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Speaker 1: We welcome you to the OTP, the Official Titans Podcast,

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Speaker 1: dot com. With Amy Wells, I'm Mike Keith, joined by

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Speaker 1: Rhetbrian and coach Dave McGinnis from Titans Radio. How is

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Speaker 1: everybody lovely?

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Speaker 2: And you?

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Speaker 1: I'm lovely?

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Speaker 3: No, I'm great, this is this is great. I'm glad

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Speaker 3: to be back with Amy again. I'm glad to be

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Speaker 3: with Amy.

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Speaker 4: I missed you guys.

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Speaker 5: It was very lonely here. If it was quiet, there

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Speaker 5: were no Shenanigans.

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Speaker 2: It was very just are.

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Speaker 5: You suggestings consistently yes, and so it was sad to

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Speaker 5: have you guys gone.

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Speaker 4: But I'm glad you're back.

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Speaker 1: All right, So we need to get Amy's viewpoint on

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Speaker 1: the game. We've we've had yours, Coach Mac, We've some

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Speaker 1: of reetz, will get more. But because Amy was not

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Speaker 1: with us in Minneapolis where the Titans won Saturday Night

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Speaker 1: twenty four to sixteen, Amy is going to give us

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Speaker 1: five of her thoughts from the Titans preseason game number

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Speaker 1: two victory and we will respond to them.

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Speaker 2: Go right ahead.

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Speaker 5: Well, in true form, I have about nine, but we'll

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Speaker 5: go with five unless Mike gives me time for honorable mention.

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Speaker 4: I had a lot of thoughts.

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Speaker 5: Thought number one, I loved that the offensive line had

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Speaker 5: the starters play for the entire first quarter. I know

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Speaker 5: that snop snap wise, it was kind of equal to

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Speaker 5: what they did in the first game. I think they

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Speaker 5: had twelve snaps in the first prison preseason game, sixteen

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Speaker 5: snaps in the second. But I felt like there was

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Speaker 5: a lot of benefit to that group of five guys

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Speaker 5: going through the cadence of playing a series off the field,

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Speaker 5: making adjustments, playing a series coming off the field and

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Speaker 5: making adjustments. Mac, you would know better than anybody else.

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Speaker 4: Is that a real thing.

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Speaker 3: It's a real thing. I mean, you're you're, you're so

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Speaker 3: correct in that. And the biggest one of the biggest

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Speaker 3: things of this training camp was developing the offensive line.

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Speaker 3: We all knew it coming in. The coaches knew it,

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Speaker 3: we knew it, the players knew it. So yes, as

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Speaker 3: many snaps as they can get together, and you're one

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Speaker 3: hundred percent right now. The reason it evened out was

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Speaker 3: the first ball game, they had an extended series. The

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Speaker 3: first series they had, which culminated in a touchdown, was perfect.

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Speaker 3: This time we had a three and out and so

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Speaker 3: they were going to have to go back in there.

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Speaker 3: But your point being that they were together and they

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Speaker 3: needed those snaps, you're thinking correctly, and that's exactly how

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Speaker 3: Mike Vrabel and his coaching staff was thinking.

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Speaker 2: Second point.

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Speaker 5: My second point was that conventional wisdom says that people

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Speaker 5: should be worried about depth at wide receiver in the

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Speaker 5: wake of some injuries at that position, and yet I

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Speaker 5: am not concerned. I'm not even a little bit concerned.

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Speaker 4: Do you think I'm crazy?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: Crazy?

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Speaker 6: Crazy? Now? Is this because of what the finished product

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Speaker 6: of wide receiving room will look like come September the

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Speaker 6: tenth in New Orleans? Is that a part of your

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Speaker 5: I'm excited about some of the guys. I mean, obviously

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Speaker 5: but I'm also excited about some of the depth that

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Speaker 5: they're still at that position, that the guys that we're

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Speaker 5: excited about like Mason Kinsey, for example. I'm excited about

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Speaker 6: In short term, I'm a little concerned with them getting

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Speaker 6: long term, I share your optimism that that wide receiving

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Speaker 4: Point number three, point number three.

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Speaker 5: I really am enjoying watching Jack Gibbons Doctor Gibby, and

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Speaker 5: I kind of he's someone that has returned to my

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Speaker 5: I know that.

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Speaker 4: He left my radar a little bit.

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Speaker 5: There were some other people that I was excited about,

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Speaker 3: Uh I coached a guy very similar to him and

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Speaker 3: he can make plays. He can make plays. But these

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Speaker 3: types of players always are important to your roster because

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Speaker 3: they're dependable. You can depend on them. He's a physical,

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Speaker 3: physical player, but he's really smart and that's I think

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Speaker 3: that's what the coaching staff likes about him. I know

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Speaker 3: that as a former coach, and especially a linebacker coach,

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Speaker 3: you have to have guys at that second level because

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Speaker 3: They also have to be able to get it from

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Speaker 3: there are going to be things that change. You need

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Speaker 3: somebody that can process it, can get it to the

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Speaker 5: Rett I don't want to freak you out because I

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Speaker 5: didn't completely forget about him.

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Speaker 4: But he was always the smart player.

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Speaker 5: He was like smart guy who does smart things and

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Speaker 4: He's dependable. But now he's like making plays and doing

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Speaker 4: things that make me excited.

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Speaker 1: He's listed first team.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like that's a that's a big deal.

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Speaker 1: He's Outshire. I mean, he is listed as the first

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Speaker 1: team linebacker in the unofficial depths and the and we'll see,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see where that goes. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think he's put himself in a great position right now.

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Speaker 4: See it's exciting.

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Speaker 6: So what you're saying is in your defense is that

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Speaker 6: you're viewing him much like a very good offensive lineman

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Speaker 2: Right, So he's just there.

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Speaker 5: He was consistent guy, and now he's like make you

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Speaker 3: The other point about this is, I think we all

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Speaker 3: those guys at the second level. If you have guys

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Speaker 3: and can benefit from that. I mean, he's an instinctive

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Speaker 3: him on the first team in the unofficial depth chart

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Speaker 3: just because he likes the person. He likes what he

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Speaker 2: Point four point four.

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Speaker 5: I guess while we're talking about defense, let's continue to

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Speaker 5: talk about defense.

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Speaker 4: I'm excited about.

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Speaker 5: The Titan secondary, and I'm not usually excited about the

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Speaker 2: What about the secondary you're excited about?

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Speaker 4: There are lots of things.

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Speaker 5: I think there's depth there, when in previous years we

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Speaker 4: Had a ton of depth.

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Speaker 5: I think that there are guys that we have seen

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Speaker 5: the tray Avery's of the world that have just been

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Speaker 5: showing up and making plays and showing that hey, there's

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Speaker 5: a lot of guys here who can make an impact.

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Speaker 5: Whereas before in previous years, without the starters, you kind

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Speaker 5: of went, Hmmm, what's gonna happen here. So I'm very

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Speaker 5: excited about the secondary because I think there's a lot

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Speaker 5: of playmakers on that side of the ball.

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Speaker 4: I think they are hungry.

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Speaker 5: I think that's a group of people that are consistently

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Speaker 5: trying to make plays in a big way and are

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Speaker 5: trying to almost show that they are not. I mean,

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Speaker 5: everybody talks about the defensive line. Everybody talks about the

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Speaker 5: big guys up front on the when they talk about

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Speaker 5: the Titans defense. The little guys in the secondary aren't

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Speaker 5: letting that stand. They want to make plays too, and

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Speaker 5: they're showing that they deserve to be talked about just

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Speaker 4: And that's been really fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: Well, the fact that they've cut Chris Jackson an AJ

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Speaker 1: Moore already, two guys who've been on the roster, that

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Speaker 1: tells you what they think right now.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Of course, they could bring those guys back, and and

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Speaker 1: certainly guys like that will tend to come back to

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Speaker 1: any and f roster in week two when salrees are

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Speaker 1: not guaranteed at that point, so that does happen. But

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Speaker 1: at this point, the lane has been opened for all

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Speaker 1: these young guys to go get.

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Speaker 6: Jobs, and you talked, you said little guys, and then

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Speaker 6: you know, the first thing I thought was, you know

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Speaker 6: how Eric Garrer has really emerged in this The guy

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Speaker 6: was brought in in a tryout situation, got offered an opportunity.

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Speaker 6: He's making the most of that opportunity. Five eight, one

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Speaker 6: seventy four appeared in over sixty games at Louisiana Lafayette.

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Speaker 6: Dude is scared of zero nothing. And not only that,

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Speaker 6: but he adds value as a special team's returner in

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Speaker 6: this thing. I've really enjoyed watching him play and a

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Speaker 6: lot of these young undrafted guys who are contributing in

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Speaker 6: this preseason. But yeah, secondary is is something to watch

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Speaker 6: for sure.

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Speaker 3: The thing that I think is boyd this secondary though,

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Speaker 3: is Christian Fulton came back ready to be a professional

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Speaker 3: play exactly. That was big. And then the sign of

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Speaker 3: Sean Murphy Bunning. I mean, this is a veteran player,

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Speaker 3: so your two corners are pretty well set and I'm

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Speaker 3: not going to even talk about injuries.

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 3: We're not going to have any. Also, it allows you

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Speaker 3: to take take McCrary and put him in a slot

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Speaker 3: because you're going to be playing a lot of altered

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Speaker 3: defenses anyway this year, like everybody in the National Football

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Speaker 3: League does. That's pretty good. And the two starting safeties

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Speaker 3: that we have, those are legitimate dudes that you can

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Speaker 3: do a lot of things with. They're interchangeable, you can

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Speaker 3: move around. So those five players to begin with off

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Speaker 3: the jump, I mean, and those two corners out there,

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Speaker 3: they're not little guys. Those are good sized corners in

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Speaker 3: this league and to me, but when you talk about

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Speaker 4: The final preseason game. I want to see more selfish.

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Speaker 4: But I did have a lot.

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Speaker 5: Well, one of my bonus points was I was excited

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Speaker 5: I think we're starting to see him, not starting to

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Speaker 3: How healthy will Levis is? You know, we don't know

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Speaker 1: Hey, Titans fans, it's always game on with Duncan, so

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Speaker 1: football America runs on Duncan. Mike Vrabel said on the

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Speaker 1: Mike Vrabels Show, the first one of the season six

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Speaker 1: He said that because the team is not going to

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Speaker 1: So one team will warm up on one field warm

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Speaker 1: More and more teams, it seems like, are canceling second

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Speaker 3: The two days of work at Minnesota were very beneficial.

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Speaker 3: But you had two head coaches that had control of

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Speaker 3: She took the lid off the Snickers jar and was

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Speaker 3: heart fights. Nobody came together, there was no rumbles, and

445
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Speaker 3: I mean it was good.

446
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Speaker 2: Now.

447
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Speaker 3: The thing that happens, I think we all know this.

448
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Speaker 3: I've experienced it. I can't count how many times with

449
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Speaker 3: joint practices in my career. What happens is is that

450
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Speaker 3: which every team gets up on the other one the

451
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Speaker 3: first day. Then the team that got over on is

452
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Speaker 3: in those meetings that night going hey, is this who

453
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Speaker 3: we are? Is this what they're going to think about us?

454
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Speaker 3: And all of that? And these are competitive alpha dudes

455
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Speaker 3: out there, so the next day it's going to be

456
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,480
Speaker 3: even ramped up even more. That's what impressed me so

457
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,760
Speaker 3: much about our work with Minnesota is we were able

458
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Speaker 3: to keep it on an even keel with high intensity,

459
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Speaker 3: high level but practice football. And to me, I think

460
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Speaker 3: what's going to start happening is is people will schedule

461
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Speaker 3: one day and then the problem is is when you

462
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 3: put everything together, it took us, it takes that hops

463
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Speaker 3: crew and everybody to get there and to schedule two days.

464
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Speaker 3: I mean you have to do it. To me, I

465
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Speaker 3: think people will still schedule two days, but you need

466
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Speaker 3: to pick and choose who you work against. That's important.

467
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Speaker 1: That and the point too is where we were the

468
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Speaker 1: facility that they have at Minnesota. We mentioned last week

469
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Speaker 1: it's on the old property of Northwest Airlines headquarters, and

470
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Speaker 1: so it is I guess thousands of acres has to

471
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Speaker 1: be and the hotel is right across the parking lot.

472
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Speaker 1: Basically it's a five minute walk for the operations crew.

473
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Speaker 1: That's as good a setup as you'll ever find for

474
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Speaker 1: a joint practice.

475
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Speaker 2: And it's still hard.

476
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Speaker 1: It's still hard to get the plane and to get

477
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Speaker 1: everybody up there because you have to take so much stuff,

478
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,399
Speaker 1: so you won't find a better place to do it

479
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:09,080
Speaker 1: than Minnesota. And yet it's still an incredible amount of

480
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Speaker 1: work and an incredible amount of upheaval for the entire

481
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Speaker 1: football staff.

482
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Speaker 3: Well, Arizona was following us in there, and I think

483
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 3: people around the league if they've ever been up there,

484
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 3: I was taken aback by how good that facility is.

485
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,439
Speaker 3: I've never seen it before, the practice facility. Been in

486
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 3: the stadium before, but have never seen the practice facility.

487
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Speaker 3: It's you could not be more ideal. And as you said,

488
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Speaker 3: to host another team, it was seamless. It was not

489
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Speaker 3: only seamless, I mean it seems like all of the

490
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Speaker 3: support people that they had there at Minnesota to help

491
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Speaker 3: our support people. There was a gang of them.

492
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Speaker 2: I mean it was an army of people standing a job.

493
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Speaker 3: It really was. And so Minnesota will have people wanting

494
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Speaker 3: to come there if they're going to play there, and

495
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Speaker 3: when you got to you know too at home too

496
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Speaker 3: away on alternating years. But for us, for us, I'm

497
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Speaker 3: glad we were able to get those two days in

498
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Speaker 3: with that place because I'm like you, Mike, I've seen

499
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 3: a lot of the facilities in this league. That one

500
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 3: was like okay, wow, yeah, wow.

501
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Speaker 1: The other thing too, Rent, Let's talk about us Bank Stadium,

502
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 1: and let's talk about that roof, and let's think about

503
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 1: the roof we're going to have at the New Titans Stadium,

504
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: which is going to be the same thing. And the

505
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 1: way it felt, you know, when we got there in

506
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Speaker 1: the afternoon and the sun's still shining and it you know,

507
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Speaker 1: it feels like you're outside.

508
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Speaker 6: This phenomen totally did. And because the same architecture firm

509
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 6: that built that is going to be building the New

510
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:49,119
Speaker 6: Titan Stadium. When we had the opportunity, Brad Willis and

511
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 6: Philip Noel and I had an opportunity to go over

512
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Speaker 6: pretty early on Friday afternoon to set up equipment in

513
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Speaker 6: the booth, and we kind of just took notes and

514
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 6: looked at a lot of things with that in mind

515
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,639
Speaker 6: and thinking about the possibilities what that East Bank's going

516
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 6: to look like in a few years, you know, not

517
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 6: that far down the road. It's an impressive building, like

518
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 6: the design, like what they did with it, the amenities involved.

519
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,640
Speaker 6: But you're right with that roof, the way that it is.

520
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:22,119
Speaker 6: It is just like it's outdoors. It's just a in

521
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 6: this case at that place, it's a glass filter more

522
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 6: or less.

523
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, although it's some sort of high level plastic.

524
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 3: Didn't you have then you had?

525
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 1: I had the name and I can't I can't say

526
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,640
Speaker 1: it properly. But it's the new thing. And you can

527
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 1: open the doors too, just like it so far, and

528
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 1: just like a US bank apparently, I think, I don't

529
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: know if a legion is exactly like it the roof is,

530
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: but you can open the doors and get the air flow.

531
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Speaker 1: And yet Saturday they chose not to because it was stifling.

532
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Speaker 4: Heat because it was so hot outside.

533
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 1: Because it's so hot outside, so you got to be

534
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Speaker 1: in a night indoor situation, which I think everybody's like

535
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 1: retractable roof, butt of dome. It's like, no, those things

536
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: aren't there anymore. This is what you're going for, and

537
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: this is what the new stadium is going to have.

538
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 5: Well, and that's we've played in stadiums like that, and

539
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 5: being down on the field throughout those games at SOFI

540
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 5: at us Bank there, you forget that you're indoors. It

541
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 5: really is because of the sunlight, because of the cross

542
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 5: wind that you can have. I mean, the first time

543
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 5: I ever went to SOFI, I was not dressed properly

544
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 5: because I dressed like we were going to Houston, where

545
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 5: Houston is very much they have a retractable kind of situation.

546
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 5: But I mean when we're there and they're never using it,

547
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 5: so it's always you feel like you're playing in a box.

548
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 1: Unless it's during COVID, it's during cold and they put

549
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: us on the other side of the stadium, but decide

550
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,400
Speaker 1: to open the roof for that game. And then at

551
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 1: the end of the first half we have the sun

552
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 1: shining direct eyes.

553
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I forgot about that, and.

554
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: Then in the second half we're in total darkness over there,

555
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: and that was it was.

556
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 2: Not great, That was not correct, but.

557
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 5: It's like playing in a climate control box there. This

558
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 5: is not going to be that experience because it really

559
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 5: feels like you're outside. You just don't get rained on,

560
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 5: which is awesome.

561
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 6: Well, and you know, there was a lot of discussion

562
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 6: when the news of the new stadium came about and

563
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 6: the renderings and all these things about a retractable roof

564
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 6: and why not in Titans CEO and President Burke Nye.

565
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 6: Hill and I had a conversation about that, and he

566
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 6: explained it well here on the OTP about you know,

567
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 6: it's like having a really expensive, nice car that you know,

568
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 6: it's got a nice giant sunroof that you just never use.

569
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 6: Maybe you're not a sunroof person, but in this case,

570
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 6: you know, Houston is a prime example. In the twenty

571
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 6: plus years that Mike and I have been going down

572
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 6: there doing Titans radio games, I can count on one hand,

573
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 6: with fingers left over, how many times that roof's been opened.

574
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 6: And one of those is because there was remnants of

575
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 6: a hurricane to come through and it removed and ripped

576
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 6: the panels off of it.

577
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,479
Speaker 2: So it wasn't even a choice, Yeah, it was.

578
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 6: It was a weather thing by force in this case,

579
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 6: and so I think Burke's numbers were three or four

580
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 6: percent of the time you would actually use it and

581
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 6: open it. And for what the costs and megabucks addition

582
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,679
Speaker 6: to already and you know, a handsome bottom line in

583
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 6: this thing.

584
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, how many times have we gone to

585
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 5: Indianapolis where every week the conversation is open or closed?

586
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 4: Roof open or closed?

587
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 5: I mean I worked for that team for a year

588
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:45,239
Speaker 5: and then have played against them for a decade, and

589
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 5: I can probably count on one, maybe two hands, how

590
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 5: many times that roof was ever opened.

591
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 4: And that's their big selling point. Does Yeah, but hardly

592
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 4: ever is it open?

593
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 2: Hardly up except that one day in twenty.

594
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 5: He's trying to play freeze out and they still lost nineteen.

595
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: Or twenty twenty nineteen or twenty nineteen where he decided

596
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: to open the roof, much to the chagrin of the fans.

597
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 4: And his own equipment stack.

598
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: They didn't have the proper gear and the officials didn't

599
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: have the proper gear and ended up having to borrow

600
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,959
Speaker 1: it from the TENNSE Titans.

601
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Speaker 5: Whatever you need, guys, Yes, formst coats.

602
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Speaker 1: As we talk about stadium, visit titansnew stadium dot com

603
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Speaker 1: to take a look at what's going on with the

604
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: new stadium, or to place a deposit for your PSL,

605
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: or get higher on the priority list by becoming a

606
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Speaker 1: season ticket member today. As a matter of fact, if

607
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: you buy a twenty twenty three Titan season ticket, which

608
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: you have to get a PSL, that PSL amount will

609
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: be credited toward the new stadium, so you not only

610
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Speaker 1: get tickets for this year, but you get in line

611
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Speaker 1: for the future six one five five, six five forty

612
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Speaker 1: two hundred sixty one five five sixty five forty two

613
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Speaker 1: hundred to get involved in that Tier Tart. You mentioned

614
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: Tier Tart a moment ago getting in a fight at

615
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: the at the practice, he did throw a punch one.

616
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 4: Swing Max sounds like me, Vinny goes.

617
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: Then he goes out and is dominant in the game.

618
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Speaker 1: He also had a viral moment during a practice where

619
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Speaker 1: he how would you term that, where he hip tossed

620
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: the guy or hump.

621
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Speaker 3: Move, hump move, Reggie White, hump move.

622
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 2: Yes, but he did. Is that the technical term?

623
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Speaker 1: Yes, it is he threw him. I mean he threw

624
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Speaker 1: this guy out of the way, and it's it's a

625
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: big man. What is tier Tart right now? Where is

626
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: tier Tart right now? What? How do you summarize how

627
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 1: he fits on this football team and what but he's

628
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: trying to be and what he can be.

629
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Speaker 3: Let's start where tier tierre Tart started from. When he

630
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 3: came here. First of all, I mean he had a

631
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 3: pretty he had some stops in college before he got

632
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 3: to where he finally ended up. He comes in here

633
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 3: and is as raw as meat. I mean he is raw,

634
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 3: raw raw. I mean we had I won't go into it,

635
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 3: but had some illustrious media guru said he couldn't play

636
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 3: because he couldn't hit slid. We'll go past that when

637
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 3: you start to when you start developing him and start

638
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 3: to look at him. This is a big body dude

639
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 3: that's got some twitch to him. The issue with him

640
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 3: his entire career, I would assume is his endurance, because

641
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 3: this is a big thick man. Now he's worked on

642
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 3: his body. He has worked on that and the other

643
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 3: thing that I think has really helped him. He can

644
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 3: play a shade, which is between the center and the guard.

645
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 3: To Jeffrey Simmons three to technique. Because now people are

646
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,719
Speaker 3: so worried about Jeffrey Simmons. This is a three the

647
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 3: better tr tart works. He's going to see more single blocks.

648
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 3: This this guy has has with coach. Coach t has

649
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 3: done a great job.

650
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 2: With him because Carol Williams, Yes.

651
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:21,479
Speaker 3: He was patient, he was forceful with him. And then

652
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 3: Mike Gravel has been very good with him too, and

653
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 3: Mike Ravel has been very honest with him. We need

654
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 3: you to be able to up your conditioning so that

655
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 3: you can play more than fifteen or eighteen snaps a

656
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 3: game because we need you in there.

657
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 2: I think we're.

658
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 3: Seeing the development of a guy that he's a perfect

659
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 3: shade technique, which again is between the center of the

660
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 3: guard away from the three technique, which is on the

661
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 3: outside should of the guard on the other side. But

662
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 3: he's a guy that people have to pay attention to. Now.

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00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 2: That hip top that.

664
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Speaker 3: Was Bradbury, by the way, a number one pick is

665
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 3: a center the hip toss that he made there. You

666
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 3: don't hip toss people, first of all, unless you understand

667
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 3: what you're doing. You're a vall for life. You saw

668
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 3: Reggie White do it just because Reggie White was Reggie White.

669
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Speaker 3: It's not an easy thing to do. I mean there

670
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 3: and to me We're only going to see him blossom

671
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 3: more and more. I like the player because the other

672
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 3: thing about him is he's got a little bit of

673
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 3: stuff in his neck too, and that's what you want

674
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 3: from those guys up there. But the progression that he's

675
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 3: made since he has come here due to the coaching

676
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 3: and also due to his realization that I've got a

677
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 3: chance here. I've got people here that are investing in me,

678
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 3: so I'm going to invest in myself. I mean, he

679
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 3: came in here just a big guy, but now he's

680
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 3: become more than that. And I really like what he's done.

681
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: He is trying to go from being just the run

682
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: stuffer to the complete player.

683
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 3: Yes, and I mean, and he's never going to be

684
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 3: a silky smooth guy. But silky smooth guys is not

685
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 3: what you need. A lot up there, we've got one,

686
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 3: we got an anomaly. We've got a bear on two

687
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 3: legs over there, Jeffrey Simmons. But this guy is a great,

688
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 3: great compliment. But he's improved himself as a football player.

689
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 3: He wasn't content with what he was. He's improved himself.

690
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Speaker 2: Who else is showing in the defensive line, Rhett.

691
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Speaker 6: So honestly, if I'm looking at the whole thing. I've

692
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 6: been watching sam Okawanu in year two and seeing the

693
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:31,959
Speaker 6: steps he's trying to make forward in this Now he's

694
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:36,320
Speaker 6: a big, thick guy and rocked up. Now he's different

695
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 6: from the tier tart we just mentioned. I've been watching

696
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 6: him as we get closer to the end of this

697
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 6: thing and heading into the regular season, because he's a

698
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 6: guy that wants to make this roster. Jaden Peevee is

699
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 6: another and a guy who has transformed his body in

700
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,959
Speaker 6: a way, and you're talking about a mammoth human being

701
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 6: in Jaden Peevy. I remember seeing him coming in here

702
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 6: last I'm like, I thought he was a tackle or something.

703
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 6: He was so big.

704
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: Well, there was a time they were going to look

705
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: at him potentially as an offensive tackle because his arms

706
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: are so long that he really fits that. I mean,

707
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: you're saying, oh my goodness. And there are a lot

708
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 1: of defensive linemen who become very good offense. Your tight

709
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: ends and defensive linemen oftentimes become very good offensive tackles.

710
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: Is he a five technique as you call it, if

711
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: he's doing what he does.

712
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 3: Well, because you length a five technique someone that lines

713
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 3: up on the outside shoulder of an offensive tackle in

714
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,720
Speaker 3: a three four defense because when you've got an outside

715
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 3: back or outside of him, but his length at the

716
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 3: further away that you move from the ball, you know,

717
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 3: the length becomes a little bit more because the long

718
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 3: arm stuff to shorten where you're getting into the cylinder

719
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 3: becomes important. But yes, that's what he is.

720
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Speaker 2: He's good looking player.

721
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Speaker 6: The other guy that I'm watching and you know he's

722
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 6: not necessarily on the defensive line, but he's a passeruh sure.

723
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Speaker 6: And it's a young man who's really started making plays

724
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 6: in these first two preseason games in Caleb Murphy, the

725
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 6: undrafted free agent from Farris State. And that's another guy

726
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 6: like Taj Spears. I kept talking to coach Mack about him,

727
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 6: like this guy's from Farris State and he's getting invited

728
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:21,720
Speaker 6: to the combine. That tells me somebody sees something. Now.

729
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 6: Can he use some functional play strength in those things? Yes,

730
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 6: but that that's what Ascension Saint Thomas Sports Park and

731
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 6: Frank Pirino and Todd tour Selling and all these guys,

732
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 6: that's what they're there for to get that.

733
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Speaker 2: You want to say something about him, Well, no.

734
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Speaker 5: I was just Rhett just read that right out of

735
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Speaker 5: my brain because I was thinking, someone talk about Caleb Murphy.

736
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 4: Somebody say it, and you said it.

737
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Speaker 1: But the question for a Caleb Murphy, though, coach, is

738
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Speaker 1: as you try to put together a fifty three to

739
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: go to New Orleans, where does he fit well? And

740
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 1: that's the trick with several of these guys that many

741
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: of us are excited about, you know, the defensive backs

742
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: and all of the running backs, is like, you can't

743
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: keep them all, no, and you've got to put together

744
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 1: the fifty three that is the most functional. You know,

745
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: how do you do it?

746
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 3: That's the jinga puzzle, Yeah, of putting together an initial

747
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 3: fifty three, an initial fifty three. And the other thing

748
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 3: that you got to think is this, if you don't

749
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 3: put him on the fifty three, well thirty one is

750
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 3: somebody in the thirty one willing to take him and

751
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 3: put him on their fifty three? Right, Because when you

752
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 3: claim somebody off waivers, you have to put him on

753
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 3: your fifty three. You can't claim him to put him

754
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 3: on your practice squad. This guy to me and then

755
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 3: needs to do exactly what Rashad Weaver did this offseason.

756
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 3: Marry yourself to the iron he needs to get because

757
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 3: Rashad Weaver has transformed his game with functional strength that

758
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 3: it's one hundred percent right. He needs more NFL functional strength.

759
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 3: He doesn't have an NFL body yet. He's got a

760
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 3: frame that can grow into an NFL body once he

761
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 3: gets with Frank Purino on, once he gets with the

762
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 3: nutrition system. But he's got a little something to him

763
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 3: because he can separate and get to the quarterback and

764
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 3: those guys are hard to find. To your question is

765
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 3: you make two decisions. Who do we bump if we

766
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 3: keep him on a fifty three or do we take

767
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 3: the chance that somebody else of the other thirty one

768
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 3: will put him on their fifty three.

769
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 6: Sure, yeah, I'm afraid if you put him on the

770
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 6: practice squad that will come to pass. I think there's enough.

771
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 2: Well, you've got to wave him wave him first.

772
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: You've got to wave him on the twenty ninth, right,

773
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: a week week from Tuesday's right.

774
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 3: That's a different move.

775
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: And then you've got to get him through because if

776
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: he's a waiver claim by somebody, uh you know, then

777
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 1: then that becomes a thing. And if he clears waivers,

778
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: then you can sign him to the practice squad. And

779
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 1: we've seen this over the years, la Garrett Blunt, Jack Doyle,

780
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 1: there have been other guys and people say, well.

781
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 2: Why did they do that?

782
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: That was so that the Legarrett Blunt that was so well,

783
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, the Legarrett.

784
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 2: Blunt thing is because we didn't have a flynebacker.

785
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 3: Any linebackers.

786
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 1: You needed a spot, numbers in a position, and the

787
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 1: Jack Doyle thing is they needed a spot and you're

788
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: trying desperately to get to that fifty three and be

789
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: ready to play week one. You're you'd like to think

790
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: about twenty twenty four, you'd like to think about later

791
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: in the season, you'd like to think about development, But

792
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: the first roster is about beating New.

793
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 3: Orleans one hundred percent, right, And there's so much that

794
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 3: goes into it, and you know, we all know it.

795
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 3: I've lived it for a lot of years. As those

796
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 3: decisions sometimes come down to a feel as to what

797
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 3: they do, but sometimes it's out of necessity and you're

798
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 3: right with Garrett Blunt and I was here for that one.

799
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 3: I mean, that was a hard, hard thing to do

800
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 3: because you know, we had taken Legarrett Blunt as a

801
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 3: free agent when nobody else would touch him, getting hear

802
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 3: him when nobody would touch him. Jeff Fisher said, I

803
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 3: can handle him, and he could. But so those are decisions.

804
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 3: It's not because you didn't like the player. It's not

805
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 3: because they didn't like Jack Doyle. They needed some other

806
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 3: positions at the moment, and that's that. Or those are

807
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 3: decisions that personnel people and coaches really agonize over. I

808
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:27,919
Speaker 3: promise you going into this cut well.

809
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: And then the agony too with THEO Jackson being put

810
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 1: on the practice squad last year, Minnesota comes after THEO Jackson.

811
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: The Titans are desperate to keep him, but they don't

812
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:40,879
Speaker 1: have a roster spot.

813
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 3: Don't have a spot, I mean.

814
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: And so THEO signs with Minnesota. He's doing very well

815
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: now Minnesota, they got a bunch of safeties. We'll see,

816
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: hopefully things will work out well for THEO. But you know,

817
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 1: if you're the player, you've got a chance to go

818
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 1: get on an active roster. He didn't really want to

819
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: leave here. His dream was to play for the Titans,

820
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: but you've you've got to have that availability. Or you say, well,

821
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: you know we're carrying an extra receiver, maybe we can

822
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: dump at a receiver and call him up to the

823
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: active roster so he won't leave, and then sometimes you can't.

824
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: And with the injuries that the Titans have had the

825
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:19,240
Speaker 1: last two years, they've lost some good players at different

826
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: points that could have helped them later in the year

827
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,399
Speaker 1: because they had injuries and necessity at that moment.

828
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 3: Oh, that's one hundred percent right. And from a coaching

829
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 3: aspect of it and from an organization aspect of it,

830
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 3: if a guy gets a chance to sign on an

831
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 3: active roster when he's on your practice squad and you've

832
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 3: developed him, I mean, you can't blame them. They have

833
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 3: to go because their time to make money is short.

834
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 3: And the difference between an active roster check even the minimum,

835
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 3: and a practice squad check, I'm not real good at math,

836
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:50,399
Speaker 3: but it's a lot.

837
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: Well, and then you start earning that time toward your pension, right,

838
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: all of that to become you know, getting a year

839
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: closer to being a vest veteran free agency. But also, hey,

840
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:07,720
Speaker 1: that pension is a big deal for for any player.

841
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 1: I remember we re signed a player one year for

842
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 1: the last two games and that got him to his

843
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: pension level and he was thrilled. I mean it was Chris,

844
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:21,720
Speaker 1: it was literally Christmas time. But to him, he knew

845
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: financially what that was going to mean for him later

846
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:24,439
Speaker 1: in life.

847
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 3: And that's real. That's real life. There is three game

848
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 3: is three years, three games, three years, three games, and

849
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 3: you don't begrudge any of them trying to get that

850
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 3: while they're trying to play good ball.

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00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,040
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Speaker 6: all she's trying to do during this OTP is keep

878
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 6: from making Rookie.

879
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 3: Does anybody know why it's named Snickers? Why anybody know?

880
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 4: Do you know?

881
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 3: Absolutely?

882
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 5: Oh?

883
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 3: Why? The Mars family that started it? Yeah, okay, Mars

884
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 3: bar clearly was ther first one Mars. They also owned horses.

885
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 3: Their favorite horse was named Snicker, no kids, Snicker died

886
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 3: and so when they came out with this one, they

887
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 3: named it Snicker, named after the horse.

888
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,240
Speaker 4: Are you like family friends with the Mars family?

889
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 3: Be honest, I just know stuff.

890
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 4: I feel like this would.

891
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:36,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were.

892
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:37,760
Speaker 3: Names important stuff.

893
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 4: Like that.

894
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 2: That's very good.

895
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 4: That is good. That was a nice little nugget.

896
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 3: Snickers was the name of the horse.

897
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 2: That's tremendous. That's good.

898
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 1: How many roster spots are literally still up for grabs,

899
00:44:54,480 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis four four four on average? You say four

900
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: per team? Probably yes, so some teams three, some teams six,

901
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: but it would average out to.

902
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 3: Four three to six. Normally it's what it is. I

903
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 3: think four on this football team because of injury. And

904
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 3: also there are a lot of times, and you talk

905
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,360
Speaker 3: about roster decisions, there are a lot of times where

906
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 3: you know you've got decision between a vet and the

907
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 3: first year guy, and maybe that vet is in the

908
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:31,359
Speaker 3: first year guy's coming on, but maybe that vet won't

909
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 3: get picked up by somebody, and you don't have to

910
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 3: guarantee a contract for the entire year.

911
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 2: If you sign them after the first week.

912
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 3: All of those things filter in, and so I've been

913
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 3: involved in a lot of roster setups, and so all

914
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 3: those things fit in. But normally it's three to six,

915
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 3: the better team you have. And here's the other thing too,

916
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 3: Just like we worked out against Minnesota, this personnel group

917
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 3: that was up there with us a personnel department. They

918
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 3: were scouting the Vikings really hard at every practice. They

919
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 3: were really scouting them. And so you're always looking for somebody.

920
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 3: There's somebody that is somewhere that you may have had

921
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 3: an eye on during the draft, or you may have

922
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 3: an eye on during free agency period, that somebody else

923
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 3: got that is teetering on the edge of somewhere else.

924
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 3: So it's not just necessarily who you've got here that

925
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 3: you're looking at, it's who you're looking at league wide.

926
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: Two. All right, let's put Red Bryan on the spot

927
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: practice squad, spot sixteen. How many of those guys do

928
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: you think for the Titans are here right now? What's

929
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,359
Speaker 1: your number? You don't have to name them, but just

930
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: your number. I will say at least a dozen of them.

931
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,720
Speaker 4: Amy, Yeah, I was gonna say ten to twelve.

932
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 3: Ten.

933
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 2: I think that's right. Ten.

934
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 1: I think there's a goodly number here. Some years it's

935
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: been you just wipe the slate clean and go get

936
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: sixteen guys other places. I mean that it's a good roster.

937
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 3: The other point about the practice squad is we all

938
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 3: know that. I mean when they first started it was five, right,

939
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 3: and it's also five with the caveat that they had

940
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 3: to have two years experience or less. So that cuts

941
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 3: your number way down. Now you've got sixteen, which clearly

942
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 3: the math is more, but you've got six spots that

943
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 3: you can have veteran players on there too, you know,

944
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 3: and pay them incrementally more than you pay you know,

945
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 3: the first So putting together the practice squad, that's changed

946
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 3: a lot for personnel departments and coaches too. So I

947
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,359
Speaker 3: think ten though, I think we've got ten guys here

948
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:29,320
Speaker 3: that they'd probably like to continue to develop. And then

949
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 3: that leaves you six somewhere.

950
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 2: Else, three quarterbacks on this roster.

951
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, I believe.

952
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: So, Yeah, I don't have any doubt about it right now, none,

953
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt. But that means a roster spot

954
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: has to come from somewhere else more correct, more than

955
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: likely on the offense.

956
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 3: So it might be a running back, you think, so,

957
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 3: I think so?

958
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 4: Really?

959
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:57,439
Speaker 2: I mean, just off a jump, what position were you thinking?

960
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 2: Gave me.

961
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 1: Receiver?

962
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm taking tight end.

963
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 4: See, okay, that was my gut, and.

964
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: I'm taking a tight end because I think tight end

965
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: is a place where you could carry two guys on

966
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: the practice squad. As tight ends because you think about

967
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: the other strategy in practice squad that is not discussed

968
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: enough is it's for practice, and your tight ends are

969
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:27,760
Speaker 1: guys who can run scout team on offense or defense,

970
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,280
Speaker 1: and you need to get you know, the look. Teams

971
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 1: have to do that. And it's like coach Vrabel was

972
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 1: talking about Mason Kenzie. Mason Kenzie has been a very

973
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: valuable practice squad player because he can practice on offense

974
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 1: or defense to help the team get ready.

975
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 3: So the only thing about tight ends to me, especially

976
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 3: with what Tim Kelly's doing now, it looks like it's

977
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 3: going to be a multiple tight end offense and they've

978
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,479
Speaker 3: shown it already in pre season, so I'm not giving

979
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 3: anything away. No, we see in practice. You've seen a

980
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 3: lot of them in the backfield too, and you've seen

981
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 3: a lot of i mean moving in the backfield, you know,

982
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 3: so it's gonna be interesting to see.

983
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: But you could always call that player up on the

984
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 1: weekend too.

985
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 3: You can do that. You've got so many moves you can.

986
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: Make, you you can do that, and you've got some

987
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 1: guys who have the kind of experience that you could

988
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 1: call them up in a heartbeat.

989
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 3: And do it.

990
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: West co is an interesting player because I think he's

991
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 1: probably the best blocking tight end naturally they've had in

992
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: how long read a while? Yeah, Craig Stevens.

993
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 3: Maybe Cat Stevens was the best blocking tight end.

994
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 2: Okay, and I was here, Okay.

995
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 3: Cat Stevens was really good as a blocker.

996
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, really good. I don't know if they've had anybody

997
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:45,240
Speaker 1: that good since then.

998
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 3: As a blocking tight end. I mean, I've missed a

999
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 3: few years when I was going another team.

1000
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 1: But West co West Coats pretty good. Obviously, you've got

1001
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: a Cockquo. I think Wiley is coming on and you're

1002
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: going to start to see more of him. Is there

1003
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: a fourth you know? Does a raider make it? Odequoya

1004
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: is a guy that has been talked about as well,

1005
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:11,959
Speaker 1: who has obviously improved his blocking dramatically.

1006
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 5: But with some of the ways that those guys will

1007
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 5: be used, I think we're going to see them more

1008
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 5: in receiving roles than maybe we've seen in blocking roles

1009
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 5: in the past, just because of what Tim Kelly likes

1010
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 5: to do. And so then maybe you can take a

1011
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 5: receiver spot and then there's your quarterback because you can

1012
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 5: utilize the tight ends in so many different ways.

1013
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 4: But I think you've been doing.

1014
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: I think you're going to have five active receivers on

1015
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:46,240
Speaker 1: game absolutely, because I think more is going to play

1016
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: special teams and obviously Westbrook A.

1017
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:48,919
Speaker 2: Kine is going to play.

1018
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:51,359
Speaker 3: So that's the that's the key. That's as running back

1019
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 3: and tight end and receiver. Who is your legitimate core

1020
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 3: for special teams player, right, That's that's the that's the

1021
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:01,399
Speaker 3: case all of this because a lot.

1022
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: Of teams just keep four receivers active on game day

1023
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: because they need a player at another position to play

1024
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 1: special teams. The Titans are different in that they're going

1025
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: to have five guys and I mean, obviously Hopkins is

1026
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,280
Speaker 1: not playing special teams. No, Burks is not playing space.

1027
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 1: You've got three, Yeah, Phillips maybe as a punt returner,

1028
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 1: you know, but otherwise.

1029
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 3: You need you need because Craig Arkerman needs core teamers.

1030
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 3: And that's what you know. We talked about it during

1031
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:32,240
Speaker 3: the broadcast of why they're returning all of those kickoffs

1032
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,399
Speaker 3: that are five and six yards deep because they're trying

1033
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 3: to find somebody that can block in space, because that's

1034
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:39,920
Speaker 3: the hardest thing to do. Blocking in space on a

1035
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 3: kickoff return is the hardest thing to teach because none

1036
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 3: of them have ever done it before. And plus there's

1037
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:50,400
Speaker 3: still people are running thirty five yards at them full speed,

1038
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 3: and they've got to come to balance and also be

1039
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 3: able to shield them and get them at least past

1040
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 3: the break point of the return. So they're trying to

1041
00:51:58,800 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 3: find those dudes.

1042
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:02,439
Speaker 1: By the way, I was just trying to just check

1043
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: the time here, and I've gotten a message from Colin Allready,

1044
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 1: your former linebackers.

1045
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:09,840
Speaker 3: Senator Colin all Read running for Senate. Running for Senator, Colin,

1046
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 3: what do you think about that?

1047
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 1: Really, that one of your guys, one of your dudes,

1048
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 1: is in Congress.

1049
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 3: You remember how smart he was, Yeah, he was a

1050
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:21,240
Speaker 3: he went to Baylor. He was a smart, smart dude.

1051
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 3: And always you could tell that that Colin there, he

1052
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 3: was going to do something else besides this. Yeah, I

1053
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:31,879
Speaker 3: mean you always knew. I mean, i've you know when

1054
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 3: he's yeah, he's running for that Senate seat in Texas,

1055
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 3: and I hope he gets it.

1056
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 2: But you're proud of those guys.

1057
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 3: I mean, you've.

1058
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: Got coaches, you've got business owners, you've got a Congress.

1059
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:44,320
Speaker 1: When he's running for senate, I mean it's.

1060
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, when he came in here, he

1061
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 3: had no guarantees to make anything of this team. We

1062
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 3: talked about We talked about doctor Gibbey. You had a

1063
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,400
Speaker 3: smart guy, could get lined up, was willing to do

1064
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,919
Speaker 3: whatever it took, special teams and whatever. And every time,

1065
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 3: because you have daily meetings during this coaches and personnel people, Okay,

1066
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 3: give me your give me your four, give me your five,

1067
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 3: give me your four, give me your five, give me

1068
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 3: your six, give me your definite. Gone, draw the line.

1069
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:14,240
Speaker 3: All you're gonna hear that all the time these personnel meetings.

1070
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 3: Draw a line for me, Draw line for me, amy

1071
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:19,760
Speaker 3: on the on the on the receivers, draw line, where's

1072
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 3: the line? You're always fighting as a coach, if you're

1073
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 3: in the room with them and you and you they

1074
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 3: have something intrinsically to them. You're always fighting to keep

1075
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 3: him above that line as long as you can and

1076
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 3: as long as they do their part. Then sometimes you

1077
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:36,240
Speaker 3: end up with the Colin al Red stories.

1078
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 2: He fought for four years, four years to make the football.

1079
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 3: Four years and he made it every time. But he

1080
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 3: earned above that line. And when you earn above that line, uh,

1081
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 3: I hope he wins that sendate seat. Then I'll have

1082
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 3: some pull in state.

1083
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,840
Speaker 1: Well, but I mean that that just goes to tell you.

1084
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: I mean, anybody who fights it like Kenzie's doing right now.

1085
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 1: When you have guys who who fight for it for

1086
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 1: that period of time, there's a level of respect for

1087
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: them as human beings. Like we told the story the

1088
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 1: other night on Titans Radio. But Kenzie being the emergency quarterback,

1089
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: and so I went down in pregame and he's running

1090
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:20,760
Speaker 1: some pass routes and I pulled him aside. I said, Mason,

1091
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 1: I said, when's the last time you played quarterback? He

1092
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: said eighth grade?

1093
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 4: Good?

1094
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 1: And I said, really, he goes, yeah, he goes. I

1095
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:31,880
Speaker 1: went out for quarterback. We ran the triple option, and

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00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:34,839
Speaker 1: I went out for quarterback and I got beat out.

1097
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: I said, so did you play some quarterback after that? Nope?

1098
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:44,360
Speaker 2: None times, none times. And so then I said, okay,

1099
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:47,759
Speaker 2: I said, if we have to, if you have.

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00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 1: To go into quarterback tonight against the Vikings, how many

1101
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: plays can you run?

1102
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 2: He said all of them.

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Speaker 3: I went to the walkthrough and watched him, you know

1104
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 3: the walkthrough that they had when they put him in,

1105
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 3: and I went, okay, had no idea about the eighth

1106
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 3: grade eighth grade. I'm thinking back the eighth grade when

1107
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 3: I was in Snyder, Texas Travis Junior High Blue Devils.

1108
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:10,160
Speaker 3: I can't even remember what was going on then, but

1109
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 3: for him to pop that out with you, and you

1110
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 3: know what, when they put him in there to run

1111
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,759
Speaker 3: those those RPOs, he did it.

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00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 2: He looked pretty good.

1113
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 3: Well it worked, I mean, it worked.

1114
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's awesome.

1115
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something else too. Okay, that just

1116
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 3: shows you this head coach and this coaching staff, they're

1117
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 3: not afraid to try anything. Let's go back to that

1118
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 3: Houston game way long time ago when we had nobody

1119
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:37,320
Speaker 3: left and they put the King Cat in a eighteen.

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00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:41,319
Speaker 3: Won the game with the King Cat with a depleted

1121
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 3: offensive line with I mean, and they walked through it

1122
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:48,720
Speaker 3: and put it in on a Saturday morning in the bubble.

1123
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Speaker 3: Shut the bubble. Nobody else is in there. This coaching

1124
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:55,319
Speaker 3: staff knows what they're doing. That was Matt Lafleur, I mean,

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Speaker 3: and Mike.

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00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:59,880
Speaker 6: Vrabel, no left tackle, no right tackle, no Delaney Walker,

1127
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:01,360
Speaker 6: no Marcus Mariota.

1128
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Speaker 3: But she had the kid. It wasn't great, as Mike

1129
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 3: is named it the King Kent and it worked.

1130
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 6: Mike Rabel's second game as head coach.

1131
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 1: The best passer of that day was Kevin Byerd.

1132
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, sixty six yard or day crookshank.

1133
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:16,880
Speaker 3: A two yard throw and sixty four yards later.

1134
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:20,319
Speaker 1: That's right, he left handed it out there. It was

1135
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:22,880
Speaker 1: scared me to death. I'm like, oh gosh, he's going

1136
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:23,760
Speaker 1: to throw this ball.

1137
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:25,800
Speaker 3: And I think we all appreciated it, you know, And

1138
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 3: as a former coach, you look at that and you go, no,

1139
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 3: that's the ball coach, when you've got nothing and you

1140
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 3: make something of it, and not only make something of it,

1141
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 3: you want a division game with it, big one, big one.

1142
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 6: That's what I think is so cool about this blue

1143
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:44,240
Speaker 6: and white scrimmage in the last week of training camp.

1144
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:48,520
Speaker 6: To your point about getting guys re energized and making

1145
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 6: it through that last stretch before you have to make

1146
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 6: difficult roster decisions and the regular season comes. What a

1147
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 6: cool concept and idea that, you know, coach Terrell Williams,

1148
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 6: who's already coached a preseason game, it's going to be

1149
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 6: on one side, John Striker stretch, his right hand man

1150
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 6: is going to do the other.

1151
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 3: He's already coached a game two.

1152
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, he absolutely has. And then I'm fascinated to know

1153
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 6: what the draft order was, how high a draft pick

1154
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 6: was John Takahashi or Joey Baranco or Matt Thompson.

1155
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 2: You're talking about members of the staff. Yeah, because.

1156
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 6: They went down through all of those things.

1157
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 4: I love it.

1158
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 5: I think it's a great idea. What a wait to

1159
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 5: end along training camp doesn't surprise.

1160
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 3: Any of us, and it should surprise none of the

1161
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 3: OTP listeners, the ot people. Mike Rabel thinks outside the box.

1162
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 1: Well. He tries to keep it interesting for guys too.

1163
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 1: He tries to keep people engaged. He tries to use

1164
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 1: the use every minute to get better in a way.

1165
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 1: But understanding the monotony of what this can become if

1166
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: you let it, if you and he does not let

1167
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:03,439
Speaker 1: it become monotonous.

1168
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 3: Well it just he just gets it. He gets the

1169
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 3: National Football League on a lot of levels, a lot

1170
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 3: of levels.

1171
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 5: Well, because when guys are engaged and they are excited

1172
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 5: about what they're doing, you're able to make more progress,

1173
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 5: You're able to continue to work on things. It's like

1174
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 5: teaching babies different skills. If you teach them a song

1175
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 5: and a game, they're engaged with it, and so then

1176
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 5: the skills come with it.

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00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 4: It's the same.

1178
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 5: Not to say that the Tennessee Titans players are babies,

1179
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 5: but the Titans are hooked on phonics.

1180
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 4: Yes, yes they are.

1181
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 5: Math is fun, no, But because they are engaged, because

1182
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 5: there's an excitement to it, because there's a competitive aspect

1183
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 5: to it. It's not the same roat scheduled day after

1184
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:58,480
Speaker 5: day of meetings, practice meetings, walk through meetings.

1185
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 1: Well, because coaches will tell you that the last thing

1186
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 1: you want in this period of time is I mean,

1187
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: I remember just two days from high school and just

1188
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 1: trying to survive. All you were trying to do is

1189
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 1: just not die. I mean, you were just trying to

1190
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:18,800
Speaker 1: You were just trying to make it through. You can't

1191
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:22,920
Speaker 1: do that in the NFL. You can't have that mindset.

1192
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 1: You've got to get better every single day. You've got

1193
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:30,640
Speaker 1: to keep it competitive every single day because time is

1194
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:39,080
Speaker 1: so precious with evaluating Eric Gerrer or looking at something offensively,

1195
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 1: or figuring out who's the right right tackle for the

1196
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: first six games. I mean, these are answers that if

1197
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 1: we look back in eight months and it's been a

1198
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 1: good year, then we'll say, man, did they come up

1199
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 1: with the right answers in those moments in August.

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Speaker 3: That's so true. I mean, you've got to have the

1201
00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 3: right answers and the correct decision at the right time

1202
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:04,440
Speaker 3: because there's always those moments here and could come up.

1203
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 3: I mean, as I said this, head coach Mike Rabel

1204
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 3: gets it.

1205
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Speaker 2: You want to eat the rest of your snickers now?

1206
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, I really do.

1207
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 2: I'm really all right for making a rookie mistake.

1208
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:16,040
Speaker 4: I'm really hungry.

1209
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Speaker 1: That's going to do it for the rest of the

1210
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Speaker 1: OTP for coach Dave McGinnis and Rhett Brian and Amy Wells.

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Speaker 1: Who's having a snickers I'm Mike Keith. Thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: us for the o t P.