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Speaker 1: We're glad to have you with us for this week's

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Speaker 1: edition of the OTV, Wednesday, August the twenty First, my

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Speaker 1: name is Mike. Keith amy Wells is here as always,

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Speaker 1: Hello Mike and coach Dave McGinnis from Titans Radio. Mike,

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Speaker 1: how are you great? And we welcome back Jim Wyatt,

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Speaker 1: who blew us off last week. I was specifically told

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Speaker 1: to not say anything mean about it. Want to do it?

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Speaker 1: I told you not to say anything last week because

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Speaker 1: we have to harass him in person. We are glad

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Speaker 1: you're back. Yeah, I'm sorry about you were busy with

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Speaker 1: the with the Patriots practice, the Titans Patriots practice, and

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Speaker 1: like like we weren't. That's kind of what I said,

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Speaker 1: But that's another time. A right, let it go go

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Speaker 1: into counseling um. But yesterday he's hanging out with Kenny

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Speaker 1: Chesney at practice to talk to Kenny. I didn't talk

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Speaker 1: to Kenny. I thought about it because he would have

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Speaker 1: been flattered, you know, because when he would have been flattered,

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Speaker 1: not by me talking to him about what I would

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Speaker 1: have told him if I would have gotten close. But

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to be creeping anymore that I was

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Speaker 1: by taking pictures of him. But I was going to

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Speaker 1: tell him the story if I would have gotten with

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Speaker 1: an ear shot that when Bill Belichick was here, they

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Speaker 1: let him make a special request for the music. I

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Speaker 1: think on the Thursday Pride, Bill Belichick requested the boys

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Speaker 1: to fall Kenny Chesney song. So I would have told

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Speaker 1: Kenny that, but I never got a chance. I like that.

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Speaker 1: Jim Wyatt started that story with I almost talked to

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Speaker 1: him and it would have made his day, said Jim,

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Speaker 1: I'm all for you, but you recovered well, I mean

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Speaker 1: from flowing us off for the last one. They saying

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Speaker 1: Kenny Chesney would be flattered that you came up. Well,

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Speaker 1: we should throw in a Toby Keith song title there.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about me. I'm a big toe Be Keith fan.

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Speaker 1: I understand Keith is really is not his real last name,

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Speaker 1: by the way. Really Nope, that's his middle name name,

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Speaker 1: Toby is now it's Toby Keith Smith or something. It's not.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. Yeah, it kinda does. Well, No,

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Speaker 1: he can't be related because Keith is not his last name.

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Speaker 1: That's how Mike Keith is my last name. Yes, thank you, Jim,

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Speaker 1: Thank y'all. Show you by driver's license here in a minute.

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Speaker 1: All right, So now that you keep up the taunting

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Speaker 1: with the question. And the real reason we think you

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Speaker 1: didn't show up last week is because we all had

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Speaker 1: to answer the question what were you most wrong about?

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Speaker 1: Entering camp? And Amy Wells gave one of the lamest

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Speaker 1: answers I have ever heard. She said she had been

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Speaker 1: to stand by that answer horrendous. No, So what is

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Speaker 1: your answer to that question? What were you most wrong

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Speaker 1: about entering camp? I said kareem or coach Max says

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Speaker 1: Isaac Isai mac Well. This answer would not have been

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Speaker 1: my answer last week, so that having the extra cake

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Speaker 1: has given me time to make him my answer. I'm

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Speaker 1: I was most wrong about John U. Smith and when

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Speaker 1: he would come back and be available. Because somebody would

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Speaker 1: have told me at the start of training camp that

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Speaker 1: before the season, start running around and doing some of

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Speaker 1: the things that we've seen him do. I would have

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Speaker 1: said no, way, because of the significance of that injury,

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Speaker 1: that and if everything stays on track, John U Smith

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Speaker 1: could be ready to help this football team in Week

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Speaker 1: have said that at the start of camp. Good thing

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Speaker 1: was really playing good football in December when he got hurt.

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Speaker 1: He you know, we saw that. This will credit this

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Speaker 1: coaching staff. Think about how many players we saw that

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Speaker 1: with during the course of the year. Rashaun Evans got

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Speaker 1: better as the year went on, john Nu Smith got better,

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Speaker 1: The entire defensive staff is back twenty two years I've

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Speaker 1: And on offense only one change. Todd Downing, who's a

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Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator himself. But I mean that continuity. It

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Speaker 1: seems like it's giving the Titans a chance amy to

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Speaker 1: You can tell that they built a solid foundation in

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Speaker 1: There's not as much teaching out at practice. There's more

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Speaker 1: and the fact that they know the strengths and weaknesses

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Speaker 1: So that's among one of the many positives I think

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Speaker 1: any tells in terms of when he speaks with the media.

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Speaker 1: Is there something Dave McGinnis you've picked up on that

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Speaker 1: Yesterday he gave a huge shout out to new running

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Speaker 1: So he kind of picks his spots on when he

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Speaker 1: and as I say, I've had press conferences as a

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Speaker 1: them counting practice squad. Yes, absolutely, Amy, I don't think

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Speaker 1: And they say, well, no, I'm not. I wouldn't get

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Speaker 1: out of the wouldn't get out of the dorm room.

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Speaker 1: We're all in dorms. I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving.

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing you're probably undefeated when it came to the

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Speaker 1: showdown who's going and who's No, I was undefeated because

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Speaker 1: I had Mike Ditka backing me up. I was. I

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Speaker 1: was way good with that. But you weren't the Turk?

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Speaker 1: Were you? No? Absolutely not, But this will be a

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Speaker 1: I did do all the bed checks because I was

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Speaker 1: the youngest coach on the staff. There was only we're

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Speaker 1: way off topic now, No, this is fantastic. I was

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Speaker 1: young because we only had seven coaches on the staff,

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Speaker 1: so I was the youngest. So I did bed check

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Speaker 1: every night. I mean I could write two books on that.

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Speaker 1: Is it safe to say that Michael and Dan and

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Speaker 1: all those guys weren't in bed where they were supposed

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Speaker 1: to be. Look those dudes. I mean it was like

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Speaker 1: mop heads up and down the hallways. It was I

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Speaker 1: can't even we can't talk about it here. It'll be

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Speaker 1: in the book. Did you ever find it was fascinating? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Did you ever much fun? Did you ever find more

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Speaker 1: than one person in the bed we're not talking about

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Speaker 1: any of this sounds like a yes? All right, So

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Speaker 1: we'll wrap it up with this. We got to get out.

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Speaker 1: We could be here all day. This is great thing

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Speaker 1: that you're looking most forward to, or better put, thing

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Speaker 1: that you want to see or need to see. As

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Speaker 1: the Titans take on Pittsburgh Sunday night, now you know,

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Speaker 1: depending on how long you know the they're real guys

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Speaker 1: play and how long you know I just want to

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Speaker 1: I want I want to see a continuity and flow.

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Speaker 1: And I'm talking about on both sides of it, and

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Speaker 1: the other thing that that's extremely important. Now, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you've got to pay attention to what your special teams

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Speaker 1: are doing. You know during this ball game. This is

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Speaker 1: this is extremely important and that's part of the game.

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Speaker 1: I think that sometimes gets lost. That is so so important.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've got such a weapon in our punter

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Speaker 1: here that can flip field position. It's really important to

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Speaker 1: watch the gunners and watch coverage. And the guys are

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Speaker 1: gonna make this team because they've got a proficiency at

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Speaker 1: doing that. But I want to see a continuity and

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Speaker 1: a flow. That's that's what you're looking for as a

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Speaker 1: coaching staff. They've done it, You've seen I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna do a little bit of game planning. It's not

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Speaker 1: going to be exactly detailed, but you want to see

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Speaker 1: everything smooth. I think Derrick Henry, I I'd like to

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Speaker 1: see him play, whether or not he does or not,

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Speaker 1: and I think you'd feel better about things going in

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Speaker 1: the season if he's able to get a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a field and get a few snaps in. I've

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Speaker 1: been encouraged by what we've seen so far this week

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Speaker 1: on the practice field as he works his way back,

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Speaker 1: But you know, I think it would beneficial for him

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Speaker 1: to least get some action because if he doesn't, maybe

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Speaker 1: if he needs more time. He's not going to play

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Speaker 1: on Thursday night than Chicago when most of the other

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Speaker 1: starters are resting, So it's either Sunday night against Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: or it's September of the eighth against Cleveland. I think

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Speaker 1: he'd probably feel a little bit better and they feel

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Speaker 1: little bit better if he got some action. So that's

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Speaker 1: what I'd be most looking forward to seeing. I want

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Speaker 1: to see the first team offense get into a rhythm.

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Speaker 1: I want to see them play together and actually make

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Speaker 1: something happen in for a little more time than five minutes,

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Speaker 1: you know. I want to see them really consistently move

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Speaker 1: the ball, make plays, get something put together and put

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Speaker 1: together well. I want to see the run defense like

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Speaker 1: we saw in Philadelphia. They were leaky in the game

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Speaker 1: the other night against New England, and I listen, I

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Speaker 1: know it's not the first team and I know they

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Speaker 1: didn't game plan, but setting the edge, making sure they're

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Speaker 1: filling gaps, tackling well, those sorts of things. If this

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Speaker 1: defense is going to get better, one of the places

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Speaker 1: it has to get better is run defense. They were

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Speaker 1: average last year. I want to see them continue. I

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Speaker 1: want to see the next two preseason games. I don't

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Speaker 1: care who's on the field, good run defense out of

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Speaker 1: the Titans. Yeah, well, I mean that's that's important. But dude,

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Speaker 1: keep in mind and you did, you said it, to

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Speaker 1: keep in mind who's in there right when that first

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Speaker 1: group is in there or the people that are going

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Speaker 1: to be in there that I think that group has

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Speaker 1: done a good job with it. And it goes back

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Speaker 1: to what we talked about, you know, earlier on and

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Speaker 1: we've we've talked about it as a group, we've talked

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Speaker 1: about it on air. I think that that that interior

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Speaker 1: they're they're understanding. You talk about continuity. This staff, he

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Speaker 1: talked about continuity to understand what's going on the defense.

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Speaker 1: This defense germinates from guys up front that get their

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Speaker 1: hands in somebody's chest and re establish a line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: I've seen that we haven't even seen Jarell Casey yet

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Speaker 1: not in game activity. That is, we know what he

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Speaker 1: can do. We know what he can and I'm good

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Speaker 1: with if Delaniel Walker doesn't play the rest of the the

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Speaker 1: way either. He may want to, but I think we've

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Speaker 1: seen enough from him to know he's he's back. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: time to get the bubble wrap on him, get get him,

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Speaker 1: ship him even right now. And see, I don't care.

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Speaker 1: I don't care if I see Derrick Henry at all

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Speaker 1: at all. He's running enough outside inside zone in his life,

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Speaker 1: you know. I just I want him all healthy to

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Speaker 1: go against Cleveland. And we keep hearing about Cleveland. They

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Speaker 1: continue to be a massive story around the league. Baker

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Speaker 1: Mayfield making news again. Baker Mayfield makes news every day,

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Speaker 1: every day. Every day. It's a he's He's a huge star.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm in Cleveland and I'm covering the team,

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Speaker 1: I'm obviously excited. If I'm a Cleveland fan, I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: I mean for them, it's just nice to have somebody

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00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: like that again. I'm excited that that's who we open with.

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Speaker 1: It could be fun to beat him. Because of the mustache,

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Speaker 1: the extended mustache, or the questioning of Daniel Jones. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's interesting that he's reached the point now

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Speaker 1: that he's you know, criticizing or at least questioning other

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks being picked. I mean, I think he says whatever

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Speaker 1: he thinks. Yeah, I don't think he cares too much.

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Speaker 1: He seems, which rather and which is one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons he's a good player. I don't think he cares.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's scared. And you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you you admire that. Now there can be blowback to that,

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Speaker 1: you know, but boy, he's talented. I've watched all eight

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Speaker 1: of their games they played last year when On's Freddy

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Speaker 1: Kitchens started calling it and g dub Greg Williams was

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Speaker 1: the head coach. This kid is a player. Don't mistake

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Speaker 1: any of that. All the rest of this stuff, all

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Speaker 1: this other stuff that he's doing, don't don't let that

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Speaker 1: get in the way of the fact that this kid's player. Now,

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Speaker 1: we teased him at first, but I think we were

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Speaker 1: very glad. Jim watchs back this week to let me

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Speaker 1: back he played by the rules this time. He did. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he answered all the questions. He didn't try to get

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Speaker 1: anything sneaky in there. You can stay Jim Watt is

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00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 1: like one of those all these veterans to get maintenance days. Day,

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Speaker 1: you get a maintenance day, but you know that wherever

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Speaker 1: he is, he's working. That's right. I'll ride with Jim

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Speaker 1: Watt anywhere. That's why we call him the Great. Jim

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Speaker 1: Watt is tight online dot Com appreciate that, I mean big.

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Speaker 1: There's nobody like Jim. Why we know it. We can

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Speaker 1: rag him about hanging out with Kenny Chesney, enhancing his life.

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Speaker 1: The best day of Kenny Chesney's life was there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the thing about that. I was hanging out with him,

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Speaker 1: Only he didn't know I was there hanging out. I

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Speaker 1: just happened to people. Guess what he knows nowt OTP listener,

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Speaker 1: Kenny is on the beat somewhere down in Mexico, drinking

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Speaker 1: probably a Coronan up a blue chair, thinking about sounds nice.

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Speaker 1: So we didn't say it officially, but it is true

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Speaker 1: and it is complete the MAC and three edition of

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Speaker 1: the OTPA. It makes me so happy. And this is

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Speaker 1: such an award winning thing. Yeah, when we finally went

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Speaker 1: an award, you know it will be amby Wells coach

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Speaker 1: Mack Jim Wide If Titans Online dot com. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much. My name is Mike Keith, and we thank

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