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Speaker 1: dot com. I'm Mike Keith. The Titans took it on

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Speaker 1: the chin in New Orleans by a final score of

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Speaker 1: sixteen to fifteen. It was a long Monday in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: I had a chance to sit down with the head

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Speaker 1: comes next. In case you missed it on the Mike

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Speaker 1: Vrabels Show on Titans Radio. Here's my chat with Mike

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Speaker 1: Rabel on the OTP. Mike, I want to ask you

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Speaker 1: first and foremost about a moment before the game at

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Speaker 1: the coin toss, the Titans honorary captain Tim Shaw the

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Speaker 1: Saints honorary captain Steve Gleeson. Gleason has been affected by

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Speaker 1: als since two than eleven, tim Shaw since twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 1: The people at the Caesars super Dome were magnificent to

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Speaker 1: both and to both sides. The team seem to value

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Speaker 1: that moment, Mike, that was one of those NFL moments

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Speaker 1: that really just make you so proud to be a

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it does. I think it shows what

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Speaker 2: type of people that Tim and Steve are and their

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Speaker 2: impacts on these football teams. And we would have loved

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Speaker 2: to have gotten a win for Tim and our and

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Speaker 2: our fans, but you know, well, we'll keep fighting and

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Speaker 2: we'll get back to work. But it was really cool

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about you. When the opening toss, you defer,

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Speaker 1: and on the first play of the season, Amani Hooker

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Speaker 1: really involving a lot of things that you've preached this offseason.

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Speaker 2: Have always tried to talk about taking a ball away.

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Speaker 2: Have talked about staying on your feet when you tackle.

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Speaker 2: Watch Demani come down, come to balance, break the stiff

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Speaker 2: And you know that's why we practice so much with

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Speaker 2: Forced me to challenge appreciate the communication from upstairs, and

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Speaker 2: that got us off to get in some points. Now

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Speaker 2: you know, convert that into touchdowns and take advantage of

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Speaker 1: His teammates have bragged on him all off season, a

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Speaker 1: Madi Hooker, really good camp, really good off season. His

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think there's a couple of plays that

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Speaker 1: Were you pleased with Kieras Jackson's decision making in the

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Speaker 1: Mike as There's been a lot of talk after the

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Speaker 1: As you looked at the tape, were there surprises to

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Speaker 3: The ball back there.

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Speaker 2: I thought that was the best decision of the way

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Speaker 1: As you watch the tape, what was the most disappointing aspect.

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Speaker 2: To you, Well, I mean offensively, we just didn't hit

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Speaker 1: I think next opponent, the Los Angeles Chargers. How different

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Speaker 1: They have a new offensive coordinator, Kellen Moore, and a

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Speaker 1: That's my Monday talk with Mike grab A Titans fans,

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Speaker 1: it's always game on with Duncan, So grab a coffee

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Speaker 1: and kick off the action. Whether that's drinking a cup

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Speaker 1: big cup at home. Duncan is always there to help

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Speaker 1: you get your game on. Just like the pros, we

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Speaker 1: is why Duncan is the most important part of your

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Speaker 1: game day ritual because it's always the best call for

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Speaker 1: Football America runs on Duncan. Let's bring in Ramone Foster.

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Speaker 1: Ramone spent eleven years playing in the NFL, having just

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Speaker 1: You have had time to review it. I want to

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Speaker 4: Think a little bit behind the eight ball considering couldn't

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Speaker 3: That's him learning that group.

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Speaker 4: That's that group also learning what the umbrella that Kosmak

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Speaker 3: With that being said, this group is capable. They have

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Speaker 4: They have to understand each other without having to actually

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Speaker 1: So that's the reason everything you're pulling together is the

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Speaker 4: Yes, we've seen teams look amazing in the preseason, and

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Speaker 4: That's what this group had the realization about. And I'm

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Speaker 4: It's both sides of the ball that I have to

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Speaker 4: Absolutely and it's those moments right there to keep doing game.

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Speaker 4: step in and you make plays.

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Speaker 3: And they did.

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Speaker 1: Arden Key made the difference that we thought he could

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Speaker 1: make in the defensive line rushing the passer. What most

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Speaker 1: impressed you, Ramon Foster about arden Key the way he.

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Speaker 4: Pushes everybody else the finish. Also on sacks, I thought

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Speaker 4: that was huge. Not only is he creating kios, but

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Speaker 4: he's actually getting guys on the field.

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Speaker 3: I think he logged officially.

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Speaker 4: A sack and half along with Deniko Autrie was good

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Speaker 4: to see. But even on Jeff's sack too, it was Deniko.

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Speaker 4: I mean it was arden Key that flushed him out

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Speaker 4: and Jeff ended up cleaning them up. Watching them and

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Speaker 4: seeing their communication and how excited they are to get

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Speaker 4: after it. Arden is a huge part of that. We

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Speaker 4: kind of figured this in the preseason. He was going

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Speaker 4: to be a burst of energy for this defense and

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Speaker 4: he is. That's the role you're asking him to do,

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Speaker 4: and I feel like he's executing that as flawlessly as

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Speaker 4: you need a guy that's playing that role that he

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Speaker 4: is from the beginning of the game to the end

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Speaker 4: of the game.

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Speaker 3: He did that.

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Speaker 1: Ironically, on the play that was eventually ruled an incomplete pass,

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Speaker 1: arden Key is the man who hit Derek Carr had

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Speaker 1: it been ruled a fumble. Not only would it have

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Speaker 1: been a touchdown for the Titans, it would have been

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Speaker 1: the first ever forced fumble in arden Key's career. That's

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Speaker 1: coming though.

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Speaker 4: It is, but you know what, you watch him get

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Speaker 4: out of the quarterback. He is reaching for the ball

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Speaker 4: more than just trying to get a sack. He's swiping

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Speaker 4: at the ball that eventually pays off. And by the

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Speaker 4: way that play, oh my, most referees umpires let that

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Speaker 4: play develop and go about his way and they'll review

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Speaker 4: it later.

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Speaker 3: I was shocked. Still.

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Speaker 4: I know a lot of the fan base was too,

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Speaker 4: that they actually blew a dead I would call that

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Speaker 4: a touchdown in the eyes of But let me ask

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Speaker 4: you about that too.

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Speaker 1: And from our vantage point, and we're way up, it

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Speaker 1: felt as if the whistle didn't blow until Byron was

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Speaker 1: basically at the thirty yard line. Nope, So at that

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Speaker 1: point the question would be, why not let it go

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Speaker 1: because then it automatically goes to review anyway it does.

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Speaker 4: That is the smartest way to go about that. I

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Speaker 4: hate to say referees have a warm up season two.

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Speaker 4: I'm not giving them four games a warm up, Mike, Okay,

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Speaker 4: I say if you're a professional, and you guys are

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Speaker 4: hired by the NFL to be the best in the

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Speaker 4: world at your job. When it comes down to officiating,

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Speaker 4: it's certain rules that you have to have in place,

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Speaker 4: and that's one of those things. Unless of guys in

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Speaker 4: direct danger, like a quarterback, if there's a false start

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Speaker 4: and the guys be lining, so you blow that dead.

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Speaker 4: Su're talking about injuries when it comes down to those

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Speaker 4: type of blowing dead plays. We're actually talking about Kevin

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Speaker 4: Bier was in a clean lane to scoop that ball

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Speaker 4: and finish down the sideline. To call it dead after

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Speaker 4: the play has had continuation, as you just said, that

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Speaker 4: was flagrant.

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Speaker 5: To me.

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Speaker 4: It's too much riding on the line of these games

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Speaker 4: and trying to get to the super Bowl and trying

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Speaker 4: to start the season off well for you to blow

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Speaker 4: that play dead. Nobody was in direct harm, the quarterback

504
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Speaker 4: wasn't chasing the play right there. That was a defensive

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Speaker 4: play made by that should have been a scoop and

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Speaker 4: score and he tells the blow of Dad, and you

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Speaker 4: know what, we won't get a clear explanation of it.

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Speaker 3: It's just talk that up to a human error.

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Speaker 1: I guess it's told that Gene's territory thought it was

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Speaker 1: a anyway. Yeah, no, so let me let me ask

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Speaker 1: you finally, in speaking about officiating, based on the fact

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Speaker 1: that both sides feel like calls go against them. The

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Speaker 1: Saints are famous for thinking every call goes against them

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Speaker 1: in the world's out to get them, so they probably

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Speaker 1: experienced that from them too. Yeah, they probably feel pretty

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Speaker 1: good today. But everybody gets that. The indecision, the switching calls,

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Speaker 1: the people coming in and saying, wait a minute, maybe

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Speaker 1: it was a catch, maybe it wasn't. Does that drive

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Speaker 1: players more crazy? It does?

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Speaker 3: And you know why.

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Speaker 4: It's because your job is to enforce the rules. Your

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Speaker 4: job is to say, yes, this is right and that

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Speaker 4: is wrong, to definitively say it. So when they're that's

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Speaker 4: confusing amongst their crew that they have. And I thought

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Speaker 4: the crew I've seen them in other games. I thought

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Speaker 4: they were fair enough. But in week one, you can't

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Speaker 4: allow these type of decisions to stop a game because

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Speaker 4: it also messes up the flow of the game. It

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Speaker 4: also makes you question what you're doing right and what

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Speaker 4: you're doing wrong as a player. I did think in

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Speaker 4: week one whether it was the league that sent the

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Speaker 4: memo out. I thought their involvement was a bit much.

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Speaker 4: I did think that being on the sideline watching, I

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Speaker 4: was like, why is there so much communication between you guys?

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Speaker 4: I felt like, this is a locker room conversation that

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Speaker 4: you guys should have at halftime or either at the

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Speaker 4: end of the quarter. The floor of the game messes

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Speaker 4: up and players get off and coaches, let's talk about

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Speaker 4: the offensive coordinators the defensive coordinators. If there's a break

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Speaker 4: in the game and they're not ready to go immediately,

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Speaker 4: it messes up their flow. Those conversations have to be

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Speaker 4: had on break TV timeouts. Hey, there's plenty of time

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Speaker 4: to do that. You can't have a meeting of the

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Speaker 4: minds in between the play, because what if we're in

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Speaker 4: a hurry up mode in those moments right there, or

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Speaker 4: what if you're allowing a player to exchange in and.

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Speaker 3: Off the field.

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Speaker 4: You know, like if you got somebody relling, or you

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Speaker 4: really got plays out up and they got to have

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Speaker 4: a meeting of the minds.

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Speaker 3: That throws players off.

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Speaker 4: It really makes you question it almost everything that they

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Speaker 4: do at that point. And I saw players with their

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Speaker 4: hands out wide looking at the reference, like, really, you're

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Speaker 4: not gonna call that, or you did call that. And

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Speaker 4: it happens often, but in these situations where they're talking about,

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Speaker 4: you know, miss calls or decisions that one set was

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Speaker 4: good and the other set was bad.

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Speaker 1: That's frustrating or stepping off a twelve yard holding pedalty.

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Speaker 3: Oh my, and the.

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Speaker 1: Game took three hours and twenty minutes, which is just

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Speaker 1: proof of your point. Way too long for a sixteen

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Speaker 1: to fifteen game. Ramon Foster, thank you for your great work.

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Speaker 1: Look forward to seeing you Sunday when the Titans take on.

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Speaker 3: The Church home opening. I gotta have it.

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Speaker 1: Seat Geek is now the official ticketing partner of the

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Speaker 1: So Titans fans, Ken fan, Matt Hasselbeck played quarterback in

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Speaker 1: the NFL from nineteen ninety nine through twenty fifteen, the

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Speaker 1: majority of those seasons as a starter. In twenty eleven

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Speaker 1: and twenty twelve, he played a lot of outstanding football

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Speaker 1: for the Tennessee Titans. Matt Hasselbeck joins me now on

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Speaker 1: the OTP, I want to jump right in and I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about the Dallas Giants game. Dallas wins

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Speaker 1: forty to nothing. Is that the biggest chocker of Week

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Speaker 1: one to this point?

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Speaker 5: Wow? You know it might be. I think expectations are

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Speaker 5: just so hot for the Jets and the Giants. I

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Speaker 5: always wonder sometimes though, Like sometimes I feel like in

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Speaker 5: the media, especially the national media, they hype up the

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Speaker 5: teams that are good markets, you know, like they'll hype

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Speaker 5: up New York teams. They'll hype up the Cowboys, they'll

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Speaker 5: hype up the Bears, and so you never really know.

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Speaker 5: But I'm a believer in this Giants team, and that

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Speaker 5: just I've been part of games where like nothing goes

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Speaker 5: your way early, and that's really what happened to the

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Speaker 5: New York Giants. So I don't think I you know,

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Speaker 5: I say this to people a lot. Week one is

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Speaker 5: a liar in the NFL. I mean, how many times

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Speaker 5: do you see a team go out and just stink

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Speaker 5: it up. I think of Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers the

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Speaker 5: last couple of years has really not played well at

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Speaker 5: all Week one and and and then he goes on

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Speaker 5: to like win the MVP. You know, it's like it's

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Speaker 5: that that kind of a thing. So you know, it's

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Speaker 5: just one game. You know that the Chiefs lost Week

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Speaker 5: one to Detroit. I think the Chiefs are gonna be

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Speaker 5: pretty good too, But uh, that was an embarrassment for

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Speaker 5: the New York Giants, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: You touched on the Green Bay Packers, and you touched

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Speaker 1: on their former quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Their new quarterback Jordan

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Speaker 1: Love two hundred and forty five yards passing three touchdowns

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Speaker 1: as Green Bay wins at Chicago. It was almost like

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Speaker 1: how Aaron Rodgers debuted after he took over from Brett Farv.

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Speaker 1: Should Packer fans be optimistic after that?

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Speaker 5: Well, I think Packer fans should be optimistic for a

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Speaker 5: lot of reasons. However, let's not forget this is the

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Speaker 5: Chicago Bears and they had the you know they're picking

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Speaker 5: at the top of the draft, you know, near the

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Speaker 5: top of the draft. For a reason like they're there.

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Speaker 5: Really were maybe the worst, one of the worst teams

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Speaker 5: in football last year. With that being said, Jordan Love,

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Speaker 5: what I like to look at with quarterbacks, young quarterbacks,

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Speaker 5: especially how are they on third down? And I saw it.

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Speaker 5: On third down, Jordan Love showed poise, He showed playmaking ability.

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Speaker 5: He didn't ust to it with his legs as some

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Speaker 5: times young players do. He did it with his arm.

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Speaker 5: He did it with his eyes downfield as he was

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Speaker 5: approaching the line of scrimmage threatening to scramble. And I

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Speaker 5: thought that Matt Lafloord did an awesome job of basically

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Speaker 5: designing this year's Green Bay Packers offense in a way

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Speaker 5: that reminds me more of what the San Francisco forty

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Speaker 5: nine ers are doing than it does of what they

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Speaker 5: did last year with Aaron Rodgers. Let the quarterback be

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Speaker 5: more of a point guard, let him distribute, and let

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Speaker 5: the offense work for you. And I thought Jordan Love

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Speaker 5: did a great job of that with Aaron Jones in particular,

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Speaker 5: who's kind of playing that Christian McCaffrey role.

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Speaker 1: Right now, to your point about San Francisco, they went

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Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh thirty to seven, brock Purty nineteen of twenty nine,

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Speaker 1: two twenty two touchdowns, very efficient running the show. Are

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Speaker 1: you a brock pretty believer already?

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Speaker 5: I really am. And you know you had mentioned the

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Speaker 5: Dallas Cowboys as the most impressive showing of the week.

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Speaker 5: You're probably right right behind them were the San Francisco

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Speaker 5: forty nine ers. They go into Pittsburgh. We all know

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Speaker 5: how tough it is to go into Pittsburgh, and not

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Speaker 5: only do they look amazing on defense, but offense. Brock Purty,

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Speaker 5: coming off of that huge elbow surgery late in the year,

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Speaker 5: look like he you know, one hundred percent healthy wheeling

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Speaker 5: and deal in doing it with his legs, doing it

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Speaker 5: with his arm. That scheme, the talent that they have

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Speaker 5: right now, I think you got to say San fran

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Speaker 5: picked right up where they left off last year, and

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Speaker 5: that's hard to do, especially when you lose the way

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Speaker 5: that they lost, the way that their season ended last year.

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Speaker 5: I'm a believer in the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 1: At Asselbeck, let's talk about the rookie quarterbacks. Bryce Young

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Speaker 1: and Carolina lose to Atlanta twenty four to ten. He's

656
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Speaker 1: twenty of thirty eight for one forty six with a

657
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: couple of picks. Anthony Richardson in Indianapolis loses to Jacksonville.

658
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: He throws for two hundred and twenty three yards, rushes

659
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: for forty intercepted once, sacked four times. In the ballgame

660
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: c J. Stroud and Houston lose to Baltimore twenty nine.

661
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: He throws for two forty two and it's sacked five times.

662
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: Maybe kind of what we expected from all three based

663
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: on first game and the opponent.

664
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Speaker 5: Well, I thought Anthony Richardson first off in Indianapolis was

665
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 5: far better for the most part than I expected. He's

666
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 5: a guy that hasn't played a lot of college football,

667
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 5: and he was really dominant. Now he'll look back, he's

668
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 5: a young player. There was a third down play I

669
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 5: believe it was a third down where he throws, he

670
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 5: throws an interception and it really cost him the game.

671
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 5: You learn from those things as a young player. And

672
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 5: that's what the owner, Jim Irsay said, He said, hey, listen,

673
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 5: just like we did with Peyton, just like we did

674
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 5: with Andrew Luck, He's got to get out there and

675
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 5: learn on the job, and that's what they believe in there. Now.

676
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 5: My concern for him is that I don't think he

677
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 5: can run the way that he did in college. It's

678
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 5: just going to catch up with you. It's a more

679
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 5: physical game in the NFL. It's a longer season, and

680
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 5: he was not able to finish the game because he

681
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 5: took a bad hit. You know, Bryce Young, I think

682
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,719
Speaker 5: he's just poise upon poise upon poise. I love the

683
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 5: matchup with Frank Raich there. I think that's a rebuild

684
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 5: situation as well. And same thing for CJ. Stroud again, Like,

685
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 5: you know, there's smiles on everybody's face down there again.

686
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 5: You know, I think they're playing Baltimore and they're down

687
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 5: by twenty points and everyone's smiling when they have a

688
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 5: good play. Like that's that's just a rebuild situation. So

689
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 5: for a young quarterback without the pressure of having to

690
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 5: come in and win right away, you know, maybe they

691
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 5: figure it out for this year though. I think they're

692
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 5: talented guys with a ton of potential, But how relevant

693
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 5: will they be? You know? I think I think the

694
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 5: Colt and Anthony Richardson have the best chance to be relevant.

695
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: Matt helped me with something. Cleveland twenty four, Cincinnati three,

696
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow fourteen of thirty one for eighty two yards.

697
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 5: Ugly ugly, ugly, ugly weather rivalry game. Like I said,

698
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 5: Week one can be a liar sometimes. The only thing

699
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 5: I could say is that practice matters. And I think

700
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 5: Joe Burrow might be the most talented quarterback in the game,

701
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 5: but practice matters. Even if you're Joe Burrow, he missed

702
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 5: a bunch of time he had the calf injury, and uh,

703
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 5: you know, it showed. I just think it showed. And

704
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 5: and again if you're the Cleveland Browns, they did not

705
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 5: play well on offense either, not really. They ran the

706
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 5: ball well. Nick Chubb was great, but to that defense,

707
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 5: it's like a super Bowl for them getting up to

708
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 5: open the season against Joe Burrow Jamar Chase that offense

709
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 5: and they played like it. And like I said, I

710
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 5: think the weather played into it just a little bit.

711
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 5: But the Cincinnati Bengals, I have I have confidence they'll

712
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 5: they'll just like the Chiefs, They'll.

713
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: Be back and they have trouble with Cleveland anyway. Every

714
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: every team has one of those, right, no doubt.

715
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 5: You know, there's just something about rivalry games. Like when

716
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 5: I was on the Green Bay Packers for three years,

717
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,439
Speaker 5: it was the Brett fav years, the Glory years, that

718
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 5: the Bears were really one of the worst teams in football.

719
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 5: It never seemed to matter. It always seemed to be

720
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 5: a game. And uh, you know, you can't really explain

721
00:34:57,960 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 5: it other than if you've ever been a part of

722
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 5: a rival game. It's just something special about it. It's something

723
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 5: special about it with the fans, the players, the coaches,

724
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 5: and that's certainly what they have in Cleveland, in Cincinnati.

725
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: Matt Hasselbeck. When we think about the Dolphins and the Chargers,

726
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: we think about the great playoff game of forty plus

727
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,959
Speaker 1: years ago. We think of them taking Kellen Winslow off

728
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 1: the field as team bates, helping it well. They had

729
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: another kind of shootout game like that yesterday thirty six

730
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: thirty four. Dolphins win it to a tongue of Iiloa

731
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: throws for four to sixty six. The Chargers run it

732
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: well for over two hundred and Justin Herbert throws for

733
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,240
Speaker 1: two to twenty eight. What did you come away from

734
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: that game that you'll take that you think maybe a

735
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:41,959
Speaker 1: carryover for each If you're.

736
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Speaker 5: Gonna watch one game from the weekend, that's the game

737
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 5: to watch. Incredible offense, Tyreek Hill was uncoverable, and I

738
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 5: thought Justin Herbert looked great with his new offensive coordinator

739
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 5: that they got from Dallas, So that that's an exciting

740
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,720
Speaker 5: Those are two exciting teams for the rest of the season.

741
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: And the debut of Sean Payton and he loses to

742
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: Las Vegas seventeen to sixteen. Jimmy Garoppolo completes twenty of

743
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: twenty six for two hundred yards a couple of touchdowns.

744
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 1: The thing I want to ask you about is sort

745
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 1: of the remaking of Russell Wilson. Twenty seven of thirty four,

746
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: one seventy seven, two touchdowns. Could you get a sense

747
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: of what Sean Payton is going to try to do

748
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: to make Russell Wilson either Russell Wilson again or the

749
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson of Now, Yeah.

750
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 5: And you saw it. You saw it for sure. I mean,

751
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 5: you saw a little bit more of the Russell Wilson

752
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 5: that we used to know last year. He was, you know,

753
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 5: for some reason, one of the worst quarterbacks in football

754
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 5: after being after having been one of the best quarterbacks

755
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 5: in football for a long time. Now, what I saw

756
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 5: yesterday was a guy that was helping his teams, helping

757
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,240
Speaker 5: his team by staying ahead of the sticks, not taking

758
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 5: unnecessary sacks, still using his creativity and his sc scrambling

759
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 5: ability to extend plays, but not on a three step drop.

760
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 5: On a three step drop, it was more like one, two, three,

761
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 5: let's get rid of the ball. On his five and

762
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 5: seven step drops, That's when it was like, Hey, let's

763
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:09,919
Speaker 5: go through our progression. If it's not there, go ahead

764
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 5: and be Russell Wilson, go ahead and create. And you

765
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 5: saw him do that many times with Courtland Sutton, Sutton

766
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 5: on offense. But truly, I think, I think the thing

767
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 5: that Sean Payton's going to bring to the team is

768
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 5: an identity, and I think Sean Payton is pretty similar.

769
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 5: He's more similar to Pete Carroll than than people might

770
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 5: imagine third and four. Everyone in the past and Seattle

771
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 5: and say, oh, let Russ Cook, let Russ Cook. Pete

772
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 5: Carroll wanted to run the ball sometimes in third and

773
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,800
Speaker 5: four keep the defense off balance. You saw Sean Payton

774
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 5: do that exact same thing yesterday. Hey, you're a part

775
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 5: of this team. We're not going to do everything on

776
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 5: your shoulders. However, when the players are there to be made,

777
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 5: we need you to be superman. And I think that's

778
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 5: sort of the mindset that they've got going into it,

779
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 5: and I do trust Sean Payton and Russell Wilson to

780
00:37:59,440 --> 00:37:59,919
Speaker 5: get it fixed.

781
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,760
Speaker 1: All right, matt Hasselbeck, I want to ask you about

782
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 1: the trend in week one, because what a surprise. Matthew

783
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: Stafford throws for over three hundred. Kirk Cousins throws for

784
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: over three hundred. We mentioned that to a tongue of

785
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: ioloa through for four to sixty six. Mac Jones threw

786
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: for three sixteen, but he had too because his team

787
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: was behind. Otherwise, passers were well under three hundred yards.

788
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: In most cases, teams had more running attacks. I mean,

789
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: that's a total shift in the trend from recent years,

790
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: at least for week one. Why do you think that

791
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: happened the first weekend of this the twenty twenty three

792
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: NFL season.

793
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a good question. I think there's great pass

794
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 5: rushers out there right now. In a way to neutralize

795
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 5: pass rush is to run the ball. You know. That's

796
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 5: something that's the biggest fear I think of every play caller, like, Hey,

797
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 5: I know I can get my guys open, but how

798
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 5: are we going to block for it? And so I

799
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 5: think that's probably the number one thing. You go out

800
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 5: and you try to establish that. But like I said,

801
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 5: week one can be a liar. Week one can be

802
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 5: you know, you see the trends, you you know, you

803
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 5: look at who's good, who's not, all those types of things.

804
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 5: I just in my career it just always seems like,

805
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 5: you know, it takes away. I'll use the New England

806
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,720
Speaker 5: Patriots as an example. They're one of the best teams

807
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 5: as scouting you. They're one of the best teams at

808
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 5: scouting you, and so I've never felt like they were

809
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 5: a great Week one team because they don't have the

810
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 5: ability to have like sort of a game breakdown of

811
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 5: you you can kind of surprise them with whatever the

812
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 5: heck you want to surprise them with. And so we always,

813
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,479
Speaker 5: you know, we know the Patriots are usually a great team,

814
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 5: but Week one, it always felt like that was the

815
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 5: time that you could sort of get them off their

816
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 5: heels just a little bit, and run game is certainly

817
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 5: a way to do it. Run game fits. There's not

818
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,479
Speaker 5: a lot of tackling in the preseason anymore. In training camp.

819
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 5: There's less preseason games, so you know, who knows, that's

820
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 5: that's my guest, though, Matt, I want to wrap up

821
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 5: with this.

822
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Speaker 1: When you joined the Tennessee Titans, it was at the

823
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: end of the lockout. The lockout ended on July the

824
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: twenty seventh, and you joined the team right after that.

825
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: You come in, you join a new staff that hasn't

826
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,359
Speaker 1: been together, obviously, a new system for you, a new

827
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: system for Chris Palmer's as he's trying to get everything

828
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 1: started here. The first game against Jacksonville, the Titans have

829
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 1: trouble offensively until later in the game in the fourth quarter,

830
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: you start to get it going. And then in week

831
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:30,720
Speaker 1: two you throw for three fifty eight and absolutely handle

832
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:35,439
Speaker 1: an excellent Baltimore Ravens team. Talk, if you would, about

833
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: a quarterback working a new offense and what it can

834
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: mean to have week two to now have seen the

835
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Speaker 1: real thing and get a chance to move on and

836
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 1: maybe more successful.

837
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,720
Speaker 5: Well, I think teams take the biggest jump in between

838
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 5: weeks one and two, and some of it are just

839
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 5: like things that are just communication things on the sidelines,

840
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 5: you know, just being in the fire. How we're going

841
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 5: to communicate, how we're going to talk about it, but

842
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 5: truly and honestly, and even going back to what you

843
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,720
Speaker 5: mentioned for a quarterback and a new system with new players,

844
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,439
Speaker 5: maybe a new star wide receiver, whatever it might be.

845
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 5: You know, at the time I had Kenny Britt, you know,

846
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 5: I noticed, like you know, Ryan Tannehill, now he is

847
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 5: DeAndre Hopkins. Sometimes that can be a great thing. Sometimes

848
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 5: you can feel like you're forcing it to the guy

849
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 5: a little bit, but that first week you get the

850
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 5: kinks out. What it comes down to for me is

851
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 5: third down. How do you compete or how do you

852
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 5: perform on third down? Are we giving up sacks? Are

853
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 5: we throwing interceptions? Are we protecting the ball? Are we scoring?

854
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 5: Are we letting our punteror punt? Sometimes that's the best

855
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 5: thing you can do. And so I just remember for me,

856
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:38,319
Speaker 5: going back to that year that you're mentioning, that was

857
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 5: a great Baltimore defense. We did have a little bit

858
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 5: of I don't want to say fear, but a healthy

859
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 5: respect for them, and we knew the game would be

860
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 5: one or lost on third down. And really, through through

861
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 5: my entire career, I think that's what I would say.

862
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 5: You know, quarterbacks, they make their money on third down.

863
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,439
Speaker 5: Offenses can make or break the game on third down,

864
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 5: And really I think that's the key, and so week two,

865
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 5: I think that's the thing I would look for if

866
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 5: I was gonna look for one thing, how are people

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Speaker 5: around the league doing on third down offensively? And I

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Speaker 5: think that speaks volumes.

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Speaker 1: And the Titans are hoping for that from Ryan Tannehill.

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Speaker 1: A tough Week one, hopefully in this new offense, major

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Speaker 1: improvement in Week two, yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 5: And you know, sometimes as a quarterback, again I mentioned

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Speaker 5: the unknown, when you don't get to scout the opponent,

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Speaker 5: you sometimes feel like you're playing not to lose instead

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Speaker 5: of playing to win, and that's a bad place to be.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I just I always appreciated when I was

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Speaker 5: feeling like going into the game, like, hey, we are

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Speaker 5: cutting it loose. We're on offense. I don't care what

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Speaker 5: you do defensively. We're on offense. We're going to do

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Speaker 5: what we want to do. And then sometimes you just

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Speaker 5: get into a situation where you're sort of like waiting

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Speaker 5: and reacting, Okay, what's the defense going to do? Okay,

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Speaker 5: if they do this, then we're going to do that.

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Speaker 5: And I just never I never really felt the same

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Speaker 5: in situations like that. So you know, hopefully, I think

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Speaker 5: for every offense. You want to feel like you're the aggressor,

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Speaker 5: and certainly I think that Tennessee at times has been that,

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Speaker 5: and this weekend they were not.

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Speaker 1: Twelve years ago. Great memory at the two minute warning,

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Speaker 1: we've got to go in to break there, and you

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Speaker 1: were coming to the sidelines, and we knew the Titans

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Speaker 1: were going to win that game and had a chance

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Speaker 1: to celebrate it. And it was wonderful to watch you work,

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Speaker 1: knowing the kind of pro that you had been and

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Speaker 1: would continue to be to beat Baltimore that day, which

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Speaker 1: is always special to Titans fans, and to know you

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Speaker 1: had them and could breathe at the end. It was

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Speaker 1: a great thing. Matt Hasselbeck, thank you.

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Speaker 5: Thank you my great memories and still do it for

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Speaker 5: you guys.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for the time. That'll do it for

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Speaker 1: this edition of the Official Titans Podcast. I'm Mike Keith,

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Speaker 1: thanking you for listening to the O t P.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Big Show. Where the Mountain's going. I

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Speaker 3: ever bought a nose, It's our house. Fine thoughts and

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Speaker 3: see making three greatness. That's a bea