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

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Speaker 1: as the OTP. Glad to have you with us for

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Speaker 1: what is this week ten of the NFL season. Amy

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Speaker 1: Wells has her voice back. Welcome, Hello, Dave McGinnis from

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Speaker 1: Titans Radio. How might Keith amy Wells sounds like Amy

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Speaker 1: Wells again? She does? It's pretty exciting and the great.

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Speaker 1: Jim Wyatt from Titans Online dot Com Senior writer editor, Welcome,

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Speaker 1: and I hope I sound like Jim Wyatt. Jim, all right,

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Speaker 1: So there's a moment, you know, sometimes you have what

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Speaker 1: do they have a new in the newspaper? Like retraction?

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Speaker 1: That's right, Okay, I don't want to say this is

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Speaker 1: a retraction, but maybe it is. We gave Amy Wells

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Speaker 1: the business on last week's OTP for her new feature,

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Speaker 1: What's Brewing. It was Halloween specific, it turned out to

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Speaker 1: be It was Halloween specific, It turned out to be

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Speaker 1: a good feature, and it is so well received Amy Wells.

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Speaker 1: We now have a sponsor for it. That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's there's great idea well and a sponsor.

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Speaker 1: The sponsor, they're pretty good. What's Brewing is brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Dunkin' donuts, which only makes sense. And the

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Speaker 1: best part about that, And we're gonna do the what's

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Speaker 1: brewing segment later in the OTP. But what's really great

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Speaker 1: about it is they brought coffee and they also brought

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Speaker 1: their new plant based Beyond Sausage sandwich from Duncan, which

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Speaker 1: debuted nationwide today. Now I'm gonna tell you what this is.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna read the spot you spoken. We listened. The

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Speaker 1: great taste plant based Beyond Sausage Sandwich from Duncan is

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Speaker 1: now available at Duncan locations nationwide with ten grams of

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Speaker 1: Beyond Sausage plant based protein in between a toasted English

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Speaker 1: muffin and delicious egg and cheese. Duncan is taking a

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Speaker 1: twist on a classic creating a brand new way for

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Speaker 1: you to stirt your day. So get up, get out,

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Speaker 1: and get into Duncan for a plant based boost to

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Speaker 1: your mornings and start today the plant based way American

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Speaker 1: America runs on Duncan. So we had them, We had

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Speaker 1: the Beyond Sausage. You've seen the Beyond products out there,

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Speaker 1: the plant based products. I thought it was fantastic. I

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Speaker 1: a hit because Coach Mac liked it. Coach Mac knows

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Speaker 1: good food, and he crushed it. He had a double.

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Speaker 1: He had a double and inhaled it. I've been around,

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Speaker 1: I've been enough places in my life to know good

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Speaker 1: from bad. That was delicious. That is really good. I

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Speaker 1: mean that whoever came up with that genius Well, and

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Speaker 1: you've done some of that sort of stuff from your

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Speaker 1: time in California, I would be I'm absolutely a food snob,

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Speaker 1: you know. With that was delicious, I mean that is

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Speaker 1: That's as good as I've had. But most important in

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Speaker 1: all of us, Jim why And it was delicious. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And the coffee is awfully good. The coffee is delicious.

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Speaker 1: So we want to thank Chris and the folks at

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Speaker 1: Duncan and this probb beyond sausage sandwich from Duncan is here.

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Speaker 1: We're here to tell you it's great. We're thrilled that

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Speaker 1: Duncan Donuts is bringing you the What's Brewing segment of

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Speaker 1: the OTP. It is a landmark day and Amy Wells

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Speaker 1: take about would you guys say that I'm really bringing

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Speaker 1: home the bacon for this podcast, bringing home sausage, because

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Speaker 1: I think I think that's a good little breast. Let's

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Speaker 1: say you're beyond good. I am. Oh, that's good stuff. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Now we on this program, we I mean we talk

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Speaker 1: and who has had the issues. Throughout the course of

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Speaker 1: the season. It's been Jim White with the mailbag for

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Speaker 1: but he's always done that. I've had kickers do that

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like golfers taking practice swings on the

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Speaker 1: all in. Forget the entire change to the offensive playbook

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Speaker 1: it's Marcus's fault, bench him. Titans had me and lost

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Speaker 1: He is. He is, and I've I've been around some great,

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Speaker 1: Did he does he like it? No? But is he

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Speaker 1: understand it. People love your mail bag, and thank you

427
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Speaker 1: for providing us with some opportunities, and thank you to

428
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Speaker 1: these people who take the time to send in the questions.

429
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Speaker 1: We love them and we appreciate their passion. Without them,

430
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Speaker 1: we're not here. And I'm glad that we could to

431
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Speaker 1: recognize some of this on the OTP because this is

432
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Speaker 1: obviously what some people are talking about, what a lot

433
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Speaker 1: of people are talking about. And the other thing too

434
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Speaker 1: is how often do you do the mail bag at

435
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Speaker 1: Titans Online? Do every Tuesday and every Saturday? I used

436
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 1: to just doing on Saturday, but but uh, you know

437
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,199
Speaker 1: a lot of these questions come in after you know,

438
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 1: the game's on Sunday, And a lot of these questions

439
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,440
Speaker 1: that come in on Sunday and Monday and Tuesday, they're

440
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: no by Saturday, you're moving on. That's why I wanted

441
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Speaker 1: to add a different one where you can kind of

442
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: have more reaction from the game on uh Sunday and

443
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: then maybe looking ahead to the game on you know,

444
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 1: the coming week with that with some that are left over.

445
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 1: And I think what it shows too, And the thing

446
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 1: that I'm proud that you've added to Titans online dot

447
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,360
Speaker 1: Com is your head's not in the sand, You're you're

448
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,959
Speaker 1: not out there pumping sunshine every I mean, you know

449
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 1: what people are saying, You're staying involved with people. And

450
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,639
Speaker 1: the reason this is a big deal is because of

451
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 1: the fans, and I hope and in recognizing that on

452
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:50,920
Speaker 1: the OTP, we've done the same thing here. Yeah, and

453
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you bringing it attention. I love seeing the comments.

454
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 1: I think this goes Mike said. I mean, if they

455
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Speaker 1: were quiet and you didn't hear from them, no shows

456
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,440
Speaker 1: they don't care. I mean, these fan base cares. And

457
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: you know, when I first started doing it, when I

458
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 1: started started working here in twenty fifteen hours, A little

459
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: bit reluctant to put some of these in there where

460
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: people are sounding off, But you know, when you're four

461
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 1: and five and when things aren't going well, you can't

462
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: have every question be you know, about the what's the

463
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 1: uniform color this week or stuff that doesn't have anything

464
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Speaker 1: to do with football. I mean, people want to know

465
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Speaker 1: about football. They want to know what's going wrong. They

466
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 1: don't want the rosy questions in there. They want to

467
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Speaker 1: sound off, and sometimes I give them an answer, and

468
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 1: sometimes I just let them speak their mind. Because I

469
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Speaker 1: feel like it's good to have the tone of the

470
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 1: fan base in there. So I encourage letters. Sometimes won't

471
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Speaker 1: include them if they've got exploits in there, if they're

472
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Speaker 1: just over the top. There's one guy that I brought

473
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Speaker 1: down here that wanted you know, the gem fire, the

474
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Speaker 1: head coach, fired, players released, you know, wanted everybody pretty

475
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Speaker 1: much out of here. And that's some of those. I

476
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Speaker 1: don't want it to turn into something each week where

477
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Speaker 1: they where it's an opportunity for some people to take

478
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Speaker 1: shots and want people to get fired, because that's not

479
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 1: that's not the direction that needs to go. I loved

480
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Speaker 1: it when you said that we were going to do

481
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Speaker 1: this today because and look, when I was coaching, I was,

482
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Speaker 1: you know what, the fans are important. They're extremely important.

483
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: I mean, that's and they they they supply everything for

484
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Speaker 1: this and and to me, it's it's important to give

485
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Speaker 1: them a voice. And I think what Jim White does

486
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: is I love that. I love the fact that you

487
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Speaker 1: brought this in here today to all of us. You know,

488
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Speaker 1: So the week of talk, after we flew back in

489
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Speaker 1: here Sunday, I went out to dinner, you know, with

490
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Speaker 1: a group of people and sat right in the middle

491
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Speaker 1: of the restaurant and had maybe two dozen people come

492
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Speaker 1: up and talk to me. I love that. That's you know,

493
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Speaker 1: since I've been back here, I want to do that.

494
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Speaker 1: I want to interact with the fans and just and

495
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Speaker 1: just let them vent and well because they do them

496
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,639
Speaker 1: because they want it. Man, they this fan base wants

497
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 1: it so badly. They can they can taste it. You know,

498
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: the three straight nine and sevens and being on the verge.

499
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Speaker 1: You know, they they want to take that next. They

500
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Speaker 1: absolutely do. I mean, this is this is a great

501
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: fan base. It was for the eight years that I

502
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: coached here. It's a great fan base. And that's that's

503
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,880
Speaker 1: what I say. They're passionate about it. Just I'm gonna

504
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: go back to one more thing, win a ball game.

505
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Speaker 1: And we saw it last year. You know, this team

506
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 1: at the end of November last year, it was a

507
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Speaker 1: lot of frustration. Then December hits and Derrick Henry got

508
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 1: on a role, and this team won a lot of

509
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Speaker 1: games in a row and all of a sudden had

510
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Speaker 1: a playoff game that was going to get you into

511
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Unfortunately that didn't go well. But I think

512
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Speaker 1: we saw during that stretch of winning, the excitement from

513
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Speaker 1: the fan base and saw a Nissan Stadium sold out,

514
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 1: and we saw the you know, remember the Titans, you

515
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Speaker 1: know walk across the bridge. I mean, people will want

516
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Speaker 1: this team to win. So that's why they're frustrated right now.

517
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Speaker 1: All right, So let's talk about a loss this week,

518
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Speaker 1: not just in terms of the final score. Malcolm Butler's

519
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Speaker 1: out for the year. Malcolm Butler injured his left wrist

520
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: and he is out for the year. UH coach Mack

521
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: Butler's year overall through nine games. How did you think

522
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Speaker 1: he played? I thought he played well. He played well,

523
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Speaker 1: and that's the reason he was brought here. Malcolm Butler

524
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: is a physical corner and he's a He's a corner

525
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: that that that you love as a defensive coordinator because

526
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Speaker 1: you can match him up with physical receivers and he can.

527
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,680
Speaker 1: He can he can take them on at the line

528
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. He's also very combative. He's a combative corner.

529
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 1: That's a physical corner, and that's that's his strength and

530
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: that's and that's why he's here now. When he first

531
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Speaker 1: got here, and I mean he was taking some chances,

532
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 1: you know, he was, but he got out of that,

533
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Speaker 1: you know, I think you know when he first got here,

534
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Speaker 1: you know, the first three or four or five games

535
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: that he had, he was trying to do too much.

536
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Speaker 1: Then he then he settled back into being Malcolm Butler.

537
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Speaker 1: As to what got him here, I mean he to me,

538
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: I know, Dean pas loves him because he's a matchup guy.

539
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: You can match him up and whenever you have a

540
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: matchup guy with somebody, then you can start working your

541
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Speaker 1: other ten around that that person, Uh, that's going to

542
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: be a big loss. The name that becomes sort of

543
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Speaker 1: most prevalent in the minds of Titans fans with Malcolm Butler,

544
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: right would be Leshawn Simms. Fourth year player out of

545
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Speaker 1: Southern Utah, has made nine starts, has played eighty four

546
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Speaker 1: snaps in the last two games due to injury. Jim

547
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: overall a huge opportunity for Leshawn Simms, who's at the

548
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: end of his rookie contract. It really is, I mean

549
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Speaker 1: never good when you have a player who's been as

550
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Speaker 1: consistent I think as Malcolm Butler has been to go down.

551
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Speaker 1: But you know when this when training camp ended and

552
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:36,199
Speaker 1: I looked at the roster, I thought the secondary in

553
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: cornerback position was one of the deepest on the team

554
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: where you had good depth. And obviously Tory Jackson, Logan

555
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: Ryan will be on the field. But it is a

556
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Speaker 1: big opportunity for Leshawn Simms, who and the good thing

557
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: is is he's played in big games before and he's

558
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: massed up with good receivers. You know Ty Smith back

559
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: on the roster. You know Joshua Kalu who is at

560
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: it has a little versatility where he can do both.

561
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Speaker 1: So it's not like the cupboards Bear we've been around

562
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: here too long ago with a guy who went down.

563
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: You're having a guy step in the hadn't played at all,

564
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Speaker 1: and and obviously the other teams knows that and they're

565
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Speaker 1: gonna go right after him. I think what makes you

566
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Speaker 1: feel bit better this time around is that Sims has

567
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Speaker 1: done it before and and they've got a little depth there. Still.

568
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Speaker 1: You can't forget about Sims too. I mean, he's a

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Speaker 1: quiet guy. You don't hear a lot from him. That's

570
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: a mouse for a reason. Yeah, but he's been productive

571
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,479
Speaker 1: and he's as Jim said, he's been in this position before.

572
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 1: This isn't something that that he's unfamiliar with. And he's

573
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Speaker 1: able to walk in and make an impact. So that

574
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Speaker 1: should make people feel better. But if anyone can overcome

575
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Speaker 1: this adversity, it's Malcolm Butler. I mean, he's just that

576
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Speaker 1: kind of guy. He'll be back next season and he'll

577
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: be fine. This football team does have depth. That's a

578
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Speaker 1: corner which is great because I've been involved with teams

579
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Speaker 1: before when you suffered injuries that you had to bring

580
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Speaker 1: guys in off the street and they had to play

581
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: the next week. That's not the situation the Titans are in.

582
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: So it's an opportunity. I mean, it happened and and

583
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Speaker 1: and I think that that that who Simms also, But

584
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Speaker 1: when you get a chance in this league, if you

585
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Speaker 1: grab a hold of it, a lot of good things

586
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: can happen, does it. Dorry Jackson have much as much

587
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: an opportunity right here as Leshaun Simms does. Well. I

588
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: mean a Dori, A dori, you know, is a starter.

589
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: A door is a different corner than Malcolm Butler is.

590
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: He's a different corner, you know completely. He's he's not

591
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: as physical as he is, but he's he's faster. You know.

592
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: A Dori is a speed game. Door is a speed game.

593
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: But but Dori Jackson to me, I mean, I thought

594
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Speaker 1: last week a Dorri Jackson played a really good football game.

595
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Speaker 1: And sometimes in a loss, some of these performances get

596
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Speaker 1: lost because you want to look past you know, just

597
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: you look, you look at the score, then you look

598
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: past everything else. Dorri Jackson, I like the way he's

599
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: playing all right. Along the same lines, speaking of defense,

600
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: seeing some of the numbers from the last three games,

601
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Speaker 1: is there a worry that the defense is cracking a

602
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: little bit or is showing some cracks as the offense

603
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: has struggle? What's not showing cracks? It's just when people

604
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: getting more shots at you. There's things that happen. And

605
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about last week, you know,

606
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: we knew what McCaffrey was going in there. And the

607
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: biggest thing that you have to do for Christan McCaffrey

608
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: to not be devastating to you keep him on the bench.

609
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: Your offense has to be able to move it, and

610
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: you have him. I don't think it's so much the

611
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: defense showing cracks, but the more shots that an offense

612
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: gets at you, especially with a dynamic player, there's a

613
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: chance something's going to break. And it finally did I

614
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: thought until that last run that he broke for fifty

615
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: eight yards off that power, Oh, that did a nice

616
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Speaker 1: job of containing him. You know they got they got

617
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Speaker 1: us on the roll boot down there and man to

618
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Speaker 1: man on the goal line, which you know off of

619
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Speaker 1: coach linebackers for one hundred years, I've been beating on

620
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: that route and that's what you do. You run a

621
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: pick and you go. But but if you keep giving

622
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: them more shots at you, and a lot of that

623
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: goes to being able to possess the ball yourself. Yep.

624
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: I think Max one right. I don't think they're cracks

625
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: as in flaws or things like that. I think that

626
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,479
Speaker 1: it's wear and tear. I mean they are on the

627
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: field longer than the offense and so with that, there's

628
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: going to be a level of fatigue that comes with that.

629
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: Too many plays, too many plays, and that's just the

630
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: way it is. So until the offense can start putting

631
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: some things together to stay on the field longer, that's

632
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: going to happen to the Titans defense. Let me say

633
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: something else about playing defense, there's there's a huge difference.

634
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: And again, a defensive mindset for coaches and players in

635
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: this league is the whole is the single blade of

636
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: grass thing. And we've seen this defense rise up, rise

637
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: up and do that. But with the more shots that

638
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: they get at you, it's not so much it's fatigue.

639
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: It's if they finally start to be able to look

640
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: and see what you've been doing and then they say, well,

641
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: we might be able to get them here. And the

642
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: other thing is when you're playing defense with points on

643
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: the board, you're playing defense with points on the board,

644
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: and especial if you're playing defense ahead in a ball game,

645
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 1: it's a different type of thing you can do on

646
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: defense as a play caller and as a player. Yeah,

647
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: and this team needs to get Drill Casey back in

648
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: the lineup two and I think he was definitely missed

649
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Now you're gonna be missing another guy in

650
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,479
Speaker 1: Malcolm Butler, so uh, it will definitely have to rise up.

651
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: And mean, I think they're you know, you'll worry about

652
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: the frustration and especially in games with offenses not producing

653
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: early and uh, you know, I know Mike Vrabel certainly

654
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: not letting the defense off the hook after the fake

655
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,479
Speaker 1: punt that they ran that worked, But you know, I

656
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,959
Speaker 1: think there's got to be some frustration there that they

657
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: were off the field and three and out and then

658
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: in a position to make a play uh there and

659
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: unable to get the runner on the ground. And then

660
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: that drive ins in a negative way for the Titans.

661
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: So you got I think you got to worry about

662
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: them fighting frustration if the offense doesn't step up and

663
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: produce early. I mean four times his team has been

664
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: shut out in the first half of games. I mean,

665
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: you always have to play perfect from a defensive standpoint,

666
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: and adds even more stress. Stress is the right word.

667
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: They've been put under too much stress, and the offense

668
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: has got to help with that, all right, So now

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680
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Speaker 1: we are fans real good, all right, So Amy Wells,

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Speaker 1: What's brewing with Amy Wells? Well? I read article yesterday

684
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: about the old move to London. Everybody's talking about moving

685
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: to London now that all of the London games have ended,

686
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: so the story is back. We've been talking for years.

687
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: It feels like they've been talking about the Jags moving

688
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 1: to London. That's the team that's going to do it

689
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: at some point. It makes a lot of sense. And

690
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 1: now the dark horse Los Angeles Chargers have come into

691
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: the picture and there are rumors swirling that now they

692
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: are going to be the team that's going to London

693
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: because they're having a hard time getting traction in LA

694
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of it upheavals not the right word.

695
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: There's a little turmoil within the organization. And so there

696
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 1: are all these anonymous league sources that are being cited

697
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: saying that they would support the chargers moving and they

698
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 1: could roll over their relocation costs into moving to London.

699
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: And then the charger's owner comes out with a quote

700
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: that I cannot say on the show. Well you could

701
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 1: it was you wouldn't be back laden. Yeah, we'll call

702
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 1: it saying that. No, they are saying in LA, but

703
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, all of this LA talk

704
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: is something that I am equally intrigued by and frustrated. Well,

705
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: let's go to the LA expert. Yeah, you know about LA,

706
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:25,760
Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis. You understand what's going on with the Rams

707
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: and the Chargers in LA. You know all about the stadium.

708
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: You are a big part of that out there. It's

709
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:37,839
Speaker 1: not the Charger stadium, it's the Rams Stadium. Not sure

710
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 1: what else mister Spanos is gonna say after that report

711
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: comes out. It couldn't come out at a worse time

712
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: for him, as they're trying to get things together. As

713
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: you weigh everything objectively from thirty thousand feet, what do

714
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: you think they're not going to London. They're not going

715
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: to London. That placed it. As you said, I was

716
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: involved in designing some of the stuff with Jeff Fisher

717
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,240
Speaker 1: with that stadium. When that thing first came into fruition

718
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: and had a lot of meetings on it. That was

719
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 1: that that stadium was made for two teams. That thing

720
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 1: is going to be magnificent. Uh, They're not going to London,

721
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 1: I mean, and again, LA is a different animal anyway

722
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: for all professional sports. There's just so much, there's so

723
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: much going on out there, but there's there's room for

724
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: two teams out there. And then this this new complex

725
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 1: that's being built out there, it's going to be something special.

726
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: They're not going to London. They may go play a

727
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: game in London, They're not moving to London. The answer

728
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: to that is no. What's interesting what's kind of grown

729
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 1: from that as realignment talking whether or not the Chargers

730
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: could end up in the AFC East and potentially have

731
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: a team like the Dolphins moved to the AFC South

732
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: and moved to Texans. So so much has come from

733
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: that conversation. I'm very skeptical. I mean, there's there's just

734
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: so like coach Mike, I mean, there's just so many

735
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 1: factors that on me, not a good idea. What's brewing

736
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: with Jim Wyatt. What's brewing with Jim Watt is more

737
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: football related and Is this the week the Titans do

738
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: go back to giving Derrick Henry the ball more often? Uh?

739
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: You know this game this past Sunday seemed like an

740
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: opportunity from the way I think he just took coaches,

741
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 1: seemed like an opportunity. I can bounce to something else.

742
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 1: I had three on my list and one of bottom

743
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: with London. He's got a brewing just in case. So

744
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: you have this one and I can bounce to something else.

745
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: I didn't no goal. Okay, So this past week it

746
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 1: was a game I thought that the Titans would lean

747
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,839
Speaker 1: on Derrick Henry against the Carolina Panthers defense that has

748
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: struggled against the run and given up over two hundred yards.

749
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: And he only carried the ball twice in the first half,

750
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: and I know one of them was called back, but

751
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: um against the Chiefs defense has also had some misues

752
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: stopping the run. What's brewing in my mind? Is this

753
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: the week where you ride number twenty two and try

754
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 1: to win the game that way? And if you do that,

755
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: you control tim of possession, you keep their offense off

756
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: the field. That's what's brewing in my mind. I like

757
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 1: how you worked that in three times? Well, Coach Mac.

758
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: What's brewing with you? What's going on out there in

759
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: Santa Clara with the forty nine ers? This team is

760
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 1: stay No. They've got three in a row at home,

761
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,399
Speaker 1: starting with Monday night against Seattle. That's the biggest game

762
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 1: they've had since they've moved into that stadium out there.

763
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: They got three in a row at home. They got Seattle,

764
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: they got Arizona, okay, and then they finished up with

765
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: Green Bay at home. If they end up eleven and oh,

766
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: they've got a they've got a tournament spot locked up

767
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: by Thanksgiving. I've been on teams that have done that before.

768
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,919
Speaker 1: Who would have ever thought that that would happen out

769
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: there this year? So what's brewing out there? And they're

770
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: legitimate when you look at them. They're the number one

771
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 1: defense in the league right now, number one defense in

772
00:39:58,239 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 1: the league. Two hundred and forty one yards a game

773
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 1: they're given up. That's amazing in today's National Football League.

774
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: There's some good stuff brewing out there, all right? What's

775
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 1: brewing with me? Can we please get rid of the kickoff? Seriously? Please?

776
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: Sixty six percent of NFL kickoffs this year have gone

777
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: for touchbacks. Who wants to watch eleven guys line up,

778
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 1: a guy kick a ball into the end zone, and

779
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: the other team just stand there and somebody take a

780
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: knee or let the ball go. That's not football. That's boring.

781
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: The only thing worse than that is what they're doing

782
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: in college, where you can call for a fair catch

783
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 1: at the eight yard line and get I don't understand

784
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: that at all. Can we please get rid of it

785
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: and don't hand me the We have to keep the

786
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 1: kickoff because of the on side kick. On sidekicks have

787
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: been successful in the NFL so far this year one

788
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:54,880
Speaker 1: out of twenty nine times, and even that one shouldn't

789
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:58,359
Speaker 1: have been. It should be oh for twenty nine. Let's

790
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,320
Speaker 1: let's do away with it. Let's start at the twenty five.

791
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: Let's go from there. Let's speed our game up. Let's

792
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: take what has become a play. And I love the kickoff,

793
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: and I'm a traditionalist, and football was first played one

794
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years ago today between Rutgers and Princeton,

795
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:18,280
Speaker 1: so I'm as much as traditionalist as anybody else. But please,

796
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: it's a safety issue. Great, then let's acknowledge it. Let's

797
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: take it out, and let's go with the play that

798
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: if you want to get the ball back in place

799
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: of an onside kick, Let's do fourth and fifteen at

800
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: your own thirty five yard line, and if you convert,

801
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 1: you get a chance to keep the ball. Let me

802
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: just ask you this on your what's brilliant? What do

803
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: you do if there's a penalty and you've got a

804
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,720
Speaker 1: chance for the pooch kick to make them catch the ball,

805
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 1: and you go down and you're able to tackle them

806
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: inside the twenty five as we've seen before, what do

807
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: you do with that? Then? What I do at that

808
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 1: point is that I play the fourth and fifteen from

809
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 1: the fifty instead of the thirty five, so then you

810
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: would have the opportunity to get the ball back at

811
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: that point, or if I choose not to do that,

812
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: I do half the distance to the goal and they

813
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: start at their own twelve and a half. I have

814
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 1: thought about it because I don't like the idea of

815
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: not having the kickoff. I just hate the idea of

816
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: we're doing this eleven times every game, that it's the

817
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 1: same thing. We're not seeing kickoff returns the same way.

818
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: And I love what Caliph Raymond's done, and I like

819
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 1: that he's willing to you know to bring it out

820
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: and make something happen. But I mean, if a third,

821
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: if two thirds of them are just going for touchbacks,

822
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: it's it's it takes time, it's boring. It does have

823
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: the ability for injury to be more prevalent. So let's

824
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: just let's be done with it. Let's make people happy

825
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: in the medical community and just be rid of it.

826
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:50,959
Speaker 1: Let me ask you one more and you're what's brilliant? Sure,

827
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 1: you're a professional broadcaster. It's debatable. Now it's not debatable.

828
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 1: What do you do about the commercial times that come

829
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 1: after every kickoff? Okay, so what you would There aren't

830
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,359
Speaker 1: commercial times after kickoffs anymore. The league took those out

831
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: two years ago. The only way they do that, coach

832
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: is if they're behind on spots. Now, because that was

833
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 1: Commisser Goodell was right on this. He hated that he

834
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: hated going to break after an extra point, coming back

835
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,919
Speaker 1: and then going to break after a kickoff. He thought

836
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,919
Speaker 1: that was bad for business. I think he's right. So

837
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: what you do is you kick the extra point, you

838
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 1: go to commercial, We come right back and we started

839
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: the twenty five yard line. Let's play. Can I ask

840
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: a follow up? Brew? Yes? What do you call the

841
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: start of the game, then I want to make sure

842
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: I'm in my seat in time for the first play.

843
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 1: It's not as I get it. I know people on

844
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:48,240
Speaker 1: the competition committee personally. Yes, I've got him in this phone.

845
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: Yes we should clip this and send it to him. No, No,

846
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: I mean we need to send Mike Keith. But here's

847
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 1: here's the deal. And you're not alone in this. I

848
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: know you are not alone in this and all of

849
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: these things that because I was there. I mean I

850
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,840
Speaker 1: was involved two years ago with Jeff Fisher about the

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