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Speaker 1: Amy Wells is here. Hello, Mike. You have a helmet

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Speaker 1: be so fitting. The Great Jim Wyatt is here from

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Speaker 1: Titans online dot Com. Glad to be here on a

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Speaker 1: So we'll get to practicing today. Got a lot of

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Speaker 1: We're watching the movie whatever we were doing. So we're

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00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 1: we landed O'Hare, okay, which is of course the big airport. Yeah,

428
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 1: we landed O'Hare because they have long runways. When we land,

429
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 1: there are fire trucks and ambulances and foam trucks and

430
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 1: all this stuff that you won't remember the movie Airplane.

431
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 1: But in the movie in the air. In the movie Airplane,

432
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 1: they said landing at gate gate seven, gate eight, gate nine,

433
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 1: gate ten. But and there were all these you know,

434
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 1: emergency vehicles. There were like, well, that's weird, it's why

435
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: would we be doing that. Well, the plane lands, and

436
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 1: I mean it takes forever for the plane to stop.

437
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 1: I mean like for you're like, boy, this is the

438
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 1: longest landing I could ever remember. So we pull in

439
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,920
Speaker 1: it's like two o'clock in the morning, and they take

440
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 1: us to a gate. This was the summer after the

441
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: bombings in the nine eleven, right, I'm sorry, and so

442
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,959
Speaker 1: everything was on high alert. They take us to an

443
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 1: area where we're buy herself and it's the whole team.

444
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,160
Speaker 1: They take us off the plane and they are bringing

445
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 1: us another plane. Well, Coach Fisher says to the pilot.

446
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: He goes, hey, a nice job with that. He said,

447
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 1: that was, uh you really you made that easy? Goes yeah.

448
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 1: Usually though those don't end very well. What right, We'll

449
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 1: come to find out that was basically as it's described

450
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,640
Speaker 1: to me. And I'm no expert. A crash Lantic. That's

451
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 1: they were. They did not think they were going to

452
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,679
Speaker 1: be able to get the plane to stop. And so

453
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,160
Speaker 1: it makes its way through the team that we've had

454
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 1: this moment and this guy, I mean that was looking back,

455
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: it's a scary moment. At the time, it wasn't because

456
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 1: we didn't know. And it gets to Pat Ryan, he goes, well,

457
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 1: because I don't see why they just go ahead and

458
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 1: take a chance flat on the Nashville I'd been home

459
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 1: by now, So that was a two thousand and two

460
00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 1: Oh man, did you under the words at the point

461
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: I picked a bad day to quit sniffing glue from

462
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,680
Speaker 1: another side another I can make approach, I can make

463
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: a tarandactyl. No, I did not. I mean, we didn't

464
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 1: know that. Well, we're having just a small So anytime

465
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 1: they come on now and say anything, I'm like, that

466
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:27,919
Speaker 1: guy's lying, well, I think he's got me beat on this.

467
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: I will say, you know, before the days of traveling

468
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 1: with the team, you know, I covered the team for

469
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 1: sixteen years for the Tennessee and so I was flying

470
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,879
Speaker 1: commercial and I was had all the connections and certainly

471
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 1: had a lot of nightmares there missing you know, connections

472
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 1: and flights getting canceled and try to get back. I

473
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,119
Speaker 1: had to name one specific flight and think it is

474
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 1: the two same season, two thousand and two season AFC

475
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: Championship game out of Oakland. Or was that the that

476
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: was there, because that was the week I got stuck

477
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,959
Speaker 1: on the interstate here for six hours coming in for

478
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 1: practice because it snowed, so yes, that was it was Oakland. Yeah,

479
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 1: so I guess too. Part of that trip one my

480
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: car couldn't get up the hill. I guess it's a good,

481
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: good uh part of the story, and then a bad part.

482
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 1: But my car couldn't get up the hill. I got

483
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: stuck coming here. I couldn't get to the facility. But

484
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,120
Speaker 1: on the day we were supposed to fly out and

485
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,239
Speaker 1: UH because of the ice storm, Donald piked you up.

486
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: Donald Mitchell picked me up, Bald Mitchell and got me

487
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: to UH and got me here and I was able

488
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: to watch the flight. But I guess that I started

489
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: that story because the way back is what got me.

490
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 1: We were at the stadium till UH late at night.

491
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,120
Speaker 1: I think UH probably went to bad about four o'clock

492
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,639
Speaker 1: in the morning. Had a real early Southwest flight coming back.

493
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: I was traveling with Kuharski. I think I had to

494
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: win the seed had the Uh, who's who's real pleasant

495
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 1: already after sleep? So but we always had a system.

496
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 1: I had the I had the when he had the

497
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,880
Speaker 1: all go. Of course, we were operating on one two

498
00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 1: hour sleep and we see if I can't wait to

499
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 1: sleep on flight. So things were shaping up well. We

500
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 1: had we were seemed like we had the only open

501
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: seat in the middle. We were compared to spread out

502
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: and get some sleep, and uh they led a couple

503
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 1: of people in late and here comes big Daddy Gaddy down.

504
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: Now I don't know if you know who Big Daddy Gaddy,

505
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,959
Speaker 1: but by that yes, yeah, so you definitely know Big

506
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: Daddy Gaddy. And he didn't get that nickname for being small.

507
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: So he weighed about three hundred and eighty pounds. And

508
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: uh so he comes walking down the aisle. We got

509
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: this middle seat, and you know, Carsky I always used to,

510
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 1: you know, when people were coming close to us, we

511
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: start talking about, hey, did you did you get over

512
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 1: the swine flew yet, or even how's that case in pneumonia?

513
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 1: Going to try to do anything to discourage people cough? Yeah,

514
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 1: well start coughing real loud, and it so Big Daddy

515
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: Gaddy passed us, and and UH and Carsky all looked

516
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: each other like, man, we dodged a bullet there. You

517
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 1: don't want a three hundred and eighty pounders sitting next

518
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: to you on a on a flight four hour flight

519
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: back to Nashville. So unfortunately there was nothing behind us.

520
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: So Big Daddy Gaddy circle back around and kind of look.

521
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 1: Daddy said, I'm coming in, fellas, and uh said he

522
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 1: could Hursky move into the middle. He didn't, He didn't sacrifice.

523
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 1: He wasn't moving into the middle seat. So Big Daddy

524
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: Gaddy sat in the middle. I was on the aisle

525
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 1: kind of pinned up. I mean I was on the window,

526
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 1: pinned up. Couldn't move for about four four and a

527
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: half hours. And it sounds like every flight I took

528
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: what I covered Arena, Well you you talk about the

529
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: first class accommodation. The Big Daddy was so uncoupable. He

530
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 1: put the he sat down, he put the arm rest

531
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 1: up and just kind of leaned his head into the

532
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 1: seat in front of him. And Uh, I don't think

533
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 1: I could move for four or four and a half hours.

534
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: And Uh, I always remember that flight I've seen Big

535
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: Daddy Gaddy since his son played a father aunt high school.

536
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,719
Speaker 1: He looks like a basketball player now. He was he's

537
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: probably about two twenty and uh, but he was Steve

538
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: McNair's good friend and kind of his bodyguard. And uh

539
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: and uh he was my bodyguard for that day because

540
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: nobody was getting to me, whether they wanted to or not.

541
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: All the arena flights, because the arena thing was such

542
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: a big deal. You'll love this. Because your team had

543
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: to pay for the flight. The other team, the home

544
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: team had to pay for the hotel. Well, they traded

545
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: the hotel with somebody. They had a deal with Holiday

546
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: Anne or Hampton and or whomever. And so if the

547
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: team could find you a cheap flight out, if they

548
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: could find you a thirty nine dollars flight on Tuesday,

549
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: they would send you on Tuesday out at three o'clock

550
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: in the morning. Because the other place to be there forever. Yeah,

551
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: it's free. So when Larry Stone and I did the

552
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: arena games, I mean flying some of the Oh wow,

553
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: what a treat. I liked arena football. I liked covering

554
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 1: arena football. I get ragged about that all the time,

555
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: But I really enjoyed it. But the flights nuts. Yeah,

556
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: not the best travel accommodation, No, No, better than a

557
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: crash landing at O'Hare in Chicago. Well, a lot of

558
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: things would be I think, yes, yeah, we'll flood into

559
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: Grand Rapids. I guess what were some of the Grand

560
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: Rapids tonight? What goes on on a Grand Rapids on

561
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: a Friday night before an Arena League game? It wasn't

562
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,959
Speaker 1: really much. There were there were casinos up at the

563
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: Canadian border that might have been visited, but trying. They've

564
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: got a Denny's. Grand Rapids is actually a nice place.

565
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: There were others that were going to Utah was the

566
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: real It's a beautiful place. Not a lot to do

567
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 1: because it's not like we could go skiing, right Yeah, sure, yeah,

568
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: I've never been to Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids looks exactly

569
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: like Knoxville, Okay exactly. I mean it's you tell, if

570
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: they did a movie about Knoxville, they could shoot it

571
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 1: in Grand Rapids. There's a river that goes right through

572
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: downtown and the buildings look to say it's it is stunning.

573
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: People are nice, and it was. It was really a

574
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: good place. Second largest city in Michigan. The Rapids as

575
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: grand as there are. That there's no question that that

576
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: is truth in advertising. Did you ever take a ca

577
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: where we went there? Where we are going so far? Yeah?

578
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: What to the Gerald Ford Presidential Library there you did

579
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: fascinating Wow, because he had all of the Watergate letters

580
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: and all of it was good. Yeah, it's good stuff.

581
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: You guys are getting your money's worth today. Man, this

582
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: is you asked how Grand Rapids I could be part

583
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: of the Grand Rapids Chamber of comer You for sure could.

584
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: The moving right there, we're coming off the rails, the

585
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: Grand Rapids, Rampire Nashville Cats. All right, I've got a

586
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: question here from at Titans fan Underscore forty two. He

587
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: would like to know if we are able to get

588
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: a sense that trouble is a coming or if anything

589
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: seems a miss before the Titans have gone out and

590
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 1: played in a game that didn't go super well. Yeah,

591
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: twenty twelve at Green Bay when our guard got hit

592
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: the night before and I had a car accident. Well,

593
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: yeah that was. We signed a guy on Tuesday and

594
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: he's ended up starting for us at guard and he

595
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: had a bit of an ironic sort of I mean

596
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: there were a lot of things going on with this

597
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: player anyway, and he got broadsided the night before. I mean,

598
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: every that's one of the few times here. Here's the

599
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: funny thing. So like the Baltimore game happens unfortunately a

600
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 1: few weeks ago the team I thought the team practiced

601
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: great during the week. Ninety nine percent of the time,

602
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: you never know, like the team I didn't think had

603
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: a great week of practice before Philadelphia, and then they

604
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: go when the ball game. So you don't ever know,

605
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: except in these certain sets of circumstances where it's just

606
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: all going wrong. Yeah, yes, I mean sometimes people think,

607
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 1: how you the team not practice this week or something

608
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: like that for a bad game, and sometimes hard to

609
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: tell from there. And then sometimes you're getting fight on

610
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: the practice field and is had a good sign or

611
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: a bad sign? Sometimes you think, hey, that may be good.

612
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: This team's showing a little life. Other people might look

613
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: at all the teams coming apart to see him, so

614
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to tell. Injuries or something something

615
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: you certainly look for. Uh, Vince Young, what missed the

616
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: flight to Philly? Is that right? And uh? And that

617
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: they had to talk him into coming. Yeah, I mean

618
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: he wasn't gonna He was so mad that they went

619
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: off and left him. They had they had to talk

620
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: him into coming on and then uh, and then they

621
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: run the game because I think he was pulling up

622
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: the story as he was pulling up as the flight

623
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: was leaving, wouldn't wait for him. I think Jeff Fisherlson

624
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: a message, Hey, just because you're Vince Young and the

625
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: quarterback of the football team doesn't mean you're necessarily he

626
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: actually had a flight. He actually had a legitimate story too.

627
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: That's that's the other part of that is he had

628
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: to he had a legitimate story about why he was late.

629
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: And there was also the game. Um, so they win

630
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: that game. That's what's crazy to have something like that

631
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: happened and you go up there and winning game seven

632
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: and they win that game. And the other the other

633
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: part of that one too is so they this is

634
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: what drove Norm Chow crazy. So Norm Chow has set

635
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: this play that is a screen pass. And I'm not

636
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,479
Speaker 1: going to sell out one of the players involved, because

637
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: I don't because I like him personally. But sometimes he

638
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: couldn't remember what he was supposed to do at different points,

639
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 1: and so they set this screenplay because Philadelphia does the

640
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 1: same thing on their opening snap of defense under Jim Johnson.

641
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,320
Speaker 1: Every week they do the same thing. They you know,

642
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,399
Speaker 1: they're going at it and they're doing this, and they're

643
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: doing that, and so they run the play and this

644
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: guy forgets to go out for the pass. He stays

645
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: into block, so Vince Young has to just throw the

646
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: ball in the ground. They've worked on this screen pass

647
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: all week. Had the guy gone out and gone two

648
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: yards further and turned around there was no body there,

649
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: it would have been like an eighty five yard touchdown.

650
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: And they worked on it all week. They had scouted it,

651
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: and then the guy forgot what he was supposed to do. Heartbreaker, Yes,

652
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 1: and it wasn't Travis Henry. By the way, How did

653
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 1: we get on that? I don't know. Jim brought up Philadelphia.

654
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,439
Speaker 1: There's a question that you could. It's just sometimes hard

655
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 1: to tell when something's a mess. You can when you

656
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 1: can look back and say, oh, well, the fifty nine

657
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: to nothing game, you could kind of see that coming.

658
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: There was not fifty nine to nothing, but it was

659
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,799
Speaker 1: a mess. Jeff Fisher told us in the production told

660
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 1: Larry Stone and me in the production meeting on that Friday,

661
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: he goes, if we don't score every time we get there,

662
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: he goes, because they were starting two rookie corners, and

663
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: he said, we have no chance to stop them. I mean,

664
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: he knew that it was that bad, and so they

665
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: had to you know, they had to be successful. I mean,

666
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: sometimes you know you're in trouble. Yeah. In two thousand

667
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: and four, where we on sidekicked every time after we

668
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: scored at Indianapolis, Jeff walked into the team he goes,

669
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 1: guess what we're going to do, fellows, We're going to

670
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: onside kick every time after we score. And the players like, WHOA,

671
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 1: that's great. Not a great sign, however, that you feel

672
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: like you're going to be able to stop it, right, See,

673
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: I thought I kind of had a gauge on it.

674
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: You never really know, you don't. But then the Houston

675
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 1: game happens. We walk into that and everything on paper

676
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: said this is going to be a day, bad day.

677
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: We were all talking about it before the game, bracing

678
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: ourselves for impact. A little bit won the football game?

679
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: Look great? Yeah? Sure, cool? All right, we need to

680
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: wrap this up, but I want to do one more

681
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: question on Ashley. Don't get mad at me. I'm going

682
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: off the rails a little bit. This one is Ashley

683
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 1: should be fine because I handed over to her my

684
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: extra Halloween kids. Oh that was nice of you. No,

685
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 1: they were not cough drops, just asking. Okay. This question

686
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:59,919
Speaker 1: is from at Urt Beave and it says Rick Beaver

687
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: is this his name? It says that, being that the

688
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: three of you are at practice a lot and see

689
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: the team outside of just on Sundays, what have you

690
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: seen both on the practice field and in the locker room?

691
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: And I'm going to add around the building that gives

692
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 1: you confidence this team is moving in the right direction.

693
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: I'm that's not candy Mike, Well, you enjoy that. I'll

694
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: just get started. I just think that this the uh

695
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: just the I mean, I think this team has good leadership,

696
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: and I think that it has from the beginning. I mean,

697
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: I'm there been some years where you could look at

698
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: before the captains are named, and it was tough to

699
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: come up with five guys who you could look at

700
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: and say five or six guys that you could look

701
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: at and say, these guys would be captains. So this

702
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 1: team names is four years ago. Yeah, And and there's

703
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: several other guys, numerous guys that you could say, well,

704
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 1: they would have been a good captain as well. So

705
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: I just think the makeup of the team, you know,

706
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: the players. There have been some years here that uh

707
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 1: you know, there was you know, didn't sometimes didn't seem

708
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: like guys took it serious enough. It just were two

709
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: lack a day zical and their approach. Guys were looking

710
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: for of how they're going to pad their own stats

711
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: and what's in it for me, And I just don't

712
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: get the sense I know that's not the way this

713
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: team is made up. I mean, so that's what gives

714
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,839
Speaker 1: me the feeling that you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, thanks

715
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: have not gone the way anybody has wanted them too yet.

716
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's because it's a bad locker

717
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: room or because the leadership is not bad. Just you know,

718
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: things have just not come together like everyone has hoped

719
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: and hopefully that will change. And I think the reason

720
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: you'll think it could change is because of the the

721
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: guys that are that are putting this team together. I

722
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: think it's a quarterback. I think the quarterback is going

723
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,720
Speaker 1: to play better in November and December. I think he's healthy.

724
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,280
Speaker 1: I think him taking the glove off is a bigger

725
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,240
Speaker 1: deal than what people know are coming on. The glove

726
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 1: has come off. I mean, I think it's a bigger

727
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: I think it's a bigger deal because I think as

728
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: much for his confidence in himself making the throws, even

729
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: more so than just making the throws. I think the

730
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 1: other thing too, is there's not a man on this

731
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: roster that we haven't seen do what he needs to

732
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: do to make this team better at one point in time.

733
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: I mean, take the receivers. Corey Davis has four catches

734
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: for thirty four yards in the last two games, but

735
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,760
Speaker 1: he had nine for one sixty one against the Eagles.

736
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: We've seen tay One Taylor do it. Ty J. Sharpe's

737
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,280
Speaker 1: coming off his best game. We've seen what Dion Lewis

738
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: can do. We've seen what Derrick Henry can do. In

739
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:26,399
Speaker 1: the past on defense outside linebackers haven't had big enough

740
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 1: numbers to this point. We've seen him do it. We've

741
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: understood that it can happen. This whole team has to

742
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,879
Speaker 1: play better. It starts with the quarterback, and I think

743
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: it can happen. I really, I think if this ball

744
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: club plays up to its capability, not perfect, but plays

745
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 1: up to its capability. I think they can be successful

746
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: in November and December. Jim. I think the parts are there.

747
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 1: I do, but certainly it's not an easy road coming up,

748
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: and this game against Dallas on Monday night is a

749
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: big part of it. If you can get to four

750
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 1: and four, it kind of changes the conversation before the

751
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: Patriots come to town. But these next four games, I

752
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: mean that Dallas Patriots, the Colds, the Texans. I mean,

753
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: this is you know, we're gonna know here in another

754
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: quarter of the season, where that's what direction the season's

755
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,479
Speaker 1: headed in. Or if you could take three or four

756
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: and you could be six and five going into December

757
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 1: with four home games, Yeah, that's not bad. Yeah, not

758
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: a prediction, but I mean I think that's that's where

759
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: you need to be. You certainly need to get at

760
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: least two, but you probably would like to be able

761
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: to get three, and this team can get three. I mean,

762
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: they've shun't listen. They shouldn't beat Houston. They did. Houston

763
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: was at full strength and they beat them. Jacksonville was

764
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: at full strength two and oh, believing they were the

765
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: world beaters. You went into their place and beat them.

766
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: You beat the defending World Championship. You can do it.

767
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 1: There's nobody on this schedule that you say, oh, that's Alabama, right,

768
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: you know, we're wasting our time. I mean, they can

769
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: do it. They control their own destiny to a certain extent.

770
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 1: They just have to do it. And that's why at

771
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: this point you and they understand it's on you. Ye.

772
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: And this team has bought in. This entire team is

773
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: on board with Mike Rabel, his coaching, his philosophy. There's

774
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 1: not anyone back there in the locker room that's saying, man,

775
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: is this is whack? This isn't going the way. Well,

776
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 1: there was one and he left and he left. Yeah,

777
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 1: everybody in this locker room has bought in. They are

778
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 1: all together. I think they know they can do it.

779
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: They see the pieces that need to be fixed, and

780
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 1: I think that they're all ready to fix something. And

781
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: I think the other thing too, And I'll just wrap

782
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: up with this, and that is they played so much

783
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: better against the Chargers than they did against the Ravens. Yes,

784
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: I think if you were going into the buy coming

785
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 1: off the Ravens performance, you would have a lot more

786
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: of a sales job in the way that you're talking about.

787
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: Amy than you do based on how they played. They

788
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:55,919
Speaker 1: did a lot of things right in the Chargers game

789
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: that looked like the Titans again. Finally, you know, that

790
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: looked like Buffalo. They didn't the Ravens game, but I

791
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: don't know who that was, and they don't know who

792
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: that was. That looked like the Titans again. Yeah, and

793
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: this team's three and four and certainly it's not where

794
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: anybody wants to be, but h and that's the kind

795
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 1: of way the league is. But one point losses twice

796
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 1: and one play away. You know, you make a make

797
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: a play against Buffalo, and you make that two point

798
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 1: conversion late against the Charges. Teams five and two and

799
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: in a great position. So it's certainly not tim to panic.

800
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 1: But let's drop a couple now. And yeah, you're starting to.

801
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: It's still very little uncomfortable. Yeah, it's November as of today,

802
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 1: it's officially November. It is. We're here, we're here. We

803
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: have one more order of business to take care of

804
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,879
Speaker 1: it before we leave. We promised that we would give

805
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: away these signs. There's one behind Mike, there's one behind

806
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 1: gym over here. We're going to give those away to

807
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: someone who sent questions I'm going to draw them even

808
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 1: if their question didn't get on the air. Yes, is

809
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: that my helmet? This is not your help me to

810
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 1: hold the helmet? Ye, give it a good shake shake

811
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: we put him in. Jim think this would look great

812
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: in your person. Cave your person. I think it's inappropriate

813
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: to say man cave. All right, here's one. Look at

814
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,800
Speaker 1: this thing that is a strong piece of a question,

815
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 1: Jim White. We'll even sign it for you. All right,

816
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: This one is the first one is going to Josh

817
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: Yates at Dad Life, Dad Okay question get you got

818
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: to say which one his question was? He was asking

819
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: about the bye week, and um, what fans can't expect

820
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: seeing more? Okay, to see more of going forward? So

821
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: do we let him pick whether he wants sword or

822
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: helmet or do we just say it's sord or helmet?

823
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: You pick? I'd say you probably let him pick. Yeah,

824
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: he pick? And then this person number two, person number two,

825
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 1: but you're number one in our heart. Brian Anderson, be

826
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,879
Speaker 1: a in the borough whose question we did not get

827
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: to be a Baravs. But off the A team you

828
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,919
Speaker 1: also you win the one that Dad Life didn't pick.

829
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: So what was this Yan Anderson that we didn't get to.

830
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: What was this question? The Titans seemingly have the offensive

831
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:15,760
Speaker 1: pieces learning a new system and in place for success.

832
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: With that and Vrabel's defensive background, do we expect a

833
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 1: continued draft focus on that side of the ball. I

834
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:25,919
Speaker 1: think it matters what they I mean, remember, the two

835
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: outside linebackers are up after this year. Oh that's true.

836
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 1: So and you know there's some moneys there. The quarterback

837
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,359
Speaker 1: is going to make a lot more money next year.

838
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: I don't think we have any idea right now what

839
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: they're going to do in the draft. No, we still

840
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 1: have a waste to go because the Titans don't have

841
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 1: And somebody else had listed a question about always in

842
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: the top five in cap money. The Titans are not

843
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: in the top five in cap money going forward. Remember

844
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,399
Speaker 1: this team's getting older. Yeah, this is not the new

845
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: team they were in twenty fifteen. They have good room

846
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: they have I mean, it's manageable. There are things that

847
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 1: they can they can certainly do. But yeah, I mean

848
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: there are a lot of decisions and it goes back,

849
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: it's kind of winds up. The theme of this whole

850
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: thing what happens the rest of the year is going

851
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Speaker 1: to make a lot of the decisions for the front

852
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Speaker 1: office and for the coaching staff going forward. I mean,

853
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Speaker 1: it's it's on. I mean, this is your ball club.

854
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: This is what you got, and now you go forward

855
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: and you see what you can do with it. And

856
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 1: you know, everyone can speculate and feel how they want

857
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: to feel, which is absolutely their right. But the end

858
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: result is the report card. Yeah, and that's the beautiful

859
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 1: thing and the tough thing about the NFL. Right, good stuff.

860
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Speaker 1: I like the fan questions. These are pretty good uh

861
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Speaker 1: posters to me, these are these are hardcore. That's more

862
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Speaker 1: than That's not a put that in your person cave. Yeah,

863
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Speaker 1: that's not a one that's going to fade politically correctly.

864
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Speaker 1: The OTP, Yes we are. We just had that training.

865
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Speaker 1: What are these things made of them? This is not

866
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Speaker 1: These aren't pa Those are like plastic from our studio.

867
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: It would look really Yeah, we built the studio and

868
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 1: apparently the lights don't reflect properly. This is This is

869
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Speaker 1: about as good a giveaway as we've ever had. It's

870
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: obviously the best ever giveaway on the OTP because we've

871
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,759
Speaker 1: never had one, right, But I'm really excited about it.

872
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Speaker 1: You got a Dunkin donut and you get two Dunkin donuts.

873
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Speaker 1: That's our start giving away something every week? Can we

874
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: give away so people will actually watch? You think that

875
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Speaker 1: would give people out your desk? Ye? Well, y'all give

876
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: away stuff. I'm keeping all my stuff. If you could

877
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 1: thank something to give away than if you're so kind,

878
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: got so much stuff in your office, give away that

879
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: give away a pencil? Yeah, I could order some more.

880
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: Give away my spot charts every week. Laminate you a

881
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: spot chart and give it away. Everybody would want that

882
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: donut and got some of my folders with my notes

883
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Speaker 1: on it. That's right, Yeah, that would be good. Okay,

884
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 1: let's take a look at how you can follow these

885
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: two people, these two fine human beings. Two find Americans

886
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: on social media. J White Sports at Titans Amy a

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Speaker 1: m I E At Titans Amy at J White Sports.

888
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: That's how you follow them on the Twitter. How do

889
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 1: you follow us? Got a Titans Online dot com slash podcast.

890
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 1: Hopefully you will download it and tell everyone you know

891
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: to be a part of the OTP for Amy Wells

892
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 1: and Jim Wyatt. My name's Mike Keith. Thanks for being

893
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 1: with us. This is the official Titans podcast, better know

894
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Speaker 1: as the o TP. Have a great day.