 We're excited about our three picks today. We got better, excited about all eight of our picks. But today we got better, starting with the running back, Tyler, four down player, first and second down, the way he can run the ball, third down, he can catch it, he can protect, fourth down, the value he's gonna bring in the kicking game, he fits our ethos, check all the boxes, we're really excited to bring him in this building and he's excited to be here. And then Big Justin adding a big powerful offensive lineman with the right makeup, another Cedar Grove local. He said that DeAngelo's his cousin. I don't know if that's a play cousin or a real first. That's what he told me. That's what he told me. But he's excited and both those guys bringing them home and they're excited to compete for the team. And then we get a big tight end also local. And then we have a clear vision for what he's gonna be. Again, top makeup, big athletic man. And so there's not a lot of man that big walking around and can move like that. So we're really excited. So again, all eight picks, three picks today, we really helped this football team. And now once the draft ends, we'll get into the eighth round and we're gonna continue to add good football players. We keep talking about our scouting staff and our coaches and all the work that goes into it. And they really grind through this free agency process as well, so I know we're gonna continue to add some good football players. So we're excited. Yeah, it's a great football player. I know you're playing a little linebacker too, right? If you'd like to inspect him, certainly he'll be in that room. Jobs are wide open, right? You know his first, second down production with all the backs, you know, it's a different game to protect an NFL. Betting on the makeup and the athletic ability and spatial awareness that he has, it's a skill, you know, things that we'll have to develop. We love his yards after contact. Love the middle makeup. I think he's a guy that should come in here. He's not contributing first, second down right away. He's a guy who hopefully helps us on fourth down. But the opportunities there, the running back room, it's wide open. Schaefer, this guy, loved his 40 time. So we select him at guard. He's a big nasty mauler. No, it's for you. I don't know if you caught that or not. But we have this. Yeah, so. Look right into his phone. I know. And then obviously Big John. So we're excited. They add, we talk about our ethos around here. That's our culture. That's the makeup. The guys that love football are competitive. Guys that have functional football intelligence that are coming here and compete. They're gonna continue to work to improve. You know, that's what we're looking for with these type of players. I thought the entire football staff, they knocked it out of the park this week. It's a really awesome. We thought about being collaborative and it's true. We got a great group in there and my hat's off to them. You like the three cone? Let's look it up. I'll let you ask Terry a question. I'll look up his three cone. She's just let him come in the, let's look it up. Just get him in the draft meetings with his notebook and be easier. He's got his anonymous scouts in the national media. He's got his anonymous scouts. Let me get his three cone. You guys can ask Terry something real quick. But when I'm looking at this overall draft class, it just seems like y'all picked a lot of guys with a chip on their shoulder. I think you'd go through and you look at Anderson. He's a guy from Montana State. Didn't have eight stars coming out of high school. Tyler, walk on. You have Angel of the Western Kentucky, Desmond Redder, who has said time and time again he plays with a chip on his shoulder. Fits Patrick, a walking tot in, not necessarily a flashy guy. Was that by design or those the type of players that you're looking for? Well, we're looking for players that have that kind of makeup and that compete that way. And so, and it's not just, we always say makeup, we're not just talking about good human beings, good people, but we want guys that get on the football field and fight and compete. And so when you're looking for those types of guys, every single one of them, I don't know if you said Drake London, but that guy's got a chip on his shoulder. Every single one of them. You know, our head coach has a chip on his shoulder and then you look in our building, the staff, there's a lot of people that, hey, we come in every day with something to prove. And so you want people around you like that. We want people in our locker room like that. We have a good locker room. We have a lot of players here that come in every day and compete. And so we need to add to that. So it's not a stretch. We try to bring in a certain type of player and couldn't be more excited about this class. Oh, three guys with an Atlanta connection. Was that by design or was that a happy accident? It's a happy accident. Happy accident? Yeah, I mean, it's always great, you know, that adds to it, but that's not the reason we drafted them. That we drafted because they're good football players and they fit what we're looking for. So D-Led, this one said this is not intellectual property because this is not a trade secret that you failed to mention as part of the fourth part of the intellectual property, but we won't worry about the detail. We won't get in the details there, but this one was a Georgia pro day. So I feel fine. This is public knowledge, right? So yeah, this is 809, 809-3 cone for your office. Is that, is that? Not at all. You gotta look at your chart and see if that, where that fits for that type. I just, I can give that away because that is public. That was at the pro day. So we got that, we got that APT, that gets shared. That gets shared. It's trade secret. I told you, you don't want people to come. Yeah, you forgot to mention that at the fourth part, but good, nobody's counting. But Tori, that's not by design and yet, there's so many, there's so much homegrown talent in here, right? You know, so same thing after the draft. And once we start working on that eighth round, hopefully we get some more, but there's, when you go through the pool of prospects, there's a lot of good football that's played here. We've talked about high school games that we want to go to and we want to go because when you go to high school games here, you're going to be watching players that are going to be playing on Sunday. And so when you go through that process, naturally, whether they play it, one of the local schools are, but there's a lot of homegrown talent here. And so we're excited to get some in the building, yeah. Yeah, if you're on the other side. Yeah, yeah. You got the list basket game at the local, right? Yeah. Y'all didn't get the local list? No. We should, I don't know why we wouldn't just, why didn't we just invite them to the local? I don't understand why we wouldn't do that. D-Led's going to come. We're going to, we're scouting subscription service. It's unreal. Abacity, man. He's a, he's a hard-ass. Toughness and ethos. How do you identify? Is it just the tape? Is it just what they do on film? Are there certain markers you look for in the way that they play or the way that they care? It's really everything, Josh. It's body of work. You know, I mean, you're right. You're asking for a subjective, you know, grade, but that's what the scouts do a good job. It's a collateral process. You just, like anybody, when you're going to hire somebody, your resume, what are you looking for? You're looking for the standardized test, or you're looking for body of work. Know what you're getting. So it's the whole, whole makeup. How they, their habits every day. That's what you're digging into. You're looking, you're watching, collecting information. It's the total picture that, that first boots on the brown area scout that's in that building. They're talking to everyone in the building. They're watching them in practice. Author wants to know, hey, how does he practice? Right? Cause it's not just about guys that, you don't flip the switch and do it in a game. You have to do it every day. So scouts are in the schools, what's seen in practice, seeing the way they compete on the practice field, talking to everyone in that building and knowing what they get. But then, again, now you go through the process of the all-star games and the combines, the pro days, the workouts, and it's the total picture. You know, we don't have lazy scouts that just go talk to one person in the building and they tell them the stuff and they turn that into a snow. They do all their digging and continue to, and it's A to Z, but it has to come together. So like Arthur said, it's the whole picture. What do you guys for either of you when you studied Tape at home in Tyler, in addition to school records for yards and tied to the Nation leading touchdowns, put up a big number of carries this season. Did you see a guy that got stronger? I think 276 carries. Did he get stronger? Yeah, watch that ball game he played. I'll tell you everything you need to know about him. So that I'll answer that. What's your TV scout say? Yeah, his production this year, his production was unreal. Look, he's been a productive player, but this season it went to another level. Yeah, and I don't say that just because, I mean, that shows you a lot. I mean, I wasn't trying to be rude about it, just that's what we have conviction about it. So apologize, that came across as no, I wasn't trying to be curt with you, but I was just, that tells you everything. How did that finish the season? Yes, yes, yes. Okay, Matt. Yeah, so sticking with Tyler, both of you have mentioned him on third downs. He kind of suggested that maybe he was a little underutilized there just because of BYU's offense. Do you feel like there's more there to be shown? With all our players, you know, like it's great. It feels like he was underused at BYU. He's got to come here to have an opportunity to earn it. Yeah. It's good, you know, he wants to do it, but there's a lot of jobs that, job descriptions to be a running back, a lot of things we ask him to do. If he can do that, he'll make himself a very valuable player on this football team. And just his running style and just, you know, breaking tackles and just the way he plays. How does that specifically fit with the culture that you're trying to do? Yeah, I think pretty apparent to God. God likes to run through people. So, I mean, it just yards up to contact. I think he had 40, this year, he had 40 runs of 10 plus yards. So a lot of things. I mean, he can create explosive plays. He grinds out runs. To me, as a guy that gets stronger, you know, as a volume, I think that's a rare trait that a lot of people, you know, maybe value, maybe you don't. But certainly when you want to close games out, you like guys that can play strong in the fourth quarter. Yeah, and if you're smart and tough and you're going to work at your craft, you're going to take the coaching, then whether, however much you did on third downs, and you're going to continue to improve. So the same thing on fourth down, if you're smart and you're tough and you're competitive, and then you're going to, because everyone here is, you're going to play on special teams. And so regardless of how much guys did in college, then you're going to project to do well in those areas. Scott, seems like with the guys you've added in this draft and also the veterans that you brought in, you guys are creating a lot of position battles in a very competitive environment. I'm sure that's by design. Yeah, I mean, the environment that you're looking to foster during the spring and the summer. Absolutely. The offensive line specifically, it seems like a guard and a tackle, but if it's veterans or the guy that you just brought in, could those be open competitions at several spots? Yeah, obviously you invest in certain spots. You know that. But at the end of the day, you got to produce in this business. So it's what you want. You don't want people to ever get complacent. It's a tough job. We all know that, but that's by design. Terry and his staff do a great job of doing that. They turn the roster, they look all around them, and think of the production we got last year out of guys like Rush and Penel that weren't in camp with us, and they helped us. So it's just a never-ending process. If I can circle back to a yesterday's subject, for both of you, I know Arthur, you mentioned, you feel like Marcus as the veteran sort of is 1A at this point, and then you let Desmond... Whatever Dila has in the depth chart, he's gonna roll with it. And you let Desmond compete, but do you see value in getting Desmond on the field this year in some role, just so you know what you've got? Josh, I'm not gonna sit here and speculate about some kind of fit a narrative with some kind of quarterback controversy to give you our plan and development. We'll see what it looks like when it gets here. Like I said, with all of our guys, you know, we gotta see what he looks like. You gotta go earn a job. If you're asking if we're gonna all of a sudden put a package in for him, we'll see, we got a long way to go until September. So I'm not gonna sit up here and speculate right now. But do you feel like you need to see what it looks like in a game as you think about your long-term quarterback plan? So yeah, it works out. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you our long-term plan, short-term plan. We'll let it play out. We know what we wanna see behind scenes, but it'll play itself out. You guys will be able to watch it. Yeah, yeah, I'm actually looking forward to putting these new people in there. Can't wait. Yeah, can't wait until after training. That's how Terry and I, when we go over a schedule, we wait for yours first. Justin Schaefer, I don't know where to put him. We play left and right. Where do you think he fits best? Well, he played left and right, so I would start there. I don't know if he needs to, can't you only get so many people active? You gotta have a center too, so he's gotta probably do that. But I would probably leave him at left. Again, I just think we should just bring him in the staff room for the meetings when we're talking about those discussions. I'll call Zayden. So wait. If I put him at left, then I should put Mayfield at right. Tap him and have a war over there. See, he's going through it right now. Yeah, counting on the other guys that we brought in too. You're already counting out the other guys? No, no, I want to fight. I want to competition. Yeah, we want competition. Competition everywhere, yeah. Josh was asking about the quarterback. Yeah, a lot of winning, a lot of winning. I mean, just overall, just some more overall comments. Look, you know, strong, you know, it looked like strong class that still go address the needs, even though you say we're going best player available. So that's kind of best of both worlds. It looks like from, you know, a quick review. You do that by design? Hmm? You do that by design? By design, that's kind of what you're trying to do. But look, author said it, that, hey, we always want to take the best player off the board and you don't want to reach. And yet, when you're going through the board, your times and you're going to have players in the same category and you can lean more towards a certain position. But yeah, we had a plan coming into the day. And are coming into Thursday. And we're really excited. We couldn't be more excited right now. And again, this eighth round, we're going to keep adding players. There's still some good football players. When we turned in our last card, there was more football players in that board that we're going to work hard to get if they don't get drafted. So we're excited. We really are. Y'all call it the eighth round? Yeah, eighth round picks, right? And once they get here, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how they got here. It's, like we said, it's competition at every position. Charles, did you need to get through the draft to make your final determinations about fifth year decisions on contracts? Oh, no, no, no, we didn't need to. We've constantly talked about it. And so, no, the draft wasn't going to affect that decision. No, no, you know, we got to talk about it. I don't ever fall at you guys for trying. I appreciate it. You guys got a hard job. And one thing I will say, you guys got a hard job. There's certain things we want to, Terry's got a process he's going to go through, and we're going to stick to it. Don't ever, don't ever mind you guys asking all. Is this a time of the year that you and your staff really like now that you have these draft picks in, and you can start working with them in teaching schemes and building and developing? Yeah, I get fired up. You see, you know, it's what we get paid to do. That's what we're passionate about. You know, they line the fields down. You know, you get to do a little bit of phase two work, and we'll get into OTAs as we build up to get ready to go for training camp. Kate had on a Drake London USC jersey. Did you get that for him? I did. You did? Yeah, I got that for him. Yeah, he's a big jersey guy. So I got it for him, but I told him he couldn't put it on until if we drafted him. He couldn't wear it to school until we saw if we drafted him or not. So he was excited to wear it. Nice. What's it like having him in the word? It's so special. Like we said, our families, we want them around as much as possible. We're a family organization just last weekend, or weekend before last. Author had his boys up here. We run around the football field, playing catch with them. And it's important. We, the coaches, the scouts, the whole staff, everybody in the building works hard. And so you've got to have your families around. They've got to be a part of it. Because it's funny, we all say balance. We want to have balance. It's not balanced when you do these things. You can't really be balanced. But you've got to have your family to be a part of it. And we have a great organization that is what there's probably some places where it wouldn't be normal to have a 10-year-old run around the draft room. But starting with Arthur, he's obviously a big time family guy, and Arthur Smith, family guy. And so in the leadership of the organization, Rich McKay, family guy, when that's the leadership of the organization, then it's normal for families to be around. And that means a lot. That's the kind of organization I want to be a part of. The scouting process is so long. What's it like to get to this point right here? Is it a sight of what's it like to get to this point now, after all the work by so many people that have been put in to make these picks? Yeah, it's, again, man, it's really exciting. We spend so much time talking about these guys and working with these guys. And again, so many scouts that work so hard and coaches and staff that work through a hard through this process. And you really get to know these players, and you want them. Once you determine your stack, and then you're on the clock, or you're leading up to your pick, and you're five or six picks away, the dude starts going, and you want those guys. And you want to pull those guys off the board. So it's really exciting because you know them. And so now you get them in the building and get going. It's exciting. Did you order that drink, Lyndon Dershey? No, he can't disclose that. Come on. He opened the door. I know he did. He opened the door. He opened the door. Thing else? Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. I was the only thing I was when I had big Liam up here. We didn't have the sleds out here yet, my two-year-old. He's a center. He's going to be a center, so it's funny. So we were running around out there, but he kept wanting, and we were playing outside, and big Liam kept wanting to go inside. What's Liam, too? Two years old, he kept wanting to go inside. I'm like, what does he want? So I finally opened the door for him. He runs right to the O-line room, and he runs to a drawer and opens it up, and it's where all the snacks are. And he starts getting snacks. I'm like, how does he instinctively know where the O-line room is and where the snacks are? He's the center. He's going to be the center. Sorry. There you go. That's fun. It's good. Yeah. I like it. Appreciate it, guys. Good? Yeah. All right. Thanks, guys.