 Alright Mr. Blank your head coach Arthur Smith said this morning that Desmond Ritter last year's draft pick is going to be is going to be your guy your thoughts on that? Well you know he's been you know he's picked in the third round last year and he's he had a great career in college you played in 50 games 144 out of out of 50 and played a very high level and probably one of the top all-time college winning quarterbacks and all those reps and snaps and winning in big games is very important I think since he's come on our campus he's been a natural leader he's worked hard he's learned a lot under both coaching and really you know he worked very closely with Marcus Mariota last year and learned a lot from him, continued to move forward throughout the year and then an opportunity to play the last four games thought the last four games and we saw a lot a lot of progress in the last four games with with Des and and we think he has capability of being a very competitive quarterback in this league. Did you ever consider getting into the free agent quarterback market or the or a trade market? Well I think you know when we look at free agency and this is the first year this is in terms of my ownership 21 years and we had double the amount of Sally Cap available going into free agency this year than we've ever had so you know that's a luxury we always haven't had and we had it this year and I think you know it's up to coach Smith and Terry Fontenot and Rich and you know collectively to examine where the investment of that money should go in terms of how do we produce the best roster we can and put the best group of young men on the on the field and so I think they explored all opportunities in terms of obviously in terms of backup quarterbacks and a number of other players and I think we've improved it we've improved our team this year a good bit through free agency and I'm excited about the draft coming up we have eight eight remaining picks in the draft and so I you know I'm pretty enthused about where we are and you know you talked about the job that Arthur Smith and Terry Fontenot have done for two years I mean you guys had to go through some salary cap pain but right the draft picks that they were able to utilize to be competitive have really developed I mean what about the path you guys had to take and where you think this team stands well I think we had to go through that transition you can you know use whatever term you want for it but you know we were in a situation with you know Matt had you know in my opinion you know at Hall of Fame career 14 years with us one one more year with the Colson but you know I think we've gotten to the point where we're almost 25% of our salary cap was tied up with one player and we had it he was a great player we weren't getting to the results we needed to do and I think the decision that collectively was made is that we needed to you know have a deeper roster needed to have a number of positions upgraded both on offense and defense both in free agency in the draft and I think that they've done a really great job in doing that and at the same time I think have you know had a very competitive team the last two years year before last we didn't get bounced out of the playoff potential until the last game of the year against the Bills and we almost won that game and this last year we played very competitively as well you know throughout the year so I expect this year with the aging of the of the draft picks with you know this more seasoned coach staff that coaching staff we have I mean coach Smith is now going to his third year as a head coach and Terry into his third year as our as a general manager I expect the team to be even more competitive and certainly compete for you know for championship this year it's not just a matter of how much how do you win this coming year but are you building an organization that's going to be really sustainable you know and going to be in the discussion for the top seven eight teams every year you want to be in that group and you have to be thoughtful about how you you know carry forward money available for free agency you got to be thoughtful about how you use your draft picks and I think that the coach and Terry are both very committed to a long-term process so I think we're ready to join that group now hopefully starting with this year and I think we have all the resources in place to continue it going forward. Hey Mr. Blank thank you so much it's always great. It's always great to be with you Stephen.