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Speaker 1: I am Mike Keith, so pleased to be joined by

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Speaker 1: Titans Radio's Draft Duo, although they're not really known as

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Speaker 1: that in September Rhett Bryant and Coach Dave McKennis Welcome

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Speaker 2: Anytime you call us Draft Duo. I'm proud anything I

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Speaker 1: We have a lot going on in the bed MGM

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Speaker 1: studio today as we record this edition of the OTP.

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Speaker 1: Not only is Coach Mack and the Snickers hot seat

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Speaker 1: and feel free to have a Snickers if you want one,

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Speaker 1: but Duncan has out with their new Titans donuts, Oh boy,

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Speaker 1: and they are delicious glazed donuts with the white icing

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Speaker 1: and then the light blue or Titan blue sprinkles, and

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Speaker 1: so they have been kind enough to get us some

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Speaker 1: of those, and everyone on staff here at Ascension Saint

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Speaker 1: Thomas Sports Park is very thankful. I guess unless you're

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Speaker 1: on a diet, and that would be me. And that's okay.

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Speaker 3: Everyone else celebrate And what a better way to celebrate

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Speaker 3: Week one of the regular season with an official Titans

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Speaker 3: donut from dunk From Duncan's fantastic.

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Speaker 2: We've got a whole box of them here and Mix.

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Speaker 3: Played the part of Vanna White by displaying he's displaying

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Speaker 3: I'm having a little Duncan ice there.

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Speaker 2: There's a whole box of Dunkin Donuts right here. Uh,

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Speaker 1: We are set and ready to go. It reminds us

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Speaker 1: that we should mention our great sponsor, Duncan. It's always

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Speaker 1: game on with Duncan, So grab a coffee and kick

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Speaker 1: off the action. Whether that's drinking a cup of coffee

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Speaker 1: we say, listening to the game at home. Duncan is

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Speaker 1: always there to help you to help you get your

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Speaker 1: game on. Just like the pros, we need to be

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Speaker 1: at our best come game time, which is why Duncan

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Speaker 1: is the most important part of your game day ritual

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Speaker 1: because it's always the best call for football America runs

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Speaker 1: on Duncan. So Duncan has been properly recognized as a

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Speaker 1: sponsor of the OTP, and the ot people know that

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Speaker 1: we recommend them.

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Speaker 2: You can't talk about Duncan enough.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we can. They certainly don't think so.

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Speaker 1: I want to say something about our TV show on

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Speaker 1: Sunday mornings, and I want to share this with you,

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Speaker 1: Coach Mac. So, last year WSMV four, Channel four in

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Speaker 1: Nashville started carrying Titans Game Day. Coach Mack and I

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Speaker 1: were pleased to join Chris Harris and we do the

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Speaker 1: show at ten thirty Central, ninety minutes before a noon kickoff,

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Speaker 1: and the Titans have thirteen noon kickoffs this year, so

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Speaker 1: that's going to work out well. Get the latest information

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Speaker 1: and stuff from the field. We will be there on

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Speaker 1: the field in the Caesar Superdome on Sunday, ninety minutes

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Speaker 1: before the action with our first edition of Titans Game

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Speaker 1: Day on WSMB four. Ran Carthon will join us as

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Speaker 1: a special guest, so the Titan general manager will join

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Speaker 1: us on the field. It's kind of an exciting thing.

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Speaker 1: Here's the other exciting part. The show will also air live,

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Speaker 1: not just on WSMB four in Nashville, but on WBKOTV

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Speaker 1: in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It will air live at ten thirty,

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Speaker 1: and it will air live in Knoxville on WVLT Volunteer TV.

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Speaker 1: That's channel eight and that's eleven thirty Eastern time. So

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Speaker 1: we will be live in three different markets now with

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Speaker 1: Titans game day Coach, and that's a big deal. And

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Speaker 1: let's face it, Rerhtt, it's largely due to coach. Well

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Speaker 2: Due to coach. It's due to the Titans, and it's

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Speaker 2: due to Mike Keith. But look, we love doing that show.

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Speaker 2: Last year. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I

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Speaker 2: think everybody that watched it really enjoyed it. When we're

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Speaker 2: great and the other two new places Welcome.

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Speaker 1: In, Welcome In, and the great Jim Whitett joins us

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Speaker 1: normally for that show and he will start in week two.

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Speaker 3: It's no surprise that it is growing in other markets though,

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Speaker 1: Well, the immediacy of it is what is so cool,

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Speaker 1: Can't wait, can't wait? All right? So draft duo, Let's

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Speaker 1: have a little fun here before we start talking. Titans

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Speaker 1: always like Saints. You love fun. Drake May, North Carolina

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Speaker 1: quarterback Caleb Williams USC quarterback At this moment in time,

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Speaker 1: who's your number one quarterback?

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Speaker 2: I think they'll both be really good dealers in this league.

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Speaker 2: To be a quarterback in this league, you've got to

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Speaker 2: and that's huge. I think Caleb Williams is just a

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Speaker 1: All right, Marvin Harrison Junior, let's throw him into the conversation.

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Speaker 2: Quarterbacks if they don't need a quarterback. Well, that's true.

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Speaker 3: Legit could be top ten, could be top five pick,

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's say this. I mean they are

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Speaker 1: So if you had to put money on it right now,

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Speaker 1: and again it's early September. The draft won't happen until

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Speaker 1: late April in Detroit for twenty twenty four, we're a

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Speaker 2: I've got money, I yess you do.

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Speaker 1: I've got money on you. You always do.

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Speaker 2: I've got money, and I would not be afraid to

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Speaker 2: put it that those are the top three.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I don't have money, and I'd put one hundred

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's good. That's the kind of answer I want.

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Speaker 1: That's that's exactly what we needed from you. Rehet, well

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Speaker 1: ask you those questions. I also want to ask you

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Speaker 1: the Saints. Brian Breze, the defensive tackle from Clemson. Sure,

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Speaker 1: They have been going on and on about him. He

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Speaker 2: The best thing that happened to him he was a major,

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Speaker 2: major recruit coming out of high school, major recruit. The

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Speaker 2: best thing that happened to him is he is surrounded

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Speaker 2: He was not a finished product coming out. No defensive

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Speaker 2: the fact that he is learning from those guys how

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Speaker 2: I think at twenty nine it was an excellent, excellent

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Speaker 2: him very very quickly. But he doesn't have to play immediately.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't have to play immediately. He'll play a lot,

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Speaker 2: but he can learn from that group and Mike.

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Speaker 3: That front has a bunch of oak trees there in size,

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Speaker 3: most all of them are over sixty five. He's one

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Speaker 3: the one thing that stands out to me about what

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Speaker 3: was allowing rushing yards. Their rushing defense, I think it's

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Speaker 3: thirty one per game, that's right. So he is brought

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Speaker 3: Max right all the vets around him. I mean, you

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Speaker 3: that's a different position. There's some veteran leadership there to

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Speaker 3: help him along the way. Their two best defensive players

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Speaker 3: who went to his first Pro Bowl last year, Cam Jordan,

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Speaker 3: who went to his eighth Pro Bowl last year, and

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Speaker 2: They got veterans on that team where they have seven

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Speaker 2: or eight players will be thirty years old.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Another one is Tyron Matthew, the honey Badger.

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Speaker 2: Now, I mean, they're up at the top of the

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Speaker 1: Rush for eight hundred and ninety seven yards, caught fifty

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Speaker 1: Maybe in the passing game they miss him the most.

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Speaker 3: Because we're talking about this is just like if the

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Speaker 1: For sure, because he's about fifty of the offense ran

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Speaker 3: Well you know the answer, and so does coach mac Okay.

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Speaker 3: Third round pick Taje Spears.

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Speaker 2: All Right, why.

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Speaker 3: Because of the element that he can bring, that is

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Speaker 2: Ziz al Shire, Yeah, that's that's the dude. Because our

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Speaker 1: For me, it's arden Key because arden Key's one of

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Speaker 2: Well. The thing about him is, and I think and

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Speaker 2: He's been nothing but consistent. He's been nothing but consistent

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Speaker 1: It's funny because when he came out of LSU, there

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Speaker 1: all right. So as we get to Sunday, the Titans

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Speaker 1: Yes, and so they will fall under the emergency quarterback rule,

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Speaker 1: squad and say, oh, he's our third quarterback. That doesn't apply.

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Speaker 1: It's only if you have three quarterbacks on the active roster.

436
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Speaker 1: So when game day arrives, each team names the number

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Speaker 1: one quarterback and the number two quarterback, and then the

438
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Speaker 1: third quarterback is available to play if the number one

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Speaker 1: and number two guys are unavailable. The rules were different

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Speaker 1: back in the day with the third quarterback rule from

441
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Speaker 1: what ten to fifteen years ago?

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Speaker 2: Yes, but I think it's twelve years ago.

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Speaker 1: Okay, twelve years ago, very very specific there, Well done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably wrong, but that's good. No, probably wrong, but

445
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Speaker 2: probably if it sounds.

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Speaker 1: Good, it does sound mostly they're believe. I believe everything

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Speaker 1: coach back says. But the point being if the third

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Speaker 1: quarterback entered under the previous rule, then then the then

449
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Speaker 1: the other two quarterbacks couldn't go back in the game

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Speaker 1: unless it was the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 1: So now if the third quarterback has to enter due

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Speaker 1: to the other two being unavailable, and that would be

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Speaker 1: injury or being thrown out of the game. But if

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Speaker 1: say the number one quarterback goes in the tent, they

456
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Speaker 1: determine he's okay, he can now go back in the game.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 1: So that is a change in all of this.

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Speaker 2: Well, and the other thing that's important, And I've been

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Speaker 2: on several radio shows, just like you guys say people

461
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Speaker 2: wanting to say, well, can't you hide a guy to

462
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Speaker 2: say we're playing a guy this week? You know, in

463
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Speaker 2: Taysom Hill, a guy that can play quarterback has played quarterback.

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Speaker 2: You've got to designated guys the third quarter back. If

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Speaker 2: you don't, you don't get the extra guy.

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Speaker 1: Well, and you can't play another position. Correct, That's part

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Speaker 1: of it. And they change Taysom Hill's position on the

468
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Speaker 1: Saints roster at the start of this week from tight

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Speaker 1: end to quarter quarterback. He is officially listed as a

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Speaker 1: quarterback and with Jake Hayner that's the reason the rookie

471
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Speaker 1: from Fred has no state being declared ineligible suspended for

472
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Speaker 1: six games due to a violation of the PD rule.

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Speaker 1: You know, Hater would have been the third quarterback and

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Speaker 1: now that's not the case, so correct, We shall see it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Taysom Hill does a lot of different things.

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Speaker 1: The Saints do a lot of different things with Taysom Hill.

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Speaker 1: So we'll we'll see how it all works out. But

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Speaker 1: it's exciting. It's been a good camp. I like this

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Speaker 1: football team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The thing I like about this football team is

481
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Speaker 2: and I think Mike Rabel and Rant Carthon would agree.

482
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Speaker 2: Neither one of them told me this, but I think

483
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Speaker 2: they like the makeup of the people because this is

484
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Speaker 2: this is a different type of a team. It really is.

485
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Speaker 2: It's got a lot of young players on it. We've

486
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Speaker 2: had some undrafted that have made this team, and we

487
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Speaker 2: have some undrafteds going to play in this game. And

488
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Speaker 2: it's just it. We knew it was going to be

489
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Speaker 2: a different team, a different makeup, but but just I

490
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Speaker 2: think the makeup of the players themselves in the locker room,

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Speaker 2: even apart from their football ability, I think both the

492
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Speaker 2: head coach and the general manager like their people.

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Speaker 1: The overall hunger of this roster jumps out to me.

494
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Speaker 1: D the workers. They're workers, They're not afraid to get

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Speaker 1: their hands dirty and do whatever it takes to get

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Speaker 1: this thing done. They, by definition, are what Mike Rabel

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Speaker 1: always talks about and what he's looking for as a Titan.

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Speaker 3: I think most everybody you can think of when you

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Speaker 3: go through this roster is an emulation of that. They're

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Speaker 3: just out there working and a very blue collar type effort. Well,

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Speaker 3: if you look at the seventy I mean you're talking

502
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Speaker 3: about undrafteds. You're talking about you know, draft picks. You're

503
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Speaker 3: talking about young players getting a chance to take steps forward.

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Speaker 3: You're talking about guys on one year contracts. Now you're

505
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Speaker 3: talking about guys who were brought in from the outside

506
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Speaker 3: on prove it contracts. Twenty four new players on the

507
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 3: fifty three man roster. I mean the job security thing

508
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,439
Speaker 3: is part of it. You know, they they're playing for

509
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 3: more money, they're playing for job security, they're playing I mean,

510
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 3: they're playing to win. I mean it's all there, But

511
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 3: there's a hunger that's built into this thing. I don't

512
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 3: think you're ever going to see a lack of hustle.

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Speaker 2: Well, Mike Rabel won't. He won't live with that, right. Oh,

514
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Speaker 2: if you're not going to fit into this culture, as

515
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 2: what RHTT said of being a Titan player, you're not

516
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 2: going to be here very long anyway. But and Mike

517
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Speaker 2: Rabel changed the way he operated his training camp a

518
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Speaker 2: little bit this year. You know, he did some things different,

519
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 2: which all really good coaches do. You go back to

520
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 2: your view, you look, and you see, but when he's

521
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 2: asked these guys to work, they've worked, and then he's

522
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 2: done his part as far as bringing their legs back

523
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Speaker 2: to them. And I go back to I think a

524
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 2: little bit of a flip in this team that I

525
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 2: just saw was the whole trip we made to Minnesota.

526
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Speaker 2: That was beneficial in a lot of ways because there

527
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 2: was two really good days of work, but it was

528
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 2: work against different people. And you see, you saw some

529
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Speaker 2: guys really start to step up, and that not only

530
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 2: helps the individual that steps up, it helps his teammates too.

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Speaker 2: Looking get okay, this is a dude, This is a

532
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Speaker 2: real dude. And I kind of like what I saw.

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Speaker 1: But they won, I mean, they won the individual reps,

534
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Speaker 1: they won the team periods, and Minnesota has a fine team,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not saying they didn't do things well too,

536
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: but I'm saying the Matthew Jackson's of the world, the

537
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: Anthony Kendall's of the world, the Otis Reesees, the undrafteds,

538
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Speaker 1: the Peter Skronskys who were drafted on and on and

539
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: on all the way to Jeffrey Simmons. The Titans mission

540
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: was to win whatever they were in and certainly it's

541
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Speaker 1: been like that in the past. I just think some

542
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: of that has come to the forefront. You know, you

543
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: lose seven games to end the season, and injury was

544
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: a huge part of it. We get that, but they

545
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: lost seven games. There's no asterisks at anything in the NFL.

546
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: They finished out of the playoffs. How are you going

547
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: to change this this year? And I think the hunger

548
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: they have built in, the desire to win, we've seen

549
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: that from May forward to now and now we see

550
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Speaker 1: how it carries over to Sunday.

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Speaker 2: And that's that's that's what you work for, and that's

552
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 2: what that's what we're excited about. When I was coaching,

553
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 2: that's what that's what because this is why you do it.

554
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 2: I mean, we do it now because we enjoy bringing

555
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 2: it to our to our listeners. We enjoy bringing it

556
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 2: to the fans, you know, to see what's coming. But

557
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 2: as a coach and a player, this is why you

558
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 2: do it. You live for this moment that you're getting

559
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 2: ready to run out there on Sunday afternoon in New Orleans.

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Speaker 2: This is what you're here for.

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Speaker 1: Where do you like to eat in New Orleans? Do

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Speaker 1: you have us fight Commander's Palace? Okay, yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah, yeah,

563
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Speaker 1: I mean if you're going to go go get kinna

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Speaker 1: go there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, if you're going to go go, well, you.

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Speaker 1: Love fish, So do you get some sort of fish

567
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Speaker 1: when you go to New Orleans? Or do you do oysters?

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Speaker 2: Or here's the thing about oysters in New Orleans. Yes,

569
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Speaker 2: there's certain places that you want to go. Yes, some

570
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Speaker 2: places they may have taken them out of the gutters,

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Speaker 2: you know, because there's a lot of oysters down there.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 2: I I basically lived in New Orleans for eight or

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Speaker 2: nine years when I was recruiting in college, no kidding,

575
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Speaker 2: in a place called the chart House, right off Love

576
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Speaker 2: the chart House, yeah and Bienville Street, yeah, right right

577
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Speaker 2: across from that other street that we're not going to

578
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Speaker 2: We're not.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: If you're going there to eat, I'm not going with it. Okay, yeah,

581
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Speaker 2: because I just I'm not going there because it gets

582
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Speaker 2: a little crazy, well not crazy, it's just too much,

583
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 2: too much, it's way too much. It's way too much. Anyway.

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Speaker 2: I've had enough of that in my life. But you

585
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 2: can get good food at a lot of places. But

586
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Speaker 2: if you're gonna go one time, go to Commander's Palace.

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Speaker 1: Commander's Palace.

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00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 2: There it is.

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Speaker 1: I knew he would have.

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Speaker 2: A place, of course.

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Speaker 1: He said he's got a place everywhere. He's got a

592
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Speaker 1: place everywhere, all right. So Sunday, eleven a m. Central,

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Speaker 1: the ever reliable Ret Brian and Titans countdown. It is

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Speaker 1: award winning at eleven am Central, and then shortly afternoon

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Speaker 1: we will have kickoff Titans in the Saints. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: play ball, Mike, We're gonna play ball. My Oilers throwback

597
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: watch says it's time time, nicely, it is time.

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Speaker 2: That's very on point right there.

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00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:39,959
Speaker 1: It really is.

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Speaker 2: Owners got oilers watch with a blue face. We've got

601
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 2: blue doughnuts, sprinkles.

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Speaker 3: It's game week.

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Speaker 2: We got duncan boxes. Don't we're getting to eat every

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Speaker 2: one of them, brought.

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Speaker 1: To you by Farm Bureau Health Plans. Yes, MGM, ticket

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Speaker 1: it by seat, eating a ticket and by seat. That's

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00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: exactly right. Let's get in all the sponsors. Now, what

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Speaker 1: you want when you listen to the OTP if you

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Speaker 1: were one of the ot people, you want more commercials

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Speaker 1: because we deliver them in such an entertaining manner. I

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Speaker 1: may are in here twelve twelve.

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Speaker 2: That's there's twelve, so that's not eating any So that's out.

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Speaker 2: So that's one two, there's three four of us, So.

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Speaker 1: In the studio two well I just counted. Well, no,

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Speaker 1: but I'm talking about in the in the other room

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Speaker 1: in the Okay, how.

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Speaker 2: Many we got in there? I think two two, so

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Speaker 2: six So two twelve divided by six is four for

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Speaker 2: me and one for the rest.

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Speaker 3: For the read This segment has been called mac math.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you to Dave McGinnis and Rett Brian from

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Speaker 1: Titan's Radio for joining me. Mike Keith, we are so

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Speaker 1: glad to have you and we are so ready to play.

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Speaker 1: Oh let's do it, OT people, And thank you for

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Speaker 1: listening to the o