lot of intel that I never talk about 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:08.960 except when it's time. You got to learn to keep 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.280 your powder dry. And it's about trust. And once you 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.240 engender that trust over a period of years, then you're 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.280 going to be able to get information that you can 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.720 use at the appropriate time. And this was one of them. Mike. 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.560 This had an effect on the draft in the bottom 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.760 half of it because think about this, of all of 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.480 the Aaron Rodgers talk in the off season, if they 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.959 still haven't drafted a first round wide receiver in twenty years, right, 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.400 And this was one of the reasons why they didn't 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.840 do it this past weekend. And if the reports are 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.320 true Aaron Rodgers wanted trailing Burke. Well, if it had 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.920 come out at two o'clock in the afternoon or four 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:51.120 o'clock in the afternoon, the Packers with two ones and 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.760 two twos would have had the draft capital to jump 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:58.120 the Titan Goodacust would have jumped them in a hurry, 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.120 and it wouldn't have cost him much in terms of 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.439 what he had they ended up moving around anyway. So 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.520 this is typical John Robinson saying, Hey, if we're gonna 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.240 do this deal, this deal is not final, Mom's the 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:16.200 word until we get in that situation. And then you know, 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:20.040 we get advised from the team as the Chargers are 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.079 putting in their card because things are happening faster than 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.720 what you see on TV. Absolutely, so the Chargers have 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.840 already put in their card while it's still being shown 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.760 on TV that they're on the clock. And so this 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.360 this all goes down and the Titans end up with 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:39.160 Traylan Burks. And what is lost in that immediate moment 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.760 that has now become apparent now is I think the 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.840 Titans may have gotten a future superstar in Traylan Burks. Well. Absolutely, 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.280 And of course we do a very extensive vetting of 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.760 a lot of players, you know, for the reason that 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.000 we want to put out a great product, but also 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:55.760 we want to know who these people are. And when 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.760 you started, I mean, Traylan Burks was talked about just 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.880 among our group for quite a while. And as I said, 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:03.960 I mean, rhet said that was his crush in the draft, 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.280 and so he's got one guy that doesn't like him forever, 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.960 but that's he's kind of creepy, and well that's neither here, 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.000 and that's neither here nor there. And the end of 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.679 that story is Rhett did not leave the building when 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.720 it was over with the Socks. I will say that 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:19.840 Rhet left the socks. That what happened to the socks 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.240 not really sure. Yeah, I didn't want him. I mean 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.480 I appreciated the effort. But you know, the Packers took 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.000 Christian Watson from North Dakota State in rounds three and 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.880 Romeo Dubs in round five. But had that gotten out 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.080 to your point, might have been a whole different deal. 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:38.040 And everything starts changing too, because you've made the trade 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:42.000 for not only eighteen and you've gotten Treylan Burkes, but 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.559 suddenly you have one oh one in your pocket, so 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.520 you have another second day pick, which you didn't have 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.120 at that point. Remember the Titans, we're going to go 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.600 from twenty six to ninety. You've still got twenty six. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.679 And there was a lot of speculation. The majority of 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.880 the mocks, I think correctly had the Titans picking an 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:05.959 offensive linemanute twenty six. But what has happened Kenyan Greene's 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.680 coming off the board at fifteen, Zion Johnson's coming off 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.360 the board at seventeen, Tyler Smith has come off the 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.320 board at twenty four, and then Tyler Lindenbaum has come 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:21.280 off the board at twenty five. So those offensive linemen 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.280 that fit that first group that sort of fits you, 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.480 they're out the window. There's a whole group of other 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.120 ones yet to come, and you're like, okay. So the 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:36.560 Jets are hot and heavy for Jermaine Johnson. They want 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:41.360 him badly, and they're willing to trade thirty five, the 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:45.360 third pick of Day two, sixty nine, which is an 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:50.319 early third round pick, and a five to you for 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.040 twenty six and one oh one, And if you do 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.160 the math on the chart, it's a pretty good deal 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:00.719 for both teams. But it's certainly solid compensation at that 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.680 moment and you're done on day one. You've laid that 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:07.560 out so well. But here's the reality of it. When 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.640 we went into this draft, we all sat there and 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.160 looked at it, and we've been in enough drafts that 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.800 we were looking the gap from twenty six to ninety. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.080 There are a lot of players. There are a lot 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.880 of players. When we vetted over two hundred and fifty 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.920 players for this draft for you know, for Titans Radio, 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.640 you knew that there were quality players in that gap. 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.400 And so to close that gap, I think we all felt, 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.200 now we had no idea about the blockbuster trade, but 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.880 we've felt like at some point that John Robinson, because 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.040 he knows how to work a draft, and I say 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.960 work a draft, work the dynamics of what it takes 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.480 to be able to fill those gaps and still be 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.280 able to come out. And when you make trades, nobody 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.520 is trying to get over the top on somebody else 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.280 in a trade that's not going to happen, but trades 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.640 that are beneficial for both parties, then you can start 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.880 to work with some things. That's what he did, and 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.160 the Jets end up with three number one picks. Their call. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.640 At this point, the Jets greatest first round ever. They're 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.960 all excited. Good for them, Good for them. We moved 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.920 to day two, and one of the areas that we 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.240 had been targeting on our sheets as those offensive lineman 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.440 came off the board for twenty six is corner. You're 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.880 gonna draft a receiver in a corner every year in 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.560 today's market, you're gonna do it every year. If you 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.600 want a top level corner who's left on the board, Ratte, 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.920 you're probably gonna have to go early in the second round. 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:31.000 Guess what the Titans have an early second round pick 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.640 now and they take a player Roger mcquerry from Auburn, 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.360 who they might have taken at twenty six, but instead 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.120 they got to take it thirty five, which is huge value. 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.320 And you're talking about a young man. I enjoyed your 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:48.000 interview with him and that through the first two nights 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.520 of this whole thing. But he played against SEC wide 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:57.440 receivers and tight ends every week almost and so and listen, 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.200 there's a reason why it's sixteen straight drafts. The SEC 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:05.200 has had the most drafted players sixteen straight years. So 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.840 with that in mind, and not to mention, he seems 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.880 like a wonderful young man. Yes, you have to do 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.080 this here. Well, Roger McCreary was kind of in the 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.120 same I've seen it year after year after year. You 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.760 put the tape on and you go, this is a 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:24.160 very in phase, sticky, aggressive player that I want. And 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.240 then you start going and we start going through the 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:31.360 draft process, which is dissected in minutia now, and all 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.320 of a sudden, his arms are an inch and a 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.440 half too short for the model. All right, Well, you 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.480 watch and he's sticking his hand in the basket, knocking 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.520 it away, knocking it away. Knocking it away, doesn't matter 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.560 how long your arms are if you're not in phase 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:48.400 with the receiver. And so once we thought that the 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.880 defensive back and especially a corner was going to be 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.320 probably in that realm Mike, that was the part that 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.400 was so big was being able to have the third 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.840 pick the second day. Used to be you'd pick one 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.240 first rounds one, two, and three on the first day, 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.240 and the huge reset of everybody's boards well into the 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:07.919 night was the top of the fourth round. And you 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:12.600 will agree that Roger McCreary being a tight is a 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.600 direct result of the AJ Brown trade. That's one hundred 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.560 percent right. That's one hundred percent right. If the AJ 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.040 Brown trade is not made, we're not even in position 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.040 to do any of that stuff. And so once you 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.800 get your board reset and you start to look, then 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.120 the top of that second round becomes again just like 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.280 the first day, the top of the first round with 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:37.000 the players that are available. I really liked the way unfolded. 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:41.160 And so McCrary is famous. He's from Mobile, and he's 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.920 famous for eating two plates of beans with sugar, with 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:50.080 sugar on Fridays before Auburn's games. On Saturdays. He says 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.520 he will continue to do it in the NFL. When 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:56.280 I visited with him at the Senior Bowl, he really 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:00.960 wants an endorsement from Bushes Beans. Of course, Bushes is 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:05.840 out of Knoxville. Yeah, Jay Bush, you and Duke, Yeah, 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.119 Duke the Dog make it happen. You and Duke have 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.640 got to make it happen. That's right with Roger McCrary. 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.280 I've never had the pleasure of meeting Jay Bush. I've 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:19.639 driven by their corporate offices five times, and I've corporate 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.480 I showed you, Yeah, I showed you where it was. 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.840 But you've got Roger McCrary has to become a spokesperson 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.960 or at least has to get several free cases of 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.840 Bush's baked bee. That's so great. Chris Parnell, who we 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.119 all know very well that for years has been in 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.400 charge of food services there at the Tennessee Titans. Get 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.600 some bushes ready, get them, get them ready? All right, 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.879 So the Titans, if they don't make the A. J. 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.920 Brown trade, they probably take a We're guessing now, and 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.720 this is revisionist history. If they only have twenty six 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:53.240 and ninety, they probably take McCrary at twenty six. So instead, 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.879 because they make the deal, they have trailing Burkes and 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.719 Roger McCrary together. But then they're gonna pick again at 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:04.160 six nine. Now let's flash back. You need an offensive lineman. 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.920 The first group that was kind of there is gone 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:09.720 by the time you pick at twenty six, so you 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.800 trade out. Well, there's another group of talented guys. This 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.760 was a deep offensive line group, Raett, would you agree? Yes, 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.520 it was, and not just at tackle, I mean positions 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:24.640 all along the line. And you knew going into round three, four, five, 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:27.720 on and forward you'd be able to find somebody. Nicholas 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:32.640 petit Frere and that's how you say it from Ohio State. 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:34.840 The tackle was there at sixty nine. The Titans had 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:36.480 had him in on a pre draft visit. He was 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:39.639 one of the first. He's a guy that they targeted, 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.000 that they spent a lot of time with, and they 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:44.360 grabbed him with the sixty ninth pick that they got 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.240 from the Jets. Another perfect fit. It's exactly a perfect fit, 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:49.560 you know, for what they needed. I'll tell you, Mike, 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:53.200 the sixth city tour that the OTP did prior to 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.400 the draft. You know, an ort. People listened, They heard 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:58.880 his name when it came time because we did two 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.360 positions day, two positions to stop is what we did, 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:06.119 and we talked extensively about this player being one of 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:10.159 those top echelon after that first group came through. So 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.000 when he was sitting there, we're all sitting there looking 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.119 and we're not making any picks, but we're making some 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.920 pretty good guesses as if they go with this, this 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:20.920 guy is right at the top of the list. So 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:25.640 the Titans get Nicholas petit Frere offensive tackle Ohio State 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:28.639 at sixty nine. They're gonna go again at ninety. So 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:32.399 we're on Titans Radio. We're broadcasting Night to Live at 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:36.040 Nissan Stadium. The night is sort of winding down and 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.640 we're kind of waiting for the Titans to get there. 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.920 And then we get the word that the Titans have 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:46.240 traded up from ninety to eighty six with the Las 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.160 Vegas Raiders. With the Las Vegas Raiders the Raiders first pick, 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:52.159 and they used the ninetieth pick to take Dylan Peram 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.640 from Memphis, an offensive lineman, really good player, good pick 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:59.560 for the Raiders. Yes, Raiders also took Matthew Butler from Tennessee. 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.159 Later defensively, I'm good pick for the Raiders, good for them, 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:04.800 But we're sitting here saying, okay, now what do they 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.920 wanted eighty six? Is this one of the tight ends? 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:12.520 Is this another of the receivers? And then Rhett it 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:16.360 gets out with the people who tip picks that it's 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:20.560 Malik Willis from Liberty. So we see this. Everybody in 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:23.800 the crowd who's on their phone is seeing this. We're 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.920 live on the radio, and we really aren't sure what 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:29.600 to do at this moment. Like the night before, to 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:32.600 the point that I said, golly well, that's all I 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.600 can say was it had not been confirmed by the 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:40.040 the The aj Brown trade had been confirmed to us 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:45.040 through the teams before the Schefter tweet went out. Yes, 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:47.399 so we had the two things there. We felt like 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:50.879