WEBVTT - The OTP | Ask Coach Mac 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:14.120 Welcome to the OTP, presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:17.960 Farm Bureau Health Plans where you are the plan Farm 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.360 Bureau Health Plans makes it easy to get the health 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.079 coverage you need for less than you think. See how 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:28.080 at FBHP dot com with Titans Radios, Ret Brian and 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:30.400 Dave McGinnis. I'm Mike Keith. We are glad to have 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.320 you with us from the bet MGM studio and what 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.440 I think is a very special edition of the OTP. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:41.800 Well, the OTP is for the ot people, that's right, 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:43.960 and this is a prime example of it. 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.520 It is a prime example. We ask you to visit 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:52.519 if you're a person who visited my Instagram account, which 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.920 is at ten Voice at t E N N Voice, 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.440 we ask you to submit your questions for Coach Mac 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.040 because every body always wants to know what does Coach 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.080 Mac think about this? What does he think about that? 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.880 I couldn't get through on Mac Talk and so here 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.800 on this edition of the OTP, we have placed Coach 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:15.640 Mac squarely in the Snickers hot seat and Rhett and 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.720 I will be feeding him your question. So here we go. 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.800 I'm going to go first. After being at both the 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.640 college and NFL levels of coaching. What do you think 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:29.480 is the biggest difference from a coach's perspective. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.000 The level of preparation. You know, in college you're limited 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.240 with a number of hours you can have. The National 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.640 Football League it's twenty five to seven. Just the college 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.360 of just just just the level of not only preparation, 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.760 but the level of intensity that you have with your 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:48.760 players preparing because this is their livelihood, this is everything. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.520 And so all professional players want is what can you 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.880 do to help my game? And they don't. They don't 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.560 want they don't want a lot of verbiage. All they 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.440 what can you specifically do to help me every week 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.080 in my career so that I can prolong it. But 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.600 just the intensity of the preparation is a huge difference. 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.600 When you were asked to come on Titans Radio with 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.200 Mike Keith, who was someone you studied on in broadcasting, 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.600 to prepare you for the role as color analysts, you know. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.919 That's a that to me is a great question because really, 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.120 before Mike called me, I never really thought about doing this, 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.960 and he didn't give me much time. We didn't have 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:34.120 much time because because I understand now the circumstances, but 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.680 I was. I was called on a Monday, and as 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.320 we were talking through it, I said, well, when do 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.560 you need me there? And he said, well, we're going 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:46.200 to New York Saturday. And I went this Saturday, and 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.240 so so I really didn't have a whole lot of time, 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:53.919 you know, to to do that. Since then, since then, 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.120 I pay a lot of attention, you know, to the 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:01.240 broadcasting and and and what's and what's going on. And 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:05.799 I know that he's not a play by play guy, 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.400 but I've always always been a huge, huge Jim Dance 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:13.080 fan just by the fact of just how professional he 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.080 handles what goes on. 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:15.799 And so. 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:19.800 We're talking about a gold standard broadcaster. 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.600 Well, but I mean I think that's what Titans Radio is, 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.720 is a gold standard. And so anyway, there you go. 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:30.040 What is the best name of a play call that 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:31.079 you've ever heard? 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.800 Now, I'm in a defensive coach until I was a 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.080 head coach, and then I was an assistant head coach, 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.400 so I was in charge of all of it, but defensively, 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.360 when you have to call out the formations as far 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.800 as they line up in King's trip speed flip left, 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.400 X y Z E O yo motion, whie flaire. 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:53.760 So what is that defense. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:58.120 King's trip speed is eleven personnel. Okay, because in the 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:03.480 National Football League some people numbers you know, ten, eleven, twelve, twenty, 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.360 and some people use deck of cards ace King's queens, 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.920 you know, flush jacks. So King's is eleven personnel. Trip's 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.320 speed means all three receivers on the one side of 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.360 the formation. The tight end is X. He's on the 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.960 wide side of the formation. On the trip speed side, 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.640 You've got you've got, you've got, you've got z W 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:28.080 and y yo yo motion. Okay, King's trip speed, you've 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.080 got yo yo motion. That means the inside receiver from 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.840 the speed side starts to the center and then yo 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.000 yo's back to get into what we call a nine 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.800 ball stack on the three receiver side. That's what that is. 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:46.480 Okay, yep, your question right, Yeah, Wow, Do do you remember 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.040 all that? That's an excellent fun the. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:53.039 Same way you remember everything you remember. I mean, you've 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.640 got I've done it for a long time, a long time. 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:01.640 It's been my life, and so you know I that's 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:03.960 how I've been doing it a long time, same way 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.520 you and you've got it. When I first went to 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.039 the Bears, they didn't ask this question. But it was 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.760 before we had computers, and so you know, I was 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.040 the linebacker coach, but I was also the defensive quality 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.520 control coach. And so the the playbook that we put 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.400 together to incorporate Buddy Ryan's forty six and then Vince 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.960 Tobin's defenses, you had to draw it all by hand. 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.840 You had to draw it all by hand, and then 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:30.840 you wrote it out, and then you gave it to 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.680 the secretary and she typed it, you know, on that 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.080 on that paper that made that made copies, and then 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.120 you rent it off, you know, on the machine. So 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.240 I wrote that whole thing. I wrote the whole thing. 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:43.719 And so when you do that, you learn it. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.120 It becomes that say say that again one more time. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.640 King's trip speed flip left x y. Why why yo 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:50.240 yo motion? 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.600 Isn't that a great example as you repeat that of 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:59.919 why young players, rookies have such a hard time coming 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.760 to the NFL where they don't have play calls, especially 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.839 the offensive players. They don't have play calls. They never 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.040 deal with it. They just see cards on the sidelines 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:11.400 and that tells them what to do. 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.240 That's a perfect example why it really is. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:15.360 That's got to be brutal. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:21.320 It really is. And that is that's a defensive version 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.240 of that, you know, being able to talk about like 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.839 on the headset, what are they doing? Mike, I got 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.720 King's trip speed flip left. You know X, Y and 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.480 Y you know yo yo. Before we had all of 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:36.159 these tablets and things, the West Coast offense is even 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.960 more intricate than that coming from the offensive side of it. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.520 Wow, mind blown, Mind blown. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.560 All right, this one, This is an excellent conversation at 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.960 OTP to begin with. This is gonna raise it a notch. 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:52.680 Do you think NFL officiating is getting worse better or 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.200 is it staying the same. Because I listened to you 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:59.159 and Mike during Titans games and I always agree with 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.400 your assessments on what's happening on the field. 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.240 It's not as good as it used to be. It's 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:04.800 not as good as it used to be from top 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.440 to bottom. I think, you know, a lot of the 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.680 best officials right now are in the television booth, and 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:15.520 you've had some really really veteran officials retire, and so 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.280 people coming in it's just like rookie players coming in. 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.240 They have to learn the game. They have to learn 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.920 the game, and they only. You can't manufacture experience in 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.280 any profession, but especially in this business because everything is 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:32.840 so immediate, and that's why you see so many And 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.920 when I'm sitting up there with Mike Keith and I 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.400 mean he's always spot on with I mean, he can 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.080 call out and tell you what the penalty is and 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:42.960 how much they should market off and where the ball 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.920 should be immediately, because those are the details you have. 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.280 And we've seen games as to when you know they've 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.240 marked off twelve yard penalties and there's not twelve yard 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.040 penalties on a ten yard penalty play you know from 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.640 so just the administration of it, it's not as good 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:00.880 as it's it's really not. 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.200 Hey, Titans fans, it's always game on with Duncan, So 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.000 grab a coffee and kick off the action. Whether that's 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.480 drinking a cup of coffee on your way to the game, 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.000 we're grabbing one to go before watching the game at home. 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.120 Duncan is always there to help you get your game on. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.000 Just like the pros. We need to be at our 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.000 best come game time, which is why Duncan is the 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.240 most important part of your game day ritual because it's 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:28.400 always the best call for football America runs on Duncan 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.920 your questions for coach Mac. You submitted them to me 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:37.760 at ten Voice my Instagram account, and we're passing them on. 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:43.040 Titan's immediate football question comes next as well as Taj 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:47.400 Spears is playing right now? What ways can Tim Kelly 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:53.360 keep he and Derrick Henry involved without limiting snaps or 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:54.760 telegraphing plays. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.480 Pony personnel is what we've seen both in the backfield 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.520 at the same time and what we call a red set. 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.480 You've already seen that. We saw it a lot, you know, 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.600 during the practices we get to go to before the 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.360 season started that we can't talk about, but we saw 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.600 him doing that a lot and there, and he's using 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.640 it in a red set, which is a split back set, 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:16.480 and and he's he's alternated whether he sets Uh Derek 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.960 to the tight side of the formation or to the 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.520 open side of the formation. And you're gonna you're gonna 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.360 see a lot of different plays come off of this 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.679 because it opens up a multitude of things you can 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.920 do bringing him across the backfield, double screens, there's a 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.040 lot of things that he can do. I mean that 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.520 just a myriad of it. And plus with the threat 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.840 of both of them being able to run, and they're 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.559 distinctly different runners, but they're both very effective with what 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.040 they do. The Pony personnel I think will start seeing 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:45.920 more and more of. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.960 After the first two games of the season. What is 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.640 your opinion on Tim Kelly as the offensive coordinator. 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.080 I think he does a nice job of layering calls 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.559 and layering calls. As a defensive coach, you always when 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.520 you when you're you're scouting the guy that's called in plays, 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.760 that's your opponent. You want to see first of all, 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.920 if he's layers calls, which means is he building calls 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.200 one upon the other with his personnel groups depending on 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.840 what you've deployed over there on defense? And then is 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.600 he stacking calls? And then the other part is is 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.920 he setting up calls because the really good play callers 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.000 set calls up. In other words, they'll set calls up 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.640 series by series, set calls up by you know, put 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.520 put a certain personnel group out there in a certain formation, 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.280 see how the defense on a down and distance is 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.520 going to adjust to it, and then come back to 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.520 something that can counter the way he now sees the 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.160 defense setting up to that. I think he does. 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.440 All of that, all right, So I've got two sort 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.720 of back to back here that tie in. If it's okay, 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.600 coach Mack and the Snickers hot seat. Here it comes 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.720 coach Mack, who is the one current player in the 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:53.560 NFL you wish you could coach that. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:11:00.800 I like that, I like like, I like that question 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:07.520 a lot that can either be offensively. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.480 Yeah, does not say defense, or it could be anybody. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.480 Well, I'd love to have Miles Garrett. 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.800 I thought you were going to say. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:16.920 That if I'm calling defense? 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:20.240 Why why is he so different than like other edge rusher. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.240 He's a big man. He's a big man that plays 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.800 like a little man. He can, he's speed to power, 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.160 he's athletic out through the roof. But he's also a 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.480 gunbay bend the edge guy. You can line him up 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.400 in multiple places. He can stand up in two point, 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.800 he can go down in three point, he can he 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:40.760 can do it all. He's the number one pick in 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.640 the draft for a reason, the number one. Some number 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:47.079 one picks in the drafts have not been legitimate players. 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.800 This guy is a physical phenom and he's a good, 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.720 good football player that you can do so much with. 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:54.920 And he's a smart. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.679 Guy two hundred and seventy five pounds plays like a 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.520 guy two thirty five or two forty in terms of 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:01.160 his movement. 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.680 You got it? I mean right there. And plus I 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:07.000 mean he's a he's a relentless player. He is relentless. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.480 He was that he was that way at Texas A 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.959 and m I mean he's a special, special player. 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:12.960 All right. So this may be the same answer. If 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.040 you could add one NFL defensive player to the Titans 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.520 roster this year, who would you add? And why? 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.040 Well, how about that dude? 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.319 Well that's what I figured you say. So let's take 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.800 Miles Garrett out. Who else would be a guy that 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.880 you would add? If you could add one defensive player 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.200 to the Titans roster this year? Who would you add? 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:34.640 And why? 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.920 I would really I would really like to be able 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:40.960 to I would really like to be able to add 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:47.679 a shutdown corner. Okay, just a true uh true. Now 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.920 that that can be a varied opinion on who that 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.120 dude is, but to me, one of the best pure 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.640 shutdown corners in this league. Still now we're saying that 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.000 he's completely healthy. Is a jailing Rams? 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:00.720 Kaylen Rams? 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.320 Yeah? And some guy can just because with. I had 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.080 one of those guys in my long coaching career in 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.880 Anias Williams, and I could do anything I wanted with him. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.320 And we were in the NFC East at the time, 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.800 and I could I knew going in game planning against 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.520 the Cowboys twice a year that I could tell him 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.320 in that first meeting, Nicky, you've got Michael Irving and 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.280 the rest of the ten of you, here's what we're 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.840 going to do to try to stop the rest of them. 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.040 You know, EMMITTT. Smith and all that group. But when 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.840 you have that guy, it's a special feeling as a 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.840 defensive coordinator when you're able to do that. All those 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:39.440 teams that Dion Sanders played for, that was the guy 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.200 and it makes a big difference. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.400 All Right, this was going to take a minute to 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.680 lay out here in your answer, but this person's asking 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:52.600 explain fourth quarter roles of a head coach, including challenges, coaching, 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.800 play calling, clock management, and any other duties. 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.640 Well, first of all, all of that when you when 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.680 you're in a assistant coach, you very rarely think of 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.120 any of that, you know, because you're you're dialed in, 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.680 you're dealing in with your people. If you're coordinator. You 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.000 know you're working your side of the ball. As when 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.720 I became a head coach and you you're in, you're 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:19.000 thrown into a different world of the game. The world 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.480 managing a game is much different than coaching a position 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.240 during during a game, and so you have to be 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.640 aware of everything. And the other thing. The thing that 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:34.160 happens to though, guys, is it's really really important to 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.920 have somebody you really trust in the box. You've got 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:39.920 to have somebody you really trust. You've got to make 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.520 the call. But if you've got somebody in the box 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.800 you can trust that can give you information when you 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.000 ask for it in an instant, in an instant, and 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.880 especially with the challenges and those types of things that 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:57.400 make a huge difference uh managing time outs or being 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.600 able to to play the clock game. I was very 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.280 fortunate in my career to start out Mike Ditka was 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.920 really good at this stuff, and I come here and 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.960 work for Jeff Fisher. Jeff Fisher was really good at 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.360 this stuff, and so you know when I became a 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.840 head coach that I would pick the brains of those 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:20.000 guys as to how it was. Dan Reeves was really good, 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.040 so I would sit with those guys, you know, when 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.320 I would have opportunities to just what we're doing right 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.440 now and talk about those instances. But they come up, 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.160 and they happen so fast that you've got to go 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.320 into it. You can prepare all you want, but you 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.800 have to be able to react in the moment. But 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.680 you have to have a real working knowledge of the 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.320 rules because the rules make a difference. Mike Rabel's got 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:46.080 a great handle on this. He understands the game within 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.920 the game, but as a head coach much different than 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.800 being a coordinator because now you're playing the big picture 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.480 throughout all of it. As to where coordinators are playing 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:55.240 their side of it. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.320 Coach Mackett doesn't come up often, but I think the 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.680 rule about fumbling the ball through the end zone is 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.040 maybe the worst rule in all of sports. Would you 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.720 be in favor of changing this rule? And do you 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.280 think it would pass if it was presented to the 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:12.480 competition committee. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.080 It's been presented for years and it's never has passed. 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.160 And the reasoning is is the end zone is it 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.360 is an entity unto itself, is an entity unto itself, 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.120 and so things are different down there, and there there 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.720 is a premium on holding on to the football until 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:30.600 you cross the goal line. And that's always been I mean, 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.040 I've been in you know, I've been in meetings, uh 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.760 you know where it was, competition committees, I've been I've 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:37.920 been through all of this. It this is not the 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.000 first time that's come up, But that is the is 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.320 the argument that the the goal line is is the 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.440 is the final outcome of what offenses are trying to do. 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.720 And part of the goal line is getting the ball 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.280 over the goal line. Get the ball over the goal line. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.800 And if you tried and you failed to do that, 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:59.840 then there there should be some sort of retribution rather 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:03.480 than just saying the ball's out of bounds. If you 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.199 fumble it through the end zone and you don't and 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.720 you know, and and it has it crossed the goal 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.199 line and you're not in possession, not in possession of it, 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.000 then it comes back out to the twenty. I don't 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:13.960 think they'll ever change it. 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.600 I think it makes total sense because, I mean, what's 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.159 the object of the game is to score more points 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.520 than the other team. You score points in various ways, 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.280 but the most obvious way is to score a touchdown, 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.120 which is to be in possession of the ball when 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.960 you break the plane. And if you're not in possession 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.840 of the ball when you break the plane, then it's it. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.440 There has to be a punishment for that if you 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:41.159 get there and you you fumble. I think, you know, 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.840 talking to Rabel, he certainly doesn't ever think it'll pass 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.720 competition committee while he's on there. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.800 No, and it sounds like you've been in the competition committee, 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.040 you know who you sounded like just then. And this 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.880 is a real compliment, okay, Mike Pereira. Oh well, thank 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:56.080 you Mike Periri. 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.080 By the way, can we shout him out and hope 0:17:58.080 --> 0:17:58.840 he feels better? 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.560 He's what a good good dude, what a great person. 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.280 And you talk about the officiating that we talked about earlier, Yeah, when. 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.760 He was in charge, perfection well and the other I 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.560 tell you what Perreira brought to it. He brought a 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.920 transparency and a clarity to it. When he was doing 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.439 it for the league, it was and some of the 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.000 other guys, Dean Blandino did a good job, but Pereira 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.960 was the gold standard because suddenly, I mean they were 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.600 a little bit like the Wizard of Oz ignored the 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.840 man behind the curtain, sort of we don't ever question it. 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.880 And Perira took that down. He said, wow, we didn't 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:34.840 get this one right, or we did get this one right, 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.199 or here's why we're doing this, And a lot of 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.480 times when they explain things like we've just had the 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.160 discussion about fumbling the ball of the end zone, when 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.800 you stop and think about it in that way, it 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.760 makes more sense. A lot of the talking heads on 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.040 TV and in media just saying, oh, that's awful, Well, 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.639 they don't stop and think about why the rules of 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:00.159 the game were put into effect, and the game that 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:03.359 way still hasn't changed. We we don't win games on 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:07.439 stats in Fantasy on Sundays. We win games by who 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:11.680 scores the most points. And the end zone is sacred. 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:13.520 That and that and see, and that's why I say, 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:15.479 and I was very honest when I said that, that's 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:17.760 the way Peyra would explain it. I've been in competition 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:21.280 committee meetings and meetings with just head coaches, and you 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:23.320 know when you when you go to the owners meetings, 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:25.639 and when he would stand up and explain things, he 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.520 did just what you did, and and everybody would go Okay. 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:31.200 I mean, one of the greatest things I ever saw 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.840 was when was was after the tuck Rule game when 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:40.119 you know, uh, the Raiders, I mean there's microphones. The 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.080 Raiders stood up and called him out, brought a football 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.960 and said explain this to us, right and he did, 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.000 and he did, and he did just like that. So 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:50.000 shout out to Mike Pereira and for you for sounding 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:50.840 like him on that. 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:52.400 Well, thank you. I'll take that as a compl It. 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:53.080 Is a compliment. 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:58.440 If the team wins and Andre Dillard appears to struggle, 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.159 is Nicholas p. T Frere and option a left tackle 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.960 since Chris Hubbard seems to be doing an adequate job 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:06.080 on the right side. 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:07.920 Well, Nicholas P. T Frere has got to get back 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:11.080 into the swing of things first. I mean that, you know, 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:14.720 you can't expect somebody to come off of a six 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:19.400 week suspension without having done football things. I'm sure he's 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:21.280 working out on his own because he cannot be in 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:23.959 the building, but you know, to come back in, I mean, 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:27.280 he's gonna have to work himself back in first. And 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.520 so that to me is something that is pretty far 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:36.479 in the future right now. And we've seen this a 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.160 little bit though, just with what Dylan Raven's has done, 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:44.080