WEBVTT - The OTP | Break Down of the Titans' Haul 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.560 This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:18.840 Plan on paying less for the coverage you need with 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.799 Farm Bureau Health Plans. Get a quote today at fb 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:28.840 HP dot com from Booth seven in Nissan Stadium. Mike Keith, 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:33.720 Amy Wells, Coach Dave McGinnis, Rhett Bryant, all four of 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.240 us together again, gangs all here, the gangs all here. 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:38.960 The band is back the great place together up to 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:40.239 at Nissan Stadium. 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:42.720 With this practice, I mean, this is fun. 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:47.479 Practice is complete. Let's first start off with talking about 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.599 the big timer in the room, Amy Wells on NFL Network. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.400 Oh yes, whoa yeah, one take ye. 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:03.080 By the way to the OTP people. Spoiler alert, spoiler alert. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:09.080 It was taped, but one take and I've never I've 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:10.639 never done that for network before. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:15.000 Or I just walked up said the thing like boo'd. 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.400 Did NFL network ask you to do something? They did not? 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.119 Coach Mac, did NFL network ask you to do something? 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.880 Well, they said, if we can't get Amy, we want you, Okay, 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.280 because the answer is really no, that's no. They didn't 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.080 ask me. So so let's be nice. 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:28.880 Just be nice. 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:31.520 You're very kind. That's very nice of you. 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.760 I think it's kind of passive aggressive, but I think 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:37.320 I'm also a little bitter. 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:43.280 I think I'm also cheap labor, and I recognize that. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:45.160 You work in radio. For the most part, We're welcome and. 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.920 I'm here and I'm happy to do it. And well, 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.360 I was very proud that I did it in one take. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.040 What do you call it? Get back Saturday? 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:53.440 What is it? 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:54.120 Well together? 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:55.280 Back together again? 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.240 And let me say this while we're throwing praise around, 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:03.040 because the three of us, Ashley Ferrell, you and myself 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.120 were able to hear from up here and also on 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:10.400 the field the job that Mike and Mac did basically 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:14.360 being a PA, just analysis and a little bit of 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.639 play by play and just engagement. And you're talking about 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.679 during during during the practice, it was really In fact, 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.160 I had a fan tell me I went across field 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.239 to do an interview with a player and a fan said, hey, listen, 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.839 them doing this at this event really kind of put 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.799 it over the top. We felt like we were engaged 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.320 and involved and were up to date on what they 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:38.200 were doing on field, that we understood it, and. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:41.400 It's really all nice. 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.720 So, Mike, whose idea was that that you guys do 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.480 that Brian Callahan, the head coach of the Tennessee Titans. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:52.840 Brian Callahan, Wow, he said that he liked, you know, 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.520 and what's cool about Brian Callahan if many many things, 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.320 but if you've ever worked for an NFL team and 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.600 they bring in someone from another NFL team, the thing 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.520 you don't want to hear is what they used to 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:11.200 do where they were before. Yes, well, in Miami, it's 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:16.919 like okay, whatever. In Seattle, I mean I'm that way 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.520 and coaching too. He's never really Brian Callahan has never 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.880 really done that, but he said in Cincinnati they would 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:28.720 have Dan Horde and Dave Lapham do that. And Dan 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.239 Hord is one of my favorite announcers anywhere, and Dave 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:36.920 Lapham is so good as his color commentator. When he 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.720 said that they did that, he said, that's what I said. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:42.600 So you want coach Mac is, oh yeah, yeah, we 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.320 need coach Mac. So that's why we did it. Was 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:46.440 Brian Callahan's idea. 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:47.760 Well, it really was good. 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.240 I was fully prepared to give you a hard time 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:51.840 because I was like, man, does this guy just want 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:53.680 to be part of practice? Like is that is that 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:55.000 kind of what we're doing here now? 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:56.040 Like is this the answer? 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.760 No, because it's air conditioned up here in seven it 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.680 sure is, yeah, and it was not down there, oh no. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:04.920 But it really was good. 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:06.920 I had a bunch of fans tell me that it 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.560 was great. They really enjoyed it. And it didn't make 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.320 practice a little easier to watch, because I mean, we've 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:14.240 seen a lot. 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.280 Of practices in our day, we have. 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.360 And still sometimes I look and I'm like, all right, 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:19.200 what are we doing here? 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.960 What's happening right now? If you don't know, you don't know. 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.640 And so to be able to explain what's going on, 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.239 talk about who it is, I mean, just even calling 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.640 out players who do a good job, it makes it 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.000 a lot easier to watch. 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.120 So I hope so good idea CALLI. 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.279 I hope fans like that and didn't think that was annoying. 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:37.520 You know. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.960 Your fear about doing anything like that is that people 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.520 are going to think, boy, that's annoying. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.799 Oh I don't think I didn't seem annoying. 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.960 I got asked to do that at an event one time, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.520 over twenty years ago before I lived here, and they're like, okay, 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.359 we want you to do play by play with this, 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:58.240 and like twenty minutes into it, they came to just 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:06.799 stop doing that. Wow, seriously, I'm sorry. It wasn't your suggestion. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:11.760 You were granting a request reaction you did. It's like, 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.839 just stop doing that. Yeah, they came in. The guy 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.039 came in pretty much hit at your paraphrase. It was 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:21.560 that it was a national event in Niland Stadium. Yeah, 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.360 and they said, we'd like for you to be the 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:28.480 play by play announcer and to engage the two color 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:33.480 commentators and basically commentate the event. And I'm like, what 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.839 I can do that, Sure, I'm happy to help. Twenty 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.800 minutes into it, I mean twenty minutes stop doing that. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.360 And I'm like, well, that's what you told me to do. 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:49.000 We were wrong, and they're baby, but please cease. Oh, 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:50.880 They're like you're terrible. I mean that was the hall. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.080 I mean they this guy didn't even sugarcoated. He's like, 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:58.800 this is this is not good? Wow? People are people 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.200 are threatening to go jump off the Gay Street bridge. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.400 I mean it was wow, it was. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:04.320 It's not good. 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.120 I drove home and I'll never forget just driving home 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.200 in the dark, just thinking I suck. 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.960 Wow, we don't How did you just not drive into 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:15.920 a ditch because I mean. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.280 It hurts. It totally hurts. It totally hurts. 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.040 Look at that, look at the look at the. 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:22.440 So today it's better. 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:27.480 Look at the Hall of Fame rebound. But being told 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:28.440 you were horrible. 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.560 But I mean, that's when he said this at practice 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:36.120 the other day. My first thought is, oh, boy, I 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:40.040 want to repeat because the scars quite going. But I 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.080 will admit one thing to our advantage is I know 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.480 this team, and Coach Mack knows this team a lot 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:51.159 better than we did that night in nineteen ninety six. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.480 This was good. I would not have told you to stop. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.359 And during the pauses they played Backstreet Boys, which was 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:57.000 also nice. 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:58.880 Did you hear me ask coach Mac if that was 0:06:58.880 --> 0:06:59.840 his playlist? They were? 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:01.760 I said yes, I gave it to him right before 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:02.839 when I walked into stadium. 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:03.880 Yeah, I said play this. 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:05.120 I tell you who won. 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.640 And all this though as Titans fans, Oh, all the 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.920 all the families, all the children that came, and just 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.600 the cascade of calls wanting their favorite player to come 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.240 over and sign their stuff. I mean, Ashley and I 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.040 were up here at the booth and there was a 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:25.640 young man during practice, Calvin Calvin Calvin. God, it was 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.280 a little bit of a near worm, I'll admit. I 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.440 hope Calvin found the young man. I hope the young 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.640 man was at the end of practice building, but there was. 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:34.560 When they were done and it was time to make 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.080 their lap around the the lower bowl on the field, 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.320 people were just you could see just the delight in 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:40.720 their face. 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:42.000 It was cool. 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:43.000 I made a lap. 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.080 I was right there with him making a lap that 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.200 I give these fans a lot of c They all stayed. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.120 Yeah, I mean they stayed. 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.040 And yeah, I mean it's a big shout out to 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:53.560 the fans. 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.240 Well, this was a great opportunity, first time we've had 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.720 a chance to do this since twenty nineteen. You're right, 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:05.520 and the reasons were obviously COVID. COVID for two years 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:11.400 you you couldn't have done this. Uh, the Grand Prix, Yes, 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:16.160 going around, growing around the stadium. Uh, changing out the turf. Yep, 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.720 couldn't practice here. So there were I mean a lot 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.600 of reasons, a lot of reasons, and it will be 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.080 interesting to see if it can be done again with 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.680 where they are in stadium construction. 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.880 Yeah, it's going to be interesting going forward because as 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.840 the stadium build progresses. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.120 It's you would assume and I'm not. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:40.800 I mean, I'm not in construction. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.600 I'm not a lot of people think I am, but 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:44.920 I'm not. 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.960 I would assume that that footprint is going to get wider, right, 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.400 and just the logistics of bringing people down here is 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.439 going to get more challenging, especially because you try to 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.240 get as much done as you can before the actual season, which, you. 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:03.280 Know, what you hope from that standpoint is that it 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:07.240 can be done based on the fact that people for 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:11.439 the next three seasons will get used to some of 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.920 the parking changes that they have to make. 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.760 Right, Yeah, and that that's the number one thing that 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.600 I get asked about anywhere I go, Right, where are 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:20.120 we going to park? 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:21.680 What about parking? How about parking? 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.560 It's the number one question. And the reality is, I 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.760 think the team is going to continue to come out 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.440 with more information about what options are. I mean, the 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:37.160 team's obviously very aware of it too. So maybe that 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:41.120 that will become the norm once everybody gets used to 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:42.920 it and you can do it, And so yeah, it 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.120 would be I mean, it won't. You think it won't 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.280 be a problem to open the stadium, but to get 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.480 people to maneuver around here safely. 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:51.040 Yeah. 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:52.520 Yeah, and that's going to be the. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.800 On an active construction site. You just don't you don't know. 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.600 Let me just say this, Mike and amyen Rett Ashley, 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.080 this is my third stadium build that I've been involved with, 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.080 and that this is not unusual. Sure, I mean it's 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.520 it's been the same thing every time, because your footprint 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.280 just gets bigger and it gets different. 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:14.520 The other thing that I took away from today is 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.800 driving up this morning relatively early. I mean it was 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.240 twenty minutes after nine, and I had to work on 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.960 some things in here in the booth. But the line 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:28.080 of people already waiting to get in, and I'm thinking, 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.959 and I'm thinking, you know what's crazy. This is not 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:35.240 just it's the beginning of the twenty fifth year of 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:39.240 Titans football and this season, but it's the excitement that 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.240 we all feel. It's different. 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:47.360 Well, when you think about it and you take it holistically. 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:52.200 High schools are practicing, they got pads on, We're doing 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:56.320 some scrimmaging. Yep. College just start next week. Your favorite 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.520 college team practices next week. We're going to put pads 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:04.720 on on two Tuesday. And so it's all here Yeah, 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:08.040 it's all you know going on and and I mean 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.960 it's just so. I mean, everybody is ready for football. 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.320 But Mike, I think there's an extra layer to it 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:18.400 when you consider everything that has happened to the Titans 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.040 in the last six seven. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.320 Months, seven months. I mean we're sitting in booth seven 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.200 and all of my stuff is still taped us Jacksonville game. 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:27.840 It's all going to have to come down. I was 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:29.160 looking at it while you were talking. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:30.800 It is all going to have to come down, yes, 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:32.520 because that was for another game. 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:33.200 All wrong. 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.240 It was well, it's amazing. 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:36.000 It incorrect. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:40.520 It's amazing the roster that's on the wall that beat 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:45.520 Jacksonville in a game that they had to win and didn't. Yep, 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.640 based on how different it is. I mean, thirty six 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.120 new players out of the ninety one right now on 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:53.640 the roster. 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:54.480 It's crazy. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.000 I mean, there's so much to learn. Let's talk about 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:02.560 from a football standpoint. Just start with you, Coach Mack. 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.280 A player or players who has gotten off to a 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:07.880 good start in the practices. 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:13.520 Well, Lloyd Cushionberry, he has been. He's he's been so 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.760 consistent from from day one. And you've got to have 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.640 a guy at the in the center, you know, as 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:20.360 I talked about, I mean, they're they're the hub of 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.000 the spoke of the wheel there on the offensive line. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.880 But he's been consistent from day one. And you paid 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.600 him for a reason, but he's displayed that reason. He 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.160 has been so consistent. You guys know, I spent my 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.120 whole off season with Bill Callahan in the offensive line, 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.920 and I was watching him in particular because you know, 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:38.880 jac Latham, you want to you want to watch because 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.360 he's new and stuff, but I wanted to see really 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:43.960 what they paid for, you know, when they when they 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.920 got when they got Cushion Berry. And he's been very, 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.440 very impressive to me. And and that's a that's a 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:54.040 spot that unless you're really looking, you may gloss over that, 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.640 but that's a huge, huge piece of this new offense. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.880 Right I have I'm to do this in Amy's fashion. 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:06.240 Nine two only have two, one obvious and one not 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:10.360 so obvious. The obvious one is Jeffrey Simmons. Jeffrey Simmons 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.240 looks like he's ready to just storm out of the 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:17.600 tunnel and get after the opposing quarterback right now. He's 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:19.960 you can tell he's healthy. You can tell he's ready. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.880 It's just you know, keeping another foot in front of 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.120 him and what has already been a nice career. But 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.720 the other one that's not obvious to to OTP people 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:36.800 is John Ajuku, who has really worked at right tackle 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.200 on the offensive line. First year man from Boise State, 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:43.480 undrafted last year, and the young man has just worked 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:48.200 his rear end off in the off season and he's 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.680 right there putting in the reps every day at right tackle, 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.320 and you can tell he has absorbed everything he can 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.040 absorb and continues to do so. 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:02.959 I've said consistently based on John Ajuku, I don't know 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.920 if they're gonna be able to get him out of there. Now. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.600 We haven't seen Nicholas petit Frere yet. He's still on pup, 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:13.000 but do back soon. But I don't know that John's 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.200 gonna lose that job at right tackle. I don't know 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:20.080 that that's gonna happen. I mean, he's taken virtually every 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:25.000 first string snap that I've seen through Mini camp and 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.560 even some of the OTAs where they did have you know, 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.160 the first line together. You get a sense that Bill 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.840 Callahan is going to put that group together and if 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:38.560 they if they are functioning as a five. He may 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:39.320 not mess with it. 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.880 Oh, Bill Callahan is not gonna play favorites either. He's 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:43.840 gonna play dudes. He can get the job done right, 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.360 and just extensively watching him what he put those guys 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:51.320 through in OTAs for forty five minutes of individual I mean, 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:55.520 as concentrated, in as detailed as I've ever seen, and 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.320 Azyuku's taken advantage of it. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:01.239 I was gonna say JC Latham, even though Max specifically 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:02.560 said not JC Latham. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.760 He specifically said, well, he said, you want. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.200 To say JC Latham, but not. 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:09.440 So saved it for you. 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.200 That's what you said, I saved you. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:11.440 Yeah. 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.640 I appreciate that he has. 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.440 He in my mind, has gotten off to a really 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.120 good start because of course he's a rookie. 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:20.920 He's in a new situation, but he. 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.200 Never looks like a rookie. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.560 You watch him practice, and sure he looks like a 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.440 guy who's learning a system or who's learning a new team. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.560 He does not look like a brand new person to 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.480 the National Football League. And I think that that's a 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.960 really big difference. And I think that the amount of 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.600 work that we've seen him do, I mean, that's why 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.600 he looks like he's done this before. Is because I 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.000 mean he's getting double and triple the reps that everybody 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.840 else is because he's working out on the field all 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.680 the time, and so I think all of that is 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.800 really starting to show and pay off. And so yeah, 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.240 I mean he's making some mistakes here and there or 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.040 is learning how to do things, but he doesn't look 0:15:58.120 --> 0:15:59.960 like a young new player. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.080 He just looks like a new player. And I think 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.360 that's a big that's. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:04.960 A huge point. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:09.400 And and what that is from the coaching aspect of it, 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:13.359 even though he's young, what you say, he's got mental maturity. 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.400 He's got mental maturity. Ty J Spears had it when 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.360 he came in here. Roger McCreary had it when he 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.880 came in here. And mental maturity in this league is 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:27.000 very important because the quicker they have that, then the 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.720 more then the more dialed in they can get they're 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.480 not distracted. And I think that you made a very 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.920 good point. But the mental maturity has allowed him to 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.760 be able to do not only the designated work, but 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:41.280 the extra work. 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:46.760 Kenneth Murray is mine. Coming out of Oklahoma, people thought 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:51.000 he was otherworldly with his athleticism and then he goes 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.920 to the Chargers and he played really well, but he 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:59.400 wasn't the difference maker maybe that some thought he would be. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.760 And it feels like he's found the right system for 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.480 what he does there. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.560 You're one hundred percent right, and that that makes a difference. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:10.480 It makes a huge difference. 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:11.520 You know that. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.359 I know this defensive staff very well. I know Frank 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:18.439 Bush better than any of them. I've been with him 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:22.040 a long time. There was a reason he wanted this guy. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.200 I've seen him. I've seen him coach up guys like this. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.159 You know, first round picks that come out because you know, 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.159 expectations on a first round pick are huge when they 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.600 come out. But this system allows them. Once they understand 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.159 where to put their eyes and we're talking about linebackers 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.920 where to put their eyes, and they understand that, then 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.080 all of a sudden, they can go I think that's 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:45.120 what you're seeing. 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.640 Mike, Well, he's cutting it loose. There you go, and 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.560 I mean you can you can see all the athleticism, 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.639 and I mean, what are you going to do with 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.800 him when he turns it loose? And they haven't been 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.560 able to do much with him yet, and it's early, 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.320 but it's early, but you understand. I mean, it's it's 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:05.760 why Jamal Adams is here. 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:07.000 Absolutely it is. 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:12.159 Does Jamal Adams fit with twenty four other NFL teams? 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.760 Maybe maybe not, but in what they want to do, 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.320 it feels like on defense in particular, they have gotten 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:21.720 some guys who can do it well. 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.320 The thing about this defense is, and again I gave 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.240 Amy this playbook when I first came in here that 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.119 took us five years to put together. Riet's got it 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.720 now just to look at it to see. They've got 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.760 designated defenses for dudes like this, and they'll have specific 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.200 things that he will do. He hasn't missed a step. 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:39.880 You saw it when he first when he first got 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.160 in there. He understands and gets it. The thing also 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:47.960 that's also important too, is you've got some guys that 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:53.400 are visually quick trigger guys if you don't overload them 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:57.760 with useless information, and that's extremely important. You know, some 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.480 guys are like a camera shutter. It goes down and 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:02.280 it doesn't come up quick enough, and all of a 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.199 sudden stuff's happening around him. If you can take that 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.400 part of it out of a player, then you've really 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:09.600 got a chance to let him play. 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.040 You know, you hear it, everybody. We've got to play fast, 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:13.200 play fast, play fast. 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.639 You play fast by knowing what you're looking at and 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.680 recognizing what you're looking at quickly. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:20.399 And that's what you need to do. 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:21.920 And you don't need to have a lot of ifs 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.320 and butts and candy and nuts about if this happens, 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.159 do this, if this happened, that you need to let 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.880 them go. And there's a way that you can be disciplined, 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:30.919 but you can still let them go. And I and 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.760 that's what you're talking about now, Adams. You've got a 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:38.119 veteran player there that he is a quick trigger dude. 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:39.840 You're gonna see him in a lot of different spots 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:40.520 in this defense. 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:46.800 It feels like that Denard Wilson will use a lot 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.600 of players on defense throughout the course of the season, 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.640 many of whom will be based on the defense they 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:56.879 want to run against certain opponents. 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:59.280 You got it, Okay, you got it. I mean I've 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.320 been in this defense for a long time in my career. 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:03.280 And the thing about it is the first thing you 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.840