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Speaker 1: They've been protecting Tennessee. It's for seventy five years with

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Speaker 1: Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith. Day two of joint practices

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Speaker 1: between the Tennessee Titans and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have

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Speaker 1: been completed and the Titans are down to eighty five

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Speaker 1: players after cuts on Tuesday. So we've got some different

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Speaker 1: things to talk about. Amy, Let's do players first. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: run through all right. So the Titans have cut a

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Speaker 1: total of seven players this week. Two players that had

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Speaker 1: just signed with the team last week, Elijah Benton and

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Speaker 1: Deonte Burton, both defensive backs, they were let go. The

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Speaker 1: Titans also let go of defensive line Manhaskell Garrett, offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman Carson Green, running back Jordan Wilkins, and wide receiver

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Speaker 1: Josh Malone. The Titans had earlier waived another of the

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Speaker 1: wide receivers who played against Baltimore, the young man from

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Speaker 1: Air Force by the name of Brandon Lewis. Now the

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Speaker 1: Titans have also released tight end Briley Moore. He has

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Speaker 1: that they pick up. And Lonnie Johnson is a guy

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans. They had traded him in May to Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: Kansas City let him go. The Titans pick him up

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Speaker 1: off of waivers. The Titans have also traded for Tyree Gillespie,

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Speaker 1: a safety out of Missouri. He comes to the Titans

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Speaker 1: fourth round pick. So the Titans pick up two defensive

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Speaker 1: By busy week busy weekend, ever you want to call it,

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Speaker 1: Josh Malone is probably the guy that stands out the most.

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Speaker 1: He had done a nice job in May and June.

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Speaker 1: Quite frankly, he didn't really show up in training camp.

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Speaker 1: You just didn't see enough of him. The point was

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Speaker 1: wasn't a good sign. But I think his release along

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Speaker 1: with Jordan Wilkins release and Jordan Wilkins is from just

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Speaker 1: a running back. I think you'd do that for these guys,

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Speaker 1: to give him a chance to catch on somewhere else. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: at this time of the year, they now have some

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Speaker 1: things on tape, they have some experience in some cases

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Speaker 1: where it's guys kind of you know, they're young, and

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Speaker 1: some of those guys that end up being kind of

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Speaker 1: think you're absolutely right that Mike Vrabel and the rest

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Speaker 1: it could be too that because the Titans are familiar

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Speaker 1: number two at quarterback goes on. Malik Willis getting a

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Speaker 1: I just think that we have to continue to develop

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Speaker 1: move along, Caleb Farley might have had his best day

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Speaker 1: today as a Titan. He made multiple big plays, He

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Speaker 1: The battle continues at right tackle between Dylan Raidens and

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Speaker 1: saw Jeffrey Simmons recavoc and then at the end of

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Speaker 1: practice he got into a fistfight with Leonard Fournette. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette is not a small man. Jaff is not

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Speaker 1: positive way. No, they've talked about his weight at different points.

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Speaker 1: They call him fat Leonard. That's not true. Well they

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Speaker 1: the two days at sentioned Saint Thomas Sports Park were

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Speaker 1: not as star studded as expected because if Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: Everybody shows up when Tom Brady's in town, right, it's

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Speaker 1: belle from ESPN. They're outstanding. I guess you'd say she's

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of a good she explains different injuries,

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Speaker 1: her assessments are very accurate. Oh yes, yeah. Fantasy players

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Speaker 1: person to watch practice with. He's a renaissance man. He

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Speaker 1: knows about a lot of things, and he's very very smart,

428
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Speaker 1: very learned. It just fun to talk to about anything.

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Speaker 1: Has five grandchildren and under five, and it was so

430
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Speaker 1: good to catch up with him. I had a chance

431
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Speaker 1: to grab him for the ot people before practice began today.

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Speaker 1: So for those of you who love coach Fisher, this

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Speaker 1: is for you, Jeff Fisher joining me now on the OTPEO.

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Speaker 1: As you come back to a training camp practice, does

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Speaker 1: it take you back to training camps for example, when

436
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 1: you played for the Bears, when you had the Titans

437
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: and the Oilers at t Issue. You know, it's been

438
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 1: an interesting couple of weeks from him, Mike personally, as

439
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 1: we were just talking, you know, kind of doing some

440
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 1: moving around, and we sold a house and this and that,

441
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 1: and after about thirty years in the movie, we were

442
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 1: still here for so long, obviously, but moving around, start

443
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 1: going through things, and I started going through some stuff

444
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Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks, and even as late

445
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,879
Speaker 1: as yesterday, I came across an offensive playbook and a

446
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 1: defensive playbook, one by Mike Heimerding and the others Greg

447
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 1: Williams playbook and then then there's my playbook from my

448
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: week for the Super Bowl, and so it was kind

449
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: of cool and coincidentally, and then coach macall and said, hey,

450
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Speaker 1: well you want to come out and watch practice. I go, yeah, sure,

451
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Speaker 1: I will. So, yeah, I mean, I'm you know, I'm

452
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:16,119
Speaker 1: watching from afar and really enjoyed it. I'm not into

453
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Speaker 1: it as probably as I would maybe four or five

454
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: years ago. But I loved the game, and I'll stand corrected,

455
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 1: but I think I came here once we did something

456
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: here a couple of years ago, and this is absolutely amazing.

457
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: I've just been here ten minutes and just the facility

458
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 1: and everything, it's just just incredible. So something's never changed.

459
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Speaker 1: It's that early morning smell of cut grass and all

460
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: that stuff. And then you know, as we get into

461
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Speaker 1: October and you're going, oh man, it's October, and shoot,

462
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: it's almost fallow. You know, it's football time, and I'm

463
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 1: trying to figure out I'm gonna trying to pick out

464
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Speaker 1: a game NFL game here and go out, may go

465
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Speaker 1: up to Lambeau in October or something like that, and

466
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:51,639
Speaker 1: just to kind of, you know, just to get a

467
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: little more of it, you know, so you miss it.

468
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Speaker 1: It's it's in your blood. What do you remember about

469
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Speaker 1: a Mike Ditket training camp when you were a player

470
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Speaker 1: with the Bears. Well, most of it, or from my standpoint,

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Speaker 1: took place outside of Chicago, up in Platteville, University of Wisconsin, Platteville.

472
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Speaker 1: We went up there in my last two years and

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Speaker 1: what I remember of it is it's basically at least

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Speaker 1: six weeks of camp. Every single practices and pads except

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Speaker 1: for the one before the game. And oh, by the way,

476
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 1: you had two a day, and at the end of

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Speaker 1: the second practice at five thirty, you know, in the

478
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 1: afternoon could be eighty ninety degrees out there. You're dead tired.

479
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Speaker 1: When the head coach told you to everybody, go on

480
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Speaker 1: the goal line, we're going to run ten hundreds, you

481
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 1: just went to the goal line and you ran ten

482
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Speaker 1: hundreds and didn't think anything of it. I think now

483
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:42,919
Speaker 1: if the head coach told his team to do that,

484
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:47,479
Speaker 1: they'd stand there and ask why, how were those trips

485
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Speaker 1: to Wisconsin with some of those wild Bears guys that

486
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Speaker 1: you played with. Did it get a little crazy? A yeah,

487
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Speaker 1: Mike made a big mistake the last night at train camp.

488
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Speaker 1: So camp's over. Okay, it's the last night there. Everybody's

489
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: got to report back to Chicago to the facility by

490
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Speaker 1: three pm the next day. And the coaching staff decided

491
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:11,120
Speaker 1: to leave that after that evening, after dinner, and players

492
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: know the coach's cars are gone, and oh my gosh, yeah,

493
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: there was some there was Wisconsin Platteville never been the same,

494
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: so I don't think they're there anymore. But that was

495
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: a couple of year run up there. But yeah, it

496
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: was a great experience. You know, if they're playing and

497
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: you know and get involved and then you know. I

498
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,400
Speaker 1: didn't know that. But after that, my last camp there,

499
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Speaker 1: I mean six months after that, I found myself coaching. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I remember watching the team at TSU in nineteen ninety eight,

501
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,360
Speaker 1: my first training camp, and you'd practice twice a day

502
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: most days, twice in pads. And now there's one practice,

503
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,880
Speaker 1: it's a limited number of pads. They have an organized

504
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: walk through in the afternoon generally in the bubble. Is

505
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: this actually better? Though? Well, the difference between back then

506
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 1: and now is back then, when the season was over,

507
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: you had an off season. I mean that people did

508
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: literally did nothing for four or five months. You have

509
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: an off season program now and you're training year around.

510
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: You don't. You came to training camp back then to

511
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: get into shape. Now I didn't, but but I was

512
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: trying to try to, you know, keep my job. But

513
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 1: but that's it was a difference. So now you've got

514
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 1: a year round training. You know, the technology and everything

515
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: is it's just it's just so far surpassed everything that

516
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: we were used to back then. You don't necessarily need it,

517
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: and you know, you're you know, one thing that that's consistent,

518
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 1: never changes from a coaching standpoint is the fear of injuries.

519
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: You know, you just oh my gosh. And and then

520
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: you know, how do you avoid it? You're I mean,

521
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: you're avoiding it from the time they park in the

522
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: parking lot to the time they leave and everything. So

523
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: that's a concern. But so I don't, you know, I've

524
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Speaker 1: watched the change. I saw the change was a big

525
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: part of that change. And I as long as the

526
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Speaker 1: guys are getting the reps and they're getting the mental

527
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 1: work and you and you're stressing them, you're putting in

528
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: those situations, you know, the situational type stuff, and then

529
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna be okay. So I don't I don't see

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Speaker 1: anything wrong or find any fault. And the way they're

531
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Speaker 1: doing it now on the products awesome. Well, you talk

532
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: about being a part of it. You were a part

533
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: of the competition committee for over a decade. Mike Rabel

534
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: is on the competition committee now and he's loving it.

535
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: He's talked about how much he's learned, and they're wearing

536
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: the Guardian caps right now, and Mike's been a part

537
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: of that, all the things to change the game, to

538
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: make it a better game. Like what you did, what's

539
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 1: the biggest thing you took away from being part of

540
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Speaker 1: the competition committee that you think Mike is getting from

541
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 1: it now? Well, what he's seen is he's seen, for example,

542
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: a genesis of a thought, of an idea that happens

543
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 1: in February after a season, maybe a rule change, or

544
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: a player's safety issue, or a personnel issue, and all

545
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: those things, and then watch that thing evolve and develop

546
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: and turn into something that has an impact on the field.

547
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: So you know, it's always nice to know how things

548
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,239
Speaker 1: are done behind the scenes. And that's exactly what Mike

549
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: is going through right now, is learning. He's you know,

550
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: his understanding of the rule book, will you know? Not

551
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: that I mean, Mike's always been a good rule guy,

552
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 1: but but I've found out that of all the things

553
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 1: that that that helped me through it early on was

554
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: just the understanding of the rules and and you find

555
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: ways to work away around him. I took probably over

556
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: my career and that you know, I initiate three or

557
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: four different rule changes over because of the things that

558
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: we did. But that's what he's going through. And then

559
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: to understand how everybody's working together. And you know, you you,

560
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: you know, I think the average fan thinks, well, the

561
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: commissioner sits there and he talked to two or three

562
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 1: people and have a rule change. No, it's not that easy.

563
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: You run things by networks, you run things by player association,

564
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: you run things by everything and gaming and everything nowadays.

565
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: And you find in that that there's so many different

566
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: people from different backgrounds who have something good to insert

567
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: they do, they can make it different. They're experts. I mean,

568
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 1: the league has done a great job of surrounding themselves

569
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: with people that know what they're doing. And you know,

570
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: over you know, and it's like anything else, you'll get

571
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: interns in there, and then all of a sudden, ten

572
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: years later this interns run in a department and you know,

573
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: they get the hands on experience. So the league's colognizant

574
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: of that. So I didn't realize Mike was on a committee.

575
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: That's great. I mean, he'll enjoy it and he'll definitely

576
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: take advantage of those benefits. All right, I gotta ask

577
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: you two football things. Before I let you go, I

578
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: was thinking about when I came to the team, there

579
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: was always a philosophy, We've got to control of the

580
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, You've got to run to football. And

581
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: here we are twenty five years later, and the game

582
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 1: has changed so much, all the different spread packages, the

583
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: rule changes which favor ofference, and yet John Robinson and

584
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel believe if you can run the football, you

585
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: can win consistently in the NFL even a quarter century later.

586
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: Why is running the football the thing that never changes

587
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: in this game? Well, it basically, if your defense is

588
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,239
Speaker 1: not on the by and large, you're you're not going

589
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: to give up any points. So running the football is

590
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: going to keep your defense off the field. And then secondly,

591
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna keep the football if you can

592
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: run it. And you know, you've got just all kinds

593
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: of things going on offensively. As you say you got

594
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: that you got that extra player. Now that you know

595
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: around the league, I mean forty fifty percent of this

596
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: league's got that extra player. By that, I mean you

597
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: got a running quarterback. So over the last ten years,

598
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: I think defensive people realize that they're a man short

599
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: because you can't defend that guy. So so then now

600
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 1: it's evolving and people are starting to figure it out.

601
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: But running the football takes care of takes care of

602
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: all that and um, but the question is is you

603
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: know and and they're dedicated here for obviously all you

604
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: gotta do is know very little about football. You know,

605
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: the Tides are gonna run the football, but that's gonna

606
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: reap awards at the end of the season. You know,

607
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: everybody says, oh, we're running football, and they work on

608
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: a during OTAs in training camp and then you know,

609
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: they just kind of do whatever they got to do

610
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: week to week to week. But no, you change games.

611
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: You win games late in December and January running the football.

612
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: You went to USC. You know all about running backs

613
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: from your time there. You were with Walter Payton, you

614
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: had Eddie George here. I mean, you've been around him

615
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: your whole life. What makes Derrick Henry special just he's

616
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: a very instinctive runner. He has great vision. Everybody says, oh, man,

617
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: he's big and he's strong, and you know, coach Max says,

618
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, tackling him is like you know,

619
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Speaker 1: tackling a frozen truck bumper, you know, without a helmet

620
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: type of thing, and it is. But he's got great

621
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: vision and instincts and then then you add all those

622
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: physical you know, the dynamics there, he just it separates

623
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Speaker 1: himself and I hope he's back one hundred percent. I

624
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: was really concerned, you know, when when as you go

625
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: and everybody was with the injury. But it sounds like

626
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: things are back on truck. They got to keep him,

627
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: you know, keep him up and ready every Sunday. All right,

628
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: last question. I remember Jeff Fisher as a great punt

629
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: returner and that is a gill. That is a very

630
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 1: special thing to have. We've got a young man right

631
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: now that we drafted out of UCLA named Kyle Phillips

632
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,760
Speaker 1: who averaged twenty yards of punt return for the Bruins,

633
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 1: and he appears to have that special part of his game.

634
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: What's going to be the difference that he's going to

635
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: find trying to return punts in the NFL after doing

636
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: it so well in the PAC twelve. A lot of

637
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,879
Speaker 1: guys can can catch it and run with it, but

638
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 1: at this level, it's all about decision making and what

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Speaker 1: we all watch it. You know, the balls punted and

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Speaker 1: the returners underneath it. He weighs fair catch, catches the

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Speaker 1: grass to run and you go, oh, man, well that's okay.

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Speaker 1: Don't ever second guess him. I would once you teach

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Speaker 1: someone how to make the decisions back there where the line,

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Speaker 1: put your heels on the A, let it go in

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Speaker 1: the end zone, fair catch at da DA. It's the

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Speaker 1: decision making that's critical, because a bad decision can put

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Speaker 1: on the ground in those situations, it just doesn't usually

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Speaker 1: end well. I think even though he's a UCLA guy,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna like him. I'm looking forward to watching him coach.

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Speaker 1: Great to see if you too, Mike. As always, that's

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Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher and he had a long conversation with John

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Speaker 1: Robinson post practice. Really big time in my opinion, that

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Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel and John Robinson have made coach Fisher feel

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Speaker 1: so welcome being back here. Yeah, they were genuinely glad

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Speaker 1: to see him, and I just think that was a

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Speaker 1: classy move. I think it's really cool the way that

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Speaker 1: this organization has embraced Jeff Fisher as a whole. They

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Speaker 1: have really gone out of their way to recognize and

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Speaker 1: appreciate everything that he's done for this organization and this

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Speaker 1: franchise here in Nashville. I mean, you don't have the

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Speaker 1: Titans without Jeff Fisher. You just don't. And it's really

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Speaker 1: been cool to have him around a little bit and

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Speaker 1: to see everyone kind of embrace him in the history

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Speaker 1: of this team. It's really cool. Nice say it's neat Amy,

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Speaker 1: And I want to say something else to twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: pre Draft Local Day. Several players were in that group

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Speaker 1: was Dawson Knox. And we got to know Dawson Knox

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Speaker 1: that day. And to be honest with you, we can't

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Speaker 1: pull against Dawson Knox. Nope. He's a great guy. He

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Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. He went to Bretwood Academy,

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Speaker 1: he went to Old Miss His parents, Rachel and David.

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Speaker 1: I don't know them, but I know a lot of

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Speaker 1: people who know them. It's a wonderful family and they

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Speaker 1: have suffered a loss Dawson's younger brother, Luke, who was

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Speaker 1: just a tray chick thing. And so to Dawson and

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Speaker 1: his folks and Mike McIntyre who I played with in

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Speaker 1: high school who's the head coach at FIU, Cody White,

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Speaker 1: and the Brentwood Academy family, our condolences to you on

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Speaker 1: this incredibly devastating loss of a fine young man who's

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Speaker 1: part of a part of a good family, and somebody

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Speaker 1: that we got to know it. Even though we're competitors

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Speaker 1: because Dawson plays for the Bills, we still think highly

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Speaker 1: of him. And you know, coach Vrabel made reference to

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Speaker 1: it too, because he really struck a chord with everybody here.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a pretty good chance had he been

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Speaker 1: around when the Titans were up to pick at a

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Speaker 1: certain point in the draft, the Titans would have grabbed him.

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Speaker 1: They really liked him a lot, but they liked him

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Speaker 1: better as a human being. And it's just, you know,

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Speaker 1: this is not about football. This is about real stuff

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Speaker 1: right here. So we're thinking about you all and praying

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Speaker 1: for you and just you know, don't know what to say.

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Speaker 1: It time like this. It's it's tough, yep. And I

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Speaker 1: know Titans fans feel the same way. He grew up

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Speaker 1: at Titans fan Dawson Knox did and his family, they've

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Speaker 1: they've followed our team and just wow, just a tough one. Well,

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Speaker 1: we've got a ball game coming up and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be taking on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Saturday night. It

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Speaker 1: is a six o'clock Central time kickoff. That means Amy

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Speaker 1: Wells and Rhett Brian will be on the air at

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Speaker 1: five Central with Titans Countdown. You got a good show planned,

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Speaker 1: we do. We have a great show plan. Very excited.

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Speaker 1: Any hints you want to give, tune in and listen

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Speaker 1: to us. I'm not giving anything away, Okay, I understand,

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Speaker 1: I understand. But it's gonna be good. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a good show. It's gonna be a good We're looking

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Speaker 1: forward to it. Yes, all right, Well we'll look forward

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Speaker 1: to the to the ball game, looking forward to being

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Speaker 1: back at Nissan Stadium and seeing all of you. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening to Titans Radio. Thank you for tuning

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Speaker 1: in the Official Titans Podcast for Ashley Farrell, Diana Russini,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher, Amy Welsh I, Mike Keith and this is

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Speaker 1: the O Te Pete. Welcome to the Big Show where

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Speaker 1: the legends go. Everybody knows it's our house, fighting thought Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: making it to read Greatness is meant to be