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Checking in on the preliminary injunction hearing in Greeneville, discussing the Titans offseason priorities, and more.

It is 10 o’c good morning I’m Lucas panika from the 1045 The Zone Studios the preliminary injunction hearing involving the state of Tennessee and the NCAA has concluded in Greenville we now await a ruling if the injunction is granted NCAA nil rules will freeze for the remainder of the case between

Tennessee and the NCAA the Tennessee Titans have sent out a media advisory there will be a press conference tomorrow to officially introduce new offensive coordinator Nick holes and new defensive coordinator Denard Wilson 12:30 on Wednesday that you can hear live right here on the Zone speaking of coordinator news down to the college

Football ranks Matt Zenit of 247 Sports reporting that Alabama seems set to promote tight ends coach Nick Sheridan to offensive coordinator Sheridan a former offensive coordinator at Indiana and a former Analyst at Tennessee for all your foundation repair and waterproofing needs visit usstn breaking news at once on your home for the titans

Invols this is 1045 The Zone good morning welcome into 1045 The Zone hope you’re off to a great start happy injunction watch to you all the University of Tennessee engaging in its fight with the NCAA the state of Virginia at its back did you see who they hired as their

Attorney for this thing you know who Bill Burke is you ever heard that name before you should have uh great comedian love his standup no not Burr not Bill Burr oh you said Burke Burke buur c k uh can I interest you in the uh insider trading case of Martha Stewart or Steve

Bannon the former White House advisor this is the attorney charged with defending them both or task with defending them both and he is going to war for the university in the state of Tennessee well some of the attorneys on the NCAA side are Tennessee law alums so that’s going on uh in East

Tennessee today we are going to have uh coverage from there with uh a reporter from the Knoxville News cental who’s going to join us at 11:45 yes Tyler wetstone an investigative reporter for Knox News will hop over to the sports side and give us the reporting from Greenville as

They are officially done and we await a ruling and not expecting a ruling today expecting a ruling Tomorrow based on the reporting of Tyler uh at Tyler wetstone is where you can follow him our buddy Adam Sparks is obviously there on the case I’m sure Teresa Walker is down

There too this is a huge story uh it is going to be fascinating to see how it plays out of course part of the investigation involving the uh NCAA the recruit of Niko malava the University of Tennessee being kind of on the Forefront with one of these I don’t want to call

Them Mega nil deals but it’s it’s kind of setting the stage for what people are looking at as the standard when Matt rule references how much the cost of a college quarterback is in terms of dollars and cents now where you have to account for these things in name image and likeness

Allocation um basically the University of Tennessee and this $8 million nil deal for Nico and how it is that he got it and what is what were the circumstances around it at the time and what is it within the guidelines of the ncaa’s guidelines at the time versus what the guidelines are

Now how much those things have changed over the course of I mean when did they first start recruiting Nico I mean nil has been into effect for two years now two three years two and a half I I mean that but that’s not what the point of the preliminary injunction hearing is

About like kind of reminding people of why the University of Tennessee is under investigation why the state of Tennessee and the state of Virginia are pushing back against the NCAA why Josh hpel has thrown uh his input into the mix because this is a situation where they’re trying

To set the stage for the future of nil moving forward and the NCAA is pushing back now this injunction if GR would allow us the kind of chaos that we were rooting for early on and how they kind of reformulate it’s a little more Controlled Chaos I guess the ncaa’s argument is

That if this injunction is granted and their nil rules do freeze until the case concludes then it’ll throw the college football world into chaos like it’s not already in that state sure but that would be different I mean you you fully acknowledge that the level of chaos that

That would bring about where there just are no rules for this thing would be a different level of extreme now maybe all of this stuff is happening under the surface anyway it’s just kind of like paying players prior to nil right we all know this stuff is happening it’s not acknowledged in the

Light of day that’s how I see now it’s a legalized version of it and so maybe this is just all right full-blown Commerce let’s go just going to be out on the table shouldn’t it be that way anyway cuz that’s what hen like we find out all

The details of like Nico’s actual money if this Junction gets granted the details of that over the course of the last couple of years all the financials of it in ways that they’re not being reported on now you don’t know actually what the financials of the name image

And likeness deals are under the current construct it has been reported that Nico is somewhere in the ballpark of $8 million in his agreement with uh through Spire Sports in the University of Tennessee and part of that not being the reason that he went to the University of

Tennessee but as a product of him going to the university of Tennessee is the is the University’s argument and of course they’ve also issued a response the NCAA they’ve been you know fighting this thing tooth and nail and it just kind of seems after the first after the TR the

Temporary restraining order and the initial injunction wasn’t granted it was looked at as okay the NCAA kind of just got by this one for now but there is a plan here and now we kind of see or we’ll start to see why people from the University of Tennessee now state

Legislators including the Attorney General of the state of Tennessee and Governor Bill Lee and everybody’s being so hyper-aggressive about this it’s because they clearly have a plan as to how they’re going to approach this and put Tennessee Virginia and basically the future of nil on the table

To be defined more concretely by the universities who are tasked with implementing it the court stated after the trro was not granted that you know while you can’t show a reparable harm therefore the trro not granted the plaintiff seems likely to win in this case like the courts don’t see the NCAA

As having a terribly strong case that they are not in violation of the Sherman Act so it’s going to be an interesting process we’ll see how long this takes but that would be the first big this is the first big battle like the trro was a little mini Skirmish before the two

Actually met a dust up call it exactly exactly this is the first significant ruling in this case where you’re talking about significant implications of rules being frozen and who knows if that would lead the NCAA to kind of cut their losses and drop everything against Tennessee and say all

Right clearly this is not going in our Direction uh no I don’t think they can afford to put down the knife in this in this situation because now that seems to be what a lot of the reporting of it believes would happen that if the injunction was granted that the NCAA

Would kind of have to back off I just I think that they are in such a survival mode and listen they don’t deserve as an institution to survive I’m not advocating on behalf of the NCAA here I think the NCAA is rotten to the core the way that it’s governed

Collegiate Athletics uh in a way that has basically used unpaid labor and the worst kind of unpaid labor unpaid I mean I guess they’re 18 so they’re technically adults but I understand you understand what I’m saying unpaid College labor as the the foundation for a multi-billion dollar industry that

They’ve run a muck up they’ve been the Mafia the NCAA Mafia basically until the last couple of years and so it’s such the the reason that I I would think at least my initial reaction and we’ll of course have Dan lust on regularly to talk about this to

Walk us through the legal ease but did you see that uh marshia Blackburn and the uh the senator from New Jersey the Democratic senator senator from New Jersey Cory Booker the only time you’re going to see those two names in a sentence together working together they reintroduced the NCAA accountability act

After the NCAA launched the investigation investigation into Tennessee and Tennessee and Virginia responded with the uh with the the Anti-Trust lawsuit so now it’s opening them up to a different level of scrutiny at every level just because two of the states in this Union are taking them to

Court and laying them out well I’m looking forward to having someone that was actually there to day at the hearing in Tyler wetstone at 11:45 so he can tell us more about the interaction that’s being reported on between the judge and the NCAA attorney attorney with the question to distinguish between

Recruits negotiating nil offers which is not allowed by the NCAA and recruits quote engaging in conversations with collectives about nil values which is allowed by the NCAA that’s the way Adam Sparks puts it out there if that sounds confusing it’s because it is and apparently the NCAA

Attorney had a tough time trying to draw that line which makes a lot of sense so I’m looking forward to hearing Tyler wetstone walk us through that part of the hearing he’s probably scared he’s thinking about because again it’s it’s the Ripple effects of this are

Nationwide I mean it is it has the potential to legitimately change to be the biggest force of change in what we currently know the governance of Collegiate Athletics to be cuz now you’re talking about do the doj could find them up to $15 million if they’re found in violation of

This antitrust lawsuit based on on what Blackburn and Booker are putting out there uh a couple of years ago this has been out there it’s why spy Sports was going to Congress a couple of years ago and we talked about how funny it would be for federal oversight to be on on on

College athletics instead of the NCAA like trading one for a worst version of the other is going to improve things but I uh it’s a fascinating case you know I I want to say lucky for us that it’s happening at least partly in the state of Tennessee primarily in the state of

Tennessee because I think that you guys have a vested interest in how it is that this program in particular Tennessee football restores itself to the place that it can within the context of the new landscape right this is a huge deal for the for the Tennessee football team for the

Tennessee athletic department but theot team is the primary driving factor and the fact that they have been on the Forefront of this which means that they’re the first ones or or one of the first ones to deal with these kind of hurdles I just think that uh I just

Think that there’s going to be a lot of stuff that comes out through this that has the ability to just be body blow after body blow to the NCAA in ways that we really haven’t seen until you know the the the the Supreme Court ruling was a

Massive blow to the NCAA like that is the driving force behind all of this now we’re in the part we’re in the part of uh the part of it where you’ve seen The Simpsons right stop it stop it he’s already dead now now we’re just going to

See how long Tennessee and Virginia and anybody else that wants to jump in wants to take turns hitting the NCAA with a baseball bat it definitely does not feel like the Dark Cloud hanging over the program that maybe the prid investigation did because that was a case of Tennessee

Admitting they were wrong you know for reasons that benefited Tennessee but cooperating with the NCAA and ultimately awaiting a judgment to be handed down that was a very this is out of our control type of thing we’re just going to cooperate get out of paying this

Buyout and see if that helps us down the road this feels different this doesn’t feel like it’s and it’s going to be used against Tennessee I’m sure but it doesn’t feel like just that cloud hanging over the program when Tennessee not just Tennessee the state of Tennessee not this the university are

Fighting tooth and nail I know I keep defaulting to the University of tene and it’s literally the state the Attorney General of Tennessee so it it it it’s got a different feel to it for sure than the last last investigation that we went through which

Was not long ago because you you got him shook it’s because you got him shook I I think I think one of the biggest missteps and again I would like to one of the biggest public missteps from the NCAA was the response you know getting out there and saying we don’t really

Comment on these situations but in this particular case we’ll we’ll get out there and comment because it just leaves you open to more more arrows from things like Danny White right who gets out there takes a winning position well you’re leaking it to the media like Tennessee hasn’t leaked stuff to the

Media Danny White knows this it’s just an easy thing for you to to get a crack at the pinata next that’s what the NCAA is at this point I don’t know what kind of candy they got in there we’ll figure it out the invite list for the 2024 NFL

Scouting combine is out we’ll talk about it next welcome back to the show we will get to the full list of prospects invited to 20 to the 2024 NFL scouting combine that’s just two weeks away I I was telling uh or somebody was asking me if I was looking forward to

Some time off now that football season is over and I explained to him well basically you know we we’ve had a lot of downtime H not a lot of downtime a lot of moving Parts with the Titans here lately so it’s taken up most of our

Month off but it’s really just a quick turnaround till we’re right back into draft season we’re going to we’re going to get that started up kicked up in full gear here in just a little bit I know Ramone’s going to be up there with Titans radio I’m excited to be at the

Combine it’s one of the best events of the year and a lot to be learned in a very important offseason for the Tennessee Titans but speaking of the state of Tennessee we have a statement Lucas from the Tennessee attorney general about the ongoing situation today the injunction hearing that is currently taking place

In the eastern part of the state Jonathan scr’s prepared remarks say quote it’s a wonderful day to fight on behalf of our student athletes in Tennessee they are the backbone of college sport Sports due to the ncaa’s arbitrary and illegal rules student athletes are being harmed and prevented from making important decisions

Concerning their name image and likeness rights which may have a big impact on their academic and financial Futures meanwhile everybody else involved in college sports is getting rich at those student athletes expense that is not legal not right and it needs to change antitrust law in this area is clear and

As the court has previously said our case is likely to succeed on on the merits we are happy with the case’s progression and look forward to litigating it fully if necessary exciting did you see that a Tennessee fan rented a crane sure did to hang a big Power te Banner outside of the

Gous I mean the NCAA wants to fight they’re going to get a fight I mean there had to be like PS like Brent hubs was on Ramone Kayla and will saying like don’t go to the courthouse like that will not help Tennessee have a bunch of hollering

Tennessee fans just out yeah I mean it’s a public it’s a public courthouse so every citizen has a right to go but they had to kind of put out some PSAs of like hey don’t let’s not go sing Rocky Top in the courthouse on at 9:00 a.m. on a on a

Tuesday this is what I’m saying I feel like the NCAA has picked the wrong fan base to make an example out of you know like and maybe it’s just the timing again Tennessee with this this Nico deal there was always going to be inquiring minds from the NCAA involved around a

Figure as big as $8 million with name image and likeness right a a reported figure around $8 million of which we will learn more about if this uh if this injunction is granted we’ll have more news on that tomorrow and uh and we’ll have more coverage of the ongoing

Litigation that Jonathan scetti the Attorney General of the state of Tennessee is so excited get into uh we still don’t have a notice of allegations by the way this is not a thing that has happened yet this is outside of the ncaa’s actual investigation this is a a

It’s not a different matter necessarily the two are connected but they are ongoing they are they’re not independent of one another but they’re ongoing together they’re not the same thing so we’ll we’ll keep a we’ll keep an eye on it if we get the chance to talk to Dan

Tomorrow Dan lust Dan lust our Sports attorney I would love to know if this is uncommonly quick for the way this is moving I mean it was two weeks ago that Pat 40 initially broke that story that the NCA was just looking into Tennessee and now here we are talking about yeah

The NCAA could be almost shot dead based on this hearing well I normally by the time that Pat 40 got to a place where he could concretely report it was two weeks ago you know what I’m saying like the University of Tennessee Dandy Plowman these people knew that

This was coming before Pat 40 reported it yeah they requested to meet with the NCAA back in December right so this is this is not this is a slower burn than you might imagine though at least on the surface with a lot of the news around

This it’s it’s pretty recent so I’d say it’s it there’s been more of a build we’ll get more information on this uh uh later on in the show and and with people who are doing boots on the ground reporting at 11:45 with somebody in the in the F&M

Bank chat where or you can live stream The Show by the way if you want to chime in 6157 37145 I don’t think I gave out the number to start the show I feel like you know it but you can do it there the F&M Bank chat also at your disposal if

You want to live stream in studio with Lucas and myself Facebook YouTube Twitter and twitch you can chat in there too uh Taylor H on YouTube says Buck you’re right you don’t poke crazy combine invite list the full combine invite list is out on nfl.com uh are you going to make me

Guess the number of Tennessee players there are no there are three oh so you want me to Guess The Players three Tennessee Vs have been invited to the combine who are they Milton Jaylen Wright I don’t know the third Kamal Haden oh really the cornerback that mollen castles did not catch an invite

The tight end or Jacob Warren for that matter yeah the two veteran tight ends but I thought castles was he was a guy that the likes of Jim naggie from the Senior Bowl was kind of perking up and talking about when he made that move to Tennessee as somebody that NFL Scouts

Have their eye on when he came over from UC Davis he’s not on this list but elsewhere I don’t know that there’s any big issue with anybody not getting an invite Brew McCoy would have if he had not elected to come back uh what’s the deal with uh with spragin Spraggins will

Be back okay so 13 quarterbacks invited to the combine Joe Milton’s place in this this is a really nice quarterback class honestly um where the worst name on here is or I don’t want to say the worst name on here but the lowest profile name on here is probably the

Western Kentucky quarterback Austin Reed who put up numbers at WKU they always do there’s always there’s always a w KU quarterback and wide receiver who statistically are just insane because they’ve been running the air rate over there basically since Willie tager left uh but Michael Pratt from Tain Michael

Penx Spencer Rattler Keon slovis has been around for a while most recently at BYU Jordan Travis at Florida State who we talked about Jaden Daniels of course uh Drake May and and uh and Caleb Williams the the players that we’ve been talking about all year long and JJ

McCarthy who Harbaugh says he wouldn’t be surprised if he went as the first quarterback in this club no toia tongoa the big 10’s all-time leading passer who tried to stay in college and appeal did you did did we talk about that we really didn’t but I

Did see the story where he was trying to appeal to he was one of these Co eligibility quarterbacks he had been bouncing around it a while he’s been at Maryland uh for a period of time now had been statistically good so what what was the remind me why he was interested in

Returning well he wanted to stay in college despite having exhausted his eligibility but the basis of his appeal was when he burned his red shirt at Alabama you know he can play four games and preserve the red shirt he played in five in the oh I don’t want to misspeak

Maybe 2019 season the season were Tua got hurt at Mississippi State the reason he played his fifth game and burned that red shirt was because in that moment and I don’t know if you remember that Tua injury when he’s getting carded off the field the hip he’s got a bloody nose

Like looks like been in a car accident and the sort of emotion of that moment Tulia wanted to go in for his brother and he went in barely played a few snaps in that game against Mississippi State because he had just watched his brother get carded off the

Field with a really significant injury and ultimately that was his fifth game and that’s why he tried to appeal Al apparently he had the support of Nick Sabin in Alabama who wrote letters to the NCAA uh it was not granted and he is out of Eligibility so has no choice but

To enter the draft process and does not catch c a combine invite um it doesn’t I’m looking for a breakdown just on who’s I mean I’m going to assume that Alabama’s got the most invites Georgia has 11 Georgia would be up there at the top of the list too uh

Texas always puts a bunch of people in but they don’t have it broken down by school here it’s just it’s just the full list alphabetically I’d be surprised if there is a school with more than Georgia with 11 if there is maybe Michigan is there but not Alabama I think a lot of

Alabama’s top tier Talent is uh either staying in Tuscaloosa or transferring I the likes of Isaiah Bond who’s headed to Texas 615 737 1045 is the number yeah the combine’s right around the corner the 28th is the first day so we’ll uh we’ll have exhaustive coverage up there

For you we’ll be talking to a lot of different people we’ll have uh we’ll have a lot of different people on who are there to evaluate the talent I’m sure is p going again have we talked to him about it maybe that’s where we start the the campaign against Matt Jones in

Earnest because Pate has decided he’s going to uh he’s going to lend himself to our cause here I don’t know I don’t know if Josh is going is there a quarterback other than toia that appears to be omitted here or did they cover their bases not that jumps off the

List or not like that I’m not not one that’s super noticeable just to kind of for for the audience Jaden Daniels Sam Hartman at Notre Dame Devin ly Drake May JJ McCarthy Joe Milton bonick Michael Pennock Michael Pratt Spencer Rattler Austin Reed Keon slovis Jordan Travis and Caleb Williams

Alphabetically there’s not one that really that is a shocking Omission or at least jumps off the page as an Omission right I mean I almost feel like you’d be a better person to ask than I would yeah Tulia is the only one that that came to

Mind for me who probably needs to help themselves the most out of that group SP a rler had a great Senior Bowl yeah I mean he was the MVP of the game um okay but who who’s saying that Spencer Rattler had a great Senior Bowl

Because you know he was four for four he had 67 yards at a touchdown the Senior Bowl yeah it’s just that that he was the MVP of the game he had a greator which is fine he he had an actual senior ball like the actual uh cuz you know I ever since

Malik at the at the Senior Bowl and how people were raving about Malik at the Senior Bowl because you know media people are evaluating these things differently than the football people are and there can be some uh there can be some stuff that gets understandably Lost

In Translation I try not to to put so much stock in stuff like that but Spencer Rattler is the person that the when he was going into before he got benched at Oklahoma we talked about him as a consensus number one overall pick I can say like that was that was really

Not in dispute by anybody media analyst otherwise and since then you know his the difference between his performances at home versus on the road for South Carolina are really really bizarre there’s you know there’s something to that that I think you want to learn more about I think that his demeanor is

Something that coaches are going to have to they’re going to have to talk to him before they realize oh cuz he he gives off a little bit of I don’t know how would you describe Spencer Rattler personality Levis had Levis had a little bit of this with him you know and maybe

It’s because we’re in Tennessee and vs fans hated him at Kentucky and and this that and the other and and he was pretty comfortable talking about some stuff will Levis betzer Rattler is also he’s a he’s a solid quote and that’s not always a coach’s favorite thing but he kind of

Gives off a little bit of bleep you personality right so I think he’s going to he’s one that coaches are going to have to get to know get these inperson meetings with him um and and kind of understand more of the makeup of the human being and how that affects his his

Football performance because the football performance is also in question but there’s clearly Talent there Joe Milton had a rough Senior Bowl as far as the actual game oh the accuracy was so bad yeah a couple of turnovers one interception that got returned 83 yards but combine feels like it sets up really

Nicely for Joe yeah that that one though I Joe Milton I think you take it on a case-by Case basis and I think Joe Milton the Senior Bowl is he has to do better you you have to prove to them that you can play quarterback outside of the system that they’re already suspect

Of and Milton can play quarterback well enough within Tennessee’s offensive system there were some things that were left to be desired it obviously wasn’t as efficient all all the things we talked about throughout the course of the year with Joe Milton as the starting quarterback but you remember you remember the discourse around

Tennessee’s offense last year with henden hooker who was I mean the face of college football for basically the entire season until he tour his ACL with the two receivers tman and and hayatt how how we how curious we were about how much they would be dinged almost for

That Beyond you know their deficiencies as wide receivers or quarterback or whatever and injury was a factor with henden injury obviously a factor with henden hooker but none of them went before the third round and with Tillman and hayatt you looked at and and hayatt obviously has

Some some different quirks he’s not a complete receiver Cedric Tilman is probably the more prototypical player and we’ll see how that develops in Cleveland over the course of his career but not I I don’t think there is enough you know there’s enough proof of concept of those players we’ll find out what

Henden hooker does if anything in in Detroit at some point obviously he’ll be healthy coming into the season he’ll have an opportunity to back up golf it probably the the expectation he’ll be the backup I would think so Teddy Bridgewater’s coach in high school ball oh is that what he’s doing in retirement

He’s coaching his Alma moer down in Florida that’s cool good for Teddy but we continue to check every box with Joe Milton outside of consistency in terms of accuracy and processing as a quarterback did you see this from the Senior Bowl Jim naggie tweeted that the annual good guy award that was created

Uh to honor a lost member of the senior bull family I don’t want to mispronounce his last name Brian ingerrand uh but Jim naggie tweeting that they created that award in honor of him and Joe Milton is the recipient of the first annual good guy Award presented to the player that according

To naggie is just a great guy behind the scenes well we know that right right that’s we continue to know that we continue these are the things that are known about Joe Milton the football part of Joe Milton is the thing that I very very much have question marks but I mean

He’ll be you you remember how Ramone like Ramone got kind of passionate about when he called in from the Senior Bowl where we made the joke about well how many oysters has he thrown this and stuff like that and Ramone kind of got into it a little bit which I

Liked about the idea of he needs to be more than a sideshow he’s he’s athletically not like Anthony Richardson athletically Sideshow but he’s a bit of a sideshow he’s a bit of a novelty and that’s not what you want he has to be a quarterback

Well which is why and I I say that and I don’t love saying this but which is why I say the combine seems so perfect for Joe Milton what is the combine other than a sideshow on athleticism how far you can throw a football measurables height size weight speed

Interviews like Joe Milton is a guy who comes across great in a room he’s going to blow away people in interviews he’s going to be a genuine guy he’s charismatic and he’s going to have all the athletic traits he’s going to launch the football at 90 yards at the combine

And everybody’s going to oo and a at Lucas oal Stadium I mean I understand how important the NFL scouting combine is but well here’s it’s more Sideshow than it is actual football no I agree and and so that will help him here’s here’s the difference between what we’re

Talking about right Joe Milton will come out of the combine favorably I’m pretty comfortable saying that provided that you know he’s healthy and all these things but coming out of the combine favorably just becomes a talking point for a period of time the people who are tasked with evaluating are going to know

And differentiate okay we’ll you know we can’t wait to see him throw it as pro day two and I’m sure he’ll look great with guys that he knows that he’s throwing to because there’ll be dudes out there working out with him and stuff like that well maybe we’ll see I don’t I

Know if we’ll see guys like Brew McCoy or whatever but we’ll we’ll probably see some Tennessee uh players go out there and catch passes for him the value of the combine the reason that the combine exists first and foremost is the Medicals because everybody it’s just so much easier to

Get everybody into one spot to medically evaluate as many of these prospects as humanly possible with as many of the team doctors team medical personnel uh comine NF league medical personnel and all these different things the reason for combine primarily is the Medicals and the drills on top of that that have

Become you know more positional uh positionally specific but you still kind of understand that there’s there is some value to it it is not the full picture so yeah combine’s going to be combine’s going to be a big week for Joe what did you just whisper in my ear

About what we have to give away we’re doing oh no what made you say oh no in sports coming up next sure but we have things to give away with no we have your chance to win two Saturday tickets to bonaroo on Saturday what the hell is

That June 15th I didn’t hear anything he’s not invited you’re talking about the Red Hot Chili Peppers Cage the Elephant Saturday one day pass a pair of them on the line if you call 61573 7145 now and you give us the best thing that made you say oh no over the sports

Weekend the best submission will win and guess what we got a bunch of them because we’re doing something cool with Bono this year kids we’re excited about we’re going to tell you more about it over the coming months this is just a small little taste so give us a call

Like Lucas said 615 737 1045 give us the thing in sports that made you say oh no this weekend we will send you to bonaroo I’m buck Rising it’s 1045 The Zone so we are excited to be doing uh something cool with bonaroo this year the music festival out there in

Manchester that is always uh a great time I got to go for the first time last year they’re helping us give you guys a chance to go to the farm whether you’ve been before you haven’t been at all uh as a firsttimer last year Lucas Bert and Lucas’s girlfriend Megan took me out

There and now apparently I’m a festival guy who knew uh but we’ll we’ll tell you more about what we’ve got going on with bonaroo later this summer meanwhile we’ve got the opportunity for you to win tickets to what day Lucas this is for Saturday so the the best submission

For what made you say oh no in sports this week will get a pair of Saturday one-day passes to see the Chili Peppers Cage the Elephant some fantastic fantastic axe on the farm hit it hit what you know no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh

Yeah what made you say oh no this weekend it’s real simple I don’t think we could make it easier for you guys to win these bonaroo tickets so the Super Bowl uh the first I don’t know I’d say the first 45 minutes of the Super Bowl

Were kind of a snoozer right little bit of a a defensive struggle a slopfest turnovers everywhere lack of third down conversions on and on and on it goes so we get a little bit of a we get a little bit of energy at the end of the first

Quarter because at 10 to three uh or at heading into the half uh at 10 to three we got a little bit of energy we got a Streaker for the first time now uh they didn’t show him on the broadcast because they’re not trying to give people

Attention like that but you could bet in Vegas on a Super Bowl Streaker so what did the Streaker do he took his fate into his own hands I was the Super Bowl Streaker at the game last night and I just got let out of jail this morning

And a lot of people are asking me why I was streaking at the Super Bowl I live here in Vegas and when I saw that you could bet on whether or not there would be a Streaker during the Super Bowl I knew I had to go down to the cin

Casino and place a $20,000 bet after I placed the beted I went and bought a ticket for $110,000 so that I could control my own destiny and then when the time was right I hopped the fence and started sprinting out onto the field I mean you saw me I kind of juked that

First security guard but I lost my traction I should have wore cleats I was in tennis shoes and I kind of slipped out I didn’t have the speed that I normally do have and then they arrested me but it was honestly totally worth it I spent $10,000 on the ticket but I made

20 back on The Wager so I’m up $10,000 yeah I had to spend a night in jail but I absolutely had a ball being center stage in front of 80,000 people like like that’s what Taylor Swift must feel like everybody’s staring at you you’re

Having a good time I I might do it again I I might do it again I I feel like I’d lay low if I’m that guy I’d just take my winnings and go home and not post about it and not have some sports book come knocking at my door the man just said

This is what Taylor Swift must feel like about his his 10sec jaunt where he unathletic tried to Juke out a security guard and failed now he made 10 grand on it and it this Tik Tok is now up to 633 th000 likes so he’s getting the

Clout that he’s seeking um but yeah it may it may negate his ability to do this again in the future that’s from at the Robbie show on Tik Tok my Uno was Dre green law that was hard to watch running off the 49ers sideline ready to get back

Back out on defense and just kind of stumbles and tears his ACL I mean just a total freak thing that you know I feel like would have been a much bigger talking point if the Super Bowl was on a tur field do you think that there would have

Been some sort of discourse about the playing surface I mean especially for as casual a moment as that seemed to be like it’s just it’s the end of a it’s the end it was the end of a special teams play right just jogging back onto

The field to play he he was I mean you he was Juiced he’s ready to get back out Play Def in the Super Bowl and and just kind of stumbles and total freak thing hate to see that on that stage 615 737 1045 for the opportunity to win tickets

To Saturday at bonaroo out on the farm in Manchester we’ve got you what in sports made you say oh no this week Frank and Nashville get us started hello hey hey so um biggest thing from this weekend for me was uh Travis Kelce jumping all over uh Andy

Reid after that fumble in the in the red zone that was uh that was tough to watch I felt like I was watching uh an old grandpa or somebody get abused or something that was just disturbing to me in in hindsight I I get it you know

It it was high stake Super Bowl turnover I get all that but uh I just don’t know about the precedent of putting hands on your head coach I I just didn’t like the whole thing but uh that that was my uh oh no for the weekend I think it’s fair

I mean here’s here’s the thing though like are we allowed to be more upset about it than Andy Reid was and I know he won the Super Bowl so he’s not going to be in a bad mood and he’s not going to like want to dwell on it too hard and

He’ll make jokes about it after the fact so maybe if they lost it’s a different story but it’s hard for me to be more upset at Travis Kelce than Andy Reid was and it’s clear that they love each other do you see Andy Reid dog pile Chris

Jones yes oh man do you think Chris Jones was ready for that Andy is not a small man that’s a that’s a former NFL football player in was that the most physically challenging aspect of Chris Jones Super Bowl Sunday not not trying to battle through the interior of the

San Francisco 49ers offensive line but Andy Reid dogpiling him after the game who was it more physically taxing on Chris Jones having Andy Reid on top of him or Andy Reid trying to get up afterwards he needed some help he had to like use Chris Jones’s kneecap to Pro

Himself uh Ryan and Lebon is next well that guy kind of took mine but I’ll I’ll go to my second option um Tiger Woods on his new fashion there with his Sunday red apparel line I mean it’s just going to be different not seeing him in Nike apparel um uh

Throughout the golfing season so thank you guys you have a good one appreciate the call Ryan did you see that he’s that so Nike’s not seeing the return on investment from tiger that they used to and so that that was a pretty big Sports business story he’s coming out with his

Own clothing line it is going to be you know that’s the first time that that’s going to happen so while tiger still continues this career at at at this stage it’s uh it’s going to be different but they’re definitely sticking with the same Vibes is this this is Tony what’s the T what’s

The P it’s called a typo Buck keep it Moving Tony and Nashville is next yeah I think the worst thing or what made me say oh no was giving Travis Kelce the mic on stage and having to listen to him sing via Las Vegas I think both the king Elvis Presley and Derk Henry the our our local

King were both very disappointed at that performance you know who looked disappointed Taylor did you see her face she made a face like she smelled something bad while he’s out there belting it out on stage Travis Kelce singing gave Taylor Swift the ick how about that I kind of like that one he

Did Viva Las Vegas he did the Beasty Boys right fight for your right to party he said uh he did the uh na na na na na na na hey hey hey goodbye to San Francisco the whole time they got post Malone to take off his Cowboys Jack and

Put a Chief’s jacket on on for just one song are we giving Tony the pair of Saturday passes I kind of like it all right Tony you’re headed to bonaro tomorrow dumbest thing in sports this week at 11: same deal we’ll have it for Friday Fire 2 uh all of our regularly uh

Featured segments will have bonaroo giveaways this cuz we’re doing something cool at the farm this summer and we want you guys to be a part of it in advance uh they also have single day tickets available on sale now at bonaroo which is something that you want to get in on

Absolutely like I said Lucas and Bert took me out there for the first time one and TW day tickets are available uh and we are sending you out there you can listen to the show all week long to win Friday or Saturday tickets plus a parking pass to bonaroo that’s no small

Thing uh you can also for more information and if you don’t win out or win on the giveaways you can get your one and two day tickets for bonaroo at bonnaroo.com today it is 11:02 good morning I’m Lucas panika from the 1045 The Zone Studios the preliminary injunction hearing

Involving the state of Tennessee and the NCAA has concluded in Greenville we now await a ruling if the injunction is granted NCAA nil rules will freeze for the remainder of the case between Tennessee and the NCAA around the NFL the Pittsburgh Steelers have released three players today including quarterback Mitch trabis and the

Athletic reporting that the Cincinnati Bengals are going to franchise tag wide receiver T Higgins who is set to be a free agent here in a couple of months in in Dallas the Cowboys have agreed to terms with former Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer to replace Dan Quinn as the defensive coordinator Nashville soccer

Club has signed veteran Defender Brett colan to the roster for the 2024 season the boys and Golds will play their final preseason friendly this Thursday against Memphis 901 at geodas Park for all your foundation repair and waterproofing needs visit usst tn.com breaking news at once on your home for the titans invols

This is 1045 The Zone Lucas hit you with a little bit of a downer right out of the gate with his breaking news update the Bengals expected to tag T Higgins we’ll dive into that report from the athletic here in just a little bit not the way that

You want to start your offseason because the offseason officially starts for every NFL team yesterday and we’ll get into the Titans number one offseason priority well many of you would say wide receiver and that particular wide receiver is somebody y’all have been thirsty for for quite some time

Understandably so talk about that here in just a little bit 61573 7145 is how you jump in in the meantime Facebook YouTube Twitter and twitch you can live stream the show right there congratulations to Tony who won the bonaroo tickets we’ll be giving more away throughout the course of the week

And we’re very excited to tell you more about the plans that we have with bonaroo later on this summer in the meantime we uh we get press releases pretty regularly from the NFL Lucas you said you’ve signed up so you received these on a regular basis too whether it’s game capsules you know

Stats and facts to watch on this day in NFL history all that kind of good stuff yeah yes did you see this yesterday from the NFL uh at about 8:50 p.m. last night is when the email dropped courtesy of the ntion National Football League CBS sports’ presentation of Super Bowl 50 8

Is the most watched telecast in history the most watched Super Bowl telecast in history now hang on the most watched Super Bowl telecast in history or the most watched telecast in history well the email says telecast in history the 120 million viewers watched on CBS the largest audience ever for a

Single Network this makes it seem the way that this reads now they want want it to be nebulous for a couple of different reasons because they like the idea of the headline the most watched telecast in history even if it’s not completely true um so most streamed Super Bowl ever unduplicated total

Audience so they’re counting streaming and again the numbers on the streaming stuff are are what like Netflix won’t disclose because they don’t want you to know how few people are watching all the crap that they’re making and HBO doesn’t let ratings out and stuff like that so

It’s it’s a little nebulous here but 120 million on CBS televised unduplicated total audience of 202.4 million the highest in history the most streamed Super Bowl ever led by record setting audience on Paramount plus um this is a huge number no matter how many different ways you try to spin

It they can spin it all the different ways that they want to and they’ve got it bro broken down by record setting viewership um Super Bowl 58 is the most watched program ever averaging viewers across all platforms up 7% versus last year’s Super Bowl which was the previous record 11 15.1 million more

Than 200 million viewers watched all or part of Super Bowl 58 across all networks the highest unduplicated total audience in history and up 10% versus last year’s Super Bowl univ Visions averaged more than 2.2 million viewers the highest Superbowl viewership on record for a Spanish language Network

Okay so the NFL’s big and bad and you already knew this why does this matter well it matters for a couple different reasons we were we were going back and forth about this in my gambling group text uh just the idea of would there be Taylor Swift impact on the

Super Bowl Travis Kelce as a party to Taylor Swift impact on the Super Bowl because you said you watched a little bit of the Nickelodeon broadcast right with SpongeBob and Patrick Star well I had to watch Sweet Victory which they did 20 minutes before the game so it’s the only it’s the only

Reason that I have to have any level of disappointment in 3 hls trip to Las Vegas because apparently the voices of SpongeBob and Patrick were available for radio row interviews and I don’t know if I blame hunk I don’t know if I blame Kirby but whoever didn’t book SpongeBob

And Patrick on 3hl or frankly for us that’s what I’m most up upset about that I found about found out about it retroactively I’m I’m a little salty I I think we could potentially get SpongeBob on this radio show we have a connection to SpongeBob what who’s our connection

To SpongeBob Tom Kenny the man who voices SpongeBob so our friend Lisa Manning right down the hall 1033 her sister Lori very talented actress and voice actress played Pearl in SpongeBob and is very very close with Tom Kenny and the rest of I mean there Lisa was just at her sister’s wedding

Which Tom Kenny was a part of Lucas so we’ve got we’ve got a there’s a thread there you’re primarily responsible for booking the show we are three years in you’re telling me that we have an opportunity to get SpongeBob on the radio show and we haven’t followed through with that

Yet I mean it’s never been as relevant as it it doesn’t have to be relevant I want to talk to SpongeBob on the radio show wa you don’t just I don’t I don’t care what he has to say we don’t have to talk to him about the Super Bowl I want

To interview SpongeBob with that mustache should be nowhere near any children’s cartoon character what’s wrong with the mustache you don’t like the mustache you look like you should be on a list Somewhere my buddy Z tubs had a mustache this week and I was like you know I’ve never tried the mustache doesn’t it feel like people are doing that on a regular basis I think I feel like it’s Morgan Wallen lead which is another reason to

You know I don’t know how I feel about it one way or the other but I was I was bored yesterday I you know it’ll go away and and it doesn’t take but a second to grow the facial hair back so it’s not that deep also I have a a TV commercial

That we’re shooting tomorrow for two rivers and I have yet to tell our dear friend Tammy uh Tammy Jacobs that I currently have a mustache I don’t know if they want that as a part of their television commercial or not did do the Nickelodeon numbers factor in yes to

This yes they are absolutely including anything that they can add a number to to make the number bigger Lucas counts for this there are so many factors with this Super Bowl whether it’s the Nickelodeon broadcast or the idea of back toback Champs or Taylor Swift you

Know why you so did you notice did you notice what the first commercial played during the Super Bowl was no i’ I’d be lying if I said I did Wicked all right yes they’re making the wicked movie do you think that was accidental or do you think that the

People who paid for the wicked commercial wanted to be the first commercial on the Super Bowl because they know there’s going to be a massive Taylor Swift audience they don’t know if they’re going to be there at the end of the game but damn sure they’re going to

Be there at the start of the game and no better way to appeal to the swifties than with a new Wicked musical movie come on down like all of this done all of this stuff is done on purpose really someone didn’t just trip and fall and hit a button and send

Wicked to the front I’m just saying like most people would not notice that Wicked was the first commercial at the Super Bowl I’m sitting there why the hell is wicked the first commercial at the Super Bowl and then it dawned on me oh all the little girls and all the young women and

All the people who might be prone to musical theater or a musical movie maybe they like a little Wicked with their Taylor Swift either way I think that uh I think that this is going to be such an interesting story for you know the audience to follow the

Reason we bring this up is because Roger Goodell said at the Super Bowl that as long as he was the commissioner the Super Bowl would never be exclusively behind a pay wall and I don’t believe him I don’t believe him this thing has too much marketing power it’s too

Important how many streaming services do you pay for or maybe not pay for how many do you have whether you’re grifting off you know parents friends ex lovers whatever the case may be oh in total off the top of my head eight I mean I Paramount peacock Hulu H like you

Name it I probably I probably have it yeah I I think I have everyone but Hulu Plus I have cable like completely I’m sure most of it is unnecessary but either way every network has a streaming service they’re trying to get off the ground ESPN Fox Discovery and Warner

Brothers just went all in in a way that’s kind of pissing off the sports networks because they don’t want to Market they don’t want basically for their product to be cheapen basically by these these entities combining forces to keep the costs down the NFL has the most valuable product on live television and

If when Roger Goodell says it’s never going to be behind a pay wall as long as he’s commissioner I just don’t believe him because there’s too much money to be made too much money to be made anyway 615 737 104 4 five is how you jump into the conversation so you

Don’t like the mustache huh I kind of want the I want I want the mustache to be in the picture when we beat Matt Jones that’s what I want looks like like something is on your lip like you that you could rub off well it is

It’s hair I mean you probably rub it off if you try hard enough I I do tan well and I do facial hair well facial hair well that’s a product of being Egyptian so you know if the mustache doesn’t fill out in a week maybe we scrap it who’s to say

I’m thinking about it for football season though 615 737 1045 is how you jump in we’ll get to more of your phone calls coming up next we’ll talk about given that the Super Bowl has just concluded who is closest being capable of toppling this Chief’s Dynasty in the

AFC do the Titans have a role to play they’ve already ended one Dynasty in Tom Brady’s Patriots people don’t forget are they capable of doing it again I’m buck Rising it’s 1045 The Zone life is busy we could all use some extra time in our day which is exactly why Two

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Appointment by scanning the QR code or calling Two Rivers forward today somebody got to get up somebody got to get up and knock down the Chiefs man who’s it going to be Titans got to figure out how to get out of the basement of their division first and foremost before they can have

A shot at the Champs but back back defending titles it’s no small thing first time in 19 years only a handful of people have done it Patrick Mahomes third Super Bowl in four years getting a dynasty of his own so who’s closest who’s got a real

Shot in the immediate how many people so of of your Tony Romo criticisms yesterday since you were you know uh infallible based on the callers uh opinions earlier in yesterday’s show so much so that you were comfortable criticizing broadcasting icon and Legend Jim Nance who I know listens to this

Radio station and hopefully is hearing this the fact that Lucas panzo was out here criticizing the way that Jim Nance called how many Super Bowls is this for Jim how many would that be don’t do that that’s a tough spot for you to be in infallible and voice of of baby angel

As you may have but a part of your Romo criticisms yesterday uh did it come up the idea of him immediately after the confetti is still falling the confetti is not even down on the ground yet but he brings up the idea of a three Pat because I saw the ners are

Favored you know in in bmgm and and FanDuel and all the all the early early early Super Bowl Futures that you could get the ners as the Super Bowl favorites the chiefs with the second best odds to win the 20124 Super Bowl in January of 25 but just strictly to the

AFC who has the best shot at toppling them I think we all would have said in the last couple of years the bills right that the bills would have the best shot at the Chiefs and they did this year they did they had a clean shot at the Chiefs and couldn’t take

Advantage I mean you would argue Baltimore I don’t know that game kind of that game kind of languished in ways that were disappointing it was an uncharacteristic istically sloppy game from a team basically and I wonder if if this strikes the audience the same way and I don’t think berd is still lingering

Around back there so I’d be curious to get his opinion on it it just did it not feel watching the AFC Championship Game the difference between the Chiefs and the Ravens is that Pat has been in this game a million times already and this young Ravens team just wasn’t fully

Equipped for the moment yeah like Beyond Lamar Jackson Z flowers not just Lamar Jackson right they were they were characteristic mistakes all over the place things we hadn’t seen from the Ravens all year long that popped up in their biggest game of the year and even in their game plan especially on offense

With the the lack of a commitment to the Run game and using Lamar Jackson in the run like they did not do a lot of the things that got them there yeah John Harbaugh was asked about that after the fact because that was my biggest criticism I mean Gus Gus Edwards had

What like six carries you may not have had six carries in that game um but John Harbaugh was asked about it after the fact he said you believe or not we would have liked to run the ball more we were we had the ball for 9 minutes so they

Really couldn’t run the ball the way that they wanted to the Chiefs the defense played them well they put Lamar in a dropback passing game and said no beat us exclusively this way now there was no cleaner shot at Kansas City than Buffalo with the mistakes the chiefs

Made in that game the fumble near the goal line by Hardman and just the inability to capitalize mfield go dropped ball your place yes so Bengals obviously not in the postseason this year finishing n and8 no Joe burrow for the bulk of the Season those are the three in the AFC

That immediately come to mind are the Texans do the Texans belong in this discussion won a playoff game this year CJ strad is as good a rookie quarterback in his rookie year as we’ve seen since burrow or Herbert I guess stoud I mean the Texans are young they

Still have draft assets that they’re going to try and add to this thing they’ve got almost as much cap space as the Titans do which makes the idea talking about The Titans with the second most cap space it it negates some of that Advantage given that the Colts and

The Texans are right up there with you at four and five Texans haven’t earned the right to me to be in that discussion yet doesn’t mean they can’t this season this upcoming season sure but I think people are going to I at least locally I think people are going to expect us

To make an argument in some form or fashion for an AFC South team because we’ve got two out of the AFC North we got one out of the AFC East dolphin’s not in this discussion dolphin’s not really a threat to Kansas City feels like there’s such a significant ceiling in

Miami it just feels like they they banged their head against that ceiling a lot this past season with how they played against teams with winning records how they played in cold and the failings in those regards were too consistent for me to sit there and look

At Miami as a team that I fully believe and trust could get up to that Notch of knocking off the Kansas City Chiefs like do you see that with the dolphins no the winning record thing is very real this year the Titans game was flukish I’m not

I’m not willing to like hold that too much against Miami what’s the biggest wild card like who are we who are we not talking about that should be in this discussion is there a team well no I’m talking I’m I’m saying the Bengals I expect in 2024 the

Ravens the bills and the Bengals to be the three best teams with a shot at Kansas City yeah who are we leaving off that belongs in this list are we leaving anybody off that belongs on this list because there are two teams that I would make an argument for in the

AFC is Cleveland one of them no I don’t I I think Joe Flaco is a better quarterback than deshun Watson the charger is one of them no you’re not saying the Jets I think we should be talking about the Jets a lot of work to do there sure but they

Have the okay so if Mahomes is the best quarterback in the AFC and however you want to tiar them burrow Allen Lamar 34 uh two three and four is Aaron Rogers not the fifth best quarterback in the AFC you know we’ll see what he looks like coming off the

Achilles him throwing passes on air and stuff like that after three months or whatever it was is all well and good and the Jets offensive line is as bad if not worse than the Titans the Jets offensive line at a 40-year quarterback is a nightmare nightmare situation and I

Don’t you know to be honest the more the more Titans castoffs that they keep hiring the less good I feel about Robert Salah as the New York Jets head coach Todd Downing I mean I like Tony dues I think Tony dues is good at what he does Todd

Downing Keith garter and Tony dues all being a part of the New York Jets coaching staff is not overwhelmingly inspirational so ESPN put out an early 2024 NFL Power Ranking 48 hours after the Super Bowl who do you think landed number one well the Chiefs Baltimore really Baltimore number one what’s the

Explanation they’re young so the way they have it is the team the 2023 record and offseason in three words and their three words for the Ravens are busy busy busy they have 25 unrestricted free agents including 15 who totaled at least 20 100 snaps this season that includes

Pro Bowl players like Justin mabuki Patrick Queen Kevin zeitler Baltimore would or won’t have a lot of salary cap space to keep all its free agents who combined for 24 touchdowns and 42 sacks this season so the blurb that they have is just that yeah they got a lot of work

To do they got a ton of free agents that contributed a lot this past season it’s not necessarily uh an endorsement of why the Ravens are the number one team in this power ranking Chiefs are number two cuz you trust you trust the Ravens to to

Do it they’ve done that a million times I I forget they lost the most free agents for a Super Bowl winning team at the time when they won it in 2012 and it took them a little while right they flacko struggled uh they they had losses on the offensive line guys retired Ed

Reed and Ray Lewis think Ed Reed didn’t Ed Reed go to play for the Jets for a hot second uh anyway so the article doesn’t say this is the ranking and here’s why it says here’s the ranking and then it’s more about what’s at the top of the list for the off season

Offseason in three words where do you think the Titans rank in this two days after the Super Bowl 2024 NFL season power ranking I don’t know uh I’m gonna say 27th eight 28th 28th I thought you meant eighth off season in three words and we’re going to

Talk about this in the noon hour as well but what what would your three words be fix the line yes that’s exactly what it is is it really yes and it’s the NFL Nation reporters are responsing fix the o line are the three words it says the Titans offense was paralyzed

Last season by poor play in the trenches Tennessee 64 sacks allow tied with the Jets for the third most God all of the blame cannot be placed on the o line but Jaylen Duncan and Andre Dillard were among the top 10 offensive linemen in sacks given up uh and the Titans will

Need to upgrade at least two of their five offensive line starters expect Tennessee to make a move in free agency Titans will also likely address the position in a draft class that is very deep there it’s been so long since we’ve actually talked Titans stats and

Football that 64 sacks allowed hit me in the chest the way that I have not thought about them for at least a month uh over a month at this point what a blissful month it’s been not have to not having to think about Jaylen Duncan Andre Dillard Aaron Brewer all of you

God so for the so sick of talking about Titans offensive lineman for the purposes of this conversation is there a real argument for anyone other than Baltimore right now no to be within well the closest Striking Distance I mean I I would put the Bengals up there now

They’ve got the biggest thing for the Bengals and we’ll talk about t Higgins here in just a second but they’re expected to tag and we’ll talk about the implications of that on free agency here in a second that’s not that’s not a huge shift in the way that everybody thought

This was going to play out but I know some people were running at the Super Bowl with the idea of T Higgins saying it’d be nice to play at home right because he’s got local ties and all that Nashville so burrow would be the argument I think

Josh Allen at least in this round I think that Josh Allen and the bills can come back around but I think that the best shot that the bills have had at the Chiefs is over in this you know three or four Super Bowl stretch appearance stretch that the Chiefs have had I think

That the bills have taken their first Salvo at it they’re going to have to recoup they’re going to have to come back around they moved to the back of the list for me where the bills have been the biggest threat to the Chiefs now I think we’re in an in the phase

Where okay it’s Lamar’s turn to see if he can take him on okay it’s Burrow’s turn to see if he can take him on and then we’ll talk about guys like Stout and and and the Jets and more wildcard teams later like that does 28 feel fair

For the Titans yeah fourth place finish roster still in shambles pre-f free agency pre-draft so you haven’t done anything substantial all you’ve done is get a little Feelgood cuz you got a new coach I like the Bengals in this discussion in terms of Striking Distance I would take

The Bengals over the and I hate to say that I trust burrow more than Lamar because I don’t know that that’s I don’t know that that’s outright true there’s one team one quarterback that has taken that swing at Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs in the AFC playoffs and won and

That’s Joe burrow and the Bengals yeah in Kansas City that’s the thing too to go to Arrowhead and do that Arrowhead during the playoffs is is unbelievable unbelievable not Beyond just the the elements that you’re playing in typically in Kansas City Missouri at that time of year I don’t think there’s

A place that has worse weather in the country puka brings up the burrow injuries on the F&M Bank chat there are starting to pile up like we’re getting to that point with burrow where it’s been ACL it’s been calf it’s been wrist that’s my thing man like I

Know the Jamar Chase thing you know you get to be right because they made a Super Bowl but what are the long-term implications you’re talking about picking Jamar Chase over pan Su with the top five pick because as we as we get ready to have a a similar version of that discussion

With a skill player doesn’t have to be a receiver there’s no Jamar Chase in this draft nope well I guess Marvin Harrison is the Jamar Chase in this draft good luck getting him at seven yeah so you’re not you’re competing for probably the second or third best wide

Receiver the second best tackle on the board assuming we’re we’re just assuming for the exercise that they stay at seven we of course that’s not a safe assumption but we’ll see tackle wide receiver tight end if Bowers is there this is why it’s so hard

For me to move off of that because I think about burrow and the injuries piling up I think about luck and how how much fun it was when he’s just throwing himself around out there the way that I mean Levis is a little more Reckless with it although I don’t know do you

Remember that playoff game that luck had against Alex Smith and the Kansas City Chiefs that year where they they get down bad in the first half of that game and luck is out there fighting for it I watched that game in a hotel room at like 3:45 in the morning in Cairo Egypt

Watching Andrew Luck come back against the Kansas City Chiefs in one of the most fun playoff games I’ve ever seen and he was just with Reckless abandon out there throwing his body around it’s what makes Josh Allen so spectacular is because he is I mean he’s Cam Newton Cam

Newton did you see how many pictures Cam Newton took at Super Bowl radio row this year how much bigger he is than every other human being you’ve ever seen in your life that injuries got to that guy that Derrik Henry is is kept it off as much as humanly

Possible that Travis Kelce is just at a point in his career where he’s talking about all the misery that his body has gone through getting to this point I I it’s hard for me to look at the cost benefit analysis of not taking a lineman there and it’s just one lineman out of

Five and saying no it’s not just about your immediate it’s not just about the fireworks that you can produce as soon as you put this wide receiver into an offense with Taj Spears and DeAndre Hopkins and maybe you get a little something out of chig or Burks or

Phillips or somebody do something right versus the long-term implication of Joe alt who should be able to play left tackle for you for 10 years obviously there would need to be a plan to address left tackle if you’re not doing it with the seventh pick it’s a deep class like

There would need to be a thoughtfully laid out backup plan and it’s not just yeah take Brock bers at seven we’ll figure out the line as we go sure but I’m talking about like what Lewan was supposed to be okay what Lewan almost was take a left tackle and don’t think

About it for the next 8 to 10 you know this has been a franchise that has done that historically I don’t want Lucas I’m so tired of talking about offensive linemen they just need to get it right and they will have multiple opportunities right now they have eight

Draft picks who’s to say they can’t trade back because there is depth here I know don’t I know you want the best of the best or as best as you can get as opposed to you know us arguing for Value in the draft again and there will be

Some value plays made there but I just don’t know if we’re not overthinking the idea of finally finally a solution to the biggest problem this football team has had for years 615 737 1045 is how you jump in how about Ken and Nashville next yes hello um this is a bit of a

Rewind I would have said something earlier but I didn’t know about it there was some fumbles there was some drops that we didn’t know about until just a few moments ago and I think it could have won the oh no moment because we could have had SpongeBob we could have had SpongeBob

Ken I’m I’m so upset with Lucas I’m so upset with Lucas that we don’t have SpongeBob on this radio show that we’ve had an for years I I don’t know why you’re acting like you didn’t know about this like like you were I bring it up to

You like oh yeah that’s right iist to to me outside of the radio I don’t listen to anything anybody says to me outside I reminded you that our friend and colleague Lisa is related to Pearl from SpongeBob some a fact that you very much knew Lucas I am the definition of Nod

Smile and ignore anything you’re saying to me okay I you have to make sure you emphasize these things it is incumbent upon you to be the responsible one I’ve never been the responsible one your whole thing is is that you are the responsible one around here you’re the person remember the caller yesterday

You’re putting the show on your back you had this knowledge is what I’m saying like that it was floating around in your head too you just didn’t didn’t put it together I didn’t put it together until just now K I think it’s a firable fence what do you think I don’t think

You understand that you knew Pearl was a relative is a good defense because you could have also had Pearl yeah but I don’t want Pearl I want SpongeBob would you want Patrick I don’t know how that would go I feel like that would be bad

Radio yeah a big oh no for the show we’re working on it we’re we’re trying to redeem ourselves we’re seeing we’re we’re uh texting fast and furiously trying to see if we can retroactively get voice of the Super Bowl SpongeBob on the radio show you see he took a shot at Leonardo

DiCaprio uh did you see they put Snoop Dogg on the Nickelodeon broadcast as a fish surrounded by smoke that’s great in what world is Nick making pot jokes well SpongeBob took a shot at Leonardo DiCaprio who apparently was at the Super Bowl and there was a quick

Camera shot of him and he just said Leo DiCaprio 25 that’s his dating history no you want to hear it yes Catch Me If You Can with these pizzas Leonardo deat is low oh see what you did there no cap huh no cap out of [Laughter] the Nate burlon in the background

Oh SpongeBob working blue this makes me even more mad at you that we don’t have SpongeBob SpongeBob’s got jokes terrible 61573 7104 45 is the number uh Tyler dial says on the F&M Bank chat them saying firmly grasp it after McCaffrey’s fumble had me dying firmly grasp the

Football all right coming up next Tyler wetstone from the Knoxville new Sentinel is on the ground covering the the ongoings in East Tennessee of ten the state of Tennessee and the state of Virginia’s ongoing lawsuit against the NCAA the injunction is what we are awaiting a decision on there will be no

Decision to today but Tyler will be able to walk us through the timeline and the details that have gone that have come to pass in the courthouse today coming up next e so Tennessee versus the NCAA hearing going on this morning ended without a ruling we’re expecting to hear

More tomorrow Tyler wetstone is one of several people covering this story on the ground he’s an investigative reporter for the Knoxville News Sentinel where so many of our other friends are doing great journalistic work not just on this particular in Junction and all the things going on with Tennessee’s

NCAA investigation but across the board Tyler thank you for making some time on this busy day thank you guys happy to be here so uh as concisely as I can uh where are we now good question uh largely where we were to begin today uh which is it’s up

To the judge to to make his ruling of the injunction um he has obviously as much time as he wants to to make that whether that’s later this week or next week or whenever that that may be um but the state Tennessee came out today pretty persuasively um saying that

You know this this injunction is needed because nil isn’t just about uh monetary damage whenever an athlete’s making his decisions and what could happen and what what the inity is uh kind of ring on anyway so uh yeah a lot to a lot to discuss and happy to distill whatever

You uh whatever you like so with that I guess as we when you were going on or or getting to cover this case and familiarizing uh yourself with this case what were the biggest questions that you had going in yeah I think the the question being I

Don’t think the Judge is concerned about what an injunction or what destroying nil in general I I don’t think he really cares about that I don’t think really the state of Tennessee cares about that beyond what it does or doesn’t do to athletes within Tennessee uh whatever

That means to NCAA going forward is the ncaa’s business and how they figure that out so I think just mostly interested in what is the state of Tennessee going to argue this is not just a a sports case certainly not just a University of Tennessee case impacts student athletes

All over Tennessee and Virginia um so how will they how will they make this argument where it makes it look like it’s not just University of Tennessee Coming Out Swinging after being uh allegedly getting some more allegations of wrongdoing so I think they’ve done that pretty well to this extent but

We’ll see Tyler a lot of the reporters were coming out and tweeting on social media whatever it might be about the interaction between judge and NCAA attorney where he’s asked to actually draw that line between having discussions about nil value and actually negotiating nil contracts as that maybe

Being a stumbling point for the NCAA did you see it as that yeah absolutely um and I mean to give the to their credit it is complicated and I think what Tennessee attorney general schdy was saying afterwards is listen if if the attorney for the in blate are confused

On this because it’s it’s complicated and it’s just it’s messy how can you expect high school athletes to understand what is and isn’t the case and what they can and can’t do so um yeah it they definitely uh the judge picked up on that pretty quickly and

Kind of follow back up later to try to clarify what the NCAA was saying and uh I think there’s still some questions left unanswered there Tyler what stone of the Knoxville new Sentinel is here with us on 1045 the zone is in Greenville covering this story for the

News Sentinel at Tyler wetstone is where you follow along so what what is the timeline looking like tomorrow based on a lack of ruling today yeah it definitely doesn’t necessarily mean tomorrow uh it could be later this week like I said could be next week um when it does come the judge

Will rule on whether or not the injunction stands uh basically saying nil rules must be suspended uh throughout the the lawsuit until the lawsuit’s finalized uh or he’ll say no ni over rules are fine you didn’t show that there was irreparable harm which is the kind of the the barrier they’re

Having to cross to prove that that’s been the case um what’s important I think to note though is whatever decision is made if if the injunction is granted uh both the NCAA and the state of Tennessee seem to be okay with and expect that that injunction will be

Nationwide which is why we’re so interested why everyone’s so interested in this it’s not just a Tennessee University of Tennessee nil Virginia nil this is this would theoretically be applied immediately across the country in I roles would be uh moot at least for the time being did you also think that

Jawan Jennings was going to win Super Bowl MVP man I I’m a Blackman High School graduate um covered him when he was a student there uh and so I followed his career throughout and it was a little disappointed to to see him come up short but he played he played well

Made themselves some money it looks like Tyler wetstones here with us on 1045 The Zone lastly Tyler I I know we talked about The Stumbling point there for NCAA attorneys was there anything else from that hearing uh that it seemed like it was Spirited entertaining at the very

Least was there anything else that had you coming away leaning one way or the other as far as what the actual ruling is going to be yeah I think it’s important that these ni R we have to kind of focus on the N rules that’s obviously what we’re talking about today

The injunction um important to note that the judge has already said that the state pretty well has its case made and is going to be uh up a creek trying to fight the overall roles on nil and whether or not that is viewed in the conjunction or not we’re not sure I

Would say I mean you know who knows persuasive arguments can go either way but uh the judge seemed a little more open to the idea that there was harm that could be done immediately with uh nil R still being in place uh whether or not he’ll rule that way I guess we’ll uh

We’ll find out you’ve got the latest up on the website knoxnews.com as where you can read all of Tyler and his colleagues of course our buddy Adam Sparks there as well covering the story for the Knoxville new Sentinel uh so you have your filing up for today what can people expect from you

Tomorrow yeah I think it’s just looking at what this what this means um they really dug into reparable harm which we didn’t get into very much here but um it’s not just that athletes don’t have the ability to leverage their their name image and likeness um coach hypo when he

Filed his uh his last week really harped on it’s not just a a money monetary uh penalty it really kind of harms the person if they make a decision based on incomplete information and that that just kind of sets up the person for he argued for life it could really harm

Them um we’ll see if that’s persuasive enough they kind of went back and forth on that again today but uh kind of digging into what that looks like and what that means it’s just so important I I think Tyler that that as as we get further into the name image and likeness

Error of Collegiate Athletics before there is too much of that irreparable harm done because I do believe that there will be instances of this instances of this when the Supreme Court ruling passed you you saw immediately where players families uh especially athletes who may not come from the the

Best means or the the best situations could be exploited in this way and I I just I I like that this feels more preemptive than reactionary to a lot of the damage that could potentially be done by this yeah and that’s the state’s argument obviously um again it’ll be up to the

Judge whether he thinks that that’s enough to issue that injunction again that would be a nationwide injunction so it would be uh it’s not nothing if he were to rule that um so he us to take that into account and we’ll see what what that ends up looking like at Tyler

Unor wetstone is where you can follow along thank you for the time we appreciate it thank you guys Tyler wetstone with the Knoxville News Sentinel here with us on 1045 The Zone I don’t envy NCAA attorneys having that task of having to oh they know they’re

In a losing fight of drawing that line of the difference between negotiating nil value you can do that but don’t you dare start talking about actual monetary compensation like come on what are we doing here just imagine having to sit there for as bad as we are at making our

Own arguments on silly little things like you know coaching decisions and uh and and you know ingame assessments and stuff like that having to go out there do the ncaa’s but you imagine the NCAA putting all the paperwork down in front of the legal team be like all right

Here’s the case I just imagine the lawyers taking a couple hours in a room together in a conference room together reading through the materials reading through the rules reading through how the rules have changed looking around at each other like oh bleep boys we’re in for one like their whole thing is you

Can have conversations but no negotiations like at what point does a conversation become a negotiation does the collective have to wink at you here’s what we think you’re worth like winking terribly with both eyes just blinking pushing a paper across like what are we doing one blink yes two

Blinks no both eyes at the same time $8 million in a quarterback here’s what we think you’re worth it’s not a negotiation remember oh my God all right a wide receiver who tight fans are lusting after is not expected to hit the market we’ll explain what’s going on with t Higgins in the

Cincinnati Bengals coming up next it is 1202 good afternoon I’m Lucas panika from the 1045 The Zone Studios the preliminary injunction hearing involving the state of Tennessee and the NCAA has concluded in Greenville we now await a ruling if the injunction is granted NCAA nil rules will freeze for

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Usn.org news at once on your home for the titans invols this is 1045 The Zone final hour is already here welcome in this time tomorrow you’re going to hear from your new head coach Brian Callahan’s going to speak to the media I don’t know if I mentioned that earlier

In the show we got a press release or an email saying that Brian Callahan new Titans head coach would be available as will his two new coordinators Nick Holtz OC and dard Wilson defensive coordinator for the Titans so we’ll ask him follow-ups they’re still working out the

Process of completing the staff as we get ready for combine and things of that nature sounds like there’s some stuff in the on the business side of the Titans it’s moving shuffling parts around too I don’t know that how important that is to people but it sounds like it’s not just

The football side of things that’s going through a bit of a I don’t even think it’s a bit of a shakeup it sounds like a pretty substantial shakeup with some stuff that’s going on over there some Rumblings anyway 61573 7145 is how you join you have access as always to

YouTube Facebook live Twitter and twitch where you can watch the show live stream it comment if you like sorry I feel like you what are you talking about what a business shakeup like what are these words you were using or what are you trying to say they’re moving

Parts around not just on the football side of things but on the business side of things too I don’t know how important that is to the audience I don’t know if you know it’s not like season ticket reps or something like that but there’s just some stuff going on over there that

Sounds like it’s more than just football sounds like a lot of stuff about your football team is changing is my point so like what like what do that fall under you’re talking about marketing ticketing like wait what we talking about here there’s well I don’t think there’s anything that’s been announced but if

You go to the Tennessee tit .c website right now and look at look at the staff page it’s basically like under construction Goa would indicate there’s a lot of different things happening uh that they would have to to take down a portion of the website as they redistribute roles but uh in the

Meantime free agency the first well not the first thing the combine will be the first thing up here in what 15 days until the entire league goes to uh Indianapolis so combine then free agency somebody what’s the top free agent that Titans fans want well I think we just had some news

To cut it down which is why I’m going there the top free agent that at least the one that you guys send us the most often anyway is that you want to come with Brian Callahan from the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver T Higgins you very

Much like the idea of that you like the idea that he’s local you like the idea that he said uh to I don’t know what that what Outlet was that got a microphone in front of T Higgins and asked him about playing for the Titans

Um but I did see a clip going around this weekend from Super Bowl somebody had uh had asked him and he he had mentioned the idea of yeah I like the idea of playing at home because Nashville’s home for T Higgins Paul denner Jr of the athletic

This morning because it’s not just T Higgin that the Bengals have to figure out it’s Jamar Chase 2 did you have you I know we this report came out while since we’ve been on the air so you probably haven’t had the opportunity to read too much into it

Apparently it’s a four-part series that Paul is doing on how they’re going to make this work and the process that’s going to be required of T and Jamar of te and Jamar it’s a so Paul denner D ner Jr on Twitter he’s the athletic Bengals beat writer new the Bengals have

Arrived at a Crossroads with t Higgins let’s get nuts introducing a four-part series on every angle of the decision unpacking what we know about Cincinnati’s thinking the ramifications the precedent the chase factor and the likely endgame so part one is out now and in part one among other things and

This is why the athletic is well worth your uh well worth your subscription as far as I’m concerned I don’t you know do anything for them I don’t uh adver do advertisements with them or anything like that I just think they’re great that the expectation is that Cincinnati is going

To tag T Higgins either for him to play Under the tag which he has expressed a disinterest in doing or for them to continue to negotiate a long-term deal now the thing that makes this even more interesting Lucas is a note about Joe Burrow’s contract that I hadn’t

Realized so Joe burrow and I’ll pull up his Spa track so we can go through the exact details but Joe Burrow’s contract situation he signed an extension it wasn’t a new contract Joe burrow was never a free agent so the extension the years are just tacked onto his rookie

Deal Joe burrow is not in the most expensive portion he’s not really into the extension money yet so he’s basically still in his rookie deal correct and would this be the last year of that uh based on his this is based on the the extension that he signed a 5-year $275 million extension

This past September he doesn’t really get into the real money oh wow well the cap hit doesn’t go crazy until this year and really it’s not even that crazy it’s 29.7 that’s that’s almost that’s $8 million less than what Mahomes counted against the cap for this year 2025 is where it

Starts to look a little more up there 46.2 48.2 52.2 53.5 they have an out after 2028 burrow is like I want to play with Higgins and Jamar as long as I possibly can please keep the really really good wide receiver since you don’t you guys don’t have an offensive

Line for me because of these really really good wide receivers let’s maybe keep them and make my life easier because it’s a lot harder to be Joe burrow without an offensive line and without Jamar Chase or t Higgins probably going to be hard to keep Tyler

Boyd then yeah I I can’t IM imagine a situation where where all three of them are back unrestricted free agent so does the attention of Titans fans shift from one free agent Bengals wide receiver to another Tyler Boyd who is only 29 and that’s probably where you should be spending that money

Anyway I’m not I’m not advocating against you know at any point paying topof market value for topof Market Talent if they’re out there like if T Higgins was actually available to be had I am so on board with the idea of giving him a big old chunk of that $76

Million you got sitting in the bank but in the absence of that because a lot of times those guys don’t hit the market and he’ll make how much on the tag T I think it’s 22 20 in that neighborhood I thought it was 20.7 the

Number I saw uh I have not seen the tag numbers yet but somewhere between somewhere between 20 and 21 uh sounds about right based on the the average of the contracts right now either way if he’s not out there a value signing a veteran signing a reliable player with a proven body of

Work who’s not t Higgins but Tyler Boyd’s not bad Tyler boy’s a solid NFL wide receiver I would take a solid NFL wide receiver to go with DeAndre Hopkins that’s not just NWI respectfully but that’s probably the level of wide receiver that you should be considering with your free agent

Dollars to fortify this I’m I’m totally good with a draft pick too they need help I don’t know what you’re going to do with Kyle Phillips I don’t know if trayan Burks is a fit for this coaching staff I have no idea we’ll ask Callahan those questions tomorrow we’ll ask Holts

Those questions tomorrow certainly now that they have their wide well they don’t they haven’t announced tight I’m sure they’ll before these guys speak they’ll announce all the assistants that they have hired because they don’t want them up there answering questions about things that have been reported but not

Confirmed or not officially confirmed by the team so you know I don’t know that Callahan is out going to come out flat and say yeah you know TR and Burke’s not really for us or something like that that’s not what I’m saying at all but that idea does become real for holdovers

Because now you’re dealing with a new GM and a new head coach and so it’s not just as easy as oh well we’ll just turn tayin Burks into a Reclamation project with the new coaching staff and it’s all well and good well maybe the new coaching staff don’t want to deal with

TR Burks and what their own guy I’ve got another name in mine okay oh my God is this are you going to make me go through another off season of you lusting after Demarcus Robinson is that what who it was is that the name no find out next

I I can’t wait until tomorrow Lucas he just got in my ear as the m music was playing and said wait for the thing that just pissed you off on Twitter until tomorrow for the dumbest thing in sports this week I cannot that’s it angers me now I don’t want to

Rob somebody of the opportunity to use the interview that CNN just did with Patrick Mahomes since we’re giving away bonaroo tickets tomorrow during the dumbest thing in sports this week and I want people to be armed with their best ammunition and this thing by CNN with Patrick Mahomes is one of the dumbest

Things that I’ve ever seen I cannot imagine getting an interview with the Super Bowl MVP from Disney World and wasting your one question on that anyway we’ll expand tomorrow all right you said you had a free agent so you remind people of your obsession with Demarcus

Robinson last year and why the hell that went on for as many months as it did okay first of all Demarcus Robinson had a pretty nice year for the LA Rams oh my God had almost 400 receiving yards all right and four touchdowns no you did not

Come to this AR stat well you threw it at me so I’m going to throw it right back second of all that was that was purely desperation like that’s that is when that was the point in the Titans 2023 off season that we were in desperation mode just depths right oh my

Goodness what are they going to do at wide receiver before they kind of fell into DeAndre Hopkins and that took a whole summer right they had Colton Dow before they had Hopkins and even then we were talking about Demarcus Robinson but the name that I come back to is Brandon

Auk at 25 years old big year with San Francisco he’s a free agent well did you see the the clip that’s making the rounds from his girlfriend his girlfriend uh from what I understand hinted at a 49ers exit so she goes on uh Tik Tok excuse me she goes on Instagram live somebody

Posted the clip to Tik Tock so Brandon auk obviously San Francisco 49ers wide receiver just uh played and lost in the Super Bowl as Lucas said is getting ready to be in a contract situation he is posting on his own Instagram saying don’t forget what you got there with the

Eyeball emoji and Debo gave them the playbook for this right that the Niners have already been through this with one wide receiver and uh and then Brandon auk’s girlfriend who her name is relle she goes on her Tik Tock and says okay this might be this might have been the last

Day we touch foot at Levi Stadium me and brillan which is apparently their son uh because we might not be out here next season the 49ers uh and Brandon iuk getting ready to enter into contract discussions they did exercise the fifth year option on him which will pay him

14.1 but this is the biggest offseason priority for the ners probably of anything right PR’s not in a in a contract situation yet for the most part I think their defense is under contract there’s proa there’s there I’m sure there’s some free agents that I’m

Not thinking of off the top of my head but iuk is probably the biggest name on the Marquee for them to try and retain 75 catches this year seventh in receiving 1,342 yards and seven touchdowns this is Mike janid of spot Trek on why iuk would

Be a good fit with the Titans I I think it’s an excellent fit and I think without a doubt that Brandon auk’s name is going to be in trade rumors over the next couple of weeks as we approach that March 13th date so uh you know what does

It take the problem is he’s been kind of pigeon Hol right he’s the fifth option on an unbelievably explosive 49ers offense so you know you’re bringing a player in who’s going to to out kick his coverage quickly he’s going to become a number one number two option wherever he

Ends up and that’s going to cost upwards of 22 25 million a year it’s just the going rate uh for that second tier third tier wide receiver that you know has a higher ceiling so uh from a draft pick compensation standpoint you’re you’re in that second to third round range but

Knowing what kind of contract is coming behind that after the fifth year option season uh it’s not an easy undertaking for for an organ gation but don’t get there’s at least a half a dozen teams thinking about this exact scenario right now that was from his appearance on

Ramone Kayla and will yesterday morning so he he made some other comments about Derrick Henry that will make this this discussion I mean probably later in the offseason we don’t need to talk about dereck’s dereck’s impending free agency too much yet but spot track valuations like market value estimations right it’s

Kind of like looking at Zillow if you’re you’re shopping for a home it doesn’t mean that that’s the exact asking price but Market circumstances indicate that this might be what a player makes based on previous contracts that have come before Brandon IU’s Market valuation is four years 91.9 6 million and change an

Average salary of 22.99 to uh which would rank him eighth among wide receivers who are currently under contract the ballpark that it puts him in is Terry mclen Chris Godwin when DK metf and AJ Brown so you let AJ go to pay Brandon iuk the AJ Brown money but

Whatever different D GM different time do we put auk in that category I sure don’t back-to-back thousand yard seasons he’s had 15 touchdowns in the last two years combined it’s a lot easier to have that many touchdowns when you’re not the primary focus it’s a lot easier to have that reception now I’m

Not saying I’m not saying that I’m out on the idea but um AJ Brown was a number one wide receiver I was totally okay with the idea of AJ Brown making $25 million a year totally fine with it now I understood like Titans not a high passing volume team not necessar modern

NFL offense but you saw how much different he made them the minute he was out on the field and that’s as the guy that everybody’s protect protecting or defending against Beyond just trying to load the box and sto derck Henry all right auk hasn’t had the opportunity to

Be that player and I don’t want to say he can’t just because he hasn’t gotten the opportunity to be that player but I’m saying that to St to site the statistics that will bring that level of expectation on top of a contract that will be the level of expectation if you

Get paid the way that those other four get paid then the expectation from this fan base is going to be that you’re those guys that you are DK Scary Terry AJ brown or uh or Chris Godwin I know they mov Debo around a lot but auk was more of a receiving threat

This season than Debo Samuel within the Niners offense and Debo Miss time and auk has been an ascending player like his numbers have only improved year to year whether it’s receptions total yards touchdowns those numbers I mean he he is going on a steady incline through the

First four years of his career sure I’m just giving you the Devil’s Advocate argument t K on the F&M Bank chat says he doesn’t have to be a one we got dehop yeah but i’ I’d rather I don’t know I’d rather them make life as easy as humanly possible on

DeAndre Hopkins at at at 32 or 33 you know I mean h you don’t think having someone like Brandon auk makes life easier on DeAndre Hopkins sure no I’m not I’m not advocating against that but Trin Burks and KY Phillips were supposed to make life a lot easier on DeAndre

Hopkins and that didn’t go anywhere and of course auk is been a productive player those other two have not mattered on the on the NFL scale in any way shape or form meaningfully so I’m not I’m not comparing I’m just saying all those things sound lovely on

A fantasy football kind of exercise like we’re doing here and he’s a talented player I I don’t know you just you have to be you have to be prepared for you just have to be realistic realistic that it’s not that he’s not immediately going to be even if he is an

Ascending player and even if the money makes sense because the contracts get better salary C’s going to be 240 million this year it’s only going up it’s only going up foot football I meant to bring this up as a part of the Super Bowl numbers argument the ratings

Argument but I was telling Lucas this morning about a discussion that uh or seven years ago Mark cubin gave a gave a quote about the NFL getting too big for its Brides basically and uh pigs get fat Hogs get slaughtered type of stuff and the NFL was too gritty and now here the

NFL is just running the sport so there’s no indications that the salary cap is going to hit like a big wall anytime soon so 22 $22 million or $23 million for Brandon iuk sounds like a lot it won’t be in literally two years last year wide receiver throughout the course

Of the offseason felt like the biggest emphasis right yeah that was they number one priority and it was the thing that they let go until almost I mean damn near training camp so where does that rank now this off season in terms of Titans priorities one b one b he’s 32

He’s not going to be here forever this is the second year of his two-year deal Hopkins okay and you know and I’m not to I’m listen hop DeAndre Hopkins is a very very highly skilled player even if he’s not Peak him anymore and there was plenty of evidence to show that he can

Still be Peak him throughout the course of him being the first thousand yard wide here since AJ brown but you have to prepare yourself for at whatever Point DeAndre Hopkins is not here or not playing at that high of a level I don’t know that it’s going to

Happen next year I think there’s plenty of reasons to believe that it wouldn’t happen next year that a drop off with Hopkins might come but it’s 1B because then what if Hopkins goes and they’ll have other moves that they make like it’s not just going to be KY

Phillips and Tayon Burks looking around at each other in a room after Hopkins is no longer on this roster but they can’t be two of the more meaningful Parts based on how this current wide receiver room is constructed you have to head your bets so why have you turned your nose up at

The thought of Brandon iuk I haven’t okay because I mean you list out the players in that category of the 22 to 25 million range that reference that’s the only that’s the only thing that I have I have nothing against iuk I’m just saying but who is that’s going

To be available to no I I get what you’re saying no I’m totally totally Point like that’s the game you got to find somebody to come in and be that guy no Lucas you miss you you uh I’m simply pointing out the points of reference that they have provided for

His contract based on who he is who he has been in a 49er system and how it is a lot easier to be Brandon iuk in the 49er system when you have Debo and mcaffrey and use Che like like like uh you heard the part where uh Janti says he’s the fifth

Option he’s behind the fullback and still producing because it was a record setting offense this year for San Francisco feel like that’s a bit of an exaggeration to say he’s behind Kyle yusek in the uh pecking order of Niners targets to get the football to you see

Some of the some of the grabs yek was made making in that Super Bowl he’s a great player he he is a very very valuable asset I don’t say that tongue and cheek I’m saying that KY Shan hand makes him a priority in that offense sure but let’s not pretend that Brandon

Auk is the fifth best option the person who is arguing for the contract just said that he is Lucas like I’m not saying that that is that that is it’s not some kind of fallacy though that’s a thing in the Niners offense where they line mcaffrey up at wide receiver where

KD is in the back field where yuse cheek is split out wide like their their offense makes that a viable thing is my point sure but like he’s the number one won wide receiver on the 49ers offense KY had 14 catches this year against him all I’m saying is it’s a different kind

Of offense you’re putting him in an entirely different situation with the contract expectations of AJ Brown DK metf Scary Terry and Chris Godwin and there is nothing to say that that person can’t be among one of the better wide receivers in football as you said he’s

25 he’s he’s hitting the peak of his career Brandon IU could end up being as good a WI receiver as any of those but it’s a lot different going from that to what this is cu this is a this is a franchise that has been cursed by the

Wide receiver position and I don’t say that like jokingly I think Titans wide receiver is a cursed position and that people are going to be looking at him making 20 20 plus mil however much Beyond 20 mil it is and thinking that that’s how this is

Going to go it’s going to put a lot of pressure on him as it should it’s going to put a lot of pressure on the co coaching staff to get him involved is going to put a ton of pressure on will Levis and pressure raises expectations and this is a franchise that wants

Raised expectations and you’ve got the money to spend and it doesn’t he doesn’t have to make $22 million next year it’s a completely Fair it’s a completely Fair scenario in fact it’s a scenario that I very much like but you can’t ignore all the other factors that go into a

Decision like that is my point 61573 7145 is the number if you want to jump in so uh there’s there’s going to be some other discussions around this as we’ve talked about we haven’t really we haven’t really begun Titans offseason talk yet so I guess now

Is a good time as any the number one offseason priority for the Tennessee Titans at any level whether that’s roster coaching decisions have largely been made but there are still some places to fill out where is the biggest offseason priority for the Tennessee Titans understanding the you know the

Calendar EV of events that are right around the corner with combine with free agency with draft udfas will be into voluntary stuff in OTAs before you know it what is the biggest priority in the next six months of Tennessee Titans planning and preparation and roster construction on the burrow discussion that we had

Earlier and kind of going back last week to us talking about Brock Bowers and his level of interest in playing for the Titans and painting that scenario for people a tight end at seven but not a tight end at seven the best tight end prospect that we’ve since seen since Kyle pittz at

7 I still come back to saying left tackle or Bust at seven talk first round draft pick wherever that draft pick may fall I want to see them invest in the offensive line organically I think that the wide receiver money is a way better justification of value in free agency

Than is the offensive line decisions that doesn’t mean that you can’t sign offensive line in in free agency there will be depth there will be guys that are retained there will be pieces and parts that end up starting for you that are critically important understand all

That get your left tackle of the future and let’s settle this thing now all right he doesn’t have to be perfect in his rookie year in fact it’s entirely likely that he’s G to be kind of like scaroni a rookie offensive lineman on a bad but improving looking to improve

Offensive line but I’m much better with the idea of that than paying somebody Dillard was a value based on the position just based on the position I’m not saying that he was a value but he was like the value play right he was the lottery ticket

That if it pans out your he’s your Jawan Jennings $1 to win 371 no that would have been more like a Donovan Smith who ends up in Kansas City on a $3 million one-year deal at left tackle when did he sign I wonder relative to to Dillard

Because Dillard was obviously a a March free agency signing and I want to say that Donovan Smith may not have been healthy by the time that rolled around and was a later signing either way I I don’t remember exactly the details on that my point being I don’t want to see them pay

Another stop Gap left tackle if you are going to invest seriously in your offensive line let it be with meaning draft picks where you’re picking as high as you have since 2017 May 2023 was when Donovan Smith signed with Kansas City so later later not like Hopkins late but later yeah

Uh guard and Center says Kent are the top offseason needs quality offensive line help Olivia in the F&M Bank chat Titans free agent history get paid get hurt get gone says Sam Hy well I mean you know every team has that every team’s got disappointments all over the

Roster you’ve dealt with a fair amount of disappointment to your to your credit you have suffered through a significant amount of roster disappointment free agency draft picks or otherwise in the last couple years so I’m not going to discredit that but I’m I like Tyron

Smith is going to be a free agent the left tackle from Dallas yeah BF on the F&M Bank chat says give me Bowers and the left tackle from Dallas and let’s roll do you know how if you’re going to site left tackle availability then Tyron Tyron Smith is going to be your

Nightmare at the end of his probably Hall of Fame career but you don’t want the guy at the end of his probably Hall of Fame career you want the guy who could be your next pro bowler your next all proo your next solution that position as much as any

And I I you know the Center Market I wouldn’t be upset with them going out into the into the Center Market and paying that position cuz at least it’s less taxing based on how tackles and guards and and centers are getting paid but you know the best offensive linemen are

Making $20 million a year cuz it’s as quick to get pressure from the inside as it is from the outside anymore when you weigh offensive line versus best player whether it’s you know wide receiver mil neighbors or Brock Bowers at seven whatever it might be I will say the and it’s so enticing

That you’re in that window of setting the left side for 10 years of bringing one guy in one year konsky bringing in your left tackle the next and then if it works leaving it alone leave it alone like addressing it in the same window and just letting that carry the

Left side for x amount of years to come obviously you have to get it right for that to be the case but that is very enticing as opposed to 33y Old Tyron Smith Lucas I don’t want to spend another offseason talking about offensive tackles and that’s just from our selfish

Perspective Titans fans don’t want to hear another offseason talking about all the different left tack tack Les in the draft for them to sign Andre Dillard and be miserable again it’s not left tackle or bust that shouldn’t be the draft strategy nor would it be like that’s not how they’re

Going to go into the draft room but understand from my perspective the number one thing that they have to get right this off season full stop is that position first and foremost as they try and get the best out of the quarterback because Joe burrow can make it right for

A little while and then Joe Burrow’s get getting hurt all the time Ben rothberger can make plays with his legs for a long time and after a while people start to catch up to him and he looks like a broken bag of glass like this is

Not it’s it’s an argument I wonder how this hits you it’s an argument as somebody who cooks on a regular basis how long does it when you’re when you’re getting into a recipe when you’re posting all your food uh your food thirst traps on your Instagram story and

Things like that how long does it take you to cook an average meal in the panika household oh 30 minutes okay 30 minutes not bad Would You Rather Make A Meal in 30 minutes enjoy the process enjoy the results have a satisfactory meal at the end of the day or microwave something in

30 seconds and get it get it over with and try and get on to the next thing slow cook this thing baby give me the former unless the microwavable part is in exchange for I I’m having a hard time drawing up a metaphor for taking Brock

Bowers at seven over over stop and stop Gap left tackle uh I having a hard time drawing those two but yeah the first one okay you’re really P out there bud no I couldn’t do it I couldn’t do it I tried to give you a layup food’s your spot I

Help me out with the best available food metaphor I got nothing I got nothing last call for phone call 6157 37145 is the number uh we’ll do that we’ll update the polls we’ll get you over to bla and Mickey coming up next fun show we got more Bon tickets to give

Away tomorrow I’m excited about that make sure you bring your submissions for the dumbest thing in sports this week I think that’s the thing that I well there’s a lot of things that I’m looking forward to about what we’ve got coming up for you guys and as we help you

Soldier through the offseason in this football as drought we got a lot of cool things coming up and whatever whatever is cooking with bonaroo is something I’m particularly excited about so we’re looking forward to giving you guys tickets not just on Wednesday tomorrow at 11 o’clock when we’ll do the dumbest

Thing in sports but Lucas also for Friday fire yes that is correct multiple opportunities Friday fire on Friday at 11:45 so couple more chances for you to win some bonaroo tickets uh 61573 7145 last call for phone calls Brandon in Nashville is next hey guys um I had a hypothetical

Question I wanted to ask you all uh if we had the same pieces last year on the offensive line uh what you all think about Bill kahan’s value about what percentage do you think we would have been better on the offensive line like I would say about 20% better um what you

Guys think like for so Bill Callahan with last year’s group is what you’re asking yeah I think that was the question oh I mean I don’t know that’s tough for me to determine so here’s what I’ll say okay the Browns line was pretty hurt last year Browns found a way to

Circumnavigated did it without Nick chub they weren’t the best version of themselves and I think those flaws showed up because Conlin hasn’t really been he’s he’s played the majority of his games obviously as a brown but he’s dealt with some health stuff since he’s been there jedric Wills is not really a

Good player yet which is not something we really talk about with the with the Brian Callahan thing the former first round pick or excuse me with the Bill Callahan thing I’m going to do that a million times this year so that jedric Wills hasn’t really reached full potential is an interesting

Note in there I’d be interested to talk to Bill about that well the Titans offensive line last year like the big problem was it was terrible week one it was terrible week 16 terrible Training Game there was no element but the the point is there was no element of

Improvement throughout the course of the Season it felt like and if anything it it got worse like Peter gronsky’s worst football probably came near the tail end of the season right yeah and that and that’s it’s just so hard and it yeah and Peter sc’s playing a 17 game slate for

The first time in his career well no he didn’t remember he missed a couple of games with the append sure but a 17 game slate like he’s playing that long of a season for the first time in his career Jason hot tailing firsttime offensive line coach in the NFL yeah

Versus Bill Callahan arguably the best offensive line coach in the NFL alive I think it’s fair for us to say yeah you we should have we could have expected at least some improvement there yeah sure no I’m I’m not arguing against it’s just it’s a hard exercise for me to kind of

Do in real time cuz in that situation as Mike Vel still the coach you know like if Bill Callahan is coaching for Mike vrael and and Bill Callahan wants to play Dylan Raiden at left tackle but Mike Rael wants him at guard who wins that discussion and how does it play

Itself out you know so I I don’t want to completely dismiss your hypothetical there um it’s just a it’s a hard one to kind of discern that is the thing that you’re trying to protect yourself against though not just with your offensive line right but with your backup quarterback you need depth guys

To play you need depth guys to be ready to play you need depth guys to be in the best possible position to succeed and that’s what they’re trying to do um with those hires specifically it’s not just about Levis it’s a little bit about Malik it’s not just about scony it’s a

Little bit about Duncan so we’ll see how that pays dividends in the coming months puls please hello my name AB Borat there is show in America called Buck Rising I like very much as a man named Lucas like my producer as a m bagov will update something called final Bings I’m very

Excited very excited do it Lucas la la la La presented by Two Rivers Ford the most trusted Ford dealer in the South what in sports made you say oh no this weekend Karen says the ners not knowing Super Bowl overtime rules yeah that’s a that’s a tough one especially the offensive guys you hate to accuse them of not

Being ready for the moment but that seems like a pretty important scenario to have to prepare for just not having a plan for overtime Cory says watching Dre green LA’s Achilles by jogging onto the field I think I said ACL earlier it was definitely an Achilles injury did you

Say uh ACL I think I did okay uh which AFC team is closest to competing with the Chiefs puka says the Bengals if Joe burrow stays healthy obviously that’s a huge question mark right now John says the Bengals Karen says the Ravens Brent says Houston and buffalo no I don’t

We’ll we’ll see what happens with Houston this year um Bobby slowick being back is big for CJ strad I think CJ strad is obviously an ascending player but we all expected Trevor Lawrence to make substantial leaps and it’s been a a bit of a SLO for him so there’s no

Guarantee about that I’d say if you’re picking between Lamar and burrow you it’s not bad options what should be the Titans number one offseason priority TG p79 says that’s easy offensive line Improvement the question is will it be mostly through free agency or the draft please God

Draft please don’t spend a bunch of money in free agency on on offensive linemen I’ll cry he says or do they think Dad can do something with what we have already referring to Bill Callahan no the the thing that I know definitively is that you will be getting

New offensive lineman in some form or fashion Leo lays it out offensive lineman one offensive lineman two offensive lineman three wide receiver four lock down Corner five he says in that order a lock down corner at five okay hoping to find a lock down Corner late in the draft huh what about the

Titans gives you the most confidence right now Blake says the positive reviews of the Titans coaching hires talking about the staff being compiled under Brian Callahan yeah it’s all well and good nobody’s done anything to for you to yell at them about yet other than give press conferences so all the feel

Good is fine Eric says it is ran and Callahan staff building he says it’s diverse in background and experience levels and it felt like a desired location for several highly sought after coaches basically the polar opposite of the last decade plus he says yeah but who’s going to who’s going to look

Around and say he you know I really wanted that bears gig but I took the Titans job because it’s a job I think dard Wilson is the name that comes to mind there sure uh I mean that’s a guy that could have been a candidate in Baltimore who did end up staying in

House to replace Mike McDaniel or McDonald excuse me we’re going to do that a lot I’m not dismissing it they absolutely did uh get viable candidates that were viable elsewhere as well I just laugh at the idea of people you know saying that they were excited to

Come here about a job that they’ve just taken rather than saying like you you know what whatever Tennessee I’ll go those the pul all right that’s the show bla and Mickey coming up next uh I didn’t know they had Delany Walker on yesterday I don’t know who they’ve got

Planned for today but it’s always a good time with bla and Mickey you got 3hl after that enjoy yourselves uh I will talk to you tonight at 8:00 pm on the prime time show