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Speaker 1: you through it. They've been protecting Tennesseean's for seventy five years.

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Speaker 1: I'm Amy Wells. Thank you for joining us for the

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Speaker 1: Titans Amy and Coach Mac podcast. Coach Mac is also here,

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Speaker 1: Dame McGinnis Mac, How are you doing great? I'm just

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Speaker 1: dumb looking for I think I'll checked the numbers lately.

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Speaker 1: We're pushing a million and a half and it's good,

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Speaker 1: so let's keep going. How are you checking these numbers?

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Speaker 1: I've got access to a lot of things, Yes, I do.

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Speaker 1: I have total axis at this point in my life

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Speaker 1: to a lot of things. Just some part blaunch to

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Speaker 1: the world. Well, some important, some I'm not important, but

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Speaker 1: this is important. The million and a half listeners are important. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank god for them all. One point five million, one

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Speaker 1: point five million. I like it a lot. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean that's those are remarkable, remarkable numbers we are pulling

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Speaker 1: here at the Titans aiming Coachmac podcast. Speaking of things

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Speaker 1: we're pulling, we're pulling the page. We're turning the page,

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Speaker 1: I guess is what they say. I'm following you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: with you turning the page. Week one did not go

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Speaker 1: the way the Tennessee Titans wind it to go against

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Speaker 1: the New York Giants. However, we are moving on to

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Speaker 1: Monday Night football. Yeah. Can I say, Look, the National

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Speaker 1: Football League is about getting prepared, playing the game, and

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Speaker 1: then getting ready to play the next game, regardless of

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Speaker 1: what the outcome was, because you've got to move forward.

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Speaker 1: You can't. You can't. You can't revel in the victories

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Speaker 1: very long because you got somebody else to prepare for.

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Speaker 1: And you can't wallow in the losses. You got somebody

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Speaker 1: else to prepare for. I mean, you know, let everybody

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Speaker 1: else you know, either feel good or bad for a

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Speaker 1: long time. As a coach and a player, you got

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Speaker 1: to start getting ready immediately for what's going on. Correct

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Speaker 1: what went wrong, try to accentuate what went right, and

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Speaker 1: then move forward. We're moving forward, all right, Mack. In

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Speaker 1: your evaluation, what are some big areas of improvement that

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Speaker 1: the Titans can focus on in Week two? Gap integrity

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Speaker 1: against the run. I mean, I think we saw that

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Speaker 1: and it's very simple. You know, anytime you go in

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Speaker 1: it's very easy to see really quick. You can tell

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Speaker 1: exactly who's not where they're supposed to be, who didn't

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Speaker 1: set the edge, who didn't hold contain, who missed the tackles,

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Speaker 1: who was out of their gaps, and that's very correctable.

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Speaker 1: You can do that immediately. The thing that you have

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Speaker 1: in the red zone, because there were You know, games

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Speaker 1: are not just made up of series of plays. Games

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Speaker 1: are made up of moments during games that can make

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Speaker 1: a flip as far as the strategy as to what

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Speaker 1: you do. One of the big moments in this game,

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Speaker 1: that's still kept in a two score game, and we

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Speaker 1: National Football League. But that was that was a moment.

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Speaker 1: So you try to you try to learn from those

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Speaker 1: sure when he goes over things situational football. That was

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Speaker 1: a situational football moment. There were a lot of good

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Speaker 1: things that the Titans did as well. Sure, First of all,

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Speaker 1: I thought I thought Ryan Tannehill ran the offense very well.

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Speaker 1: And then I thought, offensively, what I really liked offensively

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Speaker 1: and the moments they are in the game when you

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Speaker 1: Then a lot of people have called you the next

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Speaker 1: Hunter Renfro your thoughts. It's cool to hear, but as

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Speaker 1: And even though it's the same position sort of there's

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Speaker 1: So it definitely helps a lot. What's it been like

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Speaker 1: working with Robert Woods. It's been amazing, you know, It's

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Speaker 1: it's like having another coach in the room. He's just

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Speaker 1: just passing offense. You know, defense is the run game everything,

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Speaker 1: little side notes here and there, and they helped tremendously. Now,

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Speaker 1: I've known about him for for a good amounts of it.

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Speaker 1: Seems like in a couple of times i've heard you speak,

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Speaker 1: the third and fourth quarter and he's like, all right,

429
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Speaker 1: it's go time for me, even though he's been just

430
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,000
Speaker 1: an absolute force to be reckoned with prior to that too.

431
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Speaker 1: So you know, once again, I believe we'll see a

432
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Speaker 1: Titans offense that is squarely focused around him in a

433
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,120
Speaker 1: lot of ways, and it should be, and especially with

434
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Speaker 1: you know, you've got trailing Burks, who's who I am

435
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,359
Speaker 1: a big fan of but he is a rookie. It's

436
00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:26,159
Speaker 1: going to take some time to get him, you know,

437
00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,120
Speaker 1: up to the level that you really want him to get.

438
00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:30,600
Speaker 1: I think he's going to impress fans a lot early on,

439
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,760
Speaker 1: but they're also going to be those rookie moments which

440
00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,959
Speaker 1: we all have seen happen, and it shouldn't be you know,

441
00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,560
Speaker 1: this sort of direct comparison to a J. Brown, which

442
00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,640
Speaker 1: it may be in some ways. I don't think that's

443
00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,000
Speaker 1: necessarily fair to a young guy coming in. But either way,

444
00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 1: the big failsafe in all of this is Derrick Henry.

445
00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,960
Speaker 1: Just you know, let let him do his thing and

446
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,879
Speaker 1: nobody defensively wants to try and stop him. And really

447
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,000
Speaker 1: people don't have a lot of success doing that. So

448
00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,880
Speaker 1: it's been a lot of fun watching Derrick Henry continue

449
00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:02,560
Speaker 1: to proof knee wrong all the way back years ago

450
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 1: when I thought he should have been a defensive end.

451
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,200
Speaker 1: He is will go down as one of the best

452
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Speaker 1: running backs to ever play the game. See, I don't

453
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Speaker 1: know in your defense, he is approximately the size of

454
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Speaker 1: a defense. He see, and he's mean, And I'll give

455
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Speaker 1: it to you. I think I think I'll give it

456
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,080
Speaker 1: to you, a young Derrick Henry probably looked like a

457
00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 1: defensive end in high school. He listen either way, he

458
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:29,800
Speaker 1: looked like he was going to be a great football

459
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,439
Speaker 1: player at both the college and the pro level. And

460
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 1: turns out that was definitely true. Yes, spot on. So

461
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 1: what does it mean to you to be part of

462
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football? I mean it's a storied franchise. You

463
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 1: can't talk about the NFL without talking about Monday Night

464
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,560
Speaker 1: Football and you're going to be a part of it. Yeah,

465
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,080
Speaker 1: it's such a pinch me moment in so many ways,

466
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Speaker 1: And every time I hear it, I feel like I

467
00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 1: get chills just thinking about it. And you know, it's

468
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of times when we're in the

469
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 1: grind of the career and you know, you're trying to see, Okay,

470
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,919
Speaker 1: what's the next thing, and it becomes a bit of

471
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 1: a even just more about the schedule, like Okay, I've

472
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: got to go here and I've got to go there,

473
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,679
Speaker 1: and and I really am trying to find the time

474
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Speaker 1: to relish in these moments and be really thankful for them.

475
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,399
Speaker 1: And even just like the moment where you're standing on

476
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 1: the field and you're looking around and you're holding the

477
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,240
Speaker 1: microphone and thinking, wow, you know, I'm about to go

478
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Speaker 1: live in front of millions of people to watch Monday

479
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 1: night football, and especially for this game, you know, with

480
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 1: the Titans and the Bills. Just so many eyeballs on

481
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 1: it and so many people that care about it, and

482
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,360
Speaker 1: I realize that they could hand that microphone to so

483
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 1: many other people, and so to be given this opportunity

484
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 1: just means the world to me. And I think in

485
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 1: the other side of it is it does come with

486
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Speaker 1: a lot of pressure, but I always believe that that

487
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 1: pressure is something that truly is a privilege, and so

488
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Speaker 1: I enjoy it. I cannot wait for the game, and

489
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Speaker 1: I will do everything I can to take lots of

490
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Speaker 1: deep breasts and calm my nerves before we go on here.

491
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 1: But really, I mean just just so incredibly thankful and

492
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,919
Speaker 1: um at the end of the day, just beyond my

493
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 1: wildest dreams of anything I would have imagined for myself.

494
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Speaker 1: We'll be looking for you in Buffalo, sunny Buffalo, and

495
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: thank you for taking some time to hang out with us.

496
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,120
Speaker 1: Of course, I appreciate you so much, so much. Fun.

497
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 1: Laura Rutledge has some great insight, very good insight, and

498
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Speaker 1: of course, what I really like and as you said,

499
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Speaker 1: the research that these people do for these broadcasts, and

500
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 1: especially these these primetime broadcasts, they go deep into it,

501
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 1: and so I mean, I really like it. We we

502
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: do a lot of research for what we do, because

503
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 1: that's just that's our job, you know, to be able

504
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Speaker 1: to do research and then be able to have our

505
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 1: broadcast bring things that you know, people sometimes may not

506
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Speaker 1: think about. But that was that was some good insights. Yeah,

507
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Speaker 1: she's great. I'm excited to see her on Monday down

508
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,399
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. But let's talk a little bit about

509
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: the Bills. You've been doing your research, You've been watching

510
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,199
Speaker 1: tape just like you do every single week. What have

511
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: you seen of the twenty twenty two Bills. Let's start

512
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 1: with defense. Less Frasier the defensive coordinator. I'm got a

513
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 1: long history with him. He was a Super Bowl shufflebear

514
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 1: in one of the starting cornerbacks with LA Mike Richardson

515
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: on the other side, and less Frasier wasn't was a

516
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 1: really good player. But the way I would describe less

517
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 1: as temperament as a player was he as a corner especially,

518
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 1: he was very patient. He was patient. He never he

519
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,159
Speaker 1: never got really off center. He was very balanced, and

520
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: everything that he did, the way he approached it. That's

521
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 1: the way he is as a coach, the same the

522
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Speaker 1: way he was as an assistant coach. It's the way

523
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Speaker 1: he is as a coordinator. He was like this as

524
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Speaker 1: a as a head coach. He's he's a really, really

525
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 1: kind of a soft spoken guy, he really is, but

526
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 1: he's very measured in what he does, and he's very

527
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,639
Speaker 1: very bright. He's very very smart. Hit This defense that

528
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 1: he has, this is this is a complete polar opposite

529
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Speaker 1: of the defense that we faced last week as to

530
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 1: where you know, Wink Martindale, you know, with blitz from

531
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Speaker 1: the top of the building and do anything that he

532
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,159
Speaker 1: had to do to bring as many people as he

533
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: could less. Frasier plays four down and brings four people

534
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 1: most of the time and plays a two high safety,

535
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: which means he's got he's got he's got his two

536
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 1: safeties that are that are playing you know, back there,

537
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Speaker 1: and he'll he'll bring them down, he'll rotate them down,

538
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,760
Speaker 1: he'll rock and roll his safeties, which means he'll bring

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Speaker 1: him down to the close side, which is the tight inside,

540
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: or the open side, which is the split side, he

541
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: looks too deep prior to the stamp, then he'll bring

542
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 1: him down post snap. So but it's a very basic,

543
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 1: fundamentally sound defense. And by doing that, he just keeps

544
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,479
Speaker 1: calling it over and over and over again, and he

545
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 1: expects his players to out execute the opponent. And he's

546
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 1: got some really really good players right now on his defense.

547
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: He's sitting back there, I think, with two really really excellent,

548
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 1: you know, safeties back there in the back. Jordan Poyer.

549
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: I've always been a huge, huge fan of, you know,

550
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:03,879
Speaker 1: as a guy that I think he's a lot like

551
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 1: Kevin Byard. He just gets it and he's a really

552
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 1: good field general out there. He's got his two inside,

553
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: his two linebackers. He plays a lot of nickel defense's

554
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 1: two linebackers and they're both different types of linebackers. And

555
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: Tormaintoe is an anomaly in the National Football League right now.

556
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: He's he's he's six to five, he's you know, two

557
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: hundred and forty five pounds, which is different now in

558
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: the National Football League. But he's so long. He really

559
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 1: closes and erases a lot of windows in zone coverage.

560
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: He's a great eraser to the end. Then Milano is

561
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,239
Speaker 1: an excellent coverage linebacker, excellent in zone, excellent in man

562
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: to man. And then he's got some he's got he's

563
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,679
Speaker 1: got people up front. Von Miller, you know, has just

564
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 1: has just come there. He's got a j epinessa and

565
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: they wanted to get bigger, so they brought Phillips back.

566
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: They got de Kuan Jones in there, and so you're

567
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 1: gonna see some he rotates about seven or eight guys

568
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 1: up front. You're gonna see just a four man rush

569
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Speaker 1: basically most of the time, with two high safeties and

570
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: then road tating down post snap. But he plays very

571
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,360
Speaker 1: basic football. What about on the offensive side of the ball,

572
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: What can the Titans do to disrupt their offensive effort? Well,

573
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Speaker 1: first of all, Josh Shallen is I mean, he's at

574
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: another level right now. I mean their last ball game

575
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 1: against the Rams, nine of ten on third down, I mean,

576
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 1: that's insane. He was their leading rusher even you know,

577
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 1: going back and studying that game, even in the fourth

578
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: quarter when they're close to boat racing the Rams, when

579
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,880
Speaker 1: it got away from the Rams, they were still calling

580
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 1: runs with him. So this is a guy you're gonna

581
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: have to defend the whole field. You're gonna have to

582
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 1: play a plus one sometimes to be able to take

583
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Speaker 1: care of his planned runs and then his off schedule runs.

584
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Speaker 1: And here's what he's done ever since he's coming from Wyoming,

585
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 1: Amy Big. The big question about him coming in from

586
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: Wyoming was he's got a tremendous arm, but he's got

587
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: a fastball and he's not accurate. That is, he has

588
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: completely worked himself into a premier quarterback. Now he's got

589
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: all the touch, he understands that he they spread things out.

590
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: He runs the offense, you know, from the line of scrimmage,

591
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: and so I mean, this guy is an issue for

592
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: a defense and he's going to be and plus you know,

593
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: now he's got he's got some he's got some receivers.

594
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: They run. They run mostly eleven personnel, which is three

595
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: wide one type one back. Dawson Knox, you know, the

596
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: local local player from Brentwood Academy, is a really good,

597
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: really really good tight end and they use him in

598
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: a lot of different places. They lost Beasley as a

599
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 1: slot man, replaced him with Isaiah Mackenzie, who is excellent,

600
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: you know at what's going on. And so to me,

601
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: he's got guys that are playmakers and he's getting in

602
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 1: the ball. Look, they haven't punted. They haven't punted in

603
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: probably ten years, it seems like, because they convert third downs.

604
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a really really well balanced offense

605
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: that's got some spectacular players, and starting with their quarterback,

606
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: they've got a spectacular quarterback. Big challenge, huge challenge, but

607
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: not insurmountable. Well, they've done it two years in a row.

608
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: I mean, they've done it two years in a row.

609
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: You just got to make plays and you can't try

610
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: to do anything unusual. Butt going back to when we

611
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,959
Speaker 1: started this podcast about you know what needs to be

612
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: corrected from last week. You've got to be gap sound,

613
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: You've got to be edged sound. You've got to be very,

614
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: very disciplined, because they're disciplined, and so you've got to

615
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: match that discipline that they have. And it's got to

616
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 1: be a snap after snap after snap. We talk about

617
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 1: moments in the game. There's gonna be two or three

618
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: moments in this game where if we win those moments

619
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: and it's gonna flip it for us. And you know,

620
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: if you don't win those moments, then it makes it

621
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: harder to come back and win. Are you gonna get

622
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 1: buffalo wings when we go up there. No, you don't

623
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Speaker 1: eat buffalo wings. No, I mean the buffalo wings up there.

624
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,719
Speaker 1: I mean I've been to the original place where they

625
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: had them. I mean they're there. It's okay, it's I

626
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: mean it's it's but there's people have taken the buffalo

627
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: wing thing and improved it wherever you go. I mean so,

628
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: and plus, look, I'm not sure I want to go

629
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: out to where the buffalo wings place is because there

630
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: maybe one or two buffalo fans out there, and I

631
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: don't want to get involved in a table jumping contest

632
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: or any of that stuff. The last time we were

633
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, I think I went to a random Chinese

634
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: food restaurant that was empty. So maybe that's where I'll

635
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: go again. Well, and I say, the buffalo wings are great,

636
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: but there's a place you said average. Well they are average.

637
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: I mean there's there's some places here in Nashville that

638
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: have got really good wings. Wow, the original chicken wing

639
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: is just okay. Well it is just okay, I mean

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Speaker 1: because they just use chickens. Well, yeah, they use chickens.

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Speaker 1: It's a chicken wing. It's not any special chicken. It's

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Speaker 1: a chicken Mac, This is like bulletin board material. Coach

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Speaker 1: Max says, the Buffalo Buffalo Wing is just okay. Put

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Speaker 1: my name on that too, Please, Dave mcginni, please please

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Speaker 1: put coach back and come see him if you don't

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Speaker 1: like it. Yeah, and they probably will. They'll find you.

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Speaker 1: That's okay, Oh my gosh, anything else you would like

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Speaker 1: to add before we just completely go off the rails.

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Speaker 1: We're not off the rails, not yet. No, we're not.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to the rails. Is this, to me, is

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Speaker 1: why you're in this business. You want these kind of games.

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Speaker 1: This is what you want. This is why we are

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Speaker 1: all in it. This is why I got in it

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Speaker 1: so long ago. This is why you're in It's why

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Speaker 1: Ashley's in it. That you want this, this is what

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Speaker 1: you want. And they need a good week of practice.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing this thing on wine. This

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Speaker 1: is gonna be fun, Mac, It is gonna be a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun. All right. Well, thank you all so

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Speaker 1: much for tuning into the Titans Amy and Coach Mac podcast.

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Speaker 1: We're heading to Buffalo for some average chicken wings and

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Speaker 1: a fantastic Monday night football game. We'll catch you guys

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Speaker 1: later in love. The be