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Speaker 1: Tennessee and since nineteen forty seven. I'm Ammy Wells. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to this edition of the Titans Amy and Coach Mac Podcast.

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Speaker 1: David McGinnis, otherwise known as Coach Mack, is of course

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Speaker 1: here Mac. How are you doing great? Doing great? We

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Speaker 1: just had a nice television recording day today and now

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Speaker 1: we're doing this and so I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: We did this week's episode of Titans All Access. You, Me,

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Speaker 1: Mike Keith, and Jim Wyatt all got together to talk

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Speaker 1: some some Titans football and it was really fun. It

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Speaker 1: was fun. It was a good time to kind of

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Speaker 1: take stock of where we are right now with the

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Speaker 1: football team. It went, It went very very well. So

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Speaker 1: if you don't have your TV set to record Titans

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Speaker 1: Check it out because you're not gonna want to miss

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Speaker 1: this episode. We covered a lot of ground we did.

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Speaker 1: It was great. I really liked it, and actually Ferrell

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Speaker 1: produced it because she's our producer here too, so it

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Speaker 1: was outstanding, awesome. I think it was an Emmy Award

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Speaker 1: winning one. Yeah, probably most of those are. Actually, although

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Speaker 1: we've never actually won an award. It's easier if you

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Speaker 1: don't submit it. Then you just know that you have

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Speaker 1: an award winning product. You don't have to be validated

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Speaker 1: by anybody. Yeah. I don't need people to give me

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Speaker 1: awards to know them doing award winning stuff, per right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's good. Well, Mac, speaking of winning awards,

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans haven't won any in the last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks two weeks. Just to put it blunt, the

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Speaker 1: Titans are coming off of a tough kind of two

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Speaker 1: weeks stretch. They are currently eight and four and they're

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Speaker 1: finally going into a bye week, which we've been talking

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Speaker 1: about this bye week for weeks and weeks now. It's

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Speaker 1: tunnel because it's a late late bye week, which is

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Speaker 1: a little bit unusual for teams. Right, Well, it is,

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Speaker 1: and of course now that it's a it's an eighteen

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Speaker 1: week season with seventeen games, you had to spread them out,

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Speaker 1: and of course we drew the we drew the bean

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Speaker 1: that it was gonna be that's gonna be late. And

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Speaker 1: so whenever it comes, you know, when the schedule comes out,

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Speaker 1: as a head coach, you look at it and you

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Speaker 1: look at see where your all schedule games are. You

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Speaker 1: see when your national games are, You see how many

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Speaker 1: in a row you have at home, You see where

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Speaker 1: you where your division games are. But you also look

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Speaker 1: to see where your open date is, and then you

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Speaker 1: start planning around it. But a lot of it depends

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Speaker 1: on the type of injury situation you're in at the moment.

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Speaker 1: And of course this is a historic injury situation for

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans this year, and so they needed this

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Speaker 1: really bad. Right now, Well, we talk about the bye

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Speaker 1: week and their importance and there's a lot of reasons. Rest, recovery,

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Speaker 1: the time to make adjustments of those things are important.

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Speaker 1: It feels like the Titans needed extra mainly due to,

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Speaker 1: as you reference, the injury situation. So absolutely that's what

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Speaker 1: they did the most. And hopefully you know with this

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Speaker 1: five game season, which is what it is after the buy,

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, in these last two weeks, as

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Speaker 1: So we need to get some people back. To me,

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Speaker 1: that's the main thing for this football team. We've dropped

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Speaker 1: the last two games, and we've done things that regardless

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Speaker 1: And for those of you who are just listening, the

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Speaker 1: and is just kind of hitting a tipping point. Well,

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Speaker 1: There's no excuse for giving the ball away. And regardless

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Speaker 1: play good technique, good fundamental football. I thought that they

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Speaker 1: things aimy in a National Football League game, that tip

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Speaker 1: the scales more quickly than anything are turnovers and explosive plays. Now,

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Speaker 1: turnovers is what happens on offense when you give the

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Speaker 1: experienced enough of those in these last two games. But

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Speaker 1: turning the ball over the number of times that the

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Speaker 1: the game changes nature. We've heard Mike Vrabel talk a

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Speaker 1: do some self scouting. Now I'm asking you, as a

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Speaker 1: get this out there. So this is why people tune

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Speaker 1: self scout every week. Now, with the way technology is,

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Speaker 1: now you get it every week, so everything's categorized every week.

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Speaker 1: not like all of a sudden, you've got three days

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Speaker 1: schematically into that. I mean, a good point of it

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Speaker 1: that piece is starting to come together. But what they

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Speaker 1: really need to be able to do is put out

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Speaker 1: the fire of being minus so much in the turnover margin.

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Speaker 1: That has to happen for this team the next five weeks. Realistically,

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Speaker 1: what can you do, for example, with the turnover margin,

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Speaker 1: always emphasize it, but you work on it in practice.

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Speaker 1: I watch practice. They emphasize it. In practice they do.

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Speaker 1: That's what you have to do because you cannot give

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Speaker 1: much of a toll has that taken, not only on

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Speaker 1: I mean it's a lot. I mean you just you

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Speaker 1: it's amazing because you not only have to find those players,

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Speaker 1: to COVID test them. Then you have to work them out.

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Speaker 1: ever sign them. You've got a ready list that has

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Speaker 1: those guys are in their career too. It's a massive,

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Speaker 1: play in those games. Here's a funny little stat Mac,

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Speaker 1: and this is Jared Puffer of the Titans PR department.

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Speaker 1: He uncovered this little gem a couple hours ago, and

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Speaker 1: so I told him I was going to steal it.

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Speaker 1: The Tennessee Titans have played twelve games this season twelve.

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Speaker 1: Only thirteen players on this whole Titans roster have played

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Speaker 1: to me, which is the lowest in the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: We're just coming up with merchandise. Now tis the season

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Speaker 1: five weeks for everybody. And then when we come back

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Speaker 1: more Tennessee Titans football, we'll be taking on the Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: Jaguars at home that twelve. Can't wait looking forward to that.

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Speaker 1: For Coach Mack, I'm Amy Wells. Thank you for listening

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Speaker 1: to this edition of the Titans Amy and Coach Mac Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Happy bye Week,