WEBVTT - The OTP | Preview of Week 4 vs. Colts 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:13.480 This is the OTP, presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.639 Fire Bureau Health Plans is for those who make plans 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:21.120 for everything except themselves. We make it easy and affordable 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:24.520 for Tennesseeans who don't have a group or employer plan. 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:29.520 Visit FBHP dot com to learn more. With Amy Wells, 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:31.960 I'm Mike Keith, and we are so glad to have 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.640 you with us for this edition of the Official Titans Podcast, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.360 better known as the OTP. As we are back in 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:43.199 the AFC South preparing to go to Indianapolis this Sunday. 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.120 We'll actually be going at some point on Saturday. The 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:51.720 game is Sunday at twelve o two Central Time. That 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.280 means it is eleven o'clock Central time for Amy Wells 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.480 and Rhet Bryan with Titans Countdown on any of our 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.960 fifty Titans radio stations. And if you are going to 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.600 the game and you would like to get together with 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:12.000 some Titans fans, Titans cheerleaders, Titans mascot t rack, you 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:16.039 can do so. The Titans Road Rally. It's presented by 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.920 Old Smokey Distillery. There's a pepper rally on Saturday night 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:24.400 from seven to ten Eastern six to nine Central at 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:28.880 sixteen Bit Bar and Arcade and then tailgate party on 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:33.360 Sunday from ten am to twelve thirty eastern at the 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:37.560 Airloom right outside of Lucas Oil Stadium. So the road 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.560 Rally Weekend presented by Old Smokey Distillery PEP Rally at 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:45.240 sixteen Bit Bar and Arcade seven to ten Eastern on 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.680 Saturday night, and then the game day party at the 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.160 Airloom at Lucas Oil Stadium from ten am to twelve 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:56.720 thirty eastern on Sunday. A road rally a gathering spot. Yes, 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:01.520 I like when everybody can get together before the game, celebrate, 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.920 meet some friends. Well that's the only thing it's really 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:09.440 hard about this is very rarely do the Titans play 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.720 that close to home, because Indianapolis is about four hours away. 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.799 Atlanta's three and a half. Yeah, New Orleans isn't bad. 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.799 I think it's probably seven and a half to eight. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.960 The Ohio's aren't far. The Ohios aren't far at all. 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:28.560 Cleveland Cincinnati, Cincinnati is about the same distance, maybe just 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.440 a little further than Indianapolis. But we don't play them 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.880 every year. Now we're in the same division for thirty 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.720 plus years. Yeah, and that used to be an annual 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.960 trip that was really great. And I like Cincinnati very much. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.680 It was an easy trip, and Cleveland's not bad. It's 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:47.920 considerably further though. Yeah, Cincinnati and Indie are the two 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.200 that are very reasonable road trips. Just you can go 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.320 up and back in a day if you want to, 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.600 but we suggest going the night before, make a trip 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:00.000 of it. Then you can go to all of the festivity. Well. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.560 And thanks to Old Smoky Distillery for sponsoring those two 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:05.720 events for the fan base, and we know a lot 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.280 of you like to go up there. It's a it's 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:11.240 a great downtown. It's Amy's favorite trip because of the Combine, 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.280 and Amy continues to celebrate the fact that the Combine 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:18.440 will stay in Indianapolis. I feel like people think that 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:23.519 I like work for the Indianapolis like tourism Bureau. Yeah, 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:28.240 I don't. I just like the consistency of having that 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:32.720 event specifically in Indianapolis. I think that it's a downtown 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.280 that lends itself so well. So if it were in 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.040 Oakland every year, you would be for that just because 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.440 it was in the same spot every year. If it 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:44.880 was in Oakland, no, if it was as convenient as 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:50.800 what Indie provides Oakland would nobody because traffic is a nightmare. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.720 You are going to have a hard time finding anybody 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.400 who can do it better than Indianapolis because of a 0:03:56.600 --> 0:04:01.800 their downtown and be the medical facilities that are close 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.640 enough to be able to do all of the testing 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.200 for the players that they want to do. Nobody ever 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.320 said that it wasn't the best set up, right. It's 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.520 just the league wants to make more money off of it. 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.080 And I understand that, and really I get it, and 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.360 that's why Indy and for all the talk about all 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.720 Indie kept it, Indy kept it because they paid more money. Yeah, 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.680 they were getting, which God love him, and I appreciate that, 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.120 and I hope it stays there forever. It's not because 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.640 it is so convenient, and we get the new stadium here, 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.320 it'll be here well, and that would be very convenient, 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.000 and I appreciate that. Ease and convenience is what I like. 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.240 I would say this to all the OT people. It 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.320 is a great trip. It's a great trip. It's a 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.320 really nice city, and the people are friendly. I mean, 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.080 they want to beat us and we want to beat them. 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.040 We all get that. And their owners tweeting out today 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.560 trying to get the fans fired up. I mean, okay, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:59.800 so it's a rivalry, fine, but it's not nasty or 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.000 I mean, I don't find it to be Did you 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.520 want them to be primal? Is that the word he used? Primal? 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:13.640 Pissed off and primal? Yeah, it's I mean, yeah, whoa, yeah, 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:17.800 whoa is right? Whoa? That's he is quite a follow 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.719 on Twitter. Oh, he's a great follow on Twitter. Not 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.160 so great if you work in the public relations department 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.760 for the Indianapolis Colts. I don't think. Didn't you deal 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.800 with him regularly when you interned there? Not regularly, but 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:35.280 I did have. Well, he has very specific specifications for 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:39.000 how he likes his morning news delivered to him. Okay, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.520 in his news clippings that go out to the whole organization, 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:48.520 they are in a very specific manner. It is organized 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.880 in a certain way. He wants to know very specific 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.440 things about very specific teams, because this is how he 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.880 gets a lot of his news. It's organized in a 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.279 specific way. And you understand, let's stop for just a 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:02.800 second and explain what lips are. So people, Yeah, every 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.200 team in the National Football League, and I'm sure a 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.719 lot of other places have all of the news that 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.520 has been reported about a team in the last say, 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.600 twelve to twenty four hours put together in one document. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.480 So it's a lot of running through the ESPN's all 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.240 your beat writers, all news articles that have anything to 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.839 do with, say, the Tennessee Titans, are all compiled into 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.479 one document. There's a lot of different ways to do it. 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:32.039 Every team has certain quirks about the way that it's done, 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:36.080 the way that that's assembled. Indie has one of the 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:40.840 most thorough clippings documents I've ever seen. So they don't 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.719 just email links out. Oh no, my friends, do you 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.480 think they still even ten years later, they still print 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.719 everything out for him in this way? Oh, I'm sure, 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.800 I am sure of it. There was factsing involved. There 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:59.800 were I did that. It is your internship duties a 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.200 variety of places, and most interns that what you did 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.920 in Baltimore, as we did in Baltimore as well. Were 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.800 they as stringent about it? Absolutely not. No, just the 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.880 basic Yeah, just the basic kind of stuff, And the 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.160 same with here at the Titans. It's kind of your 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.800 basic form. It's the news of the day, and it's 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.320 all in a document, and you love to have it, 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:22.760 and it's very helpful there. It was organized, and it 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.320 was in a certain specific order, and you have a 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:29.440 table contents, and it has an appropriate cover sheet, and 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.480 you include a lot of other things about other teams, 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.440 because he wants to have a very well rounded perspective 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:40.000 of what's going on within an organization. And so that's 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.040 how he's getting his news. And I mean, you got 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.120 to respect it. I do. I mean, if if I 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.680 own the team and I wanted to take it as 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:53.960 seriously as possible, I see nothing wrong with being specific 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:58.040 about what you want to read. Because his time is valuable, exactly, 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.760 he just like Amy Adam strunk Hurt, I'm as valuable. 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.560 You don't want your owner to waste time looking for 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:09.000 something or reading something that has no relevance to what 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.239 they need to know for their day. And he wants 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.240 it to be the first thing that he consumes in 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.040 the morning. So he get it to him really early, 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:21.840 really really how early six am? When I was there. 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.560 He needed it by six Does he still lift weights 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.160 like he used to? Is that? Does he read it 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.200 while he works out? That? I don't know, because he 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.120 saw him consuming He was a nationally ranked powerlifter at 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.440 one point in his life. Yeah, and he's had some 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:38.240 back issues surgery, I can say, so, Yeah, it's a 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.920 little bit different. But I mean the pictures of him 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.800 back in the eighties like deadlifting and power cleaning. Yeah, 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.000 I mean it is no joke. It's no joke. He 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.600 is a renaissance man in that he has a lot 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:56.120 of interests that are just why. I mean he has 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:00.720 he has collections guitars, all kinds of things, tars, but 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.320 all kinds of other historical documents and relics and things 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.320 that he's just kind of gathered over the years. I mean, 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:11.120 he is a man of many interests. He's super eclectic, 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.800 which is really cool. And his number one thing is 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.320 the Indianapolis Colts though, and I mean he is all in. 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.280 There's nothing wrong all over the road in terms of 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.079 he wants. He has thoughts and ideas here and free 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.360 here's what I say about this. And I mean people 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:32.440 oftentimes joke about certain owners like a Jerry Jones or 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.840 the late George Steinbrenner with the New York Yankees, And 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.960 as you know, I'm a Yankee fan. And congratulations, by 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.600 the way, thank you George Steinbrenner was kind of nuts, 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.840 you know. I mean, he did some he did some 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.520 very strange things. But you know what, Amy, as a 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:53.480 Yankee fan, that's what I wanted, because all I'm interested 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:57.200 in is winning championships. I want I want the Yankee 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:58.760 I mean, I get up. The first thing I do 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.400 every morning is I get on my phone and I 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.120 find the box score and I'll sit there while I'm 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.320 watching TV at night going over the box score and 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.480 updates on the games and who they're bringing in from 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:11.600 the bullpen. I mean, I'm serious about it. I want 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:15.080 my owner to be as serious, if not more serious 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.439 than I am. So I have mad respect for an 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:23.240 owner like Earsay who says, hey, I mean, we want 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.200 to win the whole thing. This is our goal. We're 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:26.760 not getting it done. I mean a lot of people 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.080 poked fund at his video at the end of last year, 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.360 and I didn't because I get it. I mean, so 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.040 that's not normal to some people, but to me as 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.440 a fan. If I'm a Colts fan, that's what I want. 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.640 That's why I win. Our owner stands up and says 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.480 we want to win a championship, and then she spends 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.600 a whole bunch of money on a whole bunch of 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.160 players and coaches, buildings and stuff. That shows me she's 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:55.280 committed to winning a championship. Doesn't guarantee that you will, 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.560 But I want my owner to be as committed as 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.079 I am as a fan. And the thing about Amy 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:07.840 Adams Strunk that makes her so popular beyond just her enthusiasm, 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:12.080 her passion, her obvious complete buy into the organization. With 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:16.280 the amount of just the widespread amount of ways that 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.280 she has invested in this team, you get her without 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:24.439 the crazy, which you do, which she's crazy. She's very relatable, 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:29.600 she has incredible common sense. Yes, she is very She's 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.320 someone who you feel like you can have a conversation with. 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:37.240 But she's as passionate as earsay is. Absolutely she does. 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:41.160 It doesn't come across the same way, but she's like, hey, 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.880 we went a ball game. She's happy. We lose a ballgame, 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.480 she is not happy, right, And when the whole Ken 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.280 Wizzen Hunt thing was going down and he was three 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.280 and twenty, she was not happy. Or she said that's enough. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.320 Ye when the concessions weren't good enough for the fan base, 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.240 when she heard that over and over and over again, 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:03.240 at Nissan stage. She bought them out. Yep, she she said. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.360 If our fans are telling us this is unsatisfactory, I'm 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.600 not gonna sit here and and watch this happen. And 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.560 I think that is the reason we like working for 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.959 her so much, is you can say something to her 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:20.640 like that and she goes, Okay, do that. She's decisive. 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.160 That's better, she gets it done, what she wants to 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:27.319 win in everything. I love it. Yeah. I take her 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.440 over any owner in any sport, anywhere, all the time 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.160 of the time, mainly because she gave you a job 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.480 she did well. Yeah, and I appreciate that and continues 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:38.960 to give me a job. And that is also an 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.560 important thing. But really, if Amy Adam Strunk said, you 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.679 know what, I think I'm going to open a bread factory, 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:45.720 I would probably try to get a job at that 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.760 bread would Yeah, because I enjoy working for her as humans. 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.560 I've said on more than one occasion, these are the 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:55.959 good old days. Yeah, this is it. And from our 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.680 standpoint to six straight winning seasons and being in the 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.559 middle of it and you know, gonna go out and 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.280 fight the Indianapolis Colts right now, and neither one of 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.520 us are where we want to be right now. But 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.520 there's nobody that I know who has a brain that's 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:12.840 ruling either one of us out right now. Oh no, 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.559 so good. I mean it's gonna be that kind of game. 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.880 I love those games. The Titans added Mario Edwards defensive 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.679 linemen off the Jacksonville practice squad, lot Raven Clark offensive 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:28.200 linemen off the Philadelphia practice squad. They signed Joe Schobert 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.200 to the practice squad. He's a linebacker. Do you know 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:35.120 Joe Schobert's story? Not very well? No? Okay, So I 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.520 love this story. I mean, you know when I go 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:41.640 to the Senior Bowl, I love these backstories. Yes, you do. 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.360 That's my thing. And I want to apologize to the 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.240 OT people right now because we're gonna Uncle Mike's gonna 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:53.120 tell a story because because I love these stories. Okay, 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.640 So this Joe Schobert, he's an All American at Wisconsin. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.520 You know, Wisconsin has been good for thirty years since 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.719 Barry Alvarez got there. I mean they've been they've been 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.840 really good. They produced all kinds of players. So here's 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:09.079 another All American, Joe Schobert. So I'm reading about this 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:14.600 guy and he is so not the five star all 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.559 the way through, projected to be an All American. He 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:23.320 comes out of this place called Waukashaw, Wisconsin. It's town 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:31.000 of seventy thousand. Waukeshaw, Wisconsin is in Waukashaw County, which 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:36.040 is the same county that produced the Watt brothers. Oh, okay, okay, 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:41.080 they're from Colwaukee, Wisconsin. Colwaukee, Wisconsin. It's a great name. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.880 It's a great name. There have been other players, other, 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:48.360 various people in sports come out of that county, including 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:55.520 the man who invented spaghettios. No kids, true, So Joe 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:59.480 Schobert goes to Waukeshaw West. He's a record setting running back. 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.880 His junior year he rushed for two hundred ninety six 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.000 yards in the state championship game. He's also a great safety. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.800 He's one hundred ninety five pounds. He's two times All 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.480 conference on the basketball team, and he's third in the 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.120 state as a high jumper, which if you've ever done that, 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:15.680 you know how hard that is. You got to be 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.760 an athlete to be a high jumper. Yeah. So, no 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:25.200 scholarship offers nothing, MADA. He's gonna walk on at North 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:29.320 Dakota there's a coach in Kenosha, Wisconsin at Bradford High 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:34.720 School named Jed Kennedy. He's probably best known because he 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.360 was Melvin Gordon's high school coach, Melvin Gordon who went 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:41.120 on to become a great running back at Wisconsin and 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.360 then of course has been in the league for a 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.480 long time. He calls the Wisconsin staff and he goes this, 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.000 Joe Schobert, you need to get him to walk on 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:52.960 at Wisconsin. You need to make that happen. This guy 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.680 can really play. So they go get him before just 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:59.720 before he leaves for North Dakota. He goes to Wisconsin. Well, 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.760 he puts on fifty pounds. He's a special teams player, 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.840 he's a backup, then he becomes a starter, and then 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:10.320 he's an All American in twenty fifty sure from Walker. Yes, 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.720 so he gets drafted right at the start of the 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:17.440 fourth round by the Cleveland Browns. Second year, becomes a starter, 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:21.400 goes to the Pro Bowl, plays four years for the Browns, 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:25.160 signs a big free agent contract with Jacksonville, and has 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.920 a great year with Jacksonville in twenty twenty one hundred 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.760 and forty one tackles. Well. Of course, they change coaches 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.920 and guess who doesn't want him on the team. Yeah, 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.680 probably because he went to Wisconsin, So Noah urban Meyer. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.920 So they trade him to Pittsburgh. We played against us 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:47.320 last year and he had over one hundred tackles last year. Well, 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.480 he's going into the third year of that contract that 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:54.560 he signed in Jacksonville Steelers. They're saying, we can't afford it. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.120 So they let him go, and they let him go 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:01.520 right into free agency. They cut him on seventeenth, So 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.720 the first wave of free agency is already over at 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.000 that point, that big you know, the big running shoot 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.360 period where everybody goes out and signs the massive contracts. 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:12.520 So he gets cut right there. Well, now he's between 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.480 a rock and hard plays. He figures, I'm gonna wait. 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.480 Denver signs him on August the fifteenth because they've got injuries. 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:24.040 But if you've seen Denver's defense pretty good, they just 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:27.280 need him because they have some guys injured. And so 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.760 after eight days they say, well, we're you know, you're 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.679 a veteran, we're gonna let you go. And so he 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.040 hasn't been playing football for the past five weeks. Well, 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.080 now he's on the Titans practice squad, and there is 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:43.840 a reasonable shot that Joe Schobert is going to be 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:48.840 activated on Sunday, might even start who knows, who knows, 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:51.800 But I mean, we've seen those sorts of things happen 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:53.720 with Terrence Mitchell and whatever. I mean, we'll see it 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.600 may not, but we'll see. But theoretically it's out there 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.800 that he could be playing against the Indianapolis could on Sunday. Joe, 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.119 what a wild ride. Well, so, the reason I found 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.080 his story and got so interested in him and have 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.080 always been a fan is because he was such a 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.400 good guy at the Senior Bowl. He was a lot 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.320 of fun to talk to because he's had all this 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.120 stuff going. So when he gets here, I requested an 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:18.560 interview with him and he was gracious enough to grant it. 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.800 And so here he is Joe Schobert talking to the 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:25.159 OT people more specifically me, but threw me to the 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:34.919 OT people are the OT peol. So you have played 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.280 against the Tennessee Titans six times in your career for 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.280 three different teams. Is it a little odd to be 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.480 part of the Tennessee Titans after facing them so many 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.520 times on the field? Yeah. I think the weirdest thing 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.080 is when you get into the building and you see 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.720 the day to day operations, he said, this side of 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:53.560 the team in the locker room and the meeting rooms 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.479 and the cafeteria, and it's just different because, like, especially 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:58.160 when you're a division arrival, like when we're in jackson 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.800 When I was in Jacksonville, it's like aimless gray faces. 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:02.960 You hate these guys at big rivals, and then you 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:04.879 just make them up to be like people who aren't 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:06.240 just like you, and then you pop in the building 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.679 like Matt, everybody's cool, they do things good here, Like, 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.840 it's definitely interesting to be part of the environment. How 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.959 much has it helped you stepping in because you had 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:16.919 to do the same thing in Pittsburgh last year in 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.520 training camp when you were traded from Jacksonville to the Steelers. Yeah, 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:22.760 I think I've I mean, this is my eighth different 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:24.840 scheme I've had to learn in seven years. So I've 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.480 got a lot of training and learning new stuff. And 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:33.320 thankfully for me the package this week for the mentally, 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:35.760 I'm able to start picking it up pretty quickly. I 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.720 got a lot of time with Zach, the insistent linebackers coach, 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:40.800 and just one on one time being able He's really 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.560 helped pulling me along, getting things installed, making sure I'm 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.080 dotting my eyes and crossing my teas before I get 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.720 out here on the practice field. All right, So you 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:51.680 had eight days in Denver, but otherwise you haven't been 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.159 with a football team since then. Is it hard to 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.280 get back in that Maybe not football shape, but just 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:01.119 in that mode? Yeah, Like nothing simulates playing football like. No, 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:02.840 I'm a train like I've been training and working out 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:05.479 the whole off season. I've been up in Denver at 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:09.520 altitude like working out, breathing heavy. But nothing no matter 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:11.840 where you go, if I wouldn't Sea level, if I'm 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:13.720 up in the mountains playing football, you can't replicate it. 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:15.080 As soon as you got on the field, you start 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.480 getting that cotton mouth. You start to see yelling, communicating, 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:19.639 run around, hitting people one hundred miles an hour, and 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.080 it's something you have to get adjusted to. But I mean, 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:23.679 at this point in my life, I've got a lot 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:25.560 of a lot of miles on the legs playing football. 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.040 So they just need to knock the rest off and 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:29.600 get back at it. You've got a lot of success. 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.120 Started in this league for five years, five straight years 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.720 with one hundred plus tackles. Knowing what your resume says, 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.160 it would seem like this offseason would have been hard 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.480 for you based on the fact that you've done a 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:44.000 great job everywhere you've been. Have you stayed positive? Yeah, 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:45.720 I think I've just got to take what life gives you. 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:48.679 I mean, the way I got released in Pittsburgh last year, 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:50.320 it was kind of behind the eight ball and free agency, 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:52.840 so there wasn't a lot of opportunities. So just take 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.040 it as a positive and the fact that I can 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:56.680 work out at home, I can see my family every 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:00.720 single day from April until I got here and be 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:02.680 able to just enjoy those moments and just keep ready 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:04.199 to stay ready for when I get the call, so 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:05.800 I know that wherever I go, I'll be able to 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:07.560 contribute and help the team in any way I can well. 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:09.119 On the bottom line, too, is you did it the 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:10.960 hard way coming out of high school. So this is 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:13.520 just sort of going back to those roots for you, 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:16.040 isn't it. Yeah, definitely. I mean, once you're a walk on, 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:17.800 you're always a walk on, So you care that mentality 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:19.400 wherever you go on a football field to the rest 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:22.000 of your life. And Wisconsin is a huge a great 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:24.760 tradition of walk on is just being not even just 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:26.240 the guys who made it to the NFL, but guys 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:28.679 who some of my teammates who have just gone on 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:31.040 and be super successful in their personal lives, and just 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:32.960 a badge of pride you carry with you and chip 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:34.439 on your shoulder that never goes away and it just 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:37.680 makes you appreciate where you came from. So the challenge 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:41.640 this weekend for the Titans is another Wisconsin man talking 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.520 about Jonathan Taylor. You guys missed each other by two 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:48.320 years in Madison. You've played against him twice. You're on 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:50.440 the field for a game where he gained two fifty three, 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:53.919 so you know exactly what he's all about. What stands 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.119 out about Jonathan Taylor. I mean the first thing is 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:58.320 to speed. I mean I remember when he came to Wisconsin. 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:00.520 Ever just talking about I tend to one hundred meter 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:02.480