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Speaker 1: Silence, the phone, pulling out notes. Preparers preparing diligently for

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Speaker 1: today's OTP pre game.

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Speaker 3: Oh, yes, how are you? I'm doing great. Hope you

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Speaker 3: guys doing well.

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Speaker 1: It's been an interesting weeks. It's been an interesting week.

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Speaker 1: Colts Week three Division games to end the season. Titans

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Speaker 1: lost to the Colts on October thirteenth by final score

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Speaker 1: of twenty to seventeen, and so the Titans trying to

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Speaker 1: avenge that loss in a place where they have won

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Speaker 1: five of their last seven. They've won five of seven

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Speaker 1: playing at Lucas Oil Stadium, so maybe it's the right

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Speaker 1: place to go on the road and get a second

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Speaker 1: division victory.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and the Colts in a similar situation

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Speaker 3: the Titans. They've obviously got three more wins, but has

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Speaker 3: been kind of one of those seasons, they have found

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Speaker 3: a way to win a couple of close games the

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Speaker 3: Titans have not been able to, including that game in Nashville.

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Speaker 3: So we'll see going up there with another quarterback, you know,

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Speaker 3: a new quarterback this week and a chance to try

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Speaker 3: to end the season on a positive note. We'll see

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Speaker 1: All right. So a few Colts notes. They are currently

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Speaker 1: the eighth seed in the AF seed, but they're two

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Speaker 1: have a ten percent chance of making.

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Speaker 2: The playoffs as it stands today.

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Speaker 1: As it stands today, the Colts' final three opponents, however,

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Speaker 1: are eight and thirty four. Oh yeah, So they play

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Speaker 1: against the Titans, as we know, coming up this weekend,

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Speaker 1: and then they're at the New York Giants, and they

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Speaker 1: not outside them, outside the realm of possibility. They lost

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Speaker 1: last week at Denver by final score of thirty one

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Speaker 1: to thirteen in spite of the fact that they allowed

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Speaker 1: just one hundred ninety three yards and had three takeaways,

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Speaker 1: but because they had five turnovers and they lost a

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Speaker 1: touchdown at the goal line. When Jonathan Taylor dropped the

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Speaker 1: ball and one of the five turnovers resulted in seven points.

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Speaker 1: They lost thirty one to thirteen. Anthony Richardson, the starting quarterback,

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Speaker 1: currently has a completion percentage of forty seven percent. He

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Speaker 1: the NFL since Tim Tebow, Tim Tebow in twenty eleven.

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Speaker 2: Very good, Thank you, thanks, very well.

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Speaker 1: Played by you. So that is the opponent this week.

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Speaker 1: The OTP pregame is five topics, and so, Jim White,

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Speaker 1: are you ready for topic one?

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Speaker 3: Let's do it all right?

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Speaker 1: Topic one. Will levis demotion was the big story of Wednesday. Well,

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Speaker 1: the code big story of Wednesday, I will say yeah,

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Speaker 1: was a big story when it came out nationally on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: big story. The comments of Brian Callahan, the comments of

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Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph, the comments of Will Levis, the comments of teammates.

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Speaker 1: Jim White, you were down there for all of it.

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Speaker 1: How did all of that feel with the formal announcement

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Speaker 3: Well, I think you know clearly it was you know

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Speaker 3: Standing next to him, I felt like a guy who

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Speaker 3: understand the school of thought if you'll let Will Levis

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Speaker 3: it adversity. He's had to deal with a lot of

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Speaker 3: adversity this year, There's no question about that. But this

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Speaker 3: I also understand the other side, and I think it's important,

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Speaker 3: and that's what Brian Callaghan I'm sure how to wrestle

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Speaker 3: then you've got to do it a quarterback too. And

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Speaker 3: you've got to hold players accountable because I think it

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Speaker 3: like that. So I get both sides of it. It's just,

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Speaker 1: Bryce Young was all so in the same predicament. The

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Speaker 1: I mean, it does not mean it's over. When people

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Speaker 1: for people to say it's formally over, No, he's under contract,

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Speaker 1: he's going to be the backup quarterback, right, So he

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Speaker 1: is not an inactive player. He's demoted. We certainly know

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Speaker 1: what it looks like, we certainly know what it feels like.

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Speaker 1: But you have to keep these things in mind because

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Speaker 1: he's under contract for two more years. So yes, it

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Speaker 1: does appear it's on a track toward this, but there

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Speaker 1: are three games to play. He will be in uniform

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Speaker 1: I think that's a lot of what Will is saying

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think what he's also saying is, look,

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Speaker 2: if I if I am called upon to need to

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Speaker 1: Well, i'mre Campbell.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, he he is still contributing to this team.

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Speaker 2: He is still confident in his abilities and his abilities

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Speaker 2: to lead. And so I think that's You're right, an

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Speaker 2: important thing to acknowledge. And I think this isn't so

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think anybody's denying the significance, but I

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Speaker 1: giving you the facts. He's under contract and will be

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Speaker 1: in uniform, right, and so we'll see Mason Rudolph's the quarterback, right,

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Speaker 1: And you and I and Amy have been around it

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Speaker 2: And that's true, but it is important to acknowledge to

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Speaker 2: your point, he's not taking it to the house, no,

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Speaker 2: like Will Levis is still here, They're still in the building.

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Speaker 2: He's still worried, and they're not asking.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think so what's going through his mind

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Speaker 1: course of the last three games. And people say, oh,

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Speaker 1: they're giving up thirty points a game. Thirty eight of

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Speaker 1: the eighty nine points have come as a result of turnovers.

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Speaker 2: That's interesting. Yeah, yeah, and that's not really on them.

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Speaker 1: It's not on them, Yeah, I mean it's I mean,

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Speaker 1: they've been in some situations where you're like, well, we'd

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Speaker 1: like for you to get off the field. But I

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Speaker 1: mean they've been put in some tough spots. Do you

441
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Speaker 1: do you think it's just they're wearing down.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I really do. I mean, if you look, especially

443
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Speaker 2: early in the season, the time of possession was so

444
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Speaker 2: lopsided in a couple games. This Titans defense has taken

445
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Speaker 2: a tremendous amount of snaps this year, and so I

446
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Speaker 2: think that's part of it. Jim mentioned the injuries, and

447
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Speaker 2: we've seen a lot of injuries. It feels like they

448
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Speaker 2: kind of bunch up at different positions. The inside linebacker position,

449
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Speaker 2: we had all those injuries, bunch in the secondary, like

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Speaker 2: it felt like specific rooms were taking hits as opposed

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Speaker 2: to it being spread out across the whole side of

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Speaker 2: the ball. So that's an issue. Too, and yeah, it's December,

453
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Speaker 2: and so all over the league everybody's banged up. The

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Speaker 2: problem is all over the league, everybody's banged up, and

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Speaker 2: so you still have to play the games. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean this it's been a big lift for this

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Speaker 2: defense all season long, and I think that they're just

458
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Speaker 2: starting to wear a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I think there's a fatigue factor too, and feeling like

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Speaker 3: you got to play perfect all the time, you know

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Speaker 3: that is that's saily. You know, not scoring a lot

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Speaker 3: of points. I mean most games, you know, last week

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Speaker 3: obviously scored twenty seven, but most a lot of games

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Speaker 3: teams scoring in the teams and you know, two weeks

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Speaker 3: ago couldn't didn't even score touchdown. And I think, I

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Speaker 3: think play trying to feel like you got to play

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Speaker 3: perfect and feel like you know that you if you

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Speaker 3: give up a certain amount of points probably not going

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Speaker 3: to win the game. I think that human nature sets

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Speaker 3: in and I think that's realistically can become an issue.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a heavy burden to bear, but that's sixty

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Speaker 2: three percent third down.

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Speaker 1: Twenty five of forty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was that's not awesome.

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Speaker 1: It was ten of thirteen last week, but it was

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Speaker 1: even strong in the two games before that leading to

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Speaker 1: that number. Is there. They have given up twenty five

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Speaker 1: third down conversions in the last forty attempts, but that

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Speaker 1: is that's forty attempts to Yeah, in the last three.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot. And you know the Washington game, they

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Speaker 1: run the field seventy seven snabs. To your point, do

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Speaker 1: you wear at a at a certain point? Yeah? Does

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Speaker 1: the OTP pregame with Jim Wyatt Topic number four, Taj Spears.

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Speaker 1: It appeared that Taj Spears was headed towards a lost

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Speaker 1: second year, and we've seen that from different guys they

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Speaker 1: have a nice rookie year and then there's an injury

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Speaker 1: or a couple of injuries, or they're plagued by injuries

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Speaker 1: and some poor play, lose their confidence, things happen, so

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Speaker 1: that sophomore slump is a real thing in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Looked like he was headed towards that through realistically, no

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Speaker 1: fault of his own. But then he pops back in

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Speaker 1: the game against Cincinnati, scores two touchdowns ninety two yards

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Speaker 1: from scrimmage. What does he need to do ty J

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Speaker 1: Spears over the last three games to avoid the lost season?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think just kind of continue the momentum from

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Speaker 3: this past week. And I watched him in practice. It's

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Speaker 3: like all of us did last week, and he seemed

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Speaker 3: like he had more juice to him. He was you know,

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Speaker 3: coaches were complimenting him. He was looked a lot more explosive.

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Speaker 3: And part of its health for me, he's been a

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Speaker 3: little nicked up himself. He came coming off of a

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Speaker 3: concussion recently as well. He's getting more practice time now

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Speaker 3: because Tony Pollard has had to so much with the ankle.

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Speaker 3: You know, Tony pod had been practicing really at all

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Speaker 3: over the last couple of weeks and that's allowed no

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Speaker 3: Spears to get in there and get in more of

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Speaker 3: a flow. So I think he just needs to build

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Speaker 3: on this momentum. I thought probably his best game as

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Speaker 3: a Titan on Sunday, and and I think it's got

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Speaker 3: to be a big confidence builder for him.

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Speaker 1: His numbers don't reflect I mean who he is overall.

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Speaker 1: I mean you look at his rushing fifty four carries

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Speaker 1: for one hundred and ninety yards and a touchdown. I

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Speaker 1: mean it's three and a half yards of pop. I

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Speaker 1: mean he's a better back than that. Titans fans know,

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Speaker 1: the media knows, everybody knows. He's not a three and

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Speaker 1: a half yard per carry back. And then you know

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Speaker 1: the catches twenty four for one seventy seven. That's more

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Speaker 1: in line with where you think he will be. You're

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Speaker 1: you're looking to build as you head down the stretch

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Speaker 1: for a lot of these younger players, not just rookie,

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Speaker 1: second third, fourth your players, And it would be a

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Speaker 1: big deal if Taj could get a hundred yard rushing game,

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Speaker 1: could score some more touchdowns, could could feel good about

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Speaker 1: that because I think he's part of the foundation going forward.

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Speaker 1: I think we know Pollard is and taj is too.

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Speaker 1: Having that one to two as something Titans fans were

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Speaker 1: excited about and Brian Callahan was excited about before the season.

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Speaker 1: I think that was a very real thing and still

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Speaker 1: can be.

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Speaker 3: It can be, and I was surprised early on and

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Speaker 3: got to give Tony Pollard a credit. I mean, he

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Speaker 3: when he plays like he has and producers like he has,

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Speaker 3: it's tough to take him off the field. I expected

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Speaker 3: more of a split between those two when the season started.

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Speaker 3: I think coaching staff expected more of a split, but

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Speaker 3: for one reason or another, and I think probably the

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Speaker 3: biggest reason because Pollard's benso productive. It became the Tony

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Speaker 3: Pollard show and tay J. Spears took a back seat here,

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Speaker 3: you know. Against you know, against the Bengals, Pollard really

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Speaker 3: nicked up Spears, got to play more and showed what

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Speaker 3: he's capable of. So I'm sure he's earned more opportunities

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Speaker 3: and I'd love to see him finish this season strong

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Speaker 3: and give him something to look forward to for twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five.

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Speaker 1: All right, So topic five James Williams. He was inactive

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Speaker 1: for the first game ten weeks ago against Indianapolis. Last

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Speaker 1: week seven tackles coming on for Luke Gifford may get

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Speaker 1: the start again. James Williams may be the most intriguing

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Speaker 1: player in the draft class outside of Tavandre Sweat. And

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Speaker 1: I say that because I think we knew j. C.

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Speaker 1: Latham was going to be the deal, and he's had

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Speaker 1: ups and downs, but I think we understand JC is

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Speaker 1: going to be a part of this for a while.

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Speaker 1: Tavandre has performed to the level the Titans hoped. But

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Speaker 1: then you take this guy in the seventh round, who

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Speaker 1: was this five star safety coming out of high school

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Speaker 1: and he plays well at safety at Miami, but it's

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Speaker 1: obvious he's a linebacker in the pros. He and Brad that,

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Speaker 1: and now he's become a core special teams player in

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Speaker 1: the second half of the season. Maybe one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons the special teams are getting better is some of

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Speaker 1: those guys are developing core special teams traits. But then

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Speaker 1: here he shows up last week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and boy, he sure looks the part. I mean,

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Speaker 3: he's he's a great great length and great size and

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Speaker 3: very uh you know, he's a good kid, and he's

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Speaker 3: he's has had to adjust to being in the league

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Speaker 3: playing a different position. Not getting to play a lot

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Speaker 3: early and then kind of paid his dues and his

580
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Speaker 3: handle work really well. I mean he he was an

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Speaker 3: underdog coming in to make this team. He made the team. Uh,

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Speaker 3: Cedric Gray has not developed as quickly as I think

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Speaker 3: people had hoped, and at the same time, James william

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Speaker 3: has and so it's been fun watching him. I mean,

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Speaker 3: he was a playmakers. The guy just has good instincts

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Speaker 3: and makes me wonder about how they can kind of

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Speaker 3: broaden what he can do moving forward. I think he's

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Speaker 3: now focused on special teams. Now he's focused on playing

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Speaker 3: inside linebacker. I think he's a guy that can help

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Speaker 3: his team as a pass rusher moving forward.

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Speaker 1: See, I wonder and I've asked this question and have

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Speaker 1: not been told I'm an idiot, which leads me to

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Speaker 1: believe that it's for once the right line of thinking.

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Speaker 1: Could he grow into being an outside linebacker because he

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Speaker 1: is so long, he's nearly six ' four, he's two

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty something pounds. Does he just keep developing

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Speaker 1: in this way? And I think one of the advantages

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Speaker 1: James Williams has he does not have bad traits at

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Speaker 1: linebacker because he's never played there. Before and Frank Bush

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Speaker 1: is coaching him right and so he is only learning

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Speaker 1: it the right way from the start. He doesn't have

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Speaker 1: things he did in high school and things he did

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Speaker 1: in college and crutches that he came with. Coach Mack

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Speaker 1: has often talked about the Steven Tullis and the Keith

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Speaker 1: had to get them out of certain habits. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: have it. He was a safety.

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Speaker 3: Well, let's just yeah, at this whole position. It's just

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Speaker 3: crazy how it's kind of evolved this year. And Kenith Murray,

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Speaker 3: the Ernest Jones was here, and then they know Baker

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Speaker 1: And Gibbons.

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Speaker 3: So many Gibbons, I mean, there's so many guys have

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Speaker 3: gone through. And the unfortunate thing about a three and

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Speaker 1: hurts Indianapolis's offense too. The Culture are rhythm offense that

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Speaker 1: thrives on opportunities, so on Sunday in Indianapolis, Tennessee can

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Speaker 1: limit those opportunities by converting their own third downs and

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Speaker 1: staying on the field. Key number two cover kicks well.

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Speaker 1: In the first meeting between the Titans and the Colts,

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Speaker 1: punt return yardage was a major difference in a close game.

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Speaker 1: Figures to be the same type of game, a limited

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Speaker 1: possession tight game. The Titans need to make sure they

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Speaker 1: win the hidden yardage. That starts with picking up field

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Speaker 1: position when returning punts and not allowing Indianapolis to get

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Speaker 1: anything started with their punt returns. Key number three come

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Speaker 1: up with the one big play at the end. When

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Speaker 1: the Titans have won it Indy in five of the

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Speaker 1: last seven years, they have always made a big play

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Speaker 1: towards the end of the game. A block field goal

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Speaker 1: return for a touchdown, an interception in the end zone,

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Speaker 1: hitting a big pass play. It seems cliche, but these

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Speaker 1: matchups inside Lucas Oil Stadium always seem to come down

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Speaker 1: to one play at the end. Make that play on

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Speaker 1: Sunday and the Titans can win again.

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Speaker 2: You're not even trying to get it under a minute anymore.

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Speaker 1: Not anymore.

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Speaker 2: Nope, you were like twenty seconds over. Little Caesars is

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Speaker 2: fees do apply. Jim, you've got those pizzas on your

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Speaker 2: fingertip Pizza Pizza.

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Speaker 3: I can't fly, I can't.

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Speaker 1: We've got to switch props. Sorry, it's time for a

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Speaker 1: Mayo toivation from Hellman's as we see those pizzas.

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Speaker 2: Ye doing a squeeze bottle?

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Speaker 1: Are you doing the whole thing for your sandwiches at

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Speaker 1: the holiday time? And you got a tray? You need

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Speaker 1: a tray because don't you like to take a tray

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Speaker 1: into the dan or whatever? And you sandwiches of sandwiches.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's got a snack.

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Speaker 2: Mayo Titans cheers be loud.

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Speaker 1: You don't even know who that is.

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Speaker 2: Your deviled eggs, potato salad and whatever holiday dish you

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Speaker 2: wish to make, make you, your mama and your entire

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Speaker 2: family proud. Helman's the official mayo of the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 1: Mayo game Day be delicious. Thank you, Mike Jim, Thank

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Speaker 1: you for taking time, continue loving reading everything, including the mailbag.

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Speaker 3: Mail bag has been rough, lightly, but.

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Speaker 1: It's I mean, you're getting good feedback people.

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Speaker 3: That is good. Like a lot of times I tell people,

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Speaker 3: if I open that thing up and there's nothing in there,

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Speaker 3: that's when you know we're in trouble. The fact that

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Speaker 3: people continue to ride in and express their frustration, uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, wanting things to be better. I think I

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Speaker 3: think that's a good thing, although certainly you like for

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Speaker 3: the tone and those things to be a little bit

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Speaker 3: better because because fans are frustrated. It's been a tough season.

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Speaker 3: There's no question about it.

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Speaker 1: It's been a tough last thirty eight game.

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Speaker 3: It really has. It really has. And uh no, I

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Speaker 3: think better days are ahead, but certainly this has been

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Speaker 3: this has been a rough stretch.

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Speaker 1: Yep. And how hey yeah, hey, but what would make

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Speaker 1: it better, at least for the time being, beating Indianapolis? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's so sad. Twelve oh two Central time kickoff Titans

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Speaker 1: and the Colts. We'll have it on Titans Radio at

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Speaker 1: eleven am Central with Titans Countdown on all of our

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Speaker 1: great Titans radio stations, including one oh four to five

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Speaker 1: of the Zone in Nashville. So let's go to Indy

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Speaker 1: do Here we go for Jim Wyatt in the Snickers

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Speaker 1: hot seat and Amy Wells, I, Mike Keith, thank you

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Speaker 1: for joining us for the OTV prea game