 This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. Plan on paying less for the coverage you need with Farm Bureau Health Plans. Get a quote today at FBHP.com. With Amy Wells, I'm Mike Keith in the Bet MGM Studio, and we are on our way to the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, Indiana. It starts tomorrow, Tuesday, and so we're going to give you a little preview of what some of the big topics are. First of all, welcome, and it's good to see you. I know you're excited to go to Indianapolis. Well, Mike, you know, tis the season. It is combine time. I am ready. I'm fired up. I can't wait to go. But we've got to stop for a minute because I want to do this preview, and I'm very excited about talking all things combine. But we have to talk about social media first. I saw you post a picture at Ten Voice if you're not following Mike Keith on Instagram. Please follow. I saw you posted a picture of you and Jim Nance. Couple questions related to that, one, where in the world were you where you're hanging out with Jim Nance, and what do you talk to him about? We were at a function for Pinnacle Financial Partners, and I was taking that opportunity to congratulate him on one of the great performances in sports broadcasting history in Super Bowl 58. And here's why. Okay. The bottom line is you're calling the Super Bowl. It's a big deal. Every play puts a pressure on you that you don't have in the regular season. It's the same way for announcers as it is for players or coaches. Every play can take your breath away. In the regular season it becomes very obvious what the big moments are. And they don't occur like every single instant. Something that happens in the first quarter you don't jump up and down about in the regular season in most cases unless it's just way off the level of spectacular. In the Super Bowl it can be any play at any time. So you're in this hyper focus that is just phenomenal. And then you broadcast a game that has so many twists and turns. That Super Bowl had everything. You have longer commercial breaks which from a broadcaster standpoint upset your routine. You have a much longer halftime which from a broadcaster standpoint upset your routine. And then guess what the game ends up going over four hours. The beauty of the NFL and why the NFL is so successful as a TV package is because the games are right at three hours. Yeah. And it's perfect. Other sports are starting to figure that out. Baseball has done that with the pitch clock. But the NFL has that down. The Super Bowl is naturally going to be longer Amy. I mean you just understand with the halftime show and all of that. And then the game goes into overtime. Second time ever. Crazy. And then it goes into another overtime and also you're playing with new rules in postseason overtime for the first time. Right. Jim Nance put on a masterclass of how you handle all of those things. Keep the game in the road. He kept Tony Romo in the road. And I thought Tony did a nice job. But Tony's Tony's all over the place. And so keeping him locked in is is something that Jim does well and that they do well together. But that's a challenge. And then working in Tracy Wolfson who was excellent working in Jay Feeley who was fantastic working in the rules guy working in this working in that he played point guard. He played shooting guard. He played I mean he played defense. I mean if you look at if you look at I mean he did everything. And yet he got it home and then he does the post game interviews and he's got the whole Travis Kelsey thing with we fight for our right to party. It was one of the great sports broadcasting performances ever because of where we are a hundred and twenty three million people was the average viewership at one point over two hundred million people watched all of that pressure that different circumstance those challenges. And I mean he did it like it was nothing. And that's why Jim Nance is so great. And I as somebody who loves what we do who just loves the craft of what we do and this is inside baseball I'm sorry but you ask what I said to him I said I said all of this it was a clinic yeah and every young broadcaster and every old broadcaster should watch it back and see how he did it and say I'll probably not ever be able to do that but it was beautiful. And the fact that I had a chance to just tell him that to to his face was a special thing for me because he is he's an amazing person and he is an amazing talent in the world of broadcasting. You know for him it's probably not very often that he gets to have a conversation about that experience with another person who has had that experience. There are not very many people in the world who have had the opportunity to call whether on TV or radio right a Super Bowl right and you have. So you understand what that experience is like some of the challenges that he's navigating of course it's a different medium but it was probably very refreshing for him to be able to have a conversation with someone other than like I've watched a lot of Super Bowls and you did all right. I mean to be able to have a real in depth conversation about the challenges or to have someone say those things who actually understands what you're up against when you're calling a game like that I would bet that that was a pretty special conversation for him. Well it was for me because I I love the craft I grew up around people who who taught the craft in a certain way and the thing about Jim and what drives you crazy about Jim if you're another broadcaster is he makes it look so easy yeah and he's talking with you and he's throwing out certain points and they're just natural parts of the conversation that's his gift and yet the technicals of what he does from a broadcasting standpoint are so good the fundamentals are so good the baseline of him is just so fantastic I mean it's almost like people talk about Eddie Van Halen the late Eddie Van Halen playing the guitar and that he would take his guitars and he would rebuild them and he would come up with different combinations of things that nobody had ever heard different sounds different styles and yet the fundamentals of him as a guitar player like Chad Atkins the fundamentals of those people as basic guitar players are otherworldly because they just do the regular things so well Jim Nance does the regular things in an off-the-chart manner and then the specialness of who he is as a person is is phenomenal and all of those greats have that this past week we celebrated the 44th anniversary of the miracle on ice which Al Michaels called it was only the second hockey game Al Michaels had ever called in his life really only the second hockey game I didn't know that he's calling all of those Russian names perfectly which in 1980 didn't happen and then the greatest moment in the history of American sports he hits it out of the park I don't think it'll ever be matched no and so you know to think about the miracle on ice call from Al Michaels who is if not the greatest play-by-play announcer in history he's right at the top and then that we're two weeks off Jim Nance calling this super boat this amazing Super Bowl in such a way that as we were losing our breath in a four-hour game he kept going and was right on point with everything it's amazing phenomenal and you know it for him to live in Nashville and to occasionally have a chance to bump into him it is what a treat and he's a special guy Jim Nance is the guy that you see on TV 100% yeah and that's that's rare as well that's right that's a very unique thing his broadcast of Super Bowl 58 was a master class and I don't know that everybody would understand that who hasn't ever sat behind a microphone before but I just have such respect for what he does and my wife and I were watching the game and I said Jim Nance is just killing this it is just phenomenal and then as they got into the last Kansas City Drive I said this game is over four hours long now we did a game that was over seven hours long but we had too long delays yeah we had lots of pause doing a game and that wasn't easy I mean we'll say that but that what he did was much harder much harder because you're so tired and I'll wrap this up because we got to get onto the preview but he said he still hadn't fully recovered from it really because of the emotion yeah yeah I mean the emotion of it is different than anything you ever feel and there were so many different ebbs and flows and ups and downs and I mean you're emotionally just within the game I've never had an experience in my life not just in sports or in broadcasting I've never had an experience in my life like how I felt the two hours after Super Bowl 34 really it I it was it was it was excruciating because we lost but it was also just it must be what it's like to climb one of the great mountains in the world it must be what it's like to win the Indianapolis 500 or the Daytona 500 I mean I can't describe I can't even describe how it felt yeah and for him to do that on such a level with everybody watching and everybody critiquing you and everybody oh yeah phenomenal yeah I would like to have that experience we will yeah we will all right let's preview the combine which starts tomorrow it does on the OTP we will do that yes and thank you for asking the question well Mike I like to and I was a little proud of that picture I'll have to admit it was a great picture you guys looked very happy and I like to live vicariously through your celebrity encounters so thank you well for that thank you when you meet someone famous we all win okay so what we're going to do on the pre-combine edition of the OTP is we are going to give you a primer if you will hit some of the high notes of what will happen and it's not necessarily about this prospect or that prospect although we will mention some it's more about the topics that we will be hitting as we drop an OTP every day counting today for the next seven days yes get ready and then there will be OTP content that comes out of this combine that we will use probably throughout the course of the spring yeah because so many things happen and as certain things become newsworthy we'll say oh let's go back and play this interview or I mean it is so newsworthy so the the first part to me of this primer is the new four new general managers and eight new head coaches including our own Titans Brian Callahan and Brian Callahan and Rand Carrathon will be talking tomorrow Tuesday morning and then we will also have an OTP with them tomorrow yep so subscribe rate and review whatever it is you do we love that if you do it and tell your friends yeah retweet it right sure retweet it or just listen just download it to your phone and that's the thing is there will be video which is great if you'd like to watch it but if you don't have the ability to watch it then you can listen to it listen to your car listening while you're working out while you're working there you go if you turn into that kind of thing if you're into that okay I think Antonio Pierce the new head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders will be the most quotable really oh yeah okay yeah I can see that and you know he interviewed for the Titans job too when he was just the when he was the interim and that the Raiders had not officially designated him I know people were very impressed with him and he says a lot of stuff like like a player yeah yeah well remember I mean Antonio Pierce the interesting thing about him I mean his favorite radio show was the Howard Stern show yeah he actually did a day internship at the Howard Stern show at one point really answered the phones and everything it's and he fit right in with that whole fun crew of people who will say anything yeah and he will say anything so I know this I know a lot of stuff whoa whoa that was a good little tidbit now I'm extra excited for that okay so the new is part of the primer topic the quarterbacks always right always quarterbacks but let's face it you've got to start with what does Chicago do with Justin Fields I mean so we're going to get a lot of talk about that there in Indianapolis starting tomorrow yeah probably starting tonight right what do they do with Justin Fields they have the number one pick they have the number nine pick what Daniel Jeremiah has said the the NFL network analyst is he has said you got to trade him even though he has shown progress even though he has made certainly made strides you have to trade him and this is Daniel Jeremiah's logic Amy he says okay Fields is a good player now it's time to pay him you will be able to get something back from him in the market and then you can draft Caleb Williams who is a better prospect who is considered a sure thing the quarterback out of USC and you start with him on a rookie contract with the fifth year option just like Fields has and you're able to better build the rest of your program because now you can trade back you can trade you can take Williams at one and then you can take that ninth pick which was your original pick the one pick is Carolinas the ninth pick is yours and then you can maneuver around and do something maybe you can package Fields and the ninth pick to move up to three yeah and then end up with Marvin Harrison junior it's definitely very interesting from a business perspective I mean conventionally just watching them play you would say I mean give the guy another shot he's you've seen him do well Jeff Goniak the voice of the Chicago Bears told us last year in Indianapolis he said because there are all these rumors last year he said he said they're keeping him yeah and then on March 12th they made the trade with Carolina to trade the number one pick and Carolina went up and got Bryce young they said they're keeping him he's one of the most popular athletes in Chicago if not the most popular athlete but a year later and where they are is this the chance to go to a completely different level and Chicago closed the year Med Eberfluss and the Bears closed on a nice run they improved well and that's the thing when you see them continuing to make progress as a team right you think why why mess up a good thing right you know if it ain't broke it seems like things are kind of going well when you start to break down the numbers like Daniel Jeremiah did you start to see that there may be a to steal a phrase that we at the Titans have used before a good to great thing where you have the opportunity to take something that's making some incremental improvements do you make a really big shake up from a financial standpoint that makes so much sense for your club and also gives you the ability to bring someone in who might take you back a step in terms of teaching him and you know getting a rookie up to speed with the national football league but then can he take leaps in your two and three and all of this and you're in a different echelon so it'll be interesting to see what their front office does and the moves that they make you know the coach machism there are there's the quarterback draft and then there's everybody else what they end up doing is going to shift the entire just realm of consideration for the rest of the team you've set me up well for the next few points which are all of thank you so much all of the talk about Kirk cousins Russell Wilson where do they end up yeah Tampa Bay looks like it is going to resign Baker Mayfield we'll see where does Ryan Tannehill go and if Washington drafts a quarterback what do they do with Sam Howell because let me tell you something Sam Howell is a real prospect he was a fifth round pick and he has become a really really nice player I could see a scenario where Washington decides to hold on to him and yet they too may be in a situation where they feel like they could go from good to great by drafting Drake May or Jaden Daniels and elevate themselves and get something nice for Sam Howell well yeah and there's just so many there's so many scenarios with that one specifically because you're right Sam Howell's a really good nice player he's a good prospect he's a guy that just needs to find the right situation he really wanted him he needs to find his spot he needs a home yeah and it where he doesn't get sacked 147 times yeah and that's that would really help him out I guess that has to hurt that yeah so I've come up with 13 teams who potentially want or need a quarterback oh this is a good list and may not be we'll see but but you can see the scenarios Atlanta Chicago Denver Las Vegas Minnesota if you know they even if they bring Kirk Cousins back maybe they want to go ahead and get that guy New England New Orleans Derek Carr back but do they want to go in a different direction what do the Giants do what do the Jets do with the thought process that Aaron Rodgers doesn't play forever if at all are we going to talk about Aaron Rodgers again this off season is this going to be a thing I can't do Rodgers watch for three years in a row I know Pittsburgh are they sold on Kenny Pickett what do they do Seattle's committed to Gino Smith seemingly for now but are they committed forever Tampa Bay again we think Baker Mayfield goes back there but and then Washington so I got 13 teams I went through and I started off with with less and then I went back and I said well if but but again I mean that's one of the intriguing parts about all of this well and there's a lot of teams here who have who have someone it there aren't too many teams that just have a vacancy essentially there are teams that have someone and have a pretty decent some right but do you want to bring in the next guy behind them like in a Derek Carr situation in a Kirk Cousins maybe situation do you want to have the next guy in place and then that shakes up the whole draft because all of the sudden you're bringing in a quarterback when no one thought you were bringing in a quarterback and you've blown up five other boards well I think we when we return from Indianapolis will have a better idea about some of these teams yes because you start to hear the rumors and things start to crystallize and get real because GM's and coaches but mostly GM's start to drop hints yes and they start they're all in one concentrated place the conversations start to right to bubble a little bit so Caleb Williams Drake May and Jayden Daniels are thought to be the top three quarterbacks who's number four JJ McCarthy bonix michael pennick's that'll be something we'll be interested to watch in Indianapolis and part of this is what do michael pennick's medicals look like and medicals for a lot of guys yeah one of the biggest keys to the combine as you know is the medical availability that the NFL and teams are afforded there because Indianapolis has such great medical facilities and they're so close to Lucas oil stadium they're so close to Lucas oil they're able to get so many things on site as well if you go down to where they're doing the medical evaluations it kind of looks like a hospital it does it really just i ended up down there by accident once i took the wrong elevator uh-huh it's wild and they gave me an EKG yeah well you know it's good i'm glad you checked out i did still here no it really is there's a whole region of Lucas oil that is just blocked off for medical evaluations and it looks like a medical treatment facility they are set up for that and it's because that information is the most valuable thing you want to see a guy run fast and jump high and that's lovely and delightful but you also want to see that like his limbs are intact and his everything that he may have injured in a whole in his whole life you're getting the car facts report on that you are and teams will end up red flagging guys because of what they see and then some teams won't yeah i mean some teams will say i mean taijai spears you know i would imagine some teams said and but the titans felt good about taijai spears situation through there because people have different standards of medical evaluations and they and they say well okay are we looking at a guy for 15 years are we looking at a guy for five years or you know everybody has a different take the doctors have different takes your own doctors have the ability to be involved but to get that in one centralized place the medicals that's how the combine started yep yep that's that was the genesis of it all and it's still the most useful part to coaches and scouting staffs all right so a lot on quarterbacks there obviously on coaches more to come after a quick break for our friends from seat geek the new official ticketing partner of the tennessee titans when you're buying or selling tickets to titans games or any live event in nashville seat geek is the place to do it seat geek the new official ticketing partner of the tennessee titans so titans fans kin fans i had a mouth full of coffee pregnant pause i'm sorry i had to swallow my coffee that's okay all right 70 offensive linemen invited to the combine one of the things to watch how many of those offensive tackles are projected to go in around one after the combine happens could it be seven offensive tackles which would match the all-time high from 2008 it's a really good year and titans fans are going yes but here's the thing about this too if there are so many offensive tackles that are rated to go in the first round then wouldn't there be an offensive tackle who would be really good at number 38 potentially doesn't that if you're the titans doesn't that open your option to say maybe we take that guy with that high pick in round two yeah it definitely is a possibility coach mackin rep brian last week on the otp if y'all listened talked a lot about this class they disagree about it right they had some disagreements about it and about who was really the top guy that was their issue there there's about three or four who are like elite and that's where we had some some discussion but if you have an o-line coach who's incredible like bill callahan yeah and his assistant is scott fuchs who's only a 30 year veteran o-line coach yeah who comes in from kansas to join bill callahan do you do you not think well maybe we could do something different at seven and take an offensive linemen in the second round and coach him up i i think these the numbers of quality offensive linemen actually give the titans options oh absolutely i think you're 100 correct i think that the coaching aspect of it is a very interesting part that i never thought about i didn't think about the ret thinks the titans definitely need it this is what he said i've heard coach mack thinks you'll be able to get somebody later who's very good and he has total confidence in the coaching staff ret thinks you take the pick at seven as an offensive linemen and be done with it right we will certainly discuss that more and we'll probably taunt them and pull it out of them get them to argue i love that that's good yeah on the otp later this week in indian amples running back talk lots of it derrick henry mhm seguin barkley yes josh jacob's tony pollard austin eckler all of those guys are interesting potential free agents yeah free agency doesn't start until march 13th nope we've got time but the thing that really makes their positions more interesting is there is no feature back in this draft like bijan robinson was last year there as a matter of fact there's no back in this draft who figures to go in the top 25 maybe it could be that a back doesn't go until after 50 and then a bunch could happen at once yeah but who's the number one running back i don't know it's gonna be interesting to see and i think that this position grew more than maybe any other except for maybe quarterback is going to be the most deeply impacted by free agency because i think if you've got a spot and you need somebody where you're gonna look maybe it's free agency when in previous years you get somebody in the draft because they're cheaper right with this draft class of people that idea might shift a little bit right and that could have a big impact it's it's gonna be an interesting year in running back world if you need help for 2024 where you're gonna go right right because it's a little it's a little different year yeah i think as we go to wide receiver and everybody loves wide receivers and corners are always the most fascinating part to me of the combine they're the most fun to watch work out well because what they do looks more to me looks more like football yeah for them because they're like actually interacting with a football they're interacting with the football but the other thing too is they run and they cut and they jump and that's what they actually do in the game yeah i could give a flip how a high and offensive guard verticals you don't want to watch the big guys again for my i mean you're just sort of is it not the best part of the combine but amy your whole thing is you you like i mean you love rippley's believe it or not and stuff like that you're that you're that person you watch stupid pet tricks stupid human tricks that's your that's your thing i'm more i'm about functionality and football and you're about goofery in some ways when it comes to the what's true i want to see a giant human lift themselves off the ground and arrive safely back at earth i think that is the most athletic thing a human i would rather see how long their arms are and how quick they are in certain drills and but no for the wide receivers jump and for the corners and maybe even the safeties as the game goes today it's a lot more all of those things the measurables seem to translate more than most positions yes i would agree with that the workouts that they are doing more accurately simulate what you're going to see on sunday yes often some linemen typically but you like but you like to watch them jump because you think it's funny i don't think it's funny i think it's incredible okay it's amazing all right it's athleticism at its finest i mean with some of them it is athleticism at its finest and with some of them it's just not very pretty with some of them it's really bad when you like that god love admit it i will never okay i will never marvin harrison is the number one wide receiver he is wide receiver one yes i think he's the best player in the draft regardless of position i mean if you were picking number one based on that he's number one but who's the number two wide receiver bleak neighbors lsu romea dunsey washington or i give you another option which i think is really intriguing and i think is going to be one of the stories of the combine as you not only watch the workouts but listen to the whispers is wide receiver two actually georgia tight end brock bowers it's interesting it is interesting because brock bowers is such a phenomenal tight end prospect with athleticism that is so unusual i just saw a clip this morning before i came in here of georgia handing him the ball in a game against vanderbelt earlier in his career and him running a sweep amy he looks like a running back with the ball i mean it's so natural and he's got shake and he's he uses his size well and if you've if you've watched him play against really good teams against really good competition i mean he's such a difference maker and does somebody just say that's something that changes us dramatically even more so than one of the receivers and they're a bunch of good ones yeah but does he become that second pass catcher better said who is taken because he is just such a weapon i think it's really possible that there is a team that sees him on the board and goes i mean we've got to have that i mean throw out all of our needs and everything else we need that human because his skill set is so outside the realm of what everybody else on the field can do we need that in our lives so i think that there is definitely a possibility that he goes higher than any other tight end would because of what he's able to do but he may go higher than anybody thinks because somebody covets the fact that he is so unusual in terms of his skill set i think you're 100 right i mean he is not just another pass catching tight end but he's devastating on third down he's devastating in the red zone he will block because of his athleticism you can line him up anywhere i mean in some ways he's almost the tight end dream of an offensive coordinator in today's game because he can stay on the field in every situation you can use him in every way and you can take other pieces because so many teams like to play two and three tight ends you can take Brock Bowers and you can put other players with him who fit in different ways and and that's the great thing because suddenly it improves your tight end core in such a way that you're you're able to have more flexibility roster wise too yeah he's a person that as soon as he steps on the field a defense has to acknowledge him and plan for me you just have to so then what can you do with all of the other pieces because this defense has to do something with let's play a little game i love a game and you're going to get to quiz me okay all right the four teams who were in the conference championship games would you mind throwing them out one by one please detroit great rookie tight end who was a difference maker okay keep going san francisco hall of fame tight end who was the best in the game this year Kansas City hall of fame tight end who basically helped Patrick Mahomes win the Super Bowl for the Baltimore Baltimore Mark Andrews perennial pro bowl tight end who has been the best friend of Lamar Jackson throughout his career he's been the one constant it's very interesting like what do they all have they have a tight they all have devastating tight ends they have playmakers they have game changers at that position they have quarterbacks best friends at that position wow can you tell i love rock bowers mike that was a really good little thank you little little demonstration that was pretty solid all right wow other indian apple this has been fun right are you having a good time what time is it now we've got to get in the we've got to get in the car soon we haven't done this much we haven't it really does yeah who comes out of indianapolis as the top projected edge rusher does someone do a trevon walker performance where they go how come you're not drafted what is that he's 64275 and he runs like a wide receiver and he does do the vertical like he's a basketball player and the three cones like it happens every year it happened but is it an edge rusher and these these are like corners you can't get enough of them yeah yeah i mean if you listen it will sound crazy but if the titans filled enough needs throughout the course of free agency that they got there and they had an edge rusher rated the highest on their board at seven you always take it i mean you just always take you can't get enough of them because look at what's happened when they've had injuries over the last few years and the thing is drafting them is so smart because once you have to pay them in free agency whether it's your own guy or somebody else's got you overpaid yeah because i mean it's an integral part of of every team it's just like i can give you the final four again in the nfl and they have a devastating tight end but all of them have more than one edge rusher who can do it it's why san francisco traded for chase young yeah is and he didn't play that great in a regular season but then in the super bowl particularly in the first half he was a dominant player well and it just in every conversation we've heard about what this tennessee titans defense is going to look like right the more edge rushers you can have who can be quick and violent and aggressive the better i don't think that happens you know i don't think that's what they do but you can see it but you always have to keep it in mind which is why it's it's such a position of focus for all 32 nfl teams so we mentioned does somebody put on a combine performance this through the roof uh lay out to lotu from ucla was great at the senior bowl how do his medicals look uh is alabama's dallas turner the man the guy i'm most interested to see florida states jared verse who came from albany and was the biggest transfer in the portal two years ago goes to florida state and just shows out i want to see him does jared verse put himself in another universe you like that oh mike that that's enough for that okay who builds the case to take their current projection as a second round pick to a first round pick is it some of the interior offensive lineman is it some of the wide receivers who right now are being meant to mentioned as second round picks they leave indianapolis a projected first round pick that's always fascinating because there's always somebody you're thinking i mean like uh koolaid mckinstree from alabama who was mentioned as a top 10 pick now for whatever reason his status has fallen and does he put himself back in the discussion as a as the top corner that would be picked or at least a first round pick those are the things that are the most interesting to watch as the week goes on and you know they go through processes that we can't see where they're doing the interviews obviously there's the medicals there's the way in all of these pieces start to fall into place and you see guys making money and you see guys losing money and it happens every year all the board you can almost see it happening in real time people moving up and moving down and that's just how the combine works and so it's going to be interesting to see as we get people in interviews with coaches in meeting rooms and on be able to get on the board with different coaches and then obviously the those medicals again once all of those pieces start to come together we're going to see some things start to move up and down what players get the franchise tag that sometimes happens at the combine which is interesting and then finally will players take the cognitive tests their agents are telling them not to which is very interesting after what we saw with CJ Stroud yeah people saying that he didn't perform very well and that became a big topic of conversation I can see why an agent would be like don't even touch it don't don't do it I don't know how I feel about it I think it's kind of a fun little thing but I don't think it's a I don't think it's a deciding factor I mean look at CJ Stroud is it a deciding factor have you ever heard somebody say didn't do great on the cognitive test cut him yeah really oh yeah okay well then yeah if I'm an agent I don't mean it was certainly a big a big red flag with Vince Young interesting and then there was a dispute over you know whether the test had been administered properly or whether he had understood you know exactly what the what the rules and so forth were and and there was a big controversy with it and obviously there been controversies at different times over the years with guys who maybe don't understand because there are different tests it's like when you take the SAT or the ACT there's different rules there are different strategies yeah on one you guess on the other you don't and there are strategies with the cognitive tests as well according to how they're prepared for these tests do they do they get that wrong and then do you ask the question well if you don't understand the directions is that is that another thing so are they just better off because then they also don't have to spend that time preparing for the cognitive tests as part of their preparation for the combine right I mean it frees them up to run a little faster jump higher jump higher can you imagine a world though where Ryan Fitzpatrick did not take the cognitive test I mean think of what would we talk about about him he made 49 he did a great job and it came up a lot his fellow Harvard man Pat McEnally who ended up being the punter for Cincinnati made 50 yeah made 50 out of 50 yeah but that was the wonder like now other tests are used yeah these are different but it's the same kind of standardized testing if you were a prospect would you take it I think if I were advising myself if I was not the prospect if I was if I was an agent I would say don't take it if it was me myself I'm a rule follower by nature and I think if someone told me to take it I'd take it whoa whoa when did you become a rule follower well I mean I've been here a long time I kind of skirt the rules now well as long as you have your own rules originally I was a rule follower yeah I wouldn't want anybody to be meant it's a job interview I'm gonna do whatever they ask me to do I think I would take it according to what position I play yeah if it was something that mattered specifically to the position I would probably do it there I was an okay test taker I can't say you know because people say I was a bad test taker and yeah you know generally those were the people who didn't study right that's why you're bad yeah that's why you're he didn't study that's why you're 90% of the quote-unquote bad test takers didn't go to class well it did ding ding but there are some people clearly who do take tests better than others I was okay I mean I you know it wasn't my favorite thing to do but it didn't horrify me to the point that I froze and that I had a friend that that did happen he would study and everything but he would freeze because he would get so nervous yeah I think is that also something you don't want that's the thing about this time of year isn't it fun though is everything is a thing everything's a thing yeah just like all this so that's why that's why we're going to the combine I love it because everything is a thing everything's a thing where people go to eat at night and what happens in the medicals and what we're going to hear about all the quarterbacks it's the most wonderful time of the year can this be our tagline it's the most wonderful time of the year 2020 NFL combine where everything's a thing where everything's a thing isn't it nice or 2024 NFL combine the most wonderful time of the year yeah but that's taken by Christmas well okay but but here's the thing that's why we're going to do an OTP every single day yes and tomorrow it'll be the head coach and the general manager and Wednesday we'll be talking about draft and Thursday coach Mack will be on and Friday coach Mack will be on it's going to be a full mack attack it's a mackapalooza yeah so we're I mean it is going to be so much fun so please subscribe to the OTP uh anywhere you get your podcast if this is your first week coming to us or if you're new to us this is the time where we get to do a lot of fun stuff we love doing these shows we love not sleeping we love being there in all the hoopla knee deep in the hoopla Titans draft coverage knee deep in the hoopla stolen that from starships we built this city big hit in the mid 80s um before some people were born yeah anyway um it really is fantastic and we're excited to bring it to you we appreciate all the people the ot people we want more ot people and uh let's make it happen let's let's get to indianapolis are you ready to go i'm ready to go let's do it for ambie wells i'm mike keith 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