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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Titans Amy and Coach Mac Podcast, presented

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Speaker 1: Tennessee and since nineteen forty seven. I'm Ammy Wells. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining us for the Titans Amy

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Speaker 1: and Coach Mac Podcast. Coach Mac, of course, is also here. Mac.

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Speaker 1: How are you. I'm doing good, Amy doing great, just

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Speaker 1: like everybody that's Titans fan right now, we're all feeling good.

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Speaker 1: This is a great great failing to be able to

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Speaker 1: have an open date, it's hard to get. It's hard

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Speaker 1: to get, especially now with this set up the way

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Speaker 1: it is, where you only have one team out of

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Speaker 1: each conference that gets a bye, you've got to work

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Speaker 1: hard to get it. They worked hard to get it

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Speaker 1: and we are all enjoying it. The Tennessee Titans wrapped

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Speaker 1: up the regular season at twelve and five. As you said, Mac,

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Speaker 1: the only team in the AFC enjoying a buy right now.

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Speaker 1: So you're either getting ready to play or you are done.

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Speaker 1: So the Titans are in a good spot. But Before

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Speaker 1: we talk about that and what is to come for

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, I want to take a minute and

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Speaker 1: look back, because the Tennessee Titans got the win over

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans in Houston, wrapped up the regular season

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Speaker 1: with a victory. And in that game we saw the

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Speaker 1: Titans have a great first half of football. Wait, you

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Speaker 1: see in those first two quarters that you liked so much, Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, let's just let's think about our neighbors

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Speaker 1: at the North. You know, when they were playing a

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Speaker 1: team in our division that they had had to beat

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Speaker 1: to be able to have a chance to get in

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden got boat race. So my

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Speaker 1: reason for saying that is you can never take anybody

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Speaker 1: for granted in this league, and especially a division opponent, right,

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Speaker 1: And that's what we were facing when we went down

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Speaker 1: there at Houston. Houston had beaten us at home here

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Speaker 1: we had not played well, but whatever the circumstances were,

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Speaker 1: they had they had a win over and so they

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Speaker 1: had some confidence that they could beat the Tennessee Titans again.

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Speaker 1: And there was a great representation of Titans fans down there.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was outstanding. But the first half, I

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Speaker 1: mean we started it out really well, and especially you know,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the half to give us another possession.

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Speaker 1: And so when you're twenty one to zero at half,

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Speaker 1: you feel like you've got a pretty good chance if

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Speaker 1: you can keep your foot on their neck going into

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Speaker 1: the second half of boat racing them. And it didn't happen.

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Speaker 1: And you know, because the Titans had won the toss

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Speaker 1: in the first half and they were going to get

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Speaker 1: the ball in the second half. I thought they came

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Speaker 1: out with a very good idea of trying to hit

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Speaker 1: an explosive very early to put it up to a

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Speaker 1: four score game. When Tanny Hill missed Julio Jones, you

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Speaker 1: just kind of started getting that feeling if you've been

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Speaker 1: around this league enough, we may have given them just

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Speaker 1: a little bit of an opening to hang around. And

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Speaker 1: that's what happened in the second half. But the first

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Speaker 1: especially scoring that touchdown right before the half to put

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Speaker 1: the third quarter got a little dicey. Mac. It's so

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Speaker 1: funny you say it that way. Because in my notes

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Speaker 1: it literally says in the third quarter, things got a

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Speaker 1: little dicey. Well, does this mean that we are starting

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Speaker 1: know what we're talking about. I mean, because we were

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Speaker 1: just started getting that feeling that you're letting them stick around.

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Speaker 1: And plus amy, they had nothing to lose. The Texans didn't, right,

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Speaker 1: and so they came out, you know, we want to

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Speaker 1: they came out and started spread it out, went empty

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Speaker 1: six year old Danny Amndola that became uncoverable and we

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Speaker 1: some things that need to get fixed. You did what

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Speaker 1: able to come back from some real obstacles, and you know,

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Speaker 1: which is what good teams do. Now, you would like

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Speaker 1: But they did what they had to do. And so

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Speaker 1: the thing that it does do as a coach looking

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Speaker 1: When the season was starting, you wanted the number one seed,

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Speaker 1: best that you could do. But the fact that they

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Speaker 1: what I take out of it, because the what you

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Speaker 1: can do, there's corrections that you can make off of that.

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Speaker 1: But you know, as well as I do, just the

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Speaker 1: not one of over confidence, but it's surely a feeling

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Speaker 1: of confidence. And that's what this team has played with

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Speaker 1: all year. This team amy has stayed true to their

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Speaker 1: In this game, we saw Julio Jones get his first

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Speaker 1: to all collectively be doing, and that's make an impact

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Speaker 1: in the game. Are we finally getting the Titans offense

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Speaker 1: that we have been waiting for since August? Well, let's

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Speaker 1: add in that this was a second game with the

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Speaker 1: so yes, I mean when this thing was all put together,

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Speaker 1: Let's just say that this team went through ninety one

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Speaker 1: We're brand new to this team too, so what they

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Speaker 1: went through personnel wise was unprecedented. But starting out, yes,

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Speaker 1: and I think you and I both agree with this,

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Speaker 1: fact that Ryan Tannehill was able to make every game

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Speaker 1: teams in this league that lost their quarterback, their starting

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Speaker 1: seems like that's one of the strengths of this Titans

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Speaker 1: team as they go into the playoffs, is that after

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Speaker 1: this bye week they could potentially have a pretty healthy roster.

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Speaker 1: good things. Nick Westbrook, Akeina, how much did we talk

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Speaker 1: go ahead, Uh huh. Well, I'm glad. I'm glad that

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00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,520
Speaker 1: it's a good connotation, not a bad connotation with the snakes.

431
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,240
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, I was raised two older brothers.

432
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,359
Speaker 1: My mom and dad. They split when we were younger.

433
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,119
Speaker 1: So I have a great mom that was really supportive

434
00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,600
Speaker 1: of anything I wanted to do and be involved in

435
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 1: as far as sports and athletics. And I had told

436
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,159
Speaker 1: the brothers that would not allow for anything but the

437
00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,840
Speaker 1: best because they were super competitive. They pushed me. They

438
00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:58,879
Speaker 1: wouldn't let me throw the little football when I was

439
00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,000
Speaker 1: a kid. You know, I wanted to play with the

440
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,159
Speaker 1: one I could hold onto myself. So I learned how

441
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,719
Speaker 1: to throw a full sized football when I was just

442
00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 1: a little guy without even wrapping my thumb around it.

443
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,560
Speaker 1: And I could whip that thing. I could whip it sidearm,

444
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:12,719
Speaker 1: you know, as far as I could to keep up

445
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 1: with my brothers. So you know, when it came time

446
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,680
Speaker 1: to narrow it down to what sport was going to

447
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 1: be the one that could get me an education. Football

448
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,880
Speaker 1: became that sport after going to the Stanford quarterback receiver

449
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 1: camp and Bill Walsh was there, Terry Schase and just

450
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 1: legendary coaches, and I was able to stand out, you know,

451
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 1: a skinny little guy from a small town Boise, Idaho

452
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,920
Speaker 1: that wasn't a five star blue chip recruit. I stood out,

453
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 1: and I set a record in a foot speed drill,

454
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:41,359
Speaker 1: and I could throw the ball just as well as

455
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 1: any of those other blue chippers. And so my name

456
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,760
Speaker 1: got out there and I started getting really recruited by

457
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 1: a lot of teams. But the very first team to

458
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:53,360
Speaker 1: call me was Arizona State and Bonnie Petrino, Danny Cozetto.

459
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,840
Speaker 1: They had ties to University of Idaho, so they had

460
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 1: roots kind of in Idaho where they recruited, and they

461
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 1: were aware of me there and they watched, you know,

462
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 1: some film, and from day one, when the first time

463
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 1: they could call you on the phone, they called and

464
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,120
Speaker 1: offered me a full ride scholarship along with a lot

465
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 1: of other schools that we're banging down the door, and

466
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: recruited me they were the only ones that from day

467
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: one said you have the scholarship if you want it.

468
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,400
Speaker 1: And then the main point to decide to go there

469
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 1: was that no other coach instilled in me the confidence

470
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 1: that Bruce Snyder did when he said these few words

471
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 1: when he looked me in the eye of my living

472
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 1: room at Boise and said, we're building something special ariz

473
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 1: On the state and if you are our quarterback, I

474
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 1: believe we have the chance to be a national champion.

475
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,400
Speaker 1: And he was the only coach that had that much

476
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 1: confidence in me, And ultimately that was why I went

477
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,119
Speaker 1: because when a coach like him, when they say that

478
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:44,959
Speaker 1: you want to go see what they got going on,

479
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:46,360
Speaker 1: they want to want to go see if they could

480
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 1: pull it off. And sure enough, we came mere seconds

481
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 1: away from winning the national title my senior year. So

482
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 1: a big decision to be made by a young eighteen

483
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 1: year old at the time. Was support from my family,

484
00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:01,119
Speaker 1: but no way they weren't, you know, making me decide

485
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 1: anyway except wherever my heart was, and that's where it

486
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,199
Speaker 1: was down in the desert, which you know, I'm a

487
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 1: mountain boy. I know trees and lakes and rivers and

488
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: the desert is not like that. But I went down

489
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,679
Speaker 1: there and uh, I didn't look back. I ended up

490
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,640
Speaker 1: starting my freshman year and had a great learning experience

491
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: through four years with some phenomenal coaches Bobby Petrino, Hugh Jackson.

492
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 1: You know, I was coached by some amazing, amazing coaches

493
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:25,880
Speaker 1: at a young age when I really needed it. And

494
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 1: it was that confidence that Bruce Snyder gave me. That's

495
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,399
Speaker 1: why I went there with that confidence. I mean, he

496
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 1: also wasn't kidding you guys did have a lot of

497
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,680
Speaker 1: success out there. What kind of was there a time

498
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 1: when did you realize that you could take this thing

499
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: to the next level and really utilize that confidence that

500
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 1: you had gained there and be successful in the NFL.

501
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 1: You know, I wasn't too concerned with the NFL, and

502
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,879
Speaker 1: I was a boyhood dream that was something that I

503
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,680
Speaker 1: knew that, you know, maybe was something that could happen.

504
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 1: But knowing football and watching friends that have been injured

505
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: and never played again, and being in a game that

506
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: is a rough sport that you know, like I said,

507
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 1: you might be there one day and rehabbing the next.

508
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: I knew that my best sought to do anything was

509
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,879
Speaker 1: to give every every ounce of effort and every little

510
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 1: fabric of my soul to try to turn that team

511
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 1: into a winner. And it was fun to go to Arizon,

512
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 1: a state. I'd never heard of them. The only time

513
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 1: I'd ever heard of the Sun Devils was when Jay

514
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 1: Bradley got sent home by our teacher in the fourth grade.

515
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: He got sent home by our teacher because he had

516
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: a shirt that said sun Devils and she said, you

517
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 1: cannot wear that stuff in this school and says the Devil,

518
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 1: and so he had to go home and change his shirt.

519
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 1: And that was the only time I ever heard of

520
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: the Sun Devils. So for me, I wanted to go

521
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: down there and leave a mark. I wanted to go

522
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 1: down there and not just be another QB that came

523
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:46,159
Speaker 1: through on a national title run with USC or with

524
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,680
Speaker 1: poor to State. I didn't just want to be another number,

525
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 1: another guy to come through the door and this amazing program.

526
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 1: I wanted to help build a program. And when we

527
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: got down there, my confidence was high. I didn't I

528
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,199
Speaker 1: went after not being the starter, but I earned the

529
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: backup role in a competition with one of my best

530
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 1: buds to this day still Jason rodugo up here in

531
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,160
Speaker 1: Washington State got thrown into the game with a sprained

532
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: ankle that I'd suffered the week before, my first live

533
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 1: action in the Pac ten at the time, and I

534
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 1: didn't look back. I went and basically, you know, I

535
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: stood up in a team meeting and got upset with

536
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 1: the players because we lost a game to Cal that

537
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: we should have won, and they were laughing and having

538
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,159
Speaker 1: a great time on the plane and playing cards, and

539
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 1: some of them had snuck some alcohol onto the plane,

540
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,919
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this doesn't seem right to me. So

541
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: I stood up as a true freshman and said, you know,

542
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: we got a better team than this, and our seniors

543
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 1: deserved to go out and style with a bowl game

544
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: at least, So I think we could do a lot

545
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,359
Speaker 1: better if we just focus. And no one told me

546
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: to do that. I just I went there for the

547
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 1: reason Bruce Snyder came to me, and that was to

548
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: try to win a national title. And I didn't really

549
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,360
Speaker 1: know any better. I was kind of kind of clueless

550
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 1: and just spoke what I felt was in my heart

551
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,239
Speaker 1: and it resonated with the team, so they looked at

552
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,919
Speaker 1: me as their leader, even though I was just a

553
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,719
Speaker 1: skinny one hundred and seventy four pound kid from Boise, Idaho,

554
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: true freshman, eighteen years old. It was a great question

555
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: by Amy, and what a what an honest and beautiful answer.

556
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,959
Speaker 1: And let me just piggyback on that. Players gravitated to

557
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 1: you because they could sense that you not only had

558
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: confidence in yourself, you always had confidence in your teammates.

559
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 1: And that was a great, great thing. You made a

560
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: mark in the National Football League there, and I think

561
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: that just exemplifies you know, what you were about. And

562
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,439
Speaker 1: that's and then you know, I had the privilege of

563
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: being your head coach, you know, for a couple of years,

564
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: and and the snake was appropriate because you were going

565
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: to do whatever it took to get the team over

566
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 1: the top. And sometimes let's just be honest at the time, Jake,

567
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: let me you know, you know who are receiver coaches

568
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 1: here at the Titans now right? It's Rob Moore? Okay, Yes, okay, Cadillac.

569
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: How about the time when you and Rob and I

570
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: there's no other head coach, nor nor stand out NFL

571
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 1: players that can say this on a set before the game,

572
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 1: before the vote came out to see whether we're going

573
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: to build a new stadium, Jake Plummer coach Mack Rob

574
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: Moore door to door with a Fox television crew, waking

575
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: people up, others coming with curlers in their hair, kids

576
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: eating cereal and saying would you please come vote for

577
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: this stadium. I tell people that story and they can't

578
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: believe it. So I said, Rob, tell these people here.

579
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 1: He says, telling the truth. So I'm asking now, is

580
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: that the truth? Snake? Did we do that? It's a

581
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 1: total truth. You just went through a gamut of a

582
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 1: lot of stuff. And I appreciate your candidates about just

583
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: who I was as a player. You know, my biggest

584
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: attribute was that I never gave up on a play,

585
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: and I always thought the best of my teammates, and

586
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: sometimes that also was one of my biggest flaws. So

587
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: all through it though, I always worked my hardest, and

588
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: I felt like if I was a quarterback and I

589
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 1: worked harder than anybody else, then it gave no one

590
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 1: else an excuse to not do the same thing. So

591
00:28:58,240 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: they kind of hated me at times when they wanted

592
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: the day off working out in the offseason. You know,

593
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: I wouldn't come in on a Friday and half asset

594
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: and go home. I'd come in and go as hard

595
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: as I could, or I'd go just how I knew

596
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: how to go, and that was one hundred percent. So

597
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: that would raise the level. And so that's how I

598
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: made it through all those years. I mean, ASU the

599
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl was a phenomenal season, being a Heisman candidate

600
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: to represent my team. That team sent about I think

601
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: eighteen guys off that the starting twenty two spent some

602
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: time in the league, so we were Our coaches recruited well,

603
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: but they coached us how to play ball too. A

604
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: lot of them went on and had very good careers,

605
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: long careers in the NFL, including myself. But to get

606
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: drafted by the Cardinals, you know, it was it was interesting.

607
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: I kind of at the time wanted to try something new,

608
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 1: go somewhere new. But then when I got drafted there,

609
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: it made the assimilation process and the move to the

610
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: next level so much easier. I had a support staff,

611
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: I had friends, I didn't have to move. And then

612
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: getting there again, it was a chance to take a

613
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: team that had not much respect, had no real rich

614
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: history in the last fifty years to speak of, and

615
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: was able to go in there with the right attitude.

616
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: Thrown in against Philly down on the two yard line,

617
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: you know, going in and say into that huddle, let's

618
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: go ninety eight yards right now, you know, you know,

619
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: you mopos, Let's do this with confidence and with cluelessness.

620
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: And with Larry Centers sitting next to me, He's pulling

621
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: his eyelid down looking at me, and I said, did

622
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: you get something in your eye? And he goes, no, baby,

623
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: it's the eye of the tiger. So you know, they

624
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: loved me for the for what you said, coach. They

625
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: loved me for my kind of my cluelessness. I just

626
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: was out there to play ball. You threw out a

627
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: ball in a field in the middle of nowhere. I

628
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: would have done the same thing as I did when

629
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: I had my uniform on representing the Cardinals. And that

630
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: season was amazing. The build up to beat in Dallas

631
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: was what was really remarkable. The Cardiac Cards. I mean,

632
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 1: we we went through three games there where we were

633
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: down and out, some of it because of my play,

634
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: but we were We never gave up, and that was

635
00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: something that that team embodied was just no matter what

636
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: the score was, guys, let's let's keep fighting in klawn

637
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: And we had some phenomenal competitors Kwamie Lasseter rest in peace.

638
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: You know, Ronnie McKinnon, you know some amazing, amazing players

639
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 1: that really embodied you know, what we were trying to

640
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: do there. And I say this all the time. I

641
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: didn't win a Super Bowl ring, but that season was

642
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,479
Speaker 1: about as equitable as a Super Bowl championship to some

643
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 1: teams as it was to the Cardinals, because now they're

644
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: still there, they're in that city, they have a beautiful

645
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: stadium and a fan base now. And like Coach said,

646
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: we went around trumping for the vote, vote yes on

647
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: three oh one. I remember standing in the day of

648
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: the vote on a rock by the church church down

649
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: in the Questrian Trail, saying vote yes on three oh one.

650
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: People are walking by going, oh, plumber, snake, what's up?

651
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: What's up with you? Like, just vote yes. We need

652
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: to stay here. You know, we worked not only on

653
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: the field, but often in a political realm that when

654
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: you think about, you don't see that very often now.

655
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: But it was a lot of fun. I loved that team.

656
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: I loved you know you, Coach Mac. We're so fun

657
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: to just be around day to day, working that staff

658
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: we had, you know, we all loved and respected each other.

659
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: A lot, and not really is what made it so special.

660
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: I've got to know what it is like playing for

661
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: Coach Mac. I know what it's like working with him

662
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: as a broadcaster. I gotta know what coach Coach Mac

663
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: is like. You know, there's a lot of coaches out

664
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: there that they embody the word coach, and I mean

665
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: that not necessarily in all the positive ways you would think,

666
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: but there are coaches that are like, buy the book

667
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: and drive you well. Coach was that kind of coach.

668
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: But he was also so relatable and very very much

669
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: in tune with you as a person and as a

670
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: human and could understand like, hey, you know, you maybe

671
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: having a bad day, or you had a bad day,

672
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: let's work through this. And his staff also embodied that

673
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: because some coaches, like I said, they're coaches to the

674
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: t and they're they're they're from that same DNA and

675
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: they don't allow for any weakness. They don't allow for

676
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: anything other than you know the best constantly. And Coach Mac,

677
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: you know what I can say about you as you

678
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: made us feel even then we had a bad day,

679
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: that we were still important and you still loved us

680
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: and you still wanted to work with us and all

681
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: Sharah One another story, Well, my best friend at the time,

682
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: Tie Hamilton, who's still my best friend. He would come

683
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: to the games and Coach Mac met him, you know,

684
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: once or twice after a game, and Tye always says

685
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: it was crazy because he was standing outside of a game,

686
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: outside of the ropes, couldn't get in to come see me.

687
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 1: I was busy, and Coach Mack's like, hey, ty come here,

688
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: and Ty's like, whoa coach Mack remembered who I was, Like,

689
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 1: that's who you are, coach. I mean you you treated

690
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: everybody the same, You treated everybody with love and respect.

691
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: And so that's the kind of coach Coach Mack was

692
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: when I played for him, a coach that you wanted

693
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: to play hard. For a coach you wanted to do

694
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: your best so that the success wasn't just for yourself

695
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: but was for everybody, including him. And those were some

696
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: fun years. They were really hard. We let go of

697
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: a lot of that team in ninety eight. We lost

698
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: a lot of real solid foundation players that you know,

699
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: Jamir Miller, Thomas Brown, Larry Sinners. I mean, you go

700
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: down the list of these guys that were really That's

701
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: why we did it in ninety eight. Then we let

702
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: them go, but we still fought our asses off, we

703
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: still fought hard, we still tried, and that was because

704
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: coaching stilled in us the belief that we did matter,

705
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: that we were important, every one of us. And uh no,

706
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: I'll never forget that, Jake. Uh. You know that's very

707
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: kind of you. Uh. And I want to touch just

708
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,959
Speaker 1: a little bit on your your your Denver career because

709
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: I remember you know, as you said, the salary cap

710
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: was was crushing us and they weren't going to bring

711
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: back a lot of players. And then it got to

712
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 1: that point with you you had a chance. I said, Jake, look,

713
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if you get an opportunity, you need

714
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: you need to explore these other opportunities. And then I

715
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: was so proud of you as to what you did

716
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 1: and the way you went to Denver, because let's be honest,

717
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 1: going to Denver as a quarterback when you did all right,

718
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,479
Speaker 1: I mean it's hard to follow in the footsteps of Alway, right,

719
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 1: I mean, because that's that's what it is out there.

720
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: But you made your mark out there and I was

721
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 1: so proud of you in that part of your career. Well,

722
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: thank you. I never really ever set out to follow

723
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: anyone's footsteps, right to kind of make my own and

724
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: obviously always legend and now Manning's legend lives there so grandiose,

725
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I embraced it, you know. I I

726
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 1: was excited to go to a team that was all

727
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:12,760
Speaker 1: about winning and focused on the players and legitimately building

728
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: a championship contender every year. And it was hard to

729
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:18,879
Speaker 1: leave the valley, but at the time of my career,

730
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 1: it was the right time and the right place to go.

731
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: And we came close. You know. Oh five was a

732
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: great year. We almost made it to the Super Bowl

733
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,879
Speaker 1: as AFC champs. We lost to Pittsburgh at home, which

734
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: was it was hard. That was not devastating, but at

735
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,479
Speaker 1: the time it was a tough loss to take because

736
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: that was my boyhood dream. The reason I was doing

737
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 1: what I was doing and putting myself through all the

738
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: aches and pains and all the media wanted to scrutinize

739
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 1: you over everything, and that's why I did it, was

740
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: to win that Super Bowl. So to come that close

741
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: and not get it was tough, but it was all right.

742
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: I was never one that was going to play until

743
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: I couldn't walk anymore. I wanted to go on, you know,

744
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: after my career and do fun things like I still

745
00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: am doing now, having my brain intact, audi intact and

746
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 1: able to be active. But gosh, Denver was a fun

747
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: place to go. You know. We we we had a

748
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: team of of extremely foundational, you know, smart veterans that

749
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 1: knew how to come to work, knew what to take

750
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: care of, and we were provided for as a team.

751
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: You know, anything we needed we got it from mister Boland.

752
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: And it was not a start contrast, but a lot

753
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: different than in Arizona, where you know, you know, it

754
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: was just not quite the same spending wise on the players,

755
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: and for me it was an exciting time again, a

756
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: chance to go play for Shanahan and kind of see

757
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: what it feels like to go thirteen and three a

758
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: couple of times. Is a lot of fun. You made

759
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: your mark there, snake, you made your not an easy

760
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: place to do it. They are still searching for a guy,

761
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 1: and uh, at the time, you know, they cast me

762
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: out after four years, but now they looked back and

763
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: they're like, damn, you know, we had a pretty good

764
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,280
Speaker 1: but the snake was here. What they've gone through and

765
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: it was just you know, for me, again, I was

766
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: kind of clueless. I went into it. That was kind

767
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: of you know, my mymo was not clueless to myself

768
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: and who I was and what I was doing, but

769
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: just clueless to the whole you know, the norms that

770
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: have been set down by the years of the league.

771
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: You know, I did things that I felt were right

772
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,840
Speaker 1: for my team and that that may have been you know,

773
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 1: pushing them harder to go through workouts on a Friday,

774
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: or it may have been you know, coming out in

775
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: the jockstrap, high white socks and just my helmet on

776
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: and asking them what time, what's the weather like outside?

777
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: When it was cold out, you know, is this going

778
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: to be warm enough? I mean, doing the things that

779
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: kept him like kept him you know, not so serious.

780
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: This game can get so serious, and it is it's

781
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: it's it's people's livelihoods. But you got to have some

782
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 1: bit of levity there and that's what I was always

783
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: able to bring and hopefully, you know, keep the guys

784
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: a little bit loose well from start to finish. You

785
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: really had your career on your terms. Looking back on it,

786
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: that's got to be something you're really proud of right, Yeah,

787
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't happen a lot. A lot of

788
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: players lead the league with the sour taste because they're said,

789
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,760
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're too slow, You're not good enough anymore,

790
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: and they get replaced by a younger, faster version that's cheaper.

791
00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 1: And I was able to walk away from the game

792
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: literally just I save runaway because I still had my

793
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: ankles and knees and body intact. But that was one

794
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 1: reason why I did leave, because I was feeling the

795
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: effects of you know, the game, taking anti inflammatories, the

796
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: stiffness in my joints, the headaches, the grinding my teeth

797
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 1: from nerves and anxiety, and even socially just the expectations

798
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: put on you as a quarterback in the face of

799
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: a franchise. It was given pretty heavy. So when I left,

800
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: it was on my own terms, for my own sanity really,

801
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: to be able to go on with my life, to

802
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 1: live a better life through the things I was always

803
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: wanting to do, but sometimes I couldn't because of priorities

804
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: with my profession. And you know, like I say, I

805
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 1: never asked for millions of dollars. They are the ones

806
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,439
Speaker 1: that were going to pay me that I was able

807
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 1: to go and play for whatever they were given me,

808
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: but my agent was able to fight for a whole

809
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: lot more. And you know, hey, thankfully I played through

810
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: a couple of contracts and have set me up to

811
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: live a pretty good life, to live a very good life,

812
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: and to help others around me. And I have no regrets.

813
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: I'm glad I left the game when I did and

814
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: feel like I gave it my all and that's all

815
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,919
Speaker 1: I ever was trying to do well. And now here

816
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,320
Speaker 1: you are, and you've got a whole new business venture

817
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: that helps a lot of the younger generation of football players.

818
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: Tell me about your new company a little bit. Yeah,

819
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,359
Speaker 1: thank you for asking. You know, Ready List Sports. It's

820
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: it's really the brainchild of Chad three Hoff, a kid

821
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: out of Colorado School of Minds that I met in

822
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: Denver and O five in camp, and he came back

823
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: to me with this concept to utilize multiple learning styles

824
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: to help players really digest nomenclature, terms and depths and

825
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: names of all the plays that you know you was

826
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: forced to learn there in the NFL. We have a

827
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: playbook that has some seven hundred plays in it, yet

828
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 1: in the game you only get to run. You know,

829
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: maybe seventy to eighty plays, but you got to know

830
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: all of them, and they change from team to team

831
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 1: and what you call it. One team has changed to

832
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: a different name and another team. So we created this

833
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: tool that was first made for the players so they

834
00:39:56,040 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 1: could learn in an efficient manner their offensive, defensive play book,

835
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:04,280
Speaker 1: whatever it was, and it's morphed into really a phenomenal

836
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: drawing tool that hands down is the best on the market.

837
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: And we've signed recently the Cowboys in San Francisco, forty

838
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: nine ers, so we're excited to see how it works

839
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: with them and get the feedback from them. But we

840
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:19,240
Speaker 1: are poison ready as we start another raise to finish

841
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: up the developing the things we know these coaches want

842
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: now not just what we think they want, but we

843
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: actually have gotten feedback from some of the best in

844
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: the game to create really a one stop shop for everything.

845
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: To be able to present your offense or defense or

846
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: special teams and have your kids then be able to

847
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: study a playbook and then on the back end of

848
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: that have autogenerated tests that they can take and it

849
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: you know, all the data points, all the buttons that

850
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: are pushed are captured so that coaches can see, you know, hey,

851
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,280
Speaker 1: these guys are getting this or a wait, a sect,

852
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: these guys are struggling here. Let's focus our practice and

853
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: our time together on these concepts. So you just make

854
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: things more efficient in today's world where you know, the

855
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: twenty four hour clock seems to be getting order as

856
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: we as we get more and more on our plates.

857
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 1: You know, we're trying to just ease the stress of

858
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: learning a playbook and also of implementing one and giving

859
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: it out to the teams and your players, and we're

860
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: coming along. We got a really phenomenal tool, and it's

861
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:14,760
Speaker 1: been a lot of fun to get back in touch

862
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: with old coaches like you, Coach Mack, and really a

863
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 1: lot of my old coaches and teammates that are now coaching,

864
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 1: and just to rekindle some of those glory days at

865
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: the combine when we were still having combines up there

866
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: in person. You brought me in for the first presentation

867
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: of this, and I was so impressed. And I know

868
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: that was just the first generation of it, and it

869
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: has morphed into something that I think is going to

870
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: be fabulous. And it's not only I mean, you mentioned

871
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, you mentioned the forty nine ers, but for

872
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: everybody that's listening to us. I mean it's not only

873
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,439
Speaker 1: for this, It could be in the high schools too.

874
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: I mean it could be used in universities. I mean,

875
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: let me just say this, Snake, anything you've ever been

876
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: involved with has been really good, and this is going

877
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: to be this is going to be another one of them.

878
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,359
Speaker 1: I'm very very proud of you, very proud of you.

879
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 1: Thank you, coach. You know, actually you left out flag

880
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 1: football because we're going all the way down to like

881
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: five on five flag with eight year olds and then no,

882
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,760
Speaker 1: I love that parents that are trying to coach, parents

883
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 1: who've never coached. We got preloaded playbook. You can go

884
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: on and download a playbook that's already there for you

885
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: that you give to your kids. And you know, we're

886
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 1: not trying to turn eight year olds into Peyton Mannings.

887
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 1: We just want them to go out and have fun

888
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: and know where they're going because the game is fun

889
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: when you know what you're doing, and it can get

890
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: you can get a little bit out of whack when

891
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: you don't know what you're doing and coaches are yelling

892
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,959
Speaker 1: at just so we're just trying to make that experience

893
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: better all around, from top to bottom. What a very

894
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 1: cool tool, what a very very cool concept, Snake. It

895
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 1: really is a thank you, oh man, Jake, thank you

896
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: so much for spending some time with us. This has

897
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: been so much fun. And I know you've got a

898
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 1: million things going on, so we're gonna let you get

899
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: back to your life. But thank you, thank you, thank

900
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 1: you for taking some time to talk to us. We

901
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 1: look forward to seeing Ready Liss sports all over the

902
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: place and just catching up. It's always nice to talk

903
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 1: to you. Awesome. Hey, It's always a pleasure to share

904
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: my story and anytime Coach Mac I get it here

905
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: your voice stock to you. It's always a joy. So

906
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: you I'll be floating a little lighter today and appreciate

907
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: the opportunity to come on the show. Thank you, Snake,

908
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: Thank you, Love your brother, see you man, Love you too, Man, Mac.

909
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,319
Speaker 1: That was awesome. I'm so glad that we had an

910
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: opportunity to bring that to the people because what a

911
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: cool dude. And you know what you said, that's two

912
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 1: perfect words to describe Jake. I mean, he is a

913
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: cool dude, always was and still is now. Very unique guy,

914
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: very unique and but you know, a really really good

915
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: football player and an excellent, excellent leader as a quarterback.

916
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,760
Speaker 1: That's one thing that you have to have in your quarterback,

917
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: regardless of what his personality is. The guys have to

918
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: believe in him and have to want to follow him.

919
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: Jake the Snake has been that his whole career. I

920
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 1: was really fortunate to be able to coach Jake be

921
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: with Jake still a very close friend of mine, and

922
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that we were able to do that

923
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: with him well. And he doesn't do interviews very often,

924
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: so it was a very big deal that he took me.

925
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: He does interviews for two things. He'll do interviews for

926
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: me and you, as he did, and then anytime for

927
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: the Pat Tilman Foundation. Those are the two times that

928
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: he does it. Other than that he kind of is

929
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: in his place in Idaho and chilling yep yep. So

930
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: thank you to Jake for taking the time to talk

931
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 1: to us. Absolute treat. I hope you guys enjoyed that. Now,

932
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: a little update on the old bobblehead front. Oh, I'm

933
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: so excited about playoff bobble heads to everybody who responded

934
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: on Instagram used the code word liked subscribe. Did all

935
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: of the things we asked you to do. Thank you

936
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,240
Speaker 1: so much. No, absolutely, we love it. We love hearing

937
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: from you, we love interacting with you. We love it

938
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 1: so much. If you're number Mac, I didn't specify how

939
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: many we were going to give away. I'm sad we

940
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 1: don't have a million of them. Well, we don't have

941
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,720
Speaker 1: a million of them, but we did have some, okay,

942
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: and I figured for the playoffs we should go with

943
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,479
Speaker 1: a number that is, like, you know, more than two,

944
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: maybe even more than five, more than ten, but fifteen

945
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: felt like too many, so we're not doing fifteen, But

946
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: like thirteen felt like a good number. Well that is,

947
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: that's perfect. I think you are completely right about that,

948
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 1: and that makes me very excited. So watch your inboxes, guys.

949
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 1: We will be sliding into your DMS to let you

950
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: know that you are the winner of one of the

951
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 1: thirteen Coach Mac or Titans Amy Bobbleheads. It's a little

952
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: little grab bag perfect, But thank you to everybody who

953
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,240
Speaker 1: interacted with us. It's so good to see you guys

954
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,399
Speaker 1: and hear from you, and we hope to do more

955
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: of it soon. I'm just sad we don't have a

956
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: million well, I mean we can work on it. We can. Yeah,

957
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: I mean I know where they come from. So it

958
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: might have to put the bubblehead factory into overdrive to

959
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: make up a million, but we'll get it. How many

960
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:13,879
Speaker 1: other bubbleheads could they really be making? Like none? Exactly, Mac.

961
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: Do you have anything to add before we take a

962
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 1: little bye week break. Well, I just I mean, this

963
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 1: is such an exciting time. This is what you work for,

964
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 1: and this is why you're in the business, and this

965
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: is why you're a fan. I'd like to give I'd

966
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: like to really acknowledge the fans that were down there

967
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: at in Houston. We had so much fun down there

968
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: just watching them in the stadium. And then, uh, you

969
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 1: and I and Mike Keith and Ashley Farrell flew back

970
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:41,439
Speaker 1: on a Titans flight. It seemed like we we took

971
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:45,760
Speaker 1: Hobby Airport over, we took Southwest Airlines over, and then,

972
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:48,240
Speaker 1: I mean, it was such a great thing, the interaction

973
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: with those people down there in the in Hobby waiting

974
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: for our flight and then flying back on it. I

975
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 1: give you major kudos because you and I sat together

976
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: and I told you when we got on it was

977
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: such a great feeling that I wanted to go ask

978
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: the flight attendant if I could have the microphone and

979
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:08,839
Speaker 1: get up there and say on a scale of one

980
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 1: to ten, And you said, Coach Mike, please, don't you

981
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:13,959
Speaker 1: cannot You say it'll cause a riot. It was, it'll

982
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: cause a riot on the airlines, and we don't want

983
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: to get thrown off. But that was a great, great

984
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: evening flying back with all of those Titans season ticket holders,

985
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: all the Titans fans that were there, and I'm just

986
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: so happy that we're getting ready for some really more

987
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: exciting times at Nissan Stadium, completely sold out, sold out

988
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:37,879
Speaker 1: for two games because Titans fans are expecting some big

989
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 1: things well, and that's the thing. There will be no

990
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 1: more celebrations on flights for a couple of weeks because

991
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna be right here at home. Come on out

992
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: to Nissan Stadium. These games are going to be absolutely bananas.

993
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,240
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. There's nothing like playoff football, and especially

994
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:56,919
Speaker 1: here in Nashville where we know how to do it right.

995
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: This is going to be an awesome, awesome time. But everybody,

996
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 1: enjoy your bye weekend right now, watch some football. Take

997
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 1: a load off. Nothing stressful for the Tennessee Titans. We

998
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,240
Speaker 1: will be back at it next week and we cannot

999
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 1: wait to see you there as we get going for

1000
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: coach mac I am Titans Amy. Thank you so much

1001
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: for listening to The Titans Amy The Coach Back podcast