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Speaker 1: Is this thing on it is? Indeed, welcome to the OTP.

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Speaker 1: We got a new set up here. Have you have

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Speaker 1: you noticed this, Amy Well? There's so much room for

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Speaker 1: And we had to get set up this way because

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Speaker 1: Amy Wells and I have a special guest on the

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Speaker 1: OTP this week, sitting in for Jim Wyatt, who's on assignment.

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Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis. Welcome, Coach mac. No, you guys are special

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Speaker 1: to me. I'm just happy to be here. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: asking me, Thank you for filling in. Hope Jim never

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Speaker 1: did his story about Eddie, George and Derrick Henry having

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it exploded. I like to think that

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Speaker 1: we broke the story right here on the OTP. Well,

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Speaker 1: Jim Wyatt broke the sea a lot of stories. We

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Speaker 1: just first place we talked about, just talked about it here.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome, national media, you're well, yes, we're here, by

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Speaker 1: the way, and we're here to help Titans fans who

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Speaker 1: want to attend the Sunday night football game against the Colts.

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Speaker 1: This Sunday night kickoff is seven twenty Central time. Message

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Speaker 1: and we're going to bang this forward. Get there early.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yeah, they're early. Security is different today,

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Speaker 1: it just is it takes longer. There's no question. There's

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Speaker 1: face it, what the Titans want and what the NFL wants,

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Speaker 1: and Dave, you've been part of the league since the

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Speaker 1: mid eighties, they want everybody to have a good time

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Speaker 1: and be safe. Well. Absolutely, and it's a different world

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Speaker 1: really great experience Sunday night. I mean we've all been

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Speaker 1: it's a it's an event. You know, Monday night football

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Speaker 1: with a lot of big time implications. Absolutely everybody talking

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Speaker 1: tickets as well. Yes, and there are still a couple available.

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Speaker 1: If you go to Titans Online dot com checking right

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Speaker 1: Everybody and their uncle Bob wants to see this game.

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Speaker 1: So if you go to Titans online dot com, go

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Speaker 1: to tickets, grab them. If you want to be there,

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Speaker 1: and you do want to be there, well, coach Rabel

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Speaker 1: is going to be the biggest crowd here in years.

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Speaker 1: It's the first time for Sunday night football since a

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Speaker 1: game in two thousand and nine that the Titan's ironically

431
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Speaker 1: lost to Peyton Manning and the Colds. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: a it's a big chance. But you have this big

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Speaker 1: chance because of the consistency that you're talking about it. Well, absolutely,

434
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Speaker 1: and we've all three hit on it. And I mean

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Speaker 1: we're all we're all three here every day. I mean

436
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,119
Speaker 1: we feel it, we know it, you can sense it.

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Speaker 1: But I mean just when you watch and you talk

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Speaker 1: about John Robinson again, I've done this a lot. I've

439
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Speaker 1: been John Robinson at his core is a football guy.

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Speaker 1: He's a football man. He was a player and he

441
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Speaker 1: was a coach before a person and that and that's important.

442
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Speaker 1: That emanates because I mean, again, I don't really care

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Speaker 1: what anybody else is doing. I care about what is

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Speaker 1: going on here. But when you have someone that understands

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Speaker 1: football and gets it, and I'm not talking about just

446
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 1: excess and over and he gets that, but I'm talking

447
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Speaker 1: about the the underlying underbelly of what it takes to

448
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Speaker 1: make a football team work, and make a football team

449
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Speaker 1: work not only when things are going good, but when

450
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Speaker 1: things don't go good, because that's going to happen in

451
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Speaker 1: this league, that's going to happen. There's going to be

452
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Speaker 1: peaks and valleys. But when you have someone understands that,

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Speaker 1: and then you get a head coach that's completely in

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Speaker 1: lockstep with that, I mean, I love it, and you

455
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Speaker 1: can sense it, and so doesn't guarantee you any wins,

456
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,760
Speaker 1: but it guarantees you that you've got something solid, that

457
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 1: these players come in here every day knowing what to

458
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Speaker 1: expect and what the expectations on them are. In the

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Speaker 1: long game, you've got a chance. And in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: that's all you asked for, as you asked for a chance. Yep,

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Speaker 1: because quick fixes in this league historically have never worked. Nope,

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Speaker 1: that's true. All right, Let's take a look at the

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Speaker 1: roster moves that the Titans have made. We moved to

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Speaker 1: that now as they've had to make a couple during

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Speaker 1: the course of this week. And there was one on

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Speaker 1: offense and there was one defensively. LaTroy Lewis was called

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Speaker 1: up from the practice squad. LaTroy Lewis out of the

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Speaker 1: University of Tennessee, somebody that Mike vrabel knew well because

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Speaker 1: he had been on their practice squad. Outside linebacker sixty three,

470
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty five pounds. Lewis is a guy,

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Speaker 1: another pass rusher to give them something if Brian A.

472
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:53,120
Speaker 1: Rackpoe can't go, and if Sharif Finch can't go, So

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Speaker 1: another chance at somebody who's been working for two months

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Speaker 1: waiting on that chance, right And I mean just seeing him.

475
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Speaker 1: He's a big dude. He's a big guy. I didn't

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Speaker 1: realize he was as big until I saw him out

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Speaker 1: on the practice field of WHOA. So that's a good sign. Well,

478
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Speaker 1: the Titans right now have a Rack po Harold Landry,

479
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Speaker 1: Sharif Finch, Derek Morgan, Kamalai Correa, and LaTroy Lewis as

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Speaker 1: outside linebackers. So and again again we don't know the

481
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Speaker 1: status of a rack po right now Finch is trying

482
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Speaker 1: to come back. You gotta have at least four on

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Speaker 1: game day, don't you, coach? No, yes, you do, especially

484
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Speaker 1: with a three four defense and a multiple three four

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Speaker 1: that Dean Pas likes to run. Those guys, those guys

486
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Speaker 1: are your guys that you can you can move around

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Speaker 1: and do some different things with depending on downham distance

488
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Speaker 1: and chain and also where the score separation is at

489
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Speaker 1: the time. But if you're going to run a three

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Speaker 1: four defense, which Dean Pas does and what she does

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Speaker 1: in a multiple fronts and ways to look at it,

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Speaker 1: you need some guys outside to make that work, all right.

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Speaker 1: And then on offense, Austin Davis is back at quarterback

494
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Speaker 1: with Marcus Mariota being banged up. He was here earlier

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Speaker 1: in the year. And Austin's a guy you know, Dave. No,

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Speaker 1: I know Austin very well. I mean Austin you know,

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Speaker 1: I've been on a team where Austin who started ball

498
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,360
Speaker 1: games for US and did well. I mean coming out

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Speaker 1: of Southern miss you know Austin Davis. Look, Austin Davis

500
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Speaker 1: is a professional too. I mean I've been around him.

501
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Speaker 1: I know how he prepares. I know how important it

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Speaker 1: is to him and to be able to come in

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Speaker 1: and do that. I mean, and again that is where

504
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: your scouting department is so important because they they're constantly

505
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 1: churning or chumming, you know, rosters everywhere to see if

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Speaker 1: something were to happen, Because if you're not forward thinking

507
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Speaker 1: in that department, and I mean way way forward thinking,

508
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Speaker 1: then you'll be caught off guard. This group of John

509
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Speaker 1: Robinson and his guys, they're never caught off guard. They're

510
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Speaker 1: always bringing somebody in here. There's never been a time,

511
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Speaker 1: you know, the two years that I've been here, as

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Speaker 1: to where all of a sudden you see that something

513
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Speaker 1: may need to be done. Well, it's already been done,

514
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 1: and they, you know, they bring somebody in. So Austin's

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Speaker 1: Austin's vet, and he understands it and he knows what's

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Speaker 1: going on. And you know, he did a nice job

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Speaker 1: yesterday in practice throwing for the scout team. And so

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Speaker 1: here we go. Ye, all right, let's take a look

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Speaker 1: at the injury report. Amy, Well, yes, and the Titans

520
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: injury report is not very long, but there is significance, yes,

521
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 1: and all of it. And obviously we mentioned a rackpo.

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00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: Great to see Taja Sharp practicing again. Great to see

523
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: Sharif Finch giving it a go at outside linebacker. But

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00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: the guy at the top, that's the one Marcus Mariotto. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But he spoke after practice though, he spoke to the

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Speaker 1: media and he said, you know, realistically, he doesn't need

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Speaker 1: all of those reps. You know, I mean, it's late

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Speaker 1: in the season. He'd love to be out there with

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Speaker 1: his guys and practicing and being part of install and

530
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, but he doesn't really need

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00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: it that much. Like if he feels like he's gonna

532
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Speaker 1: be able to go on Sunday morning, well then by God,

533
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 1: he's gonna go. You know. So I think that even

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Speaker 1: seeing that he didn't practice on Wednesday, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know what's going to happen today at practice and on Friday,

536
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:59,239
Speaker 1: but I'm not worried yet. You know. I think that

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00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 1: you want your core back healthy, especially in this game.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think that just because Marcus didn't practice

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday that he's out by any stretch of the imagination. Well,

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00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: here's here's the other thing about this, you know, to

541
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Speaker 1: dovetail off of what Amy said when you're playing division games.

542
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Speaker 1: This is not an opponent you don't know, right, and

543
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: I'm talking about you don't you know them personnel wise,

544
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: you know them structurally. Now you didn't have a good

545
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: game against them, but you know them, you know who

546
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: they are, and that that lends itself a little bit

547
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: to it too. I mean, if you were going into

548
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Speaker 1: this plane somebody out of a completely you know, out

549
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: of the other conference that you didn't know, the preparation

550
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: early on in the week is extremely important because you

551
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: spend most of that learning what they do. We know

552
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: what Indianapolis does offensively, defensively, team wise. And again to

553
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: her point, it's this point in the season, and to

554
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: Marcus's point yesterday when he was talking, I mean, it's

555
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: not like if he's not out there in practice on

556
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Speaker 1: Wednesday that he's just totally divorced himself from what's going on.

557
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: Believe me, he's immersed in it. So as a coach,

558
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: do you know at this moment with something like Marcus's injury,

559
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: And again we we don't know. No, we don't don't

560
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: know what We don't ask, So you don't and we

561
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: don't ask because and it's important not to not to ask,

562
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: because that's that's information that that some people know, and

563
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: the person that really knows it is Marcus, right, okay,

564
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: and he will he will convey that. But what is

565
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: the coaching say. You've been on coaching staff, so that's

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Speaker 1: why I'm asking just a few. You've been a coach,

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Speaker 1: you've been a head coach, a coordinator, You've done the

568
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Speaker 1: whole thing. I mean, what do you but I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: as the coach, do you have a general feeling at

570
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Speaker 1: this moment or do you genuinely say I'm gonna work

571
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: on both just in case? No, you gotta feeling. You

572
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: gotta feeling what you have more than a feeling? Well, right,

573
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: you sit down with a door shut talk just like

574
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: you and I are talking right here if you want

575
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: to get down to it. Yes, with the with the trainer,

576
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: with the player, with both both both yes. Okay, So

577
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Speaker 1: you have a hint. Uh. As a coach, you have

578
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: a hint, is what you're saying now, you personally, but

579
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: a coach has a hint. No, I get what you're saying.

580
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Speaker 1: You Yeah, as as as the no, I know you'd

581
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: never sell me out. Okay. As d coach, you've got

582
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Speaker 1: a hint with a capital h Okay, good stuff, good stuff.

583
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Speaker 1: All right, let's look at the Colt's injury report because

584
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: it's long and and but the significance is the big thing.

585
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: Ebron with the concussion. Will he practiced today? I mean

586
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: he is some kind of good tight end. Sixty two catches,

587
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: six hundred ninety yards, twelve touchdowns. Does he go. We'll

588
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: leave that up for just a second because there a

589
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: couple we want to touch on. You think he broun plays, Yes, Okay,

590
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: it's too big a game. T Y Hilton has been

591
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: playing with an ankle injury for weeks and has been

592
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: the most productive receiver in the NFL since Week ten.

593
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: It's really been amazing and unfortunately for the Titans. Had

594
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Speaker 1: he played every career game against the Titans, he would

595
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: be regarded more highly in NFL circles than Jerry Rice.

596
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been fantastic against us over the years. Yeah,

597
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: he would like for that to stop. Yeah, but would

598
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: like for it to stop. But he's gonna play too.

599
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: I think he will. He's gonna play, was going to play.

600
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: He said it's game seven seven. Yeah, it really is,

601
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: Ryan Kelly, they're talented center though that's a different story.

602
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: It's a bigger question for that. That's a bigger question

603
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: because you know when you watch that ball game, Amy

604
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: and I watched that game yesterday. You watched that ball game.

605
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: I mean he went out with a neck, you know,

606
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: something with his neck. He went out and he's that

607
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: center guard triangle that Indy has. You know, you know

608
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: there there other guard other than Nelson glask how you

609
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 1: can pronounce his name. Well, they're playing Hague back in

610
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: there now Glowinski and did a good job and did

611
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: a good job. So that has been a strength of

612
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: their football team, that center guard triangle. And so you

613
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: know it with the center out of there and look

614
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: as much RPO And I hate saying RPO because everybody

615
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: says RPO like they know what they're talking about. Run

616
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: past option there, you go, let's do that. But then

617
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: does and the mic doesn't know. You two know, the

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00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: A lot of people that talk about it don't know,

619
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Speaker 1: but it sounds like they do the part that they play. Though.

620
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: The center is important in that too, because you're reading,

621
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: you're reading the movement player on the back side to

622
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: be able to make that and so when you read

623
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Speaker 1: a movement player on the back side. Not to get

624
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: too technical here, the center's got to be able to

625
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: handle that stuff too, So that's an important piece if

626
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: they have a good offensive line period period. Can I

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00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: ask a quick question about this injury report? Sure? What

628
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: do we think happened to my man? Jibal cheered? Yeah,

629
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: and his teeth He's just listed on here his team teeth.

630
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: I'm worried about him that maybe he had a whitening procedure,

631
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: maybe he had to go get him. All and all seriousness,

632
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: I bet it's probably something to do with wisdom team.

633
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: And that's for most of us especially. Couldn't that just

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00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: be like a non football injury or wouldn't that be

635
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: like an illness or something? I've never ever seen it listed?

636
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: Might they might have had to take one? I mean,

637
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: you've had players, can I Can I just chime in

638
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Speaker 1: on this and know this is a very serious podcast

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Speaker 1: that we do here, Yes it is, it is. I mean,

640
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Speaker 1: but look, I've been a coach when they look first

641
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Speaker 1: of all, they would put teeth and it probably is.

642
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Speaker 1: And you but the National Football League you have to

643
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Speaker 1: document everything right where else you get fined, Yes you will.

644
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Speaker 1: And when I was the head coach at Arizona. I

645
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Speaker 1: had a player that I had to put down as

646
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Speaker 1: throat that missed a game because he got a turkey

647
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: bone stuck in his throat after Thanksgiving. So look, I'm

648
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Speaker 1: just telling you I had I had a player that

649
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Speaker 1: had gallbladder surgery on Saturday. Had to take him out

650
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: of the team Hotel, my starting guard because he ate

651
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Speaker 1: too many donuts Saturday night. So it can happen, Yes,

652
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Speaker 1: that can happen. How many donuts do you have to eat?

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Speaker 1: Probably have to have something else going on before that,

654
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Speaker 1: and the and the and the and the two dozen

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Speaker 1: donuts might have triggered something like that. But anyway, so

656
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Speaker 1: anything that Jim White never any anything that has put

657
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Speaker 1: on this thing here. They have to document everything, so

658
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Speaker 1: teeth doesn't surprise me. Well if we ever get one

659
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Speaker 1: that says turkey bones. And Jabaal Sheard is another guy

660
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Speaker 1: like t Y Hilton who plays great, which every team

661
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 1: he's been with, he plays great against the Titans. He's

662
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: an edge rusher, he brings it. I'm sure he's going

663
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Speaker 1: to be there on setting. Well, I'm hoping his teeth

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Speaker 1: or maybe bothering him on Sunday. Little teeth wound. Look

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Speaker 1: he'll be there. Yeah, te why will be there, Ebron

666
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: will be there. This is bring the belts, this is

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Speaker 1: on for the championship. This is it. And that's exactly

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Speaker 1: I think. I mean, what Hilton said is dead on.

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Speaker 1: It's game seven and he's you know, And that's that's

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Speaker 1: the competitor in you too, because you work. You work

671
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,919
Speaker 1: from the draft to get to this point. You work

672
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: from the draft to get to this point. Everybody that

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Speaker 1: has an interest in it works from the draft to

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Speaker 1: get to this point. Just think about when we started

675
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Speaker 1: this thing, clear back when we did the draft show.

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Speaker 1: This is what you work for. Training camp started five

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Speaker 1: months ago today. Wow, do you even remember the start

678
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Speaker 1: of training camp. I was a whole different person. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, I don't even know that girl anymore. And

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Speaker 1: it's you know, and it's really incredible when you think

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Speaker 1: about it, and you know, all the years that I've

682
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,839
Speaker 1: done this, how fast it goes in it? I mean,

683
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Speaker 1: it really it goes fast because you're you're you're in

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Speaker 1: It's something that's so critical at so time sensitive, and

685
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,439
Speaker 1: the urgency of the moment is on you every week

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Speaker 1: that you do it. And then you just you're onto

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Speaker 1: the next one. You know you're on, and that there's

688
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Speaker 1: no other league like this because you only play sixteen

689
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Speaker 1: of these. Every other professional league you play a lot

690
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Speaker 1: of them. You'll play a lot of them. All right.

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Speaker 1: Was that Amy Wells wonders? What happened to his teeth? Well?

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Speaker 1: That was the warm up, all right. So let's get

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Speaker 1: to our regular feature, which contractually has to be part

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Speaker 1: of the OTP, and that is Amy Wells wonders. Alright,

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Speaker 1: By the way, good contract negotiation. By the way, that

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Speaker 1: is a true, amendous, tremendous head or for a section.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's just solids on a scala one to ten.

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Speaker 1: It is bad. I'll tell you too, that's true. That's solid.

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Speaker 1: All right. Well, I'm glad you like it, because this

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Speaker 1: question is actually for you. Okay, you're a defensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: once or twice, once or twice, So if you are

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Speaker 1: Dean Pas and you do not have Darrell Casey for

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Speaker 1: this last game, what are you doing as a defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator to make sure that there is not a drop

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Speaker 1: off in production on the defensive side of all? Really

706
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Speaker 1: an insightful question because, look, first of all, the first

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Speaker 1: issue that you've got to deal with is the run defense.

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Speaker 1: And the run defense. I mean, you're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: have your player that takes that spot. Whoever the player

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Speaker 1: is that takes that spot, he's got to perform because look, Darrell,

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Speaker 1: first of all, doesn't just make place sacking the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And I'll get to the past part of it in

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Speaker 1: just a second here, but he makes so many off

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Speaker 1: schedule plays as a defensive interior alignment that helps everybody else.

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Speaker 1: And what I'm saying by that is, you know, you

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Speaker 1: hear it. You always hear him talk about setting edge,

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Speaker 1: build a flat wall. To do that. Well, sometimes somebody's

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Speaker 1: going to get scooped. Sometimes the backer is going to

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Speaker 1: get behind the block. But Durrell has got the ability

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Speaker 1: to not only control what he does, but then to

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Speaker 1: get off of the block and make the play after

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Speaker 1: the initial contact. And he does that a lot and

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Speaker 1: so a lot of times when you're watching the tape

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Speaker 1: and you're grading it afterwards, he covers it up. He

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00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: covers things up, so you're going to miss that aspect

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Speaker 1: of it, because that's what makes him special. That's what

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Speaker 1: makes him special. When I mean I was here when

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Speaker 1: he was drafted that's what makes him special. Okay, that

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Speaker 1: part you're going to miss. So whoever that person is

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Speaker 1: that's going to take that over has to be really

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Speaker 1: consistent with what they do, and then everybody else is

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Speaker 1: going to have to interlock and pick up their play

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Speaker 1: a little bit because they're going to miss that element.

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Speaker 1: That's just going to happen. The past part of it

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Speaker 1: is a little different. If you can get him in

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Speaker 1: down and pass, you can trick up something to make

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Speaker 1: that work. That then you can start going with your

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Speaker 1: three three five defense, which is three down lineman, you know,

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Speaker 1: three linebackers, five dbs, start bringing pressure a lot of

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Speaker 1: different ways. So there's two elements to what you do

741
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Speaker 1: when you miss somebody interiorly like that. Defensively, first of all,

742
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Speaker 1: you've got to decide how you're going to make up

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Speaker 1: for him in the run game, and then the pass

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Speaker 1: game you can design things around that. Is that good

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Speaker 1: enough answer? That was a great answer. Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: here's one that I wonder. Okay, if Marcus Mariota cannot go,

747
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Speaker 1: how different is the Titans offense with Blaine Gabbert at quarterback?

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Speaker 1: I don't think structurally it's any different and that's the

749
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Speaker 1: beauty of having him as as what you miss. What

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Speaker 1: you will miss with Marcus is two things. Marcus is

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Speaker 1: really good at the all scheduled plays with his legs,

752
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Speaker 1: with his feet, as we saw last week how Josh

753
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Speaker 1: Johnson was. When you've got a quarterback that can make

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Speaker 1: unscheduled plays with his feet, it puts an added stress

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Speaker 1: on the defense. If you're going to stop a quarterback

756
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Speaker 1: that's a that's able to do that unscheduled stuff, then

757
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: you a defensive signal caller to bring somebody down from

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Speaker 1: the back end to the front to be able to

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Speaker 1: spy him or that somebody you've got to dedicate to him.

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Speaker 1: All right, Now, Blaine can run, he doesn't have the

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Speaker 1: elusiveness that Marcus does. That's the difference. Blaine Gabbett can run.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's a good athlete, can run. Remember the

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Speaker 1: combine he said, no, no, no no, that that's there. But

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Speaker 1: Marcus has got an innate ability to be elusive. I

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Speaker 1: mean we saw him in this last game. You know,

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Speaker 1: make two corkscrew moves to get out and then run

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Speaker 1: for a first down. So that's what you're really going

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Speaker 1: to miss. But the fundamental aspect of what you do.

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Speaker 1: He can make all the throws he can he can

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Speaker 1: operate the offense fundamentally. It's those off schedule things you

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00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 1: will miss. Did you catch Mike Keith trying to poach

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Speaker 1: my segment? Just then slipping a little? Mike Keith wonders,

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Speaker 1: I saw it. I'm sorry. Okay, please look, I'm new,

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Speaker 1: I'm new here. Don't put me in the middle of

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Speaker 1: don't put me in the middle of all right, I

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Speaker 1: want to ask another question. So played up there in

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Speaker 1: November eighteenth. Lost in every phase of the game the

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Speaker 1: Titans did. I mean, there wasn't any They gave up

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Speaker 1: a fifty one yard punt return, the defense didn't stop him.

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Speaker 1: The offense didn't make anything go. I just wonder from

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Speaker 1: the stamp, not wondering as far as a segment, but

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Speaker 1: it's establishing the run and getting Derek Henry going. Derreck

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Speaker 1: Henry didn't play until almost the end, I mean any

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Speaker 1: significant snaps. He didn't play much at all in this

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Speaker 1: game until the very end of November eighteenth. Is getting

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry going the most important thing for the Titans

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Speaker 1: offense and for the Titans defense on Sunday night, moving

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Speaker 1: the chains and staying ahead of the chains. It's the

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Speaker 1: number one important no matter how you do it, all right,

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Speaker 1: no matter how you do it. Indianapolis defensively is really

791
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Speaker 1: interesting to study when you look at him. There are

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Speaker 1: four three defense but most four three defenses. And again,

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Speaker 1: I know the podcast is not for just technical football, right,

794
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Speaker 1: but today it is. What they do. What they do

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Speaker 1: with their two defensive tackles is pretty unusual. Normally in

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Speaker 1: a four three defense, you're gonna play a three technique,

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Speaker 1: which is an outside shade to the guard to the

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Speaker 1: tight inside, and you're gonna play a one technique, which

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Speaker 1: is a defensive lineman between the a gap on the

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Speaker 1: open side. Okay, so you've got it. You've got to

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00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: spread there. They have taken both of their defensive tackles

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00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: because they don't really feel like they have a real

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00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 1: three technique that can play on the outside shade and

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00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: can make moves and do things like Jarell Casey can,

805
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: like Aaron Donald camp. So what they've done, they've taken

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00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: those players and moved them to what we call two eyes.

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00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: What you're inside shades on the inside should of the guard.

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00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: It's not the outside shoulder of the center. It's not

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Speaker 1: like a short yartist defense or a goal line defense

810
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 1: where they squeeze the center, but they've got them on

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Speaker 1: the inside shades of the guards, and then they are

812
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: running game stunts with those people. And that's why Darius

813
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: Leonard is a will linebacker who usually lines up on

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Speaker 1: the open side, all right in a four three defense.

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Speaker 1: That's why Darius Leonard is having such a great year

816
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: because what they are doing. Their linebackers are scrape and

817
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: flow linebackers. They're scrape and flow linebackers, and with their

818
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 1: linement that ever flows is using inside, they're running into

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00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: your games, all right, and then scraping and flowing with

820
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Speaker 1: these linebackers, it's hard to get inside zone runs going

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Speaker 1: against them because they've got people packed inside on inside shades.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's about as far as I'll go with this,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, so I how you run, Well,

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Speaker 1: you can run, you can start, you can you can

825
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 1: you can toss the ball. But if you toss the ball,

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Speaker 1: you've got to get You've got to get whoever is

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Speaker 1: coming out to get those scrape and flow linebackers on

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Speaker 1: the second level. They don't have to go out there

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Speaker 1: and just devastate them. But they've got to get a

830
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: hand on them. They've got to get a hand on

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Speaker 1: their shoulder. They got to do something to give you

832
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: a crease. And then once you can loosen up those

833
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: types of gap controls, if you can get them to

834
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: loosen what their anchor points, then you've got a chance

835
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 1: to get that working. So I answer your question by this, absolutely,

836
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Speaker 1: it's important to get Derek Henry going, But the most

837
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: important thing to get going is success on first down

838
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: against these people. So who's got to step up the

839
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 1: author line? Holy smokes, it sounds like that's going to

840
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 1: be one of the biggest keys for this Titans team

841
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: is for the offensive line to be assignment sound there is,

842
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: and that's a great I mean, you hit it. You

843
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,720
Speaker 1: hit it because when they're moving and moving those people around,

844
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: identifying and hat on a hat, and that's what this

845
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,959
Speaker 1: is going to be preached all week, Identify and hat

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00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: on a hat and that's I mean, that's basically breaking

847
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: it down to its basics. But that's what's got to happen,

848
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 1: all right, And getting pressure on Andrew Luck would be

849
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 1: a good thing too. Yeah, And it's it's if you

850
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: will not get pressure on Andrew Luck if you never

851
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: get them into down and pass, if they've constantly got

852
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: you in conflict downs. And conflict downs are when as

853
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: a defender you have to play running pass fifty fifty

854
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: and that is by down and distance, and that's by

855
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: score separation. If you don't get them into down and pass,

856
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: then danps is going to have a hard time being

857
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,839
Speaker 1: able to dial up something that to get pressure on him.

858
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: I mean he's the least sacked. I mean he hadn't

859
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 1: been sacked seventeen times. Okay, that's not very many, No, No,

860
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,919
Speaker 1: in fifteen and fifteen games, and he's thrown over six

861
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 1: hundred times. Yes, and it's because it's we're back to

862
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: that run pass option thing where they're they're key in

863
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 1: the movement player and he's making great decisions. He's really smart,

864
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:14,399
Speaker 1: and we're gonna see him do a lot of we're

865
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: a lot of false counts at the line of scrimmage.

866
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: He does. He does as many two false counts. Dan

867
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 1: Marino used to do two or three to get to

868
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: try to identify what was going on behind him, and

869
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: he Andrew Luck will do at least two every time.

870
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: So you've got to hold your water in your coverage.

871
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: You've got to boge into Skuise really well because pre snap,

872
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: you can't show him what it's going to be post snap,

873
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 1: or he'll find the opening forty nine third down conversions

874
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: for the Indianapolis Colts. That's got to be the best

875
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 1: in the league, right, the best in the league. That

876
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: sounds about right, the best in the league. And again,

877
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: so that comes again while you have to have success

878
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 1: offensively and defensively on first down, right, but you also

879
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: can't give them thirty five minutes time of possession. That

880
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: would be no, that would be I couldn't recommend it.

881
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 1: By the way, last time the Titans were on Sunday

882
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: Night football, I did not even remember that. It was

883
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: in October two thousand and nine. It was Week five

884
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,359
Speaker 1: of the two thousand and nine season. The Colts won

885
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 1: thirty one to nine. The next week was the infamous

886
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: New England debacle. Yeah, not good. So maybe maybe I

887
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: had just blocked that out. It sounds like it sounds

888
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: like I did. I do remember the regular season finale

889
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven where the Titans had a

890
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: win in your in situation at Indianapolis and the Titans

891
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: were able to come through and win that game sixteen

892
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 1: to ten. You probably remember both of them, Yeah, I do.

893
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: And the two thousand and nine thing that that back

894
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 1: to back week thing was rough, not great, not great.

895
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: Now came back in one eight out of the last ten.

896
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 1: That's right after the open date. But that too, those

897
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 1: two segments a little rough. Two thousand and seven, I

898
00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: was there too. Titans fall behind, yet they're able to

899
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: run the football and get things going. And Bo Scaife

900
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 1: takes a hit right there and the pass is completed

901
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: to Justin Gage. The hit that Scafe took ruptured his spleen.

902
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: I hate a ruptured. That's never good. Well, you know what,

903
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 1: it's really cool watching these, you know, because I remember

904
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: you know, of course Boscafe, you're right, he got I

905
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: remember both Scafe screen he ran against Jacksonville. You know

906
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 1: that won us that game. But that play and then

907
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:35,240
Speaker 1: watching twelve Gage there and those are good. Griffin knocks

908
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:39,280
Speaker 1: the ball out, Thornton recovers Rob baronas from fifty four.

909
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: Titans win the game by a final score of sixteen

910
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:47,720
Speaker 1: to ten to make the playoffs, and the Titans finished

911
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: ten and six go to San Diego the next week,

912
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: they were still the San Diego Chargers and playing a

913
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:57,760
Speaker 1: day luge leads six to nothing in that game, looks

914
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,840
Speaker 1: like they have Ladanian Tomlinson style opped on fourth and

915
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: goal rule a touchdown. You know what, Mike, that that play?

916
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,280
Speaker 1: I mean, now you're digging things up and it snaps

917
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: back to me. So I'm not trying cold issue are Yes,

918
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: you are, and you're not doing it to be You're

919
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,359
Speaker 1: not doing it to be hard on me. But your

920
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: your memory is just is beautiful. I love that. No,

921
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 1: I love that all of this. But he didn't score.

922
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: He did not score because I remember Tully coming off

923
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,879
Speaker 1: and then when you watch that thing, I'm getting fired

924
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 1: up now because he didn't score. And that's that's that

925
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:28,800
Speaker 1: whole Charger thing with me. Anyway, I know, you know,

926
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 1: and plus like them last week folding like a canvas tent.

927
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: I mean, so anyway, them to beat Baltimore and they

928
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 1: they got they got whipped. Yeah. That so for the Titans,

929
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: what you're what you would like to have happen on

930
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 1: Sunday is you would like Jacksonville to beat Houston. You

931
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: would like Cleveland to beat Baltimore. That would work. Okay,

932
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 1: it's possible. You would like for the Jets to beat

933
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:59,720
Speaker 1: the Patriots less likely, but you know the Jets always

934
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 1: plu And if if Tennessee, Tennessee clinches a first round

935
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: by If they win and all of that happens, the

936
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: Titans are the number two seed. They win the South.

937
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: If the Titans win in Houston loses, and the Titans

938
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: clinch a playoff birth, if they knock off the Colds,

939
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: it is win and you're in again. How crazy would

940
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: it be to go through this entire season with the

941
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,399
Speaker 1: highs and the low five and six at one point

942
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: and then end up being the number two seed. It's

943
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 1: so it's so great just listening to those scenarios. I mean,

944
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: and I mean, how much fun is this city? I mean,

945
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 1: you can't help but love it when you're in it.

946
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what that's what makes it worthwhile. I mean,

947
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: I might go to the stadium today and sit and

948
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: get ready. All right, well, and that falls in line

949
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 1: with our theme get there early. Not that not necessarily

950
00:48:57,120 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: that that's right. Well, doubleheader back to back the Boilers

951
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,360
Speaker 1: and the Tigers there you God might be there for

952
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: that one to just bring a sleeping back, all right.

953
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: So again, get there early. On Sunday, we're on the

954
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: air with Titans Radio at six thirty Central. Kickoff is

955
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:19,320
Speaker 1: seven twenty Central. Make sure and tune into a Titans

956
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: radio station for the broadcast, but again get there early.

957
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 1: If you're interested in tickets, go to Titans online dot

958
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 1: com right now. Absolutely, but you have to go now,

959
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: now now, because they're selling like hotcakes. They are going,

960
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 1: they are going quickly. The giveaway the Titans twenty nineteen calendar,

961
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 1: how useful it's for the new year. We get you

962
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: straight on that. Keith Urban is the twelfth Titan, he

963
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 1: sure is. And so lots of things going on as

964
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: the whole country watches Nashville for the first time in

965
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 1: nine years, which is exciting, and for what will be

966
00:49:56,680 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: the first of two big shows for Nashville coming up

967
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: in the next four months. Of course, the NFL Draft

968
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: Nashville is so cool right now. Let me just say

969
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 1: April the twenty fifth, of the twenty seventh, and that's

970
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,320
Speaker 1: gonna be fun too. But just you know, for this

971
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: moment right now is what we're looking at. I mean,

972
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: it doesn't get much bigger than this at this time

973
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 1: of the season, It really doesn't you know, playing your

974
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: end game seven or you know, whatever metaphor you want

975
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 1: to put on it. This is why we're in it.

976
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: And look all the years, this is my tenth year

977
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 1: to live in nash Vegas. Here they do big things big.

978
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 1: This is a big thing. Let's do it big. And

979
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: how does the crowd help the defense? Oh? I mean

980
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 1: it's plain. That crowd last week was really good. And look,

981
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: and I mean I've lived it. I've lived it for

982
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:47,280
Speaker 1: years thirty plus. I mean it. The crowd is so important,

983
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 1: especially nowadays with all the checks at the line of

984
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: scrimmages that offenses are making. It is so critical and

985
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: it's so big, and it's so huge. And then let's

986
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 1: flip to the defensive side of it. Defense in this defense,

987
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: you know, it's played technically, but it's also played with

988
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:07,720
Speaker 1: just unbridled emotion. And yeah, I mean defense is defense

989
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 1: is I mean, that's I mean, that's why I love it.

990
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: It's an unbridled emotion type of thing. And the fans

991
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: when they get cranked when your defense is out there

992
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,879
Speaker 1: and then the defense makes a successful play, the place

993
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: blows up. That crowd last week was good, it was great.

994
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: They were loud, they were great. I love the fact

995
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:26,399
Speaker 1: that you do all the broadcast with the window is open.

996
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: I mean that, I mean I do. I love it

997
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 1: and and that's that's all part of it. The crowd

998
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: is a huge part, a huge part in the National

999
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: Football League. Was it last year that the crowd was

1000
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: so loud that they were able to pull someone three

1001
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: times get them to jump? What was that? That's happening? Well?

1002
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 1: And listen, Nissan Stadium used to be famous for that.

1003
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:50,400
Speaker 1: It gets it used to be the place and uh

1004
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: then the you know, the Seahawks Stadium sort of took

1005
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: that over a little bit. Maybe maybe Nissan Stadium can

1006
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: reclaim something suddenly. When Nissan can do that and the Seahawks,

1007
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 1: I mean up there a lot of times too when

1008
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,880
Speaker 1: I was in the NFC West. That thing is built

1009
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: for it. Mean, they can't lever at the top you

1010
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,280
Speaker 1: on purpose to bring it down in there. But this stadium,

1011
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 1: I've been in this stadium when you couldn't even hear yourself. Yeah,

1012
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: I've been in this stadium when you're on the headset

1013
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 1: where it's hard to hear over the headset. That's what

1014
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: we want. That's good stuff, all right, So follow Jim

1015
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 1: Wyatt on Twitter at j Wyatt sports dot com. Who's well,

1016
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: who's never coming back? He'll come back. Follow Amy Wells

1017
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Titans Amy. And that's a m ie

1018
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: you made the Jim Wyatt's Mailbag column. Cool hank from

1019
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 1: Howenwald I think rode in but he spelled your name,

1020
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:44,320
Speaker 1: am I. Well, that's a new one. Yeah, Titans Amy

1021
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Speaker 1: is a m I. E YEA use the e hank

1022
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Speaker 1: it will It's yeah, it's not hard. It's only four letters.

1023
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 1: Little counterintuitive, but not super hard. Yeah, pure Prairie League right, yes, yes,

1024
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 1: there you go, guys. This is a pleasure. We love

1025
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: having you. We love having you on Titans Radio and

1026
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 1: uh and also when you do Titans All Access Beneath

1027
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: the Surface, that's fantastic. Well that's just fun. I mean,

1028
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:11,839
Speaker 1: it's just ball. And this is I like doing it here,

1029
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: I really do this is this is really a cool setup.

1030
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 1: It's a nice studio. No one. Plus, I'm sitting there

1031
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: looking it looks like a NASA control center and it's

1032
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 1: big time. It's big time. How about some music? So

1033
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 1: you could do that? You hit the music. If they're paying,

1034
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: they're out there eating ers they're eating munchkins from Dunkin Donuts.

1035
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:39,719
Speaker 1: I remember it's tightened up Thursday medium coffee for just

1036
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 1: a dollar. If you're a Dunkin Donuts Perks member, might

1037
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 1: go get me some after the show. Buck you do

1038
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:47,839
Speaker 1: have to pay, I'll give you two dollars. Amy, bring

1039
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:50,840
Speaker 1: me one, all right, Thank you, Dave McGinnis, Amy Wells.

1040
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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith and this is the O t P