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Speaker 1: hot seat Titans Radio's ever reliable Rhett Brian. How many
Speaker 1: of the Snickers are you going to steal on? Behalf
Speaker 1: of coach mack Zero?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, can we gets?
Speaker 3: But I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 2: It's not as full as it is, not as full
Speaker 2: as it was.
Speaker 4: The last person was who was in here was Dave
Speaker 4: McGinnis talking about stealing the snickers.
Speaker 1: He clearly did that.
Speaker 4: Jar is precariously low. I are you, I mean this
Speaker 4: is a crime.
Speaker 1: Are you accusing Coach MAXX?
Speaker 2: Straight up?
Speaker 3: I am. Can I say something because this is just
Speaker 3: by the way, This studio is fantastic and with all
Speaker 3: the cameras and the things that you can monitor, you
Speaker 3: could probably catch him red handed with his hand in
Speaker 3: the snickers.
Speaker 1: In now he said he was going to take the
Speaker 1: whole jar.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking about getting some crime scene tape and like
Speaker 4: taping off the area disgusting for Prince.
Speaker 1: I mean you and you could see him taking the whole.
Speaker 2: Jar too, and he put it in his bag.
Speaker 1: With zero to walk out with seventy four waters.
Speaker 2: Yep, three hundred and sixty.
Speaker 4: I think he still grabs a couple of like face
Speaker 4: masks like from COVID whenever.
Speaker 3: He sees it. I've never seen then.
Speaker 2: I think he just grabs a couple every time.
Speaker 3: Remember he got he got a whole box. And when he
Speaker 3: left Green Bay that time, Yeah, to.
Speaker 5: Exit the stadium, you had to go through the locker
Speaker 5: room and there was a bad, a giant box of
Speaker 5: masks and Mac just grabbed the whole box and we
Speaker 5: walked out and he just handed them to me and
Speaker 5: was like, here, hold these.
Speaker 3: That's the most empty I've ever seen the Snickers jar.
Speaker 3: And all the time.
Speaker 1: That is coach Mac, now that I think about it,
Speaker 1: though we've only won seven games since he stole all
Speaker 1: those masks.
Speaker 3: I'm not superstitious. I'm just a little stitious, and I
Speaker 3: think we need to do something like that.
Speaker 2: You need to take those back.
Speaker 3: Give them back, return them, return the masks, return of
Speaker 3: the Mac.
Speaker 1: No that's that's not true. But anyway, good to have
Speaker 1: you with us, Rhett.
Speaker 3: I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 1: The OTP pregame relies on five topics, okay, and so
Speaker 1: we're getting ready to go to Buffalo. So the first
Speaker 1: topic is pretty simple. Give me your scenario how the
Speaker 1: Titans go into Buffalo and win on Sunday at twelve
Speaker 1: oh two Central Time.
Speaker 3: Scenario is this. You continue to do what you had
Speaker 3: done in the last couple of games. Tony Pollard is
Speaker 3: a huge part of this and continuing the success with
Speaker 3: the run game. But if you can somehow mix in
Speaker 3: RPO stuff and hit on a couple of bang bang,
Speaker 3: big down the field type, you know, explosive plays, I
Speaker 3: think that would ignite something in this offense that they're
Speaker 3: looking for. Defense is playing well for you. Ryan Stonehouse
Speaker 3: comes off of a game where he had a seventy
Speaker 3: five yard punt. So you do that and you play
Speaker 3: clean football and don't turn it over, and I think
Speaker 3: you can play keep away with those guys and come
Speaker 3: out of there with a win. But you've got to
Speaker 3: overcome the atmosphere because you know the first thing you
Speaker 3: said on the Brian Callahan Show, this week is they
Speaker 3: have been there in a month, and we know what
Speaker 3: it's like to show up at high Mark Stadium anyway,
Speaker 3: because those people are outrageous. They're really going to be outrageous.
Speaker 3: Multi levels up because it's been a minute.
Speaker 1: And it's going to be a beautiful day, sixty six
Speaker 1: degrees or something.
Speaker 2: A kickoff, it's like prime football.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean every I mean, if you're going to
Speaker 1: the game, then you're going to that game, meaning you're
Speaker 1: not gonna wake up and go, well, it's raining or maybe.
Speaker 2: It will tailgate much on TV, well.
Speaker 1: Yeah or some I mean, you're not doing that, and
Speaker 1: people do that all over the league. They want to
Speaker 1: say they don't, but you always kind of like it
Speaker 1: if you're the opposing team and there's something that's happened,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a little windy, or there was rain
Speaker 1: earlier in the day or whatever, because you know it's
Speaker 1: gonna knock just that little edge off the crowd. Not happening.
Speaker 2: Sundow's Summer Day in Buffalo, Well.
Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce.
Speaker 3: And by the way, the people in Buffalo serious about
Speaker 3: their tailgating. I wouldn't be surprised as somebody tailgating there
Speaker 3: right now I'm serious, Wild RV's lawn chairs whatever.
Speaker 1: All right, So give me your scenario, Amy Wells, of
Speaker 1: how the Titans go into Buffalo and win on Sunday.
Speaker 4: I think if the Titans are able to handle their
Speaker 4: own business, and by that I mean play a clean game,
Speaker 4: limit the penalties, are able to force some turnovers, are
Speaker 4: able to handle the things that are fully in their control,
Speaker 4: and play a clean game, I think they give themselves
Speaker 4: a pretty good chance of winning this game. I like
Speaker 4: a lot of the different matchups, both offensive and defensively.
Speaker 4: I like just the way these two teams go together.
Speaker 4: I think it gives a lot of advantage Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 4: But you gotta play a clean game. You have to
Speaker 4: handle the controllable things that you can control, and that's penalties,
Speaker 4: that's takeaways, that's not giving the ball away, that's handling
Speaker 4: your own business. And if the Titans can do that,
Speaker 4: I think they give themselves such really good chance.
Speaker 1: I think it's Josh Allen largely the story. Josh Allen
Speaker 1: has not thrown an interception this season. Wow, he is
Speaker 1: going to throw in interception at some point.
Speaker 2: How about Sunday calls and averages?
Speaker 1: Well and he has thrown the balls. Troy Aikman said
Speaker 1: it on Monday Night Football. He said, now he's thrown
Speaker 1: the balls that could have been intercepted, but they weren't caught.
Speaker 1: I think that's where you start, is if you get
Speaker 1: a chance to have an interception, you got to intercept
Speaker 1: the pass. The other thing he's done well that. This
Speaker 1: is incredible. The Bills are seven of seven converting fourth downs. Wow,
Speaker 1: so they're converting thirty four percent of third downs, but
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of fourth downs. So that takes their
Speaker 1: conversion rate up to around well over forty percent. Actually,
Speaker 1: if you add those conversions in, so you can't let
Speaker 1: them get fourth and ones. You can't let Josh Allen
Speaker 1: be sneaking there and at the goal line, which they
Speaker 1: use him for because he's six y five two hundred
Speaker 1: and forty pounds. The other part of that, along with
Speaker 1: the conversions, fifteen touchdowns in twenty two red zone possessions
Speaker 1: only five field goals. Yeah, so you've gotta make them
Speaker 1: kick field goals. They're gonna move the ball. Guess what
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. You stop Josh Allen and you give
Speaker 1: yourself a chance.
Speaker 3: If you do the other thing, you're.
Speaker 1: Gonna right stop him. I think you're gonna hope that
Speaker 1: you catch it when he throws into you, and that
Speaker 1: you force him into situations where their offense has to
Speaker 1: come off the field without having scored a touchdown. And
Speaker 1: so that's the part of it on the other side.
Speaker 1: And this is really incredible about them statistically already this year,
Speaker 1: their defense has ten takeaways. They've also seen six possessions
Speaker 1: by the opposition inside their twenty where the other team
Speaker 1: hasn't scored points. So every time you get down there,
Speaker 1: you've got to score, whether that's a field goal or
Speaker 1: a touchdown, you've got to score. Now, the Titans have
Speaker 1: actually been very good. Their best offensive statistic to this
Speaker 1: point is thirteen red zone trips, eight touchdowns, so that
Speaker 1: is very solid. You like to be over sixty percent,
Speaker 1: you'd like to get it to over seventy percent. But
Speaker 1: you get down there and the Titans are scoring, score touchdowns,
Speaker 1: but at least get a field goal. I think if
Speaker 1: that's the game it becomes. If you're getting off the
Speaker 1: field on defense, catch the ball with Josh Allen because
Speaker 1: you're gonna have an opportunity. And then on the other side.
Speaker 1: Just keep producing, just keep finding ways to keep grinding
Speaker 1: points out, whether that's touchdowns or field goals, and stay
Speaker 1: in this ball game. I think you've got a chance
Speaker 1: to win because what you said about matchups is correct
Speaker 1: in that the Bills have had some injury problems. Listen,
Speaker 1: and what they've done is such a veteran team style
Speaker 1: of how they've played this year. They've the best they
Speaker 1: could have hoped for coming out of training camp with
Speaker 1: how the schedule was set through six games was four
Speaker 1: and two. Guess what they are four into because they've
Speaker 1: they got a quarterback, they got all these veterans, They
Speaker 1: know how to win. They win the games they should win.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is really who they are. They haven't
Speaker 1: been overwhelming for the most part though, And that's the
Speaker 1: thing you say, Okay, with this defense the Titans have,
Speaker 1: you've got a chance to match up. Yeah, but the
Speaker 1: game has to go in my opinion, you know that
Speaker 1: the topic being how did the Titans go in and win?
Speaker 1: I think these sort of ancillary factors with the chess moves,
Speaker 1: it's kind of how it has to go down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's strong. That's good analysis.
Speaker 3: Much reasons too why I mentioned the run game being
Speaker 3: a part of this because in one of their losses
Speaker 3: was Baltimore, they ran all over them, right, and so
Speaker 3: they are beatable. But you're right about now the going
Speaker 3: inside the twenty and them not allowing a touchdown or
Speaker 3: a score. Little of that skewed because Greg Zarlin missed
Speaker 3: a couple of well chip shots.
Speaker 1: But that's the whole thing is you you can't get
Speaker 1: down there and Breeze Hall rushed for over one hundred yards.
Speaker 1: They're giving up one hundred and forty yards rushing per
Speaker 1: game in part because they've had and they've had injury situations.
Speaker 1: But you've got to make the field goals, right, you
Speaker 1: know that. I mean if if the Jets make the
Speaker 1: field goals, they win the game.
Speaker 3: Uncle Nick as you call him, yes's.
Speaker 1: The former Jets kicker who's kicked in Orchard Park more
Speaker 1: than once. Which is one thing you really like about
Speaker 1: Nick Folk in this matchup is he's been through the
Speaker 1: swirling wins and we've all been down on the field
Speaker 1: there before. It's a thing.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's very real. It is very real.
Speaker 4: I One of my favorite sideline memories is you coming
Speaker 4: down to me during a game and saying, what is
Speaker 4: he kicking into.
Speaker 2: The wind or with the wind? And my thought was,
Speaker 2: who could tell? Because it really is.
Speaker 4: It feels like you're just standing in the middle of
Speaker 4: one of those money things.
Speaker 1: That shoots the money machine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because the wind comes from everywhere.
Speaker 4: And I remember just kind of chuckling and being like, well,
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 2: It's coming from this way, but who really knows. It's everywhere.
Speaker 2: It's wild.
Speaker 3: To your point about Josh Allen said the crazy sat
Speaker 3: I saw on him this week, I believe about forty
Speaker 3: percent of his rushes are either for first downs or touchdowns.
Speaker 3: To go back to your fourth down part, Wow.
Speaker 1: Well he's I mean, he's amazing. When I saw him
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl, I didn't really know what to
Speaker 1: make of him because I'd never seen an arm like
Speaker 1: his ever before ever. I mean, it was and I'm
Speaker 1: talking about you know, and there have been times where
Speaker 1: I've snuck down on the field over twenty plus years
Speaker 1: to go see somebody throw just because you wanted to
Speaker 1: or to see somebody kick or catch, or you wanted
Speaker 1: to determine how big somebody really was or how not
Speaker 1: big they were. And when I watched him at those practices.
Speaker 1: I've still and the Titans quarterback Will Levice absolute gun.
Speaker 1: This guy is something to that level and even beyond.
Speaker 1: And he is so big. He is such a big human.
Speaker 1: But you know when he was at Wyoming he completed
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it here fifty six percent of his passes.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And I mean remember hit the game a couple weeks
Speaker 1: ago in Houston where he went nine out of thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So this offense is set up for him, but they
Speaker 1: take advantage of what he does well. He runs really well.
Speaker 1: To Ret's point. In his career, Ret, he has fifty
Speaker 1: six rushing touchdowns. Now think about that. He has started
Speaker 1: one hundred and nine games counting playoffs, and he has
Speaker 1: fifty six rushing touchdowns. Me and I mean he can run.
Speaker 1: He can. I mean early in his career he had
Speaker 1: a couple hundred yard rushing games, but now he's up
Speaker 1: to twenty five games with three hundred yards passing. He's
Speaker 1: passed for four thousand yards each of the last three seasons.
Speaker 1: He hasn't thrown a pick this year. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: been well coached and they've stayed with him at different points.
Speaker 1: You know, last year he threw eighteen picks, and it's like, well,
Speaker 1: that's his game. He's gonna have a nine for thirty.
Speaker 1: He's going to throw eighteen picks on a year. But
Speaker 1: he's so good at the things he does, and when
Speaker 1: they are able to dictate with him, they don't lose.
Speaker 1: When you can get in the back and forth game,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a little different.
Speaker 4: That's interesting that he because you're right, and that's where
Speaker 4: my question mark has always been with Josh Allen. Is
Speaker 4: you feel like, I mean, he's got the size, he's
Speaker 4: got the ability, he's got the skill. He's got these
Speaker 4: magnificent games with all of the statistical whatever you want.
Speaker 4: But then he has some games like Houston, and then
Speaker 4: he has some games where he's throwing picks all over
Speaker 4: the place and you're just wondering, like, where's the consistency.
Speaker 4: But I guess that over time when you zoom out
Speaker 4: a little bit and look at his career, kind.
Speaker 2: Of a wash.
Speaker 1: No, I mean I think it's better.
Speaker 2: I think it's better than a lot.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely. I mean it's seven seventy two and thirty
Speaker 1: seven as a starter.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, that's better.
Speaker 1: But what they've said, and this is where McDermott and
Speaker 1: the GM Brandon Bean have been so smart is they've
Speaker 1: said this is our guy period. And I mean, Rhett,
Speaker 1: you remember him as a rookie.
Speaker 2: Were you traveling his rookie year potentially?
Speaker 1: Oh? Was that that was the Nick Williams game. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 3: That's what's in my mind as you're describing his style
Speaker 3: of plane. I think about the growth year over years
Speaker 3: since that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he threw for eighty two yards right. He mostly
Speaker 1: ran right, and that was the whole thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: they were running here, they were running like student body
Speaker 1: left and things with him. But what they've done I
Speaker 1: think as well, if not better than any franchise in
Speaker 1: the league, is they got their guy and they said
Speaker 1: this is our guy, and we're just going to do this,
Speaker 1: and we're going to build him out. And then the
Speaker 1: second year, by the end of the second year, he
Speaker 1: was better. And then by the third year, he's throwing
Speaker 1: for four thousand yards yep. And we go get him
Speaker 1: ste find Diggs and on and on and on, and
Speaker 1: we have a running game, and we play defense and
Speaker 1: he can always play in the weather because he's big
Speaker 1: and he has a great arm. Yes, we might have
Speaker 1: to deal with eighteen interceptions in a season which some
Speaker 1: people would consider, oh gosh, what's happened, And they're like,
Speaker 1: but he threw twenty nine touchdown passes. Yeah, and it's like,
Speaker 1: and we win again because we know some It's like,
Speaker 1: the Bills are so smart because they understand they have
Speaker 1: the guy that can get them there in their weather situation,
Speaker 1: with their cap situation, in their division, they've won the
Speaker 1: division four straight years. Yeah, in their division situation. He
Speaker 1: matches up with our defense. If we have to hunker
Speaker 1: down in a game and just run it, run it,
Speaker 1: run it, fine, whatever, it doesn't make any difference. We're
Speaker 1: not going to go undefeated, and every once in a
Speaker 1: while he's going to do something that's probably not going
Speaker 1: to help us win. But guess what, he's a two
Speaker 1: time Pro Bowl quarterback and again the stat seventy two
Speaker 1: and thirty seven as a starter, we will win two
Speaker 1: thirds of our games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that will win more with him win a lot feriore.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but understanding that with his quirks, there are wins
Speaker 4: attached to that.
Speaker 3: Pent Mike, I think because of him, Yeah, I think
Speaker 3: the oppressive thing about him in twenty twenty four is
Speaker 3: because due to injuries and a couple of other things.
Speaker 3: Obviously the trade of Stefan Dix. He's done it without
Speaker 3: a true number one wide receiver.
Speaker 1: High and that brings us to topic number two. Topic
Speaker 1: number two is how does Amari Cooper factor into the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. He was acquired on Tuesday from Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and he already has twenty four catches on the year
Speaker 1: for two hundred and fifty yards and two touchdowns. But
Speaker 1: we saw Monday night in that game with Khalil Shakir
Speaker 1: banged up, with Kean Coleman being a rookie, with their
Speaker 1: best receiver really being Dalton Kincaid the tight end, they
Speaker 1: needed to go get him a receiver. They've gone four
Speaker 1: and two without replacing Stefan Diggs, and now they're getting
Speaker 1: Cooper at this incredibly cheap price for the remainder of
Speaker 1: the season, at just the right time, at just the
Speaker 1: right moment. How do you think he factors in on Sunday?
Speaker 3: Ret Bryan, Well, I'm gonna cheat because earlier this week
Speaker 3: on Titans programming, you mentioned how he'd been traded, and
Speaker 3: I had forgotten this, But he played against the Titans
Speaker 3: in Dallas the first game he's traded from the Raiders
Speaker 3: to the Cowboys, and he had what five for fifty
Speaker 3: six in a score, five for fifty eight in a score,
Speaker 3: five for fifty eight. Yes, yeah, but first game, and look,
Speaker 3: you look at what he's done and by default now
Speaker 3: he's their leading receiver at two hundred and fifty yards
Speaker 3: two touchdowns. But you're talking about guy his whole career
Speaker 3: has averaged almost over fourteen yards of catch, his last
Speaker 3: two years in Cleveland over one thousand yards, receiving over
Speaker 3: seventy catches and I think fourteen combined touchdowns. And you
Speaker 3: know he can make a difference. He absolutely can. I'm
Speaker 3: interested to see what they do with him, and certainly
Speaker 3: he's a vet and can They'll put a package together
Speaker 3: for him. But you're right, Khalil Shakir, Dalton Kinkaid, those
Speaker 3: are the two people who have made it work through
Speaker 3: the first six games this year, and predominantly for Shakir
Speaker 3: out of the slot. But they do the same thing
Speaker 3: with Dalton Kincaid a lot as well. Kean Coleman has
Speaker 3: his place that he can grow. But this is a
Speaker 3: viable option for Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: You agree, we're going to see a lot of Amari Cooper.
Speaker 4: I think we are going to see a ton of
Speaker 4: Amari Cooper. I think that that was first off the point,
Speaker 4: and I think he's something. He is someone that can
Speaker 4: fit in so easily just because of the way that
Speaker 4: he plays as a receiver. I think that he he's
Speaker 4: kind of a plug and play guy, Like he doesn't
Speaker 4: need a ton of reps with their offense, he doesn't
Speaker 4: need a ton of time in their system to learn
Speaker 4: what it is. He can come in and just go
Speaker 4: and make an impact right away. So yeah, I think
Speaker 4: that Amari Cooper is going to be a big part
Speaker 4: of what they end up doing on Sunday. Also, I'm
Speaker 4: interested to see how they continue to use tight Ends
Speaker 4: because it seems like more and more and more seeing
Speaker 4: you're seeing the tight Ends get more involved. You mentioned
Speaker 4: Dalton Kincaid and what he's been doing it. I'm curious
Speaker 4: to see if they're going to be a part of
Speaker 4: this or if this is going to be the a
Speaker 4: MARII Cooper show.
Speaker 1: What I'm interested in with them at tight End is
Speaker 1: do they and can they get Dawson Knox more involved?
Speaker 1: You know, because Dawson Knox has been to a pro Bowl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but Ken Caid is now the focus. I mean, Ken
Speaker 1: Kid had seventy three catches last year as a rookie.
Speaker 1: So do they use Dawson Knox or is that a
Speaker 1: chip that they use, you know, down the line looking
Speaker 1: at a trade possibility as we get closer to the
Speaker 1: trade deadline on November fifth, Because he's a really good player.
Speaker 1: Caught a touchdown the other night. Yep, he's a really
Speaker 1: good player and still a young player.
Speaker 3: Good athlete, oh yeah, good athlete.
Speaker 1: And that's what scares you about how they when he's
Speaker 1: in the game, you think, oh well, now in their offense,
Speaker 1: he's the fourth option, but is he really? I mean,
Speaker 1: he's certainly way better than a fourth option in terms
Speaker 1: of his talent.
Speaker 3: And thinking about Amari Cooper now in the mix to
Speaker 3: your point kind of what they do with tight ends,
Speaker 3: what does this do for some of the other receiving
Speaker 3: corps if as targets are shifted, Like, what does it
Speaker 3: do for Mac Hollins in this offense?
Speaker 1: Mac Collins who had the best game of his career
Speaker 1: against the Titans. Yeah, in September of twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: when he was playing for the Raiders eight catches, one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty eight yards in a touchdown. Didn't do
Speaker 1: as much last year playing for the Falcons against the Titans,
Speaker 1: two catches for twenty seven, but he's another big veteran
Speaker 1: receiver who caught a touchdown pass on Monday Night Football.
Speaker 1: I want to go back to Amari Cooper for just
Speaker 1: a second though. I made the comment earlier this week,
Speaker 1: and I meant it that I think of all the
Speaker 1: receivers who could have been traded to the team the
Speaker 1: Titans are going to play this Sunday, he's the absolute worst,
Speaker 1: oh in terms of worst for the Titans. And what
Speaker 1: I mean by that is, this is a guy. When
Speaker 1: he's coming out of Alabama, he's compared stylistically to Marvin
Speaker 1: Harrison because he's just He's always open, he can run
Speaker 1: the entire route tree, he has speed, and quietly his
Speaker 1: NFL career has been like that. Yeah, because he's been
Speaker 1: traded three times, it's almost as if he's judged as
Speaker 1: less than We'll get this. Five Pro Bowls, seven thousand
Speaker 1: yard seasons, he's on the cusp of seven hundred catches
Speaker 1: and he's still just right at thirty years old. Doesn't
Speaker 1: it feel like he ought to be like forty five
Speaker 1: years old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to be older than that, like Brandon.
Speaker 3: Cook's yea, well, Brussell multiple trades, Yeah.
Speaker 1: He holds the record with Eric Dickerson having been traded
Speaker 1: four times. Brandon Cooks does. But do you remember when
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper came into this building in twenty fifteen for
Speaker 1: a pre draft visit?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And what was interesting about that year is that was
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks year.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep.
Speaker 1: And so it was either going to be Jameis Winston
Speaker 1: or Marcus Mariota or Leonard Williams who's gone on to
Speaker 1: have a super career is a is a perennial Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl type defenseive lineman, and then Amari Cooper yep. And
Speaker 1: to us internally, he was always the sleeper of the
Speaker 1: group if we got out at number two or we
Speaker 1: moved back a spot or two. Rustin Webster really liked him,
Speaker 1: and we all really liked him. Most people thought of
Speaker 1: the four guys at the top, there's a very good
Speaker 1: chance he would end up being the best player, which
Speaker 1: he has in terms of his accolades and his production.
Speaker 1: No disrespect to Leonard Williams, who's also been good, but
Speaker 1: just the consistency factor of the Marvin Harrison comparison and
Speaker 1: ret We did these interviews and we put them out there,
Speaker 1: and that was by design. Yeah, yeah, we wanted people
Speaker 1: smoke screen.
Speaker 2: I think it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was more wanting people to understand that
Speaker 4: we were doing the whole.
Speaker 1: The thing, the complete due diligence.
Speaker 4: We weren't doing We weren't just saying we're taking this
Speaker 4: quarterback and this is it. We were assessing every option
Speaker 4: of what that first round could look like. Was my
Speaker 4: thought or my understanding of what we were being asked
Speaker 4: to do, was to show that the Titans were were
Speaker 4: pursuing every avenue.
Speaker 1: But I do think there's some smoke screen to it.
Speaker 1: I think you said it, well there, it wasn't just
Speaker 1: smoke screen, but you wanted the Titans. You wanted everybody
Speaker 1: because Tampa was taking Winston. They had to take Winston.
Speaker 1: He played at Florida State. He's from down that way.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know he's he's from Birmingham, Alabama. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what they're doing.
Speaker 2: It all fit.
Speaker 1: They are taking Winston. Jameis Winston is going to Tampa.
Speaker 1: That's what was the worst kept secret in the world.
Speaker 1: We were really the number one pick. Yeah, in Turn
Speaker 1: of the Unknown and will the phone ring in this? Well,
Speaker 1: when it came time to interview Cooper, we were told
Speaker 1: good luck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he doesn't talk.
Speaker 1: And we found the thing he likes to talk about,
Speaker 1: and that is playing receiver. And we're going to show
Speaker 1: you a clip of this which will make you understand
Speaker 1: from nearly ten years ago why he will be ready
Speaker 1: to play this Sunday. He got it. Then, he's proven
Speaker 1: over the last nine plus years he's done that, and
Speaker 1: even nearly ten years later, you can bet he gets
Speaker 1: it now. This is a little bit of the conversation
Speaker 1: with a MARII Cooper from his pre draft visit in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen.
Speaker 7: The precision routes, that's something you have to work on
Speaker 7: that's not natural. Hands might be natural, leaping of speed
Speaker 7: might be natural, but the routes and running the routes
Speaker 7: in such a way that you can't tell what Amari
Speaker 7: Cooper is going to do you change speed? So well,
Speaker 7: how did you develop all of that?
Speaker 8: I've been doing it for a long time. I've played
Speaker 8: receiver every year that I've played football, except for one
Speaker 8: one a year when I was smaller. And I started
Speaker 8: playing third grade. But I've been playing. Before I started
Speaker 8: playing organized football, I was still playing football running routes
Speaker 8: out there, so it's kind of innate. I can read
Speaker 8: the body language of the defender and know when I
Speaker 8: got them. So I'm just I'm just blessed I'm able
Speaker 8: to do those type of things.
Speaker 7: You're a student, obviously, who have you studied to watch
Speaker 7: moves and different accelerations and things of that sort.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't really.
Speaker 8: I don't really study a lot of other receivers. It's
Speaker 8: just when I was growing up and coach wanted to
Speaker 8: me to run a slant route or an outright, I
Speaker 8: had already been doing it in my backyard without knowing
Speaker 8: I was doing it, so when he showed me how
Speaker 8: to do it, I was already really able to do it.
Speaker 8: So I don't know, I'm just I don't know.
Speaker 7: That's amazing because most people when they start playing in
Speaker 7: the backyard, they want to be the quarterback or the
Speaker 7: running back. What made you want to be a receiver
Speaker 7: and take that so seriously?
Speaker 8: Well, so my after school, my after school camp, we
Speaker 8: played at the barnyard every day after we finished our homework.
Speaker 8: And you're right, everybody wanted to play running back. The
Speaker 8: counselor played quarterback, so I would line up in the backfield.
Speaker 8: But since everybody wanted to play running back, he one
Speaker 8: day he told me to go at receiver. And after
Speaker 8: I went a receiver, I just enjoyed the process of
Speaker 8: catching the ball because I really didn't know how to
Speaker 8: catch at first. I would always catch with my chest,
Speaker 8: so it was kind of a challenge to catch it
Speaker 8: with your hands. And I would catch it and be
Speaker 8: so satisfied with catching the ball that I would always
Speaker 8: just stop. He would say, no, you have to run
Speaker 8: after you catch the ball. You have to try to
Speaker 8: shake their defenders. So I think that's what made me
Speaker 8: start really liking it. Was a challenge.
Speaker 1: One the guy always wanted to play receiver.
Speaker 2: Yeah, his whole life, that's his thing.
Speaker 3: And the route tree, I mean, the whole thing. He
Speaker 3: knows it. Just give him, give him a package and
Speaker 3: let him go.
Speaker 1: So if you were discussing as we were Tampa and
Speaker 1: how in twenty fifteen they were definitely going to take
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston, which they did, the best non secret of
Speaker 1: this week is that Amari Cooper is going to be
Speaker 1: ready to play for Buffalo against the Titans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's good. Don't worry about it, guy.
Speaker 1: The problem with the Amari Cooper story too, that is
Speaker 1: so difficult at this moment. Last year, his best game
Speaker 1: of the season for the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 3: Was against these Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: Seven catches, one sixteen, including a forty three yard touchdown.
Speaker 1: It's also the best day Deshaun Watson has ever had
Speaker 1: as Brown's quarterback. Yeah. Why why is that?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I don't like it. Yeah, So
Speaker 3: there's that.
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Speaker 1: otp pregame continues with topic number three, and that is
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams has been waived by the Tennessee Titans did
Speaker 1: not play a lot of football for the Titans. Certainly
Speaker 1: disappointing it didn't work out, But I don't think a
Speaker 1: total surprise to anyone internally externally.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 4: I think that this was a situation of wanting to
Speaker 4: find a veteran player to be in that secondary. I
Speaker 4: think that was what it was. I mean, didn't break
Speaker 4: the bank bringing him in. He had all very reasonable
Speaker 4: amount of money spent. It was one of the It
Speaker 4: was kind of a flyer, you know, you throw it
Speaker 4: out there. You see, he seems really interested in coming here.
Speaker 4: He seemed very excited about the program and what the
Speaker 4: team was trying to do. And as things kind of
Speaker 4: evolved and the pieces kind of settled into place, and
Speaker 4: you know, you kind of figure out who's who in
Speaker 4: the zoo and where everything fits together, and it just
Speaker 4: didn't feel like the right fit anymore. And you know,
Speaker 4: he's had a long career, he's had injuries, he's kind
Speaker 4: of in a unique set of circumstances.
Speaker 2: Of his own.
Speaker 4: And so, I mean, is anybody really surprised. No, do
Speaker 4: I think it's a huge hit to the defense.
Speaker 2: Not really.
Speaker 4: I think this is just one of those things where
Speaker 4: the hopefully the two sides can kind of part ways,
Speaker 4: and that's that, you know.
Speaker 3: The I mean, we've seen so many people come and
Speaker 3: go over the years for a myriad of reasons. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think about just not that long ago in training camp,
Speaker 3: Sadiq Charles was to talk at right guard and then
Speaker 3: he up and retires one day. It happens, things happen.
Speaker 3: You're right about having a safety for this defense because
Speaker 3: with the defense that Denard Wilson uses, Amani Hooker is
Speaker 3: the mainstay, and then there's a rotation sometimes with that
Speaker 3: other spot, you know. And they wasn't too long after
Speaker 3: they did the Jamal Adams things they did Quandre Diggs
Speaker 3: they did so I think between having bodies and just
Speaker 3: trying to work out guys. Veteran presence though in the secondary,
Speaker 3: I think was one of the main objectives.
Speaker 1: Well, Elijah Molden was not going to be the fit
Speaker 1: for this defense, which is why they traded him to
Speaker 1: the Chargers. And he's doing fine there, which is not surprising.
Speaker 1: He's a good football player. But they they were looking
Speaker 1: for veteran presence, so they went looking for Adams to
Speaker 1: add him as a veteran presence. I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: they got Digs in some part because of his friend
Speaker 1: Adams being here possible and it's worked out great. But
Speaker 1: that was what Dinard Wilson wanted. He wanted more veteran
Speaker 1: to put with Amani Hooker, so you know what you got.
Speaker 1: Adams was inactive at Chicago, made one tackle against the Jets.
Speaker 1: He started the Green Bay game and made three tackles.
Speaker 1: He played as a reserve at Miami and then he
Speaker 1: was placed on non football or reserve non football injury
Speaker 1: and that was done on the twelfth, So that was
Speaker 1: done on Saturday. I guess he did not play in
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis game. Where he is at this point in
Speaker 1: his career. He actually, as we tape, this turns twenty nine.
Speaker 2: Today, happy birthday.
Speaker 1: So he's a free agent and able to go somewhere.
Speaker 1: And I think the other part of this that is important,
Speaker 1: maybe not as much to wins and losses, is sometimes
Speaker 1: you want to do right by a veteran player as
Speaker 1: much as possible. If it's not working, which it's not,
Speaker 1: then let him go. Yep, then give him a chance.
Speaker 1: I mean, how many more years? Jamal Adams says, I
Speaker 1: don't know, he's a guy who was very hard on
Speaker 1: his body because of how he hit people. And he's
Speaker 1: a pro. He certainly made some money, he's been a
Speaker 1: big name. If he gets a chance to land somewhere
Speaker 1: where he can do something for the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: that gives him a chance to you know, win a
Speaker 1: championship or be nearer family, or you know, in a
Speaker 1: system that can use him. You know, agents certainly are
Speaker 1: aware of certain things. Other players, veteran players are aware
Speaker 1: of certain things. It does not hurt you to be
Speaker 1: professionally positive in that way.
Speaker 4: You want to give him the opportunity to find whatever
Speaker 4: situation works better for him than where he currently is.
Speaker 4: It doesn't do anybody any good to keep a player
Speaker 4: in a situation where it's clearly not working. Rarely does
Speaker 4: either side benefit from that.
Speaker 1: No, And I mean if you were in a situation
Speaker 1: where financially it would be of good benefit to you
Speaker 1: to have the player on the team or what you know,
Speaker 1: on whatever list they're on, or to trade them or
Speaker 1: to do whatever, that's one thing. But this deal was
Speaker 1: so team friendly, yep, that which is why they took
Speaker 1: the flyer in the first place. Financially they lost almost nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so they took the flyer, it didn't work, and
Speaker 1: then rather than continue on with it, they part as
Speaker 1: much friends as you can and allow him to go
Speaker 1: on and do what's best for him. That's the way
Speaker 1: you hope it goes. I think doing right by the
Speaker 1: player is a big deal, or is a bigger deal
Speaker 1: than probably what we know on a day to day basis.
Speaker 4: And I also think that it's an important reputation to
Speaker 4: establish when you have a young staff, so when you
Speaker 4: have a new head coach, when you have a second
Speaker 4: year general manager, when you're in a position where this
Speaker 4: group as a staff is still establishing its identity within
Speaker 4: the NFL. I think to be able to point to
Speaker 4: future free agents, to be able to point to your
Speaker 4: own guys to say, listen, this was a situation and
Speaker 4: ability where we wanted to do whatever we could to
Speaker 4: take care of the player. I think that goes a
Speaker 4: long way, not only within this building but throughout the
Speaker 4: National Football League.
Speaker 3: Both of your point valid because that's what I'm thinking
Speaker 3: the whole time we're talking about this. It also cements
Speaker 3: the very positive reputation that Ran karth On and this
Speaker 3: staff has, Like he you know, he's still knew in
Speaker 3: this as the general manager. Still you know, knew in
Speaker 3: this window of time. And these players and agents talk
Speaker 3: to one another all the time. And I think when
Speaker 3: you have that look that Okay, you know what, Tennessee's
Speaker 3: must be a cool place to play, that must be
Speaker 3: a really good outfit. And whether that pays something down
Speaker 3: the road in it evidend, you never know, but yeah,
Speaker 3: that's good business is looking out for the player first.
Speaker 1: Well, the other part that you have too, that you
Speaker 1: didn't feel like you have coming out of camp is
Speaker 1: you you're obviously more interested in seeing some Julius Wood
Speaker 1: at safety. Julius Wood is a player that the Titans
Speaker 1: claimed off of waivers out of Dallas on August. He
Speaker 1: played special teams at Chicago and then he was inactive
Speaker 1: for the next three games. Well, then the situation happens
Speaker 1: where on Saturday they go ahead and put Jamal Adams
Speaker 1: on reserve non football injury and here's Julius Wood getting
Speaker 1: a chance to play against Indianapolis. So now, at this
Speaker 1: point in the season, not only have you established where
Speaker 1: you think you are with Jamal Adams, which is just
Speaker 1: not there, you're also saying we have the confidence to
Speaker 1: give this guy more of an opportunity. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: how it looks at first, blush to go with Mike
Speaker 1: Brown as the backups behind Quandre Diggs and Amani Hooker,
Speaker 1: and let's see what this guy can do. You know you,
Speaker 1: I think you've got to have that sort of feeling
Speaker 1: in your mind. I mean, because while you want to
Speaker 1: do things for good reasons, right, you want credibility and
Speaker 1: you want to be kind, it's still about one of
Speaker 1: football games, right, That's what it comes down to. You
Speaker 1: wouldn't do this if you didn't feel like you're okay
Speaker 1: at another spot, and or you want to see more,
Speaker 1: not necessarily at safety. I don't think Julius Wood's gonna
Speaker 1: play safety. I guess they feel like he could, if
Speaker 1: need be, now more so than he could a month ago.
Speaker 1: But let's see this guy on teams. Let's see him
Speaker 1: get after some people. Let's see how he fits in
Speaker 1: the forty eight on game day. Let's take a look.
Speaker 1: We know what we got Mike Brown. He's a good
Speaker 1: special teams player. He's played some safety at different points. Now,
Speaker 1: let's see where Julius is at.
Speaker 3: Julius while he's not Jamal Adams in terms of career,
Speaker 3: much younger and a chance to work himself into this thing.
Speaker 3: Had a chance to hang out with him a little
Speaker 3: bit earlier this week. He was one of the players
Speaker 3: at a Play sixty school show that we did with
Speaker 3: t RAQ and nice young man. Kids loved him. He
Speaker 3: had a great message. He's a good size dude. Doo
Speaker 3: he is he has he's a long player.
Speaker 1: Well, and these are the guys you know when you
Speaker 1: go Jamal Adams, Julius Wood. You know a guy who
Speaker 1: was a high number one pick and a three time
Speaker 1: pro bowler all pro to a guy who was not drafted.
Speaker 1: Nobody's saying they're the same player. But where the Titans
Speaker 1: are right now, you're looking to build out this forty eight,
Speaker 1: this fifty three, this sixty nine man roster, trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how to get the pieces in place so
Speaker 1: that next offseason you don't have to turn over thirty
Speaker 1: roster spots.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 1: And here's his background. He's originally from Columbus, Ohio. Julias
Speaker 1: Wood did not generate any college interests coming out of
Speaker 1: walnut Ridge High School. He opted to attend Lynn Junior College,
Speaker 1: in Brenham, Texas. His two years in the JUCO ranks
Speaker 1: offered the opportunity to grow both physically, and he blossomed
Speaker 1: into a run stopping safety presence. He then transferred to
Speaker 1: East Carolina one hundred and seventy four tackles, five pass deflections,
Speaker 1: four interceptions in two years for the Pirates. He ran
Speaker 1: four to six at East Carolina's pro day on March
Speaker 1: the twenty six, twenty twenty four. So he's a rookie,
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows. I mean that's a that's initially
Speaker 1: where you go. All right? Topic four? Who's your Titan
Speaker 1: for Sunday? That you got to see? Who's somebody you
Speaker 1: can't say, Tony Pollard? Who's your what?
Speaker 2: Okay, you're gonna say Tony Palk. Why can't I say?
Speaker 1: Because we've a stabbed But Tony Pollard's got to play
Speaker 1: well for the Titans to have a chance.
Speaker 2: I like these rules. But okay, continue, but we'll let
Speaker 2: you start. No, I don't want to start. We'll let
Speaker 2: Red start right, redstart?
Speaker 1: Who who's the player you gotta see on Sunday that
Speaker 1: if we're talking about a Titans win, he's had a
Speaker 1: good day.
Speaker 3: Will Levis. Okay, I want I want Will Levis to
Speaker 3: lead this team and do this. I think it'll be
Speaker 3: a shot in the arm for him, a shot in
Speaker 3: the arm for this team and his teammates. And I
Speaker 3: think a good day for him and a win would
Speaker 3: be just what the doctor ordered.
Speaker 2: Okay, I can't say Tony Pouller, but he can say
Speaker 2: the quarterback interesting. It's all right.
Speaker 3: Person was an obvious answer.
Speaker 4: It's a great answer. It is a really good answer.
Speaker 4: I think my person is Jeffrey Simmons. I want to
Speaker 4: see Jeffrey Simmons be the disruptive presence that we know
Speaker 4: he can be. We've obviously understand that he's had some
Speaker 4: injury issues and he's trying to overcome all of that.
Speaker 2: But it's go time, big, Jeff. I need to see
Speaker 2: you get after it.
Speaker 1: I'm staying on defense with artist Ernest Ernest Jones.
Speaker 3: The fourth.
Speaker 1: I just think in this game, with the way the
Speaker 1: quarterback is gonna run, and with what they're gonna want
Speaker 1: to do with their run game, especially, God, did Ray
Speaker 1: Davis look good the other night for the Bills.
Speaker 3: Ray Davis did a fantastic job in ninety seven yards
Speaker 3: rushing he's fifty five one.
Speaker 1: Hundred and fifty two scrimmage yards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 1: Ray played great.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing they'll get James cook back. They got Ty Johnson,
Speaker 1: they got the quarterback who can run. I mean they
Speaker 1: do things with Curtis Samuel.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have to try to plug that up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know you you're gonna have open field
Speaker 1: situations on even pass rushes with Josh Allen. I mean
Speaker 1: he drops back and somebody's coming at him and he
Speaker 1: jukes the first guy on a blitz. Ernest Jones is
Speaker 1: gonna have to win some against Josh Allen because he'll
Speaker 1: have some chances. Kenneth Murray will too. But it just
Speaker 1: feels like this is a game where Ernest Jones could
Speaker 1: be a big factor. All right, final topic, what's bothering
Speaker 1: Amy Wells?
Speaker 2: So many things? Your rules to your games? Right off?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 3: It is my head there it is okay.
Speaker 4: No, I have other things. Of course, there are things
Speaker 4: that are bothering me. Can I Can I offset it
Speaker 4: with a nice thing too? This feels kind of like
Speaker 4: a negative point. Can I do like a negative and
Speaker 4: a positive?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 4: Sure, okay, So here's the thing. Things that are bothering
Speaker 4: me for starters? Did you guys read this article about
Speaker 4: how the owners can't decide if they want to allow
Speaker 4: video on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: Have you guys been keeping up the Atlanta meeting?
Speaker 4: Yeah, from the Atlanta meeting, and it's always been swirling.
Speaker 4: It's been swirling since fifteen or sixteen.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let me stop for a second. They had
Speaker 1: the owner's brief fall meeting at Atlanta on Tuesday. They did,
Speaker 1: and Jacksonville got to prove for their stadium.
Speaker 2: They did.
Speaker 1: Atlanta got approved for Super Bowl sixty, sure did, and
Speaker 1: then there were some other ancillary topics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so this is a topic that is not new.
Speaker 4: It's a continued conversation and these owners just cannot decide
Speaker 4: whether or not and head coaches too, I should say,
Speaker 4: cannot decide whether or not they want to allow video
Speaker 4: on the sidelines during games, the All twenty two video
Speaker 4: in place of pictures. This specific article that I read,
Speaker 4: there were cited situations where a coach really went after
Speaker 4: a player for missing a block because that's what he
Speaker 4: saw on the picture, but when he went back to
Speaker 4: the tape, that's not at all what happened. He made
Speaker 4: the block just fine. The picture just caught an odd
Speaker 4: angle or a weird movement.
Speaker 1: And so can I give another quick clarification.
Speaker 2: So the pictures are on the tablets.
Speaker 1: They're on the tablets now. They used to be literal
Speaker 1: pictures that were printer that were run down from the
Speaker 1: press box, and then technology got really special and they
Speaker 1: could print them on the sidelines. Yes, and so everybody thought,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, we're basically the Jetsons riding on those
Speaker 1: is the future, this is the future. Well then they
Speaker 1: got moved to tablets. So we're still looking at pictures.
Speaker 1: We're still making Yeah, we're still making pictures.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And they're trying to decide, even though the video.
Speaker 2: Is available, whether or not they should.
Speaker 1: Whether or not it should be allowed for I mean,
Speaker 1: what is it?
Speaker 4: Here are the two arguments, let me tell you, Mike Keith,
Speaker 4: and this is what's getting my goat a little bit
Speaker 4: here here let me explain. So the two sides are
Speaker 4: one side that says, if you are not a good
Speaker 4: enough coach to be able to look at the game
Speaker 4: on the field and the pictures that you are given,
Speaker 4: the still shots and deduce what needs to happen in game,
Speaker 4: you it's your own fault, terrible.
Speaker 2: You need to learn how to do this better.
Speaker 4: A good coach is able to do that, and that
Speaker 4: is one of the key differentiators between a good coach
Speaker 4: and a great coach is the ability to see, analyze,
Speaker 4: and adjust as it's happening in front of them.
Speaker 1: These so they shouldn't need videos.
Speaker 4: They you should not require. This is the dumbing down
Speaker 4: of the coaching profession. Okay, by giving everybody video, it
Speaker 4: makes everybody a little bit stupider, and you don't need
Speaker 4: to work harder to figure it out.
Speaker 1: Could you even tell she's married to a coach?
Speaker 2: You would never know. On the opposite side is a.
Speaker 4: Notably younger generation of coaches saying, if everybody is able
Speaker 4: to see what's going on and deduce it as it's
Speaker 4: happening based on the video, don't you have to be
Speaker 4: a better coach schematically because everybody.
Speaker 2: Is seeing what's going on.
Speaker 4: So the level of coaching is now, how are you
Speaker 4: able to adjust to the chess game and figure it out?
Speaker 4: I think that this is such a silly conversation to
Speaker 4: even be having. If you have the ability to have
Speaker 4: the technology to make a game better for both sides
Speaker 4: like this is It's not like only the home team gets.
Speaker 2: To see the video. Everybody gets to see the video.
Speaker 4: Everyone has the ability to make the adjustments to continue
Speaker 4: to like make a better game because all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: everybody's able to adjust, and so everybody wins when video
Speaker 4: is involved. I think I understand, and I am the
Speaker 4: first one to want to preserve the integrity of old
Speaker 4: school football in every possible way. I like it big
Speaker 4: and mean, and I like it dirty, like in the
Speaker 4: trenches where everybody is just a like old school football
Speaker 4: is what I like. In the snow like, I like aggressive,
Speaker 4: just like run it down their throats football in the snow.
Speaker 2: And the rain and the mud. Get it.
Speaker 4: But give these people video, Like do the right thing here.
Speaker 4: This This is such.
Speaker 3: A no caveman's game with technology.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I want a caveman's game.
Speaker 4: But let's all be able to watch it at the
Speaker 4: same time figure out what's going on.
Speaker 1: You know, it'd be so proud of you right now,
Speaker 1: ks Bud Adams Junior, because mister Adams made the greatest
Speaker 1: argument for replay in the late nineties that there was.
Speaker 1: It was so mister Adams, it was succinct, It was
Speaker 1: on point and it was easy to understand, he said,
Speaker 1: and Rett will remember this as I do. When they
Speaker 1: decided to do replay, there were a lot of people
Speaker 1: who said, let's go damage the integrity the games, gonna
Speaker 1: make eight hour games. It's never gonna work. It's terrible,
Speaker 1: you know. And mister Adams said, and I'm paraphrasing, he said,
Speaker 1: if we can fix something, why wouldn't we do that?
Speaker 1: If we can make it right, why wouldn't we do that?
Speaker 2: And it makes so much sense.
Speaker 1: Hello, I mean, but people twenty five years ago, people
Speaker 1: were arguing this vociferously, and it's like now, you really
Speaker 1: wouldn't find anybody who would say get rid of replay, right,
Speaker 1: There's there's been no big move for get rid of
Speaker 1: rep Yeah.
Speaker 3: Mister Adams was a big proponent of replay because of
Speaker 3: something that happened to the Oilers Championship game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with don Or the former that Mike Renfro, Mike Renfrow.
Speaker 3: So there was that, But that is that example of
Speaker 3: what you're talking about with mister Adams is exactly why
Speaker 3: he's currently in a top twenty five list for a
Speaker 3: contributors category. To be a twenty twenty five Pro Football
Speaker 3: Hall of Famer because he had those ideas, he had
Speaker 3: those things that he lent to my start.
Speaker 1: A new league. Yeah what what what like steal the
Speaker 1: best players from the other league so we can be better?
Speaker 1: What like? Uh? Oh, I'm not afraid to make Warren
Speaker 1: Moon the face of my franchise. When some people don't
Speaker 1: want to step forward with a black quarterback, that's silly.
Speaker 1: Guess what. He's really good, but had the vision.
Speaker 3: To go, hey, we're gonna get in our in our league,
Speaker 3: and I know he's better off in the New York market,
Speaker 3: right And without that, there is no guarantee with Super
Speaker 3: Bowl three. You can't have the modern day NFL story
Speaker 3: without mister Adams.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. He's not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: That's just me.
Speaker 3: It's also me anyway.
Speaker 2: That's what that No, that was what was bothering me.
Speaker 4: But I also want to hit a little bright spot
Speaker 4: because this doesn't all have to be about.
Speaker 2: Things that are making me a little happy, okay, a
Speaker 2: little joyful. Uh did you guys see that J C.
Speaker 4: Latham don't seventy five thousand dollars to hurricane relief not
Speaker 4: only in Tennessee and the places that needed in Tennessee
Speaker 4: and the Carolinas, but also in Florida. Florida, and he
Speaker 4: went to IMG in Bradenton, which is really hard hit
Speaker 4: by both storms.
Speaker 1: Area.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's right outside of Tampa. And I just thought
Speaker 4: that for a young player to so early in his
Speaker 4: career recognize the platform that he has and the impact
Speaker 4: that he is able to have in other people's lives,
Speaker 4: and to proactively want to do that. Nobody asked him
Speaker 4: to do this, He sought it out, and I just
Speaker 4: think that that's such an incredible thing. It's an awesome
Speaker 4: thing to see out of any human, let alone somebody
Speaker 4: who is so new in their career, somebody who's so
Speaker 4: new to having this platform, this paycheck. There's a lot
Speaker 4: of things about just him as a person that have
Speaker 4: been so impressive to all of us in the first
Speaker 4: part of his rookie year twenty one. Yeah, he's twenty
Speaker 4: one years old, but look at the way that that
Speaker 4: twenty one year old human has just impacted so many
Speaker 4: people's lives and it has nothing to do with football,
Speaker 4: and it's not because a single human told him to.
Speaker 2: I think it's incredible It is fantastic.
Speaker 3: First of all, his servant's heart. He's got it, no question.
Speaker 3: How many conversations have you had with Jacon Latham?
Speaker 1: Multiple?
Speaker 2: Yeah, few.
Speaker 3: He's a very interesting person and he is very wise
Speaker 3: to be twenty one years old. It's incredible if that's
Speaker 3: me at twenty one years old, you go, this guy's
Speaker 3: a jack. Yeah, I mean, good grief, clam he is.
Speaker 3: I really I had a lengthy conversation with him yesterday
Speaker 3: in the locker room and I came away, So I've
Speaker 3: been impressed since he walked in the door. But golly,
Speaker 3: so the fact he did that not a huge surprise.
Speaker 1: I think as the franchise comes out of the wilderness,
Speaker 1: which will happen, I mean, it's going to happen. It
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like it right now. But if you've been here,
Speaker 1: if you were here in two thousand and four, in
Speaker 1: two thousand and five and the start of two thousand
Speaker 1: and six, if you were here two thousand and nine
Speaker 1: through twenty fifteen, sometimes it takes longer than others. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's going to take that long now. But
Speaker 1: this franchise is going to come out of the wilderness,
Speaker 1: and you're going to look back at things that happen
Speaker 1: that you really don't want to hear about right now
Speaker 1: because you're in the wilderness. But one of the things
Speaker 1: you're going to look back on and be thankful for
Speaker 1: is that the Titans took J. C. Latham at number seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not referencing any other player that they could have taken
Speaker 1: that everybody you know would have been fine. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying for where the franchise is, for what their need
Speaker 1: was at tackle, for who the human being is, for
Speaker 1: how he's going to be a good player for a
Speaker 1: long time. I mean, there's several things that are happening
Speaker 1: that are positive that aren't reflected upon because again, wilderness, wilderness,
Speaker 1: and that's okay, and and we you know, we understand.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not just now. It's the last two
Speaker 1: years combined, and I mean, it's a thing. But you
Speaker 1: will look back and you will say, this was a
Speaker 1: really good thing. Picking j C. Latham for this entire
Speaker 1: organization was a really good thing.
Speaker 2: He's going to be a cornerstone piece of this time,
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 1: A cornerstone piece of the foundation for a long long time.
Speaker 3: On and off the field.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the point for the for the organization, right Yep,
Speaker 1: I think it's will.
Speaker 2: Put anyway, that's what's bringing me joy.
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