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Speaker 1: From the All Movies to be corporately named radio studio

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Speaker 1: inside Saint Thomas Sports Park. We welcome you to the OTP.

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Speaker 1: My name is Mike Keith amy Wells is always here

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Speaker 1: for this program. I am you can't check me. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how do you like the beautiful it's pretty cool in here?

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Speaker 1: Coach Dave McGinnis sitting in for Jim White. Dave McGinnis,

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Speaker 1: of course, former NFL head coach, assistant coach and now

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Speaker 1: Titans radio game day analyst. What do you think of

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Speaker 1: the new place? This is impressive, I mean it really is.

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Speaker 1: I mean I've I've been to a few county fairs

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Speaker 1: nice facility. You said it's going to be corporately named. Well,

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Speaker 1: we'll be sure. Well, a corporation needs to put their

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Speaker 1: name on. That's right. They'll be very happy now they

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Speaker 1: have the blank radio studio inside of Saint Thomas. They

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Speaker 1: would be very proud of this. This is impressive. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I like this. This is state fair level broadcast. Probably ribbon,

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. You remember, I just spent two

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Speaker 1: this is nice. Nice, It is nice. Nice. Well, we're

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Speaker 1: glad to be here. We're glad you're here, Coach Mack,

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Speaker 1: and we're glad to have you with us today for

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Speaker 1: the OTP, The Official Titans Podcast, August the twenty ninth,

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Speaker 1: Getting ready to wrap everything in the preseason up. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to believe that it is all coming to an end.

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Speaker 1: As of tomorrow night, roughly ten to fifteen, the preseason

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Speaker 1: will be officially over. Titans make a trade Kamala Korea

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Speaker 1: Titans not officially saying what that is, but a draft

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Speaker 1: pick in twenty nineteen, core an outside line backer from

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Speaker 1: Boise State, third round or i should say third year,

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Speaker 1: former second round pick. Coach Mack. We ask you for

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Speaker 1: Titans Radio last night to watch tape. You and Amy

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Speaker 1: tell me what Kamale Correa has been doing at outside

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Speaker 1: you know when Amy and I watched it and we

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Speaker 1: these people on game day. Who are we sitting right right?

427
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,920
Speaker 1: But see here's here and here And it's a good point, Amy,

428
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,879
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you from the aspect of a coach

429
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,120
Speaker 1: that's done this. If you have to make decisions who

430
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,399
Speaker 1: to sit, you're happy, Sure, you're really happy, because that

431
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,679
Speaker 1: means you have everybody available to you and then you

432
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,880
Speaker 1: have all those options available to you. What you don't

433
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,040
Speaker 1: want to ever do is get in a situation where

434
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 1: you were, you know, as a head coach, when you

435
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 1: start filling out who's inactive, when you're sitting in there

436
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,159
Speaker 1: before they come in ninety minutes before the game, to

437
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,879
Speaker 1: get that thing and all of it is already done

438
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 1: for you because they're not available to you. Because that's

439
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 1: a bad, bad feeling. And so I mean it's it's

440
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 1: it's a cesaw type of thing. And so it's what

441
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,359
Speaker 1: you want. You want them all available to you, and

442
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,199
Speaker 1: then you're more than happy to make those decisions. All right,

443
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 1: let me ask you both this question. Amy, you answer first.

444
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 1: So we said, in looking at our list, forty four

445
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 1: and these are again anybody listening to the OTP right

446
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 1: now would come up with these forty four no big

447
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:16,159
Speaker 1: shockers in the list right What do you think the

448
00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 1: number is John Robinson and his staff have at this moment,

449
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 1: He's obviously closer to fifty three than we are. He

450
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 1: and Ryan Cowden, Brian Gardner, John Salgi, that whole group

451
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 1: that works together. What do you think their number is?

452
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:35,040
Speaker 1: I think they're probably at about fifty forty eight to fifty,

453
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 1: forty eight to fifty, Yeah, forty eight to fifty and

454
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,200
Speaker 1: and and I know where we might get into this,

455
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 1: but we're going to get an into us because I'm

456
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 1: gonna say it is no, it's your show man show,

457
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 1: you're driving, it's not my show. I'm sitting I'm sitting

458
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,400
Speaker 1: on the far end of the fireball here and so

459
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 1: it's not it's not my show. I'm just proud to

460
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,479
Speaker 1: be on it with y'all. Is that there's some players

461
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,359
Speaker 1: are going to be on this fifty three that aren't

462
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 1: on this list, right they're not here? I said too, Yeah,

463
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 1: and I and I think I think that, just as

464
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 1: I and I've said this before. Your number, I don't

465
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:18,240
Speaker 1: remember what it was, but i'd say three. Okay, every

466
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 1: time I get a MIC, I'm going to say this.

467
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 1: If we're talking about the Titans in the football John

468
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 1: Robinson gets it. He understands personnel acquisition in this league,

469
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,880
Speaker 1: and there's more to personnel acquisition in this league. Rather

470
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 1: than making a draft pick right well and Kamala Correa,

471
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 1: the trade he made. He gets a guy that went

472
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: in the high second round in twenty sixteen, who's still

473
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: under his rookie contract, meaning he's under contract for eighteen

474
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 1: and nineteen. He gives up a you know whatever round

475
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: pick late according to whatever report you believe. But let's

476
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,439
Speaker 1: be honest, could if if Kamala Correa turns out to

477
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: be a quality player, can he be sure that he

478
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 1: could get that player on the third day of the

479
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,959
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen draft. No, no, of course not. That's what

480
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,439
Speaker 1: he does well. No, he does that very well. And

481
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 1: as I say, as you know, as a former head coach,

482
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 1: I would have loved to have had John Robinson as

483
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 1: my general manager because I've got complete confidence that while

484
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 1: I'm coaching this ball team and I'm doing going through

485
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 1: all the maneuvers that you have to do daily coach

486
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,120
Speaker 1: and the football team, I've got a guy that's got

487
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: his hand on the pulse of personnel around the league

488
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 1: and also is constantly trying to maneuver my roster to

489
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 1: make it the most favorable it can be for everybody involved.

490
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I just love what John Robinson does. John

491
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: Robinson is a hustler. This move, this trade was quintessential

492
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: John Robinson. He is constantly taking one thing turning it

493
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,119
Speaker 1: into two and three things. You know. The man is

494
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 1: just constantly turning things over and getting these amazing deals

495
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:02,159
Speaker 1: that in a year, in six months, you're like, oh, well,

496
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: I mean, what was it. Still even if Korea is

497
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,399
Speaker 1: a backup player, now what if he becomes a starter

498
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: and a star, then that's a different story. But even

499
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: if he's just a rotational backup player for the next

500
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: two seasons. That's a great deal in this league. Like

501
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 1: that's huge, that's huge. And again, as I said, every

502
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,440
Speaker 1: player does not have to be a Hall of Fame player, right,

503
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 1: And I mean, that's just not the way this league works.

504
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: But you do need guys that you can depend on

505
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: it and as I say, that's when you have to

506
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 1: when you know how this league works. But the other

507
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: thing about it is, and again I'll just say this,

508
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 1: a lot of times, when guys become general managers, and

509
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: I've seen it, you know, throughout the thirty three years

510
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 1: I've been in this league, all of a sudden, they

511
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: sit in the corporate office and they you know, figure,

512
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 1: it's anytime you want to walk into John Robinson's office

513
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: right now, And I don't do that a lot, but

514
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, he's grinding tape, right He's grinding tape,

515
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:55,640
Speaker 1: and then once the season starts, he'll be on the road.

516
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 1: He's I mean, he's a boots on the ground guy

517
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: and those kind of guys that I mean, he just

518
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: gets it. And so to me, that makes me, as

519
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,239
Speaker 1: a head coach, would feel very very good. All right,

520
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: speaking of Hall of Fame players, you got us the

521
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 1: chance in Pittsburgh to speak with the Hall of Fame

522
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:19,439
Speaker 1: player Joe Green. Not even arguably he is one of

523
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,919
Speaker 1: the greatest players in the history of this game. He

524
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 1: thirteen years of unparalleled excellence playing in the defensive line,

525
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,159
Speaker 1: famous for the Steelers. But you certainly knew him as

526
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 1: a player from the Steelers, but you came to know

527
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: him in a different way. Well, yeah, for eight years.

528
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:38,719
Speaker 1: I mean, he was my defensive line coach for eight

529
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: years at Arizona. You know, I hired him. And I'll

530
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: give you I'll give you a little story. You know,

531
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six when I got the coordinators job

532
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: from Chicago in Arizona, you know, Don Shula was retiring,

533
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 1: and one of the first calls I got about coaches,

534
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: because you start to assemble coaches was Don Shula. Don

535
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 1: Shula called me, you know, and and he said, Coach Mac,

536
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 1: would you you know Joe Green has worked here for me,

537
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 1: would you interview him? And of course I'm talking to

538
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: Don Shooter and I said, I said, yes, sir, absolutely,

539
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: And so then Joe called me. Joe called me about

540
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: maybe four or five hours later, and so we talked

541
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: and I said, Joe I'd like you to come in

542
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 1: and so, you know, I interviewed him and without a doubt.

543
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 1: And at the time, we had we had some players

544
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: that I felt like really needed, you know, some direction,

545
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: and you know, Eric Swan being one of them. We

546
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: ended up drafting Simeon Rice. I mean, we had Andre Wadsworth.

547
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 1: I mean, we had some real players, and Joe Green

548
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: brought such instant credibility to that room. But more more

549
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: than that, I mean people that know him as you know,

550
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: as a as the player and what he was, and

551
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: you got to talk to him some. Mike. Uh, this

552
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: is a very very good human being, very introspective, very

553
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: had you know, really understands this game, understands this league.

554
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 1: And uh, I mean it was it was eight great

555
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: years with Joe. Joe's Joe's a very close friend right now,

556
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: and we'll be for what was the one piece of

557
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: instruction you gave me in preparing for the interview. Don't

558
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: call him mean He's that's the first thing. Not refer

559
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: to him as mean Joe Green. No, because he you know,

560
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,239
Speaker 1: right off the bat, you know, he said, that's not

561
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: what my mother named me. Why did he feel that way?

562
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: But I mean, I mean mean joke. Of course he

563
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: came from North Texas. While he was there, they got

564
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: a North Texas story. They became the mean green I

565
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: mean that was that well that that that's why. But

566
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, and he really felt like you know,

567
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: people when if you just walk up to him and say, hey,

568
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: mean Joe, it's like you know him, well, you don't

569
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,719
Speaker 1: know him, you know what I'm saying. And so he

570
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: would and I mean, I could go through so many stories.

571
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: Let me tell you North Texas story. We got time.

572
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: He's from Temple, Texas. Okay, where is Temple Texas. It's

573
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 1: right between Houston and Dallas. Okay, it's you know, it's

574
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: it's all right. He's from Temple Texas. And he was

575
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: a really good player in high school. But they weren't

576
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: a great high school team. You know. It's one of those.

577
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: And of course Joe was a was a phenom. But

578
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: you know, there were no Southwest Conference schools you know

579
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: that talk to him because that was back in a

580
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: you know, that was back in a different time. And

581
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: so he got a chance to go up and visit

582
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: North Texas. All right, Now, he said, when he went

583
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: up to visit you know, it's colder up in that

584
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: part of Texas than it is down in Temple. So

585
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,719
Speaker 1: he only only all he had to wear was blue jeans.

586
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: He had a T shirt and then he had his

587
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: letter jacket and that's all he had to wear. Wow.

588
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: And so he said, he goes up, goes up to

589
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: the office and they have him sitting outside waiting to

590
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: talk to the head coach, you know, to see if

591
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: then you know, they're basically going to you know, talk

592
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: interview him and see do we want this kid on

593
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 1: scholarship or do we we want him around here? So

594
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: he said, he went into the restroom. Okay, He went

595
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: to the bathroom, took his jacket off and started doing

596
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: pushups so that he'd looked bigger to him when he

597
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: walked into the so that they would think, maybe, he said,

598
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: Coach Mike, I just went in there and started doing

599
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: push ups, push ups, push ups, so at least they

600
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: would think I was a little bigger than I really was,

601
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,239
Speaker 1: and so they'd give me a dan. How about that.

602
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: I think it turned out okay for him. He did

603
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: some good push ups, he certainly did. We had a

604
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: chance to visit with him on Titans Radio and You're

605
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: not gonna hear a lot of Steelers on the OTP.

606
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: But this is Joe Green and some interesting comments about

607
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: I think what happened with the Steeler organization, what has

608
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: been their key to success over a half century now,

609
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: and then his thoughts on the new lowering the helmet rule.

610
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: This is from Titan's Radio, courtesy of our friends Rhet

611
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: Brian and all the good folks at Titans Radio. Joe

612
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: Green from Saturday's Titans Steelers Titans Countdown nineteen sixty nine.

613
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: You're selected fourth overall by the Pittsburgh Steelers. And most

614
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: people would think, oh, that's a great thing if they

615
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: think of today's football. The Steelers are this franchise that

616
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: for nearly fifty years has been admired, has been consistent.

617
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: But Joe, at that moment, being drafted by the Pittsburgh

618
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: Steelers was not a good thing, was it. Absolutely not?

619
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: You know, pride of me being drafted Pittsburgh. The year

620
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: before they won two ball games, and the year before

621
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: that they won two and you know, looking back on

622
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: the history, at that time, we had never won the championship.

623
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: So when coach No came in sixteen ninety, he's drafted

624
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: me and after a couple of years were more than

625
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: a couple. After a few years, we've got to that

626
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: goal that he said we were. What our goal was

627
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: when we when he first came was to win a

628
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. He wasn't talking about that year, but that's

629
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: the goal every year, and eventually we got there. Yea,

630
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: by nineteen seventy two you were a contender and then

631
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: you were on your way to winning Super Bowls. Was

632
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 1: there any one thing that you think did it to

633
00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: turn this entire franchise around. I believe that it was consistency,

634
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: a message coming from the head coach coaching OS. When

635
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: we were losing, he always told us that if we

636
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: did the things that he was asking for. There was

637
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: a list of things that he was talking about. It

638
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: that we had done those things. Protect the football, protect

639
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: the quarterback, make tackles, no turnovers. It would put us

640
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: in a position to win. And when we started to

641
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: win ball games, you could see us not having the turnovers,

642
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: having quality for possessions, and not making mistakes that he

643
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: was He said all the time, the states kill you.

644
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: And we eliminated a lot of those things, and when

645
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: we did, we started to see us win ball games.

646
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: And he never never deterred from that message. He was

647
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: always he was very, very consistent. And in that man,

648
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: why was coach No so special and and why is

649
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: he one of the all time greats to ever coach

650
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: this game? Well, in my view, um, he was. He

651
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: was trustworthy, he was truthful. Um. You know, he demanded

652
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 1: um consistency from the players all the time. He didn't

653
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: he didn't he didn't play favorites. Um. He tweeted us

654
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: all the like and he but he treated us this

655
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: team as men. You know, he told us when we

656
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: came there each each year it was the philosophy was

657
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 1: God family in football. And that's kind of the way

658
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: we saw it. And over time, you know, his message

659
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: was was so sound that each year the players would

660
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: understand then that and the players carres the message to

661
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: the locker room and it start to build on this

662
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,799
Speaker 1: step year after year after year. And I think that

663
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: was that was the one thing again about the consistency

664
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: of of Coach No. He didn't he didn't change when

665
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,439
Speaker 1: we were losing. We kept doing the same thing over

666
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: and over and over again. And I was one of

667
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: those guys saying, well, why don't we change. We keep

668
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: losing and none of this stuff is working, but he

669
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: stayed with it. What did change was was the players,

670
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 1: the person of the personnel. Here's the thing the rest

671
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: of the league admires so much, is since the merger

672
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,240
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy, the Pittsburgh Steelers have been the most

673
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: consistent franchise in the entire NFL in your mind. And

674
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: I know they've had downed years and and that that happens,

675
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: but for the most part, the Steelers there every single year.

676
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: Why has it continued from your time to today for

677
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 1: the Steelers to be this outstanding at organization. It's it's

678
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 1: about the Steeler mentality. The Steeler organization as a whole,

679
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: instilled u in the in the organization by the chief

680
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 1: mister Rooney, and carried on by by his son, Daz

681
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: Dan Rooney. Dan was probably the UM the most important

682
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: person in the organization because he he helped solidified the

683
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 1: philosophy and the way we were going to do business,

684
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: and it carried on you after year after year. And

685
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:55,720
Speaker 1: it's in the hand of his son now Art, And

686
00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: I think that Dan left the the legacy and the

687
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: future of the organization in very good hands. Um he

688
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: put everyone in the organization was everyone was imported from

689
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: the guy that h that that worked in the in

690
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: the locker rooms to to the president and all down

691
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: the line. Everybody was and Dan's philosophy, he was was

692
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: treated the same because everybody, everybody made a contribution in

693
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: their own ways. And that has that has stood the

694
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 1: test of time. You know, as you said, there have

695
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: been some sent some issues, some some glisses every now

696
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: and then. But you know, I found out that when

697
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: we put as individuals, when we put ourselves above the team,

698
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: then that's when we have issues. That's when we have problems.

699
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: And that that is what what change the the Pittsburgh

700
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: Steelers and any football team, any team, when you have

701
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: individuals that put themselves above the rest of the team,

702
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: that's an issue, that's a problem. As you said that

703
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 1: we came along fifty years ago, somewhere around that time

704
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 1: when the Steelers started to build the philosophy and the

705
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:34,839
Speaker 1: consistency of competing with championships year in and year out.

706
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people that's involved in that

707
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 1: fifty years of history of putting together the Steelers franchise

708
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:50,720
Speaker 1: and stealing mentality and it's it's it's we talk about

709
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: a culture. That's that's that's that word is thrown around

710
00:38:55,239 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 1: a lot of these days. Culture and that's important. It

711
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: took the Steelers many, many, many years to build that

712
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: culture and it's like putting on through the clothes. That's

713
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: who we are. But it doesn't taste much to destroy that.

714
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: It doesn't take much at all. And every team in

715
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: the league it's time to establish a culture of being competitive.

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00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: View it in your album. That's right exactly, that's what

717
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 1: you're looking for. The group up there in New England

718
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: has it. I don't know who else. Finally, Joe Green,

719
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 1: let me ask you. Last year you wrote a book

720
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: Built by Football. You wrote that with John Finklin. That's

721
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: very personal book about about what the game, what the

722
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:53,959
Speaker 1: game meant to your life and in so many different ways.

723
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: And I really enjoyed what you had to say and

724
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 1: again how personal it was. So as we read up,

725
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 1: I ask you about this game that you love so much,

726
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: are you pleased with the game, with how the game

727
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: of football is evolving, particularly with the issue of safety.

728
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: I think you have to travel through the territory that

729
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 1: we're in right now to get to safety. Complete safety.

730
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 1: That's what we're looking for now. We're in the rough

731
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: spots right now where the collisions, the helmet, the helmet things.

732
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: That's very, very difficult, and it's not it's not just

733
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: the mindset. The mindset can change it a bit. And

734
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: I'm talking about this this this I show image of

735
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:46,919
Speaker 1: going out there trying to destroy the opposition. But when

736
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: when you're trying to make a tackle. We've talked from

737
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 1: the beginning that you're talking with your shoulders, with your pads.

738
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 1: But the thing about that is what's connected to your shoulders.

739
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: Where your shoulders go, your head is going to go.

740
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: That's there's no getting around it. And that's where we

741
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 1: are and that's the difficult part. And that's the rough

742
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: part that we're in right now. We have to find

743
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: some kind of space in that where it is in

744
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: there where there is a bit more safety and taking

745
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: away some of these uh, helmet to helmet collisions. Um.

746
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: And it's a rough past that we're in. But you know,

747
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: I have to say, as a defensive player, which all

748
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: of these things seems to come down on that, I

749
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 1: think we have to be patient and be willing to

750
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: learn how to get to the other side. And right

751
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: now it's it's we are in the A in a tough,

752
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 1: tough face. Okay, coming out of that, I want to

753
00:41:54,920 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: hit a couple of things right here, um, coach. So

754
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: interesting to hear Joe Green, and thank you for that.

755
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: What an honor it was. I wrote down something he said,

756
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: when we put ourselves above the team, that's when we

757
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: have issues. That's when we have problems. That's the Pittsburgh Steelers.

758
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: That is what they have been is no one puts

759
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: themselves ahead of the team. I mean you don't like them, maybe,

760
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: but you have to give him credit. No, well, I

761
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: mean you've got to give him. I mean, that's one

762
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: of the iconic franchises in the league. I mean, if

763
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 1: you're just being honest and looking around in the and

764
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: of course Joe touched on it, you know, the continuity

765
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: that they've had there and and really you know, and

766
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: visit in talking with Joe in all the years that

767
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: I have and I would sit down and have some

768
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,479
Speaker 1: pretty good conversations with him, you know, trying to build

769
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: a franchise, which were the love that he had for

770
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 1: Chuck Nole and and the things and and and he

771
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: was he would you know Chuck wouldn't always tell them

772
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 1: what they wanted to hear, right, he would tell them

773
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: what the truth was and he never veered from the message.

774
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: And that was big, big, big with Joe too, because

775
00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: I mean he's you know, he would come in and

776
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: even with our players there in Arizona, you know, we

777
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 1: had a guy that was, you know, starting to think that,

778
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 1: you know, the he invented the National Football League and

779
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: that the National Football League only started playing when we

780
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: drafted him. Joe would be real quick to get him

781
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: scored away with that stuff because it's so important. And really,

782
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 1: when you're around any of those guys, because a lot

783
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: of those Steelers came around, you know, to visit Joe

784
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: when he was coaching there for me, you can see

785
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: they all still had that same mindset. It's amazing, it

786
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: really is. So didn't specifically ask Joe about the rule,

787
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 1: but obviously we were talking about safety at the end. Amy,

788
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: Were you surprised by his reaction towards safety, you know,

789
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 1: not really. I think that his persona obviously is one

790
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: that's very aggressive and a tough player. But I think

791
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: there's a lot of hindsight now. I think there's a

792
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: lot of things that have come to light and people

793
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: are more educated and more aware. So I think it

794
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: was interesting that he said that it's going to be

795
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: dark for a while and we've got to get through

796
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: those dark times a little bit, but we will be

797
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 1: the better for it. On the other side, I think

798
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: that's what we're seeing a little bit right now. Things

799
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: are a little rocky. We're trying to figure out how

800
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: do we enforce this, how do we make it safer,

801
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 1: what can we really do? But in the end, we

802
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: are going to have a much better hindsight looking at

803
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,320
Speaker 1: all of the ways that this game has become safer

804
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 1: for everybody. And I thought that that was a very

805
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: wise way of looking at it. I think Amy just

806
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: hit it right, and she's spot on with that, because

807
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,800
Speaker 1: you know, and Joe Green has wisdom. He has wisdom

808
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 1: because of who he was, how he played. What do

809
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 1: you And to me, I love the fact that you

810
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: did ask him, Mike, because it's such it's such a

811
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: hot button topic right now, and I would think that

812
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: most of our listeners are people that heard that and

813
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: are hearing it now. Would think, you know, that's an

814
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: unusual unusual statement coming from Joe Green, but That's what

815
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. When you really know Joe Green, there's

816
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 1: a lot of depth. There's a lot too that may

817
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,280
Speaker 1: and he's very introspective. And I love I love the answer,

818
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: and I think Amy hit it right on. All right,

819
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: So let's give an answer about what's going to happen

820
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: with the OTP moving forward. Amy well we confetti or fireworks.

821
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: Amy Wells, Executive producer of the OTP. Tell us what

822
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: is going to happen going forward with the Official Titans Podcast. Well,

823
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: this has always been an audio medium. We are incorporating

824
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 1: a visual aspect. We're getting your eyeballs involved. So we

825
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: are going to be streaming the OTP live at nine

826
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: am on Thursday mornings, and we need to say Central time,

827
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: Central time. We have listeners in other times. You're right

828
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: nine am Central time. Do the math yourself wherever you

829
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: are listening on Thursday mornings on Titans online dot com,

830
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: on all Titans social media platforms. It is going to

831
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: be so fun. You can watch us try and figure

832
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 1: out what we're doing in here. It's very fun. Will

833
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: anybody Will anybody watch that? I hope? So I don't know,

834
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe no one watches it. And it's just

835
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: for my mom and dad. Well, then they would watch it.

836
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: So that's two. Yeah, you know, we've at least got two.

837
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 1: I will have, I can have. There's a lot of

838
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: people from Dallas, Texas to El Paso that we'll watch it.

839
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 1: We appreciate. Okay. So so we've got that part of

840
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,280
Speaker 1: the state of Texas. I can get some of Arizona watching, Okay,

841
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit of La So we'll we'll

842
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: we'll get we'll get the NUER up slowly, but surely

843
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: we can canvass the country. That's the that's the whole idea.

844
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: We just get this thing rolling. Gonna do it once

845
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: a week, nine to ten Central time, Jim Wyatt will return.

846
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: I hope you will stop by Coach Maco. I mean

847
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: to me, this is this is his first class as

848
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sitting here right now looking at screens

849
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: with with all of our faces on it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is this is kind of real. It feels real.

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Speaker 1: It does feel real, and it's about to get more real.

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Speaker 1: It's about to get more real to be able to

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Speaker 1: see us. And here's the thing that's nice. Say you're

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Speaker 1: busy at nine am Central time, okay, a clear your schedule,

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Speaker 1: right b If you can't get there, we're going to

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Speaker 1: have it posted on Titans online dot com so you

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Speaker 1: can still watch it if you want to see our

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Speaker 1: shining faces. Or it's still going to be on iTunes.

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Speaker 1: It's still going to be wherever you download your podcasts,

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Speaker 1: so you can listen to it while you're driving and

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Speaker 1: working out. Does let me ask you this, Will you

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Speaker 1: take questions at Twitter? Will you ask if somebody tweets

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Speaker 1: a question, will you throw it out to the group. Well, Mike,

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Speaker 1: that's a lot of technology. I mean, will you have

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Speaker 1: your phone? You never put your phone down? Down right

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Speaker 1: now it's under my leg Hello, So yeah, probably, I

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Speaker 1: mean in theory, yes, that's something we could do. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna have to figure out how to use some of

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Speaker 1: that technology. Well, this is going to be very exciting.

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Speaker 1: So after six months we've expanded from just audio and

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Speaker 1: audio is still great yep, to having a video version

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Speaker 1: because of this beautiful new radio studio here within Saint

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Speaker 1: Thomas Sports Park. What is going to happen in the

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Speaker 1: next there's no telling. Kind to get bigger and better.

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Speaker 1: We are growing fast. Coach, you guys, I am very impressed,

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Speaker 1: and I'm saying that in all seriousness, this is this

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Speaker 1: studio is impressive. It is it's first class. I really

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Speaker 1: really like it. Well, coach, you are first class. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining us. Oh it's my pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Amy Wells as always, and looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 1: what you cook up starting on September sixth Thursday September six,

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Speaker 1: nine am Central, the video version of the OTP. In

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Speaker 1: all seriousness, I'm very very excited. I think that this

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Speaker 1: is maybe a really cool thing and hopefully it gives

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Speaker 1: all of our listeners a little behind the scenes look

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Speaker 1: were hats or something, and viewers see that's it and

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Speaker 1: it's no longer a broadcast, it's a telecast. It goes

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Speaker 1: from broadcast to telecast. Wow, good stuff. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us on the O T. Pete