1 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 1: This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 2 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: Get the home field advantage with healthcare coverage from Farm 3 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: Bureau Health Plans. They've been protecting Tennessee and since nineteen 4 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: forty seven. It is Thursday, October the first, and it 5 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: is Amy Wells and Mike Keith, the duo on this 6 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: edition of the OTP. Amy Wells, it has been it 7 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 1: has been an interesting week, Mike Keith. You know how 8 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 1: people when they're real tired, they say, who, it's been 9 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: a day. We've been saying that for about four days now. 10 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 1: It's been a day. Well. It started in Minneapolis on Sunday. 11 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: And one of the things about the game with the 12 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: Vikings that is unusual is it was an away game 13 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: on Central Time, and that happens very rarely for us. 14 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: There have been many years that the only away game 15 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: that we have on Central Time is Houston. So normally 16 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: we're in an Eastern time zone playing it away game, 17 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: and it's a one o'clock and so you got it 18 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:16,320 Speaker 1: like an extra hour to sort of gather. But because 19 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: we're playing at noon, and because there aren't buses carrying 20 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: us to the stadium, we are traveling separate from the team. 21 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: We all have to go together at the same time. 22 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: So we go very early in the morning on Sunday 23 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:32,759 Speaker 1: and we're there early. We do the game. The game 24 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: is exhausting, and if you watched or listened, we hope 25 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: you listened, you know what we're talking about. The game 26 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: was exhausting. And so then we start to add back 27 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: to the airport. When we get to the car, Amy 28 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: Wells does what is now her famous Mary Tyler Moore 29 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: impersonation in Minneapolis. Yes, did you know the Mary Tyler 30 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: Moore show. Y's the thing, Mike, Okay. I was not 31 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: present for the original airing of Mary Tyler Moore. However, 32 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: round two, Nick at Night, Mary Tyler Moore came on 33 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: after Laverne and Shirley. So I watched it and in 34 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: my little kid mind thought I was watching it in 35 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: real time. I was not. So I am very familiar 36 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: with the show from the reruns on Nick well the 37 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: iconic Mary Tyler Moore Show. She worked at a television 38 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: station in Minneapolis, and so we conned Amy Wells into 39 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: doing a Barry Tyler Moore knockoff and posted the video 40 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: at Titans Radio, tweeted it out from the Titans radio 41 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: account and it turned out to be like this massive hit. Yeah, 42 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 1: and it feels like that was nine years ago, doesn't it. 43 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: We were all different people back then. We get in 44 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: the card the fifteen passenger white van to drive back 45 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: to the Minneapolis airport. Brad Willis is editing this video 46 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: and we're laughing about the whole thing and excited to 47 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: be three and oh. And Titans fans are excited to 48 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: be three and oz and they see the video of 49 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: you doing the Mary Tyler more impersonation. If people just 50 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: love it, and everybody's excited to be three and oh. 51 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: Then we get back and we got back ten thirty. Yeah, 52 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: Sunday night. Not bad, not bad at all. We go 53 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 1: about our business. On Monday, we do Coach Rabel's radio show, 54 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: we do Coach Rabels television show. And on Tuesday morning 55 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: we are coming in to do Titans All Access. We 56 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: shoot Titans All Access on Tuesdays. And so i am 57 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 1: in the parking lot at Dunkin' Donut. It's National Coffee Day, 58 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: so I'm picking up coffee. I've got two instead of 59 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: one day, Big day, and I'm talking to Brad Willis 60 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: on the phone. I go to pull out, and all 61 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: of a sudden, my phone starts going nuts, and the 62 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: first text I have is from John Robinson and he says, 63 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: we are not shooting Titans All Access this morning, and 64 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: I'm like, why would we not be shooting Titans All Access. 65 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: So I pull into the quick Mart right there and 66 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,799 Speaker 1: get on my phone and immediately see that our building 67 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: has been closed and the reports are out that there 68 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: are eight positive COVID tests among players and staff, and 69 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: we've got a real issue. And then I call Ashley Farrell, 70 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: who produces Titans All Access works with us on the 71 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 1: OTP here, and I said, do we even come in? 72 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: She goes no, She said they're running us out of 73 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: the building right now. She was already there for the shoot. 74 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: And so then I called you and said, don't go in. 75 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: And so then we tried to figure out what was next, 76 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 1: and Tuesday was just an absolute blur. Yes, fair to 77 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: fair to say all day today. You mentioned at the 78 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: beginning of the show we were recording on Thursday. All 79 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 1: day today, I have thought it was Wednesday, And as 80 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: you're retelling the story, the reason that I think it's 81 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: Wednesdays because I feel like my week started with this right. 82 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 1: So Monday is lost in my brain. It Monday is 83 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: a distant time, in a distant place. My week started 84 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: on Tuesday when this happened, because it feels like since 85 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,679 Speaker 1: we got the news, since you called me, I didn't 86 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 1: even know what was going on. I have been on 87 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: the phone all morning talking to my family and just 88 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: kind of catching up on things as I normally do. 89 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: In the first couple of days, after we play a game, 90 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: and you were like, so we're not going in, I'm 91 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: getting in my car and I was like, Hey, why 92 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: why wouldn't we go in? And so I feel very 93 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: much like my world this week started when I was 94 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: on the phone with you, which explains why I'm so 95 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 1: confused about what day it is. Now. I get it. 96 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: I get it. And so we're getting calls all day 97 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 1: separately from people who are asking what we know, and 98 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: the truth is we don't know anything. They're either asking 99 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: what we know? Are are we okay? Yes? And listen. 100 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: So appreciate people being concerned. But part of the reason 101 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: that we don't know things, and part of the reason 102 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 1: that we are okay is we are not traveling with 103 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: the team this year. What I described about the hotel 104 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: and the fifteen passenger van and all of the stuff 105 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: is because we are having to travel separately and we 106 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: are one of less than ten teams that is traveling 107 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: radio to various sites. We mentioned that not bragging. This 108 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: is not John Wayne or Clint Eastwood that we think 109 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: we're so tough and very glamorous. No, it's not glamorous. 110 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: And it's not because we think we're tough or we're 111 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 1: better than anybody, or we just said we want to 112 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 1: try to do it if we can, we want to 113 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: try to do it. And Jonathan Cutton couldn't make one 114 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: trip because we couldn't take a full bunch of people, 115 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: and Brian couldn't make this trip because there was another 116 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: person who couldn't work at the radio station due to 117 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,679 Speaker 1: a car accident, our friend David Reid, and he's okay, 118 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: thank goodness. But Rhet was the only one allowed into 119 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: the studio that David was allowed into. So we've had 120 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: all of these things, just like you and your work 121 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: out there as you listen to the OTP, we've had 122 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: all these things come up. We don't know that we're 123 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: going to get to go to every game we hope, 124 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: so we're gonna try. But traveling commercially is very different 125 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: and not bad, but it's very it's a very different 126 00:07:55,600 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: experience because of the timing of it. It takes it's 127 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: a lot longer to do things the way we're doing it. 128 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: But in this case, we're not with the official party, 129 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: and because we're not at the same hotel and all 130 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: of this, we don't know these things that are going on. 131 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: We did not know Shane Bowen wasn't with the team 132 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: in Minnesota. Heard that on Vrabel's teleconference on Monday, and 133 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: I'm like, he wasn't. So it's very much like we're 134 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: disconnected in such a different way. Amy, Absolutely it is. 135 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: And to your point, Mike, everybody that has reached out. 136 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: My phone has been ringing NonStop since Tuesday. And I 137 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: am so appreciative of every person who basically I've ever 138 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:46,199 Speaker 1: met in my life checking in to see if you're okay. 139 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: I think that is just the kindest thing. And I'm 140 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: so appreciative that so many people are concerned about us. 141 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: I really think that that's awesome. But they also want 142 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: to know. Oh, but they totally also want to know 143 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: because the Titans are the national story in the NFL. 144 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 1: Because this is the first team that COVID has hit. Absolutely, 145 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 1: I mean yeah, it's also a bit of a fishing situation. 146 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: Hey are you okay? Okay? So who is it? Like? 147 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: I understand, I mean, it's national news. It's a huge thing, 148 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: and we've all kind of been waiting to see what 149 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: the NFL was going to do with this. For us, 150 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: You're one hundred percent right, Mike, in not only our 151 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 1: travel situation, but also kind of our work situation. The 152 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: way that we're doing things now, with the tiering systems 153 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:40,080 Speaker 1: and everything, we are not as close proximity to the 154 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: team as we usually are. We're still a practice, of course, 155 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: we're still doing interviews and things like that, but we're 156 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 1: not physically in the same spaces as the team. Amy 157 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 1: and I are Tier three, which means that unless things 158 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: change dramatically, which we don't expect, we will interview neither 159 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: a player nor a coach this year in person. When 160 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: we do things with Vrabel, we are not in person. 161 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: When we do things with Robinson, we are not in person. 162 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: So we go in on Wednesday and we tape titans. 163 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 1: All access are feeling at that point as people, as 164 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: people reading things in the media, as employees. From what 165 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 1: we know from our colleagues with the team, we think 166 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 1: the game's on, We think the game's gonna be Monday. 167 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 1: I want to ask you this. I never thought the 168 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: game was gonna be Tuesday. I never bought that. Yeah, 169 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 1: it seemed far fetched, just because a it's not a 170 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:49,680 Speaker 1: natural football day be there. Seems to me there would 171 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: be a lot of TV things that you would have 172 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:55,079 Speaker 1: to figure out from a logistics standpoint. Well, they were 173 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 1: saying it was gonna be on CBS in primetime. A 174 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: media reporter from The New York Post reported that it 175 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:06,559 Speaker 1: was going to be on at seven Eastern in prime time, 176 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 1: but never made it. Never made sense to me from 177 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: this standpoint. You've already got the Steelers who are kind 178 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 1: of messed up in all of this because they're the 179 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: travel team. We've worked closely with the travel folks for years. 180 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 1: You and I are friends with them. We know their job, 181 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: Understand how hard they work. You don't just call and 182 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: get a plane, no, right, you don't an entire hotel 183 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: or an entire hotel, especially now in Nashville. Yeah. Well, 184 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: but but how many of them can do the catering 185 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 1: can do, the security can do the meeting, because remember, 186 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 1: those guys can't leave anymore. When they get to the hotel, 187 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 1: they have to stay at the hotel. So for the 188 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: Steelers to be messed up with the travel thing, they 189 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: needed to know. And the other part of the logistics 190 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 1: is then they're gonna get back on Wednesday morning sometime, 191 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: you know, early in the morning, three, and then play 192 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: on Sunday and then play again on Sunday. That's not 193 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: really fair to them. If you play on Monday, it's 194 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: one thing because tuesday's normally a player day off. They'd 195 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: be fine. But Tuesday never made any sense to me. 196 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 1: So our assumption on Wednesday of this week is gonna 197 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 1: play the game. Titans probably don't get to practice. If 198 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,719 Speaker 1: they do, it's one day, so what play the game? 199 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,440 Speaker 1: Bring it on. That's what they're telling the players. They're saying, Hey, 200 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 1: we're going you know, if they want to show up 201 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,719 Speaker 1: and play in the parking lot at Kroger, We're rolling man. 202 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,959 Speaker 1: Because that's that's the attitude that the Titans. We're gonna 203 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: take about it, no excuses. They show up, we show up, 204 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 1: we play. We understand this. So I think when I 205 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: go to bed last night, I think the game's Monday. Yep, 206 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,680 Speaker 1: there was talk the game was gonna be Monday at 207 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: four Central so that it would not compete with the 208 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 1: scheduled Monday Night game, which I think is smart because 209 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: if I had Monday Night football, I'd be annoyed getting 210 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:24,559 Speaker 1: scooped by a really good game that's two, three and 211 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 1: oh teams Like this game with the Steelers is gonna 212 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 1: be a good game. Whenever we play it, it's gonna 213 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 1: be awesome. So the real Monday Night football teams, I'd 214 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: be annoyed to be losing my spot or having a 215 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: competing game. So I understand having it a little bit earlier. 216 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: That's totally fine. But yeah, as of last night, I 217 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: thought we were rocking and rolling on Monday. I thought 218 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 1: the game was gonna be on Monday, you know. I 219 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,319 Speaker 1: thought that's that's the story. We're gonna play on Monday. 220 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: And here we go. Get up this morning eight thirty 221 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 1: Central time, the news hits there two more positive COVID 222 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 1: tests and the league has postponed the game. So for us, 223 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: we have to go back in for the third straight 224 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: day and try to do something in regards to Titans 225 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: all access because some of what we have done. We 226 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: can't use now, Yeah, we can't flat wrong, So we 227 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: fix that and and now the Titans are headed towards 228 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: their bye week. That's what this is now. So the 229 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: players are off until early next week. But we don't 230 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: exactly know when the Titans are going to be allowed 231 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: back into Saint Thomas Sports Park, which is the training facility. 232 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: They have been told to stay away from one another, 233 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: don't go to the park and throw, don't get your 234 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: families together, don't have a supper where everybody's even sits 235 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 1: on the back porch. You know what I'm saying. None 236 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 1: of that, because the hope is that the positive tests 237 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: don't keep coming. Yes, because number one, you are so 238 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: worried about people getting sick, and you're so worried about 239 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 1: the people who are already sick because you have family 240 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: in the healthcare business. I have family in the healthcare business. 241 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: And what has scared medical people all along about COVID 242 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 1: more than anything else is what they don't know. How 243 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: it affects people differently, what the long term effects may be, 244 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: how it spreads so easily, asymptomatically. So now the football 245 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: thing gets pulled out of it, and I think Mike 246 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: Vrabel brought it up very accurately yesterday. The people part 247 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 1: of it comes to the forefront, as it probably should 248 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: have from the start. That is the nice thing about 249 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: being able to definitively know the game is not happening 250 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 1: this weekend. We know that now, so no distractions know 251 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: anything else. Let's focus on our people. Let's make sure 252 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: that everybody's healthy. Let's make sure that they're getting the 253 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: treatment and the medical attention they need. Let's make sure 254 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: their families are okay and their families are healthy, and 255 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: let's really try to contain this thing. I mean, people 256 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: are still going to be getting tested every day throughout 257 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: this bye week, so to be able to make sure 258 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 1: that we're not going to a more positive tests, we're 259 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: containing and treating all the people that need that. Hopefully 260 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: it gives us a chance to get some things under control, 261 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 1: and then when everyone comes back whenever that is, it 262 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: can be all football. Yeah, because this is this is 263 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: our family. You know, these coaches and these players, even 264 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: though we're separated from them right now. We mentioned the 265 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: staff who does operations, the equipment staff, the medical team, 266 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: per se. I mean, you feel so badly for the 267 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: people who have worked on all of the protocols for 268 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: this to happen, because we know they have gone above 269 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 1: and beyond, and I think you know, Ian Rappaport reported 270 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: today that there weren't fines coming for Titans players or 271 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 1: anybody for doing anything wrong. Well, I mean, in some 272 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: instances there have been things in sport where it has happened, 273 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 1: but this is one of those things. COVID is sneaky. 274 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:32,679 Speaker 1: I mean it's sneaky. You can do all of the 275 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: right things and still get exposed. And now you cut 276 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: down your chances if you do all of the right things. 277 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: But in this instance, these people who have worked so 278 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: hard to keep this from happening, I'm sure they're crest 279 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: falling at the fact that this has disrupted this organization. 280 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,120 Speaker 1: Because I will assure you, having known most of these 281 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: people for white sometime, there is no team that took 282 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:06,119 Speaker 1: this any more seriously than the Titans. There may have 283 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: been some who took it as seriously, but it's hard. 284 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: I mean, the whole thing is just really really hard 285 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: from the personal side to see these guys you know 286 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: down the way they are right now, and to know 287 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,199 Speaker 1: that Christian Fulton is the latest one to go on 288 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen list, and you know it could be 289 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: more days. There will be more tests, there will be 290 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 1: more results. You hope that it abates very quickly in 291 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 1: terms of the numbers of staff and players grow it well. 292 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:44,719 Speaker 1: The very first time that Mike Vrabel spoke to the media, 293 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: he started off pretty early on saying, Hey, this is 294 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: no one's fault. We're in a pandemic. This is what happens. 295 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:55,439 Speaker 1: There is no one to blame. And I wrote it 296 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 1: down because I felt like someone somewhere would need to 297 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: reference that at some point, Like, you didn't do anything wrong. 298 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: There is not anything more or less that you could 299 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: have done. You followed every step, every procedure, and it 300 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 1: still happened. It's a pandemic like that, That's what happens. 301 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: That's why this is a global emergency, Like it's bigger 302 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 1: than the protocols. And sometimes these things just they happen 303 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: the way they do well from a football standpoint. Back 304 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:31,719 Speaker 1: to that for a second. The fact that the team 305 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,639 Speaker 1: is an older team, the fact that the team is 306 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: off to a good start, the fact that the head 307 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:42,439 Speaker 1: coach and the general manager and everyone around both of 308 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 1: them have taken all this seriously, all the way through. 309 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 1: I think it gives the Titans as good a chance 310 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,440 Speaker 1: to deal with whatever the fall at is because here's 311 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: the thing, Amy, I mean, we don't know how much 312 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,719 Speaker 1: they're going to be able to practice for Buffalo. Nope. 313 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: The whole is they could go back to work on Wednesday, 314 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: but we don't know that, and it may be And 315 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: now they're gonna have to play thirteen straight weeks in 316 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:13,160 Speaker 1: the season, you know, and that's the way it goes, 317 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:17,119 Speaker 1: and you're not gonna and their attitude about it is 318 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 1: going to be this fine, of course we'll play thirteen 319 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: straight weeks. That's what we're gonna do. I mean, can 320 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: you think of a better head coach in the National 321 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 1: Football League to be leading a team in this situation 322 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 1: than the guy we've got. Nobody exists who is better 323 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 1: equipped for this kind of curveball than Mike Vrabel. Period. 324 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 1: There just isn't someone who can take it, make decisive 325 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 1: decisions about what's about to happen, and then keep pushing. 326 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: That's what he does, That's what it does every day. 327 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: So in that regard, I feel so thankful for the leadership. 328 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: John Robinson, Mike Vrabel Amy Adam Strunk. The people who 329 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: are driving this ship are one capable of making the 330 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: right choices in the best interest of this team and 331 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: getting them in a situation to be ready to play football. 332 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 1: And that makes me feel really good. Also, it makes 333 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,880 Speaker 1: me feel really good that we have two AFC wins 334 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: in our back pocket, so there's not a hole to 335 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: dig out of. We're not sitting on any losses right now, 336 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:26,080 Speaker 1: yea three and oh, and so when this team gets 337 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: back on the field, they can continue to push forward 338 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 1: and they're not trying to make up for anything else 339 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 1: that they've lost other than some practice time. That makes 340 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,440 Speaker 1: me feel good too. Well, that's right. I think that's 341 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: a good point about all of it, is that you 342 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,159 Speaker 1: have people and you know, when they sat down and 343 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 1: considered everything, and they knew they were going to go 344 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:51,440 Speaker 1: into this season, there was an understanding that competitive balance 345 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: at certain issues would go out the window based on 346 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: the fact that some of that might have to be 347 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: given up if the league wanted to play all two 348 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six games, that there might have to 349 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: be allowances. There were allowances in how the off season 350 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: was going to be done, and the league is famous 351 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 1: for being inflexible. They've been criticized for seemingly a hundred 352 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:21,160 Speaker 1: years for being inflexible. They were so flexible in this offseason. 353 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: They got the season started, and we got through three weeks. 354 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 1: We got through, you know, roughly twenty percent of the 355 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 1: season before this hit. Had it hit the Chargers, we'd 356 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: be having a conversation here on the OTP presented by 357 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: Farm Bureau Health Plans about well, the Chargers, and it's 358 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: tough for them, but you have to. You gotta go 359 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: forward because if you're the league, you're going to do it. 360 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: That's what everybody's saying about the Titans right now. Ye 361 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 1: tough for them, but you gotta go forward. I think 362 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:57,440 Speaker 1: the league desperately wanted to play this weekend, I really do. 363 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,399 Speaker 1: I think they wanted to play on Monday night. I 364 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 1: think they wanted to get it in. But I think 365 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 1: they're medical people probably said, with this situation as it is, 366 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: that team can't gather together soon enough for them to 367 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: play on Monday. Right. Well, Mike, I'm gonna be completely honest. 368 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,879 Speaker 1: I never want an NFL team to win other than 369 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. Ever, Like, I don't care who's playing. 370 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: I don't care what the situation is. I'm rooting for 371 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: everyone to lose except for the Tennessee Titans always because 372 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: that is in the best interest of us. However, when 373 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:34,120 Speaker 1: we think about this season in its entirety, we kind 374 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 1: of have to think about the greater good this year. 375 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 1: We have to be thinking for what is best for 376 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:44,159 Speaker 1: the entire league. Do we have some sort of a 377 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: competitive disadvantage going into a game at some point? Potentially? 378 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: Are we and maybe some other teams inconvenienced by the 379 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 1: fact that our schedules might have to be adjusted a 380 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 1: little bit? Sure, is a week four by that you 381 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: find out about out on a Thursday ideal and relaxing, 382 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: Not exactly, But if this is what needs to happen 383 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,119 Speaker 1: for the National Football League to be able to get 384 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 1: through and the entire sixteen seventeen weeks season, this is 385 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,159 Speaker 1: what we need. I mean, ask any rookie in the 386 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 1: National Football League. Was this offseason fair? Probably not? But 387 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:28,159 Speaker 1: we're playing absolutely, there's football. We are playing football. To 388 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:32,360 Speaker 1: your point about the greater good. We are playing football 389 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,479 Speaker 1: and good football and good football, and that is the 390 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:39,439 Speaker 1: most important thing to all of us and people, you know, 391 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: people Last Saturday, watching the SEC man. It felt good 392 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 1: to watch SEC football on Saturday night. I mean it 393 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: was just because this is there's so much whacky. I mean, 394 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 1: we talk about the situation with our travel and how 395 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: we're doing things differently, and we're just trying to pull 396 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 1: you the ot people behind the curtain a little bit. 397 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,919 Speaker 1: We're not complaining because we know in what you do, 398 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 1: you're facing the same thing as well. People ask these 399 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: questions about how are you doing this or what are 400 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: you doing or how is this working? And that's why 401 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:24,160 Speaker 1: we're talking about it because people ask us to talk 402 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: about it, and so we do, you know. So we 403 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,160 Speaker 1: come on the podcast and we have a conversation about 404 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: not complaining, not complaining in the least because we're playing 405 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 1: football and we knew this would hit. We knew it 406 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 1: would happen. And guess what if it's the last time 407 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 1: it happens this season, that will be the upset of 408 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty football season, right absolutely, And I think, Mike, 409 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 1: we have to take a minute to recognize all the 410 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: little victories that we have within some of the larger 411 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: income bedient us that everybody is experiencing in one way 412 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,479 Speaker 1: or another. It feels good to travel with Titans Radio, 413 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 1: just because we've got the band back together and for 414 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: so long we didn't even think that was going to 415 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 1: be an option. So I mean, you could put us 416 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,120 Speaker 1: on a bus, on a train, on a commercial flight, 417 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,160 Speaker 1: I don't care. It feels good to have this group 418 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 1: of people together, to be doing what we know how 419 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: to do again, like that feels good. So in the 420 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: midst of all the inconveniences and they're not traveling with 421 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: the team and this, that and whatever, that part feels 422 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 1: really good. Being able to go into a football stadium 423 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,159 Speaker 1: and call a game or be part of the radio broadcast, 424 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 1: albeit from the stands, and doing zoom calls on the 425 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: sidelines and some of these weird things that we've never 426 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: had to think about before feels so good because there's 427 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: football happening and it's not like baby pansy football. It's good, exciting, 428 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,919 Speaker 1: compelling football, you know. It's these are the things that 429 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 1: we so desperately have wanted for months and they're here, 430 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 1: and that feels good. I feel like we all just 431 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,439 Speaker 1: need to cling to the thing the good bits. Focus 432 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,120 Speaker 1: on the good bits, guys, like this is what we need. 433 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 1: That's it. I think I think that that makes all 434 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,640 Speaker 1: of the parts that are inconvenient and frustrating a lot 435 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 1: more manageable. Yeah, I don't think there's any question. I 436 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:29,399 Speaker 1: think if you're excited to do it, then it makes 437 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: it makes the rest of it just seem like okay, 438 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 1: and listen, it's amazing how nice people were to us 439 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:42,160 Speaker 1: in Denver and Minneapolis. I mean, like everywhere you go. 440 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: People at the hotel, at the stadium, at the airport. 441 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: I mean, people have just been great because they're like, look, 442 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 1: we've we've got to do a little bit more. We've 443 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 1: got to help each other out a little bit more. 444 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,200 Speaker 1: We we get it. We've got to use com and 445 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 1: sense at certain moments. You know that. That's a kind 446 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 1: of a good thing that you see through this is 447 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: that you see some people sort of knocking down some 448 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 1: walls and realizing, look, I mean we gotta If we're 449 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 1: gonna pull this off, everybody kind of has to pitch in. 450 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: And this hitting the Titans drives home how hard this 451 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 1: is gonna be, how hard it is going to continue 452 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: to be, because there isn't anything out there right now 453 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,240 Speaker 1: that says it's going to get easier very soon. It's 454 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: October you know it's it's October, but but here we are, 455 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: and this is what we're facing. And the Titans are 456 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 1: not going to play this weekend. They'll have a boy, 457 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 1: well if thirteen games straight to end the year, but 458 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: we hope we play all thirteen. And here we go, 459 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: Here we go, Mike. I think this is gonna be 460 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 1: just fine. I'm I'm excited about this season. I'm excited 461 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: about what's to come. I can't get over the fact 462 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: that the Titans are three and oh. I'm about to 463 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: hang a sign on my door. It's just made me 464 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,719 Speaker 1: so happy all week long. I really just like having 465 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: that zero in the losses column, Like it just looks esthetically, 466 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: it looks nice. Three and oh. The idea of like 467 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 1: never losing is an exciting feeling for me. It just 468 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: I can't stop saying it. We're three and oz three 469 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 1: and oh, no losses, and I'm gonna keep saying it 470 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: through the bye week. And it was a great win 471 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 1: in Minnesota in spite of where the Vikings are, because 472 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 1: of how the Titans want it, and it feels like 473 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: it was three years ago. It feels like it happened 474 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four because so much has happened between 475 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 1: now and then, but it was a great victory. It 476 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: was great leaving there. And that was one when the 477 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: schedule came out. Let's be really honest, you saw you 478 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 1: had Denver and at Minnesota, and you thought, okay, if 479 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 1: we could get one of those. Yep, if you can 480 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 1: get out of September two and one, if you beat Jacksonville. 481 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 1: But if you can get out of there two and one, 482 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: you're good. And to get both of them, it doesn't 483 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 1: matter how you did it. You got both of them. 484 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 1: And now you go into October. Whenever you get to 485 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: play in October, ready to go. Well, and Mike, we 486 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: also can't forget that the Titans play on Thursday night 487 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: in November. Yes, and that kind of gives you a 488 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 1: little respite too. You get a little relaxing weekend after 489 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 1: that time, the third weekend in November. That's right. Yeah, 490 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: So I mean, there you go. It's thirteen games straight, 491 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 1: but with a little comma. But you know, the whole 492 00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: thing with the Titans is after this, by five of 493 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: six at home also very nice. Traveling is taxing. Yeah, 494 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 1: five of six at home, but then but then a 495 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,719 Speaker 1: lot of traveling down the stretch. Yeah, a lot of traffic. 496 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: And look at the end there, did you see Green Bay? Yeah, 497 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm choosing to live in the moment, Mike. 498 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 1: I don't need to think about a how just unbelievably cold. 499 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: That game is going to be in Green Bay. And 500 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 1: I'm one of those people who gets really excited about 501 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 1: big Man football when it's snowing and you can't see 502 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,479 Speaker 1: the hash marks. But from my couch, I really enjoy 503 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 1: watching it on TV. I don't know if I am 504 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 1: man enough for big Man football in Green Bay on 505 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:51,000 Speaker 1: December twenty seven, that might not be me. So that, Yeah, 506 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:55,040 Speaker 1: that's gonna be hard. Finishing up at Houston is going 507 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,960 Speaker 1: to be a challenge. Yeah, I mean we've still got 508 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 1: We've still got a ways to go here, Keith, which 509 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: is why I'm gonna keep writing three and oh as 510 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 1: long as that's it, that's it. That's my plan. All right, 511 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 1: good stuff. That's uh. That's going to kind of wrap 512 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 1: up this edition of the OTP presented by Farm Bureau 513 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 1: Health Plans. Look to the folks at Farm Bureau Health 514 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: Plans when you need someone who understands the xs and 515 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 1: o's of healthcare coverage, they've been protecting Tennessee since nineteen 516 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 1: forty seven. Kind of a different OTP than we usually do, 517 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 1: but um, we sort of wanted to share some of 518 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 1: the story of the week in terms of how it 519 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:40,320 Speaker 1: had been experienced from this perspective. Many of you have 520 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 1: have gotten on you know, you've called us or texted 521 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,840 Speaker 1: us and whatever an email to see how we were doing. 522 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 1: Thank you for that. But also really cool to see 523 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 1: all the people on social media who have been worried 524 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: about the players and the coaches, and that's we're all 525 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: concerned about the ball game. I get that we're all 526 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 1: sports fans, but sometimes you think of those are the 527 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,000 Speaker 1: guys in the helmets, and they're not real people, and 528 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: they very much are real people, and so um makes 529 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:14,920 Speaker 1: me proud to see people say, hey, worried about the fellas. Yep, 530 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 1: people helping people. There's a lot of kindness in the world. 531 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,440 Speaker 1: Mike Keith, there you go. Listen to that. I know 532 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 1: it isn't that nice. You sound like a song. I 533 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 1: always sound like a song. Sometimes it's an angry song. 534 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 1: But nonetheless, Galanis Morisset. Um, she's very popular. She was 535 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 1: at one time. Yes, all right, well, that's gonna do it. 536 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,200 Speaker 1: For this edition of the OTP, thank you to Brian Myers. 537 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 1: Thank you to Ashley Farrell for Amy Wells. I'm Mike 538 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,120 Speaker 1: Keith and you have been joining us for the o 539 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:51,240 Speaker 1: TV people. Welcome to the Big show. We ever got 540 00:33:51,240 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 1: a knows house, We got sighting Burro running through a fence.