1 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: This is the OTP presented by Far Bureau Health Plans. 2 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: Get the home field advantage with healthcare coverage from Far 3 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: Bureau Health Plans. They've been protecting Tennesseeans since nineteen forty seven. 4 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 1: My name is Mike Keith. My special guest for this 5 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: edition of the OTP is Rhett Brian, Titans Radio's own 6 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: lifelong Middle Tennessee. And I guess Nashville and Murphy's burrowing, 7 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: Murfrey's burrowing Murphy Rutherford, Rutherford County in but certainly been 8 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 1: with me since the start we have been I've been 9 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: with you since the start we've been together, and you 10 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: did something that I thought was fascinating and I wanted 11 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: to bring you on the OTP to discuss it. You 12 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: are an eagle scout, that's correct. And when you are 13 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: an eagle scout, you have to do an eagle Scout project, 14 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: which is not easy. No, and so you are used 15 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 1: to deep dives. Yes, you decided to take a deep 16 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: dive into Derek Henry and look at where he is 17 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: in his career as a potential Hall of Famers someday. 18 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: Why did you decide to do this ret Well, it 19 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: starts with he had the fifth best rushing season in 20 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: one hundred one years of the National Football League, two 21 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: twenty seven yards rushing. And that's where it starts. But 22 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: when you start thinking about all the big performances he's 23 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: put together, really over the last two seasons out of 24 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: his first five seasons, I got interested in where is 25 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: he tracking versus not only the greats Enfranchise History and 26 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: Eddie George, Earl Campbell and Chris Johnson, but the top 27 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: fifteen running backs in NFL history. And first of all, 28 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: he's the first guy in the history of the game 29 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: of football, Mike that has a two thousand yard rushing 30 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: season in high school as a Uley Hornet in Uley, Florida, 31 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: a two thousand yard rushing season in twenty fifteen, and 32 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 1: his last year at Alabama when he won the Heisman Trophy, 33 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: and the first guy to be in all three phases 34 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: a two thousand yard rusher in the National Football League 35 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: are a history of football? All right? So let's establish 36 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: something that I want to come back to later. This 37 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: is not a late bloomer. This is an early bloomer. 38 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: This is a guy who's been a star since he 39 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: was like eight years old, right, and a man among 40 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: boys in stature said, you know, for twenty years of 41 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: his life, he has been better at football than most 42 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: everybody else. Yes, okay, so keep that in mind, put 43 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 1: a pen at it. We'll come back to it, okay. 44 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: And so I started thinking about is he tracking towards 45 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame career? And I in the window 46 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: of time that I did this recently, Jim Wyatt had 47 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: done a great piece at Tennessee Titans dot Com with 48 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: Peter King the week of the Super Bowl about this. 49 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: You can go back and find it at Tennessee Titans 50 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: dot Com back at the first week of February, and 51 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: Peter King agrees with me, he thinks he's tracking towards 52 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame career. Well, when Peter King says that, 53 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: it kind of gets your attention, right. So I also 54 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: go and think about a conversation that we had with 55 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: a very respected Hall of Fame voter, longtime journalist and 56 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: Rick Goslin. Coach mcnows him very well. You have had 57 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: conversations with him numerous times and he's very respected in 58 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: these circles. And I remember he can't We were doing 59 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys game on Monday Night Football two years ago, 60 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: and he was obviously there because he's a long time 61 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: Dallas morning news writer and associated with the Cowboys for 62 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: many years. And I asked him, I said, at this time, 63 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: this particularly wind of time, I'm like, is Frank Gore 64 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame running back? He said, well, he said, 65 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: we don't look at just stat stackers. We look at 66 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: how effective they were and what impact they had on 67 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: their team and windows or a window of time. And 68 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: that's stuck with me ever since, because I believe Frank 69 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: Gore will be a Hall of Fame running back because 70 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: he's sixteen thousand yards rushing. Now, he's compiled enough stats. 71 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 1: I think that that's the case. So that kind of thing, 72 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: it's not just stat stacking, but it's what his effect 73 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 1: is on his team at any given particular time. And 74 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: then so that made me start thinking about what effect 75 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 1: that Derrick Henry has had on the Tennessee Titans in 76 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: two plus seasons, and it's there's no question he's a major, 77 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: major part of it. All right, So what two things 78 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: from your research did you find that you think are 79 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 1: more significant towards that argument. Well, then, and this will 80 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 1: show that why I'm not a Hall of Fame voter, 81 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 1: But I believe the one that stood out to me 82 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: is five yards per carry through five seasons. Now we 83 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: know that DeMarco Murray was a reason that helped him 84 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: out in that he wasn't the bell cow in the 85 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 1: first two or three two and a half seasons as 86 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: a Titan. But Jim Brown's the only other guy out 87 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: of these fifteen guys that have a five yard per 88 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: carry average. And of course Jim Brown has it in 89 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 1: his career. That's why you and I will always argue 90 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: that he is one of the greatest, if not the 91 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 1: greatest NFL players in the history of the game. Can 92 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: I just say again, I believe Jim Brown is the 93 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: greatest player in the history of the National Football League. Yeah. Period, 94 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: So go ahead. So I just you know, but I 95 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: think that yards per carries. There the hundred yard games 96 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: and strings of consecutive hundred yard games and now two 97 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: hundred yard games. I mean, when you consider in the 98 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: past eighteen months he's got more. He's got the same 99 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 1: amount of two hundred yard games as Barry Sanders and 100 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: Jim Brown do in their whole career. That's incredible. And 101 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: then when you start looking at so the first thing 102 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 1: I wanted to do. I was like, Okay, let's take 103 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: a look at franchise grates. We know that Edward Nathan 104 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: George Junior as you call him Eddie George, the franchise 105 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: leading rusher, and then Earl Campbell nineteen ninety one Hall 106 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 1: of Famer right behind him, and C J two K 107 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: Chris Johnson is right there, who is also a member 108 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: of the two thousand yard Club. I'm like, let's compare 109 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 1: him there, and then let's start looking at twelve thirteen 110 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: other guys who are all either in the Hall of 111 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 1: Fame or tracking towards that. And I start looking at 112 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: these numbers and I'm like, this is incredible because when 113 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: you look at Earl Campbell, who is in the Hall 114 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: of Fame with a short career, right because this is 115 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: a guy that you know, once he was traded to 116 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints, They're just wasn't anything left and 117 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: I think they just absolutely wore his big thighs and 118 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: legs out. They just wore him out. But through five seasons, 119 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: Earl Campbell fifteen hundred sixty one carries sixty nine hundred 120 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 1: ninety five yards four point three one per carry, fifty 121 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: seven rushing touchdowns, thirty nine one hundred yard games already 122 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: at that point in his career, Derrick Henry's got twenty 123 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: three and that's in basically in the last two seasons plus, 124 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: he's got fifty eight hundred plus yards rushing, you know, 125 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: four or five hundred less carries. I mean, it's it's 126 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: it's incredible. That's the thing that stood out to me 127 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: the most is how many less carries he has. Then 128 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: a lot of these guys did in their first five seasons. 129 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: Chris Johnson he had six fourteen hundred and sixty three 130 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: carries in his first five years. And again, you know, 131 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: Derreck Henry's been afforded that extra mileage on the tires 132 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: because of a DeMarco murray in the first couple of years. Well, 133 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: I've got another stat for you, yea, that I think 134 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 1: is going to that you'll want to put in your 135 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: Bailey Wick towards this argument, Okay, but I'm not going 136 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: to give it to you yet because the thing the 137 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: teas the tea. So I'm I'm reading your stuff and 138 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: I'm thinking, man, this is really unbelievable what he's found. 139 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: But I'm also recalling the most incredible part of the story, 140 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: which was less than two and a half years ago. 141 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: Derrick Henry was not the Titans first string running back, 142 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: and I think what he's done is one of the 143 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: most remarkable stories that I have ever experienced in sports 144 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: because of what he's done, because of the fact that 145 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: we established he's been better at football than most anybody 146 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: in his life for twenty years, been a star since 147 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: he was six seven years old. And yet when you 148 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: look back to October of two eighteen, I don't want 149 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: to say he was down and out, but brother, he 150 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: was down. Let me go back to this October fourteenth, 151 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, Baltimore, twenty one, tennessee nothing, yep. I think 152 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: that was the day eleven quarterback sacks on Marcus Mariota. 153 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: That day, Marcus Mariota sacked eleven times. That was the 154 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: day I think many of us began to realize something 155 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: with Marcus Mariota was broken. Because so many of those sacks, 156 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: there were receivers open, he wasn't getting rid of them. 157 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: In some cases he didn't have a chance because they 158 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: blitzed Wink Martindale, brought pressure, whatever. But there were a 159 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: lot of instances and we'd seen the same thing on 160 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: the Thursday night in Jacksonville in September where he was 161 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 1: not getting rid of the ball. The other thing in 162 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: that game, Derrick Henry seven carries twenty one yards. Just 163 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: nothing going on, and nothing had really been going on 164 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: with Derrick Henry. So we fly to London. Derrick Henry 165 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 1: is the starting running back at the Baltimore game, and 166 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 1: when we get to London playing the Chargers, Henry starts 167 00:09:54,800 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: the game. Rush's twelve times for thirty three yard yards 168 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: and a touchdown. That's it, less than three yards of carry. 169 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: Dion Lewis thirteen rushes ninety one yards, So there were 170 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: running lanes there apparently. I think Dean Lewis had one 171 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five yards from scrimmage in that game. 172 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: He was great in the receiver part of the two 173 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: he did. He did a great job. But all of 174 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,079 Speaker 1: a sudden, we've we've got a hint there's a problem. 175 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: And there are two indicators that the Titans at that 176 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:32,719 Speaker 1: point I think it's a problem. One nine forty two 177 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 1: left in the second quarter, the Titans have the football 178 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: first and ten at their own five. Who's running the 179 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 1: ball with You're at your own five. If you're the 180 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. Right now, it's Derrick Henry's Derrick Henry. But 181 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,839 Speaker 1: what was it that day? David Flewellen? How about that 182 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: flew The Tennessee Titans put David Flewellen in to run 183 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: the football. I seem to remember that, Andre, and we're like, 184 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 1: what not that David full noble NFL back? But he's 185 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:06,319 Speaker 1: not your lead back. He's not your two hundred and 186 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 1: fifty pound running back basically coming off the goal line 187 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: David flew Ellen. Then, late in the game, Titans scored 188 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: to make it twenty to nineteen. They scored on a 189 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: fourth down pass two Luke Stocker. Luke Stocker is correct 190 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: on fourth and goal at the one. Who do they 191 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:35,719 Speaker 1: not run? On fourth and goal at the one? They 192 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: go for two, They get a pass interference called the 193 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 1: ball is moved to the one. Marcus Mariota throws it 194 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: away on the two point play incomplete. Titans lose the 195 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 1: game the two point play from the one. Who do 196 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: they not run? Derek Henry? Okay, so here we are, 197 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,080 Speaker 1: here we are. It's October twenty first, twenty eighteen. We're 198 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 1: in London and it's obvious that there's something going on 199 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: there that's not working. When we leave there, Derrick Henry 200 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:17,839 Speaker 1: eighty four rushes, two hundred seventy three yards and one touchdown. 201 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: That's less than three and a half yards to carry. Right, 202 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 1: we have the bye. The trade deadline is up the 203 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 1: Tuesday after the bye. Chris Mortenson who we trust? Yes? 204 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 1: Chris Mortenson reports that Derrick Henry has been shopped by 205 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: the Titans. Chris Mortenson reports this. That was where the 206 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 1: conversation with Eddie, George and Derrick Henry started to happen. 207 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: Where Eddie said in London, you had a chance to 208 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,199 Speaker 1: flatten a guy and you didn't do it. You've out 209 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: a flat in a guy. And he also said they 210 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: tried to trade you. Derek, you better know this is 211 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 1: for real. That was where they had to come to 212 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: Jesus conversation. You were not running with a purpose. Trade 213 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 1: deadline passes Week nine, Monday Night Football in Dallas. You 214 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:24,839 Speaker 1: referenced it earlier where you met Rick Goslin had a 215 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,439 Speaker 1: chance to interview. Titans went twenty eight to fourteen, overcoming 216 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 1: a disastrous first quarter. Henry and Lewis start the game 217 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: in the backfield together that's right. Lewis nineteen rushes sixty 218 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: two yards, four catches sixty yards in a touchdown. Derreck 219 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: Henry six carries twenty seven yards. The sixth carry comes 220 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 1: with one thirty one to go, Titans first and ten 221 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: at their own thirteen, running out the clock. Play running 222 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 1: to the left. When you watch the tape back, there 223 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: is a massive hole to the outside. Derrick Henry cuts back, 224 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: runs into a cowboy defender, gains one yard on a 225 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: play that, as we've seen, he can take to the house. 226 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 1: Not good. Six days later, New England at Nissan Stadium, 227 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: Titans went thirty four to ten. Henry starts the game, 228 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: but they take him out after the first snap. Dion 229 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: Lewis gets the first six carries of the game. Henry 230 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: doesn't get his first carry until seven fifteen remains in 231 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: the first quarter. Two series later, with nine twenty three 232 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: to go in the first half, David Flewellen comes in 233 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: the game. They put David Flewellen in the game at 234 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: tailback against the Patriots. Flewellen for three yards, Flewellen for 235 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: thirteen yards, and the third carry he injures his knee. 236 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: It's over for Fluellen. That's right. Henry finishes that game 237 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: eleven carries, fifty eight yards two touchdowns, but after that 238 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: he is no longer the starting running back. So we're 239 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: at November eleventh, twenty eighteen, and Derrick Henry, who you 240 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: were just talking about as a potential Hall of Famer, 241 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: is no longer the starting running back for the Tennessee 242 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: type and isn't getting massive yards in that game right there? 243 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: That was a blowout against the New England Patriots. They 244 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: put Tom Brady on the bench was seven and a 245 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: half minutes to go in the game, out of his 246 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: own physical well being for the rest of the season 247 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: because the pass rush was there. Derrick Henry does not 248 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: start the next three games. He rushes twenty seven times 249 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: for one hundred and sixteen combined yards. He's the backup. 250 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: But me tell what's happening in practice. And this is 251 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 1: the part of the story that I think is incredibly 252 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: significant and that every young person, heck every old person 253 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: ought to hear, because here's this dude who has been 254 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: good at this game his whole life, and you could 255 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: make the case at this moment he's in the tank. Well, 256 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 1: when this happens to athletes, generally they don't come back. 257 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: But what does this guy do? He accepts it. He 258 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: listens to Eddie George. He runs with the scout team 259 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: in practice to get the extra reps to work on 260 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: taking better angles. He refuses to give up, refuses, and 261 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: he just keeps bawling out in spite of the fact 262 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: that nothing is really going his way. This didn't come immediately. 263 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: He's demoted, and it had been a long process to 264 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: get to the demotion, and the period in which he 265 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 1: was demoted. He didn't come out of it right away. 266 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:11,880 Speaker 1: It was a month December six, twenty eighteen. Henry does 267 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: not start against Jacksonville Thursday Night Football, but he does 268 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:18,920 Speaker 1: score at the end of the first possession. They get 269 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,399 Speaker 1: down to the goal line and they give the ball 270 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 1: to Derrick Henry. And what are they telling us at 271 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: this point? They're saying to us, Derrick Henry is starting 272 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: to look like Derrick Henry again. Seventeen carries, two hundred 273 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: thirty eight yards, four touchdowns, a ninety nine yard run. 274 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:48,119 Speaker 1: Derrick Henry has almost doubled his season's rushing total in 275 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 1: one game. So then you're saying, ah, okay, one time, right, 276 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 1: go to New York play the Giants one hundred and 277 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: seventy yards rushing and they shut out in the rain, 278 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:05,880 Speaker 1: right eighty four yards against Washington in a game where 279 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: the Titans had to come from behind, and then sixteen 280 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 1: carries for ninety three yards against Indianapolis in the finale. 281 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: Henry rushes in the last four games for five hundred 282 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: eighty five yards and he'll finish with over a thousand 283 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: yards rushing on the season. Remarkable, one of the most 284 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: remarkable four week runs I've ever seen from a guy 285 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: who'd had three months of nothing. But you talk about 286 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: a guy with courage, you talk about a guy with discipline, 287 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 1: you talk about a guy who is not who's not 288 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: a star heart, who doesn't think he's not a premadonna, 289 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:53,399 Speaker 1: And it's work ethic, and he fought his way back 290 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 1: to being the guy at Uley and the guy at 291 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: Alabama and the guy he was in the playoffs against 292 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: Kansas City at the end of his second year, where 293 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 1: they said, hey, we've got our star for the future, 294 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 1: So get this. Here's the fun. In the last four 295 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: games of twenty eighteen, in the eighteen games in which 296 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 1: he appeared in twenty nineteen, and in the twenty twenty 297 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: regular season. That's thirty eight games, eight hundred fifty three carries, 298 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:32,679 Speaker 1: four thousand, five hundred ninety eight yards five four a carry, 299 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: and forty two touchdowns. What's got a window as anybody 300 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: in the league. Probably, Okay, I got a better one. 301 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 1: So Dwight Spradlin, long time media relations man for the 302 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,400 Speaker 1: Tennessee Titan, he's now the media relations director. He's been promoted. 303 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 1: He's congratulations, Dwight. He's still part of Robbie Burn's team, 304 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: but he's been bumped up. And Dwight Spradlin, he's like 305 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 1: you are to me. He's a great teammate. I love 306 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 1: being on the same team with Dwight Spratley. So I'm 307 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 1: on an airplane and I'm looking at this stuff the 308 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: other night, and I find something really weird, and I 309 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,199 Speaker 1: send it to Dwight and he spends some time with it, 310 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 1: corrects my math, which is good. But then he also 311 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:18,359 Speaker 1: comes up with this, this will be the thing you 312 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: add to those stats that you're talking about in his 313 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:26,199 Speaker 1: last twenty five games, and I'm talking about his final 314 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: nine games of twenty nineteen. I'm including the playoffs and 315 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty regular season sixteen games. In his last 316 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 1: twenty five games, Derrick Henry six hundred carries three thousand, 317 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 1: three hundred sixty nine yards. That's five to six a carry, 318 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:54,679 Speaker 1: twenty nine touchdowns in the twenty five games, Seventeen of 319 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: those he's rushed for over one hundred yards. So in 320 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: sixty eight percent of those twenty five games games he's 321 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 1: rushed for a hundred yards four two hundred yard games. Okay, 322 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: So I asked Dwight, I said, is there a running 323 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 1: back in NFL history that you can find? And you 324 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,640 Speaker 1: have to go to the Alive Sports Bureau to work 325 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: with them, and Dwight is our connection to them. Can 326 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 1: you find a back who has had a more productive 327 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:30,680 Speaker 1: twenty five game period of their career? The answer is no. 328 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: What we have witnessed the final nine games, including the 329 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,439 Speaker 1: playoffs of twenty nineteen and the twenty twenty regular season 330 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 1: twenty five games three thousand, three hundred sixty nine yards. 331 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 1: That is the most prolific total ever in NFL history 332 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,919 Speaker 1: for a running back in a twenty five game period. 333 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 1: And so there you go, and that's that's why, And 334 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,919 Speaker 1: I'm not for everybody listened to the SOTP I'm not 335 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 1: saying he's in the Hall of Fame. I'm saying he 336 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:08,919 Speaker 1: is tracking that way. That path in what you've just 337 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 1: described is the base of that path because within that 338 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 1: window of time, back to back rushing titles, Offensive Player 339 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:21,120 Speaker 1: of the Year, multiple playoff appearances, and I think that's 340 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: an important part of this stuff. You know, one hundred 341 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 1: and thirty six carry six hundred and seventy yards rushing, 342 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: four point nine to carry, three rushing touchdowns, and six 343 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: playoff games, receiving thirteen catches on fourteen targets, only eighty 344 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 1: eight yards, but still six point eight per reception in 345 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: that and who can forget that jump pass to Corey 346 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 1: Davis in Baltimore in the twenty nineteen playoff game in 347 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: the Divisional round. Well, big moments, big performance. The reason 348 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,120 Speaker 1: I wanted to go back and tell that twenty eighteen 349 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: story was to back your research from this standpoint. To 350 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: get there, he's gonna have to keep going. He's not 351 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:01,479 Speaker 1: there yet, but when you're able to do what he 352 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: did in twenty eighteen, then you have the right stuff 353 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 1: to keep going. It's why I believe even after fifteen 354 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: hundred and forty yards and the playoff performances that he 355 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: gave in twenty nineteen, he would come back in twenty twenty. 356 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,439 Speaker 1: It's why I said on Titan's radio, with four games 357 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: to go, you know, if he has a couple of 358 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,400 Speaker 1: good games, he can rush for two thousand yards. And 359 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 1: that would have sounded like a crazy comment. But you know, 360 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: nobody called it a crazy comment to me because I 361 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:40,120 Speaker 1: think they understand the same thing, that there's something about 362 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: this human being, not just a football player, but he 363 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:48,120 Speaker 1: has that Eddie George thing about him as a human being, 364 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: that work ethic, that toughness, that courage that along with 365 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 1: no offense, Eddie more talent, certainly more speed that this 366 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: may audience, this may continue. So you take it from 367 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: here with your research. What do we need to see 368 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: He's twenty seven now, what would we need to see 369 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,919 Speaker 1: from him the next three years for the conversation to 370 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: really get serious? Before I answer that, I want to 371 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: add one thing to what you've just set up, and 372 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: that's durability. Knock on wood seriously, because in looking at 373 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: the first five seasons of Derrick Henry versus the first 374 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 1: five seasons of not only the Greats and Oilers Slash 375 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: Titans franchise history, but all time NFL running backs durability 376 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: is obviously a huge thing in this It's one of 377 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 1: the most punishing positions you can play in the league. 378 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 1: And Jim Brown and Eddie George were the only two 379 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: out of the fifteen backs to play every game in 380 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: their first five seasons. Remember the one game he missed, 381 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: the New Orleans game in Week sixteen of twenty he 382 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 1: would nineteen. He was held, right, He is held because 383 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,439 Speaker 1: he'd had a little hamstring right, it was precautionary. It 384 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,120 Speaker 1: wasn't that he had he couldn't played. Absolutely, he would 385 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,679 Speaker 1: have played, but the Titans needed to beat Houston in 386 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: Week seventeen. The game against New Orleans didn't matter. They 387 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: sat five starters that day and it was one of 388 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,679 Speaker 1: the best coaching moves that Mike Vrabel has made in 389 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,880 Speaker 1: his three years as Titans head coach, because he doesn't 390 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,719 Speaker 1: do what he did in Houston, in those three England, 391 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 1: right in Baltimore, what he did in the first half 392 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,679 Speaker 1: of the game at Kansas City, if they don't choose 393 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 1: to sit him, correct, but he would have played that 394 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:41,200 Speaker 1: day against New Orleans. He practiced and and we're talking 395 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,880 Speaker 1: out of fifteen backs, so he technically would have been 396 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: the third guy outside of Jim Brown and Eddie George 397 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 1: two play in every game in his first five seasons. 398 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 1: And we're talking a list that includes a Walter Payton, 399 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: a Barry Sanders. Just keep going down the list, Emmett Smith, 400 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: whoever you want to talk about. Terrell Davis. So stay healthy. 401 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,640 Speaker 1: Stay healthy is huge as in terms of what he's 402 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,159 Speaker 1: got to do before the magic clock ticks thirty. And 403 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 1: you're right, he just turned twenty seven years old. I 404 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 1: think that he has to and I'm not saying he's 405 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: got to do some incredible stuff. He just has to 406 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:17,199 Speaker 1: keep building on what he's doing. And I mean I 407 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: think twelve to fifteen hundred yards a year. I think 408 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,880 Speaker 1: good production and touchdowns and yards per carry if possible, 409 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: and continuing to be successful and helping his team getting 410 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 1: into the playoffs in successive years like he's done three 411 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: out of the past four seasons. I think you have 412 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: to continue to build on those things. Now, I will 413 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 1: say this, and I'll piggyback off what I believe Eddie 414 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 1: George said not that long ago. I believe if the 415 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 1: things are right and we know the ingredients are there, 416 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: and the durability continues to be a staple of his 417 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 1: He could rush for another two thousand yards season. I 418 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: do believe that's possible. I don't think Eddie George is 419 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,399 Speaker 1: out of line saying that. Well, also because he's a 420 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,880 Speaker 1: home run hitter, right and that you can go eighty 421 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,880 Speaker 1: two or three times a year. And that's another part 422 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: of the stats. The research that I did in this 423 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 1: is explosive plays. As coach Max has X plays explosive plays, 424 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 1: he right now has eleven rushes of forty plus yards, 425 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: three receptions of forty plus yards. And to put that 426 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: into Titan's history, we look at Chris Johnson, who in 427 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: his Titans career in five first five seasons eighteen rushes 428 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 1: of forty plus and three receptions of forty plus and 429 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,639 Speaker 1: we know he's one of the most electric players in 430 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: Titans history. He could hit it any time and go, well, 431 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,440 Speaker 1: he wasn't sixty three two hundred and forty six pounds. 432 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: You know, Chris Johnson's two bills standing, you know, with 433 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: his clothes soaking wet, and nowhere near six three. So 434 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:53,439 Speaker 1: I mean I just looked at X plays when they 435 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 1: started keeping those stats, and he's right there with all 436 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:00,400 Speaker 1: of the greats. Look to the folks at Farm Health 437 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,919 Speaker 1: Plans when you'd need someone who understands the exes and 438 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: oh's of healthcare coverage. They've been protecting Tennessee and since 439 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: nineteen forty seven, we've been doing this a long time. 440 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 1: This will be year twenty four for us. The good 441 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 1: Lord Willen and the Creek Don't ride. Yes, we've had 442 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 1: a chance to cover some special athletes. You and I, 443 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: I believe, enjoy that as much as anything that we 444 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 1: get to do. The chance to be around Steve McNair 445 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 1: and Eddie George and on and on and on, to 446 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: the Kevin Carters, to the Chris Johnson's, to the Kyle 447 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 1: Vanden Bosch's, to all of the offensive linemen who have 448 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 1: been outstanding players. So many defensive backs that we've enjoyed 449 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 1: watching too now. And when you see somebody who really 450 00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: takes their jobs seriously and they do it as a job, well, 451 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 1: those are the guys you really respect. And some of 452 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: those guys are stars, and some of them aret you know, 453 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: some of them are just good, solid NFL players, and 454 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 1: you're like, man, I admire that guy. Derrick Henry has 455 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: the good, solid NFL player makeup, and yet he's a superstar. Yes. 456 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 1: I got a text from a friend, a former NFL player, 457 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 1: and he was showing me a picture of his son 458 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 1: getting ready to go out during the snow and he 459 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: had on his Derrick Henry Jersey. This friend, this former 460 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 1: NFL player, did not play for the Titans, but the impact. 461 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: I was traveling on the West Coast to see my 462 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: daughter in Seattle. Somebody saw that I had a tag 463 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: on my bag with the Titans Derrick Henry Derek. He 464 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: first thing came to mind. I mean, he is a 465 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: worldwide superstar now and we're getting we're having the opportunity, 466 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: along with Titans fans to witness what I think you're 467 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: right about. I think we're in something historic right now, 468 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 1: and read I think it's going to continue. I don't 469 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: see outside of the crazy part of you know, an 470 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: injury possibility, I don't see any way. It doesn't work 471 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: in his favor because of what you've described in when 472 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:31,960 Speaker 1: he picked himself up out of the ashes like a 473 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: phoenix rising, if you will, and he put in the work, 474 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: he put he put himself, he owned it, he owned 475 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 1: he put himself in that spot and go, you know what, 476 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,680 Speaker 1: whatever's going on, I gotta change it, and I gotta 477 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: change it now or I'm gonna find myself out of 478 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:51,080 Speaker 1: this league. And he earned himself a nice for your extension. 479 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: Thank goodness, we got him for another three years, and 480 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: to see what this is going to do before that 481 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,240 Speaker 1: clock strikes at the thirty year old mark, which we 482 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: know is huge. And for some guys, Adrian Peterson is 483 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: an exception to the rule. Frank Gore is an exception 484 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 1: to the rule. But we see that we've seen this 485 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: game chew guys up and spit them out. I don't 486 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 1: think they're gonna chew up and spit out Derrick Henry, 487 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: he's just special. The durability we mentioned, and then the 488 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 1: skill set. I can't remember seeing a guy as big 489 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: as him be as fast as him. And then now 490 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: you know the other thing that you talked about, the 491 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 1: Dereck Henry effect. And you know someone saying to you, 492 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, when they saw your Titans luggage tag, look 493 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: at what it's doing in college football and in high 494 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 1: school football. The stiff arm is back, and it is 495 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: back with a vengeance. And who are they who are 496 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,600 Speaker 1: they emulating. It's not any of the guys I researched, really, 497 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 1: unless they're an old school and they love to look 498 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 1: at old historic running backs. It's Dereck Henry. When they 499 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 1: saw him put Josh Norman in orbit in that after 500 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 1: you know, the sixteen day delay in the COVID outbreak, 501 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 1: and the just how ferocious and angry he ran and 502 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: all of those, it just it sets off this firestorm 503 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 1: and all these backs coming up are like, I want 504 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 1: that stiff arm, just like number twenty two on a 505 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 1: play that didn't count. Yeah, because of offsetting. That's why 506 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: I bet it counted to Josh Norman. Uh yeah, yeah, 507 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 1: that it might be suffering residual effects. You always do 508 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,800 Speaker 1: a great job for Titans Radio. The research on the 509 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 1: Derrick Henry project was fascinating. Can people still see that 510 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,320 Speaker 1: at Titans Radio dot com? They certainly can. They absolutely 511 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 1: can't at Titans Radio dot com. And uh, just when 512 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: I started looking at where he's heading, at just what 513 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 1: he's done, and you you encapsulated all of it in 514 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 1: that twenty five game window. It's amazing what he has 515 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 1: done and if he if he does anywhere near that 516 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: in the next twenty five plus games, I think we'll 517 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 1: talk be talking about something very special. And you know, 518 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,479 Speaker 1: the other thing is I wanted to look at guys 519 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 1: with short careers to stat because really, right now, the 520 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: closest where he's trending stat wise is with a Frank 521 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 1: Gore and with a Terrell Davis. And of course the 522 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: thing that put Terrell Davis over the top because he's 523 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 1: got the two thousand yard club membership, but he has 524 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 1: two World championships, and I don't think that that's an 525 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 1: end all be all in this because obviously Earl Campbell 526 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,719 Speaker 1: doesn't have one. But he was a man among boys 527 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,960 Speaker 1: in a window of time that was very successful of 528 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 1: the Oilers as they went to AFC Championship games against 529 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Seeders and so forth. It's what they do, 530 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 1: not only in production, but what they do and how 531 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 1: much they helped their team in that window. Good stuff. 532 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,120 Speaker 1: Ret Brian, thanks for having me. It's blast. I really 533 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 1: enjoyed it. Great to tell this story overall for Rett Brian, I, 534 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,960 Speaker 1: Mike Keith, and Thanking Farm Bureau Health Plans. We thank 535 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 1: you the OT people for being with us for this 536 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 1: edition of the Oakums to teach show where the legends go. 537 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:08,960 Speaker 1: Everybody knows it's our house, fighting for Tennessee, making us 538 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,680 Speaker 1: to red. Greenness is meant to be ours now. We 539 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 1: got tight and butter running through our ves