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Speaker 1: all over Tennessee, wherever you go. All Right, the great

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Speaker 1: Glad to be here. You kind of dressed like you're

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Speaker 1: I've actually got a departure Admiral Wyatt with us this morning.

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Speaker 1: It's good to see. Thank you, thank you for stopping vibe.

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Speaker 1: Ready to go with another game Titans and the Texans

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Speaker 1: this week after the what would you call it long

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Speaker 1: afternoon into the evening in Miami, it was. It was

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Speaker 1: a lovely afternoon, seven hours, eight minutes. So we played

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Speaker 1: two games in one day. The two Monday night games

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Speaker 1: And I went to bed before the second game even started.

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Speaker 1: during the broadcast the other day. Yeah, you know, you know.

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Speaker 1: very kind of you to say. I appreciate that. It

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Speaker 1: was a crazy first day on the job, it was,

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Speaker 1: but incredibly fun. The Titans radio team is outstanding. Not

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Speaker 1: Sucking up is not really my thing. But really it

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Speaker 1: It was a good time. Here's my number one question

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Speaker 1: Jim Why? I was keeping my game refresh and ready

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Speaker 1: back to football, the one that jumps out tailor to

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Speaker 1: one and the concussion. I guess we'll know a little

427
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Speaker 1: bit more today as far as what he is able

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Speaker 1: to do. But I mean, it feels like you're gonna

429
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Speaker 1: play against JJ Watt, Whitney, Merciless, Bernardrick McKinney, DJ Reader,

430
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:56,880
Speaker 1: Christian Covington, Jedevion Clowney with Kevin palm feel at one

431
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Speaker 1: tackle and Dennis Kelly at the other tack. I will

432
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 1: say that a couple of years ago we went down

433
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Speaker 1: to U Houston with UH. I would say with some

434
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,479
Speaker 1: backups weren't quite as capable, and that game didn't go

435
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 1: too well. Obviously. I think I remember that game that

436
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 1: one these uh Wilson, at least Pamville's got some experience.

437
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 1: Dennis Kelly. Uh, Dennis Kelly played really well. I thought

438
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,399
Speaker 1: both those guys. I mean, the whole offensive line played

439
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:29,879
Speaker 1: really well against a good Miami front. UH, you know,

440
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:31,919
Speaker 1: with with a lot of movement that the Titans had

441
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,479
Speaker 1: to deal with it. I hated to see what happened

442
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:38,439
Speaker 1: with Taylor. That was such an odd play and the

443
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 1: way he was hit and looked like he was knocked out,

444
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,399
Speaker 1: and then he came to and Uh, he was in

445
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,919
Speaker 1: the building yesterday, you know, met with Ti Twars, Clly. Uh.

446
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 1: The team decided to send him home. Mike Rabel's been

447
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 1: very adamant about Taylor l one and not wanting him

448
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: back out there before he's completely ready to go. And

449
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,520
Speaker 1: with these concussions, you just don't know how long it's

450
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: gonna take. Everybody's different. He's gonna have to pass a

451
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,399
Speaker 1: lot of tests to be back out there. I do

452
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 1: think today we'll have a better idea, but I think

453
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 1: there's definitely a real scenario where he's not available this week.

454
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,199
Speaker 1: Pomfield has never started a game at left tackle in

455
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 1: the NFL. He has started four at right tackle, and

456
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 1: I mean he's a swing player and everybody that's why

457
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 1: the Titans signed him. I think he was brought in

458
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 1: to provide depth and potentially some competition at left guard,

459
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: but in the end it ended up being depth and

460
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 1: you're very glad he's here. The other question, too, is

461
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 1: if one and Conklin can't go, and Conklin is getting closer,

462
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's surprised by Conklin's overall progress, but

463
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:46,359
Speaker 1: if they can't go, then your backups on the active

464
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 1: roster are Corey Levin, who is a center who can

465
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Speaker 1: play guard, and then Aaron Stenney, who has worked at

466
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Speaker 1: guard in the preseason. Now. When he was at James Madison,

467
00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 1: he was a left tackle forty two game starter there

468
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,479
Speaker 1: for the FCS runners up, So I mean he's a

469
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:10,120
Speaker 1: capable player, but you also have a couple of different options.

470
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Speaker 1: Tyler Merritts, who plays tackle for this team, has played

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Speaker 1: tackle for this team in the preseason the last three years,

472
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Speaker 1: and then a former Texan that you've just brought in,

473
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Speaker 1: David Quisenberry. I think you would have to consider making

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Speaker 1: a move late in a week if if things aren't

475
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: looking good from Taylor's perspective, because you need a guy

476
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Speaker 1: in there that has worked I think some during the

477
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Speaker 1: practice week and has a lot more experience at tackle

478
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Speaker 1: than some of the other guys who would be bouncing

479
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 1: out there just to fill a void. Again, this is

480
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,879
Speaker 1: gonna be this will be an end of the week

481
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: type of thing, but I definitely think it's something that

482
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Speaker 1: I'm sure John Robinson Mike Ray will strongly considering well.

483
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 1: And you know it's gonna be a physical game. You

484
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 1: just know it. It always is. It's a division game.

485
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,479
Speaker 1: The Texans defense is no joke. It seems like a

486
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,439
Speaker 1: better safe than sorry thing for me to bring a

487
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Speaker 1: guy up. Ye, all right, let's talk about better safe

488
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 1: than sorry. Let's just talk about happy or let's move

489
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: from better safe whatever, let's move along. Tired of this,

490
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: tried to segue, it didn't work. Well, boy, it was

491
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Speaker 1: good to see number eight at practice yesterday, speaking of

492
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: happiness when he came running out, I was like, Oh,

493
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Speaker 1: my goodness, that is such a relief because you're and

494
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: this is nothing against Blaine Gabbert, but I mean, Marcus

495
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: is the quarterback, and Marcus is he makes this team go,

496
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: and to have him back at practice and getting work

497
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 1: fantastic for this football team. Well, he's your leader, and

498
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 1: he's got to work through things like this. The last

499
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 1: thing he wants to do is not be available for

500
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Speaker 1: his team. He's talked so much about wanting to be available,

501
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,160
Speaker 1: wanting to be a leader, and uh, and the way

502
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 1: you get better, the way you work through some things,

503
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: is by being out there. It was a freak injury.

504
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,479
Speaker 1: You know. People asked me, well, how's any Rodgers come

505
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: back and play? And Marcus Mario can't. Finnis It's a

506
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: different injury. I mean, Marcus couldn't have didn't really have

507
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: feeling in his hand and his his his throwing arm.

508
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 1: And I think Mike Rabel since that his sense some

509
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 1: of that and some of his discomfort during the course

510
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 1: of the game after that happened, and he was telling uh,

511
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,679
Speaker 1: playing Gabbert, get ready, get ready, and Marcus was insistent

512
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 1: in saying, Hey, I want to play. I'm going back

513
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: out there. After a couple of throws, after a couple

514
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 1: of interceptions, they pulled the plug and said, Okay, it's

515
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: Gabbert's game the rest of the way. And Uh and

516
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: Marcus just needed a couple of days to heal. I

517
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Speaker 1: think he'll continue to get better throughout the course of

518
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Speaker 1: the week. You've got to have him out there on

519
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:41,400
Speaker 1: Sunday and Uh, barring a setback, he's gonna be back

520
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 1: under center, which is a good thing. Agreed, You're comfortable.

521
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable. Now. We know what we go to next,

522
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 1: and that is Amy Wells wonders. That's the segment of

523
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 1: the OTP that is just now become a huge thing

524
00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: in the last two shows, just taken off. So it

525
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,959
Speaker 1: it really has, It's what we need. It's a trend.

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Speaker 1: What are you wondering, Miss Wells. Here's what I'm wondering.

527
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Speaker 1: After a game where it seemed like everything that could

528
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: go wrong kind of did go wrong, and with the

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Speaker 1: injuries that we have that are substantial, as we've talked about,

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering, is the sky falling for the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 1: Should we panic yet you know, I always and I'm

532
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 1: going back to two wins. Uh. And I look back

533
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: at the two thousand fourteen season when this team, you know,

534
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: demolished the Chiefs at Aarrowheads Stadium. I go back to

535
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: two thousand and fifteen w this team looked like a

536
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: super Bowl bound after a win at Tampa, and everybody

537
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: was talking about, Okay, this team has had the super Bowl.

538
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: I think you gotta flip it just because you lose

539
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: the season open or sixteen other teams across the league

540
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: loss the season opener. That's actually not right because there

541
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: was a key always you got me sorry fifteen. The

542
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: whole thing about Cleveland zero zero in one on the

543
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: on the ESPN crawled best start since two thousand and four. Yeah,

544
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: that was just startling. Here's a question real quick, and

545
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: then get back too. Sorry. Well, in Cleveland they have

546
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: the beer coolers that open when they get a win.

547
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: They did not. They didn't open, they did not, Okay,

548
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: so so it's curious. So it's just like those teams

549
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: weren't super Bowl baland after a week one win when

550
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: in press a fashion, you can't uh, you know, you

551
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 1: can't throw the season down the drain, uh, just because

552
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: of a Week one loss that we know. You can't

553
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: ignore the fact that you lose Delanney Walker. Obviously that's

554
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: not good, but there's a lot of football left to play.

555
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: I hear people calling this I must win in week two.

556
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that. It's a big game. Obviously

557
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: the team doesn't want to fall oh and two going

558
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: into Jacksonville now. But I think we remember what happened.

559
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: I guess it was the two thousand sixth season when

560
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: this team started off oh and six and then had

561
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: a chance to go to the playoffs in the final

562
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 1: week of the season if you take care of business

563
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: at home and didn't happen. So it's not a must win.

564
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: It's a big game, but plenty of football left to play,

565
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: and I don't think the sky has fallen. Well. This

566
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: is a reaction to the fact that the team didn't

567
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: win a game in the preseason, so it seems like

568
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: it feels like a continuation. You dropped the hammer on

569
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Speaker 1: the preseason in terms of how it affected last week.

570
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: It didn't have anything to do with last week. The

571
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Speaker 1: team I give you from the sky is falling tree

572
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: is the New Orleans Saints. Last year. So they play

573
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Speaker 1: their first two games of the year after going seven

574
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: and nine the two years before, and they're done. They

575
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: give up sixty five points in the first two games

576
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: and lose sixty five points. So they're o and two

577
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: coming off back to back seven and nine seasons. The

578
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: sky is falling. They end up eleven and five, and

579
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: if not for a flute play in Minnesota, you know

580
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: they're you know, they're in a position that they could

581
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Speaker 1: be a Super Bowl team. Theoretically could have been a

582
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: Super Bowl team. I just think, here's what I think

583
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: about this ball club. This ball club has got to

584
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: struggle and fight and claw with everything it's got right

585
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: now to get through September. Because you're talking about two

586
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: first round picks at tackle who aren't playing against as

587
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,959
Speaker 1: good affront, potentially as against as good affront seven as

588
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: there is in the NFL. A Hall of Fame defensive lineman,

589
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 1: a number one overall pick, a first round pick in Merciless.

590
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: I mean, guys like that, and that's just one example

591
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: of where they are at this moment. So they're gonna

592
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: have to fight their way through this This club my opinion,

593
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: and you can certainly chime in and I hope you will.

594
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: This club was always going to progress during the year.

595
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: That was what this was going to be about from

596
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: the start, because you've made a massive change on offense,

597
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:10,959
Speaker 1: you have a new head coach. I mean, there are

598
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: things that are different. So if you started four and oh,

599
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: that would be great. But I don't know that anybody

600
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: was necessarily expecting that this team has a chance to

601
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: get better during the season. If they can avoid a

602
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: big hole, I think they will be fine. But I

603
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: think if you're expecting beautiful and spectacular in September, it's

604
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: probably a little much to expect, particularly with where they

605
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: are injury wise. To your point regarding improving throughout the season,

606
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel has said from the very beginning that this

607
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: team isn't what it looks like when things are going well.

608
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: This team, the character of this team, the culture of

609
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: this team is developed in the times where they're fighting,

610
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: where they're clawing, where they're struggling, So this can be

611
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: this is the character building funny part of the season.

612
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: You know, like there's a chapter in every book where

613
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: something terrible happens and everyone becomes a man or whatever afterwards.

614
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: This is that time. The team's just getting it a

615
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: little earlier, and you mentioned the tackles that are out

616
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: right now. You have the two top two draft picks

617
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: on this team we've not seen on the field yet either,

618
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: and they're going to get healthy. Good news on the

619
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: injury of what we talked about earlier, Rashaan Evans back

620
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: kind of slipped in there. Yeah, well it's kind of interesting.

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Speaker 1: So the injury report comes out yesterday and you're you're

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're going through going, Mariota, Mariota, how are

623
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Speaker 1: they going to list him? And they list him as

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Speaker 1: a full participant, And you're thinking, Okay, that's what I

625
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: thought I saw at practice, But until they say it officially,

626
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: you know there's something more to full participation being listened.

627
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: And then right below it, you're like, ooh, Rashaun Evans

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Speaker 1: full participation, Hey buddy, how about that. That's a big development.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the first time we've seen him as

630
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: a full participant since his hamstring injury. I mean, he's

631
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: done a little bit here and there. He's worked with

632
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel, you know, on a side field and h

633
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: and you could kind of get a sense that he's

634
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: making progress. But the fact that he's now out there

635
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:22,919
Speaker 1: practicing in a full, full capacity, full participation mode, that's

636
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 1: a great sign. I mean, he's one of these guys

637
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Speaker 1: that can help change the look of the defense. He's fast,

638
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: he's strong, he's physical, uh and he's he's a natural

639
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: leader even as a rookie, just by the way he

640
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 1: carries himself. So sooner this team can get him back

641
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: the better, and to see him as a full participant

642
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: in practice, it's a great sign. It's another one of

643
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: those things he's talking about making through September. If he's

644
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: able to get back and get held Landry back at

645
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: some point in the nostile distant future, those are gonna

646
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: be two key pieces in two thousand and eighteen. Well,

647
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: and a healthy Derek Morgan too. He played fourteen snaps

648
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: set right and came karea obviously going to get work

649
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: himself into feeling more comfortable as this season goes on.

650
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: Fast Ross has got to improve. I mean, they've got

651
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: to get some pressures. Got to start this week with

652
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. But you know, you get more pieces back

653
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: in that defense, it's going to improve. Well, if you

654
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: put Landry together with a rack po Krea and Morgan,

655
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: and then you know Finch has played a little bit,

656
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: and obviously Wallace has played. But I mean, suddenly you say,

657
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,760
Speaker 1: if you've got those four working in during the course

658
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: of a game, particularly when you go to the Nickel

659
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: package and you bring in Landry to go with Morgan

660
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 1: and a rack po which you can do because Morgan

661
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: has great size, and that's one of the big parts

662
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: of his versatility is he's bigger than your average, you know,

663
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: outside linebacker that the Titans have on the roster. Well,

664
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you look pretty good, which I

665
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: think is what I'm talking about with the opportunity at

666
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 1: some point you say, boy, there are some home run

667
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,399
Speaker 1: hitters in this lineup. Where did this come from? Now,

668
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 1: didn't come from somewhere else, It just came off your

669
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: injury list, right. The injury report has been a little

670
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,240
Speaker 1: little dismal the last couple of weeks, But I think

671
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: as guys start to get healthy, you'll start to see

672
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,720
Speaker 1: that depth return that we were talking about when training

673
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: camp started, and you're like, wow, this is a good

674
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: looking team. Look at all the depth we have here.

675
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: It felt like it went away for a while because

676
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: we were trying to keep people healthy and get them

677
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: ready for the season. Now when we get that back,

678
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: you see it building back up. But let's face it too,

679
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: I mean, we can talk about and talking about the

680
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: roster is part of what we do and one of

681
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: the reasons we wanted an end seasoned podcast like this

682
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: so we could have these discussions. But listen, they got

683
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: to play better. They have got to play better than

684
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: they played in Miami. They've got to develop some flow.

685
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: This football team desperately needs all three phases working together.

686
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 1: And if you want to combine something from the preseason

687
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,399
Speaker 1: that I think is an overriding feeling, and maybe it's fair,

688
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: is that at no point did all three phases really

689
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: string it all together all at once to give you

690
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: that comfort level. And it didn't happen in Miami. They

691
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:16,760
Speaker 1: all had moments, but it wasn't all together to where

692
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,439
Speaker 1: the game started to you know, when that happens, that's

693
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: when you control the football game. The Titans never got

694
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: in control of that football game because all three phases

695
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 1: never came together in that way. I agree. I mean,

696
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 1: you can't pick out good pieces of each part of it.

697
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: I mean special teams, you know, but Karner and a

698
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: punning team did a really good job. Rod suck up

699
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: had you know a couple of field goals really well.

700
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: Darius Jennings stepped up and had a huge return. You know,

701
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: Darren baith I thought executed an onside kick pretty well.

702
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: If the dolphin guy doesn't make a good play to

703
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: get on top of it. That he did, he did well,

704
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: but then you give up one hundred and two yard

705
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: kick off return for a touchdown. Michael Butler made a

706
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: great play an end zone, but he up a deep ball.

707
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: Taywan Taylor, We've seen so much good stuff from him,

708
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: unable to make a catch. He feels like he should

709
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 1: have caught in the end zone. Marcus Mariota leaves a

710
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 1: ball to Luke Stocker short that should have been a touchdown. Uh.

711
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: Pass rush wasn't what it needs to be, so a

712
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: lot of ears to improve that. On top of the

713
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: fact that seemed like everything that could go against the Titans.

714
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: Did you know the Lanny Walker holding penalty that wiped

715
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 1: off a Derick Henry run that was questionable to hit

716
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: on Marcus Mariota that ended his game prematurely. Uh, you

717
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: know right? And Taj Sharpe touched down the Rashad on

718
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: the on the interception that would have kept the Taylor

719
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: of one uh knockout from happening. Uh. A lot of

720
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: things happened that went against the time. You gotta but

721
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: you've also got to make your own breaks and uh,

722
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 1: and you've got to do that. And by doing that,

723
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: I think that builds momentum and builds confidence. Don't you

724
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: think that's why these things we're talking about, That's why

725
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 1: Mike Rabel is refusing to get into officiating or injuries.

726
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: He's trying desperately to focus this team amy on the

727
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: things Jim's talking about. Do it, not making these mistakes

728
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: and not giving them an out, at least mentally not

729
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 1: even though he may believe all of that himself, but

730
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to give them that out. There are

731
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: things that this team can control. There are things that

732
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: they can do to change the way a game, the

733
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: outcome of a game. They just can Penalties are a

734
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: huge thing. Some of the mistakes that we've talked about,

735
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: some of the calls blah blah blah, those things happen.

736
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: There are so many mental things. There's so many things

737
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: that are within this team's control that they need to

738
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: fix before you can even talk about an official did

739
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: this or this call didn't go our way, and that

740
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: those things that you can't control, they happen in every game.

741
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: They just do. If this team can focus us on

742
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:04,399
Speaker 1: the things that they are within their power, I think

743
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: that this is a whole different ball club from what

744
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: we saw last week. Yeah, and it's funny. On Monday,

745
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: the reporters kind of went down the road of asking

746
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: about this play and this play and this play, and

747
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: it got to the point where he was done. He said, Okay, guys,

748
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: I'm tired to talk about officiating. We didn't lose this

749
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: game because of officiating. Let's talk about something else. He

750
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: doesn't even want that in the guy's head. Yesterday after practice,

751
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: he has his press conference and he always has a

752
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: spillover on Wednesday where people, what reporters can kind of

753
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 1: ask him stuff in a more casual setting, and the

754
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: William Hayes hit on Marcus Mariota came up, and he

755
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: mentioned that he heard back from the league that that

756
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: play should have been penalized, that they want to see

757
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: that called moving forward instead of getting a guy. Obviously,

758
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: you put yourself in harm's away when you're a quarterback,

759
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 1: you're executing a fake, but there's a line there that

760
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: I think the officials have to watch and make sure

761
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: a guy doesn't cross it. So while Frabel gave that

762
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: up that it should have been a penalty, and then

763
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: some questions started following there, you could tell he almost

764
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: regretted saying it because it was taking it down that

765
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: road to blaming this or blaming that, and then he

766
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 1: was done with talking about officiating again. So while he's

767
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: been honest and forthcoming on a lot of things aside

768
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 1: from injuries, he doesn't want to lead his team down

769
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,479
Speaker 1: a path of making excuses and looking for an out,

770
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,399
Speaker 1: as you said, because I think that's where you get

771
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 1: into the woe is me, and that's where you start

772
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,479
Speaker 1: making excuses, and that's where you take the focus off

773
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: of what should be making yourself better. Talking about the

774
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 1: challenge of playing the Texans, my belief is for this team,

775
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:51,360
Speaker 1: that challenge begins with Deshaun Watson. And I had a

776
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,280
Speaker 1: chance to visit with Titans linebacker jay On Brown yesterday

777
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: and I asked him, what is the extra challenge of

778
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: going against this second year quarterback Climpson Deshaun Watson. He's

779
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: very mobile quarterback, has a very good arm and extends

780
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: to play. So I have to limit limit that and

781
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: contain contain the big plays that he's able to create.

782
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 1: Might be a similar answer, but I'm gonna ask you

783
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 1: a little different way. And that is what separates Deshaun

784
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: Watson from other mobile quarterbacks. He's he's very explosive. He

785
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: has the option to run. He when he scrambles, his

786
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: eyes still down the field to make a big play,

787
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 1: and then if it's not there, he can take off

788
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: and make it, make it happen with his legs. So

789
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: he's very, very mobile and uh and very smart. QB.

790
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 1: Does it help you that you have already played against

791
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,800
Speaker 1: him last year? It helps to know what he's about

792
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: and uh to see see at firsthand. But it's a

793
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,240
Speaker 1: new year. He's probably's grown more comfortable with his offense

794
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 1: and and knows himself better, as I say, as a player.

795
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: So I just got to go out there and execute.

796
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,320
Speaker 1: Jed Brown talking with us in the locker room yesterday,

797
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: Mike Keith again with the Bob Barker microphone. Can we

798
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: not get you a mic? From twenty eighteen? Not in

799
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: charge of the microphones. I just they hand me something

800
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: and I'm there to talk to jayon Brent. That's the

801
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: whole thing. I'm going to talk to someone about this

802
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: out of control you talked to This is not okay.

803
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: But here here's the thing. How about talking to somebody

804
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 1: about stopping Deshaun Watson. Don't want to see him put

805
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: up fifty seven again? Yeah, no, thank you. That was

806
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: ugly last year through for four ran for another. That

807
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,879
Speaker 1: was kind of his coming out party, even though maybe

808
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 1: the week before he kind of gave glimpses of what

809
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: was to come. Uh, he was not as good this

810
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: past Sunday in New England. Uh, you know again referring

811
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: back to John McClean, just like we referred to Armando

812
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: so much last year on the last week on the

813
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: telecast or on the podcast. That's to say, leading up

814
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins game, John McClean said, I think, in

815
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: his words, he was terrible on Sunday, at least at

816
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: the start. He was rusty, didn't look comfortable. Offensive line

817
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: gave him some trouble in the first half where he

818
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: just didn't have great protection. Felt like he got a

819
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: little bit better in the second half. It said he

820
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: was not the same guy that we saw in Houston

821
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: last year. Now, that's expected because he wasn't able to

822
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 1: do everything leading up to this season like he was

823
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: able to last year before the Titans faced him. He

824
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 1: didn't get to have the full preseason and all the

825
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: reps and didn't have you know, didn't have the readiness

826
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: that he did a year ago. So he's eventually going

827
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:37,760
Speaker 1: to settle in and look more like he did last

828
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: October one. You just hope it doesn't happen this Sunday.

829
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,839
Speaker 1: You know what did get better as the game went

830
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 1: along for the Texans though, That jumped out to me,

831
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,839
Speaker 1: and Watson got better. Their defensive line got better, Yes,

832
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 1: their defensive line got stronger, and in the second half

833
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: they harassed Tom Brady, didn't give up a touchdown. Looked

834
00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 1: like Watt was rounding back into form. This DJ Reader

835
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,399
Speaker 1: who plays in the middle. They list him at three

836
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 1: hundred and forty seven pounds. It's a big dude. So

837
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 1: then they've got Covington, They've got Carlos Watkins, who's another

838
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: good defensive lineman from Clemson, Jadevian Clowney, Zack Cunningham from

839
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt who's turned out to be a really good player.

840
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:21,320
Speaker 1: Bernard Rick McKinney, their middle linebacker who weighs two sixty,

841
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: Merciless who's two sixty, Dylan Cole who's two forty, and

842
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: then Brennan Scarlett who's two sixty three. That front seven

843
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,879
Speaker 1: is huge. Reader had a couple of sacks. I think

844
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 1: he was credited with a couple of sacks. What's not happy?

845
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 1: I understand he thinks he should have gotten one of them. Yeah,

846
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 1: and it's scary really when those guys are a relatively

847
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 1: quiet coming into a game, because you know they're they're

848
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,839
Speaker 1: going to be motivated to do more and to make

849
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: more of an impact. So it's a tough defense. And

850
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,279
Speaker 1: we've talked about the potential challenges going up against that

851
00:45:55,360 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: tough defense with some you know, with some backup offensive lineman.

852
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: So Titans are gonna have to be on top of

853
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: their game. Guys are gonna have to They have to

854
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:08,439
Speaker 1: be able to run the ball on this team, Run

855
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: it straight at him, take those guys out of the

856
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 1: game as much as you can from pass rushing perspective

857
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: and uh and try to play with a lead. The

858
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: last thing he'll do is fall behind. These guys. Feel

859
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: like you got to throw with the catch up and

860
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: then have those guys pinning their ears back and coming

861
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: after you, especially if they're starting to get into a

862
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: groove and they're getting into well a flow. And let's

863
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,280
Speaker 1: face it, it always seems like JJ Watt always finds

864
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 1: his groove every time he plays the Titans. Likes playing

865
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: against the Titans too much. Yeah, So let me throw

866
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 1: this at you to wrap up our show. Titans who

867
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: coached for Houston. Mike Rabel, Matt Lafleur was there in

868
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,760
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine. Shane Bowen,

869
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: the outside linebacker coach. Pat O'Hara was a quarterback coach,

870
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 1: so three of the four were on the staff last year.

871
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: Titans who played for Houston Ben Jones obviously did Kendrick Lewis,

872
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,360
Speaker 1: who's out right now, but he played for him for

873
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 1: a period of time. And the Titan who normally plays

874
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: his best football against the Texans is Jirell Casey seventy

875
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:14,280
Speaker 1: eight career tackles in five sacks. Another one who plays

876
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: well is a Houston native by the name of Brian A. Rackpoy.

877
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,280
Speaker 1: So you have all these tie ends, and we certainly

878
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:24,240
Speaker 1: know the long history that this franchise used to be there,

879
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: and you know there is there is certainly a bit

880
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:29,959
Speaker 1: of a rivalry there that has developed over seventeen years.

881
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: Does anybody have an advantage of knowing or having the

882
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: connection going in or in your opinion, is it even well?

883
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: Game tape tells you so much. And you know, Mike

884
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 1: Vrabels asked that yesterday about familiarity and how much it helps,

885
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: And it helps you knowing what certain guys can do,

886
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:51,400
Speaker 1: where areas that you can attack. He obviously knows. You

887
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:54,919
Speaker 1: know Bill O'Brien's thinking, I mean, you're going to get

888
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: some type of an advantage based on the knowledge that

889
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 1: picked up while you're there. With that said, and it's

890
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: just like last week when we were talking about Luke

891
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 1: Falk and how much he can help the Dolphins lead

892
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: into a game because he's got a little bit of

893
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: knowledge on what's happening inside of this building. You still

894
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: got to blind up and block J. J. Watt and

895
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: you still got to use good technique to stop DeAndre Hopkins.

896
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what certain guys can do. You

897
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:26,400
Speaker 1: can watch tape, you know, from starting now non stop

898
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: all the way to Sunday it's still not going to

899
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: keep you from stopping them on Sunday. So all that

900
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: stuff factors in, But it's a matter of beating the

901
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 1: guy in front of you. It's a matter of making

902
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: your own breaks. It's a matter of not making mistakes,

903
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 1: and that's how you end up winning these games. And

904
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: if you don't do that, you get beat fifty seven

905
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: to fourteen. I think it's even I think there are

906
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: so many unknowns. I mean, Mike Rabel's in a different

907
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: position than he was in Houston, and we have such

908
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: a different team. They have a really different team. So

909
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: I think, as Jim was saying, you know the big guys,

910
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: you know what you need to do when you get

911
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: in there. You know the kind of key players, and

912
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,879
Speaker 1: they know our key players. But in terms of all

913
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 1: the untangibles and all the what isn't it untangibles? Intangient?

914
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,919
Speaker 1: Oh goodness, gracious, any more coffee? Okay, anyway, in terms

915
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 1: of all of them, they have created a word, the untangible. Yes,

916
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the title of my next book, good

917
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 1: untangible good. In terms of credit early, I gave you

918
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:32,760
Speaker 1: credit early, so I had to take the shot. I'm sorry,

919
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:37,399
Speaker 1: your microphone you've yes, you did. In terms of all

920
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: the other thing, intangibles, the other things, it's uh, I

921
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: think it's a wash. I don't think one team has

922
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: an advantage over the other. I think if there is

923
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: an advantage, it's to Vrabel because he knows their personnel.

924
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: I think that's the that's the advantage. How much is that?

925
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 1: I mean you could you know, you're supposed to walk

926
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 1: in knowing the answers to the test anyway, but you

927
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: don't know what the questions are going to be, So

928
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:08,359
Speaker 1: how can you figure it out right? Right? I you know,

929
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 1: if there is an advantage, he does know that. I

930
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: think Bill O'Brien is a really super football coach. And

931
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,840
Speaker 1: I think Bill O'Brien running their offense and Romeo Cornell

932
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:20,919
Speaker 1: running their defense, it is very, very formidable, no doubt.

933
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: I mean it's a it's a good team. And you know,

934
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 1: a lot of people, even though the Jaguars won this

935
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:29,320
Speaker 1: division last year and the Titans went to the playoffs,

936
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 1: a lot of people picked the Texans to win this

937
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 1: division with Deshaun Watson coming back. So this is a

938
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: big game. I mean, again, not a must win, but uh,

939
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:40,840
Speaker 1: you know, for one of these two teams to fall,

940
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 1: oh and two you're digging yourself out of a hole

941
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:46,319
Speaker 1: at that point. So both these teams needed. Texans coming

942
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:48,359
Speaker 1: off a loss to Patriots, Titans coming off a loss

943
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins. So I expect a hotly contested game

944
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: at Nissan Staveen say, it's a division game at home.

945
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're the Titans, you went five and

946
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: one in the division last year. It's gonna be hard

947
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 1: to go five and one this year, so you better

948
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 1: win your home games. Yep, agreed. That's one of those untangibles.

949
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: I really like that. I think you should just start

950
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:14,840
Speaker 1: saying words like that, just like we're already noticed. No,

951
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: just like we're all supposed to know. Yeah, that's that's

952
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:22,319
Speaker 1: just awesome. What a mess, I know. I'm sorry. All right,

953
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: let's talk about what do you have coming up for

954
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 1: people at Titans online dot Com. Just posted behind Enemy Lines? Uh,

955
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: to miss the Michael Pruett story that's coming up. So

956
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 1: that's with John McLean the behind Enemy that's correct. Okay,

957
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 1: Obviously we have updated practice information today. We talked to

958
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: Dean Peace, talk to Mott Lafulo. After practice. I think

959
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: something come out that I'm hoping to talk to a

960
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: Sean Evans in the locker room today and uh, you know,

961
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:48,880
Speaker 1: to kind of get how he feels coming off of

962
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: a practice that he went was a full participant for

963
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: uh Well, round out the week obviously, still got six

964
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: things to wash to come up this week, got the

965
00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 1: mailback for Sunday coming up. Got an another big pieces

966
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: running tomorrow that I don't know if I can say

967
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 1: what it is yet, but be a lot of information

968
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 1: certainly moving forward. Titans Online, Amy Wells, what do you

969
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: have coming up? Oh gosh, we'll have Titans today. Little

970
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 1: news that comes out roughly around four o'clock is yep,

971
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: Central time, four o'clock Central time generally, um, but lots

972
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: of good information in there. That's exciting. I'm going to

973
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 1: taste food at the stadium with our new concessionaire today. Yeah,

974
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:33,399
Speaker 1: big event for me, the concessionai at Nissan Stadium. There's

975
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: going to be new menu items when you come out

976
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: to Nissan Stadium on Sunday and I get to taste

977
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: them ahead of time. So I'm going to go do that.

978
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: And there will be a little story on Titans online

979
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 1: dot com and a feature for Titans All Access. Absolutely

980
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: that's kind of good, Calmer. You passed on eating Mike

981
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: vrabel sandwich, and now you're being rewarded. Well, that's a

982
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 1: fair point. Is it's one of those untangible stadium food

983
00:52:57,080 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: hashtag untangible. If she'd eat Mike Vrabel saying which she

984
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't be in a position to head over for

985
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 1: the food testing today. She did. She did a good job.

986
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 1: She did an amazing job without food, especially because I

987
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:12,280
Speaker 1: mean it was you know, there was some heavy lifting

988
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:14,359
Speaker 1: down there. It was a day, yes, and you went

989
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: into rain and sun and wind, and I mean I

990
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 1: could tell you anything about the weather now. I mean

991
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: they should send me down to the Carolinas to help

992
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 1: him out, to take over on the weather, to watch

993
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,879
Speaker 1: the radar. Well, here's what you're doing tonight though, six

994
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 1: o'clock Titans tonight absolutely brought brought to you by Yeeha Brewery.

995
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:38,759
Speaker 1: Ye yeeha. Nice. I like how you did that. Keith,

996
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: who would not do the yee hauling. Richard Matthews refused

997
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Speaker 1: to yeeha. The guest tonight is Darius Jennings Hill. Yeh,

998
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Speaker 1: we'll see if he ye haas Keith Bullock will be

999
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 1: here and that's six to seven Central Time on Titans

1000
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 1: Radio in Nashville. Of course that's one oh four five

1001
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 1: the zone. So are we complete and we feel like

1002
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 1: we've at all we can say, We've got to go

1003
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: get ready for practice and for food tasting. For the

1004
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: executive producer of the OTP Amy Wells, and for the

1005
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:10,799
Speaker 1: great Jim White, I'm my key, thanks for being with

1006
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Speaker 1: us for the O T T