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Speaker 1: O T T from same time of Sports Park in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: My name is Mike Keith. Amy Wells is across the way. Hello, Hello, Amy,

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Speaker 1: how are you? And back from I'm fine? Thank you? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And back from I didn't expect you to ask me

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Speaker 1: about your overall while I appreciate that. And back from Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: GA and his twenty first Super Bowl. Jim Wyatt, senior

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Speaker 1: writer from Titans Online dot Com. Welcome back. Glad to

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Speaker 1: be here. You said it's February seventh, with means it's

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Speaker 1: time for another OTPs. I mean February seventh's like a

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Speaker 1: the other night by voice vote. There there must be

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Speaker 1: It's the only thing Congress in the President agree on

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Speaker 1: There is much to discuss. Let's talk about your Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl experience. Though you've had a chance to go down

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Speaker 1: and cover another Super Bowl we mentioned your twenty first.

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Speaker 1: What jumped out to you. It was cool to see

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Speaker 1: Jason mccordy and to see him experienced a week and

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Speaker 1: then to see him in the locker room after the game,

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Speaker 1: and he made the play of the game. He did

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Speaker 1: make the play of the game, you know, great alert

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Speaker 1: be experienced that with this team. But you're happier for

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Speaker 1: So I was happy for him. So that kind of

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Speaker 1: And then there were so many other Titans angles that

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Speaker 1: And and uh, you know, watching the Patriots, I know

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Speaker 1: a resilient team. Great coach again, Tom Brady. You know,

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Speaker 1: Uh on a field, you know, field with the NFL's

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Speaker 1: And now you can understand maybe what all the chatter

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Speaker 1: at the rankings, and and and and you can't help

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00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 1: but question why didn't you see more success from Dick

431
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,159
Speaker 1: Henrys beginning season to do then why it takes so

432
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 1: long to figure some of that stuff out? So I

433
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 1: think you know things are gonna work out well with

434
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 1: with the author Smith. I think he's a he's really

435
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 1: good football coach. Player, really like him or respect him. Yes,

436
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 1: he's going to have to learn some things along the

437
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,880
Speaker 1: way calling a game for the first time, but uh,

438
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 1: I think he's Uh. I think he's did a really

439
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 1: good job. It's kind of been a hoot. Hoot. It

440
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 1: is but it has so cute to see people's reaction

441
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 1: now that they have figured out who Arthur Smith's dad is.

442
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 1: We have we have known that it's the best kept

443
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:38,919
Speaker 1: fantastic and um, it's fantastic because we have known for

444
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: years because we know him, we and and so you

445
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 1: you know who he is. It's certainly never been in

446
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 1: his bio. It's never been anything that was noticed. But

447
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,239
Speaker 1: people have come to the realization that his dad is

448
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 1: Fred Smith, mister FedEx yep. And I think it's some ways,

449
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: I mean, some people here. Here's the re action I've

450
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: gotten from people off that It's like, well, you know,

451
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,439
Speaker 1: his dad's pretty smart, so he probably is too. Yeah. True.

452
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 1: The other thing too that has struck people is he

453
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 1: probably doesn't have to work this hard see it, and

454
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: yet he does. But I think if you know anything

455
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 1: about the Smith family, you know that his dad has

456
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 1: expected this all along, and from a little transportation background,

457
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: I know some things about how Fred Smith has done this.

458
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 1: It's hard work, yeah, And so in that way, it's

459
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: not surprising to some people. It is a little surprising

460
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 1: that Fred Smith's son, it has battled this way his

461
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: way up through the ranks, and I think it makes

462
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: people say, hey, awesome. Yeah, I think that it shows

463
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: off that his work ethic is genuine because he's done

464
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 1: his football career or the hard way, and he's really

465
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,879
Speaker 1: grinded it out, and he's never used his family or

466
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: their position as a leg up as an excuse for anything.

467
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: He has just been a football guy and so if

468
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: nothing else, that should give him a ton of respect.

469
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,439
Speaker 1: But as someone who has who started as an intern

470
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: in the National Football League for three years, if my

471
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 1: family had any kind of money, like any semblance of

472
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 1: FedEx money, sorry, guys, Like it's hard work and I

473
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 1: wasn't in coaching at all, But if I could have

474
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: found any way to get out of doing clips at

475
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: five in the morning, I would have taken that road out.

476
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 1: So it makes me respect him so much because I

477
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,199
Speaker 1: know how hard of a climb that Jim did the

478
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,239
Speaker 1: same thing. Yeah, well, I mean I think it's I

479
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: think his answer that was great. I mean, he's not

480
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: going to not going to see his dad. He doesn't

481
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 1: view his dad's success as his success. I mean, he's

482
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: his own guy, and he wants to make his own

483
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: name and wants to do his own thing. His father

484
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: obviously very successful, but uh, you know, he's a football

485
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: coach and wants to be in a position he's in

486
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 1: right now. I know. I think it was Sean Smith

487
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: that said it first, and I think Delaney Walkers, Yeah,

488
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: Sun Smith. Let's see for people who don't remember Seawan Smith,

489
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: the three hundred and something pound defensive lineman who talked

490
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: all the time and was here in twenty thirteen, yeah,

491
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: or maybe it maybe even uh twelve, I think it

492
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 1: may be more like eleven or twelve. Yea, he was,

493
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: he was here early, and he said this guy's gonna

494
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: be a head coach one day and uh, out of nowhere.

495
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 1: And Delaney has said that this is a guy that

496
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 1: has aspirations for being a head coach. If you're a

497
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: Titans family, hope that's not anytime soon, because the last

498
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: thing you'll do is see a guy getting to a

499
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,199
Speaker 1: position where he's leaving again and you're starting over, just

500
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:55,719
Speaker 1: like Matt Lafleur. But if that ends up happening, then

501
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 1: that means that Arthur Smith has had success in the job.

502
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: He's getting ready to take old over. But that just

503
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 1: shows you what this guy is all about and his

504
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: work ethic and his goals and where he wants to be,

505
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: and he took the hard road to get to where

506
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: he is and now you have to be happy for

507
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 1: a guy like that, and his family is certainly happy

508
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: for him, and deservedly so. The Titans family is happy

509
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: for him because this is his ninth year. I mean,

510
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 1: it was our first thought when Matt got the Green

511
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:30,199
Speaker 1: Bay job, do they promote Arthur? Yeah, that was that

512
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 1: was internally what we were talking about. We didn't know

513
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: if Arthur wanted it because nobody kind of knew because

514
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: he's never really said anything. It's like the thing about

515
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: his dad being Fred Smith. We weren't keeping it a secret,

516
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: it was just it never came up. Yeah, no one

517
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: really talked about it, and nobody because he just went

518
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: about his business. He did his job and you're like,

519
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: there's Arthur and when they would talk about great offensive

520
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: game plans, the coaches would say, man Arthur and the

521
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: rest of the staff really I mean, he's just always

522
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: been a part of everything, and so to see him

523
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: getting this kind of attention and him doing well in

524
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 1: the press conference is something that internally here at St.

525
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: Thomas Sports Park we're very happy for. Yeah, it's it's

526
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: exciting for him. Speaking of weapons, how many of you

527
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: guys have looked at the mock drafts yet? Very briefly

528
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: I have. I did a tour of them before. I

529
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: guess the you know, the run of I guess some

530
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: of these uh offseason events started happenings. I guess it

531
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 1: was sometime the middle of January. I saw him and

532
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: they were all over the place, from Kyler Murray to

533
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: two receivers. All right, so I'm going to ask about that.

534
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: Let me stop you right there. I think everybody immediately

535
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: on the inside and the people who cover this team

536
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: directly see the Titans taking a defensive player at nineteen.

537
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: And that's really what we're talking about right now. We're

538
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: talking about the first round pick, which too early to

539
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: kind of go anywhere else. Is it crazy to think

540
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: they could take a receiver at nineteen? I don't think

541
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: it is. No, I don't think it's crazy. I think

542
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: it would be not what everyone immediately expects, but I

543
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: don't at all think it's outside the realm of possibility. Well,

544
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 1: and I always have to remind people that want to

545
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: talk draft and what's the pick is going to be?

546
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: Is is? Hey, let's see what happens in free ancy first, right,

547
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: because that's where after that. I mean, I think these

548
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 1: Mott drafts are fun to look at now, but they're

549
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: silly to look at now because you're basing those picks

550
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: a lot of time. Don't say that I love them. Yeah,

551
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: I can't look at them. I love I mean, I'm

552
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: just like everybody listening to the OTP right now. I

553
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: love the mocks. There are two guys that we all

554
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: work within the building, and I got to send them

555
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: to them, and they send them to me, and I

556
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: mean we you know, we love them. And I don't

557
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: get me wrong, I love them too. And I'll do

558
00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: another roundup of Mott drafts for next week until free

559
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: agency happens. Yeah, they're probably worth about the sheet of

560
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: paper that they're printed on now, because again you're basing

561
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: it on needs of a team, and needs of teams

562
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: change after the first week of free agency. So you know,

563
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: free agency starts the middle of March. And let's say

564
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: this team we're looking at receiver. We're talking about receivers

565
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: being a big area of need. Well, what happens if

566
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: this team goes out and gets a couple of receivers

567
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: in free agency. Well, then maybe you don't look at

568
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: that as much in the mock draft. What you know,

569
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: you're talking about edge rush or what if this team

570
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: finds the best edge rusher in free agency, then maybe

571
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: that's not where you're looking to plug holes. I think

572
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: the mock drafts getting more interesting for me at the

573
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: start of April, when you're when you have a better

574
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,719
Speaker 1: idea what rosters look like. See, I'll start looking at

575
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: them before that. March fifth, the day after the combine ends,

576
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: is the day that I will start looking at mock drafts.

577
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: I want to see how people perform in that situation.

578
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: I love the combine. It is no secret. I think

579
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: it is just the best thing. But there are always

580
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: people who really improve their draft stock and people who

581
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: really don't. And then there's all the medical parts. And

582
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: that's the interesting part too, is SO and so may

583
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: not be doing this because they found this thing in

584
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: their medical exam, and there's this guy with this knee

585
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: problem over here. So many things come out of those

586
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: medical exams and just the round robin that they go through,

587
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: or I mean, holy smokes, anything can happen at the combine,

588
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: and so many things change based on so many different

589
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: um variables. So that's when I'll start looking at them,

590
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: is after I see how these guys perform. And if

591
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: the guy I really like ends up running a six

592
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: five forty, I'm gonna I'm not gonna get my hopes up.

593
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: I get too attached. Yes you do. Yeah, it's a

594
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: real problem. So I have to bring myself. I would

595
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: be the absolute worst. We would have the nicest, funniest

596
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: team that would never win a ball game, but golly,

597
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: they'd be hilarious because that's how I picked players. Yeah,

598
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 1: she's all about it's so bad. It's all about the

599
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: nice or it's Jimmy Garoppolo, but that's another Oh no,

600
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: we're not going down to Jimmy Garoppolo rabbit hole. It's

601
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: a deep it's a deep rabbit hole, all right. So

602
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: I think it was the split Ends, ironically a football term,

603
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: but it was the group the split ends who sang

604
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: history never repeats. It may have been a later version

605
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: of them Crowded House, but that's a that's another story.

606
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: You can look that up. While I ast Jim White,

607
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: this question I planned because I'm gonna go to the

608
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna go old man on you here love it.

609
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety eight Tennessee Titans go eight and eight. They

610
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: win some big games, they lose some games. You get

611
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: the idea that that eight and eight wasn't quite as

612
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: good as they they could have been. Defense is good,

613
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: Greg Williams's defensive coordinator. Defense is good. The question with them, though,

614
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: is they don't have a great pass rusher. If I'm

615
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: not mistaken that ninety eight Titans team was led in

616
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: sacks by Lonnie Marts. With five in the draft, they

617
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:21,919
Speaker 1: picked Javine Curse, everything changes. While the Titans ninety nine

618
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: defense was not statistically phenomenal in terms of yards allowed,

619
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: in terms of takeaways and sacks, with Jim Washburn, they

620
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: absolutely blew it open. Is this defense twenty years later,

621
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: coming off of a top ten year in twenty eighteen?

622
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: Are they an impact rusher away from being electric to

623
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:51,280
Speaker 1: the point the ninety nine team was Can history repeat itself?

624
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: Who sang it? I didn't look that up. I was

625
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,439
Speaker 1: just looking up the split ins. Did you know they're

626
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 1: from New Zealand? Yes? I did. Oh anyway, Jim White,

627
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,359
Speaker 1: I do think that that would definitely change the look

628
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,240
Speaker 1: of the entire defense. If that happened. I still think

629
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: more help maybe as needed. But you know, look back

630
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: at that ninety nine team. That team didn't blow you

631
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: away at receiver, you know, and you'll look at offensive

632
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: line certainly, and those are the two other positions in

633
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: need I think this team really needs. But I'm just

634
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: talking about defense. I'm saying, can they be an elite

635
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: art because curse made everybody else better? That was the

636
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: everybody had to account for curse or else they were

637
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 1: gonna get tortured. And then when they accounted for curse,

638
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: here's Josh Evans, here's you know this guy here, samari

639
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 1: Roll becomes a pro bowler. All these things start to

640
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: happen when they added a force. Yeah, and that was

641
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: curse one. John Thornton two? Is that right? John Thornton two?

642
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: And John Thornton was a good player, and he did

643
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: a nice job on that team, but he wasn't the

644
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: difference that he wasn't. The difference was the the guy

645
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: off the edge who set the rookie sack record. And

646
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: I'm saying, either through free agency or the draft, are

647
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 1: the Titans that guy away from going top five and

648
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: being elite or do you think they need more I do.

649
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they need a little more, But yeah,

650
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 1: I do think that's the that's the player and the

651
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: position that puts over the top because grant, this is

652
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: a good defense last year and statistically it was really good.

653
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: And Dan Peace talked about that on Tuesday in the

654
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: press conference just about where they ranked in the top

655
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: ten in a lot of key categories. I like this

656
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: team in the secondary. I think they're good at cornerback.

657
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 1: I think they're good at safety. Got an interesting decision

658
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: to make at the safe of position opposite Kevin Byrd.

659
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:47,720
Speaker 1: But inside linebacker, solid defense affront. I think you still

660
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: need pieces there. But the one glaring hole and the

661
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: position that can change the look of the entire defenses

662
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: is edge rusher. And you hope that Harol Landry develops,

663
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: and you hope that you know, Sharif Finch, Keimla Ray

664
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: can be productive, but you need a guy a fourteen

665
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: and a half sit guy like Javin Curse. Yeah that

666
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: was his number that year half to change the look

667
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: of the entire defense. So yeah, I mean, I that's

668
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: the big piece on defense. There's no question about it.

669
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: It was the split add thank you, history never repeats.

670
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: I telled myself before I go to sleep in that

671
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: new mattress that they're not a sponsor though, so they're

672
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: not getting to mention anyway. One other thing we want

673
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 1: to mention on this show. It's February seventh, two seven,

674
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 1: and so it's actually a special day for the head

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00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: coach and something he's big about. With two of his

676
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: former teammates at Ohio State. He and those teammates put

677
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:57,240
Speaker 1: together the second and seven Foundations. So today's two seven

678
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:02,879
Speaker 1: second seven. You get it? Amy, explain why today is significant?

679
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: Can you do that? I can so. Originally, the second

680
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:12,240
Speaker 1: and seven whole mantra was so that they could raise

681
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: money during the Super Bowl. So every time there was

682
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 1: a second and seven situation in the game, people could

683
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,720
Speaker 1: pledge five dollars ten dollars and donate some money every

684
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: second and seven to do what to spread literacy books? Yeah,

685
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: that was their whole thing. So they were buying books

686
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: for elementary schools and junior high schools, and they were

687
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: reading to kids, and they were trying to promote reading

688
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: in schools. It has grown since then. There are a

689
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:46,320
Speaker 1: lot of schools now that have incorporated programs where student

690
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: athletes are reading to kids in the communities, and it's

691
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 1: they have books that they give. They've written books. They've

692
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: written a whole series of books, which is so funny

693
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: when you see Mike Vrabel and he's this big, burly

694
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,760
Speaker 1: man and you think he wrote these time little books

695
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: for children, but they're very sweet little books. But it's

696
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: just it's such an awesome thing. And we had the

697
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 1: opportunity to talk to him about it. And last year

698
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 1: when we took a trip to Mike Rabel's hometown, we

699
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 1: were able to meet Ryan Miller and Luke Fickle and

700
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,760
Speaker 1: the guys who he's partnered with to create the Second

701
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: and Seventh Foundation, and they're just so excited about it.

702
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: I mean, they did this in college and still now

703
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,479
Speaker 1: they're so fired up about it, which is really really neat.

704
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: So study up on the Second and Seventh Foundation on

705
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: two seven yep, and if you were so moved, help

706
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 1: them out. Yeah. Absolutely, it's everywhere now, it's everywhere now,

707
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: it's all across the country. They have a website. Let

708
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 1: me double check. I sing more split in songs, would

709
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: you please do that while I looked this up. But really,

710
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: it is a great thing and it's such a cool

711
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 1: way to promote learning, and she's still looking. I know

712
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: we should have a musical interlude. We really should play

713
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: some split in play. Some split were remember the Split

714
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: Ends by I can't said, are you serious? As much

715
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: as you like sing a song? Well, they were better

716
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 1: known later as sort of the derivation, which was Crowded House.

717
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: Crowded House had a couple house. Crowded House had a

718
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,399
Speaker 1: couple of big hits the first group, the split Ends

719
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: were not as big commercially, and then I think the

720
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: two brothers broke away and formed Crowded House. Okay, all right,

721
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 1: you ready, Yes, we're we've killed enough time. Thank you.

722
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: It's second and seven dot com all spelled out and

723
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: right on the second as in scu se Yeah okay,

724
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: but it's not second with the two Yeah okay, words

725
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: spelled out second and seven dot com right on the homepage.

726
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: There's a place where you can donate, and it says

727
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,839
Speaker 1: all of the information they're celebrating their twentieth anniversary. So

728
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: that should be motivation right there. Help the head coach, yep,

729
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 1: second and seven and second can have spelled s E

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00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: C O N D and A n D YEP, and

731
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: then seven is S E V E N dot com

732
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: dot com and I do that because we're hosting the

733
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:20,280
Speaker 1: spelling by. How would you have done in the Spelling

734
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,439
Speaker 1: B real bad? Are you not a good speller? Well,

735
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: I'm a fine speller. Younger people are not as good

736
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: as spellers as we were, probably true. Yeah, well I'm

737
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,959
Speaker 1: I'm a decent speller. Um, not being able to write

738
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: it out would be hard. I can't do this like

739
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 1: hand spelling nonsense that they do with the National Spelling B.

740
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 1: These little robot kids that just like write it in

741
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: their hands where the kid has to spell free. That

742
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 1: makes me happy, maybe because that's the word that I

743
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 1: could have spelled. Yeah, because otherwise wouldn't have been I'd

744
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: have been okay. But I mean some of the words,

745
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 1: I don't know what the word he is? Yeah, and

746
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: they say give a definition and yeah, like the origin

747
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: isn't going to help me. I don't care if it's

748
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: a Latin word, I still don't know. You're just buying time.

749
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,760
Speaker 1: Would you have made it? I was a decent speller,

750
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: not good at math, so uh, I guess I participated

751
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: in a few spelling bees myself back in the day

752
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: and did Okay, did you really yeah. I mean it

753
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: was a school spelling, but it wasn't like a regional spelling.

754
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 1: It's like a father Ryan say, Henry's school. Okay, that's

755
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: pretty tough. Yeah, that's good stuff, by the way, great

756
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: stuff over the last few weeks from Senior Bowl and

757
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: from Pro Bowl and from Super Bowl. Uh, you're good

758
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 1: at what you do well. Thank you for making us

759
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 1: all look so good at Titans Online dot com and

760
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 1: uh at J White Sports on Twitter and and everything.

761
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,399
Speaker 1: I mean it is it is so great to read

762
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: all that. You make people feel like they're there and

763
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: really add to their enjoyment of following it. And that's

764
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: that to me, that's that's the ultimate compliment for what

765
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: you do well. I appreciate that. I'm very fortunate to

766
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: be in a position where I can go to some

767
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: of these events and uh, you know, it was fortunate

768
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,399
Speaker 1: to wage things played out and you know every step

769
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: of the way. Just we have some bad news for

770
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:15,839
Speaker 1: you about you, but some horrible news, but that's after

771
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: this edition the OTP. But it was it was cool

772
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: with me because I had to I guess that's a

773
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 1: nice I just it just felt like we were gonna

774
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: have a Hallmark movie here you're talking about they saw

775
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: my expense report. But yeah, it was cool. The Senior

776
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 1: Bowl is always cool and obviously that's where John Robinson

777
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: and Mike Vrabel talk and you get a lot of

778
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: information out of there. And then the Pro Bowl Office,

779
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 1: and we had a couple of players there and there

780
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: were other Titans angles. But you know, the Super Bowl

781
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: is always a great place where you can have, uh

782
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: have Titans, a Titans presence here. We had so many

783
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: players there. And then to have Jason mccordy be on

784
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: the winning team, need to be there for that. And

785
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: then to have Kevin May go into the Hall of

786
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 1: Fame one Saturday night and him being able to share

787
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: his you know, his thoughts about his days in Tennessee.

788
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: And he was really the first full he's really the

789
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,240
Speaker 1: first true Titan to make the Hall of Fame aside

790
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: from Randy Moss. If you want to count him, well,

791
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: I mean he never played. Yeah, he played with Kevin

792
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: why started four years Yeah, yeah, so I was on

793
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: a ten and o team. I mean he was on

794
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: two playoff teams and yeah, he had a two thousand

795
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: yard rusher, you know, I mean that's yeah, he's a

796
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: big deal. So I appreciate you saying I was glad

797
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: and forced to be at those spots where I could

798
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: gather some of that. I have a feeling Jim Wyatt

799
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: is going to end up at the Pro Football Hall

800
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: of Fame induction, and I have a feeling he will too. Yeah,

801
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: I was wondering. I was just thinking about that yesterday.

802
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 1: Only downside of that, and I certainly would love to go.

803
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: Uh is that it's in the middle of training camp.

804
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that's the Saturday practice here. Oh yeah, boy,

805
00:44:56,200 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: nothing like that. Let's see Hall of Fame inductions Saturday

806
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: today practice during training camp, which you've never ever seen before.

807
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 1: What would I do? I know what I'll do. If

808
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: they offer me, I'm out. I'm going to Canton. Yeah, yeah,

809
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: it would be cool to be there for that. We

810
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 1: can fill you in on the practice. Yeah, we'll let you.

811
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 1: We'll give you that, We'll give you the four one

812
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: one on that. Yeah, it would Yeah, it would be

813
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,439
Speaker 1: I guess I'll need to see what the training camp

814
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 1: schedule looks like, because it would probably the induction is

815
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: the Saturday practice, but if there's a Friday practice too,

816
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: then you're risk you're potentially missing to whole practice practice.

817
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 1: I'm gon'll give you some Allen iversh. We're talking about practice,

818
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: not a game, not a game. We're talking about practice.

819
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:50,240
Speaker 1: I do love training camp practices, though, do you really?

820
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: I actually do, seriously, especially the first week. Maybe by

821
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: the third week I'm ready for him to be done,

822
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: but that's still the first week camp. You love practice,

823
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:03,240
Speaker 1: I love to do. I agree with the man. Training

824
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:06,399
Speaker 1: cant practices are fun, though, Well, that's because you want

825
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 1: to see a fight. Well, yeah, I do, of course

826
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:13,760
Speaker 1: I do. It's great. They're hot, they're angry, they're tired.

827
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: She wants to see a fight. Well, I want to

828
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: see Mike Ribe react to a fight, because if a

829
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: God's gonna fight, then Ribal's gonna take it to a

830
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: whole note. I've ever been in a fight. Have I've

831
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: never been in a fight, But in every sports movie

832
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: they fight and then they win the whole thing. That's

833
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: how it is, how it works. I love it. If

834
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: you've ever been in a fight and gotten your rear

835
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: end beaten. I got ready to say something else, you

836
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: just it's it's just not as much fun. I mean,

837
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:49,320
Speaker 1: it's great to see everybody have the passion, and that's

838
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: what I'm looking for. It's not as fabulous as you might.

839
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:53,439
Speaker 1: I don't want to be in the fight. I don't

840
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 1: want anyone to hit me like you worried Jack against Jacksonville.

841
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: You and Jarrelle Casey nearly together. The story gets bigger,

842
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 1: it does, all right. For Amy Wells and also the

843
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: great Jim Wyatt j Wytte sports on Twitter, Titans Amy

844
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:17,840
Speaker 1: spell it am I E Titans Well t I T

845
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: A n S. But you should know that you found

846
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 1: the OTP, so you're halfway there. Amy is am I E.

847
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: All right. That's how you follow them on Twitter. My

848
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: name's Mike Keith. For Jim Wyatt and Amy Wells, thanks

849
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 1: so much for joining us on the second and seven edition.

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00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: The two seven edition of the ot