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Speaker 1: I'm Taylor's Arzer and this is the OTP coach. As

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Speaker 1: we look at what just happened against the Denver Broncos,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to start by talking about the competitive fight

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what I was expecting to see. That's what

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Speaker 2: we've seen from our team from the course of training

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Speaker 2: with that kind of effort and that kind of tenacity,

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Speaker 2: and to go into Denver in that environment, against that

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Speaker 2: as a contending football team. To go another place on

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Speaker 2: opening Day and fight the way that we fought, it's

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Speaker 2: going to help us win a lot of games down

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Speaker 2: the road. And we didn't play a clean enough brand

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Speaker 2: of football to win the game. But we play with

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Speaker 2: that kind of effort, We're gonna put ourselves in position

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Speaker 1: Do you believe in finding a bunch of positives in

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Speaker 1: certain games, regardless of the outcome of who wins or

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Speaker 1: know the world wants to ask you about something that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a balance. I think whether you win or

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Speaker 2: you lose, you do the same things, and we highlight

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Speaker 2: the positives, emphasize what was good, and you correct and

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Speaker 2: teach what wasn't to the standard you expect. And that

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Speaker 2: goes to that goes from technique to execution, to communication,

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Speaker 2: all the things that go with winning and losing. We

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Speaker 2: try to point out the good and correct the bad

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Speaker 2: and have the same consistency whether you want to lose.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's the best way to do it,

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Speaker 2: because you know, they say that you know, both praise

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Speaker 2: the word, but through both false profits. You know, Ah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I got you, you know what I mean. Yeah, And

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Speaker 2: whenever you play a game, it's never it's never as

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Speaker 2: good as you think you praised bad or as bad.

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Speaker 2: The truth is usually somewhere in the middle, and our

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Speaker 2: making the corrections necessary and then highlighting the things that

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Speaker 1: Praise or ridicule probably however, you want to say, you

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Speaker 1: want to say it. Sure, forcing turnovers is something in

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Speaker 1: one of these rooms that I get to talk to

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Speaker 1: I'm really good at going to the wrong room if

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Speaker 1: we want to start scrutinizing me. Sometimes I like to

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Speaker 1: go to the Eddie George room. Sometimes I like to

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Speaker 1: Steve McNair room. And you said we have to force

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Speaker 1: turnovers against the Denver Broncos. You definitely awfully pleased to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was I mean, I think we led the

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Speaker 2: really encouraging just to see that we do that in

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Speaker 2: most weeks, we're gonna win a lot of games. And

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Speaker 2: we didn't complement our defense and special teams well and

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Speaker 2: off offensively to go score touchdowns. You know, one touchdown

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Speaker 2: But to see our effort and intensity to go get

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Speaker 1: Special teams too. Joey Sly put on a pre game,

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Speaker 1: the warm ups, Denver fans were cheering for him as

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Speaker 1: he was hitting the US ten yards past the crossbar

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think both. I think our specialists and you know,

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Speaker 2: I issued a challenge to Johnny Hecker early in the week.

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Speaker 2: as a rookie duel returner. To rip off a seventy

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we have to give Captain Morgan. Captain Morgan cocks

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Speaker 1: Do you think on the Marvin Mims muffed punt, do

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Speaker 1: do you think that's that impacted one percent? Was Van?

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Speaker 2: Mean, that's first and foremost is Johnny's punt and the

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Speaker 2: had an unbelievable rep He beat the corners clean, unabated

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's always fun to see a guy that

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Speaker 1: more shoutouts to give here. Ola a femi Ola dajhow

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Speaker 2: I thought he did some really good things. He rushed hard,

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Speaker 2: game plan was to try to keep keep Nicks from

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Speaker 2: moving around a lot. They moved the launch point a bunch,

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Speaker 2: And he set really violent edges in the run game

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Speaker 2: good to see. It's not too big for our rookies,

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Speaker 2: That's pretty good amount of young players and it wasn't

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Speaker 2: those guys performed, like their composure, their poise, and their play.

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Speaker 2: They all played pretty good for us, and it wasn't perfect,

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Speaker 1: Roger McCreary had an interception, so did Xavier Woods. And

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Speaker 1: I know that Captain Hooker, Amani Hooker, with his brand

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Speaker 1: new contract with the Tennessee Titans, really wanted that pick six.

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Speaker 1: But you have to be proud of putting himself in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those guys in the back end played really well.

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Speaker 1: Anything else defensively, coach that we should mention before he

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think, you know, Jeff Simmons was disruptive

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Cody Barton out there in the middle of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was I thought they Nard did a great

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Speaker 2: nice cap on a really good day defensively. But I

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Speaker 2: I like the way that they played.

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Speaker 1: What did you think of your brand new quarterback in

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Speaker 2: He's he's very driven to be a great player and

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Speaker 1: It really sounds to me, after listening what you said

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the encouraging part of that of that game,

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Speaker 1: As they tossed it to me to start this broadcast.

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Speaker 1: First broadcast with the Tennessee Titans, I talked about what

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an in depth, long probably long win that

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Speaker 2: It wasn't an immediate Week one win for us, but

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Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Rams are coming to Nashville to play

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Speaker 2: Very good football team, you know, sort of starts and

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Speaker 1: You talked about in the preseason going to Tampa and

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, that was all very intentional. All the different scheme

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Speaker 2: And you get another tough tests.

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Speaker 1: Have a great week, coach. Thank you for Brian Callahan.

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Speaker 1: I'm Taylor Zarzer. This has been the OTP