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Speaker 1: forty seven. I'm Mike Keith. Amy Wells is here as

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Speaker 1: per usual. Hello, miss Wells. Hello Mike Keith, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, Thank you very much, and we're pleased

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Speaker 1: coach Mack Hello and welcome. Thank you Mike Keith. Hello.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna start this fun, fun experience off with some

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Speaker 1: current events questions. So this is from Chris from Memphis

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Speaker 1: and he's asking about the Titans roster moves recently in

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Speaker 1: regards to punter. He says, help me understand this, please.

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Speaker 1: We promoted the one punter to the active roster, we

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Speaker 1: What is the deal? What's happening here? Jim whyatt? Can

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Speaker 1: you give us some clarity as to what's going on

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Speaker 1: at the punter spot. I could have predicted this would

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Speaker 1: be the first question because everything on Twitter, everything I

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Speaker 1: for the weekend. I'm not kidding half of the half

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Speaker 1: of the questions or about the punter. You know, people

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Speaker 1: going on around here, and this is and this is

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Speaker 1: kind of what went down. Obviously, Trevor Daniel had a

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Speaker 1: tough knot against the Colts. He had a seventeen yard punty,

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Speaker 1: had one block. The block wasn't his fault. And then

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Speaker 1: people obviously remember, you know, Ron Allen punting against the Bears,

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Speaker 1: and they look at his average and certainly looked at

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Speaker 1: the way punny the average fifty yards a punt and think,

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Speaker 1: how in the world are you keeping Trevor Daniel over

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Speaker 1: Special teams coach Craig Auckimon on this. They watched these

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Speaker 1: guys when they worked out, they've watched them in practices,

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Speaker 1: and they're based on it more than just what they

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Speaker 1: a little clarity there from Jim Wyatt to kick it off,

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Speaker 1: Coach Mac, this question is directed at you and doesn't

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Speaker 1: right into the heart of the matter here. Andy from

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Speaker 1: Rusty from Chat and Nooga asks, have we found a

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Speaker 1: brown Boarders. I think he's done a great job and

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Speaker 1: Coach has really talked him up just about by the

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Speaker 1: talk about getting Fulton and a Dory back, well, that help.

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Speaker 1: It helps big time. Because of this. You get your

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Speaker 1: speed matchups. This is a matchup game. You get eleven

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Speaker 1: to have your starting secondary together, that's a big difference. Now,

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Speaker 1: Coach Mac, I want to stay with you for a minute,

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Speaker 1: because Donovan from Los Angeles, California says Jayon Brown might

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Speaker 1: be one of the best linebackers verse the inside screen

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Speaker 1: game time and time again, Jayon sniffs out the screen.

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Speaker 1: the ball. Jim White, speaking of linebackers, Ronnie from New

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Speaker 1: need to be better across the board, all right, staying

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Speaker 1: across the pond, this is Jamie from England and he

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Speaker 1: has an interesting question that maybe coach Matt can answer.

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Speaker 1: To start, he says, hey, guys, can you please explain

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Speaker 1: to me why the defense is standing so far off

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, especially on shortdowns. Being from England,

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Speaker 1: I have never had the opportunity to play the game,

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Speaker 1: so there are things that I'm still learning about. But

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Speaker 1: even I can work out that on fourth and two

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Speaker 1: you don't need to stand ten yards off the line.

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Speaker 1: Is this something people are coached to do or these

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Speaker 1: personal decisions. Well, with all due respect to England, which

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Speaker 1: again another lovely, lovely country. You know they've enjoyed my

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Speaker 1: visits there. Also, when it's fourth and two, the only

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Speaker 1: people standing ten yards off the line are the safety

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Speaker 1: and the two corners if they've got if they've got

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Speaker 1: double wits. If people normally in their short yardage when

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Speaker 1: it's fourth and two, they've got bunched in. They've got

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Speaker 1: bunched in formations normally with big people. So the only

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Speaker 1: person that would be ten yards away from the ball

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Speaker 1: would be the free safety in the middle of the field.

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Speaker 1: And so probably what he is referring to is sometimes

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Speaker 1: on short yardage, if you have a wide receiver that's

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Speaker 1: out there, the corners are off for this reason. If

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Speaker 1: you're playing short yardage and all, and they look up

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Speaker 1: and your safety is lined up a little more shallow,

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Speaker 1: and your corner is pressed on the wide out out there,

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Speaker 1: it's an immediate check to a takeoff. It's an immediate

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Speaker 1: check to a takeoff, and people will take that chance

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Speaker 1: every time. Every time I've been on football teams before

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Speaker 1: as to where we've been on the two yard line

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Speaker 1: and people are going to press us up there, and

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Speaker 1: we're trying to press us up there to get a safety,

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Speaker 1: and would throw a takeoff down the sideline to a

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Speaker 1: pressed up receiver and the next thing you know, we've

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Speaker 1: got the ball on the fifty. So there's reasons for

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Speaker 1: things that happen in the games. But the only person, again,

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Speaker 1: as I said, all due respect to England that would

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Speaker 1: be lined up in a short yardage situation ten yards

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Speaker 1: off the ball is probably the free safety in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the field. Jim, you too get a question

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Speaker 1: from across the pond, and it's also our only question

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Speaker 1: about offense from the OT people today. David from Black

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Speaker 1: Force Germany says, whenever Ryan ten he'll changes to his

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Speaker 1: two minute scheme and puts pressure on the opponent with

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Speaker 1: his no huddle offense, He's very successful. Can you imagine

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Speaker 1: that this tactic could be used more often in general?

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Speaker 1: Even outside of two minutes. Now, I could see you know,

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Speaker 1: coaches staff implementing that at different points of the game,

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Speaker 1: just to take an advantage of success you've had, and also,

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Speaker 1: you know, just to kind of keep the defense off violence.

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Speaker 1: You know. The problem is is when you do that,

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Speaker 1: you know you're not giving your defense the rest that

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Speaker 1: they need. And they've been on the field way too

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Speaker 1: much during the course of season, on the field way

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Speaker 1: too much against the Colts as well. So you've got

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Speaker 1: a factor in a lot of different things. Obviously, something

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Speaker 1: you will take advantage of if you're having success, or

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Speaker 1: if you've got to consider a lot of other things

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Speaker 1: there as well. All Right, Our final question from the

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Speaker 1: ot people for this edition of OTPQUES comes from Janet

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Speaker 1: in Crossville, Tennessee. She says, I am a huge fan

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Speaker 1: of Titan's radio. Are you guys still traveling to away games?

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Speaker 1: That's the plant. We're going this weekend to Baltimore. We're

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Speaker 1: planning to go to Indianapolis. We have Jacksonville Green Bay

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Speaker 1: in Houston after that. Obviously, circumstances can change, amy things

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Speaker 1: can happen. We have, you know, lots of different things

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Speaker 1: coming down about you know, travel, but as long as

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Speaker 1: we deem it safe and our bosses want us to go,

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Speaker 1: I hope we can be there. I think it adds

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Speaker 1: something for us to have a chance to be there.

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Speaker 1: I like that aspect of it. I've talked to a

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Speaker 1: lot of my colleagues who are broadcasting remotely calling the

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Speaker 1: game off of a monitor, and they seem to think

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Speaker 1: it works okay, but but they get if if you

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Speaker 1: can be there, it's better. So yeah, we're going to

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Speaker 1: Baltimore this weekend, and the plan is to go to Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: and we hope we're able to keep doing it. Jim,

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Speaker 1: are you still traveling? I am still traveling, and you know,

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Speaker 1: just to kind of give people kind of insiders view

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Speaker 1: on our lives. Now, we all of us, you know,

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Speaker 1: have traveled with the team on the team plane, on

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Speaker 1: the you know, in the charter, going to the hotels,

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Speaker 1: being on the buses with them, and we're all doing

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Speaker 1: it separately. This year. I continue to travel, and you know,

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Speaker 1: part of the reason is the team's trying to keep

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Speaker 1: that circle tight, uh, you know, to keep players from

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Speaker 1: getting infected and have any issues. But also in my

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Speaker 1: job when the game ends, you know, in years past,

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Speaker 1: travel with the team. You call the game, you're headed

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Speaker 1: toward the bus to get to the plane. In my job,

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Speaker 1: when the game ends, now I'm headed to a location

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Speaker 1: where I can get on the zoom calls because everything

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Speaker 1: has to be done on zoom. So I can't do

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Speaker 1: the zoom calls as I'm headed to the bus trying

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Speaker 1: to get on the plane. So it makes sense from

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Speaker 1: me from that standpoint to travel separate, and and it's

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Speaker 1: obviously a lot of things are different now, you know,

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Speaker 1: even traveling back in my days with the ten see

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Speaker 1: when I traveled commercial, you would want to be on

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Speaker 1: that first flight out on Monday morning to be back

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Speaker 1: here for the head coaches press conference in eleven thirty

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Speaker 1: noon the next day. Well, obviously again there is no

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Speaker 1: press conference the next day. It's on zoom. So now

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Speaker 1: I'm taking a late flight back on Monday evening so

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Speaker 1: I can work the press conference in the visiting city,

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Speaker 1: trying to get on that late flight back on Monday,

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Speaker 1: where a lot of times I have the whole road

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Speaker 1: to myself. You have to factor in a lot of

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Speaker 1: things like that as you travel, and so it's affected

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Speaker 1: everybody differently. I have to say I didn't sleep in

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Speaker 1: the same bettle with my wife for the month of

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Speaker 1: September just because I was traveling. Those are the sacrifices

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Speaker 1: you kind of have to make when you know that

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Speaker 1: you're traveling in airports, in airplanes, and I have a

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Speaker 1: wife that's a diabetic, so I want to kind of

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Speaker 1: keep her safe as well. So it's a whole new

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Speaker 1: world for everybody. But it's something I know we're all

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Speaker 1: willing to do because we love our jobs and love

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Speaker 1: to do the best job possible to keep fans up

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Speaker 1: to date with what's going on with the team well,

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Speaker 1: and we're trying to do this just to follow your

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Speaker 1: point there, Jim, we're trying to do this as best

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Speaker 1: we can to provide the same amount of access and

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Speaker 1: the same amount of coverage and enjoyment to the fan base.

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Speaker 1: And we're not going to do anything foolish. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if there comes a time they say we can't do it,

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Speaker 1: we can't do it, you know, I get it. But

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Speaker 1: as long as we can and we can be safe.

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Speaker 1: And I think our entire group, and I know Jim

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Speaker 1: and Ashley and Spencer and everybody else who travels on

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Speaker 1: behalf of the team. We wear our masks, we watch

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Speaker 1: the distance from other people, we wash our hands. We're

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Speaker 1: not going out to dinners, you know, We're just going

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Speaker 1: doing the games and doing it as safely as we

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Speaker 1: possibly can, because we want to bring Titans Nation into

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Speaker 1: it as much as possible, especially in this year where

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Speaker 1: they can't be part of it, and I think in

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Speaker 1: some ways it's more important if we can continue to

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Speaker 1: do it. But it's been a battle because the big

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Speaker 1: thing for us is we produce television on Mondays, so

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Speaker 1: getting back later makes that process harder. The big thing

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Speaker 1: we've lost not being on the team plane is not

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Speaker 1: the fancy food and the bus rides and you know,

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Speaker 1: all the really cool stuff that we get to do.

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Speaker 1: The big thing is time because that you know, when

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Speaker 1: you can leave right after a game and be back

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Speaker 1: home as quickly as we get back home. Then I'm

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Speaker 1: writing on the plane for TV, and then I come

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Speaker 1: home and I'm working for you know, on TV and

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Speaker 1: radio the next day, working with Rhet Bryan on things

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Speaker 1: like that. Well, you know, we're not going to get

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Speaker 1: home from Baltimore anytime soon after the game, just because

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Speaker 1: of how flights are done, so that makes it more difficult.

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Speaker 1: But how do we complain, you know, honestly, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we have great, great jobs to start with, and our

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Speaker 1: situation is certainly no more difficult and certainly not as

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Speaker 1: difficult as a lot of other people's. And I do think,

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's such a great value of being there.

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Speaker 1: You guys do a great job painting the picture of

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Speaker 1: kind of tella what's going inside the stadium, being able

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Speaker 1: to see things unfold, amy working from the mode, being

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Speaker 1: able to get most up to date information on injuries

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Speaker 1: and what's happening right in front of it. You don't

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Speaker 1: get that from being at home and from watching it

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Speaker 1: on television. So I'm I think we all consider ourselves

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Speaker 1: very fortunate to be able to be there to kind

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Speaker 1: of let people see things that they can't see here

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Speaker 1: back in Nashville. Mike, let me say this. You know,

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Speaker 1: of course, this is I'm the newest one member doing this.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's my season broadcasting, and I've, of course

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Speaker 1: I know a few people in this league. I've gotten

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Speaker 1: to know, you know, quite a few of the color analysts.

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Speaker 1: They when they talk to me about us traveling, they're

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Speaker 1: jealous that we're traveling. They are jealous that we are

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Speaker 1: traveling and they say you can call the game remotely,

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Speaker 1: but to a man, they say not the same, not

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Speaker 1: the same. And so I'm so thankful that we're traveling,

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Speaker 1: that we're at the game, even though I'm really disappointed.

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Speaker 1: We're going to Baltimore and there will be no fans

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Speaker 1: right below us, so that when you make those loud

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Speaker 1: calls that Amy won't be those people get so mad,

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Speaker 1: and I love people when they get mad at you. Well, coach,

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Speaker 1: you have contended that I do that intentionally in Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: and there is absolutely no proof of that. Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: the proof. I might have seen one of their reactions

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Speaker 1: one time and it might have made me laugh. Well,

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Speaker 1: this has been fun and we're looking forward to going

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Speaker 1: to Baltimore this weekend. Jim Wyatt, Tennessee Titans dot Com,

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Speaker 1: Coach Mac Dave McGinnis, Titans Radio, thank you for your time,

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Speaker 1: Amy Wells, and I certainly appreciate it. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: doing it? No? I'm not doing it. Very disappointing, Amy,

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Speaker 1: I get it, I understand, and you got to leave

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Speaker 1: them wanting more, though, you know, I'm just glad to

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Speaker 1: gonna start screening these questions a little bit more thoroughly.

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