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Speaker 1: On today's OTP Road to Nashville, the offseason program is

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Speaker 1: tell us what the guys had to say after Day one,

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Speaker 1: less than ten days from the NFL Draft. We've got

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Speaker 1: all of the latest news and we'll visit with two

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Speaker 1: local prospects, Tyrrell Dodson and Dawson Knocks. If you have

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Speaker 1: he's The OTP Road to Nashville for April sixteenth starts down.

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Speaker 1: It's nine days until players are drafted in Nashville. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the OTP Road to Nashville from St. Thomas Sports

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Speaker 1: Park in Nashville. I'm Mike Keith amy Wells is here

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Speaker 1: as we are fully identified with our location. Yes, you

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Speaker 1: don't need ways to find us, We're right here. You

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Speaker 1: don't use ways the app. Oh yeah, but I didn't

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Speaker 1: know that. Are you quoting a song? You're just making

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Speaker 1: made ways to Oh I thought something. That's why I'm

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Speaker 1: told not to be clever. It sound a very poetic.

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Speaker 1: Jim Wyatt's here from Titans online dot Com. I'm moving along.

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Speaker 1: Do you notice how I'm just I'm just trying, Derek

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Speaker 1: henrying the moment, I'm just running through it. Hi, Jim,

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Speaker 1: how's it by doing? We're quite good. You know. Something

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Speaker 1: that we like to do on the show is take

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Speaker 1: those social media questions. So if you are watching us

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Speaker 1: live on the Titans social media channels, which would be Facebook,

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Speaker 1: the Twitter, and also YouTube, ask those questions and Amy

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Speaker 1: Wills will be certain to pass them on absolutely. Either

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Speaker 1: at me at Titans Amy, I'll get him. We'd love

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Speaker 1: to have them. M So guys back to work. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's great to have guys back because I think,

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Speaker 1: whether it's you know, through the combine or through free

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Speaker 1: kind of started. The schedule comes out tomorrow night. Uh,

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Speaker 1: given away another headline? Thank you, Jim, so sorry about that.

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Speaker 1: Wherever have you a plan. That's just a tease. When

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Speaker 1: people hear that, they'll thank god, we got to stick

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Speaker 1: gonna tell who all the money. He's like our Robin Williams.

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Speaker 1: Everything goes out, all the problems when we're playing the

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Speaker 1: Obviously this is early and there this is a focus

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Speaker 1: Let's hear what the players had to say upon their return.

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Speaker 1: Media got a chance with some Titans players and head

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Speaker 1: but perception is sometimes reality, and that that was supposedly

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00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 1: the final straw for him. Interesting, so he looked kind

428
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 1: of like a sissy, that's how you would say it. Yes, well,

429
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 1: that's fun. I remember a couple of Florida guys on

430
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,440
Speaker 1: that Titans team who waited, Samari Roll being one of them,

431
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 1: and he made no bones about it. He loved Yeah,

432
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: he waited until the very last minute to come out.

433
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,159
Speaker 1: He hardly did anything on the field in pregame, and

434
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,120
Speaker 1: he waited the very last minute to come running out.

435
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 1: And Samari kind of slightly built. It look looked like

436
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,160
Speaker 1: the Michelin man. I guess up there that day because

437
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,199
Speaker 1: you had so many lights, couldn't get him. I mean,

438
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 1: if you'll remember, you weren't with the team at the time,

439
00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 1: but you probably know the story from the out side.

440
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,400
Speaker 1: They couldn't get him to eat. Yeah, I mean literally,

441
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,879
Speaker 1: you know, the staff was desperately trying to get here.

442
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: You know some guys on way end day, you know,

443
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 1: have been starving for two days. They would desperately try

444
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: to get some Mari'd eat. He just wouldn't eat. Huh. Well,

445
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 1: that's really interesting. Some of us don't have that problem.

446
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: Really cold place, I mean, if the weather's wind the

447
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 1: chief ye, you'll love that. Yeah, it sounds speaking of

448
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 1: defensive backs, one that we know is officially retiring as

449
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: a Titan. Jim White, Ultron Werner, you know, he announced

450
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,640
Speaker 1: his retirement I guess probably three or four weeks ago,

451
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 1: and then he's coming in the building tomorrow to sign

452
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,679
Speaker 1: a one day contract to retire as a Titan. And uh,

453
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 1: now I always remember him, you know, a great guy,

454
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 1: and certainly there was a stretch there where he just

455
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 1: was like a football magnet. You know, he was always

456
00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:01,160
Speaker 1: around the ball, always made plays U I think, and

457
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 1: Ultron probably will telling himself to Mark that he's gonna

458
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: hold a press conference here at Saint Thomas Sports Park.

459
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 1: The White things played out when he became a free agency,

460
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: he probably had to do it all over again. I

461
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: would think he might have stayed here, although he got

462
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 1: a great contract in Tampa and and uh, you know,

463
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 1: he's got a career to really be proud of. But uh,

464
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: he made his mark here certainly. That's where he went

465
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 1: to a Pro Bowl and h and wish him well

466
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 1: and he'll be good to see him back in here again.

467
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 1: Altron Verner was actually the one hundred and fourth pick

468
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 1: of the two thousan ten draft. The Titans traded Kevin

469
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: Vickerson and if I'm not mistaken. Lindale White to Seattle

470
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 1: to move up in the fourth round to select him.

471
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 1: So and he ended up going to a Pro Bowl

472
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,920
Speaker 1: and having a nice run with the team before he departed.

473
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 1: So that turned out to be a pretty good deal. Yeah,

474
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: absolutely excited for him. Good guys, ready to get to

475
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 1: the Jim Wyatt mocks. Let's do this is my favorite

476
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 1: part of Tuesday. Change a little. Jim Wyatt already knows

477
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,160
Speaker 1: who's going to be drafted. He already knows the schedule.

478
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 1: He's already been given the complete draft list. But he played.

479
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 1: But I've been told to keep it quiet. So let's

480
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: mock Jim Wyatt, shall we. Yes, let's take a look.

481
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: He tours thirty mocks and you may have read I'm sorry,

482
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: extra thinks the sister didn't tell me that. Oh, I'm sorry.

483
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: He's up to forty. Sorry, okay, I didn't mean to

484
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 1: make you look bad mine. Okay, Well that's all right.

485
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,919
Speaker 1: So he bumps it to forty and we have a

486
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: new leader in the clubhouse. After two weeks of Noah

487
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: Fant being the top of the mocks, it's Brian Burns,

488
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: the edge man from Florida State Christian Wilkins staying up there,

489
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 1: there's Fant and t J. Hawkins. That was interesting. People

490
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: think he's gonna fall to nineteen. I'm surprised, But I

491
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: had a couple of people would, uh, you know, with

492
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 1: some other guys who I'm surprised if they will be

493
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 1: on the board as well, including Sweat, But uh, that

494
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: popped up. I don't think it was one with Hawkinson

495
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 1: last week. If I'm not mistaken, can we put that

496
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,360
Speaker 1: back up for just a second. So it's Burns with

497
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 1: eight they're saying eight different mocks are saying the Titans

498
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: will take Brian Burns at number nineteen. Seven are saying

499
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins five for Noah Fan. Four mocks are saying

500
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: the Titans will take TJ. Hockinson at nineteen. Dexter Lawrence,

501
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: d tackle from Clemson. Three Hollywood Brown, the wide receiver

502
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,719
Speaker 1: from Oklahoma. Three Irv Smith Junior, the tight end from Alabama.

503
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: Two of the mocks have the Titans selecting him at

504
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: number nineteen, and then Cleveland Furrell, the edge man from Clemson.

505
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: I like that player very much. I like him a lot.

506
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 1: He's a he looks a lot like Derek Morgan. Coming

507
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: out of Georgia Tech um good good looking player uh.

508
00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 1: And then DK Metcalfe the wide receiver from Old men Us,

509
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: the corner Byron Murphy from Washington, Mac Wilson from Alabama,

510
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 1: the linebacker Greedy Williams, cornerback Alshu Montez Sweat, the edgeman

511
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: from Mississippi State, and A. J. Brown the wide receiver

512
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: from Old miss That rounds out the list. So John

513
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: Robinson's plan continuing to work as more and more teams

514
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: or more and more people unsure about what the Titans

515
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,360
Speaker 1: pick at nineteen is going to be, just like JR. Planned. Yeah,

516
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: and not just player but position. I think a lot

517
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: of that stems from what has transpired during the early

518
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: part of this offseason by you know, filling some needs

519
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: at guard with Saffold and getting your backup quarterback and

520
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 1: taney Hill, and getting a receiver in Humphreys, and obviously

521
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: getting an edge guy and a camera away. I mean,

522
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: you don't look at the Titans and say this team

523
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: has to have this or that. I'm not saying this

524
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: team doesn't have needs, because there's still work to be

525
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: done to really solidify this roster and something right. And

526
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: that's going to be done with what right now is

527
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: a six million draft class. But where it comes at

528
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 1: the beginning is as these mock show. Anyone's guess at

529
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: this point, I mean, you don't know who's going to

530
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:14,479
Speaker 1: be there at nineteen because you don't know what's going

531
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: to happen one to eighteen. That's what makes it difficult.

532
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: But so it's going to be interesting. I agree with Jim.

533
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: I think that the closer and closer we get, the

534
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: more we're seeing these mocks kind of change and continue

535
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: to change. It just tells me that no one really

536
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: knows what's going to happen. I say, we just wait

537
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: the nine days and pick them for real. We got

538
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: to talk about it, though, because we have shows. I mean,

539
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: we can't just stop doing the show. Amy, I guess

540
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: that's true. I'm just ready. I'm so excited. I can't

541
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 1: even continue. The judge were last night. I mean, there

542
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: are all kinds of people who told me I'm coming

543
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: up to the draft right I'm gonna be there. It's

544
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: the feed people who've gotten hotel rooms and are going

545
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: to be downtown and yep, you know, I mean the

546
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: whole thing. I totally get it. I'm just excited. We're

547
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: talking about the top of the draft and part of

548
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: what you do as you prepare for the draft itself,

549
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: as you have thirty pre draft visits. The focus of

550
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: the thirty pre draft visits among the majority of people

551
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: who talk about the draft are the guys will be

552
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: selected in the first round. But what about guys who

553
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: will be selected after the first round, including towards Day three. Well,

554
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: some of those guys normally come from your local days.

555
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: So you have thirty pre draft visits. But then guys

556
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: who played in your town or right around your town,

557
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: or who hail from your particular town have a chance

558
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: to come in for Local Day, which was Friday. A

559
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: bunch of great guys in here on Friday, including a

560
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: young man from Centennial High School in Franklin, Tennessee, who

561
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: played for John Chavis at Texas A and M I'm

562
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: talking about linebacker Tyrell Dotson. Now, you decided that going

563
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: to the draft was a good idea for you after

564
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: your junior year. How did you know that now was

565
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: the right time. I just knew that I was mentally

566
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: physically ready to take my game to another level, and

567
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: I did a lot in college that I was proud

568
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: of and just ready to do it at the next level.

569
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: You had a great twenty seventeen season, a good twenty

570
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: eighteen season, and it was said that your best game

571
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen was the Gator Bowl against North Carolina State.

572
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: What was clicking for you in that game? Just that

573
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: month of you know, having to you know, get my

574
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: body back. You know, season was really brutal, having seven

575
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: overtimes with LSU, and you know, having two to three

576
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: weeks to just prepare and just chill and just get

577
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: ready for MC stay. It was fun. I want to

578
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: ask you about that seven overtime game, since you brought

579
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: it up. Being able to overcome something like that and

580
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: stay in that game mentally and physically for so long,

581
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: how did that help you improve as a player. Obviously,

582
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: that's the longest game I've ever player. You know, just

583
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: just all the preparation that we did in summer and

584
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: stuff like that just all came to light. And I

585
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: was just so proud of everyone how they stuck together

586
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: and we just kept pounding and pounding until at the

587
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: end we won. And all of the different aspects of

588
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: your game. What skill do you have that you think

589
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: will translate the best to the NFL. Just my versatility,

590
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: you know, I could play Mike, I could play Will

591
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: and be having good ball skills as a linebacker, you know,

592
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: picking balls off, you know, and just being a leader.

593
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: What are you hoping teams remember about you having the

594
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: chance to talk to scouts and coaches and all of

595
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: these different people. What are you hoping they remember the

596
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: most about Tyrell Dodson. He's a better player off the

597
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: field than he is on. Just bringing that dynamic to

598
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: a locker room is this second to none? And I'm

599
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: just ready to do that. I've got to ask you

600
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: about your Madden skills because they are something of legend,

601
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: and you may or may not have called out a

602
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: certain Dez Bryant to play against you. Are you really

603
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: the best Madden player out there? Be honest? I like

604
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: to think so. I haven't got beat in a long

605
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: long time, probably since you know, probably since probably high school.

606
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: My brother probably beat me. But other than that, you know,

607
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: I don't take many else that Madden. We guys in

608
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: your locker room agree with you, though, Yes, of course

609
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: we can call him up right now. Tyrell Dotson, Amy Wells,

610
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: very very nice young man who when we talked with

611
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: people at the combine about him. They were a little

612
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: surprised he chose to come out, but feel like he

613
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: has really good upside. He did play better football according

614
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: to the experts while John Chavis was there before Javis

615
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: left and went to Arkansas. So maybe somebody gets a

616
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: steal in this player, I think so. I think that,

617
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: as you said, he's a player with so much upside

618
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: that he's a very interesting kind of mid round pick.

619
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: And I think that you're absolutely right that he's someone

620
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: if you can get him in the right program, get

621
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: him in the right situation, he's someone who can be

622
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: super productive. And I mean he's just a good guy.

623
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: He's a good locker room guy. He does a lot

624
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: of things in the community. He seems like the complete package,

625
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,239
Speaker 1: someone you would want on your team. And what an

626
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: exciting time for a guy who grew up in this area,

627
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: and so many of them. I mean that the local day,

628
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: you know, usually there's you know, twenty five thirty guys here,

629
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 1: I think are over forty on the field, and and

630
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: I'm looking around and a lot of these guys are

631
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 1: going to be drafted, probably a half dozen of them,

632
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: maybe as many as have been drafted that have come

633
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 1: out of this city in the same year since, you know,

634
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: since the Titans have been here. And uh so for

635
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: him and for Dawson Knox and Jowan Williams and Ugl

636
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: and Madi and you know Alex Bars. I mean, there's

637
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: so many guys that have draft grades on them. It's

638
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: going to be fun just to see it play out,

639
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: you know, in their hometown. Dawson Knox is the tight

640
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 1: end from Old Miss who prepped it Brentwood Academy, and

641
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 1: he is a guy that many people think is a

642
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: day two pick, maybe even an early Day two pick,

643
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:57,320
Speaker 1: largely because of his combination of size and athleticism. Many

644
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: know the story that Dawson Knox walked on that Old Miss,

645
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: but they may not know he did not walk on

646
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: as a tight end. You walked on as a quarterback, right.

647
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: I played quarterback my whole high school career. I wanted

648
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: to maybe try to play it at the next level.

649
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I knew I was gonna

650
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: be playing tight end. I knew there was a good

651
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: possibility that they'd be moving me, so I was open

652
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: to it and I was looking forward to when they

653
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: actually told me I'd be playing tight end, so there

654
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: was no great surprise. No, oh, I can't believe you're

655
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: doing this to me. Yeah, I wasn't a complete surprise.

656
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:30,760
Speaker 1: Part of it was expected. I played a little receiver

657
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: in high school. I knew how to run around and

658
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: catch the ball, but the blocking aspect was brand new

659
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: to me. Here's one that I read that interested me.

660
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: Did you really grow four inches and gained fifty pounds

661
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: from your junior year to your senior year at Brentwood

662
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,280
Speaker 1: academ I did. Wow. To start my junior season high school,

663
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: I was five ten, one sixty and they're going into

664
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: my senior year. I was finally like sixty three two

665
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: h five to ten and like just super excited to

666
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: play finally at a size I could start and contribute

667
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: a lot. It was just a lot of excitement built

668
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: up to that year. It could have played another year

669
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: at old miss. Why did you decide to turn pro

670
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: a year early? I just knew that I had what

671
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: it takes to get to the next level and be

672
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: able to produce. I know that I've showed on film

673
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: that I, you know, have a good opportunity to play

674
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: the next level. I'm hoping I'm praying that I get

675
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: drafted somewhere, and I know once I get there, I'll

676
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: be able to kind of prove my worth to the team.

677
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: And I'd already graduated, so I had my degree in

678
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 1: my back pocket, and it was really just a combination

679
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 1: of a lot of things that pointed to me leaving

680
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 1: you ever nearly nineteen yards a catch last year, which

681
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: is fantastic. I also saw the tape of you're winning

682
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,720
Speaker 1: the dunk contest. We've seen you run in the four five,

683
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: So here's what I'm wondering. You're six four roughly two

684
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 1: fifty five. Are you the most athletic big tight end

685
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: in the twenty nineteen draft? Is that your opinion? Without bragging,

686
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 1: you know, I haven't really looked at other tight end

687
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 1: stats and measurables, but I know that, you know, I

688
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: have what it takes athletic wise to be able to

689
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: pick new things up and kind of learned quickly and

690
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: be able to do whatever's asked to me. I don't

691
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: know if I if I'm the most athletic. I don't

692
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 1: know even how you could measure that. And honestly, the

693
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,439
Speaker 1: dunk contest thing was more of a by default thing

694
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: because the next guy that went after me hung on

695
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: the rim too long and busted his teeth out and

696
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: they canceled it. See that's never good. Yeah, that's never

697
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 1: what you want. But I would say you wont if

698
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 1: you didn't knock your own teeth out. I claim it. Yeah,

699
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: you want without a doubt, you have been a guy

700
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: through this process whose stock has gone up. Everybody's been

701
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,760
Speaker 1: talking about Dawson Knox. Just heard you do an interview

702
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 1: on Sirius XM NFL Radio. I mean, everybody's talking about

703
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: you at this point. Have you been surprised at the

704
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: attention you've received through the pre draft? I'm not surprised,

705
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: just because I know that there wasn't a lot of

706
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: film to watching me producing. I was very limited in

707
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 1: terms of stats. I had fifteen catches last year. I

708
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,280
Speaker 1: never scored a college touchdown. So I was really hoping

709
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: to get some more buzz around the combine, around pro

710
00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: day stuff. So that's kind of something I was looking

711
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: forward to to, you know, have a little bit more attention.

712
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:03,800
Speaker 1: Does it weird you out that you're going to be

713
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: the first drafted tight end since twenty eleven who did

714
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 1: not score a touchdown? In college. Really, Yeah, I didn't

715
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,759
Speaker 1: know that. I thought that was odd, but yeah, I

716
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: guess it makes sense. You know, you never really here

717
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: about it, but now you know, so when you're doing

718
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: those post draft interviews, you cannot be surprised. Yeah, so

719
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: we've prepared. Well, thank you. Really enjoy that young man.

720
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: He's a lot of fun. And so I didn't mean

721
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: to throw the bad stat at him at the end,

722
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: but he brought it up. H Well, I mean that's fair,

723
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,240
Speaker 1: and you were right. You prepared him. Now when someone

724
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: throws it at him, he won't be like what but

725
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: this is and gems like me. He grew up around here,

726
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 1: so he knows that Brentwood Academy under Carleton Flat and

727
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: Brentwood Academy now under Cody White seems to bring in

728
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: quarterbacks at every level. I mean, whether they're coming in

729
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: in seventh grade or eighth grade, or ninth grade or

730
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: in the middle of high school. They love to bring

731
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 1: in quarterbacks because quarterbacks are often the best athlete on

732
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: your team. So then what do you do with him?

733
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 1: You move them to other places. That's interesting, you move

734
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 1: you move them to other spots. And that's exactly what

735
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: what he did. As a matter of fact, at one

736
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:16,359
Speaker 1: point of Old Miss they had an injury to Jim

737
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: Kelly's nephew, Chad Kelly, and he nearly had to play quarterback.

738
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 1: So he still considered, you know that kind of was

739
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 1: that kind of player and a really good athlete. And

740
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: as you can tell in the interview, I mean, he's

741
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 1: got a great personality. I mean and No Ashley shot

742
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: a clip of him at the you know, at the

743
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: local prode just kind of chuckling it up with Mike

744
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: Rabel and John Robinson, and that was more than just

745
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 1: a two to three second interaction there, and they stood

746
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: there for several minutes kind of uh laughing and having

747
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: a pretty good time. Uh. You know, he his drift

748
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: stock has really risen in the last couple of weeks

749
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: as he's gone through some testing and and drills and

750
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:00,760
Speaker 1: really posted good times. Uh. You know, on the most

751
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: recent top five list that Bucky Brooks put out, I

752
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: think he's number five on that list, behind you know,

753
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: some really good players. I think he's gonna go. I

754
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: think he's definitely gonna be a Day two guy and

755
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 1: somebody who can play right away. You know, that's what

756
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: you like. Maybe he's not your lead tight end right away,

757
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: but he's been well coached. He was well coached in

758
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: high school, he's well coached in college. He's obviously very smart.

759
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: You love the quarterback mentality from that standpoint of being

760
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: able to pick things up. Former quarterbacks can often do

761
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: that better than other players. And so I think this

762
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,839
Speaker 1: is a guy who you know, he certainly would fit

763
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 1: a lot of needs for a lot of teams who

764
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: are interested in tight ends and maybe don't want to

765
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: go after one and round one. Although somebody may love him.

766
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: You know, that's what you never know about boards. What

767
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 1: if Bill Belichick right there at thirty two loves this

768
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: player just absolutely and just says we're picking him toil.

769
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: It takes is one team, Well, that's it puts They

770
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 1: don't care. It's not like they all it's not like

771
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: they all read the mocks and think, ooh, maybe we

772
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: should think this about this. But they don't care. And

773
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: that's where the uncertainty in all of this is. Even

774
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: for us in this building, we don't know what the

775
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: board looks like. I maybe Jim does, but neither you

776
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 1: nor I know what the board looks like. Absolutely not.

777
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: And that's kind of where all the secrecy and all

778
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: of the misdirection and the smoke and mirrors comes in

779
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: the lying. Yeah, because everyone knows who is a good player,

780
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: like right, every thirty two. Teams can see the skills

781
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: that is pretty good. Yeah, is a good player. But

782
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: what they don't know is the little nuances. Who has

783
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: fallen in love with this guy's personality? Who fits where

784
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: all of the little things that's what makes this so

785
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 1: secretive and so tricky. Well, and who has some injury

786
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: thing that concerns you. Some teams are more concerned about

787
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: ankles or shoulders than other teams, yep, because you have

788
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: a different orthopedic surgeon who looks at the records. Different

789
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: teams look at the psychological testing very differently. Different teams

790
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 1: do deeper background than others. And some teams may be

791
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: worried about Uncle Bob. You know, who's got this Uncle

792
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 1: Bob hanging around? And you know what's going on with that.

793
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,399
Speaker 1: There's always a little something and teams are looking for

794
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,919
Speaker 1: that one edge and some teams, you know, some teams

795
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,479
Speaker 1: don't care about Uncle Bob. You know, they just didn't

796
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: bother them. You know. The Raiders were famous for that,

797
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: for years the off the fields that they didn't care.

798
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: You know, I just watched the special on Al Davis

799
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: didn't care. Some teams are very cognizant and very worried

800
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: about that in terms of what it may bring into

801
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 1: your locker room. These are the things we don't know, yep.

802
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: But what I do know is you have social media questions.

803
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: I do have some social media questions. Would you like

804
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: to fire a few to the Great Jim? Why? Sure,

805
00:42:54,520 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: I would. Here's one from Facebook, says Jim. How many

806
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: primetime games do you think the Titans will get? Three? Three? Yes?

807
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,839
Speaker 1: Mike Keith, do you have a knowledge. Well, I think

808
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:13,399
Speaker 1: we're doing Monday Night, Thursday Night, and I think we're

809
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,280
Speaker 1: going to do Sunday Night football. I would be excited

810
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 1: or will be included, because there's apparently going to be

811
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 1: a triple header on Saturday on Saturday before Christmas on

812
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: NFL Network, and I think three I would agree. How

813
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: does the schedule look? It's funny. I always look at

814
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: you look for certain things on the schedule, and one

815
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: of them is whether you're gonna be so Christmas is

816
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: on the twenty fifth, which is a Thursday, which is

817
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,239
Speaker 1: a Wednesdays you'll have to worry about being out of

818
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:48,399
Speaker 1: town necessarily on Christmas Day. So yeah, I'm sticking with three. Okay,

819
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: all right, that's a good one. Here's another one, Jim,

820
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 1: do you think that the Titans will draft for need

821
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: or best player available? I think best player available. I

822
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: think when you start drafting for need and you take

823
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: a guy too early and you pass up other guys

824
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,479
Speaker 1: who have a better value than that's where you get

825
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 1: in trouble. And because of what John Robinson has done

826
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 1: this offseason and some of the moves he's made earlier

827
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 1: that we discussed, he's in a position now where he

828
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,439
Speaker 1: can take the best guy on the board. Now they're

829
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: not going to take if, let's say a quarterback, and

830
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 1: I don't think any of these quarterbacks this I are

831
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: going to be valued great. But the more they go early,

832
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: If more of them go early, certainly the Titans are

833
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,800
Speaker 1: going to be in a much better position at nineteen

834
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 1: because you're going to have some guys with really good

835
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 1: value sitting there when your pick. Jim White, the authority

836
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: on all things Titans Draft question from Jason. If we

837
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 1: want to get the best views possible on Thursday, do

838
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: we need to get to Broadway seven plus hours early.

839
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: So when gate's open around noon, yes, just I mean

840
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: just based on what happened during the uniform unveiling and

841
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: how early people got there for that, I mean the

842
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:13,319
Speaker 1: best seats, uh, several hours in advance were we're taken up,

843
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,879
Speaker 1: and and just the sheer amount of people that are

844
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 1: going to be converging on the city, some of them

845
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: with nothing to do on Thursday but stand and wait

846
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 1: for a place in line. Now, you had the beer

847
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 1: question yesterday. I don't know what time the beer sales start,

848
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: but if you could stand down there. I had to

849
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: phone a friend I didn't know. I asked Jim, and

850
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: I told her, I don't think I'm drinking that night

851
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: because I got to work. But I did find uh

852
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: did find out when. Uh. So I think people are

853
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 1: gonna get there early. I mean a lot of it

854
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,240
Speaker 1: obviously could depend on the way. Like today. It's beautiful

855
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: outside today, and if you've got a day like this,

856
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: why i'd stand outside and get yourself. Remember you said

857
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: the key word standing, yes, and you're going to be standing.

858
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 1: That's the thing we want to point out to people

859
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: who are going to be coming down to first and

860
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: Broadway to the stage. I mean you're standing, and if

861
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: you're young with good legs and you know, going to

862
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,319
Speaker 1: be able to do it, great, But I mean there

863
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: are no seats, and we just don't in all seriousness

864
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: and we tease with one another and we're having fun,

865
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: but we don't want you to get down there and

866
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: be in a situation where you're not aware of that,

867
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 1: because then you're not going to enjoy it. You know.

868
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 1: If you if you can get down there, however many

869
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: hours early, and stand and you've got buddies that will

870
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: hold your plays and things of that sort, that's fantastic.

871
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 1: But man's it's going to be a commitment well, and

872
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 1: something to also keep in mind. There's not going to

873
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:46,359
Speaker 1: be a bad seat in the house. The screens that

874
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: they are bringing in are massive. It's a giant. There

875
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 1: is not going to be a place that you could

876
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:57,919
Speaker 1: stand where you can't see anything. So I think that, yeah,

877
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: if you have the ability to get down there, there's

878
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 1: gonna be tons of stuff going on downtown on Broadway

879
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 1: all day. There's gonna be music, there's gonna be all

880
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. So if you can do it, have

881
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 1: the ability to get there early, so I would get

882
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: there early. Yeah, but I would go do stuff. Man,

883
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna want to go to a honky talk, I'm

884
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: gonna want to get to a rooftop. I'm gonna want

885
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: to go over and see the NFL Draft experience. True, right,

886
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: I think I would give up a better spot in

887
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 1: front of the stage in order to go do stuff

888
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,879
Speaker 1: on Thursday. Yeah, you gonna have to be strategic about

889
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you think, Okay, I'm gonna do this

890
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: on Thursday night and then I'm gonna spend my Friday

891
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: or Saturday doing all that. Know. What you could do

892
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 1: is you could just leave Uncle Bob standing there and

893
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:43,320
Speaker 1: you go do stuff. Well, uncle Bob's already questionable. It

894
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 1: depends on how concerned you are with Uncle Well, if

895
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: you're concrusting, maybe just leave him right there. Don't leave

896
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: him with your valuable que I mean, you got to

897
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 1: really be strategic about how you handle I mean, I

898
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 1: know there's a season ticket member event on in General

899
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 1: Jackson that had somebody that has a ticket to that.

900
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: Ask me, which would you rather go to the be

901
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 1: on the General Jackson for the draft or be on

902
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: the streets of Nashville during the draft. And I hate

903
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 1: to say, because I think both of them, why not

904
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: do But the thing is you can do both. Yeah, yeah,

905
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: I mean nobody's saying you're stuff. That's what the incredible

906
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 1: thing is that. That's why if I'm doing this, I'm

907
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: not committing to any one thing. I'm gonna be everywhere.

908
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: If if I can be on the General Jackson, I

909
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:28,800
Speaker 1: want to be there for that party and the food

910
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,839
Speaker 1: and the beverages and to be able to see and

911
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: to listen to Titans Radio in large part because I

912
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 1: want to hear what coach Mack is saying, particularly about

913
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: what's happening in front of us. I want to be

914
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: downtown some I want to be in the middle of it.

915
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I want to run hard because because this

916
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: is once in a lifetime go yeah, don't think you're now.

917
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: If I'm pushing two kids in a stroller, then I've

918
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: got a different mindset. Well you have a different mindset anyway.

919
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 1: Well that's true, but I'm gonna be pushing them. Asked ya.

920
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: You know, all right, let's talk. Let's talk about one

921
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 1: of the Titans rivals in the AFC South, the Jacksonville Jaguars,

922
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: champions of the South in twenty seventeen. They fell off

923
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,919
Speaker 1: to five and eleven a year ago, so they let

924
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: some people go. They said goodbye, most notably to Blake Bortles,

925
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: and there's that I got ahead. I apologize because what

926
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: they said hello to, as we flash back, is they

927
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:33,880
Speaker 1: said hello to Nick Foles. So upgrading the quarterback position

928
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: with that defense, Jim White, I think puts them right

929
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,839
Speaker 1: back in the race. I do too. But the thing

930
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: you have to consider is can Nick Foles be the

931
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: same guy in Jacksonville that he was in Philadelphia when

932
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: he had a lot of good pieces around him and

933
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: certainly had a lot of things going for him. I personally,

934
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,360
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit skeptical too if he's going to

935
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 1: hit the ground running down there and be just as successful.

936
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: He's a great player in clutch player, and the Eagles

937
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: been been so fortunate over the last couple of years

938
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 1: to have a guy like that to step in when

939
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: something happened to Carson Wentz. But uh, you just don't

940
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: know how things are gonna go when you have a

941
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: change of scenery. So, uh, he's better than Blake Bortles.

942
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: There's no question about that. He's gonna make the offense better.

943
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 1: They've got to keep find a way to keep him healthy. Uh,

944
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 1: if you're in the AFC South, you think you hated

945
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 1: to see them get Nick Foles because you'd like to

946
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: see him just keep riding with Boardles, a guy that

947
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: the Titans have certainly had a lot of success against.

948
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: But now there's a new sheriff in town in Jacksonville,

949
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: and he's confident. He's he's got a little you know,

950
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:45,800
Speaker 1: obviously a little swagger about him, and uh, he's very capable.

951
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 1: He's tremendously capable, and they will have some weapons back.

952
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 1: One thing that gets lost about Jacksonville a year ago

953
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:57,719
Speaker 1: is their entire offensive line was injured and so they're

954
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 1: getting some people back that they didn't have. Folds is

955
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: going to have more help, and from their standpoint, they

956
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: are certainly hopeful that Leonard Fournette is going to be

957
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: able to step in for new offensive coordinator John d.

958
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:14,399
Speaker 1: Philippo and do more than what he did a year ago.

959
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 1: So that's what they're looking at as far as what

960
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:22,040
Speaker 1: they are looking for in the draft. Weapons. Uh, they

961
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 1: are one of the teams that is very talked about

962
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:29,800
Speaker 1: at the tight end position. They are very talked about

963
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: at offensive tackle, and they're looking to replace some some

964
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:37,359
Speaker 1: edge rushing help in Ghakway will enter his fourth year.

965
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: He is the all time or the third all time

966
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,759
Speaker 1: leading sacker in Jaguars history. But who do they take

967
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: at seven? If you're if you're a betting man, where

968
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: where did the Jacksonville Jaguars go at seven? Amy Wells,

969
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:52,439
Speaker 1: I'll put the same question to you after the great

970
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: Jim White answers. I think I think I suspect this

971
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 1: is just a hunch that they're taking a tight end

972
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:04,760
Speaker 1: and I would guess Howkinson that's just strictly a guess.

973
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: I mean, they could go a number of directions. Office

974
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:08,800
Speaker 1: a lot easier. When you're picking the top ten, you

975
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: pretty much have your choice. I just for some reason,

976
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 1: I think they're going tight end. See I was going

977
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:15,879
Speaker 1: to say edge rusher, and I don't know who. I'm

978
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 1: not going to speculate, but I think that's the position

979
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: that they go for because I think that their dominant

980
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 1: defense was such a calling card for them a couple

981
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:25,919
Speaker 1: of years ago. I think they're going to do whatever

982
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 1: they can to get back to the well and the

983
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: other thing too. To your point, what did Tom Coughlin

984
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: do in New York, right every time he had a

985
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: chance to draft somebody who could go hit the quarterback.

986
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: That's what he and Jerry Rees did. Yep, they went

987
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 1: and they got pass rushers. Montez Sweat would make a

988
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 1: ton of sense for what they like to do. The

989
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: other player make a ton of sense is Juwan Taylor

990
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: from Florida. He is a plug and he is a

991
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:58,359
Speaker 1: pick and play plug right in right tackle for them.

992
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,240
Speaker 1: And if you're if you're gonna be better, they're already

993
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 1: good enough on defense. Do they just say we take

994
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: Andre Dillard or we take Joan Taylor because we need

995
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:11,439
Speaker 1: a Tony Basselli type guy, which is what he took

996
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: when he was with Jacksonville the first time Coughlin did.

997
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: Do they need that guy right now? I don't know

998
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: the Jags in my mind, and this is just for me.

999
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:21,880
Speaker 1: They always seem to do the one thing that I

1000
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: wish they didn't do. They never do something just to

1001
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 1: like make their old line a little bit better, or

1002
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: you know, we really want to toughen up this position.

1003
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: They always pick the guy that I wanted, or the

1004
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna get after Marcus, or the guy they

1005
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 1: always do exactly why I don't want them to do. So.

1006
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:39,440
Speaker 1: I think they're going to pick a dominant edge rusher

1007
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:45,439
Speaker 1: and it's gonna make me mad. Did if they had

1008
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: some takers. I mean, I think that's ideally what you

1009
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: do as you can move back if when you have

1010
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 1: a number of needs that you can address, that means

1011
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: you have a bigger pool of players. And so if

1012
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: you can get out of that and still get one

1013
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: of the guys that you need, I think that's what

1014
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: you do. I just don't know, you know, what the

1015
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:03,760
Speaker 1: demand is going to be there. Lot's going to hinge

1016
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:07,839
Speaker 1: on what happens at the quarterback position. How earliest those

1017
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 1: guys start coming off the board. They have three picks

1018
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:13,919
Speaker 1: in day two when you count the compensatory at ninety eight,

1019
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: they have the early first round pick and then three

1020
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 1: picks in day two, So you know they're going to

1021
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 1: be one of those Day two teams. That's busy, we have.

1022
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 1: We've hit a lot of stuff today. This has been

1023
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Thank you for joining us for

1024
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: the OTP and we want you to be with us

1025
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 1: throughout the course of Vapril. We will do this show

1026
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 1: through April. The thirtieth live every day at ten Central

1027
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: on all the Titans social media channels, and that's Facebook, Twitter,

1028
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: and YouTube. Thank you for the questions. We're so appreciative. Tomorrow,

1029
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: Charlie Daniels. We've got music, We've got Nashville, and we

1030
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 1: got football in the legendary Charlie Daniels. Gonna be so

1031
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 1: much fun to see what he thinks about all this

1032
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 1: draft stuff. He's been in Nashville for fifty years. I

1033
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 1: bet he's in another one that never imagined it happened happening,

1034
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 1: but he always believed this community could make it happen.

1035
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 1: He's been a great promoter. Charlie Daniels on the program tomorrow,

1036
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 1: Coach Dave McGinnis, and he will help us preview the

1037
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:14,879
Speaker 1: defensive backs, and then our position previews will be complete. Well,

1038
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 1: a chance that we get charted Daniels and day McGinnis

1039
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: and maybe sing a little jingle together. To me, nothing

1040
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: would make me happier. I think that what should happen

1041
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: is Amy and I should just leave and we should

1042
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,280
Speaker 1: let Charlie Daniels and David McGinnis just do the show.

1043
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 1: We'll just watch from behind them. How much more interesting

1044
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 1: would that be. Oh my gosh, who knows what crazy

1045
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:37,359
Speaker 1: topics Coach Mack would come up. I don't know how

1046
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 1: much Charlie Daniels likes to talk. I've just met him once.

1047
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:42,400
Speaker 1: He likes to talk. I talked to him one time

1048
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 1: about a Jeff Fisher facial hair story way back in

1049
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 1: the day and he was all right. So he likes

1050
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 1: to talk as much as Coach Mack he does, so

1051
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 1: could be. This is good stuff thanks to our fine staff,

1052
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: Thanks to the great Jim, who you can read at

1053
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 1: Titans Online dot com and you should every day. How

1054
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 1: do you follow Jim Wyatt on Twitter? You follow Jim

1055
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 1: wy on Twitter at j Wyatt Sports, which is also

1056
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:11,840
Speaker 1: my Instagram feed. I've got a Facebook where I post

1057
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 1: all my stories as well, and a lot to right

1058
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: about these days. Amy Wells, how do they follow you

1059
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:20,839
Speaker 1: on Twitter? At Titans Amy on Twitter and Instagram? All right?

1060
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: For Jim Watt and Amy Wells. Mike Keith reminds you

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Speaker 1: it is nine days until players are drafted in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us for the OTP wrote to Nashville.

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Speaker 1: Have a great day, everybody,