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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans road trip continues. That's the head coach of

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Speaker 1: the Titans radio broadcast, Dave McGinnis. I'm Taylor Zarzer. You

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Speaker 1: don't see Jack and Max, but they are here. They've

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Speaker 2: Well I heard one yesterday, so we're two for two

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Speaker 2: for fire alarms. But this is a beautiful setting right here.

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Speaker 2: I mean when I saw where we were going to

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Speaker 1: You know, coach in basketball, hockey, and baseball, those teams

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Speaker 1: all week before they play the Atlanta Falcons. What do

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Speaker 2: Is, Well, I mean it's important. This is a young

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Speaker 2: time on task and time on task in football, Sooner

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Speaker 2: other thing too, Taylor. You've got to put these players

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Speaker 2: I like what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Coach, it used to be, I mean, you've

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Speaker 2: used to be everybody and you would go away for

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Speaker 1: No, it's not.

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Speaker 2: It's a different world. But being gone and being out

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Speaker 2: Well, it was I mean it was a preseason game.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, a lot of people that watched it were

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Cam finding Calvin Ridley three times on that drive

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Speaker 2: And the other thing that he did, he got jumped

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Speaker 2: Now back to the OTP.

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Speaker 1: You're always gonna have players that get banged up in

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Speaker 1: So there you go. There's Coach Max's breakdown of what

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Speaker 1: Out goes coach mack incomes Denard Wilson into his chair.

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Speaker 1: How are we feeling into year number two?

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Speaker 4: I'm feeling great. I'm very confident going into this year.

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Speaker 5: The players have been really receptive, you know, of the

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to last week. Let's start with

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Speaker 5: Well, I think we started all a little slow. We

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Speaker 5: ultimately we made the guys kick field goal. We played

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Speaker 5: But overall, you know, it was it was an average performance.

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Speaker 1: It feels like there's a lot of balancing of keeping

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Speaker 1: You've been around this league for a long time. You've

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Speaker 5: And you know, I think everybody's having a good time.

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Speaker 1: Any big difference for you coach and teaching your players

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you know, last week going into practice, you

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Speaker 1: How different are the philosophies of the Tampa Bay Buccaneer

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Speaker 5: Oh, it's very similar, honestly, different personnel, different style quarterback.

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Speaker 1: How much are you teaching? How much are your coaches

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Speaker 5: You know what, I think our position coaches do a

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Speaker 1: I've always wondered this. You're doing a lot of instructing

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Speaker 1: How about you, how do you train to call the game?

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Speaker 1: You spend a lot of time as a position coach

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Speaker 5: Probably still in the league as Todd Bowles. That's why

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Speaker 1: I know how much you love Jeffrey Simmons, de Andre

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Speaker 5: Amani Hooker has taken another step. I think that he's

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Speaker 1: You're building a football team, everybody with the Tennessee Titans

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Speaker 5: We're excited to kick it off, but we still have

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Speaker 5: I enjoy Nashville. I will go to the twelve thirty. Okay,

436
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Speaker 5: So that's what got you know, when people come in town,

437
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Speaker 5: I always take them there. But I love I love Nashville.

438
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Speaker 5: You can find great food everywhere. It's always something to do,

439
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Speaker 5: and it's you know, it's just a lot of people

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Speaker 5: that's that's coming into the to the city.

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Speaker 1: You find any Maryland Terrapins in Nashville anywhere, Yes, it's

442
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Speaker 1: a few. I called your Music City Bowl win two

443
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Speaker 1: years ago on TV and the team look good. I

444
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Speaker 1: know you're still a proud Terrapin. I know it's been

445
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Speaker 1: a long time. I still can't get used to you

446
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Speaker 1: guys being in the Big Ten though.

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Speaker 5: Yeah you know, I was an acc guy. Yeah, I'm

448
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Speaker 5: not used to it. It is different, but I'm a

449
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Speaker 5: huge Maryland fan. I think Mike Loxley is a hell

450
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Speaker 5: of a football coach. He does a great job of

451
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Speaker 5: developing young men and you know, I can't wait to

452
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Speaker 5: see them play this year.

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Speaker 4: I think they're going to surprise some people.

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Speaker 5: You know, they got some good young talent and hopefully

455
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Speaker 5: we win a Big Ten.

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Speaker 1: He's a great man. It's one of my favorite people

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Speaker 1: to talk to. Okay, last thing for you before I

458
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Speaker 1: let you go. I always see you in the building

459
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Speaker 1: and I do wonder if you have any free time

460
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Speaker 1: to yourself to do anything else. Do you have a hobby,

461
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Speaker 1: Do you have something you do to completely get away

462
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Speaker 1: from football, and if so, what is it.

463
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Speaker 4: I like to travel on the off season. I will

464
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Speaker 4: say I like the golf, but I'm terrible at it.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 5: You know, I can go as long as I don't

467
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Speaker 5: lose a lot of balls. I'm okay, But you know,

468
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Speaker 5: and then I just like being around my family.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: I like going back home to Maryland, saying my brother

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Speaker 5: and sister and my dad and all my cousins and

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Speaker 5: things of that nature.

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Speaker 4: It is just being around people that I love. This

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Speaker 4: is what I like to do.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome, Coach, you are connecting to those young men

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Speaker 1: out there. It's really fun to watch you. Thanks for

477
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Speaker 1: doing this with us.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Now, Coach, we just listened to Dinard and what he

489
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Speaker 1: had to say about the defense's performance, and overall just

490
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Speaker 1: where he is to fly going into this week's practices

491
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Speaker 1: against the Falcons. In the game on Friday night, Let's

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Speaker 1: go back to the Buccaneers game. What did you think defensively.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I thought the first unit was the

494
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Speaker 2: first unit was fine. And look, I've graded a thousand

495
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Speaker 2: run plays in my in my career as a code.

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Speaker 2: Grading the run defense is the easiest thing in the

497
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Speaker 2: world you can do. It's a zero sum thing. You

498
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Speaker 2: either get a plus or a minus. And what it

499
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Speaker 2: has to be everybody has to work in conjunction with

500
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Speaker 2: one another. But you got to get displacement from your

501
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Speaker 2: defensive front. They've got to displace the offensive line back

502
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Speaker 2: towards when they where they came from. The other thing

503
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Speaker 2: that has to happen is your second and your third

504
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Speaker 2: level have to have correct run fits and they have

505
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Speaker 2: to they have to fit on time. You know, they

506
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Speaker 2: were running a play called the single back power. Oh

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Speaker 2: when it got later in the game. Let's talk about

508
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Speaker 2: later in the ballgame. You got misfits up front, which

509
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Speaker 2: is easy to grade. You've got misfits from the second level,

510
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Speaker 2: which is which you easy to grade. And you've got

511
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Speaker 2: contain issues from the back end, which is easy to grade.

512
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Speaker 2: And so look, it's either you do it or you don't.

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Speaker 2: On defense with the run, I've been involved with with

514
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Speaker 2: some number one run defenses in the National Football League.

515
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Speaker 2: But the grading system for the run game, there's no

516
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Speaker 2: nuance to it. You either get it done or you

517
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Speaker 2: don't and it and they weren't fitting it up right

518
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Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 4: They just weren't.

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Speaker 1: Now, they didn't have Jeffrey Simmons, they didn't have and

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Speaker 1: Andre Sweat.

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Speaker 2: Having those guys, those guys will make a difference. I'm

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Speaker 2: talking about the guys that are trying to earn a job. Sure,

524
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Speaker 2: trying to earn a job, and so that that's that's

525
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Speaker 2: up to them, and it comes it comes down to

526
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Speaker 2: being able as a defensive lineman. I know what kind

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Speaker 2: of I know what they're being taught, but you got

528
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Speaker 2: to be able to shock and shed. You got to

529
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Speaker 2: get off. And then when they start pulling people, which

530
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Speaker 2: everybody's going to do, you've got to replace replace correctly.

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Speaker 2: But as I said, that's a zero sum event. It's

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Speaker 2: very easy to grade and you have to have depth.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's your point. Well, that's the that's the key,

534
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Speaker 2: and everybody needs to keep in mind this is a

535
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Speaker 2: rebuilding football team, and so that's what you're trying to develop,

536
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Speaker 2: not only trying to develop front line, but the good

537
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Speaker 2: teams in this league you're able to develop depth. And

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Speaker 2: the only way you develop depth, I mean it's a

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Speaker 2: talent acquisition event.

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Speaker 1: If you were to single out a player or two

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Speaker 1: defensively for a good performance on Saturday night, who would you.

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Speaker 2: Mention Cedric Gray and James william I really liked the

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Speaker 2: way those young linebackers were fitting up. Plus they were

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Speaker 2: going downhill. The thing that I always look at with

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Speaker 2: young players are they are they pulling the trigger or

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Speaker 2: do they have Do they have a quick K and

547
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Speaker 2: d are they not? You know what you want to

548
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Speaker 2: stay away from is guys at the second level we

549
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Speaker 2: call cameras shutter guys where the old the old camera

550
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Speaker 2: opens and closes real, real slow. Those guys will go

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Speaker 2: get it. I really like the way those two young

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Speaker 2: players at linebacker came on.

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Speaker 1: I want to give a shout out to to Isaiah

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Speaker 1: Rakes and to Timmy Horn on the defensive line.

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Speaker 2: Good good, good idea.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they both had a good performance. We called

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Speaker 1: their names out quite a bit on Saturday night. If

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Speaker 1: in all your time in the National Football League, coach

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Speaker 1: we talked to coach Wilson about this, but where would

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Speaker 1: you like to see improvement from preseason game one the

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Speaker 1: preseason game two?

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Speaker 2: So those young guys that are trying to make a team. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, there's there's a lot of inexperience on that

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Speaker 2: defensive front. You know behind the three guys that we

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Speaker 2: talked about, Sebastian Joseph Day, a big you know, a

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Speaker 2: big sweat and then Jeffrey Simmons, there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: inexperience behind it. I also thought, just on the edge

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Speaker 2: talk about young guys, I was impressed with Fami. I thought,

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Speaker 2: fammy Ola days. Joe showed up. He's got speed, he's

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Speaker 2: got range. I liked what he did. But those young

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Speaker 2: guys that are going to try to make this football

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Speaker 2: team at the back, on the defensive front and at

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Speaker 2: linebacker got to do better.

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Speaker 1: All right, there you go, there's what coach has to

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Speaker 1: say about the offense and the defense. Would you like

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Speaker 1: to give a breakdown of special team? So about kicking

577
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Speaker 1: and punting? Now, were are going to hear from Joey Slide,

578
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Speaker 1: Johnny Hecker, and Morgan Cox here, and you have said

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Speaker 1: repeatedly that you don't know anything about kickers.

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Speaker 2: We don't know anything about them.

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Speaker 6: Here.

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Speaker 2: Look, I've been with some great kickers in my career.

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Speaker 2: I know nothing about it. I'm not going to sit

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Speaker 2: here and say that I'm an expert on kickers none.

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Speaker 2: All I know is any kicker that I had. First

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Speaker 2: of all, I always hired the best special teams coach

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Speaker 2: I could. Yeah, and then my coaching point for field

588
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Speaker 2: goal kickers has put it between those two.

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Speaker 1: Yellow things like that.

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Speaker 2: I want that, That's what I want. And then also

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Speaker 2: the punter, I want somebody that has got all the

592
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Speaker 2: clubs in the bag talking about your golf game, that

593
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Speaker 2: can can well directional punt that thing and can cut

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Speaker 2: the field in quarters so you can get good coverage

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Speaker 2: we got. And plus, look, Morgan Cox, if we could

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Speaker 2: do a thirty minute dissertation on how he gets the

597
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Speaker 2: laces back there perfectly for where they want to kick it.

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Speaker 2: But coach Mack is not going to be an expert

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Speaker 2: because I know nothing about kickers.

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Speaker 1: Well, you just made a golf comparison. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: the golf course with the specialists. All right, as promised,

602
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Speaker 1: here they are the specialist. I had to come to

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Speaker 1: the golf course to find them. Shocker Joey Sly, Morgan Cox,

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Speaker 1: Johnny Hecker, also known as the Kicker, the long snapper,

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Speaker 1: and the new punter for your.

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Speaker 6: Tennessee slash holder.

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Speaker 2: Slash holder.

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Speaker 6: That's true. I'm sorry, I dont want to. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 6: a big yes. Don't want to.

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Speaker 1: Don't want to Short also known as the enemy. Morgan

611
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Speaker 1: and Me versus Hecker and Sly. By the way, Morgan,

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Speaker 1: since you've been here, you're the experienced vet on this team,

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Speaker 1: and you're welcoming in. You're a fellow specialist. You've said

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Speaker 1: very quickly that the three of you have built a

615
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Speaker 1: great connection.

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Speaker 7: Well have I mean, all three of us have been

617
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Speaker 7: in the league a while, so we have a lot

618
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Speaker 7: of experience. But you know, when we got together, I

619
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Speaker 7: mean it was very easy to tell early on that

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Speaker 7: we were going to be uh close knit guys. And

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Speaker 7: the golf course helps, you know, uh, throwing us out

622
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Speaker 7: there and competing and stuff is a lot of fun,

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Speaker 7: a lot of back and forth. It's great.

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Speaker 1: Joey's the young buck of the group, but also a

625
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Speaker 1: veteran in the league. You kicked a couple of sixty

626
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Speaker 1: plus yarders last year. Joey, Why the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 8: I think the opportunity came up in free agency. Obviously,

628
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Speaker 8: Bones being here was a huge plus. He's a great

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Speaker 8: special teams cordinator. There's a lot of respect around the

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Speaker 8: league for him. So when the opportunity presented itself, and

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Speaker 8: then you've got Morgan here sixteen years of veteran experience,

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Speaker 8: and then Johnny was included in that package as well.

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Speaker 8: I feel like you asked a lot of the kickers

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Speaker 8: around the league where they'd want to be, and I

635
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Speaker 8: know they're probably happy where they're at, but a lot

636
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Speaker 8: of them would also want to be in Nashville as well.

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Speaker 1: Johnny, You've had a terrific career, winning a World championship

638
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Speaker 1: with the Rams, did well with the Carolina Panthers. Tell

639
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Speaker 1: me about coming to Nashville and how this opportunity happened.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, much like Joey, I mean, you look from the

641
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Speaker 9: outside of the pieces assembled in the special teams room

642
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Speaker 9: and it's just a no brainer. Great spot to be,

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Speaker 9: awesome fan base supporting the team, a young hungry organization

644
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Speaker 9: to kind of flip the tides and really build on

645
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Speaker 9: some success moving into a new stadium with a number

646
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Speaker 9: one overall quarterback, and I just want to be a

647
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Speaker 9: great part of that, be a key contributor to the

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Speaker 9: team's success and do what we can to just impact

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Speaker 9: the game. Our third event.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you more about what you just said,

651
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Speaker 1: because you just said it's a young, hungry, energetic team

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Speaker 1: that's moving into a new stadium in two years. You've

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Speaker 1: seen all of that happen in the National Football League,

654
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: move into a new stadium like you did in Los Angeles,

655
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: a young energetic team that ultimately ended up winning the

656
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, as you did with the La Rams. Talk

657
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: about the process of building that and how much energy

658
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: is in the building right now with the Titans. It's great.

659
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 9: I mean, it's it's you can't you can't miss it.

660
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 9: Everyone is just hungry. There's a lot of guys that

661
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 9: are just eager to improve, you know, young guys that

662
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 9: are developing. Coaches that are doing a lot to invest

663
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 9: in the young guys, bring them up in leadership leadership positions.

664
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 9: You know, they've done a great job in the front

665
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 9: office of bringing in some veteran guys from around the

666
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 9: lead to contribute and just do our best to empower

667
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 9: the young guys as well to take over this team

668
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 9: and make it theirs. And having a first overall pick

669
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 9: that walks into the locker room and has that instant

670
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 9: command sure helps.

671
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: So I'd love to see that.

672
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 6: With cam Morgan.

673
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: Since we're on a golf course, I ask a lot

674
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: of golfers this question all the time. Is it harder

675
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: to win the first time or is it harder to

676
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: win again and again? So let me ask you this

677
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: as somebody that was winning a lot with the Baltimore

678
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: More Ravens and then winning with the Tennessee Titans. Is

679
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: it harder to get there or is it harder to

680
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: get back there again?

681
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 7: I think both have its battles because once you get there,

682
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 7: everybody's coming for you and so, but there's also that

683
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 7: uphill battle of finding the right culture, finding the right team.

684
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 7: And I think young and Hungry, like we've talked about,

685
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 7: is the right recipe because guys come in and they're like,

686
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 7: we know how to work, we know how to get there.

687
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 7: We just need to come together as a team. And

688
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 7: so it's gonna be an exciting year, Like we've talked about,

689
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 7: just young, hungry and wanting to prove ourselves.

690
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: I think the loudest moment of the twenty twenty five

691
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: Titans so far, actually I'm certain of it was when

692
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: this guy kicked a sixty six yard field goal on

693
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: the back together weekend in Nissan Stadium a few weeks ago,

694
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: which would have been good from seventy five. I mean,

695
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: I just saw somebody make a seventy yard or in

696
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: a preseason game.

697
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 6: How's the leg feeling right now?

698
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 8: Leg feels great?

699
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 6: Obviously, shout out to Cam.

700
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 8: He had a huge ball the other day and has

701
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 8: definitely put himself at the top of the postol. And

702
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 8: then I know there's a lot of hungry kickers that

703
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 8: are waiting to get an opportunity to hit from seventy

704
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 8: as well. So we might be able to see some

705
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 8: more bullets flying throughout the last couple of weeks of

706
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 8: this preseason. See who can hit from seventy to seventy fives.

707
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 8: Just keep on going back to who ends up being

708
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 8: the champion of this one?

709
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 6: Now?

710
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: Calli Brian Callahan, the head coach of the Tennessee Titans,

711
00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: says that you can influence the way his mind works.

712
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: Once the Titans get into positive territory. Are you getting

713
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: in Cali's ear? Are you getting closer to him as

714
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: they get near the forty five yard line? What's your

715
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: kind of persuasion tactic when the Titans are getting into

716
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: the scoring area.

717
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's kind of death by a thousand swords.

718
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 8: I kind of walk around him as he's going through.

719
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 8: I can hear him talking to the offensive guys, but

720
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 8: I just kind of just chirping behind him, like.

721
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: Oh, hey, coach, we're good here.

722
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 8: Yeah, coach, we're good. And Morgan was doing the higher

723
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 8: math the other day and I went behind him and say, hey, coach,

724
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 8: we're good from here, and Morgan kept him He's like, Joe,

725
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 8: I think we're I think it's like an eighty or

726
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 8: a field goal.

727
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 4: Yeah.

728
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 8: I think my math was a little bit off on

729
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 8: that one, but uh yeah, I mean I just try

730
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 8: to instill some confidence on his side, knowing that, you know,

731
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 8: when he's making those decisions, we can figure out, you know, hey,

732
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:45,719
Speaker 8: do we need to get five yards and we get

733
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 8: fifteen twenty whatever? And ends up being But if I'm

734
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,479
Speaker 8: able to just keep saying like Hey, we're good to go.

735
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 8: Make sure that I'm communicating with Bones as well. He's

736
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 8: going to also install that confidence and Cali going forward.

737
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 8: So just letting him know constantly throughout the game that

738
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 8: we're good to go, never whenever they call upon me.

739
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: You've mentioned the special teams coordinator a couple of times.

740
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: His nickname is Bones Coach. Fossil comes over from the

741
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys and is regarded as one of the best

742
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: best special teams coaches in the game.

743
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 7: Why Morgan honestly like having been with him, uh, just

744
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 7: so far this season, I can tell he brings an

745
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 7: energy to the room really that makes guys really want

746
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 7: to play hard. You know, do their job certainly, but

747
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 7: but give that little extra little bit to like, uh,

748
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 7: you know, because they feel like they're they're part of

749
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 7: something special. And uh, you know love Bones of schemes.

750
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 7: I've seen him from AFAR being an AFC, He's been

751
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 7: in the NFC for a long time. But you know,

752
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 7: just that that fear that he instills in other teams

753
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 7: because teams do play so hard. His crew always play

754
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 7: so hard no matter what team he's with. And I

755
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 7: see why because he brings that energy to the room.

756
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: Okay, I gotta ask you something about Morgan. So I

757
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: just recently saw that somebody put out an you know,

758
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 1: all these off season predictions and they put together like

759
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: the greatest teams, and Morgan was on an All century

760
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: team of the twenty first century.

761
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 6: Is the best long snapper.

762
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: You're always catching his football, whether you're holding it what

763
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: you get full credit for by the way I love it,

764
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 1: or or if you're punting. What makes him such a

765
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: great long snapper.

766
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 9: He's consistent, you know, And it's not just what he

767
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 9: does with the football, it's who he is around the

768
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 9: locker room. He's an encouraging guy. He's always helping guys

769
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 9: be at their best. And I think when you have

770
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 9: a guy like that at a key position, who's you know,

771
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 9: he starts to play on a lot of crucial downs

772
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 9: and is a key contributor in some big moments in

773
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 9: football games. So he has him that's dependable, that has

774
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,399
Speaker 9: a track record of doing it for a long time.

775
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 9: You know, he's overcome a lot of adversity in his

776
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 9: career as well. You know, he's worked through a lot

777
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,280
Speaker 9: of things and has earned every single bit of recognition

778
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 9: that he's gotten. And I know he's probably the first

779
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 9: guy to say he doesn't really want it. He don't

780
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 9: really care about that attention, but it's very earned. And

781
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,399
Speaker 9: Morgan's a stand up guy that we all love coming

782
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 9: to work with every single day.

783
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 1: Can we work on the celebration when Heck pulls off

784
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: a great fake plant this year? Can we work on

785
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: what that celebration is going to be? Have we thought

786
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: about that yet?

787
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 7: We've thrown around a few things, but I don't know.

788
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 6: We'll see.

789
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: We're keeping that close to the You're not gonna reveal

790
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: anything yet.

791
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:13,919
Speaker 9: Yeah, sometimes you just got the spirit leader in the moment,

792
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 9: you know.

793
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 1: Have you got any ideas, Joey, No, I just let

794
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: the energy fall.

795
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 8: I think Johnny's got a good ability to just come

796
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 8: up with something on the spot. So I'm more excited

797
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 8: to see that after the faith than actually run on

798
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 8: the f.

799
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: Who is most obsessed with golf me included of the

800
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: four of us, I think it might be Joey.

801
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 6: Who do you think it is?

802
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 9: I'm going Joey, You're going joe Joey's got the bug

803
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 9: pretty hard.

804
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,879
Speaker 8: I got lucky this offseason not having the wife at

805
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 8: the house to make sure I was going straight back

806
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 8: home for that. There's a couple of times where I

807
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 8: offered up, hey guys, I'm gonna go play some golf.

808
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 8: You guys are good for it, and uh not to

809
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 8: throw the life under the bus, but they had to

810
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 8: go home to some priorities.

811
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:49,280
Speaker 4: So uh.

812
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 8: Obviously my wife's not with me when I was in

813
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 8: Nashville for a spring, but definitely wanted her there. But

814
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,439
Speaker 8: I will say my golf game did get a little

815
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 8: bit better.

816
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 6: So good recovery there.

817
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, he threw out.

818
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, he threw up many opportunities for us to uh

819
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 7: to go out. But yeah, like you said, we got

820
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 7: to have some uh gotta have some family time. But

821
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 7: but Joey loves to break down you know, movement and

822
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 7: exactly how you're supposed to swing a golf club and

823
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 7: strategy and uh yeah, he's definitely got the bug for sure.

824
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:15,280
Speaker 9: Yeah, still sucks.

825
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 6: I want to make this clear.

826
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: This is a football trip with a little bit of

827
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: golf included. It's not a golf trip with a little

828
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: bit of football. I just want to just wanted to

829
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: make that clear before we finish up. My partner at

830
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: Bryan who works with coach Mac and me on the

831
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: Titans radio broadcast said something I really like. He said,

832
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: we're building a championship level stadium next door, and we're

833
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: putting a championship level football on that field, and we're

834
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,280
Speaker 1: building that right now.

835
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 6: You like that? Yeah?

836
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 2: Absolutely.

837
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:45,399
Speaker 8: Yeah.

838
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 7: The energy in the building across all departments and everything

839
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 7: is really exciting to see what we're gonna have to

840
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 7: open the new stadium.

841
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 6: For sure, a team that gets better and better as

842
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 6: a season goes along.

843
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

844
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 9: I think you know, this offseason is all about just

845
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 9: building our process, making sure that whenever adversity hits or

846
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 9: whatever whatever comes throughout the season, we know what our

847
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 9: process is going to be like. And I love the

848
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,479
Speaker 9: process that we have right now on a special teams unit,

849
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 9: and the approach we have is going to let itself

850
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 9: to impacting the games in a positive way, bring in

851
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 9: some more wins.

852
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 4: Yeah.

853
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,439
Speaker 8: I feel like the opportunity here. People want to win here.

854
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 8: They don't want to win somewhere else. They really feel

855
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 8: like they want to get it done here. And I

856
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,839
Speaker 8: think the coaching staff and the front office has done

857
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 8: a really good job of bringing those people here to say, hey,

858
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 8: let's go ahead, grow some roots. Let's win some championships

859
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 8: here and a build an organization that we'd be proud of.

860
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: Would you do you want me to tell everybody about

861
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: my game winning Joey Slye call?

862
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 6: Do you to reveal that now?

863
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 8: You get to reveal it now? Or you can save

864
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 8: it for when it happens.

865
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: I mean I can just tell everybody right now, sly

866
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: Lets it fly, bulls eye.

867
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 6: Okay, we okay with that? Love it perfect.

868
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 8: I think Little Wind wrote that probably one of them problems.

869
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: He really, I am stealing that from somebody. Guys, It's been

870
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: so much fun to get to know all of you.

871
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 1: It's great to see the chemistry that the three of

872
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: you have. And it's gonna be a great season with

873
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 1: you guys. And the Tennessee Titans appreciate you.

874
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 6: Keep it up. Thank you, appreciate it.

875
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 2: Tighten up all right?

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Speaker 1: There you go. Your guy Johnny Hecker, by the way,

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Speaker 1: hits it a mile off the tee, the great punter

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Speaker 1: for the Tennessee Titans. Fun to catch up with all

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Speaker 1: of them. Coach. Two things before we go. One, tell

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Speaker 1: me the biggest goal when you go from preseason game

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Speaker 1: one to preseason game two, all week practicing against the

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Speaker 1: Falcons and then playing them. You are in charge of

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Speaker 1: the Titans. What is most necessary to do this week?

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Speaker 2: You want to flow. You want to continue the flow

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Speaker 2: that you had in that second possession on offense, that's

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Speaker 2: what you want. You want that flow. And then defensively,

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Speaker 2: I've said this before. I know Denard says it. I've

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Speaker 2: coached with all of these coaches for a long time

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Speaker 2: on very successful teams. These defensive coaches that they want

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Speaker 2: to stop the run and they've got you got to

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Speaker 2: get you just you got to get better at that.

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Speaker 2: That's important. Now, they weren't game planning anything, but as

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Speaker 2: I said, the run defense, there's and it's really easy

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Speaker 2: to figure out who's supposed to be aware.

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Speaker 1: Getting to be the voice of the Tennessee Titans is

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Speaker 1: one of the great thrills of my life. I have

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Speaker 1: to say, incredibly fulfilling. To be the voice of this

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Speaker 1: team and to get to work with you last Saturday

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Speaker 1: night was truly a dream come true to be on

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Speaker 1: this with you. We have a lot more to do,

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Speaker 1: my friend. I can't wait for game.

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Speaker 2: Number two now, Yes, sir, here we go.

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Speaker 1: That's Dave McGinnis, the head coach of the Titans radio broadcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Taylor's Arzer, filling in for the President of Everything,

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Speaker 1: Amy Wells. Here on the OTP