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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith. Time to do the four D from

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Speaker 1: New England. First, we breathe a little bit, Amy Wells

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Speaker 1: a bye a bye, kind of can't believe we made

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Speaker 1: it here. It felt like there was a long way

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Speaker 1: to go to get to a week of rest. The

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Speaker 1: Titans definitely need it, and I think we're all going

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Speaker 1: to enjoy a couple of days to rest, regroup, breathe,

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Speaker 1: and then come back for the final stretch. A lot

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Speaker 1: of different feelings emotions, if you will, Rehet coming out

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Speaker 1: of Foxborough, Frustration, anger, exhaustion, a lot of different things

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Speaker 1: which I can't think of a buye that has ever

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Speaker 1: come at a better time for a football team, especially

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Speaker 1: after watching the Titans play yesterday. You can hear it

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Speaker 1: in Mike Rabel's voice on post game yesterday on Titans Radio.

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Speaker 1: You could tell he's he's weary of the injury situation.

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Speaker 1: He's obviously tired of talking about it. They have to

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Speaker 1: just continue to keep going. And the turnovers is what

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Speaker 1: really bugged him. I mean, nine turnovers in the last

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Speaker 1: two games, and that's a place where there will put

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Speaker 1: some work in to get ready for the other side

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Speaker 1: of this thing. But you're right. I mean, it always

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Speaker 1: comes at a good time, no matter when it's scheduled,

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Speaker 1: and it's extremely late for the Titans this year, but

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Speaker 1: here it is. They're glad, We're glad. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: hustled to the Logan Airport in Boston last night and

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Speaker 1: it felt like the flight back to Nashville was flying

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Speaker 1: from Seattle. In my mind, I knew we were going

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Speaker 1: to the bye week, and it's like it took forever

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Speaker 1: to get back to Bna. But we're here. We're here. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: time for first down, Rett Bryant. Your play that turned

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Speaker 1: the game at New England thirty seven seconds left in

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Speaker 1: the first half. Now rewind just a bit. The Titans

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Speaker 1: have had a turnover there. They held New England to

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Speaker 1: a field goal. So with thirty seven seconds left in

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Speaker 1: the first half, a sixty eight yard Dontrell Hilliard touchdown,

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Speaker 1: run three play, seventy five yards, twenty one seconds off

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Speaker 1: I thought, okay, they've got a chance right here. For me,

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Speaker 1: it's the fourth quarter, fourth and goal. They're on the

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Speaker 1: two yard line. The Tennessee Titans have had this eight

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Speaker 1: minute drive. It's been six minutes, seven minutes, something like

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Speaker 1: that at that point, and they desperately need this touchdown.

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Speaker 1: The score is twenty six to thirteen in favor of

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. The Titans need to score to stay in

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Speaker 1: this game. You feel like this could be it. They've

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Speaker 1: have control of the clock at this point, they're right there.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill throws a pass for Cody Hollister. It's tip

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Speaker 1: by Devin mccordy, intercepted by J. C. Jackson, and the

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Speaker 1: Patriots go on to score a fifty two yard field

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Speaker 1: goal after that. That makes it a three possession game,

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Speaker 1: And it just felt like the mountain was too high

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Speaker 1: they don't score after that kind of drive, it's game over.

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Speaker 1: It felt like everything had compounded into something that was

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Speaker 1: insurmountable for the Titans. Mine came in the first few

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Speaker 1: moments of the game. Titans first punt, they go three

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Speaker 1: Brett Kern hits a magnificent punt. It's down at the

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Speaker 1: from paydart is what the Patriots would have been. Chris

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Speaker 1: There was actually another Titans penalty on the play that

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Speaker 1: the turnovers. Listen, Tannehill's got to throw that ball. He

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Speaker 1: accept a team that's an eight win team, making a

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Speaker 1: mental mistakes, mental mistakes. That's exactly right, all right. Second

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Speaker 1: down your stat that tells the story, Amy Wells. For me,

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Speaker 1: it's the turnovers, and you had just mentioned them a

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Speaker 1: So beyond the fact that when you are not in

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Speaker 1: I think it wore on this team more than it

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Speaker 1: But you know what Bilichick's gonna do when he sees

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Speaker 1: He's gonna squeeze you. And the receivers that the Titans

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Speaker 1: looking good, but they have no receivers. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: The other thing, too, is they weren't afraid of the

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Speaker 1: And they did. And you know what I mean, they

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Speaker 1: they had had a lot of things go wrong, and

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Speaker 1: and that's just working on the turnovers. I know you

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Speaker 1: whatever it takes with ball security just shored up a

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Speaker 1: to try. Right, So we're just we're not doing this

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Speaker 1: a soft reboot. Exactly. You've got a chance to do

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Speaker 1: some ground here. Fourth down. One thing you'd noticed and

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate that Rhett's overall suggestion for the Titans

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Speaker 1: You are no longer sitting at number one in the AFC.

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Speaker 1: They weren't eight and fourth, they were seven and five.

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