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Speaker 1: been protecting Tennessee and since nineteen forty seven. Amy Wells

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Speaker 1: is here to join me, Mike Keith Amy, good to

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Speaker 1: see you. Hey, Mike, how's it going. It's been good

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Speaker 1: to see you back at the facility. The last few days.

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Speaker 1: It has felt like normal. Even though we can't enter

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Speaker 1: we've gotten to watch practice absolutely, and that's the best

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Speaker 1: part of everything, being able to see football get back

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Speaker 1: for the players it's great, but for us as observers,

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Speaker 1: Jim Wyatt from Tennessee Titans dot Com Senior writer editor,

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Speaker 1: the great Jim Watt kind enough to join us. Jim,

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Speaker 1: good to see you, and it has been good to

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Speaker 1: been great. Yeah, it's you know, certainly some things are

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Speaker 1: I think football has been the same. I mean, obviously,

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Speaker 1: news of the day first, which was actually off the field,

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Speaker 1: Nashville's Mayor John Cooper and Titans President and CEO Burke

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Speaker 1: if if a certain guy gets his hands on the football,

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00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 1: or this guy's working you know, at a new position

430
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 1: this week, or this guy's been elevator, they're trying to

431
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 1: think this in practice. In time, more and more teams

432
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Speaker 1: started closing those practices to where you have open he'll stretch,

433
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,919
Speaker 1: you know, maybe individual periods, some of the stuff at

434
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Speaker 1: the beginning, and then once you go to team, it's done.

435
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 1: The Titans were one of the last teams in the league,

436
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,959
Speaker 1: and now there's just maybe a handful to have open practices.

437
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 1: I think there's maybe when when Mike Munchak was the

438
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Speaker 1: coaches when that time changing, Really it was because people

439
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 1: quit going to practice. There were just no reason to

440
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 1: keep it open, because people in this market just didn't

441
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:57,919
Speaker 1: care that much about going. It's been like moving forward.

442
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 1: It's still open during the course to see and for

443
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 1: a limited time. And I bet I could kind on

444
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 1: one hand the teams that haven't open now, it's it's

445
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:10,119
Speaker 1: just just a small, small number. Don't you think that

446
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 1: our mobile devices and how they have moved forward would

447
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,919
Speaker 1: be the biggest reason for that change among teams? I

448
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,720
Speaker 1: think so. I mean, and I think maybe sometimes people

449
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: feel like they have been burned where some stuff that

450
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 1: they wanted to keep quiet has gotten out there from

451
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Speaker 1: people watching practices. Is not necessarily that the that the

452
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Speaker 1: writers of the people they are covering it leaked that

453
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 1: information now, but maybe they said something to a buddy

454
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Speaker 1: who ended up saying something somebody else. And then yes,

455
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 1: with with with phones and ability to share information so

456
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 1: much easier now, that's obviously affected the team's thinking. But

457
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,919
Speaker 1: you know, for Camp and the way I think we

458
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 1: do it, you know, with the Titans, I think it's

459
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,959
Speaker 1: a great violence where you can give fans a taste

460
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 1: of what we see bring them onto the sidelines with

461
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Speaker 1: us without giving things away that's going to jumpardize the

462
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Speaker 1: team in their strategy for the season. Mike, you mentioned phones,

463
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,439
Speaker 1: and I think that phones also leads into social media

464
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Speaker 1: and the prevalence of that right now. Even in the

465
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: last ten years, media policies have changed dramatically to include

466
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Speaker 1: and try to adapt to social media in the way

467
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Speaker 1: that people use it. When I started out, there was

468
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Speaker 1: no Twitter policy. I mean, it just it was around,

469
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 1: but people didn't really know what to do with it,

470
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Speaker 1: and it was kind of a bizarre thing that people

471
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Speaker 1: were still trying to figure out. Now there is a

472
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Speaker 1: very specific when you can post video, how much video,

473
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Speaker 1: what you can tweet, when you can tweet it. It's

474
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Speaker 1: very different. But I think that pr staffs and coaches

475
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: are trying to react to the almost knee jerk reaction

476
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Speaker 1: to feel like you need to tweet something right away,

477
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,120
Speaker 1: and a lot of media people that's part of their

478
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: job is to be tweeting and be active on social media. Jim,

479
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: I know that you kind of had a requirement for

480
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Speaker 1: a while to be active on social media when you

481
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,880
Speaker 1: were with the Tennessee and and I think that's that's

482
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: something that a lot of people feel a lot of

483
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 1: stress to keep up with and also just out of habit,

484
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: tweet things a lot, a lot, a lot, and so

485
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,160
Speaker 1: to give people that time to not be able to live,

486
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: tweet what they're seeing, think about what's important, tweeted after practice.

487
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 1: I think that those are things that have had to

488
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: become a bigger consideration as well just social media the

489
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Speaker 1: other part of it. I guess that's really good and

490
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Speaker 1: it's an interesting discussion. I hope the listeners to the

491
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: OTP find it interesting. But how this has changed is

492
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: just so dramatic. Fortunately, we have a controlling owner the

493
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Speaker 1: values fans. She likes the fans. Aby Adam Strunk likes

494
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Speaker 1: the fans. John Robinson is a football guy, but he

495
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 1: gets the business of this and that the fans are important.

496
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: And the head coach, Mike Vrabel, he's a football guy.

497
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 1: And yet Jim he understands that fans are a part

498
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: of it. I mean, he's a fan of the game,

499
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,919
Speaker 1: he's a fan of the college game. He understands it.

500
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 1: I think we're lucky that even the football people in

501
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: our life and the ownership thinks it's important. So it

502
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,360
Speaker 1: gives us a chance to give them as much as

503
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 1: we possibly can. Yeah, I mean, and I think you know,

504
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 1: you guys talking about you know, having people logging on

505
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: from Germany and from Maryland and from all over the

506
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: United States and all over the world watching this team.

507
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:43,719
Speaker 1: I mean, that's part of that's because of what they

508
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 1: see on Sunday, but part of it is because of

509
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: what they find out about players and what they're doing

510
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 1: off the field, and what they're doing how they handle

511
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: themselves in the community. I mean, I think all that

512
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: is important in kind of building up your fan base.

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Speaker 1: You know when I look, you know, like job that

514
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Speaker 1: I have now, you know, I kind of think of

515
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Speaker 1: myself as a fan. I'm a fan of Los Angeles Dodgers.

516
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: I didn't grow up in Los Angeles. I grew up

517
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Speaker 1: in Nashville, Tennessee. Saw the Dodgers play when I was

518
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: in you know, when I was a young boy in

519
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: the seventies, and so you know, Steve Garvey and David

520
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: Lops and Bill Russell and Ron Say all those guys

521
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: play and from that time on, I've been a Dodger

522
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Speaker 1: fan my whole life. And it's funny when we were

523
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: in London or when we make road trips and we

524
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: run into people that are in Titans fans that some

525
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: of never even been to Nashville, or some of them

526
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 1: like the Titans because of the Music City Miracle, because

527
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 1: Eddie George and Steve McNair. Sure I'm like the team

528
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: because of their colors, you know, some of them like

529
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: the team because of their their ties to the Oilers.

530
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 1: But everybody has, you know, a reason why they have

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Speaker 1: become a Titans fan. And as much as I followed

532
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: the Dodgers from Afar, I know all their beat guys,

533
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: I watch as much as their content as I possibly can.

534
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: I know people are doing that in other cities. So

535
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: I've tried to give them as much information as I

536
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: possibly can to enlighten them on the team, just like

537
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: you guys do on a regular basis. And I know

538
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: how much people appreciate it. I mean, I see it

539
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: in the comments on Twitter. I see it in my emails,

540
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: I see it in the you know, the mail bag.

541
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: The people were, you know, sending in questions from all

542
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: over you know, the world. So I just feel like,

543
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: you know, it's my obligation to kind of take them

544
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: with me and to give them a peak at what

545
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: we get to live and what we get to do,

546
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: and I know you guys take that same approach. I mean,

547
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: that's that's part of the reason why we love what

548
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: we do is because we're you know, enjoy it for ourselves,

549
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: but we're kind of brightening the day if somebody else

550
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: is starting for that information. And that's exactly how we

551
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: felt amy after Sunday and Monday doing the live look

552
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: in the training camp look in and thank you to

553
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: Pinnacle Financial, a great team partner for sponsoring that. We've

554
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: we felt great about the fact that we got to

555
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: bring the fans in when they couldn't be there, and

556
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: then the response that we got from fans just really

557
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: backed up for all the people who put in the

558
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: effort and the extra time to make that happen. Man,

559
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: that was worth it for those people who care because

560
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: it brought them to Saint Thomas Sports Park in a

561
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: year that they couldn't be there. Absolutely, and I hope

562
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: it comes through how much fun you and I are

563
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Speaker 1: having doing that. I mean, for as much as everybody

564
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: likes watching it, we enjoy doing it ten times more.

565
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Speaker 1: To be able to talk about this and know that

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Speaker 1: the people listening and engaging with that are just as

567
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Speaker 1: passionate about it, if not more passionate than we are. Like,

568
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool to be able to bring something to

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Speaker 1: someone who really genuinely cares about this team and how

570
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: they're doing and what's going on here in Nashville, even

571
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: if they can't be here. Man, that's cool. That's the

572
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: best part. I mean, people watch him because yesterday I

573
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Speaker 1: was at practice on how to wast It was kind

574
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Speaker 1: of hovering and apparently you guys maybe pan the camera

575
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: over and saw me trying to slap this wasp off,

576
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: and I gotta I gotta reply from somebody said, hey,

577
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: did you get that sweatbee out of the way? And

578
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: I was like, hid the heck? Did they know that

579
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: I had a swet? I want to sweatban. This is

580
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: a big monster wasp too. This is one of those

581
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: what do you call those killer dirt dis the murder hornet,

582
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: like a murder hornet that was that was hovering around me.

583
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: The murder hornet. Oh, Jim, I wasn't gonna tell you

584
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: we did well, but we were trying to show you,

585
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: to give some love to you and to and to

586
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: also bring people in that it's a different year for

587
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,959
Speaker 1: the media covering training camp as well, where at some

588
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: point we've had it on the schedule and I've blown

589
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: it twice twice. We want to show the new building

590
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: because I know Titans fans all over the place. I've

591
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: been hearing about this new building that Aby Adams Strunk

592
00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: has underway, and people it's a listen, it's a building

593
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: right now, it's just the shell of a building. But

594
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: people are interested in all of it. You know, they

595
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: want to see Greg Joseph. They want to see Tucker McCann,

596
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: who's winning the kicking battle. They you know, they want

597
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: to see Big Panda. They want to see Darrington Evans,

598
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: they want to see Christian Fulton. You know, they want

599
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: to see the newgat. DeAndre Walker has been such a

600
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: focus of this because people didn't get to see him

601
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: last year, and I've had more people go hey, I mean,

602
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: DeAndre Walker was a fifth round pick a year ago,

603
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: but everybody knows Jim he's got a chance to be

604
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 1: in the rotation and outside linebacker. He's a training camp storyline,

605
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: and people love training camp storylines, they really do. I mean,

606
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: I mean it's some of these undrafted guys too that

607
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: they're getting a chance to to play and getting a

608
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: chance to get reps. And you know, with the roster

609
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: cut down to eighty, which is what's usually ninety at

610
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: this time of year, these guys are getting opportunities. Says Oh,

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00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: you know for all the DeAndrea Walker's out there, for

612
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: all of these rising second year players who are trying

613
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: to take that next step. I mean, this is a

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00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: huge camp for them. And fans know these players and

615
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: certainly are trying to figure out who is on the bubble,

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Speaker 1: who's gonna make it, And that's what camp's all about,

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Speaker 1: all right, So let's talk. Let me throw out a

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Speaker 1: few names here, Jim. Today you wrote about Calif Raymond,

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Speaker 1: and Calif Raymond is one of those great stories, and

620
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: in your story at Tennessee Titans dot Com about him

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00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: really captures everything about him that is very real. I

622
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: mean he is. For him to be doing what he's

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Speaker 1: doing is really amazing. And best of all, i mean,

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00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: I'm all for the happy Cinderella type Hollywood story, but

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00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: I'd rather him score a bunch of touchdowns and help

626
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: the Titans win games. And the way he's played so far,

627
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: that's what he looks like, right now out. I mean

628
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: he made two of the biggest plays of the two

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Speaker 1: thousand NINEEN season. You know, he had to touchdown catch

630
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 1: against the Colts that kind of broke that game open.

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Speaker 1: He had the big catch against the Ravens in the playoffs.

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00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: I mean, in limited opportunities, he made a big impact.

633
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: And now you look at this team's receiving Corey obviously

634
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,280
Speaker 1: the Big three, or Aj Brown, Corey Davis, Adam Humphreys.

635
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: But Raymond's going to have a chance to bring a

636
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: different element to this team with the speed and his

637
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: ability as a return man. He's looked really good in

638
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: camp and I think his familiarity with the offense is

639
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:39,240
Speaker 1: familiarity with Ryan Tanneyhill is going to help him. Certainly,

640
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: He's competing with other guys Camp Batson as a contender,

641
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: Richard Davis as a contender. But I think Raymond makes

642
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 1: this team and I think he makes more of an

643
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: impact than this year in two twenty. My Keith is

644
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: so funny because he cares about my input when it

645
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: comes to Khalif Raymond exactly zero percent. That's not true.

646
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: He's go into meditation and he's very zen. He's got

647
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: a tattoo by a Buddhist monk in Indonesia. He's such

648
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: an interesting human being. And I mentioned it to Mike

649
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: and he was like, score touchdowns. No, No, what I

650
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: said is such a neat guy. He is a neat guy,

651
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 1: but he's eat. I do care. I totally care, you know,

652
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: I care, But I also care that he runs four three.

653
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: Don't you want to see his Buddhist monk tattoo? I

654
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: want to see. I want to see him catch a

655
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,879
Speaker 1: touchdown to beat Indianapolis in Indianapolis. Yeah, but I've seen

656
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: that before. Well once, OK, No, it's not enough. You

657
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 1: haven't been there twenty four times like we have and

658
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: been through some of the stuff we've been through. I

659
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: want to see his Indonesian monk tattoo. But I think

660
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: that's a part of him, and I do think it's

661
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: a story. But let's face it. The reason that he's

662
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: here is because and the reason that he's getting a

663
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 1: chance is because he's so fast. He has legitimate sub

664
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: four four speed, just like Cam Batson. And you know,

665
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: when you when you've got that element about you, listen,

666
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: I mean, you can have all the good stories you

667
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: want when you're two and fourteen and nobody cares. But

668
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: if you go fourteen and two and you have all

669
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: these good stories, then they're really interesting. So I don't

670
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: dismiss them. But Amy, I want to win. I am shallow.

671
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,839
Speaker 1: How what can I say? That's okay? I mean rather

672
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: and not be honest about it. Well, yeah, I mean

673
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 1: if if you didn't want good things for him, that

674
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: would be a problem. But you want to win, like,

675
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,879
Speaker 1: that's okay. I'll let it slide, but I will call

676
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: it out every time you dismiss something like meditation, I

677
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: did not. I did not dismiss it. I shut it down.

678
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: You shut it down. It's what you did. I moved

679
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: it in a different direction. Jim, would you like to

680
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 1: refer read this part of it. That's a pretty good

681
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: back and forth. I wasn't enjoying being a spectator there,

682
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: literally right caught in the middle of this one. The

683
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: other guy that you wrote about this afternoon, which I

684
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: thought was really good, was a Dorry Jackson, and he

685
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 1: has shown up to me in a different way so far.

686
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: And both of you jump on this. Jim first, it

687
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: looks like to me that a Dory saying I want

688
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: to be a shut down corner. I want to be

689
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: an elite level corner. I want to be the guy

690
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: that I was in the playoffs. Yeah, and it's it's

691
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: it's funny we were round, you know those practice observations

692
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: I do each day. I think on maybe the second

693
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,720
Speaker 1: day of camp, I ran a picture of Adam Humphreys

694
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: who had put on a great move to get behind

695
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: a Dory and Dory had kind of had this uh

696
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: look like he was obviously had been beat and was

697
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 1: trying to catch up. And then I posted a video

698
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: of of maybe it was Cameron Batton. It was either

699
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: Baton or Rashard Davis, you know who had a really

700
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,839
Speaker 1: good routing and beat a Dory. And I saw a

701
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,959
Speaker 1: comment on Twitter that the Dory's getting beat a lot

702
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: in camp. He must be having a bad camp with

703
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: The reality is Dorry Jackson's looked really good to me.

704
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: You know, you're gonna get beat in those one on

705
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: one drills a lot of times by the receiver working

706
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: in so much space you don't have the help. But

707
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: what stood out to meet the most about the Dory

708
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: Jackson is just his physicality. He's gone up against a J.

709
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: Brown and a lot of these drills and he's he

710
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: has been physical with him. He's gotten the ball out

711
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: of aj Brown's hands down field. On the sideline, he

712
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: looks a lot tougher. It looks a lot scrappier to me.

713
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 1: And you know when I look at the defense, and

714
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 1: I think Malcolm Butler's looked really good too. But I've

715
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: been really impressed with the Dory in the way he's

716
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: played through the first part of camp. I think a

717
00:38:56,239 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: Dory took having his fifth year option picked up really seriously.

718
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 1: I think that that's something that he wants to play into.

719
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: He wants to prove that he earned that. And I've

720
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 1: seen him work in the off season. Not this past season, obviously,

721
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 1: because we've all been staying at home. I'm staying safe,

722
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 1: but the year before I went out to California and

723
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: watched him work with a trainer for three and a

724
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 1: half hours, which is a lot to be one on

725
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: one with a trainer and just drill after drill after drill,

726
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:33,760
Speaker 1: focusing on what felt to me like minutia. He trained

727
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 1: so hard during the off season, and so I think

728
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: realizing how serious this year is for him and really

729
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: feeling like he wants to prove that he's earned the

730
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: spot that he has been giving, plus the attention to

731
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 1: detail that I know he puts in the off season,

732
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,359
Speaker 1: plus feeling like he's kind of a leader in that room. Now,

733
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: I think all of that is coming together to create

734
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: the audority that we're seeing right now. Give me one

735
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,839
Speaker 1: thing we've only I had a chance to watch four practices,

736
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 1: but Amy, give me the one overriding thing that you

737
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: are most pleased with that you have seen in the

738
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Speaker 1: four practices. The speed number one speed speed, the speed

739
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: of practice. It looks like an October practice to me.

740
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: Everyone is moving from place to place to place. They

741
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 1: know where they're going, They're looking sharp. The drills look sharp.

742
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 1: Watching practice, I feel like we're getting ready for a

743
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. It feels very put together, and that

744
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: is such a good feeling in the first four practices

745
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 1: of training camp. Jim, I'm gonna piggyback off of Amy. Yeah,

746
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 1: I think just overall crispness just haven't been a lot

747
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: of mistakes out there. There was a false start today,

748
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: but for the most part, no guys appear to be

749
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: on the same page or Ryan Tannehill looks like he's

750
00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: in command and has a great deal like chemistry with

751
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: some of these receivers. It's really impressive knowing that these

752
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: guys didn't work together through OTAs and through many camps

753
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 1: and during a long portion of practice. I mean, we're

754
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 1: just getting started and it's been very impressive to me

755
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: in that regard as well. To me, it's the fact

756
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 1: that this feels like Ryan Tannehill's team. Ryan Tannehill is

757
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 1: in command. Ryan Tannehill is telling people what he wants.

758
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: He's talking to Arthur Smith. Guys respond to him. He's

759
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: challenging the defense. When they have the first units go

760
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 1: against each other, it feels like and you got to

761
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 1: feel like if you're watching the Chargers with Philip Rivers

762
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: or probably the Colts with Philip Rivers now, but Tom

763
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 1: Brady teams and Peyton Manning teams, and what we saw

764
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: with Steve McNair in two thousand and two and two

765
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: thousand and three, two thousand and four where it was

766
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: very much his team. There's something comforting when the quarterback

767
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: has that sort of aura. It's it's winning. It's a

768
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: winning aura about it because this guy is the focal

769
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: point and it's not a pointing fingers and calling out

770
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: guys and being a jerk to people. It's not that,

771
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: it's just hey, we're all following this guy. This is

772
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: our dude, and this is how it works. Jim. That's

773
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: where it feels different to me than it has in

774
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,799
Speaker 1: a long long time. Yeah, I agree. I mean it's

775
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: just crazy to me, just in such a short amount

776
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,319
Speaker 1: of time, how much things have changed. I mean, you mean,

777
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: as we prepare for the Broncos, just think about back

778
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: the last year's game in October against Denver when this

779
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,879
Speaker 1: team made the quarterback change. And I tell people all

780
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,720
Speaker 1: the time, this is a really you know, funny story

781
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: of the first day heading into week seven that Ryan

782
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: Tanneyhill was taken over as the quarterback, like for Able

783
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: had named him the starter, Marcus Mario had officially been benched.

784
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: I posted a clip of practice kind of during the

785
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: individual drills of Ryan Tanneyhill playing and you know, dropping

786
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,800
Speaker 1: back the pass and the music playing in the background

787
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: was a CDC's Highway to Hell, and one of the

788
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:25,959
Speaker 1: first comments underneath was, well, this is very appropriate because

789
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: that's where this team is headed, you know, two and four.

790
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,919
Speaker 1: At the time, Tanny Hill, Mariota, I think everybody thought

791
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 1: that this season was the season was doomed, and we

792
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: all know how last season ended. Ryan Tanneyhill went from

793
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,280
Speaker 1: being really an observer for the most part who deferred

794
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: to Marcus Mariota, to being a leader. He gets to

795
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: contract extension this saw season. He did so much speaking up,

796
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: you know, the for what's going on in society. You know,

797
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: was not afraid at all to make his feelings known.

798
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:57,720
Speaker 1: Then he was very big and speaking up for Derrick Henry,

799
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: his teammate, to get a new contract. He's been so

800
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: good in the Zoom meetings and everything that's been done

801
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the sauce and half guys ready

802
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: for camp and when I'll watch him, you're right, Michael,

803
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: and this is clearly a Ryan tanney Hill led team.

804
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 1: A guy who has a lot of confidence, has some

805
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: moxie about him, you know, is going to make sure

806
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: if things are done correctly, and it shows so much

807
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 1: on the practice field just because he is in control

808
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,919
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be ticked off of is not done right.

809
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: No question national media coming to town almost none because

810
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: most of those folks aren't traveling. But yesterday we did

811
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,839
Speaker 1: have one of the biggest national folks in town from

812
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: NBC and Football Morning in America, his column that comes

813
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 1: out every Monday. Peter King. I had a chance to

814
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 1: visit with Peter King and and talk to him a

815
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: little bit about his mindset, wondering, you know, how are

816
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: things different from him, and a little bit about why

817
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: Nashville was one of his stops, Peter. Outside of the

818
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,399
Speaker 1: obvious with the masks and the different things we go through,

819
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 1: how different is your training camp experience in twenty twenty, Well, Mike,

820
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: it's it's weird. Usually I go to in a thirty

821
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 1: days span, I'll see twenty or twenty one teams, and

822
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: I go out for a long most of a month obviously,

823
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: But this year I'm going out for eight days. I'm

824
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,839
Speaker 1: seeing four teams, and I'm not talking to anybody individually.

825
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 1: You know. It's just that's the weird thing of it,

826
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: you know. I'll give you an example. I saw the

827
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers for two days, two practices, and the

828
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: first day I had to hustle back to my hotel

829
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: after practice because in a like a two hour span,

830
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: I was going to talk to Tom Brady, Bruce Arians

831
00:45:54,239 --> 00:46:00,040
Speaker 1: and Jason Light the gm BY video conference, And so,

832
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 1: you know, it's crazy. You're running, you're running out of

833
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: camp and you're sort of speeding back to the hotel

834
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:08,919
Speaker 1: so you could be in front of your computer five

835
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 1: miles away to talk to the people who you just

836
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: were twenty yards away from. It's just crazy. Why did

837
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: you decide to make the Tennessee Titans a stop on

838
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: your shortened tour? You're condensed tour. There's two teams that

839
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: I knew I was going to go see. One was

840
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay because of Brady. One was Kansas City because

841
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: of Repeating. So I just started to think, Okay, what

842
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: am I going to do? Am I going to fly everywhere?

843
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 1: Or should I look at the possibility of seeing two

844
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: or three teams along the way from Tampa Bay to

845
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:47,439
Speaker 1: Kansas City and just drive? So after we left Tampa Bay,

846
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 1: we went to Atlanta. That's about a six hour drive,

847
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:53,359
Speaker 1: and we saw the Falcons on Saturday. Then we got

848
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 1: in the car Saturday afternoon and drove to Nashville. So

849
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: we'll be in the hotel in Nashville for three nights,

850
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,879
Speaker 1: and then tomorrow about mid day, we're going to make

851
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,280
Speaker 1: the eight and a half hour drive to Kansas City.

852
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 1: But I'd say the overwriting reason. There's other teams we

853
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:15,359
Speaker 1: could have snuck into. But the overwriting reason is that

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Speaker 1: at the end of last year, I remember seeing Mike

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Speaker 1: Vrabel in the locker room in Kansas City, and Mike

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Speaker 1: Vrabel was not crushed. He was not a despondent, nor

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Speaker 1: was he hey man, we had a great year. He

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Speaker 1: was just like, all right, we're onto the next thing.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I just got this impression. And I

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Speaker 1: talked to Vrabel while I was here. I got the impression,

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Speaker 1: you know that he really subscribes to the Parcels theory

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Speaker 1: of you never start one year where you left off

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Speaker 1: the previous year, you know, And that's exactly the way

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Speaker 1: he feels. But I think there's so many interesting things

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Speaker 1: about this team. I mean, when any football fan thinks

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Speaker 1: of the Tennessee Titans, they think of Derrick Henry having

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Speaker 1: these monstrous games in the playoffs. Does any American football

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00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: fan know that Ryan Tannehill had the highest quarterback rating

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Speaker 1: in the last six years last year for this team

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Speaker 1: right here, No nobody, nobody even has a clue, but

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00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:28,399
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith, Vabel, Tannehilly, they all figured out a way

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Speaker 1: to do some do some really interesting stuff on offense

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00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: to do some really varied stuff on offense. I just

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00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: I don't I don't have a great feel for this division.

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00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: I think it's the Bizarro Division. You know, should Houston

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00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:49,800
Speaker 1: win it again? Is Indie ready to take the jump?

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Speaker 1: Can these guys hold everybody off? I think it's just

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00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: a totally fascinating It's a fascinating team, and it's a

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00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: fascinating division. Does the league? Does the National DA know

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00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: what to make of the twenty twenty Tennessee tite? No?

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00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:06,880
Speaker 1: Because look, I you know, look Mike, you saw it.

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00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 1: You know. The weirdest stat in the NFL last year

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00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: is that after Halloween the Miami Dolphins had a better

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00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: record than the New England Patriots because everybody said, oh

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00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: my god, Patriots eight. No, they're on the way, They're

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00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: they're here, Patriots. Just by the time the Titans got

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00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: the Foxborough on January fourth, the Patriots were a shell

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00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 1: of what they had been, you know. And I think,

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Speaker 1: particularly if you can play the Patriots in a ball

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Speaker 1: control way, and honestly, the Titans can play anybody in

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Speaker 1: a ball control way, if you could play the Patriots

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00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: in a ball control way, you've got a really, really

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Speaker 1: good chance of winning because I'm convinced that even though

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00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 1: their offense was really not good last year, that if

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Speaker 1: you give Josh McDaniels enough chances and and Brady you

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00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 1: know last year, you give them enough chances, they'll figure

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Speaker 1: it out. But they just couldn't get anything going at

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Speaker 1: all last year, in part because it almost felt like

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Speaker 1: a fire drill every time they got the ball. Oh,

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Speaker 1: they better do something here, you know. And But as

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Speaker 1: far as what I don't think America really knows to

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Speaker 1: what knows what to make of this team because not

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Speaker 1: necessarily the New England game, because that, to me was

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Speaker 1: not a surprise at all. The Baltimore game was a surprise.

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Speaker 1: And I think when you watch that game, you know,

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Speaker 1: the one play that is front of mind about that

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Speaker 1: play is, you know, the long Calif Raymond play that

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Speaker 1: nobody saw coming. Nobody even knows who the heck Calif

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Speaker 1: Raymond is him and his unlikely story to even be

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Speaker 1: in a training camp, never mind having a huge play

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00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: to beat the top seed in the AFC. But I

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00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:56,760
Speaker 1: think that is one of the really really interesting things

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Speaker 1: about this team, and that is that, you know, Arthur Smith,

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Speaker 1: I was talking to John Robinson just shooting the breeze

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Speaker 1: a little bit with him, and he said, you know,

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Speaker 1: he tries to zig while everybody else is zagging. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's one of the great things about play

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Speaker 1: callers in the NFL. It isn't necessarily if you have

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Speaker 1: the best players. It is when you call plays and

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00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 1: you know the fact that it's a lot better to

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Speaker 1: call a play when the defense doesn't see it coming.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's a lot of what this team is.

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Speaker 1: So honestly, Mike, I I just think this is I

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Speaker 1: think this team could go thirteen and three. I think

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Speaker 1: they could go eight and eight. You know, it's but

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Speaker 1: I think it's just a fascinating team. That's gonna wrap

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Speaker 1: up this edition of the OTP. You can follow Jim

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Speaker 1: Wyatt on Twitter at j Wyatt Sports. You can follow

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Speaker 1: Amy Wells on Twitter at Titans Amy. That's a m

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Speaker 1: I E. For Amy Wells and Jim Wyatt. Mike Keith,

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Speaker 1: thanks you for listening to the OTP presented by far

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Speaker 1: Bureau Healthley