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Speaker 1: with Rhet Bryan with Amy Wills. I'm Mike Keith and

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Speaker 1: our special guest from Tennessee Titans dot Com Senior writer editor,

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Speaker 1: the great Jim Wyatt. Welcome to your close up. We

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Speaker 1: are glad to have you. I'm glad to be here.

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Speaker 1: You guys have had a lot of great guests to

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Speaker 1: sit over here, and I'm sorry to bring bring it down. No,

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Speaker 1: you're not bringing it down. At the least, your content

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Speaker 1: at the twenty twenty three NFL combine has been outstanding

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Speaker 1: than Titans dot Com. There's been a lot of content.

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Speaker 1: People love Jim Wyatt, They love the tweets at j

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Speaker 1: Wyatt Sports. They especially love the mailbags Tuesday and Saturday.

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Speaker 1: I think I said Tuesday and Friday on our update yesterday,

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Speaker 1: apologizt Tuesday and Saturday. So I thought, what if we

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Speaker 1: allowed the ot people to ask Jim White questions and

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Speaker 1: we do an OTP mail bag from indian app That

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Speaker 1: sounds great, So Amy Wells has the questions. Rhett Brian

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Speaker 1: and coach Dave McGinnis will have commentary along the way.

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Speaker 1: They will provide color analysis of what's about to happen. Amy,

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Speaker 1: take it away, all right, Well, Jim, I figured we'd

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Speaker 1: start you off with a couple of softballs, even more

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Speaker 1: about you as a human, more as you as a person.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna start with that kind of ease you

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Speaker 1: into this whole experience that you're about to have. This

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Speaker 1: one is from Dylan in Chattanooga. He says, hello, OTP family.

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Speaker 1: I hope you are enjoying your week in Indianapolis. Jim,

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Speaker 1: My question is a two part one number one, what

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Speaker 1: was your journey to get you where you are today

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Speaker 1: in your position with the Titans? And two, what advice

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Speaker 1: would you give to a recent graduate with a sports

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Speaker 1: feel like there's resume coming pretty soon. He says. He's

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Speaker 1: followed you on socials for a very long time and

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Speaker 1: really appreciate your work. Well, I appreciate that. How much

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Speaker 1: time do we have because it was a long journey,

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Speaker 1: I'll say that. Yeah, I give you the abbreviated journey

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Speaker 1: excited about it, and I think we've had it on

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Speaker 1: the website maybe four days later after he had traveled

428
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Speaker 1: to town and signed the contract. Let me just talk

429
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Speaker 1: about and I'm glad that that was brought up. That's

430
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Speaker 1: a great question, and I'm that answer. I've worked it

431
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Speaker 1: from the coaching side for thirty one years and so

432
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,880
Speaker 1: during that during that time and then legal tampering came in,

433
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Speaker 1: I mean, and I still might. I know it's Mike

434
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Speaker 1: Key's favorite term, but that is as an employee of

435
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Speaker 1: the club. When you're working for the club as coaches,

436
00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,760
Speaker 1: you can't say anything, all right, And to me, I've

437
00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:54,240
Speaker 1: got quite a radio presence in Nashville now, so I've

438
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Speaker 1: told those people I'm not talking free agency. I'm not

439
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Speaker 1: talking free agency at all, because you know what I

440
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Speaker 1: talk all the draft. You want to talk, but I'm

441
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: not talking free agency until things are done, just for

442
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Speaker 1: that reason. And to me, I think people just need

443
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 1: to understand that because it's it's it's it's information that

444
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,479
Speaker 1: the club cannot not afford out just because of the

445
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Speaker 1: timing element, the timing element, and it's you know, it's

446
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Speaker 1: priority information. It really is. And so I'm glad that

447
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 1: it was brought up here because it's it's a legitimate,

448
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,120
Speaker 1: legitimate thing, and it's not because you know we're trying

449
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 1: to hide something, but it is a competitive disadvantage. Well,

450
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,440
Speaker 1: the thing is too It would be just my luck

451
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 1: to say, well, I wish they'd go after so it's

452
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 1: and then they signed him and other people go, well

453
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Speaker 1: that was how could they do? I don't need a

454
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Speaker 1: finer suspension at this point in my life. I can't

455
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Speaker 1: murphy everything. Actually it would cut into me visiting Duncan

456
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Speaker 1: and taking part in the Duncan Rewards program. These are

457
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 1: rewards you can really use, no really use them on

458
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 1: free donuts, coffees and breakfast sandwiches. And then use those

459
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Speaker 1: free donuts, coffees and breakfast sandwich is to say everything

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Speaker 1: for thanks for that great work you did at the

461
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Speaker 1: Combine too, my bad for making you work sixteen hours

462
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Speaker 1: at the combine each day. Ashley Farrell, Janet Morley, Jack

463
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Speaker 1: Mummer join Duncan Rewards today, Save him, stack him, use

464
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Speaker 1: him how you want. America runs on Duncan terms apply.

465
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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk a little Derrick Henry. Jamie this

466
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Speaker 1: is from across the Pond in England asks, can you

467
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: please explain the thought process when it comes to taking

468
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Speaker 1: Derek Henry out on third downs. Surely, as one of

469
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Speaker 1: our best players, it would be better to have him

470
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Speaker 1: in the game. I get that a lot, and I

471
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Speaker 1: certainly get the sense that that's a source of maybe

472
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Speaker 1: frustration for Titans fans. I think that Derrick Henry is

473
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Speaker 1: obviously a beast of a running back. He has improved

474
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Speaker 1: past catching the ball out of the backfield over the years,

475
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Speaker 1: and he has had success doing that a lot of times.

476
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Speaker 1: But I think, I think what the Titans are looking for,

477
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: what other teams are looking for in a third down back,

478
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily fit Dereck Henry's skill set perfectly. So that's

479
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Speaker 1: why I think you're always looking at other options there,

480
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 1: and I suspect moving forward that will be the case.

481
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Speaker 1: I mean, Dereck ken You's still gonna play, He's still

482
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 1: gonna want to play, But I think that coaches would

483
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,959
Speaker 1: probably preferred maybe a shiftier, faster, quicker back who can

484
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,479
Speaker 1: catch the ball in space all over the field. And

485
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 1: that's why that happens sometimes, and the Titans haven't had

486
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Speaker 1: a guy sometimes it deserves to be there instead of

487
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Speaker 1: Derek Henry, and that has happened. I think moving forward,

488
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Speaker 1: I think you obviously want to get better at the

489
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Speaker 1: third down back. Well, and while we're talking about him,

490
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 1: there's another question from Twitter. It says, is there a

491
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Speaker 1: possibility that the Titans could trade Derrick Henry. There are

492
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Speaker 1: a slew of options here for trades presented here. We

493
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Speaker 1: don't need to go through all of those, but it says,

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, bottom line, if Derrick Henry has moved

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00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: this offseason. Well, you know, with ran carthon first year GM,

496
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Speaker 1: I said, somebody is another question I got in the

497
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Speaker 1: mailbag about whether trading Derrick Henry is on the table,

498
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Speaker 1: And I don't know that it's on the table. He's

499
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Speaker 1: never said anything publicly that has led me to believe

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Speaker 1: that he's on the table. But I think when you're

501
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: a new GM and you're in the transition period like

502
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 1: the Titans random, then everything's on the table. I think

503
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 1: everything has to be considered. It's just like the Ryan

504
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 1: Tannehill situations I see here today. I think Derrick Henry's

505
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: gonna be on the Titans in twenty twenty three, but

506
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: things change and I think everything will be considered. Again,

507
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 1: nothing has been said publicly that he's going to be moved,

508
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Speaker 1: and if he said something to me privately. I would

509
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Speaker 1: not say it publicly. I'd be same boat Mike Keith.

510
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Speaker 1: Then he'd be fine and I'd be fired. Could I

511
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Speaker 1: got nothing? I don't want either. I don't want either that.

512
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,719
Speaker 1: Come on, look at me, all right, let's just move on.

513
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: Can I say that? Can I say something? Please? I

514
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: would love it, Coach. I don't want any one of

515
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: those things. Appreciate that, Brett, how about you? Do you

516
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: want any of that? If it is just one hundred

517
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: dollar fine for Mike Keys, could withstand? That? Be okay? There?

518
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Speaker 1: I don't want to hurt him anymore than that, though. Oh,

519
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Speaker 1: I don't think Mike would take the fine. I don't

520
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: think Mike likes getting in trouble. I'm not getting involved in.

521
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Speaker 1: I've got Mike Keys finances because he's got he's he's

522
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: got Bohamian money. Stand I've been enough to having my

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Speaker 1: life in trouble. I've asked the Lord to keep me

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Speaker 1: out of trouble for whatever I've got left. That's all

525
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Speaker 1: I got. But Jim to your point, and he answered

526
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Speaker 1: the question, well, anything could be on the table, but

527
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Speaker 1: we don't know. Yes, we don't know. And I've speculated

528
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Speaker 1: at home and there would have to be an offer

529
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Speaker 1: for it to necessarily be on the table. I think

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Speaker 1: I think you're just you can't rule anything out. In

531
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Speaker 1: early March, I think that's what it comes down to.

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Speaker 1: Is you just say, I mean we saw this, listen

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Speaker 1: to the A. J. Brown thing? Yes, I mean John

534
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: Robinson told me flat out to go on the OTP

535
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Speaker 1: and say we are not trading AJ Brown. What it

536
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Speaker 1: was his whole intent. He wanted the fans to know.

537
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 1: I think he want because there was so much publicity

538
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Speaker 1: about him being traded, and AJ Side clearly stirred that

539
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 1: up because he wanted to play with Jalen Hurts. I

540
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: think he's made that very very clear. And then they

541
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Speaker 1: get to the point where his agent is not taking

542
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Speaker 1: the call his calls anymore. John Robinson's calls and he

543
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Speaker 1: goes in and he says, to you know, everybody involved,

544
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: what do we do? And so it all changed. And

545
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: I think that just reminded us that anything could happen.

546
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: I'll never forget nineteen ninety two. I'm covering the University

547
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Speaker 1: of Tennessee and somebody calls me in October and says

548
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: they're firing Johnny Majors I said, there's no way they're

549
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: firing Johnny Majors. There is no chance of that. I

550
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: go see my boss, who's Johnny Major's best friend, and

551
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: I say, what do you think is there's no way

552
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: they're firing Johnny Major's Well, Johnny Major's side didn't know

553
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: it yet. They learned four days later. And so I've

554
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: learned that you never say never to anything. But there

555
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,239
Speaker 1: has to be an offer. There has to I mean,

556
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: there would be so many more steps. I think what

557
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: was said earlier and the and the I forget who

558
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: sent the was it Russ? And Deckard said there's a

559
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: better chance than not that there that Bryan Tannehill's with

560
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: the team. I think it's the same thing for you know,

561
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: a guy like Derrick Henry and probably you know several

562
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons certainly, and the rookies who played last year.

563
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Speaker 1: But otherwise, if you're ran Carthon coming into this situation,

564
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: which he described on the OTP as a puzzle, you

565
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: have to consider everything. If it comes up right, Coach,

566
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: well you do, you consider everything, And here's what you're

567
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: doing right now. And I can just take you again

568
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: from the side that I come from half my adult life.

569
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Speaker 1: You consider everything you talk about nothing right at this

570
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Speaker 1: point and a J Brown deal. That's the plan was

571
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Speaker 1: for him to come back all the way up until

572
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Speaker 1: the day of the draft. I think. I think the

573
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Speaker 1: day before, the day morning of is when I first

574
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Speaker 1: started to get win that something was they had. They

575
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Speaker 1: had discussions late afternoon the day before because they had

576
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Speaker 1: come to the realization that they had a major problem. Yes,

577
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: and the major problem was he wanted to play for

578
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Speaker 1: the Eagles, and so I don't know if he instructed

579
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Speaker 1: his agent not to take the calls or whatever. And

580
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: so you're making a decision there based on the fact

581
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Speaker 1: that he's not going to report, So you're gonna have

582
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Speaker 1: a whole May in June of this thing. Does he

583
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: show up for camp? I mean, it's a thing at

584
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: this point. It's gotten to this point that it's a thing.

585
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: And are you going to write it out into the

586
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: season and try to see if it's okay or are

587
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: you going to take a deal now and maybe try

588
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: to make the best deal you possibly can. And you know,

589
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: those are the sorts of things that it changed. I mean,

590
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: and John was very clear to me in our private conversation.

591
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: He goes, I lose A J. Brown. He goes, I

592
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: know where all this is coming from. It's not coming

593
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 1: from us. Yeah, you know, And so it was a

594
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: it was a thing. It was funny. I got a

595
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: funny story the day before the draft last year and

596
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: the Kobe Deane, the Georgia linebacker, was one of the

597
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: prospects that was on site and I was quizzing him.

598
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 1: I just ask him what he knew about the Titans,

599
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: and he started rolling through it. Jeffrey Simmons is there,

600
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: you know, Derrick Henry's there, like Rabeles a coach, and

601
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: then he started in ag because he obviously had read

602
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: the A J. Brown's J Brown gonna be on the team.

603
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: And at that point I thought, I said, oh, yeah,

604
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: a J. Brown he's gonna be on the team. You know,

605
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: you'd be teammates with him. And then the next day

606
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: A J. Brown has traded to the Eagles, and the

607
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: Kobe Dean is drafted by the Eagles. So they ended

608
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: up being teammates in Philadelphia. And I actually saw him

609
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: in Phoenix and reminded him of that conversation, and he goes, yeah,

610
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: you guy told me that AJ was staying with the Titans,

611
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: And that's really end up with you in Philadelphia. So

612
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: that's how quickly things can jay. It was. It was

613
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: a whirlwind and that night when it all hit, it

614
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: was an absolute oh yeah, F five tornado. Yes, the

615
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: Great Jim White with us on the OTP sponsored by

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Speaker 1: our great friends at Farm Bureau Health. Play Lane from

617
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Speaker 1: Johnson City says, with the comments that general manager Ran

618
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Speaker 1: Carthon made about the quarterback position and the Titans first

619
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: round pick, what position do you think the Titans will

620
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: take at eleven in the event that they stay there now?

621
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Speaker 1: And that's hard to say, you know, because you got

622
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Speaker 1: to get through free agency. You know, if I told

623
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: you right now, I mean, the team obviously right now

624
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: has a huge need on the offensive line, not just

625
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: one spot, not just two, probably three, you know, maybe four.

626
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I hear him talking about Aaron brew the

627
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: other day, makes me think that there's you know, he

628
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: may be in the equation, Nicholas petitifre air is going

629
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Speaker 1: to be an equation, But you're looking for three starters? Now,

630
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: does that come in free agency? Does that come in

631
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 1: the draft? I think we need to see how free

632
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: agency plays out before we start pinpointing guys in the draft.

633
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: I think receivers a big area of need. You know,

634
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens at quarterback, and so a lot

635
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: could change between now and the time the team picks.

636
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: That's why I'm more always a little bit more hesitant

637
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: to name position for the draft until a week before

638
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: the draft when you have some other needs that have

639
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: been filled well. Jason from Knoxville has a suggestion. He

640
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: says that next year looks to be a much better

641
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: quarterback draft then in twenty twenty three, what do you

642
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: think about making it a top priority to come out

643
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: of the twenty three draft with as many future picks

644
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: as possible in twenty four, so then you have ammo

645
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 1: to move up and target a quarterback next year. Yeah,

646
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: I mean you have to be bad. I mean, you

647
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: still would have to be pretty bad to be in

648
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: a position to be able to move up and get somebody.

649
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: So that kind of falls into the whole tanking rebuild,

650
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: you know, playing for the future idea, which I'm not

651
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: real high on. So I don't know. I mean, there

652
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: is a good quarterback I know coming out of next

653
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: year's draft. On the West Coast, Caleb William yeah, and

654
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: at North Carolina Drake May yes, so, but you have to.

655
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I want to see how this year plays

656
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: out before I start thinking about twenty twenty four. Nobody's

657
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: gonna suck for luck this year or whatever. Those trendy

658
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: little tankers. Somebody may trade up. I'm starting to believe

659
00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: the whole thing about somebody trading up from early the

660
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: second round to late first to take Endon Hooker. What

661
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: do we always say, guys, and again this is for

662
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: your mail bag people now, because we're talking and you

663
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: know that there's two drafts. There's a regular draft and

664
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 1: then there's a quarterback draft, right, so anything's possible anytime

665
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: you talk about a quarterback, because if you don't have

666
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,879
Speaker 1: a quarterback, a viable quarterback, one that you can win

667
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: games with. There are very few elite quarterbacks, but a

668
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: viable quarterback. You got a highly paid rugby team, that's

669
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: what you have. So you gotta get a viable quarterback.

670
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 1: Here's one from Switzerland. This is we're really going international

671
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: right now? Can I say this? Jim Wyatt is international.

672
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 1: Watt Nobody from Switzerland cares. Nobody who's speaking Spanish either

673
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 1: or writing. We were going to let you answer one

674
00:35:52,400 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 1: in Spanish live. We thought that would be great. I

675
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: speak a little bit of Spanish, but I took Spanish

676
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: at father Ryan mister Hammond was my teacher, and uh

677
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: would he be proud or not proud? I think he

678
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 1: would be very, very disappointed. A lot of doodling in

679
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 1: that class. And all right, so the question coming from

680
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: Switzerland is what do you think about the idea of

681
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: trading down a few spots in the first round of

682
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: the draft. In my opinion, Osyrius Torrence, the offensive lineman

683
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: from Florida, would be a perfect fit, and the added

684
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: draft capital could help fix some other holes in the

685
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 1: current roster. I don't think that's a bad idea. I mean,

686
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: a lot depends on who's there and what the board

687
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 1: looks like when you're getting ready to pick at eleven,

688
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: But six picks is not a lot, and I could

689
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: see a scenario. I don't know about the specific player

690
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: being targeted, but the idea of moving back into a

691
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 1: position where you can acquire more picks, I don't think

692
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: it's necessarily a bad thing. I think Anthony Richard Richardson

693
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: is sitting there at eleven. That's where the phone rings

694
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,280
Speaker 1: for ran Carthon. Yeah, which is interesting to me because

695
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: I think we know, we all saw Anthony Richardson at

696
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: Florida and uh and I certainly didn't think when I

697
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: was watching Vannible beat them over there in November that

698
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: this is the guy. And I think he played the

699
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: terrible game that day, but he didn't look like a

700
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: top fifteen pick to me, not only that day but

701
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,399
Speaker 1: throughout his college career. So that just shows you how

702
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 1: the quarterback class works. These guys, you know, surge people,

703
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: you know, see something in them that makes them think

704
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: he could be a franchise quarterback, and all of a sudden,

705
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: the guy who you think is maybe a mid round

706
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: pick becomes a hot commodity. And that's what's happened to him.

707
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: It's it's it's amazing to me. To my point, there's

708
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 1: a quarterback draft, yeah, and there's a positional draft. And

709
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: to your point, watching you watched him play Vandy, right,

710
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: go put the game tape on of him playing Utah

711
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: or Tennessee. Go put the game tape on of him

712
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: playing Missouri, and all of a sudden, you go, whoa.

713
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,359
Speaker 1: So that's the dichotomy that these evaluators have, right, now.

714
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: And if you're in a desperation mode, which some people

715
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: are for a quarterback, then you tend to overlook a

716
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: lot of the warts and say, we can get this

717
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 1: guy straight if he's got the requisite tools. And when

718
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: you I mean, I would expect when he does things

719
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: physically here, people are gonna go, Okay, we saw that.

720
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: Now doesn't take Oh, it doesn't diminish erase any of

721
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: the tape, good or bad that you see. But that's

722
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: the part of a quarterback draft. And the comp that

723
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: you hear most often with him is Cam Newton. Of

724
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 1: his size and I mean, he is so big and

725
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: he they're gonna seem and they're gonna say, man, he's pretty,

726
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,399
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. And what he's gonna run is gonna

727
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: be athletic traits. Yeah. But if you're someone who's seen

728
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,720
Speaker 1: him either and has strong opinions of him, either good

729
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,919
Speaker 1: or bad, isn't there a chance that there's some confirmation

730
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 1: bias there? And if you see the good things, you're

731
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: going to continue to see things that enforce the good

732
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: things here at the combine. And if you're not very

733
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: high on him, you're going to see things to enforce

734
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,320
Speaker 1: the not so good things. Add this into the equation.

735
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: If you're desperate for a quarterback, that's the part of

736
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: the equation. And that's why you'll see evaluations amy anywhere

737
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: from high first round to fourth round, in anything in between.

738
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,399
Speaker 1: All it takes us one team to fall in love

739
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: or a team too that says we're going to need

740
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 1: a quarterback in twenty twenty four. There it is, we've

741
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 1: got somebody to play in twenty twenty three. Can we

742
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 1: afford not to take him at this moment? Saying we

743
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: solve our problem because what he needs is time. Let

744
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: me add something else to that too, and this is

745
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: these are good football well here, especially a good team,

746
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: I know, because you're not going to be drafting high

747
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: enough to go get one if you're a good team.

748
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: The teams that have the draft picks to get a

749
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: quarterback in the top three or four are bad teams. Right. Well,

750
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 1: we're rounding out our edition of thoughts. This is our

751
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:23,800
Speaker 1: final question, final thoughts, and we're kind of taking a

752
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: left hand turn here in a good way, a great

753
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: left hand turn, because while all of this is going on,

754
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: there's a lot of football conversation, a lot of personnel conversation,

755
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans are still working on a new stadium here. Yes,

756
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: and so that is still a conversation. There's still some

757
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: approvals coming up. There's a lot of activity and motion

758
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: in the ocean week. There's actually going to be a

759
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 1: next step and then final approval in April. Right, so

760
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: it's coming, and so Will here from Atlantic Iowa asks

761
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: what are you excited about the most for the new

762
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 1: stadium and what would you personally add if you were

763
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: given the chance. You're talking, I mean outside of the gym,

764
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 1: white press box. I was thinking of the mail bag room. Yes,

765
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: well it does have something to do with the press box.

766
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,839
Speaker 1: I hope they keep us, you know, and I'll include, uh,

767
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: include you guys in the mix. I'm hoping they keep

768
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 1: us low level press box and a low level box

769
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: for a broadcasting. It doesn't look low. That's not heard

770
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,280
Speaker 1: because we know what has happened a lot of times.

771
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: But it does look like uh middle of the field,

772
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I I'm thinking open. You know

773
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: you're not talking about it. We are. We are big

774
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 1: advocates of of giving everyone the opportunity from our standpoint

775
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: for what we do that it's not a closed press box.

776
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 1: That would be my request, you know, if I can't

777
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: have the low level middle that I would like it

778
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: to be open. We've been in press boxes at the

779
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: top and here in in Annapolis, in Houston, in Jacksonville,

780
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: all of them behind the glass. You can can't hear

781
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 1: the crowd. Uh if you're sitting in the press box.

782
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,839
Speaker 1: You guys obviously can open the windows, but UH, you're

783
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: at the top far away, don't feel like you're a

784
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:15,720
Speaker 1: part of it. I love stadiums, uh that are open air.

785
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,399
Speaker 1: The old RCA Dome here used to be open air

786
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:22,399
Speaker 1: and hum and hopefully that's what it'll be. But I'm

787
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: looking forward to that and just seeing what it we'll

788
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: do to the city. Uh. Been a great run for

789
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 1: the former of Delphia Coliseum, which went to just a

790
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: coliseum to LP Field to Nissan Stadium. I miss anything.

791
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: It's been a great run there and we're for it.

792
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 1: So fortunate that we've had the space to have a

793
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: stadium downtown again. So many cities we've been to with

794
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,959
Speaker 1: the stadiums on the outskirts, so to let people walk

795
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: to the game and stay in hotels downtown to get

796
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: to the game. I'm so happy it's still gonna be there.

797
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: The National's got the best downtown area any place in

798
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: the NFL. And uh and the new stadiums just gonna

799
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: like that even more. Rhett, what do you want from

800
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 1: the stadium? Give me one thing, A good place for

801
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: us to do broadcasts. I mean seriously, that's you know,

802
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: that's my main thing, because well no, I mean, what

803
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: do you right? Food? I want good press box food,

804
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 1: like great press box food. Think of it this way though, Amy, Seriously,

805
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,280
Speaker 1: Mike and I have done this coming season five hundred

806
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: Titans games together. We've never sat in a seat. We've

807
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: always been where we've been. Yeah, so that's just the

808
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: first thing I think of. Okay, that's fair, you coach.

809
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 1: I've been involved with two stadium bills, okay, and this

810
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: will be my third. You know, to be around it

811
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 1: and the thing that is important that you know when

812
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: you start looking at it, a couple of these have

813
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: been involved in the design, you know of things that

814
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: were relevant to the coaching aspect of it. So anything

815
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 1: that is comfortable for the team and the fans, because

816
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 1: that's why we're all there, right, That's that's the show.

817
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 1: That's why you're all there. Any of that, any of

818
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: that stuff is important. Now that I've been doing this,

819
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: I understand the importance of being able to have a

820
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,240
Speaker 1: very good place to be able to paint the picture

821
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 1: for the listeners. You know. I mean, I'm gonna call names.

822
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: When we're at Miami. You're painting a picture backwards because

823
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: of the you know, it's terrible, okay, because of where

824
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,919
Speaker 1: you are. It's the complete opposite side. So for the

825
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: quality of everybody, that's what I always want. You know

826
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: what I don't want? What's that people in um suits

827
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 1: behind the bench. Yeah, a lot of stadiums do it,

828
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: and I know, I know that it's a great, great

829
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:41,399
Speaker 1: fan experience because so many people like that, and they

830
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:43,359
Speaker 1: a lot of times in those places they end up

831
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: watching the game off TV in the suite and there's

832
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: food and there's drinking. You're right there, and I get it.

833
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: But you know that feeling when everyone is behind you,

834
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: and you know you can feel someone standing like right

835
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: behind you. That's what it's like on the sidelines of

836
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: those games for hours, and I spend in talking as

837
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 1: they yell at the players, all the staff, everybody who

838
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: is in the sidelines feels people looking at them. And

839
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: you feel like someone's gonna get you. I know people

840
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 1: enjoy sitting there, everybody, and again the two stadium builds.

841
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: Everybody fans love that. I know they love smelly all.

842
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,919
Speaker 1: You're seeing our pionees like you're not even seeing the game. Okay, Mike,

843
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:36,280
Speaker 1: but if you want to be as close to the action,

844
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: close to the game experience as possible, that's where you

845
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 1: would want to be. Now you're gonna have to pay

846
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 1: for it. Yes, Well, she's getting ready to start getting

847
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: into carpet patterns or no, no's gonna get into it.

848
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: She'll pick everything apart if we go on. So I'm

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Speaker 1: the only one who actually provided an answer to the question.

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Speaker 1: You guys are all waxing poetic about, just like stadiums overall.

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Speaker 1: I said, I want an open press box. I want

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Speaker 1: the Jim Watt press box to be open. I think

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Speaker 1: I provided a better answer. Well from Atlantic, Iowa, You're

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Speaker 1: welcome the great Jim Wyatt, Twitter at j Whitte Sports,

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Speaker 1: Jim Watt, You're I still think you're the best acquisition

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Speaker 1: and we certainly understand why, and we appreciate you coming

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Speaker 1: on with us. We're we're glad to be on your team. Well,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate I appreciate those kind warriors. I appreciate everybody

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Speaker 1: being so kind to me over the years. Everybody's sitting

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Speaker 1: It's been a great place to work, and I hope

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Speaker 1: to continue to work there for many years to come.

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Speaker 1: That's while I'm not gonna talk about free a before

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Speaker 1: the guy, I want to apologize to her upper management

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Speaker 1: for giving away the name of the press box, the

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Speaker 1: Jim Wide. I apologize that I don't think that was

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Speaker 1: supposed to be out breaking news here on the OTP

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Speaker 1: for the great Jim Wide, for the ever reliable Rhet Bryan,

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Speaker 1: for coach Dave Becginnis and Aby Wells. Mike Keat says,

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