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Speaker 1: and since nineteen forty seven. I'm Amy Wells. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for tuning in today. We're so happy to have you here.

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Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis, better known as Coach Mack. He is, of

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Speaker 1: course here, Mack. It took me about nineteen times to

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Speaker 1: get through that open, so yeah, I was rough open

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Speaker 1: for it was not good. No, it was a rough

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Speaker 1: open for you had a rough first quarter, man. But

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Speaker 1: knowing you, you're going to rebound these next three, so

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Speaker 1: we're fine. Ah, the power of editing. The Titans are

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Speaker 1: five and two, so at least someone's not a hot mess,

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Speaker 1: and that's the Tennessee Titans. They were in a good

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Speaker 1: spot right now, five and two. It feels so good.

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Speaker 1: They had a wild six days for the and AC Titans,

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Speaker 1: beating the Bills on Monday Night Football and then six

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Speaker 1: days later they have a commanding win over the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs. Mac. What stood out to you about that

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Speaker 1: Sunday win over the Chiefs. What do you take away

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Speaker 1: from that? It was a thorough win. It was it

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Speaker 1: was it was all segments win. I mean, all all

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Speaker 1: segments of the team. Offense, defense, and special teams did

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Speaker 1: something to contribute in a big way to that victory.

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Speaker 1: But it was it was a very decisive win from

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Speaker 1: start to finish, you know, and very very rarely do

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Speaker 1: very rarely do you get into games in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League where you feel that decisive from start to finish,

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Speaker 1: and that was one of them. And so that was

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Speaker 1: that was a lot of fun. The other thing that

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Speaker 1: was that, you know, you talk about that stretched you know,

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Speaker 1: between the two games Buffalo and Kansas City. It was

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Speaker 1: at home with a pack stadium, and our fans got

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Speaker 1: to enjoy every minute of it and they enjoyed every

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Speaker 1: inch of it. And that I really liked that because

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Speaker 1: I think that's important too, because sometimes you can have

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Speaker 1: big wins and everybody's happy, but when it's at home,

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Speaker 1: and it's at home back to back like that, then

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Speaker 1: everybody really comes out of there, you know, feeling really

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Speaker 1: really good about what's ahead. Mac As a coach, how

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Speaker 1: do you manage something like that, and I guess what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying is these were two big, high emotion wins.

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Speaker 1: The one on Monday Night Football obviously was a primetime

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Speaker 1: game that came down to a final minute play that

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Speaker 1: was a really big deal. The Kansas City game, as

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Speaker 1: you said, was a full team win, but again was

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Speaker 1: on a big stage. It had the biggest regional viewing.

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Speaker 1: I guess those Chiefs games are always kind of big

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Speaker 1: exciting games. How do you now manage a team, keep

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Speaker 1: them from maybe having some sort of a hangover, keep

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Speaker 1: them from being emotionally just exhausted from those last two wins,

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Speaker 1: and help them get ready for another big game. The

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Speaker 1: thing about coaching, and you know when I say everybody

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Speaker 1: felt good, I'm really talking for our fans. They have

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Speaker 1: a right to feel good and they can do that. Now,

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Speaker 1: when you're coaching and you're playing, you understand that all

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Speaker 1: you've really done is won one game. That's all you've

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Speaker 1: really done, you know, taking this last game, all everything

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Speaker 1: that's not the goal. That's not the goal yet. Kevin

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Speaker 1: Byard said it, so well, we haven't done anything yet,

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Speaker 1: you know, other than win games. And so as a

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Speaker 1: game is bigger, and the bigger games that you win

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Speaker 1: preceding the next game, the bigger the next game gets.

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Speaker 1: And we'll talk about this later on, but this next

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Speaker 1: game is huge. I mean, the indie game is big.

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Speaker 1: So what you do is you go back and you dissect.

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Speaker 1: You dissect it always the same amy you really do,

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Speaker 1: whether you win or lose. You've got to dissect the

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Speaker 1: film and you've got to dissect it very, very honestly,

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Speaker 1: because that's the only way you're going to improve. And

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Speaker 1: even if you do good things, there are still some

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Speaker 1: things that you can do better, and opponents change. Opponents

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Speaker 1: change every week, and so you're going to have to

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Speaker 1: readjust no matter why. The twenty four hour rule, I know,

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Speaker 1: and that's what you do. Mike Vrabel does a great

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Speaker 1: But this team has a Mike Varibel and his staff,

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Speaker 1: carrying that next game message, which is big. Now, you're

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Speaker 1: right that nobody's winning any Lombardi Trophies at this point

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Speaker 1: would like to get your opinion on this. The cults

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Speaker 1: are building this upcoming matchup up and yes, we know

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Speaker 1: division matchups are a big deal. We understand all of that.

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Speaker 1: The cults are calling this a must win game. They're

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Speaker 1: calling this their biggest game of the season. It is,

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Speaker 1: But is that too much for a Week eight matchup? No,

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Speaker 1: way this is looking to be, this is a two

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Speaker 1: saying that. Now, they don't have to say it. Everybody

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Speaker 1: knows it. Now they don't. They don't have to say that,

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Speaker 1: And and they're not they're not saying that, you know,

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Speaker 1: what's transpired to this point, it absolutely is. Is it

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Speaker 1: good for the Titans that the Colts are putting so

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Speaker 1: much pressure on this game? Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: Nobody cares the Titans. You don't care. You don't care

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Speaker 1: You could care less about anything that happens with the Colt.

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Speaker 1: What you're concerned about is what you're gonna do. Am

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Speaker 1: I hyping this game too much? Well, no, you're not

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Speaker 1: hyping it. It's just it's an important game. It's an

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Speaker 1: AFC South game. It's a very important game. But at

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Speaker 1: the same time, you know, all the years that I

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Speaker 1: Let me know the next game I can lose and

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Speaker 1: it's okay. When's the last time you had Santa Claus

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Mac, did you ever have someone really

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Speaker 1: that one of the strategies you use bring out some

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Speaker 1: that your Some coaches really get into that, the special guests. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean I would normally bring back really significant players

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's you know, I mean that that that's

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the Colts a little bit now that

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Speaker 1: this game. The Titans have of course seen the Colts

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Speaker 1: what some of those differences are or healthy. You know,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't help you, doesn't help you at all. Now,

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Speaker 1: to be a real physical challenge and also a schematic

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Speaker 1: But it's their mindset, you know. You know, when we

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Speaker 1: their mindset is a little bit more spread it out,

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Speaker 1: nothing tricky about what Indy does. They're gonna line up

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Speaker 1: this football team that we're getting ready to play. They

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Speaker 1: like to play like that. They like to play gritty

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Speaker 1: But I've been going to Indie since nineteen eighty seven.

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Speaker 1: I've been to every Combine they've ever had there. I've

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Speaker 1: And the thing you bring up about you know division games,

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Speaker 1: team too. You get very familiar with who you're playing against,

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Speaker 1: very familiar with your one on one matchups, and that's

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Speaker 1: what makes division games so intriguing, and it really makes

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Speaker 1: you say it is very, very true. But I've always

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Speaker 1: been a big Indianapolis fan. It's a great place. And

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Speaker 1: league announced that twenty twenty two is going to be

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Speaker 1: and devastated doesn't seem like the right word, but distraught

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Speaker 1: might be the right word for how I'm feeling. So

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Speaker 1: after twenty twenty two, it's up forbid. It could be

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Speaker 1: in and try to make a bid to keep it there.

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Speaker 1: Mac how long has combine? Eighty seven was the first year,

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Speaker 1: and and a little bit A little bit of that

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Speaker 1: angst on your part is the familiarity that you have

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Speaker 1: you go up there to the Combine. I mean, I've

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Speaker 1: been in that routine since nineteen eighty seven. I liked it.

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Speaker 1: Plus the way Indie set up it. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's always cold, but they've got the walkways and you

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Speaker 1: but you know how to navigate it. As soon as

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Speaker 1: it does move, I think it's going to the Star

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, and that'll be completely different for everybody.

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Speaker 1: The thing I always liked about it in in Indianapolis too,

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Speaker 1: because a big part of my coaching career, eighteen years

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Speaker 1: of it uh ten in Chicago. Eight Here in Nashville

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Speaker 1: with the Titans. You can drive to it. I love that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's very good. When you have to

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Speaker 1: a week, it gets it just a little bit more tedious,

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Speaker 1: you know. So I'm gonna miss it being in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis was such a great setup for it. But it

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Speaker 1: just like everything else the Natal way, you never thought

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Speaker 1: that the Draft would be taking out a radio city

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Speaker 1: music hall, right, Nobody ever thought that. Now look at

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Speaker 1: what the Draft has become. That's what the Combine is

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Speaker 1: getting ready to become. Believe that. And that's so great.

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Speaker 1: And I think for the NFL it's great. I love

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Speaker 1: that they are taking NFL experiences, NFL moments to places

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Speaker 1: to give fans the opportunity to have just one more

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Speaker 1: touch point with the league. And I really truly think

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Speaker 1: it's great. But Mac, I know what restaurants I'm going

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Speaker 1: to eat at. I know basically what room I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be sleeping in because we've stayed at the same

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Speaker 1: hotel for a thousand years. I know how to get

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Speaker 1: everywhere with my eyes closed, with my hands tied behind

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Speaker 1: my back, I can walk everywhere. I know who I'm

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Speaker 1: going to see on the street at any given time,

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Speaker 1: because I know their routine the same way I know

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Speaker 1: my routine. And I know I'm going to see every

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Speaker 1: person I've ever met in the National Football League. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to get that in Dallas or in LA.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna scatter Amy. I'm really sorry. You're the first

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Speaker 1: person that's apologized. Really, I'm really sorry that moving the

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Speaker 1: combine is going to be inconvenient for you. It's my

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Speaker 1: favorite league event of all the things. The Draft, fine,

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl neat, I mean, regular season games fine?

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Speaker 1: The Combine. How about this? I love it? I know

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Speaker 1: you do. And how about still loving it? And we

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Speaker 1: can do this once once it goes to the star

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Speaker 1: where I think it's going. Why don't you enter that

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Speaker 1: with a little better attitude to begin with and you

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Speaker 1: might really enjoy it. Now right now, I understand your

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Speaker 1: angst and you and you're little. You see, you're nervous

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Speaker 1: about it being new. So just let that simmer. What

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Speaker 1: do I always tell you do? What keep a powder dry.

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Speaker 1: It'll be fine. I'm just upset, but I'm going to

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Speaker 1: enjoy my time in Indianapolis this week while I can.

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Speaker 1: I know where I'm sleeping, I know where I'm eating,

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Speaker 1: I know how to get everywhere. I might walk to

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Speaker 1: the stadium just because I can. Yeah, well you can.

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Speaker 1: And but you know what's gonna make it really enjoyed?

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Speaker 1: Annapolish beat the Colts the second time. Yes, there is

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Speaker 1: nothing better than beating the Colts in their own house.

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Speaker 1: There you go. That is very fun for me. Before

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Speaker 1: we wrap this up, I do want to be sure

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Speaker 1: that we let our next person who won a bobblehead

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Speaker 1: know that they are a winner. See I like that.

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Speaker 1: See here we go. We're bringing it back up. But

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Speaker 1: I brought it down just to bring it back up.

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Speaker 1: You did bring it down. What I do here. Congratulations

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Speaker 1: to Morgan Booker. Morgan, you are the new owner of

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Speaker 1: a Coach Mac bobblehead. Thank you for so thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for listening. Thank you for knowing the code

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Speaker 1: word was playmaker. It's great and please continue to listen,

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Speaker 1: share it. Follow us on Instagram at tight Amy and

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Speaker 1: Mac and thank you, thank you, thank you. Congrats Morgan.

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Speaker 1: We'll get in touch with you. Morgan, please put Baba

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Speaker 1: head Coach Mac in a real place of prominence and

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Speaker 1: wherever you reside. Congratulations. Yes, and send us a picture

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Speaker 1: because we love to see our bobble heads out in

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Speaker 1: the world. Yes, yeah, I think that's a great thing.

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Speaker 1: You know what else, I love healthcare. Don't get sacked

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Speaker 1: by the high cost of healthcare. Make Farm Bureau Health

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Speaker 1: Plans your first line of protection. They've been protecting Tennessee

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Speaker 1: and since nineteen forty seven, Randy Wilmore or Farm Bureau

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Speaker 1: Health Plans the best. Yes, agreed. We are very appreciative

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Speaker 1: of them and all their support of the Titans Amy

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Speaker 1: and Coach Mac podcast. Mac, do you have any other

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Speaker 1: words of wisdom before we head to sunny Indianapolis. No?

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Speaker 1: I probably haven't said anything very wise, but Tom good

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Speaker 1: All right, Well man, I guess we'll wrap this thing

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Speaker 1: up here with no words of wisdom. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for tuning in to the Titans Amy and Coach

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Speaker 1: Mac Podcast. We'll see you next time.