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Speaker 1: been protecting Tennesseeans for seventy five years. I am Amy Wells.

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Speaker 1: Mac is of course here too, and thank you for

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Speaker 1: tuning in to this edition of the Titans Amy and

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Speaker 1: Coach Mac podcast. Let's let's update ourselves a little bit here.

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Speaker 1: The Titans are coming off of a win over the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans. They are now five and two this season.

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Speaker 1: They've won five games in a row. They're also three

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Speaker 1: and oh in the division. Mac, your thoughts, well, three

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Speaker 1: and on the division is the big stick there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's this time of year. You need to start positioning

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Speaker 1: yourself getting ready for the tournament somewhere. And if you're

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Speaker 1: leading your division right now, you've got a pretty good chance.

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Speaker 1: And so that's extremely important. Now, we've fought through a

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Speaker 1: lot of injuries. Everybody that follows this podcast knows of

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Speaker 1: the number of injuries that the Times have had to

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Speaker 1: some significant people. They've still been able, as you said,

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Speaker 1: to string five in a row together. We're coming up

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Speaker 1: on a pretty good stretch here now with teams we're

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Speaker 1: going to play and we won't be jumping ahead any

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Speaker 1: but you start to look at this team this week

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Speaker 1: that we're going into play, it's a much different animal

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Speaker 1: than that one we just beat down in Houston. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the one we just beating there a

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Speaker 1: little bit. Just a brief summary to the biggest storylines

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Speaker 1: in that game, Derrick Henry's historic performance and Malik Willis's

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Speaker 1: first start at quarterback. So let's start with Malik a

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Speaker 1: little bit. What did you like about his performance on Sunday? Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he operated the offense. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's a big stage for a young man like that

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Speaker 1: coming from Liberty. I'm not quite sure that the atmosphere

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Speaker 1: of Liberty versus Old Dominion is exactly like what he's

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Speaker 1: experienced down there, you know, or what he's going to

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Speaker 1: experience anywhere else in National Football League. So that was

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Speaker 1: a that was a big jump as far as to

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Speaker 1: a pretty uneven performance. I think that's fair to say that,

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Speaker 1: you know it was, it was very uneven, but he

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Speaker 1: hung in there. He had a couple of things go wrong,

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Speaker 1: he didn't let it derail him completely, but he had

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Speaker 1: a pretty good security blanket back there behind him that

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Speaker 1: he could turn and hand it too. So I knew

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Speaker 1: that this was going to be an adventure for him.

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Speaker 1: It's going to continue to be if he has to play.

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Speaker 1: So I think uneven it is pretty fair to say.

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Speaker 1: But the jump that he's making now from where he was,

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Speaker 1: he's miles ahead of where he was when he showed

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Speaker 1: up here on campus in May. So he's just got

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Speaker 1: to continue to improve. Is one of the main areas

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Speaker 1: that he can make improvement trying to string together a

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Speaker 1: game that's more consistent or is there one specific thing

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Speaker 1: that he could work well. I mean, it's still getting

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Speaker 1: he's timing with receivers. There were a couple of times

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Speaker 1: and you could tell that. You know, the one schemed

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Speaker 1: play to Chig that was opening the corner route at

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Speaker 1: so aunty because the guy was wide open that he

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Speaker 1: that he missed him. He didn't follow through, you know,

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Speaker 1: he just he hurried his throw. He's gonna have to

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Speaker 1: learn to slow his motor down. Even though the clock

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Speaker 1: that will all come in time. But I would say

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Speaker 1: one of the bigger things, and I'm sure the coach

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Speaker 1: So all of those things have to be cleaned up,

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Speaker 1: more impressive to you given that going into this game,

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Speaker 1: It's very impressive to me. I mean everybody knew. I

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Speaker 1: know they wherever Derek Henry steps off the bus, he's

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Speaker 1: go ahead and go over the waterfalls here and just

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Speaker 1: take it all. Who liked that. Obviously, he's returning to

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Speaker 1: generate at this point in the season, the sky's really

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Speaker 1: the limit for him in terms of production this year. Now,

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Speaker 1: it depends on the blocking unit the whole time. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's what it depends on. And it depends on the defense.

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Speaker 1: The defense. You know at the Texans, you know they

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Speaker 1: finally you know, he made Indianapolis say no Moss at

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Speaker 1: the end of that last game we played him, and

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Speaker 1: the Texans were probably full of it too. They probably

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Speaker 1: going to be some challenges down the road as far

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Speaker 1: to try to do it. Let's talk about defense, and

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Speaker 1: mainly the Tennessee Titans defense, because they also had a

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Speaker 1: remarkable game against the Houston Texans. They were able to

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Speaker 1: which really helps your percentage on third down. But you've

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Speaker 1: play defense against the run. The other thing that they've

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Speaker 1: but they're not allowing a lot of yards after catch,

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Speaker 1: which is really big. It was really big against Indie.

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Speaker 1: It was big against this group down there. They really

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Speaker 1: because they're missing some pieces. What's the key to a

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Speaker 1: make them especially good at it? Well, third and seven

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Speaker 1: You've got big problems because then you've got to play

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Speaker 1: they give themselves options as a drive goes on first

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Speaker 1: because you're not going to statistically be a good third

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about quarterback Davis Mills, because he was sacked

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Speaker 1: Big Jeff who, no matter what, consistently shows up and

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Speaker 1: just destroys games. Well, he destroyed either guard that he

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Speaker 1: and so that's not down in the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: It's a shame. So they finally went there. They went

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Speaker 1: there and touched him down. But look, he's he's playing

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Speaker 1: because of his lower leg injury. But he is always

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Speaker 1: showing up. He's at a different level right now, he

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Speaker 1: that when you're offensively putting a game plan together, you

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Speaker 1: him or he's going to wreck our entire unit. The

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Speaker 1: in case that name doesn't sound super familiar, he was

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Speaker 1: an offseason free age and acquisition who with the Texans

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Speaker 1: actually before coming to Nashville. Mac what he's he brought

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Speaker 1: to the Titans defense, Well, he's a versatile guy. And

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Speaker 1: you know what has happened with you know, when we

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Speaker 1: can make plays for him. He's got a really good

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Speaker 1: offensive line in front of him, and he's got a

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Speaker 1: good head coach. I mean, he's in the perfect situation.

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Speaker 1: And when Andy Reid traded up to get him in

432
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Speaker 1: the draft, everybody said, well, why are you going to

433
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Speaker 1: get this kid from Texas Tech that is just a running,

434
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Speaker 1: shoot gun slinger. Well, they set him for a year,

435
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Speaker 1: taught him, taught him how to play quarterback, and every

436
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Speaker 1: year since then he's rewarded him and the guys. The

437
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Speaker 1: guy's got what you want. Plus he's a great competitor.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Travis Kelcey, and he's a tool that of

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Speaker 1: course they use a bunch. He spends a lot of

440
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Speaker 1: time in the slot, but that's not all he can do. Right,

441
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Speaker 1: We can do anything he really can't. I mean, they

442
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Speaker 1: can use him. I mean, they can use him anywhere

443
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Speaker 1: that they want to use him. He's a matchup nightmare

444
00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:30,320
Speaker 1: amy for any defense, not just the Titans defense, any defense.

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Speaker 1: He's a matchup nightmare. And he's one of those guys

446
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Speaker 1: you talk about security blankets. He's a security blanket for

447
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Speaker 1: Mahomes because he knows if he's got one on one,

448
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Speaker 1: he'll throw it to him and expect him just to

449
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Speaker 1: out muscle who's ever on him. And so, but he's

450
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Speaker 1: really good run after catch. He's very very He's got

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Speaker 1: nuances to his moves, you know, for a tighten, and

452
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Speaker 1: he's not. I mean, he's a big receiver, it's what

453
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Speaker 1: he is. But but he's got the power and the

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Speaker 1: strength of a tight end. So I mean that's why

455
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Speaker 1: he's he is. I think he's one of the one

456
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Speaker 1: or two premier adens in this league. And he's in

457
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Speaker 1: a perfect perfect offense. Having so many different assets to

458
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Speaker 1: an offense has to make it a lot easier for

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Speaker 1: them to utilize some of that run pass option stuff. Right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're twenty one percent of RPOs and that's that's that's

461
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Speaker 1: just a little bit of what of what they do.

462
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Speaker 1: But they do it very very well. But as you said,

463
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Speaker 1: when everybody is on the page with that, the RPOs

464
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Speaker 1: were invented to make the defense wrong. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: a run pass option, but the quarterback has to be

466
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Speaker 1: able to read not only what's going on front side,

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Speaker 1: he has to be able to read what's going on backside,

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Speaker 1: and then he has to get on the same page

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Speaker 1: reading what's going on front side and backside at the

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Speaker 1: second level. Is the first ones at the first level,

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Speaker 1: whether to hand it off or that's run pass the

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Speaker 1: option to run it or pass it. So to read

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Speaker 1: the first line first and see how that is, and

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Speaker 1: then to be able to read the second, third levels

475
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Speaker 1: depending on how your coverage is going to be as

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Speaker 1: to where your receivers are going to be open. That's

477
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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to think about mac well, and

478
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 1: they think about it very quickly. That's why they're good

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Speaker 1: at it. They're really good at it. That's very impressive.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about those defenses that we're trying to trick.

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Speaker 1: What is the Chiefs kind of calling card or hallmark

482
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Speaker 1: on defense? Steve Spagnols, he's a four down guy. He's

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Speaker 1: a four down guy that he'll sprinkle quite a bit

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Speaker 1: of blitz is in there. He would love to just

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Speaker 1: rush with four and play coverage with seven like everybody

486
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Speaker 1: in the league is. You know, it is starting to do.

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Speaker 1: He's been a defens according in this league for a

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Speaker 1: long long time. No spags very well, but he would

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Speaker 1: love to be. You know, we got after Spags here

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Speaker 1: one time when they were here prior to this season,

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Speaker 1: and when we beat him here, he got a little

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Speaker 1: bit blitz heavy and we got him, you know, and

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Speaker 1: it cost him and I think he learned from that,

494
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Speaker 1: especially playing against this this football team. So I mean

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Speaker 1: he's got him. And Chris Jones is a guy that's

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Speaker 1: a three technique that is just like Jeffrey Simmons as

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Speaker 1: far as game wrecker. Now, he's longer than than Big

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Speaker 1: jeff Is. He's longer and he's I mean, you can't

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Speaker 1: let him take the game over because if you start

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Speaker 1: having problems with him, then he collapses the whole everything

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Speaker 1: that you're trying to do from inside out. They got

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Speaker 1: two linebackers behind the ball that are really fast and

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00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: you know the Bolton kids already made forty tackles this year.

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00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: William Gay is a guy that is super super fast.

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Speaker 1: But what they do. They're they're really they're a technique

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Speaker 1: sound team. And and Spags has called defenses for a

507
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Speaker 1: long time in this league, so very seldom does he

508
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Speaker 1: get out of control with what he's doing with the calls.

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Speaker 1: They have the third best run defense in the league.

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Speaker 1: How is that going to impact what the Titans are

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Speaker 1: able to do on offense? Well, they're the third best

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Speaker 1: run defense for a couple of reasons. They're good at it.

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Speaker 1: But scores are also separated a lot against their opponents,

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Speaker 1: and one scores get separated by three or more, which

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Speaker 1: they have a lot of because of what they're scoring. Uh,

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Speaker 1: then teams can't afford to run the football. So if

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Speaker 1: if it's gonna if we're gonna keep it close, then

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Speaker 1: the Titans have to be able to move it on

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Speaker 1: the ground successfully and keep pounding at them and see

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Speaker 1: if they're willing to stand up to that. Now, if

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Speaker 1: the score gets separated, you don't have to worry about

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Speaker 1: the run. And that's part of their success is they

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Speaker 1: play the run well early, They get touchdowns early, separate

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Speaker 1: the score, and then people can't afford to fight the

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Speaker 1: clock and the ground game if they want to have

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Speaker 1: a chance to get back in the Game's Arrowhead one

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Speaker 1: of your favorite venues in the National Football League. It's unique.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's unique because of first of all, I

529
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Speaker 1: mean they put but they put it in the Royal

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Speaker 1: Stadium right there in a huge parking lot. It just

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Speaker 1: sits on concrete. It's a huge, huge parking lot. And

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Speaker 1: it's some of the best tailgating in the world. Some

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Speaker 1: of the best tailgating ever, you know, right there in

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Speaker 1: arrow the best tailgating in the leagues at lambeau Field.

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Speaker 1: But Kansas City is close because they've got so much space,

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Speaker 1: you know, and then they've done it. They've done it

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Speaker 1: there for years. But inside it's really loud. It was.

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Speaker 1: It was the loudest outdoor stadium in the league until

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Speaker 1: Seattle built that thing to concave and push the noise

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Speaker 1: back down inside. I was a little underwhelmed by Seattle

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Speaker 1: and the noise. I'm gonna be honest with you. I

542
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Speaker 1: mean it was loud, and it was I mean, it

543
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 1: was a playoff loud during and early in the season

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Speaker 1: regular season game. But it didn't like I was expecting,

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Speaker 1: like my ear drums to be on fire. I was expecting,

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Speaker 1: like real and I was like, this is cute, but

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00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: I mean not, we expect to be scared. No, I

548
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 1: was just expecting to be overwhelmed by a wall of sound,

549
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 1: and that didn't happen for me. But Arrowheads loud. Arrowhead

550
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Speaker 1: smells the way I want my whole house to smell.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible when you are pulling down seventy and you

552
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Speaker 1: start getting close and you can see it crack your

553
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: windows because the smell of just like barbecue and grills,

554
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 1: and I wish I could bottle it and sell it. Man,

555
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: it's the best smell in the world. They know what

556
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Speaker 1: they're doing when their tailgat there. They absolutely know what

557
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: they're doing, and they've done it for a long time.

558
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: And they tailgate in the summer, they tailgate in the

559
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Speaker 1: dead of winter. They're going to tailgate there. Yep, they'll

560
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 1: be there, and they're gonna be loud, and they're gonna

561
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 1: be into it for the whole game. Definitely one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite venues, even though their press box is so

563
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: high up it makes me incredibly motion sack. The worst

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Speaker 1: vistors locker room in the league. Really, Oh, I didn't

565
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 1: know that. It's absolutely horrible down that little tunnel. It's horrible.

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Speaker 1: It's the worst, the absolute worst. You feel like you're

567
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,919
Speaker 1: dressing in a prison. Oh, it's not good. It's a

568
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 1: very interesting it's done on purpose stadium design. I will

569
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 1: say as far as like lower concourses go very odd,

570
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 1: bit of a mazed situation and it's like one one

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Speaker 1: way of traffic. So if you've got someone coming head

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Speaker 1: on you're walking down a hallway, I mean, you just

573
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 1: have to fight in the middle. And most of the

574
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Speaker 1: time when I was coaching and was going up to

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Speaker 1: the press box, I would beat Casey Wolf walking, you know,

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Speaker 1: down that hallway all the time. And you know, I'd

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Speaker 1: always high five and Hi Casey Wolf, high coach, you know,

578
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,159
Speaker 1: with high five and keep on moving coach. You're an

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Speaker 1: incredibly friendly opposing coach. I don't think Casey Wolf is

580
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: getting high fives from too many opposing coaches trying to

581
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Speaker 1: get where they need to go. Casey Wolf is like

582
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Speaker 1: t Rerec He's pretty well known around the league. Casey

583
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: Wolf has also been there for like forty years. He

584
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,919
Speaker 1: absolutely has He's a legend, all right, anything else you

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Speaker 1: want to add? Mac, Have I forgotten anything? I feel

586
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: like we've covered a lot of ground here. Well, I

587
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: just want you to take some cotton for your ears.

588
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 1: So it's so loud, it's going to overwhelm you. I

589
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: don't want your ear drums break in. I want to

590
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 1: be overwhelmed. That's I want to be overtaken by the

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00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: wall of sound. And I just don't think it's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen on this game. I

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00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 1: mean it's Sunday night, which is awesome. It's a big game,

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00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: which is awesome, But like I mean, it's not going

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00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: to be playoff level loud at Arrowhead. We've done playoff

596
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: loud at Arrowhead. That's a whole different ballgame. You beat

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00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: him and then it gets real quiet boom. That was

598
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: a lot of fun, it really was. That was so

599
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 1: much fun. We need to have fun again there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. I am hoping that the

601
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans are having a lot of fun and it

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00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: is not very loud at Arrowheads Stadium. This Sunday night

603
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Speaker 1: kickoff is at seven twenty pm, so that means that

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Speaker 1: Titans Countdown is live on Titans Radio at six o'clock pm.

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Speaker 1: We hope you'll join us. I'll be there reet, Brian

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00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 1: will be there, Mac of course we'll be there. Um.

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00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, the Titans are handing to Kansas City and G. E. H.

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Speaker 1: A Field at Arrowheads Stadium. That is the official name

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Speaker 1: and the only time I will say that, thank you,

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Speaker 1: because I'll never say it. No. I know, it's Arrowheads, Arrowhead,

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Speaker 1: thank you. I understand the sponsors are important, but it's Arrowhead.

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Speaker 1: Don't mess with it. YEP. I felt like I should

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Speaker 1: say it once, So there you go. For coach Mack,

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Speaker 1: I'm Titans. Thank you for joining us. A sister