1 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: We welcome here to this edition of the Official Titans Podcast, 2 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: better known as the OTF. My name is Mike Keith. 3 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 1: As always, Amy Wells is here, less salty, less salty, 4 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: but only because it's over. Okay, I'm focused on the future. 5 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: Dave McInnis from Titans Radio, The Coach is here. I'm 6 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: Mike Keith. How are you? Are you well? I'm great, 7 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: I'm really good. Trying to get Jim Watt's attention. Turn 8 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: on your microphone, Jim. All right, So Jim Wyatt is 9 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: back and he has to relearn to turn on his microphone. 10 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: Welcome back. Florida was third in line here, I was. 11 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: I was nine on deck. I was in Uh, you're 12 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 1: in the whole of thee. So luck I had time 13 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: to get adjusted here. That was all right. So let's 14 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: jump right in with Jim White. So you do Pro 15 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: Bowl and then Super Bowl. Give me your three top 16 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: takeaways from your overall trip to the Super Bowl from 17 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: the whole trump um, you know, the main thing from 18 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl trip, I have to admit was was 19 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: I couldn't get out of my mind the whole time 20 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: that the Titans should have been in this thing. And 21 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: then I was in the Kansas City locker room after 22 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: the game and seeing those guys celebrate, and and certainly, 23 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: you know, some of those guys, you have to respect 24 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: and appreciate the work that they've done to get there. 25 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 1: But when I saw some of those guys celebra it 26 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: was tough to be in there. I certainly didn't put 27 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: posting videos of that because Titans fans don't want to 28 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: see the chief celebrated. But this is a this was 29 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: a super Bowl the Titans could have easily won, and 30 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,040 Speaker 1: now I get a figure out a way to get 31 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: back there. But I thought they would have massed up 32 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: well against San Francisco. I thought watching the Chiefs again, 33 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: I certainly didn't leave there thinking that was an invincible team. 34 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: That was the eighty five Bears that had won the 35 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: Super Bowl. And that was the biggest takeaway from me 36 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: the whole time, as it should have been the Titans 37 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: down there staying in that hotel the Chiefs were staying in, 38 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: getting recognized on media night on Monday night, and then 39 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: playing in that game and having that stadium filled with 40 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: a lot of blue instead of instead of the red, 41 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: more much more red from what it looked like and 42 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: sounded like than San Francisco. A lot more Chiefs fans. 43 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: I mean I I'd say it was eight out of 44 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: every ten was the Chiefs fan in there. And they 45 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: made a lot of noise. And then certainly they've they've 46 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: paid their dues. Uh, you know, been fifty years since 47 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: they've been there. They've got an owner in Clark Hunt, 48 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: who's a very h who's very well respected, and I 49 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 1: think that he does things the right way. M And 50 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: they traveled well, I mean they were, they were well 51 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: represented at hard Rock Stadium. Most famous person you saw, uh, 52 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 1: most fans, you know. I see all those the NFL crew, 53 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: you know, Uh, the Joe Montanas, the Barry Sanders. I 54 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 1: see those, uh people every year. I'm trying to think 55 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: of maybe who outside the boxes. I guess probably j 56 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 1: Lo j Loo. You got to see j Lo like 57 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: close us. Okay, that's probably the most famous person I 58 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: saw when we saw her too, So yeah, she's pretty famous. Then. 59 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: The other question I have for you is most interesting 60 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: sort of fact that comes out of the Super Bowler, 61 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: Something that you learned that you did not know that 62 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: would interest the OT people. Oh, man, I should have 63 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: done my homework Petal on this I missed this one 64 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: on the script. The most interesting fact, well, you had 65 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: three things, but you only gave me one. Well, I 66 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: guess the two. I mean, I guess the three. We'll 67 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: go get it. The two was just the resiliency of 68 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Uh, you know the fact that they you know, 69 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: when I watched that game and even when they were 70 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: down by ten points in the second half. Uh, it's 71 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: a team that seems to find a way. I mean 72 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: they did it against the Texans, they did against the Titans, 73 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: and they did it against the forty nine ers and 74 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,559 Speaker 1: a team if you give him an ounce of momentum, 75 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: then they're going to find a way to capitalize on that. 76 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: And Patrick Mahomes didn't play great on Sunday night, and 77 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: I thought he played well when it mattered most. So 78 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: I always felt like they had a chance to win. 79 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: I guess My third takeaway from the game was just 80 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: as happy for Andy Reid. I mean Andy Reid's a great, 81 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: you know, really good guy. To hear the stories from 82 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: the Chiefs about all the time he puts in hows parking, 83 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: his car never leaves the parking lot. Uh, you know, 84 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: he gets there three o'clock in the morning leaves a 85 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 1: lot of times at eleven at night. I couldn't I 86 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: couldn't help but feel happy for him. And I know 87 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: Mike vrabelar head coach, is raved just about the influence 88 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 1: he's had on him. He's He's called him a lot 89 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: of times during the course of his career and getting 90 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: his footing here, and uh so I was happy for 91 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: Andy Reid. Uh As tough as it was to watch 92 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: the chief celebrate, bottom line, it was Andy Reid's here 93 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: and it was the Chiefs here. No, it absolutely was. 94 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: And they both they both earned it. I mean they 95 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: they earned it because I mean they had they had 96 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: some issues they had to work through this year too, 97 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 1: and one of them being that quarterback, you know, being hurt, 98 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 1: and they were still able to hold it together. And 99 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:06,479 Speaker 1: and I give a lot of credit to to now. 100 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: Of course, you know, I've known Andy, you know for 101 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 1: the thirty four years I've been in the league. He's 102 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: well deserved, very very well respected in the National Football 103 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 1: League for a lot of different reasons, you know, football 104 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: being one of them, but a lot of other reasons, 105 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 1: and being a good human being is right at the 106 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: top of the list. But at the same time, you know, 107 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: you've got to You've got to admire what they did 108 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: because they they knew that this was they had a 109 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 1: chance this year. That's why they reworked that whole defense. 110 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 1: That's why they let Bob Sutton go. That's why they 111 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: brought Steve Spagnoli in there. That's why they you know, 112 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: they they they they cut some pretty significant players on 113 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: that defense and brought some other defensive players in. It 114 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: took them a while to jail. They earned that super 115 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: Bowl victory. They earned the Super Bowl they did. Now, 116 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: are they invincible, No, But they they won when they 117 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 1: had to win, to Jim's point, and they earned it. 118 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: They won when they had their opening. They absolutely And 119 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 1: that's true. And and then I mean, and last year, 120 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: you know, the forty nine erst point when they were 121 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: four and twelve last year. And I talked to Peter King, 122 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 1: I guess in the press box before the game on 123 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 1: kind of a look ahead for the Titans this year, 124 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: and he said, teams like the forty nine ers give 125 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 1: everybody hope that's close and uh that you can get there. 126 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: I mean, And and this team here is not a 127 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 1: four and twelve team. It's a team with the AFC 128 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: Championship Game last year. Uh so it's doable. I mean, 129 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: and this team could be in Tampa next year. You 130 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 1: gotta remember the forty nine ers, though they were four 131 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: and twelve last year because they didn't have their quarterbacks right, 132 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: you know, and that that's a that's a huge they 133 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 1: had they had started. The forty nine ers have been 134 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: so bad for so long that they they what they've 135 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 1: did a good job of it. It's been a couple 136 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: of different regimes. They did draft the right people, especially defensively, 137 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 1: and then they hired the right coach. They hired the 138 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: right coach, and and and finally, you know, Jed York 139 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: did a good thing of giving of giving uh you know, 140 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: Shanahan and giving Lynch six year contracts knowing that they 141 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:56,919 Speaker 1: had a mess, but said, you know, do what you 142 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: need to do to straighten this out. That was huge 143 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: that that organization has always been stable. He restabilized them 144 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: and because they'd gone through a really low point in 145 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: their career, because that's one of the top franchises in 146 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: the National Football League history wise, well, in pivoting towards 147 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: the Titans and what they need to do, I mean, 148 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: you look at a team like the forty nine ers 149 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: that were missing their quarterback. That's a huge piece the 150 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: Titans we've watched over the last four or five years. 151 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: Put the pieces together, get them in line. The Titans 152 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: had the success that they had in twenty nineteen. All 153 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: of this seems like a very good omen for the 154 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: Titans in twenty twenty. Well, one thing that happened for 155 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, coach Mac points out with the 156 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: four and twelves, they lose the quarterback, and so they 157 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: were almost fortunate that they bottomed out the way that 158 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: they did. They're almost fortunate they went four and twelve 159 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: instead of going seven and nine because they don't get 160 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: to the super Bowl without Nick Bosa. Now from the 161 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: Titans pivot that way, that's Jeffrey Simmons, because next year 162 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: we're gonna have a chance to see a player who 163 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: never should have been there at nineteen Jim and he's 164 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: gonna have a whole offseason to be healthy and to 165 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: work his way through after playing quite well at what 166 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: eighty percent in twenty nineteen. I don't know what the 167 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: percentage was, but I know that it wasn't completely what 168 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: he will be right, not what he can be what 169 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: he will be. Yeah, And that's a great point. I mean, 170 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: and I still think the Titans needs him help at 171 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: edge rusher too. Man, There's not a Boza out there, 172 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: But I do think Simmons takes it to a whole 173 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 1: other level where he changes games more. I think at 174 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 1: the end of this year, even though he was making 175 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,439 Speaker 1: an impact, he was disruptive, and he was he was 176 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: freeing up other guys to do things as well. I 177 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: think we're gonna see a completely different player in twoy twenty. 178 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: And I'm a I'm gonna add one more before we 179 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 1: go away from Super Bowl takeaway. He's just uh to ah. 180 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 1: I had a funny to a tongue of aloa story 181 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,719 Speaker 1: that I actually mentioned him in my mail back over 182 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 1: the weekend. But I was in on South Beach, which 183 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: is where the media center was. I wouldn't hanging out 184 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,680 Speaker 1: on South I spent a lot of time on South Goodach, 185 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,319 Speaker 1: unfortunately not a lot of time on the actual beach, 186 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:13,959 Speaker 1: but a lot of time in the media center there. 187 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: But one of these days, um and there's traffic getting 188 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: over the bridge in South of Beach is bad. So 189 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 1: when when I was done working, A lot of times 190 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 1: I try to find a place to eat before I 191 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 1: get back to my hotel, which is at the Exotic 192 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: shearedon Miami Airport, the Exotic Sheridan. Yeah, I was being 193 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 1: facetious that media hotel was the Sheriton uh Miami Airport, 194 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,839 Speaker 1: and I literally when I dropped my car off, this 195 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: is how close I was. When I left Orlando. I 196 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: drove to Miami Sunday night and I called the hotel 197 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: when I got there and said, hey, you guys have 198 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 1: a shuttle that picks you up. And they said, yeah, 199 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 1: you know, you go to a gate one. You'll look 200 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: out there. And I looked up and I saw a Sheriton. 201 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,319 Speaker 1: I said, you guys right across the street in the airport. 202 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: He said, yeah, we're literally across the street. So I 203 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: just dropped my run across and I actually walked across 204 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: the street and went right to my hotel. That's how 205 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: close it was. So it was fancy. So I was 206 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: waiting the traffic on the causeway to kind of clear 207 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 1: up every day, so I try to find something to eat. 208 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: I was eating pizza and there was probably three or 209 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 1: four people in there. I was watching the ampera Kentucky game, 210 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: on Wednesday night and here comes to a walking in 211 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: the door with his parents, and I would I call 212 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,679 Speaker 1: him my daughter who goes to Alabama and uh, and 213 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: told her, you're not gonna believe who just walked in here. 214 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna be a creeper and start taking pictures 215 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: of him. But I didn't need a refill because the game, 216 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 1: you know, two hour basketball game, and you need to 217 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: refill the coach. So he happened to be the only 218 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: their family, was the only one that was sitting at 219 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:38,559 Speaker 1: the table next to the fountain machine. So I struck 220 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: up a conversation with him. I told him my Dag 221 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: goes to Alabama. We started talking about Marcus because they're 222 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: connection at Saint Louis High School. So a really a 223 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: nice kid. And then the very next day and I've 224 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 1: told him, I started to interrupt him. Uh, you know, 225 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: We've talked for a minute and I left. So the 226 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: very next day, I'm standing in the media center talking 227 00:10:57,160 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: to Eddie George, who was in there making the rounds, 228 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: and who comes walking by but ta uh with his parents. Again, 229 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: I had on the same visor and I guess I've 230 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,079 Speaker 1: got the pencil that people wrecking now is before said 231 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: he comes walking by and said, hey, man, I' just 232 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:11,839 Speaker 1: like that pizza last night, and he was good pizza 233 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: to dinner with two. Yeah, well at least two. I 234 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 1: knew I wouldn't. And I begin to wonder if he 235 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: was stalking me a little bit. That two ends up 236 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: at the same place I was two days in a row. 237 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 1: But he's a really nice kid, and uh, I don't 238 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: think he's in he's in range for the Titans to 239 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: take a flower on and let him wait. That's that's 240 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 1: a whole other conversation. But uh, he's a very nice 241 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 1: young man from the interaction I had with him twice 242 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: within twelve hours. Jim, we don't need any more quarterback 243 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: rumors or speculation. I'm about Max in a minute hard 244 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: And I did hear he was two had stopped by 245 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 1: NBA on the way to the future kids, because if 246 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,959 Speaker 1: he plays here, maybe ten, twelve, fifteen years, maybe one 247 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 1: point down the road, his kid would go to Montgomery 248 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: Bell Academy. I'm exhausted. Philip Rivers was at f Eli 249 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: Manning was at Brentwood Academy, just walking around, just walking around. 250 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 1: His wife actually went to Brentwood Academy as a matter 251 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: of fact, so that that could be true. All right, 252 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:18,079 Speaker 1: So let me ask one one question super Bowl, and 253 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: I want to do it quickly, but I'm dying to 254 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 1: know what you all think. Ten ten into the first half, 255 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 1: Garoppolo throws a long pass for George Kettle, complete for 256 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: a forty two yard game called back for offensive pass interference. 257 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis. Should that have been called? Yes, absolutely, yes, 258 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: I say no. I didn't like it either. It was 259 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: a penalty, There's no question he pushed off and created 260 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,719 Speaker 1: some space. I just liked it. I mean, there's a 261 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: lot of hand fighting and I hate to see that called. 262 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: I thought San Francisco botched the time at the end 263 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: of the first half where they should have made more 264 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: of that. I thought an Reid botched all that too, 265 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: running a reverse forty What are you doing? But yeah, 266 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: that that last two minutes of a half, I don't 267 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,439 Speaker 1: think it was great for either team. You want to 268 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 1: go back to the Kittle thing. Yeah, there there were. 269 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: There were two points of contact on that play. The 270 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,559 Speaker 1: first one was not it was it was incidental by 271 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 1: both of them. But when he when he extended his 272 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: arm at the catch point, they're gonna call that every time, 273 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: just like when you're when when somebody gets past you, 274 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: you can still bump and hold, but if you grab 275 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: and they see extension, it's over and it. So you 276 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 1: know who explained the extension of the arm thing to 277 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,439 Speaker 1: me was Jeff Fisher years ago. Remember John Thornton that 278 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: played defensive tackle for US went on too the Cincinnati Bengals, 279 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 1: had a great career. Is he still an agent? He wasn't. 280 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 1: He's a great guy. He pushed a quarterback one time 281 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: on the sideline. It was an incidental play and he 282 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 1: didn't like throw him, but he but he pushed him 283 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 1: and they called fifteen yards and it was like, oh 284 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: my goodness. So I asked coach Fisher about it on 285 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: the rules committee. He goes, well, he said, by definition, 286 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: anytime they see somebody extend an arm, fully extend an 287 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: arm in a situation like you're pushing somebody out of 288 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 1: bounds or in a in a pass interference situation where 289 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: they can see the arm extend, he said, that's a tell. 290 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 1: That's and I don't know that that's the word Jeff used, 291 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: but that's almost like that's a trigger point. It's a 292 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: trigger point. That's better. You said that better than I. 293 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: That's a trigger point for it. I mean, and immediately, 294 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: as I said, there was two points of contact on 295 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 1: that play. The first one was not it was incidental. 296 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: The second one with the extension, they're gonna call that 297 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: every time, which they did. Amy Well's not happy. Well, 298 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: I it felt a little nitpicking in a game that 299 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: was for the most part pretty clean. So it felt 300 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: it felt a little extra to me, And it turned 301 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 1: out in hindsight it turned out to be a major 302 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: point in that game. I thought the officials had. Yeah, well, 303 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: I mean, if if they if they end up with 304 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: a fuel goal there and then they get the ball 305 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: to start the second half, they're up either six or 306 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 1: ten points and they have momentum, and yeah, I mean, 307 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: it's a it was a deal. And I can't help 308 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: but go back to the Rudolph push off and the 309 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: Vikings win over the Saints that decided that game. A 310 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: very similar play. That was difference though. Let me take 311 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: you to task on that in a way though, that's 312 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: in the end zone and the two and you could 313 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 1: have called illegal contact on the defender that I mean, 314 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: there's fighting there. This was in the middle of the field. 315 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: The other part of it, too, is the official can 316 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: see it. Fox, who I thought had a great day. 317 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 1: I thought the television coverage was really great. They had 318 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: an angle from the back judge with the judge and 319 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: you could see what he saw, and he saw Kittle 320 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: extend the arm right there in that way, and immediately 321 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: that flag's coming out. I you know, I I don't know. Yeah, 322 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 1: you know. It was a good call. Okay, it's a 323 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: good call. All right. I gotta ask you this question. 324 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: You don't say good call very often. He doesn't. The 325 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: officials had a good day. May they did fine? All right? 326 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: So let me ask you, Dave McGinnis. Teams starting into 327 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: the postseason, now our champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, they're 328 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: the champions. Patrick Mahomes was the MVP in twenty eighteen. 329 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 1: He was the MVP of this Super Bowl. He's twenty 330 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: four years old. He's already won a Super Bowl. So 331 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: as teams start to sit down and plot what they're 332 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: going to do, particularly in the AFC, how much will 333 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs specifically affect free agents you signed, 334 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: players you draft as you try to develop your team 335 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 1: for twenty twenty to knock off the champions. Well, absolutely 336 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 1: will happen in the AFC West. Okay, it absolutely will happen. 337 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 1: I mean I can go back to when I first 338 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: went to the Rams with Jeff Fisher and Seattle was 339 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: the king of the NFC West. We built our whole 340 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: process on beating them, and we built it on being 341 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: able to control Russell Wilson. And we did that by 342 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: the defensive players that we drafted. We did that also 343 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: with the offensive people that we brought in, knowing that 344 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: we were going to have to play control ball game. 345 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: Keep the thing. So the AFC West, absolutely it will. 346 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: And you remember how Patrick Mahomes got to Kansas City. 347 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: You know, Andy Reid made a very definite choice when 348 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: he had a number one pick as a starting quarterback 349 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: on his roster already. And so to what you're looking at, 350 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: the one thing that people are always trying to get, 351 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: and I you know, I get amused sometimes when they say, well, 352 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: you know, they've got speed. Nobody has ever gone out 353 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 1: in the draft or in player acquisition and said, you 354 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 1: know what I think I'll do, I'll try to get 355 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: some slow players. Nobody has ever ever said that. But 356 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: what they have been able to do is get an 357 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 1: innorminate amount of speed at the skill positions all at once. 358 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: And so that's what you're going to have to do, 359 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 1: especially in the AFC West, because you play him twice 360 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: a year. You play him twice a year, and that's 361 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:55,360 Speaker 1: going to have to happen now as far as everybody 362 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:57,880 Speaker 1: else in the AFC the only time, hopefully you've got 363 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: to concentrate on winning your division so that you can 364 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:04,920 Speaker 1: get there and hopefully when you see them in the tournament, 365 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 1: it'll be at your place because you want enough games 366 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: to get a home playoff game. But your question specifically 367 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 1: for the AFC West, Yes, interesting, Interesting, All right, Amy, Wells, 368 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,639 Speaker 1: you're gonna get the first crack at this one. The 369 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons announced this past Monday they will not pursue 370 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 1: negotiations with outside linebacker Vic Beasley. He's a free agent 371 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: to be They posted a story on our website saying 372 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: we're letting this dude go, and then they tweeted it 373 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 1: out and then people ask them where did this story 374 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 1: come come from? In the Falcon The Falcon said us, 375 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 1: this is an official statement. On February the second that 376 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: a guy we drafted in the first round, who led 377 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: the league in sacks in twenty sixteen, who had five 378 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: sacks in each of the last two seasons before twenty nineteen, 379 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: and then had eight sacks this past year. We don't 380 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 1: want this guy anymore. How unusual. I mean, when I 381 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: read it, I was like, huh, I thought it was 382 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: I thought it was a crank at first. How surprised 383 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: were you knowing that you started your career in the 384 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:21,360 Speaker 1: PR world tremendously, because typically when something happens and there 385 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 1: was no problem, you know, there wasn't any sort of issue, 386 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:28,200 Speaker 1: there was nothing internal. You're just not going to continue 387 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: negotiating with a guy. You kind of just let it 388 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:33,479 Speaker 1: fade into the sunset. You just kind of let it 389 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: be and then all of a sudden, oh, yes, there 390 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,439 Speaker 1: has been this new deal with so and so, and 391 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: he's signing with this person, and you just kind of 392 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 1: let it naturally flow for a team to say, we 393 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: don't want this one. Best of luck to you guys. 394 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:50,120 Speaker 1: You take him. What that says to me is something happened. 395 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,120 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I mean, I don't know if that's 396 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,719 Speaker 1: a negotiation that went south. I don't know if he 397 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: told someone where they could stick it, and they wrote 398 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 1: something because of that, like they wanted to make it 399 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: very apparent that this guy's not ours anymore, so you 400 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,199 Speaker 1: guys have the opportunity to do something with him. I 401 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 1: thought it was unbelievably rare. You don't see that very often. 402 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:16,879 Speaker 1: You know, this is unique. And I'm reading through the 403 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: story now because I saw this and certainly aware of it, 404 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 1: but I didn't see how the story was crafted. And 405 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: I see a comment in here from Thomas Demitrov saying, 406 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: as we continue to craft our twenty twenty roster, we'd 407 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 1: like to thank Vic for five years of effort on 408 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: behalf of our organization. But that's enough. But a part 409 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 1: of me likes it. I mean, I have to say 410 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 1: that I like teams controlling the news and owning it 411 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: like this. This is different. But but you know, in 412 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: a world where the Schefters and the Rappaports are breaking 413 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 1: the most of the news on the beat, you know, 414 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: I think it's not a bad thing to have you 415 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: owning it and saying this is what we're doing. I 416 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 1: don't care whether it's not pursuing a guy, but as 417 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: signing a guy, as trading the guy. I'm not as 418 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:06,719 Speaker 1: against it as maybe some other people might be, especially 419 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 1: in a world where local beat guys just aren't chasing 420 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 1: stuff anymore, So why not take ownership or something. But 421 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: do you perceive this as the Falcons owning the story 422 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: and controlling the news cycle themselves, or do you perceive 423 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: it as a message to the players somehow that's a 424 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: good thing. Yeah, that's the only thing. I don't know. 425 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: I don't know then the workings. I don't know if 426 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 1: something happened that maybe upset. I mean reading that statement, 427 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: looks like things ended pretty cordially, And I think a 428 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 1: lot of times you know players and a lot of 429 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,360 Speaker 1: times you'll see players. This is different than the guy 430 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 1: getting released. But the part ways with the guy early, 431 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: well before free agency's starting. That way, other teams know 432 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,120 Speaker 1: this guy is going to be on the market. You're 433 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: not doing what happened or what happened to Ryan Tannehill 434 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: last year where he gets traded well into free agency 435 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,920 Speaker 1: when all of his options were done. Again, when you're 436 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 1: releasing a guy early, when you're letting people know we're 437 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,520 Speaker 1: not resigning this guy, other teams can get this guy 438 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,639 Speaker 1: on the radar and maybe it helps them. Uh, in 439 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: the market and maybe helps them find a new team better. 440 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: So I don't know what happened there, and I guess 441 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: we can only speculate what it was like. But it 442 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 1: seems to me that into cordially and they're just letting 443 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: it be known that he's going to be signing somewhere 444 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,120 Speaker 1: else where and other teams could start lining up. They 445 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: were done with him, and they didn't just make that 446 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 1: decision this week. They made that decision during the year. 447 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they they looked at what he 448 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: was going to you know, command in the market. They 449 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,199 Speaker 1: looked at what his production has been, they looked at 450 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: what they you know, they figured that they've gotten out 451 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 1: of that. He was the number eighth pick in the draft, 452 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 1: and they're looking at what they had gotten out of that. 453 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: They were done with him. They made that decision during 454 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 1: the year. And then to be able to do you 455 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: just to come out and say that, I mean that 456 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,639 Speaker 1: to me, it's fine, you know it. It takes it 457 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: takes a lot of speculation off of their plate too, 458 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: because now they're not dealing with it. They're not dealing 459 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: with it, you know, and and and you know, God 460 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 1: bless him, God bless them, they're done. I mean, and 461 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 1: that's that's fine. It's unusual. It doesn't happen very often 462 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 1: like that. But I don't see anything wrong with it. 463 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: But don't get mistaken and think that this was a 464 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: decision made because something happened, you know, just now they'd 465 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,439 Speaker 1: made that decision. Yeah, And I think the one probably 466 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,439 Speaker 1: run into now is you set kind of you know, 467 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,120 Speaker 1: especially the falcons, you set a press and it moving forward. 468 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 1: If you're going to do that for him, why aren't 469 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,480 Speaker 1: you doing this for all these other guys who Well, 470 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 1: the only reason you wouldn't do it for some other 471 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 1: guys is you still might want them around. Yeah, that's why. 472 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: But other guys who potentially you know you're not going 473 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: to resign, then maybe why aren't you kind of taking 474 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: the same approach with them? Well, it depends on what 475 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 1: the circumstances are you got. I mean, they've paid this 476 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 1: guy a lot of money, you know, to be there, 477 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,880 Speaker 1: and and pretty soon, I mean, you know, you reach 478 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 1: a tipping point. You know, franchises do with players with players, 479 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 1: production age and what they're looking at, and they reach 480 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 1: the tipping point with them a lot of people, but 481 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 1: you don't, I mean you don't reach that tipping point 482 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 1: with everybody. At the same time, let's talk about the 483 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:09,120 Speaker 1: Tom Brady rumors. There were a couple here last week. 484 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: They've been debunked sort of kind of maybe weirdly. Yeah, 485 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,360 Speaker 1: well the whole thing. I'm not going to get into 486 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: to all of that. Here's my question for you to start, 487 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:24,679 Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis. The Tom Brady thing has the potential to 488 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 1: just go crazy everywhere because Tom Brady is basically James Bond. 489 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: I mean, let's face it, he is famous, famous, famous 490 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,360 Speaker 1: outside of being a football player. He's married to a supermodel. 491 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,360 Speaker 1: He I mean, he's bigger than the game of football. 492 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,400 Speaker 1: He's like Peyton Manning. I mean, they are big stars 493 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: in our society. How long does Tom Brady let all 494 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 1: of this go on for a while, for a while, 495 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:49,679 Speaker 1: does he want to deal with all of that? How 496 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: he's not dealing with anything? How much did you like 497 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: his his Super Bowl commercial? I loved it? Well, of course, 498 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,679 Speaker 1: I mean he teased that too. I mean he teased 499 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,919 Speaker 1: that and lets so he seems to be enjoying all 500 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: He's fine. I mean, look, we're all suckers, No, not suckers. 501 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: Tom Brady first of all, he's earned the right to 502 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 1: do this, and and and the way the way he 503 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 1: handled it. I mean I thought that that his commercial 504 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 1: was brilliant. I mean, that was one of them. I 505 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: did not see Hulu coming as it was going to 506 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,640 Speaker 1: be something. But I didn't think the advertisement, well, nobody did. 507 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: And that's the other great part about it is is 508 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 1: because it had no it had no apparent tie in, 509 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you see Brady looking like 510 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: James Bond walking across a fog shrouded field and all black, 511 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: And I mean, I loved it. He'll let this go 512 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,360 Speaker 1: on as long as he wants to. How long will 513 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,439 Speaker 1: the Patriots let it go in? They ain't gonna make 514 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 1: any announcement they're parting ways with him, are they. Well, no, 515 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: they've already said they'll pay him upwards of thirty million. 516 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: Does he want Belichick to say, I need you here? 517 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 1: I don't think so. I mean, I think a lot 518 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: of I think I don't. I think a lot of 519 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 1: that between between Tom Brady and Bill Belichick is really 520 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,159 Speaker 1: a lot of like you'd read in a novel. You know, 521 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: people want to think, want to think it's there. You 522 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: saw the relationship out here. You know what they you 523 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,199 Speaker 1: know what they do. I don't. I don't think that 524 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: plays any part of it. I think that he's gonna 525 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: let this game play as long as he possibly can. 526 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,879 Speaker 1: I think that he's gonna let us all speculate and 527 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: think and see ghosts and shadows that vaguely resemble Tom 528 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,359 Speaker 1: Brady and a guy in a turtleneck with brown hair, 529 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 1: and so he's magically going to Minnesota. Like, I think 530 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 1: he's gonna let all of this go as long as 531 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,199 Speaker 1: he can, because I think he's having fun with them, 532 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: because the number of sites that he could potentially go 533 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:49,679 Speaker 1: quote unquote is just growing. It's Miami, it's Oakland, it's here, 534 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: It's I mean, on and on and on. It's Indy. 535 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 1: It's Indie. Yeah, Indy's been. I mean, look, here's why. 536 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,160 Speaker 1: Here's why he's doing it because he can. Yeah I can. Yeah, 537 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: I would do it too, and reference kind of teasing 538 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,360 Speaker 1: the Hulu. But you know, last week and people don't 539 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 1: not on Twitter didn't see it. He posted a black 540 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: and white picture of him kind of walking out of 541 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,679 Speaker 1: a tunnel onto a stadium that led a lot of 542 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 1: people believe to believe that he's walking away. He's leaving 543 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: the Patriots, and then that's the build up for Sunday. 544 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: So now he gets all this time to have people 545 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,879 Speaker 1: talk about him. I don't know that he loves that 546 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: part of it, just because he's such a football guy, 547 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: but he doesn't hate it. And uh and it'll be 548 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,360 Speaker 1: interest to see what happens. I mean he I did 549 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: hear that Gille was spot at the Crystal drift through 550 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 1: ordering some Crystal with chicks. Yeah, some chicks and maybe 551 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: some Crystal with some heavy mustard and no onions. You 552 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: know what's really good? It sounds like you and I 553 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,719 Speaker 1: don't know that they have Crystal in in Miami or Vegas. 554 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,360 Speaker 1: They don't. You know what's really that chili? Crystal has 555 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,879 Speaker 1: great chili, very underrated every now and then. I question 556 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 1: your guys, is culinary like Crystal Crystal every meal? And 557 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,920 Speaker 1: I like bad food, but Crystal, it's not bad food. 558 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 1: I am used to be a Crystal right down the 559 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 1: street from the street from here. That would have been 560 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: a deal. They could put that Crystal back the drive 561 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 1: and get me a sacker right there. Boy, I'm good. Oh. 562 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,919 Speaker 1: I remember when they were thirty something since and you 563 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,199 Speaker 1: could in high school. You have five dollars. You go 564 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: in there and ten crystals, fries and a drink for 565 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 1: five dollars. I could hurt that. Sometimes you get the soggy, 566 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 1: soggy buns. Crystal the best. Yeah, might had a little 567 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:34,120 Speaker 1: grease on him there. Oh okay, anyway, I'll tell you what, 568 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,440 Speaker 1: and I'm hungry if you want to bring eight Listen 569 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: if they want to bring crystal back called Jim White. 570 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 1: That's where crystals from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Okay, Um, So let 571 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: me try one rumor on you here about a quarterback 572 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 1: Philip rivers to Indianapolis. I'm not buying that one. I'm 573 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: not a bar on that one. And I'm curious to 574 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: see where he ends up. He bought his soul, he 575 00:28:56,040 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: sold his home in California, and now has uh in Miami. 576 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 1: Um I think he? Um? I don't think. I don't 577 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 1: think India's his final resting space place. Do we think 578 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:14,240 Speaker 1: he kept his film watching van that he traveled from 579 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 1: LA to San Diego every day and like would watch 580 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 1: tape in the back of this tricked out van. Do 581 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: you guys not know about this? Yes? Oh, it's so great, 582 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 1: I'd keep it forever like just as like an out 583 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 1: like a she shed out back where he can go 584 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: sit in his van and the down by the river. Yeah, 585 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 1: these are the things I think about. Who had the 586 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 1: RV here that parking the parking lot, Um, Kevin Maway, 587 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: That's what it was. Yeah, lived in the RV in 588 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: training camp. Yeah, yeah during training King was unusual. So 589 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,480 Speaker 1: so the scenario, of course, with the thought behind Rivers 590 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,120 Speaker 1: is they need a quarterback. If they don't think Jacoby 591 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: Brusaid is the answer. And I don't know whether they 592 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 1: do or they don't. I'm just talking about a rumor 593 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: that's out there, right, But they got this offensive line. 594 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. They're gonna resign Marlon Mack, who's a really 595 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: nice back. They're good on defense. They go get this 596 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 1: guy who doesn't have to do it all, doesn't have 597 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 1: to make a lot of long throws. You buying it. 598 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: It's got some meat to the bone. You want to 599 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: win a championship. I meant stuff you've got. It's got 600 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 1: some meat to the bone. Now you've got to look 601 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 1: at Philip Rivers and Amy's right, he never moved out 602 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: of San Diego. You know when they when they were 603 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: in Carson City. He drove. He did drive. He did 604 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 1: make that commute back and forth. He's got a part 605 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 1: of his deal. He had a driver, Yes he did. No, 606 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: he didn't drive, so he could watch tape on the 607 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: and he did all of that, which is which is 608 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: which is fine. And as as competitive as he is, 609 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 1: which we you know, which we all know now, I 610 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: mean his family situation. I mean, he's got a pack 611 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 1: of kids. He does. I mean, he he's got a group, 612 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: you know. So where does that way in? I don't know. 613 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 1: But your scenario as far as about the fit for 614 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 1: a team for what they're you know, they they're not 615 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: looking for somebody. I don't think a quarterback that has 616 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 1: to do it all because they've got plenty around it. 617 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 1: And we know Indy's a good football team. I'm not 618 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 1: completely discounting that. And they've got a bunch of money too, 619 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 1: I'm not discounting that at all. Mike, What do we 620 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 1: think about where he is right now? I mean, what 621 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 1: do we think about where he is as a quarterback 622 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: right now? I mean, I know I'll watched him in 623 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:24,959 Speaker 1: several games at the end of the year where he 624 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: was he's on the back side of a lot of 625 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 1: chucking and ducking and missing receivers and just not playing 626 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: all that well. I mean, he wouldn't be Tom Brady. 627 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 1: You're signing to try to win a Super bowling. Let 628 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 1: me interrupt that. To this point, though, to his point, 629 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: that offensive line that he was working behind out there 630 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 1: wasn't even close to this group. They've got up the 631 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: road here in Indianapolis. I agree with that. And they've 632 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 1: got a Pro Bowl tight end. They've got t Y Hilton, 633 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 1: they've got here. Here's the thing they have that you 634 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 1: brought up. They've got money. They've got big time money. 635 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 1: I mean, they cannot only pay you, they can overpay you. 636 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 1: There's that's the point interesting making a few dollars not 637 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 1: a bad thing. Maybe his wife should go check out 638 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,920 Speaker 1: some schools in the Indianapolis area. That's what I heard. 639 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 1: That's why I heard people do. Now she's she's a 640 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 1: Cathedral high school up her name, that's where they'd be. 641 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 1: Don't think Philip Rivers eats crystal. I think I bet 642 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,800 Speaker 1: you a quarter. Philip Rivers has had a crystal before 643 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: in his life his life, Yeah, but I don't think 644 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 1: that that's probably not on his health. He's gotten a 645 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 1: Sunriser to I love a Sunriser for breakfast. Oh my god, 646 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:40,040 Speaker 1: I love the Crystal. Now come on now, oh gosh, 647 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 1: any day. Just don't even. Don't even. Actually they shut 648 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 1: the one down in Belle Meade. Recently they shut the 649 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,520 Speaker 1: They shut the one down in green Hills too. I 650 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: kind of like the Crystal. I have a lot of 651 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,040 Speaker 1: good memories at the Green Hills when I've had a 652 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 1: couple of dates there. Cheap date. Well, that's why it 653 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,959 Speaker 1: answer asked after a concert, how do you know it 654 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,680 Speaker 1: didn't last? I'm pretty sure it's more money for the roses. 655 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,440 Speaker 1: That's it, all right. The most common question I'm getting 656 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 1: from Titans fans right now, why don't you use the 657 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: franchise tag and the transition tag and lock up Tannehill 658 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: and Henry. You got plenty of time for that. Okay, 659 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: they got plenty of time. How do you answer it? Though? 660 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 1: Now you can start doing it February twenty and you don't. 661 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,320 Speaker 1: You don't. But you still got into what isn't do 662 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 1: you march the tenth? I think the tenth Lasch tenth, right, 663 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: So you've got you've got time to do. There's no 664 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 1: reason to do that. Now, there is no reason at 665 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 1: all to do that. Well, the windows not even open. No, 666 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 1: But but people are asking the question as to when 667 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,280 Speaker 1: the window opens on February twenty fifth, why not just 668 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,959 Speaker 1: do it? Just be Amy Wells for one hundred Can 669 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 1: I ask a question? Sure, redirect? Isn't that No, it's 670 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 1: very much on topic. Isn't that very expensive? Ah? That's 671 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 1: the key Wells excellent X area expensive. I think between 672 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,280 Speaker 1: the two of them, you would, from the estimates that 673 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,520 Speaker 1: I've seen, you would be tying up roughly thirty seven 674 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:16,600 Speaker 1: thirty eight million dollars in cap room, because it's all salary. Yeah, 675 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,000 Speaker 1: and I'm looking at the numbers right now. The projected 676 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 1: twenty twenty tag for a quarterback, the franchise is twenty 677 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: six point eight, the transition is twenty four point three, 678 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 1: and for a running back the franchise is twelve point four. 679 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 1: Running back is ten point two. Roughly roughly thirty seven 680 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:40,960 Speaker 1: million either whether you did Tannehill franchise or transition Henry. 681 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:45,399 Speaker 1: Either way, it's roughly thirty seven million. That all counts 682 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,760 Speaker 1: against the cap right now in salary right this minute, 683 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:53,080 Speaker 1: even top fifty one. However, you're you're playing, it's it's 684 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,440 Speaker 1: thirty seven million right now, and it only guarantees you 685 00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:00,400 Speaker 1: one more year, correct, Like, that's a tremendous amount of 686 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: money for one year. Well, and if you're saying the 687 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,880 Speaker 1: Titans having I mean, according to who you believe, fifty 688 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 1: sixty million, I don't know what the captain them and 689 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:11,840 Speaker 1: have a good they have a good amount of money. 690 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:17,360 Speaker 1: But then you're chewing up what two thirds three quarters 691 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,799 Speaker 1: of it just right away? Yeah? Yeah, And it could 692 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,000 Speaker 1: I don't know if it guarantees you, but it could 693 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,600 Speaker 1: give you a disgruntled player in some ways, who's who've 694 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:29,160 Speaker 1: been looking forward to a long term deal. And when 695 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,040 Speaker 1: you've got two guys that are up and one of 696 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,279 Speaker 1: them gets a franchise tag and the other one gets 697 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,919 Speaker 1: the long term deal, then there could be some feelings there. 698 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 1: So I don't know that you want to live year 699 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: by year safe to say it's too easy an answer, 700 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,239 Speaker 1: I think so, I mean, and it's an option that 701 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,480 Speaker 1: you can hold on depending on how contract talks go. 702 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,920 Speaker 1: That's why the NFL calendar is like it is. It 703 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,960 Speaker 1: gives you the chance until March tenth to negotiate. You 704 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,360 Speaker 1: know what's really interesting right now is to see what's 705 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:03,840 Speaker 1: happening with the discussion on the collective Marketing agreement, because 706 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,200 Speaker 1: there's a lot of talk that if they get something 707 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 1: done before the fiscal year starts on March the eighteenth, 708 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 1: that some of the new things could come into play 709 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:21,560 Speaker 1: right away and could change how dollars are allotted right away. 710 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,360 Speaker 1: So everybody, there's a lot of talk about the seventeen 711 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,440 Speaker 1: games and the reduced preseason and the expanded postseason. But 712 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 1: if it happens, what will be most interesting immediately is 713 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 1: the financial impact now and this, look, this is not 714 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,880 Speaker 1: the time, and especially you bring up something else that 715 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,319 Speaker 1: comes into the mix here for front offices to be 716 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,360 Speaker 1: ready fire aim. This is not the time to be 717 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,000 Speaker 1: ready fire aim, and the good front offices aren't. Which 718 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,000 Speaker 1: is I mean, John Robinson is death. That's why the 719 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,799 Speaker 1: statement with Vick Beasley that the Falcons made, I don't 720 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,839 Speaker 1: think John Robinson would ever do that. He might tell 721 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,040 Speaker 1: the agent privately, but I don't think he would ever 722 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,359 Speaker 1: do something publicly. Agree with that like that, because he's 723 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:08,920 Speaker 1: never going to show a call. He's not gonna show 724 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,640 Speaker 1: one card to anybody. I agree with that, And while 725 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,680 Speaker 1: I don't. I'm like you, Jim, I don't blame the Falcons. 726 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,560 Speaker 1: It's just it's unusual that they would tip their hand 727 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,359 Speaker 1: this early because everybody's watching them, going, okay, if Vic 728 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 1: Beasley's not coming back for sure, then they're definitely in 729 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:32,680 Speaker 1: the market for this player, this player, this player. Well. 730 00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:34,799 Speaker 1: And also what you do when you open up like 731 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,120 Speaker 1: that and you may, I mean, now we're going down 732 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 1: you know a lot of roads here. But when you 733 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 1: do that, they immediately tip their hand a little bit 734 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,440 Speaker 1: about where they're leaning in the draft, right, you know, 735 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,359 Speaker 1: I mean, all of that stuff matters. And so I say, 736 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:53,960 Speaker 1: good front offices, which we've got a great one here, 737 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,239 Speaker 1: and John Robinson ready fire aim is not what they do, 738 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,239 Speaker 1: all right, otp qes we on them, Okay, So we're 739 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,799 Speaker 1: not going to do any this week. You're not gonna 740 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:06,279 Speaker 1: do any this week, but we're going to do the 741 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:11,040 Speaker 1: whole show of otp q's on the next OTP So 742 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,640 Speaker 1: tell people how they can send us their questions for 743 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,720 Speaker 1: Coachmack and Jim. If you head over to Titans online 744 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:21,000 Speaker 1: dot com slash o t p Q, there's a form. 745 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:25,040 Speaker 1: Type your questions into that form, hit go or submit 746 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,680 Speaker 1: whatever it says, just make sure you send it. We 747 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,240 Speaker 1: will receive it. We will ask them on next week's 748 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,560 Speaker 1: otp Go do it right now. If there's something that's 749 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,279 Speaker 1: on your mind, don't wait because you'll forget, So just 750 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,000 Speaker 1: go do it right now. Titans online dot Com slash 751 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,719 Speaker 1: otp Q. All right, I'm looking forward to that. I 752 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,719 Speaker 1: love the otpqs, know what I mean? What's brewing now, 753 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,200 Speaker 1: Jim Wytt, you have been missed. Rett. Brian said in 754 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,080 Speaker 1: for you for two weeks. He did a really nice job, 755 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,799 Speaker 1: but you have been missed, So you go first for 756 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,479 Speaker 1: what's brewing. I'm going in and mind chains this morning 757 00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,759 Speaker 1: when I saw the announcement that the Jaguars will play 758 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,280 Speaker 1: by to buy home games in Wimbley Stadium in twoy 759 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:07,400 Speaker 1: twenty and it and this follows the announcement from the 760 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,759 Speaker 1: commissioner that the time that the NFL is going to 761 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,760 Speaker 1: play a game in Mexico. So what's brewing in my mind? 762 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:17,200 Speaker 1: If we going to London again next year's a potential 763 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,160 Speaker 1: Jaguars home game, or we could potentially go to Mexico. 764 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,239 Speaker 1: That's brewing from me. And it's interesting the Jaguars in 765 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,799 Speaker 1: making the announcement have said to their fans, our home 766 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:32,800 Speaker 1: games with Pittsburgh and Chicago are not under consideration for London. 767 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:37,120 Speaker 1: So that means two shots out of six or a 768 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,839 Speaker 1: one in three chance. That's a thirty three percent chance. 769 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,600 Speaker 1: It's doing the quick man point three. Well played there. 770 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:48,439 Speaker 1: Jim White went to Ryan, not NBA, but uh, that 771 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,759 Speaker 1: came to me pretty It was to beat NBA quite 772 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:52,520 Speaker 1: a bit. It's been a while. I've been a little 773 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,759 Speaker 1: bit of a dry spell of late though generation and 774 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,680 Speaker 1: then they don't want to play us anymore. Well, but 775 00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,839 Speaker 1: that's another story. But we do know that two of 776 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,920 Speaker 1: eight or two of six chances for the Titans, we 777 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,200 Speaker 1: could be going back to London next year as a 778 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,960 Speaker 1: Jaguars home game. That would make me so happy, and 779 00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,760 Speaker 1: that would be what's brewing because of all the beer 780 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:18,200 Speaker 1: that Unfortunately no Crystal over in London. No Crystal, but 781 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,360 Speaker 1: maybe you and I open one. That wouldn't that be 782 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,919 Speaker 1: a bad idea? Wow. Let me just say this, the 783 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:29,720 Speaker 1: trip that we took with the Titans franchise to London 784 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:35,719 Speaker 1: I've been to several was the best team trip overseas 785 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,040 Speaker 1: I've ever been on outside of the last twenty five 786 00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:39,920 Speaker 1: seconds of the game. But I'm just talking about the 787 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,160 Speaker 1: way it was handled. All the whole thing was car ops, 788 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,480 Speaker 1: people and the way the way the way this franchise 789 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,239 Speaker 1: handled it was the best. I would be all if 790 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,120 Speaker 1: that comes down, I'm all for it, Amy Wells, what's 791 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,120 Speaker 1: brewing with you? Now? I don't say many nice things 792 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:56,439 Speaker 1: about this person, so this is a rare occasion. Ready, 793 00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:01,040 Speaker 1: coach here, I am no m j J. Jj Watt 794 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:05,000 Speaker 1: was on Saturday Night Live this past Saturday, right before 795 00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,520 Speaker 1: the super Bowl, and I thought that he did a 796 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,680 Speaker 1: really good job. It was very clear that he is 797 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:14,680 Speaker 1: not a professional actor, but I thought he was funny. 798 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:16,960 Speaker 1: I thought he did things very well. I thought he 799 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:20,839 Speaker 1: handled himself well. I laughed, which I don't always laugh 800 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:22,880 Speaker 1: out loud, you know, I've got to be in the 801 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,960 Speaker 1: right place. But I thought it was funny. I thought 802 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,920 Speaker 1: he did a really good job, and it was cool 803 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:32,200 Speaker 1: to see somebody like that, somebody who we are a 804 00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,600 Speaker 1: little bit more proximal to, on a show like that. 805 00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:38,279 Speaker 1: So good job, JJ Watt. I might not ever say 806 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,319 Speaker 1: it again, but you were funny on Saturday Night Live. 807 00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,920 Speaker 1: I like that take. What's brilliant with me is everything 808 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,719 Speaker 1: that is going on around St. Thomas Sports Park. I mean, 809 00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,280 Speaker 1: we know and we talk all the time here about 810 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,840 Speaker 1: where this football team is going, but where this organization 811 00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:59,080 Speaker 1: is going. The construction and everything that is going on 812 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,839 Speaker 1: around this place, and those of us that come here 813 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:07,200 Speaker 1: daily and look at it, it's impressive. It is really 814 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,120 Speaker 1: really impressive. And I think it just, you know, fits 815 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,480 Speaker 1: right in with what's going on with the football team 816 00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:16,080 Speaker 1: and this organization under Amy Adam Strunk. I mean, there's 817 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,239 Speaker 1: some real stuff going on here that you can tell 818 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,720 Speaker 1: is going to be pretty nice to see. What's brewing 819 00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:26,359 Speaker 1: with me is Roger Goodell's good fortune. And I say 820 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,480 Speaker 1: it not because I'm trying to take anything away from 821 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,279 Speaker 1: what he in the NFL have done during their one 822 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:36,280 Speaker 1: hundredth year. But you still have to have things fall 823 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:40,520 Speaker 1: the right way. Like we said, it was Andy Reid 824 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:44,120 Speaker 1: and the Kansas City Chiefs year, this has turned out 825 00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:47,680 Speaker 1: to be Roger Goodell's year. The hundredth anniversary of the 826 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,839 Speaker 1: NFL starts with the draft in Nashville. It is a 827 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:57,919 Speaker 1: wild success. The offseason didn't produce any big, stunning headlines 828 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,440 Speaker 1: that loomed over the league the whole year. The season 829 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:06,359 Speaker 1: itself comes around more close games than ever, more excitement. 830 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,080 Speaker 1: New faces emerged for the league to grow with a 831 00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:14,719 Speaker 1: guy like Lamar Jackson who becomes another mega star and 832 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:19,000 Speaker 1: this league is always looking for those. And then the 833 00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:24,880 Speaker 1: postseason ends up being phenomenally exciting, and the guy who 834 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,480 Speaker 1: is really becoming the face of the NFL at this 835 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:32,239 Speaker 1: moment ends up winning the championship. A team that was 836 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:36,319 Speaker 1: an original AFL team that was a hallmark team in 837 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,920 Speaker 1: the merger, had waited fifty years. They win a championship, 838 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:44,560 Speaker 1: and the Super Bowl Day goes well. The halftime show 839 00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:48,040 Speaker 1: was incredible, the kids coming in with the game ball 840 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:52,160 Speaker 1: before the game was fantastic. Everything that went around it 841 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:56,520 Speaker 1: was feel good. Over one hundred million people watched. It 842 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,560 Speaker 1: looks like we're on the verge of a collective bargaining 843 00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:04,160 Speaker 1: agree if he gets that Roger Goodell in the NFL's 844 00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,680 Speaker 1: hundredth year is not just a home run, it is 845 00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:09,880 Speaker 1: a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth to 846 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:14,520 Speaker 1: win Game seven of the World Series. Great analogy. Right, 847 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,279 Speaker 1: for all the heat that he was taking during the 848 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,200 Speaker 1: Ray Rice thing two or three years ago, the heat 849 00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,239 Speaker 1: that he took during the last collective bargaining agreement, the 850 00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,359 Speaker 1: heat that he has taken rightly in certain instances, you 851 00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,760 Speaker 1: must credit the man and give him and his team 852 00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,960 Speaker 1: and the overall league credit for the year that they have. 853 00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,960 Speaker 1: I don't know that a sports league has ever had 854 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,760 Speaker 1: a better ten, eleven, twelve months than what the NFL 855 00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:45,719 Speaker 1: is experiencing, especially if they complete the CBA agreement. That's 856 00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,160 Speaker 1: with you. It's a great take. I mean it really is. 857 00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,000 Speaker 1: I know this, I know worth at the end of 858 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,800 Speaker 1: the OTP. But when you start talking about edge rushers, 859 00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,120 Speaker 1: just how many pages do you have? Well, you and 860 00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,719 Speaker 1: Rhet Bryan already started looking at the class. Here we go. 861 00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,520 Speaker 1: It's a fresh notebook. This is gonna be this is 862 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,080 Speaker 1: love it, this is gonna be good. This is for 863 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,080 Speaker 1: another day. You've got to sell that notebook for charity. 864 00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:12,960 Speaker 1: I've got every notebook I've ever done in thirty four drafts. Wow, 865 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,319 Speaker 1: Jim White, we are so glad you're back. Tell people 866 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,400 Speaker 1: how they can follow you on social media. Glad to 867 00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:23,280 Speaker 1: be back. It's at j Wyatt Sports on Twitter and Instagram, 868 00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,160 Speaker 1: at Titan's Amy am I E and coach Mac. When 869 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,319 Speaker 1: are you doing your radio hits on one oh four 870 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,799 Speaker 1: five to zone. I do the wake Up Zone from 871 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:35,480 Speaker 1: eight to nine on Monday Central Central, I do three 872 00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:39,239 Speaker 1: h L from two o'clock to three o'clock or two 873 00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,399 Speaker 1: thirty to three thirty depending on on Wednesdays, and then 874 00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:46,000 Speaker 1: on Thursdays from ten to eleven do the Midday one eighty. 875 00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:48,680 Speaker 1: You can listen to coach mac all during the week 876 00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,359 Speaker 1: on our flagship station that's one oh four to five 877 00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:53,239 Speaker 1: to zone. You're on there as well, Jim I am. 878 00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,760 Speaker 1: I'm on there on a rector spot during the season. 879 00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,279 Speaker 1: It's probably a little bit more uh mos around, a 880 00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:04,440 Speaker 1: little bit more offseason, but due Wednesday three thirty I'm sorry, 881 00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,719 Speaker 1: Wednesday eight thirty in the morning and then Tuesday three 882 00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:11,400 Speaker 1: thirty pm with three HL crew and then wake Up 883 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:13,640 Speaker 1: Zone in the morning. So now next week o t 884 00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:17,200 Speaker 1: p qes the entire show, Amy Wells, where do they 885 00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:21,200 Speaker 1: put them in Titans online dot com slash otp Q 886 00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:25,440 Speaker 1: the entire show Your questions next week for coach Dave McGinnis, 887 00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,840 Speaker 1: Amy Wells at Jim White. Mike Keith says, thanks for 888 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,040 Speaker 1: listening to this edition of the otp