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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith. This is the OTP four D, the

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Speaker 1: final OTP four D of the preseason. Twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Titans finished three to zero in the preseason, first undefeated

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Speaker 1: preseason in twenty one years.

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Speaker 2: It's very exciting, is it?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 3: Sure?

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Speaker 1: Is it very exciting or is it just exciting? It's

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Speaker 1: pretty exciting, mildly exciting.

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Speaker 2: No, I think it's pretty exciting. I think it's great.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's good. It's better than bad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd rather win than lose.

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Speaker 4: Well, sure, I think it's cool. But I think it's

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Speaker 4: time to switch gears now to regulars.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I remember. Okay, you're going to say something, no,

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Speaker 1: you go no, you go first, go ahead.

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Speaker 5: I want to clarify my position because I am not

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Speaker 5: saying we are going to the super Bowl because we

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Speaker 5: won three preseason games. I do not believe that to

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Speaker 5: be true. Okay, I do still think it's nice.

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Speaker 1: I think it's potentially a tone setter. Yeah, and here's

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Speaker 1: what I remember about this and rhtt we'll remember it too.

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Speaker 1: Two thousand and eight, we go down to play Atlanta

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Speaker 1: in the preseason. Mike Smith has taken over as the

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Speaker 1: head coach of the Falcons, and they played that preseason

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Speaker 1: game with as much of an edge of any team

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Speaker 1: you've ever seen. There were near fights there may have benefied.

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Speaker 1: You got the sense when you left there that night

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Speaker 1: that they were just trying to get something across, not

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Speaker 1: to the Titans, to themselves. And I think they set

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Speaker 1: a tone. And some teams when they're new, as this

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Speaker 1: team is, new staff, new system, a lot of new players,

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Speaker 1: you can set a bit of a tone. You can

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Speaker 1: say this is what we want to be like. The

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Speaker 1: Titans won two preseason games. In the last couple of

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Speaker 1: minutes of the game, they played hard, they did some

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Speaker 1: good things on special teams, and I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: that's what this is all about.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: You could have done that at two in one, you

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Speaker 1: could have done it at one and two, But at

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Speaker 1: is that it gives you something to potentially set the

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Speaker 1: tone for who you want to be. And again, the

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Speaker 1: Falcons didn't win the Super Bowl in two thousand and eight,

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Speaker 1: but they were improved. They were an improved team if

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Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken the mid to playoffs. But the point being,

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Speaker 1: I think that's what the Titans were trying to do

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Speaker 4: I think not only that, but I think about the

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Speaker 4: things that coach Brian Callahan shared with you on the

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Speaker 4: Brian Callahan Show Monday, sixth Central, seven Eastern on Titans Radio.

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Speaker 2: Good job, Brett.

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Speaker 4: And also, you know in Titans radio spaces like our

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Speaker 4: network post game, is that they wanted to not the

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Speaker 4: is his turn now as a head coach. Yes, he's

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Speaker 4: been around NFL teams for years as an assistant and coordinator.

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Speaker 4: But you know, I think that the tone is correct.

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Speaker 4: But you know, there's a couple of main reasons for this,

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Speaker 5: Well, and for coach Callahan, it gives him a ton

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Speaker 5: of credibility. It backs up the this is what we

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Speaker 5: is what our our philosophy is going to be, what

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Speaker 5: This all of a sudden says, and here's why we

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Speaker 1: And they had a lot of situations that came up

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Speaker 4: Red, No, and you're right because situationally enough things come up.

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Speaker 4: And obviously this was the dress rehearsal, if you will,

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Speaker 4: But yeah, this is it before Chicago week one, so

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Speaker 4: in a gain type setting. Yeah, there's teachable moments in

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Speaker 4: all of this. I think, top to bottom, I think

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Speaker 4: Brian Callahan got a lot of what he wanted out

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Speaker 1: I think you're right.

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Speaker 4: Certainly there are things to correct. There always are, but

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Speaker 1: But to win and to be in those situations. I

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Speaker 1: think we can all agree. Nobody's jumping up and down.

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Speaker 1: Nobody has changed their prediction for what the season is

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Speaker 1: going to be, nor should you. I mean, whatever you're

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Speaker 1: picking the Titans, you shouldn't change your prediction. But is

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Speaker 5: I'm never gonna turn my nose up at a win.

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Speaker 5: I don't care whether it counts or not. It's a win,

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Speaker 1: Chance Campbell would have made the roster. Yeah, So that

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Speaker 1: he played. You're sick about. Yeah. The other thing that

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Speaker 4: And I think when you consider how much of that

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a real test.

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Speaker 4: But I think they showed enough in the areas where

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Speaker 4: get into this in four Downs, but there's some good

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Speaker 4: positive stuff there.

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Speaker 1: Scaransky was the only Week one starter who will be

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Speaker 1: a Week one starter, but remember then he missed three

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Speaker 1: the end of September twenty twenty four because Skearronsky was

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Speaker 2: So let's stop doing that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, let's just keep these five together and hopefully we've

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Speaker 2: You just don't know about.

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Speaker 1: Four downs from the final preseason game of thirty to

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Speaker 4: It's Ryan Stonehouse for me, and for a couple of reasons.

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Speaker 4: It had been Mike two hundred and sixty six days

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Speaker 4: since he punted in a game December. The third was

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Speaker 4: when he got hurt. And the guy has not unlike

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Speaker 4: back to, you know, playing in a game. But he

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Speaker 4: worked his rear end off for almost nine months to

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Speaker 4: wait till the second half to get his chance. But

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Speaker 4: you know, two punts eighty seven yards forty three and

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Speaker 4: that for a mental rep and as you described, you

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Speaker 4: that he's gonna need. Okay, that's a last box check.

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Speaker 4: Let's get ready for Chicago.

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Speaker 5: My player of the game is all the tight Ends.

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Speaker 5: The tight end group is tight Ends.

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Speaker 2: Tight Ends. Yes, all of the Titans.

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Speaker 1: That is such an Amy Wells move. To pick all

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Speaker 4: But I really give you's going to go through the

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Speaker 1: All of the tight ends, all of.

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Speaker 5: The tight ends are my player of the game because

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Speaker 5: we have gone that was really funny. We have gone

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Speaker 5: this entire off season talking almost none about tight ends.

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Speaker 5: We didn't talk about them much during OTAs, we didn't

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Speaker 5: not their fault. It is not They are not the problem.

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Speaker 5: We are the problem. We weren't noticing what we had

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Speaker 2: Game, all of a sudden, every play.

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Speaker 5: That's being made is being made by a tight end.

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Speaker 5: You've got DMR David Martin Robinson who's been making place.

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Speaker 5: You've got Nick Vannette making plays. We've got Thomas Odaquoia

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Speaker 2: It feels like how.

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Speaker 1: Many yards he actually ran. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know where he started off.

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Speaker 1: Did you not see that that replay that's been dropped

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Speaker 1: if it were the United States.

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Speaker 2: He traversed through every He.

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Speaker 1: Traversed Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and then went all the

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna say he ran one hundred and twenty yards

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Speaker 1: He did credit to Brad Willis on Titans Radio for

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Speaker 5: The starting offense, and I feel like every time we've

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and be as as strong and as confident in it.

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Speaker 4: I just he was my sentimental So you don't have one.

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Speaker 4: How well the screen game works.

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Speaker 1: Here, you are businesses that it is time improved, good

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Speaker 4: You've got a screen door, screen window.

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Speaker 4: In touch with your Tennessee Titans, because it just never

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Speaker 4: But golly, it's exciting.

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Speaker 1: It's better. I mean, I am so excited.

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Speaker 2: No, rarely do that, No, rarely do they.

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Speaker 1: Well, the whole thing is much nicer. It is. I

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Speaker 1: Well that and I also think, I mean, there were

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Speaker 1: Look like it was fully occupied even when it wasn't

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Speaker 1: All right, fourth down, Who needs a good next seven days? Ret?

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Speaker 4: Bryan, Okay, so this is kind of an Amy Wells

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Speaker 2: I can't help it that you took my thing. I

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Speaker 1: I done him the last two four d's.

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean, maybe you need to pick someone else.

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Speaker 2: It's my turn.

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Speaker 5: preseason to being a guy who is relied upon on

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Speaker 5: Sundays and actually be playing big boy football with other

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Speaker 5: big players.

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Speaker 2: He has never played.

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Speaker 5: With Jeffrey Simmons, he hasn't played with Harold Landry.

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Speaker 1: He has.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he is about to transition from being the

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Speaker 5: new kid who we're all impressed that he's doing a

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Speaker 5: good job to the kid who needs to show up

452
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Speaker 5: or we're going to lose a ballgame. And that's two

453
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Speaker 5: different kind of chapters of your career and watching him

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Speaker 5: kind of go over the bridge from one to the other,

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Speaker 5: it's going to be a different couple of weeks for him.

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Speaker 5: And I think he has the ability to do it.

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Speaker 5: We've seen it in training camp. We've seen that he

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Speaker 5: has the maturity. We've seen that he has the work ethic.

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Speaker 5: We've seen that he has just massive amounts of talent

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Speaker 5: and just strength and skill.

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Speaker 2: But does he have those other things?

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Speaker 5: Does he have the ability to really lock in and

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Speaker 5: do this NFL thing? Does he have the ability to

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Speaker 5: keep up with what's about to start taking.

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Speaker 1: What I said earlier, and you're taking it up another level.

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Speaker 2: I'm taking it up another level because I said you.

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Speaker 5: Were impressed by this, I was praying it by his

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Speaker 5: training camp slash preseason.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think he's given himself the best chance

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Speaker 1: he can to be successful in the regular season. Now

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Speaker 1: you want to see him do it.

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Speaker 5: I want to see what actually, ha happens in the

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Speaker 5: next week and week after that and week after that.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm so you're going to take that one

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Speaker 1: for every one.

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Speaker 5: Well, what I plan to do going forward is just

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Speaker 5: flat out copy whatever answer you give. I'm just going

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Speaker 5: to repeat it back to you going forward.

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Speaker 2: It feels like less prep on my part and people

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Speaker 2: might enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: I would think that'd be well played. I've also challenged people.

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Speaker 1: I said it would be tremendous if you did an

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Speaker 1: interview with someone and you just kept asking them the

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Speaker 1: exact same question over and over just to see what

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Speaker 1: they would do. So that would be along the same lines. Ye,

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Speaker 1: Mind's Josh Wiley tight end needs to keep getting better

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Speaker 1: from the concussion and need him in Chicago. Got to

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Speaker 1: get back on the field. Eighty one really good off

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Speaker 1: season really good training, came out really good player who

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Speaker 1: makes this offense better, A guy that I think could

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Speaker 1: take that year one to year two job and be significant,

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Speaker 1: a significant factor in the offense. And so for me,

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Speaker 1: it's Josh Wiley just keep getting better.

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Speaker 5: That was a little more, I mean, yours was a

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Speaker 1: seat today.

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Speaker 3: I love Snickers.

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Speaker 2: Actually, you can have one if you do Satisy.

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Speaker 3: I can't. I can't have one because it'll melt because

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Speaker 3: it's so hot. But what I do is I will

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Speaker 3: take Snickers and put it in my refrigerator or freezer.

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Speaker 5: At the best, We've got to start with the hard

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Speaker 5: hitting questions. You do this during training camp. You're kind

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Speaker 5: of all over the place the world tour for me

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Speaker 5: and rapaport. How many NFL Network branded shirts do you own?

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Speaker 3: I own probably about thirty or thirty five different whole month,

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Speaker 3: different brands, because there's been different brands throughout the years.

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Speaker 3: This year we have Antigue, so that's only what I'm wearing.

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Speaker 3: But every year they send me like six and I

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Speaker 3: collect them, and so I just have so many of them.

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Speaker 3: But you need them because I have eight with me

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Speaker 3: right now. I've been on the road. It's going to

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Speaker 3: be ended up like fifteen days or sixteen days straight.

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Speaker 3: So you do laundry once, I did laundry in a

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Speaker 3: loft hotel in honestly, I can't remember where.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that sounds about right.

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Speaker 3: Cooint operated laundry and you can get it all set screw.

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Speaker 1: All right, Who's gonna be the Pittsburgh Steelers starting quarterback?

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Speaker 3: You know, I will take the words of Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 3: and basically assume that it'll be Russell Wilson. As he said,

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Speaker 3: Russell Wilson in pole position is how he has termed it.

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Speaker 3: Justin Fields has had a really good camp, and Justin

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Speaker 3: Fields is talented. He is incredibly smart. He is perfect

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Speaker 3: for that system that your good friend Arthur Smith is

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Speaker 3: going to run. And you know, the the comparison to

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Speaker 3: me was like, it's just like Ryan Tannehill, really good

541
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Speaker 3: athlete needs a career reboot, hasn't found the right system,

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Speaker 3: needs a strong running game, which Ryan had and which

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Speaker 3: they have, except Fields is more athletic. So to me

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Speaker 3: like that, actually, you know, eventually could Justin Fields to

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Speaker 3: be the starting quarterback. I could see it one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: I just don't know that it'll be weak.

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Speaker 5: Why did the Miami Dolphins give Tyreek Hill a contract adjustment.

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Speaker 3: Because he is a great player. Now, the actual adjustment

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Speaker 3: as far as just pure overall dollars, like he was

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Speaker 3: on the books for eighty eight million, so they gave him.

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Speaker 3: But the last year was just like a big balloon year,

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Speaker 3: so they kind of smoothed it out. They gave him

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Speaker 3: the money that he was already owed, they made him

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Speaker 3: make sense to them capwise, and they guaranteed basically two

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Speaker 3: years of it. Now, are the Dolphins going to cut

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Speaker 3: Tyreek Hill within the next two years? I'm gonna go

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Speaker 3: ahead and say no. So I think it made him

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Speaker 3: feel good. It made the cash a little more palatable

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Speaker 3: for them and for him, and it kind of ended

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Speaker 3: a situation which can be ugly. We've seen a lot

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Speaker 3: of contractual situations around the league. This one they handled well,

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Speaker 3: and they happened to do it the day after he

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Speaker 3: was named the best player on the NFL Top one hundred,

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Speaker 3: So I think everyone's probably happy with that outcome.

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Speaker 5: We've been talking a lot about the kickoff rule. Do

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Speaker 5: we think that this new rule is going to last

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Speaker 5: beyond the twenty twenty four season.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if this exact particular rule is going

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Speaker 3: to last. I think the the idea is going to last.

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Speaker 3: Right Like now, there are tweaks. You can say, maybe

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Speaker 3: ball goes to thirty five instead of the thirty or

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Speaker 3: you know, whatever, vice versas. Whatever it is, you can

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Speaker 3: have the players lineup differently, Like there's different ways you

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Speaker 3: can kind of tinker, But it seems to be a

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Speaker 3: really good idea. And I really like special teams. I

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Speaker 3: really like punk return to kickoff returns. It has been

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Speaker 3: generally annoying as someone who loves football that you kick

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Speaker 3: the ball, the returner goes like this and everyone just

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Speaker 3: goes in lines like there's been no returns last two years.

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Speaker 3: It's none. I'm excited for it to be back. And

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Speaker 3: it's a really clever way to simulate the action while

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Speaker 3: not simulating the concussions. I just it's so it took

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Speaker 3: a really out of the box thinking, you know, basically

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Speaker 3: like xfl ufl person like really smart. I'm I'm pretty

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Speaker 3: excited about it. I just don't know if, like, because

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Speaker 3: they open the door to kind of tinker, now they

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Speaker 3: can keep tinkering if they, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: Right, the Titans open with the Chicago Bears. How good

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Speaker 1: are the Chicago Bears going to be in twenty twenty four?

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Speaker 3: They should be better?

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: Caleb Williams I think is everything that they want mentally,

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Speaker 3: he's great obviously physically and athletically he's awesome. I mean

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Speaker 3: he looks like a number one pick the actual roster.

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Speaker 3: It honestly kind of reminds me of this roster because

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Speaker 3: if you wanted to say, like, let's say Will Levis

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Speaker 3: was a rookie, right, not like he played a ton

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Speaker 3: of snaps last year, but let's say he was a rookie.

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Speaker 3: This would be a great situation for a rookie because

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Speaker 3: you have offensive line that's getting rebuilt but has a

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Speaker 3: lot of talented people. You have weapons on offense all round,

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Speaker 3: you have a couple of good runners, and you have

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Speaker 3: a defense that could be really feisty. Like that's basically

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Speaker 3: the same there. It's just Caleb as a rookie, so

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Speaker 3: you got to kind of drop him in there. But

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Speaker 3: it's a great situation for any rookie because he doesn't

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Speaker 3: have to go through playing for a terrible team because

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Speaker 3: of the trade because they had the pick because of

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Speaker 3: the Panthers pick. It's just incredible now, like mighty start

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Speaker 3: slope because he is a rookie possible and I'm fully

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Speaker 3: ready for the whole world to freak out if the

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Speaker 3: Bears are like three and five and he's been up

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Speaker 3: and down like he's a rookie. That's what it is,

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Speaker 3: but I do think they'll be a lot better.

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Speaker 5: Of the two Los Angeles teams, which one has the

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Speaker 5: better season in twenty twenty four?

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Speaker 3: You know it's hard. I would say that's really tough

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Speaker 3: to me. Probably the Chargers, although justin Herbert's foot Planter

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Speaker 3: Fascia situation bears watching only because sometimes when you have

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Speaker 3: a really good, well made roster and you have a

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Speaker 3: new coach come in, sometimes you get a bounce. I

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Speaker 3: will say this about the Rams, though I knew for

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Speaker 3: sure last year they were going to be really bad

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Speaker 3: and would probably be picking high and might take a

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Speaker 3: quarterback and say they were not bad at all. They

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Speaker 3: were unbelievably well coached, and Stafford played great. So because

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Speaker 3: the Rams are so well coached, and because Lesneid does

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Speaker 3: a great job in finding players in places where other

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Speaker 3: people don't. Fifth round, sixth round, fourth round, whatever, the

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Speaker 3: Rams could be a lot better than we think, because

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Speaker 3: the Rams always seem to be better than we think.

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Speaker 1: How can you explain Patrick Mahomes being number four on

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Speaker 1: the NFL's new Top one hundred great behind Christian McCaffrey,

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and Tyreek Hill.

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Speaker 3: Great question people have opinions and players' opinions are different.

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Speaker 3: And I will say this, seeing Tyreek Hill get number

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Speaker 3: one was cool because for so many guys around the

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Speaker 3: NFL like he is really that dude, like he is

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Speaker 3: the guy they like they love to watch. The problem

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Speaker 3: with Mahomes is that he was really good when he

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Speaker 3: started in his second year. He was really good after that,

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Speaker 3: and then he still was really good, and then his

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Speaker 3: team started going to Super Bowls. Then they win, and

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Speaker 3: so they're also really good. So at some point it's

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Speaker 3: like Mahomes could win the MVP every year. We see

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Speaker 3: it in other sports to it. So at some point, yeah,

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Speaker 3: at some point, it's like people get a little tired

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Speaker 3: and you go, well, he needs to be, you know

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Speaker 3: a little more to get number one. It's like, well

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Speaker 3: he's kind of already number one, and he still is,

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Speaker 3: Like he hasn't gotten worse. It's just you know, a

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Speaker 3: little a little fatigue.

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Speaker 2: Who is your favorite for Rookie of the Year this year?

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Speaker 3: What I will answer is which rookie I'm most excited about?

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Speaker 3: And I would say, you know, the quarterbacks are all

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Speaker 3: I'm excited for all of them, but I would.

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Speaker 1: Say Molik Neighbors with the Giants.

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Speaker 3: With the Giants, he is electric, he is he's got

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Speaker 3: a lot of juice. He is someone that was so

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Speaker 3: needed there. You know, he is a pure number one receiver.

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Speaker 1: He is a dog.

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00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 3: Could have been the first receiver taken to me. And

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Speaker 3: I think for Daniel Jones, who has a rebuilt offensive

664
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Speaker 3: line that should be a lot better, he was someone

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Speaker 3: that's essential. So I'm looking to him. No offense to J. C. Latham.

666
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Speaker 3: I'm sure he's gonna have an extra it sounds like

667
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 3: he's been great so far, but left tackles don't generally

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Speaker 3: win rookie So I'll go with Neighbors.

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Speaker 1: Here's going to be the most improved team in the

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Speaker 1: NFL in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: I mean one of them we hit on the Bears,

672
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 3: I think would be you know, a team that would

673
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 3: that would make a lot of sense. Chargers would be

674
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 3: another one. You know, new coaching staff, you kind of

675
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:18,399
Speaker 3: get that that that bounce a little bit. Titans could

676
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 3: be in the mix too, you know. I mean it

677
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 3: was such a busy offseason, such a high volume, highly targeted,

678
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 3: big money offseason, with a quarterback who like you know,

679
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 3: for for Will Levis. He could either be kind of

680
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 3: like pretty good starter, you know, right in the middle,

681
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 3: you know, probably lead teams to the playoffs and good,

682
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 3: but he is really talented enough to be better than that.

683
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 3: He is really talented, And if he went in the

684
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Speaker 3: draft this year instead of last year, my guess is

685
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 3: he's a top ten pick. So some of it will

686
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 3: be like how good does Will Levis want to be

687
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 3: and how good does he end up being? But this

688
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 3: team should be very much improved too.

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Speaker 5: I should say you mentioned the draft. Who do you

690
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 5: think is the odds on favorite to have the number

691
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 5: one pick in the twenty twenty five NFL draft?

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Speaker 3: This is always the toughest. I'm terrible at it. I

693
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 3: I can't really answer that because the only way you're

694
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 3: that bad is if you lose your quarterback and then

695
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 3: sometimes lose your other quarterback. So it's going to be

696
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:19,959
Speaker 3: someone that we don't expect because I here's the problem

697
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 3: with training camp is like I go around, I talk

698
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 3: to these teams, start to the coaches, jeral manager and everyone.

699
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 3: Everyone's so excited. Everyone's gonna be a lot better, But

700
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,800
Speaker 3: sometimes they're not a lot better. No, no, And sometimes

701
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 3: guys get hurt and it ruins everything, or sometimes coaches

702
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 3: get fired. Like it's so have a group of friends

703
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,720
Speaker 3: that we will on a group chat pick a team

704
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 3: each pick a team every year. We have not done

705
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:42,760
Speaker 3: it yet, so I will study up and we'll figure

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Speaker 3: it out.

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Speaker 1: What are your top storylines surrounding the twenty twenty four

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00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans.

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00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 3: I mean, one of them we talked about is how

710
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 3: good is Well? How good is Will love us? He's

711
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,399
Speaker 3: got a good supporting cast, it seems like, I mean,

712
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 3: we can talk about jac Latham, who is super talented

713
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 3: and sound like, you know, the offensive line Skeronsky it's

714
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 3: gonna be a lot better, and I sound like he's

715
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 3: a little bit bigger, which I think will help. So

716
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,439
Speaker 3: we can talk about all that. To me, Cushion Berry

717
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 3: was probably the best, biggest, most important signing of the

718
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 3: whole offseason. He is awesome, He's gonna help everyone. He

719
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 3: is going to make Will Levis better. So how good

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Speaker 3: is willas I think that is? That is a big one.

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00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 3: And then you know, this should be a really good

722
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 3: draft class. I think, I mean, I think Sweat is

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00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 3: going to be maybe excellent, like like really truly excellent.

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Speaker 3: So how much do some of these rookies contribute and

725
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 3: how much of a kind of like juice does that

726
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 3: give the roster? And then you know, I think for Callahan,

727
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 3: you know, look it's Mike Veribil. Won a lot of

728
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 3: games here, went deep into the playoffs, did a lot

729
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 3: of great things. It did feel like change was necessary.

730
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 3: Feels like Cali is a breath of fresh air and

731
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 3: for people who know him well, like he is a

732
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 3: good dude, like he really is, And I think that

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Speaker 3: will help as well.

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Speaker 5: And Rappaport, you're a busy man, and so we know

735
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 5: we have to let you go. But before you run

736
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Speaker 5: out of here, you have a YouTube channel. I do,

737
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,240
Speaker 5: and I would like to know what people are getting

738
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 5: when they subscribe to Ian Rappaport's YouTube channel.

739
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 3: I appreciate you saying that I do a lot of

740
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 3: things right. I'm on Twitter, I'm on Instagram, I'm now

741
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 3: on TikTok. YouTube feels a little different.

742
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: It.

743
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 3: I think it's an opportunity for me to get people

744
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 3: a little behind the scenes look at what my life

745
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 3: is like. So on the road, it's been hard because

746
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 3: I'm always running over the place in crazy but it

747
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 3: should be a place where you get all the good

748
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 3: videos and analysis and breaking news and whatever, but then

749
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 3: a little more of like here's how this happened, Here's

750
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,839
Speaker 3: how that happened, this trade went down, like what went

751
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 3: into it? Like all those kind of behind the scenes

752
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 3: think that's where you should be getting.

753
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 1: Do you share your favorite places to eat in different spots?

754
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:45,919
Speaker 3: And I will. I will do stuff like that, Yeah,

755
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,760
Speaker 3: because I'm a big I'm a big foodie.

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Speaker 1: Would there be a lot on horse racing there.

757
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 3: There'll be some on horse racing. Yeah, O my other hobby.

758
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 3: We had a horse our Philly Parnak had a great run,

759
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 3: finished second in a big race. Yeah. Hopefully people get

760
00:38:58,680 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 3: it all there.

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Speaker 1: Always good to have Ian Rapaport join us, very kind. Yeah,

762
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 1: he only looked at his phone.

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00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 2: Times nothing.

764
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Speaker 1: I mean his phone was going off the entire interview.

765
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Speaker 2: It is wild.

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Speaker 1: How do you live like that? Seriously? I mean, how

767
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: do you could you do that?

768
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 4: Oh gosh, I think you have you have to be

769
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 4: somebody that is wired that way and embraces that. But

770
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Speaker 4: I think even for that person, it's probably way more

771
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 4: than I.

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00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: Remember when I was when I was covering Tennessee.

773
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 4: And recruiting recruiting.

774
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: Well, but I mean everything my phone rang all the time,

775
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: but that was a phone in your office.

776
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was you can walk away from it.

777
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: Well I did you know, You'd walk into another room

778
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:51,280
Speaker 1: and you could you know whatever. But now with cell phones,

779
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: his goes off ten times as much as my I mean,

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Speaker 1: it used to drive me crazy. People had my home

781
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: number and they would call it all hours of the night,

782
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,280
Speaker 1: you know, because you're looking to get a tip on anything.

783
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 1: I was doing one team. He's doing thirty two teams.

784
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 2: Yeah.

785
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: And then he's also covering the NFL itself, you know

786
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 1: what policies are coming out, and he's talking to agents

787
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 1: and players themselves and former players and broadcasters. And I

788
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: don't see how you do that.

789
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Speaker 5: I can't handle an overzealous group chat, let alone the

790
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 5: amount of just notifications he's getting, Like, I cannot fathom

791
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 5: the just amount of stimulus. It's coming to your brain

792
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 5: all the time, and you sure can't sync it up

793
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 5: with any.

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00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 2: Other devices that you have.

795
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Speaker 5: Like if your phone rings and your watch beeps and

796
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 5: your computer starts dinging and all of that happens at

797
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,800
Speaker 5: the same time, I'd have to live in the woods.

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00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 2: There's no way.

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Speaker 1: Part of what he has done at different points is

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00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: doing interviews, like on radio stations. He has had to

801
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: hang up in the middle of interviews to take a

802
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: call towards a story.

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00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 4: Yep, oh yeah frequently.

804
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,800
Speaker 1: So there was a one guy at a radio station

805
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 1: was particularly upset and called for him to be basically

806
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: flogged because he he They worked it out and it

807
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: turned out forgiving you time. He was a good sport

808
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: about it. Ian is a really good sport about the

809
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 1: whole thing. But he you know, he's like, my number

810
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: one job is NFL Network. I'm covering the NFL and

811
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: I thought during the course of our interview he might

812
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: have to cut it off at one point, but he really.

813
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,280
Speaker 1: I mean, that's why he's so good. He and Adam

814
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 1: Schefter are both the same way. And then you look

815
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: at Adrian Wojahowski and guys like that who he covered

816
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: the NBA, and then the guys who covered the Major

817
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: League Baseball and oh gosh, I just don't it's crazy.

818
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: It is crazy.

819
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 5: I can keep one team straight, I could never keep

820
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 5: thirty two brand.

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00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 4: People say, can I do a public service announcement for

822
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 4: the OTP, because let me say this, Uh if you

823
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 4: have not subscribed to wherever you get your podcasts or

824
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 4: on the YouTube TV channel that the Titans have.

825
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me say this.

826
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Speaker 4: The OTP y'all did with jelly Roll fantastic. Thanks, really

827
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 4: cool to have him in here like us around here,

828
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 4: we we know I know him as Jason d. Ford

829
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 4: from Antioch, Tennessee, like Jelly Roll has been. But I mean,

830
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 4: he is a major big deal and is actually he's

831
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 4: doing some great work. It's I think it's cool that

832
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 4: he's a Titans, mega mega Titans fan. But you need

833
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 4: to go back. If you have not listened or watched

834
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:53,959
Speaker 4: that one, you're missing out. And if you're not doing

835
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 4: it anyway and subscribing to the OTP, you're missing out.

836
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 4: The end of my ted talk very thoughtful.

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00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 1: No, it was awesome, y'all. I mean, thank you great.

838
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 2: He was great.

839
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Speaker 1: Y'all have done some.

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Speaker 4: Really good ones and that was a really good well, that.

841
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: Was a big throw for us. It was really nice

842
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: to have him on. And you know, I don't know him,

843
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: know him. I've gotten to do a couple of things

844
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: with him, but I mean, I think for a lot

845
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: of us to see a local guy overcome what he's

846
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: overcome and still keep fighting to do all the right things.

847
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: I mean, it's you're pulling for that guy. And man,

848
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: he's a talent, I mean, is outstanding.

849
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 4: He's really and there's a couple of things. I again,

850
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 4: I don't know him, but there does not appear to

851
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 4: be anything disingenuous.

852
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: He is a genuine person. I think that's right.

853
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 4: I think.

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00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: I mean didn't talk to him for twenty minutes because

855
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: he had to wait, so he did the OTP and

856
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,919
Speaker 1: he had to wait here before before they took him

857
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: downstairs to do the team meeting. And they intentionally waited

858
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: because I mean, if there were people lingering, you're not

859
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: going to not notice jelly roll, right, right, I mean,

860
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: if somebody's going in to get a cup of coffee

861
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 1: or a banana in the kitchen or something, yeah, it's

862
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 1: like wait a minute, that's yeah. So so he held

863
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: right in here and he talked to him.

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Speaker 5: You talked to him for twenty talking about I mean

865
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Speaker 5: just kind.

866
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Speaker 2: Of everything and nothing, I mean, what he had going on.

867
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Speaker 5: We talked about family stuff, we talked about I mean,

868
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 5: but it was just the nicest conversation, like you're just

869
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 5: talking to a buddy.

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Speaker 2: You've known forever. You know, he's just calm.

871
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: He's not pretentious.

872
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 2: No, he's not pretentious.

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Speaker 5: We were talking about touring and asking different questions about

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Speaker 5: like the logistics of that, and yeah, because he's doing.

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00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,839
Speaker 4: A fifty six city stadium, I.

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00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: Mean, yeah, yeah, just talking. He was going to be

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Speaker 1: the biggest tour of the year.

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Speaker 4: But yet he's still that guy from Antioch, Tennessee. That's

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Speaker 4: the thing I think that is so endearing about him

880
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Speaker 4: is that he is such a genuine person. And you're right,

881
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Speaker 4: he's not pretentious at all.

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Speaker 1: Well, thanks for mentioning.

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Speaker 4: He's never forgotten. I mean the story he talking about

884
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Speaker 4: I saw the Music City Miracle and if you know

885
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Speaker 4: his story, I mean he spent some time in the

886
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Speaker 4: Juvenile Justice Center right there outside of the North End zone.

887
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:26,959
Speaker 4: He wants it on the jumbo trin from his cell.

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Speaker 4: But he's never forgotten and he talks about the mistakes

889
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Speaker 4: that he made and he from what I understand, he's

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Speaker 4: really good to that place because of the time he's

891
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Speaker 4: spent in inside those walls. There's there's I think there's

892
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Speaker 4: a production booth in there where the guys can, uh,

893
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Speaker 4: you know, take advantage of that and try their handed

894
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 4: recording things like he does a lot that nobody ever

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Speaker 4: talks about.

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Speaker 1: Ye really cool, hear it Ascension Saint Thomas Sports Park.

897
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Speaker 1: We are all fans, and the players were thrilled. Players,

898
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Speaker 1: but the whole but the whole thing. All those guys

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Speaker 1: were just so pumped to see him in there. And

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Speaker 1: what a great moment for them at the end of camp,

901
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Speaker 1: because you know, you've been in those meetings and you're

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Speaker 1: going into the third preseason game. And I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: the coaches don't hold their interest in that Brian Cally,

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Speaker 1: but I mean, you do anything for five weeks and

905
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Speaker 1: it's starting to get a little dog daisy and there's

906
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Speaker 1: not a real opponent to get ready for, like for Chicago,

907
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Speaker 1: and suddenly here here walks in one of the biggest

908
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Speaker 1: stars in the world right now, and they were pumped.

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Speaker 1: And then to see to and Andre.

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Speaker 2: I knew it.

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Speaker 5: And what was crazy about the Tovandre thing.

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Speaker 1: Was this you told him about Tavan I told him

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Speaker 1: about that.

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Speaker 5: Andre was going to be excited, but only because he

915
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Speaker 5: brought it up because he watches the OTP. Watches the

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Speaker 5: OTP and have mentioned what a good interview.

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Speaker 1: That was with him, and he mentioned it in Jim

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Speaker 1: White's story too, and.

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Speaker 5: That he yeah, and that he enjoyed watching that and

920
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Speaker 5: he was so excited about him as a player.

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Speaker 1: Yes, young people, I mean old people.

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Speaker 2: Listen to this podcast, Like you don't have to know,

923
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Speaker 2: but you have to know.

924
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: If you're not subscribing, you are missing and.

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Speaker 1: You're not cool. Forrett, Brian and Aby Wales, I might

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Speaker 1: keep thanking you for joining us for another jelly roll

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