 Rian Carthon here at twenty twenty three annual meetings in Phoenix. It's good to see you and it feels like another month on the job. This one may be a little bit busier than the previous months. Oh yeah definitely three pro days leading to the week. Three pro days daughter's theater performance in San Jose and now you know here and then a pro day leave tomorrow chatting so it's work time. I'll tell you what it feels like every month you're maybe leveling up a little bit like you get a new set of challenges new set of obstacles. Well at Combine Scott Peole grabbed Chad and I and just an adult he got from Bill Parcells that says every day you're going to get about three to five things that you didn't plan for. So if you do the math and add those up it's every every month presents a new challenge. Tell me about Chad a little bit working with him bringing him into the fold. How helpful has that been to you. He's been extremely helpful. You know I joke with Chad he's a unicorn. You know he's done pro scouting he's done college scouting he's done salary cap and now he's adding a new analytics component and you know one person in the operation that doesn't get his just do and his credit for what he's added to the operation is Venmarino. You know the three of us were the odd couple but it works. You know we have pointed discussions about contracts and how we can get things done and just the three of us are aligning and working together and then me knowing when to step out and let Chad and then do their thing and you know dwelling their area of expertise has been it's been really helpful. So Chad's done a great job Vince done a great job. It's just everything's been going well. Is that something you've had to learn how to navigate kind of when to step in when to pull back and let people do things or is that a management style that maybe you've already had. I know it's that's who I am. I know who I am and who I'm not and there's a level of conversation that starts and I'm like all right this is all over my head so I will move and allow people to do what they do best and like I said it works you know I can't remember who exactly we were talking broad scope contract and you know I had some ideas. Hey I think this is where we should come in blah blah blah and I'm standing in front of Ben's screen and just I said what I said and I'm just standing there and then those two just kind of shifted and then they start their their breakdown of it and I was just standing there I was like up this is my cue you know no no words exchanged and I just walked out of the office and let them do that work. They start speaking a different language and it's time to time to time to tap out. So you mentioned that you've been going to some pro days you've been doing different things as you're evaluating players and obviously you've been doing that for many years but now that you're a general manager does the lens shift a little bit. Do you evaluate in a different way because you have the bigger picture in your brain. I would say no just because at the end of the day it's all scouting right and in this role it's really more about leadership but at the core essence of it all you know you still want to be a good scout and you still want to get as much information as possible to make the best and most informed decision so whenever you can you'll talk to most GM's and that's the one thing that they wish they could do more of is scouting and watching the tape and you know going into the schools which the job doesn't allow for. So anytime you get those moments you revel in it and you look forward to it. You've brought in a bunch of free agents to be new Tennessee Titans. Tell me about that group of guys that you brought in through the first kind of weeks of free agency. What do you like about this group. What stands out to you about this group. I think the one thing that stands out about this group is they all have NFL starter ability. They just haven't had the opportunity to be full time starters and hopefully they step into that with us but the one thing that stands out really about the group that I like the most is their versatility. You know guys that can do multiple things guys that can align in multiple places which gives us you know a better opportunity to put the best game playing together help us win some football game. Is the kaleidoscope starting to come into focus a little bit in terms of traits that make a Tennessee Titan kind of specific things that you're looking for that fit this football team. Yeah and see yes to answer the question but I'm in a unique position right. You know coach variable has the the culture established here right. He embodies everything it means to be a Tennessee Titan so it's not like we're trying to find that identity that identity is already established and me coming into this new role is learning what that identity is. That's a you know you said something a couple different times that has stuck with me and you say we are not collecting talent. We're building a football team. And I've probably referenced it five or six times just in talking about you because it's really struck me as almost counterintuitive in that you're not trying to build the monsters for a space jam reference. You're trying to build a solid football team. Where does that philosophy come from. It's just you know being in being in San Francisco started there. If you look what Kyle and John you know have built there have been players on the board that some may have had raided over other guys that that we have taken at the time. So it's all about fitting I'll use this right. So I always talk about it's putting a puzzle together. You know when you look at the box you know what the end result should look like but when you dump it on the table is just a bunch of pieces that you just got to ultimately fix and put put the puzzle together and it doesn't help you if you got eight of the same piece. You know because the picture can't be complete. So that's that's really what I mean we're just putting a puzzle together so we know what the end picture should look like. Is that something that's a little counterintuitive though because sometimes it's very compelling to say I've got eight of these pieces and they're very shiny and very pretty but that doesn't always mean it's the best fit for the overall picture. Right. And so that's where you have to exercise some patience you know and have a core philosophy of what you believe in. And like I said you know a lot of the core philosophy a lot of the base of it all has been here. It's established and again I just get to come in and you know do my part and add to add to the product. Something that is coming down the pike. Another thing to add to your growing list of things that you have going on right now is players are about to come back in a couple weeks to Ascension St. Thomas Sports Park. How excited are you to have guys back in the building having them start going through the process of getting ready for another football season. I'm excited. And you know a testament to Coach Vrable you know Frank and B Bell in the weight room a lot of guys have been back you know ahead of time guys have been in getting work ever since I've been in you know average probably about 15 to 20 guys a day. But when the players in the building it's a different juice it's a different energy and you know it's all about them at the end of the day. So you know you look forward to that extra juice just like I look forward to when the area scouts are in the building they bring a you know a different energy because they hadn't been in and now everybody's getting to see each other and just different juice different energy. So I'm excited about it. Mike Vrable is a big relationship guy. You seem to be a big relationship guy. How excited are you to continue building those relationships with the guys that make up this team. Oh that's kind of what I love to do. I kind of you know love to be around the players get to know them get to know them as people. You know we have tons of ways to evaluate them as players and you know I really like to get to the core essence of the player so that's what I'm really looking forward to the most. And I mean with all your free time who wouldn't be able to do that you only have free agencies still going on the draft is just around the corner. I mean that's what I was going to say free time. I don't know why not spend some time just getting to know everybody. Well we're in car fun. Thank you so much for taking some time with us. We are excited to continue through the off season. Oh yeah I'm excited and thank you guys for having me.