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Speaker 1: I'm joined by the hosts of Titans Countdown, Rhet Brian

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Speaker 1: and Amy Wells. Welcome, lady, and gentlemen, go ahead, lady.

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Speaker 1: Quite a last six days of the last week to

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Speaker 1: OTP four D begins in pre game with what happened

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Speaker 1: yesterday for us? In pre game, we show up and

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Speaker 1: the word is out throughout our area that Amani Hooker

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Speaker 1: is not gonna play safety. That's not good. He had

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Speaker 1: left practice on Friday. Sometimes a guy leaves practice and young,

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Speaker 1: doesn't feel well, or I mean, anything can happen. In

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Speaker 1: most cases, that's not the end of the world. In

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Speaker 1: most cases, Amy, it's not twenty twenty one for the Titans.

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Speaker 1: And so a Monny Hooker who made one of the

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Speaker 1: down stop. A mony hooker, a guy that Titans were

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Speaker 1: so excited to have back to pair with Kevin Byard.

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Speaker 1: Now he's not going to play against Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: a little deflating it. It was one of those things

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Speaker 1: got to trust those depth guys. You know, Dan Krookshank

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Speaker 1: and those guys were going to step up, and we

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Speaker 1: all the time, we've seen him in games. But you're right,

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Speaker 1: we were so excited to get him back and have

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Speaker 1: him be with Kevin Byard and Little Scary to start

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Speaker 1: out the game. You and Coach McK and I and

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Speaker 1: a lot of us were looking out the window as

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Speaker 1: So let me stop you there. So we're looking out

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Speaker 1: working out Bud Dupree for a long time. Inactives didn't

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Speaker 1: the pandemic year. And so Rhet says, I'm almost sure

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Speaker 1: that's Chris Jackson. He left the Buffalo game twice with injury.

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Speaker 1: Right he had practiced. They had hoped he was going

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Speaker 1: Now the sudden they're working him out and he's clearly

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Speaker 1: was obvious to us, Rhett, he's not gonna play. He's out,

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Speaker 1: And that takes us to my mood in the booth.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, it's a little solemn. I'm like, whoa, I mean,

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Speaker 1: All right, So all of a sudden, the inactives come out.

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Speaker 1: Charles Davis from CBS is obviously our friend and a

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Speaker 1: I agree with that. Well, Amy, you brought it up

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Speaker 1: Rhet Brian, your play that turned the game. It's three

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Speaker 1: that was my second choice where at so I'm glad

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Speaker 1: a tone setter and it's such a momentum shift in

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Speaker 1: to see something like that work. And from that point on,

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Speaker 1: that's one hundred percent right. I said that on a

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Speaker 1: getting them off the field in that moment was psychologically

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Speaker 1: Your stat that tells the story. I think that. For me,

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Speaker 1: it's the fact that every Titans possession in the first

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Speaker 1: Whether it was a touchdown, there were three of those.

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Speaker 1: So that's really good. The Titans are scoring points, they

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Speaker 1: The Titans were in control the whole time, and that

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Speaker 1: didn't play. That's exactly right. You can pick out many

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Speaker 1: was the first time for everything. Remarkable. Yeah, they and

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Speaker 1: Matthias Farley forty four snaps. Bobby Hart at left tackle,

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Speaker 1: turn it up to a different level and keep them

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Speaker 1: out of there. It's been cool these last two games.

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Speaker 1: The energy emotion has been been wild, very cool. All right.

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Speaker 1: That is the OTP four D, presented by Farm Health

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Speaker 1: Plans turn to the folks who've been in the game

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Speaker 1: Mike Keith. Thanks for joining us for this edition of

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Speaker 1: the OTP four D. Welcome to the Big Show where

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Speaker 1: the legends go. Everybody knows it's our house, fighting Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Making us to read greatness is meant to be as now, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we got sighting butter running through a base