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Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis. I'm Mike Keith. We are glad to have
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Speaker 1: I think is a very special edition of the OTP.
Speaker 2: Well, the OTP is for the ot people, that's right,
Speaker 2: and this is a prime example of it.
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Speaker 1: we ask you to submit your questions for Coach Mac
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Speaker 1: I couldn't get through on Mac Talk and so here
Speaker 1: on this edition of the OTP, we have placed Coach
Speaker 1: Mac squarely in the Snickers hot seat and Rhett and
Speaker 1: I will be feeding him your question. So here we go.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go first. After being at both the
Speaker 1: college and NFL levels of coaching. What do you think
Speaker 1: is the biggest difference from a coach's perspective.
Speaker 3: The level of preparation. You know, in college you're limited
Speaker 3: with a number of hours you can have. The National
Speaker 3: Football League it's twenty five to seven. Just the college
Speaker 3: of just just just the level of not only preparation,
Speaker 3: but the level of intensity that you have with your
Speaker 3: players preparing because this is their livelihood, this is everything.
Speaker 3: And so all professional players want is what can you
Speaker 3: do to help my game? And they don't. They don't
Speaker 3: want they don't want a lot of verbiage. All they
Speaker 3: what can you specifically do to help me every week
Speaker 3: in my career so that I can prolong it. But
Speaker 3: just the intensity of the preparation is a huge difference.
Speaker 2: When you were asked to come on Titans Radio with
Speaker 2: Mike Keith, who was someone you studied on in broadcasting,
Speaker 2: to prepare you for the role as color analysts, you know.
Speaker 3: That's a that to me is a great question because really,
Speaker 3: before Mike called me, I never really thought about doing this,
Speaker 3: and he didn't give me much time. We didn't have
Speaker 3: much time because because I understand now the circumstances, but
Speaker 3: I was. I was called on a Monday, and as
Speaker 3: we were talking through it, I said, well, when do
Speaker 3: you need me there? And he said, well, we're going
Speaker 3: to New York Saturday. And I went this Saturday, and
Speaker 3: so so I really didn't have a whole lot of time,
Speaker 3: you know, to to do that. Since then, since then,
Speaker 3: I pay a lot of attention, you know, to the
Speaker 3: broadcasting and and and what's and what's going on. And
Speaker 3: I know that he's not a play by play guy,
Speaker 3: but I've always always been a huge, huge Jim Dance
Speaker 3: fan just by the fact of just how professional he
Speaker 3: handles what goes on.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 2: We're talking about a gold standard broadcaster.
Speaker 3: Well, but I mean I think that's what Titans Radio is,
Speaker 3: is a gold standard. And so anyway, there you go.
Speaker 1: What is the best name of a play call that
Speaker 1: you've ever heard?
Speaker 3: Now, I'm in a defensive coach until I was a
Speaker 3: head coach, and then I was an assistant head coach,
Speaker 3: so I was in charge of all of it, but defensively,
Speaker 3: when you have to call out the formations as far
Speaker 3: as they line up in King's trip speed flip left,
Speaker 3: X y Z E O yo motion, whie flaire.
Speaker 1: So what is that defense.
Speaker 3: King's trip speed is eleven personnel. Okay, because in the
Speaker 3: National Football League some people numbers you know, ten, eleven, twelve, twenty,
Speaker 3: and some people use deck of cards ace King's queens,
Speaker 3: you know, flush jacks. So King's is eleven personnel. Trip's
Speaker 3: speed means all three receivers on the one side of
Speaker 3: the formation. The tight end is X. He's on the
Speaker 3: wide side of the formation. On the trip speed side,
Speaker 3: You've got you've got, you've got, you've got z W
Speaker 3: and y yo yo motion. Okay, King's trip speed, you've
Speaker 3: got yo yo motion. That means the inside receiver from
Speaker 3: the speed side starts to the center and then yo
Speaker 3: yo's back to get into what we call a nine
Speaker 3: ball stack on the three receiver side. That's what that is.
Speaker 1: Okay, yep, your question right, Yeah, Wow, Do do you remember
Speaker 1: all that? That's an excellent fun the.
Speaker 3: Same way you remember everything you remember. I mean, you've
Speaker 3: got I've done it for a long time, a long time.
Speaker 3: It's been my life, and so you know I that's
Speaker 3: how I've been doing it a long time, same way
Speaker 3: you and you've got it. When I first went to
Speaker 3: the Bears, they didn't ask this question. But it was
Speaker 3: before we had computers, and so you know, I was
Speaker 3: the linebacker coach, but I was also the defensive quality
Speaker 3: control coach. And so the the playbook that we put
Speaker 3: together to incorporate Buddy Ryan's forty six and then Vince
Speaker 3: Tobin's defenses, you had to draw it all by hand.
Speaker 3: You had to draw it all by hand, and then
Speaker 3: you wrote it out, and then you gave it to
Speaker 3: the secretary and she typed it, you know, on that
Speaker 3: on that paper that made that made copies, and then
Speaker 3: you rent it off, you know, on the machine. So
Speaker 3: I wrote that whole thing. I wrote the whole thing.
Speaker 3: And so when you do that, you learn it.
Speaker 1: It becomes that say say that again one more time.
Speaker 3: King's trip speed flip left x y. Why why yo
Speaker 3: yo motion?
Speaker 1: Isn't that a great example as you repeat that of
Speaker 1: why young players, rookies have such a hard time coming
Speaker 1: to the NFL where they don't have play calls, especially
Speaker 1: the offensive players. They don't have play calls. They never
Speaker 1: deal with it. They just see cards on the sidelines
Speaker 1: and that tells them what to do.
Speaker 3: That's a perfect example why it really is.
Speaker 1: That's got to be brutal.
Speaker 3: It really is. And that is that's a defensive version
Speaker 3: of that, you know, being able to talk about like
Speaker 3: on the headset, what are they doing? Mike, I got
Speaker 3: King's trip speed flip left. You know X, Y and
Speaker 3: Y you know yo yo. Before we had all of
Speaker 3: these tablets and things, the West Coast offense is even
Speaker 3: more intricate than that coming from the offensive side of it.
Speaker 1: Wow, mind blown, Mind blown.
Speaker 2: All right, this one, This is an excellent conversation at
Speaker 2: OTP to begin with. This is gonna raise it a notch.
Speaker 2: Do you think NFL officiating is getting worse better or
Speaker 2: is it staying the same. Because I listened to you
Speaker 2: and Mike during Titans games and I always agree with
Speaker 2: your assessments on what's happening on the field.
Speaker 3: It's not as good as it used to be. It's
Speaker 3: not as good as it used to be from top
Speaker 3: to bottom. I think, you know, a lot of the
Speaker 3: best officials right now are in the television booth, and
Speaker 3: you've had some really really veteran officials retire, and so
Speaker 3: people coming in it's just like rookie players coming in.
Speaker 3: They have to learn the game. They have to learn
Speaker 3: the game, and they only. You can't manufacture experience in
Speaker 3: any profession, but especially in this business because everything is
Speaker 3: so immediate, and that's why you see so many And
Speaker 3: when I'm sitting up there with Mike Keith and I
Speaker 3: mean he's always spot on with I mean, he can
Speaker 3: call out and tell you what the penalty is and
Speaker 3: how much they should market off and where the ball
Speaker 3: should be immediately, because those are the details you have.
Speaker 3: And we've seen games as to when you know they've
Speaker 3: marked off twelve yard penalties and there's not twelve yard
Speaker 3: penalties on a ten yard penalty play you know from
Speaker 3: so just the administration of it, it's not as good
Speaker 3: as it's it's really not.
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Speaker 1: your questions for coach Mac. You submitted them to me
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Speaker 1: Titan's immediate football question comes next as well as Taj
Speaker 1: Spears is playing right now? What ways can Tim Kelly
Speaker 1: keep he and Derrick Henry involved without limiting snaps or
Speaker 1: telegraphing plays.
Speaker 3: Pony personnel is what we've seen both in the backfield
Speaker 3: at the same time and what we call a red set.
Speaker 3: You've already seen that. We saw it a lot, you know,
Speaker 3: during the practices we get to go to before the
Speaker 3: season started that we can't talk about, but we saw
Speaker 3: him doing that a lot and there, and he's using
Speaker 3: it in a red set, which is a split back set,
Speaker 3: and and he's he's alternated whether he sets Uh Derek
Speaker 3: to the tight side of the formation or to the
Speaker 3: open side of the formation. And you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 3: see a lot of different plays come off of this
Speaker 3: because it opens up a multitude of things you can
Speaker 3: do bringing him across the backfield, double screens, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of things that he can do. I mean that
Speaker 3: just a myriad of it. And plus with the threat
Speaker 3: of both of them being able to run, and they're
Speaker 3: distinctly different runners, but they're both very effective with what
Speaker 3: they do. The Pony personnel I think will start seeing
Speaker 3: more and more of.
Speaker 2: After the first two games of the season. What is
Speaker 2: your opinion on Tim Kelly as the offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3: I think he does a nice job of layering calls
Speaker 3: and layering calls. As a defensive coach, you always when
Speaker 3: you when you're you're scouting the guy that's called in plays,
Speaker 3: that's your opponent. You want to see first of all,
Speaker 3: if he's layers calls, which means is he building calls
Speaker 3: one upon the other with his personnel groups depending on
Speaker 3: what you've deployed over there on defense? And then is
Speaker 3: he stacking calls? And then the other part is is
Speaker 3: he setting up calls because the really good play callers
Speaker 3: set calls up. In other words, they'll set calls up
Speaker 3: series by series, set calls up by you know, put
Speaker 3: put a certain personnel group out there in a certain formation,
Speaker 3: see how the defense on a down and distance is
Speaker 3: going to adjust to it, and then come back to
Speaker 3: something that can counter the way he now sees the
Speaker 3: defense setting up to that. I think he does.
Speaker 1: All of that, all right, So I've got two sort
Speaker 1: of back to back here that tie in. If it's okay,
Speaker 1: coach Mack and the Snickers hot seat. Here it comes
Speaker 1: coach Mack, who is the one current player in the
Speaker 1: NFL you wish you could coach that.
Speaker 3: I like that, I like like, I like that question
Speaker 3: a lot that can either be offensively.
Speaker 1: Yeah, does not say defense, or it could be anybody.
Speaker 3: Well, I'd love to have Miles Garrett.
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say.
Speaker 3: That if I'm calling defense?
Speaker 1: Why why is he so different than like other edge rusher.
Speaker 3: He's a big man. He's a big man that plays
Speaker 3: like a little man. He can, he's speed to power,
Speaker 3: he's athletic out through the roof. But he's also a
Speaker 3: gunbay bend the edge guy. You can line him up
Speaker 3: in multiple places. He can stand up in two point,
Speaker 3: he can go down in three point, he can he
Speaker 3: can do it all. He's the number one pick in
Speaker 3: the draft for a reason, the number one. Some number
Speaker 3: one picks in the drafts have not been legitimate players.
Speaker 3: This guy is a physical phenom and he's a good,
Speaker 3: good football player that you can do so much with.
Speaker 3: And he's a smart.
Speaker 1: Guy two hundred and seventy five pounds plays like a
Speaker 1: guy two thirty five or two forty in terms of
Speaker 1: his movement.
Speaker 3: You got it? I mean right there. And plus I
Speaker 3: mean he's a he's a relentless player. He is relentless.
Speaker 3: He was that he was that way at Texas A
Speaker 3: and m I mean he's a special, special player.
Speaker 1: All right. So this may be the same answer. If
Speaker 1: you could add one NFL defensive player to the Titans
Speaker 1: roster this year, who would you add? And why?
Speaker 3: Well, how about that dude?
Speaker 1: Well that's what I figured you say. So let's take
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett out. Who else would be a guy that
Speaker 1: you would add? If you could add one defensive player
Speaker 1: to the Titans roster this year? Who would you add?
Speaker 1: And why?
Speaker 3: I would really I would really like to be able
Speaker 3: to I would really like to be able to add
Speaker 3: a shutdown corner. Okay, just a true uh true. Now
Speaker 3: that that can be a varied opinion on who that
Speaker 3: dude is, but to me, one of the best pure
Speaker 3: shutdown corners in this league. Still now we're saying that
Speaker 3: he's completely healthy. Is a jailing Rams?
Speaker 1: Kaylen Rams?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And some guy can just because with. I had
Speaker 3: one of those guys in my long coaching career in
Speaker 3: Anias Williams, and I could do anything I wanted with him.
Speaker 3: And we were in the NFC East at the time,
Speaker 3: and I could I knew going in game planning against
Speaker 3: the Cowboys twice a year that I could tell him
Speaker 3: in that first meeting, Nicky, you've got Michael Irving and
Speaker 3: the rest of the ten of you, here's what we're
Speaker 3: going to do to try to stop the rest of them.
Speaker 3: You know, EMMITTT. Smith and all that group. But when
Speaker 3: you have that guy, it's a special feeling as a
Speaker 3: defensive coordinator when you're able to do that. All those
Speaker 3: teams that Dion Sanders played for, that was the guy
Speaker 3: and it makes a big difference.
Speaker 2: All Right, this was going to take a minute to
Speaker 2: lay out here in your answer, but this person's asking
Speaker 2: explain fourth quarter roles of a head coach, including challenges, coaching,
Speaker 2: play calling, clock management, and any other duties.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, all of that when you when
Speaker 3: you're in a assistant coach, you very rarely think of
Speaker 3: any of that, you know, because you're you're dialed in,
Speaker 3: you're dealing in with your people. If you're coordinator. You
Speaker 3: know you're working your side of the ball. As when
Speaker 3: I became a head coach and you you're in, you're
Speaker 3: thrown into a different world of the game. The world
Speaker 3: managing a game is much different than coaching a position
Speaker 3: during during a game, and so you have to be
Speaker 3: aware of everything. And the other thing. The thing that
Speaker 3: happens to though, guys, is it's really really important to
Speaker 3: have somebody you really trust in the box. You've got
Speaker 3: to have somebody you really trust. You've got to make
Speaker 3: the call. But if you've got somebody in the box
Speaker 3: you can trust that can give you information when you
Speaker 3: ask for it in an instant, in an instant, and
Speaker 3: especially with the challenges and those types of things that
Speaker 3: make a huge difference uh managing time outs or being
Speaker 3: able to to play the clock game. I was very
Speaker 3: fortunate in my career to start out Mike Ditka was
Speaker 3: really good at this stuff, and I come here and
Speaker 3: work for Jeff Fisher. Jeff Fisher was really good at
Speaker 3: this stuff, and so you know when I became a
Speaker 3: head coach that I would pick the brains of those
Speaker 3: guys as to how it was. Dan Reeves was really good,
Speaker 3: so I would sit with those guys, you know, when
Speaker 3: I would have opportunities to just what we're doing right
Speaker 3: now and talk about those instances. But they come up,
Speaker 3: and they happen so fast that you've got to go
Speaker 3: into it. You can prepare all you want, but you
Speaker 3: have to be able to react in the moment. But
Speaker 3: you have to have a real working knowledge of the
Speaker 3: rules because the rules make a difference. Mike Rabel's got
Speaker 3: a great handle on this. He understands the game within
Speaker 3: the game, but as a head coach much different than
Speaker 3: being a coordinator because now you're playing the big picture
Speaker 3: throughout all of it. As to where coordinators are playing
Speaker 3: their side of it.
Speaker 1: Coach Mackett doesn't come up often, but I think the
Speaker 1: rule about fumbling the ball through the end zone is
Speaker 1: maybe the worst rule in all of sports. Would you
Speaker 1: be in favor of changing this rule? And do you
Speaker 1: think it would pass if it was presented to the
Speaker 1: competition committee.
Speaker 3: It's been presented for years and it's never has passed.
Speaker 3: And the reasoning is is the end zone is it
Speaker 3: is an entity unto itself, is an entity unto itself,
Speaker 3: and so things are different down there, and there there
Speaker 3: is a premium on holding on to the football until
Speaker 3: you cross the goal line. And that's always been I mean,
Speaker 3: I've been in you know, I've been in meetings, uh
Speaker 3: you know where it was, competition committees, I've been I've
Speaker 3: been through all of this. It this is not the
Speaker 3: first time that's come up, But that is the is
Speaker 3: the argument that the the goal line is is the
Speaker 3: is the final outcome of what offenses are trying to do.
Speaker 3: And part of the goal line is getting the ball
Speaker 3: over the goal line. Get the ball over the goal line.
Speaker 3: And if you tried and you failed to do that,
Speaker 3: then there there should be some sort of retribution rather
Speaker 3: than just saying the ball's out of bounds. If you
Speaker 3: fumble it through the end zone and you don't and
Speaker 3: you know, and and it has it crossed the goal
Speaker 3: line and you're not in possession, not in possession of it,
Speaker 3: then it comes back out to the twenty. I don't
Speaker 3: think they'll ever change it.
Speaker 1: I think it makes total sense because, I mean, what's
Speaker 1: the object of the game is to score more points
Speaker 1: than the other team. You score points in various ways,
Speaker 1: but the most obvious way is to score a touchdown,
Speaker 1: which is to be in possession of the ball when
Speaker 1: you break the plane. And if you're not in possession
Speaker 1: of the ball when you break the plane, then it's it.
Speaker 1: There has to be a punishment for that if you
Speaker 1: get there and you you fumble. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: talking to Rabel, he certainly doesn't ever think it'll pass
Speaker 1: competition committee while he's on there.
Speaker 3: No, and it sounds like you've been in the competition committee,
Speaker 3: you know who you sounded like just then. And this
Speaker 3: is a real compliment, okay, Mike Pereira. Oh well, thank
Speaker 3: you Mike Periri.
Speaker 1: By the way, can we shout him out and hope
Speaker 1: he feels better?
Speaker 3: He's what a good good dude, what a great person.
Speaker 3: And you talk about the officiating that we talked about earlier, Yeah, when.
Speaker 1: He was in charge, perfection well and the other I
Speaker 1: tell you what Perreira brought to it. He brought a
Speaker 1: transparency and a clarity to it. When he was doing
Speaker 1: it for the league, it was and some of the
Speaker 1: other guys, Dean Blandino did a good job, but Pereira
Speaker 1: was the gold standard because suddenly, I mean they were
Speaker 1: a little bit like the Wizard of Oz ignored the
Speaker 1: man behind the curtain, sort of we don't ever question it.
Speaker 1: And Perira took that down. He said, wow, we didn't
Speaker 1: get this one right, or we did get this one right,
Speaker 1: or here's why we're doing this, And a lot of
Speaker 1: times when they explain things like we've just had the
Speaker 1: discussion about fumbling the ball of the end zone, when
Speaker 1: you stop and think about it in that way, it
Speaker 1: makes more sense. A lot of the talking heads on
Speaker 1: TV and in media just saying, oh, that's awful, Well,
Speaker 1: they don't stop and think about why the rules of
Speaker 1: the game were put into effect, and the game that
Speaker 1: way still hasn't changed. We we don't win games on
Speaker 1: stats in Fantasy on Sundays. We win games by who
Speaker 1: scores the most points. And the end zone is sacred.
Speaker 3: That and that and see, and that's why I say,
Speaker 3: and I was very honest when I said that, that's
Speaker 3: the way Peyra would explain it. I've been in competition
Speaker 3: committee meetings and meetings with just head coaches, and you
Speaker 3: know when you when you go to the owners meetings,
Speaker 3: and when he would stand up and explain things, he
Speaker 3: did just what you did, and and everybody would go Okay.
Speaker 3: I mean, one of the greatest things I ever saw
Speaker 3: was when was was after the tuck Rule game when
Speaker 3: you know, uh, the Raiders, I mean there's microphones. The
Speaker 3: Raiders stood up and called him out, brought a football
Speaker 3: and said explain this to us, right and he did,
Speaker 3: and he did, and he did just like that. So
Speaker 3: shout out to Mike Pereira and for you for sounding
Speaker 3: like him on that.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I'll take that as a compl It.
Speaker 3: Is a compliment.
Speaker 2: If the team wins and Andre Dillard appears to struggle,
Speaker 2: is Nicholas p. T Frere and option a left tackle
Speaker 2: since Chris Hubbard seems to be doing an adequate job
Speaker 2: on the right side.
Speaker 3: Well, Nicholas P. T Frere has got to get back
Speaker 3: into the swing of things first. I mean that, you know,
Speaker 3: you can't expect somebody to come off of a six
Speaker 3: week suspension without having done football things. I'm sure he's
Speaker 3: working out on his own because he cannot be in
Speaker 3: the building, but you know, to come back in, I mean,
Speaker 3: he's gonna have to work himself back in first. And
Speaker 3: so that to me is something that is pretty far
Speaker 3: in the future right now. And we've seen this a
Speaker 3: little bit though, just with what Dylan Raven's has done,
Speaker 3: you know, and so if you're on the team you're
Speaker 3: an offensive lineman. The biggest value is if you can
Speaker 3: play multiple positions and so. But as I said, the
Speaker 3: first thing the NPF has got to do is get
Speaker 3: back in the swing of playing NFL football.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite defensive and offensive pack kids to run?
Speaker 3: Well, this is it's all predicated on down in distance,
Speaker 3: down in distance because of the matchups. Matchups on down
Speaker 3: and distance are you know, are everything. But as a
Speaker 3: defensive coach, early on, when it first came into existence,
Speaker 3: the hardest personnel group to defend on first and second
Speaker 3: down it was thirteen personnel, which is because you would
Speaker 3: you would have you would have one running back, three
Speaker 3: tight ends, and one wide receiver. But those those tight
Speaker 3: ends could split out and make it look like eleven personnel.
Speaker 3: With three wides one back, you can make it look
Speaker 3: like twelve you know, two tights, two wides and your
Speaker 3: matchups is what you're working on. So, now is the
Speaker 3: defensive coach, you're thinking, do I play base defense against
Speaker 3: this with four down and three linebackers? Do I play nickel?
Speaker 3: Do I do I put an extra defensive back in there?
Speaker 3: Do I go to an extra backer package to be
Speaker 3: able to take to take care of the size they
Speaker 3: have in there now or if they split them out,
Speaker 3: or my backers able to work in space. So thirteen
Speaker 3: personnel was always a big problem when it when it first,
Speaker 3: when it first, you know, came into the league, you know,
Speaker 3: for that defensively. Defensively, I always liked to be able
Speaker 3: to play the big nickel because with the big nickel,
Speaker 3: you know, you had a chance with the four man
Speaker 3: front to use that the big nickel guy in a
Speaker 3: lot of different ways. You could, you know, you could
Speaker 3: rob the middle with him. You could play him as
Speaker 3: a linebacker. You could match him on a tight end,
Speaker 3: say a specific tight end that was a really good receiver,
Speaker 3: but he could hold up in the run game. I
Speaker 3: always liked the big nickel because that one piece, you know,
Speaker 3: it's like it's like what Nick Saban does and all
Speaker 3: the all the defenses in the South Southeastern Conference play
Speaker 3: this star you know thing, because it gives you the
Speaker 3: multiplicity without having to change personnel groups all the time
Speaker 3: on defense.
Speaker 2: This is my final question. I have what pub will
Speaker 2: coach mac be hanging out in London so I could
Speaker 2: buy him a pint and he can educate me on
Speaker 2: how Jack Gibbons has gone from a player who was
Speaker 2: waived last year to a starter this year and is
Speaker 2: really making an impact. He appears to have a nose
Speaker 2: for the football.
Speaker 1: Go frogs.
Speaker 3: I love the question and I love the ending of that.
Speaker 3: I'll be in that pub where we had the radio
Speaker 3: show when we were over there the last time. Bed
Speaker 3: Bath and Beyond was that the name of it?
Speaker 2: I don't think the barrel Boy and Banker and there
Speaker 2: it is?
Speaker 1: Is that where you're going. Well, so a lot of
Speaker 1: the things the Titans are going to do in London
Speaker 1: are going to be announced next week, So where we
Speaker 1: might be or where everybody's gathering or whatever may happen.
Speaker 1: I think some of those things will be announced next
Speaker 1: week and they might ask you to go to one
Speaker 1: of those spots.
Speaker 3: I go to all of them.
Speaker 1: Okay, I will go to you. You're not gonna go
Speaker 1: to bed Bath and Beyond.
Speaker 3: But that was so much fun last time.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just it was tremendous.
Speaker 3: It was incredible. In fact, I spent a good time,
Speaker 3: a good bit of time with some of your family
Speaker 3: upstairs at that one. It was tremendous.
Speaker 1: Yes, my family's going again.
Speaker 3: And I'll be with them. It was, it was tremendous.
Speaker 3: So yeah, as soon as they get those locations, let
Speaker 3: me know, all right, I'll be there.
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Speaker 1: nicely done, Rhett. The questions for coach Mack continue. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let Rhett take it home right here, you do
Speaker 1: the rest of them. I'm just gonna rely all right,
Speaker 1: We're going to take it home here.
Speaker 2: Where would you rank the Titans defense throughout the entire
Speaker 2: NFL when they are fully healthy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, rankings, rankings are kind of like fantasy football. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's all up for it's all up for grabs, it's
Speaker 3: all about it's all about production. I would say, just
Speaker 3: off of production. Off of production. They're really stout against
Speaker 3: the run, and I think by their own admission, they'd
Speaker 3: like to tighten it up in the back end some.
Speaker 2: You know Jim Schwartz very well. What does he bring
Speaker 2: to the Cleveland defense that makes them one of the
Speaker 2: league's best. Also, the Browns have played a lot of
Speaker 2: man coverage in their first two games. What are some
Speaker 2: of the concepts that Tim Kelly can run to set
Speaker 2: the offense up for success.
Speaker 3: Yeah, game planed with Swartze for five seasons. Here is
Speaker 3: an assistant and head coach and linebacker coach, and so
Speaker 3: he's very intricate in what he does. He studies matchups
Speaker 3: a lot, he's he's but he leans on a base
Speaker 3: of a four down of a four down scheme, and
Speaker 3: he does that so that he can cover with seven.
Speaker 3: You talk about getting creative with your coverages. Anytime you
Speaker 3: can cover with seven over five eligible receivers, you've you've
Speaker 3: either got three over two and four over three. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's that's what defensive coaches work for. But to get that,
Speaker 3: you have to be able to take care of the
Speaker 3: run and the pass with four people up front and
Speaker 3: not having to bring anybody down. The times where he
Speaker 3: will get really creative is if he catch if he
Speaker 3: gets you in third and seven plus, third and eight plus, well,
Speaker 3: we always had special blitzes on third down. You know
Speaker 3: that we that the opponent had not seen before to
Speaker 3: be able to attack coverages. But his his preparation is
Speaker 3: very very detailed oriented and he he covers everything as
Speaker 3: a coordinator. And this this is for the ot people
Speaker 3: will take you behind the scenes a little when when
Speaker 3: you when you're working on an opponent, the scout team
Speaker 3: is running cards. But you have to draw cards so
Speaker 3: that you can show them in the huddle as to
Speaker 3: what what the offense wants to look like. But those
Speaker 3: cards have to be really preciser. Guys are looking at them,
Speaker 3: you know, and you're trying to run practice on time.
Speaker 3: And you know you got I mean, I've seen Jeff
Speaker 3: Fisher look at you look at cards before and throw
Speaker 3: them out.
Speaker 1: Who drew that?
Speaker 3: Who drew that? You know, because the guys can't read it.
Speaker 3: Jim Schwartz as a coordinator. Normally the coordinators don't do this.
Speaker 3: He drew every card. He drew every card. And I
Speaker 3: used to pride myself on being a good card drawer
Speaker 3: because it takes You've got to be detailed, and it
Speaker 3: takes time. And he told me. He told me this
Speaker 3: when I when I first came here to work for him.
Speaker 3: I said, hey, look because I came in here as
Speaker 3: a head coach. And then I said, look, I understand,
Speaker 3: you know, tell me which cards you want me to
Speaker 3: draw the run you know, the run game Run series
Speaker 3: coach Mac, I draw the cards. He says, you may
Speaker 3: be able to draw cards, but minor rim brands, and
Speaker 3: I went.
Speaker 1: Really, he doesn't lack for confidence.
Speaker 3: And I went, I went, really, I went, really, but
Speaker 3: listen to this. The first time I saw him, I went,
Speaker 3: I looked like a street painter.
Speaker 1: To this. I think it was it so.
Speaker 2: Anyway, very detailed, fascinating. So his cards should be in
Speaker 2: the loover in France rem Brand. Okay, finally, coach Mac,
Speaker 2: what do you believe for the keys to going on
Speaker 2: the road in Cleveland to come out with a win.
Speaker 3: You've got to control their front first, you cannot let
Speaker 3: their defensive front control the game. And then our defense
Speaker 3: needs to outplay their defense. I mean, this is this
Speaker 3: is what this is, this is what you're looking at. Offensively,
Speaker 3: you've got to stay out of the third and chains.
Speaker 3: And when I say third and chains, I'm talking about
Speaker 3: third and seven plus you've got to stay You've got
Speaker 3: to stay out of that. And then defensively, something I
Speaker 3: think that they would want to do that I that
Speaker 3: I see get some turnovers. Turn the ball over and
Speaker 3: keep it when we've got it, keep it. But defensively,
Speaker 3: get some turnovers. This is going to be a big,
Speaker 3: big game for defenses trying to see who's who in
Speaker 3: the zoo out there, and so this is going to
Speaker 3: be really important to control their front and then to
Speaker 3: let our front go eat.
Speaker 1: Cleveland has not allowed anyone in the red zone so
Speaker 1: far this year. That's good defense, that's good. They have
Speaker 1: not had a red zone defensive snap so far in
Speaker 1: their first two games. Because I think the closest to
Speaker 1: anybody's gotten is like they're twenty five. They have given
Speaker 1: up less than four hundred total yards to Cincinnati and Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: so they are allowing less than two hundred yards per game.
Speaker 1: That's good defense. That's good defense too. But interestingly enough,
Speaker 1: they have only two takeaways and they have only four
Speaker 1: sacks so far, which is kind of strange. They've turned
Speaker 1: the ball over six times and they've given up nine
Speaker 1: quarterback sacks, so their offense has not been very efficient
Speaker 1: or very clean as you would say, but their defense
Speaker 1: is through the.
Speaker 3: Roof well, because he's got people. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 3: all about the players. But if you can, we went
Speaker 3: back to what the difference in professional player Schwartzy gives
Speaker 3: his guys a chance to do what they do and
Speaker 3: doesn't try to muddle it up a lot.
Speaker 1: So would you be willing to do this again if
Speaker 1: we ask for questions for coach Mack, would you be
Speaker 1: willing to do it again?
Speaker 3: I want I want the OT people to come to bed,
Speaker 3: Bath and Beyond in London, see and so that we
Speaker 3: can got it, so that we can.
Speaker 1: We probably got to stop joking about this because aren't
Speaker 1: they out of business AOA. Okay, So that's one thing.
Speaker 1: And the second thing is if they aren't out of
Speaker 1: business in London, the OT people will show up there
Speaker 1: expecting to see you in the Crockpot Aisle and you
Speaker 1: and you won't be there buying a new bedspread. You know,
Speaker 1: I waited by a kitchen for hours. Coach is literally
Speaker 1: going to be an announcement.
Speaker 2: What was the real name of it, rip barrow Boy
Speaker 2: and Banker?
Speaker 1: Okay, I think Bedbeth and Beyond is better.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I don't even know what all that is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's but again, next week, information is going to
Speaker 1: come out for those going to London about what's going
Speaker 1: to happen in terms of the the get together sort
Speaker 1: of thing. And I'm hoping we can be there and
Speaker 1: I'm hoping you'll choose to be there, but there will
Speaker 1: be like an official thing.
Speaker 3: That's so great. And you know, I've been over there
Speaker 3: quite a few times as a coach, but now when
Speaker 3: we went over as a brother, I can we can
Speaker 3: interact with the fans now as what we do as
Speaker 3: a coach. You can't you and you know the places
Speaker 3: that I've gone.
Speaker 1: You were there for like five hours or something crazy
Speaker 1: weren't you. You stayed a long time the last time
Speaker 1: we were the last time twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why would you leave? Well, I mean you're you're
Speaker 3: with Titans fans in London.
Speaker 1: Well, I left because my family said we're leave it.
Speaker 1: That's why I left.
Speaker 2: It's old time, Mike, because Uh's curse that Keith Bullach
Speaker 2: just kept going and going and going.
Speaker 3: I did. Coach Mike, won't leave now with what I'm
Speaker 3: doing now in this second career that You've afforded me.
Speaker 3: If I'm if the fans are there, I'm in the
Speaker 3: middle of it.
Speaker 1: I know again next week that's going to come out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the people over there bed bonkers and bath can.
Speaker 2: Bed bonkers and Bath well, he's pulling out a different reference.
Speaker 3: I'm trying anyway anyway they can see.
Speaker 1: It too, That's right. And that's the thing is we'd
Speaker 1: love meeting the international fans. When we went to London
Speaker 1: and you know now we're going to get at some
Speaker 1: point we're going to get to go to Germany. That'll
Speaker 1: happen for us, but Madrid too, that's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Ye saw that and just I was with the Bears.
Speaker 3: We went to Gutenborg, Sweden. Nice laid the Vikings.
Speaker 1: Was everybody for the Vikings there you think we.
Speaker 3: Went, and we went. We went to Berlin to play
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers were there for a week. Uh,
Speaker 3: it's it's an experience and we had fans all over
Speaker 3: the place and the Titans fans that showed up in
Speaker 3: London last time. Wow massive, it was really cool. So
Speaker 3: looking forward to that, looking forward to winning every game
Speaker 3: we play up until then, and it'll be rolling there.
Speaker 1: You go for coach Dave McGinnis, who was kind enough
Speaker 1: to take your questions and sit in the Snickers hot seat,
Speaker 1: and thank you for the questions, by the way, to
Speaker 1: the ot people, and for Rett Brian, I'm Mike Keith,
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