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Speaker 1: Very welcome you to say Thomas Sports Park and the OTP.

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Speaker 1: My name is Mike Keith on a Wednesday, Amy Wells,

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Speaker 1: it is Wednesday. How are you. I'm good. I'm a

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Speaker 1: little confused. The days are different, but I'm getting there.

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Speaker 1: Jim Wyatt, the great one from Titans Online dot Com,

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Speaker 1: is in the room, glad to be here on a Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: On a Wednesday. The reason we are on a Wednesday

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Speaker 1: is because we depart tomorrow for London, and at the

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Speaker 1: time we were doing our schedule for this show, we

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Speaker 1: didn't know exactly when we were departing for London. Things

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Speaker 1: with football teams, they move around. They decide, Okay, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna hold a walk through at this time, and so

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Speaker 1: we'll move departure back fifteen minutes, or we'll do this,

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Speaker 1: or we'll do that. Well, in doing what we do,

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Speaker 1: we have to make a plan, and so we at

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Speaker 1: the start of the season we planned this show for Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Our OTP next week is also on Wednesday, and that's

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Speaker 1: because of the bye weekend, so we will OTP it

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday at nine Central today and next Wednesday. That

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Speaker 1: was nice of you to say, and it wasn't. Amy

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Speaker 1: needs more time to pack, because that's also very true.

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Speaker 1: That's it. Well, it's gonna be a true Tomorrow's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a crazy day because we got an early morning practice,

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Speaker 1: we've got you know, availability after practice, we've got to

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Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts, uh for this whole week,

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Speaker 1: but tomorrow's it's crazy. Well, and for everybody who's watching listening,

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Speaker 1: who has traveled internationally, you know what it's like. And

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Speaker 1: it's just like that for a football team too. There's

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Speaker 1: no special dispensation. The NFL doesn't call the government go hey,

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Speaker 1: let these people through. Government's not really interested in that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: England not terribly interested in that either. They want us

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Speaker 1: will be a very crazy day overall as we get

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Speaker 1: ready to go to England. I packed last night smart

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Speaker 1: they told they said, basically do the same thing, and

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Speaker 1: You know, we've been a lot of warm weather Trump

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Speaker 1: other thing that Vrabel is doing that is interesting is

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Speaker 1: But I think guys, we've focused. But it's a practice.

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Speaker 1: entire game and that translates over to what you do

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Speaker 1: once you're on defense, you know. And that was a

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Speaker 1: big deal for Fisher with Bullock in his first two years.

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Speaker 1: Is until Bullock got serious about special teams, Fisher didn't

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Speaker 1: think he could take him seriously enough on defense because

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Speaker 1: if you don't know your assignments on special teams and

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Speaker 1: then then you get out there at linebacker and you

432
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Speaker 1: don't know your assignments. It's not just old linebacker is

433
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Speaker 1: more fun to play. That's not how it works in

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Speaker 1: the pros, right. And I think coaches, you know, have

435
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Speaker 1: a habit of calling out the guys that they know

436
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Speaker 1: are talented players and they know this guy can help us,

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Speaker 1: and have high expectations for those guys. I mean, those

438
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Speaker 1: are the type players that you don't let slide and

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Speaker 1: you want to constantly remind them and push them and

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Speaker 1: make sure you're getting the most out of him. I

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Speaker 1: think this team certainly has great feelings about here Landry

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Speaker 1: uh knowledge for this year, but moving forward, know how

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Speaker 1: good he's going to be, and you've got a stretch

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Speaker 1: to him at a young a's that every snap is important.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't care whether you're playing on teams,

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Speaker 1: whether you're playing on defensive you're mentioned where you can

447
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Speaker 1: get sacked numbers, and you got to you gotta do

448
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,919
Speaker 1: the dirty work too. Yeah, he can affect the game

449
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Speaker 1: anytime he's on the field. He can cause a turnover.

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Speaker 1: He can blow somebody up on special teams, allowing Crookshank

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Speaker 1: or Sims to make a play. I mean, there are

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Speaker 1: lots of things that can happen. So I think you're

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Speaker 1: I think you're one hundred percent dead. On the linebackers

454
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Speaker 1: have had tackles. I mean Evans comes off his best

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Speaker 1: game with nine tackles. Jayon Brown has played well and

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Speaker 1: has taken over the team leading tackles. But if the

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Speaker 1: Titans get woodyard back huge for this game against Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 1: I think it's huge, you know, from a number of reasons,

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Speaker 1: you know, and starting with the run defense. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he knows where he's going to be, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: where he's supposed to be. I should say I think it,

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Speaker 1: you know, will keep uh you know, obviously John Brown's

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Speaker 1: gonna play. Evans has played more kind of been more

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Speaker 1: of a two snap uh guy or two down linebacker.

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Speaker 1: I mean it gets all those guys in the rotation,

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Speaker 1: but Woodard is has been missed. I mean not only

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Speaker 1: from a production standpoint, but I think from a leadership

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Speaker 1: standpoint as well, and calming guys down and kind of

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Speaker 1: being a steadying force. So I think it's I think

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Speaker 1: it's huge. Wesley Woodyard's a guy who can be a

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Speaker 1: coach on the sideline, which we've seen him do throughout

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Speaker 1: these games, even though he hasn't been playing. He's been

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Speaker 1: a presence on the sideline, but out in the lineup,

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Speaker 1: out on the field where it counts. He obviously is

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Speaker 1: a consistent playmaker. He can do that stuff himself, but

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Speaker 1: he can also get the people around him where they

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Speaker 1: need to be and get them in a position to

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Speaker 1: make big plays. So while yes, I think we've missed

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Speaker 1: him from an experienced standpoint, from a talent standpoint, from

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Speaker 1: just bodies, from that standpoint, we are also missing having

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Speaker 1: their general out there, you know, who can get everyone

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Speaker 1: where they need to be, set guys up to make

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Speaker 1: big play see things that maybe some of the younger

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Speaker 1: guys like a Jayon Brown or a Rashaun Evans aren't seeing.

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Speaker 1: And I just think he's having him back could be

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Speaker 1: so valuable for this defense, and he would return with

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Speaker 1: fresh legs. Yeah, which is I mean, which is good?

488
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Speaker 1: I mean he's uh, you know, he's he regularly works

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Speaker 1: his way through the rigors of an NFL season. When

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Speaker 1: he missed a start against Buffalo as a first start

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Speaker 1: he'd ever missed in a Titans uniform. Played seventy seven

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Speaker 1: games in a row dating back to his days in Denver,

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Speaker 1: so and he's worked through a lot of injuries. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: this is one that helped keep him out. But I

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Speaker 1: think fresh legs and trying to build a maintain why

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Speaker 1: you're out of the lineup is crucial. Today's practice will

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Speaker 1: tell us a lot. Yeah and yeah, but I kind

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Speaker 1: of got the feeling even though he wasn't I guess

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Speaker 1: he wasn't declared out until the actives came out on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: He was listed as questionable if I'm not mistaken, on

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Speaker 1: in the Friday's practice, and he talked in the locker

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Speaker 1: room and you could kind of sense that he knew

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Speaker 1: he wasn't gonna play, but felt like he'd made progress

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Speaker 1: during the practice week by just being out there, I mean,

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Speaker 1: being limited and sure he was doing some stuff on

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Speaker 1: the side, but just needed time. And if he's involved

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Speaker 1: in more team team drills and doing what he usually

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Speaker 1: does out there, I think I'll feel good about his chances. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna give him team reps today

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Speaker 1: with this being an unusual week if he's not going

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Speaker 1: to play right because you've got I mean, you've got

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Speaker 1: two hard days of practice here. You're not gonna say, well,

513
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Speaker 1: let's just see what happened. I mean you're gonna say,

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Speaker 1: we gotta get this guy ready to play right now,

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Speaker 1: which is why I say today is right. Coach Rabel

516
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Speaker 1: said he wants the installation done. He wants everything done

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Speaker 1: by Thursday, so by the time they get to London,

518
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Speaker 1: we all get to London, it's polishing, it's tuning up

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Speaker 1: the fine details. So I don't think, to your point, Mike,

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Speaker 1: we're not gonna see anybody out there who may or

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Speaker 1: may not be playing. We're getting down and dirty before

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Speaker 1: we leave for okay, And that leads us right to

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Speaker 1: the favorite part of the Official Titans Podcast, better known

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Speaker 1: as the OTP. Amy Wells Wonders Everybody's favorite part, Everyone's

525
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Speaker 1: favorite where Amy, as the executive producer of this podcast,

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Speaker 1: gives herself a segment of the show where she sets

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Speaker 1: the topic and the pace for the OTP well Today,

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Speaker 1: Amy Wells wonders, what is it going to take to

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Speaker 1: jump start this Titans offense? We haven't seen them in

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Speaker 1: the end zone in a very long time, and I

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Speaker 1: feel like we need a little we need some sort

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Speaker 1: of a jolt. Oh yeah, yeah, maybe I'm considerable. So

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Speaker 1: what's that going to take? You want to go first?

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Speaker 1: I have one if you, but I'll let you go first.

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Speaker 1: You have a great I could go for the next

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes on what it's going to take because we

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Speaker 1: saw a lot of things that go We saw a

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Speaker 1: lot of things that went so poorly on Sunday. So

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start what's gonna take? You gotta give give

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mario the time to work. I mean, what we

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Speaker 1: saw on Sunday him getting sicked eleven times. I think

542
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Speaker 1: certainly it affected his comfort level in the pocket. So

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Speaker 1: I was just a complete disaster. So I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: start by saying it's gonna start by giving Marcus Mariot

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Speaker 1: the time to work and allow him a chance to

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Speaker 1: like the spark and he can't have third downs like

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Speaker 1: the other day, I went back through the third down

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Speaker 1: plays and totaled up the number of yards to gain

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Speaker 1: on those third downs. Jim, it was one hundred and

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Speaker 1: two yards. So the Titans averaged averaged a third and ten.

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Speaker 1: That's not what you want. Well, it doesn't work against Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: and the coaches told the players all last week, don't

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Speaker 1: do this, don't get in third and long, don't put

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Speaker 1: yourself in these positions. But that leads me to what

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Speaker 1: the issue is. And I'm really kind of piggybacking off

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Speaker 1: of what Jim saying. The Titans are one of the

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00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: worst teams in the league on first down an average

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Speaker 1: of four point six six per play. That's thirty first overall,

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Speaker 1: so you're started, and I mean that's averaging in the

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Speaker 1: plays that you gain fifteen yards on first down, right,

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Speaker 1: So that's just an average. On the other hand, the

562
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Speaker 1: Chargers are number two in the NFL behind the Rams.

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Speaker 1: They average seven point six two yards per play on

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Speaker 1: first down. So the Chargers through six games are averaging

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Speaker 1: three yards more than the Titans on first down, which

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Speaker 1: that's the difference. And the Chargers are yeah, they I

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Speaker 1: mean they have four hundred and thirteen total yards per

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Speaker 1: game to the Titans two sixty three. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's the issue for the Titans is they've got to

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Speaker 1: be better on first down, and you know what they can.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the part of all of this that

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Speaker 1: is frustrating and is somewhat leaving someone who's objective to say,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, we've seen them do it, we

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Speaker 1: know they can do it, we know they're capable, we

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Speaker 1: know they have the people and the offensive line, in

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Speaker 1: the quarterback and those sorts of things. But I think

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Speaker 1: at the end of this game, the story, you know,

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Speaker 1: looking at what the Titans did on first down may

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Speaker 1: tell us a lot of the story of how the

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Speaker 1: whole day goes. Well, here's the question. Then, if the

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Speaker 1: Titans need to show up on first down, they need

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Speaker 1: to make that a more successful and more important down

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Speaker 1: for this team. Who does that fall back on? Is

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Speaker 1: that on the players to execute that or is that

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Speaker 1: on the coaches to fall plays? I think it's there.

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Speaker 1: But even with let's say you get a four yard

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Speaker 1: run on first down, well that sounds counterintuitive because you're saying, well,

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Speaker 1: you're only averaging this, but the four yard run and

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Speaker 1: being able to be successful on that play. The next

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Speaker 1: first down enables you to do play action and throw

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Speaker 1: a pass to get twenty yards. Right, you know, it's

592
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: not always about four and four makes third and two.

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Speaker 1: It's sometimes about setting up things throughout the game. If

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Speaker 1: you're going zero one first down, then you're totally predictable

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Speaker 1: on second down, and then potentially you end up with

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Speaker 1: the third and ten average. But I don't know that

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Speaker 1: any team in the league can do that, and you

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Speaker 1: sure can't do it against the Baltimore Ravens right well,

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Speaker 1: And momentum's a huge part of it. Sure, it is

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Speaker 1: just yeah, get something going. I mean that number for

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Speaker 1: them all first down, I mean that opens up so

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Speaker 1: much a second down. I mean it gives you and

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Speaker 1: Gordon's average and five yards a carry. But but but

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Speaker 1: to give Rivers shorter down and distances to work with

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Speaker 1: and have a defense not knowing what's coming, I mean

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Speaker 1: protycula a strain on teams trying to defend them. Well,

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Speaker 1: if Philip Rivers is in third and ten every time

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Speaker 1: he's in trouble as good as he is, I mean

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, if he does that. I mean, anytime you're

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Speaker 1: putting yourself in that situation, you're you're predictable. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there are certain things you can't do. There are certain

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Speaker 1: passes you can't throw that the defense doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: defend because they're like, yeah, throw a five yard hitch. Good,

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Speaker 1: we'll tackle you and get off the field. They know

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Speaker 1: you've got to hold the ball and make a play.

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Speaker 1: This team needs to run the ball better. Sure. I

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Speaker 1: think that's one of the big keys to this game

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Is as much as I'm starting, uh you

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Speaker 1: know Amy's you know what she's wondering with Marcus Barriota

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Speaker 1: needing to have time to operate. I think this is

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Speaker 1: the type of game where you've got a bil to

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Speaker 1: run the football and and controlled the time of possession,

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Speaker 1: which and flip it from what we saw last you

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Speaker 1: know this past Sunday against the Ravens. Because you've got

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Speaker 1: to keep San Diego or I call him Sango. You

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Speaker 1: gotta keep the Los Angeles Chargers offense off the field

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Speaker 1: and uh make it easier in yourself where you can

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Speaker 1: open some things up and play action. So Deick, Henry

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Speaker 1: Dion Lewis, you know, the offensive line, the whole run

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Speaker 1: game's got to get going. And uh. I think that's

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Speaker 1: the one of the biggest keys to this game on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: And uh, and moving forward, anything else you wonder, that's it,

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00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,959
Speaker 1: but we need to make this happen. I wonder if

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Speaker 1: we can actually pull it off in London. That's the

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Speaker 1: second thing you've wondered. That's my second one. My follow

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00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 1: up wondering. You follow up wondering. It's the Wonder years.

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Speaker 1: It's Wonder years. Let's let's take a look at the

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Speaker 1: AFC South and this is the good news for the

639
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 1: Titans as well, coming off the performance on Sunday. If

640
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: you had played that game like you did in New

641
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: England in two thousand and nine, and you come back

642
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 1: to Nashville and you're O and six, life is unbelievably impossible. Easy.

643
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: But look at it. Titans are three and three, two

644
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: and oh in the division. If the playoffs started right now,

645
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: the Titans would host a playoff game. Sounds crazy, not

646
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 1: what anybody wants to hear coming off Sunday's game. I

647
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: get it, not really what I want to say. But Jim,

648
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: you're you're in this position, and I think Mike Vrabel

649
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: has framed it very well. You're o and O, and

650
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 1: it's a ten game season. And now you see, can

651
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: you if if you can improve from your first six games,

652
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: if you can get better as a football team, if

653
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 1: you can take care of your business, it's all right

654
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: there in front of you. Still, yeah, thanks changed so

655
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 1: quickly in the league, and you know, one win can

656
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 1: kind of build some momentum. I think what has caused

657
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: a lot of people to panic, you know, in a

658
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: fan base, and certainly I get it after the game

659
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,280
Speaker 1: on Sunday is knowing you let a game like Buffalo

660
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: slip away, and then the Baltimore game is just a

661
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 1: beat down, and then you'll look at what's on the horizon.

662
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: You've got a Chargers team that's the best offensive teams faced.

663
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 1: Then you've got to go to Dallas on the Monday night.

664
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: We saw what they did to Jacksonville this past week,

665
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: then the Patriots coming here. If this team could find

666
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: a way to win on Sunday, get to the buy

667
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna be waiting for him at the top of

668
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 1: the vision at four and three with Jacksonville Houston playing

669
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,959
Speaker 1: one another. But I can get to four and three,

670
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: Take a deep breath. This team is still in a

671
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: very good position. Yeah, you're kicking yourself over letting that

672
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo game get away still, But I could flip that

673
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 1: around and say you never on paper, you never should

674
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: have beaten Houston or Jacksonville, right, you know for people say,

675
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: well you ought to be four and two, Well, I

676
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 1: mean theoretically, if not for some heroic performances, you could

677
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: have been oh and three going into the Philadelphia game. So,

678
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: I mean, the Titans probably are who we thought they

679
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: were record wise based on the performances. We've seen some

680
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: heroic good performances, and we've seen a couple of stinkers,

681
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: and and so this is where you are right now.

682
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: And that's what Rabel's saying. This is where we are

683
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: right now. This is what's happened. He hasn't tried to

684
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: sugarcoat it. He has He hasn't come out and done

685
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: the thing that I always you know, when coaches come

686
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: out after you know, a loss like that or like Buffalo,

687
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: and let's find the good things. No, let's not, let's

688
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: not do that. Let's move on, let's get on with it.

689
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: And he hasn't dwelled on the good things when the

690
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: Titans have won. He hasn't come out and go, boy,

691
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: I've got a happy list here. He's trying to get

692
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: you off of the happy list as fast as he

693
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: can when people are like what about this performance, Like, yeah,

694
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: that was great, but we've got to do we can

695
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 1: still get better. I think all of this falls in

696
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: his wheelhouse of the guy who knows it's a seventeen

697
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 1: week season in which you play sixteen games and the

698
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: ebbs and flows are there, right. Yeah. I mean, I

699
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: think what happened I get it. As I think what

700
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: happened against the Eagles when the team wins in dramatic fashion,

701
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: gets the three and one, I think the expectations kind

702
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: of went through the roof. And again I get it

703
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: because the team looked great that day, But I think

704
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: you had to be realistic coming the season and realize

705
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: there were gonna be some growing plains. I mean, that's

706
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: one thing Mike Vrabels said from the beginning, is that,

707
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: you know, with the expectations after last season going to

708
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: the playoffs, winning a playoff game, I think everybody thought, Okay,

709
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: this team is a shot win to get to the

710
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: playoffs this year, and hopefully that will still happen. But

711
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 1: you kind of had to realize that there were going

712
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: to be some speed bumps and there are gonna be

713
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,879
Speaker 1: some ugly games along the way to get to where

714
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,399
Speaker 1: you need to be. And that included the offense, which

715
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: is struggling. Hows it scored a touchdown in two games

716
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: the past two games? Has it scored a touchdown in

717
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: three of the six games. If you thought it was

718
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 1: gonna be smooth from the beginning, you didn't have realistic

719
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: expectations because it was going to take a while. I mean,

720
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: Matt Lafloor kind of kids himself. He wears a little

721
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: rubber brace that says, embrace the suck, and he got

722
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 1: that from his days in Atlanta where he met with

723
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: someone with the Navy Seals that talked to the team

724
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,760
Speaker 1: and kind of talked about how you have to work

725
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: your way through tough situations to get to where you

726
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,439
Speaker 1: want to be. And he said that from the beginning

727
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: of season, Hey, it's it's gonna look better toward the

728
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 1: end of the season or after the midway point than

729
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: it's going to be at the beginning. And it has

730
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: been roughing. It's tough to watch on Sunday, but the

731
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 1: expectation is that's going to get there, and that's going

732
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: to require some guys stepping up. It's going to require

733
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: some of the young receivers to come of age to

734
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: be more consistent. It's gonna require the offensive line the

735
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,760
Speaker 1: block better than it did on Sunday. It's gonna require

736
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: the quarterback to play better. It's gonna require the running

737
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: game to to do what I think it's capable of doing.

738
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: But so a lot of things need to come together.

739
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: But I think I certainly realize, I know you guys

740
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: did too, that it wasn't gonna be perfect from the beginning. No,

741
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: it wasn't. Okay, who are we four Houston at Jacksonville?

742
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: If you're the Titans, who are you for Houston? It's

743
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: a great question, and it's uh, I'm thinking Jacksonville. Really,

744
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: I'm thinking you don't want Houston to get a road

745
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: win in the division, especially to give them four straight wins. Yes,

746
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: I think I'm thinking very selfishly about us. I think

747
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: I think we can beat Houston again. I think they

748
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: beat Jacksonville again, done it three straight times. Well, that's

749
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: games here. Jacksonvill's got the first place schedule. They got

750
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,720
Speaker 1: some rough I know, some rough roding ahead. I'm thinking

751
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: it's I'm thinking you you don't want Houston to win

752
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: on the road and to get a fourth straight. That's

753
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 1: my guy. What do you get, Jim. It's hard to

754
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 1: set foot coin flip from me because I do think Jacksonville.

755
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: I mean, they're talented, they got a good defense. It

756
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 1: didn't look like it on Sunday in Dallas, but I

757
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 1: think they. I think they're gonna be around at the end.

758
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,439
Speaker 1: And I do kind of see the school of thought

759
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,959
Speaker 1: about Houston kind of gain him momentum. But Shan Wats

760
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,399
Speaker 1: does not looked like himself yet either. He is, he's

761
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 1: looking at the rush. Yeah, which who can blame him?

762
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 1: So it's funny how in December you always look back

763
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: at games as if this team would have just lost there.

764
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: I mean, the main thing is this team just needs

765
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 1: to keep. This team needs to find a way to start,

766
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 1: the Titans to end. I know here's a question, but

767
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: people always ask who should I be for if that

768
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: game ends in a tie? Yes, does that benefit the Titans?

769
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 1: Could later or it could hurt because it does. A

770
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 1: tie count is a win for either team. No, No

771
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: count is a lot, it's half of each get you

772
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,879
Speaker 1: out of tiebreaking scenarios that this team has right now,

773
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 1: right over both of those teams. Theoretically, I mean it

774
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 1: it would be good for Houston because they would get

775
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: a road tie. It would be bad for Jacksonville because

776
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: they didn't get a home win. But yeah, you have

777
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 1: to factor in ties now. I mean, after how it's all,

778
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: after how it's all gone, might be cheering for a

779
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 1: tie just to shake things up. Yeah, okay, let's talk

780
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 1: about the let's talk about I don't know for a

781
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: tie stop final segment. Los Angeles Chargers four and two

782
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: lost to Kansas City in a shootout. One at Buffalo

783
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: lost to the Rams thirty five twenty three. So the

784
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: two teams that have beaten the Los Angeles Chargers are

785
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: a grand total of eleven and one. Then they have

786
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: three straight wins San Francisco, Oakland and at Cleveland, So

787
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: you can make the case that they really haven't beaten

788
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: the world beaters. I mean, they've beaten a two win team,

789
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: they've beaten a one win team, a one win team,

790
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: and a two three and one team. But here's what

791
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: they do have. Philip Rivers, the number one passer in

792
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,720
Speaker 1: the AFC, number two in the NFL behind Drew Brees.

793
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon the number one rusher in the AFC, number

794
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 1: three in the NFL behind Todd Gurley and Ezekiel Elliott.

795
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon the number one in the AFC and yards

796
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: from scrimmage number four in the NFL behind Todd Gurley,

797
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: Sequon Barkley and Ezekiel Elliott. The number four punt returner

798
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: in the NFL is Desmond King fifteen three. He has

799
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: a fifty six yard punt return. Now, couple of things,

800
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 1: a couple of bad stats for the Chargers. However, they

801
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: gave up a ninety one yard punt return to Tyreek

802
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: Hill in Week one, so they have given up a

803
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: punt return for a touchdown, and they have given up

804
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: the longest touchdown pass in the NFL this season eighty

805
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 1: two yards c. J. Bethard to George Kittle San Francisco

806
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:04,720
Speaker 1: at Los Angeles on September the thirtieth. But Philip Rivers

807
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: is still the key. The Chargers have won ten of

808
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:13,320
Speaker 1: the last eleven times they have played against this franchise,

809
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,839
Speaker 1: dating back to nineteen ninety three, and the one win

810
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: out of that was the tick locker to Justin Hunter

811
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: took a jump ba pass at the very end of

812
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 1: that game. I mean, what jumps out to me. The

813
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: first thing I do is, I you know, each Monday

814
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,359
Speaker 1: is I look at the staff really on Tuesday. Once

815
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 1: you get the Monday games completed, let's just see where

816
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 1: these teams rank, you know, in the key categories in

817
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,320
Speaker 1: their seventh in total offense or six and rushing offense

818
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: or thirteenth and passing yards game fifth and points per game.

819
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: And you can't help but flip and see the Titans

820
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: thirtieth in points per game. So you have to do

821
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: a good job on defense to slow these guys down.

822
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 1: It's going to take this team scoring some points. Titans

823
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: haven't scored thirty in over a year, and I think

824
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 1: that's I think the offense has got to You've got

825
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: to think we've got to go get thirty or try

826
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 1: to go get thirty. And I know, when you're averaging

827
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: fourteen and a half, that doesn't sound as likely. And

828
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: some people may snicker at that comment. I get it,

829
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: but I think when you play the Chargers, if you're

830
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: gonna beat him, that's got to be a goal. The

831
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: other thing, too, is red zone defense. Philip Rivers is

832
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 1: probably gonna move the ball. Yeah, that's gonna happen. You

833
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: understand that. Make him kick field goals because they've got

834
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: a weird kicking situation. They've got an injured kicker, Caleb Sturgis.

835
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: He's missed four extra points in three field goals this year.

836
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: Michael Badgeley filled in for him at Cleveland and he

837
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 1: was perfect, but he didn't have a whole lot to

838
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: do in kind of a pressure game because that was

839
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: a thirty eight to fourteen wins. So for my money,

840
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: make him kick field goals. Make him kick at field goals.

841
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: The punt situation there, Kaiser is out as far as

842
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 1: I know. Donnie Jones has been their punter recently. He's

843
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: an older hunter who doesn't exactly bomb it. You might

844
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: have a chance to pick up yardage and or points

845
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: in the special teams area, which is a place the

846
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 1: Titans have been pretty good all year. Yeah, yeah, I

847
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: think that would be key. And uh, I'm gonna flip

848
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: these numbers to the defensive side and point out one

849
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: one other thing about the run game. But you know, overall,

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Speaker 1: their thirteenth in rushing, the thirteenth in total defense, eleventh

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Speaker 1: rushing U seventeenth passing. The Titans have played four of

852
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Speaker 1: the sixteenths you played a brand rank in the top

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Speaker 1: ten and run defense, and that includes the number three

854
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Speaker 1: ranked Ravens, the number two ranked Eagles, Buffalo's eight, Houston's tenth,

855
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Speaker 1: the Chargers at seventeen. Give you maybe a little opportunity,

856
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: maybe that's a that's an eleven. They give you a little,

857
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: maybe a little of an opportunity to run the ball

858
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:54,399
Speaker 1: this week that maybe has been has caused his team

859
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: to struggle in previous weeks, and that's why I think

860
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Speaker 1: it's so key to try to get Derek Henry and

861
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: Dion Lewis going. Uh. I think that's the biggest key

862
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Speaker 1: to this game. The Titans offensive line has got to

863
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Speaker 1: be ready to work. I think it might be a

864
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 1: long day for them. The Chargers defense like to blitz

865
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Speaker 1: a lot. Well, they're coming, They're they're coming, and they're

866
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Speaker 1: bringing everybody with them. It's it's gonna be a long

867
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Speaker 1: day for those guys up front. Well, let's face it.

868
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 1: I think Gus Bradley is going to make the Titans

869
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Speaker 1: prove after last week that they can handle it. What

870
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Speaker 1: ten of the eleven sacks run blitzes. Yeah, and it's

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Speaker 1: I mean there's a number of guys, I mean, not

872
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Speaker 1: just old line, but I guess guys, you know, running

873
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Speaker 1: backs and path protection got to step up. And I

874
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: do agree that teams have shown when when teams see

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00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 1: that the Titans have had some lapses like Sunday, they're

876
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna test you. And uh, it's a big

877
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Speaker 1: practice week obviously to get some of the stiff stuff

878
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Speaker 1: cleaned up. Titans Tonight Tonight, Titans Tonight tonight. Chris Hope

879
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: is in for Keith Bullock who's on his way to London.

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00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: And our guest he's Anthony Ferkser. That's gonna be fun'd

881
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Speaker 1: be interesting to talk with him tonight. That's six o'clock

882
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Speaker 1: on one oh four five of the Zone and Titans Radio.

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Speaker 1: We hope you'll join us for that. And how do

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Speaker 1: people tweet in a question hashtag Titans tonight on the

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Speaker 1: Twitter machine and you're telling them fire those in now,

886
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Speaker 1: send them now. Right now, you're sitting at your desk,

887
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Speaker 1: you're not really doing what would you like Wednesday? What

888
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 1: would you like to know from Anthony Ferkser or what

889
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: would you like to know from Chris Hope, were you

890
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 1: people have questions for you? They do not they do

891
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: They never send him Mike Keith question, No, don't do

892
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: spice things up tonight. I mean, I'll answer them, but

893
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: I won't promise to be rude to people for the

894
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Speaker 1: next week. I'm more afraid of being fuzzy than rude.

895
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Speaker 1: Just a little confisct came across to me as she

896
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Speaker 1: was trying to sell rude. Well, sometimes I get frustrated

897
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Speaker 1: when where were you on that? I think she's if

898
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Speaker 1: she bite your head off, you know why she's work.

899
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Speaker 1: But that's normally I'm just fuzzy, just a little shaking

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Speaker 1: the cobwebs off. Titans tonight six o'clock on Tight Radio

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Speaker 1: one h four five Zone in Nashville. Amy Wells, how

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Speaker 1: do people follow you on the Twitter at Titans? Amy? Am?

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Speaker 1: I E? And we put that up And Jim Watt

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Speaker 1: during that workout or that eight hour commute like I had.

912
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: I had a fun one this morning. But that's what

913
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Speaker 1: the podcast is good for. Takes your mind off of that.

914
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Speaker 1: You're sitting behind Bob from Iowa, who's not going exactly

915
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Speaker 1: because he's reading his phone. Anybody going to London, you've

916
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Speaker 1: got a long flight ahead of you. Catch up on

917
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Speaker 1: the ot There you go. You can download it. We've

918
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Speaker 1: got way more than eight hours in material. We have

919
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Speaker 1: over forty editions. As a matter of fact, you could

920
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Speaker 1: go back and listen to our talk with Robert Brazil,

921
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 1: the audio only OTP that we did last week. That

922
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: was really really fun. Yeah, I got a little weepy

923
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: Titans fans, Titans fans. Great job for Robert Brazil. Awesome

924
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Speaker 1: you You made him feel so welcome. I thought the

925
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: ovation was fantastic. Um it was not, you know, just

926
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:26,280
Speaker 1: polite applause. It was what Amy Adams Strunk had hoped

927
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: for and made him feel very welcome, capped off his

928
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:33,320
Speaker 1: wonderful weekend in Nashville. Yeah, and I love the podcast

929
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 1: with him, especially hearing the Walter Peyton stories, which is incredible,

930
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: uh to me. He's such a nice man and uh,

931
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: and it was cool listening to him talk to the

932
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: team on Friday before practice as well. And you know,

933
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: life goes by fast, and certainly he was one of

934
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 1: those guys. Uh. You know, it's it's been some time now,

935
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 1: but he can relate to them. And he you know,

936
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Speaker 1: one of the things you talked about as the playoff

937
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: game against the Steelers and how they got a questionable

938
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Speaker 1: call in that game, and he said it affected him,

939
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Speaker 1: you know, the rest of the game. He said it

940
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:09,919
Speaker 1: felt like he played a half of games. He looks

941
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 1: back at his careers. That's one of the biggest regrets

942
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Speaker 1: he had that he only played you know, the team

943
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: only got a half of him and thought they had

944
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Speaker 1: the better team. They didn't win. Any wishes he would

945
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: have done more. So he kind of preaches him the

946
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: importance of taking it, you know, working hard every day,

947
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: don't take anything for granted. This is your guys, are

948
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: in your prime of your life. This is this is

949
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: uh is something you you're going to look back on

950
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 1: and realize how special it was. So Uh, it was

951
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: neat to watch guys watch him, even though some of

952
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: them don't remember when he played. Some of them weren't born. Uh,

953
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,320
Speaker 1: none of them were born when he played. But uh,

954
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: Woodyard would have been right at the end. So it

955
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 1: was cool, but it was cool. It was just cool

956
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:53,359
Speaker 1: to see him talk to them and uh, and then

957
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: to show off at show off at nice jacket he

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Speaker 1: had one. Yeah. Well, and it's like this opportunity this week,

959
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 1: Ken for the Titans. Go to London, win this game,

960
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 1: get on that plane, go into your buy four and three.

961
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 1: You've turned the negative around. You're not perfect, not saying

962
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: you would have taken four and three before the season started.

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00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: You certainly would have preferred to be five and two

964
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:20,359
Speaker 1: or six and one. But you're in it. Yep. You're

965
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Speaker 1: right in the middle of everything with nine games to go,

966
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Speaker 1: and you don't have to answer any more questions about Baltimore.

967
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:30,799
Speaker 1: You don't have to deal with Buffalo. You just say, well,

968
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Speaker 1: this is what we are. We're four and three with

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00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: some time off, ready to get ready for that run

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00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 1: that begins the second half. What an opportunity for the

971
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans and these players, and you know there's got

972
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: to be a pride factor in this That was not

973
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Speaker 1: what a professional football player expects to put on tape.

974
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: What happened on Sunday. I'm sure take guys off. You

975
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Speaker 1: can trail by the reaction in the locker room on Sunday.

976
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Speaker 1: I mean, guys are embarrassed, guys are upset. Hasn't been pretty.

977
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Speaker 1: The conversation sets. I know what you know, probably if

978
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: all of our social media uh fees look like and

979
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: those guys getting at it even worse, uh so, uh,

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Speaker 1: I would think that this team will be ready to

981
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Speaker 1: play on Sundy, ready to bounce back away again. I

982
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 1: don't think it's an effort thing. A couple of people

983
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Speaker 1: have you know, said this team just didn't look like

984
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Speaker 1: it carried. This team carried, just got this got beat,

985
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 1: I mean just got whipped, just got whipped. Baltimore took

986
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Speaker 1: the fight to him and uh and won the game.

987
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 1: And now you got to flip it and do the

988
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 1: same thing to the Chargers. Anything else, miss wells Now,

989
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's hit the music like that boom boom.

990
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 1: This guy's never worked in radio. Got hit the post

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Speaker 1: next time again, next time? Well, Jim Black and our

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Speaker 1: fantastic team, thanks for joining an O