WEBVTT - The OTP: Titans Mini-Camp Wrap Up 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.240 This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.360 You can plan on Farm Bureau Health Plans for better coverage, 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:20.400 better rates, and better customer service. They've been protecting Tennesseean's 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.440 with the home field advantage for almost seventy five years. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:28.920 Maybe wells on, Mike Keith and many. Camp is complete. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.240 We made it. The majority of the players are gone. 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:36.040 The rookies are here for another week. It is a 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:40.480 week right, Yes, it's a weekend. And then everyone reconvenes 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:46.120 the last weekend July to start the slog towards August 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.840 thirteenth in Atlanta, the first preseason game, and then obviously 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:54.000 and more importantly September twelfth, here at Nissan Stadium against 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.480 the Arizona Cardinals at noon Central time. We have reached 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.760 the six weeks of summer. Here it is. This is 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:05.720 pretty much it for everybody where you can pretty safely 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.759 get lost. Ye yes, And the coaches will get lost 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:14.280 for a period of time, people on staff will get lost, 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.480 The players will continue to train. This was always the 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.200 period of the year when I first arrived at the team, 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.920 that the coaching staff and the personnel staff were worried 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.240 about so much because guys would just go off and eat, 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:34.280 which is what I do. Well, your level of responsibility 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.120 slightly different. So when I got here in the late nineties, 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.280 that was a real concern. So guys come back just 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:44.160 incredibly overweight, or they would have gained a bunch of 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.040 weight since they last saw them. That would happen. It 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.840 didn't happen all the time, but it did happen. You know, 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.800 Eddie George would go off to you know, the desert 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.960 somewhere or wherever he went to, you know, yeah, and 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.600 train like crazy. Other guys not so much. That's not 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.000 really what they do. Other guys be driving through at 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:08.560 steak and shake, you know, and what all people do 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:10.639 in the summer. Right, But that was the whole thing. Well, 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.320 now they continue to train. They go to California, they 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.480 go to Arizona, they go to Florida, you know, all 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.360 of those sorts of things, and even if they travel 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.040 a little bit, they go places where they can continue 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:26.920 to work out and it never changes. I can't remember 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.520 the last guy I saw who came in and you thought, boy, 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:33.160 he's been doing nothing. Yeah, guys trained, but they found 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:38.119 beautiful places to train, right, everybody trains in like Arizona. 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.240 These beautiful facilities are in Florida or at a spawn 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.880 in California, like I mean, or the Bahamas or something 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.600 crazy like that. And I'm sure the workouts are very 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.320 rigorous and very hard and not what I would like 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:53.840 to be doing. But like I would go to the 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.440 Bahamas to train, sure that, I mean that sounds fine. 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.440 I don't know. I mean what they do is pretty 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:05.720 Nutso it's like the hit CrossFit to a completely different level. 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.040 It is. It is hardcore, and the things that like 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:13.400 Derrick Henry does just for fun, just to see what 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:18.160 would happen, are bananas. But still I'd be more inclined 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.560 to do impossible workouts in a beautiful tropical play get it. 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.359 But they're with their families and they're able to get away. 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.040 And you have some of this because some of the 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.200 guys with children, who you know, we're sort of penned 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.680 down during the pandemic are going to see the grandparents 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.840 and going to visit family and going to be with 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.640 friends and doing things that they can now with all 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.440 of the vaccination that is going on. The vaccination was 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.600 the biggest news of the week in the league. Yeah, 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:52.320 it overshadowed Aaron Rodgers. Again, it overshadowed everything that was 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.480 out there was the news that the league and the 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.880 players Association came to an agreement, and this was said 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.160 by several analyst, but I think it was very well put. 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.600 Life is going to be a lot easier for an 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.440 NFL player who is vaccinated than one who is not 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.080 right right, And that's just the reality. And it's the 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.480 same as what we're seeing in America just in general. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.240 Life seems to be a little bit easier, a little 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.960 less complicated if you are vaccinated as opposed to if 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.640 you are not. If you are a vaccinated NFL player, 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.039 you are going to be tested for COVID nineteen every 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:31.200 fourteen days. If you were a non vaccinated NFL player, 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.160 you were still going to be tested every day. You're 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.520 still going to have a mask requirement, You're still going 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.320 to have a distancing requirement. You're going to be in 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.440 a position where there are certain areas that you can 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.160 only enter at certain times, which you know, for the 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.799 training room or the weight room or however that's done. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.080 It's just gonna be a hassle. And you wonder this, 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.440 and Mike Vrabel was asked this in his final press 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:00.120 conference at the end of Mini camp. He was that's 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:04.400 the question. Our teams that have more players vaccinated going 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.919 to be at an advantage in terms of their preparation. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:12.440 And I thought, knowing Vrabel, he would say, you know, 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:16.120 he would just but he didn't. No, he didn't. He said, 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.159 we will still be able to prepare, we will still 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.520 be able to get together. You could say it in 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.560 the words you want to say to paraphrase him, but 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.320 I would say he more or less said, it'll be 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.320 more complicated. It would certainly be more convenient the more 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.200 guys that you have vaccinated, right, And I think that 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:36.200 he answered the question well, given that Mike Vrabel is 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.599 not a guy that will make excuses for any reason 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.640 or use any outside circumstance as a reason to point 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.200 to a win or a loss. That's just Mike Vrabel. 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:50.599 He did, however, say or imply, I guess more than anything, 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.680 it will be more complicated the more people you have 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:58.560 that are not vaccinated. Right. It is an added layer 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:03.160 of choreogra fee that the team needs to maneuver when 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.320 you have a lot of guys that aren't getting the 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:09.200 vaccine just because you have to navigate the protocols that 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:13.760 still exist. Let's say you get ninety guys and only 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:17.800 fifty you're vaccinated. Then you get forty guys that you're 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.440 having to maneuver around. Now, that's just in the preseason 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.560 and the games don't count. And I know this, but 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:27.039 but that's clunky. It's clunky in a time that training 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:31.320 camp as an entity is clunky. It's it's just kind 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:35.240 of a bear of an experience for everyone involved, from 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.880 the operations guys, to the cooks, to the coaching staff 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.440 to the players. It's it's just a cumbersome thing. Getting 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.119 ninety guys basically living in a building for a month. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:51.560 It's just kind of hard having to separate some of 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.680 those guys and have them operate in a different manner 0:06:55.120 --> 0:07:00.760 than other guys, and have them navigating kind of orbiting 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.320 around some of the other team and not being able 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.680 to participate in the same spaces all the time. It 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.760 would be a little chaotic. Well, if you get to 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.120 the regular season and then you have the fifty three 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.000 and you have the practice squad, so roughly seventy guys, 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.080 if you have twenty to twenty five who are not vaccinated, 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.800 that's clunky. Two Yeah, but then you're preparing and does 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:29.520 it take time away from the preparation now? But does 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.600 it make it harder and add a layer to it 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.679 that you would rather not have? If you're Mike Vrabel, 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.720 I would say yes, yeah, and I agree with that. 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.880 And there are so many layers to this decision for 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:47.080 players and the whole vaccine experience. There's a lot of 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:51.080 stuff to it, and we understand that there's a lot 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.720 of contributing factors that go into deciding whether or not 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:57.360 a person is going to get vaccinated. However, if I 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:02.360 am a head football coach, things to be the things 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.080 that I can control to be as easy as possible. Sure, 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:09.000 So what Mike Vrabel can control right now is providing education, 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:13.760 is providing ways for guys to access vaccines if they 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.840 want them. He can do everything that he can to 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.800 encourage guys to make that choice, and then it's kind 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:21.760 of out of his hands. Then what he can control 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:26.400 is navigating around the chaos of trying to get everybody 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.520 prepared and ready to play. I think that if there's 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.559 a choice, you want every person on your team vaccinated. Well, 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.040 it's like what Bruce arians said, He said, I'm an expert. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.839 You know, some coaches have brought in experts to try 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:40.800 to convince guys. He said, I'm an expert, you should 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:45.080 get the vaccine. And that's Bruce arians. I didn't take 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.360 it as a political comment or a medical comment. He's 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.439 just saying it helps our football team. Yeah, if more 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.840 guys are vaccinated, because then the chances are what we're seeing. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.880 Then the data clearly shows it. They're less outbreaks, right, 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.640 there's less contact tracing. So what you're doing is it's 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.440 it's like when a team has a flu outbreak, which 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.839 does happen on ball clubs. We've seen it, Yeah, we've 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:10.960 seen it, and we you know, a couple of years ago, 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.640 three years ago, we had like a stomach bug and 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.280 so there's gross. So they're getting everybody away from everybody 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.520 else because of the stomach bug. Well, I mean that happens, 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.480 you know, people get a cold, people get the flu, 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:28.040 you know, whatever. This by taking the vaccine cuts down 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:33.560 on that chance. And the coaches always love things they 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.360 can control to be controlled. Absolutely. I think that's what 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.839 you're saying earlier is the more things that they can 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:46.280 control is what they like. They're not making political comments. 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:50.080 They're not making social comments, they're not making medical comments. 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.360 They're saying, you know what, we've got to beat Washington 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:56.000 this week. And if I got all my dudes, I 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.400 got a chance to beat Washington this week. If I 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.320 got ten of them out because we're in a contact 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:05.760 tracing situation and a couple of them are COVID positive, 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.200 then that's tough. Here's the other thing about the testing. 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.559 The people we worked with who were Tier one and 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.560 Tier two talked about this so much because we were not. 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.720 We were Tier three, right, so we were not near 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:18.960 the players and the coaches at all last year. In 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.079 our roles with the ball club, you have to get 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.680 tested every day, every day. Now. That means if you 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:29.359 don't have anything going on, if it's a off day situation, 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.760 you are still getting tested. Still had to go in 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.120 and get tested. And you didn't get to do it 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.079 at four o'clock in the afternoon or what you had 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.200 to get up and drive in every morning. You had 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.960 to do it by what seven or seven early yeah. 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.280 I can't speak to that one hundred percent, but it 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:49.000 was early. Yeah. And so if we win a ballgame 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:54.839 and Vrabel says, we'll see you Wednesday on Sunday and 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:58.440 you're not vaccinated, you still have to get up and 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.200 come in Monday and Tuesday day morning to be tested. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.440 Because here's the thing about the testing protocol. If you 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.120 miss a day, your whole thing starts over. You have 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:14.360 to quarantine for ten days, so you can't do anything, 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.520 like you cannot leave your home for ten days, right, 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.200 and then you have to restart in the cycle. It 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:25.520 is incredibly disruptive to your life, right and overall just 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:29.200 happiness as a human being. I would assume if you 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.920 fall out of your testing cycle, So you don't want 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.080 to miss a day, and why I even want to 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.079 think about that. I've got other stuff going on. I'm 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.760 sure these guys have other stuff going on, like preparing 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:44.280 to beat the Jags, right, Like that is a different 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.840 thing that's in your brain to have to think, oh crap, 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.920 I've got to get to the facility. It's a Saturday, 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:54.760 but I got a test, right, No, thank you? Yeah? 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.920 I mean I think it's a thing. It's undoubtedly a thing. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.360 A couple of things who want to hit on it. 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.000 I want to talk about what we saw on the field, 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.520 but I want to talk about six one five day 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.040 really quickly because I don't want to miss it. We 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.400 got free shirts, and so by them plying us with 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:16.840 free shirts, we promoted it. And we went to six 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.960 one five Day at Severe Park, the farmer's market that 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.400 they do there. It was so cool, It was really cool. 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:28.079 It's really an outstanding thing. A lot of our Titans 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.480 brothers and sisters were there working it, and we met 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.920 a lot of Titans fans. Thank you to the ot 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.080 people that we met there that they became aware of 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.680 six one five Day and the clothes of it at 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.760 Severe Park by virtue of listening to the podcast, So 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:46.040 thank you. I also want to thank And this was 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.960 after I departed from you and your dog Weller, who 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.440 you brought to the to the party. Yeah, we had 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.840 to talk about that in a minute. Okay. So I 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.040 met the folks, and of course it's a farmer's market, 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:02.120 so all kinds of people are selling things. Jim spaghetti sauce. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.439 What Jim spaghetti sauce? I got talking to them. They 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.880 were looking at season tickets. We had a great conversation 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.440 about Julio and Amy Adams Trunk. They were really cool people. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:15.720 Well Jim's and so I get the backstory. Jim steak 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.840 in Spaghetti is actually out of Huntington, West Virginia. I 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.880 lived there for a minute. Okay, so they opened in 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:27.040 nineteen thirty eight. Well, some of the relatives live here, 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:32.400 grew up here, and so they sell the famous spaghetti sauce. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.040 Well that's pretty well, that's pretty great. And I mean 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:39.600 so stories like that are why these things are so cool. 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:43.600 And all of the kids and the dogs and everybody 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.320 out wearing their titan stuff. It was a great event. 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:51.040 So congratulations to our staff here who worked really hard 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.240 to promote that, gave away a bunch of money, did 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:58.360 a bunch of outstanding promotion on June the fifteenth, which 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:02.760 is of course six one five, yes, six one days. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.119 There you go, fabulous time. I'm all for a fabulous 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.840 time anytime, and so to create something that the community 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.360 could enjoy that much, and you know, I just I 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.560 just really had a good time. It was really just 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.839 wandering around. The only problem was by the time we 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.320 got there, most of the food was gone. Yeah you 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.440 ate something that looked delicate, well, but it was. There 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.680 were dessert things, yeah, and I'm not against dessert dinner, 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.760 but I wanted a collachi Oh yeah, Collachi's are a 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.960 hot commodity. You gotta get there. Earlier Collies were gone. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.120 I was very disappointed. Yeah, I know. Collichi's are a 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:43.080 Texas thing that Amy Adams Strunk actually introduced me to 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.000 when we were down doing something with her. At one 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.480 point she had Collachi's brought. She was also the person 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.520 who introduced me to Colachi Does she get a cut 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.520 from that? She is also the person who gave me 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.440 my first case than good for her because they are 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.720 a delight m And I was so disappointed that the 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:07.320 collache folks we're out. Yeah. Well, and this brings me 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:10.760 to a good point. The food at the event because 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:12.560 so great to be at six one five day. We 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.560 had an absolute blast. It was so much fun meeting 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.200 so many people, and everyone came up to talk to 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.440 us and kind of tell their stories. And I decided 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.800 to bring dear sweet Weller, my dog to this event. 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.160 And so I'm talking to just someone who had come 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.720 up to just kind of chat and I looked down 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:34.760 and my dog has an entire bagel in his mouth. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.760 Whole bagel. No clue where it came from, don't know 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.400 who he took it from, but there is somebody out 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.800 there who I owe a bagel too, and I am 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:49.480 so sorry. Weller is Eclept, Yeah he is Weller the Clept. Well. 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.960 I hope it's a good band because to whoever it 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:57.240 was who was out at Severe Park and thought they 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.680 were going to have a delicious bagel and then looked 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.640 down and it was gone, it was me. I'm sorry, 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.800 my dog took your bagel, and I want to buy 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.920 you another one, but you gotta tell so here's the problem. 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.040 I feel so bad this is let me tell you where. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.440 This is a rookie mistake. I feel so they're going 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.040 to be eighty seven people claim that your dog took 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.880 their bait. Okay, well, then the bagels are what seventy 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.080 five cents? Well, I don't know where you live, but 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.160 just is gonna end up costing you a hundred bucks. 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:27.040 That's okay. I'm happy to do that if it makes 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.600 up for my dog being a thief. Bagels are delicious 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.760 and if someone was genuinely excited, it's just a Plaine bagel. 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.720 Now they're okay, It matters where you get them, and 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.040 have they been toasted. I don't think it was toasted. 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.920 It didn't look toasty, but it was. It was a 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.040 full bagel. But if if I had been really excited 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.480 about it, had it sitting next to me, looked away 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.120 and looked back, and bagel's gone, you know, I'd be 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.720 really upset. Who lost that bagels? Timmy, little Timmy lost 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.320 that little Timmy. No, it was taken from a kid. Well, 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.520 and that's even worse. And I've got to get this 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.200 off my conscience, like it's been bothering me for day. 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:04.359 So just like I'm listening to the second, I'm getting 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.760 a free bagel out of Amy Wills because she's a sucker. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.680 I'm really smart thinking. I just I need to clear 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.760 my car. Wait a minute, you live in Berlin, Germany 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.840 and you were six one five day. Yes, you can 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.400 probably get better bagels in Berlin, Germany. Anyway, just stick 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.640 with what you got, all right? So six one five day, 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.280 huge success, awesome, so great, great stuff. Thanks to the fans. 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.760 As always, thanks to the folks. Jim. They gave me 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:34.560 some spaghetti, so they did. Oh I felt so bad. 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.640 I wanted to pay for it because I'll eat spaghetti. Wait, 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.119 Mike's getting free stuff and I just lost a hundred 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.640 bucks in bagels. What kind of a show is that. Well, 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:46.280 I've got segnor that's smart enough not to bring my 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:51.360 dogs because they would have been everywhere. Yeah, all right, 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.520 that's differ ranciate. One thing, Mini camp is different from 0:17:54.560 --> 0:18:00.480 OTAs OTAs organized team activity. You can have ten of them, 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:07.240 and the gist of that is those are very set 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:12.640 days where everything is very limited and they are not mandatory. 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:16.440 And this year and for years, mandatory to many people 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.800 seem like the old wink win because in air quotes 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:22.120 air quotes mandatory. Well, this year the players obviously took 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.800 that seriously. Most of the teams did not have full 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:30.280 attendance for all of the OTAs. Now. Mini camp is 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.239 different in that it is mandatory, but that's not the 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.240 only difference. You can have the players longer in the facility, 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.120 you can do more things with them, and it really 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:45.280 sets up training camp right. Mini camp is basically a 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.600 pretty good preview of like training camp is going to 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:52.280 be like, not for the full like longevity of it, 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.040 but in that you get an idea of what a 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.760 day is most likely going to be structured. It's like 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.879 a sampler. It's a sampler. That's a very nice way 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:02.840 to put it's like a little tease, a little sneak peek. 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.200 They are given the ability to see, Okay, you come 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.560 in for breakfast, we have meetings, we get a lift in, 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.560 we go out to practice, we have meetings, we do 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.080 You kind of get the run of show for a day, 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.879 which veterans of course don't really need it. For vets, 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:19.720 it's a chance to get back in the building, kind 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:21.560 of get your feet back under, You get to know 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.960 some people. It was very exciting having Julio there, so 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.080 that you get the meet and greed experience in that regard, 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:31.600 you know, it kind of kicks off the easing back 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:35.400 end process for a lot of veterans. For rookies, this 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.919 is great. It gives you an ability to see. It 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.480 gives you a little window into what training camp is 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:43.840 going to be like, because training camp is a very 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.960 different experience when you get to the NFL. This isn't 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:52.120 like college. No, it's not all camp. Right, and we've 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.439 discussed this before, so I'm sorry to be repetitive, but 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.240 for those of us that played say high school ball, 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.400 most of us would tell you would try to survive 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.200 two a days. You would just try to survive. That's 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:06.399 all you were trying to do is just make it 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:10.200 through two A days because the basis behind two A 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.240 days was more or less conditioning. Yeah, you got better 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.719 at the football and you put into plays, but it 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:19.880 was really conditioning because teams just started to have offseason 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:22.919 conditioning programs when I got to high school, it was 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:26.080 just the start of it. Well, now even high schools 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:29.520 are doing things throughout the summer. Colleges are doing things 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:32.280 throughout the summer. The pro guys stay in shape all 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:36.800 the time. So it's one practice a day, it's some walkthroughs. 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:41.680 The difference is it's about advancing, it's about learning, it's 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:45.160 about getting ready for the first game already. I mean, 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:48.760 it's a lot of stuff that from a mental standpoint, 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.879 you're expected to know and go out and execute every 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:57.159 single day. And so it's very, very different than what 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.880 it was thirty years ago, or even twenty years ago 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:03.679 when I started going to training camp practices in nineteen 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.080 ninety eight at TSU, when they would go out and 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.359 have pads on for both practices and just beat the 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.760 crap out of each other better time. Well, this doesn't 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.560 this doesn't resemble that at all. So if you're a 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:19.000 young guy, You've got to be able to have a focus. 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:23.320 I mean, you can't just mail it in in an 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:26.320 afternoon walk through because you were trying to sneak in 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:30.480 a nap in the meeting, right, I mean, you'd better 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.920 be on point. And these days are going to go 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:37.800 six am to ten pm. Now, the mini camp days 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:40.720 don't go six am to ten pm, but they are 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.000 longer and they do have the right to have you 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.080 for more. And so you get a gauge the newer 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.880 guys get a gauge on how drills look, on how 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:51.919 meetings are run, what the head coach likes, what the 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:56.359 coordinators like, what the position coaches like, what the dynamic 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:58.639 is between the guys, all of those sorts of things 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:00.560 right well, and it's one of those things and Coach 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:03.080 Mac has brought this up before on this show. They 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:06.359 learn how to practice as well, because that is very different. 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:08.720 They learn how to have restraint, They learn how to 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:11.199 go fast but not go hard. They learn how what 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:14.639 a walkthrough looks like, what jog through speed really is. 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:18.600 All those little nuances of practice that Mike Vrabel is 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:21.440 not interested in teaching you once it gets to training camp, 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:23.679 because training camp is when we're working. Well, there's no 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:26.240 time yep. I mean there's no time because you've only 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:28.920 got the one practice a day now. Yeah, and you're 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:32.520 expected to go out and to execute what you have 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:35.359 seen in the meetings, what they have put up on 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:39.440 the board. They're going to review practice with you. I mean, 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:43.919 the level of intelligence of an average NFL player is 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:47.200 very different than when I got here, Yeah, because the 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:50.560 mental part of it is so much greater than the 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:54.520