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Speaker 1: We welcome you to another edition of the Official Titans Podcast.

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Speaker 1: This indeed is the OTP. My name is Mike Keith,

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Speaker 1: and Amy Wells is alongside virtually. Hi Mike, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing well? Thank you, and we are thrilled to

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Speaker 1: be joined by the head football coach of your Tennessee Titans,

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Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel. Coach. It is so good to see you

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Speaker 1: after several weeks. Miss you, Mike, I miss you Amy.

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Speaker 1: Now where are you? Coach? Are you? Is that your office?

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Speaker 1: This is the basement. So we have a areas that

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Speaker 1: we have to go to that we're forced to be in.

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Speaker 1: And I was tearing Jen's office apart, so she sent

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Speaker 1: me down here, and Carter and Tyler and Jack and

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Speaker 1: Jen all have their own areas. Is this where you

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Speaker 1: planned to be during the draft? This is yep. This

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Speaker 1: is where they're gonna set it up and and you know,

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Speaker 1: Ross and everybody in it is going to get that

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Speaker 1: going here after they finish up at John's and kind

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Speaker 1: of use his as a trial run to see what

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Speaker 1: we'll need. And this is what we'll have got some

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Speaker 1: TVs and have some computers and some surfaces, and we'll

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Speaker 1: do it that way now, coach, with so many people

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Speaker 1: in the house, how in the world are you getting

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Speaker 1: anything done right now? Well, it's um, it's been good.

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Speaker 1: Tyler's got a routine and he's meeting with his offensive

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Speaker 1: they work out. And Carter's graduating father Ryan and just

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Speaker 1: has to um log on at eight and have his

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Speaker 1: stuff turning at eleven fifty nine. So I think he's

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Speaker 1: getting ready for college, and uh, we trust him to

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Speaker 1: we've we've done a good job and really remained respect

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Speaker 1: to everybody and what they're trying to do. So you've

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Speaker 1: developed a routine. Yeah, And that's the thing we found

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Speaker 1: that John and I have found talking to these draft

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Speaker 1: guys on FaceTime or zoom, is that, you know, the

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Speaker 1: same routine that we would have to be getting up

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Speaker 1: our day started, just like we would at the facility

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Speaker 1: that stretch and all and Crow and everybody are doing well.

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Speaker 1: This is the first time that the Official Titans Podcast

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Speaker 1: has ever had an audience. We say welcome to Titans

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Speaker 1: season ticket members who are joining us for this edition

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Speaker 1: of the OTP with Coach Brabel Amy. This is pretty exciting.

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Speaker 1: It's so fun, and Mike, I think that what we

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Speaker 1: could do is we could ramp up the level of

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Speaker 1: excitement that's happening right now. Why don't we have the

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Speaker 1: people who are watching send in questions while we're doing this?

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Speaker 1: Oh great, we have that technology here in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: So why doesn't everybody use hashtag otp Q and tweet

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Speaker 1: us your questions live and we will ask them of

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Speaker 1: Mike Rabling technology. Repeat that one more time, hashtag otp Q.

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Speaker 1: All right, All of the questions on this edition of

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Speaker 1: prior via Tennessee Titans dot Com slash otp qes. These

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Speaker 1: are all fan questions and so we're gonna get there.

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Speaker 1: It is hashtag, So if you want to add to

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Speaker 1: our list of questions, you can do it right now

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Speaker 1: as we're doing this edition of the Official Titans Podcast,

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Speaker 1: and Ryan Cowden, your coaches, everybody associated. I don't. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it will affect the players that we bring in.

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Speaker 1: We sit there and you know, John, I could get

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Speaker 1: while we're talking. We just got done talking to players

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Speaker 1: This is from Fame. He's eleven years old and he's

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Speaker 1: in Flora, Illinois, and he says, coach, with the draft,

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Speaker 1: He absolutely loves them. Of course I wrote him. Um,

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Speaker 1: with your foundation. So the second and seventh Foundation just

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Speaker 1: celebrated twenty years. Wow. It's a literacy foundation. We promote

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Speaker 1: And it's a great dynamic and it was basically what

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Speaker 1: a high level, regardless of age. That's that's all we're

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Speaker 1: not who I think, it's it's who develops into those roles.

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Speaker 1: be going with this year. I don't think we've made

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Speaker 1: I will say we did quarantine haircuts in the Jen cut.

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Speaker 1: tub the other day. Coaches, there an advisory board on this.

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Speaker 1: Do you have multiple opinions on the facial hair decision? No?

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Speaker 1: Just one? Just me, all right? I have one more

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Speaker 1: question from hashtag O t p Q coach. How often

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Speaker 1: to get their opinion on certain players. Have you already

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Speaker 1: how the virtual off season is going to work? Have

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Speaker 1: you already made a plan for that as it was

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Speaker 1: we've we've discussed, that we've done, we've practiced runs, talking

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Speaker 1: to our team. You're good amy, I'm good fun. It

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Speaker 1: was fun, Coach. You want to say something to the

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Speaker 1: season ticket members who are with us for this edition

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Speaker 1: of the OTP. I hope that everybody is staying safe

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Speaker 1: and healthy, and those of you that are in you know,

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Speaker 1: the medical field, want to thank you for your service.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you for your commitment to the Titans,

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Speaker 1: to our organization. I would ask that you try to

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Speaker 1: recruit some friends to bring them down to join us

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Speaker 1: at the stadium to watch our team, to support our team.

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Speaker 1: And again we're gonna try to do more of these.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna try to make you guys as involved as

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Speaker 1: we possibly can in our team, in our organization. Now

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Speaker 1: you think about, for example, our partner for over twenty years,

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Speaker 1: are doing at this time, I mean unbelievable work and

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Speaker 1: gutsy and it's very special, and clearly, Coach, it's making

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Speaker 1: a difference. I think it is, and hopefully that we

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Speaker 1: the determination to do their job. Coach, we appreciate the time.

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Speaker 1: I know you've got to get to another interview as

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Speaker 1: You're scheduled tightly, so I know, for the season ticket

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Speaker 1: members and for everybody who enjoys the Official Titans Podcast,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you making time for us. Absolutely give a

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Speaker 1: shout out here to Brian and Ashley for working behind

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Speaker 1: Thanks for making this happen, and thanks to all of

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Speaker 1: you on behalf of the head coach of the Tennessee Titans,

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Speaker 1: Mike Rabel and Amy Wells. Mike Keith reminds you this

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