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Speaker 1: of Titans Countdown on Titans Radio, Amy Wells and Rhet

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Speaker 1: Brian to talk about the eight and two Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 1: Rhet Brian, if I had told you before the season

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Speaker 1: the Titans would be eight and two, would you have

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Speaker 1: believed it? No, just because of how difficult the schedule

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Speaker 1: was going to get. In the very early part of

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Speaker 1: that you had six straight games against AFC teams, some

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Speaker 1: of which were powerhouses. It's not that I don't want

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Speaker 1: it to be eight and two, but I'm pleasantly surprised

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Speaker 1: and glad that they are. I'm with threat. I would

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Speaker 1: have thought that overall, if at the end of the

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Speaker 1: been like, yeah, sure, we won eight games at some point,

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Speaker 1: of course, but to be eight and too at this

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Speaker 1: point in the season, with the schedule that the Tennessee

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Speaker 1: think I would have guessed that. What would you have

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Speaker 1: taken if I said, Amy Wells before the season, I'll

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Speaker 1: give you a record. I'm not going to give you

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Speaker 1: the high end. I'm not going to give you eight

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Speaker 1: and two. I'll give you something if it's reasonable. What

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Speaker 1: I would have taken six and four and then very happy.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what I would have said. That's what I

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Speaker 1: said this morning on WGOW, the exact same thing. Six

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Speaker 1: and four, knowing that the last seven games and the

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Speaker 1: chance to build well, the schedule is advantageous, not so

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Speaker 1: much for the opponents, but for how things fall. Guess

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Speaker 1: what right now, second straight home game at noon. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's fantastic that the team has a chance to get

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Speaker 1: Absolutely so. Anyway, all right, so the Titans are better

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Speaker 1: than expected eight and two. Every team in the league

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Speaker 1: has at least two losses for the first time since

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Speaker 1: twenty ten, So for the first time in eleven years,

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Speaker 1: there are no undefeated or one loss teams remaining after

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Speaker 1: ten games. That courtesy of my friend Andrew Siciliano, an

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Speaker 1: NFL network, and I think it tells you the ballots.

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Speaker 1: I also think it tells you there is a horse

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Speaker 1: NFL Network this morning and just looking at the graphic

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Speaker 1: with of course it was great to see the Titans

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Speaker 1: but to see in the hunt column was just loaded

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Speaker 1: this is and more importantly, how it's going to all

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Speaker 1: play out, but especially with all the teams with winning

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Speaker 1: records in the AFC, but in the NFC, if you

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Speaker 1: have three or four wins, you still have life. Amy, Oh, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: It's the NFC's real interesting to watch because it looks

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Speaker 1: So I think it's gonna be really interesting to watch

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Speaker 1: the NFC and for the AFC, it's any man's ball game.

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Speaker 1: Still for the ot people, this is the OTP four

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Speaker 1: downs about your Tennessee Titans twenty three to twenty one

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Speaker 1: first play of the second half, start of the third quarter.

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Speaker 1: separate that score even further that that was a big

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Speaker 1: But you could tell that they were shaken a little bit.

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Speaker 1: For me, it's in the second quarter. It's the penalty

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Speaker 1: took advantage of the break. It's funny when we were

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Speaker 1: we were the team that always got that call against us.

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Speaker 1: Remember Big Jeff last year in Minnesota got a call

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Speaker 1: I think that's why everything should be reviewable in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: think it's got to be the kickers and the fact

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Speaker 1: It's that Ryan Tannehill is clearly taking the reins minus

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry in this found eleven different receivers in this

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Speaker 1: You know, Marcus Johnson huge in that ball game yesterday

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Speaker 1: fifty four yards, but Ryan Tannehill eleven different receivers a

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Speaker 1: season high for him. For me, it's Deontay Forman seventy

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Speaker 1: eight total yards in thirteen touches. Yes, eleven rushes for

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Speaker 1: The Titans are going to desperately need that out of

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Speaker 1: And you see on defense the return of Christian Fulton

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Speaker 1: some of those guys worked into it, namely Julio huge

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Speaker 1: could have gotten some damage third down your area that

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Speaker 1: the Titans have to get fixed, Amy Wells, I need A. J.

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Speaker 1: AJ Brown right now. I understand that. The second thing

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Speaker 1: Henry and A. J. Brown, and those were like the trifecta,

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Speaker 1: I get all of that. Still, we've got some issues

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