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Speaker 1: Welcome to the o T The Efficient Fighting Podcast. My

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Speaker 1: name is Mike Keeth, so glad to have you with us.

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Speaker 1: On Thursday. Amy Wells is here as usual. Hello, Hello,

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Speaker 1: how are you? We've got dunkin Donuts, munchkins this morning,

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Speaker 1: and cake balls for the holiday season. We're trying to

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Speaker 1: shake it up. We went. We love the donuts, but

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Speaker 1: we gotta shake it up right. We've got to try

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Speaker 1: something different, get the juju flowing. It's here's the problem. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I've had about fifteen of each. Okay, because you just

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Speaker 1: grab a handful and you get a couple of months.

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Speaker 1: But that's what they're there for. A couple of cake pops.

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Speaker 1: My sugar right now is through the room. You're going

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Speaker 1: to fight somebody. Well, about halfway through the show, I

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Speaker 1: might just crash. You will go after the great Jim Water.

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Speaker 1: Might we might fight later, Let's hope not. Jim Welcome.

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Speaker 1: I'm had two so far, so I'm probably lose this

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Speaker 1: battle if we get into a scrap. We're trying to

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Speaker 1: change the energy after a couple of rough road trips.

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis obviously wasn't good. Houston was not good either, even

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Speaker 1: though it got off to a good start, it kind

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Speaker 1: of went downhill after the first six minutes unfortunately for

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Speaker 1: the Titans. In the ball game, the Titans give up

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Speaker 1: a final total of two hundred eighty one rushing yards.

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Speaker 1: That's the most since the team moved to Tennessee. You

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Speaker 1: have to go back to December twenty second, nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: five oilers against the Colts was the Indian Heapolis Colts.

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Speaker 1: They gave up two ninety nine in that game. And

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're just not gonna win a game in

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Speaker 1: the NFL where you give up two hundred eighty one

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Speaker 1: yards rushing. Yeah, ninety seven on one play. Lamar Miller,

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Speaker 1: who showed he's pretty fast still and that's funny. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I know, we get to watch practice and

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Speaker 1: there was a point last week where Mike Vrabel was

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Speaker 1: telling guys he's faster than you think. He's faster than

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Speaker 1: you think. And he stopped practice at one point to

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Speaker 1: tell one particular guy var Miller's faster than to think

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Speaker 1: he is. And uh, and he proved it on Monday night.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he not only got through a big hole,

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Speaker 1: there was a mistackles and then while a Dorry Jackson

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Speaker 1: was closing on him. It was too late. That was unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: I mean to see ground, to see well a Dory Jackson,

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Speaker 1: he's at the line of scrimmage when he breaks the

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Speaker 1: line on the other side of the field, and I

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Speaker 1: mean that's world class speed. Yes, that was the Only

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Speaker 1: good thing about watching that play is you're like, where

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Speaker 1: did he come from? If you haven't, If you haven't

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Speaker 1: watched that, go back and look at a Dory and

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Speaker 1: where he comes from, just to see. It just goes

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Speaker 1: to show though you lose this ball game on a

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Speaker 1: night where your quarterback goes twenty two of twenty three,

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Speaker 1: doesn't turn the ball over, hits his first nineteen passes,

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Speaker 1: Mariota has statistically a career night, and you still lose

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Speaker 1: by seventeen points. It's just so frustrating for him because

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Speaker 1: he's the one that shoulders so much of this. He's

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Speaker 1: the one that stands up in front of the media

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Speaker 1: and he takes the blame. He even took the blame

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Speaker 1: after that game where he has such a good performance.

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Speaker 1: This is a team sport, it just is, and everybody

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Speaker 1: has to do their job, and it just goes to

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Speaker 1: show you how important every single piece of an offense

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Speaker 1: is well, yeah, I mean every you look at you

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Speaker 1: break down his numbers, and yes, he threw a few

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Speaker 1: dump off passes, but several of his throws were down

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Speaker 1: the field. The throw to Corey Davis for a touchdown,

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Speaker 1: dropping it in between two defenders. You know, he had

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Speaker 1: a good night throwing the football, and yet you're you're

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Speaker 1: I was wondering for a while if he was gonna

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Speaker 1: which would have really been something. Ends up with the

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Speaker 1: second best performance in league history from a completion percentage standpoint.

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Speaker 1: You met the qualifier there. You know how much I'll

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Speaker 1: a second and there. But you know, when you get

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Speaker 1: able to convert four out of twelve on third down.

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Speaker 1: It makes it difficult. And I'm sure we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: at this point seventy eight completion seventy eight percent completions one,

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Speaker 1: maybe he deserves. But I think that he's also that

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Speaker 1: this show what we've been talking about all year with

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Speaker 1: That's what this team has to do. They have to

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Speaker 1: It's really catching on. I really like it. I like

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Speaker 1: the inclusion of a dog, including the dog. Jim, I'm

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Speaker 1: he's look at that face. You can't be mad. You can't.

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Speaker 1: a seventy eight yard punt return for a touchdown this year.

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Speaker 1: The Titans cannot cannot give the Jets seven points on

427
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Speaker 1: defense or special teams. They can't let it happen. Yeah,

428
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Speaker 1: I mean this is you know, this is a game

429
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Speaker 1: that Titans need to make some of those plays themselves,

430
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,159
Speaker 1: and to have it happened against you would be one

431
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,399
Speaker 1: of those momentum changers that the Jets are looking for him.

432
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Speaker 1: And it's the team that's that has struggled themselves, lost

433
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 1: five games in a row. That's a spark that can

434
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Speaker 1: fire up at teams. I'm with you, and that guy's

435
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 1: been a little bit of thorn the side of the

436
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 1: Titans during his career. Second one stop the run, you

437
00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: give up two hundred and eighty one yards rushing. That's

438
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 1: pretty obvious. But they have The Jets have the back

439
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 1: who has the best one game rushing performance in the

440
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,880
Speaker 1: NFL this year, Isaiah Crowell. Ye. People in this area

441
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 1: know Isaiah Crowell because he was at Georgia with all

442
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 1: these backs who are now in the NFL and left

443
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 1: went to Alabama State, made his bones with the Browns

444
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,880
Speaker 1: and now with the Jets. Last month against Denver, fifteen

445
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,680
Speaker 1: rushes for two hundred and nineteen yards. Yeah, we don't

446
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 1: need any of that week. Enough of that we've seen that, yeah,

447
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,880
Speaker 1: average of four point nine yards of carry, he's got

448
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 1: six touchdowns, had long seventy seven. And the thing about

449
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: them is when they can run it. They even been

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Speaker 1: successful that they have not been able to run a

451
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Speaker 1: lot of Sundays because they've been playing catch up. So

452
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Speaker 1: if you allow them to get the run game going,

453
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 1: that's trouble. And then finally, coach Vrabel's third one is

454
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Speaker 1: convert third downs. The Jets have a really big name defense.

455
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: They've got Leonard Williams, and they've got Avery Williamson, and

456
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Speaker 1: they've got Darren Lee. And in the secondary they have

457
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Speaker 1: Jamal Adams and Marcus May and they have Tremaine Johnson,

458
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 1: who was a seventy two million dollar free agent at

459
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Speaker 1: corner and Maurice Clayborne, who's the former Jim Thorpe Award

460
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Speaker 1: winner at LSU. Their numbers have not been what they

461
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 1: hope to be this year, but on third downs they

462
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:30,160
Speaker 1: have limited opponents to just thirty four percent conversions. That

463
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,760
Speaker 1: was a huge problem for the Titans Monday night is

464
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 1: they had big time problems on third down staying on

465
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Speaker 1: the field when they desperately needed to. This is what

466
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,360
Speaker 1: you can't let it get into this game. I mean

467
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 1: all of these little things. For where the Jets are

468
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: right now. You can't let them score on special teams

469
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: or flip the field and get an easy score. You

470
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,359
Speaker 1: absolutely can't let their run game get going. And you

471
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 1: can't get in this game where you're going three and

472
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 1: out and three and out and three and out. You

473
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 1: because if you get into this sort of game, this

474
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 1: is the old fourteen to ten, seventeen, fourteen, thirteen, nine,

475
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: and you play a game against Tide Bowls team like that,

476
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: you generally lose. Yeah, and the Titans, you've got to

477
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 1: win this ball game. Got to win this ball game. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned the lack of successes past week four

479
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: to twelve. We talked about that thirty three percent. But

480
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,919
Speaker 1: some of these other games the types to struggle to animal. Obviously,

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00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: against Baltimore you go one of ten, that's ten percent.

482
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,199
Speaker 1: H you know, against Inde, you know you're sitting at

483
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,399
Speaker 1: six and fourteen. That's a little bit better forty two percent.

484
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 1: This team's averages forty two point two percent on third down.

485
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: You've got to be able to continue drives, You've got

486
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: to be able to put the ball in the end zone,

487
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,639
Speaker 1: be good in the red zone, and when you've got

488
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: an opportunity, especially in some of these game changing situations

489
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 1: like the fourth one, you got to you gotta convert. Sure.

490
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 1: And the other part of it too, for the Titans,

491
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 1: is in here stopping the bleeding, getting a win, getting

492
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Speaker 1: to six and six, getting an AFC win, which they

493
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 1: desperately need right now. I think if you look at

494
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 1: trying to make the playoffs as a wildcard, winning your

495
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: three AFC games right now seems to be a must.

496
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Speaker 1: I mean there's some who say you've got to win

497
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Speaker 1: all five to get in. Maybe that's true, maybe that's

498
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: not the four or five you would certainly think you

499
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 1: if you win four of five, all three of those

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00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: would have to be the AFC games. Yeah, And even

501
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: if that happens, you know, just looking at it, m

502
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough with some of these tiebreakers. Well,

503
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: the Titans are eleventh, right, They're only one game out

504
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: of the wildcard right now, which is the good news.

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00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: The bad news is they're eleventh. Yeah, so they've got

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00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: teams that they have already lost a tiebreaker two yeah,

507
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: Baltimore yes, and Miami Yeah. So that's trouble, and this

508
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: is the time of year when you have to start

509
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: looking at some of these other games, like who's I

510
00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: think the Bengals play the Broncos this week and something

511
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 1: sitting at five and six, and you can't help but

512
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: wonder what's the better result there. So you start looking

513
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: to see who else is on the horizon. And I

514
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: looked at it, and I think it's better for the

515
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 1: Bengals to win because the Broncos have got a tougher

516
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: schedule coming up where you figure they're going to give

517
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: some games back. So uh well, I like, for example here,

518
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 1: so you're saying the Bengals should win, I think it's

519
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 1: probably better a better result if the Bengals win. I

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00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: think you're right. But just looking at the next week

521
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: because in Week fourteen, Denver plays at San Francisco, very winnable,

522
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: Cincinnati plays at the LA Chargers and not so much. Right,

523
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: They've got a Steelers at Pittsburgh, I think on that

524
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: schedule as well. Right, that's a good that's a good point. Yeah,

525
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: you have to start looking at everything that's gonna go on.

526
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: It's like Baltimore is at Atlanta, Go Falcons. Yeah, I

527
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: mean if you're a Titan, need to have to happen.

528
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: If you're a Titans fan, Buffalo at Miami wouldn't be

529
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: the worst thing in the world if Buffalo wins that game,

530
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: not at all. Need for Jacksonville to rise up and

531
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: beat the yeare's that's that's a trick because you don't

532
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: want to get them fired up. Yeah, well here, but

533
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: I want to I want to hold that because we're

534
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: gonna get to the AFC South in just a moment um.

535
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: And just because we're talking about this for the Titans

536
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: and how goofy this schedule is right now for where

537
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: the Titans are, it's really been goofy for a while. Yeah,

538
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: but the two Monday night road games in Texas within

539
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: a three week period, that's strange. And then you're gonna

540
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 1: come back and play at home at three oh five

541
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: against the Jets, which is a little bit out of

542
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: your comfort zone, and then you turn around and play

543
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: Thursday night against Jacksonville. It's a it's a little odd

544
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: for a league that is so based on structure. And

545
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: we talk all the time about how during football season

546
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: it's Groundhog Day. Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Friday is

547
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: exactly the same. The Titans haven't been able to get

548
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: in that kind of routine since Gosh London. But you

549
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: know what, that's a good thing. Yeah, because that means

550
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: the league is actually interested in you. Oh absolutely. I

551
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: mean we've been in some awesome primetime games, are in

552
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: arguably better time slots and things like that, so more people. No,

553
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: not even kind of, not even a little bit. I

554
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: don't like it. It's right in the middle of the day.

555
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 1: It messes up my whole groove. Jim, I don't mind it. Occasionally,

556
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: maybe get to catch up a little bit of sleep

557
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: Sunday more instead of having to get up real early. Nope,

558
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: I get up at the same time. I can't. It's

559
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: game day. I can't. It just confuses Yeah, I can't function. Yeah,

560
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: and then I try to figure out what to do.

561
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: Can I make it to church and still make it

562
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: to I like, oddly just want to go to the

563
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: stadium with them there hours are early, and that's weird.

564
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: It just it throws me off of my whole groove.

565
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: And but that's what I'm saying. I mean, We've had

566
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: so many different days where if I'm thrown off my

567
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: it is nice to be able to go to church.

568
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,040
Speaker 1: That's a nice part of it. Yeah, and then but

569
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: then you're out of there like that, but you have

570
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: to run in Yeah. Yeah, but that's that's a nice

571
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: part because you try and make it like get there

572
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: and then you're like, okay, we need to wrap this up.

573
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I get worried about that. I start

574
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: watching the clock. But that's gonna continue too, because as

575
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: you mentioned, I mean, we've got a we've got an afternoon,

576
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: we got a Thursday, and we've got a Saturday game

577
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: on the horizon with the Redskins, and uh, you know,

578
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: this team is still in the mount. I'm pretty much

579
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: ready to concede that this team is not winning the

580
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: ANFC South, But I still think that there's a path

581
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: to getting into the wild cards. But you've got to

582
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: take care of business. Here's the one thing we know. Okay,

583
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: so they're eleventh and they're a game out. A bunch

584
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: of goofy stuff is gonna happen. It is gonna happen.

585
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: It's can you take advantage of it. There have been

586
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: years like last year where the Titans did take advantage

587
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: of it. There have been years like two thousand and six,

588
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: where five things needed to happen, Yes, and the Titans

589
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 1: needed to win. All five of the things happened and

590
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: the Titans did not win. And Mike Rabel was on

591
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: the field that day. Yeah, because it was a lost

592
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: of the Patriots. We've had a discussion about that game. Yes,

593
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: I'm still not over putting test of Verdie in to

594
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: throw the touchdown pass in the last minute so he

595
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: could say through a touchdown pass in nine different decades

596
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: or whatever it was, by the way, something like that.

597
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: It was. It was something like that that no one

598
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: cared about except Vinnie Testaverdie his immediate family. Good. He

599
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: loves a qualifier. That's right. Keith and I were together

600
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: riding together on that one Sunday. Sunday, Sunday, get to

601
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 1: the game. If you have tickets, come to the game,

602
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: come to Nissan Stadium. We've even got your weather forecast.

603
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: Let's do the weather forecast first. Your weather forecast for

604
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: Sunday at Nissan Stadium three h five courtesy of Weather

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Speaker 1: Not come at that. It looks like mostly Sunday sixty

606
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: eight degrees. That's lovely, that's fantastic, So don't give me that. Well,

607
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: it's not it's kind of cool. It's not cool. Football

608
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: weather Thursday for the Jaguars is not even gonna be bad.

609
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: It's not as warm, but I mean that's not terrible

610
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: for December at night in the forties, you wear a jacket.

611
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: But Sunday you gotta be there and listen. Four home

612
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 1: games remaining. Single game tickets do remain for the four

613
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: home games. So if you're sitting here thinking I would

614
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: like to take a trip to Nashville, there you go.

615
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you'd like to drive in. Look at

616
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Speaker 1: these game times. So you've got three or five on Sunday,

617
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: you've got the Thursday night game. You can come in

618
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: Thursday night for it's Nashville. Yeah, it's an event in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: Command have dinner, listen to some music, go watch the

620
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: Titans play the Jags. Washington is a Saturday game Saturday

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Speaker 1: at three thirty. It's great. Leave on Friday after work,

622
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: be there Saturday. Are you're telling people to get a

623
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: hotel room and stay them. Make an event out. Oh,

624
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: you can finish your shopping. It'd be so fun. You

625
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: could finish your shop. Heck, yes, you can boots for everybody.

626
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 1: And then the final home game is Indianapolis also fun. Yes,

627
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: it's been New Year's and all of those at Nissan Stadium,

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00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 1: those are the times and at Nissan stadiums SANS online

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Speaker 1: dot com and there we've got to add feature prominently

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Speaker 1: on the website about the twice Daily TD package from

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Speaker 1: Version night game where you get a ticket for twenty

632
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Speaker 1: bucks twenty dollars and for and for every ticket. Oh

633
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: look at this. We have this the first thousand tickets.

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Speaker 1: So look, you get a ten dollars concession card courtesy

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Speaker 1: of our friends at twice Daily. That's a meal and

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637
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 1: talking about church. The concession food is really good. I

638
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: went and it all. Yeah, you get to do that.

639
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: It's really good. You want that ten dollar aboutcher? How

640
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 1: can you pass a deal like that? Of it? You

641
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: can't be You really can't. Like just going down to

642
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: Martin's for some barbecue, Miles will go to stadium. What

643
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: if you were going to do something for for like

644
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: co workers or employees, that's fine? How perfect is that out? Yeah?

645
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,720
Speaker 1: Instead of taking them to dinner somewhere and costing yourself

646
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: a couple of grand buy them all a twenty dollars

647
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: ticket and you can go together as a team, team building.

648
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: Take it. You can take a pedal tavern down there

649
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: with a bachelorette party and just st roll on in.

650
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: That's so Jim White of him. We not just asking

651
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:44,959
Speaker 1: your partying the whole. I'm not following the bachelorette party,

652
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: but I've seen the Bathrette parties golfing down Broad I

653
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: don't know that I'm buying pedal right on in. But

654
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: and if you come to the game, we're giving you gloves.

655
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: Yeah you got some gym. Yeah, you got your gloves,

656
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: said a cool doll. Might need him not, might not

657
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: need It'd be tough to type with these. They've got

658
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 1: the textable fingers, yeah, from courtesy of CMT. But Amy's

659
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: gonna put them up. She's the hand model. There's the

660
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: text fingers. Everybody, everybody who attends will get these clubs

661
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: or first will be everybody or the first however many

662
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: I think it's everybody. It's the giveaway. Okay, so there

663
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: you go. You don't even have to worry about being

664
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: Jim Why, it's already got his. You might wear those

665
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: at practice today. I might need him out that if

666
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,439
Speaker 1: we go outside. We're going outside. We're going out. Yeah,

667
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: we're going outside. Come on, just lost two in a row.

668
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: We're going outside. Remember how it's Thursday. Hey, it's Thursday.

669
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: You gotta run to football. We gotta run to football.

670
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: You gotta put it a little, gotta put it a

671
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:49,439
Speaker 1: little work. Today yesterday was just kind of a walk

672
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: through type DeLeo. So right, all right, so let's look

673
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: at the AFC South. We started to touch on this,

674
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: but I wanted to get a little deeper when we

675
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,280
Speaker 1: had just a second more. And here are the standings.

676
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: The Texans are in command. They play Greg Williams and

677
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: the Browns, and I I don't know. I mean, I

678
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: think the Browns can go in there and win. The

679
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 1: Browns are still in the playoff picture. They're twelfth right

680
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: now in the AFC, so they're not out of it.

681
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: The Colts have the Jags. The Colts have won five

682
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:29,320
Speaker 1: in a row. They're going to Jacksonville. Jacksonville fired Nathaniel Hackett,

683
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: their offensive coordinator, replaced him with Scott Milanovich. They have

684
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: changed quarterbacks, sitting Blake Boardles starting Cody Kessler. The last

685
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: time Jacksonville had a major offensive shake up. They won

686
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: a big game in the AFC South YEP Week sixteen.

687
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:51,320
Speaker 1: Ye in twenty sixteen, they're gonna be playing without Leonard Fournette.

688
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 1: Who gets to get healthy for the type? Boy? Was that?

689
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: Was that not the easiest suspension appeal hearing ever? Yet?

690
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: The bench and you took a swing. I mean, there's

691
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: no He was so willing to fight till you can.

692
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: You could look at the racks and some of his

693
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,359
Speaker 1: teammates who were kind of someone We're just shaking their

694
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: heads in the back, like you know, what are you doing? Yeah?

695
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: And then it continued into the tunnel. Oh gosh, they

696
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 1: had to pull him back. Yeah, something had to have

697
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: been set about someone's mom or something like it. It

698
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 1: looked personal to me. I like it. Unfortunately, you know,

699
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: he gets get his legs back and gets gets to

700
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 1: sit out a week and comes in here the following Thursday.

701
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 1: He be fresh and motivated for Thursday United in Nashville.

702
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: But who are we four in that game? I mean,

703
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: let's think from the Titans perspective. Are you for Indy

704
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: to keep Jacksonville down and have them come in on

705
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: Thursday night three and nine with really nothing? I mean

706
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: nobody's getting into playoffs at seven and nine, So or

707
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,320
Speaker 1: do you want them to go ahead and take Indie

708
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: down so you have a chance to move back into

709
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 1: a tie with Indy in the division. I think I

710
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: would rather have Indie lose because I'm come, I'm more

711
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: confident in the Titans taking care of business than i

712
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: am in something else falling my way later in the season.

713
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: I think you gotta have Indie lose too. I mean,

714
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Indie's schedule after this, they go to

715
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: go to Houston, and then they've got the Cowboys at

716
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: you know, in Indie, and then they've got the Giants

717
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: in Indian and then they come here. I just don't

718
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: think you can just assume that they're going to lose

719
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 1: a game. So you've got to hope that they lose

720
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 1: the Sunday. I don't think it's crazy to believe, truthfully,

721
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: that they come here ten and five, Yeah, having won

722
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: nine in a row because their quarterback is out of

723
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,280
Speaker 1: his mind. Yeah, I mean think about this. Yeah. Andrew

724
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: Luck has thrown touchdown three touchdown passes in eight straight games.

725
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: That ties for second on the all time list for

726
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: consecutive games with three touchdown passes with Peyton Manning. He

727
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 1: just broke a tie with Dan Marino. So he's in

728
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 1: a tie with Peyton Manning. If he keeps this up

729
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: and does it two more games, he will tie the

730
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: record with Tom Brady. So let's think about who's involved

731
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: in that record. Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Dan Marino. Wow,

732
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: three of the ten greatest quarterbacks of all time. I

733
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 1: don't even think you can argue that, right, Yeah, no,

734
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: I agree with that. And so for him to be

735
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: playing at the level of three of the ten greatest

736
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: quarterbacks of all time, I mean, he's scary right now. Yeah,

737
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: that's true. I mean if they come here at ten

738
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: and five, that's trouble because I don't know, you know, well,

739
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: we'll just have to be nine and six. Yeah, if

740
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 1: you could give it, if you could give him nine

741
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: to six, that'd be great. If somehow went out and

742
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: come here at ten to five. And again, I haven't

743
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: looked at all the Todd breakers, but even if the

744
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: Titans went out, I would think that the AFC Todd breaker,

745
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: Titans are dead in the water. If that, if the

746
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: Colts coming here at ten and five, and that's not good.

747
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,720
Speaker 1: I mean they've gotta it would help if they lose somewhere,

748
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: it would be better to finish in front of them,

749
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: I would guests right now. So I think even if

750
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: it would give you, I think Jacksonville's coming here with

751
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: a little bit of juice no matter what happens on Sunday,

752
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: just because of the way this series is gone and

753
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: just because of some of this. So we're pulling for

754
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 1: Jacksonville full of the Jags, Okay, I just ask, Yeah,

755
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: all right, So let's talk Jets. Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets.

756
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 1: They're coming. They opened the season with a forty eight

757
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: to seventeen win at Detroit. Then they lost three straight

758
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: games to Miami, to Cleveland, and to Jacksonville. They beat Denver,

759
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: and they beat Indy. October fourteenth, they beat Indy forty

760
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 1: two to thirty four. Since then, they have lost to Minnesota,

761
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: at Chicago, at Miami, Buffalo forty one to ten, and

762
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: then last weekend to New England. So they've lost five

763
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,720
Speaker 1: in a row by a total of eighty six points.

764
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 1: And again, they have not forced to turn over in

765
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: any of those five games and have held the lead

766
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:05,240
Speaker 1: for less than three minutes during that five game losing streak,

767
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: so they they have not been going well right now.

768
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 1: But you know, I mean Todd Bowles is fighting for

769
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: his job. I think he's a really good coach. I

770
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: think there's a very good chance if he loses that job,

771
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: he ends up the head coach somewhere else, because he

772
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: is really good and really well regarded and has been

773
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 1: for a long time in this league. They played the

774
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 1: Patriots with all they had. Patriots played a good ball

775
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 1: game to beat him twenty seven to thirteen, but it

776
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: was very competant to play hung in there. We've got

777
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 1: a couple of familiar faces coming back here in Avery

778
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: Williamson and Rochard Matthews. Avery Williamson has been really good

779
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 1: for them, very productive. He's got over one hundred tackles

780
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: this year accord of the Jet stats. Rachard Matthews not

781
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: so productive and doesn't have a cat set in three games.

782
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: It was an act that held his scritch last week.

783
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: You know who has played well for them too is

784
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 1: Brandon Copeland. Remember him, big outside linebacker out of pen

785
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: who was here and they were trying to develop him

786
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 1: and couldn't quite get over the hump due to some

787
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: numbers here. Well, he goes there and get some more

788
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 1: development time, and now he's got three sacks this year

789
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: starting for them an outside linebacker. He's a big, heavy,

790
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty five pound outside linebacker, built a

791
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 1: lot like Derek Morgan and is doing a good job

792
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: and who's a very good guy. You know, this is

793
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: one of the best things about the NFL is all

794
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: of the people you get to know, and you see

795
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 1: people at other teams and you're just I'm happy for

796
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: people unless they're playing against us that I need you

797
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: to have a terrible game. The other thing, too, is

798
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: their kicker, Jason Myers, who played at Merist. Where is

799
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 1: that Marist home of the Red Foxes? Yeah? Where do

800
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: the Red Foxes live? I think that's New York. And then, yes,

801
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 1: very well done. Appreciate that. Glad you were able to

802
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: get someone at a party tip you off on the

803
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: I think Merist is in New York state, if I'm

804
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: not mistaken. Actually flew with the Marist I didn't. I

805
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: was in the airport with the Marist women's basketball team

806
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:13,880
Speaker 1: on Monday morning when I was flying to Houston. Really, yes, pardon,

807
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,280
Speaker 1: that's quite a quinst It's quite a well Anyway, this kicker,

808
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: he's made myers fifty five yard or fifty five yard

809
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: or fifty five yard or fifty five yard or fifty

810
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:29,399
Speaker 1: five yard or fifty six yarder, those are that's pretty good,

811
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 1: right good. Wow, So he's been he's been really good

812
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: this year. Man. All right, So let's wrap up. That's

813
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:41,320
Speaker 1: three oh five. Tickets are available and the weather is

814
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: supposed to be good, and we'll give you some gloves

815
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: help this Titans homecoming week It's Titans homecoming weekend. Over

816
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: eighty players at this point have RSVP, which means knowing players,

817
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 1: they'll be ninety five just show up. Yeah, I was

818
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: supposed to RSVP what we're here, But that's cool. They're

819
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: all welcome and it is so whether they played here

820
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: for just a little bit or their familiar names. It's

821
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: great to see these guys in their families and hear

822
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: about what they're doing. This is one of our favorite

823
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: weekends of the year. And Amy Adams Strunk has done

824
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: an amazing job opening this thing. Oh my gosh, And

825
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: the last couple of years it's gone from maybe twenty

826
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 1: party guys would come back to now we're close to

827
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 1: one hundred and it's the events are awesome. She's really

828
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: put a lot of time and effort along with our

829
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: community Relations department and just making it a full on event.

830
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 1: And it's it's a lot of fun. I go to

831
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: everything because I just like seeing everybody and catching up

832
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: with some old friends and familiar faces. It's really really fun.

833
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: But Amy's done around and there are parties, so you

834
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 1: know Jim will be there. Jim's always at the parties.

835
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: If there's an open barge. And why is that now?

836
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: Amy went a little deep on that when Jim, I'm sorry,

837
00:45:56,560 --> 00:46:00,080
Speaker 1: that's not me. Yeah, I'm the problem. Yeah, really was

838
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 1: Amy Wells Wonders. Wasn't Mike Keith Wonders. I didn't wonder.

839
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: I know, I know he's been running the street. It's

840
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 1: the sugar. It certainly is. Um go ahead, what were

841
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: you gonna say? I was gonna say. You mentioned that

842
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 1: you came to the game on Monday instead of on

843
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: Sunday with the rest of us. That's right, because you

844
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,320
Speaker 1: were doing a little thing called mister football. Tennessee Titans.

845
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: Mister football. It's one of my favorite things. Thirty fourth year,

846
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: it was very unusual. This is Blue Cross Bowl Week

847
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Speaker 1: and today starts the Blue Cross Bowl games in Cookeville

848
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: does and they'll play today, Tomorrow and Saturday. You're doing

849
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Speaker 1: games on TV. I'm doing two games on TV tomorrow

850
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 1: on Friday. So I've got the early game and the

851
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: Friendship in Davidson, Yes, and then you've got mus and

852
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: Brentwood Academy. Yeah, that'll be good. So it's gonna be

853
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: a fun, fun weekend. Always. We've now the Titans have

854
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 1: sponsored Mister Football for twelve years. The Monday of Blue

855
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 1: Cross Bowl Week is when they hold the Mister Football Awards.

856
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: Well this year we do it at Nissan Stadium and

857
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 1: what's really nice and the community relations staff for us,

858
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,399
Speaker 1: we brag on them a lot, but they are without peer.

859
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: And one of the things that they do to start

860
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:20,320
Speaker 1: Blue Cross Bowl Week is they allow the teams that

861
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: go to the Blue Cross Bowl to come to Nissan

862
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 1: Stadium and hold their officials meeting. And so that's not

863
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: only with the coaches who are going to play for

864
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: a championship. That's the principles the athletic directors to go

865
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 1: through how everything's going to flow at Tennessee Tech and Cookville.

866
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: And then they also do the Blue Cross Bowl Media

867
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Speaker 1: Day at Nissan Stadium as well, and it's really great

868
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: because everybody coming from all over the state can come

869
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: to a central location. It helps the media and they

870
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 1: still cover high school football really hard all over the

871
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: state of Tennessee. The big papers, the small papers, the

872
00:47:56,560 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: radio stations, the TV stations, websites, everybody between. It's really

873
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 1: a great thing. And so that was of some concern

874
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: because that those two events lead up to the Mister

875
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:13,439
Speaker 1: Football Banquet, Well, how do you do that because we're

876
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: not going to be there, We're in Houston. So the

877
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: decision was made that we would do it on Sunday,

878
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 1: and so everybody came, They had their officials meeting, they

879
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: had media day for all the teams going to play

880
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: for a state championship in the Blue Cross Bowl, and

881
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: then we had the Tennessee Titans Mister Football Awards. So

882
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: it was awesome, the thirty fourth one, the twelfth that

883
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 1: we have sponsored, and the whole thing was just I mean,

884
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: it is it's outstanding there or they are there are

885
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: the ten Mister footballs from across the state. There was

886
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: the crowd over four hundred people in attendance, and there

887
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,359
Speaker 1: you start to see them with the finalists, their three

888
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: finalists in every category in the middle. Right there that

889
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:02,799
Speaker 1: is Eric Gray, Eric Grays from Las Anne. And there

890
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: he is again. Eric Gray is the first three time

891
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: Mister Football in tubs double a history. And can I

892
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:12,479
Speaker 1: comment that every year he's one of the best dress

893
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: He's a fantastic he does a really good Maury's Hampton

894
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 1: from Maury's Hampton. Bryce Handley from Greenback an outstanding program

895
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 1: in the state. And you see that they are in

896
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:28,359
Speaker 1: the Titans locker room. The community relations staff put up

897
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,800
Speaker 1: a jersey for each player. They set up a locker

898
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:36,360
Speaker 1: and they're wearing a Titans jersey with their high school

899
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: number and their name on the back. So cool, it's cool,

900
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: it's very saw mama well up when she saw it.

901
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: They take the parents in first, and when the mama

902
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: saw her son's Titans jersey right there, she started, well enough, No,

903
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 1: it was pretty it was pretty special. It was pretty great.

904
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,359
Speaker 1: It is. It is a great event. It is one

905
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: of the things things that I am proud of, stuff

906
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: that we do as an organization because and think about

907
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: you know, we do Coach of the Week, we do

908
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: Game of the Week, we do Mister Football. Seven on

909
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: seven camp, a coaches clinic, a parents clinic, all these things.

910
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 1: Mister Adams said, We're going to promote football when we

911
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: come here, and I think the community relations staff and

912
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 1: our ownership are fulfilling that promise that Jim, you covered

913
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 1: preps for a long long time. Speak to what you

914
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: think it means to help keep the enthusiasm for football

915
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 1: going in the state. That the pro team is invested

916
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: is what they are. I mean, they're so appreciative. That's

917
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 1: one thing I'll remember about covering high school sports and

918
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 1: running those sidelines on Friday and nights, as those kids

919
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: and coaches and parents and anybody affiliate with those schools

920
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: are so happy that you're there and happy to give

921
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 1: your coverage and that you give them coverage and pay

922
00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: attention what they do. And obviously, the newspaper business and

923
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: the sports landscape in Nashville is so different now compared

924
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 1: when this team came here because there's so much other

925
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:12,760
Speaker 1: stuff going on to take away from the high schools,

926
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 1: and for the Titans to show an interest and to

927
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 1: stay involved and to show, hey, we care about you,

928
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: it means a tremendous amount to them. And uh, you know,

929
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 1: I know I know it's a big deal for those guys,

930
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 1: and what's cool is just to see as time has passed,

931
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: see some of these kids have gotten older and gone

932
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: to college and some of them end up in the

933
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: NFL and always going to look back. And I've talked

934
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 1: to people all the time obviously remember their high school

935
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 1: days with such great memories. And to have the Titans

936
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 1: be a part of that and have them at the

937
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 1: facility for all those events you mentioned, I think it's

938
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: a great thing. Well, Eric Gray is gonna make an

939
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: announcement about a college choice in a couple of weeks,

940
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:54,879
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be I mean, he's obviously a big

941
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:58,720
Speaker 1: time prospect. Murray's Hampton, who you will see for mus

942
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: tomorrow night, a big time prospect. He may play professional baseball.

943
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: I mean he he's phenomenal. Some of those other guys won't, though,

944
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: And this will be the grandest football moment they will

945
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 1: ever have, and it makes them no less of a

946
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: mister football than Eric Gray or Maurice Hampton or any

947
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: of those other people who are coming along. I think

948
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:26,240
Speaker 1: that's I think that's the great That's why Mama wells

949
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 1: up when she sees it's sure, it is achieving. You

950
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,399
Speaker 1: want to make it. You know, Amy Adam Strunk. Her

951
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:39,839
Speaker 1: thing is she wants everything first class. And I think

952
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 1: our community relations staff does that up first class that

953
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 1: people work at the stadium. Uh, you want to make

954
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 1: those kids feel like this is absolutely your moment and

955
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 1: your thing. Yeah, it's great. It's one of my favorite events.

956
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 1: Sorry you missed it. I'm sorry I missed it too.

957
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,800
Speaker 1: But I'm calling games or doing sidelines for games and

958
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:03,839
Speaker 1: you're not. I'm not. That's right. I make up for it. Yeah,

959
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: you did. You're going to You're going to cook everybody.

960
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: Everybody go to cook full. Yeah, that's fun to go

961
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: there and then come to Nie on stating today have

962
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 1: a football weekend, BG, you got your alma materate. Now

963
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: everyone playing playing tomorrow afternoon? Who CPA at three o'clock?

964
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 1: Is that right? I think that's right. Okay, Yes, it's

965
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 1: the Wildcats and the Lions and the Division two class

966
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Speaker 1: double a game be a big one. That will be

967
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: a big one, all right, a good one. So that's

968
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Speaker 1: going to wrap up this edition of the otp let Us. Uh,

969
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:35,720
Speaker 1: tell you how you can follow these people on social media?

970
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: These people you can you can just go see Jim

971
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: Wyatt in any party involving Titans fans, local pub, or

972
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: you should follow him at j Wytt Sports on Twitter.

973
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 1: Also read everything he does at Titans Online dot com

974
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 1: Fantastic Titans coverage. Amy Wells at Titans Amy. That's a

975
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:58,360
Speaker 1: M I E. Titans is T I T A N

976
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: s and then a AM I E at Titan's Amy

977
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:06,720
Speaker 1: to follow on Twitter. Yep, I don't have much writing

978
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 1: to promote, but sometimes I tell jokes. Well, you've had

979
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: some decent things at different points. You posted the players

980
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:17,400
Speaker 1: doing the turkey calls. Oh for sure, that was the best. No,

981
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,880
Speaker 1: I have more tidbits. I'm here to enhance your experience.

982
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:26,879
Speaker 1: Jim gives you the real meat and potatoes, the information. Yeah. Well,

983
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll have some good stuff to cover here in

984
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: the month of December. Absolutely absolutely, it'll be great. Thank

985
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: you Amy Wells, thank you Jim White. My name is

986
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Speaker 1: Mike Keith, and thank you most of all for being

987
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Speaker 1: with us, for putting up with us on the o

988
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Speaker 1: TP