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Speaker 3: The top of the depth chart.

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Speaker 1: He is obviously not above the Calvin Ridleys of the world.

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Speaker 1: He is going to be playing a significant amount of

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Speaker 2: I feel bad for Will because I've been just heaping

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Speaker 4: And he's six to two hundred and six pounds.

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Speaker 2: I guess when I really he really caught my eye

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Speaker 2: I think that I was calling an SEC golf tournament

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Speaker 2: And I think Elick, I mean, Brian Callahan said it

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Speaker 5: And show some of those same things with cam Ward,

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Speaker 5: El Guy Manner is checking a lot of those boxes.

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Speaker 1: Sticking with the rookie vibe. I guess cam Ward obviously

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Speaker 1: He was asked his goals when he spoke to the media, like,

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Speaker 1: Answer, or a mature answer in my mind to say, look,

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Speaker 5: Ward to reset that standard.

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Speaker 4: Reset that expectation.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, I think rookie quarterbacks the way you measure

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Speaker 5: in a Rockets atmosphere. It's those flashes that you want

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Speaker 5: to see from cam Ward. It's what I want to see,

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Speaker 5: it's what these fans want to see. And my goodness,

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Speaker 5: it is really impressive the amount of belief, in the

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Speaker 4: It's well said.

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Speaker 2: I love college football and I love calling college football.

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Speaker 2: I do not love the transfer portal amy, and I

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Speaker 2: If you watch the Miami Hurricanes play the Florida Gators

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Speaker 2: I just love football and I want to win. Like

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Speaker 4: But I don't think the moment's going to be too

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Speaker 1: So this guy's not a rookie, but Cedric Gray, second

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Speaker 1: to show you exactly what he could do. Think it's

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Speaker 5: Cedric Gray is like if Frank Bush and Denard Wilson

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Speaker 5: if he is a runaway freight train in the gap

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Speaker 4: Right now, Yes, I think they would cow.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I think that's a pretty good what's the word

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Speaker 2: Right, yeah, I think you're right. I think that you

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Speaker 3: Here. Here are some things that are.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's a great observation by Amy

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Speaker 2: still thinking about that. There are I think most people

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Speaker 2: And I think that that's something to keep in mind.

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Speaker 1: I also feel like we're not talking enough about all

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Speaker 1: Another flip for you, and I think it all starts

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Speaker 1: They are fired up and ready to go, and I mean,

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Speaker 5: a very big man up front who is not as

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Speaker 5: big as he used to be, named Big Jeff. I mean,

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Speaker 5: I think a lot of times in training camp and

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Speaker 5: in preseason, when we talk about guys making changes to

443
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Speaker 5: their routines and habits and to their frames, I'll admit

444
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Speaker 5: and let people in on a secret. Sometimes that's because

445
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Speaker 5: there is nothing else to talk about. Sometimes I think

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Speaker 5: that is because a player is a totally different player.

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Speaker 4: This is the ladder.

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Speaker 5: This is a guy who I think fans are going

449
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Speaker 5: to recognize a major difference in the quickness, the speed

450
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Speaker 5: to power. I don't think he's giving up anything in

451
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Speaker 5: the run game in order to be a little bit

452
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Speaker 5: quicker and more vertical as a pass rusher. I am

453
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Speaker 5: so excited to see what Jeffrey Simmons looks like and

454
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Speaker 5: guys too. Jeffrey Simmons has a call and response now

455
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Speaker 5: when he trash talks the offense. It's not just even

456
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Speaker 5: cam Ward. I think JC Latham has become a little

457
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Speaker 5: bit more vocal in pushing him. I think this offensive

458
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Speaker 5: line that feels confident, that feels like it's coming together, well,

459
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Speaker 5: it has challenged and raised the level with Jeff so yes,

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Speaker 5: one hundred percent. There's a lot of returning production on

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Speaker 5: this defense that you like. I'm starting up front because

462
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Speaker 5: I think Jeffrey Simmons sets the table to allow Jarvis

463
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Speaker 5: Brownly a year two to be more aggressive, to allow

464
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Speaker 5: Roger McCreary in a big season, for him to be

465
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Speaker 5: sticky in coverage, the Russian coverage work together, and Tadar

466
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Speaker 5: Wilson can be aggressive because he knows he's got big

467
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Speaker 5: Jeff setting the tone up front. And for whatever it's worth,

468
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Speaker 5: he still weighs three hundred and five pounds exactly. He

469
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Speaker 5: is very still quick to remind everyone he still weighs

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Speaker 5: over three hundred pounds.

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Speaker 4: But you're right, he is.

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Speaker 2: He looks slim, he looks he looks like he is

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Speaker 2: in the best shape of his life. And I think

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Speaker 2: because of that, you can do a little bit more

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Speaker 2: with him. You know, it wouldn't surprise me if you

476
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Speaker 2: saw him on an edge from time to time. I

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Speaker 2: don't think you'll see that throughout the game, but I

478
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Speaker 2: think in certain packages you could see him on the

479
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Speaker 2: edge this year, not just in the interior of the defense.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's going to be a faster team, and

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Speaker 2: I think that suits Denard Wilson. I think that's the

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Speaker 2: kind of defense he wants to play. I wish Sean

483
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Speaker 2: Peyton didn't know that, but he does know that, and

484
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Speaker 2: I've listened to him talk about that, yeah, already this week.

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Speaker 2: The guy to me that is the identity of the

486
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Speaker 2: Denard Wilson defense is Cody Barton. There are linebackers that

487
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Speaker 2: are going to be playing in the middle of defenses

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Speaker 2: that you could argue you might have a little bit

489
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Speaker 2: more talent than Cody Barton does across the league, but

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Speaker 2: they don't have more energy, they don't have more selflessness,

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Speaker 2: They aren't more fired up to be on the field

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Speaker 2: than Cody Barton, but they're not more prepared than Cody Barton.

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Speaker 2: And I think all those things are going to serve

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Speaker 2: the Titans well. And just one other guy that I've

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Speaker 2: got to mention. We have not talked a lot about him.

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Speaker 2: He's one of the most talented defensive players in the

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Speaker 2: National Football League. I've really liked what I've seen from

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Speaker 2: Lagerius Neeed in practice the last couple of weeks. And

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Speaker 2: if we get the guy the Kansas City Chiefs had

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Speaker 2: two years ago, if that guy is shutting down half

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Speaker 2: of the field on Sundays. As the season progresses, watch out.

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Speaker 2: This is a brand new ballgame for the Titans defense.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of defense, I think it's time to check in

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509
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511
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Speaker 6: Patrick Certain is a bona fide lockdown corner. If the

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Speaker 6: Titans offense is to have any success and win this

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Speaker 6: game on Sunday, Calvin Ridley is gonna have to play

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Speaker 6: big against the reigning defensive MVP.

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Speaker 4: Oh it's time for the cookie.

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Speaker 1: Okay, no, it is not time for the cookie yet.

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Speaker 1: It's again, let's talk some filling this food with this

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Speaker 1: show with food. I want to talk Denver Broncos because

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Speaker 1: obviously that's who the Titans are playing, but also this

526
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Speaker 1: is a great challenge for this Titans team coming out,

527
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Speaker 1: yeah and starting this season with a team that's really,

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Speaker 1: really strong. And my question to you is what stands

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Speaker 1: out about this Denver team? But I'm gonna go first,

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Speaker 1: Oh good, because what stands out to me about this

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Speaker 1: Denver team is that they are returning all of their

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Speaker 1: starters on the offensive line and all of the backups

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Speaker 1: to the starters.

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Speaker 3: On the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: It is crazy towent the consistency that they have on

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Speaker 1: this roster.

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Speaker 3: So the question I guess associated with.

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Speaker 1: That is is there anything that stands out to you

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Speaker 1: other than the fact that everybody coming back it feels

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Speaker 1: like is a returning starter.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I think to me it kind of picking backing off

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Speaker 5: of that, I think Denver is as good on both

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Speaker 5: sides of the line of scrimmage together as any team

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Speaker 5: in football. I put them in the Philadelphia Eagles. Right

546
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Speaker 5: at the top of that conversation. You talk about league

547
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Speaker 5: leading sixty three sacks for their defensive front last year,

548
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Speaker 5: Zach Allen led all defensive tackles in pressure rate. Nick Benito,

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Speaker 5: who just got rewarded with a new contract, second round guy,

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Speaker 5: kind of to make a quick aside to the Titans

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Speaker 5: what you want Fimoladjo to turn into. I think he's

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Speaker 5: a really good comp for what Fimoladejo could be.

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Speaker 4: Second round pick.

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Speaker 5: Really athletic guy, learning curve at the position, but a

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Speaker 5: lot of potential there. They led the league in generating

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Speaker 5: pressure on four man rushes, meaning that Vance Joseph's defense

557
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Speaker 5: can play Manda man on the back end and say,

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Speaker 5: you guys have fun seven in the back for rushing.

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Speaker 5: Forty one percent of the time they rushed with four men,

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Speaker 5: they got pressure. I'm no coach Mack, that's easy math

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Speaker 5: to do. That's a really good way to be successful

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Speaker 5: as a defense. And then you look at their offensive line.

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Speaker 5: I mean they had three guys that led the league

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Speaker 5: in pressure rate allowed at their back to position, left

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Speaker 5: guard to right tackle, three different players sixty percent of

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Speaker 5: the players who led the league and pressure rate alout

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Speaker 5: around the Denver Broncos offensive line, they are monsters in

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Speaker 5: the trenches on both sides.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And the thing I would add to that is a

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Speaker 2: lot of these guys are young. It's not like they're

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Speaker 2: on their last leg here or there's a year left.

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Speaker 2: You know, we could probably sit here, this might be

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Speaker 2: more geared towards a Will Bowling sports talk show than

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Speaker 2: this show, but we could make an argument that the

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Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs are at the end of their run,

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Speaker 2: or they're at least approaching the end of their run.

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Speaker 3: A lot of them are very old.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean you've got guys that are about

580
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Speaker 2: to go get married and who knows how much more

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Speaker 2: football they're going to play. You can't say that about

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Speaker 2: the Denver Broncos in that same division. And here's one

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Speaker 2: thing that sticks out to me is the Tennessee Titans

584
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Speaker 2: went three and fourteen last year, and they were two

585
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Speaker 2: and six and one score games. We could all sit

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Speaker 2: here and say, if we're being objectives, probably should have

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Speaker 2: been at least a five or a six win team. Okay,

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Speaker 2: they were two in six and one score games. Do

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Speaker 2: you know what the Denver Broncos were in one score

590
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Speaker 2: games but one in six in one score games, and

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Speaker 2: they went ten and seven last year, And to me,

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Speaker 2: that speaks to youth, that speaks to inexperience, not knowing

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Speaker 2: how to finish the game. Well, now they're coming back

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Speaker 2: with almost all of the guys that they had from

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Speaker 2: last year, including a second year quarterback instead of a rookie.

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Speaker 2: And this is a team that was a lot closer

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Speaker 2: to being a twelve or thirteen win team last year

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Speaker 2: than they were a team out of the playoffs. So

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Speaker 2: I do I think that this is as tough of

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Speaker 2: an opponent as the Titans will see all year.

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Speaker 4: It does not mean they can't win the game.

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Speaker 2: Crazy things happen in week one, and the Titans are

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Speaker 2: a significantly improved team from last year. By anybody's measure,

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Speaker 2: they are, but what they're getting in week one is

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Speaker 2: the ultimate assignment. I don't think ideally you'd want to

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Speaker 2: play this matchup in Week one. But the good news

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Speaker 2: is this is that this can be a barometer game

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Speaker 2: for the Tennessee Titans throughout the year of Okay, we

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Speaker 2: know what a championship level football team is. We just

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Speaker 2: saw it and I think they're going to see it

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Speaker 2: on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Well, you went down the road to Bowneck, so let's

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Speaker 3: continue down that road. Rookie year takes him a.

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Speaker 1: Minute, but then he ends up really finding his rhythm

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Speaker 1: and ending on a pretty solid note.

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Speaker 3: Where do you hope I guess not you specifically.

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Speaker 1: Where do the Broncos hope to see the improvement in

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Speaker 1: him in year two?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I would say probably if one the interceptions weren't bad

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Speaker 2: last year, the completion percentage was okay, I think that

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Speaker 2: they'd like to see that improve just a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But honestly, for a first year player, for a guy

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Speaker 2: that's the twelfth pick in the draft last year, I

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Speaker 2: mean it was a pretty quick transition for him. I

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Speaker 2: would just say more time, yeah, more time to be

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Speaker 2: in just more and more reps really, but yeah, maybe

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Speaker 2: the completion percentage could improve just a little bit.

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Speaker 5: I think bo Nicks earned the right to do a

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Speaker 5: lot more complicated stuff down the stretch last season. And

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Speaker 5: you look at some of the numbers, and next Gen

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Speaker 5: stat says that bo Knicks targeted wide receivers behind the

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Speaker 5: line of scrimmage twenty six percent of the time last year.

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Speaker 5: That was the third highest rate in the NFL among

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Speaker 5: any quarterbacks.

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Speaker 4: So go downfield. Yeah, I think it's that part of it.

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Speaker 5: I think it's finding a secondary guy beyond Courtland Sutton.

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Speaker 5: He had six interceptions when targeting Courtland Sutton last season.

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Speaker 5: His old friend from Oregon, Troy Franklin. They expect him

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Speaker 5: to take a major step forward this season. Marvin Mims,

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Speaker 5: the very dynamic returner and now two time All Pro

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Speaker 5: return man. They're using him in kind of a gadget

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Speaker 5: role a little bit differently. But I think if you're

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Speaker 5: looking for spots on this team in Denver that they

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Speaker 5: need to improve in order to be at that championship levels,

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Speaker 5: it's got to be wide receiver, no question. Evan Ingram

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Speaker 5: is kind of like a big wide ros he's going

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Speaker 5: to say. And he has been right at the top

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Speaker 5: of the league in terms of yards by tight ends

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Speaker 5: when lined up in the slot over the five seasons.

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Speaker 5: So I think he is someone that answers a lot

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Speaker 5: of the questions for bonicks. And as we know, I mean,

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Speaker 5: young quarterbacks love a tight end and love that safety

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Speaker 5: blanket that they can provide.

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Speaker 2: But I would just add that, you know, Sean Payton

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Speaker 2: knows he has one of the best, if not the

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Speaker 2: best defenses in the National Football League, So I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: be surprised if he's a little bit careful with how

659
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Speaker 2: much he turns bow knicks loose because he knows this

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Speaker 2: defense it gives up less than twenty last year, gave

661
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 2: up less than twenty points a game. That's a winning

662
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Speaker 2: formula in the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: Dude, the Titans have any sort of advantage given that

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Speaker 1: there is so much new in this team and there's

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Speaker 1: no tape.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, nothing, that's it. That's it.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I know, I just painted the picture

668
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Speaker 2: of this is the ultimate opponent that the Broncos, that

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Speaker 2: the Titans have in the Broncos.

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Speaker 4: But that is it right there.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of like a new pitcher that's called up

672
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Speaker 2: for the minor leagues and you don't know what kind

673
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 2: of stuff he throws. I mean, that's that's it. There's

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Speaker 2: no Sean Payton's talked about it all week. He's like,

675
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Speaker 2: I know that Denard Wilson has not shown me what

676
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Speaker 2: he is going to do to me in this game

677
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Speaker 2: on Sunday. So that's one part of it. On defense,

678
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Speaker 2: and then the other part is of it is I

679
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Speaker 2: don't think that cam Ward and Brian Callahan in the

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Speaker 2: preseason showed you a lot of what they're going to

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Speaker 2: try to do on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: They didn't even play that much.

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Speaker 2: There is no question that Pat Surtan quite possibly the

684
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Speaker 2: best cover corner in the NFL. One of them for

685
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Speaker 2: sure is going to be matched up on number zero

686
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Speaker 2: Calvin Ridley in most cases. But Brian Callahan has known

687
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Speaker 2: that that was going to happen for what nine months? Yeah,

688
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 2: and so he's had nine months to think of, these

689
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Speaker 2: are the ways I'm going to get zero the football

690
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Speaker 2: in this game? And yes, if Denver was playing the

691
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Speaker 2: Titans in Week two, I'd be way more concerned than

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Speaker 2: I am in Week one.

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Speaker 5: Well, and I think too, this can be a really

694
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Speaker 5: big Tony Pollard game because we saw just one drive

695
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Speaker 5: at Tony Pollard in Tampa and then Brian Callahan of

696
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 5: the staff said, all right, you're good.

697
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Speaker 4: You've had such a good camp.

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Speaker 5: We've seen what we've needed to see, and I know

699
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 5: fans have not been able to see a lot of that.

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Speaker 5: I think you're going to see the best of Tony

701
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Speaker 5: Pollard this year. I think the reworked offensive line is

702
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Speaker 5: a big reason why in a game where the opponent

703
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 5: led the league in sacks last year, you just can't

704
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Speaker 5: be in third and ten, plus, you can't be in

705
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Speaker 5: third and twelve consistently. And to the point about Brian

706
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 5: Callahan as a second year play caller, there is not

707
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Speaker 5: a play on the play sheet that offensive coordinators are

708
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 5: going to like for third and long consistently. If I'm

709
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Speaker 5: looking for one possible advantage, it's the Titans run game

710
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Speaker 5: against Broncos linebackers. That's a big question mark for this

711
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 5: team because they've got two guys, one of which one

712
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Speaker 5: of whom I don't know if he's going to play

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Speaker 5: in Dray green Law, who mispracticed this Week's had a

714
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Speaker 5: quad injury that's come back up. He's coming off a

715
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Speaker 5: season ending injury last year. Alex Singleton is coming off

716
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Speaker 5: of an ACL injury last year, which was a big

717
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Speaker 5: reason why Cody Barton was able to earn the contract

718
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Speaker 5: he got in Tennessee. Because the lack of Singleton there,

719
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 5: there's a lot of question marks there at inside linebacker

720
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Speaker 5: for Denver, still one of the best run defenses of

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Speaker 5: the NFL last year, despite all of that. But if

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Speaker 5: I'm picking it apart a little bit, I think this

723
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Speaker 5: can be a really big Tony Pollard game.

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Speaker 4: And that I agree.

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Speaker 2: It wouldn't surprise me if we get an early Pinnacle

726
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 2: sideline report on Drake Greenlaw and weather. He's on the

727
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 2: field from will bowling very early in the game.

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Speaker 1: Better fire it up? Well, get ready ready to go?

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Speaker 1: Get ready grab the old clipboard.

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Speaker 3: Are you guys ready for a cookie break? I know

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Speaker 3: that Taylor's been losing his mind.

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Speaker 3: Cookie break for your friends. That's so nice. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: us more. We've got a long season ahead of us.

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Speaker 3: Take a cookie break.

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Speaker 1: your own cookie break. Will do you have any next

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Speaker 1: gen stats for us that you are I guarantee he

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Speaker 1: does particularly excited about. You are the man with the numbers,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like that is something that I cannot provide.

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00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: Taylor probably could to his life, but I don't know

764
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Speaker 1: that he's got enough room on his sure miss chart,

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Speaker 1: So we've got.

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Speaker 3: To flip that over to you.

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Speaker 5: Well, yep, all right, let's talk about Pat Sertan did

768
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 5: not allow fifty or more receiving yards in any game

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Speaker 5: last season, after allowing multiple in twenty twenty three. As

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Speaker 5: we flip again Bonnicks. This is something Jeffrey Simmons talked

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Speaker 5: about the other day in the locker room. When Bonnicks

772
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 5: doesn't have a guy open, he is the quintessential sneaky

773
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Speaker 5: fast quarterback of the guy that you're like, wow, Bonix

774
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Speaker 5: can run a little bit. BONNICKX last season ninety two

775
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,399
Speaker 5: carries two hundred and thirty yards two point nine scrambles

776
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 5: per game, third most in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: You would not have expected that.

778
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Speaker 5: If you told me that, I would have thought, that's

779
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Speaker 5: not real.

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Speaker 4: I promise you.

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Speaker 5: It is twenty one yards per game from scrambles according

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Speaker 5: to a.

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Speaker 4: Pro Football Focus. We talked about the.

784
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Speaker 5: Hitting yardage and the ability to move the chains on

785
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 5: a third and eight, third and five, even getting those

786
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 5: six yards and getting down and protecting himself. I think

787
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 5: an element of this game that is a little bit

788
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 5: underrated with him. Honestly, we've gone through most of my

789
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 5: next gen stats and my nerd nuggets already.

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Speaker 3: So nerd nuggets is going to stick, Yes.

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Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, but those are those are I think the

792
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Speaker 5: main ones. And that really did surprise me though a

793
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Speaker 5: Bonix because you don't think about that with him.

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Speaker 2: These these nuggets are coming in handy. And I did

795
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Speaker 2: recently go on television with his significant other and she

796
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 2: is terrified about all the nuggets he comes up with

797
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 2: late into the night and doesn't get any sleep.

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Speaker 4: But uh true, they have come in handy.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I did see some of that sneak ability,

800
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Speaker 2: if you will, when he was playing for the Auburn Tigers,

801
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 2: because I know he wasn't well protected there and he

802
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 2: was taking off like crazy when he played for Auburn

803
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,280
Speaker 2: years ago. But he did it for Oregon as well,

804
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 2: and then obviously for the Denver Broncos too, So yeah,

805
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 2: it's something to watch out for in this game, is

806
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 2: bo Nick's taking off and running football. I don't have

807
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:15,320
Speaker 2: a next gen snat, but next gen stats, next stack.

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Speaker 4: Can you tell where my head is?

809
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 2: But I do have as my shout out to my

810
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Speaker 2: friend Alyssa Lange, who I do some television work for

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Speaker 2: with the ESPN.

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Speaker 4: She calls these czar bits little nuggets.

813
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Speaker 2: Kit Gunner Heelm is playing his first NFL football game

814
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Speaker 2: fifteen minutes from his house.

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Speaker 4: How cool is that? That's awesome?

816
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Speaker 2: I mean, this guy was a great Texas Longhorn, great

817
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 2: tight end. And he's had an awesome training camp. And

818
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 2: I know that Chigconquo is the big time tight end

819
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 2: for the Titans and has been the last few years.

820
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Speaker 2: Gunnerhelm I think could have a big year as a rookie,

821
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Speaker 2: and it wouldn't surprise me if it happens.

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Speaker 4: Really in his.

823
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Speaker 2: Hometown fifteen minutes from his house is where he gets

824
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Speaker 2: to play his first game.

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Speaker 4: That's really cool.

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Speaker 3: That is very cool. I love I love moments like that.

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Speaker 3: That's a good bit.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, sorry, bit So, We've got Nerd nuggets,

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Speaker 1: We've got czar bit We've got cookies. What more could

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Speaker 1: you want on this show? How about a key to

831
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Speaker 1: victory for the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 3: Just one key per person?

833
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 4: Okay, just one? Okay? So to do that you.

834
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Speaker 3: Can share with your friends if you have to.

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Speaker 4: I've got one.

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Speaker 5: You ready, Yeah, go ahead, And I'm gonna say staying

837
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Speaker 5: ahead of the chains, do not let vance Joseph t

838
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Speaker 5: Off on your quarterback. On this new offensive line that

839
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Speaker 5: I think has come a long way, that I think

840
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 5: is going to progress even more from weeks one through eighteen,

841
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 5: do yourself some favors as an offense and get yourself

842
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 5: in third and manageable. It sounds so simple. It is

843
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 5: maybe the cliche key for every football game ever played.

844
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Speaker 5: I think it's amplified when you're playing the team that

845
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 5: led the league in sacks last year, who man blitzes

846
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 5: as much as anybody in the NA. To me, it

847
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 5: comes down to that if the Titans are going to

848
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 5: be able to have success in this football game, it's

849
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 5: running the ball and staying ahead of the chains. I

850
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 5: think those two kind of mirriad together is one big key.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, good point.

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00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 2: And obviously that would go towards penalties too, and we

853
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 2: might have some will Bowling next gen snat stats about

854
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 2: how often this officiating crew calls those penalties on Sunday,

855
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 2: but let's stay out of that. I think it's really simple.

856
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 2: The Tennessee Titans last year had a disastrous season when

857
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 2: it came to the turnover battle. And if the Titans

858
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 2: want to start off on the right foot win the

859
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 2: turnover battle, I think it's really simple. I think they

860
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 2: need to play clean football on Sunday and they need

861
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 2: to make bow Nicks make a mistake. They need to

862
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,240
Speaker 2: get a turnover, and I think that if that happens,

863
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 2: the Titans really do have a recipe for victory on Sunday?

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Speaker 4: And boy, wouldn't that be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: It'll feel good to have football back then, Oh my, yes,

866
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Speaker 1: that's going to be great. Absolutely, and then it's just

867
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Speaker 1: going to help us get ready for what was to come.

868
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Speaker 1: On Sunday, the Tennessee Titans take on the Denver Broncos.

869
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Speaker 1: This Sunday kickoff for that game is three oh five

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Speaker 1: Central time, so.

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Speaker 3: Check the clocks.

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Speaker 1: It's a little bit different than what we are expecting

873
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Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. Three oh five Titans

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Speaker 1: Radio is on the air at two o clock Central

875
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: time for Titans Countdown. We'll get you all ready for

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Speaker 1: the big game, and then kickoff is at three oh

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Speaker 1: five Central time.

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Speaker 3: Four Taylor's ours for Wilbo. I'm Ammy Wells, thank you

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Speaker 3: for joining us.

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Speaker 4: For the teams