 Are there certain things in particular that you're looking for that may not be as obvious when you get to sit down with a guy? All we're looking for, all I'm looking for is authenticity. I don't want somebody that their agent thought we wanted to talk to or somebody that someone said they should be. You know, who is that player going to be in the middle of the season? You know, when they feel like and maybe things aren't going great just looking for who that person is and you know, is there a willingness to learn? Is there a willingness to to put the team first and do whatever's asked of them? Welcome in to the 2023 NFL Combined in Indianapolis. She's Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith. We're part of the overall coverage here with Coach Dave McGinnis and Rhett Bryan from Titans Radio. And you just saw comments from Mike Vrabel as it's Titans Day here. Everybody having a chance to speak and it gave us a chance to sit down for only the second or third time with Rand Carthon, the Titans New General Manager. Absolutely, you're right Mike. Today is the day that General Managers had coaches from across the NFL speak but the Tennessee Titans were here strongly represented and it was great to have a chance to talk to the new GM. The new GM very pleased with his team in the Scouting Department and how things are working already as he's been on the job now for just over a month. Obviously being in Indianapolis one of the primary goals is to evaluate all of the players that are you know participating in the combine but it's also an opportunity for you to really spend a lot of concentrated time with your staff. How are you going through that process of not only working together and kind of getting in lockstep with everybody but also just kind of evaluating the chemistry of this group? Yeah it's time spent right so it started for me in particular, get the job, literally reach out to every single area scout. I knew the pro staff fairly well, reach out to every single area guy, you know just to have an opening conversation. Then Senior Bowl comes, we get to spend a week together in the Senior Bowl, go to dinner one night, just hang out, have fun, then last week they were all just in for four days for meetings so it's it's been a part of the process of spending more time together, getting to hear them in their space and actually giving them the opportunity to speak and speak how they feel about the players as openly as possible and again it allows me to evaluate you know not only our department but our processes and so last night our area guys, our you know coordinators are in there running the meeting in terms of meeting with the players and again it's another good portion for me to see because these guys are the ones that have been scouting them the last five, six years right so I can't come in and pretend to be an expert on these particular players from these particular areas knowing that I hadn't been in there so it's good to let these guys lead take ownership of that process and again it allows me to not only evaluate them but our processes as a whole. You can listen to our full interview with Ran Karthon from here in Indianapolis on the OTP that has just dropped that's the official Titans podcast you can get it at TennesseeTitans.com right here or anywhere you get your podcast we'd love for you to subscribe to the OTP also had a chance to talk to NFL Networks Daniel Jeremiah we sure did and I mean he is the authority on all things draft so of course we had to ask him about the upcoming draft and a lot of the position groups that we're seeing right now. Rhett Bryan had a key question in all of it related to the pick for the Titans at number 11 by Daniel Jeremiah in his most recent mock draft. So it's Parris Johnson Jr talking about but you have already stood on the table for Peter Skronsky of Northwestern and there's been debate of everything I've read is he inside better suited as a guard is he a tackle is he a tackle. I think he can be a tackle I do and I had the same conversation the same discussion on Elijah Veritucker when he was coming out of USC a couple years ago. So he goes to the Jets and the Jets plug him in at guard and he played at a really high level and people said see we knew he was a guard and then all of a sudden tackle got hurt that kicked him out the tackle turns out he's really good at both. So that to me is is Skronsky now it'll be big for him this week with the arm length just to see you know what that looks like I know he's not a real long arm guy you're hoping they don't come in with somewhere in the 31s as long as he's in the mid 32s or you know I think he's he's going to be fine. But yeah I watched him on tape and you watch guys you know it's really interesting when you look at the big 10 in the SEC I was talking to a scouting buddy was on my flight and I said you know what would be interesting if a team just said we're going to take all of our resources we're going to stop scouting the whole country we're going to stop going to all the small schools and we're just going to put all of our resources into the SEC in the big 10 and we're only going to draft players from those two conferences because the hit rate is higher because you see him playing its other NFL players on a weekly basis it's a it's really interesting how it's changed I mean when you look at the big 12 and the number of draftable players and how low that number is especially at some certain positions the Pac 12 is dropped way down the ACC is kind of been a one or two team league for the last few years that the the football in the SEC in the big 10 it's almost like gosh you're just out of draft out of their farm systems basically yeah but to to get back to Skoranski like I've watched Skoranski go up against NFL pass rushers throughout his career so it makes the evaluation a lot easier. A lot of shaking going on before we get to that point and a lot more mock drafts to come also the first opportunity for us to visit with Tim Kelly who quite frankly I had never met you know because he stayed so far away from everything last year. Absolutely was a great opportunity for us to actually talk to him introduce ourselves say hello but also get some information about what this Titans offense could look like going forward. Here's Tim Kelly from our sit down interview. I do want to ask the question about the second time around where where do you feel you will be better as an offensive coordinator doing it for a second time. Yeah you know I was I was talking to my wife about this just a couple weeks ago more confident more steadfast I guess if you will in your beliefs and how you want things done and understanding that you know your values in terms of your philosophies your philosophy for a reason and making sure that that you're getting buy-in from from the people that that you're working with and and I would say you know I've got a clear vision as to what I you know what we want the scene to look like and not wavering from that and going in and being steadfast in it and making sure that we're getting every coach every player to buy in and make sure that again when when these games start to count however many months away it is from now but that we're out there and we're more able to put points on the board. Okay that interview with Tim Kelly along with Daniel Jeremiah and Rand Carrathon all part of the OTP that has already dropped today you can get it at Tennessee Titans dot com or anywhere you get your podcast that's the official Titans podcast the acronym is the OTP. Jim Wyatt has a lot of great coverage at Tennessee Titans dot com and we'll have updates we'll also be posting our video interviews with different people from here during the course of the week this is where you want to be at five o'clock every day late afternoon with the Titans from the NFL Combine. 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