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Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon Houston week. I think people like it, and
Speaker 1: we do the little injury report right off the top. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you should start with that because this one's
Speaker 1: this one's an interesting one, Okay. So for Houston, defensive
Speaker 1: lineman MALIEK. Collins has not practiced the last two days
Speaker 1: with a chest injury. Wide receiver Nico Collins, who has
Speaker 1: eighteen catches for three hundred and five yards, has not
Speaker 1: practiced either of the last two days with a groin injury.
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks didn't practice yesterday and Jerry Hughes didn't practice
Speaker 1: yesterday as they were getting rest. They were back today.
Speaker 1: And then aj Can, an offensive lineman who used to
Speaker 1: play for Jacksonville now plays for Houston, out today with
Speaker 1: an illness. Justin McCrae, offensive lineman hand injury, has been
Speaker 1: limited the last two days. Rookie offensive lineman Kenyon Green
Speaker 1: shoulder injury back to practice today. So that's Houston. They're
Speaker 1: pretty healthy, yep. The Titans, on the other hand, Tory
Speaker 1: Carter neck injury has not practiced either of the last
Speaker 1: two days. Jeffrey Simmons ankle injury has not practiced either
Speaker 1: of the last two days. Right Win seen him no.
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill ankle did not practice on Wednesday. Was a
Speaker 1: limited participant today. It's not bad, not bad. Rashad Weaver
Speaker 1: back injury has not practiced either of the last two days.
Speaker 1: Aaron Brewer toe injury limited yesterday, practiced today. Dylan Cole
Speaker 1: linebacker hamstring injury limited yesterday, practiced today. Morgan Cox long
Speaker 1: snapper ankle injury limited yesterday, practiced today. Nate Davis, who's
Speaker 1: missed the last two games the foot injury limited each
Speaker 1: of the last two days. Bud Dupree hamstring injury limited yesterday,
Speaker 1: full participant today. Ben Jones knee injury limited yesterday, Full
Speaker 1: participant today. David Long groin limited limited, so he's been
Speaker 1: limited yes Zack Cunningham elbow injury, missed the last three games.
Speaker 1: He has fully practiced each of the last two days,
Speaker 1: and special teams Ace Joe Jones knee injury has fully
Speaker 1: participated the last two days, so there's a lot to
Speaker 1: digest and there's a lot more to come. And the
Speaker 1: question now that is on everyone's lips, is Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: going to play? Right? I think the legitimate answer is
Speaker 1: we don't know. I think that's the only answer you
Speaker 1: can give because we don't know. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that reinforcement. I was trying to help
Speaker 1: you out. You really did. Yeah. I like how you
Speaker 1: did that. You're welcome. The thing about Tannehill which will
Speaker 1: be so confusing is he does not have to practice
Speaker 1: to play. So they may go out tomorrow and he
Speaker 1: may be limited again, and they will probably list him
Speaker 1: as questionable, and he literally will be questionable because he
Speaker 1: doesn't have to. Most guys, if they don't do much
Speaker 1: during the course of the week, are not going to play.
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill is thirty four years old and he started
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty two NFL games. He's done this before.
Speaker 1: He's done this before. But what it does mean it's
Speaker 1: a lot of work from a leak Willis, and I
Speaker 1: think it comes at a great time in his development
Speaker 1: to have this kind of work and this kind of
Speaker 1: pressure Yeah, it definitely gives him the opportunity to have
Speaker 1: a bit of an adjustment in mindset because, yes, every
Speaker 1: week you prepare as if you will be the starter, absolutely,
Speaker 1: but the truth is you really don't. If you're not
Speaker 1: taking any first team reps, right, you're not preparing to
Speaker 1: be the starter. Right In reality, there is an entirely
Speaker 1: different kind of workload and function that comes along with
Speaker 1: getting ready to be the guy playing the game on Sunday.
Speaker 1: He's working with the ones, like you said, you know,
Speaker 1: he is taking those reps. He's getting that experience. So
Speaker 1: even in the event that Ryan Tannehill does end up
Speaker 1: playing on Sunday, what an opportunity for Malik to have
Speaker 1: this week of preparation to understand what it's like to
Speaker 1: be in that role, to be the guy, to be
Speaker 1: the guy. I think it's good for him to have
Speaker 1: experienced that experience, the workload mentally, to experience what that
Speaker 1: requires in terms of how he's processing information, how he's studying.
Speaker 1: It's a great chance for him to learn. So no
Speaker 1: matter who is starting on Sunday, I think that it's
Speaker 1: a great opportunity for him. And after being as frustrated
Speaker 1: as I know, he was with himself after the matchup
Speaker 1: against the Colts and his performance in that game. I
Speaker 1: should say, I think this is a great opportunity for
Speaker 1: him to really turn the page and move on to
Speaker 1: the next game. Well, he's been with the organization for
Speaker 1: almost six months. He did all the things in May
Speaker 1: and June and then training camp, and he started all
Speaker 1: three preseason games. But then when September came, he became
Speaker 1: the show team quarterback. And the show team quarterback, for
Speaker 1: those of you who don't know, is the guy who
Speaker 1: runs the scout team. He's running the other team's plays,
Speaker 1: and Vrabels said it very clearly that they had to
Speaker 1: get him used to the fact that you're running the
Speaker 1: other team's plays with the intent of beating the first
Speaker 1: team defense. At first, I think he was just running
Speaker 1: the plays and he's like chucking it all over the
Speaker 1: yard and thinking that it doesn't really matter because this
Speaker 1: doesn't count or whatever. It all counts, right, and so
Speaker 1: he has really stepped it up. Now it really counts.
Speaker 1: He's handing off to Derrick Henry. I don't know that
Speaker 1: he's ever handed off to Derrick Henry. Maybe he hasn't
Speaker 1: a drill. Yeah, but he's on the field with the
Speaker 1: regular tight ends and the starting wide receivers and it's
Speaker 1: like whoa. And so if a practice doesn't go, well,
Speaker 1: that's on him because he's the guy who dictates the
Speaker 1: offensive practice tempo. I think it certainly none of us
Speaker 1: want Ryan Tannehill to be hurt, but I think for
Speaker 1: him to get the opportunity to be the guy in
Speaker 1: terms of preparation and to see what that's all about,
Speaker 1: I think that's a good thing. Yeah, after six months, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's coming at a good time in his development development. Sure, well,
Speaker 1: put all right, so we'll see. We don't know, No,
Speaker 1: we don't know about Jeff Simmons, be sure, don't. And
Speaker 1: that one makes you nervous. Yeah, he got rolled up
Speaker 1: pretty tight there in the ball game. That that hand
Speaker 1: is smart. Yeah, he didn't look like he was feeling good.
Speaker 1: It didn't look like it was a comfortable experience for him.
Speaker 1: And I mean, we don't know anything. We're not his doctors.
Speaker 1: I haven't even seen him, so I have no idea.
Speaker 1: But it's definitely something to watch because man, he is
Speaker 1: such a big part of this Titans defense. He's been
Speaker 1: playing so well. He's another one though, he doesn't have
Speaker 1: to practice. No, he doesn't. He gets to Saturday and
Speaker 1: says I can go, or gets to even Sunday morning
Speaker 1: and says I can go. The decision though, with him,
Speaker 1: comes down to how many snaps can he play? Because
Speaker 1: you can only keep up forty eight guys, You're probably
Speaker 1: only going to keep up five defensive linemen, maybe six.
Speaker 1: But you lose a guy after eight or nine snaps,
Speaker 1: that's tough, and then potentially you've lost him for two
Speaker 1: to three more weeks with the bye being over with,
Speaker 1: If there's any question, are you smarter sitting him for
Speaker 1: one game and then hopefully getting him back against Kansas
Speaker 1: City Not because you think Houston is inferior to Kansas City,
Speaker 1: but because you're saying, for the long term of this,
Speaker 1: we don't want this to linger, and we don't want
Speaker 1: to be in this situation. That is an interesting point
Speaker 1: that you make about the bye week being over. Everyone
Speaker 1: kind of looks to the bye as okay, if we
Speaker 1: can just get there. You get a minute to breathe,
Speaker 1: you get a minute to get people healthy. Now that
Speaker 1: this has past, your next real opportunity is after the
Speaker 1: Green Bay game, when you get a couple extra days, Right,
Speaker 1: So that's your next kind of area of relief, your
Speaker 1: next place to take a want to lose Big Jeff
Speaker 1: for a month, No, I don't want to lose Big
Speaker 1: Jeff for five minutes. I understand, but I'm saying, right
Speaker 1: if you if you told me you've got to go
Speaker 1: try to win a game without him, or you're you're
Speaker 1: fearful that you may lose him for a longer period
Speaker 1: of time, I just think you you air on the
Speaker 1: side of caution, especially understanding he's gonna want to play. Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a guy that you're gonna have to say no.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to say no as opposed to wetting him.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a tough cookie man. So a lot
Speaker 1: of connections between the Titans and the Texans, but most
Speaker 1: of those connections are on the Titans side, Like, for example,
Speaker 1: Texans from the state of Tennessee. One Jalen Reeves Mayben
Speaker 1: from Clarksville play at the University of Tennessee. He's a
Speaker 1: backup linebacker, came over from Detroit Titans from the state
Speaker 1: of Texas. I'm sure there's tons, Ryan Tannehill, Big Spring,
Speaker 1: lo Raven Clark, Bryan Salina, Jordan Rouse, Cleveland, Kevin Strong, Dallas,
Speaker 1: Aaron Brewer, Denton, Mario Edwards, Junior Houston, Joshua klou Klein,
Speaker 1: Randy Bullock, Nakodochus, Josh Thompson the new defensive back. This
Speaker 1: comes from the Texans release. By the way, I'll give
Speaker 1: them credit. So you have nine Titans are from the
Speaker 1: state of Texas, one Texan who's from the state of Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Coaching connections. There's nobody on the Texans staff who has
Speaker 1: a Titans connection. Nobody, seriously, none surprising on the Titans staff.
Speaker 1: Head coach Mike Vrabel was there from twenty fourteen through seventeen.
Speaker 1: Linebacker coach King did two long stints there before joining
Speaker 1: the Titans this season. Passing game coordinator Tim Kelly was
Speaker 1: there from two fourteen through twenty twenty one and is
Speaker 1: now in the Titans staff. Titans secondary coach Anthony Midget
Speaker 1: worked with the Texans twenty fourteen through seventeen and then
Speaker 1: eighteen and nineteen. Quarterback coach Pat O'Hara was with the
Speaker 1: Texans twenty fifteen through seventeen. Defensive coordinator Shane Bowen coached
Speaker 1: with the Texans as a defensive assistant in twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: and seventeen. So we've got a few. Oh and it
Speaker 1: gets better. Former Titans on the Texans roster. Can you
Speaker 1: name the guy former Titan on the Texans roster? Hold, okay,
Speaker 1: just tell me, because we don't have all this king
Speaker 1: former Texans on the Titans. Ben Jones, DeMarcus Walker, Dontrelle Hilliard,
Speaker 1: Dylan Cole, Lonnie Johnson, Randy Bullock, Terrence Mitchell. So there
Speaker 1: is a lot of Texans influences on the Titans. There's
Speaker 1: very little Titans influence on the Texans. I thought it
Speaker 1: was really odd. That's very interesting. Usually it goes a
Speaker 1: little bit more both ways. The one that doesn't surprise
Speaker 1: me at all is all the Titans from Texas because
Speaker 1: that's I mean, Texas is such a football state. You
Speaker 1: always have a state too. Well it's a big state,
Speaker 1: but it's a big football state, and so you have
Speaker 1: all kinds of players always coming out of Texas. Half
Speaker 1: your rosters always Texas, guys. That's just the way the
Speaker 1: world works. Texas in Florida and Georgia, California. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: you know, the big states where you're gonna get most
Speaker 1: of your rosters, so that doesn't surprise me. The coaching
Speaker 1: one is kind of hilarious, like that's a little comical
Speaker 1: how many guys that we have from there. But it's
Speaker 1: all about coaching trees and where you've made those connections
Speaker 1: and where paths of crossed. It's very interesting. All roads
Speaker 1: lead to Houston, all roads lead from Houston to Nashville
Speaker 1: in this case, right, that's true. By the way, So
Speaker 1: the best Texans running back of all time played at
Speaker 1: the University of Tennessee, but he was not a starter
Speaker 1: at the end of his career at Tennessee. You know
Speaker 1: who I'm talking about, Arian Foster. Yes. The funny thing
Speaker 1: is I believe the Texans now have the best running
Speaker 1: back that they have had since Arian Foster in the
Speaker 1: rookie Damian Piers. I would agree with that. Damian Pierce
Speaker 1: is really a wacky story because he goes to Florida
Speaker 1: and in his career at Florida he never carries more
Speaker 1: than one hundred six times in a season. Ironically, through
Speaker 1: six games for the Texans, He's already carried exactly one
Speaker 1: hundred and six times. That's crazy, But they never used
Speaker 1: him that much at Florida. He became a viral sensation
Speaker 1: when he scored a touchdown against Florida State with his
Speaker 1: helmet off. He was breaking tackles. If you ever look
Speaker 1: that up. Look up Damian Pierce, no helmet versus Florida State,
Speaker 1: and I mean it's impressive. The truth is, though it
Speaker 1: didn't count because he didn't have his helmet on it.
Speaker 1: At the moment you lose your helmet in the college game,
Speaker 1: the play is blown dead. So I think it was
Speaker 1: blown dead at the two or three yard line. That's disappointing,
Speaker 1: but it was crazy fun to watch. I'm sure it was.
Speaker 1: Now here's what's really funny. So I'm at the Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl and they're doing the running backs against pass rushers
Speaker 1: pass protection drill. This is comical normally because a most
Speaker 1: of these backs have never blocked anybody in their life. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they don't know what they're doing. B A lot
Speaker 1: of the backs today are small and there there. You
Speaker 1: don't have those bow Jackson looking guys anymore, who are
Speaker 1: six one six two two thirty two forty. I mean
Speaker 1: most of the dudes are five eight one seventy five net.
Speaker 1: They're bigger than that, but they're you know, they're they're
Speaker 1: two hundred pounds maybe maybe on a good day, and
Speaker 1: so they don't know how to block anybody. They're not
Speaker 1: very big, and then they have these dudes running straight
Speaker 1: at them and they're like, you could just see him
Speaker 1: freak out. They don't know what to do. But this
Speaker 1: is important for the scouts to see because this is
Speaker 1: the biggest reason that running backs don't play as rookies.
Speaker 1: They may get the quarterback killed right because they don't
Speaker 1: know which way to go in pass pro. A lot
Speaker 1: of times, they don't know who to pick up because
Speaker 1: they've never been involved in this and they don't know
Speaker 1: how to do it right. So what you're looking for
Speaker 1: is you're looking for a guy who shows some traits.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, we may be able to teach him.
Speaker 1: Damian Pierce gets in this drill and somebody runs at
Speaker 1: him and he hit this guy so hard it was
Speaker 1: just absolutely brutal. Really and I looked at my sheet
Speaker 1: and I said, who is that guy? What's Damian Pierce
Speaker 1: from Florida? And all of a sudden, all I can
Speaker 1: think about is Marshawn Lynch. Because there's some backs who
Speaker 1: are just really mean. I mean, they're just violent people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they play running back so they can hit you first,
Speaker 1: and that's what this guy does. And he's unbelievably physical.
Speaker 1: He's five ten two eighteen. He will remind you of
Speaker 1: a guy who played at the University of Tennessee and
Speaker 1: then played for the Titans for a while named Travis
Speaker 1: Henry fifteen sixteen years ago. He I mean, he is
Speaker 1: violently physical. So they've got a back. And what's interesting
Speaker 1: with this team is, so I was with Lovey Smith
Speaker 1: at Tennessee. I know Lovey Smith. I know what he's
Speaker 1: all about. He was a secondary coach at that time.
Speaker 1: But philosophically, what he wants to do is he wants
Speaker 1: to play defense. He's gonna limit you from big plays,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna try to make a kick field goals.
Speaker 1: And then on offense, he's gonna want to run the ball,
Speaker 1: do some play action things and have his quarterback not
Speaker 1: take many hits. And he's got Davis Mills, who I
Speaker 1: think it's a good quarterback. Davis Mills doesn't run. His
Speaker 1: longest career run is eleven yards against the Titans this
Speaker 1: year on January ninth, So it is a run. No,
Speaker 1: he's just a big guy who stands in the pocket
Speaker 1: and throws it. He was a number one quarterback in
Speaker 1: America coming out of high school. He's from Atlanta and
Speaker 1: he ends up at Stanford. He dees Olcate Stanford, but
Speaker 1: the you know, the pandemic hits and all this stuff happens,
Speaker 1: and he'd have been the first quarterback taken easily had
Speaker 1: he come back for one more year at Stanford. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're probably right. Well, I think he goes number one
Speaker 1: overall in this past draft, so they've probably got a
Speaker 1: little something now. They got a back, they got Brandon Cooks,
Speaker 1: they got Nico Collins. I don't know if he's gonna
Speaker 1: play or not, but you know, they've got a few dudes,
Speaker 1: and then they play Lovey's defense. They've been in every game,
Speaker 1: but with a running back, they now have a chance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have. They're starting to get the pieces, and once
Speaker 1: you get the pieces, you can start to form a foundation.
Speaker 1: And it sounds like that's kind of where they are
Speaker 1: right now. They've got that foundation. They've been in close games,
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of fight to them. They show
Speaker 1: up for all four quarters. That's most of it. Like,
Speaker 1: that's most of the recipe right there. It's just about
Speaker 1: pulling it together. Now, it's just getting it all together
Speaker 1: and putting it over the top. And we hope they
Speaker 1: do that at some point down the road. Not against us.
Speaker 1: Now they're in the division, so we hope they never
Speaker 1: do well. I mean, good on you. You'll win a
Speaker 1: couple of games, but not to get inst us. They
Speaker 1: probably will. Yeah, you're right, they will do that at
Speaker 1: some point. Yes, they will, because they have the pieces.
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Speaker 1: love it hang out in Scottsboro, Alabama sometimes. So the
Speaker 1: neatest thing about Scottsboro, Alabama, and I haven't been in
Speaker 1: a couple of years, but they have the lost luggage outlet.
Speaker 1: What is that? So everybody who's lost luggage. Janette Morley
Speaker 1: is nodding it. So they have a warehouse in Scottsboro, Alabama,
Speaker 1: and it is filled with things that people have left
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Speaker 1: So you can find clothes, you can find shoes, you
Speaker 1: can find sporting goods, equipment, you can I mean, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It's like the Island of Misfit Toys. It was so
Speaker 1: big they opened a second location. So Larry Stone and
Speaker 1: I went on a trip to Scottsborough once and it's
Speaker 1: one of the most fascinating things. Scottsboro is a great town.
Speaker 1: It's the hometown of Bear Bryant's favorite player when he
Speaker 1: was a coach in Alabama, quarterback named Pat Trammell. So
Speaker 1: that's just a little piece. It's right sort of the
Speaker 1: north eastern part of Alabama. It's not far from Chattanooga, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I want to go to this, but the ot people
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Speaker 1: I can't remember the specific name, but the Lost Luggage
Speaker 1: Outlet in Scottsboro, Alabama, is one of the most fascinating
Speaker 1: places I've ever been. Well, you can purchase this stuff. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: they have some sort of agreement with the airlines and
Speaker 1: maybe it's phenomenal. We were there for an hour and
Speaker 1: a half. Oh my gosh, here it is on the interwebs.
Speaker 1: What is the actual name of it, Unclaimed baggage. Unclaimed
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Speaker 1: shopping adventure. You would, knowing you as long as I've
Speaker 1: known you, you would have so much fun just seeing
Speaker 1: what was there. You won't believe what's there? Yeah, some
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Speaker 1: I see. I always tell people all the interesting little
Speaker 1: spots to go to. You do. You are one of
Speaker 1: the best people to know when traveling in the Mid
Speaker 1: South region. I love it because you know all the
Speaker 1: little places. You know the best places to eat. Clanton, Alabama,
Speaker 1: place you need to stop, what you need to see
Speaker 1: on the way. Oh, be sure to stay at this
Speaker 1: whatever I mean. Mike Keith is the man. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know about the man, but I've
Speaker 1: been a few places in a car. Yeah. I was
Speaker 1: raised in a family with a man who didn't fly,
Speaker 1: and so we drove everywhere. And then Larry Stone and
Speaker 1: I and now Rhet Brian and I have driven everywhere.
Speaker 1: I've decided that in twenty twenty three, I'm gonna proclaim
Speaker 1: it here on the OTP. In twenty twenty three, I'm
Speaker 1: going to visit all ninety five counties in the state
Speaker 1: of Tennessee again. In one year. Yes, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: In one year. I'm gonna do it. I'm excited. I've
Speaker 1: done it. You know, I'm one of the few people
Speaker 1: you'll ever meet who's been in every county. But I
Speaker 1: want to do it again in one year. I'd really
Speaker 1: like to have lunch in every county in the state
Speaker 1: of Tennessee, or at least a meal in every county.
Speaker 1: I really like that idea. I would love to do that.
Speaker 1: There's so many neat places. Are they all going to
Speaker 1: be work trips? Or will some of them just be
Speaker 1: for fun? Be for fun? Okay, but that could be
Speaker 1: work too. Could be out seeing the radio stations and
Speaker 1: speaking at the Rotaries and the Civitans, and you put
Speaker 1: a lot of miles on your car's We can do that,
Speaker 1: all right. It would be fun, all right. Part of
Speaker 1: the reason I'm going to do it is because I
Speaker 1: know I'm gonna be talking about the new stadium. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I tell you, the stadium thing is blown up
Speaker 1: so big. Since the renderings have come out earlier this week,
Speaker 1: it has been so fantastic to see and hear the
Speaker 1: reaction and be asked all the questions. The radio stations
Speaker 1: I've been on, they want to talk about it. The
Speaker 1: show we did with Keith Bulleck Titans Tonight presented by
Speaker 1: Pinnacle Financial Partners. We talked about it for a whole segment.
Speaker 1: It's we go through the three the three top questions. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so the three top questions that we're getting. Number one
Speaker 1: is if I have a PSL at Nissan Stadium, will
Speaker 1: I get credit for that PSL moving to the new stadium.
Speaker 1: The answer is yes. Now, there will be some parameters
Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, did you buy it originally,
Speaker 1: when did you buy it, what seed did you buy,
Speaker 1: you know, things of that sort. But yeah, the team
Speaker 1: Amy Adam Strunk is going to give you credit for
Speaker 1: your PSL. Right, she is going to save you dollars,
Speaker 1: which is huge. I think it's the other thing we
Speaker 1: get too, And I'm building up in terms of level
Speaker 1: of importance. That one is really number three Okay. Number
Speaker 1: two is what about the super Bowl? Yeah? Are the
Speaker 1: Titans guaranteed a Super Bowl if they build the stadium?
Speaker 1: And the answer is, they're not guaranteed a super Bowl. No,
Speaker 1: that's not how that works. That's not how that works.
Speaker 1: The owners pick them, and the question comes up, does
Speaker 1: it happen? But I had a chance to interview Roger
Speaker 1: Goodell when he was here last weekend. Most of the
Speaker 1: OT people know him as Commissioner Goodell, the guy with
Speaker 1: the great recliner chair, that recliner chair. Do you think
Speaker 1: when he's inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: the recliner will be part of his display. Yes, it
Speaker 1: should be. I think it should be too. It was
Speaker 1: such a huge part of two different drafts, right, so
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, it's part of the Goodell legacy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is that chair? Well, it humanized him, did I think
Speaker 1: that draft? You know, he'd always been viewed as kind
Speaker 1: of a Yeah, he's a fan, but he doesn't have
Speaker 1: a lot of personality. And I've done four things with
Speaker 1: him now I find him to be a good guy,
Speaker 1: more of a normal guy than what he appears on TV,
Speaker 1: which I mean he can't really because he's has to
Speaker 1: be very like down the middle of business always. But yeah,
Speaker 1: but he seems a little stuffy, but he's sorry. Like
Speaker 1: I had a chance the other day to meet Katie
Speaker 1: Hill from the NFL office. She's from Nashville, and she
Speaker 1: went to Harpeth Hall and I was so excited to
Speaker 1: talk about Nashville with her and her family lived in
Speaker 1: Cottonwood or lives in Cottonwood out in the Franklin area,
Speaker 1: which is one of the great neighborhoods that ever, that
Speaker 1: ever was, And that was really exciting. And so the
Speaker 1: commissioner came up and immediately started saying, oh, you're talking
Speaker 1: Nashville with Katie and funny in a funny way. He's
Speaker 1: obviously proud of her, but he thought that was kind
Speaker 1: of humorous, like, right, yeah, jovial guy. But you're right,
Speaker 1: that draft special. Typically, that twenty twenty draft really made
Speaker 1: him seem a lot more relatable, sure, because he was
Speaker 1: doing what the rest of us were doing, right, We're
Speaker 1: trying to pick players from our houses, and that's what
Speaker 1: he was doing. He was doing the same thing. And
Speaker 1: how he got progressively more casual as the days went on, well,
Speaker 1: and they whoever had the idea, Hey, why don't we
Speaker 1: bring your recliner down, and the fact that he went
Speaker 1: along with it was quite funny. Yeah. I thought it
Speaker 1: was really good. It was very well done by the
Speaker 1: NFL as a whole yea, and him being a good
Speaker 1: sport about it and really kind of getting into it.
Speaker 1: It was a nice touch. It was a nice touch.
Speaker 1: I had a chance to ask him three questions and
Speaker 1: they're all related to the stadium, and so we'll let
Speaker 1: you hear these right now on the OTP special for
Speaker 1: the ot people. The last one is about the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert. He's not going to give a direct answer,
Speaker 1: but see if you don't think this is very positive
Speaker 1: towards Nashville. Here's the commissioner, Roger Goodell, are the team
Speaker 1: commissioner injure experiences with teams that get a new stadium.
Speaker 1: What do these venues do for the cities and their faiths? Well,
Speaker 1: I really they're obviously there's an economic driver to them.
Speaker 1: I think they create activity. I think they create events
Speaker 1: that it can produce economic but to me as much
Speaker 1: beyond that, I think really they become signature pieces of
Speaker 1: the community and they are really that platform for every
Speaker 1: community to show a global audience what's going on in
Speaker 1: that community. And while they'll bring in new events and
Speaker 1: be able to do the same thing, I think that's
Speaker 1: really the core of what they do. And this is
Speaker 1: going to be an opportunity here at an outer show.
Speaker 1: The Nashville is continuing to grow, it's continuing to progress,
Speaker 1: It's continue to expand and it's it's showing people what
Speaker 1: a great community this is. If you take it a
Speaker 1: step further and talk about Aby Adam Strong and how
Speaker 1: this is a next step in her journey of taking
Speaker 1: us to a different level, how it pressed are you
Speaker 1: with what she's been able to do and the fact
Speaker 1: that this stadium and the look of it in the
Speaker 1: field of it is so special. Well, Amy cares deeply
Speaker 1: about this community and she keeps really it feels deeply
Speaker 1: about the Titans and creating a world cross organization ultimately,
Speaker 1: but one that reflects well on this community. And that's
Speaker 1: the that's the core what drives her. I know that
Speaker 1: would make her father prout. And her father felt the
Speaker 1: same way about this community without a lot of knowledge,
Speaker 1: but with this short period of time, he really he
Speaker 1: realized how special this community really was. And Amy's just
Speaker 1: like she's raised the bar, She's created a new vision.
Speaker 1: She's worked with everybody here in this community and listen
Speaker 1: to them and said, here's what we want to do,
Speaker 1: here's what you want to do. Let's do it together.
Speaker 1: And to me, when you get that public private partnership
Speaker 1: and that kind of leadership, somebody special is going to happen.
Speaker 1: Our last one got to ask you about the super
Speaker 1: Bowl again. Sure everybody wants to know if we built
Speaker 1: this stadium, are we going to get a super Bowl
Speaker 1: in Nashville? You know, the super Bowl has become an
Speaker 1: incredible event. I think this community, they showed us where
Speaker 1: they raise the bar in the draft. I think they
Speaker 1: have the opportunity here to raise the bar for the
Speaker 1: super Bowl. I think the stadium itself is an important
Speaker 1: piece of that, but it's much more behind that. It's
Speaker 1: it's really all the infrastructure, but more importantly, this community's
Speaker 1: enthusiasm for making this be on a global state chair
Speaker 1: and so I look forward to that day. That is
Speaker 1: the Commissioner of the National Football League, Roger Goodell, talking
Speaker 1: about the stadium, talking about Nashville. He's a Nashville fan, yes,
Speaker 1: I mean you could tell that from the twenty nineteen draft.
Speaker 1: He is a fan. Yep. So does Nashville automatically get
Speaker 1: a super Bowl if the stadium is built? The answer
Speaker 1: is not automatically, But I would say technically no, but
Speaker 1: not automatically. But what that sounded positive to me? That
Speaker 1: was how I took it. I think the NFL, like
Speaker 1: the League office as a whole is a fan of Nashville,
Speaker 1: the community, what they've been able to do, how they
Speaker 1: showed up for the draft. I like our odds. Okay,
Speaker 1: well said by you, thank you. Finally, the number one
Speaker 1: question that I've been getting, You've been getting, Rhett Brian's
Speaker 1: been getting, Jim Wyatt's been getting, everybody associated with us,
Speaker 1: Bert Nyhill's been getting, is how do we get a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl here if you're only going to seat sixty thousand. Now,
Speaker 1: OT people, listen carefully and share this with your friends.
Speaker 1: How can we host a Super Bowl if we only
Speaker 1: hold sixty thousand in the new stadium. This is from
Speaker 1: Peter O'Reilly. He is the NFL executive vice president for
Speaker 1: Club Business and League Events. I was told I could
Speaker 1: share this with you the OT people. The National Football
Speaker 1: League is excited about the team, the city of Nashville,
Speaker 1: and the state of Tennessee reaching this point as they
Speaker 1: look ahead to a new stadium for the Tennessee Titans
Speaker 1: and the community. While there is still more work to
Speaker 1: do in the process, this new stadium will undoubtedly create
Speaker 1: a first class experience for NFL fans. The Super Bowl
Speaker 1: host city selection process is a thorough one guided by
Speaker 1: the league's Fan Engagement and Major Events Advisory Committee and
Speaker 1: voted upon by full ownership. A number of factors are
Speaker 1: considered when selected a Super Bowl host, including stadium quality,
Speaker 1: local venues in hotels, participating team experience, vision for fan activities,
Speaker 1: and more. Now, listen to this, and this is a quote.
Speaker 1: There is no minimum stadium capacity that precludes a stadium
Speaker 1: from hosting the Super Bowl, America's most watched event. Interesting,
Speaker 1: let's say it again, Peter O'Reilly, NFL Executive vice president,
Speaker 1: Club Business and League Events. There is no minimum stadium
Speaker 1: capacity that precludes a stadium from hosting the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: America's most watched event. End quote. Well, there you have it, folks.
Speaker 1: Well just trying because there it was in place at
Speaker 1: one time, but it hasn't been I'm told for a decade.
Speaker 1: I don't know the exact time it went away, but
Speaker 1: there it is not there anymore. It used to be
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand, but it has not been that way
Speaker 1: for quite some time. Well, there was the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: in Dallas where they had all of the seating issues
Speaker 1: and they said they could hold more than they actually
Speaker 1: could hold. And that was a little goofy and I
Speaker 1: think ever since that you never heard about that again.
Speaker 1: So this is not a thing. Right. The reason the
Speaker 1: Titans want to build it at sixty is because it's
Speaker 1: going to make it the most high quality venue in
Speaker 1: terms of experience. We hope anywhere right, you'll be able
Speaker 1: to see everything good, You'll be able to have lots
Speaker 1: of experiences. You'll be able to get places from where
Speaker 1: you sit, if you want to do the standing room thing,
Speaker 1: if you want to do a club, if you want
Speaker 1: to do something with a suite at mean, if you
Speaker 1: just want a regular great end zone seat, building it
Speaker 1: this way will make it the highest quality for every
Speaker 1: person who walks through the door, which is a big deal.
Speaker 1: That's how you get the super Bowl, not a number.
Speaker 1: And so as we've tried to talk about it, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying the people who think this or way off base.
Speaker 1: It did used to be like that. It is not anymore.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not a thing. It's not a thing.
Speaker 1: That's the best way to say it. So ot people,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be okay, Yes, it's gonna be good. Yes,
Speaker 1: And we are fired up about it. We're fired up
Speaker 1: about it. And I mean so the super Bowl. If
Speaker 1: Nashville were to get a super Bowl, the next three
Speaker 1: are laid out, and so I mean it would be
Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine or thirty. I would think before you
Speaker 1: could get you'd be into the sixties in terms of
Speaker 1: super Bowl number. Because we've got fifty seven coming up
Speaker 1: this year in Glendale, Arizona. Fifty seven. Already fifty seven. Man,
Speaker 1: I remember being so fired up about fifty. This is epic.
Speaker 1: I remember super Bowl ten vividly Dallas in Pittsburgh, Mike
Speaker 1: twenty one seventeen in Miami. That it makes it so easy,
Speaker 1: I know, but I'm not afraid of this. It's two easy.
Speaker 1: I don't sit and claim to be twenty eight years old.
Speaker 1: I'm not even swinging at it. It's so easy. But
Speaker 1: I don't fare. I don't claim to be twenty eight
Speaker 1: years old. People know, Hey, people who've been listening to
Speaker 1: the radio, no, that you're not twenty eight years I'm
Speaker 1: not twenty eight years old. I wasn't even twenty eight
Speaker 1: years old when I got the job. That's true. I
Speaker 1: was young. Yes, you were my ger, you were young, Ger,
Speaker 1: you were young Mike. All right, So again to repeat,
Speaker 1: excited this weekend Titans Texans. This is gonna be a dogfight.
Speaker 1: We know it's going to be a dog fight. We've
Speaker 1: talked about the Texans and the challenge they will pose.
Speaker 1: We understand what has to happen. Three oh five, three
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Speaker 1: of you in Alabama. At this cool story at Scottsboro, Alabama. Yes,
Speaker 1: you thought I was making that up, didn't you. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't think you were making it up, but I
Speaker 1: wanted to kind of see what was what. And now
Speaker 1: this is my afternoon, so you've got the rest of
Speaker 1: the day to figure out what you would want from there.
Speaker 1: This is unbelievable. And I'm looking at there's a clearance section.
Speaker 1: Isn't it all a clearance section? Really? Correct? Janette Morley
Speaker 1: will go with you, she will, She may even drive
Speaker 1: you down there. Oh my gosh, there's a surface on here,
Speaker 1: in a surface like a Microsoft so not like a
Speaker 1: table talk like they have a floor. You got to
Speaker 1: claim to be a young man, folks. I knew what
Speaker 1: you meant. I was just but you're bringing it up
Speaker 1: for an audience that can't see what you're talking. You
Speaker 1: can't see what I'm talking about, but you should have
Speaker 1: said Microsoft surface to be clear, because this is not
Speaker 1: a visual medium. The OT people know it. By the way,
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