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Speaker 3: It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on what was a good day overall. Are you
Speaker 1: pleased with how the speech went?
Speaker 4: I am. I wasn't really sure how I was going
Speaker 4: to go. I practiced it multiple times. It took my
Speaker 4: time writing it out to try to get fifteen years
Speaker 4: of memories, thoughts, emotions, you know on a you know,
Speaker 4: a condensed speech was pretty tough. But yeah, I thought
Speaker 4: it went pretty well. I know there's probably plenty of
Speaker 4: people that I wasn't able to thank, and so.
Speaker 3: That kind of bothers me a little bit.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm just just bussed for the opportunity. I think,
Speaker 4: you know, you would have asked me fifteen sixteen years
Speaker 4: ago about this day and I would have probably laughed
Speaker 4: at you.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think at that time I was
Speaker 3: hoping to.
Speaker 4: Maybe play over an NFL Europe right until they disband
Speaker 4: the league, so I kind of changed my plans a
Speaker 4: little bit.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm just it's been a really good day,
Speaker 3: really good day.
Speaker 5: The fact that you were even thinking that playing in
Speaker 5: NFL Europe was a possibility shows how long your career
Speaker 5: has been. Yeah, you've really been around for a long time.
Speaker 5: When you started writing that speech, it had to have
Speaker 5: been like ten to fifteen pages, right, It's like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was.
Speaker 4: I kind of kind of did like a side list
Speaker 4: of I just wanted to make sure that I was
Speaker 4: right now people that came to mind, you know, kind
Speaker 4: of over the weeks and really months where I've kind
Speaker 4: of felt like, you know, I was just leading up
Speaker 4: to this day and so had a list and it
Speaker 4: just kind of took a little bit of time to develop.
Speaker 4: And and I never i mean, I never got like
Speaker 4: above A being English. So my writing skills and all
Speaker 4: that stuff's not the best. But thankfully my wife is
Speaker 4: very good with like proof reading, and she can just
Speaker 4: help articulate a lot better than I can. So there's teamwork.
Speaker 4: But you know, over time just kind of weeded it
Speaker 4: down to where I felt like it was, you know,
Speaker 4: a good speech, being.
Speaker 5: Able to just have the opportunity to process all those memories.
Speaker 5: I know, when you're going through the flows of football
Speaker 5: season and kind of the cadence that seems like al
Speaker 5: was like a wheel that never really ends, you know,
Speaker 5: because the off season just leads into training camp, which
Speaker 5: leads into the season.
Speaker 1: Being able to take.
Speaker 5: That time to really reflect, is that the first time
Speaker 5: that you've done that in your career, to really stop
Speaker 5: and think about every thing that you have experienced in
Speaker 5: its totality.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd probably say the last month or two has
Speaker 4: probably been that for me. You know, the moment you
Speaker 4: you kind of sit back and you kind of enjoy
Speaker 4: what you think you've done, like you know, making a
Speaker 4: Pro Bowl, right, and you kind of sit back on
Speaker 4: it and enjoy it. You can't you can't really do
Speaker 4: that because you know that there's always gonna be somebody
Speaker 4: else that they want to bring in. You might think
Speaker 4: it's competition, it might not be, but it's still somebody else, right,
Speaker 4: And so the moment you kind of sit back, relax
Speaker 4: and enjoy what you've quote unquote done, right, is the
Speaker 4: moment that that's when the league, you know, snake bite two. Right.
Speaker 4: So for the longest time, I just kind of kept
Speaker 4: my head down, grinding, grinding, regardless of what happened. If
Speaker 4: it was a great season, you know, so associated it
Speaker 4: didn't really.
Speaker 3: Matter to me.
Speaker 4: I just needed to keep moving on and pressing forward.
Speaker 4: And so when I knew, you know, that I was
Speaker 4: done and I wanted to do this, you know, just
Speaker 4: kind of thinking about what what memories, what stories I
Speaker 4: really want to put in there, because there's so many, uh,
Speaker 4: and there's some that would take me, you know, three
Speaker 4: four pages just to share a story, right, and so
Speaker 4: what are the ones that are quick, you know, one sentence,
Speaker 4: two sentences that you could share that are funny and
Speaker 4: things that I remember, and so, uh yeah, there's there's
Speaker 4: plenty I could easily put in there, but there's there's
Speaker 4: just so many you accumulate over the over the years.
Speaker 4: But I think the last month or two has been
Speaker 4: really good time of just reflection and actually being able
Speaker 4: to kind of just sit back and breathe, uh and
Speaker 4: not have the stress of even off season stuff, you know,
Speaker 4: OTA's and all that kind of stuff, and so just
Speaker 4: sit back, relax and just kind of enjoy everything. It's been.
Speaker 4: It's been really fun.
Speaker 2: How many Rob baronas stories could you.
Speaker 4: Have told plenty plenty? Yeah, there was stuff.
Speaker 1: Was just saying, do you remember when you came in
Speaker 1: here in two thousand and nine, Yeah, what your reaction
Speaker 1: was to meeting him for the first time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I know he was not far off of
Speaker 4: that record that game where it was like eight for
Speaker 4: eight ors.
Speaker 3: There's something crazy like.
Speaker 4: That, right, And uh so I know, like, man, this,
Speaker 4: I know this guy he's a stud.
Speaker 3: But he I mean, he got right to it.
Speaker 4: I mean it was I remember that first practice where
Speaker 4: Kenny and Model threw his snap back and I had
Speaker 4: the ball down and he was already telling me before
Speaker 4: he even kicked it, there's too much lean laces aren't right,
Speaker 4: and so he was he was telling me what I
Speaker 4: was doing wrong before he even kicked it right, And
Speaker 4: I remember thinking just I mean, Matt Prater when I
Speaker 4: was in Denver was particular and how he wanted it
Speaker 4: and all that stuff, and most are right, but Rob
Speaker 4: took it.
Speaker 3: To a new level.
Speaker 4: And because of that, I mean, I owe a lot
Speaker 4: to him, because with that it really helped me understand
Speaker 4: holding in so much more detail. And so I kind of,
Speaker 4: you know, laugh about it now and there's plenty of
Speaker 4: There's plenty of rock stories that I have, and so
Speaker 4: it's it's just crazy to think, yeah, you're going on
Speaker 4: nine years this fall, and and now to see his
Speaker 4: son London over at b A Academy, and I think
Speaker 4: he's one of the top kickers in the whole country.
Speaker 3: And so to see him.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, following in his in his dad's footsteps,
Speaker 4: and I always you know, I tell him like, you're
Speaker 4: not your dad, You're your London, right, you have the
Speaker 4: abilities of your dad, if not better potentially, but you know, be,
Speaker 4: be yourself, make a name for yourself. So uh yeah,
Speaker 4: there's there's plenty of rob stories for sure.
Speaker 5: You've held for so many different kickers over the years.
Speaker 5: Who was the most particular was really.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah, And I think that's what got me
Speaker 4: so detailed in on on holding right, And so it's
Speaker 4: it's kind of crazy when you know, when Ryan came,
Speaker 4: you know, I kind of told him about stuff and he,
Speaker 4: I mean, he was pretty particular, So there wasn't really
Speaker 4: you know, I felt like we just picked up pretty
Speaker 4: quickly and we're able to get right off to a
Speaker 4: really good start, and obviously the career that he had here.
Speaker 4: But then a lot of times when you got the
Speaker 4: younger guys coming in, you know, and I'm explaining the
Speaker 4: holding and all that stuff, in their eyes are just like,
Speaker 4: I'm like, you're you're the kicker, right, But I'm here
Speaker 4: to help you as best that I can.
Speaker 3: And this is what I've.
Speaker 4: Learned, and hopefully this will help you just to be
Speaker 4: that much better with the little details and doing your job.
Speaker 3: So Rob was definitely he was really particular.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, you're a very detail oriented guy anyway,
Speaker 5: just almost extremely detail oriented. I know that you would
Speaker 5: chart all of your punts you had, I mean, you
Speaker 5: had your speech down to the second today timed out.
Speaker 5: You just are very detailed and specific and into that
Speaker 5: sort of thing. How are you going to channel that
Speaker 5: now when you don't have punts to chart and stats
Speaker 5: to maintain?
Speaker 4: And yeah, I'm a spreadsheet Yeah, I'm kind of well,
Speaker 4: I mean I can make spreadsheets on anything if I
Speaker 4: decide to. So, you know, I mean, my daughter's in
Speaker 4: cross country, right, and so I made a spreadsheet on
Speaker 4: her meats and her time and to see if she
Speaker 4: was making improvements over the years. And then when she
Speaker 4: went the following year, just kind of comparing her times
Speaker 4: to I mean, you can make one about anything you want.
Speaker 4: But I will be relieved, you know, not doing the
Speaker 4: football stuff as much, because sometimes you know you'd have
Speaker 4: great days and you're absolutely loving charting those right and
Speaker 4: watching the film and think it's a great day. And
Speaker 4: then there's other days where I wasn't my best right
Speaker 4: and you have to watch the film and you.
Speaker 3: Have to see what you can do to get better.
Speaker 4: And typing in because I'm a perfectionist is probably my
Speaker 4: worst it's my best quality, but probably my worst quality
Speaker 4: being my worst own worst critic. And so you know,
Speaker 4: to have to type in those numbers, right, I mean
Speaker 4: it it was tough, you know, just having to do that.
Speaker 4: And but yeah, there's always there's always time for a
Speaker 4: spreadsheet and I'll find stuff. I mean, you know, I'll
Speaker 4: find something to spreadsheet on.
Speaker 1: Was there a moment in your career where you became
Speaker 1: Brett Kerr? And what I mean by that is you
Speaker 1: had to battle to get in the league? Yeah, to battle,
Speaker 1: you had to keep fighting, and then you got here
Speaker 1: and you're not having to fight to keep your job anymore.
Speaker 1: Suddenly you're one of the best guys in the league,
Speaker 1: So I'll repeat the question. Was there a moment football wise,
Speaker 1: personally otherwise where you became Brett kerr.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: I mean I could go back and look at games
Speaker 4: where I felt like I felt like all the work
Speaker 4: that I had put in to be really consistent directionally
Speaker 4: it just paid off, and it was like, Okay, I
Speaker 4: don't know if there's necessarily a moment or just like clicked,
Speaker 4: but I know he talked about, you know, getting cut
Speaker 4: coming here in my first game against Jacksonville, and I
Speaker 4: remember putting i think two out of the four or
Speaker 4: something like that, like out of bounds, and they were
Speaker 4: good punts, and I remember thinking, Okay, yep, I can
Speaker 4: I can do this here, right, And so just kind
Speaker 4: of building off that, and there were there were moments,
Speaker 4: you know, I was just kind of battling to be
Speaker 4: as consistent as I could possibly be. And then I think,
Speaker 4: you know, in twenty fourteen when Nate Catcer took over
Speaker 4: and we did that box drill, and it was just
Speaker 4: every day I'm setting up these cones, setting them up,
Speaker 4: and I'm trying to put it in this box, in
Speaker 4: this box, and it just became muscle memory and I
Speaker 4: remember that year having a pretty good year directional punting,
Speaker 4: and same thing with fifteen. I had a lot of
Speaker 4: cracks at it. Those were those are some rough years. Yes,
Speaker 4: I think there's eighty eight punts back to back years.
Speaker 4: But then from that point on, I just felt like,
Speaker 4: you know, this is what I am If I want
Speaker 4: to stay in this league and if I want to
Speaker 4: be the best, like I have to be really good
Speaker 4: at this particular type of punt and just kept grinding,
Speaker 4: just kept working at it, working at it, and finally
Speaker 4: to kind of have it payoff in seventeen with the
Speaker 4: Pro Bowl season.
Speaker 3: Then it was just okay, yep, got it.
Speaker 4: Just keep rolling, you know, and see how many we
Speaker 4: can stack and see what this becomes.
Speaker 1: It would be crazy to ask the majority of punters
Speaker 1: or players about how many times from the first time
Speaker 1: they ever punted a football until the last time you
Speaker 1: punted a football. You think, in terms of numbers, there
Speaker 1: were punts in between. But you're a charter, you're you're
Speaker 1: a guy who makes grafts. What would you guess how
Speaker 1: many times that you have actually punted a football in
Speaker 1: your life?
Speaker 3: Easily fifty thousand?
Speaker 5: Wow, WHOA, that's a much higher number than I was.
Speaker 3: If you're talking from high school all the way through
Speaker 3: high school.
Speaker 4: High school, I way over did it.
Speaker 3: College.
Speaker 4: I did the same thing because you're young, right right,
Speaker 4: you don't get sore, you know, Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 4: did the rough math, you know, And I talked about
Speaker 4: that in the speech, like it's probably about thirty five
Speaker 4: thousand here and then you're talking, you know, probably another
Speaker 4: fifteen to twenty.
Speaker 1: But you had developed your routine to the point where
Speaker 1: you knew for certain months of the year in terms of.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't punt, that's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Was it hard to let go when you've been this
Speaker 1: fanatical I'm gonna kick it. I'm gonna kick it to
Speaker 1: say no, I've got to back off.
Speaker 4: As far as during the off season, yes or no,
Speaker 4: because the season, training camp, the season.
Speaker 3: You know, that just it takes a lot out of you.
Speaker 1: Yea.
Speaker 4: And at some point your leg you know, it's like
Speaker 4: a pitcher, right, you know, just doing the same motion
Speaker 4: over and over and over and over again, and at
Speaker 4: some point your body is just like, give me a
Speaker 4: break for a second, you know, let me breathe, and
Speaker 4: then you just pick it right back up and do
Speaker 4: it again.
Speaker 3: And you do it so many.
Speaker 4: Times that there's you know, there's the muscle memory, and
Speaker 4: so over time you feel like, you know what we're
Speaker 4: done in whenever it is in the season, make a
Speaker 4: playoff run. And then if I don't even There's been
Speaker 4: times where I've shown up here, you know, in April
Speaker 4: and I'd yet to even touch football, and then you
Speaker 4: kind of you work into it, right, and I was
Speaker 4: okay doing that.
Speaker 5: So that routine, that cadence, is that something that you're
Speaker 5: going to have to maybe switch off a little bit
Speaker 5: or find something else too.
Speaker 4: Maybe I feel like I could find other things to
Speaker 4: kind of do it, But in that sense, it's, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, you get to a point where your body's
Speaker 4: just kind of like, I'm good, you know, I'm content
Speaker 4: not kicking the football again, and so but there, yeah,
Speaker 4: there's other things I'll find, you know, kind of a
Speaker 4: rhythm to do and consistency to do, because I mean
Speaker 4: that's just you know, I was never like a big
Speaker 4: technique guy or anything like that. It was just if
Speaker 4: this felt good and it looked good, you know, how
Speaker 4: can I duplicate that over and over again?
Speaker 1: And it's funny you listen to some guys like Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: who says he's retired, came out with a statement today says.
Speaker 5: He's still retired.
Speaker 1: He's still retired, but there's this little opening and everything.
Speaker 1: He says, I don't know that there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: Brett Kern controversy.
Speaker 2: It doesn't feel like it.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: No, I think just because you know my time in Philly,
Speaker 4: you know, I appreciate it. I appreciate that they called
Speaker 4: gaming opportunity to finish out the season there and experience,
Speaker 4: you know, that playoff run and you know, to win
Speaker 4: the NFC Championship game and you know, to go to
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl, and but to be apart from my
Speaker 4: family for those three months, right, and they came, I
Speaker 4: mean they came, they came to games, all that stuff,
Speaker 4: but just the day in, the day out, the things
Speaker 4: that you're used to and accustomed to with my family,
Speaker 4: you know, to be apart from that, I just I
Speaker 4: just don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: Well, and you had worked so hard to get ready
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4: Diet did everything. Yeah, I did every Yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: I you know, seeing people outside of the building a
Speaker 4: little bit more just to get my body ready, and
Speaker 4: I felt great. I felt like, uh, it was a
Speaker 4: good offseason, had a good training camp, good preseason, and
Speaker 4: you know, the business is the business, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: you know you've seen a lot of it. You know
Speaker 4: how it works. Uh, and that's just the way it is.
Speaker 4: And so I felt like I put forth so much
Speaker 4: of that effort that I wasn't just gonna just be
Speaker 4: done right. Let me at least give this season to
Speaker 4: kind of see what happens.
Speaker 3: And so I kind of had.
Speaker 4: One foot in the door, one foot out the door.
Speaker 4: But now both feet are out the door. So no controversy,
Speaker 4: no controversy. So uh, yeah, it's it's a great place
Speaker 4: to be in.
Speaker 5: Must feel really nice to have that peace of mind
Speaker 5: and that confidence in the decision that you've made.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, yeah, I feel very at peace. I've had plenty
Speaker 4: of conversations with my wife and even with the kids
Speaker 4: a little bit, and yeah, very at peace.
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Speaker 2: No, No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: There are other job, other job.
Speaker 4: That's true, So I haven't. I'm just kind of taken
Speaker 4: the time to just decompress.
Speaker 1: So you haven't given much thought to it. No, No,
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Speaker 3: Well, I know I'm retired.
Speaker 1: So one more cool thing I want to talk about
Speaker 1: today that I don't want to leave out. You go
Speaker 1: out on the football field after you do your press
Speaker 1: conference and they take.
Speaker 2: You over to the area what do we call it,
Speaker 2: the media patio, media port.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's very nice, and all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: see a video go up and it was a really
Speaker 1: well done video by a lot of people who took
Speaker 1: a lot of time to make it happen. Kind of
Speaker 1: tell the ot people what that video was of and
Speaker 1: what it meant to you.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, I met a lot to me obviously,
Speaker 4: I know that the time and the effort that they
Speaker 4: put into it to make it, all the splicing, all
Speaker 4: that stuff. It took a lot of time, a lot
Speaker 4: of effort to reach out to a lot of forward teammates, coaches,
Speaker 4: some of our really really good family friends. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: meant a lot because the time and effort put into
Speaker 4: it by everybody that did it right extremely special. So
Speaker 4: to kind of see all of that and the things
Speaker 4: they had to say, uh, the encouragement, the compliments. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and then to finish it off with you know, my
Speaker 4: my kids and my wife saying something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was really special.
Speaker 2: Who was the most surprising person in the video to you?
Speaker 4: I mean Dustin call Quit's Little Shenanigans those that's Dustin, right,
Speaker 4: I mean that's uh, you know, there's certain guys that
Speaker 4: you play against and you know that like the pregame
Speaker 4: and postgame conversation are going to be pretty entertaining. So
Speaker 4: guys like Dustin, Pat McAfee, those kind of guys, right,
Speaker 4: you were in for a good conversation right before and
Speaker 4: after a game, even during the game, honestly halftime. Uh
Speaker 4: so Dustin's was pretty good. Yeah, I mean to see
Speaker 4: Coach Lowry on there, and you know, Rob's Brothers was
Speaker 4: really special too.
Speaker 3: So there was.
Speaker 4: A lot of really really great teammates, a lot of
Speaker 4: really really good friends.
Speaker 3: That participated in that. And I'm glad that it was
Speaker 3: sent to me and that I'll always have it.
Speaker 1: There is a historical nature to your retirement based on
Speaker 1: your statistics. We could talk about that alone, to what
Speaker 1: you meant to so many people in this community because
Speaker 1: of the way you dove in and you're staying, but
Speaker 1: also because you're the last guy that can go from
Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher to Mike Rabel And that's an interesting I
Speaker 1: don't know what the word is. It's just an interesting
Speaker 1: perspective that you have. You played for Bud Adams, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you played when Tommy Smith was running the team. You
Speaker 1: played when Miss Amy became the owner. You know, you
Speaker 1: had Alan Lowry all the way forward to Craig Auckerman.
Speaker 2: It's almost is that almost mind blowing.
Speaker 4: In a way. I would say that if you were
Speaker 4: to ask, like your best, greatest, best accomplishment, whatever you
Speaker 4: want to call it, honestly playing for that many coaches
Speaker 4: and the GMS, GM uh, that's probably the biggest one,
Speaker 4: because every time there's a coaching change or a GM change,
Speaker 4: you're out to get your job again.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: It's not like I know some guys. You know, I
Speaker 4: was talking to Thomas Morstead, right, who played for the
Speaker 4: Saints forever. He only had Sean Payton, right, and so
Speaker 4: being able to have that relationship where you know, you
Speaker 4: get a new coach, you go from coach Fisher to
Speaker 4: coach Munchek.
Speaker 3: Well I kind of know munch right because.
Speaker 4: He was on the staff, right, But then he says okay,
Speaker 4: But then you bring in a totally new guy, coach
Speaker 4: wizen Hunt, and then with that comes a new GM.
Speaker 4: It's just there's always a lot of change, a lot
Speaker 4: of transition, a lot of roster turnover, and to kind
Speaker 4: of be able to grind through all that with the
Speaker 4: coaches and the gms, that's something something I'm probably the
Speaker 4: most proud of.
Speaker 5: Being able to stay in one city to experience all
Speaker 5: of that. Yeah, one place with your family here. I mean,
Speaker 5: we've all watched your kids grow up around this field.
Speaker 5: You've been able to share so many awesome opportunities with
Speaker 5: them and so many memories. Being able to have them
Speaker 5: here today to experience kind of the closing of this chapter,
Speaker 5: that's got to be awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, like like I said, you know, Bryce was
Speaker 4: six weeks old when I got here, and you know
Speaker 4: now he's being asked to work training camp this year.
Speaker 4: Right now, he's running camera. Yeah, with the headset and
Speaker 4: the camera crew out right, So you know, both my
Speaker 4: girls born here. Yeah, it's pretty special. And I see
Speaker 4: why a lot of guys that play here. I mean
Speaker 4: there's guys that haven't even played with the Titans that are.
Speaker 3: Moving here, right or staying here.
Speaker 4: It's such a great community, a great place to live,
Speaker 4: great place to raise a family. This is home, this
Speaker 4: is you know, this is where we've been for the
Speaker 4: last fourteen years, right, So this is where I want
Speaker 4: to be. This is the organization that is nearest and
Speaker 4: dearest to me. And there's a ton of people in
Speaker 4: this building that I love in respect, and so it's
Speaker 4: just feels appropriate to do this here and the timing
Speaker 4: of it, and I'm just very thankful.
Speaker 1: You did not dwell on the punt against New England
Speaker 1: in the playoff game which ended it. You never did
Speaker 1: at the time, but it certainly it is appropriate to
Speaker 1: talk about it now because in many ways it feels
Speaker 1: like the moment that best defines your career. From the
Speaker 1: standpoint that it's twenty five seconds to go in the game,
Speaker 1: number one job there is You've got to get the
Speaker 1: punt off. That's the number one job. Not only do
Speaker 1: you do that, but you put it in a place
Speaker 1: that nobody can catch it, and it bounds down is
Speaker 1: down at the one yard line. So it's a fifty
Speaker 1: eight yard punt, fifty eight gross, fifty eight net inside
Speaker 1: not only the twenty, but in the five. It takes
Speaker 1: ten seconds off the clock and it is the complete
Speaker 1: dagger through the heart at that moment. Even if Logan
Speaker 1: Ryan doesn't intercept that pass, Tom Brady ate scoring right there.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: So for your career, if that's the moment that they
Speaker 1: constantly roll over out of a thousand punts and the
Speaker 1: holds and the fake kicks and everything, if that's the money,
Speaker 1: the moment that they roll are you good with that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean I'm good without it. I mean
Speaker 4: I'm I'm blessed just to be able to say I
Speaker 4: played this long, right, Sure, And that.
Speaker 3: Was a moment.
Speaker 4: And the funny the funny part was is you know,
Speaker 4: I think PFF gave it like the worst punt of
Speaker 4: the week in the playoffs, right because they didn't have hangtime.
Speaker 3: It was right down the middle of the field, right.
Speaker 4: Everything you know that they judged their punts on it
Speaker 4: was not what they thought was good, Right, But in
Speaker 4: the situation. You know it's a nine man rush, well
Speaker 4: you only got eight to protect. So it's me versus Slater,
Speaker 4: who's you know, one of the best special teams player.
Speaker 2: To ever, ever, ever, ever.
Speaker 3: To do it. And so it was it was a
Speaker 3: one on one.
Speaker 4: Can I can I get the ball off fast enough?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: And it all I mean it starts with you know,
Speaker 4: bosnap perfect, bam, bam, we're out right and so and
Speaker 4: so I've worked on those situations before, like how can
Speaker 4: you get a punt because you want it on the
Speaker 4: ground to waste time, right, because the moment it stops
Speaker 4: the official, you don't know when the officials gonna blow
Speaker 4: it dead. So if you can get it on the
Speaker 4: ground quicker and just kind of rolling forward to keep
Speaker 4: that ball momentum. And it's different grass compared to turf, right,
Speaker 4: and so you kind of fool around with it. But
Speaker 4: you also know like, hey, this is a possibility that
Speaker 4: this could happen, right, and you understand what New England
Speaker 4: does situationally, so you knew that, hey, this is the game,
Speaker 4: this might be it, and so you just got it
Speaker 4: over the line, got it out quick. It was rolling.
Speaker 4: I said, that's an ugly punt, but that's exactly what
Speaker 4: I wanted. And Dane obviously did a great job krookshank
Speaker 4: of just being right there and there was.
Speaker 3: Enough time for here.
Speaker 4: It rolled long enough, which is what you want for
Speaker 4: him to be able to get down there and get.
Speaker 1: A ten second football play with twenty five seconds left
Speaker 1: on the.
Speaker 4: Clock, right, Because if you in that situation too, if
Speaker 4: you just punted out of bounds right, well, for me,
Speaker 4: I hit those piss missiles right, so you're looking at
Speaker 4: snapped the hold with the kick and by the time
Speaker 4: I hit a maybe a four second hand time, man,
Speaker 4: it hits out of bounds with a second and a half,
Speaker 4: you're looking at five and a half seconds, right, compared
Speaker 4: to that's another play, right, and that's another play.
Speaker 3: It might be two plays what you do?
Speaker 4: So uh yeah, that was And I thought like.
Speaker 3: That ended it.
Speaker 4: Tom's done like and then obviously he went to Tampa
Speaker 4: Bay and one.
Speaker 3: Well, but it ended.
Speaker 1: I mean, I saw you hit more beautiful punts than that. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: he had a seventy nine yard punt. But when I
Speaker 1: talk about being the best situational punter in the game,
Speaker 1: and I talked about Craig Hentrick was that before you
Speaker 1: and then we get to see you. It's not necessarily
Speaker 1: kicking the ball the furthest or even having the greatest net.
Speaker 1: Sometimes a twenty five yard punt is incredibly effective in
Speaker 1: a certain situation, right, Just like when you're nine to
Speaker 1: three quarters yards deep in the back of the end
Speaker 1: zone taking a snap. Sometimes just getting it out of
Speaker 1: there and getting a fair catch is the best possible result.
Speaker 2: That's that's what the job is. It's not just kicking
Speaker 2: it as far as you can.
Speaker 4: No, I mean, it's I mean, I think back to
Speaker 4: the cold game, right, the zero degree game.
Speaker 3: The balls are going nowhere.
Speaker 4: It's a rock, right, And who's back there for Kansas City,
Speaker 4: Tyreek Hill? Right when Tyreek Hill was back trying to
Speaker 4: house every single punt? Well, what did what did Coach
Speaker 4: Hoffman ask me to do? He hit and over end punt.
Speaker 4: All I want is to go thirty five yards and
Speaker 4: let's keep them. Let's keep that net right around thirty
Speaker 4: five and we'll be just fine. Four punts. I think
Speaker 4: I averaged thirty six that at thirty five, got a
Speaker 4: game ball out of it, and did what you were
Speaker 4: supposed to do, right, A game help win a game, right,
Speaker 4: And so did the average take a hit?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Did the net take a hit? Absolutely?
Speaker 4: But we won the game. And so I did what
Speaker 4: I was asked to do. And even you know, I
Speaker 4: remember playing Washington. I think it was a Saturday game,
Speaker 4: Christmas Eve or something like that. You know, there's fifteen
Speaker 4: seconds left, right, what do we call foul ball?
Speaker 3: What does that mean? Got to get out of bounds? Right,
Speaker 3: got to hit an out of bounds.
Speaker 4: And that's what's what I was asked to do, and
Speaker 4: I did it. And that's just kind of what I
Speaker 4: felt like, if you asked me to do something, I
Speaker 4: want to be able to deliver it. For you.
Speaker 5: Of all the thousands of punts that you have punted
Speaker 5: throughout your career, how many of them do you actually remember?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 5: How many of them give you questions stories attached to
Speaker 5: like that?
Speaker 4: I could probably go through and easily give you eighty
Speaker 4: percent of them?
Speaker 2: Wow? Seriously?
Speaker 3: Yeah, seventy eight whoa yeah? And there's game.
Speaker 4: There's definitely game, especially ones where I felt like I had,
Speaker 4: you know, really really good games. You know, twenty twelve
Speaker 4: at Houston, Right, we were backed up probably six out
Speaker 4: of the eight punts, right, and I remember putting five
Speaker 4: of them almost out of bounds, out of bounds almost.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's just there's stuff that you can remember
Speaker 4: because a lot of times I'm going through film, you know,
Speaker 4: anytime we'd play at a certain place, I'd want to
Speaker 4: go through and look at the film and just say,
Speaker 4: all right, you look at the weather report.
Speaker 3: What's it going to be? This is what I did
Speaker 3: here in such and such year.
Speaker 4: Whatever. But yeah, I remember a good amount of them.
Speaker 2: Wow, how are you not going to coach kicking?
Speaker 6: I might I was gonna say, because it sounds like
Speaker 6: you're in love for it from the coaches that you've gotten, Yeah,
Speaker 6: and from the process of doing the job. I mean,
Speaker 6: let's face it, you meet a lot of punters and
Speaker 6: they're just like, yeah, I just go out and kick
Speaker 6: it and do what I'm asked to do.
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's great. And everybody has different approaches,
Speaker 1: but your approach is so systematic it feels like it's
Speaker 1: a part of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, yeah, you've been been doing it for
Speaker 4: a long time and just learned. I've had to learn
Speaker 4: a lot on my own and how to analyze film
Speaker 4: kind of on my own, and what works for me, right,
Speaker 4: I don't. I'm not a big you know, if a
Speaker 4: coach tells me, hey, this is how you got to
Speaker 4: do it, right, it's it's more like, Okay, I need
Speaker 4: to feel it, right, I feel the rhythm, I feel
Speaker 4: I see what a good punt looks like? Right now?
Speaker 4: How can I duplicate that? And it's just me just
Speaker 4: repping it out and figuring it out on my own, right. So,
Speaker 4: I mean I get text messages. I just got a
Speaker 4: text from Brian. He's puntering Nebraska right, just reached out
Speaker 4: and said, hey, can you look at some of my tape? Sure, man,
Speaker 4: send it, shoot me a text, let me look at
Speaker 4: it and see how I can help. Right.
Speaker 3: So I love doing that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: And you know, any way I can help out, especially
Speaker 4: locally with high school kids and and whatnot. So we'll see,
Speaker 4: you know, I know, the camp life, all that kind
Speaker 4: of that's that's kind of a grind, right, But uh,
Speaker 4: I don't know. I've talked to coach auc just kind
Speaker 4: of about, you know, ideas as far as just really
Speaker 4: helping the kids that are coming out of college to
Speaker 4: prepare them for because college to rookie year is it's tough, right,
Speaker 4: and and so just trying to help those kids that
Speaker 4: are coming up, coming out just how to evaluate talent too,
Speaker 4: because there's there's kids all over the place that are
Speaker 4: good at punting footballs. And if you can punt, you
Speaker 4: can punt, if you can kick it through the yellow things, right,
Speaker 4: no matter if you go to Alabama or you go
Speaker 4: to you know, a tech school in Upper Michigan. Right like,
Speaker 4: you can kick, you can kick, if you can punt,
Speaker 4: you can punt. So being able to find those kids,
Speaker 4: to be able to give them a chance to fulfill
Speaker 4: their dream is something pretty cool too.
Speaker 1: You got one more good question because we need to
Speaker 1: let him go. Okay, do you have one more good question?
Speaker 1: And then I'm going to give you one more good
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Speaker 3: You got it?
Speaker 4: Okay, you're Mike Keith.
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Speaker 2: or you want me.
Speaker 5: Oh you'd ask?
Speaker 1: Okay, you said something in the press conference today. I
Speaker 1: want to pull that thread. You said thank you to
Speaker 1: Amy Adams Strunk for the amount of money that she
Speaker 1: has spent on in I think use the word infrastructure
Speaker 1: of the of the entire organization we're sitting in here
Speaker 1: in the bet MGM studio. But from your standpoint from
Speaker 1: when you came to today, what do you think is
Speaker 1: the most important area or areas where she has invested
Speaker 1: dollars to give this organization the ability to move forward
Speaker 1: and win championships?
Speaker 4: Obviously, I think it starts. You know, your training room
Speaker 4: and your weight room.
Speaker 3: Those those places are pretty important. Right.
Speaker 4: Locker room create an environment, a locker room where guys
Speaker 4: want to hang out and be together. Your meal room,
Speaker 4: right where guys are sharing meals. Those are some there's
Speaker 4: some really important spots. But then I just look at
Speaker 4: just everybody in general, right, you know, the players are
Speaker 4: the guys on Sundays that everybody's watching, but there's so
Speaker 4: many guys.
Speaker 3: Behind the scenes that are doing so much.
Speaker 4: And so even just to go back today and see
Speaker 4: the new equipment room right with Joey and the guys,
Speaker 4: and it's just little things that you wouldn't think would
Speaker 4: really mean much, but if it allows everybody to do
Speaker 4: their job in a way that helps this team win games,
Speaker 4: you know, and she's done that. I feel like she's
Speaker 4: invested in every area, you know, through this whole organization.
Speaker 4: And so it's you know, guys talk, right, you know,
Speaker 4: guys talk about facilities, They talk about all kinds of things, right,
Speaker 4: and so you know, to be able to say, like,
Speaker 4: hey man, Titans, they got a good spot, right. You know,
Speaker 4: when I was in Denver, he talked about what Denver had,
Speaker 4: When I was in Philly talked about what Philly had
Speaker 4: and so.
Speaker 2: And it was comparable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think every organization is it just kind of
Speaker 4: depends on what the owner right wants to invest in, right,
Speaker 4: what they feel is important to them, what they're willing
Speaker 4: to spend their dollars on. And so every you know,
Speaker 4: every organization's different, right, and so even being to other places,
Speaker 4: and you know when I went to Indie for a workout,
Speaker 4: Arizona for a workout, and even when we were out
Speaker 4: in the Super Bowl out in Arizona, being to go
Speaker 4: to the Cardinals facility, you know, guys just you see
Speaker 4: what what the owner is, what's important to them. And
Speaker 4: obviously you can tell if you just walk around this building,
Speaker 4: you know it's important to miss Amy. Uh, It's it's
Speaker 4: pretty evident.
Speaker 5: When guys retired, you always hear them say, I'm going
Speaker 5: to miss the camaraderie. I'm going to miss the guys
Speaker 5: in the locker room specialists are even more tight. It
Speaker 5: is a very different unit. You'll spend a ton of
Speaker 5: time together. Yeah, how is that going to change? Is
Speaker 5: that the thing you're going to miss the most?
Speaker 4: Oh? For sure? Yeah, just the camaraderie around the building. Teammates,
Speaker 4: you know, equipment guys, op staff I hang out with.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's just you know a lot of guys
Speaker 4: that I just enjoy being around. And so yeah, I
Speaker 4: mean I'll always. You know, it was great for both
Speaker 4: to come in you know from k C and and
Speaker 4: to come hang out, and you know, he's staying with us,
Speaker 4: and uh, you know, obviously you know, being able to
Speaker 4: see Ryan. You know, we don't live that far from
Speaker 4: each other anyways as it is now, but you know,
Speaker 4: being able to play golf and obviously you know, still
Speaker 4: talking with Morgan a bunch, just seeing how he's doing here,
Speaker 4: and and uh, yeah, just keeping in touch with the guys.
Speaker 4: And when I mean I was over at kb's house,
Speaker 4: you know, Saturday for a little grill out. He was
Speaker 4: absolutely crushing it on the green egg with some chicken wings.
Speaker 4: So uh, and all our kids are in the pool
Speaker 4: swimming and and so it's just a matter of uh,
Speaker 4: just staying in touch with the guys and you know,
Speaker 4: being able to do things, whether it's golfing or barbecue
Speaker 4: and and just hang out and you know, just talking. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Derek Morgan was over there, sat We were all just
Speaker 4: hanging out talking, you know, shooting the breeze, shooting the
Speaker 4: memories and and so that's but to have that every
Speaker 4: day is something you'll miss. But you know, I'm just
Speaker 4: glad that I have those friendships.
Speaker 1: Derek Henry came to his announcement today, he did about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of your teammates, former teammates, people who just
Speaker 1: worked in the building, and it says more about you
Speaker 1: as a person than a player, and that's more important anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope you're proud of that because you earned You
Speaker 1: earned that with how you treat people. And you've done
Speaker 1: that very well since the first day you got here.
Speaker 1: And so to see you get to do this today
Speaker 1: with your kids and your wife, this is happy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And this all this does is this signals the next
Speaker 1: part of life, which is going to be even better
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 3: Brett Kerr, it will.
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to it. I appreciate these last fifteen years.
Speaker 4: I've learned a lot from it through you know, the
Speaker 4: mountaintop moments, through the valleys that have you feel like
Speaker 4: you're crawling through sludge right and hoping that you get
Speaker 4: to another mountaintop moment, and met a lot of really
Speaker 4: good people along the way that have impacted my life.
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm just extremely thankful. I really like trying
Speaker 4: to put everything into words like in that speech today
Speaker 4: of like my gratitude and my thankfulness. It felt almost impossible, right,
Speaker 4: and I know I still came up short with expressing
Speaker 4: that I did the best that I could.
Speaker 3: I felt you did.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's just to just kind of sit back
Speaker 4: and peel back the layers and you know, to be
Speaker 4: one of the one percent of the one percenters, uh,
Speaker 4: and kind of defy, you know, not being invited to combine.
Speaker 4: I didn't have any workouts. It's just you know, it's man,
Speaker 4: it's been a huge blessing, pretty.
Speaker 5: Good, just awesome. That's all I can say.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. You've got a seat with us.
Speaker 1: You can do this. If you could join the Official
Speaker 1: Titans Podcast anytime.
Speaker 3: I would.
Speaker 4: I'd love to do that. Stop out during training camp.
Speaker 1: Come on, yeah, come on, come hang with us, with us,
Speaker 1: bring the new camera guy with us.
Speaker 4: Yeah. He's excited.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he knows what the food's about here.
Speaker 2: I know that's it. There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4: And he knows he knows the snacks. I mean he knows.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's growing up.
Speaker 1: He knows what's up for Brett Kern and Amy Wells,
Speaker 1: I Mike Keith, thanking you for listening to the Oh
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