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Speaker 1: Welcome you to the OTP, the first off season edition

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Speaker 1: of the OTP. Unfortunately, my name is Mike Keith. Amy

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Speaker 1: Wells is here. We say unfortunately, Amy, not because we're

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Speaker 1: unhappy to be joining the ot people. We're just saddened

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Speaker 1: that we don't have a game to talk about this week. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it is disappointing that we are not talking about the

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Speaker 1: game of all games. However, I'm pretty darn happy with

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Speaker 1: how everything went, so no complaints on this side of

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Speaker 1: the table might key, all right. So Amy Wells is here.

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Speaker 1: She's on her way to Orlando to the Pro Bowl,

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Speaker 1: where the Titans will have four four different players taking part,

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Speaker 1: and she will have reports and interesting things going on

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Speaker 1: from Orlando. You're leaving this afternoon. This afternoon. Dave McGinnis

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Speaker 1: is here. He's not going to the Pro Bowl. I

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Speaker 1: don't think, Mike Keith. No, I'll let Amy and Ashley

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Speaker 1: and handle all that. They'll do a great job with it.

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Speaker 1: But Pro Bowl is I still don't know what to

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Speaker 1: make of Pro Bowl in Orlando. I know, now that

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Speaker 1: you've been to Hawaii, you wish it was in Hawaii. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I would much rather it be in Hawaii. However, it's

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Speaker 1: a shorter flight, which I appreciate to get to Orlando.

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Speaker 1: And I like the Mickey mouse factor. I like the

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Speaker 1: proximity to Disney World. Coach Mac likes the Mickey mouse

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Speaker 1: factor too. Because they're changing the rules of the Pro Bowl,

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Speaker 1: they sure are at Speaking of Pro Bowl, Jim Wyatt

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Speaker 1: is on his way to Orlando and then on his

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Speaker 1: way from there to Miami, so he's going to be

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Speaker 1: out for a couple of weeks. Sitting in Titans Radio's

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Speaker 1: Rhett Brian. Welcome to the OTP, glad to be back.

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Speaker 1: All right, good, So I'm gonna jump in with this

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Speaker 1: right away and feel free to chime in wherever you wish.

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Speaker 1: We are not a formal group. Retta. All right, So

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Speaker 1: at the Pro Bowl last year, no kickoffs, put the

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Speaker 1: ball down at the twenty five, and I like that.

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Speaker 1: Did you flip flop? Like you've given me the business

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Speaker 1: about it? Because you know I'm for the rule change

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Speaker 1: this year. There will be no kickoffs at the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 1: But if you want to have an onside kick, no

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Speaker 1: onside kick, it's the Greg Siano rule, fourth and fifteen,

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Speaker 1: make it, take it. And he proposed that years ago

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Speaker 1: and got laughed at and then the AAF did it,

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Speaker 1: and it has gained some traction, particularly because I went

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Speaker 1: back through the statistics on onside kicks over the last

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Speaker 1: two years. There have been one hundred fourteen attempted, twelve successful,

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Speaker 1: and the majority of those were surprise on sidekicks. Later

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Speaker 1: in this past twenty nineteen season, for a while there

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Speaker 1: had only been one successful one throughout the course of

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Speaker 1: the year, but just an eleven percent success rate. Even

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Speaker 1: by changing the alignment of the play, it is still

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Speaker 1: an incredibly dangerous play, the on side kick, and so

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Speaker 1: they're gonna take a look at that. Do you think

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Speaker 1: the kickoff is closer to being gone in the game

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Speaker 1: of football? Dave McGinnis and then Reet Bryant. I don't

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Speaker 1: think the kickoff is close to being gone. I think

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Speaker 1: the onside kick is edging towards this way because you know,

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Speaker 1: they spread it out. You only have certain numbers on

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Speaker 1: each side now, and your numbers, you know, just verify

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Speaker 1: what's going on. At least you would have a chance

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Speaker 1: with this fourth and fifteen at least I don't think.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they'll take the kickoff out of the

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Speaker 1: game yet, though I don't think they will either. But

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Speaker 1: the onside kick, I would agree Coach Mac, I think

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Speaker 1: that's kind of waning away because how many successful onside

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Speaker 1: kicks are there now anyway? Well he just said twelve,

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Speaker 1: you know, in two years, so there you go, and

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Speaker 1: most of them are of the surprise variety. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it'll be a fourth and fifteen rather than an onside kick.

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Speaker 1: If you fail, obviously the other team gets the ball

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Speaker 1: at that spot. If you make it, you keep the football.

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Speaker 1: What do you think, Amy Wells? I think that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: I'm one hundred percent all in on this, and I'm

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Speaker 1: not going as far as Mike Keith, who wants to

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Speaker 1: abolish all things kickoff related. I do he does. However,

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Speaker 1: I love that that play, the on sidekick fourth and fifteen,

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Speaker 1: That moment can become an actual plausible moment. Now it's

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Speaker 1: actually something you have to prepare for, and you have

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Speaker 1: to you have a chance of getting. On sidekicks never worked.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen one work in real life.

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Speaker 1: We haven't had one work here since the Arizona game

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Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen. Rhett will remember this. Ryan Fitzpatrick rallied

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Speaker 1: and then he threw a horrible interception in overtime. Shocking,

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Speaker 1: Oh so bad. He played a great game, he threw

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Speaker 1: for over four hundred yards, but in typical fits magic form,

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Speaker 1: he had a moment in overtime. That's another story though,

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Speaker 1: But that's the last time the Titans have successfully had

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Speaker 1: an onside kick. Ryan suck Up in his career is

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Speaker 1: one of twenty three on on sidekicks. See. That's why

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Speaker 1: when you say this fourth and fifteen, there's an element

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Speaker 1: a risk because if you don't get it, if they

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Speaker 1: get the ball right there, well then that I like

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Speaker 1: that and you take out. I mean, it is a

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Speaker 1: very even when it's five on a side now, it's

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Speaker 1: still dangerous. I wonder, and I go back to the thing.

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Speaker 1: I think the whole touchback thing is boring, which is

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Speaker 1: why I want the kickoff done and I want the

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Speaker 1: game sped up. I just think it's a I think

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Speaker 1: it's a better thing. I think you're either doing what

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Speaker 1: the XFL does, where you make it where they have

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Speaker 1: to return the kickoff, or you get rid of it.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to see touchbacks. I have no interest

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Speaker 1: in watching some guy put his arms outsideways like he's

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Speaker 1: bringing a plane into the you know, into the hangar

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Speaker 1: or whatever it is. I have no interest in that.

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Speaker 1: That is not a football play. Either, Do what the

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Speaker 1: XFL is doing and make it to where you have

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Speaker 1: to return them, which of course flies in the face

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Speaker 1: of the safety thing that that that the league has

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Speaker 1: put forward, which is why they moved up the kickoff line. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: absolutely it was. I'm saying, just just be If you're

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Speaker 1: saying safety's an issue, don't give me a touchback, give

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Speaker 1: me the time wasted on all that putting the ball

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Speaker 1: at the twenty five m I understand that, but I

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Speaker 1: want to kick off two. I don't want the touchback.

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Speaker 1: I don't want seventy percent touchbacks. It's how much time

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Speaker 1: do you think you could shave off of a game

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Speaker 1: in the whole kill the ratings era that we're in

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Speaker 1: five to ten minutes? I mean easy, easy? What do

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Speaker 1: you think easy? I do know this. I'm sorry, Amy, No,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, go my thing. I love the I like

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Speaker 1: getting rid of it except for at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: every half. Is that stupid? No? I like the pageantry

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Speaker 1: of kicking off the football, of course we I mean

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Speaker 1: we used to have jump balls in bassketball every thirty seconds,

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Speaker 1: like that's what I want. I want the moment of

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Speaker 1: we had more jump balls. I mean that people have

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Speaker 1: gotten over it. So why don't we just start each

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Speaker 1: half with a kickoff? Can we do that? I think

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Speaker 1: that's nice if it's a kickoff again, I want to

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Speaker 1: see a guy run back the kick. I'm not against

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Speaker 1: running back the kick to I don't. I just don't

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Speaker 1: want to see ten guys go running down for no

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Speaker 1: reason and ten guys standing there acting like they're gonna

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Speaker 1: block them for no reason. Because Harrison Butker is gonna

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Speaker 1: kick the ball eighty yards justin Tucker is going to

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Speaker 1: kick the ball eighty yards. It's it's boring. I will

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Speaker 1: say this. I was, you know, I was at quite

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Speaker 1: you know, Chris Bartenson's son coach for the Alliance, and

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Speaker 1: so you know, I would sit with him during the

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Speaker 1: we were both were going, I wonder how this is

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Speaker 1: going to be no kickoffs because clearly, I mean, we've

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Speaker 1: both been the league a long time. Look at it.

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Speaker 1: I kind of liked it once they started just setting

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Speaker 1: we would look. We would look at each other at

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Speaker 1: halftime ago this went fast. The flow of it is better,

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Speaker 1: I will agree with that. I mean the flow of it.

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Speaker 1: You get used to it pretty quick, the flow of it.

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Speaker 1: The other thing, too, is I wonder now that the

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Speaker 1: onside kick thing I think is to add more excitement

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Speaker 1: changing an onside kick out for a fourth and fifteen

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Speaker 1: play see I like that. I do too. I do too,

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Speaker 1: And I do think it ties into the safety issue

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Speaker 1: because you're taking that dangerous play away, which is a

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Speaker 1: good thing. I wonder if some of this talk doesn't

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Speaker 1: if they don't find ways to improve safety, to keep

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Speaker 1: a point where they kind of blend it together at well,

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Speaker 1: and to your point, when you're talking about ten guys

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Speaker 1: bargaining chip in a new CBA. If a seventeenth game

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Speaker 1: And it sounds like the CBA talks are going, well,

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Speaker 1: don't know where the seventeenth game thing is. Looks like

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Speaker 1: expand the playoffs. Talk that the seventeenth game may be

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Speaker 1: a neutral sight game, which is good for the expansion

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Speaker 1: of the league, I think most people think. But the

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Speaker 1: improved safety numbers are something that I think they're going

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Speaker 1: to continue to try to sell. And clearly the league

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Speaker 1: They have done things and there has been progress. Absolutely

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Speaker 1: I agree with that one percent. I think the league

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Speaker 1: making sure that the game is exciting and engaging and

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Speaker 1: that fans want to be a part of it, and

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Speaker 1: making sure that the game is super safe and doing

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Speaker 1: everything they're kind of the lines are starting to get

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Speaker 1: really close together. And there's two kind of parallel things. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we talk about how the fourth and fifteen thing.

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Speaker 1: Is it a safer play, yes? Is it more exciting,

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Speaker 1: we hope, But there's some point where you have to

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Speaker 1: almost sacrifice, like the touchbacks, you have to sacrifice the

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Speaker 1: So the league at some point is going to have

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Speaker 1: to I don't want to say pick lame because I

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Speaker 1: think you can do both, but I think that the

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Speaker 1: margin of what you're going to have to cost from

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Speaker 1: one to the others starting to get a little bit smaller.

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Speaker 1: I think she makes a great point. Well, she makes

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Speaker 1: a great point, but let's not forget one thing. And

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Speaker 1: then this is true, and we've all been doing this

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Speaker 1: a long time and you've got to say it, but

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Speaker 1: this is still a violent game and people enjoy that

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Speaker 1: this game that is makes it compelling. It really does.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just I'm saying that safety and is

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Speaker 1: a whole different thing. They've done a lot to improve it.

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Speaker 1: joking and you know, cutting up like he normally is.

428
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 1: He was seriously contemplating where this thing has been, where

429
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 1: it's going, and how good it felt. Do you want

430
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,639
Speaker 1: to wear a Titan shirt at two and fourteen? Do

431
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,160
Speaker 1: you do you want to be out there and say

432
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 1: that's who I'm for that? Of course? I mean people

433
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 1: did they hung in there, a lot of a lot

434
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,879
Speaker 1: of hardcore fans. Did everyone love every one of them

435
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 1: for it? But the reality is this the credibility. When

436
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,920
Speaker 1: you went to New England and won, there was a

437
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:38,160
Speaker 1: switch that was flipped right then, and then you followed

438
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 1: it up with a Baltimore win. Titans fans believed they

439
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,399
Speaker 1: were going to beat Kansas City. Yeah, they truly. They

440
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 1: weren't hoping, they weren't wishing, they weren't dreaming. Suddenly they

441
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,119
Speaker 1: had confidence in their team again. And to see all

442
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 1: these kids and the churches and the businesses and and

443
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 1: everybody wearing their Titans stuff on Friday. That's what it

444
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 1: was like twenty years ago. That's what it was like

445
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight. And it comes from the

446
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: football team producing on the field and producing that credibility.

447
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 1: And I think that was the amazing part about this run.

448
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: In the last few weeks, and Coach Mack you touched

449
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,959
Speaker 1: on it, it was like the old days. I mean,

450
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: businesses with their marquees and their signs with letters they

451
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,679
Speaker 1: had to put up by hand, manually up there, tighten up,

452
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 1: Go Titans, whatever. The whole message it was everywhere, and

453
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 1: you're right, churches, schools, businesses, the men and of course

454
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,879
Speaker 1: with social media now that was something that wasn't a

455
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,160
Speaker 1: big deal back then. Sure everyone sending greetings and their

456
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 1: well wishes and Friday casual Friday at a business office

457
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 1: was wearing your Titans jersey or your garb, your gear.

458
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 1: That was super exciting. I know, I know in your

459
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,440
Speaker 1: conversation that you had with Amy Adam Strunk last week

460
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: when you went to Houston, that was something that made

461
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 1: a lasting impression on her and I thought about it too.

462
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 1: I was like, everywhere you go because she hadn't really

463
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 1: seen that because she was not involved with the team

464
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: before twenty fifteen outside of just being a fan. Really

465
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: she was certainly part of the family, and but she

466
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 1: didn't have that sort of involved in It was so

467
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: great to see her so excited, like one of those

468
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,680
Speaker 1: young fans who they were experiencing it for the first time.

469
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: It was great. It was a great thing, all right,

470
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:29,120
Speaker 1: coach mac, let's talk football. Okay, Dean Peas announces his retirement.

471
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: Defensive coordinator steps down. Does Mike Vrabel have to hire

472
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator with a similar philosophy to Dean Peas

473
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Speaker 1: to keep the defense from taking a step backward in

474
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, Well, let's look. Dee Peas' philosophy was Mike

475
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: Vrabel's philosophy. Those two philosophies, they were blended. That's why

476
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,439
Speaker 1: he was the first person he called when he got

477
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: this job. He had a vision. He knew what he

478
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 1: wanted his defense to be like when he was a

479
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: head coach. It was the defense that he had played

480
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,639
Speaker 1: in as the defense that he was familiar with. And

481
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: now they blended and so He's going to be very

482
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: deliberate in what he does here. Now he doesn't have

483
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,959
Speaker 1: to do it exactly the same way, but it's going

484
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 1: to still have a huge piece of this because we

485
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 1: talk about all this success, A lot of this success

486
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 1: is because of the consistency that went on with the

487
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: message and also with what we were doing, with what

488
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: we were doing defensively. That had a lot to do

489
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 1: with his keep making Arthur Smith the offensive coordinator. He

490
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: wanted some continuity and consistency. And I've been around coaching changes.

491
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 1: I've been a head coach. I've changed, you know, but

492
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 1: you don't you look at the players that you have

493
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 1: coming back. What you really want to do is there's

494
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,359
Speaker 1: always things you want to be new with, but you

495
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: still want to have a base. That's why this team

496
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 1: was so successful this year. They had a concrete base

497
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 1: that they worked from every day in practice. They had

498
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 1: a concrete base that they worked from every day in

499
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: the meeting rooms. So he will be very deliberate about this,

500
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: and he's going to go through an intensive interview process

501
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: with whoever he brings in. And it doesn't have to

502
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: be an exact huge branch of the Dean PS Mike Vrabeltree,

503
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 1: but it'll be part of it. All right, Well let

504
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,360
Speaker 1: me ask you this then, So Rett name he helped

505
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: me here? I mean, we're seeing all the big names

506
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:23,360
Speaker 1: who are being mentioned, the Wade Phillips and Romeo Crenell

507
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 1: and all of these guys. Don't zero in on one

508
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: of those dudes. Just just tell me, from a general standpoint,

509
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: would one of those kind of guys work philosophically or

510
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Speaker 1: does it have to be somebody who directly ties to

511
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: Rabel It wouldn't have to be someway that's directly tied. Okay,

512
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,360
Speaker 1: it would not have to be. But I go back

513
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: to the extensive interview process. I've interviewed coaches, you know,

514
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: and so when you sit down in this process, it's

515
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: not you know, say all right, you're gonna play, You're

516
00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: gonna play your corners, you know, seven yards off every time. Fine,

517
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: all right, we'll go to the That's not what you do.

518
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 1: You you sit down and you dig into daily philosophies

519
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: about how you're you know, how you're going to meet,

520
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: how you're going to present. Look, we've all been to practice.

521
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: You watch the progressive teaching that they go through. There's

522
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: a lot of things that he will want to be

523
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: sure he checks off of the boxes to check off

524
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: before he turns. And Mike Vrabel's always going to be

525
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: involved in this defense. Always know that. So it doesn't

526
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,639
Speaker 1: have to be somebody exact, but it's going to be

527
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: somebody that is going to blend and fit what his

528
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: vision is because he's got a very clear vision of

529
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Speaker 1: what He had a clear vision when he got the

530
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: job of what he wants his defense to be, and

531
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Speaker 1: he's got a very clear vision what he wants it

532
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: to continue to be. So if one of those older

533
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: coaches could share that vision, you could hire one of

534
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: those older coaches. Absolutely, Okay. I think Coach Mac made

535
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: a good point right there at the end that as

536
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Speaker 1: long as Mike Vrabel is here, there's going to be

537
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: a threat of consistency throughout this defense because Vrabel is

538
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: so involved in the defense, he can't turn off his

539
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: defensive brain. I don't think he wants to. I mean,

540
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: he's still running around with the linebackers and everybody else

541
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: out there. He's such a big part of that side

542
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: of the ball specifically, that there will be a lot

543
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: of consistency just because he will still have such a

544
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: big hand in it, will some things look a little

545
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: bit different. Absolutely. Do you want someone that has established

546
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: credibility that Dean P's walked in with so that nothing

547
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 1: really shook him. Sure, but I think that the level

548
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: of consistency will probably be maintained just because Mike Vrabel

549
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: is still there. You make a good point, but you

550
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: know something about Vrabel that has impressed means Rabel's not

551
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 1: a hard hit. Vrabel doesn't think he knows everything about everything.

552
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: It would seem to me and chiming on this too, Coach,

553
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: I'm want to ask ret first, but it would seem

554
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: to me if there's somebody who Vrabel listens to and

555
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: goes well, that would be interesting incorporating that into what

556
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: we're doing. It would see like that would almost be

557
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: appealing to him. Yeah, agreed, absolutely, Yes. I In what

558
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: little dealings I've had with Coach Vrabel, he seems certainly

559
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: open minded to things of those nature. And going off

560
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: of what we were talking about with an older, experienced

561
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, he's got some talent in this building that

562
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 1: he could promote from within, just like he did with

563
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith. Your guy Tyrone Mackenzie I'm sure he's got

564
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of avenues he can go at.

565
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: But but to Mike's point, Mike Vrabel, Varibel is very

566
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: very open minded. He's very open minded, and he's also

567
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: very cutting edge. And so with that, you have to

568
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: be a name he'll be. That's why I say when

569
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 1: I started, I said, the first adjective I used to

570
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: describe this process is deliberate. Sure, and part of that

571
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 1: deliberation is mining ideas from everybody that he meets with. Interesting. Yeah,

572
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: I think it's it's gonna be fascinating to see where

573
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: he goes. The most obvious candidate would have been Carry

574
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: Combs had he stayed, but he had obviously already committed

575
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: to go back to Ohio State. That had been reported

576
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: what weeks ago, Yeah, I mean a long time back

577
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: before the playoffs. Yeah, when Halfley got Boston College's head

578
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: coaching job, Combs was mentioned. He's from Ohio, He's an

579
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: Ohio State guy. He's coached in that state for ever

580
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: and ever. I respect Vabel for not holding him up

581
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: on absolutely and that and that makes and let me

582
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: just talk about from the aspect of being a long

583
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: time assistant coach before I became higher up in the

584
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: coaching profession. That makes it this place attractive to assistant

585
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: coaches that want to come here, because then some head

586
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: coaches won't let you go and that that's a problem.

587
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: You know, that's an issue, and they're they're rightfully. So

588
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 1: if you've got a contract, they don't have to let

589
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: you go. They really don't. And so when you know

590
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: there's a place that you're going to grow, but also

591
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: if that growth is read ignized and you have a

592
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: chance for career advancement, that you're not going to be

593
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: held back because of a technicality. And also because the

594
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: head coach is so comfortable in his own skin that

595
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: that's what makes it really good. So let me ask

596
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: you this. You've got a secondary opening, Yes, Carry Combs

597
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: not getting talked about what a loss that is. That's

598
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: a heck of a ball coach right there. Ohio State

599
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: has made a greade hire in Carry Combs, and I

600
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: think the four of us all have tremendous respect for him.

601
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: Just the new defensive coordinator bring a secondary coach with him. Well,

602
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: this potentially, I go back to deliberation. I mean, this

603
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: all plays into it as to what it is and

604
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: That's why he's not gonna be Mike Vrabel is not

605
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: going to be ready fire aim on these two hires.

606
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: He's not going to be This is going to be

607
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: a deliberate, deliberate process. Let's good talk, right there, Coach Mack.

608
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: This is why we have an NFL. Right yeah, all right,

609
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: Ret Brian favorite moment from the twenty nineteen Titans season. Okay, now,

610
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: this is where Amy's gonna bag on me because I'm

611
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: in Jim Watt's chair. He normally gives multiple answers, and

612
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: I have six answers. Yeah, I got multiple answers and

613
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: a couple of these things the act because he tried

614
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: to answers. Hey, now, let's just keep moving. So I'm

615
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: living vicariously in this chair for Jim Wyatt. Uh, I

616
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 1: have one regular season and one postseason. The regular season

617
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: moment for me was the first Kansas City game November tenth.

618
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: That's when I realized with Ryan Tannehill and where Derek

619
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: Henry was going, this offensive line was jelling finally, but

620
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: they can hang with just about anybody if they needed to,

621
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: the defense was doing its thing, and I just the

622
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: way that thing ended with Joshua Kalou that block field goal.

623
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Speaker 1: I mean, that was fantastic. One of the better regular

624
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: season games you'll see at Nice Hunt Stadium. I'll never

625
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: forget that one. That was really neat. Uh. And obviously

626
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: you know Patrick Mahomes wasn't back from the knee dislocation,

627
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: but I'm saying he didn't run for eight hundred yards either,

628
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: you know, but uh, it was and it was a

629
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: chance for us to see him up close. That dude's

630
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, Steph Curry on grass whatever NBA player. Great,

631
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: you want to plug into that there. And then my

632
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: other one was the postseason, and it would come as

633
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: no surprise to you, knowing me as long as you

634
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: have Foxborough and the win over the Patriots, as much

635
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: as I love the Patriots. But no, that was as well.

636
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: That's what's so impressive, Guilie, what a moment that was.

637
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: I mean, we were all in that booth, you were

638
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: down on the sideline's amy and when you saw that

639
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: pick six from Logan Ryan. I didn't even watch the

640
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: rest of the play because I didn't see any flags

641
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: and I just put my head in my hands and

642
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, I cannot believe they have taken these guys

643
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: to task. They have put them away. This is they're

644
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: going home and the Titans are moving forward. I'll never

645
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 1: forget that one because you and I've been up there

646
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: for you for several trips that were not successful, and

647
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: this would be correct. Yes, they've all not been successful.

648
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: We actually went to the old place they used to

649
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: be called Sullivan Stadium and blew a game up there

650
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight to Pete Carroll that we had

651
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: one Sullivan's. That was a horrible trip. But those were

652
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: two of my favorites from the twenty nineteen season. All right, Amy,

653
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: you get to go second. Well, Reet and I had

654
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 1: a mind meld thing because I picked both of those,

655
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:41,879
Speaker 1: but specifically in that New England game, Mike vrabel belichicking

656
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick what might be my favorite thing that has

657
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: happened in twenty twenty so far. It was so great.

658
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: It brought me so much joy to see Bill Belichick

659
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: coming fully unhinged on TV and there was nothing he

660
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: could do about it. He couldn't do anything. I just

661
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: thought it was so great. It showed how smart our coaches,

662
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: It showed it was savage. It was great. I loved

663
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 1: every second of it. It made me so happy Baltimore win.

664
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: Nobody anywhere in the football world or if anybody that

665
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: knew how to spell football, thought that we could do that.

666
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: And I was here in two thousand and eight as

667
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: a coach when they stole that thing from us here,

668
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: which is it's still a huge heartbreak for me and

669
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: for all all Titans fans. But that game, because they

670
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 1: were the it team, they were the it team, and

671
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: people were saying, well, you know, New England, and there

672
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: was talk before we played doing they're not quite the

673
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: New England of old, They're not this and that. But

674
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: that Baltimore win, that was a huge exorcism for me

675
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: to erase everything that was ever bad in my heart

676
00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: for Baltimore because of what happened in two thousand eight

677
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: and the stunned silence in that stadium when we did

678
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: what we did that I'll never forget it. I'll never

679
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:09,879
Speaker 1: forget it. And the other thing that was so cool

680
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: about it because if where we broadcast from, people can

681
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: come up and touch you like a high school press box,

682
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: they can come up and reach their hands in and

683
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: touch you. And to have Titans fans come up after

684
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: that game so happy. Christian Caposi, one of the you know,

685
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: one of the all time great interns ever and you

686
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: know his dad and granddad have been fans for a

687
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: thousand years. Come all the way up there, and just

688
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: the joy to see those people running up the steps

689
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 1: just to high five of us in the booth from

690
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 1: the stands. Never forget it. That was huge and amy

691
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,479
Speaker 1: to see those fans for the first three quarters call

692
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: the three of us everything but a cedar bush. And

693
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: then at the end, hey, good look in the playoffs

694
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: and that's like, wow, what a moment. We'll never forget it.

695
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: Pretty great. It was an exorcism, no doubt, most improved

696
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,399
Speaker 1: Titan of twenty nineteen. I'm cheating just a little bit.

697
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 1: I picked the offensive line as a whole. Yeah I

698
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 1: did well. Sorry you're getting you're getting five. You're welcome.

699
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: Uh sorry, but really think about it. Think about how

700
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,800
Speaker 1: dramatically different the offensive line has been from the beginning

701
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 1: of the season to the end of the season. They're

702
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: supposed to move as one. I count them as one,

703
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 1: the offensive line. They're dramatically improved, Mike. Every single one

704
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: of them got better. Every single one of them has

705
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: played better from the beginning of the year to the

706
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: end of the year. I see the disappointment in your eyes.

707
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:45,839
Speaker 1: I stick by what I chose. Four of those dudes.

708
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: You're really getting paid. Okay, but how bad were they

709
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the sea? How horrific? But it

710
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: should have been The offensive line should have been good

711
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: from the start of the year. Yeah, but it wasn't.

712
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: Left tackle shouldn't get suspended. He can't let that happen.

713
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: He said it himself. I mean that, just no. But

714
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: when discussing improvement, we are going from bad to some

715
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: degree of bless that tighten tight. Look right there, the

716
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: offensive line, the offensive line exists as one. Somebody tell

717
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: me I'm wrong. I've listened to the OTP. I hear

718
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 1: these volleys. Coach Mac David Long, do better, David Long,

719
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:36,399
Speaker 1: David Long. That's one player, Amy and David Long. Because

720
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: we needed him. We needed him, you know, because you know,

721
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: because Jon got Jon got knicked up, Rashaan got knicked up.

722
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: You know, we needed him. And he not only he

723
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: not only filled space, he made plays. And to watch that,

724
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 1: and again I go clear back to my roots of

725
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: developing linebackers. I know how hard it is for a

726
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 1: young player to come into this league, especially when he

727
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: was a sea ball get ball guy at West Virginia,

728
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: which I mean he didn't read anything. All he did

729
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,839
Speaker 1: was wherever the ball was. That's where he ran too,

730
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 1: regardless of what else was going on. The nuances that

731
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,800
Speaker 1: it takes in the National Football League, especially in this defense.

732
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: As we talked about the intricacies of this defense, the

733
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: multiplicity of fronts, what the linebackers have to do. I

734
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: really really thought that kid. I know he did. I

735
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: watched him. He improved, and that's a huge plus for him.

736
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: It's a huge it's a huge plus for Tyrone McKenzie.

737
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,280
Speaker 1: It's a huge plus for Wesley Woodyard and Rashaun Evans

738
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,800
Speaker 1: and Jayon Brown of bringing him along so that he

739
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: was a vital part in my favorite game in Baltimore,

740
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:42,320
Speaker 1: that first fourth down stop. That was really a technically

741
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: great play by an inside linebacker against a pretty complicated

742
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: play to diagnose. And where did the Titans get him?

743
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 1: Six round? Six round? That's right? Where did that pick

744
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:57,399
Speaker 1: come from? The Ryan Tannehill trade? That's right? How about

745
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: that John Robinson? That's pretty good. Ret Brian most improved

746
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: tighten I have we're gonna say the punt team, No,

747
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: I have one in all three phases. Okay, we have

748
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 1: one in all three phases. Great. Ah, Well, I think

749
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: he's three year important and I don't think you'll disagree. Okay,

750
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 1: John hu Smith on offense, Okay, and you would say, yeah,

751
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 1: of course he had more catches, more yards, tied his

752
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 1: touchdowns because Delanny Walker's pent out, but he's a better

753
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,800
Speaker 1: blocker lined up in the backfield, had a gate a

754
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 1: touchdown saving tackle of Whitney Merciless, ran a dude down,

755
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: ran a hundred yards to knock a dude down before

756
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: he got in them end zone. Much better there, all

757
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:40,280
Speaker 1: coming off in ACL search correct. On defense, de Kwon Jones,

758
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 1: de Kwon Jones. When you look at those goal line

759
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 1: stay in those fourth down stops. He dropped back in

760
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: coverage a few times, quietly, did a lot of the

761
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: dirty work in this and I think he had a

762
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 1: dog on near career year. I think he had a

763
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: really nice showing. And then on special teams. Dane Crookshank.

764
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 1: Dan Crookshanks has it proved himself to make big You

765
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: call him big play Dane for a reason. That dude

766
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: is everywhere on kick coverage, block and stuff. Whatever. Those

767
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 1: three cats really added to this Titans roster in twenty nineteen.

768
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: They added extra stuff, all right. So the Titans have

769
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: the twenty ninth overall pick in the draft, so lois

770
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: they've picked since Kenny Britt was selected in two thousand

771
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 1: and nine. To believe, it's thirteen and three year coming

772
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: off of So here's my question. Don't have to give

773
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: me all the scenarios unless you're just dying too, but

774
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: just for fun, do the Titans does John Robinson end

775
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: up making that pick at number twenty nine? Dave McGinnis,

776
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 1: he'll be wheeling and dealing. So you're saying, no, Will

777
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: he trades down to get him a couple of dudes

778
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 1: he likes later on, or he trades up? Think I

779
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 1: don't think he trades up. I don't think so, I said,

780
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 1: and that's what I say too. I said that he

781
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 1: could go. He could go a lot of directions at

782
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:17,360
Speaker 1: twenty nine. Sometimes you find somebody who desperately or you

783
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 1: get in that range, like if you're twenty five twenty six,

784
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: you get somebody who desperately wants to get out, and

785
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: the price there to get out is not bad if

786
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 1: there's a Rashaun Evans there, or a Harold Landry there

787
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: or that type of player. I love the football season

788
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,320
Speaker 1: with this team because of what Mike Vrabel is and

789
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 1: you know what the atmosphere is that Amy Adam Strunks

790
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: has filtered throughout this building. I love draft season because

791
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: of John Robins. Oh, I know. I think he is

792
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: going to be so exciting between now in March eighteenth,

793
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: nineteen seems to be the number of potential free agents. Now,

794
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:02,280
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that guys won't retire, he won't decide

795
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: to retain certain guys. Normally, an NFL team turns over

796
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: anywhere from twelve to eighteen players in an offseason roughly

797
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: a year, roughly a quarter to a third. I think

798
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: it's gonna probably be more towards that third this year

799
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: because of where he is contractually with so many different

800
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 1: players and how he fits the pieces together. It's going

801
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: to be fascinated. It's going to be so fun to watch.

802
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 1: Do you have otpques? I do have otp qus all right,

803
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,399
Speaker 1: so you can do this. Tell people how they could

804
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: submit an otpqu. So if you go to Titans online

805
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: dot com slash otp Q. You can type in your

806
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: questions and we will ask them here on the program.

807
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:48,320
Speaker 1: So this first one comes from Michael in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

808
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 1: He asked, with the success of the team this year,

809
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: do you think the NFL will give the Titans more

810
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: primetime games? More than just our annual Thursday Night or

811
00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: against the Jazz the annual Thursday night Jaguars Bowl game

812
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: that they have every right? My answers, yes, Yeah, absolutely,

813
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any doubt. YE may get a

814
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: couple of Monday nighters out of this deal. There you go,

815
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 1: all right, Michael, Sunday night even they sound like late

816
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: nights for me. All right, Brian, Brian from Eagle Colorado.

817
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: There you go, Colorado. Hello, you're on the air. You're

818
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: on the air for Betty White. Go ahead. Why do

819
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: teams fly in the day before the game rather than

820
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,760
Speaker 1: the team flying to whatever location as soon as possible

821
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: to get adjusted to the area. I understand the value

822
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: of sleeping in your own bed, the comfort of your

823
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: own home, everything like that, but I feel like traveling

824
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: the day before the game is a massive hit to

825
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: your energy, your comfort level. I know there's a reason

826
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: I just can't figure out what it is. Routine. You

827
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: need a routine, you need, you need your preparation at

828
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: home as long as you can. You need as little

829
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 1: time in the air as you can get. We're fortunate

830
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,320
Speaker 1: because we're pretty centrally located here, so there's not a

831
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: lot I've coached on the West Coast before, which you

832
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 1: have to leave two days before because of the time change,

833
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: and sometimes two hour but sometimes three hours depending on

834
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: what time of year it is. That's brutal, okay, So,

835
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: but you want as little as possible to change. That's

836
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:20,479
Speaker 1: why Mike Vrabel gets into where we go every time

837
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 1: at around four o'clock, four o'clock local time, wherever we are,

838
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 1: he gets in there. Routine is so vital creatures of

839
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 1: habit for a football team, for a professional football team,

840
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: it's just it's vital. That's exactly why. And he did

841
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: something wild this year that had never happened since I've

842
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:42,959
Speaker 1: been here. We went to Oakland leaving at normal time,

843
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: which was beautiful. It was beautiful. Normally we've done Fridays

844
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: in the early in the morning to get there to

845
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: be there in the afternoon. We've done after practice on

846
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: Friday we've gone Friday night, We've gone first thing Saturday morning.

847
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 1: Had never done it this way and it was his

848
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: whole thing. He told the ops guys, he said, why

849
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: don't we just go normal time? And they're like, great,

850
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 1: makes their life so much easier. And let me just

851
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: tell you from inside the walls football aspect, when you

852
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 1: have to pick up and move all your meeting stuff

853
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: and have a different meeting at a different place, it

854
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: disrupts everything that you're doing. It really does that. When

855
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: when I heard that he was going to do that,

856
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 1: I loved it. I mean that's what I tried to

857
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: do as a head coach. I mean that's vital. And

858
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: here's what else that is. When you do that, you

859
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: trust your players. You're trusting your players to believe in

860
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 1: the process. You trust your players to believe in the

861
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:42,320
Speaker 1: process when you do that. And the other thing you

862
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,879
Speaker 1: say is it's nothing special to go anywhere to play.

863
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: We've got a system, we've got a process and wherever

864
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: we go, our process will work. That was big this year, too.

865
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:57,280
Speaker 1: Great point. Here's the last otp Q. This is Robert

866
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: from Scotland. He says, I don't know about you guys,

867
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: but before a game, I get super nervous. How do

868
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: you guys and the players manage your nerves before a game?

869
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 1: Cutting up in the booth, cracking jokes. It's the only

870
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: way I know how. It's all. That's all I've ever done.

871
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,479
Speaker 1: Uh And some games it's more nerve racking than others.

872
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: In this playoff r I'm um, I just did more

873
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: of the same. I didn't. I'd never I think I've

874
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 1: been doing this long enough with Mike that I'm like,

875
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 1: you know what, wherever this goes, whatever happens, I'm just

876
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 1: gonna ride with it. I'm not gonna It's not that

877
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: I'm not invested. I just I've been disappointed before. Let's

878
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: just ride. Let's just see where this thing goes. And

879
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 1: it went pretty far and it was fun. It was fun.

880
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,319
Speaker 1: You know, how do you handle it? Coach? I mean,

881
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: you've done it from all angles. Now, I've done it

882
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: from I've done it from all angles. And I've never

883
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,920
Speaker 1: ever Mike Dick again. I'd go back to Mike Dick

884
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 1: a lot, because that was we love it when you

885
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:06,880
Speaker 1: go back, because because the first this would be awesome,

886
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,959
Speaker 1: the first game that I had ever coached for real

887
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 1: in the National Football League was against Cleveland and they

888
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 1: were coming off being the World champions, and you know,

889
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 1: he could kind of tell a little bit that I

890
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: was a little bit and he said, kid, the only

891
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 1: reason you ever got to be nervous is if you're

892
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: not prepared. Are you prepared? I said, yes, sir. Then

893
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: he said, don't be nervous. You can be as excited

894
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: as you want to be, but don't ever be nervous

895
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 1: if you're prepared. And so the message was just get prepared.

896
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: I've never and since then, I was never nervous before

897
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,839
Speaker 1: a game. I was excited. I anticipated it, but never

898
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:48,879
Speaker 1: nervous because you do your work, you put your work

899
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: in and then you just let it go. Are you nervous? Yes,

900
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm a mess um, both from a football

901
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: standpoint and just stay wanting to have a good show.

902
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 1: I mean, for us as broadcasters, we kind of have

903
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: the game within the game that we're trying to do,

904
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: and so just wanting everything to go well and make

905
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: sure that you're prepared for every scenario that could come,

906
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 1: which down on the field could be anything. But oh yeah,

907
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 1: I definitely get nervous. But I'm a superstitious maniac. So

908
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 1: somehow being able to cling onto those weird superstitions help

909
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,320
Speaker 1: me feel like I'm doing something. I channel my energy.

910
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: I guess nice. Yeah, do you get nervous my key

911
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: terrified or at least you're honest. Yeah, yep, I'm terrified.

912
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: I feel exactly the way I did before I played

913
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: several years ago. What I love to do? You know,

914
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 1: because Amy, I mean, Amy wears her emotions on her face.

915
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 1: I mean just it's just out there and I could tell.

916
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:45,879
Speaker 1: And so when I first started doing this three years ago,

917
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: I could. I could see her sitting on the you know,

918
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 1: I could when you come up in the booth. I finally,

919
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 1: how is it, Amy? Just keep your powder dry. This

920
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,800
Speaker 1: is going to happen and we're gonna be fine. It's okay,

921
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,879
Speaker 1: It's okay, it'll be fine. No, it's good. Nervous, it's

922
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: like excited, anticipating, nervous, but like, especially during these playoff games,

923
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,879
Speaker 1: who was but not the greatest feeling in the world

924
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: when the stakes start app Look that you. You can't

925
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 1: buy that anywhere in the world. The best thing about

926
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 1: this job, period is right before opening kickof, because I

927
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 1: still feel the exact same way I did when I

928
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 1: was covering the opening kickoff, and it's it's so unbelievable

929
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: to at this age to get to have that feeling

930
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: again in the pit of your stomach, because when you

931
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,439
Speaker 1: go flying down there the first time and you don't

932
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen, or where somebody's gonna hit you,

933
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: or maybe you're gonna be able to light somebody up,

934
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: or you don't know what's gonna happen, but you know

935
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 1: it's gonna be kind of crazy. I mean, that's that's

936
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:00,320
Speaker 1: taking the roller coaster through the first turn as you

937
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:03,320
Speaker 1: go out of the station, you know, And that's the

938
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 1: feeling that I have. Well, and that's and I love it.

939
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 1: I love it. I love being that scared that way. Well,

940
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 1: I mean just just the excitement that it brings and

941
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 1: the and the adrillin push that it is and we

942
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 1: experienced it to a great level and we're going to

943
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 1: go to greater levels with it. But just going back

944
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 1: to how we started this OTP, the excitement of this

945
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 1: fan base when they showed up out of town and

946
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: then we would all go do those radio shows and

947
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 1: we would all be in I mean, that is what

948
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: this is all about. What they don't know is we

949
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 1: were more excited to see them, yep, than they want.

950
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 1: That's what I would. I wanted to hug everyone up.

951
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: What I did you Actually they would. They would all

952
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: start out with thank you, and I would no thank you.

953
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,399
Speaker 1: Time for What's Brewing? Brought to you by the Great

954
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Speaker 1: Taste plant based beyond Sausage Sandwich from Duncan. It's here

955
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956
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957
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958
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959
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960
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 1: What's brewing? Rhett Brian from Titans Radio? What is brewing?

961
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:19,840
Speaker 1: In your mind? You know? As the guys were cleaning

962
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:22,879
Speaker 1: out their lockers this week, the one guy I wanted

963
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 1: to say goodbye to and I knew I wouldn't see him,

964
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,399
Speaker 1: but I wanted to was Marcus Mariota. And I put

965
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:32,280
Speaker 1: something out on Twitter about it last night. There's about

966
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:35,439
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred likes on it. People are in the Titans world.

967
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 1: Titans fans kind of have the same sentiment I do.

968
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 1: That's the part of this that's hard for me is

969
00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 1: the abrupt stop of the season when it's over. I

970
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 1: can imagine what it's like for them as players. But

971
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota probably one of the most popular Titans ever.

972
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 1: What an exciting time it was to see him drafted

973
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: second overall all those years ago. About all the incredible

974
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 1: moments he brought to this franchise. Throw four touchdowns in

975
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:07,800
Speaker 1: his first game and a route over Tampa Bay h

976
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 1: the eighty seven yard run for a touchdown against Jacksonville

977
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 1: at Nissan Stadium, the tip pass that was batted back

978
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:16,760
Speaker 1: to himself that he caught in the you know, playoffs

979
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,919
Speaker 1: two years ago in Kansas City. And that guy took

980
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: quite a beating over that time. And I think he

981
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: deserves all of our thanks and gratitude for the kind

982
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: of player that he was for this organization and for

983
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 1: the person that he is, which I believe him to

984
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,320
Speaker 1: believe to be a Hall of Fame type person. You

985
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 1: won't find a better, most, great, more gracious, grounded person.

986
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:43,279
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to say thanks, Marcus Mariota for

987
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 1: all you did for the Titans and helping get this

988
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: thing back in the right direction. What a fantastic person.

989
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 1: Very good red you took Amy's you didn't take well done,

990
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 1: well said, and I think we all agree. Well, my

991
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 1: first is a Duncan themed your first thought, I might

992
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:06,359
Speaker 1: have two, maybe one, one point five. You're gonna say

993
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:08,919
Speaker 1: the whole teams most improved. Okay, will you be cool?

994
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna apologize to you in like thirty seconds. So

995
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 1: for years people don't know this about Mike Keith, but

996
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: he has a very specific coffee order. He gets the

997
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 1: blueberry coffee at Duncan, and you're selling my coffee order

998
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,400
Speaker 1: out in front of Yeah, I am doing that again.

999
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 1: I told you to stop because I'm going to apologize

1000
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 1: to I'm less inclined to do it the more you

1001
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: keep coming at me. So Mike Keith gets this coffee order,

1002
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 1: and for years I have made fun of him for

1003
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: drinking fruity coffee because A I thought it sounded gross

1004
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:44,880
Speaker 1: and B because I call it fruity coffee. See, like,

1005
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: you don't see that that's going to be a problem

1006
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:49,839
Speaker 1: for me down the line. Again, I'm building two an

1007
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:55,360
Speaker 1: apology Mike. So the other day I'm driving through Duncan

1008
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 1: and I had a gift card that I got for Christmas,

1009
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: so it felt like a free coffee and so I

1010
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: ordered Mike's fruity coffee because it smells like pie and

1011
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 1: you know what, it is delicious. So, Mike Keith, I

1012
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:13,399
Speaker 1: apologize for making fun of your coffee order for all

1013
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,719
Speaker 1: of these years. Duncan blueberry coffee is delicious. I've got

1014
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 1: it right here for telling the whole world. Coe. That

1015
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 1: is so great of you. Amy, thank you for that apology.

1016
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 1: I'm not sorry for that. I'm not sorry for that

1017
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:32,319
Speaker 1: very bad handed I'm get ready to start selling you out.

1018
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 1: Remember I go last. I am sorry for making fun

1019
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:39,320
Speaker 1: of you. Your coffee order is delicius. Are you done? Yeah? Okay,

1020
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 1: Coach Mac. What's brewing with you? The Titans are back

1021
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 1: on the national stage. That's what's brewing with me. I

1022
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:48,400
Speaker 1: mean not just not just here, not just locally. I

1023
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:50,920
Speaker 1: mean that phone of mine goes to a lot of

1024
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 1: places and a lot of people come into that look

1025
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 1: in the league, just the Titans, and they did it.

1026
00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 1: We were on the national stage because of the draft,

1027
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:04,840
Speaker 1: but that was the draft. We are on the national

1028
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:09,760
Speaker 1: screen now because we won big games at big moments

1029
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 1: that's what you want as a franchise, that's what you want.

1030
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: What's brewing with me is history, and I want to

1031
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: talk about the Tennessee and its history. The Tennessee In

1032
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 1: is one of the great newspapers in our country. In

1033
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 1: the age where newspapers were very much the king of everything,

1034
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 1: the Tennessee In was right at the top of the

1035
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 1: list with everybody nationwide, largely because of one man, John Siginthaler.

1036
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: John Siginthaler was in charge of the Tennessee and John

1037
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 1: Siginthaler was brilliant. He was a connector in terms of people.

1038
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 1: I mean he knew everybody. He had coach Max Rolodex

1039
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 1: and then some, which is hard to believe. He was

1040
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 1: also fearless and he brought people to write for the

1041
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 1: Tennessee and men and women who he expected to do

1042
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 1: the same sorts of things. And from his development he

1043
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: brought about lions. There were lions in this community that

1044
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: wrote for the Tennessee and that were not just impactful

1045
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 1: in Nashville and Middle Tennessee in the state, but in

1046
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 1: the South. And that's why John Sigenthaler's Tennessee and was

1047
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 1: such a big deal. David Clymer was one of those lions.

1048
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: David Climber went to work for the Tennessee and ended

1049
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: up writing there for forty one years. He wrote sports,

1050
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 1: but he could have written anything, because his mind and

1051
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 1: his wit and his ability to adapt would have given

1052
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 1: him the ability to tell a story in any part

1053
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 1: of life. And that was truly his secret. He was

1054
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:54,919
Speaker 1: a great writer. He was a great reporter. He could

1055
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: source things like nobody's business. He was a fantastic interviewer.

1056
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 1: But the thing that made him the five tool player

1057
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 1: was his ability to tell stories. And when you read

1058
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 1: a story that he wrote or a column that he wrote,

1059
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 1: he gave you something that you didn't get anywhere else.

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Speaker 1: I started reading him in high school, and when I

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Speaker 1: went to the University of Tennessee, David Climber was on

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Speaker 1: the beat there and I followed him everywhere. I watched

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Speaker 1: what he did. I got to know him, I got

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Speaker 1: advice from him, I got chided by him. He stood

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Speaker 1: up for me to people who could have kicked me around.

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Speaker 1: He taught me how you be a professional in every way,

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Speaker 1: shape and form. He was a lion, one of John

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Speaker 1: Sigenthaler's great lions over the history of the Tennessee in

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Speaker 1: an all time great The only thing he didn't do

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Speaker 1: well He may have been the worst self promoter in

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Speaker 1: the history of media. I sat down in the mid

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Speaker 1: nineteen nineties and wrote him a letter to thank him

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Speaker 1: for everything he did for me, and to thank him

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Speaker 1: for taking me under his wing and teaching me how

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Speaker 1: to be a professional. When I saw him for the

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Speaker 1: first time after he received that letter, the first thing

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Speaker 1: he said was what the hell was that? And then

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Speaker 1: and then he stopped and he patted me on the

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01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:26,000
Speaker 1: back and he said, seriously, I appreciate it. Guy couldn't

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Speaker 1: take a compliment for anything, but he did everything else well.

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Speaker 1: The other thing he did too, that's really important to

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01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:37,840
Speaker 1: the OTP that you don't know, most likely is that

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01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 1: David Climber was one of the first people who believed

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01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:44,920
Speaker 1: the NFL could work in this part of the country.

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01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 1: Probably will not surprise some of you to learn there

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Speaker 1: were a lot of people who did not believe that.

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Speaker 1: There were people at the Tennessee and who did not

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Speaker 1: believe that. They did not believe that public funds should

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Speaker 1: go towards building a stadium. They didn't see what the

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Speaker 1: value you would be. They thought it was a waste

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Speaker 1: of time, and they wrote it. I called him when

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01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 1: word leaked out that Bud Adams was going to move

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01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:09,440
Speaker 1: the team here, and I said, can this happened? What

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01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:13,960
Speaker 1: I was asking him was can the Nashville brass pull

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Speaker 1: this together? Can the leadership pull this together? He believed

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Speaker 1: in Phil Brettison, and he said, I think it's going

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Speaker 1: to happen, And he said so. David Climber thought Nashville

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Speaker 1: was more than the Nashville of nineteen to eighty five

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Speaker 1: and nineteen ninety five. He thought it could be more.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea if he thought it would be

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Speaker 1: what it is today, but he believed that it could happen,

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Speaker 1: and he said so. And he also did something else.

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Speaker 1: When I was up for this job, which I did

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Speaker 1: not deserve, he put a word in for me. And

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Speaker 1: I know for a fact that that word mattered. We

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Speaker 1: lost David Climber on Sunday to cancer. He had just

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01:01:56,760 --> 01:02:01,720
Speaker 1: been diagnosed weeks ago. It should not have got down

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Speaker 1: this way. And for the people at the Tennessee and

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Speaker 1: who love him, for his family, and most specifically for

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Speaker 1: his wife Rebecca, we are so sorry. But we were

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Speaker 1: all better for having had him here. Mister Sigenthaler certainly

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Speaker 1: is proud of him, and I have a feeling they

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Speaker 1: have already had a discussion, and mister Bibb is there

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01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 1: and all of those great lions from the Tennessee and

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Speaker 1: are with him, and they are sharing a laugh and

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Speaker 1: telling a story and watching all of this. But it's

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Speaker 1: only sort of fitting in an ironic way that the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans were playing for the AFC Championship for a

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Speaker 1: trip to the super Bowl on the day we lost

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Speaker 1: a guy who believed that this would work here and

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Speaker 1: he was influential at that point and it was a

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Speaker 1: big deal and he was a big deal to a

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Speaker 1: lot of people. We are so sorry David Clember has

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Speaker 1: been lost at age sixty six. It is way too early.

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Speaker 1: He was a lion And even if you have no

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Speaker 1: idea who I'm talking about, trust me, David Climber was

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Speaker 1: one of the great frette. Brian amy Wells, Dave McGinnis,

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Speaker 1: Mike Key says thanks for listening to the OTP