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Speaker 1: Welcome to the OTP. Glad to have you with us

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Speaker 1: from our Saint Thomas Sports Park radio studio and streaming everywhere. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's correct, We're all over the place. We're at Tightens

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Speaker 1: You can check us out. Jim Wyatt is here, the

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Speaker 1: great one. Welcome. I'm glad to be here. This is

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Speaker 1: gonna be fun doing this all season. We're glad to

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Speaker 1: have you with us. Amy Wells as usual, always as always,

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Speaker 1: can't shake me now, thank you? What do you think?

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Speaker 1: I love it. We're on people can see us. I'm

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Speaker 1: watching you on my computer. Do this? Are you really inception?

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Speaker 1: That's a little strange. Oh it's cool. By the way,

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Speaker 1: sorry that we started a little bit late. It is

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Speaker 1: Titan Thursday at dunkin Donuts. By the way, if you're

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Speaker 1: with a Titan logo for a buck, which is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I had to go back out and get another donut

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Speaker 1: I apologize, but the donuts are delicious. What kind of

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Speaker 1: coffee you got there? It's just a dark roast. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I love the dark roast with a little flavor. A

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Speaker 1: little flavor. I like some flavor. They do good stuff,

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Speaker 1: all right. You need it on Thursday. You need Dunkin

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Speaker 1: Donuts coffee a medium for a dollar. If you're a

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Speaker 1: Duncan Donuts Perks member. That's a good thing because it's

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Speaker 1: game week. It is game week. People finally here here

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Speaker 1: here in a long road to get here. But this

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Speaker 1: team's been rebuilt during the offseason, a new coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: a new roster certainly made it through training camp and

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Speaker 1: now I think everybody's ready to go. Well. Fourth straight

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Speaker 1: year the Titans have played the Dolphins twenty fifteen. Remember

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Speaker 1: this thriller. Marcus Mariota sacked six times as Dan Campbell

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Speaker 1: the interim coach, and the Miami Dolphins come to Nashville

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Speaker 1: and beat the Titans thirty eight to ten. I would

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Speaker 1: contend that was the beginning of the end for Ken

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Speaker 1: wizzen Hunt because Marcus Mariota was sacked six times in

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Speaker 1: that game. You got hit low one time too. I

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Speaker 1: think she drew a fine yeah, or did it draw fine?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I know he got hit often

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Speaker 1: and early, and the Dolphins brought it all day long.

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Speaker 1: Titans would lose the next week in a game against

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Speaker 1: Atlanta ten to seven, and then the following week the

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Speaker 1: defeat at Houston, and then the next day the Titans

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Speaker 1: made the coaching change. Yeah, after their sixth straight loss.

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Speaker 1: That loss was their fourth straight. That was a tough

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Yes, it was twenty sixteen, maybe the

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Speaker 1: high moment of all high moments for Exotic smash Mouth

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Speaker 1: under Mike Malarkey. Titans go to Miami when thirty to seventeen,

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Speaker 1: rush forty one times for two hundred thirty five yards.

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Speaker 1: Mariota seven rushes, sixty yards, three touchdown passes in the game,

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Speaker 1: passer rating of one, seventeen point five, first real big

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Speaker 1: performance for Derrick Henry two. He had seven carries for

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Speaker 1: Jachem Grant's punt returned for a touchdown. I remember that

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Speaker 1: day well, and certainly a sandwichin between a couple of

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Speaker 1: the next one you're getting two's not gonna be pretty. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't jump ahead. Last year. I mean this was about

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Speaker 1: as bad as it could have been because here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: Miami wins the game sixteen to ten. Miami gained one

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Speaker 1: rewatch some of that game this morning, and I got refrustrated.

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Speaker 1: watch that game. So do we have a chance to

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, could be at home. The

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Speaker 1: coming out with early optimism. Home schedule next year Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers, New Orleans Saints, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a

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Speaker 1: Have you wondered where we traveled next year? Oh? Now

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Speaker 1: I am Denver. Denver's good, Atlanta, Atlanta's good Carolina an

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Speaker 1: AFC North City okay, okay? And Oakland, Oh Oakland that

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Speaker 1: into it with Las Vegas. You know, the Oakland folks

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Speaker 1: tried walking on Oakland's field, yes, heels? Well no, not well,

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Speaker 1: It's tricky. Well, it's not easy. It's a whole first box.

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Speaker 1: How's that booth in the college? Fantastic? It is totally fantastic.

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Speaker 1: All right, So our first chance on the OTP to

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Speaker 1: talk roster, I'll start with Amy Wells biggest surprise on

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Speaker 1: biggest surprise was Anthony ferk Sir. He was someone that

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Speaker 1: I was, Oh, it's nice, this guy's out here. He

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Speaker 1: That's cool. As we watched him, he stood out more

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Speaker 1: and more and more. But there was still the question

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Speaker 1: What is this roster going to end up looking like?

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Speaker 1: And Anthony Firkser makes a name for himself ends up

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Speaker 1: said Ferkshire, because I'm gonna say Cam Batson. I'm taking

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Speaker 1: it back the same way you did with Ferkshre. I

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Speaker 1: Are earned it and he was good all the way through.

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Speaker 1: But at the beginning, who would have thought a guy

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Speaker 1: But he kept making plays, kept putting himself in contention,

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Speaker 1: He was as surprised as anybody that he made the team.

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Speaker 1: Bout his head broke down and it starts saying a prayer,

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Speaker 1: and John Robins says, the first time anybody's done the same,

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Speaker 1: Has anybody ever had a prayer answered that? Quickly? He

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Speaker 1: finishes and he says, you made the team. How about that? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And he said you made the team, and he immediately

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Speaker 1: that's great gays. And that, by the way, great story

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Speaker 1: on that. Jim White at Titans online dot com all

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Speaker 1: kidding is a great, great story. If that one didn't

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Speaker 1: story or success story. A guy like that who has

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Speaker 1: same way as Dere's Jennings, another guy who good for him,

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Speaker 1: who made this roster after bowing so much during the

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Speaker 1: mean I should have known, like Batson, I should have

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Speaker 1: agree that he ends up being a big surprise on

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Speaker 1: good standing with the GM and the coaching staff all

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Speaker 1: the way through tons of flexibility in this roster because

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Speaker 1: you know next week, veteran salaries are not guaranteed. They

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Speaker 1: are guaranteed only week to week if they're on the roster,

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Speaker 1: and so that being the case, there will be a

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Speaker 1: then the Titans have the ability to just carry eight

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Speaker 1: offensive linemen. Again, so and and the fact too, they

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Speaker 1: just carry three running backs. They just carry four tight ends,

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Speaker 1: and we thought, yeah, I wouldn't think they'd go five.

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Speaker 1: that they'll stay with eleven linebackers the whole year. To you, Jim,

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Speaker 1: get ready as the starter taking every first team rep.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's huge. But back to Conklin for

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Speaker 1: a second. I mean his training. I mean, he's not

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Speaker 1: ready to play football, I get that, but his overall

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Speaker 1: training has been unreal. He is in phenomenal physical shape.

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Speaker 1: We were marveling at the way he has transformed his

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Speaker 1: physique since he got here. And he was this big dude,

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Speaker 1: you know, naturally strong, a great basketball player, a very

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Speaker 1: natural athlete. And now I mean he weighs as much

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Speaker 1: as he did, I think, but he is so trim,

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Speaker 1: and I mean there's a look that's from yesterday. The

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Speaker 1: guy absolutely looks fantastic in his work moving around, and

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Speaker 1: I don't think it'll take him long when he's he's

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Speaker 1: clear to get back at it. He is able to

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Speaker 1: do some conditioning things in some individual period right now.

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Speaker 1: You and I were talking a little bit about this yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Both of the tackles on this Titans team are some

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Speaker 1: of the most in shape, athletic looking offensive linemen in

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Speaker 1: the league. I think, I think you're right, and he

443
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Speaker 1: and I think he's down unless he's put some weight on.

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Speaker 1: Since he held a football camp over the offseason. He

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Speaker 1: said at that point he was down ten pounds, but

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Speaker 1: stronger than he'd ever been because he spent so much

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Speaker 1: time in the white room. So his work in the

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Speaker 1: white room, his work looking at a bunch of film

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Speaker 1: when he had time to do it while other guys

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Speaker 1: were practicing, should help him be ready. You know, it's

451
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Speaker 1: funny to think Amy mentioned about the just physical may

452
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Speaker 1: cup of some of these guys you'll look back to,

453
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Speaker 1: you know, the you know, some of the tackles of

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Speaker 1: the past here. You know, I don't care what John

455
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Speaker 1: running and and Brad Hopkins was a great athlete when

456
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Speaker 1: he played here. But Brad Hopkins was so interesting because

457
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Speaker 1: he had to fight so hard to keep weight on.

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Speaker 1: And Brad Hopkins looks fantastic now. I mean he is

459
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Speaker 1: in great shape, but I mean his natural body weight

460
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Speaker 1: was probably two hundred and sixty pounds as a human,

461
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Speaker 1: whereas Bruce Matthews was really as big as what he

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Speaker 1: was right he and I think that's why he never

463
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Speaker 1: got hurt or rarely got hurt, because that's how he was.

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Speaker 1: Jack Conklin is naturally a big man, but now he's

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Speaker 1: so much slimmer and tremmor And every time I've walked

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Speaker 1: by the weight room on my way to the cafeteria,

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Speaker 1: I've seen and seen Jack Conklin working out with your

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Speaker 1: Duggan Donuts, coffee, hang on, interesting mix here, Yes, good

469
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Speaker 1: old Saint Thomas Sport. We're getting all the sponsors in.

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Speaker 1: Just wait till later when the old smoky moonshine gets here.

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Speaker 1: I said, as you're walking with your eating your donuts,

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Speaker 1: going through the white rocket's doing. I mean it was

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Speaker 1: all cardiovascular and kettle bill and all this crazy stuff

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Speaker 1: that you expect littler guys to be doing. And I mean,

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Speaker 1: he really is some kind of athlete to watch just work.

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Speaker 1: But it was very obvious that a lot of what

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Speaker 1: he was working on was the total conditioning and not

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Speaker 1: just the knee, not just I mean because guys used

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Speaker 1: to go in and we used to see it. You know,

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Speaker 1: they do three sets of aid or something on the

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Speaker 1: on the bench or the shoulder press or squats or whatever.

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Speaker 1: And it was heavy weights and low reps, and now

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Speaker 1: it's very much designed toward condition Conklin takes that seriously.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what else is interesting. Vrabel's practices

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Speaker 1: are designed towards conditions that they do more conditioning in

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Speaker 1: Rabel practice than any that I've seen since i've been here.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not just about running at the end of practice.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about how he structures the periods and everything

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Speaker 1: that he does. I mean, they're moving from the time

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Speaker 1: they go out there. They do walkthrough, goes right into stretch.

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Speaker 1: They come shooting out into individual drills. They're running to

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Speaker 1: each thing. Rabel's running to each thing. He leads the charge.

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Speaker 1: That guy's in shape. He is in shape, but he's big. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But I mean it's NonStop movement from the time practice

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Speaker 1: starts to the time they're done running at the end.

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Speaker 1: It's it's got to be exhausting. But man, the condition

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Speaker 1: those guys are going to be in once the season

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Speaker 1: starts and they're playing in that heat for the first

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Speaker 1: couple of games. I think it's going to be beneficial

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Speaker 1: in the long run. Yeah, I agree, and you're right.

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Speaker 1: I mean the minute they come out the door and

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Speaker 1: they come through that kind of you take a picture

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Speaker 1: of him every day. I'm trying to find a different

504
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,959
Speaker 1: angle every time. I need to know. Today I might

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Speaker 1: just lay down on the ground and let him gonna

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Speaker 1: get the shot looking at it, give you a moose. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what somebody mentioned last night, that maybe get a

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Speaker 1: drone footage of him coming out. So I gotta find something.

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Speaker 1: Coaches would love that they drone flying around the field.

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Speaker 1: They wouldn't notice that. They probably loved me laying down

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Speaker 1: and then let uh, let Mariota come and triple over

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Speaker 1: me coming out the door, and that wouldn't be a

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Speaker 1: good look. But uh, these guys come springing out the door.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes Rabel will see a guy that's not springing

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Speaker 1: out the door and he'll he'll call him out and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: step it up, we're running out here. And I think, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's you know, specifically on Conklin, and uh,

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Speaker 1: he is in great shape. And when I think back

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Speaker 1: to you know, David Stewart years back on what a

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Speaker 1: maller he was and look at and then look at

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Speaker 1: Conklin just to see how his body type is. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think some of it is because of the way

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Speaker 1: the league has changed, but also some of what Conklin

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Speaker 1: had in mind when he lost some weight and tried

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Speaker 1: to make himself a little bit better from a movement standpoint,

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Speaker 1: was done to be a better fit in this offense.

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Speaker 1: Was which is going to require those guys to have

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Speaker 1: a bit more movement. They're gonna run. Yeah, So I

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Speaker 1: think it's gonna pay off. No, not only for the

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Speaker 1: guys in the starting lineup this week, but for everybody

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Speaker 1: going towards it. You know, the season. The video OTP.

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Speaker 1: Amy Wells is in charge of the OTP. Now, congratulations,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Okay, And so she gets her own segment.

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Speaker 1: I do Amy Wells wonders. This is the segment where

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Speaker 1: she gets to wonder about something this week. You wonder

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Speaker 1: about Luke Falk. I do wonder about Luke Fox Farmer

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Speaker 1: Titans draft pick at number one, ninety nine cut instead

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Speaker 1: of being brought back to the practice squad, which I

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Speaker 1: think the Titans wanted to do for sure. Yes, he

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Speaker 1: ends up signing on the active roster in Miami. Where

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Speaker 1: they already have not only the returning Ryan Tannehill, David

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Speaker 1: fails brock Osweiler, they now have a fourth quarterback, Luke Fox.

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Speaker 1: So Amy Wells wonders, what I wonder is Luke falk

544
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Speaker 1: a mole? I think the it's part of what he's

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Speaker 1: doing down there. Well, we're gonna know, uh by Monday

546
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Speaker 1: or Tuesday of next week, when they've got a decision

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Speaker 1: to make on whether they carry four quarterbacks for the

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Speaker 1: second week in a roll, which is gonna be extremely

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Speaker 1: hard to do if you ask me, sure so how

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Speaker 1: much you can get out of them though, I'm a

551
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Speaker 1: little bit skeptical about that. I talked to Armando Sagero,

552
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Speaker 1: you gave a good shout out too earlier, who's one

553
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Speaker 1: of the best in the business, and he does a

554
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: great job in Miami. He shoots it straight too. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he don't be around the bush and uh he know

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Speaker 1: he said, hey, will they will they ask him those questions?

557
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Speaker 1: Certainly he expects them too. This is a new offense

558
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Speaker 1: and new terminology. Can they get some cadence information out

559
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Speaker 1: of him? You know? Probably so? Can they get some

560
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Speaker 1: other you know, behind the scene stuff out of them? Yes?

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Speaker 1: But still, you know it's gonna bowl down to can

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Speaker 1: they cover Corey Davis, Can they handle Derrick Henry, Can

563
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Speaker 1: he'll handle Dion Lewis out of the backfield. Can Marcus

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Speaker 1: Mario to thread the needle on some of these throws?

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's Titans. They're still gonna have to stop

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Speaker 1: the Titans offense. And the way the league is now,

567
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: you're looking for any little tidbit you can get. And

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Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting to the only team in

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Speaker 1: the league to claim him and happens to be during

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Speaker 1: Titans Week. Yeah. See, I think they're going to get there.

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Speaker 1: Twenty eight thousand, two hundred and thirty five dollars worth

572
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Speaker 1: for sure, that's what That's a weekly salary for a

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Speaker 1: rookie this year in the NFL. Four eighty for the year,

574
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Speaker 1: So that's twenty eight two thirty five. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to take anything away from Luke Falk. I think Luke

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Speaker 1: Falk has a chance to play in this league. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that he's ready to be on an active roster,

578
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Speaker 1: but I think he's got a real chance. He's a

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Speaker 1: really good guy and I think everybody is pleased for

580
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Speaker 1: him to have this opportunity who got a chance to

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Speaker 1: spend any time with him. But they would be crazy

582
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Speaker 1: if they did not ask him all of those questions

583
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Speaker 1: about an offense that I think they're saying openly we

584
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Speaker 1: don't know anything about. I think you're if you're the Dolphins,

585
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Speaker 1: you're scared of what you're going to see from the

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Speaker 1: Titans because they have been so vanilla in the preseason

587
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Speaker 1: to the extent that I think that's an insult to

588
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Speaker 1: the term vanilla. Well, okay, I think I think it.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that they have any idea what they're

590
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: going to see, and so they're they're doing their due diligence,

591
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: and I think Matt Burke's coming after the Titans period.

592
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: I think that's what Matt Burke's going to do well.

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Speaker 1: And you would have to think, especially with it being

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Speaker 1: such an affordable thing to do. Twenty eight thousand, two

595
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Speaker 1: hundred thirty five dollars. Yeah, that's pretty very in terms

596
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Speaker 1: of not on a weekend night. That's why he spends

597
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Speaker 1: on donuts every week. But this has to happen a lot, sure, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean the Titans have certainly brought guys in at

599
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Speaker 1: different points, and there's never been anybody signed here from Indianapolis, right,

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Speaker 1: That never happened when Peyton Manning was I mean sure,

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00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's part of the business, and you know,

602
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Speaker 1: you've got to make the most of whatever opportunity you

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00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: have right now if you're if you're Luke Falk, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, But did you feel a little bit funny?

605
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: That's gonna be weird. You're sitting here, You're with the

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Speaker 1: team all the way through the offseason, and then you

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Speaker 1: get down there and they're asking those questions. If they

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Speaker 1: are asking him those questions, I know. Adam Gay said

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Speaker 1: yesterday in a conference call with reporters here that first

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Speaker 1: time he had talked to Luke Falk was on Wednesday morning.

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Speaker 1: What he didn't say is he's stayed in his spare

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Speaker 1: bedroom last night. He didn't say, no other member of

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Speaker 1: the staff that he was in with the defensive staff

614
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: for all of Tuesday. Yeah. So so you'll wonder about

615
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: that going on, which leads to the next question. Let's

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Speaker 1: say Luke Falk becomes available next week, and I know

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Speaker 1: we're probably getting the Logan Woodside here who the Titans

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Speaker 1: signed to take Luke Falk's place on the practice squad.

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Speaker 1: What happens of Luke Falk becomes available next week. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's an interesting question because the Dolphins said that one

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Speaker 1: of the reasons that they signed Luke Falk is that

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Speaker 1: he came in to do a pre draft visit with him,

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Speaker 1: that they liked him during the pre draft process, which

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Speaker 1: I totally believe. I absolutely see why you would believe

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Speaker 1: that on a pre draft visit that the Titans had

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Speaker 1: one of their thirty Logan Woodside was here, the quarterback

627
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Speaker 1: from Toledo who was signed to the practice squad, and

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Speaker 1: we actually had a chance to interview him. We never

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Speaker 1: aired it because Logan Woodside was drafted in the seventh

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Speaker 1: round by Cincinnati. We're not airing the Cincinnati draft picks

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Speaker 1: on our website. So we have a chance here on

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Speaker 1: the OTP to let you see and hear Logan Woodside

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Speaker 1: from back end. Was it March or early April March,

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming late mar the control round. Yes, against it

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Speaker 1: was before the two eighteen draft, and I did this interview. Right,

636
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Speaker 1: it's me with Logan Woodside in the pre draft interview.

637
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: So you get to learn something about this Toledo quarterbacks.

638
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: Interesting story. Here we go ten thousand, five hundred fourteen

639
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: passing yards, ninety three touchdowns, sixty five percent completion percentage.

640
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: You were the All MAC and the MAC Offensive Player

641
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: of the Year. Congratulations on a great career. That's just

642
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 1: a big number. When you hear those numbers out loud,

643
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: you've got to be like, hey, that's pretty good. That's me. Yeah,

644
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: looking back on it now, man, it's it's pretty incredible

645
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 1: what I did. You know, I got to thank my

646
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: coaches most importantly in my teammates. Man, without them, will

647
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: be nowhere in the position I'm at the day. So

648
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: you know, it was great to be up parent Selida

649
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: for those five years. All right, So you go to

650
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: Combine and your most important moment at the combine is

651
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: when you measured six one, right, Yeah, yeah, I was

652
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: hoping it could be a little over. Now. I was

653
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: a little over six one. I was hoping to be

654
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: right around six too. But you made money though. It's

655
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,760
Speaker 1: because some people were saying is he five to eleven?

656
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: Is he six feet because you can never quite tell

657
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: on the field. Yeah, but it does make a difference

658
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 1: to some teams from what you found. Yeah, I think so.

659
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what I would I've talked to

660
00:35:58,200 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 1: a lot of people, is if you could play a quarterback,

661
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 1: you play. You know, it really doesn't matter the size.

662
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: And you know I've I've gained a little weight, getten

663
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 1: a little bigger too, So you know, I'm excited to

664
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: keep progressing and looking forward to the draft. David Morris

665
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: is a guy that you've been working with. You met

666
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: him at the Manning Academy. He said something that I

667
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: was going to quote. He says, logan plays fast. He says,

668
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: he processes fast. What does that mean? You know, I

669
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: think what he means by that is is playing fast

670
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: with your feet, you know, being in the being in

671
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: the position, being on time to make the throws you

672
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: need to make, and then processing. You know, I think

673
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 1: that's that's all mentally. You know, it's pre snap at

674
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and then you know, as soon

675
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: as a ball snap. And I think a lot of that,

676
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 1: you know, I've I've worked really hard at that with

677
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 1: my coaches at Toledo and learning our offense like the

678
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: back of my hand, and then just going out and

679
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: executing and knowing where my guys are going to be

680
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 1: and getting on the ball. Another noted quarterback guru, Mike

681
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 1: Marx is a guy that you played in the NFLPA

682
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: Collegiate Bowl back in January, and he just said, he said,

683
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna play in the NFL. I mean, quite

684
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: a compliment. What do you think you did well that

685
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: impressed Mike mark in your quarterback coach John Kitten, Coach Kenney. Yeah,

686
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: that was that was an unbelievable experience for me going

687
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: out there, you know, greatest show on turf. Obviously I

688
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: wasn't born yet, but you know, we got to go

689
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 1: out and watch watch some of that watching tape, and

690
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 1: I think it was just great being around, you know,

691
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: people that have been around the NFL game for so long,

692
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: you know, coach Kittona who played in the league for

693
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: over ten years, and coach Marts and just learning their

694
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: philosophies and you know, learning an NFL playbook you know

695
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: you only got a couple of days to learn it,

696
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: and going in a huddle with brand new guys and

697
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: really just shows your leadership. And I think that you know,

698
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: I demonstrated that I could pick up offense quickly and

699
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 1: make the throws and you know, be a good leader.

700
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: One story that has impressed everybody that's heard it around

701
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: NFL circles is about your twenty fifteen. So you go

702
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: to Toledo, you played in four games as a freshman

703
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, you're the starter in twenty fourteen, and

704
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 1: then Philip E. Lee comes in from Alabama. He transfers

705
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: in from Alabama, and you have this massive battle for

706
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: the job. He wins the job, and so you red shirt.

707
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: You take that well, and you also used that year

708
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: to really work on your game. What did you learn

709
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,760
Speaker 1: from that year that you read shirty? Yeah, so actually

710
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,280
Speaker 1: he came in twenty fourteen, so he had actually started

711
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,439
Speaker 1: in fourteen. The second game he tore his a cl

712
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: against Missouri, and I played the rest of that year

713
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: and then I actually got hurt that year or two,

714
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 1: so we both rehab came back and they started him again.

715
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,399
Speaker 1: You know, it's like that point in my life really

716
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: where you know, it was it was disappointed, man, I

717
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: was heartbroken, but you know it was that was what

718
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: it was best for the team. At the time. I

719
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 1: understood that, and that's really just when I put my

720
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 1: head down. I went to work. You know, it was

721
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: in the coach's offices, was doing everything I could really

722
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,840
Speaker 1: fulfill at the time to make sure that he was prepared.

723
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: You know, it was his senior year or two, and

724
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: I wanted him to go out and have a memorable

725
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: senior year. And that's what he did, and we won

726
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: the Booker a Tom Bull that year, and I just

727
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: took a back seat, you know, still worked my tail off,

728
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: still pushed him every day, but ultimately that was his team,

729
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 1: and you know, I just tried to, you know, put

730
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 1: in where I could and be a part of it.

731
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: You're probably not just thrilled for that experience while it's happening,

732
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: but as you look back on it now, knowing you're

733
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 1: going to come into the NFL and have to prove

734
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: yourself all over again, what do you take from that?

735
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: And are you thankful for that now? Salute? Well, you

736
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,479
Speaker 1: know that was a blessing in the skies really because

737
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 1: I know that I was nowhere near the player before

738
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: that year as I was after. The film speaks for

739
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 1: itself those next two years on the work that I

740
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: put in and what I learned in that rich short

741
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: year and just maturing, you know, going from from twenty

742
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: to twenty one to twenty two, I mean, that's a

743
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: huge difference, you know, especially in college, and you know,

744
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: I just took it. I think, you know, I proved that,

745
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: you know, I know how to be a backup quarterback,

746
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 1: and I know how to prepare a starter. I know

747
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:27,399
Speaker 1: how to go down to work on the scout team.

748
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: Even though I didn't really want to do it at

749
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: the time, I knew that our defense wasn't going to

750
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: see a better quarterback, you know, so I just wanted

751
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 1: to do whatever I could for the team and and

752
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: hope help them win games. Frankfort, Kentucky, capital of Kentucky.

753
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: What outside of being the capital of Kentucky is Frankfort,

754
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: Kentucky famous for the Grand Theater. Yeah, I mean I'm

755
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:53,720
Speaker 1: from Lawrenceburg. Frankfort's right there, same areas a wild turkey bourbon. Okay,

756
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: well that's good. That's what I needed. A triv effect,

757
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: the other Triva effect. You've been a Titans fan? Yeah?

758
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: I figured being from there, you'd be a Bengals fan.

759
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: How how are you a Titans fan? Was a big

760
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 1: bench young fan when he was a Texas in college.

761
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: And then you know, obviously Tennessee's close close to home.

762
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: So when he got here, you know, me and my

763
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: granddad came to up to a game they played Carolina.

764
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: Loved it here, man. I've always fell in love with

765
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: the city in Nashville, just thinking, you know, always loved

766
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: country music and and just the city's got, you know,

767
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: something about it is just really special and you know,

768
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: just feel like this place as home to me for sure. Mike,

769
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you didn't ask him where the dairy queen

770
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 1: is in Frankfort. In Frankfort. See, but I don't like

771
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: dairy queen nearly as well as I like duncan donut.

772
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I do know where every dairy

773
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: queen is that is in the United States of America.

774
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: I thought it was just in the mid South. It's frank.

775
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: I have traveled places and you've been like, oh, you

776
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: get off a root six and hang on left and

777
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:52,240
Speaker 1: there's a dairy queen right there. No, I'm that's scary.

778
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 1: Good kid, Yeah, great kid. Interesting story. Interesting quarterback Again

779
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:00,839
Speaker 1: that when we say, well the Titans liked him, you're thinking, yeah,

780
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: that's what they say about everybody say they're never oh

781
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: the Titans, Oh that guy was the worst. But in

782
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: truth you can see that they did because they brought

783
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 1: him in for a pre draft visit, and we can

784
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: see that it was cold that day because I went sweater.

785
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: He was wearing a nice bomber jack. He was I'm

786
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 1: kind of into that. Cool. And now you say he

787
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 1: has a more of a mohawk, He has more of

788
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: a mohawk. For anyone that was watching that, it was

789
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: a little kind of like mountain of hair. It's now

790
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,399
Speaker 1: full mohawks, so you can watch it grow, you know, Jim.

791
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: Jim used to have full mohawk. That's why he went

792
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: to the vis I used to have Yeah, I used

793
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 1: to have the Bama bangs and I had the mullet

794
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 1: in the back. Yeah, it kind of yeah, it was

795
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: not a good look. All right, let's move. But but

796
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: about this now a trivia questions. Probably the first time

797
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: the Titans have ever had three players from Toledo, although

798
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: he's not on the active roster, but three players from

799
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: Toledo in the building and two guys named Logan on

800
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:02,760
Speaker 1: the same team to Logan best football player from Toledo.

801
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,280
Speaker 1: Brett carn would probably argue with you about that best total,

802
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:11,840
Speaker 1: best football player from the city of Toledo. Well, I

803
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: mean he was the he was the Conference Player of

804
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: the Year. I guess last nime, I'm going to Chuck Webb.

805
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: Chuck Webb, Chuck Webb, great running back at the University

806
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: of Tennessee from Toledo, Welcomber, Whitney, Reginald Cob ninety nine

807
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:29,879
Speaker 1: to Cob Webb. All right, speaking of run games, that's

808
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: what the Titans. Nice segue, that's that's what the Titans think.

809
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: The Dolphins are going to try to rely on with

810
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: this Kenyan Drake. I know Frank Gore is there, and

811
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: I'm like the world's biggest Frank Gore fan, dating back

812
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 1: to when he was in high school. Frank Gore is

813
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: seventy six yards away from becoming the fourth all time

814
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: leading rusher in the NFL. I think he's going to

815
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. I thought you could say he's

816
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: seventy six years old, thirty six years old. He's fantastic,

817
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: And there's been so much attention paid to Frank Gore.

818
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: And for all I know, Frank Gore has a great

819
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 1: game Sunday, But I think all the attention paid to

820
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: Frank Gore is not giving Kenyan Drake the respect that

821
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: he deserves. Like this game late in the season after

822
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: they traded Jayagie. Remember Jayagii played in the game against

823
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 1: the Titans last year, picked up a third and seven

824
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: on a run with like two forty to go that

825
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: essentially ended the game. They traded him to Philadelphia a

826
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,320
Speaker 1: couple of weeks later. Kenyan Drake against New England on

827
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:34,720
Speaker 1: December eleventh, twenty five carries for one hundred and fourteen yards,

828
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 1: five receptions for seventy nine yards, so he gained up.

829
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a versatile back. He's six one,

830
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: he's two ten, he can do it all. I mean,

831
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: the Titans cannot let Kenyan Drake get started on Sunday,

832
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: and that's part of the fear about maybe not having Morgan.

833
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: The Titans are not a massive front on defense. I mean,

834
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: they've got to play their gaps and really play the run,

835
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 1: so that Tanney Hill in his first game back, doesn't

836
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: have that to rely on. Yeah. I mean, and he

837
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: was a good player at Alabama, but incredible how he

838
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 1: came on last year. I'm not gonna turn this thing

839
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: into a fantasy football conversation, but I pick Kenyan Drake

840
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: has kind of a throwaway early last season and then

841
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: he turned into one of the most productive backs in

842
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: the NFL, as you mentioned, catching passes out of the backfield,

843
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 1: running the ball well. And now when you look at

844
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Football rankings, he's like one of the top

845
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 1: thirty players in the draft, which speaks to his value

846
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: and what he means to the Dolphins. They've got a

847
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Speaker 1: good one two punch at running back well. And remember

848
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Speaker 1: they've got Klin Belige too, who we saw at the

849
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Speaker 1: SnOH you didn't go to the Senior Bowl, Nope, because

850
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: you were at the Pro Bowl. I sure was. I

851
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: was in Florida, but it sounds like it was a

852
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: great trip. Klein Blige is six two, two thirty seven.

853
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: He's a big back, a versatile back from Arizona State

854
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: who never had a chance, much like Kenyan Drake, never

855
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 1: had a chance to be the guy. And so that's

856
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: almost worse for the pro opponents because you gotta figure

857
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: these guys are fresh, they're not all worn out from

858
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 1: having carried nine hundred times in college. It's almost two

859
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: year advantage. If I'm a high school running back, I

860
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: think I want to go somewhere with another guy, so

861
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 1: because then I can go to the pros where I'm

862
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 1: gonna share it with somebody, and I'm Fresher. Yeah, I

863
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 1: would know DeVante Parker, and certainly they have some other

864
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: weapons on office, but you know they're gonna want to

865
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: run the football and try to wear the Titans down,

866
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 1: and that's one of the big keys of the game

867
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Speaker 1: going in. One of the other guys that I think

868
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: should make everybody nervous is the guy they drafted at

869
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Speaker 1: forty second overall, Mike Jasicki from Penn State tight end.

870
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: He ran a four or five four and posted a

871
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,319
Speaker 1: forty one and a half inch vertical. The guy's an

872
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Speaker 1: unbelievable athlete. So he's this great high school football player

873
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 1: in New Jersey. He also wins the States Slam Dunk contest.

874
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:06,879
Speaker 1: That's kind of cool. That's crazy. So when they bring

875
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 1: in this guy number eighty six, Mike Jisicki, I don't

876
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: know that he blocks anybody. Yet. They have another young

877
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: tight end named Durham smythe who's out of Notre Dame.

878
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: They I mean, those two guys can really catch the ball.

879
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:25,240
Speaker 1: I mean they have given Tannehill more weapons with everything

880
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 1: he does, and then a Mendolas there you forget that. Yeah,

881
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: he only caught eleven passes against the Titans in January

882
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,840
Speaker 1: at New England. Remember that. No, I'm trying to forget

883
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: eleven catches for one hundred and twelve yards. So they

884
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: add a Mendola, who is the security blanket of all

885
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: security blankets. And then they're better at tight end, they

886
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: have some blockers, they're better at running back. I mean,

887
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: the Dolphins should be a lot better on offense. It's

888
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: gonna be a challenge for the Titans defense. Yeah, it's

889
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: gonna be a ball game. I gave I'm giving Armando

890
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 1: a third shout out here on this OTP getting the

891
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: really Yeah, this is the Armando sigurro OTP. Yes. But

892
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,360
Speaker 1: when I talked to him this week hand for a

893
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: behind the Enemy Line segment, he mentioned the Seki as

894
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,399
Speaker 1: being the guy to watch out for the most because

895
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: he said in practices he's been a red zone beast

896
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,359
Speaker 1: is what he calls him. He mentioned his vertical leap

897
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,800
Speaker 1: like he did, said he's been unstoppable in practices. He

898
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: gave Albert Wilson, their receiver, didn't even mention him that

899
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: they acquired this offseason. They said, we Titans, you know.

900
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: I asked him why the Titans should be concerns. He said, well,

901
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: a lot of things that you didn't see in the

902
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 1: preseason are gonna happen in the regular season opener, which

903
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: includes an Albert Wilson package, and says he's certainly a

904
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: guy to be coming from Kansas City. So on top

905
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 1: of the run game, some other concerns. Well, you did

906
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: a preview of some of these uh past games against

907
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: the Dolphins at the start of this OTPM. It was

908
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 1: that Anthony Fasano that lit the Titans up down there

909
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: one night. You Anthony Fasano did that for years. He didn't.

910
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:07,280
Speaker 1: He was the Titan. He played his whole career against

911
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: the Titans. He'd have been Tony Gonzalez, Antonio Gates. I

912
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: love Fasano. He was a good dude when he played here,

913
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: A really good person and a very good NFL tight end.

914
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: Not a Hall of Fame tight end, but he played

915
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:21,840
Speaker 1: like he was going to the Hall of Fame. I mean,

916
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 1: the Titans have had some rough trips down there. I mean,

917
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: let's face it, I mean ninety nine Sam Madison three

918
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,439
Speaker 1: picks the two thousand and one Sunday Night game was here,

919
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:34,839
Speaker 1: and that wasn't really great, and then the Hurricane game,

920
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 1: the Aaron Elling game itself, which was you remember that

921
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 1: they moved the game to Saturday. He got hurt in

922
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: warmups and Aaron Elling had to punt, and then they

923
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: cut him the next week to bring back Gary Anderson,

924
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 1: just nuts. And then Nicks losing a game down there

925
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 1: to a Nick Saban team that wasn't very good. I mean,

926
00:48:56,400 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 1: the Titans have not played great in Miami, but maybe

927
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 1: one time. Yeah, So I brought the Fasano up just

928
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: because you don't want history repeat itself with the tight

929
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 1: end position, it might as well change now, right, Yeah,

930
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 1: you would like to, And I think the Titans are

931
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 1: pretty uh well equipped with from a defensive standpoint to

932
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 1: maybe cover uh an athletic tight end like that. But

933
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: you gotta block Cameron Wake, you gotta block Andre Branch,

934
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,840
Speaker 1: you gotta block William Hayes. You've got to block Robert Quinn.

935
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 1: You've got to block Charles Harris. I mean they got

936
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,839
Speaker 1: to Kiko Alonzo, who had the big sack last year.

937
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta block the front seven. Yeah, but

938
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 1: we challenge they're young at linebacker, you know, they're That's

939
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:45,280
Speaker 1: that's one area whether Ray Kuan McMillan is an upgrade.

940
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: I don't care if he is a second year player

941
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 1: who missed all the last year. He and the Baker kid,

942
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: the two Ohio State guys, those are are really that

943
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: gives them more athleticism with Alonzo. Alonzo is the kind

944
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 1: of quarterback of that linebacker crew. And uh, you know,

945
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: it's an area you hope that the Titans can take

946
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: advantage of, at least their youth, their youth undoubtedly. All right,

947
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: let's talk about what we have coming up later this afternoon.

948
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: Tell everybody, but tell everybody about Titans Today. Amy, Well, well,

949
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: Titans Today is something new that we have started. The

950
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 1: inaugural episode was yesterday. It's a little news update for

951
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:31,879
Speaker 1: you Mondays, Wednesdays Thursdays, in the four o'clock hour, Mike

952
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: Keith and myself will be giving you a little little

953
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 1: news break, get you updated on all the headlines going

954
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: on with the Tennessee Titans. It's in our brand new studio.

955
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,760
Speaker 1: So it looks so fresh and so clean, cloud outside

956
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: in the TV studio. Yeah right, Coaches Show and we

957
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: shot Titans all Access. Oh yeah, lots of things coming

958
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:52,879
Speaker 1: out of that new studio. But it's a cool thing

959
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:56,280
Speaker 1: that's on Titans online dot com. It's on our social channels.

960
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 1: Definitely check it out later this afternoon, later this afternoon.

961
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 1: Very well done. I'll watched yesterday. Thank you, and now

962
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:04,840
Speaker 1: you guys you have to make a wardrobe change for

963
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 1: that because I know you guys are really dressed up

964
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: yesterday for the initial appearance of Titans today or no

965
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,359
Speaker 1: do we? I am okay. On Thursdays, I go through

966
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: like six outfits. Well tonight at six speaking of that,

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Speaker 1: I'm one O four five to zone and Titans Radio

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Speaker 1: one four five to zone in Nashville and Titans Radio

969
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: it is Titans Tonight with Keith Bullocks. He returns to

970
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 1: this very studio and we'll take calls and we'll tell

971
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,800
Speaker 1: people how do they tweet a question to Keith Bullock

972
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: hashtag Titans Tonight, hashtag Titans Tonight. I'll be there taking questions.

973
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:43,319
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Speaker 1: hat your next tailgate or for your next tailgate, and

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Speaker 1: when the Titans score, let us hear your best. Yeehaw

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Speaker 1: I brought yeehaw to my tailgate in Missouri. I took

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Speaker 1: it on the road. Took it on the road. It

979
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 1: was a hit. Well done, all right, So start the

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Speaker 1: day off with Duncan Donuts and end it with the

981
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: ye haul. That is a really good third. Jim Wyatt

982
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 1: has embraced this whole sponsorship thing. He's really into it.

983
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 1: We should start selling ads on his visor like a

984
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,919
Speaker 1: NASCAR driver. He's like a NASCAR driver. I think that's

985
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:21,280
Speaker 1: the next step. Make sure I've got all my sponsors

986
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Speaker 1: down down pat. I will give somebody a shout out

987
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Speaker 1: the place where he stands at practice, his sponsored his

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Speaker 1: Coca Cola, Kroger mound, his spot at practice where he said,

989
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Speaker 1: that's nice. It's good how you've done that. You've embraced

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00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 1: You've embraced sponsors. Well, this has been great. I hope

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Speaker 1: everybody's had a good time. First right video OTP. Thank

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Speaker 1: a normal podcaster. What if I've been for the last

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Speaker 1: Free Jim Wyatt at Titans online dot com. Follow him

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