WEBVTT - The OTP | Preview of Week 8 at Texans 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.000 This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:15.760 Get the home field advantage with healthcare coverage from Farm 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:20.560 Bureau Health Plans. They've been protecting Tennesseeans for seventy five 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.600 years with Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith on a late 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.280 Thursday afternoon Houston week. I think people like it, and 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:30.920 we do the little injury report right off the top. Yeah, 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:32.960 I think you should start with that because this one's 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:36.680 this one's an interesting one, Okay. So for Houston, defensive 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:40.360 lineman MALIEK. Collins has not practiced the last two days 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:44.279 with a chest injury. Wide receiver Nico Collins, who has 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.360 eighteen catches for three hundred and five yards, has not 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.080 practiced either of the last two days with a groin injury. 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:55.960 Brandon Cooks didn't practice yesterday and Jerry Hughes didn't practice 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.440 yesterday as they were getting rest. They were back today. 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.760 And then aj Can, an offensive lineman who used to 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.760 play for Jacksonville now plays for Houston, out today with 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:09.800 an illness. Justin McCrae, offensive lineman hand injury, has been 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:13.160 limited the last two days. Rookie offensive lineman Kenyon Green 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.960 shoulder injury back to practice today. So that's Houston. They're 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.160 pretty healthy, yep. The Titans, on the other hand, Tory 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.119 Carter neck injury has not practiced either of the last 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:27.880 two days. Jeffrey Simmons ankle injury has not practiced either 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.680 of the last two days. Right Win seen him no. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.320 Ryan Tannehill ankle did not practice on Wednesday. Was a 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:40.119 limited participant today. It's not bad, not bad. Rashad Weaver 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.720 back injury has not practiced either of the last two days. 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:48.560 Aaron Brewer toe injury limited yesterday, practiced today. Dylan Cole 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:54.120 linebacker hamstring injury limited yesterday, practiced today. Morgan Cox long 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:58.840 snapper ankle injury limited yesterday, practiced today. Nate Davis, who's 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.720 missed the last two games the foot injury limited each 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:05.960 of the last two days. Bud Dupree hamstring injury limited yesterday, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:11.200 full participant today. Ben Jones knee injury limited yesterday, Full 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:16.400 participant today. David Long groin limited limited, so he's been 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:20.200 limited yes Zack Cunningham elbow injury, missed the last three games. 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.480 He has fully practiced each of the last two days, 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.160 and special teams Ace Joe Jones knee injury has fully 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.920 participated the last two days, so there's a lot to 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.720 digest and there's a lot more to come. And the 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:38.000 question now that is on everyone's lips, is Ryan Tannehill 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.960 going to play? Right? I think the legitimate answer is 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.480 we don't know. I think that's the only answer you 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.600 can give because we don't know. Thank you for that. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:47.880 Thank you for that reinforcement. I was trying to help 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.160 you out. You really did. Yeah. I like how you 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.399 did that. You're welcome. The thing about Tannehill which will 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.519 be so confusing is he does not have to practice 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.560 to play. So they may go out tomorrow and he 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.640 may be limited again, and they will probably list him 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:08.000 as questionable, and he literally will be questionable because he 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.799 doesn't have to. Most guys, if they don't do much 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.640 during the course of the week, are not going to play. 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:16.240 Ryan Tannehill is thirty four years old and he started 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.680 one hundred and forty two NFL games. He's done this before. 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.560 He's done this before. But what it does mean it's 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.880 a lot of work from a leak Willis, and I 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.880 think it comes at a great time in his development 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.800 to have this kind of work and this kind of 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:37.120 pressure Yeah, it definitely gives him the opportunity to have 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.200 a bit of an adjustment in mindset because, yes, every 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.760 week you prepare as if you will be the starter, absolutely, 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.080 but the truth is you really don't. If you're not 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.600 taking any first team reps, right, you're not preparing to 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:54.720 be the starter. Right In reality, there is an entirely 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.880 different kind of workload and function that comes along with 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:03.200 getting ready to be the guy playing the game on Sunday. 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.560 He's working with the ones, like you said, you know, 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.640 he is taking those reps. He's getting that experience. So 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.520 even in the event that Ryan Tannehill does end up 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:16.640 playing on Sunday, what an opportunity for Malik to have 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.520 this week of preparation to understand what it's like to 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.560 be in that role, to be the guy, to be 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.800 the guy. I think it's good for him to have 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:30.240 experienced that experience, the workload mentally, to experience what that 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:34.640 requires in terms of how he's processing information, how he's studying. 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.680 It's a great chance for him to learn. So no 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.280 matter who is starting on Sunday, I think that it's 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:46.520 a great opportunity for him. And after being as frustrated 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:50.039 as I know, he was with himself after the matchup 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.839 against the Colts and his performance in that game. I 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.240 should say, I think this is a great opportunity for 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.359 him to really turn the page and move on to 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.200 the next game. Well, he's been with the organization for 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:04.640 almost six months. He did all the things in May 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.680 and June and then training camp, and he started all 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:11.800 three preseason games. But then when September came, he became 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.680 the show team quarterback. And the show team quarterback, for 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.760 those of you who don't know, is the guy who 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.880 runs the scout team. He's running the other team's plays, 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.600 and Vrabels said it very clearly that they had to 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.120 get him used to the fact that you're running the 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.640 other team's plays with the intent of beating the first 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.520 team defense. At first, I think he was just running 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.039 the plays and he's like chucking it all over the 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.080 yard and thinking that it doesn't really matter because this 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.880 doesn't count or whatever. It all counts, right, and so 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.200 he has really stepped it up. Now it really counts. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.800 He's handing off to Derrick Henry. I don't know that 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.800 he's ever handed off to Derrick Henry. Maybe he hasn't 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:58.000 a drill. Yeah, but he's on the field with the 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:02.240 regular tight ends and the starting wide receivers and it's 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.119 like whoa. And so if a practice doesn't go, well, 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.800 that's on him because he's the guy who dictates the 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:13.720 offensive practice tempo. I think it certainly none of us 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.320 want Ryan Tannehill to be hurt, but I think for 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.120 him to get the opportunity to be the guy in 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:22.440 terms of preparation and to see what that's all about, 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.640 I think that's a good thing. Yeah, after six months, Yeah, 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:31.760 it's coming at a good time in his development development. Sure, well, 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.080 put all right, so we'll see. We don't know, No, 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.520 we don't know about Jeff Simmons, be sure, don't. And 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.360 that one makes you nervous. Yeah, he got rolled up 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.880 pretty tight there in the ball game. That that hand 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.200 is smart. Yeah, he didn't look like he was feeling good. 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.000 It didn't look like it was a comfortable experience for him. 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.640 And I mean, we don't know anything. We're not his doctors. 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.200 I haven't even seen him, so I have no idea. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.560 But it's definitely something to watch because man, he is 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.560 such a big part of this Titans defense. He's been 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.440 playing so well. He's another one though, he doesn't have 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.200 to practice. No, he doesn't. He gets to Saturday and 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.760 says I can go, or gets to even Sunday morning 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.600 and says I can go. The decision though, with him, 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.720 comes down to how many snaps can he play? Because 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.400 you can only keep up forty eight guys, You're probably 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:24.040 only going to keep up five defensive linemen, maybe six. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.920 But you lose a guy after eight or nine snaps, 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.720 that's tough, and then potentially you've lost him for two 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.000 to three more weeks with the bye being over with, 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.800 If there's any question, are you smarter sitting him for 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.920 one game and then hopefully getting him back against Kansas 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:47.640 City Not because you think Houston is inferior to Kansas City, 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.320 but because you're saying, for the long term of this, 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.200 we don't want this to linger, and we don't want 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.960 to be in this situation. That is an interesting point 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.920 that you make about the bye week being over. Everyone 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.600 kind of looks to the bye as okay, if we 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.920 can just get there. You get a minute to breathe, 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:06.880 you get a minute to get people healthy. Now that 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:11.120 this has past, your next real opportunity is after the 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.960 Green Bay game, when you get a couple extra days, Right, 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:19.240 So that's your next kind of area of relief, your 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.560 next place to take a want to lose Big Jeff 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.240 for a month, No, I don't want to lose Big 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.920 Jeff for five minutes. I understand, but I'm saying, right 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.040 if you if you told me you've got to go 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.760 try to win a game without him, or you're you're 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.600 fearful that you may lose him for a longer period 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.160 of time, I just think you you air on the 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:43.720 side of caution, especially understanding he's gonna want to play. Yes, Yeah, 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.080 he's a guy that you're gonna have to say no. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.960 You're gonna have to say no as opposed to wetting him. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:54.240 I mean, he's a tough cookie man. So a lot 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:58.360 of connections between the Titans and the Texans, but most 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.760 of those connections are on the Titans side, Like, for example, 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:06.840 Texans from the state of Tennessee. One Jalen Reeves Mayben 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.079 from Clarksville play at the University of Tennessee. He's a 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:13.040 backup linebacker, came over from Detroit Titans from the state 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:17.360 of Texas. I'm sure there's tons, Ryan Tannehill, Big Spring, 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:24.960 lo Raven Clark, Bryan Salina, Jordan Rouse, Cleveland, Kevin Strong, Dallas, 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:30.600 Aaron Brewer, Denton, Mario Edwards, Junior Houston, Joshua klou Klein, 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:35.800 Randy Bullock, Nakodochus, Josh Thompson the new defensive back. This 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.559 comes from the Texans release. By the way, I'll give 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.240 them credit. So you have nine Titans are from the 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.520 state of Texas, one Texan who's from the state of Tennessee. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:49.160 Coaching connections. There's nobody on the Texans staff who has 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:54.000 a Titans connection. Nobody, seriously, none surprising on the Titans staff. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:58.120 Head coach Mike Vrabel was there from twenty fourteen through seventeen. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:03.600 Linebacker coach King did two long stints there before joining 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.640 the Titans this season. Passing game coordinator Tim Kelly was 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.560 there from two fourteen through twenty twenty one and is 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.320 now in the Titans staff. Titans secondary coach Anthony Midget 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.440 worked with the Texans twenty fourteen through seventeen and then 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.600 eighteen and nineteen. Quarterback coach Pat O'Hara was with the 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:27.520 Texans twenty fifteen through seventeen. Defensive coordinator Shane Bowen coached 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.800 with the Texans as a defensive assistant in twenty sixteen 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.199 and seventeen. So we've got a few. Oh and it 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:37.880 gets better. Former Titans on the Texans roster. Can you 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:44.360 name the guy former Titan on the Texans roster? Hold, okay, 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.600 just tell me, because we don't have all this king 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:52.600 former Texans on the Titans. Ben Jones, DeMarcus Walker, Dontrelle Hilliard, 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:58.440 Dylan Cole, Lonnie Johnson, Randy Bullock, Terrence Mitchell. So there 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.400 is a lot of Texans influences on the Titans. There's 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.840 very little Titans influence on the Texans. I thought it 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.640 was really odd. That's very interesting. Usually it goes a 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.240 little bit more both ways. The one that doesn't surprise 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:16.160 me at all is all the Titans from Texas because 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.200 that's I mean, Texas is such a football state. You 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.080 always have a state too. Well it's a big state, 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.760 but it's a big football state, and so you have 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.880 all kinds of players always coming out of Texas. Half 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.679 your rosters always Texas, guys. That's just the way the 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:35.000 world works. Texas in Florida and Georgia, California. Yeah, like 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.080 you know, the big states where you're gonna get most 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.880 of your rosters, so that doesn't surprise me. The coaching 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.080 one is kind of hilarious, like that's a little comical 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.679 how many guys that we have from there. But it's 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.680 all about coaching trees and where you've made those connections 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.640 and where paths of crossed. It's very interesting. All roads 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.920 lead to Houston, all roads lead from Houston to Nashville 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.240 in this case, right, that's true. By the way, So 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.800 the best Texans running back of all time played at 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.520 the University of Tennessee, but he was not a starter 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.360 at the end of his career at Tennessee. You know 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:12.600 who I'm talking about, Arian Foster. Yes. The funny thing 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.360 is I believe the Texans now have the best running 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.120 back that they have had since Arian Foster in the 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.800 rookie Damian Piers. I would agree with that. Damian Pierce 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.400 is really a wacky story because he goes to Florida 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:32.960 and in his career at Florida he never carries more 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:37.600 than one hundred six times in a season. Ironically, through 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:41.959 six games for the Texans, He's already carried exactly one 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:46.360 hundred and six times. That's crazy, But they never used 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.920 him that much at Florida. He became a viral sensation 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.720 when he scored a touchdown against Florida State with his 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.880 helmet off. He was breaking tackles. If you ever look 0:12:55.960 --> 0:13:01.199 that up. Look up Damian Pierce, no helmet versus Florida State, 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.280 and I mean it's impressive. The truth is, though it 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.760 didn't count because he didn't have his helmet on it. 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.680 At the moment you lose your helmet in the college game, 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:11.719 the play is blown dead. So I think it was 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:15.080 blown dead at the two or three yard line. That's disappointing, 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.880 but it was crazy fun to watch. I'm sure it was. 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:19.959 Now here's what's really funny. So I'm at the Senior 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:26.480 Bowl and they're doing the running backs against pass rushers 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:32.920 pass protection drill. This is comical normally because a most 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:36.800 of these backs have never blocked anybody in their life. Okay, 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.600 so they don't know what they're doing. B A lot 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:43.200 of the backs today are small and there there. You 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:47.640 don't have those bow Jackson looking guys anymore, who are 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.280 six one six two two thirty two forty. I mean 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:54.880 most of the dudes are five eight one seventy five net. 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.000 They're bigger than that, but they're you know, they're they're 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.720 two hundred pounds maybe maybe on a good day, and 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.680 so they don't know how to block anybody. They're not 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.240 very big, and then they have these dudes running straight 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.280 at them and they're like, you could just see him 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.319 freak out. They don't know what to do. But this 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.599 is important for the scouts to see because this is 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.559 the biggest reason that running backs don't play as rookies. 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.840 They may get the quarterback killed right because they don't 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.480 know which way to go in pass pro. A lot 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.040 of times, they don't know who to pick up because 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.920 they've never been involved in this and they don't know 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.400 how to do it right. So what you're looking for 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.240 is you're looking for a guy who shows some traits. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.200 It's like, okay, we may be able to teach him. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.480 Damian Pierce gets in this drill and somebody runs at 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.760 him and he hit this guy so hard it was 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:47.280 just absolutely brutal. Really and I looked at my sheet 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.880 and I said, who is that guy? What's Damian Pierce 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.000 from Florida? And all of a sudden, all I can 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:56.040 think about is Marshawn Lynch. Because there's some backs who 0:14:56.080 --> 0:15:01.160 are just really mean. I mean, they're just violent people. Yeah, 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.520 they play running back so they can hit you first, 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.600 and that's what this guy does. And he's unbelievably physical. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.040 He's five ten two eighteen. He will remind you of 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.960 a guy who played at the University of Tennessee and 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.080 then played for the Titans for a while named Travis 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.120 Henry fifteen sixteen years ago. He I mean, he is 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:26.040 violently physical. So they've got a back. And what's interesting 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.600 with this team is, so I was with Lovey Smith 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.640 at Tennessee. I know Lovey Smith. I know what he's 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.480 all about. He was a secondary coach at that time. 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.280 But philosophically, what he wants to do is he wants 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.040 to play defense. He's gonna limit you from big plays, 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.360 and he's gonna try to make a kick field goals. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.240 And then on offense, he's gonna want to run the ball, 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.520 do some play action things and have his quarterback not 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.680 take many hits. And he's got Davis Mills, who I 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.640 think it's a good quarterback. Davis Mills doesn't run. His 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.440 longest career run is eleven yards against the Titans this 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:00.840 year on January ninth, So it is a run. No, 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.200 he's just a big guy who stands in the pocket 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.360 and throws it. He was a number one quarterback in 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.520 America coming out of high school. He's from Atlanta and 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.120 he ends up at Stanford. He dees Olcate Stanford, but 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.120 the you know, the pandemic hits and all this stuff happens, 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.200 and he'd have been the first quarterback taken easily had 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.800 he come back for one more year at Stanford. Yeah, 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.760 you're probably right. Well, I think he goes number one 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.400 overall in this past draft, so they've probably got a 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.200 little something now. They got a back, they got Brandon Cooks, 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.080 they got Nico Collins. I don't know if he's gonna 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.960 play or not, but you know, they've got a few dudes, 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.480 and then they play Lovey's defense. They've been in every game, 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:41.200 but with a running back, they now have a chance. Yeah, 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:45.880 they have. They're starting to get the pieces, and once 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.560 you get the pieces, you can start to form a foundation. 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.160 And it sounds like that's kind of where they are 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:55.040 right now. They've got that foundation. They've been in close games, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.160 They've got a lot of fight to them. They show 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.400 up for all four quarters. That's most of it. Like, 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.680 that's most of the recipe right there. It's just about 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.520 pulling it together. Now, it's just getting it all together 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.120 and putting it over the top. And we hope they 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.120 do that at some point down the road. Not against us. 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.480 Now they're in the division, so we hope they never 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.439 do well. I mean, good on you. You'll win a 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.160 couple of games, but not to get inst us. They 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.120 probably will. Yeah, you're right, they will do that at 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.360 some point. Yes, they will, because they have the pieces. 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:26.639 By the way, need to mention right now during the 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.720 OTP this specially for the ot people. Duncan has a 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.760 new rewards program. It's known as Duncan Rewards. Very good, 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:39.000 well done, we're on the OTP. I'm good with clever name, 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.280 you're good with clever. Duncan rewards are rewards you can 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.600 really use, No really save them, stack them, use them 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.120 how you want. Use your points to get a donut, 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.879 maybe to get yourself out of some sort of trouble. Okay, 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.439 I always say, like I do with Ashley Farrell, I 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.120 bribe her with pumpkin donuts. Yeah it works every time. Ashley. 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.840 Thanks for getting here three hours before me to set 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:02.760 up the TV shoe. Yep, here's a donut. Use your 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.400 points to get a free coffee a token of appreciation 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.239 for your friends. That's nice. Makes you more popular when 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.880 you walk in with coffee, ice, Latte's, breakfast, sandwiches, whatever. 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.840 You can redeem your points for the Duncan that keeps 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:19.280 you running. Joined today on the Duncan app. Start saving 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.919 and stacking your way to free Duncan Duncan Rewards. I 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.040 have the app, I order on the app, I walk in, 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:29.680 My order is ready. I enjoy visiting with the folks there. 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.720 They're nice people that always do my coffee correctly, which 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.200 I'm so appreciative of. That is rather nice. And they're 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.439 always excited about the Titans. Yes, always very fired up 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:42.160 about the Titans. Checking to see how many rewards points 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.560 I have six hundred and seventeen right now. I checked 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.280 this morning. Yes, well that sounds like a donut for 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.159 all of us. I think you get a donut for 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.600 one hundred and fifty points, so I theoretically could get 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.360 four donuts. There's four people in this room. But maybe 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.000 I don't want to donut. Maybe I want a breakfast sandwich. Well, 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.120 you could get a breakfast sandwich. I don't I would 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.399 rather have a donut. Maybe I'm doing it for me, 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.720 all right. So as we move through this edition of 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:08.800 the OTP, there a couple more things we have to do. 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.040 The number one thing that I need to do is 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.520 reminds you that Sunday's game is three oh five Central time. 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.920 That's important. So wherever the ot people are, Sunday's game 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.520 is three h five, Amy Wells rhet Brian Titans countdown 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:26.280 at two o'clock Central Time on your favorite Titans radio station. 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:28.840 They're exactly fifty of them as a matter of fact. 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:33.280 Five Oh, I like that. Yes, we appreciate all. We 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:38.119 have great stations in great markets, supported far and wide, 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:42.360 all of the state of Tennessee, western Kentucky, and a 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:46.600 good bit of Alabama. Really Birmingham, North is where we 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:50.200 have the majority of our radio stations, but all the 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:54.119 way to Scottsboro, Alabama. Wow, yes, that's pretty good. I 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.360 love it hang out in Scottsboro, Alabama sometimes. So the 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:00.119 neatest thing about Scottsboro, Alabama, and I haven't been in 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:06.280 a couple of years, but they have the lost luggage outlet. 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:11.200 What is that? So everybody who's lost luggage. Janette Morley 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.520 is nodding it. So they have a warehouse in Scottsboro, Alabama, 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:19.320 and it is filled with things that people have left 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:22.920 at the airport or on a plane or just never claimed. 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:27.679 So you can find clothes, you can find shoes, you 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:31.760 can find sporting goods, equipment, you can I mean, it's unbelievable. 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.000 It's like the Island of Misfit Toys. It was so 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:38.439 big they opened a second location. So Larry Stone and 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.400 I went on a trip to Scottsborough once and it's 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.359 one of the most fascinating things. Scottsboro is a great town. 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:48.280 It's the hometown of Bear Bryant's favorite player when he 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:52.000 was a coach in Alabama, quarterback named Pat Trammell. So 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:54.280 that's just a little piece. It's right sort of the 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:59.040 north eastern part of Alabama. It's not far from Chattanooga, Okay, 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:03.400 it's right below South Pittsburgh, Whitwool and in that area. 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:05.639 I want to go to this, but the ot people 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.520 need to know if you want to visit a cool place, 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:12.560 and I assume it's still there. Then the Lost Luggage Outlet, 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:16.160 I can't remember the specific name, but the Lost Luggage 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.639 Outlet in Scottsboro, Alabama, is one of the most fascinating 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:23.000 places I've ever been. Well, you can purchase this stuff. Absolutely, 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:26.119 they have some sort of agreement with the airlines and 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:29.080 maybe it's phenomenal. We were there for an hour and 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:32.840 a half. Oh my gosh, here it is on the interwebs. 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:36.560 What is the actual name of it, Unclaimed baggage. Unclaimed 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:40.520 Baggage Scottsboro, Alabama. Oh my gosh, buys orphaned bags and 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:42.439 gives them a second line. That's right. It is the 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:46.359 Island of Misfit Toys. Mike. Okay, so we've told a 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:49.040 little story there. Uncle Mike's given you another tip. Here 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:51.359 on the OTP, Uncle Mike is sending me on a 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:54.800 shopping adventure. You would, knowing you as long as I've 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:57.919 known you, you would have so much fun just seeing 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:02.800 what was there. You won't believe what's there? Yeah, some 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.160 of it I can't and won't mention, But I mean 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:08.919 some of it's absolutely fascinating. I am fired. There you go. 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:12.359 This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:15.720 Don't get sacked by the high cost of healthcare. Make 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:18.400 Farm Bureau Health Plans your first line of protection. They've 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:22.199 been protecting Tennesseeans for seventy five years. Now everyone in 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:25.399 the room is pulling up ye blamed luggage. We have 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:28.720 moved on from this podcast and now I'm a shopping 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:31.080 I see. I always tell people all the interesting little 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:33.399 spots to go to. You do. You are one of 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:37.359 the best people to know when traveling in the Mid 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:40.679 South region. I love it because you know all the 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:43.800 little places. You know the best places to eat. Clanton, Alabama, 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:46.480 place you need to stop, what you need to see 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:49.040 on the way. Oh, be sure to stay at this 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.680 whatever I mean. Mike Keith is the man. Well, I 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:54.560 don't know. I don't know about the man, but I've 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:57.320