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Speaker 1: We welcome you to another edition of the Official Titans Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Mike Keith. Amy Wells is here as usual.

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Speaker 1: Hello Mike, Hello Amy, how are you? I'm fine? Thank you,

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Speaker 1: Kate McGinness, thank you, Coach, Yes, sir, and here is

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Speaker 1: the great Jim Wyatt. I appreciate the intro. Not worthy,

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Speaker 1: tp Q. I go in. There's a form, I gather

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Speaker 1: all of the questions and then I asked them to you. Fine, gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: this is how this works. Let him roll, all right,

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Speaker 1: We're going to start at the very beginning, and Jim,

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Speaker 1: this one's directed at you, but everyone feel free to

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Speaker 1: chime in. Mike, Oh sorry, sorry, Howard, this is from

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Speaker 1: Howard in California. I got ahead of myself. Howard asks

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Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel is taking on an additional role in the

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Speaker 1: defense next season. How difficult is it for a head

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Speaker 1: coach to be involved in game day play calling while

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Speaker 1: still attempting to manage the game. How much of a

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Speaker 1: distraction is that at critical moments within a game. Well,

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Speaker 1: and I'm only defer to coach Mike. I'm gonna let

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Speaker 1: him jump in on this early because he knows that

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Speaker 1: a lot better than I do. I would think that

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Speaker 1: course of the week that would make it easier on

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Speaker 1: game day for him. You know, we watch him. You

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Speaker 1: know we're on the few, the select few that get

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Speaker 1: to watch practice and know how involved Mike Vrabel has

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Speaker 1: been in this defense ever since he's been here. I

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Speaker 1: noticed him coaching guys up, making sure guys are on

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Speaker 1: the right position. If something's not done right, do it

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Speaker 1: this way. And then I'll watch games on Sunday and

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Speaker 1: see some of the things that Mike Vrabel has taught

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Speaker 1: this is something Vabel taught, and I think he'll continue.

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Speaker 1: It will just be a continuation of what he has done.

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to take away from anything Dan Piece

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Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel has been very much involved all the way through.

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be different for him, and I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: let coach Mike kind of explain that part of it.

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Speaker 1: He can so much better than I can. Well, I've

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Speaker 1: done this, I mean, I've done this, but your perspective,

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Speaker 1: we have watched Mike Vrabel in practice, and he's involved

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Speaker 1: in much more than the defense. I mean, we watched

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Speaker 1: him do a lot of things hands on with offensive players,

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Speaker 1: you know, Mike Vrabel is not one of those head

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Speaker 1: And you talked about the hands on teaching out here.

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Speaker 1: know he brought Jim he you know, brought Jim Haslet

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Speaker 1: But he's also look these last two years, even with

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Jim Haslet and Michael Hayes from Guntersville Alabama

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Speaker 1: absolutely yes, I do. And it's a big thumbs up

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Speaker 1: the addition of secondary coach Anthony Midget improve this Titan secondary.

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Speaker 1: I was a coordinator and an assistant head coach was

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Speaker 1: involved in these types of things. There are different the

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Speaker 1: cap is. I mean, there's a there's there used to

431
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Speaker 1: not be a floor to the cap that you had

432
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Speaker 1: to spend too. There was only a ceiling. Now that

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Speaker 1: once they put a floor in, and the floor is

434
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Speaker 1: going to change too as far as how much you

435
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Speaker 1: know what they call cash over cap that you absolutely

436
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Speaker 1: have to spend per year. But there are a lot

437
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Speaker 1: of ways that you can maneuver a cap as to

438
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Speaker 1: where you can move money. You know, one place and

439
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,919
Speaker 1: another and and the biggest thing is is even with

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Speaker 1: players on your team, you can renegotiate and give them

441
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Speaker 1: a chunk of their money and make it a signing

442
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Speaker 1: bonus where you can pro rate it out. There's a

443
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Speaker 1: lot of things that you can do with a cap.

444
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Speaker 1: So it's not just we have this pile of money,

445
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 1: we have this many players. And once you reach zero,

446
00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 1: you read zero. You hardly ever reach zero in essence.

447
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 1: Now Tony from New Zealand says, first off, I love

448
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 1: listening to the show. It's the best way to get

449
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 1: Titans news on the other side of the world. New

450
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,479
Speaker 1: Zealand is rather far away. Guys. My question for you

451
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Speaker 1: is at what stage can John Robinson begin negotiations with

452
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Speaker 1: the Titans pending free agents They've already started, yeah, I

453
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Speaker 1: mean right now. Yeah, I think it probably got a

454
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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of lines of communication that are

455
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Speaker 1: being worked, you know as we speak and at and

456
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Speaker 1: a lot of times these things don't get finalized until

457
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Speaker 1: you get closer to a deadline. And I know it

458
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Speaker 1: used to be, you know, you'd have the combine and

459
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Speaker 1: then the combine would end on maybe a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,

460
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Speaker 1: and free agency would start that Wednesday. I mean, so

461
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Speaker 1: a lot of times the negotiations were fast and furious

462
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Speaker 1: in Indianapolis because you had to make decisions. This year,

463
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Speaker 1: we've got the combine and you still got a couple

464
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Speaker 1: of weeks left until free agency start. So, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's potential something could happen with guys here before the

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Speaker 1: Combine even starts later this month. But I still expect

467
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Speaker 1: a lot of things will start to take, you know,

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Speaker 1: start to happen once you get closer that deadline in

469
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Speaker 1: the middle of March. But it's already started because to

470
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Speaker 1: that point when we were discussing earlier, the Titans players

471
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Speaker 1: are still under contract with the Titans until the start

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Speaker 1: of the fiscal year March the eighteenth. So yes, you

473
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Speaker 1: can have those conversations, Jim. I think they'll probably sign.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we'll probably have some news in the next

475
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Speaker 1: two to three weeks of some guys going ahead and

476
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Speaker 1: making deal. Yeah, I think so too, and some of them,

477
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Speaker 1: mean who that is I don't know, but that that

478
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 1: happens with every team. But I think the you know,

479
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Speaker 1: the longer goes. You know, the players obviously are curious

480
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Speaker 1: about the market and curious to see what they might

481
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Speaker 1: get at other places. Some of them obviously might not

482
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Speaker 1: have a choice because of the tag that we have

483
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Speaker 1: talked about that could be applied. But I wouldn't be

484
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Speaker 1: surprised if we have some deals happened here in the

485
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Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. And coach, sometimes the teams want

486
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Speaker 1: players to go test the market. No, absolutely, and that's

487
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Speaker 1: part of the negotiation, you know, depending on where and

488
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Speaker 1: where the player is, depending on what the market is.

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Speaker 1: As you said, Mike, is is very you know, sometimes

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Speaker 1: that's part of the negotiation. And and you will say

491
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Speaker 1: that to go test it. You will say that to

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Speaker 1: the players representative, go test it, and then you know,

493
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Speaker 1: let's see if you've if you've reached you know, an impass.

494
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Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about a hard impass. I'm just

495
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Speaker 1: talking about if you want to talk in generalities. Absolutely,

496
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Speaker 1: that's part of the negotiating process. But that's also why

497
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Speaker 1: to both of your points, why the league has changed

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Speaker 1: their calendar. That's a big reason because the league sets

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Speaker 1: their calendar and they they found out, you know, throughout

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Speaker 1: the years. And Jim just brought up the fact that,

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Speaker 1: you know, we used to be scrambling I mean quite

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Speaker 1: a bit, you know, and so all of this, all

503
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: of this thing takes place. It's I mean and for

504
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Speaker 1: our listeners, and our listeners get great information from the

505
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,959
Speaker 1: OTP here because this is they You need to understand

506
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,360
Speaker 1: that it's not just a real hard and fast Okay,

507
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: this is how much money we have, and let's sign

508
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 1: everybody right now. There's a whole lot too right now,

509
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,440
Speaker 1: having a lot of being able to keep your powder dry,

510
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: keep everything close to your chest with what you're doing.

511
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Speaker 1: You know, when I first started in this league, Bill

512
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 1: Tobin had a big sign in his personnel room and

513
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: the only thing it said was loose lips sink ships.

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Speaker 1: So don't talk right now. You don't talk right now

515
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: outside of what's going on. That's the way. But there's

516
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 1: a lot of conversation going on right now. I guarantee it,

517
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: all right, Mac, let's talk about some players on the

518
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Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. Sean from Bluemont, Virginia says,

519
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: what do you think DeAndre Walker's impact could be next

520
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: year after being out history. Sean, I like that. I

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Speaker 1: like that question, thank you very much, because I think

522
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Speaker 1: this is one of the or gotten players. And you know,

523
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Speaker 1: he was on he was put on. I remember, you know,

524
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Speaker 1: when when Mike Keith and I were doing the draft

525
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Speaker 1: this year and we got down to that point and

526
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Speaker 1: we were both looking and and he asked me during

527
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Speaker 1: the who is here now at this point you know

528
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Speaker 1: that we could use and this was one of the

529
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Speaker 1: guys that we had had pinpointed because of you know,

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Speaker 1: he's not a and I think at the time Mike

531
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Speaker 1: is what I said was, this is not a player

532
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Speaker 1: that's that's got great height, but he plays long. He

533
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Speaker 1: plays long, he's got you know, and and I really

534
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Speaker 1: liked the way that I liked the way he played,

535
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Speaker 1: and I thought that he would really fit into what

536
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Speaker 1: Mike Varabel wanted to do because he's a he's a

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Speaker 1: high energy player. He's a player that they used in

538
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: a lot of different positions, you know, once they put

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Speaker 1: him on IR And as you said, I'm one of

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Speaker 1: the fortunate ones with the other three of you that

541
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Speaker 1: get to watch practice every day. You could watch him

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Speaker 1: work Uh, you know, I talked to him. I talked

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Speaker 1: to him several times this year, just coming off from

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Speaker 1: his workout when I would be standing watching, you know,

545
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Speaker 1: and you know, said, you know, how's it going? How

546
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Speaker 1: you I mean this guy I was. I was excited

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Speaker 1: about him last year, you know when we and right

548
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Speaker 1: before he got hurt, if you'll remember, we had one

549
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Speaker 1: the op. Yeah, and I said, this guy is coming

550
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Speaker 1: on because he's you could just see him, you know,

551
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Speaker 1: start to work into what he is and and I'm

552
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Speaker 1: I'm excited for him. I'm excited for the club to

553
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: see what he can do. But I think he'll be

554
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: a help. Well. Corey from Ottawa, Canada kind of has

555
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: a follow up question to that. He's I love listening

556
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Speaker 1: to the show. It's hard to get Titans content up

557
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: here in Ottawa. Question for the group, where is our

558
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: linebacker opposite Harold Landry going to come from? Will it

559
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: be from the draft or free agency? Or could it

560
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: be someone like DeAndre Walker group. I think it's to

561
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: be a combination of a lot of guys. I mean,

562
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Speaker 1: you know, we've got Corea, who obviously depends on what

563
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Speaker 1: happens to him in free agency. He into the season

564
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: really well. But uh, you know, then you got Joe

565
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Speaker 1: andre I think the draft him. I look at the

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Speaker 1: team needs and where it needs to make strides in

567
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Speaker 1: two twenty, and I think edge rushers one of them.

568
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 1: I think you need more of a consistent pressure coming

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Speaker 1: from the outside. And you know, and I look at

570
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Speaker 1: this year's draft class, that is one of the areas

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Speaker 1: I think I suspect the team would be looking at.

572
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Speaker 1: But I think it's gonna be a combination of a

573
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Speaker 1: lot of guys. Cameron Wakes another interesting name too, to

574
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Speaker 1: see if at age thirty eight, he wants to make

575
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Speaker 1: another run at it. And there are a bunch of

576
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Speaker 1: guys in free agency that are really intriguing. If you

577
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Speaker 1: decide to a lot some of your resources in that area,

578
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: it means you're going to take resources away from another

579
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: area because you think that this might make you better.

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00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: Kansas City did that with Frank Clark. They let Justin

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Speaker 1: Houston walk and they went and traded for Frank Clark

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Speaker 1: and then gave him a contract and he played really,

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Speaker 1: really excellent fundamental football for them. Well that's one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent correct. And those are all the avenues that you

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Speaker 1: have and when you start to look at the list

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Speaker 1: of free agents because you mentioned that, Mike, there are

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Speaker 1: guys now some of those as we'll be off the

588
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 1: market because that is that that's a valuable piece, you know,

589
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: to any defense, because you know, basically this game is now,

590
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: you know, move the football, and if you're moving the

591
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: football through the air, the biggest, the biggest piece defensively

592
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: is go get the guy that's moving it through the air.

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00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: And so that's gonna be that's gonna be a part

594
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: of it. And it's not just about sacks. It's about

595
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: being able to put you know, consistent pressure into and

596
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: and and then to be able to walk people down

597
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 1: when they do get off schedule. So all of these things.

598
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: But they've got they're going to pursue all of these avenues.

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Speaker 1: I've started, I've got a notebook over here. I've started

600
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: the draft and I started with you know, with that position.

601
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: There there are guys there. Now, there there's separations like

602
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: they're always are there levels, But that's that's part of

603
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: being an evaluator, in which John Robinson and his group

604
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: have proven that they're really good at evaluating those guys.

605
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not necessarily the top guys sometimes that

606
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: make your draft. Some of the times, it's those guys

607
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: that you find that have a piece and a and

608
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: a function that fits what you are going to do

609
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: and you're able to identify that. Robertson's another guy you know,

610
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: who ended strong, who ended really well, and I'm curiously

611
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: what he looks like you're too, And that, to my point,

612
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: is one of those guys that they identified. They they

613
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Speaker 1: you know, Mike Vrabel, They went and worked him out,

614
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: you know, down there at sam Houston State to watch him.

615
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: He brought him in for a pre draft, brought him

616
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: in for the pre draft though. That's that's what talent

617
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: acquisition is about, is is digging and identifying and then

618
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Speaker 1: being able to slot it. All right. Cole from McAllen,

619
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Speaker 1: Texas asks guys, what can the Titans do to start

620
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: the season stronger in twenty twenty? Coach Mac, you seem

621
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: excited about McAllen Texas. You start us off. I love McCallen, Texas.

622
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,719
Speaker 1: I've done high school clinic in McAllen, Texas. Just for

623
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Speaker 1: the record, where is McCallan, Texas? Right down there on

624
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: the tip ah Corpus Corpus CHRISTI Okay, yeah. So anyway,

625
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: the thing, the thing that that the question was what

626
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: do you do to start? I mean, look, there's a

627
00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: long way for we don't even know who we're gonna

628
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: play start with, right, Okay, So I mean you don't

629
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: even know who who you play, So all of that

630
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: stuff starts now with the talent acquisition. Then it goes

631
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: through OTAs, then it goes through you know, once you

632
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: to once you find out who that who that opponent is,

633
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: you know, then then then you start to work towards

634
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: beating that opponent because as we all know and our

635
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: listeners on the OTP know also, the National Football League

636
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 1: is really a collection of one week seasons. It's a

637
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: collection of one week seasons. And so you do everything

638
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: that you can to put together a group looking at

639
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: the big picture before you even know who you're going

640
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: to play, and then you start to focus on once

641
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: we know who it's going to be. So that's my

642
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Speaker 1: best answer after thirty four years of doing this. Yeah,

643
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: and it's a team game. But obviously, you know you

644
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: gotta have good quarterback play from the beginning. I mean

645
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: last year, I look at the start, I mean obviously

646
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: the game in Cleveland was a was a beauty. But uh,

647
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: you know, you score seven points at Jacksonville. You know,

648
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: you get shut out against Denver, you score seven points

649
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: against Buffalo, And this offense was sputter early last season,

650
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: and then in Week seven when the quarterback change was made,

651
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: the offense kind of took off. So it's a combination

652
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 1: of the offensive coordinator the quarterback, but the entire offense

653
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 1: got played better, and I think quarterback play was shaky

654
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 1: at the beginning of this season. Look, last year's start

655
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 1: was really good. I mean, how excited worldly after that

656
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: started at Cleveland, after everything that had been made of Cleveland.

657
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: I mean, so it's not how you start, it's how

658
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: you play week to week till week that is so

659
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: important because you talk about it. See this we just

660
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 1: came off to me one of the one of the

661
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: best runs that I've ever seen a teammate in the

662
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 1: National Football League. But it was a run at the

663
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: end of the season. So you can't differentiate between start, middle,

664
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: and end. It all has to fit together. And as

665
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,720
Speaker 1: I said, again, it's a collection of one week seasons,

666
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: but it would be good to not start too and

667
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: four that's well normally worked it worked out good this

668
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: should I would not want to draw to that stack again.

669
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 1: We've done it twice. We're two of we're two of

670
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,479
Speaker 1: the only four teams in league history to start two

671
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: and four and make an AFC Championship. Would prefer to

672
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,359
Speaker 1: do it, you know? For one? Yeah, that would be good,

673
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: And that's to your point, is right? We would We

674
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 1: would prefer that, all right. David from the United Kingdom

675
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: has an interesting question. He said coach Mac had to

676
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: have had a team that he cheered for when he

677
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: first started following football. Then as he moved jobs, his

678
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: allegiance had to change. Do you still have a sore

679
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,399
Speaker 1: spot for a particular team or do you just move

680
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: on and forget? Is that sore spot or sweet spot?

681
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 1: Soft spot? Soft spot? Is that I say this? I

682
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: went to when when I when I was when I

683
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: was a junior and a senior in high school, I

684
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: worked at a summer camp down in the hill country

685
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: down around Kerville, and I I went to the Houston

686
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: Oilers training camp at Shriner Institute for two summers. Charlie

687
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 1: Toler that I loved the Houston Oilers idem It's amazing,

688
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: you know, because you know I went, you know, I

689
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 1: went there, and of course everybody, a lot of people,

690
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 1: everybody in Texas, you know, was a Cowboy fan, you know,

691
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,280
Speaker 1: the whole Tom Landry thing. And then I went to TCU,

692
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: so I was right there going across. But my first

693
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: training camps that I ever went to as a high

694
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: school junior and senior was the Houston Oilers at Shriner

695
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: Institute in Kerrville, Texas. It was outstanding. So here I

696
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: am sitting here right now. Wow, well there you go.

697
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? But we do get asked that question

698
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: a lot about as. Yeah, I loved the Bills. I

699
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: loved Oj. Uh. You know, that's my first memories of

700
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,760
Speaker 1: watching Football's a year when he went for two thousand

701
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 1: and three and I was, I was, you know, six

702
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 1: years old, and uh, I still remember that. And I

703
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: love the Bills, you know from UH from those days

704
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: with Joe Fergus the quarterback and OJ Simpson you know,

705
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 1: Miami had to arm electric company. Yeah, and I remember,

706
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: you know, back when Monday Night football you show halftime highlights,

707
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,280
Speaker 1: that'd be the only time you can watch the Bills,

708
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,320
Speaker 1: not like it was when UH with Sports Center around.

709
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 1: So I was a Bills fan all the way through

710
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: those days when Jim Kelly was a quarterback. I actually

711
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: drove to Atlanta and bought a single Super Bowl ticket

712
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 1: and went by myself the year they lost the fourth

713
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: Super Bowl in a row, and uh you know, had

714
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: a Buffalo Bills beach tower that I hung out my

715
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,919
Speaker 1: college dorm window the year that they won one game,

716
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: they beat the Cowboys, and I hung that outside my window.

717
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: But it's different when you start to work for a team,

718
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 1: all that allegiance goes out the window. I think I

719
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 1: probably still have a soft spot for the Bills, but

720
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,439
Speaker 1: uh not, it's not like it used to be. Did

721
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: you have a team you chaired for my Damas Cowboys? Yeah? Yeah,

722
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: it largely Bills beat the Cowboys in nineteen eighty five,

723
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: the only win of the years not in that Super Bowl,

724
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: though you went to and I hosted a great party

725
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: that night. Another reason I followed the Dallas Cowboys was

726
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:16,320
Speaker 1: because of dd Lewis. Dd Lewis is from Knoxville and

727
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: he grew up in my family's neighborhood in North Knoxville

728
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: and went to my dad and mom's high school, and

729
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 1: they became Cowboy fans because of him and another guy

730
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: named Ryan Widby, who was a football and basketball player

731
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,280
Speaker 1: at the University of Tennessee, who was a Cowboys punter,

732
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,319
Speaker 1: and so yeah, I was Cowboy fan. And don't tell

733
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: I'm I'm glad I never had to say that in

734
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: front of mister Adams case. I don't think mister Adams

735
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: would have liked that very much. See, when I got

736
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: hired here, I told mister Adams that story that I

737
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: just told right now, and he looked at me, and

738
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 1: I like that. I was pretty good from that. Well,

739
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: that was one of the challenges for us. And I've

740
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: said this on a few occasions. I didn't know any

741
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: Whitler's fan, did you, Jim? I mean? And so we

742
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: brought this team here that nobody really knew that much

743
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 1: about they. There weren't a lot of players because when

744
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: we tried to hire our first color analyst for Titans Radio,

745
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: we said, okay, the the ultimate would be to hire

746
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: a former Tennessee vall who played for the Houston Oilers.

747
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: That would be a great move. There weren't any the oiler.

748
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: The only Oiler that that played at Tennessee was a

749
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: linebacker named Steve Kiner, who was kind of out there

750
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: a little bit um, so we said, really good player.

751
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 1: I'm not really good player, a little bit of a

752
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: little bit of a different character. But he didn't live

753
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: here anyway. But then we said, okay, well, how about

754
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:48,720
Speaker 1: a former Vanderbilt commodore who played for the Houston Oilers.

755
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: That would make sense. There weren't any There was like

756
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: a putter and he was like from the early sixties

757
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: ors you know. There there wasn't anybody. So we said, okay,

758
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: well how about somebody who played for any state school

759
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: who played for the Oilers Memphis or TSU or whomever.

760
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,359
Speaker 1: There weren't any because the majority of the people who

761
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 1: played for the Houston Oilers, they got the majority of

762
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: their players from the Southwest Conference. There were they they

763
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: had signed over the years. Celbricado and the rest of

764
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: that group stayed around the Southwest Conference. So that was

765
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: one of our real challenges is there was no allegiance

766
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: in this area because there had been virtually no tieans.

767
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: We didn't see them much on TV. And that was

768
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 1: part of getting you know, when the team came to

769
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: Memphis and Vanderbilt, there were no built in fans to

770
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: go run see them play. So we had to establish

771
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,800
Speaker 1: that identity long answer to your question, but it was.

772
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: It was a really interesting thing for us because we

773
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: there was there was no connect. It was like they

774
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: were dropped in on us. I had no opinion on

775
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 1: the Houston Oilers. I rooted for him some weeks, I

776
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: rooted against him somewhere. You know, I didn't know anything

777
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: about him, really. I knew Earl Campbell and Dan Pastorini,

778
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:13,439
Speaker 1: but you know, so in finding out more about their

779
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: history and working for him this time, it's been really

780
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to see. And again, but you're

781
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,839
Speaker 1: a Texas guy. I'm a Texas guy. And again I'm

782
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: probably one of the few that's been to their training

783
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: camp in the Hill Country, I would imagine. And also

784
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: then when they moved, they moved their training camp to

785
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: sant Angelo, right and then, and sant Angelo is like

786
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: eighty miles from where I grew up. And so yeah,

787
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: I told mister told mister Adams all this when when

788
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: he hired him, I did not tell him my story,

789
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: and he liked it. He liked mine. Did you have, Mike,

790
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: did you have one of those wool jackets with the

791
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 1: plastic sleeves. Everybody used to wear a shirt had the

792
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: Sears catalog. My brother and I had bunk beds and

793
00:41:56,719 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 1: we had the Sears catalog, NFL kurt and sheets and

794
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:07,439
Speaker 1: comforters with all the NFL teams. That's really cute. Oh love, Yeah,

795
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:14,320
Speaker 1: that's it's that's outstanding. But it seemed like the NFL.

796
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: If you grew up in this area, it seemed like

797
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: the NFL was in another planet. And so when we

798
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: moved and when we got a team here, it was like,

799
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 1: this is the coolest thing ever, because a lot of

800
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 1: us were NFL, huge NFL fans and never thought we'd

801
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: get to It's like hiring Jim Haslet here. That's still

802
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: so cool to me because I've watched Jim Haslet since

803
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: he played for Buffalo, and so to see him walking

804
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: down the hall, You're like, that's Jim Haslet. How about

805
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,320
Speaker 1: that he used to coach the Saints. How about that

806
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,760
Speaker 1: even after twenty years, that's still exciting to me because

807
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 1: I was a fan of the league way before I

808
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: ever went to work for a team. Right, that was

809
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:59,720
Speaker 1: actually a really good answer. I'm pleasantly No, I'm pleasantly

810
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: by that. Wow, thank you. Here's Bow from Big Stone Gap,

811
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:08,720
Speaker 1: Virginia and he asked home of Thomas Jones, former NFL

812
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 1: running back yep, former Cardinal running back to coach mc drafting,

813
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: you drafted Thomas Jones. How about that this world is

814
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: getting smaller and smaller in here. I tell you what,

815
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: what did you guys, especially Mike Keith think of the

816
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:30,359
Speaker 1: XFL kickoffs given that the XFL just became a real thing,

817
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: we got our first weekend to experience all of that.

818
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 1: Kind of liked what they did. Ninety one percent of

819
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,760
Speaker 1: their kickoffs were returned, as opposed to thirty six percent

820
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: of NFL kickoffs. I want to see more. I want

821
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: to see how teams scheme it, to see if they

822
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: can break anybody loose because of the setup. I think

823
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: it's safer, which is good. I think it's a way

824
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 1: to potentially keep the kickoff in the game and have

825
00:43:56,320 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 1: it be a football play instead of sixty four percent touchbacks.

826
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 1: So yeah, I thought it was good. I thought I

827
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: thought the XFL overall was pretty good. I watched almost

828
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 1: an entire game on Saturday. I watched all four games.

829
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,720
Speaker 1: Did you really absolutely? I had one TV going watching

830
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: them and had the other one going doing the draft,

831
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:19,720
Speaker 1: and we can't turn them off. But the first person

832
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: I thought of all seriousness, which you know how serious

833
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:26,760
Speaker 1: go to Mike is all was Mike Keith on the kickoffs.

834
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: I liked that kickoff. I did too. I liked that

835
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: concept and it makes sense. And you started talking about

836
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: if you'll notice, I mean because I started watching that

837
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,919
Speaker 1: for most all of every one of them, they tried

838
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: to run a sideline. The returner went to the sideline

839
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: to try to take away the numbers, to reduce the numbers.

840
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: So I think to your point, what you will start

841
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: seeing is you will start seeing some turns you know

842
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: as to where they will try to But I like that.

843
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,280
Speaker 1: I like that part of it. I thought of you immediately.

844
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: It's first I said, I hope, Mike. I knew you

845
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: would be watching. It's a better football play than a

846
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:03,879
Speaker 1: touch and I agree with that one hundred percent, Mike.

847
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: And again that's my complaint about the whole kickoff thing

848
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 1: is I don't want to see guys line up and

849
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,399
Speaker 1: the kicker just kick it through the end zone. That's

850
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: a waste of my time. But I thought of you

851
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:18,359
Speaker 1: immediately when that thing started. And the XFL stuff, nice

852
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: job they did. They did a good the production of

853
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 1: it was good. And here's the other thing that you

854
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Speaker 1: can tell. I mean, you can tell money when you

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Speaker 1: see money, it's got money behind it. You can tell

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Speaker 1: just with the production. Well if that and they're not

857
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Speaker 1: and Oliver Luck came out and said this, they're commissioner.

858
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Speaker 1: They're not trying to be the NFL. They're not trying

859
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,359
Speaker 1: to compete with the NFL. They're not doing what they

860
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: did the first time around with you know, some of

861
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: the silliness and stuff like that, which I mean, I'm

862
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: all for silly sometimes, but this looked like just good football.

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00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. I'm going to be interested to see

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Speaker 1: how the ratings keep up before we get to March madness.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's their challenges. They've got to do well

866
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: in February because when basketball starts to get serious and

867
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Speaker 1: baseball starts coming around and then they have competition, can

868
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,720
Speaker 1: they get a niche established before that happens. But Week

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Speaker 1: one I thought, I thought nice work, and on TV,

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00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 1: I thought they did a great job. Yeah, and I

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00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: flipped through. I can't say I'll watch games from beginning

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00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,240
Speaker 1: to end, but I probably watched good, you know, parts

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00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: of at least I think three games and I was

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00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: entertained too, And I like to kick off from a

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00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: safety standpoint is much better. You don't have guys spreading

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00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 1: down the field and you don't have those high impact collisions.

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Speaker 1: I was surprised more people didn't go for two instead

878
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: of going for one. A lot of the one point tries,

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00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: you know, we're not successful. I think I'd go for

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00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 1: two every time. I wouldn't go for two as well.

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00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,320
Speaker 1: Help you help your odds and uh so, I'm surprised

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00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: more teams didn't do that. I'll be curious to see

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00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,280
Speaker 1: how that goes moving forward, all right, Marty from Scotland

884
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 1: real quick was asking Marty from Scotland. Marty from Scotland

885
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:56,240
Speaker 1: the country like the country? Yeah, not like Scotland, Tennessee.

886
00:46:56,320 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: Is that a place, ye, very close to Scotland the country.

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00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: He asked you. Any of you have any Scottish connections

888
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: in your family here Keith Scotland, Keith Glad, I mean, yeah,

889
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: we're Scottish. Are you like Scottish Royalty? No? No, no, no,

890
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 1: uh Keith. Scotland is well known for wool shepherds. Most

891
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 1: of the most of the people there are shepherds. That

892
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: seems about right. See, that is the only type of

893
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 1: information that you could get on the OTP. I'm dying

894
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:31,439
Speaker 1: to go to Scotland to meet my you know, meet

895
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 1: my ancestors, because that's a Jim's looking it up right now.

896
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: That's one hundred percent a real thing. Yes, I talk

897
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 1: about doing that, Mike, and that's a cool thing. And

898
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,240
Speaker 1: you need to do that because you know, I'm Irish

899
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 1: and I went to you know, I went to Ireland

900
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:48,359
Speaker 1: to do that. That's a cool thing to do it. Yeah,

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00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 1: I'm very interested to do it. It's cool thing to do. Well,

902
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: there you go, Marty us there on the OTP. We're talking.

903
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: I'm talking to my guy Marty. There you go. All right,

904
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 1: this is the last question. You guys are gonna think

905
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: I made this up, but I really didn't. It came

906
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:10,280
Speaker 1: through the line Titans Online dot Com slash otpq Andy

907
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: from Brentwood, Tennessee, says, I am suffering from some serious

908
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: amy wells wonders withdrawals. What happened to it? What's brewing

909
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: is a great segment, and it's awesome to hear from

910
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 1: all of you. But AWW gave us an insightful and

911
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: sometimes eerily dark look inside Amy's brain? Why not do

912
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: both segments? Also, there's a caveat Amy is definitely not

913
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 1: paying me to say this just so that she can

914
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: get a solo segment. Again. The people want enough. Don't

915
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:43,800
Speaker 1: you think Amy Wells Wonders became What's Brewing? Well? Yeah,

916
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: but you all are involved. Amy Wells Wonders was just me,

917
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 1: But you're the one that came up with What's Brewing?

918
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 1: I did, and I expanded it to the masses. But

919
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: I mean so, I mean, isn't that the answer to

920
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:00,240
Speaker 1: the question is that you basically did away with Amy

921
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 1: Wells Wonders when you came up with What's Brewing? I

922
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: think so, But I think Andy wants more. You think so?

923
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 1: I think Andy is asking why right now? Tell us, well,

924
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: I'm wondering why you guys don't want to give me

925
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 1: more time in this podcast. You're hosting the podcast today.

926
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 1: I'm just giving the people what they want. What was

927
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 1: my man's name from Brentwood? Andy? Andy? The consensus at

928
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,879
Speaker 1: this table right now, I just took a vote. Everybody

929
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 1: loves Amy Wells Wonders. There it is. It came through.

930
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 1: I am just I am just the conduit. I'm the

931
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: one asking the questions of the OT people, and you

932
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: guys get a great job. And if people want to

933
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: ask their questions again, tell them. I mean, this is

934
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:48,240
Speaker 1: not the Jim White mailback. No, no, this is different.

935
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 1: It's totally different. Jim, is there anything in here you

936
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: would like to steal for this week's mailbag? A lot

937
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: of great questions in there. There were good us, a

938
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 1: lot of good ones. I really like the OT people. Yeah,

939
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 1: you too. I'm a big fan thet P. Well. I

940
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: couldn't believe the response we got on the road trips

941
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:13,760
Speaker 1: during the playoffs. I was dumbfounded by how many people

942
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: listen to the podcast and and just elated and how

943
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: nice they were about it. I mean, it was really

944
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: it was really heartwarming. Everyone has been exceptionally kind regarding

945
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 1: the podcast. As we've kind of gotten this thing started

946
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 1: and have continued to try new things and change it,

947
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 1: people have been just so gracious. I want Jim Haslet

948
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,439
Speaker 1: on the podcast. I want to sit down and talk.

949
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: I want to hear some stories from Jim Haslet. Has

950
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: has got some Yeah, I'm sure he's a former linebackers.

951
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 1: That's you start there. Yeah. I just hope he doesn't

952
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: tell any concerning he and I both. He's a really

953
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 1: good football coach though, And when Jim told me he's like, hey,

954
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: I think it's Jim Haslet, I was like, seriously, I

955
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: mean he's really this Jim Haslet I've always liked has

956
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: a lot, you know, as as just a guy too. Yeah,

957
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 1: well he fits. The head coach is kind of mix, right,

958
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 1: What more can you ask for? Again? Tell people how

959
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:23,240
Speaker 1: they can ask the questions. Titans Online dot Com slash

960
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: otp Q. Keep them coming because we will do more

961
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: of these. I think these shows are so fun. Jim

962
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 1: Wyatt has done a great job at Titans online dot

963
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: Com recently, You've written a lot of really good things.

964
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 1: The thing comparing the leaders from twenty eighteen to twenty

965
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:42,359
Speaker 1: nineteen was fascinating. Yeah, and you can tell how big

966
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: of a jump this team made in so many different

967
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 1: categories compared to a year ago. A lot of them.

968
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:50,399
Speaker 1: You know, A J. Brown established himself, We talked about

969
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: him earlier, Ryan Tannehill obviously, Derrick Henry, you know, great

970
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 1: strides by this team in two thousand nineteen, and now

971
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:01,400
Speaker 1: got to figure out here, try to keep as many

972
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:05,359
Speaker 1: of these guys with the squad and have momentum going

973
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 1: into camp. Jim Wyatt at Titans Online dot Com, Senior

974
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: writer editor. How can you follow Jim Wyatt on various

975
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: social media playform at j Wyatt Sports on Twitter and

976
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 1: Instagram at Titans Amy, Amie and you were on one

977
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Speaker 1: oh four five Coach Mac at what time? All the time,

978
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Speaker 1: all the time. He's on twenty first set. I saw

979
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: they're promoting a minigod sitting here on Twitter and night

980
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: they're promoting them being on today. Yeah, I'm on, I'm on.

981
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:35,279
Speaker 1: I'm on officially, I'm on Monday's, Wednesdays and Thursdays, but

982
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: I pop in a lot. I had dinner last night

983
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: at the Southern. I had the person serving said, Coach Mike,

984
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: really glad to have you here. I really enjoyed you

985
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:51,879
Speaker 1: and Mike Keith. I also enjoy the Titans podcast Wow Hey,

986
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:55,399
Speaker 1: better known as the OTP. The OTP which is good

987
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: mention of the Southern in there too. I like how

988
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: you work that is, that's a good spot. So Connors

989
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 1: the Southern get props this week after Crystal. Last week

990
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:07,919
Speaker 1: Crystal got some love Crystal. Crystal was fired up about

991
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 1: the mine. They were very excited. Um, I'm going to

992
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:14,840
Speaker 1: the Southern for dinner tonight. So that's another Southern mansion.

993
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: I really am. That's good reservation. Well, good for you. Well,

994
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Speaker 1: that's why we need to conclude this edition of the

995
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 1: OTP so you can make it otherwise she would keep

996
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: talking for Amy Wells, Jim Wyatt and coach Dave McGinnis.

997
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Speaker 1: Mike Keith says, thanks for listening to this edition of

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Speaker 1: the o tp Q