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Speaker 1: Brown's assistant general manager and vice president of player Personnel, Glenn Cook joins us in studio. Thank you very much for joining us.
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Speaker 2: Thank you guys, I'm here.
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Speaker 1: So what what changes when you start out with a plan? I take it last night and then you gotta wait till seventy four to make it make a pick? How much of the plan changes as you as your wait for seventy four to come around.
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Speaker 2: It's constantly moving, you know, it's it's it's a long way down to seventy four, but kind of it's funny like once it got to the end of the second round, we felt like we were in a good spot, so end up being good. It wasn't too long of a wait. I thought we were going to pick about ten o'clock tonight, So yeah.
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Speaker 3: It definitely is a long process that get dragged. Now did y'all ever think about moving up at any point?
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Speaker 2: I mean you can, Yeah, you consider you consider everything, right, Like you kind of see how the board's falling, and you know, we have a good sense of what other teams may be targeting, so we kind of consider it both ways. Honestly, Yeah, moving up, moving down, depending on once we got closer to our pick, but we kind of set it on you know, the big guy from Tennessee. Yeah, you know, we ended up feeling good to just sit and pick.
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Speaker 4: And you guys had experience with this last year when you trade out of the second round, didn't pick it your first pick and you got mj Emerson. So just looking incredibly productive. Obviously in twenty twenty one you mentioned that he had that injury, but size, some speed, certainly can win vertically, knows how to win in the end zone and contested catch situations. And then you know, I wo looked up at his game logs from twenty one, one hundred and fifty plus against Alabama, two hundred against Georgia, which had that unbelievable defense which now resides in Philadelphia. What did you guys see in twenty one that you said, Okay, this can be the guy. And what did you see even in twenty two that said this is the guy for us?
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Speaker 2: Things? You just said, no, I mean, it's just I think you know a guy like him that he's six three, two fifteen. Sometimes you have to probably assess the bigger receivers a little bit differently, and so you know, we take that into consideration. But the dude's really talented. Were really excited. You know, this league is a big man's league as we know it, and you know, playing in the SEC against the guys he was going against in the plays he made, I think he he put on film you know what he could potentially do on this level. And so you know the size, the speed, but you know, you wouldn't want to take away his ability to run routes at his size and get open and be fluid and separate. So, like I said, I think Kevin has a pretty good plan. He's really excited. Yeah, you know, to added body like this to to our team, and you never have enough receivers and enough guys who can make plays for really good quarterbacks. So you know, the stars aligned on this.
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Speaker 4: One when you look at our pass catching group as a whole. Now you've got some size, obviously with Tillman DPJ six to two, Amari's over six feet, then he got the tight ends. The chief of six four six five Akens is six y four, can run and can jump, and then you've got good one who can flat fly a little bit smaller, and then Eliz Moore could do everything, even though it's a little bit smaller. Was that kind of you now have such a diversity in size and skill set? Is that kind of it feels like it's an arms race in the AFC. You look around the teams that can score. Is that kind of part of the idea there to this?
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Speaker 2: You just want to do enough to be able to win the game that week, right, and every week is going to be different. Some weeks we're gonna give it a Chubb who we love to give the football to thirty times. You're gonna need to grind it out when the winds blowing fifty miles power. Then there's gonna be some weeks where you got to get a shotgun on third and seven a bunch of times and complete passes and convert third downs and throw the football down the field. So as diverse as you can be, and as many tools in your tool toolbox that you can have to win week to week. I think you see see that carry football teams deep into the playoffs, which is where we're trying to get.
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Speaker 1: What were the personal things about him that sold you on this young man, Cedric Tillmo.
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Speaker 2: You know he's got NFL pedigree, obviously with his father being an NFL receiver. But honestly's just speaking to him as a young man. He's exceptional. You know. Kevin talks about smart, tough, accountable, resilient team. He embodies every single one of those things. I think he garners his respect a little differently just by you know, more so being a doer than a speaker. But uh, you know, we started there and you just fall in love with the young man on the you know, our meeting at the COMBA and the thirty visit, just every every step of the way. He's someone as a person you want to add to the group. And then obviously the on field that's just extrajuicing sauce to the you know, to the meal. So I think all those things, and you know, potentially even more. He's still young, he's still growing, and hopefully he brings the style and version of leadership you know, to that group and to our team eventually that you want.
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Speaker 3: I like the fact that he only had like five drops in the season. That's uh, that's something that we can use. How do you see him and Deshaun getting together and jeling on the field.
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Speaker 2: You know, hopefully it Jael's pretty good. You know, I think John DeShawn knows how to distribute the football. You know, he knows how to get it to the guys who can make plays. And so you know, if Sad earns it, and I think he's going to come in and try to earn some playing time. If he earns it, I think Deshawna will really be happy with what he can do. You know, I don't like making comparisons, but you know, I think his skill set marries up pretty well what Deshaunka do
Speaker 1: Brown's assistant general manager and vice president of player Personnel, Glenn Cook joins us in studio. Thank you very much for joining us.
00:00:06
Speaker 2: Thank you guys, I'm here.
00:00:08
Speaker 1: So what what changes when you start out with a plan? I take it last night and then you gotta wait till seventy four to make it make a pick? How much of the plan changes as you as your wait for seventy four to come around.
00:00:21
Speaker 2: It's constantly moving, you know, it's it's it's a long way down to seventy four, but kind of it's funny like once it got to the end of the second round, we felt like we were in a good spot, so end up being good. It wasn't too long of a wait. I thought we were going to pick about ten o'clock tonight, So yeah.
00:00:39
Speaker 3: It definitely is a long process that get dragged. Now did y'all ever think about moving up at any point?
00:00:44
Speaker 2: I mean you can, Yeah, you consider you consider everything, right, Like you kind of see how the board's falling, and you know, we have a good sense of what other teams may be targeting, so we kind of consider it both ways. Honestly, Yeah, moving up, moving down, depending on once we got closer to our pick, but we kind of set it on you know, the big guy from Tennessee. Yeah, you know, we ended up feeling good to just sit and pick.
00:01:07
Speaker 4: And you guys had experience with this last year when you trade out of the second round, didn't pick it your first pick and you got mj Emerson. So just looking incredibly productive. Obviously in twenty twenty one you mentioned that he had that injury, but size, some speed, certainly can win vertically, knows how to win in the end zone and contested catch situations. And then you know, I wo looked up at his game logs from twenty one, one hundred and fifty plus against Alabama, two hundred against Georgia, which had that unbelievable defense which now resides in Philadelphia. What did you guys see in twenty one that you said, Okay, this can be the guy. And what did you see even in twenty two that said this is the guy for us?
00:01:42
Speaker 2: Things? You just said, no, I mean, it's just I think you know a guy like him that he's six three, two fifteen. Sometimes you have to probably assess the bigger receivers a little bit differently, and so you know, we take that into consideration. But the dude's really talented. Were really excited. You know, this league is a big man's league as we know it, and you know, playing in the SEC against the guys he was going against in the plays he made, I think he he put on film you know what he could potentially do on this level. And so you know the size, the speed, but you know, you wouldn't want to take away his ability to run routes at his size and get open and be fluid and separate. So, like I said, I think Kevin has a pretty good plan. He's really excited. Yeah, you know, to added body like this to to our team, and you never have enough receivers and enough guys who can make plays for really good quarterbacks. So you know, the stars aligned on this.
00:02:37
Speaker 4: One when you look at our pass catching group as a whole. Now you've got some size, obviously with Tillman DPJ six to two, Amari's over six feet, then he got the tight ends. The chief of six four six five Akens is six y four, can run and can jump, and then you've got good one who can flat fly a little bit smaller, and then Eliz Moore could do everything, even though it's a little bit smaller. Was that kind of you now have such a diversity in size and skill set? Is that kind of it feels like it's an arms race in the AFC. You look around the teams that can score. Is that kind of part of the idea there to this?
00:03:05
Speaker 2: You just want to do enough to be able to win the game that week, right, and every week is going to be different. Some weeks we're gonna give it a Chubb who we love to give the football to thirty times. You're gonna need to grind it out when the winds blowing fifty miles power. Then there's gonna be some weeks where you got to get a shotgun on third and seven a bunch of times and complete passes and convert third downs and throw the football down the field. So as diverse as you can be, and as many tools in your tool toolbox that you can have to win week to week. I think you see see that carry football teams deep into the playoffs, which is where we're trying to get.
00:03:39
Speaker 1: What were the personal things about him that sold you on this young man, Cedric Tillmo.
00:03:45
Speaker 2: You know he's got NFL pedigree, obviously with his father being an NFL receiver. But honestly's just speaking to him as a young man. He's exceptional. You know. Kevin talks about smart, tough, accountable, resilient team. He embodies every single one of those things. I think he garners his respect a little differently just by you know, more so being a doer than a speaker. But uh, you know, we started there and you just fall in love with the young man on the you know, our meeting at the COMBA and the thirty visit, just every every step of the way. He's someone as a person you want to add to the group. And then obviously the on field that's just extrajuicing sauce to the you know, to the meal. So I think all those things, and you know, potentially even more. He's still young, he's still growing, and hopefully he brings the style and version of leadership you know, to that group and to our team eventually that you want.
00:04:38
Speaker 3: I like the fact that he only had like five drops in the season. That's uh, that's something that we can use. How do you see him and Deshaun getting together and jeling on the field.
00:04:47
Speaker 2: You know, hopefully it Jael's pretty good. You know, I think John DeShawn knows how to distribute the football. You know, he knows how to get it to the guys who can make plays. And so you know, if Sad earns it, and I think he's going to come in and try to earn some playing time. If he earns it, I think Deshawna will really be happy with what he can do. You know, I don't like making comparisons, but you know, I think his skill set marries up pretty well what Deshaunka do
