 Yeah, can I start, Robbie, before we get going, I just want to take, you know, kind of a minute to thank our staff, our scouting staff or coaching staff, our trainers, everybody that's, you know, had input into the process, you know, leading us up to this weekend. You know, Ryan Cowden, our VP of player personnel, Monty Austin Ford, our director of player personnel, John Salgi, our college director. They've all been instrumental in this draft process. Patrick Wu has done an outstanding job of scheduling these meetings, our college scouting coordinator with the Zoom prospect. So just a tip of the cat to everybody that's had a pretty important, very important hand in this process so far. Okay, John, I guess that was the draft prep been this year compared to last year when you had a combine but then everything was kind of adjusted on the fly. What was it like this year where you kind of knew the parameters coming in but you still had a lot of restrictions. Yeah, I think that, you know, having the pro days this year, Jim was beneficial being able to go to the college campuses, see these guys perform, you know, athletically on the field, see them interacting with their teammates, have some, you know, face to face interactions with, you know, with some coaches and staff members at the various universities was what was different that was it was really good. I felt like that the, I felt like the zoom meetings. You know, it's been a little over a year now that we've been in this zoom world. The players were a little bit more comfortable on there. They were used to it. It wasn't something that, you know, that was new to them. You know, the medical still been a little challenging, you know, because you're not, we got 150 I think it was this year roughly there, that number that actually went to Andy, and we were able to get a medical on those guys so still working through all the information on that but it's typically you get 300 350 prospects where you're able to get a medical grade on so you know Todd and his staff the doctors have all been working hard to fill in any cracks that may be there with the medical information. Yeah, good morning John looking at the offensive line and also the defensive line. When you look at these prospects and how it is within this group. Is there a serious drop off when you go from that first tier to the second tier. Would you consider that more than a receiver and corner. Good morning TD thanks for the question yeah I think that I think the offensive line group probably has a little bit more depth top to bottom maybe then than the D line group. You know there's some good players in the defensive line group but I feel like the volume, the supply of players that you know that's in that offensive line group. You know maybe a little bit deeper than the defensive line group this year. Thank you. John you mentioned the medicals that recheck maybe help clear up some of those outstanding questions or was it just maybe simple on simply a numbers thing only getting so many rechecked once again. Yeah, I think that you know Todd, I've got a ton of respect for for Todd Torselli and he's a very well respected trainer in the football world across campuses and universities. But yeah we're still gathering information him and his team are circling back with teams you know the trainers and the medical staffs that some of these know colleges to make sure that we've got the as much and as accurate as information as possible. But that recheck, yeah follow up information on those guys with with any information that might have, you know either clear up a player, or, you know maybe confirm concern about a player, all of those medical things are extremely important. John I know with your draft day deals over the years you looks like you've been more inclined to move up a lot of times and you have moved back. I guess wondering why do you think that is and what kind of confidence do you have to have in your, you know evaluation of a specific player to move up and go after a guy. I think that's a anytime you're going to move up you know there's you've kind of got your, your eyes on on maybe one player or two players and you know according to how many picks you are away from that player or you might get some information that hey this team, you know they might they might jump you or they're looking to come up to, and you're trying to put yourself in a position to get the guy you want. I think that you know we're kind of talking through that this morning, and we'll continue to talk through it this week or who are those guys that if we get within striking distance, and then what's the cost of that you because you're going to have to give something up to move up versus are there four or five, six players, three players how many players do you have, you know left on on on the draft board up there where you would consider it 22. How far can you go back and still get one of those guys and maybe pick up another thing. Robbie I hope this is a natural follow on this one but yeah you speaking of this year 22 seems like that's a spot where a lot of teams will move back. You know do you think it's any more likely that you might do it move back this year than than other years. That's something that we'll certainly talk about. If that presents itself and it and it, you know, it allows us to, you know, look at the board and there's still players that we think we can get three four five six picks back and pick up an extra pick we'd certainly entertain it. But you don't want to, you don't want to trade back just to trade back you know there's got to be kind of a, you know what's the what's the return on on on that move, and can you still get a player that you want, and maybe pick up a pick in doing so. Emily. I'm curious just kind of how you balance your draft preparation with day of like draft gut feelings, you know when you're drafting is it strictly based on the rankings that you have and the board that you've put together do sometimes go off script and go off a feeling in the moment. A question. I think that we, we've done a lot of work on on these, these guys. And we've watched them in pods and we've, we've looked at the vertical stacking of players, coupled with the horizontal, you know stacking of players positionally. We've talked through different scenarios and have a really good feel about about where we're at in our rankings and at the end of the day you've got to trust your instincts and all the information that you have on the player. And if there's two players that are that are side by side but different positions. I tend to go with with my gut and, and pick the player who I think and help the team the most. Buck. Hey John, you guys haven't, you guys haven't drafted a class larger than six players since 2017 when you're in your first couple years here when you were having to basically restock the roster, how similar is is this draft to back when you first got to Tennessee, given what the financials have done to everyone's roster construction. Yeah, I think any, you know, especially with the, you know, with the salary cap going down the, I say it all the time the draft class in this rookie class of player every year it's it's a younger less expensive player then you know you're going to go after the agency. So, the ability for those guys to, you know, bolster the roster and the more picks the means the more chances you have it, you know, at hitting him on one of those guys I'm excited about the number of picks that we have this year, and, you know, whether we come away with fewer picks if we move up or more picks if we move back we'll just kind of see how that goes but it's important part of the team building process. Paul. Hey, John, you guys have been pretty patient, even with with first rounders in terms of your ask. John. Gotcha. That was me. You guys have been pretty patient of your ask of guys early even first rounders, given the roster holds this time around, you're going to need to expect more of this rookie class sooner. I think as soon as those guys can can contribute the sooner the certainly the sooner the better and we've had guys that you know maybe it's it's been injuries, been some dings and bumps and bruises. And some a little bit more serious like Jeffrey situation where he was coming off that need took him a little while to get going. But then acclimate the quicker they can acclimate themselves to our program and the pro game pro game the better. And yeah we won't we want all of these guys. You know whether it's the first rounder this, you know wherever they're drafted the quicker they can contribute and help the football team, the better. John is four picks in the top 100 a big number, a good number how do you look at that what's your opportunity here the first two days of this draft. We should add more than four. But that's that's what that's what we've got we'll see what we can make out of that you know can we turn can we turn four into into five or maybe six I think, you know I've got some calls to put in this week around the league with other GMs just to kind of gauge their willingness to move around. You know Thursday night and Friday night. And we'll see how that you know those calls go this week but I think everybody, you know kind of knows that we're willing to kind of shuffle around we have you know historically been a team that doesn't mind shuffling around pick wise. John how do you go about and what how is the process different in betting the opt out guys who don't have any film from 2020 and haven't been in that structured college environment as you go to assess them. Yeah, I felt like you know between our, you know, our scouts, our coaches on these zoom calls. Myself coach frable. The, the, you know, the directors and at the upper level, you know and our scouting department. Being on these calls. Getting to know the, you know, kind of the reason behind it, you know what was and there's a lot of different circumstances that the players went through hearing them out and trying to understand what went behind their decision. And getting to know them as, as you know as people and understanding that a lot of them had family situations that they were concerned about but you know a lot of those guys went back to their to their pro days and performed well, and seeing them move around specifically, and talking to their staffs and getting the reasoning behind their decisions, not to play this fall was all was good, you know and we, we continue that we've got a few more zoom calls this week with guys, and just trying to clean up the board. Yeah, John. You know how are you kind of you and, you know, need it positions versus best player when it comes to the first round this year you know obviously you've got some positions where you're probably looking to add some guys early on I mean are you looking and saying hey we need to have this done by this time. Yeah, I think that if you can get it to match up gentry in a perfect world that's where need meets the best player on the board then that's a, you know that's kind of a perfect world but you're going to need. You're going to need really you're going to need good football players at some point, you know, and just because you know we may not have a glaring need at a position doesn't mean that we wouldn't take a player there. If we think that the impact that he could have on the team at some point this year you can't predict injuries, you know, knock on wood we don't we don't have a bunch this year, but you just you just don't know. So having having good players that can that can go in the game and play at a winning level at any position. It's important. Jared. Yeah john when it comes to replacing john and you look at blocking tight ends versus receiving tight ends. Do you kind of say with a 2000 yard rushing attack that you guys have you rather prefer the blockier or maybe more of a receiver to replace that production in the past game. How do you weigh those knowing that you're not going to be able to get probably the best tight end in this class, but maybe another tight end after that. Yeah, that's a good question. I think that you know we evaluate the skill sets of the players and and what they what can they do and maybe some areas that they need to improve on. They're going to have to block at some point even the, you know, the rest of quote unquote receiving tight ends at a minimum if they can just get in the way long enough for the back to get by them. So they're going to have to have some degree of blocking ability, certainly some of these players and, you know, and not just in this draft and any draft. The strengths may be more receiving than blocking but we think there's players in this draft that that can do both. Some need to improve. You know, maybe in the in the blocking component somebody to improve in the receiving component, I wouldn't say we air one way or the other because I think you can't just pigeonhole yourself into this guy is a, you know, blocking tight end because then, you know, sub, they're going to sub out defensively and stack the box so that there's got to be somewhat of a receiving component to the tight end position. Yeah, John, just wondering how you evaluate the depth in this draft at receiver and cornerback. I guess in particular cornerback it is there a huge drop off from the first, you know, few guys to the next tier or however you whatever you call it and then also how did that influence the way you went about free agency so I just got three in there for one for you there. The old three for one special Joe. No, I'll start with the receiver receiver group, I think that you know that group there's there's, you know, there's it's pretty, it's pretty balanced from from top to bottom, you know, you certainly have some premium players at the top. And then, you know, it's, there's good depth players and role players. Really all throughout the droughts I think the corner group. There's some there's some good players at the top and kind of in the middle and then, you know, at the back side in the back you're kind of drafting some some traits there's some guys that are really fast. At the back end there's some guys that are really good tacklers. It's really kind of you know what you want for your football team to what degree can they play in a kicking game. It's important for that position so I think both position groups have pretty good volume. The receivers are maybe a little more evenly spread. Let's say value wise maybe more so than the corners. Hey, hey, John, you know just entering your sixth draft as you know GM of the Titans how, how would you kind of assess the overall job that you your personnel team has done in building up the Titans, the last five, five drafts from where this franchise was when you took over. It's that kind of a big question but um yeah I think I mean at the end of the day, it's about wins and losses. And I don't really, you know, look at the draft grades or what's my cumulative draft grade I don't even know what that would be. But we try to get guys, and we haven't been perfect you know we've certainly had you know some misses along the way but guys that come in and buy into our philosophy and and what we're trying to do here and and contribute on the field to winning. And we've we've won more you know then we've lost we'd certainly would like to win some more you know there's some games that that we didn't win that you know we would like to win. We're proud of the work that's been put in by our scouts and in the way that we go about evaluating prospects and and how we how they fit our football team. Again we haven't been perfect, but I feel like we've, you know, we're certainly on certainly on the right track, excuse me. Tata. Hey John I know last year you guys had a pretty incredible set up at home for these for the draft and now you guys can kind of be together in one room what will it be like to be able to make those decisions back together again but also you know we saw la they had like a McMansion going on over there too so you know I mean you guys have a special setup for this week. We don't we do not have a McMansion, you know me and me and coach rebel may pitch a tent out beside the lake. And we don't have a ram that we can, maybe there's a raccoon or something we could kind of let rummage in there with us. As we pick. I'm just kidding. We're you know with the with the building. Being renovated. We've relocated to another spot we've got a basically a draft room setup that's exactly the same as our typical draft room except smaller. But to be back in in the office and having you know we've met every day for the last three or four weeks just watching and going through these prospects and watching them back to back and having discussions and and talking to our security team about prospects are player engagement and Mitch about prospects are coaches but having those face to face interactions and discussions about these guys has been great it's more normal. And I'm excited for draft weekend and and to be back in the draft room, you know with our guys looking at the board and much more what I'm used to than what we did last year. John you've historically valued production pretty highly and the players you've drafted, but when you have guys who maybe only played five games this past year due to covert cancellations or like Terry asked earlier opted out. How do you handle the limited sample size and what is your sort of view on going back to maybe 2019 2018 tape on some guys. Yeah look we've definitely done that you know we've gone back and watched some of the 19 a lot of the 19 stuff on these guys. A couple guys we've watched every game from the 19 season that they played in. And I think that's important and and production is important we want guys to come in and produce and you know the key is how does that translate from the college game to the pro game. Some guys it happens quickly some guys it might take them a little a little longer so. Yeah but going back and looking at what they, you know how did they perform and maybe a more normal setting in the 2019 season. I've watched some 2019 games on guys that didn't opt out that actually played in 2020 just to see if what did what did that look like you're trying to get a broad spectrum exposure wise on on these guys. Steve. I've seen some kind of conflicting reports and always take these with the grain of salt because theoretically they came from someone's front office but how deep the first round is and I've seen some people say there's as well as maybe like 15 or 16 first round grades out and then others have said otherwise. Where are you guys in that do you think this is a typical first round is it more is it less stacked up front and then I guess the follow on that is there any other you talk corner and and wide receiver positions that particularly stand out because of their depth and quality. Yeah I mean I think if you polled, you know 32 teams they would have different numbers of guys that are quote unquote first round created players. You know, I'm not going to get into the specifics of, you know where those guys are graded for us because you know one first round or for one team may not be a first round or for another team. I think it where you know we're trying we try to look and see as the guy. To what degrees are you going to come as you're going to be an impact players you're going to come in and be a roll starter or starters you're going to be a backup. You know where does that fall. I think the to the second part of your question the offensive line group I think as a whole, you know both tackle and and interior guys I think there's pretty good depth at that position. Really all throughout the draft I think there's, you know there's guys, I'd say that position not to compare it's probably closer to, you know maybe maybe the receiver position where you have a pretty good pool of players. That you think you can get in and will have a role on the team. And I got a number of follow up so we can roll through some of those truck. Yeah john traditionally the slot receiver like that's not something that you guys would draft in the first round but given how this game has expanded to so much operating a space and those type of things. How has your viewpoint of a slot receiver in the first round as a possibility how's that change. Um, you know I think that you know you got to define the role for the for the player to what degree Kenny also play on on the outside T. Does he give you anything in the kicking game, maybe as a returner. What's the, what how does he change the game. Is it a is it a speed component is it a get open component some guys get open, you know I've had this discussion before about with the slot receiver some there's some speed slots there there's you know down the field vertical guys. And then there's some some shifty make you miss kind of guys and the guys that can do both. You know probably have a look maybe have a little bit more value. And I think that the end of the day for the receiver at the receiver position, you know we tell all these guys and we've said it for, you know, six years now, get open catch and block you know those are the three most important things for the receiver position and there's some certainly some inside receivers some slot receivers that fit that bill this year. Hey, John, you've drafted to write tackles in round one since you got here, but we're able to plug in Dennis the last two years and really not miss a beat offensively. Does that make you reassess the need to, to use that kind of value at that position. Um, you know I think that you know we look at there's some certainly some players that at the tackle position that that are worthy of first round picks. You know we'll just kind of see how it goes how those guys come off the board, and that's that horizontal component that I was alluding to you know is it. You know, is there a linebacker pass rusher or corner any position. How do you have those guys stacked up versus the other position. When it comes to your time on the clock. David both are John Helen usual is this draft in terms of the number of quarterbacks who are likely to go in the first round and what does that do for a team like you sitting there number 22. Um, yeah I mean I think that anytime you're you know you're not maybe in that in that world. We're looking to take a cue that high. That pushes another player at another position down to you. So, um, you know we've we've evaluated those guys just like you know every other team and ranked them accordingly, but hopefully hopefully it pushes down a couple players that, you know, maybe if that wasn't such a hot commodity this year it seems pushes a player to you that maybe typically wouldn't be there for you. And john you talked about the importance of pro days this year how many did you end up going to is that more than maybe usual. And in a year when you don't have you know much in person contact these players. How could that help break a tie for your how valuable could that in person contact me. Yeah, it was great for me Jim to get back out and get on some some campuses and watch these guys. Work live visit with some of the staff there. You know participate in some of the drills with some of the guys, all of that was really good for me. I don't know exactly how many I went to maybe 10 or 12 something like that it's that may be about normal. I've done some more pride you couldn't do private workouts this year but I've done more. No kind of some private workouts in years past that we couldn't do this year but the pro days were certainly good to kind of get back in that world. John want to get this correct is it is. Have there been scenarios where during some of the checks medical checks in Indianapolis, your medical people haven't necessarily been involved, and you're taking the medical information from a group of team doctors that didn't include yours. Yeah, I think that there was a pool of doctors that you know kind of combine the information. Again, I wasn't there I don't know exactly how that went down. But there are doctors jumped around to some different rooms to visit with some guys specifically. They came away and dealt with the situation as best as possible to get a grade on the guys and have a good feeling when we had our medical meeting about where we were. But if you wanted to see player X, you might not have been able to see player X. I think that's accurate Paul. Thank you. Jared. When it comes to the situation last year with Isaiah you talked about wanting to kind of, you know, look back on the process similar with Kevin Dodd you said that you wanted to see how you could improve from that. Are there any thoughts on last year how that played out maybe things that you guys improved on, especially being in a second year of a virtual setting. I kind of touched on it earlier we you know we we were pretty exhaustive on our, I don't have the exact number of zoom calls, but we had different people. Within that our session that we could have touch touch these guys and have interactions with them. And as guys got more comfortable I know I personally was on on a lot with coach with coach for able and getting to know these guys and spending time with them for, you know, 3045 minutes sometimes the full hour, but having different people interact with it and then come back and collectively go over what we were able to glean from those conversations and and see areas and players that, you know, maybe there, there is still some concern or, you know, we're going to have to have a plan for this specific players and you know these players other players were great would be a great addition to the team no issues. And having those opinions of various people without within the organization was much I felt more expansive this year and closer to what we would normally do in a non virtual world. I still got a handful more Ben from Tennessee. Yeah john you you just kind of address the Isaiah Wilson thing but just kind of a follow up on that you know, previous question, just with what happened there. What if any additional internal pressure like pressure you put on yourself. What pressure do you put on yourself to kind of do to hit on this year's draft after you know what happened there. Is there any additional pressure going into this year or is it kind of like the same. You know amount of pressure just in any drafts if that kind of makes sense. I think I've spoken nauseam about that situation last year been. And I think that I always put pressure on myself to get it right. And, you know, I, we've gotten it probably right more than that than we have wrong. But, you know those last year was certainly a, it wasn't a great situation for us. And there's been, you know, maybe a one other one that didn't work out so well. But I'm proud of the guys in the process for the players that that have come in here and done things the right way and been productive members of our football team. And you can go down the list from, you know, from from Jack Conklin to AJ Brown to Kevin Byrd and Derek Henry to, I mean, rattle off all our draft picks and there's been a lot of good ones and the ones that that I didn't get right or we didn't get right. I'm certainly not looking to do that again. Thank you. Terry. John. What kind of value is there in this year's edge rusher group in the draft is top heavy or there. There's some players that can help throughout, especially if you are looking for situational pass rusters. Good question, Terry. I think that's a good position group. I think there's there's certainly some guys, you know, at the top and then there's some guys kind of in the middle there that that we like that we think can be situation guys to and maybe grow into, you know, to full time, starting into the land of scrimmage players. And then there's some developmental guys, you know, that are going to be later on that, you know, we think have some upside as well so, you know, I think that's, that's a pretty good, that's a pretty good depth position as well. Last thing, john. Yeah, I guess, arguably you guys have, you know, needs at both the kind of the slot receiver and the nickel corner. I wonder when it comes to those positions do you value how much they've played specifically at slots and nickel in college or is your philosophy more, you know, we get a really talented guy and we'll figure out who goes in the respective slot and nickel on both sides of the line. I think the latter john, you know, just trying to get, you know, a skill player that that has a skill set that we can maybe develop in there, while providing some value, maybe an outside receiver outside corner whatever it may be. And then, you know, work on work on intricacies of that position. John. Hey, John, on the tight end question, just wondering how you view Anthony forks are at this point, his progress as a blocker is he a guy who can have a larger role in this offense to be more effective in the run game as well as the past game. No, we're glad we got first I mean, you know, I can remember he was a he was a rookie tryout guy. And he's worked hard and he's improved and he's gotten better. He's a dependable target in the passing game. He's competitive in the run game to get into a guy and stave him off I think some of the positions that we put him in, you know, maybe detached going to get that, you know that the nickel corner or maybe it's a safety that's down. That's a little different ass than if he's a wing or if he's on the end of the line of scrimmage trying to block a defensive lineman. But I think he's a competitive guy he works hard he wants to be good at his craft he's a team guy. And I'm proud of the progress and you know he's got some work to do just like a lot of players on our team but he's he's more than willing to do it he's you know he's been working his tail off to get better. Hey John real quick just curious do you still go by the traditional Jimmy Johnson point chart do you have your own point chart, or does anything else go into trades for you. Yeah, Corey that's that's kind of you know that's we've gotten we've got three or four charts that you know that that we look at they're all kind of similar there's a maybe a pointer or point there. I think really you look at historical trades kind of more so maybe then the point chart. You know because teams teams maybe have their own chart and the point doesn't look, you know exactly like it. It should at the end of the day if you want to move the pick or if you want to you know slide up or back. Typically, you know sliding back five spots cost a third round in the first, you know, in the first round to slide back four or five spots. Is that a third round pick. If that's what it's kind of historically been then, you know, maybe you get a little fodder in there as a seven through your swapping sixes or something. But the history of what's kind of gone is probably what you're going to lean maybe more so on then. Oh well I'm short, you know 2.7 points on on the trade chart so I'm not going to do it. Thanks John.