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Speaker 1: My Keith with Amy Wells, and we are recording this
Speaker 1: edition of the OTP at midday on Friday, November thirteenth.
Speaker 1: Amy Wells, it feels very much like Friday the thirteenth
Speaker 1: today if you love the Tennessee Titans. After a performance
Speaker 1: last night that, at least for the final twenty minutes
Speaker 1: of the game, most Titans fans would like to forget. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Friday scaries are a thing, but
Speaker 1: I definitely have them. That was not my favorite, my
Speaker 1: favorite Titans game I've ever been to. I've enjoyed some
Speaker 1: more than that. But you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: room for growth here, Mike Keith and I am choosing
Speaker 1: to focus on the positives, and that is the positive
Speaker 1: room for growth. Your positive is room for growth. Take
Speaker 1: me there. Where is the room for growth that you
Speaker 1: specifically see over the last seven weeks where the Titans
Speaker 1: could could make that progress? Well, pretty much anything on
Speaker 1: special teams that feels like a good jumping off point.
Speaker 1: We've got to get this kicker punter thing figured out.
Speaker 1: I don't think that it's not figured out. To clarify,
Speaker 1: I don't think that anyone had confusion about what was
Speaker 1: going on going into the game against the Colts, but
Speaker 1: I do think that maybe there's some part of this
Speaker 1: recipe that doesn't seem to be jibing super Well, well,
Speaker 1: let's talk punter for just a second. Can we do that?
Speaker 1: I would love to, okay, because I want to throw
Speaker 1: out a little clarification on the whole punter thing. So
Speaker 1: Brett Kern is hurt, he can't punt. He's gonna go
Speaker 1: on ir They COVID test a bunch of punters and
Speaker 1: they have to go through the five day process. The
Speaker 1: story that John Robinson told is one of the guys
Speaker 1: that they COVID tested, it's Trevor Daniel, and Trevor Daniel
Speaker 1: thinks he's being prank called when they get him on
Speaker 1: the phone. He's been he's been out of football. He's
Speaker 1: been still training and still working and everything, but he
Speaker 1: hasn't gotten, you know, a sniff at any point in
Speaker 1: a while. And so he's gone to work for FedEx
Speaker 1: driving a delivery trick. He's gotten a job so great
Speaker 1: eight months and so they say would you like to
Speaker 1: come try out? He's like, yes, I would, and so
Speaker 1: Trevor Daniel drives in. He makes his last two drops
Speaker 1: of the day for FedEx. He drives to Saint Thomas
Speaker 1: Sports Park, comes in the gate in his FedEx truck
Speaker 1: and goes to the COVID. What is it. It's like
Speaker 1: a trailer. Yeah, a trailer trailer. That's what I was
Speaker 1: looking for and starts the testing process and so he clears.
Speaker 1: Other guys clear. Ryan Allen is another guy who clears,
Speaker 1: and on Saturday they can come into Saint Thomas Sports
Speaker 1: Park and basically have a tryout. The most impressive guy
Speaker 1: in the tryout is Trevor Daniel, and so they want
Speaker 1: Trevor Daniel. But they play the next day against Chicago.
Speaker 1: Ryan Allen is the guy who has held for Stephen
Speaker 1: Gaskowski for six years, and Trevor Daniel is going to
Speaker 1: have no chance to practice with the Kickers. So they decide,
Speaker 1: we'll sign Allen to the active roster, We'll sign Daniel
Speaker 1: to the practice squad. So Alan punts eight times in
Speaker 1: the first game, nearly has a couple blocked in that game.
Speaker 1: His were pretty good. He hit a couple a little low,
Speaker 1: a couple of off target where they were supposed to be.
Speaker 1: But they were going to go to Daniel after the
Speaker 1: fact anyway, once they had time to prepare, and so
Speaker 1: once it became obvious on Monday and Tuesday that he
Speaker 1: could hold for Gaskowski and they'd had some practice, they
Speaker 1: were making the switch to Daniel. So it was not
Speaker 1: as if they made a switch to Daniel based on
Speaker 1: how Alan performed against Chicago. Is this making sense? This
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. It was predetermined that the
Speaker 1: switch was going to be made, that Allan was the
Speaker 1: person for Chicago, and then we were going to move
Speaker 1: on to Daniel. That's what they thought would happen. If
Speaker 1: Daniel worked out with Gaskowski in practice, Okay, that was
Speaker 1: the switch they were gonna make. When he did, they
Speaker 1: decided to make the switch now, so they called Daniel
Speaker 1: up from the practice squad along with Matt Overton the snapper,
Speaker 1: and Alan is made inactive. So as we speak, you know,
Speaker 1: the two punters are there, and I mean, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens from here. But I would contend for people saying, well,
Speaker 1: this change in punter caused the problem. No it didn't.
Speaker 1: Now it did not cause the problem was the problem
Speaker 1: Alan had against Chicago and the problem that Daniel had
Speaker 1: against the Colds, and that is people coming flying up
Speaker 1: the middle. Alan could have had. If you go back
Speaker 1: and watch it, and you see the problems that Alan
Speaker 1: was having with people coming up the middle, and then
Speaker 1: Daniel had the problem. And unfortunately we called the block
Speaker 1: punt on Titan's radio. We called it Coach Max said,
Speaker 1: they're coming. I said, here they are. When I saw
Speaker 1: the result of that amy watching it back. Daniel barely
Speaker 1: got the ball off his foot so much so that
Speaker 1: he kicked EJ Speed with the ball in the neck.
Speaker 1: Usually when someone blocks a punt, they get a finger
Speaker 1: tip on it or they get a hand on it.
Speaker 1: I mean he fully he nearly impacted Daniel's foot before
Speaker 1: he had kicked the ball. And on the one that
Speaker 1: he shanked, and it was a shank, there was so
Speaker 1: much pressure coming up the middle, he just mishit it.
Speaker 1: For people to think this is a punter problem, I
Speaker 1: think they're incorrect. That's so that was the punter issue, right,
Speaker 1: and I think I think it's very easy for people,
Speaker 1: myself included, because I started off this conversation by doing this,
Speaker 1: so I am contributing to the problem. People are very
Speaker 1: quick to say this kicker isn't working, this punter isn't work.
Speaker 1: They blame the people that you see doing the most.
Speaker 1: I guess exciting activity in what that play is. What
Speaker 1: you forget about is that there's more people involved in
Speaker 1: this recipe. There's not just a kicker standing there with
Speaker 1: a ball. There's also a group of people who are
Speaker 1: blocking for him and who are helping to make that successful.
Speaker 1: So I guess it's bigger than just those two positions.
Speaker 1: Special teams as a whole needs to correct some of
Speaker 1: the mistakes that are being made. Someone on Rabel's press
Speaker 1: conference this morning referred to it as punt coverage, the
Speaker 1: proper term, where the Titans punt coverage is fine, the
Speaker 1: Titans punt protection not so great. I mean, when you've
Speaker 1: got guys, the whole thing is, punts are rarely blocked
Speaker 1: from the outside, okay, if somebody's coming from the outside,
Speaker 1: because punters get punts off so quickly today that that
Speaker 1: there used to be three step punters and then they
Speaker 1: became two step, two and a half step whatever. I
Speaker 1: mean they get. They get the punts off so much
Speaker 1: faster than they used to The snappers are so much
Speaker 1: better than they used to be. That the only way
Speaker 1: you really block a punt is coming up the middle,
Speaker 1: and that is if you are more or less unabated.
Speaker 1: If somebody misses their block. As a punter, if you
Speaker 1: take the snap and you have a guy coming straight
Speaker 1: at you full speed, that's not fantastic. You will just
Speaker 1: hit a punt and and I mean it throws you
Speaker 1: more than anything else because there is nothing you can
Speaker 1: do because when that guy comes up the middle, you
Speaker 1: can't even really run from him. If somebody's coming from
Speaker 1: the outside, you can cut around them or whatever. But
Speaker 1: if they're coming straight out at you and you've committed
Speaker 1: to punting the football, there's nothing you can do. And
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what happened. I just
Speaker 1: know that punt protection has been a big issue for
Speaker 1: the Titans in the last two games, more so than punter. Now.
Speaker 1: The kicker thing with Gaskowski's a different issue, and he
Speaker 1: when he missed the kick, and Vrabel said this morning.
Speaker 1: There was not a whole problem with that. When he
Speaker 1: missed the kick. I mean, that was the ball game
Speaker 1: right there. That was it, because if he makes that,
Speaker 1: it's what, it's a seven point game with how much
Speaker 1: let me look up how much time remaining. I think
Speaker 1: it's around eleven minutes. I've got it right in front
Speaker 1: of me right here. Yeah, twelve eleven left in the game.
Speaker 1: Plenty of time. It's a seven point game. Ye, not
Speaker 1: saying you win it, but you certainly keep playing it
Speaker 1: at that point and the game is still on. When
Speaker 1: he the kick, even though there were less than fourteen
Speaker 1: thousand people in the stadium, you could feel the air
Speaker 1: go out of Nissan Stadium. Yeah, that was the moment
Speaker 1: that everyone went. You know, it's the collective like sigh
Speaker 1: of defeat. And just to speak on Nissan Stadium for
Speaker 1: per minute. When that game started, it was rocking and rolling.
Speaker 1: It was not a full stadium, of course, because of
Speaker 1: the times that we're in, but the people who were
Speaker 1: able to be there were fired up. It was it
Speaker 1: was a really cool atmosphere. And so to swing from
Speaker 1: that to kind of that deflated, Oh no, feeling is hard,
Speaker 1: all right, So of the stats. What is the stat
Speaker 1: that concerned you the most about the game. Oh, Mike, um,
Speaker 1: let me look here. Can I don't mean to go first? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want you to go first, debating between like three,
Speaker 1: so you go first. The stat that concerned me the
Speaker 1: most was the Titans in the passing game. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was one of mine. So I'm glad I waited. There's
Speaker 1: some on defense that are obviously concerning, but those are
Speaker 1: kind of obvious. I'm going with the fact that the
Speaker 1: Titans through for one hundred and thirty seven yards and
Speaker 1: then this past week overall just weren't very good in
Speaker 1: the passing game, and in watching it and looking at it,
Speaker 1: it does not feel like it's Ryan Tannehill. It's it's protection,
Speaker 1: it's it's drops, it's guys not winning in certain situations.
Speaker 1: Tannehill has thrown a couple of bad balls. Don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, He's not been perfect, but they are just
Speaker 1: not in sync right now. That's the one that concerns
Speaker 1: me the most. And while Derrick Henry nineteen carries under
Speaker 1: three yards is his thing, it's almost as if the
Speaker 1: Colts would say, Okay, Derrick Henry, as long as you
Speaker 1: don't break a ninety yard run and go for two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards rushing. We'll give you one hundred
Speaker 1: and three because we think we can stop your passing
Speaker 1: game right well. And to that, I think the one
Speaker 1: the step that I'm willing to pick that stands out
Speaker 1: to me is the Titans third down efficiency three for
Speaker 1: ten on converting third downs. Get out of here, like,
Speaker 1: you need to stay on the field longer. You just
Speaker 1: have to. You can't get any sort of rhythm started
Speaker 1: if you're not on the field sustaining long drives. You
Speaker 1: just can't do it. And so, yeah, the offense has
Speaker 1: seemed a little disjointed. It hasn't been that cohesive, solid
Speaker 1: kind of train that we thought in the first part
Speaker 1: of the season. And I think a lot of that
Speaker 1: is because they can't stay on the field long enough
Speaker 1: to establish any sort of rhythm and kind of find
Speaker 1: their group of Every offense in the league when you
Speaker 1: start a game has to find kind of that rhythm.
Speaker 1: And you can see as a fan, you can see
Speaker 1: when an offense is just firing on all cylinders and
Speaker 1: they've kind of hit their stride together. These guys aren't
Speaker 1: on the field long enough to be able to establish
Speaker 1: that three times they converted third down three that's not enough.
Speaker 1: They've been pretty good on third day. That probably directly
Speaker 1: relates to the passing game too. Yeah. You know, this offense,
Speaker 1: when it's really rolling under Ryan Tannehill, it's gonna have
Speaker 1: some chunk plays. It's gonna have a deep throw to
Speaker 1: Calif Raymond and you know, some sort of deep shot.
Speaker 1: I mean they had one in a situation to John
Speaker 1: new Smith and Tannehill just overthrew him. They had a
Speaker 1: deep shot to a j. Brown that he should have
Speaker 1: caught that he did not catch, which would have been
Speaker 1: a big play. Yeah, they've got to have some of
Speaker 1: those chunks to make their offense work the way they
Speaker 1: wanted to. Yeah, let me move to something else real quick.
Speaker 1: Speaking of wide receivers, let's talk about Corey Davis for
Speaker 1: a second and what he did last night, win or lose.
Speaker 1: It would have been a courageous performance. Regardless his brother dies.
Speaker 1: He does not practice on Wednesday. His brother, Titus was
Speaker 1: I believe twenty seven, dies of a very rare form
Speaker 1: of kidney cancer. He had been diagnosed just back during
Speaker 1: the summer, so this was not an extremely long fight
Speaker 1: for him. Their background seven children total Wheat and Illinois.
Speaker 1: The parents trying very hard but don't have enough to
Speaker 1: provide for all seven children, and so Titus Davis goes
Speaker 1: to live with the Hall family, their legal guardians, but
Speaker 1: stay in touch with the parents with the biological parents.
Speaker 1: Corey Davis goes to live with the Graham family in Wheaton.
Speaker 1: They become the legal guardians, and yet Titus and Corey
Speaker 1: stay unbelievably close. Titus goes to Central Michigan, breaks all
Speaker 1: of Antonio Brown's receiving records. Corey Davis goes to Western Michigan,
Speaker 1: sets all of their records, sets the MAC records for receiving,
Speaker 1: plays against his brother twice in college, becomes the fifth
Speaker 1: overall pick. Titus has a cup of coffee in the
Speaker 1: NFL trying to make rosters and eventually decides he's going
Speaker 1: to retire from the game. And then this happens. And
Speaker 1: Titus Davis was Corey Davis's big brother. They shared a
Speaker 1: room when they were young. He was his football mentor.
Speaker 1: He was his overall mentor, as it was described to me.
Speaker 1: He meant everything to him. And the end for Titus
Speaker 1: Davis sort of the last part of his battle lasted
Speaker 1: multiple days, Amy, I mean multiple days. Corey has the
Speaker 1: great game against Pittsburgh and flies to Houston, where his
Speaker 1: brother is receiving treatment with Amy Adam strung. She takes
Speaker 1: him to Houston because they think they're afraid this is it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and eventually he realizes Titus does that treatment is over,
Speaker 1: and so he goes back to Illinois. But Corey has
Speaker 1: been dealing with this for weeks and dealing with the
Speaker 1: finality of what is going to happen, that his brother
Speaker 1: is not going to make it, and so all of that.
Speaker 1: What incredible stress, what courage under pressure he shows and
Speaker 1: he always shows courtesy and kindness to everyone. But while
Speaker 1: so many people have enduring so many things during this pandemic,
Speaker 1: he's dealing with this added burden of his brother having
Speaker 1: a terminal illness that has hit him way too young
Speaker 1: and so hard, and trying to balance everything out and
Speaker 1: then going out and playing last night because he felt
Speaker 1: like that's what Titus would have wanted. I think it
Speaker 1: shows a lot about why we feel the way we
Speaker 1: do about Corey Davis. Yeah, nobody would have known that
Speaker 1: Corey was struggling with something, or that Corey had something
Speaker 1: going on in his personal life. He always stays even keel.
Speaker 1: He's very cool, he's very calm, never gets super high
Speaker 1: or super low. And I think that's why he's been
Speaker 1: so successful. I think that being able to kind of
Speaker 1: keep everything kind of in check is what makes him
Speaker 1: a good receiver. I think that this lot, you wanted
Speaker 1: Corey to have a big game today. You wanted this
Speaker 1: team to get a win for Corey and everything that
Speaker 1: he has been going through and the amount of just
Speaker 1: stress and weight that has been on his shoulders. It
Speaker 1: is unimaginable. And then to have a job where everyone
Speaker 1: evaluates you based on such a finite amount of time
Speaker 1: and to feel like you need to perform in this
Speaker 1: three and a half four hour window or you're going
Speaker 1: to hear about it for a week. And yet you've
Speaker 1: got all these other bigger things, like you have the
Speaker 1: actual world on your shoulders. You know. It's it puts
Speaker 1: so much football in perspective in that way that this
Speaker 1: is a guy who I mean, did he have the
Speaker 1: day that he wanted to have against the Colts? Probably not.
Speaker 1: Does it matter to him right now? Also probably not.
Speaker 1: You know, there are way bigger things that we're dealing
Speaker 1: with and you know, you see that he doesn't play
Speaker 1: well against the Bears. After he's played well against the
Speaker 1: Steelers and he's played well against the Bengals, he doesn't
Speaker 1: play well against the Bears. And you don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the whole thing, is you. It's often been said
Speaker 1: you never truly know what somebody is going through in
Speaker 1: their life at a certain moment. But this is a
Speaker 1: person who is grace under pressure exhibited. I've defended Corey
Speaker 1: Davis at different times because I think he's a good player.
Speaker 1: I'm glad he's part of the Tennessee Titans. But the
Speaker 1: truth is, I just like him. I like him as
Speaker 1: a human being. I like how he goes about his business.
Speaker 1: I like how he represents the organization. I've been thrilled
Speaker 1: for him when he scores TI touchdowns and when good
Speaker 1: things happened for him. You know, he played last year
Speaker 1: hurt and you know, maybe didn't have the numbers he
Speaker 1: did before. And AJ becomes a star, and that's okay too,
Speaker 1: and he's happy for AJ becoming a star. I think
Speaker 1: the Titans will certainly be better if we could have
Speaker 1: seven games down the stretch where Corey AJ and Adam
Speaker 1: Humphries are on the field together. Agreed that would be
Speaker 1: a huge help. Hopefully, you know Adam can get back
Speaker 1: from concussion protocol with this extra time, because we sure
Speaker 1: need him against Baltimore if he can play, absolutely, But
Speaker 1: on the other hand, you want Adam to take care
Speaker 1: of himself in this instance, Amy, this is not something
Speaker 1: that would have been done twenty years ago. Adam Humphries
Speaker 1: would not have set out two games. I'm glad for
Speaker 1: his long term health that they are taking care of him.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that he recovers to the point where he
Speaker 1: can bounce back and get out of protocol and come back.
Speaker 1: But back to Corey, I don't see how he functioned
Speaker 1: last night. I don't know how he got out of
Speaker 1: bed yesterday morning. I don't like. That's not something I
Speaker 1: can wrap my head around. So I'm having a hard
Speaker 1: time even putting into words how impressed I am by
Speaker 1: him and how proud I am of him, because I
Speaker 1: can't even it's not a scenario that I can even
Speaker 1: wrap my mind around having such a huge loss in
Speaker 1: my life and then going out and performing on this
Speaker 1: incredible stage and doing what I need to do. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to eat a sandwich, Like, arguably the
Speaker 1: most important person in your life passes away, and he
Speaker 1: says the biggest reason that he is where he is
Speaker 1: today and that he is how he is, And there
Speaker 1: were a lot of people, I mean, the family at
Speaker 1: Western Michigan certainly cared for him. The Graham family took
Speaker 1: good care of him, like I said, they've had In
Speaker 1: spite of the fact that it was better for the
Speaker 1: children to be raised in other households, that family stayed connected,
Speaker 1: which is which is an amazing story and a credit
Speaker 1: to those children realizing the parents were doing the very
Speaker 1: best they could. And it's hard, and it's hard when
Speaker 1: you know the people involved, like we've gotten to know
Speaker 1: Corey over a period of time. So five catches sixty
Speaker 1: seven yards great. Whatever the fact he was out there,
Speaker 1: all pro all world, all life, I mean, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call it, many props to him. Now moving
Speaker 1: back to where we are this game and how it
Speaker 1: was lost and the fact that the only thing that
Speaker 1: the Titans have to hang their hat on from the
Speaker 1: night I think in terms of statistical performance was Derek Henry.
Speaker 1: I'd say that's about it. But let's take it, Mike, well,
Speaker 1: I did. I mean, it doesn't feel good because there's
Speaker 1: nothing that you come back and say, Like the Steeler game,
Speaker 1: you said, well this happened, dude. You know whatever. I mean.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you lose games you say, well, you can draw
Speaker 1: some positives. It's hard to draw positives out of this.
Speaker 1: The only positive that I can draw is the sun
Speaker 1: came up this morning. There are seven games left. The
Speaker 1: Titans are six and three. And here's the thing. Let
Speaker 1: me read this to you. The Colts played green Bay
Speaker 1: this week, Okay, then they played Tennessee November the twenty ninth.
Speaker 1: The Titans played Baltimore this coming week, November twenty, second
Speaker 1: week from Sunday, and then they go to Indianapolis. Amy,
Speaker 1: if the Titans win that game, regardless of what they
Speaker 1: do in Baltimore and regardless of what the Colts do
Speaker 1: against green Bay, then the Tight control their own destiny
Speaker 1: in the AFC South. I like that. That is something
Speaker 1: that is encouraging to me. Mikeith See, you're finding it
Speaker 1: the silver lining. So if they're both seven and four
Speaker 1: at the end of that day, if Tennessee beats Indianapolis
Speaker 1: on November the twenty ninth, they are in control because
Speaker 1: of this, because Indianapolis lost in Week one at Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Indianapolis has a loss in the division. Okay, two teams
Speaker 1: would split, but Indianapolis has at the Titans have beaten
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and they've beaten Houston. Indie still has to play
Speaker 1: Houston twice, they have to go to Las Vegas, they
Speaker 1: have to play at Pittsburgh in Week sixteen, and then
Speaker 1: they finish against Jacksonville. So, I mean, bottom line, it's
Speaker 1: still there. Right. It was a ball game that was lost.
Speaker 1: It was a bad loss from how it felt and
Speaker 1: from how it came down, particularly the last twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: But the season is not lost. Now. If the Titans
Speaker 1: played like they did last night against Baltimore or at
Speaker 1: Indianapolis or whatever they've got left to do, that ain't good.
Speaker 1: I mean, none of this matters. But if they get
Speaker 1: the ship righted, they can still win the division. Well,
Speaker 1: and if you think about it, Mike, given the choice,
Speaker 1: I would rather be the angry team coming into the
Speaker 1: second matchup with the Indianapolis Colts then the team that
Speaker 1: thinks they are somebody. You know, I want to go
Speaker 1: into that second matchup at their place at Lucas Oil,
Speaker 1: angry and with something to prove, because that when this
Speaker 1: team plays the best when they're mad, and they have
Speaker 1: a point to prove. Again, division tiebreaker with two teams
Speaker 1: head to head record is one. If the Titans win
Speaker 1: that game on November twenty ninth, it's a split, right correct.
Speaker 1: The second tiebreaker. The second tiebreaker is division record, And
Speaker 1: so if the Titans could finish five and one in
Speaker 1: the division, then they are in a position where they
Speaker 1: could win a tiebreaker if they finished with the same
Speaker 1: overall record as the Colds. So it's still there. It's
Speaker 1: still there, I mean, and I'm sure I would have
Speaker 1: to think I'd be interested to know what you think,
Speaker 1: because you know Mike Vrabel as well as I do,
Speaker 1: he's gonna say that at some point, right he's gonna say, look, guys,
Speaker 1: this stump, this was bad. We're gonna look at it,
Speaker 1: we're gonna break it down, we're gonna make changes. But
Speaker 1: it's all still out there for us to do this.
Speaker 1: That sounds to me like the Monday Morning message. You know,
Speaker 1: this team has the unique opportunity to take a couple
Speaker 1: of days recollect our thoughts, reflect, heal our bodies, a
Speaker 1: little bit like these are all things that can be
Speaker 1: accomplished over this weekend where the team's not playing, So
Speaker 1: in that time, it gives you a chance to kind
Speaker 1: of recalibrate some things. And so to your point about
Speaker 1: Mike Rabel's message, I think that that would be a
Speaker 1: pretty on brand Mike Rabel Monday morning message of hey guys,
Speaker 1: this was not great, but we still have the world
Speaker 1: in front of us. But we've got to get back
Speaker 1: on track and it needs to happen. Now. There's a
Speaker 1: sense of urgency. Now sure, well, I'm not doing sunshine
Speaker 1: and lollipops. I'm not doing rainbows and unicorns. I don't
Speaker 1: think anyone listening to this podcast we're doing sunshine and lollipops. No.
Speaker 1: But but that's my point is that may be how
Speaker 1: it feels. This is accurate, This is on a piece
Speaker 1: of this is what it is right, and if you
Speaker 1: just want to dismiss, well, they can't do that because
Speaker 1: they played bad in one game. Listen, I've seen Titans
Speaker 1: teams bounce back from bad games too, you know, to
Speaker 1: come back. I mean, this happens, and there will be
Speaker 1: things changed and there will be things fixed. And I
Speaker 1: have a feeling that after the harsh reality of the
Speaker 1: film breakdown, then you go on the other thing too.
Speaker 1: There are people who think, well, they play bad, they
Speaker 1: need to practice all weekend. It's like, no, not how
Speaker 1: that works. Not how that works, but also not what
Speaker 1: I believe they need. I think they've got to get away,
Speaker 1: you know, for at least Saturday and Sunday. You've got
Speaker 1: to They'll have to continue to COVID test, by the way,
Speaker 1: you know, they so they It's not like they can
Speaker 1: leave town or whatever without you know, doing They have
Speaker 1: to COVID test every day. But they they got some
Speaker 1: guys who desperately need to heal up. I mean, you
Speaker 1: saw it on the sidelines last night, guys coming off,
Speaker 1: you know, so many guys hobbling both Sunday against the
Speaker 1: Bears and then into this game. I mean we're sort
Speaker 1: of into hobble time where when you get towards mid
Speaker 1: to late November, everybody's hurting. Everybody's hurt, and it feels
Speaker 1: like guys are just dropping like flies, when in reality,
Speaker 1: everybody's dealing with something. These guys just have it a
Speaker 1: little bit harder. I mean, nobody is healthy in November
Speaker 1: in the National. If you have played at all in
Speaker 1: the first half of the season, you are not healthy
Speaker 1: in the second half of the season. That's football, That's
Speaker 1: how this works. But yeah, it seems like the Titans
Speaker 1: are getting hit a little harder with the old injury
Speaker 1: bug as of late. And I don't think that's unusual.
Speaker 1: I don't think that there's some sort of bad juju
Speaker 1: in the air. I just think that it is what
Speaker 1: it is. And the more that we can start getting
Speaker 1: some guys back, getting a Dory Jackson back on the field,
Speaker 1: getting Adam Humphreys out of the concussion protocol, giving Roger
Speaker 1: Saffel the chance to really heal up, giving Jadavian Clowney
Speaker 1: a chance to really heal up. There are guys that
Speaker 1: are playing at about fifty percent. If we can get
Speaker 1: them to eighty percent, we'll be in a better spot
Speaker 1: as a team, all right. So we're going to wrap
Speaker 1: up this edition of the OTP a happy, fun episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the one where you charge me ninety five dollars for
Speaker 1: letting me talk, and I'll charge you ninety five dollars
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Speaker 1: Do want to mention one happy thing for sure, and
Speaker 1: that is Tuesday at eleven Central, Amy Wells and I
Speaker 1: will be revealing the finalists for the Tennessee Titans twenty
Speaker 1: twenty Mister Football Awards. It's the most wonderful time of
Speaker 1: the year. Mike Keith. I love Mister Football. I think
Speaker 1: it's so fun. I love the event. I like that
Speaker 1: everybody is just so happy and optimistic and we get
Speaker 1: to celebrate these guys who have had awesome seasons, and
Speaker 1: I mean some of them have had some kind of
Speaker 1: wacky seasons, you know, with COVID and all the changes
Speaker 1: that different schools have seen. So this one's going to
Speaker 1: be an extra special one. I think that the guys
Speaker 1: who are going to end up being finalists are going
Speaker 1: to be guys who really deserve it. And we've got
Speaker 1: some great players in Tennessee man who So five semifinalists
Speaker 1: cut to three finalists. They will come to Nissan Stadium
Speaker 1: for what will be a different looking Tennessee Titans Mister
Speaker 1: Football Awards banquet, not as many people. That is December
Speaker 1: the eighth, so it's a week later. It's actually after
Speaker 1: the Blue Cross Bowl weekend, which is different, and it's
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday, So we will have that and we're
Speaker 1: excited about that. That Amy and I will announce the
Speaker 1: cut from semifinalists to finalists. Those will be the people
Speaker 1: invited to the dinner and you can go to Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans dot com and watch it Tuesday morning at eleven Central.
Speaker 1: One of the things that mister Adams loved it. The
Speaker 1: guy who got us into it was Bob Hyde, who
Speaker 1: ran who was our VP of community relations for years.
Speaker 1: It was a great move. Mister Adams was very excited
Speaker 1: about it. He liked it. Kenneth Adams loves it because
Speaker 1: I think he understands just how special it is. And
Speaker 1: it's been embraced up down the line by coaches, by
Speaker 1: our general managers, our former players are current players. When
Speaker 1: we talk about this, people say that is so cool
Speaker 1: that as a high school kid you get to come
Speaker 1: to the Titan Stadium and you know, experience what it's like.
Speaker 1: And we try very hard to make it as special
Speaker 1: as possible for the young men and their families and
Speaker 1: their coaches, the administrators, because we truly do love high
Speaker 1: school football because it's awesome, but also it's sustaining, you
Speaker 1: know it. We've had a lot of mister Football winners
Speaker 1: who become great NFL players, right, so it is so special.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll follow it if you're a football fan,
Speaker 1: I hope you'll learn these names. And we're very proud
Speaker 1: of it. And I just wanted to mention that Tuesday
Speaker 1: we will reveal the finalists. So if I talked enough, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I could listen to you all day, Keith.
Speaker 1: I really could nice you to say, yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling pretty nice this morning. Yeah you're better. I'm better.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of football in front of us,
Speaker 1: might Keith. The sun is still shining. It's a little chilly,
Speaker 1: but I can handle it. Football is in front of us.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be okay. I'm not better yet. Maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Maybe tomorrow. It's gonna take a whole day. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was just I thought. When we stopped him on fourth down,
Speaker 1: I thought, we're going down the field right here, We're
Speaker 1: gonna drive ninety nine yards. We're going to drive a
Speaker 1: stake through their heart. Yep, we're winning this ball game
Speaker 1: because that's just I just believe that would happen. And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people were like me, and
Speaker 1: I think Rabels like that. I think John Robinson. I
Speaker 1: think that's who that's who we expect to be as
Speaker 1: a football team. And when we didn't do that, it hurts.
Speaker 1: And and if you're caught up in it, you know,
Speaker 1: I get it. I mean, you have some Mondays that
Speaker 1: are worse than me. I do have Mondays that are
Speaker 1: worse than you. I yes, this one, I like. I
Speaker 1: think I feel encouraged that we get another crack at
Speaker 1: them so much. That's fair. That is I think what's
Speaker 1: helping me through this whole process, besides the therapy, that
Speaker 1: is the OTP. I think that we get to turn
Speaker 1: around and get right back to these guys. That's fair.
Speaker 1: That makes me feel good. Gotta get ready to go
Speaker 1: to Baltimore too, Okay, that's fair. The thing about the
Speaker 1: NFL is you have the highest of highs and the
Speaker 1: lowest of lows. Why we do this As we go
Speaker 1: to Baltimore, we remember the highest of highs from January
Speaker 1: winning the playoff game, and today feels like the lowest
Speaker 1: of lows for for this moment. I tell people, I said,
Speaker 1: I've been to the super Bowl, and I've been two
Speaker 1: and fourteen, so you know, I mean you you you
Speaker 1: find the range. What you have to learn to do
Speaker 1: if you're really good at it, you got to learn
Speaker 1: to flush it. You've got to learn you have to
Speaker 1: flush it. And the great teams flush it and get
Speaker 1: on with it. And that's and that's what we're going
Speaker 1: to find out now is can they flush it? Yep?
Speaker 1: Will be the true test for this team, absolutely all right.
Speaker 1: So that does it for this edition of the OTP.
Speaker 1: For Amy Wells, I, Mike Keith, we thank you for listening.
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