1 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: Welcome to the O two teas or January eighth, twenty nineteen. 2 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: You can't see us, but you can hear us, which 3 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: is probably better. That's Amy Wells, the Great Jim Wyatt 4 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: is here and this is the wrap up, look ahead, 5 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: get a new offensive coordinator, talk about the miracle. This 6 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: is our first show of the off season. So welcome 7 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 1: to off season twenty nineteen. How is everyone? This is 8 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,520 Speaker 1: going to be so great. I'm very excited about offseason 9 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Why so? I think that there's a lot 10 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: of good things happening this offseason. I think that there's 11 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: a lot to be excited about, and I'm excited to 12 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: talk about it. And you, Jim Way, I would rather 13 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: be preparing for a playoff game, but certainly, company man, 14 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: whatever I feel like. I do feel like there is 15 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: a lot to be optimistic about moving forward. Obviously, this 16 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: team's needs some work to get in a position where 17 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: it can win the division and get there next year. 18 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,039 Speaker 1: And I know, you know, like Rabel John Robinson kind 19 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: of already started that process. But I think you can 20 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: find a lot of positive from a season where the 21 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: team played nine teams end up going the playoffs. You know, 22 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: is now two and two. I think I'm all right 23 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: about that against teams that are still playing, I think 24 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: that is right. Ask you both if you're getting this 25 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: reaction to I'm getting a different reaction from Titans fans 26 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: to the conclusion of the season after the Colts went 27 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,479 Speaker 1: and beat the Texans in Houston. Yes, I think that 28 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: it proved how big of a game that was and 29 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: how hard it was going to be for the Titans 30 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: to pull that off given the situation that they were 31 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: in going into that game. Yeah. And I think the 32 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: one thing though, on the flip side, I think everybody 33 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: I have heard a lot of people say, man, if 34 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: we could have just won that game, would have really 35 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: liked the chances going to Houston against a team that 36 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: obviously didn't have the same firepower that the Colts did. 37 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:16,919 Speaker 1: And the Tides were in that game against the Colts, 38 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: you know, were trailing by touchdown with about ten minutes 39 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: to go. You make a couple of plays and you 40 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: put really put some pressure on them and maybe find 41 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: a way to win in a game where you're really 42 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: outmanned a bit because of injuries and the way things 43 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: transpired toward the end of the season and been with 44 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: that your quarterback, but just unable to do it. Colts 45 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: give them credit. I mean they've They've started off poorly 46 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: and have really gotten on a role and sets up 47 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: some really exciting playoff games this weekend. I think the 48 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: Colts beat the Chiefs. Really, that's my strong take here 49 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 1: on the OTP. You know, there's a little part of 50 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 1: me that would like to see that. I think that 51 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: having the Colts beat a team that's been as successful 52 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: as the Chiefs have been this year, I think it 53 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: gives a lot of legitimacy back to the AFC South 54 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,359 Speaker 1: that I think a lot of these teams have earned 55 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 1: this year. Year after year we talk about the AFC 56 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: South and is that really a good division? And what's 57 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,399 Speaker 1: the team to tea with winning records? Right? And so 58 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:15,639 Speaker 1: I think that the more success that we have. And 59 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: there's one team that I don't like to see have 60 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: a lot of success, but it's not the Colts. And 61 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: so if the Colts can do a good job and 62 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: can can bring some legitimate c back to this um, 63 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:29,799 Speaker 1: to this division, I think that would be great. It's 64 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: the weather looking for Casey this week and anybody check 65 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: I'm curious about that it be cold. It's very cold. 66 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: What kind of conditions we're supposed to be after the 67 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: warmth of today January eighth day, record setting day warmth 68 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: wise in Nashville, it's supposed to be below normal for 69 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: the next week in terms of temperatures here, So I'm 70 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: guessing Kansas City would be even colder. Okay, I'm sure, 71 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: And as the forecast at seven on Saturday actually positively 72 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: bombing can pard our last two trips there. It's got 73 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: a snowflake on Friday and Saturday, whether it's actually Farrell 74 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: comes by with our seven day forecast, so that'll be interesting. 75 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: I am picking the I'm picking the Chiefs in that game. 76 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: You are, but but that's the safer pick. Mahomes. I 77 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:20,799 Speaker 1: just think it's fantastic. But I don't trust the Chiefs 78 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: in January. I don't either. I just don't until they 79 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: give you a reason. And I want to see him 80 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: stop Andrew Luck. I want to see somebody stop Andrew 81 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: Luck right now. I don't see the team that can 82 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 1: do that. I'm actually picking the two road teams in 83 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: the AFC and the two home teams in the NFC. Really, yes, 84 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: I like the Chargers, although part of me wonders if 85 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: maybe the Patriots finally, you know, kind of really been 86 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 1: in consistent all season one, if they find a way 87 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: to put it together. I do like the Chargers in 88 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: the way they're playing. You know, Philip Rivers has never 89 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: beaten Tom Brady, really never beat him. How many times 90 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 1: have they played? You'd think for two guys that are 91 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 1: that old, they see each other more often. He has 92 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: beaten Matt Castle when Matt Castle was a quarterback in 93 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, but he has never beaten a 94 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: Tom Brady quarterback team. Wow. Wow, Well there you go. 95 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: This is the weekend. This is the one market for sure. 96 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 1: And I like New Orleans and I like the Rams. Yeah, 97 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: I like the home teams in the NFC as well, 98 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:29,039 Speaker 1: although I think Dallas is a pretty good matchup in 99 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 1: the has a pretty good matchup with the Rams because 100 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: they can run to football. Yeah that's true. But I 101 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: think I think the Rams are just they're firing on 102 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: all cylinders and they have been for so long. You 103 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: get Todd Gurley back, Yeah, so much momentum, so much chemistry. 104 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 1: I think that in January that place such a huge part. 105 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,119 Speaker 1: So now you've broken my heart. We should be talking 106 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: about the type we should be because and that's what 107 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: But three straight winning seasons, I mean it's positive, you 108 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: feel good and then you lose your offensive coordinator. Matt 109 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,159 Speaker 1: la Fleur is the new head coach of the Green 110 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: Bay Packers. Good for him. I mean everyone felt like 111 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 1: he was on the fast track, and he got there 112 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: sooner than I thought he would. Man, I thought it 113 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 1: would take him another couple of years. But I think 114 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: his reputation and what he's and the guys he has 115 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 1: been around, whether it's a coaching staff or some quarterbacks 116 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: he's worked with, kind of helped pave the way for 117 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 1: him to emerge from a big group of candidates in 118 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: Green Bay. He didn't have a second interview. He blew 119 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: him away so much. And I think one thing is 120 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 1: shows that the Titans were kind of ahead of the 121 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 1: curve on him, and they've had him in here this 122 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: past last offseason interviewing him for a head coaching job. 123 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:41,280 Speaker 1: And it's not from Mike Vrabel. Maybe he gets the 124 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: job here and said he has hired as OC. Unfortunately, 125 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 1: it means another offensive coordinated from Marcus Mariota to deal 126 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: with and having to learn new terminology. And and that 127 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: goes for all the players on the offensive side of 128 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: the football. So that's going to be a challenge and 129 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: one you hope wouldn't have to happen. But that's what 130 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: the Titans are now faced with, and it'll be interesting 131 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: to see which direction Mike Rabel goes. I mean, he's 132 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: a prepared guy. I have no question that he has 133 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: a list of guys that he's interested in again because 134 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: he went through this last year and now we'll see 135 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: how quickly this thing moves. Don't think it's gonna be 136 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: Sean Day has a head coaching job himself, Yeah, being 137 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: the head coach at Ohio State, probably not going to 138 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 1: leave for a coordinator's job in the NFL. I mean, 139 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: you wouldn't think. But it does go to show Rabel 140 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: looks in the right place though, right right. I mean 141 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: both those guys have now emerged and turned into head coaches. 142 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: So I don't know where he'll go. I mean, obviously 143 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: he'll probably consider some guys in the house, but I 144 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: think I think there's a there is a pretty good 145 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: group out there now, and you know, so some work 146 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: to do on the horizon. Can I ask a question, 147 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: sure we saw last season when we had new coordinators 148 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball, big change on offense, 149 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: not a big change on defense. How much of a 150 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: change is this potentially going to have on the Titans 151 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: offense going forward if they hire somebody from the outside. Yes, 152 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: I mean, i'd say it's significant. I said it's significant. 153 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 1: But I do think that that Mike Rabel, John Robinson 154 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: will do everything they can to try to limit some 155 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: of the newness, right, for lack of better words, just 156 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: because I think they realize it is a process when 157 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: you start over, so as much as you can keep 158 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: the same and obviously you know the way now. I 159 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: kind of thought Matt Lafour's offense would maybe even look 160 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: different than it did, and I think because of injuries 161 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 1: and because of that the way things transpired during the season, 162 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: it kind of ended up. I mean, it was a 163 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: return into a running attack at the end of the 164 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: year with Derrick Henry. So I'm curious to see myself 165 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 1: what they'll be looking for and just how much Derrick 166 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: Henry is leaned on moving forward after the way he 167 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: finished twenty eighteen. The part of Lafloor that surprised me. 168 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: They're two things, and I think these will be qualities 169 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: that Mike Vraibel will look for in a head coach 170 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: regardless or an offensive coordinator regardless of system. And that 171 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: is Matt Lafleur was just like Mike Vraibel in that 172 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 1: he wanted to win, didn't care what it looked like. 173 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: He wanted to win the game. Some of those offensive 174 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: coordinators and we've all known some of them over the 175 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: years at various stops where we've been, are much more 176 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: philosophy guys and stat guys, and they've always got to 177 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 1: run the ball on the last play of the half 178 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: to get an extra fifteen yards added to their stat 179 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: total at things of that sort. This guy could care 180 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: less about that. He's like, win the game nine to six. 181 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: He won a game, you know, he could win a 182 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: high scoring game, whatever he needed to do. He's about 183 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 1: winning the game. And I think that was a big thing. 184 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 1: The other thing too about Matt that I know Mike 185 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: liked is Mike wanted at times him to be him, 186 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: be willing to do something different, like going to the 187 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: wildcat in the situation where he was without three tackles 188 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,559 Speaker 1: and they were in a tough situation, and he's like, fine, 189 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 1: I don't care. You know, got to throw to the 190 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: tight end this week a bunch. We throw to the 191 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: tight end a bunch. You gotta run it a bunch 192 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: this week. That's fine. And I think that's why Matt 193 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: is going to be successful as a head coach, because 194 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: I think his mindset is more about utilizing the players 195 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: he has at this moment and finding a way to 196 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: win the game rather than some silly philosophy. But we're 197 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: gonna throw, and we're gonna you know, this is how 198 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: this is how it is. It's like these basketball coaches 199 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: who won't run his own defense. You know, it's kind 200 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: of like why you're less of a tough guy if 201 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 1: you do that. Matt Lafleur just wants to win, and 202 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: I think Vrabel is going to want to find that 203 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: in the offensive coordinator, whether he promotes from within or 204 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 1: goes and get somebody, he wants to find somebody like 205 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: minded enough that he may not always agree with. And 206 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:10,079 Speaker 1: certainly head coaches and offensive coordinators and defensive coordinators will 207 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 1: clash at times, but there's an overall feeling, Hey, we're 208 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 1: here to be eleven and five, twelve and four, thirteen 209 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: and three, and if that means gaining three hundred yards 210 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 1: super If if we can do that, we would rather 211 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: be than be eight and eight and gained four hundred yards. 212 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: We could care less let's win. I agree, yeah, And 213 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: certainly Mike Rabel is going to have his hand in it. 214 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 1: I mean, I think he was obviously more involved in 215 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: the defense, and although it was deemed pieces show this 216 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: past season, it will again this year. But Mike Rabel 217 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: does have an influence and is involved and knows what's 218 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 1: going on to make suggestions here or there, but he's 219 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 1: gonna let his offensive coordinator call his shots. And mount 220 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: Lafloor had to deal with some challenges. I mean you 221 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: you mentioned the tackles and the shortest there and the 222 00:11:58,320 --> 00:11:59,719 Speaker 1: injuries he had to deal with. He deal with a 223 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: back that was hurting week one, and I had a 224 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: recurring injury that was a young receiving corps at all 225 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 1: those guys pretty much second year guys lost his best player, 226 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: the best weapon I guess into Lanny Walker a week once. 227 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: So he had to fight through a lot of things. 228 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: I know you've talked to people in Green Bay. I've 229 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: had a lot of people call me asking my opinion 230 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: about him and they want to know, well, if he's 231 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: so good, why I was offense, why the numbers might 232 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: look better? And I think some of it speaks to 233 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 1: what you said, but some of it speaks to what 234 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: he had to deal with here. Is he perfect? I 235 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: mean no, I mean I think you could question some 236 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: of the things here. The play call against the Chargers 237 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: in London, the past there, the run against Luke Stocker. 238 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: Those have all been well got documented here, and maybe 239 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 1: things didn't look great some of the time. But I 240 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 1: think people are banking on him and his his bright mind, 241 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: his ability to kind of bring unique game plans each week. 242 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: And uh, I'm myself very anxiously how it go because 243 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: this is a different chile on him with working with 244 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers compared to work with Marcus Mariota and Jared 245 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: Golf and maybe all three when he was younger. Matt 246 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: Ryan had some experience, but Aaron Rodgers is uh, probably 247 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,319 Speaker 1: not the easiest guy to deal with. Well, Matt's strong 248 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 1: enough to handle that. Yeah, Oh yeah, I think I 249 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 1: think that he Uh, he seemed incredibly well liked by 250 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: the guys in the locker room and everyone that he 251 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: was coaching. But I think he has enough of a 252 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 1: personality to be able to hold his own against another personality, 253 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: but also be likable. You know, I think that he was. 254 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: He was a strong coach. He was a good coach, 255 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: but guys really seemed to kind of like him and 256 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 1: enjoy working with him. You know why. I think Amy 257 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: he met him in the middle. Yeah, it felt very collaborative. 258 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: He off the field, he would I mean much like Vrabel, 259 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:54,080 Speaker 1: his on field relationship and his off field relationship were different. 260 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: He coached hard. I mean he would get on guys 261 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: and he would let guys have it. But off the field, 262 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: it was like, all that's over with on the field, 263 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 1: We're going to do this off the field, We're gonna 264 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: be grown men and treat each other like human beings. 265 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: And I thought that was one of Rabel's most effective 266 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: things in year one. You know, he told those guys 267 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: up front, he because we're gonna coach you hard, but 268 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: off the field where well, you know, we'll be friendly, 269 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: we'll eat lunch, we'll talk, we'll visit my doors open, 270 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: I want to know about your family. It was it 271 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: was what he said it would be, which is what 272 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 1: I'm not going to play a bunch of games, trying 273 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: to motivate you off the field. On the field, you're 274 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: gonna get it, and everybody's gonna get And I mean 275 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: he I don't think we saw him spare anybody on 276 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: the practice field. And Lafleur was the same way. Coached hard. Yeah, 277 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: and I give you know, and it's the mic Rabel way. 278 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 1: But I give about Lafloor a lot of credit because 279 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: he was never looking past the buck on anything that 280 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: came up that didn't go right. He always took ownerships. 281 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: That is my fault. I've got to do better, whether 282 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: it's getting the tight end the ball, uh, you know, 283 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: early in the season, whether it's a play call, whatever 284 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: it was, Mike, you know, Matt, Matt Lafloor would say, hey, 285 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: point the finger at me. I mean, I'm I'm responsible 286 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 1: for it. I'm the offensive coordinator. So I give him 287 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: a lot of credit. Now, So scrutiny is about to 288 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 1: go one hundred times what it was here because we 289 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: all know what it's like in Green Bay, and we 290 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: all know the season they're coming off of, and that's 291 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: not it's not tolerated here, but it's not certainly not 292 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 1: tolerated there where they've got the World Championships and and 293 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: uh fan expectations that you know, the roof, especially with 294 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: the quarterback who who is a MVP player, so um 295 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: be curious to how some of that goes for him. Yeah, 296 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: they don't call it title town for nothing, right, right, 297 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: And it's cold, it's very cold. But he's from up there. Yeah, 298 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: he's from minute. He's from Michigan, so he can handle it. 299 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: He's gonna need a big coat, well he can, he 300 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 1: can afford one. Now. It's reportedly four year kind track 301 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: with an option for a fifth. Other coordinator Jim White 302 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: popped the story Dean Pas returning, and man was that 303 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: hailed by everybody, Just like, thank goodness, that's one. I mean, 304 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 1: tough enough, I'm going to change offensive coordinator. I'm sure 305 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel, you know, would have hated it to have 306 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: to start over on defense. But Peace was so well 307 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: liked by players. Thought he did a great job, you know, 308 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: not only with shutting down some really good offenses, but 309 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: you know, providing getting pressure and generating pressure at times 310 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 1: when you're a little bit limited on the outside. I 311 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: can only imagine how much better things can get if 312 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 1: this team's able to reload and get some more effective 313 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: edge rushers in this draft, find some more beef upfront, 314 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: and really allow him to set a tone on defense. 315 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: But I thought he did a I thought DMPs did 316 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: a great job and it was a great development. Number 317 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: eight defense in the NFL in terms of total yards, 318 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,400 Speaker 1: number three defense in the NFL in terms of points allowed, 319 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,680 Speaker 1: and yet didn't have a lot of guys on defense 320 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: who had like career years. But that's not a terrible thing, 321 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 1: I don't think. I think that shows that there was 322 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: a lot of depth and they were able to pull 323 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,159 Speaker 1: some guys out and keep them fresh, and that's a 324 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: good thing you want to do. As the season went 325 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,439 Speaker 1: on and we started losing some people due to injury 326 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:30,640 Speaker 1: and things like that, there were other guys who were 327 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: able to step up. It felt like they were constantly 328 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 1: moving around and everyone was always contributing, which is what 329 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 1: you want on a good defense. A great I do. 330 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 1: I do. And now you could tell if a couple 331 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 1: of the players chommed in after the news was released 332 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 1: and they're very excited about it. You know, it's a 333 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,160 Speaker 1: tough fact to follow dick Lebou. So when when dick 334 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:55,919 Speaker 1: Lebou didn't come back, I think the fame base, you know, disappointed, 335 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: and then you find out about Dan Peace and with 336 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 1: the Patriots and with the Ravens, the success he had 337 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: there him able to come here and put his own 338 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 1: stamp on the defense. And I thought he again did 339 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 1: a great job in generating pressure. With the DBS, Logan 340 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 1: Ryan and their loves to blet, some of these defensive 341 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,680 Speaker 1: bikes pretty much volunteer to do it. They're gonna get 342 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:18,919 Speaker 1: more opportunities moving forward, and and I think continue on 343 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:20,159 Speaker 1: that side of the ball is gonna be great. But 344 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: I do expect to see some new faces and some 345 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 1: new guys creating havoc in twenty nineteen. Well, they need 346 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: a dominant front edge pass rusher. Not to say Casey's not, 347 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:36,120 Speaker 1: but I'm talking about a guy that they're bringing off 348 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,680 Speaker 1: the edge who can be a double digit sack guy. 349 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:41,679 Speaker 1: This defense with that goes to a different level. I 350 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: thought before the season it's a top ten defense. If 351 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 1: they get good production from the edge, they can be 352 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: a top five defense. They didn't get it. They did 353 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: end up the number eight defense in the league, and 354 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 1: the improvement that they had shown under Dick Lebau continued 355 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:00,479 Speaker 1: under Dean piece, which was a great thing. And now 356 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:05,120 Speaker 1: it's about how do you become elite, right, because even 357 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: though they were a good unit, the numbers were not 358 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 1: elite type numbers that that they want to have. Not 359 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 1: to say they didn't do a good job, but this 360 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 1: is where they're they're looking to take it to the 361 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: next level. And if you get that guy you're talking about, 362 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:20,160 Speaker 1: it opens up things for Jill Casey, and it opens 363 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,880 Speaker 1: up things for you know, a guy like Harold Landry 364 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:27,120 Speaker 1: and some younger guys coming off the edge really good 365 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 1: at linebacker. I think I thought John Brown had a 366 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: tremendous season, or Sean Evans fantastic second half of the season. Uh, 367 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: you know, Westerley Woodrow, I thought, continue to play the 368 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: high level. There are a lot of things to be 369 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 1: excited about on the back end, and now I think 370 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 1: the emphasis going into this season is to get yourself 371 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: guys that can get after the quarterback on a consistent basis. Well. 372 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: And with all of those guys that you mentioned, they're 373 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:55,120 Speaker 1: all fairly young, with the exception of Wesley Woodyard who's 374 00:19:55,119 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 1: three hundred years old. No just catching u but really 375 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 1: an under contract for another year. By the way, there 376 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: you go, which is awesome, so good for this Titans defense. 377 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,159 Speaker 1: But Jayon Brown is young, Harold Landry's a rookie, Rare 378 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 1: Shaun Evans is a rookie. All of those guys have 379 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 1: the sky's the limit for them. There's so much potential 380 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,439 Speaker 1: in all of those guys. And to establish consistency and 381 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: to expect consistency on the defensive side of the ball. 382 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 1: I think that makes this year's success, just because they 383 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 1: have that foundation of being reliable and knowing that this 384 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:34,159 Speaker 1: system works and it can work. Well, what else do 385 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 1: we want to talk about with the current Titans. I mean, 386 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 1: I think we can kind of. I mean, we get 387 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 1: the draft to still a long ways away, and but 388 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:48,119 Speaker 1: we do have the Combine coming up. We've got Senior 389 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: Bowl before that, positions and need I mean, certainly John 390 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,719 Speaker 1: Robinson Mike Rabe aren't going there. But I think if 391 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: we look at this raws, we've talked about some of 392 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: the highs and lows, I think I'm curious myself to 393 00:20:58,520 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: see where it goes. I mean, I think it's a 394 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: receiving corps that needs more more dynamic playmakers there. I 395 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: think the offensive line, I'm curious to see which direction 396 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: that goes. I think again, edge rusher has to be 397 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 1: considered a position a need. It's gonna be interesting to 398 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: see where John Robinson takes this in the draft. We 399 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 1: still don't know who all is gonna be available. I 400 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: mean the juniors, some of them still have not declared. 401 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:25,680 Speaker 1: We'll probably see that list here. Where's that come out 402 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,400 Speaker 1: another week or January fourteenth has to cut off, so 403 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 1: that's a week from yesterday. So I'm curious to see 404 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: where things go in a year when the draft is 405 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: right here in Nashville, Tennessee. Is every player that's going 406 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: to be taken in the first round from Clemson and Alabama? No, 407 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: all thirty two players. No, I don't think though, but 408 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:49,159 Speaker 1: maybe well half of them, well half of the players 409 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: who go in the first Watching the National Championship game, 410 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:56,440 Speaker 1: it's a ton of talent. I mean, it's just overwhelming 411 00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: how good those two teams are. But I mean it's 412 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: a good year for what the Titans needs are by 413 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 1: all rights. Mike de Tillier was Untitans Radio with us 414 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: last week and said, defensive line, it's the best year 415 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: in forever you're going to be able to get top talent, 416 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 1: not just in the first round, but also in Day two, 417 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 1: in Day three, outside linebacker, it's a good year. If 418 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: you're looking interior offensive line, you can probably find that player. 419 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: If you're looking for a quarterback, he may be there, 420 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: he may not be there. You know, there's talk that 421 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: a quarterback may not go in the top ten. WHOA. Now, 422 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,120 Speaker 1: part of that is because roughly the first five teams 423 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: at this point don't need a quarterback. But well, I 424 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 1: can't rule out the chance of someone treated to get 425 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,120 Speaker 1: a quarterback. That's when all of the funds starts. That's 426 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: exactly right. And it's interesting too. All of the hires 427 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 1: so far in the NFL for the head coaching jobs 428 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: have been offensive hires like Matt Lafleur going to Green Bay, 429 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 1: Bruce arian Is going to Tampa, and on and on 430 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: and on. The offensive trend continues. Even though the wildcard 431 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 1: weekend it was back to defense the games were the 432 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: games were not high scoring. Yeah, I thought that was 433 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 1: interesting and and that's you know, the coaches who want 434 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: to preach defense and run the football. What has happened 435 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:26,640 Speaker 1: so far show you the value in that. Still, Yeah, 436 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 1: it will be interesting to see where it kind of 437 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 1: things transpires this offseason goes a quarterback position, and as 438 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 1: far as the draft goes, we all know how that works. 439 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: These guys once they start doing these workouts, those guys 440 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,959 Speaker 1: end up going higher than people think. And then that 441 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 1: starts impacting where a team is picking nineteenth or somewhere 442 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 1: outside of that top ten. That kind of influences on 443 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,439 Speaker 1: what position you might be choosing from. Well, and if 444 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 1: you like a guy, you think about two years ago, 445 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: Kansas City trades up in the first round to go 446 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: get Patrick Mahomes and everybody's like, what are they doing. 447 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: Houston trades up in the first round to go and 448 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 1: get Deshaun Watson because they liked these players, even though 449 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: some teams weren't sold on them, you know. And it's 450 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:16,439 Speaker 1: turned out okay. That group of quarterbacks that supposedly weren't 451 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: very good Mitchell Trubisky and I think he's okay. Yeah, 452 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: they've all turned out fine. Yeah. Uh. That's what makes 453 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: the draft so exciting. It's the most wonderful time of 454 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 1: the year, and it's in Nashville, and it's in Nashville. 455 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,200 Speaker 1: It's going to be very excited. Gosh, it's going to 456 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 1: be crazy. I'm so excited. I hope that everyone in 457 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,640 Speaker 1: the world comes to Nashville for this draft. Do you really? 458 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,479 Speaker 1: I really do. I think it's going to be so 459 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 1: much fun. And I don't like big crowds. I don't 460 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,120 Speaker 1: like traffic. I don't like those things. But I want 461 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,160 Speaker 1: everyone here for the draft. It's gonna be so calling 462 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,920 Speaker 1: him Mountain, I'm calling him out. The whole world was good. 463 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 1: I know it's a long ways off. That's going to 464 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: influence a lot about how that weekend goes and hopefully 465 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: normally it is. Yeah. Last year it was cold. Yeah, 466 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: but all those honky monks are indoors. Yeah, that's where 467 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 1: everybody's going. We've been to summer. I mean Dallas last 468 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 1: year was great. It seems like Philly was good. Chicago 469 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: and it was a mess. Ye. I felt so bad 470 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:13,639 Speaker 1: for the two of you having to be at the 471 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 1: NFL Draft. So they're gonna have the NFL Draft here 472 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:19,679 Speaker 1: and I'm still not going to get to attend the 473 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 1: NFL Draft. You're not. So we've brought it as close 474 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: as to get. And it sounds like from what the 475 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,160 Speaker 1: talk is now about draft party and about where they're 476 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 1: going to host the actual picks that and I can't 477 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: give it away yet, but it sounds like we're going 478 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 1: to be about two hundred yards away. So I'm gonna 479 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 1: get within two hundred yards of my first ever NFL 480 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 1: draft and still not get there. Sorry, man. Yes, we're 481 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 1: gonna have to campaign to get it like in your 482 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,199 Speaker 1: living room so you can experience the draft. But you 483 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:52,400 Speaker 1: know what, I would rather be with the fans at 484 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 1: the draft party. Yeah. It is more fun for me 485 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,919 Speaker 1: to see their reaction and for all of us, to 486 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: the season ticket members and to all be together. I do. 487 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I've been at both. 488 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: I've been at a couple of drafts now and I've 489 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: been in just from it in but and I've been 490 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,160 Speaker 1: in a lot of draft parties as well for the Titans, 491 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: and golly, those are fun. It's good. They are really 492 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: a good time. So Jim's never been to a draft party. 493 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 1: He just goes to the draft, Jim goes home. Yeah, well, 494 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 1: it'll be more fun for fans. It probably will be 495 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: for us because we'll obviously be working, and that's the 496 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: way it works. We'll be waiting for the Titans to 497 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,120 Speaker 1: pick on at nineteen if that's where the team ends 498 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,919 Speaker 1: up picking, and then once up players picked, it's you know, 499 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: it's a kind of a whirlwind for us, you know, 500 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,679 Speaker 1: getting with the prospect and and then trying to crank 501 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,159 Speaker 1: out you know, stories and videos and give it as 502 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: much information as possible. In Friday and Saturday is just 503 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: a grind. We'll be spending a year while people out 504 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 1: in the streets of Nashville having a great time. It's 505 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,400 Speaker 1: a it's a really busy weekend. It's still fun though, 506 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 1: but we don't have to catch that early morning flight. 507 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: That's that's a good Uh. Yeah, you don't get to 508 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,479 Speaker 1: you don't get to get on the owner's private jet. Again. Well, 509 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: I might just go look at it for a while. 510 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: When you listen to this, it's the most pitiful story ever, 511 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: them having to get on the owner's private jet and 512 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:12,199 Speaker 1: it's so early. Yeah, yeah, how bad is that? No, 513 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,120 Speaker 1: it's pretty great. But how awesome is she that she 514 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,719 Speaker 1: wants and I'm talking about Amy Adam struck, that she 515 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: wants the first round pick and the you know, I 516 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 1: guess it was a Dory and Corey a couple of 517 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 1: years ago, that she wants it covered so much that 518 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 1: she puts you on the plane with them back. Yeah, 519 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 1: I mean she wants to give them that experience and 520 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: make them feel as special and his value values them. 521 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 1: But that's what I'm saying, is that she also wants 522 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 1: to make sure that fans have every opportunity to get 523 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:46,160 Speaker 1: to know these guys. And so, as the faithful servant 524 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,919 Speaker 1: that I am look at, I will bless your hop 525 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: on board and make taking a private jetans. You are 526 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: such a good person. But it really is awesome and 527 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,640 Speaker 1: it's such a unique opportunity for us to be able 528 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 1: to get to know these guys, get to know their families, 529 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 1: and so you really feel like you have a good 530 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,919 Speaker 1: understanding after a flight that's two hours, you're sitting a 531 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 1: metal tube together. I mean, you've got a chance to talk, 532 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 1: so you get to know them really well. And that's awesome. 533 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:16,120 Speaker 1: What say you, Jim White? It's cool. I know I 534 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: was able to do it with Jack Conklin and uh 535 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 1: and then also and then the year with Corey Davis 536 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 1: and a Dory was not on the flight back with Rashawn. 537 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: I think Rashaan's situation is different last year, but it 538 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 1: was it was cool to kind of get to know 539 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 1: these guys and to h to kind of see their excitement. 540 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,240 Speaker 1: I'll never forget seeing Jack Conklin kind of lean over 541 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 1: and look at out the windows as the plane flew 542 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 1: over Nissan Stadium, and Dorry Jackson kind of doing the 543 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: same thing with his mom and dad sitting across from him, 544 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 1: and uh and uh, you know, it's it's those guys 545 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 1: are exhausted after not sleeping the night before and uh, 546 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: and they're getting ready to start what's a whirlwind day 547 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: and had already started when they when they're getting on 548 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 1: the flight elarly in the morning. But it's it has 549 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: been fun. And it kind of as you see these 550 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: guys in the locker room now and you kind of, 551 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 1: you know, it's been so much more time around him, 552 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: you've kind of all always go back. I think they 553 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: always kind of trust you because they, Okay, this is 554 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 1: a guy that's it's that across from us on the 555 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: team playing he Uh, you know, somebody trust this guy 556 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: at least. That's good stuff. Yeah, it is. It's fun. 557 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 1: It's my favorite time of the year. Fifteen weeks away 558 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 1: fifteen one hundred seven days to be exact, with today 559 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: being January eighth. The draft begins on April the twenty fifth, today, 560 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: being January eighth, days a big day, Mike Key, It's 561 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: miracle day. It's miracle day. It is. Is this like 562 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: your Super Bowl? No? I was hoping you'd say something different, 563 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 1: but no, I mean, you know, I mean, we've been 564 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. We came up yea short of 565 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: sending it into overtime. Remember that. But this is such 566 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 1: a big call. This call has impacted your life so 567 00:29:55,720 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 1: many ways. Well, that's yeah, I'd say that's right, but 568 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,160 Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean that way, Yeah, that's a 569 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 1: big way. Well yeah, yeah, I mean, no denying it. 570 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: What would have happened if there would have been a 571 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 1: flag on the field, I would have looked for the food. 572 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 1: Did you survey the field pretty quickly? I actually did. 573 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 1: I actually did uh in that in that instance, And 574 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: I've blown a couple of calls by not surveying the 575 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: field and so so I've done that. But I was 576 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 1: I knew immediately because from our angle where we sit, 577 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: so you're in the main press box in in that game, 578 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: and you have a better look at it because you're 579 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 1: closer to the play. I am like if it's on TV, 580 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 1: I am well to the right I mean, well to 581 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: the left of the play as you look at it 582 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 1: on television, and so the angle at which I have, 583 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 1: you can't tell if the ball has gone forward or 584 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 1: fit's a lateral. You don't know. It looks like there's 585 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 1: a pretty good chance that the ball went forward, just 586 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,239 Speaker 1: from the angle that I'm sitting at. And so for 587 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: that reason, I did look back to see as Kevin 588 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:15,400 Speaker 1: was running if they had thrown a flag and they 589 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: had not. So, as he's running, in your brain, are 590 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: you thinking flag or are you thinking, wow, he might 591 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 1: actually go all? I'm not thinking he'll go chat. Ryan 592 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 1: says at the start of the call. When Kevin catches 593 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 1: the ball, he's got something, which is to me, the 594 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 1: amazing part of the call is that Pat was so 595 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: good that he saw it immediately, he saw that it 596 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: was open, and he let the listener know immediately it 597 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 1: was open. I did not know. I didn't think that, 598 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 1: And all I'm concerned about at that point is was 599 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:52,959 Speaker 1: it going to be a penalty? And then when you 600 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,400 Speaker 1: saw the angle down the twenty five yard line, you 601 00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:00,200 Speaker 1: realize that ball didn't go forward. Yeah, you know, I 602 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,800 Speaker 1: didn't realize it moved backward, which eventually pictures revealed that 603 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 1: it that it did wasn't much, but if it goes 604 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 1: straight line, it's fine. And it and it did that. Wow, 605 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 1: what do you remember? It was crazy? I remember you 606 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 1: know that as a reporter, you always have to And 607 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 1: that was at the time when reporters were allowed on 608 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 1: the field right at the two minute mark, and you 609 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 1: could watch the final couple of minutes on the field. 610 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 1: And that was really before the days of debt immediate deadlines, 611 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: and so a lot of people had to make the decision, Okay, 612 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 1: I'm going down to watch it, or I'm going to 613 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 1: stay in the press box to watch it. I liked 614 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: it to stay in the press box to watch it, 615 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:45,840 Speaker 1: and I'm glad I did. I mean, I know it 616 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: would have been a completely different field being on the 617 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: field when it happened, but by seeing it from my 618 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 1: vantage point, which is right around the fifty, I had 619 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 1: a good view of it, had a better look at 620 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 1: it than I did. Yeah, and then after it happened 621 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 1: to be able to see the replay again and again 622 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: and again. I think my initial thought was it was 623 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 1: gonna be it was gonna be a penalty. But as 624 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 1: you watched the replay. There was nothing that was convincing 625 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,040 Speaker 1: you that they were going to change their mind. And 626 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: I remember everybody in the stands below us kind of 627 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 1: looking back, you know, trying to get a thumbs up 628 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,320 Speaker 1: or thumbs down was a good or not. And I 629 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 1: remember giving the putting my arms out. I don't know, 630 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 1: I mean, it was impossible to say I didn't want 631 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,560 Speaker 1: to get somebody thumbs up and didn't have the thing 632 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: called back, and then you know, they would have felt 633 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 1: like I'd ruined it for them by giving some bad information. 634 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 1: So it was one of those deals where you couldn't 635 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 1: really say definitively what was going to happen, but was 636 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 1: I was glad to be upstairs to see it. And 637 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: then and then at the locker room celebration and celebration 638 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 1: in the stands alike any game I'd ever been to. 639 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 1: I mean, people in the stadium were going absolutely crazy. 640 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:56,320 Speaker 1: The locker room scene was incredible, just the players and 641 00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: just the excitement. I mean, the previous year i'd I 642 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: was covering high school sports, I was coming to Clinic 643 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,680 Speaker 1: Bowl and then UH got fortunate at the Tennessee in 644 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: where they were team to come to town become the 645 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,560 Speaker 1: Titans looking for an extra personal beat here, I am 646 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,759 Speaker 1: going from covering high schools to the NFL. You know 647 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,680 Speaker 1: how high schools kids are so excited. You don't see 648 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,920 Speaker 1: that in the NFL. I mean, it's it's a business. 649 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 1: But this is like high school kids celebrating in the 650 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:25,839 Speaker 1: locker room. The way things played out, and and just 651 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 1: the people hugging, and uh, it was. It was an 652 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 1: incredible day. And uh you remember, you know, seeing everybody 653 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,920 Speaker 1: on the streets and hearing the hooping and hollering, and 654 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,759 Speaker 1: you know, my family, and my family was in the 655 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,399 Speaker 1: crowd and they certainly were calling me and just so 656 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,000 Speaker 1: excited to have been a part of it. But I 657 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,640 Speaker 1: also know a lot of people that that left. And 658 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,200 Speaker 1: I know a lot of people in my line of 659 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: work that you know, made the decision too late to 660 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,120 Speaker 1: go from press box to field and they were in 661 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:58,560 Speaker 1: the they run the stairwell leading down and miss completely. Uh. 662 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 1: I know agains a lot of people in the business 663 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 1: or business had missed the play. I think my sister 664 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,400 Speaker 1: goes went to a lot of games. She missed she 665 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 1: left the game earlier, did she really, Yeah, and didn't 666 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,359 Speaker 1: see it. And uh, but then they're probably about two 667 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,359 Speaker 1: hundred thousand people who said they were there that day 668 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,560 Speaker 1: and witnessed it. More than that probably. I had a 669 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:22,520 Speaker 1: neighbor who left early and was so distraught. He left 670 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 1: after the Titans field goal to go up sixteen to 671 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,120 Speaker 1: fifteen and found out as he got to the far 672 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,040 Speaker 1: edge of the campus of the stadium that the Bills 673 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,799 Speaker 1: had just kicked the field goal. So when he got 674 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,279 Speaker 1: in his car and drove away, he was so dejected 675 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:43,520 Speaker 1: he did not turn the radio on. Really yeah, it 676 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,839 Speaker 1: got home and his wife said, wasn't that amazing? There 677 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:52,279 Speaker 1: was no Twitter, social media. He felt like he had 678 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,920 Speaker 1: cost the team the game because he had left early, 679 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,279 Speaker 1: and so he missed and he missed the hoop lie, 680 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,319 Speaker 1: he missed the whole at his wife said something to him. 681 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,440 Speaker 1: His wife not really a sports fan, so he thinks 682 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,880 Speaker 1: his wife is confused about what she's trying to explain 683 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,160 Speaker 1: to him. And I mean, I guess he found out, 684 00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,560 Speaker 1: you know, hour long later after what had happened, so 685 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:16,759 Speaker 1: he missed all of it. Now he won't leave a 686 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 1: junior pro basketball See the majority of people that I 687 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:28,200 Speaker 1: talked to who left that game early, besides being just 688 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,920 Speaker 1: horrified that they've done that. The thing that they remember 689 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,799 Speaker 1: is your call, Mike. That's the thing that is like, 690 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,880 Speaker 1: it solidifies that moment because yes, they felt terrible, but 691 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,799 Speaker 1: a man, what a call. That was amazing. Well that's 692 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,960 Speaker 1: what people say to me. That's what they remember. Well, 693 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:48,319 Speaker 1: people have been very nice about it. It was it 694 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 1: was quite a break to be able to call a 695 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,600 Speaker 1: play like that, especially on a day where I was 696 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:59,399 Speaker 1: so awful. I was hideous game. Oh gosh, so bad. 697 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,880 Speaker 1: I mean, like never, I mean, I've probably been worse 698 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,800 Speaker 1: since I would think at times, but I was so 699 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:10,359 Speaker 1: bad that day, just terrible, to the point that I 700 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,719 Speaker 1: had to calm myself down about midway through the fourth 701 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,719 Speaker 1: quarter because like, if I was gonna say Smith, it 702 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,319 Speaker 1: came out Jones if it was. I mean, it was 703 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,560 Speaker 1: one of these days where you're like, am I what's wrong? 704 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,040 Speaker 1: Have I totally lost my mind? And I'm having some 705 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,719 Speaker 1: medical issue here. I mean, it's just so bad, it's 706 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,759 Speaker 1: and you describe it, it's like having peanut butter on 707 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:35,480 Speaker 1: the roof of your mouth. You just can't get anything right. 708 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,399 Speaker 1: And I calmed myself down about midway through the fourth quarter. 709 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,319 Speaker 1: I said, look, just get through this. This is a 710 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,440 Speaker 1: disaster you're calling. I think I was too excited. I 711 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,800 Speaker 1: think I was too excited because it was a playoff 712 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 1: game and and I'd never been through anything like that before, 713 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,880 Speaker 1: and I was just so fired up. And oh gosh, 714 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,200 Speaker 1: that was so bad. If you listen to that whole broadcast, 715 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:05,360 Speaker 1: you would say, this guy, he is not qualified to 716 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,160 Speaker 1: even be allowed to talk on the radio. Take him outside. 717 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,759 Speaker 1: It just don't fire him, shoot him, throw him in 718 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,680 Speaker 1: the river, and just be done with I mean, it was. 719 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,319 Speaker 1: It was terrible, and everybody in the booth was looking 720 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:21,480 Speaker 1: at me like, oh, poor Mike. He's just when people 721 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,120 Speaker 1: smile at you and are like I can tell you 722 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,040 Speaker 1: about my bad day once, like, oh god, it's really 723 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,080 Speaker 1: that bad. Ye, this was really terrible. So then for 724 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,720 Speaker 1: that to happen, I was the miracle. Was nobody remembers 725 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:37,960 Speaker 1: how bad I was, so because this play happens, and 726 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:42,239 Speaker 1: it's like it was like unreal. And the funny thing 727 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:46,000 Speaker 1: I was told the story before. But so I go 728 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,719 Speaker 1: get a coke after the game's over, and I'm just 729 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:53,239 Speaker 1: happy we've won. And it's a Saturday, and so we 730 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,839 Speaker 1: don't know who we're going to play, and We've got 731 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,160 Speaker 1: tomorrow off, and I'm getting a coke and I'm getting 732 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,759 Speaker 1: the ice, and I'm sitting there thinking what did I say? 733 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:07,439 Speaker 1: And because I don't have any recollection of what I've said, 734 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:09,919 Speaker 1: did I get some of it? Right? Did I get 735 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,040 Speaker 1: you know? And I went back and I heard it, 736 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:17,160 Speaker 1: and I thought, okay, all right, that's that's accurate. The 737 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,879 Speaker 1: screaming like a seven year old girl part I could 738 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:24,560 Speaker 1: live without. But well, it is this, it is that. 739 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,880 Speaker 1: I mean, I hate that. I hate I mean that 740 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,640 Speaker 1: when I hear that, I just cringe. But but it 741 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:34,600 Speaker 1: was honest. I mean, that was the actual reaction that 742 00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,680 Speaker 1: I had at that moment, and that's how it felt. 743 00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:41,440 Speaker 1: I mean, it felt like, oh my god, I've just 744 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:46,279 Speaker 1: seen something, you know, well a football miracle, right, yeah, yeah, 745 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,800 Speaker 1: it was genuine emotion. It was it was real. That's true. 746 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,160 Speaker 1: It was bad, but it was real. You know, the 747 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:58,200 Speaker 1: screaming part I could have lived without. But but that um, 748 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,400 Speaker 1: when you when you hear it, you're like, okay, because 749 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:05,239 Speaker 1: people decide, You don't decide. People decide whether they like 750 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,359 Speaker 1: it or not or whatever, and you just have to 751 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,799 Speaker 1: do the best you can and live with it and 752 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,880 Speaker 1: I've missed enough of them to know, Oh, that's terrible, 753 00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,799 Speaker 1: And then people will confirm that, thank goodness for them, 754 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,000 Speaker 1: thank you for your what are you gonna say now? 755 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:27,440 Speaker 1: But nineteen years later, regnize the significance of that in LA, 756 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,480 Speaker 1: I recognize the significance of the moment. Yeah, I recognize 757 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,960 Speaker 1: that well. And the truth is, you know the story 758 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:39,360 Speaker 1: about the other three people were doing the game, Van Miller, 759 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:44,280 Speaker 1: who has passed away great broadcaster for the Buffalo Bills, 760 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,640 Speaker 1: legendary broadcaster for the Buffalo Bills. Before the play, he 761 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,799 Speaker 1: had said, we've got to watch them doing something like 762 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,920 Speaker 1: a flea flicker or something. He basically described what was 763 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,960 Speaker 1: going to happen. And so then during the course of 764 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,520 Speaker 1: his call, I guess and I I haven't heard it 765 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,440 Speaker 1: in a long time. But more or less what he 766 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,640 Speaker 1: says is, I told you so, I told you so. So. 767 00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:09,640 Speaker 1: That was in essence his whole call on TV. It 768 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:16,799 Speaker 1: was Mike Patrick, Joe Eisman, and Paul McGuire, and they 769 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,759 Speaker 1: sat and argued with each other all the way down 770 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,560 Speaker 1: the field as to whether or not it was going 771 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,360 Speaker 1: to stand up. So they really didn't call the play. 772 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:28,880 Speaker 1: They just argued about it. There's a national broadcast, and 773 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,319 Speaker 1: the guy doing the national broadcast is one of these 774 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:39,040 Speaker 1: golden throated you know how I'd like to sound for 775 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:43,560 Speaker 1: about five minutes, well, and his call was right on, 776 00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:50,239 Speaker 1: but his color analyst was just screaming, just like, just like, 777 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,440 Speaker 1: And so you can't hear the play by play guy 778 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,200 Speaker 1: call the play. And so for that reason, ours is 779 00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,360 Speaker 1: the only one one that stood up through dumb luck 780 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:07,239 Speaker 1: of being intelligible because Pat talked and I talked, and 781 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,359 Speaker 1: Pat talked and I talked to Pat talked and I talked. 782 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,879 Speaker 1: But at no point do we drown the other one out. 783 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,800 Speaker 1: Blind squirrel finds the acorn, I mean, is one hundred percent. 784 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,160 Speaker 1: Van Miller's better than I'll ever be. Mike Patrick's better 785 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,640 Speaker 1: than I'll ever be. The guy on national radio is 786 00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,880 Speaker 1: better than I'll ever be. And they were certainly a 787 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,160 Speaker 1: heck of a lot better at that moment than I was. 788 00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,960 Speaker 1: But they, you know, ours was the only one you 789 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,640 Speaker 1: can understand. Yeah, that's the only one you ever hear. 790 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:38,399 Speaker 1: I mean sometimes because there's no other. I mean, if 791 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,759 Speaker 1: you hear the TV one, it makes absolutely no sense. 792 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,440 Speaker 1: Those three guys talked over each other all the time. Anyway. 793 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:48,200 Speaker 1: But because they were on TV and we all had pictures, 794 00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,320 Speaker 1: you could do that, and so they would voice opinions 795 00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,239 Speaker 1: and they would just sit and argue with each other. 796 00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,960 Speaker 1: They would walk in the bathroom at halftime arguing with 797 00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:01,200 Speaker 1: each other. Still, but it was entered taining because that's 798 00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:05,640 Speaker 1: what they did. But for the purpose of being a 799 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:09,880 Speaker 1: soundtrack to the play, it didn't work. So that's me 800 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,200 Speaker 1: blind squirrel. But Jim's right. You hear it all the time. 801 00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,400 Speaker 1: You hear it everywhere. It's in NFL montages, it's in 802 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:20,320 Speaker 1: like history of whatever. I mean, I'll be history of whatever, 803 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:25,040 Speaker 1: History of whatever, history of whatever. They have big moments 804 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,480 Speaker 1: and it's always Mike's voice. It's crazy how many times 805 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,880 Speaker 1: I'll be doing the dishes and have like NFL Network 806 00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,320 Speaker 1: on and there's my I paid for the pool and 807 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,640 Speaker 1: the waterfall in my backyard with it. I was gonna say, 808 00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:37,640 Speaker 1: do you get a nickel every time they play that call? 809 00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:41,920 Speaker 1: Fifty bucks? Fifty bucks got paid fifty bucks at the 810 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:46,360 Speaker 1: league paid you fifty bucks for calls that they used 811 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:50,160 Speaker 1: in those days. That's it, hey, I was glad to 812 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,880 Speaker 1: have it. I mean because remember during the playoffs they 813 00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,480 Speaker 1: used a bunch of my calls. I guess that's true. 814 00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,680 Speaker 1: I think I did pay to mulch my beds that year, 815 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,319 Speaker 1: or put in a new tree or something from the 816 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:06,560 Speaker 1: from the Mikey the Girl Amorous Life. I mean, it's 817 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,520 Speaker 1: just but it's Mike. Do you want the truth or 818 00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,360 Speaker 1: do you want me to sit here and lie to you? No? 819 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:15,719 Speaker 1: Fifty bucks, Well, that's a shame. It was a great 820 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:19,040 Speaker 1: I'd have paid them a lot more than that. That's fair. 821 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,840 Speaker 1: I was really hoping you collected like a dime or something. 822 00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:25,040 Speaker 1: Every time it's played somewhere, you just get like a 823 00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,800 Speaker 1: check for forty five cents once a month or no, 824 00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:32,879 Speaker 1: not like Jim Watt's book royalties. That's true. By the way, 825 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:34,840 Speaker 1: before we leave, thanks for bringing that up, and I 826 00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,160 Speaker 1: appreciate your kind word. It's an exciting day. It's a 827 00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:41,960 Speaker 1: miracle day. It's a miracle day. Nineteen hardly it's been Yeah, 828 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:48,440 Speaker 1: what were you seven? Thanks? You learned that day? She 829 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:53,560 Speaker 1: learned to ride a bike without training wheels. Its coloring 830 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:58,480 Speaker 1: a nice picture of Yeah, that's right. Jim was working 831 00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:05,000 Speaker 1: as a high schooler from father Ryan Goodwin. You got 832 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,040 Speaker 1: to go in with John Robinson. Have you written anything 833 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:11,480 Speaker 1: for Titans Online dot Com yet I will have Uh, 834 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,319 Speaker 1: I talked to him about tomorrow, Okay, so it'll be 835 00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:18,040 Speaker 1: out on Wednesday, that's right. Okay, So give us one 836 00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,359 Speaker 1: hand about something interesting he said to you that you're 837 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,280 Speaker 1: going to write about. We touched on Marcus Mariode obviously, 838 00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,759 Speaker 1: talked about what a change in coordinator would mean for 839 00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:30,040 Speaker 1: him moving forward. You know, talked a lot about, you know, 840 00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:33,040 Speaker 1: the strengths with Mike Rabel, you know what he liked 841 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,880 Speaker 1: from the two thy eighteen season. Talks to them about 842 00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:38,840 Speaker 1: what's ahead, and Jim, you don't have to give it 843 00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,840 Speaker 1: all away. I'll stop, dude. I'm gonna write two pieces. 844 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:45,400 Speaker 1: One's gonna focus on the quarterback and uh, the quarterbacks 845 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:50,160 Speaker 1: and the change at coordinator, and then another piece that's 846 00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:51,839 Speaker 1: going to touch on a lot of kind of hot 847 00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:55,279 Speaker 1: topics from a conversation, so stuff, and we'll look forward 848 00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,560 Speaker 1: to that at Titans online dot com. That's right. The 849 00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:02,279 Speaker 1: great Jim White. 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