00:00I was looking for a specific word.
00:01I was having a Mike Pekka flashback.
00:03All the intangibles that he brings.
00:05He was also named a captain in Tennessee after they traded Jeffrey Simmons this season.
00:11So they traded one.
00:14This guy, he got to wear a C for a little bit, and then he gets traded, too.
00:19But at least it shows what his Titans teammates thought of him.
00:23And so we'll learn.
00:24And I hear he's a nice guy.
00:27You're not going to get any C.J. Gardner-Johnson moments out of him.
00:30You're probably not going to get any Deion Dawkins, you know, chattiness out of him.
00:35But an affable fella, from what I understand.
00:38And here's a little bit more from Nick Suss, just because he's covered him.
00:45There was a paragraph I wanted to read.
00:46A dependable back-end option.
00:49Hooker roves between strong and free safety roles.
00:52He spent the bulk of his career as the Titans' No. 2 safety,
00:54playing alongside the likes of Kevin Byard, Quandre Diggs, and Xavier Woods.
00:58I mean, to be No. 2 to those guys is not an indictment.
01:03But the Titans consistently rewarded Hooker for his performance,
01:06extending him to new contracts in 2022 and 2025.
01:12And so I just find it to be a good move.
01:19I think you would probably have to scour my coverage to find any point where I was critical
01:26beyond wondering if a second round for D.J. Moore would be worth it.
01:30Because I'm just not that, you know, Peter Griffin from The Family Guy saying,
01:37ooh, what's in the box?
01:38It could be, you know, this thing that I'm giving up for the box.
01:41There could be another one of those in there.
01:43Yeah.
01:43You know, you don't know.
01:44If you're giving up a second round pick, I mean, if you said they gave up their first round pick.
01:49I know.
01:50That's the thing I was...
01:51I would have said you're hoping to get a guy like Amani Hooker.
01:54Exactly.
01:55I mean, younger, of course, and on a rookie deal.
01:57Sure.
01:57But what you're paying for, instead of using that draft pick in June or July, whenever,
02:05you're using it now.
02:07And the price you pay for getting him early and getting him as a guy that you know can play
02:13in the league
02:14is, well, he's going to cost a little more.
02:16And at this point, if you can fit that in, which the Bills had to restructure Dawkins to do,
02:21but I think that's fine.
02:22I think you do that.
02:23I spent all day yesterday sitting in here saying, what are you waiting for?
02:29Why is that pick more valuable in the offseason to you than it is right now?
02:33Why don't you spend that now when you have a need that you will probably just use the pick then
02:38to address to get a player you know will work and is good now?
02:45Why don't you do that?
