Welcome into Tailgate, Austin Gale here and Mike Renner in Mobile, Alabama, the new meeting room.

We were in the boardroom yesterday. We're in the president's room today in our wonderful hotel

in Mobile. We're going to look at the winners and losers from all three days of practices.

We're recording this right after practice Thursday, February 3rd at 6.26. Let's get it.

Mike, before we get into the senior ball and the practices, obviously what you come to this city for,

I kind of want to set the stage for what media coaches, GM scouts all do when they're not at practice,

right? I think it's important to identify the wins after practice because I think they're pretty good.

Well, I think just kind of setting the stage for what you see on the field, too, is helpful in terms of how

you know all the reports are Mike Tomlin. It's like a poorly kept secret that he was eyeing

Mike Willis because kind of how it's set up at Hancock Whitney Stadium is every like all the media

are in the stands on one side of the football field and then pretty much all the high-end personnel,

so each NFL team gets I think it was five passes for the field and then the rest of them are up in

like the press boxes and the actual boxes of the stadium, all the scouts and whatever are crammed into

these tiny boxes that they all have for themselves. But the high-end guys, whether it's you know what

usually head coach, GM, director of college scouting, whatever are all there on the football field

as well. And so you can tell who they are literally following around practice. Like you can see

their movements where they're at and I saw, you know, Mike Tomlin literally hop in and start running

a drill with a defensive line and looking right at Travis Jones, the Connecticut defense tackle,

like trying to help him out and it's like, oh, maybe he has some interest in this dude,

maybe playing no stack with Pittsburgh students in the future and obviously falling around

Malik Willis to see what he was doing as well. I think Tomlin's one of the more obvious situations

where the coaches on the football field, he's going drill the drill and specifically looking at

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