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Speaker 1: HP dot com from Booth seven in Nissan Stadium. Mike Keith,
Speaker 1: Amy Wells, Coach Dave McGinnis, Rhett Bryant, all four of
Speaker 1: us together again, gangs all here, the gangs all here.
Speaker 2: The band is back the great place together up to
Speaker 2: at Nissan Stadium.
Speaker 3: With this practice, I mean, this is fun.
Speaker 1: Practice is complete. Let's first start off with talking about
Speaker 1: the big timer in the room, Amy Wells on NFL Network.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, whoa yeah, one take ye.
Speaker 1: By the way to the OTP people. Spoiler alert, spoiler alert.
Speaker 4: It was taped, but one take and I've never I've
Speaker 4: never done that for network before.
Speaker 5: Or I just walked up said the thing like boo'd.
Speaker 1: Did NFL network ask you to do something? They did not?
Speaker 1: Coach Mac, did NFL network ask you to do something?
Speaker 2: Well, they said, if we can't get Amy, we want you, Okay,
Speaker 2: because the answer is really no, that's no. They didn't
Speaker 2: ask me. So so let's be nice.
Speaker 3: Just be nice.
Speaker 6: You're very kind. That's very nice of you.
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of passive aggressive, but I think
Speaker 1: I'm also a little bitter.
Speaker 4: I think I'm also cheap labor, and I recognize that.
Speaker 1: You work in radio. For the most part, We're welcome and.
Speaker 5: I'm here and I'm happy to do it. And well,
Speaker 5: I was very proud that I did it in one take.
Speaker 1: What do you call it? Get back Saturday?
Speaker 7: What is it?
Speaker 5: Well together?
Speaker 1: Back together again?
Speaker 7: And let me say this while we're throwing praise around,
Speaker 7: because the three of us, Ashley Ferrell, you and myself
Speaker 7: were able to hear from up here and also on
Speaker 7: the field the job that Mike and Mac did basically
Speaker 7: being a PA, just analysis and a little bit of
Speaker 7: play by play and just engagement. And you're talking about
Speaker 7: during during during the practice, it was really In fact,
Speaker 7: I had a fan tell me I went across field
Speaker 7: to do an interview with a player and a fan said, hey, listen,
Speaker 7: them doing this at this event really kind of put
Speaker 7: it over the top. We felt like we were engaged
Speaker 7: and involved and were up to date on what they
Speaker 7: were doing on field, that we understood it, and.
Speaker 1: It's really all nice.
Speaker 7: So, Mike, whose idea was that that you guys do
Speaker 7: that Brian Callahan, the head coach of the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: Brian Callahan, Wow, he said that he liked, you know,
Speaker 1: and what's cool about Brian Callahan if many many things,
Speaker 1: but if you've ever worked for an NFL team and
Speaker 1: they bring in someone from another NFL team, the thing
Speaker 1: you don't want to hear is what they used to
Speaker 1: do where they were before. Yes, well, in Miami, it's
Speaker 1: like okay, whatever. In Seattle, I mean I'm that way
Speaker 1: and coaching too. He's never really Brian Callahan has never
Speaker 1: really done that, but he said in Cincinnati they would
Speaker 1: have Dan Horde and Dave Lapham do that. And Dan
Speaker 1: Hord is one of my favorite announcers anywhere, and Dave
Speaker 1: Lapham is so good as his color commentator. When he
Speaker 1: said that they did that, he said, that's what I said.
Speaker 1: So you want coach Mac is, oh yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 1: need coach Mac. So that's why we did it. Was
Speaker 1: Brian Callahan's idea.
Speaker 5: Well, it really was good.
Speaker 4: I was fully prepared to give you a hard time
Speaker 4: because I was like, man, does this guy just want
Speaker 4: to be part of practice? Like is that is that
Speaker 4: kind of what we're doing here now?
Speaker 5: Like is this the answer?
Speaker 1: No, because it's air conditioned up here in seven it
Speaker 1: sure is, yeah, and it was not down there, oh no.
Speaker 5: But it really was good.
Speaker 4: I had a bunch of fans tell me that it
Speaker 4: was great. They really enjoyed it. And it didn't make
Speaker 4: practice a little easier to watch, because I mean, we've
Speaker 4: seen a lot.
Speaker 1: Of practices in our day, we have.
Speaker 4: And still sometimes I look and I'm like, all right,
Speaker 4: what are we doing here?
Speaker 6: What's happening right now? If you don't know, you don't know.
Speaker 4: And so to be able to explain what's going on,
Speaker 4: talk about who it is, I mean, just even calling
Speaker 4: out players who do a good job, it makes it
Speaker 4: a lot easier to watch.
Speaker 6: So I hope so good idea CALLI.
Speaker 1: I hope fans like that and didn't think that was annoying.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Your fear about doing anything like that is that people
Speaker 1: are going to think, boy, that's annoying.
Speaker 6: Oh I don't think I didn't seem annoying.
Speaker 1: I got asked to do that at an event one time,
Speaker 1: over twenty years ago before I lived here, and they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: we want you to do play by play with this,
Speaker 1: and like twenty minutes into it, they came to just
Speaker 1: stop doing that. Wow, seriously, I'm sorry. It wasn't your suggestion.
Speaker 1: You were granting a request reaction you did. It's like,
Speaker 1: just stop doing that. Yeah, they came in. The guy
Speaker 1: came in pretty much hit at your paraphrase. It was
Speaker 1: that it was a national event in Niland Stadium. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they said, we'd like for you to be the
Speaker 1: play by play announcer and to engage the two color
Speaker 1: commentators and basically commentate the event. And I'm like, what
Speaker 1: I can do that, Sure, I'm happy to help. Twenty
Speaker 1: minutes into it, I mean twenty minutes stop doing that.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, that's what you told me to do.
Speaker 1: We were wrong, and they're baby, but please cease. Oh,
Speaker 1: They're like you're terrible. I mean that was the hall.
Speaker 1: I mean they this guy didn't even sugarcoated. He's like,
Speaker 1: this is this is not good? Wow? People are people
Speaker 1: are threatening to go jump off the Gay Street bridge.
Speaker 1: I mean it was wow, it was.
Speaker 6: It's not good.
Speaker 1: I drove home and I'll never forget just driving home
Speaker 1: in the dark, just thinking I suck.
Speaker 7: Wow, we don't How did you just not drive into
Speaker 7: a ditch because I mean.
Speaker 1: It hurts. It totally hurts. It totally hurts.
Speaker 3: Look at that, look at the look at the.
Speaker 1: So today it's better.
Speaker 3: Look at the Hall of Fame rebound. But being told
Speaker 3: you were horrible.
Speaker 1: But I mean, that's when he said this at practice
Speaker 1: the other day. My first thought is, oh, boy, I
Speaker 1: want to repeat because the scars quite going. But I
Speaker 1: will admit one thing to our advantage is I know
Speaker 1: this team, and Coach Mack knows this team a lot
Speaker 1: better than we did that night in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 5: This was good. I would not have told you to stop.
Speaker 4: And during the pauses they played Backstreet Boys, which was
Speaker 4: also nice.
Speaker 1: Did you hear me ask coach Mac if that was
Speaker 1: his playlist? They were?
Speaker 2: I said yes, I gave it to him right before
Speaker 2: when I walked into stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said play this.
Speaker 1: I tell you who won.
Speaker 7: And all this though as Titans fans, Oh, all the
Speaker 7: all the families, all the children that came, and just
Speaker 7: the cascade of calls wanting their favorite player to come
Speaker 7: over and sign their stuff. I mean, Ashley and I
Speaker 7: were up here at the booth and there was a
Speaker 7: young man during practice, Calvin Calvin Calvin. God, it was
Speaker 7: a little bit of a near worm, I'll admit. I
Speaker 7: hope Calvin found the young man. I hope the young
Speaker 7: man was at the end of practice building, but there was.
Speaker 7: When they were done and it was time to make
Speaker 7: their lap around the the lower bowl on the field,
Speaker 7: people were just you could see just the delight in
Speaker 7: their face.
Speaker 1: It was cool.
Speaker 3: I made a lap.
Speaker 2: I was right there with him making a lap that
Speaker 2: I give these fans a lot of c They all stayed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they stayed.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean it's a big shout out to
Speaker 2: the fans.
Speaker 1: Well, this was a great opportunity, first time we've had
Speaker 1: a chance to do this since twenty nineteen. You're right,
Speaker 1: and the reasons were obviously COVID. COVID for two years
Speaker 1: you you couldn't have done this. Uh, the Grand Prix, Yes,
Speaker 1: going around, growing around the stadium. Uh, changing out the turf. Yep,
Speaker 1: couldn't practice here. So there were I mean a lot
Speaker 1: of reasons, a lot of reasons, and it will be
Speaker 1: interesting to see if it can be done again with
Speaker 1: where they are in stadium construction.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be interesting going forward because as
Speaker 4: the stadium build progresses.
Speaker 5: It's you would assume and I'm not.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm not in construction.
Speaker 5: I'm not a lot of people think I am, but
Speaker 5: I'm not.
Speaker 4: I would assume that that footprint is going to get wider, right,
Speaker 4: and just the logistics of bringing people down here is
Speaker 4: going to get more challenging, especially because you try to
Speaker 4: get as much done as you can before the actual season, which, you.
Speaker 1: Know, what you hope from that standpoint is that it
Speaker 1: can be done based on the fact that people for
Speaker 1: the next three seasons will get used to some of
Speaker 1: the parking changes that they have to make.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, and that that's the number one thing that
Speaker 4: I get asked about anywhere I go, Right, where are
Speaker 4: we going to park?
Speaker 6: What about parking? How about parking?
Speaker 1: It's the number one question. And the reality is, I
Speaker 1: think the team is going to continue to come out
Speaker 1: with more information about what options are. I mean, the
Speaker 1: team's obviously very aware of it too. So maybe that
Speaker 1: that will become the norm once everybody gets used to
Speaker 1: it and you can do it, And so yeah, it
Speaker 1: would be I mean, it won't. You think it won't
Speaker 1: be a problem to open the stadium, but to get
Speaker 1: people to maneuver around here safely.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's going to be the.
Speaker 1: On an active construction site. You just don't you don't know.
Speaker 2: Let me just say this, Mike and amyen Rett Ashley,
Speaker 2: this is my third stadium build that I've been involved with,
Speaker 2: and that this is not unusual. Sure, I mean it's
Speaker 2: it's been the same thing every time, because your footprint
Speaker 2: just gets bigger and it gets different.
Speaker 7: The other thing that I took away from today is
Speaker 7: driving up this morning relatively early. I mean it was
Speaker 7: twenty minutes after nine, and I had to work on
Speaker 7: some things in here in the booth. But the line
Speaker 7: of people already waiting to get in, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 7: and I'm thinking, you know what's crazy. This is not
Speaker 7: just it's the beginning of the twenty fifth year of
Speaker 7: Titans football and this season, but it's the excitement that
Speaker 7: we all feel. It's different.
Speaker 1: Well, when you think about it and you take it holistically.
Speaker 1: High schools are practicing, they got pads on, We're doing
Speaker 1: some scrimmaging. Yep. College just start next week. Your favorite
Speaker 1: college team practices next week. We're going to put pads
Speaker 1: on on two Tuesday. And so it's all here Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all you know going on and and I mean
Speaker 1: it's just so. I mean, everybody is ready for football.
Speaker 7: But Mike, I think there's an extra layer to it
Speaker 7: when you consider everything that has happened to the Titans
Speaker 7: in the last six seven.
Speaker 1: Months, seven months. I mean we're sitting in booth seven
Speaker 1: and all of my stuff is still taped us Jacksonville game.
Speaker 4: It's all going to have to come down. I was
Speaker 4: looking at it while you were talking.
Speaker 1: It is all going to have to come down, yes,
Speaker 1: because that was for another game.
Speaker 6: All wrong.
Speaker 1: It was well, it's amazing.
Speaker 6: It incorrect.
Speaker 1: It's amazing the roster that's on the wall that beat
Speaker 1: Jacksonville in a game that they had to win and didn't. Yep,
Speaker 1: based on how different it is. I mean, thirty six
Speaker 1: new players out of the ninety one right now on
Speaker 1: the roster.
Speaker 6: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much to learn. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: from a football standpoint. Just start with you, Coach Mack.
Speaker 1: A player or players who has gotten off to a
Speaker 1: good start in the practices.
Speaker 2: Well, Lloyd Cushionberry, he has been. He's he's been so
Speaker 2: consistent from from day one. And you've got to have
Speaker 2: a guy at the in the center, you know, as
Speaker 2: I talked about, I mean, they're they're the hub of
Speaker 2: the spoke of the wheel there on the offensive line.
Speaker 2: But he's been consistent from day one. And you paid
Speaker 2: him for a reason, but he's displayed that reason. He
Speaker 2: has been so consistent. You guys know, I spent my
Speaker 2: whole off season with Bill Callahan in the offensive line,
Speaker 2: and I was watching him in particular because you know,
Speaker 2: jac Latham, you want to you want to watch because
Speaker 2: he's new and stuff, but I wanted to see really
Speaker 2: what they paid for, you know, when they when they
Speaker 2: got when they got Cushion Berry. And he's been very,
Speaker 2: very impressive to me. And and that's a that's a
Speaker 2: spot that unless you're really looking, you may gloss over that,
Speaker 2: but that's a huge, huge piece of this new offense.
Speaker 7: Right I have I'm to do this in Amy's fashion.
Speaker 7: Nine two only have two, one obvious and one not
Speaker 7: so obvious. The obvious one is Jeffrey Simmons. Jeffrey Simmons
Speaker 7: looks like he's ready to just storm out of the
Speaker 7: tunnel and get after the opposing quarterback right now. He's
Speaker 7: you can tell he's healthy. You can tell he's ready.
Speaker 7: It's just you know, keeping another foot in front of
Speaker 7: him and what has already been a nice career. But
Speaker 7: the other one that's not obvious to to OTP people
Speaker 7: is John Ajuku, who has really worked at right tackle
Speaker 7: on the offensive line. First year man from Boise State,
Speaker 7: undrafted last year, and the young man has just worked
Speaker 7: his rear end off in the off season and he's
Speaker 7: right there putting in the reps every day at right tackle,
Speaker 7: and you can tell he has absorbed everything he can
Speaker 7: absorb and continues to do so.
Speaker 1: I've said consistently based on John Ajuku, I don't know
Speaker 1: if they're gonna be able to get him out of there. Now.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen Nicholas petit Frere yet. He's still on pup,
Speaker 1: but do back soon. But I don't know that John's
Speaker 1: gonna lose that job at right tackle. I don't know
Speaker 1: that that's gonna happen. I mean, he's taken virtually every
Speaker 1: first string snap that I've seen through Mini camp and
Speaker 1: even some of the OTAs where they did have you know,
Speaker 1: the first line together. You get a sense that Bill
Speaker 1: Callahan is going to put that group together and if
Speaker 1: they if they are functioning as a five. He may
Speaker 1: not mess with it.
Speaker 2: Oh, Bill Callahan is not gonna play favorites either. He's
Speaker 2: gonna play dudes. He can get the job done right,
Speaker 2: and just extensively watching him what he put those guys
Speaker 2: through in OTAs for forty five minutes of individual I mean,
Speaker 2: as concentrated, in as detailed as I've ever seen, and
Speaker 2: Azyuku's taken advantage of it.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say JC Latham, even though Max specifically
Speaker 4: said not JC Latham.
Speaker 1: He specifically said, well, he said, you want.
Speaker 6: To say JC Latham, but not.
Speaker 3: So saved it for you.
Speaker 5: That's what you said, I saved you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that he has.
Speaker 4: He in my mind, has gotten off to a really
Speaker 4: good start because of course he's a rookie.
Speaker 6: He's in a new situation, but he.
Speaker 5: Never looks like a rookie.
Speaker 4: You watch him practice, and sure he looks like a
Speaker 4: guy who's learning a system or who's learning a new team.
Speaker 4: He does not look like a brand new person to
Speaker 4: the National Football League. And I think that that's a
Speaker 4: really big difference. And I think that the amount of
Speaker 4: work that we've seen him do, I mean, that's why
Speaker 4: he looks like he's done this before. Is because I
Speaker 4: mean he's getting double and triple the reps that everybody
Speaker 4: else is because he's working out on the field all
Speaker 4: the time, and so I think all of that is
Speaker 4: really starting to show and pay off. And so yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean he's making some mistakes here and there or
Speaker 4: is learning how to do things, but he doesn't look
Speaker 4: like a young new player.
Speaker 6: He just looks like a new player. And I think
Speaker 6: that's a big that's.
Speaker 3: A huge point.
Speaker 2: And and what that is from the coaching aspect of it,
Speaker 2: even though he's young, what you say, he's got mental maturity.
Speaker 2: He's got mental maturity. Ty J Spears had it when
Speaker 2: he came in here. Roger McCreary had it when he
Speaker 2: came in here. And mental maturity in this league is
Speaker 2: very important because the quicker they have that, then the
Speaker 2: more then the more dialed in they can get they're
Speaker 2: not distracted. And I think that you made a very
Speaker 2: good point. But the mental maturity has allowed him to
Speaker 2: be able to do not only the designated work, but
Speaker 2: the extra work.
Speaker 1: Kenneth Murray is mine. Coming out of Oklahoma, people thought
Speaker 1: he was otherworldly with his athleticism and then he goes
Speaker 1: to the Chargers and he played really well, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't the difference maker maybe that some thought he would be.
Speaker 1: And it feels like he's found the right system for
Speaker 1: what he does there.
Speaker 2: You're one hundred percent right, and that that makes a difference.
Speaker 2: It makes a huge difference.
Speaker 3: You know that.
Speaker 2: I know this defensive staff very well. I know Frank
Speaker 2: Bush better than any of them. I've been with him
Speaker 2: a long time. There was a reason he wanted this guy.
Speaker 2: I've seen him. I've seen him coach up guys like this.
Speaker 2: You know, first round picks that come out because you know,
Speaker 2: expectations on a first round pick are huge when they
Speaker 2: come out. But this system allows them. Once they understand
Speaker 2: where to put their eyes and we're talking about linebackers
Speaker 2: where to put their eyes, and they understand that, then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, they can go I think that's
Speaker 2: what you're seeing.
Speaker 1: Mike, Well, he's cutting it loose. There you go, and
Speaker 1: I mean you can you can see all the athleticism,
Speaker 1: and I mean, what are you going to do with
Speaker 1: him when he turns it loose? And they haven't been
Speaker 1: able to do much with him yet, and it's early,
Speaker 1: but it's early, but you understand. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: why Jamal Adams is here.
Speaker 3: Absolutely it is.
Speaker 1: Does Jamal Adams fit with twenty four other NFL teams?
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not, but in what they want to do,
Speaker 1: it feels like on defense in particular, they have gotten
Speaker 1: some guys who can do it well.
Speaker 2: The thing about this defense is, and again I gave
Speaker 2: Amy this playbook when I first came in here that
Speaker 2: took us five years to put together. Riet's got it
Speaker 2: now just to look at it to see. They've got
Speaker 2: designated defenses for dudes like this, and they'll have specific
Speaker 2: things that he will do. He hasn't missed a step.
Speaker 2: You saw it when he first when he first got
Speaker 2: in there. He understands and gets it. The thing also
Speaker 2: that's also important too, is you've got some guys that
Speaker 2: are visually quick trigger guys if you don't overload them
Speaker 2: with useless information, and that's extremely important. You know, some
Speaker 2: guys are like a camera shutter. It goes down and
Speaker 2: it doesn't come up quick enough, and all of a
Speaker 2: sudden stuff's happening around him. If you can take that
Speaker 2: part of it out of a player, then you've really
Speaker 2: got a chance to let him play.
Speaker 3: You know, you hear it, everybody. We've got to play fast,
Speaker 3: play fast, play fast.
Speaker 2: You play fast by knowing what you're looking at and
Speaker 2: recognizing what you're looking at quickly.
Speaker 3: And that's what you need to do.
Speaker 2: And you don't need to have a lot of ifs
Speaker 2: and butts and candy and nuts about if this happens,
Speaker 2: do this, if this happened, that you need to let
Speaker 2: them go. And there's a way that you can be disciplined,
Speaker 2: but you can still let them go. And I and
Speaker 2: that's what you're talking about now, Adams. You've got a
Speaker 2: veteran player there that he is a quick trigger dude.
Speaker 2: You're gonna see him in a lot of different spots
Speaker 2: in this defense.
Speaker 1: It feels like that Denard Wilson will use a lot
Speaker 1: of players on defense throughout the course of the season,
Speaker 1: many of whom will be based on the defense they
Speaker 1: want to run against certain opponents.
Speaker 2: You got it, Okay, you got it. I mean I've
Speaker 2: been in this defense for a long time in my career.
Speaker 2: And the thing about it is the first thing you
Speaker 2: tell them when you gather them together is with the defense,
Speaker 2: whoever makes this team and you're in this defensive meeting room.
Speaker 2: There are no backups in this room. There are no
Speaker 2: backups in this room. Everybody is expected to prepare and
Speaker 2: play like a starter because you're all going to get
Speaker 2: a chance to play.
Speaker 4: You know, every person that I've talked to on the
Speaker 4: defensive side of the ball, when I've been like, hey,
Speaker 4: what do you think of Dinard's new defense, what's it like,
Speaker 4: They've all said that they really like it because it
Speaker 4: gives them a chance to just get after it, just
Speaker 4: go kind of open it up and do what you do.
Speaker 4: And it's not designed with one specific position group in mind.
Speaker 4: They have all said that everybody gets a shot at it.
Speaker 4: Everybody gets a chance to make plays. There's not one
Speaker 4: group that makes the plays and the other guys who
Speaker 4: are kind of support the cleanup guys. Everybody gets gets
Speaker 4: a chance to kind of let it ride. And everybody
Speaker 4: really likes that. Jeff I just talked to him about it,
Speaker 4: my hooker, Like, everybody has said how much they like it,
Speaker 4: And that's really exciting to me because I think when
Speaker 4: guys are having fun and they can learn what to do,
Speaker 4: it's easier to go faster.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you're one hundred percent right, And I'm glad
Speaker 2: to hear the players say that, because that's the mindset
Speaker 2: that you've got in this defense and this defensive with
Speaker 2: these defensive coaches. I've just been with him a long
Speaker 2: time and that's what you said. And as I said,
Speaker 2: you're not preparing. Don't sit in this room when we're
Speaker 2: going over things thinking, I'll just lay back because I'm
Speaker 2: a backup and you're expected to play because there's gonna
Speaker 2: be a lot of ways that we can use it,
Speaker 2: use you. And plus if everybody can play and gets
Speaker 2: a chance to, it makes the time you're on the
Speaker 2: field that much more important.
Speaker 1: All right, rad who's a rookie that's grabbed you so far?
Speaker 1: Whether it be a draft pick. You can't see JC
Speaker 1: Latham because she already said that.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm Max said you can't.
Speaker 7: No, but I'll give you one. And this guy, I'm
Speaker 7: I'm gonna start nicknaming it bleach because he's going to
Speaker 7: be an ear to all the receivers up against Wow,
Speaker 7: he's that kind of dude. Waitle you ever you ever
Speaker 7: spilled bleach on yourself when you're doing your washing your clothes.
Speaker 7: It's irritated, hurt, right, Well, let me say this, he
Speaker 7: is and I mean in the good, the most positive
Speaker 7: way possible. He is going to be an irritant for
Speaker 7: anybody he's hip to hip with that that are are
Speaker 7: running formations and running uh wide receiver routes, and that's
Speaker 7: Jarvis Brownly.
Speaker 1: He's yeah, I'm telling now.
Speaker 7: Well, I mean think about this now, he's a rook
Speaker 7: and he's wearing cleats that look like highlighters from office depot. Right,
Speaker 7: you don't do that unless you've got this in your heart,
Speaker 7: in your because because guess what those guys in that
Speaker 7: locker room, they're gonna call you out on.
Speaker 1: Well, he's a Miami kid too, so right, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be a little you know, when you played high school
Speaker 1: football in Miami.
Speaker 6: That is adult football.
Speaker 1: It's adult And he went to the U before he
Speaker 1: went to Louisville, right, correct, Yeah.
Speaker 3: He's from that are the same fla Florida state.
Speaker 1: But to Florida State, that's right. But he's from Miami originally,
Speaker 1: and you know, yeah, I mean he's he certainly fits
Speaker 1: the type. He is a Chris Harris, Dinard Wilson, Steve
Speaker 1: Jackson guy. And that's what they said about him coming
Speaker 1: out is that he he fits the type that he's
Speaker 1: going to be super confident and super aggressive, and he has.
Speaker 6: Been and is the best nickname.
Speaker 3: No, no, it's great loot. Last year.
Speaker 2: You were on t J Spears from the Jump from
Speaker 2: the Draft, you got a T shirt with his picture
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 1: I sure did so you.
Speaker 2: Were getting nothing unusual about that at all? No, not no,
Speaker 2: not more to training camp and Tyler. Yeah, well you
Speaker 2: need to put the bleach and get his picture a
Speaker 2: T shirt.
Speaker 1: You know he's he may not embrace.
Speaker 3: No, he would embrace it if you explain to him
Speaker 3: what it is.
Speaker 1: Do you think he's ever used bleach for No, he's probably.
Speaker 6: The kids don't use bleach.
Speaker 2: These days, but to me, because it's an irritant and
Speaker 2: you're gonna you're gonna wipe everything out.
Speaker 3: He'd love it, but that was I don't know, bleached
Speaker 3: T shirt.
Speaker 4: I have.
Speaker 7: Run up the flash hole with him.
Speaker 1: But the O T people, I'm sure love it. By
Speaker 1: now they've probably already started a campaign.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 1: But irritating your or you could that's what I was.
Speaker 5: That's what I was afraid of.
Speaker 4: All right, now the show can start, too easy, Let's ride.
Speaker 3: Way too easy.
Speaker 1: Alright, Bleach, you can.
Speaker 6: Call me that nickname. I don't know, go to Mac.
Speaker 1: You don't have one. Jackson is ja He's playing well.
Speaker 2: Jaquan Jackson again, another guy that's mentally strong as a
Speaker 2: young guy.
Speaker 3: You can see why he and Taija are just really close.
Speaker 2: You can just you can. You can see it. And
Speaker 2: Taje admits, I mean, this is the business man. This
Speaker 2: is a grown up in the room when we're together,
Speaker 2: and I just like the way he carries himself. He'll
Speaker 2: find his way onto this team.
Speaker 1: I think he does too. He you know, he's just
Speaker 1: you look at him and you talk to him, and
Speaker 1: you watch him, and you think that's not a six
Speaker 1: round pick, right, I mean, you think this guy's he's
Speaker 1: a good player, and he acts like he's about thirty.
Speaker 1: And I mean he's like he walks the halls like
Speaker 1: he knows everybody, says hello and everybody. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: not the meek and mild rookie. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that in a bad way. I'm saying he just acts
Speaker 1: like he belongs here and he's gonna be here, and
Speaker 1: for that reason, he plays confidence.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been reading a lot of rookies in my career,
Speaker 2: and you can tell some of the ones that.
Speaker 3: Are a little bit overwhelmed by it at first.
Speaker 2: Doesn't mean they're not gonna be a good player, right,
Speaker 2: but from the initial jump, it's a little bit for
Speaker 2: him and Tyl Sedley he wasn't like that.
Speaker 7: Well, it goes back to what you were saying a
Speaker 7: few minutes ago about mental maturity. It is he's kind
Speaker 7: of what for lack of a better term, at old soul.
Speaker 7: He's grown. He's a grown up guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well was like it. Roger mcgra was like that,
Speaker 3: and we've seen what those got. Anyway, that's my guy.
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Speaker 3: Did you get Amy's person?
Speaker 1: That's why I was giving her a little more time?
Speaker 6: Oh I didn't.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to make sure that no one else
Speaker 4: stuck out to me. And as I was, you know,
Speaker 4: perusing the roster just to double check you know, the
Speaker 4: name that just keeps popping up over and over and
Speaker 4: over to.
Speaker 5: Me is Gabe Judy Lawley.
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 4: Just he just kind of doesn't go away, not in
Speaker 4: an irritating way, in a lovely.
Speaker 6: Way, but he just he's always making plays.
Speaker 4: He's always kind of around everybody, kind of hey, have
Speaker 4: you noticed have you seen you know who's really stuck out?
Speaker 4: To me, like he just more tidepod, not a little
Speaker 4: bit more yeah, a little bit more agreeable to the skin,
Speaker 4: but he's just always been around and you just always
Speaker 4: see him in the mix. He's always in the mix,
Speaker 4: and I think that's a really good place to be.
Speaker 1: As a I think that's right. Yeah, I mean he's
Speaker 1: in today. In practice, he's got reps with the second
Speaker 1: Gris with Cheeto, a woosey out with the calf.
Speaker 3: He's moved up.
Speaker 1: He's moved up. And you know, he was getting like
Speaker 1: fifth corner reps early. It was you know, it was
Speaker 1: really a woosey and snead with McCrary playing inside, and
Speaker 1: then Avery would be in there, yep, and so that
Speaker 1: was a you know, and then Garrer would get some
Speaker 1: reps in there too. But then the next guy was
Speaker 1: always well, if it wasn't Brownlee, it was Judy Lawley,
Speaker 1: and well Browley.
Speaker 3: Was injured for that's true.
Speaker 1: But he's taken full advantage. You know his story. It's
Speaker 1: from Charlotte Ghost, Vanderbilt graduates Vanderbilt in three years.
Speaker 6: It's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very Yeah, goes to b YU for a year, sure,
Speaker 1: and so then he transfers to Tennessee and he has
Speaker 1: a nice year for the balls. But this system seems
Speaker 1: to fit his skill set better than any of the
Speaker 1: three colleges where he played. There are some people who've
Speaker 1: covered the SEC who are surprised he's doing this. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and yet they'd never seen him be asked to get
Speaker 1: up and play this sort of physical because most colleges,
Speaker 1: was it fair to say most colleges don't do this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they they're they're not as extensive as this is.
Speaker 2: And they and they don't they don't put a premium.
Speaker 3: On as much press man as this corner group will do.
Speaker 1: Mine is Jalen Harold. Okay, Jalen Harrold, seventh round pick, Michigan.
Speaker 1: He's shown up a lot, yep. I mean he's kind
Speaker 1: of all over the place. You it's it's bad. So
Speaker 1: I violated my own rule already. I haven't seen him
Speaker 1: in pads yet.
Speaker 3: There it is.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna matter with a Kenneth Murray
Speaker 1: because we've seen him in pads before. We've never seen
Speaker 1: this player in pads and yet maybe it's because the
Speaker 1: Titans need help it outside linebacker. Maybe it's because Harold
Speaker 1: Landry hasn't practiced yet due to illness. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is that I'm I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm giving him too much credit. But I'll say I
Speaker 1: want to see.
Speaker 2: More, okay, And that's completely fair.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not like you haven't watched a lot
Speaker 3: of players come through in the National Football but you
Speaker 3: do know.
Speaker 2: But I mean, if there's some things that they do,
Speaker 2: pads are not that you say that guy's got a
Speaker 2: little extra gear to him.
Speaker 1: I like the way the guy hustles. I like the
Speaker 1: way he comes off the edge. He just seems to
Speaker 1: be around to make stuff happen. And that's the kind
Speaker 1: of the common tie defensively that they've gotten with a
Speaker 1: Kenneth Murray, with a Jamal Adams, with a Sebastian Joseph
Speaker 1: day with cheetoh a woosey with I mean, certainly with
Speaker 1: lugerious need. They have gone out and gotten all these
Speaker 1: people who make things happen. I mean, you listen, if
Speaker 1: you want to hire a linebacker to just go make tackles,
Speaker 1: you can find fifty of those guys. They never they
Speaker 1: never sacked the quarterback, They never bat down a pass,
Speaker 1: they never force a fumble, they never recover a fumble.
Speaker 1: Some people in life just make plays.
Speaker 3: Well, it's not only making a tackle, that's where you
Speaker 3: make the tackle.
Speaker 2: Well that too, yeah, I mean you can make a
Speaker 2: tackle six yards downfield and on the on the game
Speaker 2: sheet it looks like tackle. Oh yeah, if you're making
Speaker 2: a tackle six seven yards downfield, you're probably getting your
Speaker 2: fanny handed.
Speaker 1: Well to my point. To my point is, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not if you're a linebacker in the NFL and
Speaker 1: you're a starter, you can make ten tackles a game.
Speaker 1: But what are those ten.
Speaker 3: Tackles you're talking You're talking about impact.
Speaker 1: Impact players and they I mean taking a chance on
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams I'm all for because if Jamal Adams gets
Speaker 1: back to doing Jamal Adams things, he's incredibly disrupted well.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have You're gonna have impact plays in the
Speaker 2: game right somewhere.
Speaker 1: This is a team that had six interceptions last year.
Speaker 3: That's not enough.
Speaker 1: No, that's poor. I mean, I mean this. I mean
Speaker 1: they've got to do better. They've got to get more takeaways,
Speaker 1: they've got to to be more impactful on defense. And
Speaker 1: and it spreads too. I mean when you start to
Speaker 1: get guys you know, well, causing problems things. I mean, truthfully,
Speaker 1: when I walked in here this morning and I saw
Speaker 1: Deniko Autrey's name on the roster from last year, it
Speaker 1: broke my heart all over again because he was a
Speaker 1: guy who did that. He did he her, he was
Speaker 1: he made impactful plays, and I wish he would retire
Speaker 1: and just we'll be happy.
Speaker 7: But it's gonna play for Houston. He was big bleach,
Speaker 7: he was irritating.
Speaker 1: I love you, man.
Speaker 5: I'm riding.
Speaker 3: I'm with Amy.
Speaker 1: I'm very worried about how that's gonna go.
Speaker 3: I'm with Amy.
Speaker 4: I'm riding all the way.
Speaker 1: I don't think that, I don't think the I just
Speaker 1: I know some oti people and I'm just not sure
Speaker 1: I know a lot.
Speaker 2: Of them, but I know Amy, and I'm on this.
Speaker 2: She's she's always.
Speaker 1: Good setting you up. I'm not. She wants to laugh
Speaker 1: at you as well.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't care. That's good. I do not care.
Speaker 5: Tracking with the line of thought, I am I'm all
Speaker 5: in all.
Speaker 1: Right, so we have love it. We have to wrap
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Speaker 1: it makes sense. I would say, Hey, Titans.
Speaker 4: Fans would be weird if you were like, Hey Steelers.
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Speaker 6: Yes, and that has an explanation exclamation point.
Speaker 1: It does, and you didn't feel like I he didn't,
Speaker 1: I'll hit it. So let's talk about the next week
Speaker 1: Titans a Sunday off, a light practice Monday, and then
Speaker 1: onto the pads. How does the design of practice outside
Speaker 1: of the obvious but from the coaching staff standpoint, how
Speaker 1: does the design of practice change with the addition of pads.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, you ramp up. They practicing fast,
Speaker 2: but you ramp up the speed and you go full food.
Speaker 2: They're taking nobody to the ground, but now it's full food.
Speaker 2: So what it has to happen is anytime, anytime now
Speaker 2: you're making a break, anytime you're an offensive or defensive
Speaker 2: player going to gauge with a player on the other side,
Speaker 2: you've got to have your base to you because it's
Speaker 2: going to be full thud. And and full thood is
Speaker 2: a lot different than going up and just putting your
Speaker 2: hands on somebody or just making drive bys and saying,
Speaker 2: you know, I would I would have gotten them, so
Speaker 2: full thud when full food comes with the pads on
Speaker 2: it's a different mindset as far as as as setting
Speaker 2: your your your angles when you're getting ready to engage somebody.
Speaker 4: So what that means is the collision is happening, but
Speaker 4: people aren't going down to the grounding into each other.
Speaker 6: That's full, full thood, full contact.
Speaker 1: I guess part of the design question I'm asking is
Speaker 1: guys are going to be sore?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, change?
Speaker 2: It changes, Okay, it changes, and and and and and
Speaker 2: of course all the the numbers and the dynamics that
Speaker 2: they have now that they they track and I mean,
Speaker 2: but there's just no way to avoid body soreness once
Speaker 2: you start to hit people. There's just no way to
Speaker 2: avoid it. That's just part of life. And so the
Speaker 2: thing that the players that are are cognizant of this
Speaker 2: know they already have there. They already have their their
Speaker 2: their ice baths routine ready, they already have their stem ready,
Speaker 2: they already have everything to be able to alleviate that
Speaker 2: soreness as quickly as possible.
Speaker 3: But you don't ever get away from it.
Speaker 6: Who wasn't that had all the epsom salts?
Speaker 5: Who was that?
Speaker 1: Do you remember Murray sounds?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 4: I had like lots of sounds like a ton.
Speaker 3: Well, everybody's got their own.
Speaker 1: Well, you find what works for you, find.
Speaker 2: What works for you, and some and some that don't.
Speaker 2: Colleges are so sophisticated now, I mean they've all had
Speaker 2: some training within this. But you will see now the
Speaker 2: way you take care of your bodies after practice and
Speaker 2: even before practice, once pads come on, it's another time
Speaker 2: frame you've got to insert into your routine.
Speaker 1: Well, this is good to be back in Booth seven.
Speaker 5: It feels really good to be back.
Speaker 7: Yes, really two weeks, two weeks we will be back here,
Speaker 7: ready to roll.
Speaker 1: August ten, August six pm, Titans, Ready on the air
Speaker 1: at five Central.
Speaker 7: That's correct, San Francisco forty nine ers come on to town.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a Brandon Ayuk be playing that weekend.
Speaker 7: That's a great question.
Speaker 2: Not for the forty nine ers, yeah, Trent Williams, Not
Speaker 2: for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: Trent probably just wants to get out of the trip.
Speaker 2: Quarterbacks get paid first, yes, and they're all getting paid
Speaker 2: around the league.
Speaker 3: You're seeing it.
Speaker 1: Well, you have to pay them.
Speaker 3: You have to pay them.
Speaker 1: I mean you just don't have any chance to pay them.
Speaker 1: And if you even remotely think you.
Speaker 2: Have a guy you have to pay, and if you
Speaker 2: don't have fifty million dollars, you're not gonna get them. Nope,
Speaker 2: that's what they're making now. That's just life in the
Speaker 2: National Football League. But this is a it's a really
Speaker 2: good opponent to open up with. It is because they're
Speaker 2: they're challenging well scheme wise, offensively and defensively. They're that's
Speaker 2: that's a challenge and they're.
Speaker 1: Well coached, very well coached. They do a good job.
Speaker 1: Yep for Ratt Brian coach, Dave McGinnis, Amy Wells, Ashley
Speaker 1: Ferrell running the show. Thank you so much. I'm Mike
Speaker 1: Keith and we appreciate you joining us for another edition
Speaker 1: of the O T. Keith