 everybody. Hey, Robert. Hey, we'll jump right in. Uh, Tracy, you want to get us going? Uh, John, this defense going to look an awful lot, an awful different, uh, I can't talk all of a sudden. This defense is going to look, sorry. Sorry. This is why I write guys. Again, Tracy, you're bad. Let's start from scratch, Tracy. Thank you. Three, two, one. John, this defense is going to look so much different from last year. Why was it so important to make changes in this unit? No, I mean, I think any time you go into free agency and in the draft and there's roster tone up turn over every year. Um, and we added players in free agency there after the season was over, we added some guys this weekend via the draft and excited to get to work with all these guys, you know, whatever we can get back and get rolling. Uh, Bob. Yeah, for both of you, how critical were the interactions that you had with the guys that you ended up picking at the senior bowl? It seemed like there was a pretty good run. I think six players that you ended up selecting participated in the senior bowl this year. Yeah, that's a great question, Bob. I think that, you know, those guys, that was the one setting where we could, we could really sit down and talk to those guys. They had plexiglass up and restrictions certainly weren't as loose then as they are now. But we had masks on and we were able to, you know, to talk to them face to face and interact with those guys and came away and pressed with those guys that we selected this weekend and after talking to them down there. And I think some of the practices are critical that you can go back and watch, you know, watch the one-on-ones watch, you know, the drill work and watch practice. You know, I think sometimes the game gets a little muddy. There's not a whole lot of time to prepare that it's pretty simple scheme on both sides. But I think the practices are really cool to be able to go back and watch on tape as well. Joe. I don't know if you said Joe or Jim. John, you move up to go Fitzpatrick. What do you like about him and how do you see him fitting in as a rookie? And Mike, if you can answer that as well. Yeah, we, you know, we watched a lot of on-des and we like his size. We like his speed. We like his length. You know, he's got good route running skills. He's got some things he's got to clean up. I love his toughness. I love his tenacity as a blocker. He's good in traffic, catching the football. You know, one of the things as we continue to visit with him and talk to the staff there at Louisville about him was just how tireless his work ethic was. I'm excited to get him, you know, here in Nashville and it's one of the things we told him on the phone is, is the staff there raved about your work ethic and you'll be ready to bring that here to Nashville. And I would say the expectations are going to be the same for for dads as they are with everybody else that will add this week and then the players that are currently on our roster is to try to make a daily impact on our football team. It's about rookies. It's about coming in. It's about learning what to do. It's about being able to go out on practice field at some point in time and being in positions to help themselves and to compete and try to earn the respect of their teammates. Yeah, Russia. We're both you guys on the tight end position not drafting a tight end how close were you there various points is it disappointing not to get one. And how would you assess where you are at that position right now. Yeah, Joe, we were close a couple of times, you know, we had some discussions yesterday. Some today. And, you know, we like the group that that we've got and, you know, we'll continue to evaluate, you know, players that know available here after the draft, you know, as we start that process. You know, and I've gotten several calls from from, you know, general managers on other teams that have players on their roster. So, you know, the roster building process is never over. So but you know we're excited with the group that we got back, you know, with with FERC and with Swain and Hudson and and Adam Pinkney who was, you know, good player coming out of Vanderbilt and Parker Hesse, we'll see how those guys come in and compete and continue to get players that are available as we continue to move through the offseason there. Joe, I don't know what you'd like me to add is there's something that you didn't get answered there. No, I'll be just, I guess, let me quick follow up then since you threw that out. What about I just don't want to be redundant. That's all I just don't. You know, I mean, Well, it's probably more of a John question but Michael Pruitt, you know, is there a possibility that he could be back. Yeah, we'll see kind of how it goes here and like I said in the post draft and as we inch closer, you know, to mandatory many camp and and the offseason and training camp and, you know, Michael played a lot of good snaps for us and you know he's done nothing to warrant not being in their consideration to come back here. John. Guys, wondering if you could just evaluate Rashad Weaver, I guess, edge rushers it seems like a lot of times sometimes they forget about playing against the run this guy seems to get a lot of high marks for playing against the run in addition to going against the quarterback and one of you guys can talk about that a little bit. Yeah, John, I think that you know he's a he's a tough player. He's a team captain they speak very highly of him. I think he's got good length I think he's got good strength for the position. You know so much so that they even kicked him down at the senior bowl and you can see him play some down over the guard in there and he held his own. He's a high motor player. He's a he's a fun player to watch. I think he's a disruptive player in both the run in the past game and excited to for him to come in here and compete and work. I think just touching on that senior bowl experience. You know so many of these players go down there and they're looking to showcase their skills and and they asked them to move down inside and you know here's a kid that's going to go and and try to, make a name for himself or get recognized, you know, playing a position he's played for four years in college and they move him inside to play three technique and he didn't leave the impact his stuff up and leave. He went in there and he tried to do it. The way they coached him to do it and run around blocks he tried to play blocks that how they, how they coach him to do it so you know I think that that's, that's pretty impressive and certainly stood out to me because I was like, why don't you like trying to just run around and make some plays he's like coach I just trying to, you know, do it out there or coaching me to do it and I think that says a lot about who he is. For both of you. Racy McMath seems like a guy that has all the measurables you could want in a receiver probably needs a little more polish before he's really ready to go. What's the key I guess to unlocking his potential and getting him to be more than a special teams contributor. Well I mean I think it'll be his his daily work ethic which is good. His preparation his attention to details. But but he is he's a big fast receiver. He plays the game with with toughness and a physicality component that's easy to see on film and then his contributions and in the kicking game. You know certainly had him pushed up there for us and we had him really highly rated for what he's been able to do on special teams. You know racy plays with a lot of skin a lot of violence and is willing to put his body on the line for for his football team and you know we'll continue to develop them and work with them on route craft and details and coverage recognition and all those things that that go into improving as a wide receiver but you know just enjoy his demeanor his play demeanor and how fast and how physical he plays. Paul, you guys feel or how much do you feel like you're more dynamic as a team out of what you got draft wise here. You know, I don't. I think we're a better football team after this weekend that you know I said it last night and I said this morning to the group. These guys that that we that we selected this weekend. I we love watching those guys play football. We love watching putting the tape, well, putting the tape on and watching them do a job that that we're now going to hire them to do. I think they're going to add value to the football team and their various roles and they're they're about what we're about with their play style and their makeup. Are you is weaver an outside linebacker, as opposed to to an end, I mean he's with that group. Yeah, Paul I think I think he's he starts it outside let me he goes in that position group and in the outside linebacker group but you know he's a guy that you know as we alluded to with what we've been able to evaluate and how he plays, you know has shown that he can maybe play down on the guard or certainly head up on a tackle he's got some versatility to play some some defensive and potentially. You know we'll try him at a couple different spots but I think he certainly he goes in the outside linebacker room to start. Mike, could you speak to the dynamic question is that something that's important to you. Why did why did you say it so fast said so quickly, because I was going to get cut off maybe. No, I mean I don't think we're looking for we're looking for a successful football team we're looking for. You know a team that compliments each other that's competitive at every position I think that's what we try to do with those are conversations that john and I have. We want to we want to team that's about winning and pushing each other and so, whether that's dynamic or not I don't know I know that there were some guys that we really enjoyed watching play football. Whether they had speed or size and they did they did something really really well at their position that that's all I will do to. Luke. Mike you all lost a lot of defensive starters from last year and free agency and obviously have a big crop coming in both from this weekend and what you did in free agency. What's the key is a coaching staff when you have a lot of turnover and a lot of new faces to get everybody on the same page and ready to go quickly a new system. And I would add to that Luke. In a virtual setting. To start the program, you know I think that that's, that's challenging and I have to weigh my time in a team meeting and obviously we have special teams meetings but how much time do I give the coaches as a defensive unit and offensive unit and then also, you know we only we only get so much time with them right now virtually so that's been something that I've had to probably sacrifice a little bit of now is my time with them as a team and be able to transfer that time to to positional and unit meetings. And so I think you start there. We've been breaking these guys up into groups. So you'd have maybe two or three D linemen a couple linebackers and a couple defensive backs and you know they kind of go when they work on what we would call virtual classroom and they work through the through the screens obviously with with coaches that are giving them calls are looking at formations and that's something that we're trying to do we're just trying to recreate what they would do and walk through or something out on the field so they're hearing each other talk they're hearing voices. And that's the first step and then the next step would be in person meetings and walkthroughs when we can do those and in phase two and ultimately phase three or the OTAs and then you know training camp but you have to go out there you got to put the time in you have to hear each other's voice you have to play off of a guy in front of you have to work with a guy next to you and that takes practice. And then john most of your picks on the first two days were defensive and then you of course add a couple more today. You feel like you got a nice blend of players who can both start and then also contribute as role players. Yeah, I look I think that's what we you know we try to do is is is put all of that together. You know the players that that are on our roster. After after the season's over that the ones that we add in free agency, and then how we attack the draft know you're trying to blend all that together with with various roles. And then on the defensive side of the football various spots in their careers. But I feel like we've got a good mix of all of that on a defensive side. There but John given what you have with Derek Henry how much was size and an ability and willingness to block a consideration when looking at wide receivers from this group. That's a great question and I think both the guys that we added today they're not they're not afraid to go stick their face in there and dig out of safety or go stalk a corner and try to drive them out out of bounds, you know that toughness component and to all these receivers and there were some that we that we really liked and we weren't able to take them. That that's a that's that's huge for our football team that's that's part of our identity is to go in there and block for whoever we hand the ball to much like when we asked the running backs to block and pass protect. Sorry about that. It wasn't me. But it's like we asked the backs to block and pass protection, you know when they're trying to get open and catch a football so you know they got to do their job in the run game and the running backs do their job in the past game so that they can get open and catch. Yeah, John, potentially you talked about the roster not being done. There were, you know, with the cap situation what it is. Could we perhaps see some restructuring obviously Tana Hill out there, but could that open up some more room for you guys to work with maybe to fill tight end or other needs. Yeah, I think that's something that that world that you know that we're working through. Jared is taking stock of the draft and the pigs and how those resources are going to allocate. You know into the cap figure, seeing which players, you know, it might be viable to do that to give us a little bit of room. You know, I've said this before it's a starter for you and so you have to kind of have, you know, your, your emergency roster needs set aside you've got to kind of put that you're in a savings account for lack of a better term. So that you can, you know, you can feel positions as, as injuries happen, not going wood that, you know, we don't have that many. But yeah, that's something that we're certainly working through is is contracts of players to restructure to maybe, you know, give us a little bit more room there. And if I could, Mike, Jay on had six sacks in 2018, having him back, the addition of rice, you know, that inside linebacker position and weaver. Can you move guys around maybe to have more depth, or to find more sacks this year, maybe from guys that aren't traditional sacking positions. Yeah, I mean, I think if you, you know, I mean, I think that we have some secondary sacks. I think, you know, if you look back and again there's, it doesn't mean anything from one year to the next but we had a bunch of secondary sacks, you know, from from corner nickel safety. You know, we have to affect the quarterback, you know, Jerry and whether that's bringing for, you know, you start there and if you if you can bring for and cover the great and then if not you got to keep adding pieces into the rush. And Jay on is certainly proven to be somebody that has some versatility. He's had it every year and his ball production has come up with some huge turnovers for us and it's got his hand on a lot of football is tipped and people have caught him or he's caught him or has punched the ball out and you know the other guys that you mentioned as well those younger players so you know we'll start off with those younger guys at a position and we'll see what they do and then you know give them more as they as they can handle it. Okay, can you hear me guys. Gotcha. Okay, perfect because it wasn't working earlier. And a question for you with the two final picks. Obviously we mentioned McMath there but going with some guys that can bring a lot in terms of special teams with Brady breeze what did you see out of him. Out of Oregon and then were you familiar with the fact that he knew wall Walden and like they're molding and they're like really good friends childhood friends I believe. Well I think that they certainly play stylistically similarly, they throw themselves around. He was a fun guy to watch on defense he's a fun guy to watch in the kicking game. He's one of the first ones down on the kicking units. He's instinctive he finds the football on special teams, much like he does on defense, and he's a good tackler, and he was a highly rated special teams guy for us in our stacks. And we were we were stoked to add him there. You know they're late in the sixth. John this kind of follows up my question from Thursday night but now you got three of these draft picks who played a combined one game since 2019 because I opt out so or covert I'm just wondering why after such a weird year that's that's just not an issue. And then also how does that possibly change the development. I think their development, you know Chris will be depending upon them where they're certainly going to get coached they're going to get pushed. You know how they're going to come in here and work hard and how quickly they progress and improve will ultimately be beyond them. And I think that you know that that's that's the one of the things that we had to work through this season was with the opt out guys you can't just take guys every guy that that played this year when you start to look at the skill sets of and how they stack up, you know, certainly vertically within their position group and horizontally with other positions. You have to go with the film that you have and get to know him on the zoom calls and make those decisions. Yeah, this one is for coach rabble coach looking at your your receiver group. I don't know that there's a specifically defined slot receiver. How do you feel about that group and is that something that you would like to address and undrafted free agents. We feel like we have slots there. I'm not sure if our evaluations of our receiving group are the same but we got we got guys that played in the slot for us and we'll keep working guys around and give them opportunities. A couple of follow ups. John. Yeah, I'm following up on on Toronto's question there I guess a little bit. You know with the addition of the guys you got today in the later rounds at wide receiver and Josh Reynolds. You guys feel like you're you're pretty well set at the wide receiver position in terms of you know what what departed there, or you know or is there still a need, you know to supplement given, you know the departure some of those guys. Yeah, John, we're like I said earlier will continue to evaluate. You know players that that are available players that you know that that are that are on the street that don't have you know jobs or players that do have jobs on other teams that that may become available. And that's part of part of my job as part of our job is to constantly evaluate. You know the pool of players and supply of players that's that you know you can add to your football team, and then make the decisions that best for the team. And also, decision yet on Roshan Evans and his 50 year option. Still working through that john, I think we've got till Monday to kind of come with some some finality there. Terry. John. No, you don't often spend. Like clockwork raise. That's a bad buck. Never gets over it. Steven got scouts you return a possibility or what direction you plan on going. Right now we've got Tucker McCann on a team and again like much of these other questions were continued to look at the players that that are out there and have discussions and and kind of see you know where we're there at similar to the Michael Pruitt conversation. And at the end of the day make the best decision for the football team and the player. Buck. Yeah, I mean, I guess for both of you but john you brought up the wanting to make this draft process maybe a little more inclusive under the circumstances of everything being virtually how do you guys feel like you went about accomplishing that and is it just as simple as having more people in the zoom calls or, or in these meetings. I think that I think that that's probably it buck is is just having, you know, more people in the zoom meetings in the zoom sessions, interacting with the players, if they're not interacting with the player maybe they're at least listening to whoever is interacting with the player and taking notes and looking for various things throughout the zoom call. You know to try to get an evaluation on how the player might fit. But I think just, I want to express my. I think gratitude to john and his staff. I know that those scouts it's tough to be able to go out there and try to get information during the time that we're in the coaching staff for for the amount of time that they put in to bring all that information back to john and I think it's a great opportunity for us to digest and go through and watch and stack them and put them all together it's, it's never going to be perfect because there's just everybody's going to have a different slightly different opinion. But we got a lot of great information from from everybody that was involved so we're just like to thank all those people that helped us, you know, draft the bring these players in. John you guys picked a lot of players that had participated in the senior bow is that something that weighed in a little more heavily in the decision making this year or was that just coincidence or what's what's behind that. Yeah, I talked a little bit about that earlier but that was certainly a great exposure to for these players to go down there and see those guys live. Interview every single player at the senior bow have an actual face to face conversation with those players. That was a that was a really, really, really, really good for us, you know to get the information. First hand down there. I don't know that anyone wants to ask this question but it came up earlier and weaver's interview did weaver earn points or get subtracted points for getting a sack against BC. I mean, you know listen we all I mean, he's, this is a smart player. I'm going to tell you the conversation that I had with Tyler I said, if you want to play in this league you're going to need to, you know, play against players like this and compare yourself to guys that are going to be in the national football they can overshot is one of those players and that's that's what I told Tyler. You know Tyler have his opportunity, eventually, but you know that this is about us bringing in guys that we enjoyed watching and that we think are going to make great additions, you know to our to our football team. Last one Teresa. Mike, as you look at the pieces that have now been added on defense, is there a characteristic that you kind of see that jumps out of this group and how eager are you to get working with them on a field. I'm very eager, you know I mean we're very we're eager to coach, you know we're we're eager to develop and try to teach players Teresa that's, that's what we're in this business for outside of winning championships. So, you know we'll have to find out when that's going to occur what we have a time set for a rookie mini camp. As far as, you know, whatever identity it may be that that has to be built through time in the in the meetings and on the practice field and in games that has to be developed, and we're excited, but those are all things that have to be worked on every day. That was all the questions. Thanks guys have a great rest of your weekend. Thank you guys.