 Thank y'all for coming today and isn't this a very exciting day for our franchise? Welcome to the Carthon family and friends and we're glad to have you here with us to join in the excitement, but welcome and Before we bring up the man of the hour you ran Let me first say a bit about the search process that brought us to today When we started back in December It was important to me that we define exactly what we were looking for in a new GM and that we cast a wide net For people to talk to you. We were fortunate that our process included several extremely count talented candidates all with impressive backgrounds and Experiences and I want to thank them all for their time in interest in us and in particular I'd like to thank Monty awesome fort and Ryan Cowden Congratulations to money on his new position with the Cardinals I enjoyed getting to know Monty during his time in Nashville, and I'm thrilled for him and his family I also want to express my appreciation To Ryan Cowden for his work over the years and for his tremendous leadership of the personnel to team Over the past six weeks Ryan is a great leader and football evaluator and No doubt he will one day soon be an outstanding general manager But in the end Ryan stood out as the clear choice as he next general manager of the Titans for a few reasons He's a former player who grew up around the game He has strong record of success in evaluating talent and roster building at multiple teams And really what impressed me the most was his growth mindset clear vision and ability to connect with people We called as many potential references as we could find to learn more about ran as a person Talent evaluator and leader whether current and former colleagues The scouting community the former teammates the feedback was unanimous Ran is exceptional as a talent evaluator Ran brings tremendous skill set to the process and he is a natural leader and collaborator I'm excited for ran and his staff to work closely with coach Frabel and the coaches to align on a vision for the team And to build a roster of players who best fit that vision together they will identify talented players and Ultimately the right players to build a championship roster Despite how last season ended. I still have high expectations for our team We have some big questions to answer off season, but I'm excited for what the future brings With that, I would like to introduce and welcome Ran Karthon as the Tennessee Titans general manager Good afternoon. Thank you everybody for being here Man, this is an exciting time Dream come true something my wife and I we've talked about and something You know just been a vision of mine since I was a little kid I'm grateful and thankful for the opportunity that these people on this front row have given me And I wouldn't be here without them My introduction to this group started back in I guess about three weeks ago in Dallas where I met Miss Amy I met Burke and I met Adolfo at the NFL Accelerator program And it was through that program where we had our first initial Conversation and I left from that conversation Feeling great about this organization and once I got the call to interview here for the GM job I knew that this was a place I wanted to be and I'm not sure if everybody saw that welcome Yesterday, but that shows how special this place is and how special this place is going to be I didn't get here alone I had a lot of help throughout the years and I want to say a few thank yous to those people Got my start in Atlanta under the Falcons under the tutelage of Thomas Dimitrov So I want to thank Arthur blank. I want to thank Thomas Dimitrov less need Who was then the pro director at the time and I worked under him and through less He brought me to st. Louis with him as a director and gave me my first director job And so the people at the Rams who? Played a big part in my growth and getting to this spot, you know, so mr. Cronkey Who's the owner Kevin Demoff and all the great coaches and players that we've had there the Outpour from players that I've received or both current and former has been amazing and made me Just confirmed, you know, how important it is to establish those relationships with those guys Last but not least From a from a professional standpoint, you know, I want to thank the San Francisco 49ers organization We've had a great six-year run And it's continuing this this week So I want to wish those guys plenty of luck. I'll be there to root them on But I want to thank the York family. I want to thank dr. York Jed miss Denise Jenna and Mara and the late Tony who all played a part in establishing that organization as a first-class organization I also want to thank John Lynch Who hired me there? Who is one of the most exceptional leaders that I've ever been around and also? Parag Marate Parag has become a mentor of mine He took me under his wing and showed me and shared with me an aspect of the game that I had no idea of and then finally I want to thank, you know, these beautiful people on the front row, you know, I want to thank my children It's been a lot of sacrifice, you know throughout the years You know, you guys have gone to multiple schools and you guys have uprooted your lives so I can live my dream So I'll be forever indebted to you guys and I love you and they're finally my wife we have we've been together 20 years now and She brought up the point. It was the spring semester of 2003 and she asked me What did I want to do outside of playing football? And I told her I was like I one day I want to be a GM of the NFL football team She later told me she almost stopped dating me because she never met somebody that lived in La La Land, but but Honey today that dream comes true and we're Realizing the you know that that work that we've put in. Thank you for being my rock Thank you for being the stabilizer of our family and thank you for being the CEO CFO COO and All things to our family. I'm not here without you So thank you, and I love you and that's it for me. Thank y'all. I Would probably add a counten to that as well on behalf of the football staff The staff downstairs the training room that everybody that that ran is I had a chance to meet or will meet I want to welcome you ran your family your beautiful family I Can't wait to get to work with you to meet them We're gonna go playing the bubble after this too. I promise you that okay You know throughout this process Really appreciated where everything went with Amy and you know the organization at Burke and Kenneth and Barclay The conversations that I had with ran that that would run countless hours that seemed like they lasted 15 minutes That was a really good indication of where our comfort level was with each other and Excited extremely excited. We got a lot of work to do and we're excited to get to work on that We have this morning. We will as he continues to get settled with his staff That that's in place The coaches. I know that that's important We've tried to talk about our staffs and where we see that going and you know how they can help us Evaluate the right right type of players for this organization And what we believe is important and the players that we have in place that have been our foundation for the last You know five years that I've been here and the ones that that help us get through the difficult times and And I want to I want to welcome him I'm excited to get to work with him. I know our coaches when they get back here You know are gonna love every opportunity that we can with him and his staff So welcome on behalf of coaching staff the players are everyone downstairs that you will meet Here in the next couple weeks And this this is your day you've earned it you've deserved it So I want you to get up here and and answer these questions. Okay, welcome