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Speaker 1: We welcome to you to the Officials Titans podcast, better

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Speaker 1: known as the OTP Amy Wells Welcome, How are you?

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Speaker 1: My name is Mike Keith. Our third for today's podcast

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Speaker 1: is the three time Pro bowler Brett Kerr, Titans punter.

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Speaker 1: Honored to be here. When you hear three time pro bowler,

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Speaker 1: considering you did not go to your first Pro Bowl

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Speaker 1: until you were almost thirty two, does it actually mean more?

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Speaker 1: I think it does. You know, for it to take

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Speaker 1: ten years and you know, obviously put together some really

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Speaker 1: good seasons that probably had the resume to go just

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Speaker 1: came up short. You kind of understand how hard it

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Speaker 1: is what put you over the top to go from

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Speaker 1: being viewed as a good punter, a really good punter,

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Speaker 1: to being what is now viewed as the premier punter

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Speaker 1: in the AFC. UM. Honestly, when I when I decided

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Speaker 1: to give up worrying about stats, UM, you know, I

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Speaker 1: had a conversation with Craig Hendrick, and you know he

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Speaker 1: told me, He's like, you can play in this league

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Speaker 1: as long as you want, UM, if you just go

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Speaker 1: out there and have the mindset each game that you

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Speaker 1: just need to do what you need to do. Each

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Speaker 1: game to be your best so not really get get

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Speaker 1: caught up in you know, if if I'm on the

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Speaker 1: forty five yard line and it's like, man, I, you know,

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Speaker 1: I need to try to squeak out a fifty yard

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Speaker 1: punt here to net this, to average this and all

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Speaker 1: really just hit your best punt in each situation. The

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Speaker 1: stats are going to take care of themselves. And you know,

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Speaker 1: Coach Rabel's happy, Coach Ackerman's happy with how I'm with

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Speaker 1: how I'm punting it. Um. You know, then I'll be

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Speaker 1: able to play here as long as I want. So

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Speaker 1: once when I kind of change my mindset um to

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Speaker 1: just take in a game by game, punt by punt

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Speaker 1: and trying to execute each punt the best that I can, honestly,

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Speaker 1: I just I just you know, I stopped looking at stats,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm going to a Pro Bowl. So and I

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Speaker 1: think once you get one, you obviously have the confidence

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Speaker 1: to you know, to go out there and do it again.

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Speaker 1: And you know, it really worked. That formula work for

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Speaker 1: And so I've been doing that and just kind of

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Speaker 1: keep rattling these things off. I know you're obviously not

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Speaker 1: pursuing those stats for the accolades, But as far as

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Speaker 1: that the dream? Is that what you're trying to achieve

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Speaker 1: is the Pro Bowl or their new goals that you

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Speaker 1: try to reach after that? Yeah, I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: All Pro is probably the one you want the most

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Speaker 1: because that means you're, you know, you're considered the best

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Speaker 1: punter in the league that year. Pro Bowl, you know,

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Speaker 1: you're obviously viewed as the best in the AFC, and

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Speaker 1: It's it's pretty fun. The NFL does a great job

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Speaker 1: hit with the school. All right, So can we do

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Speaker 1: the Brett current career review very quickly? Oh boy, okay,

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Speaker 1: career numbers. Let's not talk about rushing yards now. Hang

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Speaker 1: on forty six yards per punt gross. That's how far

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Speaker 1: you hit it, right, forty point four net. That's after

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Speaker 1: if you averaged forty yards per punt grows right, you

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Speaker 1: were a good punter. If you averaged forty two or

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Speaker 1: Can you really? Wow? Does your mind work that way?

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Speaker 1: I have it all on Excel spreadsheet. Oh yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: ninety percent of the time it was outside the numbers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's what helps me, you know, with all the stuff

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Speaker 1: it helps me go back when I'm preparing for this

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Speaker 1: an autobiographical memory. Oh she can remember like forty years ago.

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Speaker 1: I do what you do right. I have everything on

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Speaker 1: you've had three hundred and fifty five punts down inside

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Speaker 1: those and I mean I church your games too. So

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Speaker 1: I do the same thing right, but in a in

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Speaker 1: a different way. I am stalking you on my own computer.

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Speaker 1: really spans both generations of Titans fans and what I

426
00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,439
Speaker 1: mean by that. And Keith Bullock pointed this out to

427
00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,040
Speaker 1: Amy and Me on the Tuesday night radio show that

428
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,160
Speaker 1: We do. He said, Brett Current is my last teammate

429
00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:58,720
Speaker 1: who who was on the team. And I got to

430
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,800
Speaker 1: thinking about it. I mean, you game in October of

431
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine after departing Denver, and so some

432
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:10,960
Speaker 1: of the early Titans were winding down, right. That fan

433
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 1: base that was the first generation getting to experience it

434
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,639
Speaker 1: was still there. And now as we've fully moved into

435
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:24,359
Speaker 1: the second generation, Brett Kern has unavailability and an opportunity

436
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 1: to sort of see both. It's a unique perspective. Yeah,

437
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,800
Speaker 1: I think, um, you know, really it's been Craig Hendrick

438
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 1: and I and Craig was a huge blessing when I

439
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:34,920
Speaker 1: got cut because I was off to a good start

440
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 1: in that oh nine season, you know, six games in

441
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 1: we were six and oh in Denver, and you know,

442
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 1: to get that that call up to coach McDaniel's office

443
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,239
Speaker 1: to say that they're going in a different direction was

444
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,760
Speaker 1: it was a big shock and surprise. So to be

445
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 1: able to come here with my confidence kind of rattled

446
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,919
Speaker 1: after a pretty good start. You know, Craig was on

447
00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,159
Speaker 1: IR because I think you towards calf, so he was

448
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,360
Speaker 1: in here every day getting treatment and just the conversations

449
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,640
Speaker 1: that we had, um, you know, definitely really really helped out.

450
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 1: And I'd probably say, you know, when my career is done,

451
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: whenever that is, you know, I don't know. Um, you know,

452
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 1: probably my my biggest accomplishment, I would say up to

453
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,880
Speaker 1: this point is that I've I've played here in one

454
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 1: city through five coaches and three GMS. That's, um, that's

455
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 1: pretty hard to do. And I think that's probably to

456
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:33,479
Speaker 1: be able to go through each coaching change, to go

457
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 1: through all all five of those changes and kind of different.

458
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 1: You know, how does this coach operate? What are his expectations?

459
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 1: What does he think of me? What? You know, what

460
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 1: does he expect? Of me. Um to go through that. Um,

461
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,920
Speaker 1: it's some of the years it was a grind trying

462
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,119
Speaker 1: to figure that out. So when you down the punt

463
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,120
Speaker 1: at the one yard line in the New England game, yeah,

464
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,719
Speaker 1: to put it away. Do you get a look at

465
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels on the New England sideline? No, not at all.

466
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 1: I've actually, honestly, you know, we've we've we've chatted every

467
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: time we've played. UM, even when they came here to

468
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,879
Speaker 1: practice last year. Um, you know, he came up to

469
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 1: me and apologize, and I said, did he really? Yeah?

470
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 1: I said, I said, you don't have to apologize. Like,

471
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,119
Speaker 1: what I believe with my faith is that God, you know,

472
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,120
Speaker 1: opens doors and closes doors. And he shut the door

473
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: in Denver, and he opened one up here in Tennessee.

474
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,200
Speaker 1: And to be able to raise my family here in Nashville,

475
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 1: to be a part of the Middle Tennessee community. Um.

476
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:29,919
Speaker 1: You know, when you get cut, you might think this

477
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,479
Speaker 1: is the end of the world, like what's going on?

478
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,440
Speaker 1: But really God just had something better for for my family. Nine.

479
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 1: What does he apologize about how he handled it or

480
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 1: the decision that he made that he made a rash?

481
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 1: I I don't know, like I don't, I don't know.

482
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: You know, I know he had full control of the roster.

483
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 1: So when I got cut, Um, I was walking out

484
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 1: to my car and I had a big trash bag

485
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 1: and the GM was walking in and he said, where

486
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 1: are you going? I said, I just got cut. He

487
00:24:55,560 --> 00:25:00,040
Speaker 1: had no idea, So, you know, I don't know, I

488
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't and it honestly, it doesn't really

489
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: he didn't have to apologize. You know. It's just as

490
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,639
Speaker 1: pro football, as coach freewill pro football. That's just a

491
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 1: part of the business. You make teams, you get cut

492
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 1: from teams, you signed new contracts, you retire. I mean,

493
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 1: it's all It's all just part of the game. So

494
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,159
Speaker 1: I think for me it was a big wake up

495
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: call knowing that, hey, I was playing pretty good and

496
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: I still got cut. So I need to like this.

497
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,879
Speaker 1: This is a start of me not just trying to

498
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 1: survive in the league. This is a start of me like,

499
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,119
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to do my best and thrive

500
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,360
Speaker 1: and see how long, see how long I can play.

501
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: For having been a part of this Titans organization for

502
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 1: so long, obviously you've seen a lot of things you've

503
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 1: seen a lot of changes. As you referenced earlier, the

504
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,400
Speaker 1: fan base tends to see things kind of cyclical. So,

505
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this year reminds me of the ninety

506
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 1: nine year. This year reminds me of two thousand and eight.

507
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: This from Have you seen some of those similarities and

508
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 1: throughout seasons like, oh, this kind of feels like something

509
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,679
Speaker 1: or is that not necessarily real? Is that more of

510
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: a fan perceived. Yeah, I think it's probably more fan

511
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: just because you know, with with NFL, there's always gonna

512
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,199
Speaker 1: be roster turnover, it's one hundred percent. You're never like

513
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: you know, and when we start the year in twenty twenty,

514
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: we're not going to have the exact same team as

515
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 1: what we had this past year. So you kind of

516
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 1: just you can kind of get lost in that, I

517
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,160
Speaker 1: guess a little bit. Um just just from the standpoint

518
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 1: of you know, your you might have a really good buddy,

519
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:30,719
Speaker 1: a good friend that you've been teammates with, and then

520
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they go to another team, and

521
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: it's just there's so much change and so much turnover

522
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,959
Speaker 1: that you sometimes you forget what certain seasons were like

523
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 1: as a player. But um, you know this year was

524
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: was obviously something really really special. I will say that

525
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 1: the team that we had in this locker room was

526
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,439
Speaker 1: probably the closest bonded team that I've ever been a

527
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: part of, um, you know, in my career in the NFL.

528
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: It was just a tight knit group that Yeah, I

529
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,200
Speaker 1: don't even know how to describe it. I mean, you

530
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,679
Speaker 1: you walk into the locker room and guys from you know,

531
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: we're our lockers are all set up by position, but

532
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: you would have guys from all different kinds of positions

533
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: going over to other guys lockers, talking and having conversation,

534
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. Um, just just a bond

535
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: that we had as a team, and I think we

536
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 1: knew we had something really special, and uh, it was

537
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: just a fun It was a fun ride. You are

538
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: not treated like a specialist. You are not treated by

539
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: your teammates like a kicker. Guys like Jarell Casey very

540
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: much think Brett Kerrn is an important part of the

541
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 1: football team. You're treated that way. Is that what you're

542
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: most proud of? For sure? Yeah? I think you know

543
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,199
Speaker 1: what it's all said and done. You know, you're on

544
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,679
Speaker 1: the field stuff, your accomplishments, that's that's great. I mean,

545
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: records are made to be broken, um, which is totally

546
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 1: fine with me. That's um. That's how I've made a

547
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,199
Speaker 1: living by what you do on the field. But I

548
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: think off the field, the impact that you have with

549
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: your teammates. You know, what do they remember, you know,

550
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: Brett kerrn As, Like, yeah he was he was a

551
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: great punter. That's that's great. But what kind of guy

552
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,439
Speaker 1: was he in the locker room? Um? You know. So

553
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 1: I just want to be I just want to be

554
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,160
Speaker 1: remembered as a as a great guy in the locker room,

555
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 1: a family man, a man of faith that loves Jesus

556
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: and um you know that, Uh you could always come

557
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: to my locker and have a conversation about whatever you

558
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about. So um, and I wanted to

559
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: be a great teammate, a guy that encourages guys. Um.

560
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: You know, I'm never I'm never going to be the

561
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,439
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna call out somebody, um, you know, for

562
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: for making a mistake or something like that, because you know,

563
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: I'm not a dB. I'm not athletic enough. I don't

564
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: you know, I just can't do it. So I'm not

565
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: going to criticize somebody for something that I can't do. Um.

566
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 1: So it's just kind of how I work. And I

567
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, if you if you're an encouraging

568
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: guy and you know, kind of a blessing to other people, Um,

569
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: it'll it'll pay off. So um, you know that's that's

570
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: really important to me. And I think, you know, it's

571
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 1: funny a lot of when I first got here, probably

572
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: the first six or seven years, and it still happens,

573
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: except it's not just kind of transition. When I first

574
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: got here, I was thought I was an equipment manager,

575
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: so I actually got to I got to know how

576
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: um Joey and Matten Hoss, how they kind of operate

577
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: back there where they keep all the stuff. Just because guys,

578
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: the guys they thought I was an equipment manager, so

579
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: they would ask me for stuff and I would go

580
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: get it for him, like who ask you for stuff?

581
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: Just some of the rookies when they would come in,

582
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: you know in April, May, June, they would Yeah, they

583
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: would walk up to you and say, Kendall Wright asked

584
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: me three times for get your pair of shorts? Yeah. Yeah,

585
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: So and now it's kind of transitioned to you like

586
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: a coach, are you still equipment man? No? But but

587
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: the truth is, I mean maybe that happened early on.

588
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 1: But and I go back to what I just ask

589
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: you about being respected. I mean, you are very much

590
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 1: seen as a part of the football team and a

591
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: part of the fabric. And you know, an important weapon.

592
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: I mean, when you talk about weapons that this team has,

593
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: having a punter who is a weapon is a big deal. Yeah.

594
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: I mean when you when you rely on fuel position, um,

595
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: you know in the defense that we have have, Yeah,

596
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: I mean it's I love it. I love being able

597
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: to be a part of of helping the defense out

598
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: with field position. And you know, coach Fray Bowl and

599
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: coach Uckerman, I think it was in April or May,

600
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: they went through like a statistical percentage, like, hey, if

601
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: a team starts on the ten, this is the percentage

602
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: that they have to make it to midfield. This is

603
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: a percentage that they have to get a field goal,

604
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 1: This is a percentage that they have to score a touchdown.

605
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: So they started from the ten and then they started,

606
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: you know, from the twenty five if it was a

607
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: touchback or you know, hey, if we were backed up

608
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: and they started at midfield, this is the percentage of

609
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: them scoring a touchdown or a field goal. So they

610
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: went through all these different scenarios and you really understand, like, hey, look,

611
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: if I can, if I can control help control field

612
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: position as far as trying to pin teams deep as

613
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: far as possible. You know, the defense that we have,

614
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: like the percentages are going to work out to our favor.

615
00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: So you know, I've learned. I've tried to get it

616
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: as close as possible as I can to the goal line.

617
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: I've tried that in some years, and you know, your

618
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: touchback percentage gets a little higher. And this year have

619
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: kind of more or less said, hey, let's aim between

620
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: the ten and the five, and um, you know, if

621
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: you hit one at the eleven or the twelve, like,

622
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: you still gain you know, if it was a touchback,

623
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: you still gain almost the first down. So um, you know,

624
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: there's just kind of understanding where you can pick and

625
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: choose your spots to to to really kind of put

626
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: them deep. We've referenced faith, You've referenced faith in this

627
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: and your faith, and then in our conversation we've talked

628
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: about good plays and bad plays, and good things and

629
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: bad things being cut, losing a friend like Rob baronas

630
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: I mean, you've you've seen so much. A football career

631
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,719
Speaker 1: is really sort of a metaphor for an entire life

632
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: if you're a man of faith, isn't it. Yeah? For sure,

633
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: because you because you you see it all and having

634
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: that faith. I mean football players that have faith, Um,

635
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: you see a difference in the way they're able to

636
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: handle things. Yeah, yeah, I think you know, Um, you

637
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: know the day that you know, I found out two

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00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: hours before we played the Bengals that Rob passed away,

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00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: and that was you know, that was probably that was

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00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: probably one game I actually don't really remember, honestly. I

641
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: just remember slamming my helmet on the sidelines and you know,

642
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: busting it up because I was just so so frustrated.

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00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: But you know, God doesn't, you know, he doesn't promise

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00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: us that life's gonna be great every day. You know,

645
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: like you're gonna have your ups, you're gonna have your downs. Um,

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00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: but He's always consistent and always constant and so understanding

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00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: that that he's always the rock, the pillar in my life. Um.

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00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: You know, bad times, bad times, you know, aren't gonna

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00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: shake me, you know, just because that that is life. Um,

650
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: it's not promised that life's gonna be great every day, so, um,

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00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: you know, when you have your ups and your downs,

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00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: it's just, um, understand that there's a one focal point

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00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: in my life that you know, I can always trust on.

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00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, God is somebody I can always

655
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: trust in every day and his word and uh you

656
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: know my wife is darn right up there. So um,

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00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's understanding that he already knows what's

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00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: going to happen in my life, and he already knows,

659
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: you know, how long I'm gonna play. He already, I mean,

660
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: he's all knowing, so he knows all this stuff, and

661
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: you trust all of yep. But now he's a pro

662
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: bowler three times three times, I mean. And and Titans fans,

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00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: I mean, you're you're not mistaken for the equipment guy

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00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: in the eyes of Titans fans. That's pretty good at it. Though,

665
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: you must say, well something, that's a good group of

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00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: guys to hang out with. That's a good group of people,

667
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: and they they have a lot of know how and

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00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: they make this building run a lot more than what

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00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: people know. I'm sure other teams have great equipment guys,

670
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: but there's nobody that has better equipment, folks than the

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00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: Titans do because they they make the between them and

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00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: the operations people we have, they make this thing run.

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00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: And um, it's great that you have such respect for

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00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: them in that way in the job that they do

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00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: in the importance. Yeah, I mean you need to size

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00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 1: ten and a half in vapors. I know exactly where

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00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: to get them. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of

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00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: people around this building that I mean, you know, without them,

679
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,240
Speaker 1: this this operation doesn't doesn't move the way that it moves.

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00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, from its with it's equipment guys

681
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: that clean up after us, to to to the janitors

682
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 1: that come in uh and clean up you know, the

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00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: showers and um, you know, the people that are making

684
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: us food every day. I mean, there's so many people

685
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: you can go on and on throughout this whole building

686
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 1: of people that put their sweat into making this place

687
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 1: the best that they can make it and allowing us

688
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: to go out there and not having to worry about

689
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: some of the little things and they just they're great

690
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: at it. And it's um, you know, it's always nice

691
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: to be able to talk to some of them, have

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00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: conversations with them understanding their lives, what they're going through,

693
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: and um, it's just uh, it's got a lot of

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00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: great people around this build. And he's a real dude,

695
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 1: Brett Kurn try to be yep, well this is your life,

696
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 1: Brett Kern on the OTP. I think it turned out

697
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: pretty well. Thank you for football's football is just a

698
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: side job. And you know, now the golf season it started,

699
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: so so he's leaving, so he's ending it. He's actually

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00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 1: getting up out of the chair right now. I mean

701
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: we've had enough rain in February to um, you know,

702
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: Noah might his arc might float. That's true, save us all.

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00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: That's true. You're a good man, And thank you for

704
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:31,280
Speaker 1: taking time to share all of your thoughts and memories

705
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 1: and stories. And yeah, it's fun. It's fun to kind

706
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: of go back the memory bank. And you know it's

707
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: always good to remember, you know, from from high school

708
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: when I first started, you know, go from soccer to

709
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: football and not even sure I wanted to make the change,

710
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: and you know, to college. Didn't get in by to

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00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: the combine. You know, I got one work out with

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00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns and we had to scrape off snow

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00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: off the field. And Toledo and to my wife. We

714
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: went to a snow or a golf dome at nine

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00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: o'clock at night when it closed, and she would come

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00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: and help shag footballs and had no heating in it,

717
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: so it was, you know, thirty degrees in they are

718
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: trying to kick football to get ready for any type

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00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: of workout or whatnot. And it's just it's just, um,

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00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: it's crazy. How you know. Now I'm sitting out with

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00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: you guys and two of your career and and uh,

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00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 1: it's just just a huge bussing. Keep going, Brett Kern.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try love for Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith

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00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: thanking Brett Kern. And you've been listening to the OTP