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Speaker 1: We welcome you to the Official Titans Podcast, better known

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Speaker 1: as the OTP. My name is Mike Keith. Amy Wells

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Speaker 1: is always here. Hello, how are you? I just live

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Speaker 1: in this studio, live in the studio. We're very lucky

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Speaker 1: that Titans Radio's Dave McGinnis is here. Coach Mac, I'm

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Speaker 1: Mike Keith. All right, we're we're glad you're here. You

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Speaker 1: have power. No, still do not have any power. Okay,

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Speaker 1: still don't have any power. But I've got first world problems, right. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, in comparison to my neighbors. I was up

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Speaker 1: there all weekend in East Nashville. Let's steal. Take a

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Speaker 1: while to dig out, but I'm fine. I've been taking

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Speaker 1: well care of good, good, good, good well. On today's

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Speaker 1: edition of the OTP, Jim Wyatt is tagging out the

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Speaker 1: great Jim Watt, and we tag in a season ticket member.

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Speaker 1: We thought we need a Titan season ticket member. But

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Speaker 1: this Titan season ticket member isn't just to see ticket. Remember,

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Speaker 1: he is a season ticket founder. He is an original

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Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety nine the and he is well known

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Speaker 1: for something else. He's a member of the Oak Ridge Boys.

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Speaker 1: Joe Bonsell, thank you so much for being here. Thank you, Mike.

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Speaker 1: It's an honor to be here. I've been so excited

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Speaker 1: about this since you first brought me a note and said,

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Speaker 1: would you consider coming down and doing the Titans podcast. Yes,

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Speaker 1: well let me tell you. Let me tell you why,

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Speaker 1: because so I grew up an oak Ridge Boys fan,

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Speaker 1: which is y'all come back. Saloon is still one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite songs of all time nineteen seventy seven. Thank

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Speaker 1: you with that old bro. Yeah, oh I'm way that old.

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Speaker 1: She played tambourine with a silver jingle. She know, the

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Speaker 1: girl that wrote that just went into the hall country,

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Speaker 1: into the writer's Hall of Fame, No kidding, Sharon Vaughan,

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Speaker 1: Congratulations she was. She also wrote my heroes have always

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Speaker 1: been Cowboys. They were the first two songs she ever wrote.

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Speaker 1: Mel Tillis signed her to a deal, and uh, we

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Speaker 1: got Saloon and Willie got my heroes, and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, he was a big song. She did all right,

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Speaker 1: and she's made a lot of good songs since, but

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Speaker 1: those first how can you write those first two songs?

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Speaker 1: First ever? Pretty great? But for me, So I'm calling

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Speaker 1: the games nineteen ninety nine, I look out of the

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Speaker 1: booth and there's Joe Bonds. That's awesome. And I saw

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Speaker 1: and I thought, this is a big deal. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean that sincerely. When I saw that you were there,

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Speaker 1: I thought, Wow, this is really this is Nashville behind this,

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Speaker 1: This is the real thing. And you grew up an

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Speaker 1: NFL fans, so when you got a chance to be

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Speaker 1: right in. In In fact, I could tell you to this day,

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Speaker 1: all these years later, when I go to a game,

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Speaker 1: whether it's my grandson with me and he's grown up

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Speaker 1: there now he's in the Navy, and he grew up there.

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Speaker 1: You invited him. Thank you. That was awful that kind

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Speaker 1: there's been times I've just went by myself because nobody

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Speaker 1: to this day, when I towards that stadium, I get

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Speaker 1: an NFL game. Man, We've got NFL in Nashville. I

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Speaker 1: still can't believe it. And it's it's twenty one, twenty two,

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Speaker 1: seen every team in the NFL, most of them in

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Speaker 1: So being able to do this with your family that

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Speaker 1: must add a special layer of excitement to the whole experience, right, Well,

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Speaker 1: whether he's just this big sitting next to me at

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Speaker 1: Those are generational fans. And what you're talking about and

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Speaker 1: what Mike has just said, you know now about your grandchildren.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's a that's starting a generational tradition. After

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Speaker 1: The very first game I went to here was that

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Speaker 1: be like the next big thing. Remember Ryan Leaf. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute that Wait a minute, Wait a minute.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Leaf is doing a good job on ESPN. Now

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Speaker 1: that guy has really turned his life for real and

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Speaker 1: he and he really did. And with all due respect,

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Speaker 1: And so I agree with you, Mike, he is he's

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Speaker 1: pulled his life back together. And but there was a time,

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Speaker 1: of those things were there. Now, what the thing about

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Speaker 1: William Lee Golden. Is he a sports fan? Not as much,

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Speaker 1: but we'd drag him along. If he's gotta take it,

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Speaker 1: it was the Spectrum. The Spectrum in Philadelphia, Yes, in

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Speaker 1: Julius Vy, Yes, George Mugetis, Yes, man, you're there. Oh

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Speaker 1: I love the PA announcers. Yes, well, it's like it's

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Speaker 1: like when the Pistons were really good. Oh yeah, bad boys.

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Speaker 1: Know there's you know you talk about people growing up.

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Speaker 1: down Titans. That's become a part of our lively. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know this already. But John jon Send he used

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Speaker 1: unquote their type of guy. But yet, but and yet

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Speaker 1: more than you think, how about you? I can attest

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Speaker 1: to that with Mike Keith. Yeah, we're gonna put his

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Speaker 1: Coach McK and I are doing something Thursday night. Now,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be at the Opry Thursday night. We are

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Speaker 1: at the Ryman. At the Ryman. It's a classic. I'm

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Speaker 1: a classic version of the In other words, mixt we're

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Speaker 1: just sing old songs. Okay, wow? Is it the best

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Speaker 1: perfect as they say it is? Yeah? Yeah, The Rhyman

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Speaker 1: to the Patriots. He's definitely not going back to the Patriots.

424
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 1: He's cleaned out his lockers. He's cleaned out his locker,

425
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:16,000
Speaker 1: he sold his house, he had a yard sale. I mean,

426
00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,280
Speaker 1: he yeah, he was at NBA and he's eating at

427
00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,840
Speaker 1: the Crystal on West End. I mean, it's it's it's

428
00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:28,960
Speaker 1: like it's crazy. But but to that point, what drives

429
00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:33,880
Speaker 1: him here is is there something in this? Because my

430
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,479
Speaker 1: feeling has been no way he leaves New England. I

431
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,480
Speaker 1: just can't see Tom Brady doing it. Now as we

432
00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 1: record this on March the ninth, it's a week until

433
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:47,760
Speaker 1: the tampering period begins for free agency. I'm starting to

434
00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 1: believe maybe he does. I never thought i'd see Joe

435
00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 1: Montana with the Chiefs. He's true. Well, you mentioned unitus.

436
00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you mentioned how many people really

437
00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 1: would have thought when you really start, you really start looking,

438
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,919
Speaker 1: especially in this day and age. I mean when you

439
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 1: were starting out and you knew every one of those

440
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,199
Speaker 1: Eagles And guess why you knew them because they were

441
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,520
Speaker 1: there every year. Every one of those players were there

442
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,679
Speaker 1: every year. When I started with the Bears, I mean,

443
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,480
Speaker 1: I grew up with Mike Singletaries. You know, his kids

444
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,800
Speaker 1: grew up. I watched his kids grow up. You watched.

445
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,080
Speaker 1: But this different Now, this is different world, now that

446
00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,080
Speaker 1: the all sports baseball is the same thing. You know,

447
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:25,600
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, you know, you saw the

448
00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,840
Speaker 1: Phillies every year. Johnny Callison was always there, you know,

449
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 1: and then you know it's all different. Ritchie Ashburn baby

450
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,640
Speaker 1: one of the most underrated baseball players of all time,

451
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 1: Yes he was. And Robin Roberts Robin Roberts, the fireballer gas.

452
00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:43,680
Speaker 1: But you know who I really like back then was

453
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 1: Kurt Simmons, the left hander. And years later I went

454
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,359
Speaker 1: to a game at the Old Vet and I'm sitting

455
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 1: there and uh God turns around and says, hey, man,

456
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:55,600
Speaker 1: one of Thokrits boys, right. I said, yeah, he said, hey,

457
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 1: Kurt Simmons. Oh gosh. I was like, Oh, I like

458
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,239
Speaker 1: Kurt Simmons. I could see his baseball car. I can

459
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 1: see it. That's so good. That is so good. I

460
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 1: can see it. Wow, I'm sitting behind great Simmons. Okay,

461
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 1: so we have to we have to ask a coach

462
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,200
Speaker 1: mac question now, So we do that here on the OTP.

463
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,720
Speaker 1: You know, people actually listen to this all over the world, Amy,

464
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: and I've been stunned. And Coach has two as we

465
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,479
Speaker 1: travel during the playoffs, meeting people from not only all

466
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,719
Speaker 1: over the country, but different places in the world. And

467
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 1: so we have to take advantage of his knowledge. And

468
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: I've been asked this one and I want your answer.

469
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: I can't wait. Are you nervous about the fact that

470
00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,600
Speaker 1: the Titans have not signed any of their big name

471
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,880
Speaker 1: free agents? That's an easy answer. Absolutely, no, No, absolutely no. Look,

472
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 1: there are there. Everything has a timeframe in the National

473
00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 1: Football League, and it has a timeframe for a reason. Okay,

474
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 1: and there is no look growing up in West Texas.

475
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 1: I mean a great, great saying, and it holds true

476
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,439
Speaker 1: right now, especially keep your powder dry. Don't make a

477
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 1: decision until you have to make a decision. Now you're

478
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: thinking about it, you're formulating your plan, but there is

479
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 1: no reason that this is not a time right now.

480
00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: And please, fans, listen to me. The worst thing you

481
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: can do as an organization at this time is to

482
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: be ready fire aim. You don't. You're not ready fire

483
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: aim right now. You take your time, and then when

484
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,919
Speaker 1: the time comes, make your decision, make your call, and

485
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 1: then you go. But jumping out ahead of anything, believe me,

486
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 1: plans are being formulated. But that should be the least

487
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 1: of your worries right now, even Derrick Henry. The least

488
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 1: of your worries. The least of your worries right now

489
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: because you don't have to make Those players are under

490
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 1: contract to us until a specific date, March eighteenth. There

491
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,159
Speaker 1: you go, and you've so you've got that time. And

492
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,360
Speaker 1: all the years I've been in this league, I've been

493
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 1: involved in those upper level meetings. You keep your powder

494
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: dry until it's time to fire. But should Titans, fans

495
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: and people who are anxiously awaiting something to happen, expect

496
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 1: just the floodgates to open on March eighteenth at what

497
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: is at three o'clock Central time. Yeah, just a flurry

498
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: of activity on the eighteenth and nineteenth where everybody kind

499
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 1: of runs back and forth and changes teams and places.

500
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: There there will be an initial surge. Yeah, I mean,

501
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a sseudami. When you that first

502
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: wave hits, it's really big. But then there will be

503
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 1: after rolls and repercussions after. But yes, because just what

504
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 1: I've said, everybody, every other organization is doing the same

505
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 1: thing right now. Every other organization is doing the same

506
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 1: thing with their decision makers. Speaking of decision makers, I

507
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys have read about this, but

508
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 1: the talk has begun that the NFL draft in Las

509
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 1: Vegas may be held without fans because of the threat

510
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 1: of coronavirus. You know, they dis canceled the whole big

511
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,119
Speaker 1: South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, which is one

512
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: of the biggest festivals there is that that festival, I

513
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 1: think I read, brings three hundred and fifty six million

514
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: dollars into that community. Ye, and it's gone. All the

515
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,239
Speaker 1: sponsors pulled out and they all decided we ain't going

516
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 1: to chance it. I don't think any of us really know.

517
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: Kind of like trying to figure out what the NFL

518
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: is going to do, and none of us really know

519
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: what this virus thing's going to do. And I think

520
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,479
Speaker 1: there's a lot of knee jerk reaction. I think some

521
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: people are making it out to be more than it

522
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: is in my personal opinion. But at the same time,

523
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: it is killing people and people are getting it, and

524
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: it's all over the world, so that's pretty scary. I

525
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 1: think for the city of Las Vegas that would be frustrating.

526
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,439
Speaker 1: I mean, the city of Las Vegas is making a

527
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 1: lot of money. I don't think that they are in

528
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: a financial deficit of any sort. However, what it brought

529
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: to the economy in Nashville was so huge because of

530
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: the huge influx of people that were coming again or

531
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 1: Las Vegas is a very different city. But I think

532
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: that that would be something that for them would be

533
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: a huge disappointment, especially when they're trying to generate a

534
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 1: fan base for their new team. What a missed opportunity

535
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: if they're not able to bring football fans in there

536
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,640
Speaker 1: and show them what football in Las Vegas is going

537
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 1: to be. That's a good point. But I don't think

538
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: a lot of people really know what to do here, right,

539
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 1: I really don't, because you know, we're we're learning something

540
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: new every day. And look at the stock market. My gosh,

541
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,239
Speaker 1: it went down so far today when it opened up

542
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,120
Speaker 1: that they had to stop trading and as of today,

543
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: which is marks ninth. But uh, because it's it's bad

544
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: the unknown. It is the unknown. I mean that's one

545
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,880
Speaker 1: hundred percent true. And and and just knowing, just knowing,

546
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: and I mean all of us lived it, you know

547
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: last year when we had it here. I mean I've

548
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 1: been involved, just like all of us. Everybody's sitting at

549
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: this desk has done a lot of really cool things

550
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 1: in their life and been involved in a lot of say,

551
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: you know, quote big events, big things. That thing last year,

552
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: the draft in Nashville, that was I mean, that was

553
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: so all encompassing, and it was I mean it was

554
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: like you set back, whether you're involved or not, and

555
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,439
Speaker 1: you go in wow, and so they were waiting for.

556
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 1: They were waiting this year. I think to try to

557
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 1: top that, they were waiting for that wow moment out

558
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: there and then and and and as you said, it's

559
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: in jeopardy, I'd take the pressure off the top of it.

560
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: Can you imagine how eerie that would be to have

561
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: the commissioner walk out on stage and nobody boots and

562
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: nobody cheated? Ye that in Joe wait with they have

563
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:24,360
Speaker 1: one dude there booing be easan all right Jets fan?

564
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 1: You know. So the question, though, that's a going coach,

565
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 1: The question is would they go ahead and hold it?

566
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 1: Because they're going to hold the draft April twenty third

567
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: through the twenty fifth, they're going to pick players. The

568
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: question is, if they can't have fans, would they just

569
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: do it in New York and in like a ballroom

570
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: or like a like or you were born. Yeah, but

571
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: still we remember that, you don't when they when he

572
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: used to when Pete Rosel used to walk to what

573
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: looked he looked like he was at a PTA meeting.

574
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: They were probably eating chicken, they were. Yeah, I mean

575
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: it was just bank. Yeah, you gotta always that's right.

576
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: The first year I was in the league, we we

577
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: drafted the whole draft in one day. How many rounds? Twelve?

578
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, start in the morning and just and just

579
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: go until all right, that's enough, We're done. That's enough.

580
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: By the way. Speaking of money, and speaking of the NFL,

581
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: and speaking of television, Tony Romo eighteen million dollars annually

582
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: from CBS to call games. His deal is for three years,

583
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: but if they get everything worked out and get a

584
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: new TV deal, the deal goes for ten years. I

585
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: think he's ever coming back to play quarterback. No, let

586
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: me just can I just say this from a selfish

587
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: aspect of it. Sure, I'm now a color analyst, Yes

588
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: you are, and my contracts up. I was very happy.

589
00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: Are you looking for Tony Romo money? I've mentioned I

590
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: don't know that negotiating on the OTP is the best thing,

591
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: but you did it, so I like it full service.

592
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: I will say this, I don't know what the market

593
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: is for color announcers. That sounds like a lot of money,

594
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: But Tony Romo is really good. He's really good. When

595
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: I first started hearing Tony on the air, I thought

596
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: to myself, Hey, this guy's really got something a little

597
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: bit above everybody. And I really thought he's one of

598
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: the best, if not the best. Yeah. I think he

599
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: does a really good job of taking high level concepts

600
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: and breaking them down to a level that's very conversational

601
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: and very understandable. So no matter where you are in

602
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: your football knowledge and really whether or not you care

603
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: about a game and the teams that are playing, I

604
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 1: tune in because I care about what Tony Romo is

605
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: going to teach. You watch for Tony Romo, just like

606
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 1: we used to watch for John Madden. There you go,

607
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: now you know John Madden was the king of all

608
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: of that. We love John Madden, but we were building

609
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: up the announcers earlier. Now we'll just go to the

610
00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: other way for a second. And what makes Tony Romo

611
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: so good is that a lot of announcers are aggravating,

612
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: is all get out. Yeah, they talk and talk and

613
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: talk and talk. These some of these baseball guys, like

614
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: when Jack Buck and Tim McCarver used to be on.

615
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: I watched World Series with the soundown. Wow. And I

616
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: still watch a lot of baseball games with the sounddown,

617
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: and it ain't doesn't seem to be as bad in

618
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: football because you know, you got to play there and then,

619
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: but that they have to really analyze every single play.

620
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: Does the analysts have to say, well, this happened, and

621
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: this happened, this happened, and this time when we just

622
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: saw what happened, And sometimes that gets a little old

623
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: to the listener. I think I find myself turning the

624
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: turning some announcers off. Well, I think one of them,

625
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: and I never turned you off, but thank you. I appreciate.

626
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: Never very nice of you to at least say that,

627
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: what do you mean it? I don't know, but I'm appreciate.

628
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: There's no way to totally know, but it's okay. But

629
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: I think Jim Nance does such a brilliant job letting

630
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: Romo talk. If Nance tried to talk as much as

631
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: he once did, he has said to him self, I've

632
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: got this kid with me who is so good, I'm

633
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: gonna let him go. I think it's one of the

634
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: most professional moves I've ever seen, and I think it

635
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: it points out why Jim Nance is such a pro.

636
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: Jim Nance is the best too, Oh he is. And

637
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: I know Jim Nance. I've met Jim Nancy the Oaker's

638
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: boys just to hang out a lot with the bushes.

639
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: You know, oh yeah, and the name dropping here, but

640
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: you know, well he was like another Bush son, isn't

641
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: exactly And we've been to events Bush's eighty fifth birthday,

642
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: his ninetieth birthday, Kennebunkport, you know, with the wives up there,

643
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: just goofing off with George and Barbara. Thankfully we got

644
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: to do some of that. Real a real incredible experience

645
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: for us and Jim Nance. He was just really a

646
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: good dude. He's a nice guy, nice guy, and he's

647
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: a real professional pro. I mean he goes from he

648
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: goes from golf to this to that. Oh he does

649
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: the Final Four, he does the super Bowl. You know,

650
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: he's written about getting to do the super Bowl, the

651
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: Final Four, and the Masters within like a six eight

652
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: week period. And as a broadcaster, you're like, oh, I

653
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: mean that's that's yeah, that's big time man. That's who

654
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: gets to do that. Jim Nance. And let let me

655
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: just say this for Romo and again and again, you know,

656
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: I can relate a little bit to this. How fortunate

657
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: was Romo to come in and that's who they pair

658
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: you with. Oh yeah, because just think about that. And

659
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: then you know, on a you know when the Titans

660
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: asked me to come back, Mike, and to do that.

661
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: I mean, the reason I came back was, I mean,

662
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: you knew everything, You're you're the best, and I knew

663
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: I knew nothing coming in and you allowed me to.

664
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: Well you're I've told I've told coach I think he's

665
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: like Romo and that he is as natural to come

666
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: in and do this. And when when we had to

667
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: go get somebody fast, there was only one name to

668
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: go get and he was living in Malibu. Why he

669
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: wanted to come back and do radio, I'm not sure.

670
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: But again I'm sitting here as the fan, and as

671
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: a fan, I gotta tell you, guys, sound so good

672
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: on the radio. Well thank you. You know, I hear

673
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: you on one of four the Zone and stuff all

674
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: the time, and it just sound so good. Well that's

675
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: very kind of you here, it is. But anyway, you know,

676
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: for Mike Keith to take me in and and and

677
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: teach me everything about it. But it's just like Romo

678
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 1: unless you've got a really good person and your brand

679
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: new at it, and they don't they they kind of

680
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: nurture you without without really you know, without really trying

681
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: to push you one way or the other. But help,

682
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, I mean, well, it's like it's

683
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 1: a benefit I tell you for for the Romo thing,

684
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 1: the maddened Summer all thing. What would John Madden have

685
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: been had he not had a guy like Pat Summer All,

686
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. It's it's just the magical pairing

687
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: that doesn't doesn't always happen. Okay, so I want to

688
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: go out one more. Have you seen the rumor about

689
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: what ESPN is talking about trying to get Al Michael's

690
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: back to do Monday night football and pairing him with

691
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. There you go. Oh I would watch that.

692
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: Watch that in a heartbeat. Yeah, that would be fun.

693
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: That would be really top notch. Yeah, well, Peyton can

694
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 1: do it. When when Peyton decides he wants to work

695
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,879
Speaker 1: every week, which he will do at some point. And listen,

696
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 1: his kids are smaller, they're getting a little older now.

697
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: He has been reluctant to take on an every week job,

698
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,800
Speaker 1: and I get that. But when he decides he wants

699
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: to do it, I think he's gonna be so good. Yeah. Well,

700
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: he's a real student of the game and everything. He

701
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: knows everything like coach does. He knows what's going on

702
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 1: down there and why it's going on down there, you know.

703
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: So the other thing is when you see him doing

704
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: the national commercials, he's just natural, just and so that

705
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: would be that's a pretty big get. He's a funny guy.

706
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: Unless you're the butt of his joke, then it's not

707
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 1: as much fun before. Yes, I okay, yes, yes, I

708
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: have more than once when I was so when I

709
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: was doing a talk show back in Knoxville in the

710
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: nineties and he was playing, I got a phone call.

711
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: We're on the air. They say, Peyton Manning's on the phone.

712
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: I'm sure he is, right, Okay, So I hit the button.

713
00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: It's really Peyton Manning. He's just calling in and he's like,

714
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: Mike Keith, you know everything. I'm like, oh, this is

715
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: not gonna go well, he says, uh so today at

716
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: pro Day, who ran the fastest forty time all of

717
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,240
Speaker 1: the seniors at Tennessee working out for the pro teams.

718
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: He was coming into his senior year, and so they

719
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: had had the pro day the year before. This was

720
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: the spring of ninety seven. Of course I don't know,

721
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't there, and they have like six

722
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 1: guys that can really run. I mean really run peerless

723
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: price and I mean all these crazy fast guys. So

724
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: of course I start guessing and with with, with with,

725
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: and he is just delighting in the fact that I

726
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 1: can't get it and I know everything. Yeah, oh he

727
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: did well. He wanted to call in and just stick

728
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,959
Speaker 1: it to me. That was the whole thing, mister smart guy.

729
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: And then he we'll see, he did this to me

730
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: too when he declared. You remember, he declared that he

731
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 1: was coming back for his senior year. And he had

732
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: heard me tell a story on the air that I

733
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: knew that Heath Schewler was going to go pro when

734
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: he walked into the press conference and his mother was crying.

735
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: I was like, oh gosh, he's going pro because mama's weeping. Right, Well,

736
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: so I told this story. So Peyton gets up at

737
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: his press conference that day when he announces he's staying

738
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: because you didn't see my mother crying, did you. I

739
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: wasn't saying that about him, but he had heard me

740
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: say that on the radio. So he was always listening

741
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: and that part of his personality, Like when he did

742
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: the Saturday Night Live thing and he told the story

743
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: about throwing the football at the kids and oh, I

744
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,240
Speaker 1: mean he is. He's a funny guy. Now, Yeah, unless

745
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,760
Speaker 1: it's aimed at you, then it's not quite as funny.

746
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: That explains when he went into the Tennessee Hall of

747
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: Fame and I asked him if he would help me

748
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: play a little prank on Mike and asked him a

749
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: question about was almost fired, what it's like working with

750
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: Mike Keith? And he his eyes kind of lit up

751
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,240
Speaker 1: and he was like, oh, absolutely, And he just ragged

752
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: on Mike for a good minute and a half talking

753
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: about how he can't wait for Mike to stop calling

754
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: him and quit and making him do things, and he

755
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: just hates working with him. He's so difficult. And he

756
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: was just delighted to stick it to Mike. And so

757
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: I like that there is a history of that. I

758
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: feel like I really facilitated. If he run Monday Night football,

759
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: he could stick it to somebody every week. No, he

760
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 1: could stick it to you live every Monday. That would

761
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,959
Speaker 1: be fun. I tune in for that, all right, So, Joe,

762
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: do you do you have something? Since you're here with

763
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: coach back former NFL head coach. The only former NFL

764
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: head coach on a local broadcast in America is there

765
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: something you'd like to know from him, have real I

766
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: wanted to know kind of about where the quarterback situation stood,

767
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: and he answered that question quite eloquently about the you know,

768
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: the timing in the NFL, because I think it's a

769
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: fan we all wonder if Tenny Hill is going to

770
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: be our quarterback? Is the goofy rumors that Brady will

771
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: be here? What Brady coming in and Tannehill out? I

772
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: don't know if I like that as a fan, to

773
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: be honest. And then the Derrick Henry thing the coach

774
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 1: addressed because of that absolutely, and I mean those are

775
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: legitimate and those are insightful questions because of this, because

776
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: it is going to make a big difference because that

777
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: decision is going to cascade down as far as the

778
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 1: other decisions you make, not only for free agency but

779
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: also in the draft. And you know we're going to

780
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: talk about that, you know, for quite a while now too,

781
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: because that's what's leading up but this this free agency period,

782
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: and again it's a good question that you ask Joe

783
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: because it comes into this, you know when you ask

784
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: the last I talked about how many viable quarterbacks there

785
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: were in free agency and the quarterback draft is always

786
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: different than the regular draft. Those are two separate drafts

787
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: because if you don't have a quarterback, really, all you've

788
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 1: got a viable quarterback really, all you have is a

789
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,879
Speaker 1: highly paid rugby team. That's all you have. I mean,

790
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: And so it's a quarter is it absolutely is? And

791
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: for this many to be out there that are proven,

792
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: that's going to impact what some teams are thinking about immediately,

793
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 1: how fast do I have to go get one of

794
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: these young, unproven guys in the draft, regardless of their ability. Now,

795
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: money it makes a difference. But in this National Football League, now,

796
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: guess when you have to win? Now, okay, well, Joe

797
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: Burrow is going to play in Cincinnati probably for sure. Rights, Look,

798
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: I would think and again, as I say to me,

799
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: everything points towards that. I mean. I talked to Zach Taylor.

800
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 1: I know, I've owned Zach Taylor since he was three

801
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: years old, you know, the head coach at the at

802
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: the Bengals, And he wouldn't he wouldn't say okay because

803
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 1: his father and I coach together in a long time,

804
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: you know, when Zach was a little one. But he

805
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't say. But you look at it, and it makes sense.

806
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: It makes sense there because what what Joe Burrow did

807
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: in college at LSU once you know, once they brought

808
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: the system in from the Saints is a whole lot

809
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: like what Zach Taylor and On McVeigh and those guys do.

810
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,879
Speaker 1: So it makes sense and that would put him way

811
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: ahead of the curve as far as just learning the

812
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: process coming in. But nothing's for certain. Well, you mentioned

813
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: there's a lot of quarterbacks available right now, Like who

814
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: who in the NFL right now? You're slaying Dak Prescott's

815
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: you know, Prescott's deal is up. Yeah, yes, yeah, Yeah,

816
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna he's he's he's gonna be He's gonna be available.

817
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: Uh when when you start looking if some of these

818
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: guys get redone, I mean, you've got Nick Foles that

819
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,800
Speaker 1: made a whole lot of money that's gonna be sitting

820
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: out there and I'm not sure he's gonna make that

821
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: money or with that team, Okay, or already this year. Yeah,

822
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 1: Derek Carr could be traded, Nick Foles could be traded,

823
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford could be traded. I mean, you've got a

824
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: bunch of rumors out there in terms of how dominoes fall.

825
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 1: You go and then you know, then what happens with

826
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: tua uh tongue of Aloa? What do you know? Does

827
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 1: he does Washington take him at two? Does does he

828
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: go at three? Does he go at five? To Miami?

829
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 1: Does let me trade up? What does Indianapolis do? Do

830
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 1: they sign Philip Rivers? There you go, I was just

831
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 1: thinking of Philip Rivers when you said stuff, you know

832
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: what happens with Philip Rivers? I mean, there's just so much.

833
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: And then of course from here, Marcus Mariota is going

834
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: somewhere and somebody's gonna really want Marcus Mariota because they're

835
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 1: gonna think, whatever went wrong, we can fix it and

836
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: fix it. And that's just that that Speaking of two,

837
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 1: I think two is in town. I think two is

838
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: working with Trent Dilfer a little bit. I think I

839
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 1: think you know too. So there are a lot of things.

840
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: There are a lot of moving parts when you ask

841
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,879
Speaker 1: that question, and so you can't just talk about one

842
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,280
Speaker 1: topic and isolate it because everything is. There's spider webs

843
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: in this and especially a big spider webs this year.

844
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: Because you're talking quarterbacks. Well, that's what I'm taking out

845
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: of this UH podcast today. The most coach. Is your

846
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: talk about how everything affects everything. I guess it does

847
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: that in a lot of business, but thinking NFL and

848
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 1: especially as a football fan like I am, to know

849
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: that this decision affects this, This is effects. It's the

850
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: domino thing from Brady down. I mean, why this is

851
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: so much fun with him? Let me tell you what

852
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 1: you would like and you would be fascinated, because you're

853
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: such a fan to be in a draft room on

854
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 1: on on during the draft, because when you when you're

855
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 1: you know, people have a misconception Joe that when you draft,

856
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 1: you just gotta you know, names on a board and

857
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 1: all and in your turn comes up and you say

858
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: that guy, well, you've got to know the entire lay

859
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: of the land, in the geography around you as to

860
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 1: what's going on and be able to project two and

861
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,760
Speaker 1: three rounds ahead and also then in your round picks

862
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: ahead as far as to what somebody needs where they

863
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: might be needing it. We've got to move up or

864
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna miss this guy. All of this it's so connected.

865
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: You would be fascinated by that. That would be I'm

866
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:45,879
Speaker 1: I'll tell you we've we've had some actually some good

867
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: drafts here, especially good dudes, man. I mean when with

868
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: John Robertson, this guy that that that that is running

869
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 1: the draft here. Look, I've been a head coach and

870
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: I would love to have had this guy as a

871
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: general manager because he here. Here's something about he and

872
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: this head coach we have now, Mike Rabel. They are

873
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: boots on the ground leaders. They're not Ivory Tower dudes.

874
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: You've got some general manage in this league. And I

875
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: won't mention any names because it's not beneficial for any

876
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: of us, but that are Ivory Tower guys that kind

877
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: of look at it for These guys are boots on

878
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 1: the ground guys. I mean, I can give you examples.

879
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I just know they're football people. At the combine,

880
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: they have what they call the train station, which is

881
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 1: just all the other players that are there that aren't

882
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: scheduled interviews. You never see general managers in there visiting

883
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 1: with players. Ours was our head coach was You might

884
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: find that you might find something the boots on the ground.

885
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,880
Speaker 1: There's a difference these. This guy here gets it all right,

886
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 1: So let's try coach out here. So do you like

887
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: the mock drafts and following the draft coverage, I do

888
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 1: sometimes I love them. I'm sad that I'm say I'm

889
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: with you. Okay, all right, So I've got three mock

890
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: draft picks for the Titans that have come out in

891
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: the last forty eight hours. Amy likes this game. Okay,

892
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: coach game, So coach, I'm gonna throw these at you

893
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 1: and see what you think if you think it's possible

894
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 1: or not likely? All right? So this is from CBS Sports,

895
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: Zach Bawn, edge rusher from Wisconsin to the Titans. Is

896
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: it possible they take him at number twenty nine or unlikely?

897
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,879
Speaker 1: Not likely? Not likely? Amy? Do you like that one?

898
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: I agree with coach Mac. What do you think? John?

899
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: Don't know that game? Okay? Good, but I don't know

900
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 1: what I like. This is an honest man. It's an

901
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: honest man because most people, when you start talking about

902
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: the draft, they act like they've been digging in for years.

903
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: That's what he's okay. Aj Terrell cornerback Clemson. NFL dot

904
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: Com projects him to the Titans at twenty nine. Interesting. Interesting,

905
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: I have heard of him. Interesting. Interesting, I'd take it. Okay. Yeah.

906
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: And then here here's the other one. This is Walter Football. Walter,

907
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: and I would assume that's Walter Camp. I don't know,

908
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: maybe it's Walter. It's pretty good sight. Actually you turn

909
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 1: gross Meadows Edge Penn State. Yeah, I mean I go

910
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 1: back and forth. I vacillated on him, back and forth

911
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: because he the word that's real popular that people have

912
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: thrown out for years is tweener right as far as

913
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: as far as a fit, a scheme fit. And when

914
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: you start getting into the National Football League nowadays, guys,

915
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: you know, and I love you know, just sitting talking

916
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,359
Speaker 1: about this stuff, your edge rushers have morphed into some

917
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 1: different people now because sixty percent of your game is

918
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 1: played with sub packages, so anymore, I mean, you know,

919
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 1: your guys that were three to four edge guys, now

920
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,919
Speaker 1: they may be really good sub package, which is four

921
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: down and two people behind them in a four or

922
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 1: two thing in a sub package, as to where they

923
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: might not be able to hold up in a in

924
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 1: the first and second down conflict downs where they have

925
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:51,800
Speaker 1: to go forward and back up at the same time.

926
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 1: So to me, he's an athlete. I'll say this, He's

927
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: got the athletic ability. I don't want a tweener. I

928
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 1: want a big, nasty dresher. That's what I want. I

929
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: don't want tweety or whatever. I don't want a bad word.

930
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 1: It just means that he could fit a lot of

931
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: different places. Nope. You know when the coach sits there

932
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: and talks like you just did, I want to put

933
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 1: a helmet on and run right through the walls. Well, see,

934
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,720
Speaker 1: he's promised he's gonna introduce me to Mike Didka someday

935
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: because he coached for him for seven years. Yes, so

936
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:31,319
Speaker 1: he's promised me I can meet Mike Didka. Wow, that's

937
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: really Have you ever met Didka? No? It was in

938
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: a room with him once, but I never met. Let

939
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:36,879
Speaker 1: me just say this. You talk about good dudes, we're

940
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: talking about Jim Nance good dude. People are presents with

941
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 1: a good dude, Mike Didka. Good. He took care of

942
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: a real young coach, Mike really well. I mean I

943
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: owe my career to that. Does he still call you kid? Oh? Sure?

944
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: I mean we had seven coaches on the staff. I

945
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 1: mean when he hired me, I was a seventh coach

946
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: on the staff. We did have enough lockers in the

947
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: in the old Hollis Hall, and so I got one

948
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 1: of his How old was the kid? I got dubbed

949
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: thirty thirty one. You know, I mean, we don't had

950
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: seven coaches on the staff. And I didn't have a locker.

951
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 1: He said, here, kid, take mine, take my I don't

952
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: need to. You didn't have a locker like Rocky. No

953
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: locker though, do I Spider Rico had a locker spicker.

954
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 1: Oh god, this is good, all right, So we gotta

955
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: wind down now. Joe Bonso at Joe Bonsole on Twitter. Yes,

956
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:29,919
Speaker 1: at Oakridge Boys on Twitter. I do the Oakerd's Boys

957
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:33,399
Speaker 1: tweets too, do you really? I do? Dwayne Allen kind

958
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: of handles a lot of our Facebook stuff, and uh,

959
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: our girl Kathy Harris, who's worked for us for forty years,

960
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 1: kind of does Instagram. But I do the Twitter. And

961
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: you have been with the Oakridge Boys for forty seven years.

962
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 1: I joined in October seventy three, and I'm the new guy.

963
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 1: You're the new guy. I'm the new guy. Man Richard,

964
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: some bass singer joined a year before I did, and

965
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 1: William Lee Golden joined the Oaker's Boys in nineteen sixty

966
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: five and Dwayne Allen in sixty six. William left for

967
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,280
Speaker 1: eight years or nine he did? He left for eight years.

968
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: He went out and sang with the sons that a

969
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: bunch of solo stuff that he wanted to do, felt

970
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 1: like he had to do. We had another guy come

971
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 1: in and sing with us, and we did good, just

972
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 1: like we did this last they shows. We none of us.

973
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 1: I wrote a book, Hold on the Road with the

974
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: Oakridge Boys, and then that book I explained that and

975
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:17,959
Speaker 1: I think this is a lot like a sports team

976
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 1: if it's done right, that the Oakridge Boys are the wheel.

977
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 1: We're just the spokes to turn the wheel, and none

978
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 1: of us are indispensable. We have done shows over forty

979
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 1: seven years that I can remember without each one of us.

980
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: I had vocal problems about nine years ago, and I

981
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: didn't know if my career was over. It wasn't Nodes,

982
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: but I had bruised my vocal cords. So down here

983
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: at Vanderbilt Voice, they said, well, you gotta shut your

984
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 1: mouth for I think it was almost two months, and

985
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: we had another fellow come in and sing my part.

986
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: I went out there with the group every night to

987
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: show people I'm okay, put a little Banjoe on stage,

988
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,319
Speaker 1: you know, just goof off. And then I would go

989
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: out and sit and listen to the Oakrids Boys for

990
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 1: the first time say hey, these guys are good, and

991
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 1: so you know what I learned during two months of silence.

992
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 1: My wife can talk. I could talk like that. You

993
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: learn things. Everything's learning excrigs. But but the important thing

994
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:18,319
Speaker 1: is the oak Ridge Boys. We all add to it.

995
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: We all bring something different to the table, different talents,

996
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: different ideas. And the great thing about our group is

997
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,359
Speaker 1: the fact that as old as we are, there's like

998
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:28,880
Speaker 1: no quitting nobody. It's always how are we going to

999
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 1: do it better? It's forward thinking, you know good and

1000
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 1: that's why you still are You still got it. When

1001
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 1: you hear the Oakridge Boys, it still sounds like the

1002
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: Oakridge Boys. This is where the blessings come in. And

1003
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: I give God the honor and the praise for it

1004
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 1: because we can still sing our hands off. And if

1005
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:49,839
Speaker 1: we went out there as the Oakwards Boys, even as

1006
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 1: the older Rokrids Boys were like our own Oakwards Boy

1007
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: tribute band. Well, I was at a restaurant, the other

1008
00:50:58,320 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 1: was eat. We was on the road up there. I

1009
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: forget where I was, and I was eating and there

1010
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:03,360
Speaker 1: was a couple sitting over here, an older couple, and

1011
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: she says, I saw the oak Rich Boys bus. They're

1012
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 1: in town tonight, and he goes, I can't be them,

1013
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 1: but it is there. That's it can't be there. That's

1014
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: what I thought when I saw you in the stands

1015
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:18,760
Speaker 1: the first time. I'm like, that can't beat Joe Bonden.

1016
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 1: He's at the Titans game that the NFL. The guy

1017
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: with the oak Ridge Boys is here. And then you've

1018
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:27,399
Speaker 1: been there like every week for twenty years. So yeah, well,

1019
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: I miss a lot of games. I usually get to

1020
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:31,760
Speaker 1: go to about half of them. Once we get further

1021
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 1: into November and December, we always gear up into this

1022
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: Christmas thing. How many shows you guys play a year?

1023
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 1: One hundred fifty? Wow. And what I was getting to

1024
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: earlier is the good thing is is when we go

1025
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: out there on that stage, everybody's singing, and we're singing good,

1026
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 1: and the thing that makes the four part harmony go

1027
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:51,280
Speaker 1: is there. Richard still sings the bottom like like nobody

1028
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: else even has one of those, but us and Golden

1029
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 1: in that country twang of his and the strength of Golden.

1030
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 1: That's why it's funny to see him be the sick

1031
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 1: one here recently, because Golden is like a monster. He's

1032
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: eighty one years old, is he really He high steps

1033
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:08,240
Speaker 1: out on that stage and yells I fear like singing

1034
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: all night and he ain't kidding. And Dwayne, he's your solid,

1035
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: He's a rockin Yeah, he's your solid rock, your gentleman,

1036
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: your business mind, lead singer voice like no other. I've

1037
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,879
Speaker 1: always thought Dwayne Allen or Randy Owen of Alabama were

1038
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:26,320
Speaker 1: the two best romance singers I've ever heard in this business,

1039
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:28,400
Speaker 1: and I still think that holds up today, even with

1040
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 1: the new kids. Listen to Duyne Allen, go back there

1041
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 1: to YouTube or whatever you want to do Google. Listen

1042
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,399
Speaker 1: to Dwayne Allen sing a love song, or Randy Owen

1043
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: for that matter, Listen to Randy sing feels sir right.

1044
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 1: Listen to Duyne sing make My Life with You. What

1045
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,319
Speaker 1: incredible voices and I sing next to him every night.

1046
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 1: I think it's really cool. I've done a lot of

1047
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: cool things in my career. Really seriously, for a kid

1048
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: growing up in a small town in West Texas, this

1049
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: is one of the coolest being in here with you.

1050
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: Oh thank you, brother. That's the coach man. I guess

1051
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 1: it never hurts to hurt sometimes. One of the all

1052
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,359
Speaker 1: time best. That was my mother's favorite song. I sang

1053
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,760
Speaker 1: it to her on her deathbed. Man, my mother former whack.

1054
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:05,240
Speaker 1: I visited and visited them the other day in Arlington,

1055
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 1: my mom and Daddy were. They're both in Arlington, Daddy.

1056
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: Daddy had a stroke at age thirty nine. A piece

1057
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: of a piece of shrapnel stuck in his card at

1058
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: Artery damaged his brain. So from thirty nine to seventy

1059
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: five when he passed, not much older than I am now,

1060
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: he was disabled. But over there on d Day he

1061
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:27,840
Speaker 1: got a bronze star for Utah Beach. Fifty days in

1062
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: at Saint lou France, he took out a bunch of

1063
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: machine gun nests on his own because, as he said,

1064
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:36,399
Speaker 1: he was just pissed off. Won a silver star, won

1065
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 1: a purple heart with clusters. So he rests in Arlington.

1066
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: I was saying to him just the other day I

1067
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: was there, Well, Daddy, you did that one right, man.

1068
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 1: And then there's mommy over there. What mommy would love?

1069
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 1: Because my mother was my mother, my biggest influence. She

1070
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,879
Speaker 1: loved this country. She loved the soldiers in their older days.

1071
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 1: My mother, Lily Bonzell, wanted her and Daddy to go

1072
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 1: to the veteran's home for their final years, because he

1073
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 1: wanted to be around the soldiers. I always thought she

1074
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 1: married Daddy and in him, she married all of them.

1075
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: Because my mother just loved this country, cried when a

1076
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 1: flag went by, loved her Philadelphia Eagles. Would fight your

1077
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: baby over them eagles, I'm telling you. And what she

1078
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 1: would love is if you go to Arlington or any

1079
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:18,320
Speaker 1: military cemetery, the wife has the right to be buried

1080
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: with the husband as two children up to eighteen. Well,

1081
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 1: most tombstones at Arlington have the name of the deceased

1082
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 1: military person here and on the back it would say

1083
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:34,240
Speaker 1: like Amy his wife, and my mother's tombstone behind Daddy

1084
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 1: it says Lilian Bondsle Corporal, Women's Army Corps. She would

1085
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:42,240
Speaker 1: love that nice as Daddy was always still just a private.

1086
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 1: Every time he got a stripe, he lost it, so

1087
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 1: she hat ranked him like the whole life. And even

1088
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 1: there at Arlington it's got Joseph Es bondsl Private and

1089
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 1: Lilian Bondsle Corporal. So anyway, I don't know where we

1090
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: got off on. That's I gotta ask you one more question.

1091
00:54:58,200 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 1: There's something I know, so I know never hurts the

1092
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 1: because that was my mother's favorite song. It never hurts

1093
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:03,439
Speaker 1: the hurt my gosh, she'd love that song. That makes

1094
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: me even feel better than I like it. I sing

1095
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: it every night. I think of her. I swear too

1096
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 1: goodness every single night when we do that song, if

1097
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: it's on the set list, I think of my mother.

1098
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: So that's that's kind of cool how music can do

1099
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 1: that too. So if we're playing, like in a playoff

1100
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 1: game at Baltimore, Yeah, and you're on stage, yeah, do

1101
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:25,360
Speaker 1: you keep up with it as best I can? Does

1102
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:28,240
Speaker 1: somebody tell you what the score is? Or well? Either

1103
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:30,279
Speaker 1: that or thank god in the age of satellite TV.

1104
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 1: On the bus, we don't miss anything, okay, and we've

1105
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 1: got the football package. Even if I'm on the road,

1106
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 1: we never miss the Titans game. The whole group of

1107
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:38,799
Speaker 1: us we watch the Titans on a Sunday and if

1108
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: we've got a matinee show, you set the DVR and

1109
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:46,399
Speaker 1: if anybody tells you the score, they die and we'll

1110
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 1: get a tough bus. So it is. It's an old

1111
00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:52,840
Speaker 1: veteran bus. We'll get out there on that bus, baby,

1112
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: and what oh man. And in the afternoon, it's really

1113
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 1: cool to see. Say, we're in uh Sue Fall, South

1114
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:01,719
Speaker 1: Dakota on a Sunday and the Titans are home or

1115
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:04,360
Speaker 1: away either one. And it's cool to see right around

1116
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: noon everybody coming out of the hotel to the bus

1117
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 1: and then we always have a kind of snacks and

1118
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: stuff and we all sit down together and watch the

1119
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: Titans and sail and yeah, yeah, you know how cool

1120
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: Laddie is that is so great? Well, we love the Titans. Man.

1121
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 1: Thank you for your support of the organization, sir. And

1122
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,800
Speaker 1: and again you know you were there when not everybody

1123
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 1: was when we were just getting this thing started. And

1124
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 1: I mean it when I say it's seeing you in

1125
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 1: the stands and feeling that support from somebody who's been

1126
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 1: such a big part of this community and has been

1127
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 1: such a champion of Nashville for so long meant so much.

1128
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 1: And thank you for being a season ticket member. Oh yeah, man,

1129
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:45,360
Speaker 1: thank you. And I hope you'll have me back to

1130
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: do this. Absolutely, I'd love to come back and do this.

1131
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 1: I just love this today. Whenever you want. Yeah. Cool,

1132
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 1: And as I said, I meant it when I said it,

1133
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:54,800
Speaker 1: Coach Mikes got to do a lot of cool things,

1134
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 1: just like all of us having a life. This is

1135
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: great at Joe bond So at Oakridge Boys on Twitter,

1136
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 1: Thursday night at the Ryman with the opera at the Rheman.

1137
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:08,279
Speaker 1: That's Thursday the twelfth. And remember, Coach mckin, I are

1138
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:11,280
Speaker 1: doing something. If you're interested in season tickets free event

1139
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 1: Titans one oh one at Nissan Stadium, Coach mckin, I

1140
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 1: are doing that. To sign up and be part of

1141
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: it six one sixty two hundred, select option two or

1142
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 1: email ticket sales at Titans dot NFL dot com if

1143
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: you want to become a Titan season ticket member, just

1144
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 1: like oak Ridge Boys legend Joe Bonsell Well in mind,

1145
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 1: like to encourage to people to do that because we

1146
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 1: should support our Titans. It's so cool to have an

1147
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:37,479
Speaker 1: NFL team here and it's ups and downs. It ain't

1148
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 1: always great. Sometimes it's not as great, but man, it's

1149
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 1: NFL football right here in our town. And I encourage

1150
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 1: people to buy season tickets. I just wrote my yearly

1151
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: check to the to the Titans a couple of weeks ago.

1152
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 1: I got my thing in the mail. Amy Well said,

1153
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 1: make it out to her if that's the same thing,

1154
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: but direct all checks. So I'll get them to your rap.

1155
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 1: It's fine. You can follow Amy on Twitter at Titans

1156
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: Amy that's a m ie and started following her this

1157
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: morning he did, we're friends now, And the next the

1158
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:10,920
Speaker 1: next OTP amy Wells, Coach Mack and Rhett Bryan the

1159
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 1: Titans radio Draft duo. What are you doing defensive backs?

1160
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 1: We're doing defensive backs. We're getting into it. So one

1161
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 1: more thing, make sure Luke listens to this. Oh man,

1162
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: I will, yeah, Oh I sure will. I will thank

1163
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 1: you for your grants well as I have kept up

1164
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 1: with you over the years. I was telling Amy earlier,

1165
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 1: one of the things that is most cool is when

1166
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 1: you would say, hey, great day. We got to go

1167
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 1: to Nissan Stadium and I got to spend it with

1168
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: my grandson and to see that that's what we always

1169
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 1: wanted as an organization, you know, we always wanted families

1170
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: and friends and people to be able to enjoy it.

1171
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 1: So it's a it's really Luke was first born in

1172
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, and he was first just that little

1173
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 1: grandson glob, you know, and I used to I used

1174
00:58:56,680 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 1: to say, we'll look at him down there, he's just useless.

1175
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 1: And my wife would always turn to me and say

1176
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 1: I got news for you. That useless little blob is

1177
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: going to be the best friend you ever had. That's

1178
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: true for Amy Wells, for Coach Mack, and for Joe Bonso.

1179
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: Mike Keat says thanks for listening to the OTP.