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Speaker 1: to be joined by Titans Radios Ramon Foster. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the OTP pre Game.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: We're very glad to have you back with us. And
Speaker 1: of course, five topics. That's what this is going to be.
Speaker 1: We're going to hit five topics during the course of
Speaker 1: this program, so let's jump right in with topic number one.
Speaker 3: Well, Mike Keith, I'm taking over this week. We need
Speaker 3: a change in.
Speaker 4: The juju a little bit. I get we need we
Speaker 4: need something a little different going. So you're out. I'm in,
Speaker 4: But I have my five topics.
Speaker 1: You didn't tell me you were going to I have
Speaker 1: five topics right here.
Speaker 4: So much about that.
Speaker 3: I have my five topics right here, and I think
Speaker 3: that this is going to be just the ticket.
Speaker 4: This is what we.
Speaker 1: Need for the turnaround.
Speaker 4: This is where the turnaround starts.
Speaker 1: I mean turn all the way around for anything to
Speaker 1: get a win. So go ahead, take over.
Speaker 4: Don't you feel like we need a little just take over.
Speaker 5: I should have known something seeing Amy today, Like I mean,
Speaker 5: Titans fans might not feel like Soun's out, but sons
Speaker 5: out in here.
Speaker 2: Your gun's out right now? Okay, yes they are. Let's go.
Speaker 3: So okay, five topics, I've got them, Ramon. I feel
Speaker 3: like a good place to start because the Tennessee Titans
Speaker 3: are getting ready to play the New England Patriots. This
Speaker 3: is the pregame show. We have to discuss your relationship
Speaker 3: with your on Mao. You guys were roommates, you guys
Speaker 3: were teammates, and what I need to know from you
Speaker 3: is was there a moment in your guys' friendship that
Speaker 3: you really realized that at some level he could be
Speaker 3: a very successful coach?
Speaker 2: Yes, easily, I want that started with his work ethic.
Speaker 2: I'll just start that.
Speaker 5: I think it was the first one to really play
Speaker 5: out of all of us as a freshman and whatnot.
Speaker 5: But his delivery into saying and he said it, adam ly,
Speaker 5: I'm doing three years and I'm out. So to understand
Speaker 5: there was a plan for him even towards ACL and
Speaker 5: still got it.
Speaker 2: But it started with coach Chevis.
Speaker 5: John Chavis is a former defensive coordinator for the Tennessee Valls.
Speaker 2: Mayo was the.
Speaker 5: Green dot in college for a while. And for a
Speaker 5: young guy to have that on his table, to be
Speaker 5: able to make plays and also have the ability to
Speaker 5: command the defense as a young dude, you understood that intellectually,
Speaker 5: mentally right, mentally, he could handle the workload. And he
Speaker 5: just continued to approach college honestly like a business to
Speaker 5: where it wasn't just playing and starting. It was about
Speaker 5: building something more than just making plays.
Speaker 1: But did you think he had the ability to be
Speaker 1: the head coach of the New England Patriots? To be
Speaker 1: able to run And I mean, I know you yeah,
Speaker 1: think that when you're nineteen. But I'm saying if someone
Speaker 1: had said that to you, could you have said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I could see that happening.
Speaker 5: You could because he comes from a military fan base.
Speaker 5: He's from the DMV area. It is that DC Maryland
Speaker 5: Virginia area. His family is in the service. So his
Speaker 5: upbringing with his brothers and his mom and his stepdad
Speaker 5: tells you a lot about what he was going to
Speaker 5: be able to do. So if you'd have told me,
Speaker 5: I'd not It is like I could see Mayo doing
Speaker 5: that super, just calculated in his movements, which is what
Speaker 5: coaches have to be.
Speaker 2: He was that way when he was younger.
Speaker 5: Funny funny story is through college we all have you know,
Speaker 5: we will date or you know, have like certain conversations
Speaker 5: about who's going to be your wife and stuff like that,
Speaker 5: and Nails is one one person that wanted to talk
Speaker 5: to him. He was like, I can talk to him.
Speaker 5: It's like, what are you talking about? It's like, well,
Speaker 5: just look, I don't even think she make athletes.
Speaker 2: I'm like, whoa Girod? Like why are you playing that
Speaker 2: far ahead in life?
Speaker 5: But that just gives you his mindset into where decision
Speaker 5: making for himself was important, even if we're talking about DNA. Yes, yes, Mike, Michael,
Speaker 5: why right now?
Speaker 1: Roommate?
Speaker 5: It was awesome competitive, it is what he was. We'd wrestle,
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh. Just he was just a guy that
Speaker 5: enjoyed college the right way and we used to laugh
Speaker 5: and joke about certain things like my roommates were. I
Speaker 5: will say, I'll Bragtice a little bit very successful considering
Speaker 5: having five guys. Saint Claire Cannon, the business owner in
Speaker 5: South Carolina, Robert Ayers first round draft pick to the
Speaker 5: Denver Broncos now on the Tennessee Vall stuff. Inky Johnson,
Speaker 5: Just say the name and you know who Inky is, right,
Speaker 5: Giard Mayo first round draft pick, and myself so and
Speaker 5: I'll be honest with you. The way we navigate and
Speaker 5: walked on campus, we were considered somewhat lame or corny
Speaker 5: for what you're supposed to be doing in college.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: We didn't go out drinking on Thursday nights like other
Speaker 5: guys did, or we weren't trying to be the first
Speaker 5: ones to the party every weekend. We might've just had
Speaker 5: a chill night. Our job was to be successful and
Speaker 5: do everything it took to get to that point.
Speaker 2: So that was our house motto.
Speaker 5: Is everybody I always said, everybody eats right and everybody
Speaker 5: was pulling in the right direction. So that's Mayo's mentality.
Speaker 5: Was it that meant staying in and playing FIFA or
Speaker 5: Madden or college football? We were going to do those
Speaker 5: things because we needed rest for the next day for
Speaker 5: workouts and holding each other accountable. I don't care if
Speaker 5: it was hitting the line on every run. I don't
Speaker 5: care if it was making weight. I don't care if
Speaker 5: it's how many games you made in the summer, like
Speaker 5: everything was pointed towards success, and it was all of
Speaker 5: us had different leadership qualities. But I could tell you
Speaker 5: this from the day Mayo just came on campus. He
Speaker 5: just moved different and he showed that online of different
Speaker 5: ways too.
Speaker 3: Sounds like a house full of adults, like those are
Speaker 3: grown ups. Those are grown up decisions to make when you're.
Speaker 1: Different. Episode So, topic number two, Jeron.
Speaker 3: Mayo called his team soft after they lost to the
Speaker 3: Jags in London. Two part question here, Number one. Does
Speaker 3: it surprise you that he would make a statement like that,
Speaker 3: calling his whole team soft so publicly, And does it
Speaker 3: also surprise you that he has created a culture where
Speaker 3: guys respond to that and went on to beat the
Speaker 3: Jets the next week.
Speaker 2: No, and no, I will be honest.
Speaker 5: The win at the end may have been a little
Speaker 5: bit surprising, but the accountability side of things, No, he's
Speaker 5: uber honest. And I do think that's this military upbringing.
Speaker 5: His mom and dad just never held you know back
Speaker 5: with them.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: He was the same way with his brothers and siblings also,
Speaker 5: and he was the same way with us. If we
Speaker 5: weren't on our stuff, he would call it out and
Speaker 5: we all did that too. That's, you know, the basis
Speaker 5: of a good friendship is Hey, I'm a ride with you,
Speaker 5: but I'm also be very honest with you.
Speaker 2: He's still that way to this day.
Speaker 5: We have a group chat now the class of two
Speaker 5: thousand and four, most of our recruiting classes in there
Speaker 5: and hearing I mean, the way he speaks in there.
Speaker 5: Still he's very calculated and what he's saying does not
Speaker 5: say so the accountability aspect of being a professional is
Speaker 5: what he's.
Speaker 2: Going to do.
Speaker 5: I will say, it's kind of bold to call guys
Speaker 5: you're not far removed from soft, but to get that response,
Speaker 5: it's probably what that team needed. And he knows this.
Speaker 2: I know for sure. If you're gonna do that, you
Speaker 2: better be right in being.
Speaker 5: Able to call guys out like that, because I'm a
Speaker 5: grown man just the same way as you are.
Speaker 2: And I know Mayo gets that.
Speaker 3: As a player, if you were a former player in
Speaker 3: the National Football League, how do you respond to that
Speaker 3: when your head coach says something like that.
Speaker 5: You could take it personal, you can understanook yourself in
Speaker 5: the mirror. One or the other has to happen. But
Speaker 5: here's what I do think about Gerd and his ability
Speaker 5: to be the Patriots head coach for some years, I
Speaker 5: would say this, I think he understands where his roster is.
Speaker 5: We're having that conversation here are we not understand I
Speaker 5: know this. He has a really good relationship with Robert Kraft,
Speaker 5: so he'll have the back end. I think he may
Speaker 5: get the time also, so to be able to say that.
Speaker 5: As a player, it's about being able to tell troops.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: We always tell guys just be honest with me. The
Speaker 5: best thing a coach can do with you is telling
Speaker 5: your soft or and you might not like it, and
Speaker 5: then you can follow up, well, tell me how, tell
Speaker 5: me why I can be better. Those are the ones
Speaker 5: that you want on your teams that don't take offense
Speaker 5: to what this tape is showing us. And if I'm
Speaker 5: not mistaken, I think McCardy Devin mccordy right, gaven a
Speaker 5: definition of what he said they mean by Patriot soft.
Speaker 5: I think it was not stopping the run, not being
Speaker 5: able to run the ball, and it was another category
Speaker 5: that he said, and those things weren't showing up on tape.
Speaker 5: So if that's their standard of what Patriot soft is
Speaker 5: he has every right to do it, and those dudes
Speaker 5: responded accordingly by doing the opposite of what Mayo said
Speaker 5: they were.
Speaker 1: That was my second topic too, if you'd let me
Speaker 1: do my five, let me just throw out one more
Speaker 1: part of that though. How would Gerard Mayo respond to
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick criticizing him for calling the Patriots soft?
Speaker 5: He would probably tell Bill, you run your team the
Speaker 5: way you run yours, and I run mine like I
Speaker 5: run mine.
Speaker 2: So I got another funny story.
Speaker 5: So I was talking to a guy when I went
Speaker 5: up and played them, and Gerd was still on the roster, correct,
Speaker 5: And well you don't know that Gerd was still on
Speaker 5: the roster, but he wasn't playing number ten overall pick.
Speaker 2: They had a little bit of a youth movement.
Speaker 5: And I asked one of the dudes and that we're
Speaker 5: joking in between because it's a brotherhood in between commercial breaks.
Speaker 2: It's like, where are my dog Mayo at? You know what?
Speaker 5: The dude said, Man, he's oldest crap, he ain't playing
Speaker 5: right now. And I was just like, huh, they got transparency.
Speaker 5: His standard wasn't what they wanted to be at the time,
Speaker 5: I guess. And they had young linebackers that were playing
Speaker 5: in his position. So Bill Belichick saying that I'm sure
Speaker 5: he'd be as honest to Gerrod or to that team
Speaker 5: as Rodd is too. It's just that Bill has his
Speaker 5: method of communicating in the public to where you get
Speaker 5: five answers to a question, and I mean five words
Speaker 5: to an answer, and that's.
Speaker 1: It all right.
Speaker 3: Topic number three, we are moving right along. Two first
Speaker 3: year head coaches will be facing each other at the
Speaker 3: halfway point of the season. Brian Callahan dry mail. Is
Speaker 3: that still in week eight a compelling storyline the first
Speaker 3: year coach thing? Or is it kind of irrelevant at
Speaker 3: this point in the season.
Speaker 5: All this is competition, It's very much relevant. That's the
Speaker 5: same way we were talking about Caleb Williams and Jaydon Daniels.
Speaker 2: Right like rookie quarterback versus rookie.
Speaker 5: We saw Peyton and Philip and Tom and Eli and
Speaker 5: being play those matchups and it meant something. I do
Speaker 5: think coaches do the same things. I do think front
Speaker 5: offices make changes and feel a certain type of way
Speaker 5: about we gotta go get this type of win. Because
Speaker 5: they won't talk about in public, because they're not interviewed
Speaker 5: like that but I do think there is an importance
Speaker 5: to winning versus the number one, who's essentially your class
Speaker 5: is basically class of twenty twenty four coaches.
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Speaker 3: All right, topic number four, Ramone Foster, This one's a doozy.
Speaker 3: How does the Tennessee Titans offensive line stop getting holding penalties?
Speaker 5: Exact, it's two sizes of that for me. One tape
Speaker 5: knowing what you're gonna get, expectation of how you're gonna
Speaker 5: get rush's or how teams run block you or run
Speaker 5: stop you.
Speaker 2: That's important too.
Speaker 5: And then the other part of it is good feat
Speaker 5: That's something I always had to work with is making
Speaker 5: sure I was in good positioning in the run game
Speaker 5: and in the pass game, specifically on the passing game.
Speaker 5: Is setting yourself up for success. Do not let a
Speaker 5: defensive line and dictate what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2: You may get.
Speaker 5: Caught in a bad spot, but you always take back
Speaker 5: control as it contains, as it pertains that you doing
Speaker 5: your job. But again we're speaking about an offensive line
Speaker 5: that is young, growing up and adjusting to all things
Speaker 5: they've never seen before. Peter Skearonsky, I think is still
Speaker 5: at a part at a spot in his career where
Speaker 5: he's still figuring out guard and I see that from
Speaker 5: time to time, and if you were to ask him,
Speaker 5: I'm sure he'd be honest and say, yeah, I'm still
Speaker 5: figuring this out. But I always tell people so about
Speaker 5: three years before you start seeing that payoff. The same
Speaker 5: thing goes for JC. But I'll tell you this, some
Speaker 5: holding calls may be warranted because I'd much rather hold
Speaker 5: you than allow you to tear my quarterback's face off.
Speaker 5: This is all a part make of doing business. What
Speaker 5: I would tell you in response to that is find
Speaker 5: a way to negate that, and that's the next play,
Speaker 5: making sure that your quarterback does have time. But a
Speaker 5: lot of these things that we're speaking of is is
Speaker 5: time in the league. Just being completely honest with you,
Speaker 5: because if I lose and I know how not to
Speaker 5: lose again, right and if I saw this guy, I
Speaker 5: should know next week with the film study, then I'm
Speaker 5: probably gonna get the same sim or move that that
Speaker 5: guy did to beat me. So it sucks going through
Speaker 5: growing pains, and I went through on myself. I actually
Speaker 5: thought I was gonna get cut my second year in
Speaker 5: the NFL because I had a guy run through me,
Speaker 5: which I didn't know how to hold my base at
Speaker 5: the time, sacked the quarterback and pushed his fist through
Speaker 5: his helmet, broke his nose, and I just thought undrafted.
Speaker 2: Second year. I told him I'm probably cut. I'm probably gone.
Speaker 5: But grace and understanding development is a part of this,
Speaker 5: and from that moment forward, I made sure I knew
Speaker 5: everything and to understand what to fight and finish and
Speaker 5: grind and strained to close out your blocks. It is
Speaker 5: a maturity thing. So I am not mad at you know,
Speaker 5: holding penalties. It's a matter of do you let it
Speaker 5: carry over and can you stop it?
Speaker 3: I asked that question, and Jessin, I appreciate that you
Speaker 3: gave such a good answer because what no, because what.
Speaker 4: That says happened to me. Well, I asked it in
Speaker 4: a very joking way.
Speaker 3: But what I appreciate about that answer is that but
Speaker 3: it says to me that there are still a lot
Speaker 3: of coachable moments here. We haven't reached the halfway point
Speaker 3: of the season, and it's like, well, we don't know
Speaker 3: what to do with this team. Well we can't fix
Speaker 3: these problems. Well there's nothing that can be done. We
Speaker 3: don't know what to do. There's a lot of learning
Speaker 3: left to do on this Titans team. And I appreciate
Speaker 3: so much saying, hey, that's film study. It is Hey,
Speaker 3: that's learning how to play your position at a higher level.
Speaker 3: That's learning how to do this and how to be
Speaker 3: a pro. And so much of that is a byproduct
Speaker 3: not of having a bad team, not of having the
Speaker 3: wrong guys on your offensive line, not of having the
Speaker 3: wrong guys in whatever position they're supposed to be. It's
Speaker 3: a byproduct of having a young team that still needs
Speaker 3: to learn.
Speaker 5: And you know what's even cooler behind the broken those
Speaker 5: stories to your point, having a young team like I
Speaker 5: must say, I had a veteran team that I was around,
Speaker 5: and I had a guy that played a few years
Speaker 5: in the league at the time too on that broken
Speaker 5: nose situation. Never mentioned it, The quarterback never mentioned it.
Speaker 5: It never got brought up. And you know what the
Speaker 5: did for me, and I'm fighting harder for them. You know,
Speaker 5: I want to sell out even more because if he
Speaker 5: cannot mention that or I not be cut, You've gained
Speaker 5: me even more. And that's what this group is getting now.
Speaker 5: Is it may be bad or it's not as good
Speaker 5: as you want it to be, but being in those
Speaker 5: trenches with those dudes that have to be here because
Speaker 5: they're under contract, right this is where that growth comes
Speaker 5: into play the world. We may see them in year six, seven, eight,
Speaker 5: because I think they're right behind each other and say
Speaker 5: we've dealt with this. This is where those combat plays
Speaker 5: where you're down six and you need seven to score.
Speaker 5: This is where that stock is gained right now. But
Speaker 5: it absolutely not can acknowledge it sucks going through the
Speaker 5: process of growing paints because there's nothing you can explain
Speaker 5: other than we're getting better.
Speaker 1: Topic five.
Speaker 3: That was a great answer, A good answer, all right.
Speaker 3: Topic number five? Is there one thing that could happen
Speaker 3: caveat other than a win? We know that wins are
Speaker 3: the old goal and the number one thing that can
Speaker 3: fix a lot of problems. Is there something that could
Speaker 3: happen on the field other than a wind? Maybe it's
Speaker 3: a play, Maybe it's some sort of a trend that
Speaker 3: starts to devolve. Maybe it's some sort of a moment.
Speaker 3: Is there something that could get this team back on
Speaker 3: track and heading in the right direction.
Speaker 5: It's gonna sound cheesy, but this is just as simple
Speaker 5: as a get because I'm going around and give you
Speaker 5: the answer.
Speaker 2: I promise I'm making you the answer. We're all still kids.
Speaker 5: And when we're walking, when we put on that those
Speaker 5: shoulder paths, those pants, Coach Manchak used to call them
Speaker 5: putting on your silks.
Speaker 2: The jerseys.
Speaker 5: Right, we're still kids and we play a game as
Speaker 5: adults that has a business behind it. What good needs
Speaker 5: to happen is positivity, just being honest with you, And
Speaker 5: that's so cheesy. No fan wants to hear that while
Speaker 5: you're losing, no player really wants to. But it's the
Speaker 5: truth because as much as we talked about how youthful
Speaker 5: this group is, you ask what good needs to happen.
Speaker 5: A clean game where you run the ball how you
Speaker 5: want to, where you can score in the tight red
Speaker 5: zone when you want to, when the defense gets a
Speaker 5: turnover and the offense immediately sets you up, and it's
Speaker 5: sets the offense up for a score, Having clean special
Speaker 5: teams where you lock everybody down, no big splash plays
Speaker 5: like it's the process of procedure of the game. And
Speaker 5: that's what this team hasn't had this year because Miami,
Speaker 5: they won, but it felt like it was choppy, like
Speaker 5: only one person was rowing the boat on one side.
Speaker 5: And what we finally made it the shore right understanding
Speaker 5: when you asked me that question, the method of how
Speaker 5: we pieced together a win, and I don't think we've
Speaker 5: seen them piece together a win the way a football
Speaker 5: team wants to.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: A dub is a dub is a dub is a dub.
Speaker 5: Sure, right, But knowing that I dominated you in a
Speaker 5: run game, I might have given up a sack today,
Speaker 5: but my quarterback was two and eighty five yards to touchdown.
Speaker 5: The defense held them to ten points. Special teams made
Speaker 5: fifty yarder and kept it cleaning every other face with
Speaker 5: no penalties. They've yet to have that moment. So it's
Speaker 5: funny saying positivity and good plays, but that's truly what's
Speaker 5: gonna because, as his young group knows right now, struggle.
Speaker 2: Best way to get out of that is a put
Speaker 2: it all together.
Speaker 1: See the point of this too, which is really interesting.
Speaker 1: And I know we're now four days away from the
Speaker 1: game in Detroit, but I would have loved to have
Speaker 1: seen the Titans kick off to Detroit at fourteen fourteen
Speaker 1: the ball go through the end zone for a touchback
Speaker 1: instead of being run back seventy two yards. And I
Speaker 1: would have loved to have seen them play that game
Speaker 1: fourteen fourteen Detroit at their own thirty yard line because
Speaker 1: at that point in the game, you've sacked their quarterback
Speaker 1: three times. He's hurting because you've you've worked on him
Speaker 1: quite a bit, You've moved the ball, you've got some confidence,
Speaker 1: you've driven for two touchdowns. Now it's a ball game.
Speaker 1: Let's play the ball game now. Pretty good chance you
Speaker 1: lose because Detroit's better than you are there at home.
Speaker 1: Who knows, but at least you could have seen that.
Speaker 1: Instead you saw kickoff return, interception and return punt return.
Speaker 1: This you never got a chance to actually play the
Speaker 1: game because even after some mistakes early on a bad
Speaker 1: interception and a seventy yard run, you had gotten it
Speaker 1: back to even. And if this team cannot play themselves
Speaker 1: out of a game with some sort of massive mistake,
Speaker 1: it would be interesting to see where they could flow,
Speaker 1: because there are signs in different areas at times that
Speaker 1: they can make a bit of a move. This game
Speaker 1: this week, I think, is the chance for that posse
Speaker 1: jctivity that you speak of.
Speaker 2: It isn't.
Speaker 5: And going to the Detroit game and lessons were being
Speaker 5: given by Detroit that's gonna benefit them later too, because
Speaker 5: you know what happened.
Speaker 2: You brought up a banged up Jared Goff.
Speaker 5: I do think that Dan Campbell kept him in and
Speaker 5: the game that they knew they were gonna win at
Speaker 5: that point to show his team this is how we
Speaker 5: fight to a finish.
Speaker 2: Lessons.
Speaker 5: You know, there'll be a cold game or they might
Speaker 5: have to go on the road and play against the team,
Speaker 5: and Jared Goff just got to suck it up and
Speaker 5: fight and continue to play for his teammates. But Mike,
Speaker 5: you bring up those bad points of the game that
Speaker 5: happened for the Titans, fourteen fourteen coming out of the halftime,
Speaker 5: it was fourteen to fourteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, after the touchdown drive. I mean that's yeah early
Speaker 1: in the early in the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, early in again, not at halftime. But you
Speaker 5: know what what that play did though, to the guys
Speaker 5: on the sideline, specifically offense, is that special teams play
Speaker 5: that was giving up essentially reset them towards like, well,
Speaker 5: we've done everything we're supposed to, right, there's no answers.
Speaker 5: And then what most folks don't understand, and at that moment,
Speaker 5: that young inexperienced group offensive league or let's say new
Speaker 5: group put together because there's some elder guys on there,
Speaker 5: right that's been around the league, but it puts them
Speaker 5: up against the wall because now we gotta pass, and
Speaker 5: we have to pass, and the hardest thing to do
Speaker 5: in the NFL is consistently throw the ball around for
Speaker 5: a group, specifically the old line who didn't give up
Speaker 5: many sacks after that. I don't think any sacks after that,
Speaker 5: But how many times, can we drop back and hope
Speaker 5: that we make a splash play and we don't because
Speaker 5: all they have to do is send four and drop seven.
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Speaker 1: twenty four season was jump started with a ten catch
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty three yard performance last Sunday. The
Speaker 1: Titans got involved early and often, and he made some
Speaker 1: big plays, including a forty seven yarder. Calvin Ridley is
Speaker 1: the Titans' most dynamic offensive performer. If the offense is
Speaker 1: to continue to grow, you have to feed him. Key
Speaker 1: number two. Keep up the heat. The Titans have gotten
Speaker 1: three sacks in the last two weeks from arden Key
Speaker 1: and in limited passing downs for the Lions last Sunday,
Speaker 1: Tennessee recorded four sacks. As a team. The pass rushers,
Speaker 1: one on ones the blitzes contributed to the pressure. More
Speaker 1: of this, please, No matter who the quarterback is for
Speaker 1: New England, they need to feel this sort of heat
Speaker 1: from the Titans. Key number three. Keep the ground game going.
Speaker 1: The Titans overall results have hardly been what they wanted,
Speaker 1: either from a record standpoint or from the offensive statistics,
Speaker 1: but one area has been consistently good. The ground game.
Speaker 1: It's been consistent no matter the score of the opponent.
Speaker 1: It was the biggest factor in the team's win at Miami.
Speaker 1: One hundred twenty rushing yards and four point four yards
Speaker 1: per game are both plenty good the Titans need to
Speaker 1: clean up several areas while maintaining what has been the
Speaker 1: best part of their twenty twenty four team, the ground game.
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Speaker 3: it was wordy?
Speaker 4: Word a minute?
Speaker 3: Sixteen, my friend, little over, little over today.
Speaker 4: Moving on.
Speaker 1: I had a lot to say.
Speaker 4: You did have a lot to say, which is so good.
Speaker 3: There was really key, just a little more loquacious maybe
Speaker 3: than they should have been given your time constraints.
Speaker 4: All right, are moving right along.
Speaker 1: In honor of drug Mayo Mayo from Almonds, It's a
Speaker 1: Mayo toivation from Helmans.
Speaker 3: Mayo Titans cheers, be loud, and your buffalo Chicken dip
Speaker 3: make you, your mama and the entire family proud. Helman's
Speaker 3: the official Mayo of the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 4: Mayo game Day, be delicious, May it.
Speaker 1: Be so mm hmm good?
Speaker 5: You say two really good words. I heard everything, but
Speaker 5: the way you say Mayo is good. And the way
Speaker 5: you say mama, thank you like you may have been
Speaker 5: the person like, yo, mama, like you do that really?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I never really found the appropriate way to deliver
Speaker 3: yo mama joke.
Speaker 4: Maybe I should bring it, you should or maybe not
Speaker 4: here four.
Speaker 1: The other thing was interesting from our trip to ford Field,
Speaker 1: the PA announcer refers to them as Detroit, not Detroit.
Speaker 1: He says Detroit. I found that very interesting. I never.
Speaker 3: So do you think he says it that way in
Speaker 3: a sentence like thank you for coming to Detroit.
Speaker 1: He referred to them as the Detroit Lions. Everything. Every
Speaker 1: time he referred to them, he called them Detroit. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that was a PA announcer thing just personal,
Speaker 1: or if that's how they how a local says it Detroit,
Speaker 1: but it is Detroit city. But when you referred to
Speaker 1: him as Detroit City, which is the referred to in song,
Speaker 1: in another way.
Speaker 4: I thought that was just for the song.
Speaker 5: Well, I know, yeah, I look at him just like
Speaker 5: in a sentence, maybe the Detroit Lions. I get that
Speaker 5: one in an announcements, but it's just Detroit.
Speaker 4: Right, I thought, I.
Speaker 1: Kind of like Detroit.
Speaker 2: You like Detroit.
Speaker 5: Yes, Well, I'm gonna say something might upset some people,
Speaker 5: but I just like Shelbyville.
Speaker 2: You see where I'm going.
Speaker 5: Some people will like point a finger to you if
Speaker 5: you go Shelbyville, it's Shovelvlle.
Speaker 1: Well it's really Shellville, Shepville like Marvelle.
Speaker 2: Now Mirrorville, I could get. It's not Maryville nor Mervill.
Speaker 4: M you are our full.
Speaker 2: Okay, So it's it Louisville Louisville.
Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting, it's Louisville, Kentucky. It's Lewisville, Tennessee.
Speaker 4: See, and neither one of them are Louisville.
Speaker 1: I say Louisville Louisville.
Speaker 4: I try not to say Detroit.
Speaker 1: This discussion brought to you by all Right. So we're
Speaker 1: on the air Sunday from Nissan Stadium in Detroit, not
Speaker 1: in Detroit downtown.
Speaker 4: Well, and see the music city problem.
Speaker 1: It was a problem in my house because because my
Speaker 1: father referred to them as Nissan Nissan.
Speaker 4: I kind of like that.
Speaker 1: Well, but that's how he's and he called on him
Speaker 1: for years. They were a client of his. Said I'm
Speaker 1: going over to Nissan in in Smyrna. And so when
Speaker 1: we got the the the naming rights, I had to
Speaker 1: say Nissan because that's what they they say we will
Speaker 1: be at not Nissan Nissan Stadium, not new Nissan Stadium,
Speaker 1: field Nissan Stadium this Sunday. Uh. They're on the air
Speaker 1: with Titans Countdown. I'm recorded. I'm off doing something eleven
Speaker 1: a m. Central noon Eastern kickoff set for twelve oh
Speaker 1: two Central. The Titans and the Patriots this Sunday at
Speaker 1: Nissan Stadium for our good friend Ramon Foster and Amy
Speaker 1: Wells if he took over the OTT. Good to do
Speaker 1: I Mike Keith, Hopefully we've turned it around and thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us for the OTT