Jones & Keefe: Should there be concern with Mike Vrabel's wide receiver track record?

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00:00AJ Brown is a Pro Bowl All-Pro caliber receiver.

00:04He was the second round pick, 51st overall.

00:07That's the one receiver in Tennessee that they drafted.

00:09You wanna hear the other ones that didn't work out?

00:11They drafted a bunch.

00:12I mean, it wasn't Vrabel drafting him, though.

00:14I mean, famously, it was Jon Robinson

00:16who we thought he could replace AJ Brown.

00:17True.

00:18But some of this was even before that, right?

00:20So...

00:21Yeah, but I don't think Vrabel had roster control.

00:23No, but he's the coach there,

00:25and they're trying to fit to his system.

00:27Like, this is one of the things

00:27you've already heard about Vrabel.

00:29They traded away his best receiver when he said, don't.

00:32Right.

00:33So, I mean, I don't know if he had full say

00:34on who to draft, either.

00:35Nope, that's fair.

00:36But Ryan Cowden was their director of personnel,

00:39or whatever he was, pro personnel.

00:40And so...

00:42But then you look at this more as a Jon Robinson thing,

00:43because Jon Robinson also worked with Bill Belichick,

00:47and those guys all together famously can't draft receivers.

00:49So you put none of this on, Vrabel?

00:50Let's give you the names.

00:51Yeah, go ahead.

00:52Corey Davis, fifth overall pick.

00:54Bust.

00:54That was bad.

00:55Traylon Burks was the replacement for AJ Brown,

00:57the first round pick, 18th overall.

00:59Bust.

01:00AJ Brown was in the second round.

01:01Other than that, these were later picks in their defense,

01:03but that's two first rounders they whiffed on.

01:05Well, Corey Davis was an insanely high pick.

01:07Fifth overall for a receiver, and yeah.

01:10The other receivers, and these are all third round

01:13to be on, Taewon Taylor, Des Fitzpatrick,

01:15TyJay Sharp, did he go to UMass?

01:17Yes.

01:18TyJay Sharp, Kyle Phillips, Racy McMath.

01:21I don't remember him.

01:21Racy McMath?

01:23No chance that's a real name, is what it says.

01:26That's a Key and Peele skit.

01:27That is Racy McMath, Appalachian State, and Colton Dowell.

01:33So I'd focus mostly on the top.

01:35They whiffed on their two first round receivers in Tennessee.

01:38It doesn't sound like it's a red flag for you,

01:40but I'll ask anyway.

01:42Does that concern you at all with Mike Vrabel

01:44and at least their track record

01:45of drafting receivers in Tennessee?

01:47And does that inform you that maybe steer clear

01:49of the draft altogether and go all in

01:51in free agency and trace?

01:52Yeah, I was already there anyway.

01:53That's true.

01:54I mean, regardless of what his track record was.

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