Mr. Scot

Scott Fowler asked him a question about having "his guys" in charge now. Tepper mentioned that he got some criticism for his moves early on citing that some people "said I got rid of Rivera too early...moved on from Rivera too early". He did acknowledge that the team is now run by people he chose rather than people he inherited. As such, there's no one else to blame if things go wrong.

Gut feeling: I think he's given at least some preliminary thought to trading up.

Let's not leave out this part... "I believe in drafting/acquiring a quarterback every year."

You can watch it on You Tube.

Think of it this way... When you look at Sean McDermott, do you see a carbon copy of Ron Rivera? Likewise, can't assume Fitterer will be exactly like John Schneider.

I don't think we should assume it will be. All of us have things we'd do differently than our boss if we were in charge.

Interviewing personnel people is a lot like interviewing coordinators. How much credit does Eric Bieniemy deserve for the Chiefs successes or failures as opposed to Andy Reid? Same question with Fitterer, Carroll and Schneider. There's just no way to know. We'll find out once he starts building a roster.

Watching Rhule's presser, he mentions that he recruited Mac Jones at Baylor.

Worth remembering that Fitterer wasn't in charge.

Per his own story, he was interviewing about 12 hours after he found out he was up for the job. Given that three days later he was named GM, I'm not really gonna doubt his prep and interview skills.

FYI: Rhule presser at 12:15 per Kristen Balboni, by the way.

I believe him, and I don't see it as a red flag at all, honestly.

I wanna go back and review that section. I thought Tepper sounded just a tiny bit testy there.

Love hearing that. He said it yesterday too.

Sarcasm? They've been in the playoffs consistently. Given their level of success vs ours, hell yeah I'd try to emulate them.

I didn't see it as an intentional shot at Bridgewater because, per his own admission, he hasn't had a chance to really evaluate the roster yet. Now once you actually sits down and looks at the tape, then he's probably gonna be saying "oh".

Man, reporters can be such dicks. Ask a question he's already said he's not gonna answer - "I'm not going to say anything about that". Phrase the same question a different way - "Again, not going to get into that" Sheesh

Has talked to Jeremy Chinn, will reach out to McCaffrey and others.

Alaina Getzenberg finally gets a working device

Big on player character and drive

Believes you build from the lines out, with quarterback first

Mentioned left tackle...

Or up.

Says in the draft, once you get past 16 or 17, there's not a huge difference in quality of players.

Sounds like he's gonna let the football people do their jobs.