WEBVTT - The OTP | Pregame - Week 9 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:17.200 This is the OTP pregame presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:19.400 Plan on paying less for the coverage you need with 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:23.600 Farm Bureau Health Plans. Get a quote today at FBHP 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.240 dot com with Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith, so pleased 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.600 to be joined by Titans Radios Ramon Foster. Welcome to 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:31.840 the OTP pre Game. 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:32.519 Thank you. 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:34.879 We're very glad to have you back with us. And 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.280 of course, five topics. That's what this is going to be. 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:40.839 We're going to hit five topics during the course of 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:44.920 this program, so let's jump right in with topic number one. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.680 Well, Mike Keith, I'm taking over this week. We need 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:49.599 a change in. 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.640 The juju a little bit. I get we need we 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.040 need something a little different going. So you're out. I'm in, 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:57.880 But I have my five topics. 0:00:58.400 --> 0:00:59.920 You didn't tell me you were going to I have 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:01.360 five topics right here. 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:03.800 So much about that. 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.440 I have my five topics right here, and I think 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.200 that this is going to be just the ticket. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:12.520 This is what we. 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:13.759 Need for the turnaround. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.119 This is where the turnaround starts. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.200 I mean turn all the way around for anything to 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:20.839 get a win. So go ahead, take over. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.880 Don't you feel like we need a little just take over. 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:28.240 I should have known something seeing Amy today, Like I mean, 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.000 Titans fans might not feel like Soun's out, but sons 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:31.520 out in here. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:35.360 Your gun's out right now? Okay, yes they are. Let's go. 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:39.520 So okay, five topics, I've got them, Ramon. I feel 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.640 like a good place to start because the Tennessee Titans 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.759 are getting ready to play the New England Patriots. This 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.280 is the pregame show. We have to discuss your relationship 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.080 with your on Mao. You guys were roommates, you guys 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.960 were teammates, and what I need to know from you 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:59.560 is was there a moment in your guys' friendship that 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.680 you really realized that at some level he could be 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.320 a very successful coach? 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.320 Yes, easily, I want that started with his work ethic. 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:08.760 I'll just start that. 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:10.320 I think it was the first one to really play 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.760 out of all of us as a freshman and whatnot. 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.280 But his delivery into saying and he said it, adam ly, 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.760 I'm doing three years and I'm out. So to understand 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.480 there was a plan for him even towards ACL and 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:22.160 still got it. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.760 But it started with coach Chevis. 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.959 John Chavis is a former defensive coordinator for the Tennessee Valls. 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:29.200 Mayo was the. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.880 Green dot in college for a while. And for a 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.280 young guy to have that on his table, to be 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:38.160 able to make plays and also have the ability to 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.680 command the defense as a young dude, you understood that intellectually, 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.200 mentally right, mentally, he could handle the workload. And he 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:49.480 just continued to approach college honestly like a business to 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.360 where it wasn't just playing and starting. It was about 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.000 building something more than just making plays. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.880 But did you think he had the ability to be 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.600 the head coach of the New England Patriots? To be 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.839 able to run And I mean, I know you yeah, 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.960 think that when you're nineteen. But I'm saying if someone 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.440 had said that to you, could you have said, yeah, 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:11.720 I could see that happening. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.600 You could because he comes from a military fan base. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.440 He's from the DMV area. It is that DC Maryland 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.320 Virginia area. His family is in the service. So his 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.760 upbringing with his brothers and his mom and his stepdad 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:27.720 tells you a lot about what he was going to 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.440 be able to do. So if you'd have told me, 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.000 I'd not It is like I could see Mayo doing 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.840 that super, just calculated in his movements, which is what 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:37.720 coaches have to be. 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:39.680 He was that way when he was younger. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.520 Funny funny story is through college we all have you know, 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.680 we will date or you know, have like certain conversations 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.240 about who's going to be your wife and stuff like that, 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:54.640 and Nails is one one person that wanted to talk 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.240 to him. He was like, I can talk to him. 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.320 It's like, what are you talking about? It's like, well, 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.720 just look, I don't even think she make athletes. 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.840 I'm like, whoa Girod? Like why are you playing that 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:04.920 far ahead in life? 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.800 But that just gives you his mindset into where decision 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:16.200 making for himself was important, even if we're talking about DNA. Yes, yes, Mike, Michael, 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.039 why right now? 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:19.320 Roommate? 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:24.040 It was awesome competitive, it is what he was. We'd wrestle, 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:28.000 Oh my gosh. Just he was just a guy that 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.919 enjoyed college the right way and we used to laugh 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.800 and joke about certain things like my roommates were. I 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.800 will say, I'll Bragtice a little bit very successful considering 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.599 having five guys. Saint Claire Cannon, the business owner in 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.760 South Carolina, Robert Ayers first round draft pick to the 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.080 Denver Broncos now on the Tennessee Vall stuff. Inky Johnson, 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.560 Just say the name and you know who Inky is, right, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:57.640 Giard Mayo first round draft pick, and myself so and 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.359 I'll be honest with you. The way we navigate and 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.240 walked on campus, we were considered somewhat lame or corny 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.160 for what you're supposed to be doing in college. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:06.400 Right. 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.000 We didn't go out drinking on Thursday nights like other 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:10.800 guys did, or we weren't trying to be the first 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.240 ones to the party every weekend. We might've just had 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.680 a chill night. Our job was to be successful and 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.760 do everything it took to get to that point. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.159 So that was our house motto. 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:24.320 Is everybody I always said, everybody eats right and everybody 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.960 was pulling in the right direction. So that's Mayo's mentality. 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.760 Was it that meant staying in and playing FIFA or 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:33.719 Madden or college football? We were going to do those 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.039 things because we needed rest for the next day for 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.480 workouts and holding each other accountable. I don't care if 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.640 it was hitting the line on every run. I don't 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.680 care if it was making weight. I don't care if 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.000 it's how many games you made in the summer, like 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.720 everything was pointed towards success, and it was all of 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.159 us had different leadership qualities. But I could tell you 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.080 this from the day Mayo just came on campus. He 0:05:56.320 --> 0:06:00.440 just moved different and he showed that online of different 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:01.000 ways too. 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.840 Sounds like a house full of adults, like those are 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.839 grown ups. Those are grown up decisions to make when you're. 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:18.960 Different. Episode So, topic number two, Jeron. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:23.160 Mayo called his team soft after they lost to the 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.880 Jags in London. Two part question here, Number one. Does 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.000 it surprise you that he would make a statement like that, 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:34.320 calling his whole team soft so publicly, And does it 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.400 also surprise you that he has created a culture where 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.800 guys respond to that and went on to beat the 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:41.880 Jets the next week. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.760 No, and no, I will be honest. 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:47.359 The win at the end may have been a little 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:51.280 bit surprising, but the accountability side of things, No, he's 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.320 uber honest. And I do think that's this military upbringing. 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.160 His mom and dad just never held you know back 0:06:58.200 --> 0:06:58.640 with them. 0:06:59.000 --> 0:06:59.120 Uh. 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.680 He was the same way with his brothers and siblings also, 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:03.400 and he was the same way with us. If we 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.680 weren't on our stuff, he would call it out and 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.480 we all did that too. That's, you know, the basis 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.920 of a good friendship is Hey, I'm a ride with you, 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.560 but I'm also be very honest with you. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.040 He's still that way to this day. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.400 We have a group chat now the class of two 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.240 thousand and four, most of our recruiting classes in there 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:24.200 and hearing I mean, the way he speaks in there. 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.680 Still he's very calculated and what he's saying does not 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.400 say so the accountability aspect of being a professional is 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:30.880 what he's. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:31.120 Going to do. 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.040 I will say, it's kind of bold to call guys 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.280 you're not far removed from soft, but to get that response, 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:41.320 it's probably what that team needed. And he knows this. 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.440 I know for sure. If you're gonna do that, you 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:44.760 better be right in being. 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.560 Able to call guys out like that, because I'm a 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.080 grown man just the same way as you are. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:49.160 And I know Mayo gets that. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.720 As a player, if you were a former player in 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.640 the National Football League, how do you respond to that 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.200 when your head coach says something like that. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.680 You could take it personal, you can understanook yourself in 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:01.960 the mirror. One or the other has to happen. But 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.880 here's what I do think about Gerd and his ability 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.400 to be the Patriots head coach for some years, I 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.360 would say this, I think he understands where his roster is. 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.680 We're having that conversation here are we not understand I 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.240 know this. He has a really good relationship with Robert Kraft, 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.440 so he'll have the back end. I think he may 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.560 get the time also, so to be able to say that. 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.880 As a player, it's about being able to tell troops. 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:27.320 Right. 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.240 We always tell guys just be honest with me. The 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.480 best thing a coach can do with you is telling 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.800 your soft or and you might not like it, and 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.040 then you can follow up, well, tell me how, tell 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.440 me why I can be better. Those are the ones 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.320 that you want on your teams that don't take offense 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.480 to what this tape is showing us. And if I'm 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:48.880 not mistaken, I think McCardy Devin mccordy right, gaven a 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.240 definition of what he said they mean by Patriot soft. 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.480 I think it was not stopping the run, not being 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.920 able to run the ball, and it was another category 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.600 that he said, and those things weren't showing up on tape. 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.360 So if that's their standard of what Patriot soft is 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.439 he has every right to do it, and those dudes 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.520 responded accordingly by doing the opposite of what Mayo said 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:08.880 they were. 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.680 That was my second topic too, if you'd let me 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:15.440 do my five, let me just throw out one more 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.000 part of that though. How would Gerard Mayo respond to 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:23.080 Bill Belichick criticizing him for calling the Patriots soft? 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.599 He would probably tell Bill, you run your team the 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.320 way you run yours, and I run mine like I 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.679 run mine. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:31.839 So I got another funny story. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.240 So I was talking to a guy when I went 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.880 up and played them, and Gerd was still on the roster, correct, 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:39.760 And well you don't know that Gerd was still on 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.440 the roster, but he wasn't playing number ten overall pick. 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.439 They had a little bit of a youth movement. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.160 And I asked one of the dudes and that we're 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.160 joking in between because it's a brotherhood in between commercial breaks. 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:51.480 It's like, where are my dog Mayo at? You know what? 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.040 The dude said, Man, he's oldest crap, he ain't playing 0:09:54.120 --> 0:10:00.800 right now. And I was just like, huh, they got transparency. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.680 His standard wasn't what they wanted to be at the time, 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.680 I guess. And they had young linebackers that were playing 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.080 in his position. So Bill Belichick saying that I'm sure 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.400 he'd be as honest to Gerrod or to that team 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.559 as Rodd is too. It's just that Bill has his 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.880 method of communicating in the public to where you get 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.440 five answers to a question, and I mean five words 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:22.440 to an answer, and that's. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:23.840 It all right. 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.880 Topic number three, we are moving right along. Two first 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.080 year head coaches will be facing each other at the 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:35.320 halfway point of the season. Brian Callahan dry mail. Is 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:40.199 that still in week eight a compelling storyline the first 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.720 year coach thing? Or is it kind of irrelevant at 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:44.720 this point in the season. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:49.560 All this is competition, It's very much relevant. That's the 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.160 same way we were talking about Caleb Williams and Jaydon Daniels. 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.360 Right like rookie quarterback versus rookie. 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.000 We saw Peyton and Philip and Tom and Eli and 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:03.160 being play those matchups and it meant something. I do 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.320 think coaches do the same things. I do think front 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.000 offices make changes and feel a certain type of way 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.360 about we gotta go get this type of win. Because 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.679 they won't talk about in public, because they're not interviewed 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.599 like that but I do think there is an importance 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:20.360 to winning versus the number one, who's essentially your class 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.720 is basically class of twenty twenty four coaches. 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.240 Hey Titans fans with a Kroger Boost membership, you'll score 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.920 big with double fuel, points, free delivery, and lots more. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:35.680 Go to Kroger dot com slash boost for details. Kroger, 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.560 Official grocer of the Tennessee Titans. 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.240 Tighten Up Home is at the forefront of all that 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.520 we do. It's why we're so committed to caring for 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.360 the places and spaces in which we work and live. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:53.679 Ashley the official furniture provider of the Tennessee Titans. We 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:58.280 continue the OTP pre game with Ramon Foster, presented by 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.800 Farm Bureau Health Plans. Plan on paying less for the 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.959 coverage you need with Farm Bureau Health Plans. Get a 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.520 quote today at FBHP dot com. 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.840 All right, topic number four, Ramone Foster, This one's a doozy. 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:16.680 How does the Tennessee Titans offensive line stop getting holding penalties? 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:26.440 Exact, it's two sizes of that for me. One tape 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.559 knowing what you're gonna get, expectation of how you're gonna 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.880 get rush's or how teams run block you or run 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:35.400 stop you. 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:36.480 That's important too. 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:38.760 And then the other part of it is good feat 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.199 That's something I always had to work with is making 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.320 sure I was in good positioning in the run game 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.160 and in the pass game, specifically on the passing game. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.760 Is setting yourself up for success. Do not let a 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.679 defensive line and dictate what you're gonna do. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:53.680 You may get. 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.920 Caught in a bad spot, but you always take back 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.400 control as it contains, as it pertains that you doing 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.040 your job. But again we're speaking about an offensive line 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:06.720 that is young, growing up and adjusting to all things 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.920 they've never seen before. Peter Skearonsky, I think is still 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.720 at a part at a spot in his career where 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:14.680 he's still figuring out guard and I see that from 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.640 time to time, and if you were to ask him, 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.480 I'm sure he'd be honest and say, yeah, I'm still 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.400 figuring this out. But I always tell people so about 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.800 three years before you start seeing that payoff. The same 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:25.960 thing goes for JC. But I'll tell you this, some 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.280 holding calls may be warranted because I'd much rather hold 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.520 you than allow you to tear my quarterback's face off. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:35.160 This is all a part make of doing business. What 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.079 I would tell you in response to that is find 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.400 a way to negate that, and that's the next play, 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.120 making sure that your quarterback does have time. But a 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.640 lot of these things that we're speaking of is is 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.280 time in the league. Just being completely honest with you, 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.840 because if I lose and I know how not to 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.480 lose again, right and if I saw this guy, I 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.760 should know next week with the film study, then I'm 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.440 probably gonna get the same sim or move that that 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.760 guy did to beat me. So it sucks going through 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.480 growing pains, and I went through on myself. I actually 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.120 thought I was gonna get cut my second year in 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.000 the NFL because I had a guy run through me, 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.040 which I didn't know how to hold my base at 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.160 the time, sacked the quarterback and pushed his fist through 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.480 his helmet, broke his nose, and I just thought undrafted. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:25.320 Second year. I told him I'm probably cut. I'm probably gone. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.440 But grace and understanding development is a part of this, 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.000 and from that moment forward, I made sure I knew 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.800 everything and to understand what to fight and finish and 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:38.280 grind and strained to close out your blocks. It is 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.200 a maturity thing. So I am not mad at you know, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.000 holding penalties. It's a matter of do you let it 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:45.440 carry over and can you stop it? 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.480 I asked that question, and Jessin, I appreciate that you 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.440 gave such a good answer because what no, because what. 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:56.480 That says happened to me. Well, I asked it in 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:57.600 a very joking way. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.040 But what I appreciate about that answer is that but 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.360 it says to me that there are still a lot 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:06.680 of coachable moments here. We haven't reached the halfway point 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.520 of the season, and it's like, well, we don't know 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.560 what to do with this team. Well we can't fix 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.760 these problems. Well there's nothing that can be done. We 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.640 don't know what to do. There's a lot of learning 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:19.080 left to do on this Titans team. And I appreciate 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.480 so much saying, hey, that's film study. It is Hey, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.520 that's learning how to play your position at a higher level. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.200 That's learning how to do this and how to be 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.200 a pro. And so much of that is a byproduct 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.760 not of having a bad team, not of having the 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.440 wrong guys on your offensive line, not of having the 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.240 wrong guys in whatever position they're supposed to be. It's 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.160 a byproduct of having a young team that still needs 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:42.760 to learn. 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.120 And you know what's even cooler behind the broken those 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.280 stories to your point, having a young team like I 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.560 must say, I had a veteran team that I was around, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.320 and I had a guy that played a few years 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.240 in the league at the time too on that broken 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:57.920 nose situation. Never mentioned it, The quarterback never mentioned it. 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.960 It never got brought up. And you know what the 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.160 did for me, and I'm fighting harder for them. You know, 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.400 I want to sell out even more because if he 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:09.840 cannot mention that or I not be cut, You've gained 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:14.040 me even more. And that's what this group is getting now. 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.560 Is it may be bad or it's not as good 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.160 as you want it to be, but being in those 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:20.960 trenches with those dudes that have to be here because 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:24.840 they're under contract, right this is where that growth comes 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.160 into play the world. We may see them in year six, seven, eight, 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.720 because I think they're right behind each other and say 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.360 we've dealt with this. This is where those combat plays 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.880 where you're down six and you need seven to score. 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.800 This is where that stock is gained right now. But 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.200 it absolutely not can acknowledge it sucks going through the 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.600 process of growing paints because there's nothing you can explain 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.160 other than we're getting better. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:48.520 Topic five. 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:52.840 That was a great answer, A good answer, all right. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.320 Topic number five? Is there one thing that could happen 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.600 caveat other than a win? We know that wins are 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:01.840 the old goal and the number one thing that can 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.120 fix a lot of problems. Is there something that could 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.640 happen on the field other than a wind? Maybe it's 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.919 a play, Maybe it's some sort of a trend that 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.240 starts to devolve. Maybe it's some sort of a moment. 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.520 Is there something that could get this team back on 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.760 track and heading in the right direction. 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.720 It's gonna sound cheesy, but this is just as simple 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.320 as a get because I'm going around and give you 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:24.680 the answer. 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:28.080 I promise I'm making you the answer. We're all still kids. 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:30.760 And when we're walking, when we put on that those 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.320 shoulder paths, those pants, Coach Manchak used to call them 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:34.680 putting on your silks. 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:35.200 The jerseys. 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.440 Right, we're still kids and we play a game as 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.480 adults that has a business behind it. What good needs 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:47.400 to happen is positivity, just being honest with you, And 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.720 that's so cheesy. No fan wants to hear that while 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.439 you're losing, no player really wants to. But it's the 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.359 truth because as much as we talked about how youthful 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.639 this group is, you ask what good needs to happen. 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.960 A clean game where you run the ball how you 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.280 want to, where you can score in the tight red 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.679 zone when you want to, when the defense gets a 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.840 turnover and the offense immediately sets you up, and it's 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.600 sets the offense up for a score, Having clean special 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.760 teams where you lock everybody down, no big splash plays 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.760 like it's the process of procedure of the game. And 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.520 that's what this team hasn't had this year because Miami, 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:26.960 they won, but it felt like it was choppy, like 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.280 only one person was rowing the boat on one side. 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:33.280 And what we finally made it the shore right understanding 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.160 when you asked me that question, the method of how 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:39.480 we pieced together a win, and I don't think we've 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.480 seen them piece together a win the way a football 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:43.360 team wants to. 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:44.200 Right. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.679 A dub is a dub is a dub is a dub. 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.920 Sure, right, But knowing that I dominated you in a 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.240 run game, I might have given up a sack today, 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.920 but my quarterback was two and eighty five yards to touchdown. 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.959 The defense held them to ten points. Special teams made 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.679 fifty yarder and kept it cleaning every other face with 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:06.280 no penalties. They've yet to have that moment. So it's 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:10.800 funny saying positivity and good plays, but that's truly what's 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.360 gonna because, as his young group knows right now, struggle. 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.640 Best way to get out of that is a put 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:18.360 it all together. 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:22.159 See the point of this too, which is really interesting. 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:26.439 And I know we're now four days away from the 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.760