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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith coach. Dave McGinnis is in the Snickers

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Speaker 1: hot seat.

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Speaker 2: Welnakers hot seat. Welcome, Thanks, Thanks, I like being here.

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Speaker 1: Did you have a marvelous Christmas?

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Speaker 2: Great Christmas, marvelous Christmas. Hope everybody listening to OTP had

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Speaker 2: a great Christmas? I know you two? Did I know

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Speaker 2: Amy had a did not have Santa Claus in her

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Speaker 2: house because outdoors one of her daughters doesn't want Santa

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Speaker 2: in the house.

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Speaker 1: Is that right?

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Speaker 3: That is true.

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Speaker 4: We didn't leave cookie for Santa. We didn't want to

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Speaker 4: create the illusion that he was welcome inside that house.

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Speaker 2: The presence outside.

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Speaker 4: Please leave all gifts outside, they really do, Yes, Santa

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Speaker 4: Santa was not We didn't want Santa to enter the home, so.

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Speaker 3: He left his gifts out. What do you we well,

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Speaker 3: my daughter, Okay.

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Speaker 4: Livy, Livy didn't love doesn't love the idea, I know, so, yeah,

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Speaker 4: she she is nervous about the whole concept of Santa.

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Speaker 4: She doesn't love it. She doesn't think that having him

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Speaker 4: in her house is something that she likes. And so

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Speaker 4: we left the presence outside.

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Speaker 2: Can I stop a minute.

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Speaker 3: We didn't let them enter.

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Speaker 2: Can't stop a minute. It's not anything she doesn't like.

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Speaker 2: She doesn't yike it.

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Speaker 3: She doesn't yike it. Yeah, she doesn't. And so but

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Speaker 3: it was fine. She likes the gifts.

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Speaker 4: She's very appreciative to Santa and really glad that he

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Speaker 4: is back at home for three hundred and sixty four days.

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Speaker 1: But don't come in my house.

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Speaker 4: She has asked me nine hundred times in the last

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Speaker 4: twenty four hours. Is Santa back at the North Pole

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Speaker 4: with missus Claus? Yes, yes he is. She needs to

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Speaker 4: know where he is at all times.

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Speaker 2: So everybody had a different kind of Christmas.

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Speaker 4: Ours is a little more suspicious at my house, but

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Speaker 4: magical nonetheless.

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Speaker 1: So great, all right.

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Speaker 2: So that branks us.

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Speaker 1: To topic number one on the OTP pre game. Should

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Speaker 1: the NFL keep playing Christmas games when Christmas falls on

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Speaker 2: Coach deph for me, Yes, absolutely, yes, absolutely, yes, the

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Speaker 2: whole Netflix thing I thought was okay, but no matter

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Speaker 2: when they play, people are going to watch. But I

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Speaker 2: watched both of them with a huge house full of people,

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Speaker 2: both of them back to back within So my aunts

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Speaker 2: is yes.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So you think even on a Wednesday, and you

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Speaker 1: like how they did it where they had the teams

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Speaker 1: who were going to play on Christmas play on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: so they had an extra day, And.

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Speaker 2: I absolutely did. I mean I wouldn't you know, if

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Speaker 2: I were coaching a team, I would not be against

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Speaker 2: playing on Christmas. We've done it.

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Speaker 1: Before here right, Oh yeah, but not on Wednesday. No, No,

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Speaker 1: But I'm saying that's my question is just the league

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Speaker 1: is it worth playing on Christmas Day if the game

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Speaker 1: if Christmas falls on what will be a Tuesday in

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Speaker 2: Yes? Absolutely, Yes. Lebron James didn't like it, but I

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Speaker 2: having no problem.

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Speaker 3: Lebron James is fifty five years old. That's different.

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Speaker 4: So now those teams that played the Ravens, Chiefs, whoever,

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Speaker 3: They have sit worth it well.

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Speaker 1: But they and they played early as well. They played

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Speaker 4: So they played Saturday to and then to Wednesday WEDESDA.

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Speaker 3: Now they get all that time off.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that kind of it's it's tough on the front end,

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Speaker 4: but the recovery on the back end, especially in December,

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Speaker 1: It means Houston's going to come in here with a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not great for us.

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Speaker 1: But but nothing to play for That is kind of hoon.

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Speaker 1: Houston is the four Seeds.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is kind of nice.

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Speaker 1: That will be fascinating to see how Demiko Ryans chooses

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Speaker 1: playing well against the game that your owners want to

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Speaker 1: win more than any other, especially because the Titans beat

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Speaker 1: you on November twenty fourth, and the Titans are going

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Speaker 1: to dress as the Oilers for that game. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: what is used to do? And they have this extra

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Speaker 1: time to stew in their own juices about.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's a great analogy. It's a perfect analogy.

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Speaker 1: Mike, I'm with you asking the question.

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Speaker 2: But they're stewing in their own juices because they've lost

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Speaker 2: three in a row.

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Speaker 1: They've lost three in a row, and I mean, listen, and.

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Speaker 2: That's some juice you don't want to be in.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's the other thing too, This is the one

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Speaker 1: it and it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you have to have your players healthy because

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Speaker 2: you've lost three, right, you've got a secured spot. But

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Speaker 2: now the only thing that makes the season successful is

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Speaker 2: you got to win that first playoff game.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right. I mean in reality. I mean when

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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien was the coach and Cal McNair was the owner, Yep,

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Speaker 1: he sat people and Bill O'Brien I think just said, listen,

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Speaker 1: we want to do well in the playoffs. So the

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Speaker 1: the thing we can't have happen is we can't have

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Speaker 1: our quarterback get hurt. We can't have you know, DeAndre

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Speaker 2: No, because it's the NFL tournament's wan and done. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: so you've got to be as ready as you can be.

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Speaker 4: I am interested in this conversation because it takes the

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Speaker 4: football motivation part of it almost out of it. And

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Speaker 4: there's the ego motivation. There's the bragging rights most who.

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Speaker 1: Who can go and say, listen, this is what because

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Speaker 1: now you got to win this game well, but or

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Speaker 1: or say listen, we've got to be smart here because

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Speaker 1: if we and I mean Jeff Fisher got this business

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight, I'll never forget it. We

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Speaker 1: go to play Indianapolis, we've won the division, yep, we

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Speaker 1: don't need the game, and he sets everybody, including Chris Johnson,

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Speaker 1: and then we lose the first playoff game to Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: So people can back to that and said, there is

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Speaker 1: the week off. But everybody got on Jeff Fisher about it,

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Speaker 1: and Jeff's point was and it was so spot on.

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Speaker 1: He goes, okay, fine, whatever, let's let's say you're right.

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Speaker 1: If we play Indianapolis in a meaningless game and I

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Speaker 1: get Chris Johnson hurt, Yeah, how dumb am I? Especially

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Speaker 1: because we saw how that game with Baltimore in the

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Speaker 2: Was on CJ two k's high ankle spring right, inal right.

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Speaker 1: But if that had not happened, But say it had

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Speaker 1: happened in the regular season finale and you had not

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Speaker 1: had him, and then you'd have lost the game. You'd

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Speaker 1: have felt like a complete idiot.

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Speaker 3: Right, See.

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Speaker 2: What people need to understand that. I can tell you

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Speaker 2: from a coach's perspective, you're not afraid to put him

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Speaker 2: the fact that they're going to be going one hundred

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Speaker 2: only way that you can play this game. It's violent

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Speaker 2: and it can be unintentional. But if somebody's injured, it

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter that you were playing that game and didn't

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Speaker 2: have to win it. If they get injured, their injury matters.

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Speaker 1: Sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's what he's up again.

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Speaker 1: But on the flip side, if you're Demiko, what if

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Speaker 1: you think they need to play?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you need to get this team all win.

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Speaker 1: Well, but remember they don't have the week off. They

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Speaker 1: will play week one of the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going back to back.

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Speaker 1: They're going back to back. They will have had eleven

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Speaker 1: an interesting decision to make from that standpoint. But if

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Speaker 1: hard is it going to be to sell that.

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Speaker 4: Against because you'll love guys coming off of the Tennessee oilers.

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Speaker 3: Here's the other part that caveat the conundrum.

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Speaker 2: The Titans have already beaten him one. Well, that's it.

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Speaker 1: If you had beaten him on November twenty fourth, I

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Speaker 1: think I think it's it's a no cell. You don't

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Speaker 2: And that's that's the other caveat to this.

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Speaker 2: We'll find out.

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Speaker 1: But do you, like, do you agree with coach Mack

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Speaker 1: that the NFL should continue to play Christmas games when

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Speaker 1: Christmas falls on Tuesday or Wednesday?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think so.

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Speaker 4: I mean I think for the league, I mean, they

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Speaker 4: made a good chunk of change off of those fifty million.

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Speaker 1: Seventy five per game.

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Speaker 1: Who is the best person on the Netflix telecasts?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Because they had I mean they had eight hundred people

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they've had every person. I really liked Laura Rutledge

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Speaker 4: and the mccordy's I thought that that was a really good,

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Speaker 3: I thought that was good. I thought Noah Eagle did

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Speaker 3: a great job.

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Speaker 1: He's good.

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Speaker 3: I thought he did a really good job.

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Speaker 4: He was a topic of conversation at our house just

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Speaker 4: because of how good he was.

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Speaker 1: We've always thought he was good though, right, Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean twenty eight now I.

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Speaker 3: Think, yeah, something like that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's the real thing.

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Speaker 2: He didn't act like twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: No, not, Well, he's like his dad. I mean he's

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Speaker 1: like his dad. Clearly he has had some advantages because

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Speaker 1: of who his dad is. But the bottom line is

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Speaker 1: it's what you do with the advantage. Yeah, and it's

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's anybody who sees him and goes, well,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't belong. Yeah, you're like and he The first

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Speaker 2: When I listened to him to a game, I'm not

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Speaker 3: Which he just does a game.

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Speaker 1: Which is his dad.

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Speaker 3: a lot.

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty close to you. I'm not distracted. I'm with

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Speaker 1: So it happens, ye, Well, it seems like it was

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Speaker 2: However, here's here's the here's the bad decision. Not doing

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Speaker 1: Well, we we thought it was a great but Mike,

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Speaker 4: Just wasn't there, guys, two targets, said he only had

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Speaker 3: I need you to get the picture.

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Speaker 2: And that's what happened. So anyway, that's what the Titans

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Speaker 1: From the jump, I mean, the guy's averaging eight targets

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Speaker 1: Oh god, yeah, he's really good to Is he even

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Because everybody's like Melik Neighbors, Milik Neighbors coming out

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Speaker 2: Well, see the thing on this guy was Mike notrupt.

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Speaker 1: Well, what's funny is he was taking twenty third in

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Speaker 2: That's it. That that was exactly it because everybody loved

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Speaker 1: It's fantastic.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that's gonna happen again.

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Speaker 2: Guys, not gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: I don't get that feeling.

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Speaker 1: defense coach has had a rough time in December. What's

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Speaker 2: The first thing, when you're coaching defense and people can

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Speaker 2: That's a safety in the middle with people down, everybody

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Speaker 2: But if you're having trouble stopping the run that the

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Speaker 2: Then when you're calling defenses, it puts everything caddywompus. I mean,

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Speaker 2: All week in practice those that scheme was not anything

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Speaker 2: But all of that is practiced and so and especially nowadays,

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Speaker 1: that is it as simple as that. Even today, that

444
00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 1: guys are just taking bad angles to the holes and

445
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,960
Speaker 1: are getting their outside edges blocked, or things like that

446
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: are happening.

447
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 2: Or you're not getting your edge set fast enough, right,

448
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 2: not getting your edge set fast enough, you're not replacing.

449
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,199
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, linebackers are really important in this.

450
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,399
Speaker 2: First of all, it's hard on the defensive front of

451
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 2: the interior because when you pull people now they're getting

452
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,120
Speaker 2: angle blocked, they're getting down blocked. So what they've got

453
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 2: to do is this his polls. Now, I've got to

454
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 2: play into this and not only play, you know, horizontally

455
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 2: into the guy coming down on me, but then I've

456
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 2: got to try to get vertical. Okay, that's number one.

457
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 2: With all the with all the pin and pull, pin

458
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 2: and poll, that's what it's what it's called. But the

459
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 2: guys replacing, they're the guys that have to jump gaps.

460
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 2: And not only jump gaps. You can't jump, you can't

461
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 2: replace gaps and keep running sideways, right, because when you

462
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,719
Speaker 2: run sideways, all that happens is it stretches like this.

463
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 2: Then if you don't get the edge set quick enough,

464
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 2: and these guys don't react quick enough and you can't

465
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 2: and you're getting blocked down on. That's why that that

466
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 2: seventy yard run, I mean that was that was to

467
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 2: the post safety with nothing but turf, right, nothing but turf.

468
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 2: And then you've got a guy that runs four nothing,

469
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:00,159
Speaker 2: he's going to outrun you. So what you've got to

470
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 2: be able to do. Everybody has their part in it.

471
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 2: You've got to keep your part in it until it

472
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 2: is here all the time. You set an edge, build

473
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 2: a wall, right, and then run and hit.

474
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: Just the reason I asked that question is because what

475
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 1: you're talking about is what we were taught.

476
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 3: Well, that's what it is got, you know, fundamental.

477
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 1: Whether they were taking you've got to get to your spot.

478
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 1: You got to beat that guy to the spot, and

479
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: you absolutely cannot get hooked. Whatever it is. Do not

480
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: get hooked because you've got a hustle to the spot.

481
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 1: Because players of today, even on defense, don't do that

482
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,880
Speaker 1: a lot. Growing up, they don't play against that sort

483
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,160
Speaker 1: of as this comes back into vogue, did they know

484
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: how to do that? Now? They do?

485
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 2: Because you sure you practice it, but you've got see

486
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,199
Speaker 2: you can practice it all you want, right, but until

487
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,680
Speaker 2: you get on the turf at full speed and everything

488
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 2: is rolling. I mean, it has to happen so fast

489
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 2: that And again, I've coached with these coaches against I mean,

490
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 2: when Russell Wilson came into the league, he brought that

491
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 2: to Seattle because that's what he did at Wisconsin, right,

492
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 2: was the RPO. And so we had we brought RPO coaches,

493
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 2: offensive coaches from college, the best ones, the best ones

494
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 2: to come in and give us clinics on what heard it?

495
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:21,679
Speaker 2: On what heard it?

496
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: Okay, but isn't it fascinating it just talking about it.

497
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 2: I like the fact that you bring up single wing,

498
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 2: that you bring up wishbone. Oh, sure, they're all the same.

499
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 2: Those principles are the same.

500
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,360
Speaker 1: But that's what's so incredible. I Mean, when Tom Landry

501
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: brought the shotgun to Dallas, everybody thought, well, this is crazy.

502
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 1: It's like, no, this is the single wing. He grew

503
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: up playing. He knew what this was. These are still

504
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: elements of things that we saw commonly in the seventies

505
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: and eighties that are now being used in different ways.

506
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,640
Speaker 1: But the principles about how you have to play defense

507
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: against it are still the same. Is that you've got

508
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: to think on defense. You can't just I mean, listen

509
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: if if I if I've got it right, and correct

510
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. But I mean, if you just

511
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: turn it loose and start running upfield, and guys start

512
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 1: running around blocks, which is some of what you're seeing

513
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: in the I mean, if a guy runs around a block,

514
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 1: he's taking himself out of the play.

515
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, not only himself. If you run around a block,

516
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 2: then you've also got somebody else that is that. Now,

517
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 2: Now the guy replacing behind you has got it, has

518
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,919
Speaker 2: got a cross face of two blockers right to be

519
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 2: able to get where. Yeah, I mean, it's a siment football.

520
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 2: It's a it's a it's a signment football. See. I

521
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 2: used to love it coaching linebackers when somebody was going

522
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 2: to just put a single back back there and run

523
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 2: inside and outside zone. And I had a defense, you know,

524
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 2: the defensive front was getting off and knocking back and

525
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 2: it was it was one back, one gap. If I can, if,

526
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 2: if if I can go downhill in that gap and

527
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 2: teach by linebackers, this is your gap. You go downhill

528
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 2: and into this gap. If you're the backside guy and

529
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 2: you're the overlap guy, then we can start talking about now,

530
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 2: how how are we going to play the point, Because

531
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 2: at times, what you'll start to do, you talk about

532
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 2: keeping your outside arm free, Then what you start to

533
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 2: do is a defense. Then you start to you start

534
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 2: to spill the block. So the guy's coming to try

535
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 2: to reach it, you go underneath him or you you

536
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 2: set him inside and you create the roadblock going outside.

537
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 2: So it's a ying and the yang type of thing.

538
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 2: But if you don't ever get it done early, you

539
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:37,120
Speaker 2: got a problem.

540
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, because and again I'm referring to years and years ago,

541
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: if we did try a stunt, then the people behind

542
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: us would know, oh, they're gonna stunt here, So I

543
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: have to so I need to go more outside.

544
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it has to it's it's coordinated, right,

545
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 2: It's like piano keys. I mean, you know it's it's

546
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 2: coordinated it and it has to be. But the element is,

547
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 2: and the element in this league when you've got quarterbacks

548
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 2: like Jaden Daniels or you've got one like Richardson, now

549
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 2: that are runners first, legitimate runners first. Then you've got

550
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 2: to start plus one and then the old wishbone techniques

551
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 2: coming to mean because now I mean, somebody's got to

552
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 2: have the mesh, somebody's got to have the quarterback, and

553
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 2: then somebody's got to have the perimeter. Now it's not

554
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 2: so much the pitch anymore, Mike. Now the pitch part

555
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 2: of it has become the throw on the RPO. The

556
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 2: pitch has become the throw from the wishbone now. And

557
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 2: then they read different things. They see how you're playing it,

558
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 2: and they'll read the front side linebacker, or they'll read

559
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 2: the back sideline backer. They'll read the three technique, they'll

560
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 2: read the five technique. It's we can go deep if

561
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 2: you want to.

562
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: It's amazing to see some of this. I mean I

563
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: saw play in an NFL game recently where they actually

564
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: optioned the full back just like out of the old wishbone.

565
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: They rode the full back through and left the ball

566
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: in his belly and he went for I can't remember

567
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: as a first down or a touchdown or whatever. Yeah,

568
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: but it's like those It's fascinating how things come back.

569
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 2: Well. Yeah, and you know, as I said, I mentioned before,

570
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 2: we brought those guys into letting. When I know, you

571
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 2: sit and listen to a clinic on this stuff, and

572
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 2: then they start telling you what they're going to read,

573
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 2: which Are they going to read the three technique? Are

574
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 2: they going to read the shade, They're going to read

575
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 2: the backside linebacker, They're going to read the front side

576
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 2: outside back.

577
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: It's yeah, we see some actual option now where they

578
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: do option the end, which is crazy.

579
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 2: Well, people are people. People are optioning now. And then

580
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 2: they've got the wham person. Uh yeah, you know the

581
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 2: wham principle where they bring somebody from the outside. Now

582
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 2: that that Dan Lyman is looking and all of a sudden,

583
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 2: he's not blocked and instead of somebody coming here, somebody's

584
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 2: ear holding him here.

585
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: Topic five. Titans have signed a kicker to the practice squad.

586
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 2: There you go.

587
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: They had Braydon Nervisen last week when they didn't know

588
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: if Nick Folk couldn't go. Turned out Nick Folk couldn't go.

589
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 1: Narvisen kicked in the game. He was released on Monday,

590
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: and on Thursday they signed Matthew Wright to the practice squad.

591
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: Matthew Wright, and we don't know if he'll kick or not,

592
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: but he's on the practice squad. Yeah. He's appeared in

593
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: twenty seven games. He's converted fifty one of fifty nine

594
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: field goals, so he's only masty eight that's good. Forty

595
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: of forty two extra points. He has twenty four touchbacks

596
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: on ninety four kickoffs, right as seven of eleven on

597
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: field goals of fifty plus with a long of fifty

598
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: nine against Las Vegas in twenty twenty two while he

599
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: was playing for the Chiefs. So there you go. Bizarre

600
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: off season story for this guy. First of all, he

601
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: comes into the league in twenty nineteen.

602
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 2: First of all, can I just say something.

603
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 3: It's not weirder than selling bricks off season?

604
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 2: Uh? I mean career stories for kickers. It's all bizarre

605
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 2: because they're like this. You know how Saturn has a

606
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 2: lot of rings around him. Yes, that's the world they

607
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 2: live in.

608
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting he would say that because when he so.

609
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 3: He kicked, he lived in a Saturn.

610
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: They lived in a Saturn. He helped make saturns in

611
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: spring Hill years ago. No. Actually, so he goes to UCF. Okay, yeah, yep.

612
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: He interns with Lockheed Martin while he aerospace engineering. Yeah,

613
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: while he's at UCF. So after he tries out for

614
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: the NFL and gets cut, he goes to work for

615
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: Lockheed Martin.

616
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 3: Of course he does as an aerospace engineer.

617
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: I guess. So then he decides he's going to try

618
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: the kicking thing. So obviously they're not going to let

619
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: you just come and go as you please at a

620
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: place like Luckheed Martin. So he's been around different places.

621
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: We saw him in twenty twenty one. I'll go back

622
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: to this in a moment, but let me give you

623
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: his off season this year. Okay, twenty twenty four. So

624
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: Matthew Wright spent the two twenty twenty four offseason with

625
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh before they waived him August twenty sixth, twenty twenty four.

626
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: So right at the end of training camp. Okay, all right,

627
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: So he does nothing with a team for six weeks.

628
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: Is He's signed by San Francisco to replace the injured

629
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: Jake Moody on October eighth. He makes all three of

630
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: his field goal attempts at Seattle on October tenth, Good job.

631
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: Stays with the team until November fifteenth, when they wave.

632
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 3: It Okay, no longer in San Francis.

633
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: So he's no longer in San Francisco as of the

634
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: middle of November. Wright was then signed to the Kansas

635
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: City practice.

636
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 2: Squad just three teams.

637
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: Eleven days later, November twenty sixth, He made four of

638
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: five field goals against Las Vegas on November twenty ninth.

639
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: He then hit four of four field goals, including a

640
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: thirty one yard game winner that banged off the left

641
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: upright against the Chargers. On December the eighth, Wright was

642
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: named the AFC Special Teams Player of the Week. There

643
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: you go, and the same week he was cut. He

644
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: was cut December fourteenth, twenty twenty four. So he signs

645
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: with the Titans twelve days later, the day after Christmas,

646
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: December the twenty sixth. But he's also part of one

647
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: of the more bizarre stories that technically involves the Titans.

648
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 1: Do you remember when urban Meyer was coaching Jacksonville in

649
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one.

650
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,439
Speaker 3: I liked it when Yeah, that was a good time

651
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 3: for us.

652
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: I liked it when he was Yes, he did a

653
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:46,359
Speaker 1: really good job.

654
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, we really love that.

655
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 1: So he gets into they have a kicker who's out

656
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 1: of this world named Josh Lambeau.

657
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:53,879
Speaker 2: Yeah.

658
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, So Josh Lambeau misses a couple of field goals

659
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: in preseason allegend, urban Meyer comes. I think they said

660
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Speaker 1: he kicked him duringstrac and he said, hey, dip blank

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Speaker 1: fill in the blank, dip blank blank. Uh, this is

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Speaker 1: allegedly make your blank and field goals.

663
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Speaker 2: That's okay, that's normal. That's good.

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Speaker 1: So the Josh Lambo thing didn't didn't go well, so

665
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: they eventually cut Josh Lambeau, who gets off to Not surprisingly,

666
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: Josh Lambo is a little wigged out by the whole thing. Yes,

667
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 1: allegedly started the year of three and they cut him.

668
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: They replaced him with Matthew Right. There we go, Matthew right.

669
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,479
Speaker 1: So we go down there to play and Matthew Wright

670
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Speaker 1: is just off the practice squad. He's like, what here?

671
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 1: I yeah, And Matthew Wright ends up missing a fifty

672
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: three yarder against the Titans, missed an extra point against

673
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: the Titans. Would play against the Titans later in the year,

674
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: but all he did was kick off one time. Because

675
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: the Titans won that game twenty to nothing. That that

676
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: was the last that's the last Titans shutout. Yeah, so

677
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,879
Speaker 1: he's kicked against the Titans twice. He's also kicked for Pittsburgh,

678
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:36,320
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Sancisco, San Francisco. He's spent time with Atlanta,

679
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: with Detroit. It's he has good numbers.

680
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 2: See, I'm so glad that you share this with the

681
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 2: ot people like this because this is what we get

682
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,240
Speaker 2: in the booth all the time, the crazy.

683
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: This is the part of it. They start to glaze over.

684
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 2: You have got information on information and and and and

685
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 2: an interesting minutia.

686
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: It's not is it?

687
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh, I love it. I mean I absolutely love it.

688
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: Final fact on Josh Lambeau, just to wrap it up

689
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,439
Speaker 1: in a bow. Yeah, do you remember the last team

690
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: Josh Lambeau kicked for no, No, he was the Titans

691
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: kicker during in the Thursday night when at Green Bay

692
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, he.

693
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Speaker 3: Made during all of our kicker chaos.

694
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 1: Well, Randy Bullock was heard.

695
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 2: That's when Bullock got it.

696
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: And so he made three or four extra points. That

697
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: was the last game Josh Lambeau ever kicked in in

698
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 1: the NFL.

699
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 2: And when Josh Lambeau was here, nobody kicked him during stretch.

700
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 3: That we know of, allegedly allegedly.

701
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 2: It is so just so love that. Again, I go

702
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:39,959
Speaker 2: back to that's the world those kickers living.

703
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: It's crazy.

704
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 2: It's a whole different subset of people.

705
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 3: It really is. But that's the best way.

706
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: To explain this to me. And I want you to

707
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: be totally serious with this answer, right, I mean, I

708
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: don't know if Matthew Writ's kicking Sunday or not. No,

709
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: I would think Nick Folk wants to go. Hopefully he does,

710
00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: but whatever, yep, But what in handling them? I mean,

711
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 1: this guy, he's been all over the place trying to

712
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: keep a job. He's had some success. There's got to

713
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: be a part of him that wonders, why hasn't somebody

714
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: just given me a real shot. He's made fifty one

715
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: of fifty nine field goals in the NFL, but nobody

716
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 1: has ever chosen him as their guy. So you know

717
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: this is in this person. How do you handle them

718
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,479
Speaker 1: as a coach? When you as a head coach? Yes,

719
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 1: I never talked to him, really, No. I would hire

720
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 1: the best special teams coach I.

721
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 2: Could hire everywhere. I was right, ended up with a

722
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,320
Speaker 2: great one in Bones Fossil.

723
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: Oh.

724
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jeff Fisher. You'd say Jeff Fisher was a pretty

725
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 2: good head coach for a lot of years. Right. He

726
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 2: never messed with the Kickers, never met hired special teams coaches.

727
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 2: The only thing Fish would do on special teams with

728
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:00,399
Speaker 2: a special teams coach is draw up all that fake

729
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 2: stuff that aj Trapasso, right, all the stuff that we

730
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 2: used to do. He'd get involved in that. But technically

731
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 2: teaching them, it's like, these guys are like golfers, right, Yeah,

732
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 2: they've got swing coaches and they've got particular ways they

733
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:18,320
Speaker 2: do it. And if you get in there, I knew

734
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 2: that I didn't know anything about technically to talk. Now

735
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 2: I could tell them, look, those two yellow things go

736
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 2: between them. I will tell them that. Glad to have

737
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 2: you here, you know, and put you on our shoulders

738
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 2: when you make it. Congratulations. You're a big part of

739
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 2: this team. But you start messing with those guys if

740
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 2: you don't really understand what they go through. I mean,

741
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 2: it's a you, it's they're just like golfers, man. Because

742
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 2: to your point, this dude, you watch the PGA too, Yes, yeah,

743
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 2: how pure those guys are. But you also if you

744
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:58,720
Speaker 2: watch tournaments, you watch them hit off, shank one, sure,

745
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 2: pull one left, whole one. Right. Well, what it's a

746
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 2: it's it's an amazing thing.

747
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 1: But the guys that we're watching on the PGA Tour

748
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 1: are the guys who are out there every week. We

749
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: don't often get to see the guys who get in

750
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Speaker 1: on one sponsors exemption a year or or they're trying

751
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: to keep their card. I mean, yeah, I mean we see,

752
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: you know, we see all the guys who are the things.

753
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 1: We don't see the ones who are fighting, you know,

754
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: because every once in a while one of them gets

755
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 1: in the last two or three groups of the day,

756
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: but rarely. I mean, Nick Folk's a guy who's kept

757
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: a job in the league forever. Yeah, Matthew Writ's twenty

758
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: eight years old. I don't know how you do that.

759
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's trying to get his card. He's trying to

760
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:51,319
Speaker 4: catch on.

761
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 2: And the thing about it is all of these guys

762
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,360
Speaker 2: can kick. Oh yeah, they can all Just like the

763
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 2: golfers that are on the that are on those those

764
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 2: tour minor tours trying to get there, they can all

765
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 2: play better than ten two percent. They're the two percent

766
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 2: that can play at that level. Yeah, And so it's

767
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 2: just that's why you've got to appreciate a guy like

768
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 2: Nick Folk. That's why we appreciated a guy like when

769
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 2: we had Craig Hentrick here, sure, I mean, because to

770
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 2: do it year after year after game after game after game. Mike,

771
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 2: you remember when Fish, when we were having when we

772
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 2: were having all those kicking problems, and we when we

773
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:37,399
Speaker 2: brought Gary Gary Anderson, Gary Anderson back in, brought Gary

774
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 2: Anderson back in this true story. Now Gary Anderson runs

775
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 2: a fly fishing camp in Canada.

776
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 3: Well, sure, why wouldn't he expert expert?

777
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 2: So we brought when fish call and brought him in.

778
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 2: Said hey, Gary, we need you. Now. You called a

779
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 2: lot of his field goal. Sure if it was if

780
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 2: it was a thirty nine yard er, he kicked it

781
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 2: thirty nine and a half. If it was forty two,

782
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 2: he kicked it forty two and a half. It had

783
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:05,760
Speaker 2: just easy. But during practice he would set up rings

784
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 2: in the indoor and practice fly fishing, you know, throwing

785
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 2: it in, throwing it in rings, and then when it

786
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:15,959
Speaker 2: was time to kick, send Matt Thompson in there. Matt,

787
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 2: go get Gary. It'd come out okay, so make it

788
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 2: six or seven, go back in.

789
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: But you know Jeff wanted him so badly. You'll remember

790
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: this that when Joe Nedney got hurt for a second time, Yes,

791
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 1: in two thousand and four, they couldn't get Gary in

792
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: in time because he had stuff that he had to

793
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: do with his business. Yes, so they used was it

794
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: Aaron elling, I think that's who it was that we

795
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,959
Speaker 1: used for a week that ended up having to punt

796
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: in the Miami game. He was the AFC Special Teams

797
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: Player of the Week and then we waived him on

798
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: Monday to bring Gary here. It is because Gary wasn't

799
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: trying to do any of that macho stuff. He was

800
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: not trying to see how far he could kick it.

801
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: Coach said it just right. All Gary was trying to

802
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: do is make it and that was it. I mean,

803
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: he was going to make the field goal. He was

804
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: not going to show you how strong his leg was,

805
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: and he wasn't about setting records or anything like that.

806
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: He just made the field goal and he left. But

807
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:23,760
Speaker 1: he was so reliable, and reliability is what you want,

808
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: and that's what and that's what Jeff wanted, is that

809
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: they said, well, we understand Gary can't get here in time,

810
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: so we'll use this guy as a one game filling.

811
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 3: He just made the field goals and then left.

812
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: It. I could show you footage he would hit the

813
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: kick and then start towards the sidelines. He would he

814
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: would not. I'm not saying it's not.

815
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 3: That he was not interested.

816
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 4: He was just he wouldn't watch it.

817
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,439
Speaker 1: He wouldn't watch it. No, he didn't watch it, and

818
00:43:56,440 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: and and again. He didn't stand and admire how far

819
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: up the netted hit or anything.

820
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

821
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: He all he did was make it and then he left.

822
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 2: I mean it was he was.

823
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 1: He's a great dude from Sweden. Yeah he was.

824
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 2: He was. Yeah, he was one of the best dudes

825
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,760
Speaker 2: in the history of guys. I really loved guy because

826
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 2: he was so called. Back to the PGA Tour. You

827
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 2: ever watched Freddy Couples play golf? Yes, even at this age.

828
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 2: I mean it is silk still smooth. Yeah, and he

829
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 2: did Ernie L's that's the same swing. But but this

830
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,720
Speaker 2: is like Gary when hit it, just walk start walking.

831
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Speaker 4: Delivery fees apply. That's why I said, we need to

876
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 4: start implementing consequences for when you went over and you

877
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:04,760
Speaker 4: vetoed that decision.

878
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 3: Hey on, give me your pizzas trade mayonnaise. Yes, I

879
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 3: have a squeeze.

880
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 1: Bottle a mayotivation from Helman's Mayo.

881
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 4: Titans cheers be loud, and your buffalo chicken damp make

882
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 4: your mama proud.

883
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 1: Should we publicize Buffalo.

884
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 3: Well, it's Buffalo chicken, not the city of.

885
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 2: It could be.

886
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:31,359
Speaker 3: I'm just reading what's in there. I tried to say

887
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 3: deviled eggs. Shut me down.

888
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 4: Helman's the official mayo of the Tennessee Titans.

889
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 3: Mayo game day be delicious.

890
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 1: You know.

891
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 4: I heard that on a commercial and they really undersold

892
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,359
Speaker 4: that line, and I was really disappointed. But I try

893
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 4: to give it a lot of gusto, and I felt

894
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 4: like they weren't even trying.

895
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 1: Maybe so huh.

896
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,280
Speaker 3: It made me I notice it every time.

897
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 1: Well, here's our mayotivation. Don't kick your kicker. Don't kick

898
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: your kicker in warm up it's stretched.

899
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 3: Don't kick anybody, don't kick people, just don't do that.

900
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: And of all the things, and don't let Santa in

901
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 1: your house.

902
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 4: Don't let's say, hey, this is not a problem at

903
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 4: my home any longer. It's over. The threat has been neutralized.

904
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 4: Santa's thank you for doing this until Easter.

905
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,879
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for sitting in the Snickers hot seat.

906
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 1: Coach Man.

907
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 2: I love the Snickers hot seat. I love the Snickers

908
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 2: hot seat. I stole the whole jar Snickers. We know

909
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,359
Speaker 2: the first time I was here. We're aware.

910
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 4: I know.

911
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 2: I took it.

912
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 3: I'm gonna fill it with mayonnaise next time. See if

913
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 3: you steal that.

914
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 1: Probably delicious but harder to give away.

915
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 3: You would steal it for coach.

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00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis and Amy Wells. I might keep thanking you

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Speaker 1: for joining us for the OTP pre game