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Speaker 1: They've been backing Tennesseeans for nearly eighty years. So glad

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Speaker 1: to welcome Titan's head coach Brian Callahan. Good to see coach,

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Speaker 1: Good to be.

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Speaker 2: Here, coach. In your press conference today, you received almost

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Speaker 2: ten separate questions about Will Levis. What were some of

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Speaker 2: the most important things that you took from his performance

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Speaker 2: against the Chargers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the first things. First in no turnovers. That's a

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Speaker 3: that's a we have. I don't know how many games

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Speaker 3: straight we've throw an interception between him and Mason, but

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Speaker 3: to have no turnovers from the quarterback position was was

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Speaker 3: a very positive step in the right direction. I thought

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Speaker 3: we'll played it a fishing. He completed the ball, but

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Speaker 3: he didn't do the best way to say this would

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Speaker 3: be he played efficient, but he also was aggressive in

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Speaker 3: some of the throws that he made, and there was

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Speaker 3: some tight window throws. They were accurate. He played with

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Speaker 3: some poise and and some calmness to his game. Certainly

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Speaker 3: things we got it correct, you know, I think there's

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Speaker 3: a couple opportunity to get rid of the ball a

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Speaker 3: little sooner on some of those plays, particularly some of

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Speaker 3: the third and long plays that you're just demoralizingly taking

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Speaker 3: a sack on third and twenty, and it's like, just

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Speaker 3: give us a chance, put the ball in the fairway

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Speaker 3: and let us see what happens after that, and maybe

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Speaker 3: we get to a point where we can go for it,

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Speaker 3: or maybe we make a guy miss and get a

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Speaker 3: first down as opposed to holding on to it trying

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Speaker 3: to wait for something to develop on a long yardage situation.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I was encouraged. I thought I saw growth,

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Speaker 3: I saw maturity. I saw a lot of the things

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Speaker 3: I was hoping to see from his performance.

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Speaker 1: You had talked about. Part of this was obviously him

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Speaker 1: getting healthy, and ninety percent of it was him getting healthy.

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Speaker 1: But you hope during that period of time he would

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Speaker 1: watch Mason Rudolph play, he would spend time with Trevor Simmey,

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Speaker 1: step back and roll back into it in a better

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Speaker 1: frame of mind to do the job the way you

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Speaker 1: want it done. That's what you saw.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw the flashes of that, you know, I

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Speaker 3: think it was his highest quarterback rating. I think maybe

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Speaker 3: second only to one other game last year. He was efficient,

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Speaker 3: we didn't turn the ball over. And one of the

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Speaker 3: things I've said before is a really quarterback play in

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Speaker 3: the NFL for ninety percent of the time is rather boring.

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Speaker 3: And then you got there's ten percent of time, and

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Speaker 3: you got to come alive and you got to make

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Speaker 3: a big throw like you did for the touchdown, or

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Speaker 3: you got to make a tight window throw like he

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Speaker 3: did twice to Nick Westbrook, and you got to make

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Speaker 3: a touchdown throw. That's you got to put in the

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Speaker 3: perfect spot like he did to Calvin Like those are

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Speaker 3: the things you have to see when the circumstances require it.

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Speaker 3: And he also made some really nice plays with his feet,

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Speaker 3: I thought he showed a ton of growth. I was

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Speaker 3: really happy with a lot of the things he did,

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Speaker 3: and ultimately we have to do more of it more

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Speaker 3: often and better to put more points on the board

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Speaker 3: than we did.

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Speaker 1: And follow up something you just said. Your comment in

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Speaker 1: the press conference was eighty percent of playing quarterback is

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Speaker 1: doing normal, mundane things. Well, so how much of will

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Speaker 1: Levis's current development right now is focused on day to

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Speaker 1: Lot of it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of a lot that goes

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Speaker 3: I thought he threw the ball accurately. I think he

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Speaker 3: And I mean, just I'm encouraged by what happening is

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Speaker 2: You talk about decision making in that it seems like

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Speaker 3: You can't simulate that, you know, you only can you

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Speaker 3: the intensity, the you know, the the hard part for

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Speaker 3: Those are all the things that go into play in

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Speaker 3: I saw more of that this week than I had

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Speaker 1: Is that the template of how you want to see

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Speaker 1: Will Levis run the football? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, it's it's a He's got a unique skill

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Speaker 3: he's not necessarily taking flush hits and it's not like

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Speaker 3: he's a running back in that sense. But their their

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Speaker 3: advantages for our offense. When the quarterback becomes part of

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Speaker 3: the equation. It puts a ton of stress on the defense.

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Speaker 3: It slows him down and makes him have to read

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Speaker 3: And that's one of.

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Speaker 2: Them talking about Will Levis. The next logical thing to

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Speaker 2: you were not really pleased with the play you got

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see.

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Speaker 3: little early for me to fully commit to that, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's a possibility. I'm just there's the play wasn't what

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Speaker 3: some good performances there from I thought JC played fantastic.

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Speaker 3: I thought Pete played really well. Uh, Dan Brunskill stepped

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Speaker 3: felt the loss of practice time and all that from

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Speaker 3: the injury that he's working through, and and then you know,

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Speaker 1: Need to win.

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Speaker 2: Minnesota's defensive coordinator is Brian Flores, and he is known

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Speaker 3: No, that's really more my responsibility and our coaching staff

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Speaker 3: is to figure out the best way to neutralize their

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Speaker 3: pressure packages as best you can. They do a great job,

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Speaker 3: really really smart defensive coach, and they got good players

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Speaker 3: on top of it, But the scheme is challenging and

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Speaker 3: they make you feel they bring pressure a lot. But

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Speaker 3: what they do more that's harder for us is that

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Speaker 3: they make you feel like they're going to bring pressure

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Speaker 3: those two things sort of over the course of the game,

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Speaker 3: and it's very challenging for a quarterback, as you've seen

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Speaker 1: But what is different about their pressure package than other

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Speaker 1: specific pressure pack packages in the league that make us

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Speaker 1: hear so much about what Brian Flores is doing with

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Speaker 3: It's, it's sort of a best way to put it,

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Speaker 3: it's it's a it's a very threatening pressure package. You

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Speaker 3: it's based out of the zero blitz family of things,

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Speaker 3: where it's just it's we're not talking to like a

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Speaker 1: That's that.

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Speaker 3: He does a really good job of putting Streuss in

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Speaker 1: And Okay, so I'm going deep on this admittedly, but

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Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by them because you hear so much about them.

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Speaker 1: They have all this pressure and yet they give up

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Speaker 1: only seventy nine yards a game rushing. How is a

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Speaker 3: They got good players?

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Speaker 3: No, But I think part of that is that there's

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of guys in a line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 3: Because of some of the pressure looks they make, you

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Speaker 3: have to account for all their safeties. I think Harrison

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Speaker 3: little bit timid to drop back sometimes because you got

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Speaker 3: run the ball, but there's all these guys there. It's

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Speaker 3: just a it's a it's challenging. They do a really

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Speaker 3: nice job. And so then it explains this next point

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna mention. Minnesota's defense has fifteen interceptions twenty total takeaways.

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Speaker 1: It's about right, yeah, yeah, and that's right. The pressure

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Speaker 1: and they bogey looks is all of it? Yep?

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Speaker 3: And it what And then the other part that I

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Speaker 3: You know, it's it's sort of everybody's had their head

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Speaker 3: We're not scoring and kicking field goals, and our opponents

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Speaker 1: if Titans coach Brian Callahan.

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Speaker 2: Coach Jack Gibbons have fifteen tackles against the Chargers. Did

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Speaker 3: But that was Gibby was still a round the ball.

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Speaker 2: Jefferson such a difference maker?

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Speaker 3: Oh Man, Probably his ability that he can play off

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Speaker 3: of the formation, so he can play inside, outside, He's

440
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Speaker 3: got every route tree. He's a he's a technician when

441
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Speaker 3: it comes to running routes. And then he's really strong

442
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Speaker 3: at the catch point, and so everything he does, he

443
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Speaker 3: can get open, he can separate, he knows how to

444
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Speaker 3: create separation, he knows how to win leverage. But then

445
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Speaker 3: when the ball's in the air, it's his you know,

446
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Speaker 3: he goes and gets it and he doesn't let anybody

447
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Speaker 3: get in away of that. And he can make physical catches,

448
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Speaker 3: contested catches, He's fearless. Those are he's he's again I

449
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Speaker 3: think he's there's two the two best receivers in the league,

450
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Speaker 3: and he's certainly in that conversation as the best.

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Speaker 1: What So I'm gonna delve into that because you made

452
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Speaker 1: a strong statement. They're saying that Jamar Chase and Justin

453
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Speaker 1: Jefferson are the two best in the NFL. What is

454
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Speaker 1: similar about those two players? What is different about those

455
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Speaker 1: two players?

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Speaker 3: The similarities are their attitude where they they are as

457
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Speaker 3: the as the kids say these days, their dogs, and

458
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Speaker 3: they are they want the ball and when the ball's

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Speaker 3: in the air, it's theirs. They don't let anybody get

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Speaker 3: in the way of it, and they they have a

461
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Speaker 3: confidence about them. They're going to make every play that

462
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Speaker 3: comes their way. And now do they no, of course not,

463
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Speaker 3: but they make a whole lot of them. Jamar is different,

464
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Speaker 3: and Jamar's is a different type of He plays with

465
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Speaker 3: way more the strength. He's a he's kind of a

466
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Speaker 3: power like he just kind of powers through people, where

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Speaker 3: I think Justin's got uh. He's a really good route runner.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't have the same strength and power in the

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Speaker 3: out as Jamar does, but they both They're both ability

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Speaker 3: to create separation different ways, but their ability to create

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Speaker 3: separation and went on routes and route savvy and understanding

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Speaker 3: leverage and all those things are I mean, they're there.

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Speaker 3: They're by far to the best you could ever you

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Speaker 3: could ever want to have. I mean, it's they're really

475
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Speaker 3: good players.

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Speaker 1: The guy throwing Jefferson the ball this year is Sam Darnold.

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Speaker 1: Seventeen touchdowns, ten interceptions, been sacked twenty six times. But

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Speaker 1: he's been very effective running Kevin O'Connell's offense.

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Speaker 3: Why you can see the maturity in his development. You

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Speaker 3: can see I think the time spent in San Francisco

481
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Speaker 3: before he got there probably paid off for him. But

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Speaker 3: I just I see a guy playing with confidence. I

483
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Speaker 3: see him playing with understanding, and he's playing fast, and

484
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Speaker 3: he's putting the ball in places that guys can go

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Speaker 3: get it.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: I think I thought Sam was a good player coming

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Speaker 3: out of college, and just like all these guys, a

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Speaker 3: lot of it's you know, situation dependent. When you arrive

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Speaker 3: at a team and.

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Speaker 1: There was.

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Speaker 3: There was a lot of things that you liked about

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Speaker 3: Sam coming out, and I think you're starting to see

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Speaker 3: those things again now. All the accuracy, the timing is understanding,

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Speaker 3: those things have all been evident on tape. And you

496
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Speaker 3: know he knows he knows the offense well now you

497
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Speaker 3: can see him. He's comfortable, he can get through his progressions,

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Speaker 3: he knows where to find the ball, he knows where

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Speaker 3: the ball should go versus different coverages, and I think

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Speaker 3: he's done a really nice job.

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Speaker 1: Minnesota won seven games last year, They've already won seven

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Speaker 1: games this year. Why have they been able to get

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Speaker 1: to this point of improvement from twenty three to twenty four.

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Speaker 3: You know, I think a large part of that was,

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Speaker 3: you know, they lost Kirk Cousins the year before. That

506
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Speaker 3: was probably a big part of their their dip and wins.

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Speaker 3: But you see a really confident team. They play really hard,

508
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Speaker 3: they played together. You see the turnovers. You know, they've

509
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Speaker 3: they've forced a whole lot of them, and they've put

510
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Speaker 3: guys in really tough spots and they've capitalized on those.

511
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Speaker 3: So they just do a great job of complimenting each

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Speaker 3: other sort of all three phases, and they got good players.

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Speaker 3: You know, they've got guys that are making plays and

514
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Speaker 3: are hungry to make plays. And I think Kevin's done

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Speaker 3: a great job with their team with the culture, and

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Speaker 3: you see they they're everything that he wants them to

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Speaker 3: be in terms of a team that's that's playing together,

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Speaker 3: that plays for each other. Those are all the things

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Speaker 3: that I'm certain he's preaching.

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Speaker 1: It's good stuff. Will remind you that Sunday's game at

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Speaker 1: Nissan Stadium kicks off at twelve o two. Titans Countdown

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Speaker 1: on all of our Titans radio stations hits the air

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Speaker 1: at eleven am Central Time. Titans in the Vikings this

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Speaker 1: Sunday at Nissan Stadium on Titans Radio. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for your time as usual, Brian Callahan.

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Speaker 1: here we go, Burke Nihill, so glad to have you

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Speaker 1: with us on the OTP. Thanks for taking time.

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Speaker 4: Great to be here, Mike.

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Speaker 1: It's November. The Titans broke ground on new Nissan Stadium

544
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Speaker 1: eight months ago, so one of the most important things

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Speaker 1: that have happened construction wise so far.

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Speaker 4: February twenty ninth, we had a few shovels and started

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Speaker 4: digging a hole. But since that time, we've we've cleared

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Speaker 4: out four hundred and ten thousand cubic square feet of dirt.

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Speaker 4: That's about twenty three thousand truckloads of dirt that we've

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Speaker 4: actually hauled off of the site. Actually, at some point

551
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Speaker 4: moved too quickly with that, and we had to find

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Speaker 4: places to put the dirt because they were just getting

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Speaker 4: it off the site so quickly. They've also started to

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Speaker 4: put in peers, which is the anchor for the stadium.

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Speaker 4: If you're driving by these days, you will see something

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Speaker 4: that's starting to take the shape of a stadium. There

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Speaker 4: are places where we actually have about four stories worth

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Speaker 4: of flooring that has been installed the concrete layers, so

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Speaker 4: it's coming along very very well.

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Speaker 2: You did a walk through at the new stadium recently.

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Speaker 2: What stood out to you about that experience.

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Speaker 4: There are places that you can stand and it's you

563
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Speaker 4: can see the football field because the way the peers

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Speaker 4: have been installed and some of the building has come together,

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Speaker 4: you can see the shape. And having lived within renderings

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Speaker 4: for so long to be able to stand in places

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Speaker 4: and you know how that's going to come alive when

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Speaker 4: it's fully complete, a club area or a space for

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Speaker 4: standing room only folks to stand and watch the game

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Speaker 4: and picture what's going to actually happen on that field

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Speaker 4: and that very real estate. It was a pretty awesome experience.

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Speaker 1: Have the questions that you've gotten, maybe even the most

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Speaker 1: common questions you've gotten, changed about the new stadium in

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Speaker 1: the last eight months.

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Speaker 4: Anybody who's come to the stadium over the last few months,

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Speaker 4: if you are on the east side of the stadium,

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Speaker 4: you get a good view of it. And I do

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Speaker 4: think it's true if people who've worked on this project

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Speaker 4: and people who've just heard about it. There's a different

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Speaker 4: reality when you start to see this building coming out

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Speaker 4: of the ground, and so you end up getting questions

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Speaker 4: like is it on schedule? And people who maybe haven't

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Speaker 4: been paying attention as closely to when is this building

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Speaker 4: going to open? Those are the sorts of questions that

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Speaker 4: I'm starting to get, and you know, the answers are

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Speaker 4: all good answers. Still, twenty twenty seven is when the

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Speaker 4: building is scheduled to open. It really is a statement

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Speaker 4: about the amount of planning and good work that has

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Speaker 4: gone in by Kellen de Corsi and so many other

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Speaker 4: people from the construction team. Really, by now, we probably

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Speaker 4: should have encountered some surprises and some delays if it

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Speaker 4: was a typical project, But they just did such a

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Speaker 4: good work on the front end making sure that this

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Speaker 4: building was going to be a great building, and had

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Speaker 4: such a good plan and a construction schedule that they

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Speaker 4: were able to maintain that we're right on schedule to

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Speaker 4: be done with this instruction sometime probably spring of twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty seven, and plenty of time for Titans football in

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: The construction is a very obvious physical sign of progress.

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Speaker 2: But what are maybe some of the less obvious things

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Speaker 2: that are also progressing within this project.

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Speaker 4: I think the most obvious thing is is Titans fans

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Speaker 4: are getting excited about envisioning their future at the new stadium.

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Speaker 4: We opened Titan's House earlier this spring, and so far

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Speaker 4: thousands of people have come through Titan's House and have

607
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 4: secured seats for their new stadium. We completed Wave one

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Speaker 4: much much earlier than expected. Wave one was premium offerings

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Speaker 4: our new clubs for the new Nissan Stadium. We expected

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Speaker 4: to be on sale with Wave one sometime in January

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Speaker 4: of next year. We planned to wind up those sales,

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Speaker 4: and by the time we got to the end of August,

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Speaker 4: we had already sold through all of that inventory, which

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Speaker 4: is really humbling to see that fan response. Now we're

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Speaker 4: well into Wave two of the Titan's House process and

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Speaker 4: welcoming hundreds of people a day through Titan's House, and

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Speaker 4: people are just so excited about picturing where specifically their

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Speaker 4: experience will be in a new Nissan Stadium.

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Speaker 1: The part of it that I have experienced with Titans

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Speaker 1: fans with Titan's House is the different features of the

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Speaker 1: Stadium blow them away. But the overriding one is the

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Speaker 1: site lines. Everybody is really taken aback by how much

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Speaker 1: closer you're going to be and how you're going to

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Speaker 1: feel like you're part of the action. Are you experiencing

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Speaker 1: the same sort of thing when you talk to people?

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Speaker 4: It really is such a paradigm shift from the current

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Speaker 4: Nissan Stadium to a new Nissan Stadium, even really any

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Speaker 4: NFL building. In this NFL building, quite literally, the new

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Speaker 4: Nissan Stadium will have the best fan site lines of

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Speaker 4: any building in the NFL. On average, it's about thirty

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Speaker 4: nine percent closer to the action than the current Nissan Stadium.

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Speaker 4: We have said from the beginning we were out to

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Speaker 4: design a building where every seat would be an amazing experience,

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Speaker 4: and now that we have the ability to with technology

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Speaker 4: show the literal view from every seat, it's holding true.

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Speaker 4: There are places that are just you expect that based

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Speaker 4: on being on a terrorist level as opposed to a

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Speaker 4: lower level, that that view would would be compromised, and

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Speaker 4: it's just not. It's a beautiful view. In fact, I

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Speaker 4: have secured PSLs from my family and we purchased in

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Speaker 4: the terrace level because we believe it's going to be

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Speaker 4: that great of an experience.

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Speaker 2: We've talked a lot about the fan experience and what

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Speaker 2: they can expect in the new building. What about the

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Speaker 2: players who are also going to have a new home

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Speaker 2: and a completely different experience on game days. What are

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Speaker 2: some of the features that they can expect to see.

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Speaker 4: Look, we designed this building and wanted it to be

649
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Speaker 4: authentic to Nashville and beautiful and just feel different all

650
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Speaker 4: the way across the board. But one thing I think

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Speaker 4: it really is important to let people know is that

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Speaker 4: we really had two stakeholders in mind at every point,

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Speaker 4: and one were the fans and the other were the players.

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Speaker 4: In order for this to be a home field advantage

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Speaker 4: for the next thirty years, which we expect it to be,

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Speaker 4: we really needed to have a level of intentionality and

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Speaker 4: making sure that from a player experience, from a coach's experience,

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Speaker 4: from a trainer's experience, just all of the football team

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Speaker 4: would have an improved experience over the currenty Sun Stadium

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Speaker 4: and a competitive advantage over other stadiums in the So

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Speaker 4: things like the locker room, things like the trainers area,

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Speaker 4: things like the meeting rooms, they're all somewhere between fifty

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Speaker 4: to one hundred percent bigger than the current Nissan Stadium.

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Speaker 4: We really try to think about the players experience from

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Speaker 4: end to end, So we designed underground parking for the

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Speaker 4: players so they'll be able to pull right in underneath

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Speaker 4: the stadium and the walk from their car to the

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Speaker 4: locker room is as short as you could possibly imagine

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Speaker 4: it would be. The walk from the player locker room

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Speaker 4: to the field, there's multiple tunnels to get there, and

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Speaker 4: they're all a direct shot. We want this to be

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Speaker 4: a place that the players come and they have as

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Speaker 4: easy of an experience getting ready to play a game

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Speaker 4: as possible. And it's really neat to see how we

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Speaker 4: fit all these puzzle pieces together in a way that

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Speaker 4: I think is going to pull that off.

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Speaker 1: New Nissan statement. Question that only Burke Nihill can answer.

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Speaker 1: You've been involved in every stage of this, so as

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Speaker 1: we've moved along and now that we're eight months into

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Speaker 1: the process, what is the most intriguing part of the

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Speaker 1: stadium that maybe you had not even really considered when

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Speaker 1: this process started.

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Speaker 4: Oh boy, I mean, I think we gave so much

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Speaker 4: thoughts to almost every part of the building that that

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Speaker 4: is the magic of this building is there's just not

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Speaker 4: a corner that we didn't think about. So it's hard

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Speaker 4: to answer that question very directly. I'll give you one

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Speaker 4: very specific part of the building that we're excited about,

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Speaker 4: and that's a green room. So if this is going

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Speaker 4: to be music city, we've known from the beginning that

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Speaker 4: the building features are going to be something that promotes

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Speaker 4: a great music experience during a Titans game, or is

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Speaker 4: just kind of mailing it in like every other stadium.

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Speaker 4: And so from the beginning, if fans have been following

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Speaker 4: this journey, you know, we decided to put a stage

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Speaker 4: right in the middle of the lower bowl and that

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Speaker 4: stage is about the size of the Riemann Stage to

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Speaker 4: give you a sense. And the idea is that every

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Speaker 4: national anthem, every halftime, maybe even during games, we can

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Speaker 4: have incredible live music coming from that stage. But one

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Speaker 4: thing that we learned early as we were talking to

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Speaker 4: folks in the music industry was musicians care about having

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Speaker 4: a good green room to get ready to bring family

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Speaker 4: to rely. And so we're working really hard on this

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Speaker 4: level of detail on a green room for a football stadium,

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Speaker 4: and I think it's going to end up being one

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Speaker 4: of those places that fifteen years from now people want

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Speaker 4: to go on a tour of the building and see

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Speaker 4: this famous green room because of all the great acts

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Speaker 4: that are going to come through that room.

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Speaker 1: Very cool.

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Speaker 2: We're so excited about all of the things that Nissan

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Speaker 2: Stadium is going to provide for us, a new Nissan Stadium,

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Speaker 2: But we still have a lot of construction to do.

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Speaker 2: What are the next big things that are on deck

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Speaker 2: in terms of this project continuing forward.

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Speaker 4: So if you go by the site today, you'll see

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Speaker 4: there's four cranes out on the site, which is more

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Speaker 4: than a lot of these projects would have, but where again,

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Speaker 4: the planning has been just impeccable and every detail has

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Speaker 4: been considered. Those four cranes are working on a concrete

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Speaker 4: superstructure that will ultimately connect at some point this spring,

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Speaker 4: so you'll see a base of concrete. From there, you'll

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Speaker 4: start to see steel. A lot of steel will be

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Speaker 4: coming through the site and being erected on the site.

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Speaker 4: And then what I think is going to be really

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Speaker 4: exciting for folk, the seating bowl itself is being constructed

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Speaker 4: in pieces in Atlanta, Georgia, and those pieces will start

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Speaker 4: to make their way up the highway and start to

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Speaker 4: actually be put in place on top of that structure.

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Speaker 4: So at some point, probably next football season, when someone

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Speaker 4: looks across that way, there's going to be a building

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Speaker 4: that looks a whole lot like a football stadium, not

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Speaker 4: just the little pieces, not just the construction, but the

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Speaker 4: shape will be well on its.

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Speaker 1: Way when or is approaching. Will construction slow down?

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Speaker 4: Actually quite the opposite. So today we have six hundred

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Speaker 4: and thirty people working on the site every day. We

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Speaker 4: are actually going to be increasing that number by thirty

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Speaker 4: or forty people per day to a peak of about

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Speaker 4: sixteen hundred people. So not only will wind or not

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Speaker 4: slow us down, we're actually going to pick up the

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Speaker 4: pace a bit.

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Speaker 1: All right, Aby, you got the last question.

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Speaker 2: How can Titans fans keep up with all of the

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Speaker 2: construction and all of the happenings at New Nissan Stadium.

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Speaker 4: New Nissan Stadium dot com as a website and you

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Speaker 4: can learn out all about the stadium. And we're so

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Speaker 4: excited for people to really real, really dig as deep

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Speaker 4: as we have into what the fan experience is going

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Speaker 4: to be like at a Nissan Stadium. It's little things

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Speaker 4: like three hundred and sixty degree concourses. It just makes

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Speaker 4: more sense to be able to get around the entire

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Speaker 4: building as opposed to having to stop and get up

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Speaker 4: an elevator somewhere, you can you can work around the

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Speaker 4: whole building. Frictionless markets, which means ifan will be able

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Speaker 4: to go from a couple minutes in line waiting for

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Speaker 4: their nachos to maybe thirty five to forty seconds and

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Speaker 4: back to their seat, nearly double the amount of bathrooms,

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Speaker 4: again allowing people to get back to their seat. The

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Speaker 4: Ring of Fire. It is fifty five thousand square feet

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Speaker 4: of LED that will surround the entire upper bowl. It's

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Speaker 4: going to make fans feel immersed in the video boards.

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Speaker 4: There's seventy thousand square feet of LED around the entire building.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be sensory overload. The sound system of

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Speaker 4: the building is also going to be some of the

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Speaker 4: best in the NFL, so you can just imagine how

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Speaker 4: that's going to be coming to life in a Titans game.

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Speaker 4: This building is just going to be incredible, and so

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Speaker 4: we'd love for people to go to New Nissan Stadium

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Speaker 4: dot com, look around and learn more about it and

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Speaker 4: get as excited about it we are.

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Speaker 1: Titans President and CEO Burke Nihill. Thanks for joining Amy

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Speaker 1: and me on the OTP. We appreciate it. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me