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Speaker 1: They've been backing Tennesseeans for nearly eighty years. So please

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Speaker 1: to welcome Titans head coach Brian Callahan here to the

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Speaker 1: audio podcast studio at Ascension Saint Thomas Sports Park.

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Speaker 2: Tough Monday, Yeah, just tough Monday, and you're calling what

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Speaker 2: it is?

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Speaker 1: Your press conference? What it is? Your press conference was

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Speaker 1: pretty tough. So just to touch on a couple of

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Speaker 1: things from that. At your press conference, you were not

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Speaker 1: willing to say who the starting quarterback will be at

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis this weekend. You said you take a couple of

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Speaker 1: days to decide. So between today and tomorrow, what are

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Speaker 1: some of the factors that will go into the decision

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Speaker 1: about picking the starting quarterback for Sunday's game?

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Speaker 2: You know, I think the first and foremost is what

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Speaker 2: gives us the best chance to win a game, because

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Speaker 2: that's all I really care about at this point is

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Speaker 2: try to put ourselves in the best position to go win.

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Speaker 2: And what that looks like, you know, what is it?

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Speaker 2: What does it mean for the team. You know what

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Speaker 2: what what that decision doesn't doesn't isn't just solely for

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Speaker 2: you know, one or two players. I mean that kind

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Speaker 2: of decision affects everybody. It's staff, that's coaching, that's players,

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Speaker 2: the whole the whole pot's affected by who is under center.

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Speaker 2: And so I'm gonna take We're gonna take a take

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Speaker 2: a deep breath and take a look at the game

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Speaker 2: one more time. Remove remove any emotion from it, because

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Speaker 2: obviously those things can be emotional in the moment, and

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Speaker 2: make sure that you know, whatever decision we make is

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Speaker 2: is the best one for a football team. It gives

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Speaker 2: us the best chance to win.

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Speaker 1: When you make the decision, Is that something you plan

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Speaker 1: to announce it your media availability at the start of

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Speaker 1: the practice week on Wednesday?

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Speaker 2: Not likely, not like that to announce that. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 2: not a real reason to for and for this particularly

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Speaker 2: and it doesn't really it gives it gives a little

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Speaker 2: bit at least competitive advantage away to announce that straight

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Speaker 2: away on a Wednesday morning. So I'll probably keep that

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Speaker 2: one close to the best for the remainder.

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Speaker 1: Of the week.

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Speaker 3: Fair enough, Yeah, all right, let's move on to some

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Speaker 3: easier topics here. Taja Spears. He got back on the

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Speaker 3: scene in a big way against the Cincinnati Bengals. He

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Speaker 3: had ninety two yards from scrimmage. He had two touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: Could you see that coming in practice last week?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely good? I thought Taja is really you know, he's

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Speaker 2: had it up and down year with some injuries and

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Speaker 2: been out of the lineup and nothing that was.

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Speaker 1: Any he was too serious, but just sort of took.

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Speaker 2: A momentum from him to some degree, and to see

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Speaker 2: the way he's practiced the last three weeks, and really

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Speaker 2: been a product of his practice consistency. He's been really

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Speaker 2: good in the practices over the weeks, and Tony Pollard

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Speaker 2: has missed significant practice time due to his injury, and

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Speaker 2: think you're seeing the effects of that. On Sunday. He's

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Speaker 2: hopefully that continues in again just due to Tony's fighting

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Speaker 3: So do you see him continuing to take the lion's

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Speaker 3: the hope? I guess that he and Tony Pollard share

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Speaker 2: Them to share, you know, close to even. It's probably

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Speaker 2: I think they both can help our offense, and they

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Speaker 2: He shows up every week. So but yeah, I think

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Speaker 3: Let's switch gears a little bit and talk a little defense.

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Speaker 3: The Bengals converted ten of thirteen third downs on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: What has led to some of the defense's third down

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Speaker 2: You know, I think a lot of against Jacksonville, we

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Speaker 2: And then this week I think it was more just

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Speaker 1: Luke Gifford went out and is now in concussion protocol.

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Speaker 1: James Williams went in for him at the linebackers spot

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Speaker 1: seven tackles. How did you evaluate his performance against the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: It was good, I think twofold. I think it's one

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Speaker 2: he was really playing. He's played last week and and

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Speaker 2: it's a bummer that he got He got putting in

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Speaker 2: good to see. I mean, that's his first significant snaps

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Speaker 2: you start to improve. And I think that's what's happened

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Speaker 2: the improvement due to being thrust into roles that maybe

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Speaker 1: James Williams safety at Miamia, Florida seventh round pick, converting

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Speaker 2: I think he's maybe a literally bit ahead of that, even,

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Speaker 2: you know, just to see him be able to take

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Speaker 2: I think Frank Bush does a great job with those

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Speaker 3: All Right, we've let too much time pass without talking

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Speaker 3: about Devandre Sweat because the play of the game was

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Speaker 3: him taking that ball from Joe Burrow and running down

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Speaker 3: many things about that play that just make it so

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Speaker 2: The stiff farm was was pretty remarkable. That was and

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Speaker 2: But I think the coolest part for me is when

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Speaker 2: they have. And that was a really awesome moment in

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Speaker 2: the early part of the game that I was like, Oh,

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Speaker 2: might this might be our day to day? Early in

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Speaker 2: that game with the way we had started it out, was.

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Speaker 3: There a player or coach who got the most excited

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Speaker 1: In that moment? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Man, I mean then people were going going wild on

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Speaker 2: pandemonium on the sideline. I had to get get out

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Speaker 2: the next offensive play, and everything sort of converges like

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Speaker 2: the the melee inside of jumping around and slapping heads

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Speaker 3: So it was cool to see.

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Speaker 1: It was pretty fantastic. It was when we realized he

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Speaker 1: It was like, that's to Andre Sweat and he weighs

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Speaker 1: three hundred and sixties. Sure yeah, sure, yeah, he wastes

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Speaker 2: He was he was moving, he was moving. He looked

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Speaker 1: He did he is he going to end up on

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Speaker 1: the goal line package at some point just.

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Speaker 1: head coach Brian Callahan.

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Speaker 3: Coach, what are the challenges of ending the season with

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Speaker 3: three straight AFC South opponents?

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Speaker 2: You know, it's an anytime you play divisional game, they

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Speaker 2: mean more accounts for more, regardless of what our record is,

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Speaker 2: regardless of what their records are. Their divisional football games

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Speaker 2: and you every year you want to be able to

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Speaker 2: win the games in your division. We've got one, we've

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Speaker 2: in our division. That would be great. That's the goal.

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Speaker 2: See if we can't win three divisional games and you

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Speaker 2: look back and you go, well, we played pretty well

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Speaker 2: in our division. And all you have to do in

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Speaker 2: this league is take care of your divisional games first

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Speaker 2: and to give yourself a chance, because you just to

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Speaker 2: And so you want to play well against these teams.

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Speaker 2: You know, obviously Jacksonville's out of it and he's still

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Speaker 1: All right. So you did not see Anthony Richardson at

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Speaker 1: quarterback for the Colts on October thirteenth. You'll see him

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Speaker 1: this weekend. What's it like preparing for the second year

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Speaker 2: Well, you see, you see his talent. You see why

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Speaker 2: and the challenges that pose is it's a whole different

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Speaker 2: to play dispand branded football with the quarterback run game.

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Speaker 2: That's something that we've not been great at this year.

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna have to be on top of those

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Speaker 2: on the ground because he can he can break runs

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Speaker 3: On Sunday, running back Jonathan Taylor is back. Do the

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Speaker 3: Colts try to pair Taylor with Richardson a little bit

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they do a good job. I mean I think

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Speaker 2: I think Taylor had another one hundred yard game again

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Speaker 2: since he's stepped into it. So he's he's dangerous, he

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Speaker 2: So it's a challenge. And then you pair that, you

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Speaker 2: They do a really good job packaging those things together

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Speaker 1: You will see another piece dropped in to the defense

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Speaker 2: You know, I think he's the kind of the core

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Speaker 1: What's the challenge of going against a Gus Bradley defense.

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Speaker 2: You know, they're always very well coached. That's the one

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Speaker 2: There's not a whole lot of easy yards when you

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