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Speaker 1: From the bet MGM studio at Nissan Stadium. This is

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Speaker 1: the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. Get the

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Speaker 1: They've been protecting Tennessee and since nineteen forty seven with

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Speaker 1: Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith and it is our favorite

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Speaker 1: edition of the OTP because it's the OTP. QUES four

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Speaker 1: head coach Mike Rabel, Hello, coach, Hi, guys, are you

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Speaker 1: doing all right? Are are you getting ready for the draft?

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Speaker 1: Everything coming together? Yeah? I think we're getting ready and

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Speaker 1: John and are excited. The scouts are back from Prode

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Speaker 1: looking forward to visiting with them and getting information from

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Speaker 1: them and our coaches and our meetings and continue to

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Speaker 1: put our play together. How are the interviews with players

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Speaker 1: different from when you were a player being interviewed? Well,

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Speaker 1: it was this at the combine and I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't really recall any follow up, you know, from my time,

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Speaker 1: you know, going through the draft, and I can remember

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Speaker 1: I think you just you had a prote you had

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Speaker 1: a you know, and then you started working out and

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Speaker 1: was anybody that really followed up, you know with me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a good thing or a

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Speaker 1: bad thing, but you know, we're we're doing a lot

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Speaker 1: of due diligence, but also just trying to get to

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Speaker 1: know these guys through zoom and also what we were

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Speaker 1: able to witness live at the pro Das. All right,

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Speaker 1: this is the otpques questions from Titans fans for head

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Speaker 1: coach Mike Vrabel. Amy Wells runs these, so Amy take

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Speaker 1: it away, all right, coach. We got some really good

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Speaker 1: questions submitted, some hard hitting questions and some nice questions.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to start off by talking about your

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Speaker 1: career a little bit. This was from Ashton in Nova Scotia.

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Speaker 1: He says, Coach, what is one thing that you wish

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Speaker 1: you had known when you began your career as a

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Speaker 1: head coach? I don't really know. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: that there's going to be just a lot of things

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to keep your knees bank keep

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Speaker 1: that's just the biggest thing. Is that just it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's such a long season. It's such a long process.

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Speaker 1: Stick with the plan, sticking with what you believe in

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Speaker 1: and make the players believe in it. And I think

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Speaker 1: to just understand that you have you have to be

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Speaker 1: playing your best late. You know, those are a lot

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Speaker 1: of things that I've always believed in, but you know,

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Speaker 1: they don't give you. They didn't leave a manual underneath

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Speaker 1: football team. Coach choosing though, we'll call this a warm

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Speaker 1: up question. This is Hunter from Richmond, Virginia. He says, coach,

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Speaker 1: what are you the most excited about for this upcoming season?

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Speaker 1: The same thing I am always is trying to build

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Speaker 1: and every year is different. Trying to continue the things

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Speaker 1: But just getting excited to work with the players. You know,

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Speaker 1: I never got into coaching to hang out with other coaches.

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Speaker 1: I got into coaching to help players and improve players

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Speaker 1: and win. Okay, Justin from San Francisco's coming at you

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Speaker 1: with the football question. He says coach. I noticed that

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Speaker 1: What is that philosophy going into twenty twenty one. Well,

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Speaker 1: adjust to it. Here in the offseason, Mike, I was

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Speaker 1: Mike's teammate with the New England Patriots. And he said,

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Speaker 1: the reason that Mike Vrabel likes bud Dupree is that

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Speaker 1: pleases you, Mike sure. I mean, people are you know,

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Speaker 1: But you know, we've got a plan that we've we've

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Speaker 1: also talk about some younger players. Chris from Morris Soun

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Speaker 1: more of Dane Crookshank and a Moni Hooker. Basically, how

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Speaker 1: Jonathan and Bret Kentucky, and he says, when you're on

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Speaker 1: just like to see how they're involved, what their conditioning

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