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I'm great, Mike Keith. Not exactly the penthouse, but like decently high up. I mean, we have a good view, so I'll take it.
So the real name of the NFL Draft is the Annual Selection Meeting. So it is formally the twenty twenty three Annual Selection Meeting in Kansas City. Mode. What's the vibe in Kansas City right now?
It's not as formal as Annual Selection Meeting implies. It's definitely not that formal. But there is a buzz around this city. There is a buzz just around the players. We had the opportunity to see them a little bit earlier. Today, there are emotions that are all over the road. Guys were talking about everything from being very cool and chill to being like very emotional about what this moment means. So there's I mean, there's just an array of feelings.
But in terms of being in the city, there's definitely an atmosphere here. There is definitely a buzz about what's going on. I was in a ride share a couple days ago and they were like, well, are you in Kansas City? You know there's a draft going on here? Is that what you came for? And I was like, yeah, I guess you could say that. I guess I came here for the draft. And they're just very fired up about They're very proud to be hosting this big NFL event in their city and that's fun to be around.
Is there one main storyline that permeated through all of the players with whom you dealt.
Today, Well, there was obviously there's the main storylines about being approximately twenty four hours out. You know, everybody's getting ready and there's a lot of conversation about how to spend the time because after the community event this morning, these prospects had a lot of free time between their next event being the Red carpet show, which is right before the actual draft starts. So how people are feeling their free time, what they're doing, how they're kind of
shaking off the nerves. A lot of guys were discussing that throughout the reporters. The storyline that everybody's talking about is what in the world is going to happen with these quarterbacks. It's just everybody has different opinions. Everybody has a kind of a different different bend to what is going to happen when teams are actually on the clock on Thursday. So it's an exciting place to be. There's a lot of questions and frankly zero answers. We're not going to know until tomorrow.
So there's seventeen players who are there. Yes, So theoretically, if all seventeen were to go in the first round, which they probably won't, but if that happened, there would be fourteen guys who are not there who would be selected. And I mean, we'll see if all seventeen go, but it seems like a much smaller number of players in person than in years past. Is that fair?
That is absolutely fair. I think that COVID really showed a lot of people that staying at home is okay because I mean, listen, ESPN, the NFL, all of these work together to send cameras, they send people to whatever location the top draft picks are going to be. The guys are expected to go in the first round, whether they are here in the green room or they are having a watch party somewhere, are still going to get
that like moment. You know, it might not be walking across the stage, but they'll get some sort of a moment that will be televised and we all get the
opportunity to watch it no matter where they are. But I think that the couple years of everybody staying back, a couple of years of everybody having the opportunity to have you know, a kit mailed to them, as opposed to making all of these travel plans and frankly risking the chance of ending up sitting in the green room and not getting picked all the way through night one is kind of scary. And I think that that's something that some guys don't even want to take the chance.
And then there's some guys that genuinely just want to be able to celebrate this moment with their family and their friends and the people that they feel like help them get here. So I think there's a lot of things that kind of contribute to fewer guys coming out. I will say that the Commissioner, Roger Goodell was at the community service event that we saw the prospects at today, and they were very excited to meet him. He was
a very popular man amongst the prospects. They all wanted to shake his hand and make sure that they had the opportunity to interact with him before what they're hoping is the big moment with the bear hugs and all of that on the stage.
Who of the players that you dealt with today, if any impressed you.
They all were kind of impressive. I was very struck by this class that everybody seemed very well spoken and very thoughtful. There weren't too many people giving throwaway answers. There weren't too many people who were just kind of blowing off reporters, which can happen sometimes there's a lot of things going on and there's a lot of people around. But nobody really was disinterested in having a conversation with you,
and I thought that that was very impressive. Will Levice was fielding some questions that were a little tricky, and I think he handled that with grace, and I think that he was a good talker. Someone like Bijeon Robinson was so excited to be interacting with the kids on the field today. They did some like play football drills and some flag football things, so he was clearly very excited to be down on the field with everybody and
interacting with them. But I mean, really, there wasn't anybody that we spoke to that I was like, well, he didn't really like he was too cool for school. They were all great. So I'm excited about this class, and I'm excited that of everyone that I was able to kind of watch and interact with, there wasn't a guy that'd be like, not that one. So that's good. That makes me feel good.
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and Peabody. I think our Titans nation is excited about this draft and obviously too, there is excitement here after what happened in Nashville last night. So we are heading into draft day tomorrow with big mo I will say, we're tired. We're running on excitement, We're running on caffeine.
Are you running on duncan?
We're running on duncan, y'all. I'll get to that in the moment. But the bottom line is, I mean, there is e motion and feeling in this building right now because virtually every employee was there at the Metro Council meeting last night to say we understand how big this is for our organization. I mean, the discussion was this stadium issue. If it passes, tonight being last night, If it passes, then this is one of the great moments
in franchise history. And everybody wanted to be there for that, and everybody wanted to be there to support Burke night Hill and the people who really helped to pull this together. And it was funny. We did not get in last night, We did not get into the room for the public hearing portion, But as the supportive speakers came out, they got standing ovations and you should have seen the look on their face. It was, you know, it was like
a ballgame. The other side was not ugly. There was nothing that I saw between the two sides that ever got ugly. You certainly respect someone's opportunity to disagree with you, you get that. And they had the points that they felt were relevant. But in the end, from a political standpoint, Amy, we knew the votes were there and so no matter how long it took, in the end, the votes were there.
And now we are going to build a stadium with a roof starting sometime in twenty twenty four, will break ground.
Now, Mike I was a able to stream the meeting online. I watched it from Kansas City, but you were actually there, you were able to be a part of that moment. I'm wondering if you could just describe kind of what it was like the lead up to it and then the actual vote. What were you guys feeling. What was it like to be a part of something like that, Because you're one hundred percent right, this is a historical moment for this franchise.
It really is. Let me say, first of all, I was not in the room for the vote, okay, because when they extended the public discussion period, I did not know how long that was going to go. And right now I'm doing a lot of things with our Titans radio partners throughout the Mid South. I had one very early this morning, so I couldn't make it to two in the morning. I did that last week. I was
there for nine hours. Last week. I made it until until eleven o'clock, and then I said, you know, I've got a got to be away because I've just got to be up so early, and what we have tomorrow and Friday and Saturday to do. You know, there's just so much, So there wasn't going to be room for all of us in the room anyway, and so that
probably worked out better for me. I'm kind of disappointed because I would have liked to have been there for the moment, right, But I think you know, you know, when you got a winner, and there had been such tremendous organization. Kate Gara who works with us, had done such a fantastic job, Savannah Howie who works with her,
had done a fantastic job. So many other people had done had done big things at dulpho Birch with his speech last night, he of course one of our leaders in this organization, and there were just so many people who had done a great job. You wanted to be there to support them and to be excited for them, because to see them pull this off was a big deal.
I mean from where we started with hey, let's refurbish Nissan Stadium to you're kidding me, it'll cost that, to here's an idea for a new building, to here's the way we're going to finance the whole thing together, to now you've got to get it through Metro Council. I mean it will when you see the vote totals. The vote totals were substantial. It was a winner everywhere it went.
Last night it was twenty six to twelve. You know, the process though, of making the sausage wasn't that easy because if that vote didn't clear last night, then they were going to have to go back to the drawing board and basically start over in July, right, And so you know, there were a lot of procedural things that had to go on again. Our side, the pro side, had a winner, knew it had the votes. The other
side was hoping they could stall it. And if they could, then procedurally it would have to go to July, and between now and then, who knows what happens. Right time is beneficial when you're doing that kind of political fight. But I think in the end, the thing that I was so proud of is the way our organization handled everything. I'm very proud of the way they've structured this deal, which I think is a great thing. The taxpayers won't pay the burden anymore, which is a great, great, great
thing for all of Davidson County. And the other part of it, too is this venue is going to change the overall trajectory of the franchise again. And I saw the first one open. I know what it is done for Nashville. I mean, I grew up in Middle Tennessee. I understand the full impact of it, and I think this new stadium with a roof, with a translucent roof, is going to totally revolutionize what Nashville is towards that
next level. And it's just mind boggling in how exciting it is amy because I never thought I would get to see that happen again, and that has always been one of my favorite parts of this journey, was to see this thing hit and blow up the way it did in such a cool way. And now it has. Now I have the chance to see it go again.
I'm very fortunate, and I think everybody feels great here today about the fact that you know, the plan was a winner, and if you read the plan, you understood it and you understood the terms, and everybody takes away really good things out of this in the long term, and I think twenty five years from now we'll be saying the same thing we did about building Nissan Stadium in the late nineties. This will something you'll say, Yeah, this was a big time winner and we were lucky to have it.
So this is obviously a huge victory and this is so exciting, but we still got to get a stadium here. So what what are the next steps? Now? How do we continue to get closer to this goal?
I think it's a lot of the planning, a lot of the you know, who's going to do what. You've got to bid a lot of jobs, and you've got to figure out some more things in terms of specifics with architecture. I mean, the first thing they obviously have to do is make the press box as luxurious as possible.
We made to fill with food and great.
Yeah, I mean we've got to We've got to have a conversation, right right, Probably not, but I mean you're so you're doing all the details, you'll be getting materials in, and the groundbreaking it would feel like would come about this time next year. Uh, maybe a little earlier, maybe a little later. The build is less than two and a half years in terms of what the feeling is.
And so this facility being and we've said it on the OTP all along, twenty twenty seven was always going to be more likely, right, and that that was going to be the aim, and that's going to be the aim of this amy that we're that we're pointed towards twenty twenty seven season to give to give plenty of time. And the reason for this is if you're in a hurry, costs escalate. If you can stay with the plan and do everything the best way, you know how, you can
stay within your budget more properly. And I think that's one hundred percent what they're going to try to do, and that's that's what the plan is. And you know, that's what's so exciting.
It's like, if you're building a house, if you have a time crunch and you need to get into that house, you're gonna do whatever it takes to get it done. If you have time as you are building your home, you can you can give things a chance to breathe, if you can get the appropriate equipment and tools that you need, and you don't necessarily have to go over budget because you're able to do things in a different timeline.
Yeah, you're able to stick to the plan. Yeah, and you're not You're not like, oh gosh, we've got to you know, we've got to grab this material so quickly and we have to pay extra for it to get it here. And you know that's Listen, anybody who knows about building anything knows. It's not an exact science. And I'm not sitting here saying, oh, it'll all just you know,
fold together. But I think the one thing you do know is if you have time and a plan, you are much more likely to be able to stay with it. Like when the building was built here in the late nineties, they knew that thing had to be ready for the start of the ninety nine season because there was nowhere else for the team to go right, and it was crazy what all was happening at the end. To try to get it finished, you want to avoid that at any way possible. You're also going to want to get
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And tomorrow heads off of big three days for the Tennessee Titans. As we get ready to get into the draft, I am dying to know what Daniel Jeremiah and Charles Davis, both of the Network think, Amy Wells, who would you like to share with us first, as you had a chance to talk with both of these gentlemen there in Kansas City.
Well, Mike Keith, I did have a chance to talk to both of them, and I think that we should start with Daniel Jeremiah because I wanted to talk to him a man who has a lot of experience with teams as a personnel person, and I wanted to talk to him about some of the behind the scenes of what is happening within those war rooms within the days
leading up to the draft. So we talked a little little, you know, logistics, We talked about process, and I was trying to get a better understanding, and so I'm excited to share my conversation with Daniel Jeremiah with my friends
here at the ANTE. Daniel Jeremiah, it feels like it's been a lifetime since the last time we talked to you, you in Indianapolis at the scouting Combine, and I know a lot of things around the league has changed, and a lot of people's draft boards have changed from where we were in Indianapolis and some of the initial evaluations that teams would have had to Now, how different are
draft boards? How different are teams setups? I'm asking you procedural questions because you know a little bit better than anybody else.
Yeah, I think that you know what's happened. Everybody always freaks out and they say, how does a player move up or down? You haven't played any games. This is the silly season. You're getting carried away with all the wrong stuff. And then I would just point out, well, there's a couple of things. Number One, everybody in your building, especially your coaches, haven't watched any of these players, so they're getting to the process late. That can impact whether
they move up or down. Like, Hey, this guy's he's a good player. I agree with the scouts, but he doesn't fit us, so we'll move on. And then there's the fact you're gonna get medical information that's gonna help some guys, it's gonna hurt some other guys. And then from the meeting process, right, you might you know, you might love a player on video, and then you bring them into your building and you're like this is not
gonna work, Like this is just not a fit. So all those different factors, you know, go into the process, and that's why you see a board you know in April might look.
A little different than the one you see in January.
How much does the media play into that and those decisions. We know there's mock drafts. We know there's reports that come out throughout the six to eight weeks in between workouts of the combine and everything in the draft. We know that there may or may not have been some news on Reddit the other night that exploded the Internet for a couple hours. All of these things, do they really play into the process or is it more just fun for those of us that are outside the war room.
I think it's.
Fun for those outside the war room. This is an old phrase. This is an old man's phrase. But I'll say doesn't amount to Hillebean's inside the draft room. So it just doesn't It doesn't carry any weight.
It doesn't matter.
You know, they might keep track of mock drafts to just see if they get a general sense of where some players might go, but it's really not going to all their impact their thinking or their process as they get towards the draft. But makes our job fun and it gives us a lot of things to talk about and then you know, we'll see what happens.
You've got to imagine that relationships are more what people are leaning on scouts. With relationships with people they know from other teams, former teams that they've been a part of, former co workers. That has to give a little more weight, right, those conversations and interactions.
Yeah, and I think you talk to teams that have you know, you might have somebody that left your building and he might have a relationship somewhere else. I mean, it's a lot of third party information. But at the end of the day, your job is to order the players one to one fifty or whatever your number is on your draft board, and it's paint by numbers.
Just if you if you're.
Doing a fantasy football draft in your mom's kitchen with your buddies from high school.
It's the exact same thing.
You come up with your rank, you cross them off one by one as they get picked, and you take the best available player that's left.
The Tennessee Titans have a new general manager and Ran Karthon, so there are some question marks around what the Titans may or may not be doing. Picking at eleven, you have to think that he's enjoying this position because there are so many avenues that he could go down, right.
Yeah, And I think that they're you know, they're in a in a process right now or in a period where feel I feel.
Like they need bulk.
They needed, they need an infusion of some talent, and I think more is better than less. So there's talk of them moving up and maybe that's, you know, maybe that's where we end up.
Maybe CJ.
Stroud doesn't go to and they invault all the way up to three and take him. But to me, I think it almost makes more sense with where they are that they they go the other way if they're.
Going to move.
As we're talking about these players and everything, there are always some surprises that we see in the twenty four ish hours leading up to the draft. We're in that period right now. Are there any things that you are keeping your eye on, Daniel Jeremiah as we get closer to the first round of the NFL.
Dri Yeah, I think the you know, one of the interesting things to me is is kind of the offensive line run.
Like there's different runs.
I think the expectation is we're going to have an early offensive line run.
So when does that start.
That's there's talk that Arizona could started at three and so all of a sudden, now we're going to see those offensive linemen fly off the board. And then the next thing to me is when the wide receiver run starts. And you know, I think obviously Tennessee factors into that where they are. You look at Green Bays not far behind, they could be in a wide receiver team.
And then to me, the fun really is when you.
Get to like twenty, Like when you get to twenty, you can make a case from twenty to thirty one, there's like seven teams that could be in the wide receiver market. I think that's where what you were talking about earlier, having maybe a little bit of a knowledge of that this team likes this particular type of player. Maybe we can move up a few spots and make sure we.
Secure our guy.
There's a lot of position groups that have a lot of depth this year. Tight Ends, offensive linemen, defensive backs. There's a lot of places where there's depth for teams. That's great news for players. Is that to their detriment a little bit?
I want to be the only good player at my position in the draft. I don't want to be in a crowded room full of great players at your position. But there's still you know, when the premier positions ed, rusher, corner, defensively, it's a really deep group. But teams that are always in need, so that's not gonna impact them. To me, it's probably gonna impact the tight ends, you know, just
because it's a really good group of tight ends. So that to me is the group that might be negatively impacted by the depth.
What are you the most excited to see it? Round one? What question are you hoping gets answered on Thursday night?
The heck are the Houston Texans gonna do?
I mean with the second pick of the draft, Like normally we have a pretty good feel. It's like, okay, you kind of just go auto like your brain goes on autopilot, and it's like, okay, okay, we've made it to pick eight. Okay, now we don't know so all right, what happens? I don't know who the picking at number two, so that's gonna make for a fun night.
We hope they pick someone who's not very good at football.
I figured you might be leaning in that direction.
Thank you so much, Daniel Jeremiah. We appreciate this time.
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You went with Daniel Jeremiah's interview first and that was a dandy. Now it's time to hear from our friend Charles Davis, who's covering another draft for NFL Network. Set it up if you will, please, Ammi wills Well.
Charles Davis is someone who of course is a friend of the OTP. We talked to him a lot, and I was thinking about it as I was preparing to, you know, spend some time with him, and I realized the last time that we had talked to him was in Indianapolis at the scouting combine. So I figured that I should just go back to the last conversation that we had had and pick up where we left off. And we were talking quarterbacks when we last saw Charles Davis, So it felt like that was a really good place
to start today's conversation. Charles, when last we talked to you in Indianapolis at the combine, you said Bryce Young is the best quarterback in this draft, and no one could convince you otherwise. A lot has happened between now and then. I'm giving you the option to change your mind if you want to. Is Bryce Young still the top quarterback in this draft?
Amy, after further consideration and all these months later and a lot of watching of tape and talking to people and analyzing, He's still the best quarterback in this draft. For me. I told you then, it'd take a lot to change my mind because I was forced up to cake a little bit the measure of him as a person. Spend some time and then watch him and observe him. I asked a GM a few years ago, why did you pick this person for a draft one of the other thirty one gms in the league, and he said,
because I needed an adult in the room. I'm not saying the other quarterbacks are on adults. That's not my point. I'm sure someone gonna go Charles David says, the oh quarterbacks are an adult. I'm not saying that. But this kid is an adult, even at a young age. I watched him do something one time, and I won't give it up because it's not fair to him. But he did it where he made a decision that is a twenty four seven three sixty five quarterback lifestyle decision. But
he did with no fanfare. See if I had done what he had done, I would have mad sure everybody knew I did it because I wanted everybody to know I made the right decision. Watch me, He quietly made the right decision and other people didn't figure it out until much later.
Like where's Bryce?
I thought, But that's just him. That's what I sense from him. Then when I watch him play, you know he does everything you need, throws it on time, on the three to five step drop creates when he needs to. If he needs to pick up a first down with his feet, he can do that and sting you avoids
big hits for the most part, most quarterbacks do. Jalen Hurst took a monster hit last year, almost the real Philadelphia season, and he's thicker, so people are scared of This has every throw that you need to make in the arsenal. But that doesn't mean he can throw through the car wash and the ball comes out dry. He doesn't have the gun, but he's got every throw you need. And we're getting less of this, but I think it
still counts when you're old like I am. He Willie Anderson, the rest of the Alabama teammates played that bowl game against Kansas State, not a college football playoff game and not ceremonial snaps. And he made a throw in that game on a back side fitted over the top of a corner before he hits the pylon. That was as good as an't throw I saw last year. And when I went back and watched it again and realized that corner he threw it over. It is probably a second
round pick, gonna be a starter in the NFL. Named Julius Brents at Kansas State, who I love. This kid is the real deal. Makes very few bad decisions. I saw one against LSU down near the goal line, very late on the play. But you're not gonna find many of those. So he's still my number one.
C J.
Stroud was my number two. That didn't change. Hendon Hooker became my number three, and if he hadn't hurt his knee, we would have a major battle about who the number three was. Anthony Richardson was my number four, and we'll love us my number five. Richardson give him a year, but if you draft him, don't say we're gonna give him a year and then in game five you're playing. Patrick Mahomes is one of the few that sat out. Carson Palmer sat out inire season. Stee McNair sat out
pretty much two seasons. Chris Chandler right, Sometimes it does work, but I understand if you draft a kid high, it's hard to keep him on the bench. You know, the person signing the checks tends to walk into meetings and go so, how's the young man coming along? And that's usually code for I'd like to see him play.
Aside from the quarterback position. What other position group has the most question marks going into Night one of the NFL Draft.
We don't have the linebackers we normally have, But I think that that is part and parcel with the running backs because we're not a heavy run oriented football playing group now, college or pro. The linebackers of the old school guys with the big nick roles, the twurn and fifty five pounds, and they're not there anymore. They're pumped up, strong safeties that are running around. But there's good players that's just maybe not in the first round, you know,
so it's not quite the same. I think interior offensive line is similar. Osiris Torrence from Florida is probably the only guy I'm seeing recently mocked in the first round. Maybe a center if you like a center, like a Joe Tipman from Wisconsin or John Michael Schmidt if you're being real specific. But for the most part, interior offensive line not getting that kind of love. But I'm gonna give you what I'm crazy about. That's Steve Avila from TCU guard center. I want to play him at center.
I want to put him at center and let him beat people up and handle the big noses. Over the top. I love Steve Avila.
Is he your dark horses? He someone who could show up a little bit earlier than what people are expecting.
I think so, especially once we start the run on offensive linemen inside. Heck, he might even be able to find his way. Some people may like him better than Torrence. He's a good player, but I know a lot of people look at him as a guard. I like him as a center. But that's just me.
That's your opinion is very valid, Charles Davis. That's that's why we're here.
As my dad was say, it's worth the paper it's printed on, Davis.
The Tennessee Titans are picking at eleven new general manager, and Ran Carthon got to be a great spot for him because there's so many different options at that number eleven position.
Right, I can't wait to see Ran trade up to three right out of the gate. Let's get this thing going. Brand new general manager. He's gonna pull a nuclear loosh from Bull Durham. He's gonna announce his presence with authority. Not just kidding, but let's be honest about it. It's something that has been discussed. I'm not saying the Titans have I'm just saying, all of us yacky yak yak. Right, we're talking about this like crazy three with the Cardinals is a prime spot. Who wants to go up and
get The person that they want is Anthony Richardson. The one who's coveted is Will Levis. The one that's coveted is CJ. Stroud, the one who knows I'm saying quarterback, I don't know that there's another player you're coming up for to go all the way to three. We got pooled a bunch of years ago. The same came way up to twelve and we were like, what quarterback? And they drafted Marcus was the Davenport out of Utsay we all want. Didn't see that one coming. So you never
know how it goes. But here's the other part. What if some of these quarterbacks move back a little bit and now a quarterback or two is still sitting there at ten Right now, if you're Philadelphia, you're probably calling. You're like, phone's open, we'll move back a couple still get the probably the guy we want who wants to make the deal. Then we can find out if Tennessee's in really in the quarterback market at that point Are they in an offensive line market because they definitely need
offensive linemen. Tackles are gonna be the premium. Is that where they go? Did they get the first bite at the receivers? Is it Jackson Smith and Jigba? Is it a speedier guy like a Zay Flowers? Who's more of us? But Smith and jigbaz A Flowers, Jordan Addison who I love. They're all mainly sli You want big, you gotta go to TCU and Quinn Johnston. And he's come out of a heavy run offense, a lot of go routes, a lot of post routes, a lot of overs, but the
route tree will have to be worked on. Reminds me of Damarius Thomas come out Georgia Tech. Maybe because they were heavy option offense. He asked about twenty five thirty yards a catch, but he became a really good route runner. If you believe Quinn Johnson can do that, then he's a guy keep an eye on.
It's gonna be fun.
Oh, it's gonna be fun.
Right.
I love how we're all like, oh, we got an answer here, we got an answer. We gotta answer here. And as soon as someone makes a move it's tell over, didn't see that coming.
Charles Davis and Daniel Jeremiah, who you've heard from earlier, will be on NFL Network starting Thursday night, and we look forward to their coverage our coverage against Thursday night at six that's sixth Central Time from sixth and Peabody, our coverage on Titan's Radio presented by Pinnacle, and we're looking forward to having a great crew at six and Peabody and Amy Wells and Ashley Ferrell both in Kansas City. What is your role going to be during the draft as you await the pick?
Well, so we are going we will be at the red carpet before the draft even starts. You know how I love to get in there and analyze everybody's outfits and really take some time watching everybody as they show up with their family and their head coaches from college, and there's just a ton of pageantry and I'm here for it. So we'll be doing that, and then we will be in the media center in the workroom essentially watching it on TV like everybody else, waiting for our
chance to pick. So we will just be kind of hanging out, making sure that all of our stuff is in order, and then once the pick happens, we're going to meet up with them, assuming that they are one of the players that are in Kansas City. We're gonna do everything we can to meet up with them and have conversations and bring Titans fans as much access to what their experience is like as we possibly can. I
do have to say I'm pretty jealous. I'm not going to be at sixth and Peabody because besides the like yeeha and the old smoky of it, all those tacos man. Yeah, I mean, I don't want to hate on the NFL Draft because that's not nice, and I'm so happy to be here, but the food situation is consistently tragic. Like I have never been to a draft and fell, oh well fed.
Whoa, whoa you mean there's not good food in Kansas City.
There is good food in Kansas City. None of it is for the media. So, like, do I just smell barbecue as I'm walking through the streets of Kansas City. Absolutely, I do. It's phenomenal. But on Draft night, when they put all sports reporters, the hungry of genre of human is sports reporters, they put them all in a room and they bring out we'll say chicken fingers and put them down. They're gone in twenty seconds. You don't stand
a chance. You better run and hide because you will get run over before you will get a chicken finger. So you end up eating like half a bag of Frito's and you find a bottle of water on a windowsill and just take it because it's probably hasn't been touched yet, and that's what you're gonna eat for the night. It is hard work. A lot of people have great accommodations during the draft. The green room stocked with food. All the best food you could want is in the
green room with the players. I do not have a access to that. I have access to a single bag of Freeto's, and that will be it for me.
Can you hear the tiny violins play?
I'm not saying that this is a bad gig I have. I am so excited to be here, I'm so fired up for Thursday night. But when I think of those white duck tacos at six and Peabody, my mouth starts to water and I get very excited.
Yep, we're sorry you're going to miss him, Yeah.
Cause I know you'll eat it. But you're gonna eat like ten in one night and it's mighty.
And I'll take pictures and put it on my new Instagram.
I know you will. Mike, you've been kissing the Instagram game. I'm I am just blown away by your social media savvy.
I don't know about that.
It's been great. You're a fun follow.
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This sounds like something I need to take advantage of. You do, Yeah, I'm start you.
Are technically a season ticket member.
Well, I mean not even that. I just I could use a good car detailing. There's a lot of crumbs in my car, and I understand. Yeah, all right.
That's going to wrap up the Wednesday OTP our. Next OTP Andy Garrison, who texts me every five minutes wanting to know where the next one is. The next one he's a friend, so he knows I'm kidding, will actually be immediately following the first round, our Titans radio crew will do an OTP and we will have that ready
for you pretty quickly after the first round ends. We'll do the same thing on Friday night, and then we'll have a wrap up on Saturday night of what we are hearing that's out there, along with the players who have been picked. It's going to be a lot of fun. I hope you're able to find some good food tonight and tomorrow.
Though, Oh absolutely. I mean really, I just walk outside and start to like smell the air like a dog and just walk towards whatever I'm smelling because there's so much good barbecue around here.
Jack Stack nine.
Yep, all of the above. I'm in all right, Arthur, what's the Arthur Arthur Bryants. That's where we were, Arthur Bryan today.
Yeah, Arthur Bryant is offully good.
Yes, yes, Oh, Arthur.
Murray was actually the dance studio. That's a totally different thing.
Yeah, that is. It's a difference.
They don't have a lot of food there. Yes, they don't have a lot of They don't have a lot going on there. Okay, for Ashley Ferrell and Andy Wells in Kansas City. I'm Mike Keith at Ascension same time as Sports Park, brought to you by our great friends at Farm Bureau Health Plans. You have been listening to the draft week, Oh tee Pete, Welcome.
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