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Speaker 1: With Amy Wells, I'm Mike Keith together at Nissan Stadium recording.

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Speaker 1: Glad to have you with us for the OTP. It's

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Speaker 1: So we've been a center roster with the new numbers.

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Speaker 1: get out of the virtual interviews and how you do them? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think we all have. I think it's um, you know,

429
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Speaker 1: it's something that takes some time. I think that you know,

430
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Speaker 1: kind of explained through that process, UM where where we

431
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,360
Speaker 1: start with a larger group and and see how they

432
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Speaker 1: respond and then and then break it down into the

433
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Speaker 1: coach and the scout, which I think is something that

434
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Speaker 1: I'm excited about with their relationship as we work through

435
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: the draft, um, and then into the post draft with

436
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: those coaches and scouts take a bulk of that work, uh,

437
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: and then also John and I and so that's broken

438
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Speaker 1: down as we work our way through the five visits

439
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Speaker 1: that we can have with each player, and you and

440
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Speaker 1: John and other members of the staff Mike are able

441
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Speaker 1: to be together right now at a at a work site,

442
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,400
Speaker 1: and so you're able to do some things in person,

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00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,640
Speaker 1: which kind of ties it all together a little more

444
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Speaker 1: like normal. Well, I think for for us in our

445
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 1: in our off season, it's pretty much been business as normal. Um.

446
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Speaker 1: We're excited about the new construction, you know, very very

447
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: thankful that that Amy Um and the ownership group is

448
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,919
Speaker 1: going to give us a you know, a remodel. I

449
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: think we're excited about that. So I think we're prepared though,

450
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 1: we are prepared for for the virtual voluntary off season,

451
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Speaker 1: which is the next thing that that's coming down the

452
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Speaker 1: pike here as we as we prepare for the draft.

453
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Speaker 1: But we have been together in some sort of fashion

454
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Speaker 1: to have meetings and to communicate. John free agency began

455
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: twenty nine days ago, and there was a lot of talk,

456
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: a lot of lead up with the reduced salary cap

457
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty one, it was going to make the

458
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 1: free agency period probably the most different ever a month

459
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Speaker 1: into this, has it gone about the way you thought

460
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Speaker 1: or has something surprised you? No? I think that you know,

461
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 1: we all, you know, all thirty two clubs knew that

462
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 1: it was going to be a challenge, you know, manipulating

463
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 1: and strategically planning, you know, how you're going to allocate

464
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: those financial resources to different players, um knowing that you

465
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,400
Speaker 1: were going to have to move on from some players

466
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: that you just had to move on from to make room,

467
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: you know, dollars wise for other players. Those were hard conversations,

468
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: Those were hard decisions. But all of that we do

469
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Speaker 1: when in what we feel is the best interest of

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Speaker 1: the football team. But yeah, I think you see that

471
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: you saw a lot more, you know, contractually as you

472
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: start to look at these things come in from other teams,

473
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: the avoidable years and contracts which you know at some

474
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: point that's going to come home to roost on the

475
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 1: contract with the cap and how that counts. We tried

476
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Speaker 1: to be strategic and how we structured our contracts to

477
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: use that when necessary, but try to avoid it so

478
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Speaker 1: that you're not you don't have a bunch of dead

479
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: money hanging over your head, you know, three four or five, six,

480
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Speaker 1: seven years down the road. Let me ask you too,

481
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Speaker 1: John about the post draft period. Many nationally speculating there's

482
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Speaker 1: almost going to be another free agency period that comes

483
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Speaker 1: May into June. As teams feel needs through the draft,

484
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to maybe let some veterans

485
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: go after the fact, putting some good players on the market. Again,

486
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 1: do you sense that there's truth in that? Yeah, I

487
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: think that's always the case, you know, Mike, as as

488
00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 1: teams feel needs, you know, what needs they didn't fill

489
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: in free agency, they try to attack those those needs

490
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 1: in those positions in the draft, or that you know,

491
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: a player falls to him that they didn't think was

492
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: going to be there that's just too good of a

493
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 1: value to pass up, which you know, potentially could push

494
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: a veteran out the door with their respective clubs. So

495
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: there's there's always that second wave, if you will, of

496
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: a free agency where you know, teams start to strategize

497
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,160
Speaker 1: how they're going to build their roster, you know, post draft,

498
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: after those players are selected. Finding Mike Jim Schwartz is

499
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: back as part of your staff, and I say back

500
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: because he was here from nineteen ninety nine through two

501
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: thousand and eight. Titans fans know him well, and when

502
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: word got out last week that he was joining the

503
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: Titans staff or rejoining the Titans staff, Titans fans very

504
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: pleased with this news. Mike, can you kind of tell

505
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: us how it all came together? Well, I hope they're

506
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: excited about our staff, because I am. I feel that,

507
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: you know, we have a great staff top to bottom.

508
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Speaker 1: Jim is somebody that I've known. I haven't worked together,

509
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: but you know, it was funny as we went through

510
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: just our conversations. He was basically a quality control coach

511
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: for for Bill Belichick, and and I spent eight years

512
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: with Bill as a player, and we talked somewhat essentially

513
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: the same language. And so this process was something that

514
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: that we had had talked about since he had finished

515
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 1: up contractually with Philadelphia, and it worked out. I think

516
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: it worked for everybody. And what he's willing to do

517
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: at this point in time and what we'd like to

518
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: have him do and help us out. He's local here,

519
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: he loves the Titans. He was excited about coming on

520
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: board and trying to help us in any way that

521
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: he could, just like everybody else at our organization. Well,

522
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Speaker 1: his role kind of unfold over time Mike, Well, I

523
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: think what his role is is, just like everybody else,

524
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: is to help the team, help us win. Uh. No

525
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: job is too small for any of us. And I

526
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Speaker 1: hope that and I know and I'm confident that that's

527
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Speaker 1: what he'll do. And as he works his way into

528
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Speaker 1: what we're doing, it's been good to see him, you know,

529
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: meeting with different guys and meeting with the defense and

530
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Speaker 1: meeting with me, and you know, I would imagine that

531
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Speaker 1: that maybe, you know, he would look at players for

532
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 1: the draft as we get down here and we get

533
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: into some pods and stuff, just to get a different

534
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 1: set of eyes. A guy that's been around the league

535
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 1: for a lot of years and it's been successful. Something

536
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Speaker 1: that we enjoyed doing with Mike Vrabel last month, and

537
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: John Robinson is joining us with Mike this month. Is

538
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Speaker 1: letting some Titan season ticket members ask questions live. It's

539
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: like a it's like a press conference virtually. Andrew Lee, Hello, sir,

540
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: how are you doing well? Mike? Thank you? How are you?

541
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: I'm great. We're glad to have you. Go ahead and

542
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: fire away. John and Mike are there for you. Sounds good.

543
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for your time. My first questions out

544
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Speaker 1: for you, coach, How does the new seventeen regular season

545
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,239
Speaker 1: game season change your game plan? I know we're all

546
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: excited to have one more home game, sure, I mean

547
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: I think that that's that's something to be excited for.

548
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: Any chance that we get to to play in front

549
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: of our home crowd, UM, you know, is exciting. UM,

550
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if it necessarily changes the game plan.

551
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: You know, I think that the biggest thing that that

552
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 1: we're focused on right now is UM is working through

553
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: this voluntary off season, but also the training camp and

554
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: how that's going to look different Andrew, you know, the

555
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: medical records. You know, we understand that a healthy football

556
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: team is a is a competent and a competitive football

557
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: team very very we take that very seriously, that the

558
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: health and safety of our players. So, you know, I

559
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: don't I don't know if the seventeen games is something

560
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: that I'm focused on as it maybe changing anything. But

561
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to really look and see, you know,

562
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: how that ramp up thing process that we use last year,

563
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: UM with the schedule that we had with our preseason

564
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: games and what that looks like. So that would be

565
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: my first thought, UM, as I work through you know

566
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: the schedule and how we get a team ready to play,

567
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: but we are excited that that we get to play

568
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: an extra you know game in front of our home fans.

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Speaker 1: My question can be for both of you all, Um,

570
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: kind of hoping we'll returned to this stadium in full capacity.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's something that you all want to challenge

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00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: fans to do in the upcoming season. That's a great question, Andrew.

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00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: There's nothing more that you know that gets it. There's

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Speaker 1: nothing more exciting, uh, to me personally, is to to

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00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: see the twotone Blue um and our stands. You know.

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00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: I know we've become a destination kind of game for

577
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Speaker 1: a lot of teams on the road because Nashville is

578
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: such a cool city to come hang out and hit

579
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: Broadway and enjoy a good weekend. But um, you know,

580
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 1: we've played some pretty good football in that stadium over

581
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: the last few years. And Um, there's there's nothing more

582
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: that our players love, our coaches love, is to see

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00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 1: our fans in the stand trying to make trying to

584
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: make it hard on those opposing teams. Andrew, our fans

585
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: made such an impact last year with the ten thousand

586
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Speaker 1: or so that we had, you know, if we could

587
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Speaker 1: find a way to take that ten thousand and multiplay

588
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: it by five, ten or twelve thousand. I mean they

589
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: they were loud. They were noticeably loud, and uh, you know,

590
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Speaker 1: I think because there were so few of them that

591
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: they tried to go a little harder and it was

592
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Speaker 1: noticeable and it was enjoyable to see, you know, the

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Speaker 1: impact that that ten or twelve thousand fans could make.

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Speaker 1: And so, you know, if we could just multiply them

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Speaker 1: and get back to full capacity and everybody acted like

596
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: there was only ten thousand, that that would be a

597
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: heck of an advantage for us. Justin for zell Is

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Speaker 1: next with questions for Mike and John. Justin, We're glad

599
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: to have you with us on the Titans hang Out

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Speaker 1: fire Away. Oh, thank you so much. It's an honor

601
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: to be here with both of you. I really appreciate

602
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: what you've done with the franchise and a short amount

603
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: of time. Back to back playoffs. Is Gray, I've been

604
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: a season ticket member since two thousand and twelve, and

605
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,719
Speaker 1: then this was my what have been my first opportunity

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00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: to to see a playoff game in our home stadium.

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00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: But unfortunately, it was unable to attend due to COVID. Uh.

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00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,280
Speaker 1: My question for both of you, and this might actually

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00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: be more for John is talking about the draft and

610
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:23,359
Speaker 1: the roster. Um. Our offense was just spectacular last year,

611
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,399
Speaker 1: and with the defense, I know a lot of it

612
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: was maybe possibly COVID and injury related. But um, what

613
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 1: do you think it's going to take in the draft

614
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: and free agency to get our defense on par with

615
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: our offense. Yeah, that's a great question. Justin you know,

616
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 1: we've we've made some additions, uh in free agency. Um,

617
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: you know, we added some players that we think are

618
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: going to have a pretty cool impact and help help

619
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Speaker 1: us defensively. Uh, we're combing over both sides of our

620
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: draft board. You know that you could look at our

621
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Speaker 1: draft board, but one side offense and one side defense. Um,

622
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: and we're we're we had a meeting this point, and

623
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: we're looking at those guys, the value of those players

624
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: and the impact that those defensive players can have relative

625
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 1: to adding some more explosive offensive players. So there's there's

626
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: some good defensive players in this draft, and there's some

627
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: good offensive players in this draft. And at the end

628
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 1: of the day, we want to come away with the

629
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: best possible players on whatever side of the ball that

630
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 1: we think can help us win football games. My other

631
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: question is with the historic season that Henry had just

632
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: a fabulous season, and I think we all know that

633
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: he probably could have even ran for more, but in

634
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: a smart in a very smart way, coach kept him

635
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: out of some drives here and there to make sure

636
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: we didn't put too much tread on the tires. But

637
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 1: that is the question. My question was a do we

638
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: think he has another two thousand yards season? Could he

639
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 1: be the first running back to ever do that? And

640
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 1: be how do we do that in a smart way

641
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,479
Speaker 1: to make sure that we're not using him up too

642
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: early so that he has a long career because he

643
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: is he is a once in generation back. Justin I

644
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:05,800
Speaker 1: appreciate your support from from being a season ticket member. Uh,

645
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: you know, Derek is a large It's no secret that

646
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: he's a large part of of what we are and

647
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: who we are as a football team. Um. You know,

648
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: I think that you just have to um, you know,

649
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: we we try to be smart as we prepare. You know,

650
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: nobody prepares for the riggers of a season, um more

651
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: than Derek. I'm not going to say that Derek's the

652
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: hardest working player in the NFL. I wouldn't do that

653
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 1: to to the players around this league, but I can't

654
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: imagine that any of them work harder, um than he does.

655
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: And he understands that and the toll that he's going

656
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,359
Speaker 1: to take. Um, I'm so impressed by what he does

657
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: after the games to prepare for the next week. On

658
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: Monday morning. Um, you know, he's in there before a

659
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: lot of people. They didn't even play in the football game,

660
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: let alone carry thirty times. And you know, so we'll

661
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,320
Speaker 1: always try to do what's what's best for the team

662
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: and best for Derek, and um, you know, just just

663
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: be smart and make sure that you know he's communicating

664
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: with us on how he feels and and we're evaluating

665
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: his performance. He can't have it both ways though, justin

666
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: you can't want two thousand yards and then have him

667
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: standing next to me, right, thank you? Just got to ask,

668
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: I see the two one six area code. You're not

669
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 1: like from up there where all coach vs are you? Well?

670
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 1: You know, so I grew up in Columbus and Mike

671
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,919
Speaker 1: and I Rabel A lot of Mike's on here. Coach

672
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,399
Speaker 1: Rabel and I are about the same age, so big

673
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 1: fan of his at Ohio State and then lived in Cleveland.

674
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: That's why I have a two one six number. And

675
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: my best friend went to Walsh, So here we go

676
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: when coach Rabel and he played baseball there and stuff.

677
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: But when coach got the job, I sent it to him.

678
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: I even found the article it says, you know, Walsh

679
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: graduate takes Titan's job. So yeah, that's the background on me.

680
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 1: So first first question for coach. Second one will be

681
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: for Jay rob So basically, coach, you know, I basically

682
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: painted your history at Walston High State to hear who

683
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 1: impacted your football life the most and why. Man, I've

684
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,439
Speaker 1: had so many different Um, I appreciate the question, Mike,

685
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: I appreciate the support. I think I've had so many

686
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: positive influences going back, I would say that that, you know,

687
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: my first coach was my dad. He was a basketball coach.

688
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: But you know, the one thing that he taught me

689
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: as an only child was the value and the importance

690
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: of being part of a team and giving yourself and

691
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: have the being able to give yourself to a team

692
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: to be around other people. And I think that that

693
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: was something that's probably unique as an only child, you know,

694
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 1: and then Jerry Reardon obviously was my first high school

695
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: football coach and made it such an impact on those

696
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 1: players there, you know, Ohio State. I've tried to take

697
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: something from every place I've been, whether that be a

698
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: player or coach, and you know, all form that into

699
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: my own style and what I believe in um as

700
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: I've gone through this process of playing for you know,

701
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: played college in pro football for eighteen years, and you know,

702
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: and now I've having coached, so there has been a

703
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: lot of positive influences on me. Um having had spent

704
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: time at Ohio State coaching and all these different places.

705
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: So you know, I've been blessed, and I've tried to

706
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 1: take a little bit from from each each person and

707
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: each group of people that I've been you know, been

708
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: able to come across. So Jay, Rob will move over

709
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: to you. So obviously we just had free agency. When

710
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: you're trying to acquire players, what do you tell them

711
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: about our locker room or culture or organization outside of

712
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,919
Speaker 1: just the money that you're offering them. Yeah, now that

713
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: that's a great question. Uh, Mike, and I would say

714
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:54,439
Speaker 1: that our locker room and our culture has certainly changed. Over.

715
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,959
Speaker 1: You know, the five seasons that that that I've been here,

716
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 1: we started to bring in guys that are that love football,

717
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: that are about We hadn't been right on every single one,

718
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: but we've been right more than we've been wrong. Um.

719
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: And that camaraderie that goes in the locker room. Um,

720
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 1: I was never in a pro locker room. I was

721
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 1: in a college locker room. Coach Brabel knows what it's

722
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: like to be in a good pro locker room. We

723
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: had one in New England there for a long time.

724
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: And um, and getting those types of guys that that

725
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 1: love football, that that hold each other accountable on a

726
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: daily basis. Uh, because we're all gonna have bad days

727
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: and whatever job that we have. And it's the same

728
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 1: thing with pro football players. You know, some days they're

729
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: off and they just but to have their teammates there

730
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 1: to pick them up, to hold them accountable to go

731
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: out and do their job. Um. And it's a really

732
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: really close group. And UM, I'm proud of what our

733
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: locker room is. I'm proud of what it stands for.

734
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 1: And it's it's funny how we're travels in league circles. Um.

735
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: You know from players they can't. They keep in contact

736
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 1: and and they'll text, you know, somebody with our team

737
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: and ask them them and um, you know, when our

738
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 1: players can give them a strong recommendation about what we've

739
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: got going on here in Nashville. UM, certainly with our

740
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: football team, but with our city, our facilities that you

741
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: know that Miss Amy is upgrading, um our stadium. Um

742
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: it's it certainly helps tip or push the needle in

743
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 1: our favor. Um it Ultimately it boils down to money, Mike,

744
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: but sometimes a lot of times the uh, you know,

745
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: the our locker room can certainly tip it in our favor.

746
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: Do you think the no state income tax helps you? Guys? Absolutely?

747
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: And you know there's there's other no state income tax, uh, Florida, Texas.

748
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: But you know, we we we always say it's ten games.

749
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: You know, you get ten games of no state income

750
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: tax because we play in Florida and we play in Texas. So, UM,

751
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 1: you know, we we use that to our advantage whenever possible.

752
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,839
Speaker 1: But it's certainly that's certainly in some of these rookies, UM, Mike,

753
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: they're even they're even keen onto this on this tax

754
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 1: thing too. We talk to a guy the other day

755
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: on a zoom and they're like, well, worried you really

756
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 1: want to go or not want to go? He goes,

757
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 1: uh goes. It's kind of expensive to live in California

758
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:07,320
Speaker 1: and the facts kind of give me he goes, Tennessee

759
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't be too bad in California. Yeah, that's it zero here.

760
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: These guys, they're pretty sharp when it comes to their money.

761
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: All right, thanks guys. Glasses on questions coming. This is

762
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: from Ron Robinson, not John Robinson. Ron Robinson, John and

763
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 1: his nephew send send a question. See Scott his nephew

764
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: sending in questions. This is related to stadium updates. Is

765
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: there a good possibility for turf to be added to

766
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: the playing surface and natural grass removed? Mike Vrabell artificial

767
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: turf or no at Nissan Stadium. I would say that

768
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: I would be the wrong person to ask about that.

769
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 1: It's like the uniforms. As long as there's lines painted

770
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: on it. We got an idea how far we got

771
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: to go for a first down? It doesn't matter to me,

772
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,439
Speaker 1: but I know I don't not part of that decision making.

773
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,839
Speaker 1: Got any thoughts on that one? For cousin Ron Robinson? Yeah,

774
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: I set myself up for that one with my cousin.

775
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: I told him to ask me an easy question, but

776
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: he gave me all right one. Um, you know, I

777
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 1: think I think it probably it may be a little

778
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: tough for us, given you know, the events that we

779
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: have and um, it's just so hot that that turf

780
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: gets it gets hot in the summer. Not saying that

781
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: that's a no, but UM, I think that's a pretty

782
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 1: in depth conversation that we would have to have, you know,

783
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:37,760
Speaker 1: certainly with Mike and I, with Amy first and foremost, um,

784
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,800
Speaker 1: and a lot of people would be involved in that decision. Okay,

785
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: let's go to Austin Hall and Austin wants to know

786
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: what does a typical day or week look like during

787
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 1: the draft process? John, Yeah, that's a great question, Austin.

788
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: I think, you know, depending up on what what month

789
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 1: we're in, I would say, um, you know, in the

790
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: month of April, coach, Coach and I are on virtual

791
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:07,879
Speaker 1: meetings with three or four or five prospects a day.

792
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: In the afternoons, our mornings we usually reserve for meetings

793
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: with our scouts with our coaches talking through things. You know.

794
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: Coach has some some X and O stuff, that that

795
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: he's putting together with his coach and staff with the

796
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: playbook in the mornings, and you know, we get to

797
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: prospects kind of mid morning, and then in the afternoon

798
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,879
Speaker 1: we're talking to these players and getting to the home

799
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 1: and then you know there's film at night, you know,

800
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: before we shut it down and wrap it up and

801
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: do it again. You know, as we inch closer to

802
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: the draft here over the next two weeks, there'll be

803
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 1: some some pretty intense film sessions with myself, Coach Frabel,

804
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: our VP of Player Personnel, Ryan Cowden, our personnel director,

805
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 1: Manti Austin Fort John Salgiar College director. It will be

806
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: the five of us kind of pouring through film in

807
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: they're watching prospects back to back, comparing and contrasting the

808
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: skill sets and how they might help our football team.

809
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: Do you still do mock drafts within your staff to

810
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: kind of get different fields for having might flow. We do. Um.

811
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 1: We actually, ironically, bike we did one this morning. Our

812
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: scouts were in and we were all kind of looking

813
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: at the draft board and I made them all pick

814
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 1: three players that and it was a couple of them

815
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: were u They were sitting there and they were looking

816
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: they're scratching their head and I was They're like, I

817
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 1: don't know. Um. You know, one scout picked the player

818
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: that he really liked, who we could probably get in

819
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 1: the seventh round, but he wanted to take him at

820
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 1: twenty two. I was like, that's probably a little early

821
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,760
Speaker 1: for him, but okay, I appreciate it a little sleep,

822
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 1: but it's good. It was good because you could hear

823
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: the Pauls and they're sitting there and they're like that.

824
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is what it's like, guys, like when

825
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,439
Speaker 1: you're sitting there. You I learned one thing from coach

826
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: I learned a lot of things with Coach Belichick, but

827
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,839
Speaker 1: he always told me, have a player ready to pick.

828
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: You're not always going to be able to move either

829
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: up or back in the draft, so you better be

830
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: zero rolled in on one or two guys. As you

831
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 1: went closer to your mike. Do you like the mock drafts?

832
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: Do you read any of the mock drafts for fun?

833
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: You know that you can't help, but see them. I

834
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: mean you can't help, but see as you're having a

835
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 1: breakfast or a cup of coffee that they run across

836
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 1: the bottom. I don't know if I necessarily enjoy them.

837
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 1: I appreciate what they do and the time that they

838
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 1: put in there. And it's no different than than our

839
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: coaches or our scouts. Everybody's gonna have a different view

840
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: on a player, and you know, there's never gonna be

841
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 1: a consent one hundred percent everybody in agreement that this

842
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 1: is how they're ranked. I mean, there's gonna be a

843
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: lot of variances, and so I like what we do.

844
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: I like how we communicate. I like how we talk

845
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: through players. I've I've learned a lot, you know, talking

846
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 1: about a vertical ranking and then a horizontal ranking and

847
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: which player may win out as we say, which is

848
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: something that I continue to ask questions about and have

849
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 1: discussions about, as does all those guys that that John

850
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier. So that's the part that I enjoy, not necessarily,

851
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: you know, I'm appreciative of everybody, what everybody does, and

852
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,760
Speaker 1: then they all have an opinion on where the players

853
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: may go. All right, This question is from John McDaniels.

854
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 1: John McDaniels, it's for Mike Vrabel. How confident do you

855
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: feel about this team repeating as division champions? Well, I'm

856
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: always going to be confident in who we are and

857
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: in our organization and our staff and our most especially

858
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: our players. Um but I don't think that we're even

859
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: there yet, you know. I mean we're we're in a

860
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 1: conversation of an offseason where everybody is starting back over

861
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: and and hopefully trying to find ways to improve on

862
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: the things they did well and then you know, fix

863
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 1: and make the things that they didn't do well better.

864
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: And uh, you know that that's where we're at. That's

865
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,280
Speaker 1: where our focus will be on Monday, you know, trying

866
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: to build competent, competitive, complete and consistent players. Like that's

867
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:16,879
Speaker 1: my focus as we start the voluntary offseason program next week.

868
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,319
Speaker 1: That will be virtual and it won't be about you know,

869
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: winning the division. You know, it'll be about trying to

870
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: to make you know, raising expectations like that is always.

871
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: That's going to be something that we're going to try

872
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 1: to focus on, is raising our expectations and and and

873
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:34,839
Speaker 1: doing the things we did last year, but doing better

874
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 1: all right. Tony Cap has the next question, and it's

875
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: obviously for John Robinson. I would think, is there any

876
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:46,760
Speaker 1: one position you feel this draft, this draft is very deep,

877
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: and any position that it is not. Yeah, that's that's

878
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: a that's kind of a question I get about every draft,

879
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 1: and I think that's our charges to find find depth

880
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 1: at every position. UM. I certainly think there are position

881
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:04,760
Speaker 1: groups that, um, you know have some have some depth

882
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,919
Speaker 1: and some volume there. I think, you know, the the

883
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:13,359
Speaker 1: edge players on defense, UM, the corners on defense, receivers

884
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,800
Speaker 1: on offense. You know, there's a bunch of good backs.

885
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,919
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of good offensive linemen. Um. But that's

886
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: our charge and has been our charge over the last

887
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 1: you know, the everybody kind of can kind of predict

888
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 1: who the top hundred are, but who are that? Who

889
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 1: is that next run of players? You know, the Jayon Browns,

890
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: you know, those guys who are going to come in

891
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: in the Day three portion of the draft and and

892
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: and have an impact on your football team. So I

893
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: don't want to say manufacturing depth, but continuing to watch

894
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: and look and interview and talk through and find roles

895
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 1: for players as we watch film on these guys, UH,

896
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,760
Speaker 1: to create depth within the position groups and mike guys

897
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: who are specific fits to not only your system but

898
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: your mindset of how you want a football player to be. Yeah,

899
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 1: I mean I think we have a certain makeup that

900
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: we you know, would like to you know, to have

901
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: around us on a on a daily basis and in

902
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 1: the fit I mean fittest football, you know what I mean.

903
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: And we're going to try to, you know, make sure

904
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: that the players that they fit our profile and that

905
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:21,240
Speaker 1: they're they're about the team and they put the team

906
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 1: first or competitive, they play with a certain demeanorum that

907
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 1: that in the end that those guys will you know,

908
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 1: they'll find a place and we'll find a place for them,

909
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 1: all right. This one is from Christopher Owens, and this

910
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:40,400
Speaker 1: is a Jim Schwartz related question. With bringing in a

911
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 1: four three expert with wide nine experience, could we be

912
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 1: looking to use Bud that would be Bud Dupree in

913
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 1: a four three defensive set this season or with simmons

914
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:57,359
Speaker 1: incredible athleticism, versatility and soft hands, could we see him

915
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: on the offensive side from time of time maybe in

916
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 1: the TD. Mike Vrabel mold they wants to see Big

917
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 1: Jeff play offense, and I don't think that that's too

918
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 1: far fetched. But uh, you know, the first thing I

919
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 1: would say to that is is we're excited to add Jim,

920
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: you know, to to our staff. But but nobody's an expert.

921
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: There are there are no experts and and and the

922
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: people that that claim to be gurus. Um, you know,

923
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: we're not looking for gurus. We're looking for great teachers, UM,

924
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,879
Speaker 1: coaches that make connections with players and and and try

925
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 1: to get them improved, and they're willing to to do

926
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 1: their job. Not we we would. We're not looking for experts.

927
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: We're looking for for people that want to help the team.

928
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:45,240
Speaker 1: And we're excited about Jim and in the defensive knowledge

929
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:50,280
Speaker 1: and the football knowledge that he that he can bring. Um.

930
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:53,320
Speaker 1: You know, we we we play uh, we play multiple

931
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: fronts and so that's that's not that's nothing new. We've

932
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: we've played four down fronts. We've had five guys at

933
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: the line scrimmage, we've had four that that's not something

934
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 1: that we haven't done. But for Jeffrey, um, you know,

935
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:11,360
Speaker 1: we would put him wherever and he could play a

936
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 1: lot of places, you know, Jeff big Jeff could play

937
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: a lot of different places for US. Logan Stafford. His

938
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:21,399
Speaker 1: question is for John Robinson, Hey, John, I hope Paul

939
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 1: as well. When looking at potential offensive lineman to draft,

940
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 1: what is the most important thing the Titans look for

941
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 1: in the offensive line. That's a great question and it's

942
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 1: one that that coach Frabel and I pontificate on a lot,

943
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:42,320
Speaker 1: and ultimately it bowils down to does the guy block

944
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: the guy? Does he block the guy that that he's

945
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: supposed to There's a lot of guys that, um that

946
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: do it differently. Some do it with size, some do

947
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 1: it with links, some do it with speed and quickness. Um,

948
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: they're really really good. Ones do it with all three.

949
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: But as you find a way to get on the

950
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,879
Speaker 1: guy that he's supposed to h and keep him from

951
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: making an impact on the on the play. All right,

952
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:09,800
Speaker 1: I think I've got two more, uh. Jonathan Freeden. Jonathan Freeden.

953
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 1: With the massive change of personnel on defense, do you

954
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: think we'll rank in the top ten in defense this year? Also?

955
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 1: How do you get these new players to mesh Mike? Oh,

956
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:24,800
Speaker 1: We've never really Um, you know, what we want to

957
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,279
Speaker 1: do is we want to be great and be better situational.

958
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: You know, third down, red zone, you know that that

959
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 1: you know when you look back at it, you know

960
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:38,839
Speaker 1: the third down was really um where where things get

961
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: you know, where opportunities continue to rise and gives the

962
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 1: offense chance to get into drives and so that's being

963
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: better there. You know, it's going to be something that

964
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:54,360
Speaker 1: we're going to obviously focus on um and hopefully that

965
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: that can can start to improve whatever rank where we're

966
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: looking for. We're looking to win, you know, and be

967
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: a being an aggressive defense that continues to take the

968
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:07,800
Speaker 1: football away. That's that's something that's always going to be critical.

969
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: And then being you know, really good in the red

970
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: zone like um mesh. You know, I think that that

971
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:17,959
Speaker 1: that happens, you know organically. I think that you know, well,

972
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 1: we learned a lot last year from the virtual setting,

973
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 1: you know, so we're going to try to do things

974
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 1: where you know, you break them up into huddles and

975
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: you tell eleven guys that they're going with these two

976
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 1: coaches into this virtual room and they're gonna go through

977
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 1: some calls or filmed and then you take eleven more

978
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 1: guys that may be working together in the spring or

979
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: in the summer, and you put them in a room

980
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 1: with a couple of coaches and you know, allow them

981
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:47,840
Speaker 1: a smaller for them to communicate. And so that's something

982
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 1: that that we're looking to do during these five weeks

983
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 1: of virtual meetings Okay. Last one comes from Barry Scott.

984
00:54:57,080 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: He says, what is planned this year that was not

985
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 1: planned last year to stretch the team and do greater

986
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 1: I guess he's asking about changes additions. You've hit on

987
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 1: some of those throughout the course of this Titan's Hangout, Mike,

988
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: But anything else that kind of jumps out to you

989
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: that you'd be willing to share, well, I mean, we're

990
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 1: going to try to have them, you know what I mean.

991
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:21,799
Speaker 1: There's going to be a message and we've asked and

992
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: I've asked the coaches to to come up with some

993
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: offseason keys like we would during the season, but we're

994
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:32,640
Speaker 1: not preparing for anybody, and this is more internal. So

995
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:35,239
Speaker 1: it's about you know, these things that I've talked about

996
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: as far as what I'm going to focus on, which

997
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: is going to be you know, effort and finish and

998
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 1: how do you improve effort and finish in April? And

999
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 1: that's about conditioning to be able to put yourself in

1000
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:49,959
Speaker 1: a physically conditioned um place to be able to play

1001
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:52,279
Speaker 1: with the effort and finish that we demand as as

1002
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 1: a team. We're going to focus on not only the

1003
00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:00,120
Speaker 1: attitudes of our coaches, which which begins with me, our

1004
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: attitudes of our players that we come in you know,

1005
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,359
Speaker 1: each day and try to make a positive impact on

1006
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: the team doing something something I'm gonna remind myself of

1007
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,840
Speaker 1: and do that every day. I'm going to try to

1008
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 1: focus on teaching concepts um being great and teaching situations

1009
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:20,879
Speaker 1: and details of what we're trying to do, and then

1010
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: the last one would be you know, improved technique and fundamentals,

1011
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:28,280
Speaker 1: and that's the focus. Basically, I just gave you my

1012
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 1: my fifteen minute team meeting for Monday, and I'm gonna

1013
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 1: have some some cool slides and and some fancy film,

1014
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 1: but that that's what we're going to focus on. And

1015
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 1: then when the defense meets, they're going to have, you know,

1016
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,320
Speaker 1: two things from a unit. And then when the coaches

1017
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:46,399
Speaker 1: get together with the players, they're gonna have a few things.

1018
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 1: And those are gonna be our offseason keys that that

1019
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: we're going to focus on. And when we start playing

1020
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: games that that's going to change. But for now, those

1021
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 1: are the things that I think are going to allow

1022
00:56:55,800 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 1: us to continue to raise that expectation. Mike Rabel and

1023
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 1: John Robinson with the Titans hang out, we had a

1024
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: chance to replay that for you here courtesy of our

1025
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: ticket office and Mike and John. We thank them for that,

1026
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 1: and we remind you when it comes to your healthcare coverage,

1027
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: you should be the one making the call. Call Farm

1028
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: Bureau Health Plans. They've been protecting Tennessee and since nineteen

1029
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: forty seven. So we wrap up another edition of the

1030
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: OTP inside of two weeks from the NFL Draft. Are

1031
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 1: you ready, Mike Keith? No, No, I'm not ready. I

1032
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: will be. I will be. I I need the two weeks. Yeah,

1033
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:41,960
Speaker 1: I need every second. Only We've got a lot of

1034
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 1: writing to do. We've got a lot of production to do.

1035
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,919
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of recording to do. And Rett

1036
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 1: Brian is just pulling his hair out right now, pulling

1037
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: together all of the elements that you'll hear in the

1038
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 1: course of the two nights of the broadcast on Titans Radio.

1039
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 1: Team Previews, Team Needs different things with Mike Detilier from

1040
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 1: the MD Draft Report, I mean it literally takes hours,

1041
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:11,400
Speaker 1: right right right. I mean you don't just show up,

1042
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 1: and I mean he has the hard job and then

1043
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:18,640
Speaker 1: he has to work us in in different places to

1044
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 1: work on the other things that we're involved in. But

1045
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 1: when the draft is over, Rhet sleeps for about a week.

1046
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, as he should. I mean, he starts

1047
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 1: working on the draft well before anyone even thinks about

1048
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: a draft existing, right. Every year he takes a couple

1049
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 1: of days once the season ends, and then he is

1050
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:41,440
Speaker 1: into the draft hard and heavy. So the amount of

1051
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:45,440
Speaker 1: work that he does is incredible, and we have to

1052
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 1: do prep. Rhet has to do prep well. And the

1053
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: part of it that you'll hear from us is what

1054
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 1: we have studied and done. Everything else would be things

1055
00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 1: that he has done that you wouldn't know that it's him.

1056
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 1: You also know that he has He's involved on the

1057
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 1: air too, and Dave McGinnis is involved on the air,

1058
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 1: and they study the tapes. He studies with coach Mac

1059
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:19,439
Speaker 1: and goes through the different ins and outs. And that's

1060
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:21,919
Speaker 1: where our roles are kind of different. On the air.

1061
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 1: I'm I'm more of the analytical team, need things of

1062
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 1: that sort. With some of the stories. They're more of

1063
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 1: the football football and it's able to provide a little

1064
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: bit of something for everything. Well you try, Yeah, you're

1065
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: trying to cover the whole gamut of it, because not

1066
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:47,280
Speaker 1: everybody can say, oh, he's he's a five technique. Who

1067
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: does I don't know what that is. Yeah, and that's

1068
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: fine because they're stories to tell to fill in. Yeah,

1069
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 1: or dude's big or dude's strong, right, and that's important

1070
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 1: to people too. Yeah, is he big? Is he fast?

1071
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 1: Will he hit people? Where did he go to school? Yeah?

1072
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 1: What makes him? What makes him unique in that way?

1073
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 1: Outside of just the He has great lateral quickness and

1074
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 1: he fits this scheme particularly well. He may be a

1075
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 1: better pro player than a college player because he'll be

1076
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:22,000
Speaker 1: used in this way. Those are things that Dave McGinnis

1077
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 1: is able to bring. And he's taught Rhett over a

1078
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 1: period of time and it's really phenomenal. And I can't

1079
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 1: begin to comprehend that. Yeah, so I don't try, no,

1080
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: and I know your strengths. I judge everybody on whether

1081
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 1: or not they laugh at my jokes, which I've been

1082
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:41,920
Speaker 1: missing in the last two years, which might be why

1083
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:45,720
Speaker 1: I'm feeling a little less prepared than normal. Right, I'm

1084
01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: gonna try that one out on you here. Titans picking

1085
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 1: number twenty two? Yeah, how many different players realistically do

1086
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 1: you think the Titans could pick at number twenty two?

1087
01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 1: How many different players sort of keeping mind, I'm not

1088
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 1: talking about Trevor Lawrence. Okay, No, Trevor Lawrence is going

1089
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 1: to be gone, Zach Wilson's gonna be gone. I'm not

1090
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:08,040
Speaker 1: talking about guys who are going to go in the

1091
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 1: top five. You know the difference. Yeah, I'm talking about

1092
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 1: players who realistically might be there at twenty two. How

1093
01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 1: many different realistic players at twenty two do you think

1094
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: the Titans could or would take. I think there's probably

1095
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 1: twenty five ish that are like legitimate, could be options.

1096
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 1: You don't think twenty Is twenty five a big number? Well,

1097
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 1: I think it's a massive number. I would say six.

1098
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:40,040
Speaker 1: Oh no, I think that there's I think that there's multiple.

1099
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:43,160
Speaker 1: But you're considering then you're I guess I'm considering not

1100
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 1: playing the game. I guess I'm considering a lot of

1101
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: Maybe I didn't understand the rules. Are you meaning, like

1102
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 1: legitimate people who we will probably take? There's probably about

1103
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:55,440
Speaker 1: five Okay, the initial question, which you could have answered

1104
01:01:56,000 --> 01:02:00,440
Speaker 1: very easily. I think there's about twenty five like that

1105
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: that could work. I wasn't sure how broad we were

1106
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 1: because here's what we don't know about the Titans board.

1107
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 1: How many players. Do they have a first round grade

1108
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 1: on I have no idea. Well, I don't don't even

1109
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:17,919
Speaker 1: know if we're gonna be there. I mean, we could

1110
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 1: go up, we could go back there. I think I

1111
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 1: think you have totally missed it. If you were on

1112
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:29,920
Speaker 1: a game show, you would have been dropped out of

1113
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:32,920
Speaker 1: your seat like that Ellen's Game of Games thing. You

1114
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:35,919
Speaker 1: would you would be plunged into the water, you would

1115
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 1: be slimed. I think this is just another example of

1116
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 1: how these games are ridded. No, they're not rich. I

1117
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:45,080
Speaker 1: said at number twenty two, okay, And like I say

1118
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:48,600
Speaker 1: about five, Trevor Lawrence ain't there at twenty two. No,

1119
01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:51,760
Speaker 1: he wasn't part of my twenty five. But then who

1120
01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 1: would be everybody? Because because the whole thing is John

1121
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:59,160
Speaker 1: Robinson is not going to take a player who he's

1122
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 1: got on his board at forty at twenty two, right.

1123
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 1: He might take a player he's got at twenty four

1124
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:08,480
Speaker 1: or twenty five at twenty two, right, I mean he's

1125
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:12,640
Speaker 1: not gonna reach in that way. Well, and to your

1126
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:15,720
Speaker 1: point about us not knowing who they've got, because we

1127
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 1: never see the board for people, for people who are

1128
01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 1: listening to the OTP I can assure you. I don't

1129
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:24,600
Speaker 1: think I've ever seen the board. I've never been in

1130
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 1: the draft room when there were names on the walls.

1131
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:30,480
Speaker 1: I have been. I have been in the draft room

1132
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:35,280
Speaker 1: in twenty plus years, three times. I've been in twice.

1133
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 1: Two of the three times it was to get food. Yeah, yeah,

1134
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 1: because they said we have extra whatever, would you like

1135
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 1: to come in and make a sandwich? Yes? And so

1136
01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:48,480
Speaker 1: I walked in and made a sandwich and left. Yeah.

1137
01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 1: And that was not during draft time. Nope, same exactly.

1138
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:55,720
Speaker 1: Someone brought in left over whatever, would you like some?

1139
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:58,800
Speaker 1: And there's like nothing on the walls. It looks like

1140
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:01,240
Speaker 1: a storage closet at that right, Think there's nothing. You know.

1141
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 1: They've built a new draft room, I know, which is

1142
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:06,200
Speaker 1: very exciting and we'll never see it. But they built

1143
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:09,320
Speaker 1: a temporary when this year yep. And then they're building

1144
01:04:09,320 --> 01:04:11,520
Speaker 1: a new one at the at the new place, which

1145
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:15,439
Speaker 1: is so cool. I will never ever know what will

1146
01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:18,760
Speaker 1: never know? Sounds nice, but it's easier not seeing it

1147
01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:21,840
Speaker 1: for us. Oh yeah, it's better to not know, because

1148
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 1: then we're not lying to people when they say what

1149
01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 1: are they going to do? I have no If I

1150
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:30,480
Speaker 1: tell you I have no idea. I honestly, deep in

1151
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 1: my bones, have zero clues. Well, that's why we told

1152
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:37,520
Speaker 1: the story last week about knowing that they were trading

1153
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:40,040
Speaker 1: the number one pick in twenty sixteen, and it was

1154
01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:44,040
Speaker 1: awful and how brutal that was to know, because you're

1155
01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:47,880
Speaker 1: fearful that you will give that away. I prefer not knowing. Well.

1156
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:52,560
Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes we will know things from a practice

1157
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:57,120
Speaker 1: or from something we're told, but it's not often, and

1158
01:04:57,200 --> 01:05:00,240
Speaker 1: it's not life and death like the draft. The draft

1159
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:04,320
Speaker 1: is very protected. It's a whole different ball game. Says

1160
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:08,920
Speaker 1: less than five percent of the overall staff have access

1161
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:12,200
Speaker 1: to the draft room. Way less than five percent. Yeah,

1162
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:17,080
Speaker 1: I would you say twenty five people say I'm sorry,

1163
01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:20,800
Speaker 1: I messed up your game. I didn't understand the rules. Sorry,

1164
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:23,440
Speaker 1: just come up with a better game next. All right, whatever,

1165
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:26,840
Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us for this edition of the OTP,

1166
01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:31,120
Speaker 1: presented by far Bureau Health Plans. I'm very excited for

1167
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 1: the draft. We've got some really cool stuff that's coming

1168
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:37,560
Speaker 1: down the pipe for the ot people. We do. I

1169
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:41,680
Speaker 1: think that draft time is going to be a good time. So,

1170
01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:45,160
Speaker 1: if you're not subscribing to the OTP, and this is

1171
01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 1: just like a casual thing, or you've fallen into it accidentally. Yeah,

1172
01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 1: you couldn't figure out how to turn it off right, Yeah,

1173
01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:57,240
Speaker 1: definitely subscribe and make sure that you're getting it downloaded

1174
01:05:57,320 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 1: to your phone or your computer or whatever it is,

1175
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 1: because there are going to be some some episodes that

1176
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 1: are coming more frequently than Yeah, we're gonna do like

1177
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 1: every day, so make sure that they're coming to you.

1178
01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:14,880
Speaker 1: You don't want to miss anything. Then you might not

1179
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 1: understand the game in a subsequent episode. Yeah. So if

1180
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:22,000
Speaker 1: you thought you were on some true crime podcast right now, no,

1181
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 1: no you're not. It's the OTP. But someone might disappear

1182
01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 1: after the way. How somebody's disappearing pretty soon for any

1183
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:35,640
Speaker 1: like Keith, thanks for joining us for the team. Welcome

1184
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:40,160
Speaker 1: to the Big Show where the Legends Ever Gotten Knows.

1185
01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 1: It's our house.