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Speaker 1: forty seven. My name is Mike Keith amy Wells is here.

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Speaker 1: We are back in our normal studio at St. Thomas

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Speaker 1: On Friday, August, the twenty eighth train camp is over. Apparently, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: in this world, trying to help kids. And that's where

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Speaker 1: in listening to these players talk about what they're going

433
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Speaker 1: to do, and you probably know more about this than

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Speaker 1: I do, even and I know it's still in it's

435
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Speaker 1: maybe embryonic stages. They're gonna take the message out and

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Speaker 1: they're gonna talk to kids. Yep. That's what Kevin byard

437
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Speaker 1: and that's what Ryan Tannehill, and that's what this bunch

438
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Speaker 1: of players are gonna do. They're gonna try to make

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Speaker 1: a difference with it on people who need that, people

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Speaker 1: that they know if they would have gotten that message

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Speaker 1: when they were that age, what a profound effect it

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Speaker 1: can have. And it's something that they wanted to do.

443
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Speaker 1: Like that's the key to this in my mind. The

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Speaker 1: players sat down, they had the discussions, they had they

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Speaker 1: formulated a plan. This is what we want to do.

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Speaker 1: We want to talk to kids. We want to have

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Speaker 1: some early intervention, you know, get to them, really try

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Speaker 1: to educate them. Yes, they're gonna think it's cool that

449
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Speaker 1: we're Titans players, but maybe they'll listen. Sure, And the

450
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Speaker 1: fact that they put it together. It's not a pr

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Speaker 1: stunt that the organization is asking players to participate in.

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Speaker 1: The players are asking the organization to make this happen,

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Speaker 1: and that I think is something that means a lot.

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Speaker 1: And you know people will always kind of roll their

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Speaker 1: eyes and be oh, players doing this, it's a photo op.

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Speaker 1: You know, so many times we see guys out in

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Speaker 1: the community doing things, and the responses, well, it's a

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Speaker 1: photo op. Well they get paid so much money, blah

459
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Speaker 1: blah blah. It's the least you can do. This is

460
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Speaker 1: something that is not that. But if you get paid

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Speaker 1: lots of money, if you're put on this stage, doesn't

462
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Speaker 1: it in the reality of it, doesn't it make you

463
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Speaker 1: more responsible? Doesn't it mean that you you should be

464
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Speaker 1: somebody who should step forward even more if you have

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Speaker 1: the blessing of this platform. If now, I know they've

466
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Speaker 1: worked hard, but I mean they've been fortunate, and good

467
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Speaker 1: things have happened in their life, and the Good Lord's

468
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: given them gifts that many of us don't have. If

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Speaker 1: you have that, is it not your responsibility to turn

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Speaker 1: and reach the hand back and try to make a

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Speaker 1: difference with that. To who much is given, much is required. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: And I mean I think that that, to me is

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Speaker 1: a big part of what the Milwaukee Bucks did the

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Speaker 1: other night. And as I watched those guys read that statement,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I know there was like, oh, they're

476
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Speaker 1: you know, millionaire athletes, Like no, that's not what this is. Now.

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Speaker 1: They they're coming back to play, And I think that's great. Too,

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Speaker 1: But you just feel like when you see throughout our history,

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Speaker 1: the Eddie Georges do the right things, and the Javine

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Speaker 1: Curses do the right things, and our friend Keith Bullock

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Speaker 1: and Kevin Dyson and Mark Mary Andy and on and

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Speaker 1: on and on, we've had a couple of LULUs over

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Speaker 1: the years. I mean, there's there's no question. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've been around for those two, but over ninety five

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Speaker 1: are people who have done the right thing and are

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Speaker 1: trying to do the right thing and to make a difference.

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Speaker 1: And that's always made me very proud to be with

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Speaker 1: the organization. Well, and even this past offseason with some

489
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Speaker 1: of the people who are no longer with the organization

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Speaker 1: and the comments about well, who's going to be the

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Speaker 1: leaders in the locker room now, everyone was kind of wondering,

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Speaker 1: is this going to be a younger team that doesn't

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Speaker 1: have those strong leaders anymore? Who's going to step forward?

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Speaker 1: Is anyone going to step forward? I think we can

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Speaker 1: now confidently say that there are a lot of leaders

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Speaker 1: in that locker room. I think that question has been

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Speaker 1: answered absolutely. And the leadership question was one that was

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Speaker 1: asked a lot, and I think if you saw yesterday

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Speaker 1: if you have seen who's been talking on behalf of

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Speaker 1: the team, if you've watched practice, I think that question

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Speaker 1: has been totally answered. Whatever happens this year, lack of

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Speaker 1: leadership is not going to be the issue that holds

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Speaker 1: this team back. Absolutely, and I think that a lot

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Speaker 1: of that is to the credit of John Robinson and

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Speaker 1: Mike Frayblo. I agree. I think that they pick the

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Speaker 1: right people. They pick the people who are going to

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Speaker 1: have those leaderships still, who are going to take that initiative,

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Speaker 1: who care about things of course football, but they care

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Speaker 1: about each other. And I think that, I mean every

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Speaker 1: now and then you feel like you overhear the tough, smart,

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Speaker 1: dependable like the team. First. Yeah, attributes of a titan,

512
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Speaker 1: but it's real and this is how we're seeing it

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Speaker 1: manifest itself off the field well, and John Robinson has

514
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Speaker 1: talked a lot about in handling all of the diversions

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Speaker 1: that have come up that have had to but in

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Speaker 1: all of the strange things that have already popped up

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Speaker 1: in this offseason and in this training camp and that

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Speaker 1: continue to go on. We're recording this seventeen days before

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Speaker 1: the first game, sixteen days before the first trip. We

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Speaker 1: still don't know everything about how everything is going to

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Speaker 1: work right now. Ye, ladies and gentlemen listening to the

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Speaker 1: OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans, that is no

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Speaker 1: way to live in the NFL, you know, But guess what,

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Speaker 1: it's no way to live anywhere. Yes, John Robinson says

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Speaker 1: to the team, this is our life right now, and

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Speaker 1: so get used to it. Don't whine, don't complain. He says.

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Speaker 1: The thing we were all told the first time we

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Speaker 1: got into tackle football, and that is knees bent, head

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Speaker 1: on a swivel. And what that means, quite simply, if

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Speaker 1: you never played, is if you've got your knees bent,

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Speaker 1: then you've got your weight, you've got your balance. You

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Speaker 1: can take a lick at that point. If you're standing

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Speaker 1: straight up, you're gonna fall down. If you take a hit,

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Speaker 1: there's more of you to hit. You're not in a

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Speaker 1: position to play football unless you have your knees bent.

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Speaker 1: Head on a swivel is a term that I use

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Speaker 1: with my two kids, and they still say it to me,

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Speaker 1: even in their twenties. They say, Dad, I got my

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Speaker 1: head on a swivel. And that's every part of life

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Speaker 1: you're watching in traffic, you're watching people, if you're walking

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Speaker 1: downtown in a big city, if you're going through somewhere

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Speaker 1: trying to get a job, or you're trying to to

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Speaker 1: do anything. If you get your head on a swivel,

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Speaker 1: that means you're ready for anything. Knees bent, head on

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Speaker 1: a swivel. And I think this organization has taken on

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Speaker 1: that mantra, that simple mantra in saying this is just

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Speaker 1: how we're gonna handle all of this. It's goofy, it's strange,

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Speaker 1: we don't know stuff, it's disconcerting. It wakes you up

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Speaker 1: after four hours of sleep. Well, no, but I sometimes

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Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. You. You know, I woke up this

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Speaker 1: morning thinking about Denver, thinking about something with Denver that

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Speaker 1: I needed to get an answer to. And I may

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Speaker 1: or may not get that answer as as well as

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Speaker 1: I want it, as quickly as I want it. But

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Speaker 1: that's what we're living with right now. And for John,

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Speaker 1: by doing this on the football side, they're not distracted

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00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: because everybody understands it's knees bent, head on a yeah,

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00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: and so many things are distracting that almost nothing is distracting,

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Speaker 1: if that makes sense. Can be there's so many different

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Speaker 1: things that are moving parts. There are so many different

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Speaker 1: things that are different that it can't be an excuse

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00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: because you won't be able to get anything accompromised, so

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Speaker 1: you're paralyzed. Yeah, exactly. So just expect for things to

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Speaker 1: be weird, expect for things to be different, and we

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Speaker 1: will adjust. That's what we're doing this year, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's in every facet of this football organization, but

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Speaker 1: also in a lot of people's lives. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of adjusting to do. So let's just get used to it.

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Speaker 1: Let's get comfortable with being uncomfortable, and let's keep moving forward.

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Speaker 1: The ot people, I think at the end of training

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Speaker 1: camp and after what went on yesterday and what has

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Speaker 1: gone on during COVID and you know, the whole pandemic

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Speaker 1: which continues, I think what they need to know more

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Speaker 1: than anything else at this moment in time is their

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Speaker 1: football team is together and is going to be ready

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Speaker 1: to play this season. From what we've seen in practice,

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Speaker 1: from how we've seen people handle things, from what we

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Speaker 1: saw with the reaction to Kenosha and the team being

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Speaker 1: together with Mike Vrabel, with John Robinson, with everything, this

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Speaker 1: team is ready they are ready to go forward, their

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Speaker 1: questions to be answered. It would still be nice to

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Speaker 1: add a Jadivian Clowney or you know, that would be swell.

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Speaker 1: I mean those things. We need Vic Beasley to get healthy.

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Speaker 1: You want to see him play. I mean, they're they're

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Speaker 1: still football things out there. Nobody's going to predict this

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Speaker 1: team's going sixteen and ozero. But I think if you're

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Speaker 1: asking where is my football team right now? Like my

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Speaker 1: man Wilson at Kroeger the other night, where are we

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Speaker 1: We're in good shape? Yep, we're good well, but I

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Speaker 1: think you get Wilson, hi, I think you can pronounce

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00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: this team is where they need to be at this moment.

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Speaker 1: Now what they do from here, well that's going to

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Speaker 1: determine how the year goes. But you don't want to

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Speaker 1: be at August twenty eighth and be way behind or scrambling,

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Speaker 1: or people are not getting along, or people don't know

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Speaker 1: what to do, or everybody's discombobulated. It doesn't feel like

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Speaker 1: that at all with this team, in this organization. This

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Speaker 1: is a team that's ready to hit someone in a

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Speaker 1: different color. Yeah, I would agree, but they're ready for that.

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Speaker 1: They are at the end of training camp place. This

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Speaker 1: is where you want to see your team be. This

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Speaker 1: is how it feels in a normal season, when you're

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Speaker 1: ready for your team. You're excited to see him play.

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Speaker 1: This feels normal, which is very encouraging to me because

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Speaker 1: so many other things are abnormal. This feels like like

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Speaker 1: I'm used to feeling at the end of training camp

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Speaker 1: when I'm anticipating a good season. You know, yes, ma'am,

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Speaker 1: And that is encouraging to me. It is encouraging and

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Speaker 1: interested to see practices next week as they move more

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Speaker 1: into the in season mode, which he'll hold the practices

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Speaker 1: at the normal time, which is generally around the noon hour,

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Speaker 1: because the Titans play the majority of their games at

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Speaker 1: the noon hour, noon hour. They sure do. We remind

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Speaker 1: you don't get sacked by the high cost of healthcare.

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Speaker 1: Make Farm Bureau Health Plans your first line of protection.

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Speaker 1: They've been protecting Tennessee and since nineteen forty seven. You

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Speaker 1: know what we need to do. We need to get

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Speaker 1: some otpqs. Oh, we do tell people how they can

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Speaker 1: send in their questions, and we need to get coach

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Speaker 1: Mac and Jim Wyatt in here next week and hit

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Speaker 1: some big questions head on over to Tennessee Titans dot

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Speaker 1: com slash OTP Q. There's a form right there on

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Speaker 1: we will receive them. We will ask them here. I

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Speaker 1: think that would be a great way to kick off

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Speaker 1: it is. I guess closer to the regular season, Labor

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Speaker 1: Day weekend, Labor Day weekend, we'll do a Labor Day

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Speaker 1: mail bag of OTP cues. You guys do the labor

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Speaker 1: so that we don't have to Sunday. Amy Wells can

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Speaker 1: get her ten hours of sleep. I really sleep a lot, Mike,

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Speaker 1: like a lot. That's stunning. Well, yeah, I need to

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Speaker 1: be rested, Yeah, Mike, I need it. Yea. And caffeine.

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Speaker 1: Ten hours of sleep, lots of caffeine, Yes, yep. I've

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Speaker 1: got my Farm Bureau mug here. Oh look at that.

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Speaker 1: That's slick. My farm Bureau ORCA is what you call it.

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Speaker 1: I just mentioned them because they are our fine sponsor.

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Speaker 1: So that's going to do it for this edition of

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Speaker 1: the OTP. Have a great weekend, everybody, Thank you for

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Speaker 1: being with us. We'll certainly have a lot more coming up.

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Speaker 1: If you get a chance watch the Titans All Access

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Speaker 1: program throughout the region. The first one of the season

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Speaker 1: is out this weekend. Also, also, the Tennessee Sports Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame program is on this weekend. It's a special

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Speaker 1: that is on in every TV market in the state.

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Speaker 1: It's a two hour special. The Tennessee Titans are the

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Speaker 1: sponsor of that, and if you get a chance to

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Speaker 1: watch that program, please do. Whether you're in Chattanooga, Channel twelve,

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Speaker 1: my VLT in Knoxville, five plus in Nashville, JEA E

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Speaker 1: plus TV six in Jackson, I think Channel eleven and

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Speaker 1: Tri Cities has it to believe it's on in Memphis

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Speaker 1: as well, but check your local listings. The Tennessee Sports

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. It's their special. It's not a virtual induction.

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Speaker 1: It's a TV show hosted by host. I host it,

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Speaker 1: but that's not our friend. Spencer Fritz put it together

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Speaker 1: and Brad Willis, who is in charge of the Tennessee

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Speaker 1: Sports Hall of Fame, did just an immaculate job, just

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Speaker 1: an immaculate job on the whole thing. And the Titans

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Speaker 1: are very proud to be the presenting sponsor Tennessee Sports

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame Special. Airing this weekend, so we've given

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Speaker 1: you lots of homework between the OTP, QUS, Titans, All Access,

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, special lots for you

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Speaker 1: to do out there. Yeah, no one's gonna be bored

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Speaker 1: this weekend, Mike, that's the idea. That is the idea,

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Speaker 1: Amy Wells. Great job, thank you, good to see us

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Speaker 1: for Amy Wells. I'm Mike Key. Thank you for being

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