WEBVTT - The OTP | Exclusive Interview with Sara Walsh 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:13.680 This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:15.800 No matter your life stage, you can plan on Farm 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.040 Bureau Health Plans for great healthcare coverage with a sensible 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:22.680 price tag. Visit FBHP dot com with Amy Wells, I'm Mike, 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.759 Keith and our all friends. Sarah Walsh is here. She's 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.600 now known as NFL Network Sarah Walsh. But you were 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:31.120 on WKRN here. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.720 How long three years is at all? That's it? But 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:36.640 I feel like I was here in a really good 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:37.480 special time. 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.519 I mean, obviously I'm completely biased, but I was even 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.519 talking about it today the last it feels like that 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.239 Titans never obviously get the national love I think that 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.199 they deserve. I mean, even when you're the number one 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:48.840 seeing in the FC. 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:49.760 I've seen it. 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.600 I've seen this team in all different incarnations, and it 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.280 felt like the last time that it was like this 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.160 national situation. I mean, I was here in the years 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:03.760 of Eddie George, Steve McNair, Keith Bullock, Frank Wycheck, Javon Curse. 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.080 I mean, this was this locker room to me, and 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.039 I was much younger in my career, but you walked 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.840 in that locker room and it was these superstar players 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.880 that I felt like nationally got a lot of attention 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:14.960 for Tennessee. 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.600 Now, so what is your job with NFL Network specifically? 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.600 Now, anything and everything they ask. 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.840 So for the last three years I have been primarily 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.640 down in Tampa because there was a quarterback there that, yeah, 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.959 you know, demanded a lot of attention. He didn't demand it, 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.600 but you know, nationally he is Tom Brady. So I've 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.600 spent the last couple of years covering Tom Brady in 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.560 the Buccaneers. And that wasn't never really solely my job, 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:45.560 but it became solely my job. So now I'm sort 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:47.400 of I don't want to say I'm a free agent 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.760 because I worked for NFL Network, but now I can 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:52.640 go to other teams. And not that I couldn't go 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.720 to other teams before, but there was just never a 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.600 situation that they were like, let's skip the cover. 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.240 It's okay that you say that, because I mean, Tom 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:03.640 Brady was that kind of big deal that I mean, 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:05.840 I guess Patrick Mahomes is that he can. 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.080 I mean he could. He has a chance to potentially 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.240 catch Brady. A lot of things have to go right, 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.760 but you know, Patrick Mahomes is the face of the league. 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.120 I don't think that that's right. You can't really argue that. 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.280 Tom Brady was a face beyond. 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.480 We're talking greatest of all time, right, yes. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.320 But you're talking about also a super I mean he 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.640 was married to a supermodel. He went to another team, 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.520 and then that was a story because they won the 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.440 Super Bowl. And I mean, if I'm NFL network, I'm 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.519 going to cover every move Tom Brady makes. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.880 Correct and people always ask me to you know, this 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:36.680 ideal that he's just a regular football player. I mean 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.480 he's not, though, because to your point, this is a 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.679 guy that, like if you this is He sat in 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.240 front of me when Bruce arians retired and he did 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:45.040 his press conference. 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:46.760 Tom came in the room. He sits in front of me. 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:48.720 It's one of the rooms that I don't know if 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:49.880 you guys still have it here, but back in my 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:51.880 day it was like an auditorium or so they have 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:53.840 the you know, like your old college, Like you've got 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:55.000 the thing that you can put your phone on. And 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:56.560 I remember Tom sitting in front of me and his 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:58.200 phone's there and it was turned over, but I'm like, 0:02:58.320 --> 0:02:59.320 who's on that phone? 0:02:59.360 --> 0:02:59.840 Like right now? 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.240 Like who's texting that phone. We're not talking it's not 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.880 just like another star quarterback. We're talking billionaires. We're talking 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.160 people that tra like far outside of football. I mean, 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:10.760 he's just a different he's and so the best way 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:12.440 I could explain to him, he's just a different level. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.640 It's not just hey, this guy's the best in the NFL. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.600 He's on a different like level in the entertainment, in 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:18.360 all of those worlds. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.720 All right, I got one more. Are you convinced he's retired? 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.120 Yes, I think he is. Now there there's always been. 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:25.120 I'll tell you what. 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.440 When he was going to step away, we felt like 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:30.799 we saw a lot of things in Tampa that made 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.840 you think it was his last season. When there was 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.720 a little bit of could Rabel get him, because you 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:37.520 know they have a connection from the Patriots, I was like, 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.120 this is going to be great for me. I'll just 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.920 continue on. I'll go back to Nashville, Tennessee, where I 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.520 still have a home, Like, let's keep it going. 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:46.760 So No, I do. 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.800 Think he's he's done. I mean he's been off on 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.480 like a yacht overseas a summer. I mean, if Tom 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.680 thought he was playing, Tom would be working, working, working, 0:03:55.720 --> 0:04:00.200 So yes, I think that chapter has finally closed, like 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:01.560 he's living his best life. 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.200 But it also seems like you're living your best life 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:06.880 in a lot of ways. I feel like we see 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:08.840 you on TV all the time, and we see you 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.640 in so many different spaces and doing so many different things. 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.080 What stories are you most excited about following throughout the 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.600 twenty twenty three season. Now that Tom Brady's on a 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:19.599 yacht somewere. 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:20.880 There's so many things. 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.960 I was recently at Panther's trading camp and Bryce Young 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.320 is could be a new up and coming And it's 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.640 one of those things where I always say it's difficult 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.400 for me to look at practice and when you're in 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.720 the minutia of drills, when you're in the mundane until 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.880 you get in a game situation, it's hard to see 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.160 certain things. Went to Panthers practice and you could see 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.520 Breakstlete's really good, Like there's just something, there's a factor. 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.800 There was like an excitement, so like I potentially could 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.440 be dealing with them. I've been in Jacksonville. If it 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.359 wasn't the Buck stays with Jacksonville they have I know 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.920 this might be a bad topic here on this particular 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.800 Show's okay, they're just really they're really excited down there. 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:02.160 There's an energy they again they've been they have been. 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.200 This isn't I'm not gonna sugar it. They've been bad 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.760 for a long time. And last year I was in trading. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:08.640 This is what's cool about the NFL. And I've talked 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.239 about this before in terms of parody. A year ago, 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.679 we go to Jacksonville. They're coming off that debacle season. 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.080 They were hoping to just improve a little bit. They're 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.360 just hoping to improve. They don't they They're like, we're 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.080 never gonna pick number one overall again. They did it 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.560 two years in a row. It was dire down there 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.440 for them, and so they'd like to see improvement, you know. 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.719 And I don't know that they envisioned that it would 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.720 have turned out to be as an exciting finish as 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:34.800 it was for them. I know at some point that 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.160 was at the Titans expense. But they were a fun 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.000 story of a team that was looking at the league's 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.039 worst record to at one point going into Arrowhead in 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.040 the playoffs and taking it to the Chiefs. 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:46.760 I mean, they really, like people thought that wasn't going 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:47.240 to be a game. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.120 It was a game, and so I always think too, 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.400 going into the preseason, I'm like, who's the Jaguars that 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.440 we're not talking about? Who had three wins last season 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.200 that you're giving that nobody's giving any chance to but 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:01.159 that you can turn it around overnight. Here in some regards, 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.800 it doesn't happen for everybody, But every year there's teams 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.320 in the playoffs that weren't in the playoffs this season 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:05.760 ago well. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:07.720 And the other part of it, too is that's always 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.359 how it happens when you least expect it. It just 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.680 all of a sudden becomes a title wave. It's the 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.520 coolest thing, you know. When we got good in ninety nine, 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.080 we'd been eight and eight three straight years, and then 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:20.560 all of a sudden we go to the Super Bowl. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.480 The Rams on the other side had won four games 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.880 the year before, and you see that that whole thing happened. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:28.839 I think that's the best thing about the NFL. 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:30.200 That's why it's so exciting. Again. 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:31.800 You can sit there and be down on your luck 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:36.000 and things can change. And actually, and now I'm gonna 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:37.960 watch the stat but I was talking to you about that. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.200 I was on Good Morning Football this summer and we 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.400 did this segment called what if, like name something that 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.320 happened in the NFL, what if it didn't happen, how 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.920 would it change fates? And I said, what if the 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.720 Music City Miracle didn't happen? And now I'm going to 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.680 watch the stat because I've lost it. But after that game, 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:56.160 which obviously knocked Buffalo out, they didn't see a postseason 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:57.880 for and I'm running now. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:58.720 Almost like twenty years. 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.040 Yeah, it was twenty years to think that you're that close, 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.599 that game's over, Buffalo is going to the postseason to 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.440 lose the way that they lost, And to think if 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.320 you would have told the Buffalo Bills fans in the 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.640 hour after the Music City Miracle happens, hey, guys, buckle up, 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.000 because you're not going back to the postseason for twenty years. 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:15.000 Like that's insane. 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.720 I mean, it's like when you fall And they were 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.400 the most successful playoff team of the nineties, even though 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.080 they didn't win a Super Bowl. They were in the 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.600 playoffs seemingly every year and competitive and went to Super Bowls. 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.480 But when you fall off the cliff too, it's like 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.240 when you ride the title wave up, somebody else rides 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.000 the tidle wave down, and you know, we went nine 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.280 years without a playoff appearance here, and you don't think 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.800 when we lose that game to Baltimore at the end 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.640 of two thousand and eight that we're supposed to win 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:44.960 and that we're not even going to make it back 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:49.840 to the playoffs for nine years. You're like, oh my goodness. 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:49.920 It's crazy. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:51.840 It is crazy, which is why you always say, don't 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.880 take it for granted. And there's guys that get to 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:55.520 the super Bowl, and we've heard this a million times, 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.240 that go to a super Bowl in their first year 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:58.840 lose it, but you always think, well, I'll be back, 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:00.240 and you don't know if you ever get back. 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.680 It's just crazy. I think specifically for Tennessee. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.320 I've always thought Mike as someone that worked here that 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.600 the Titans, no matter what they do, never got enough credit, 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:10.400 you know what I mean. Like even when this team 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.120 like two years removed from being the top team in 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.000 the AFC, right, and what do you hear about? You 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.560 hear about the Chiefs, the Bills, the Patriots for the 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.360 longest time. And I just feel like, and people here 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.600 in Tennessee know that you're sort of like insulated, and 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:25.840 you know in our world of like I just feel 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.880 like they've never gotten nationally the love that at times 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:29.480 they've deserved. 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.720 But don't you think Amy that's I don't think it's 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:33.920 a chip on the shoulder thing. I think it's we 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.560 don't have a Brady or a Manning here. We haven't 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.360 had a Brady or a Manning. People can now fly 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.960 into Nashville easier, which helps because the media comes in 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.160 here a lot more than they did back when you 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.160 were at Channel two. But I just think the other 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.440 thing is too we don't play a run and gun 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.760 style and gain five hundred yards a game and score 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:57.320 forty points. I mean where the team that very much 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:03.520 matches its city, where the hardcore, tough guys, blue collar 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.320 Eddie George Derrick Henry sort of thing. And I think 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.040 to be a story you've got to have a stylized point. 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.800 The guy who really brings us there, I think is Vrabel. 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.160 Yeah, yeah, I think that's very interesting. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.040 I think Mike Vrabel is the guy that brings us 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.960 kind of the sex appeal that this team didn't have 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:26.680 for a long time, just because he's got the personality, 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.240 he's got the attachment to the Patriots, he's got the 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:33.720 successful playing career, he'll give you the SoundBite that kind 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.920 of goes viral and that will be played in lots 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.920 of different places. But the supporting cast, if you can 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.840 call it that, that is the roster, is made up 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.280 of a lot of guys that you kind of go, oh. 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.000 Yeah, I've heard of him, or oh yeah, i've seen 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:48.000 him play really good. 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.480 Oh yeah, he's he's on his second swing of whatever, 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.439 which for us is great as a team. We've got 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.200 a team made up of guys that are really fighting 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.360 for and they want it really bad because they're on 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.439 their they're second go around. They're getting another crack at it, 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:03.959 they're getting another opportunity. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:05.400 But for everybody else. 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.520 They're like, oh that was a bust right, he's bust guy. Well, no, 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.680 he's not bust guy. He's a great player. But it's 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:13.880 just a very different story here. 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.360 And I think that to your point, it gets lost in. 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:21.240 The in the machine of the NFL and all of 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.440 the personalities and all of the big stars. 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:25.040 So I can see both sides of it. 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:29.480 But I think the Titans as a franchise thrive on that. 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:33.000 I think it's almost become sort of not in the spotlight. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.160 I think it's become part of their identity is that 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.319 like we could win it, we could not. The stories 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.600 will be the same, so let's sneak up on them. 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:43.920 And I like that. I like that. I think it 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:45.560 makes the team tough and scrappy. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:52.439 I like to Sarah leave the Snickers hot seat to go. 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.319 You guys, this is like when you trick or treat 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:55.960 at people's houses and you're like, they gave you the 0:10:56.000 --> 0:11:00.600 full size. It's fair, no expense here. Titans fans like these. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:04.040 They're not the bite size, full one. 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:05.040 I can take one to talk. 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:09.520 Yes, absolutely, Okay, So final question before you depart, how 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.079 many of the NFL Network shirts do you have? 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.560 Oh my god, I mean pay for them. We don't 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.560 pay for them, so a way, this is probably gonna 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:18.000 get me fired. 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.520 Mike so uh, he's a great guest. 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:21.439 I love Charlie. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.760 Every year they send us, you know, like if you're 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:27.760 going two weeks in a row and you can't wash anything, 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:28.480 then you need a bunch. 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.480 They would send like a huge amount of shirts, and 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:31.080 I'm like, I don't need. 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.080 First of all, I was mostly in Florida and it's 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.199 always hot, so I'm always gonna go to Leeveless. They 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.439 send us so many shirts, and I'm like, so every year, 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:38.760 I'm like, I don't you guys don't even have to 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.240 send me and I'm good, I'm good, and they're like, no, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:41.880 we need to send it, and they send like a 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.400 new box this year. Until today, we were wearing NFL 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.240 Plus shirts. There's a big difference there, Mike. It says 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.960 NFL Plus NFL Network. I got to just transition today 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:53.480 to NFL Network. So yeah, I've got I've got a close. 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.199 You can't exactly wear those at to dinner in Tampa 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.520 because it's like, oh, look, Sir Wallace wants everybody knows 0:11:58.559 --> 0:11:59.600 she works for Ye. No, I don't. 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.000 I don't, but like I'll run into target sometimes sometimes 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:03.840 there's breaks in between practice and I'm not, yeah, I. 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:04.760 Don't want people. I don't. 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.319 I feel like it looks like I'm out like walking 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:11.120 around like this. But at this way, I have more 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.640 NFL Network shirts than I have w Kreen shirts. They 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.880 did not give me a litany of w k although 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:17.600 I did have some w kre and polos I wore 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:18.240 in training camp. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:19.760 I will say, I think about it. I have these 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:20.520 live shots. 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.840 From training camp back in the day, and I did 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:24.040 have a w kre in polo. 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:25.240 I remember it was Navy blue. 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.360 Sarah, get out of here, okay, I got a flight ticket. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:29.679 It's so good to see you. 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:30.360 Thank you so much. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.079 I hope we're very proud of you here, but I 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:33.840 know her. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:34.760 Oh thank you. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.280 I have obviously such a special place in my heart 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.640 for Tennessee. I still have a home here, like I said, 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.960 And I was just asked downstairs while Brabel was talking, 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:44.440 so do you get to be up here this season? 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.800 Because you know there's Tom has left the league, and 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.320 I'm like, it's done. You guys like you guys are good, 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.520 like I feel like I will be up here. So motivation, 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:57.959 I would love it, soul consider that he's. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.120 A better team than what people know. I'm telling you. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.280 I well, like, let's go. I'm happy to be here. 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.840 All right, get out of here, okay, leaving the OTP. 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.560 I mean as we're doing this, she'st down, she's running 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:23.600 out the door, all right. So with Sarah Walsh having departed, 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.040 that's time for us to let you know, Hey Titans fans, 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.280 hey ot people, it's always game on with Duncan, so 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.680 grab a coffee and kick off the action. Whether that's 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:36.960 drinking a cup of coffee on your way to the game, 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:41.320 or grabbing one to go before watching or listening to 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.440 the game at home. Duncan is always there to help 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.360 you get your game on. Just like the pros, we 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.720 need to be at our best come game time, which 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.760 is why Duncan is the most important part of your 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.160 game day ritual because it's always the best call for 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.839 Football America runs on Duncan. And the game Saturday is 0:13:58.880 --> 0:13:59.240 at noon. 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.240 The game, I don't know, you're gonna need. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.600 Coffee because it's the first game. Yeah, you're not ready 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:06.760 for this, Well you're not. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:10.600 The people have been in training camp too. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:14.559 Bot people. I mean, I hope I'm not ready for it, 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.280 but I mean it's August the twelve. 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:17.800 I know it's at noon. 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.720 It's not a seven o'clock game. Yeah, you need Duncan. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.120 You need your coffee, you do. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:26.240 I had a box of twenty five munchkins this morning. 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:28.080 Golly, it was good. 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.040 By the way, you've changed seats. You're now in the 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:35.560 Snickers hot seat, and it's amazing how this works. 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.920 Humphy, I'm hydrating. I'm closer to the Snicker. 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.640 Yes, okay, well we're glad. We're glad to see you there. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.400 I want to go over something as we get ready 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.920 for the first preseason game, and I want to call 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:52.920 it three to see. Okay, each of us, Mike Keith 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:56.040 and Amy Wells will pick three players that we want 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.680 to see against the Bears. All right, all right for 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.720 the Titans, I'm going to take out the kickers. 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:03.920 Okay, okay, you got to see the kicker. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.560 We got to see. I mean we all know that 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.360 all of the ot people are saying, oh, which one 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.320 of them is going to say the kicker? No, we're not. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:16.240 We're shocker spoiler alert. We're not because we everybody wants 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.320 to see. What's the Titans have to pick a kicker 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.720 between Caleb shoot Deck and Trey Wolf. 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.280 Right, that's a given. 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.760 That's a given. And then you're going to say, oh, 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.840 you're going to say the backup quarterbacks. No, you all 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.360 want to see Malik Willis and you all want to 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:34.200 see will Levis. We all do. Yeah, so they're out. Okay, 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.960 we we understand. We want to see them run the offense. 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.320 I mean, we could go through all of the coach 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.560 speak about the kickers and the quarterbacks. We get it. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.320 Okay, so those are off the table. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.720 They're off the table, so we will go back and forth. Okay, 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.480 three to see Amy Wells. You get to pick one first. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.480 I think my first one is going to be wide 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.040 receiver Kyle Phillips. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:56.280 And I'll tell you why. 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.880 Kyle Phillips showed up for training camp and his body 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:05.040 looked different. He is still not a big dude. He 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.320 will never be a big dude. His just skeleton won't 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:12.760 allow for that. But he looks like he has become 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:16.320 more sturdy, sturdy, he looks a little more built, and 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.560 I think that that is going to go a long 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.840 way with helping him stay healthy. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:22.320 He's going to be more durable. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.960 We saw him have some of the highest highs and 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:32.160 lowest lows within like a matter of minutes. Yeah, that 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.240 you never see. You never see someone that high and 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.440 that low within the same five minutes of each other. 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:43.160 And so I think there's so much potential there. Throughout camp, 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.560 We've seen him make plays. He's more confident in this offense. 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.200 He's more confident in his abilities. I'm excited to see 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.800 him get on the field and really see what he 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:56.080 can do in a game, because I think he's going 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.520 to be a little more sturdy, a little more durable, 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:03.440 a little more confident, and hopefully that leads to more consistent. 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.320 I've said multiple times, I'll try not to repeat it. 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.560 I think the addition of DeAndre Hopkins means he probably 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.920 has to play less offensive snaps, which should make him 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.320 more effective. And the biggest area where he can help 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.399 this team. He can be the best punt returner this 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:19.560 team has had since Mark Marianni. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:20.760 Which is so excited, and. 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:22.760 This team hasn't returned to punt for a touchdown in 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:26.479 nearly ten years and really hasn't gotten much out of 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:31.760 the punt return game overall. That's an area where if 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:35.680 he's able to concentrate on it, if he's not so winded, 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.560 if he's not so you know whatever, then he's not 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.960 going to fumble a punt. He's not going to put 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.800