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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith and we welcome to the Snickers hot Seat.
Speaker 2: Can we call it that?
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Speaker 1: hot Seats. Coach Dave mcghettis surrounded by Snickers in the jar.
Speaker 3: I could not be more proud to be in the
Speaker 3: Snickers hot Seat. I mean, it's just I've accomplished a
Speaker 3: lot of things in my career.
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Speaker 3: If you you get one.
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Speaker 3: I'm love to be here.
Speaker 1: And why are we having coach mack on Because it's
Speaker 1: time to get his expertise on what has happened so
Speaker 1: far in training camp. I have some burning questions for
Speaker 1: Coach mack. Oh great, do you have burning questions for
Speaker 1: coach Mack.
Speaker 5: I do, but I would like to hear yours first,
Speaker 5: back and forth.
Speaker 1: So you know, like a burning question that I have
Speaker 1: the right tackle situation. Nicholas Patifreer is suspended for the
Speaker 1: first six games. From everything I've seen, he's run third
Speaker 1: team the whole time because they know he's he's going
Speaker 1: to leave here the first week of September and not
Speaker 1: be back until mid October, until after the London trip,
Speaker 1: which is understandable. So they've had different people rotating at
Speaker 1: the spot. How quickly do they need to make a
Speaker 1: decision from a continuity standpoint, who's the right tackle?
Speaker 3: It's not It's not time yet. It's not time yet
Speaker 3: at all. The thing that he's done. And you remember
Speaker 3: when this came about about NPF, the debate was and
Speaker 3: we talked about it all the three of us talked
Speaker 3: about it. Do you make one move or do you
Speaker 3: make two? They decided to make one move. They want
Speaker 3: to keep that center guard triangle as solid and as
Speaker 3: together as they can. Find someone to step ahead of
Speaker 3: the others at the right tackle. But it's not time yet,
Speaker 3: I think, Mike, I think they will go come all
Speaker 3: the way through it amy. They will go all through
Speaker 3: training camp doing this because you've got some real test,
Speaker 3: You've got practice against the Vikings, You've got practice against
Speaker 3: New England. You've got a lot more call it practices
Speaker 3: that they're going to do out here, and then you've
Speaker 3: got the preseason games. And so I think they will
Speaker 3: go right up to the edge because here's the other
Speaker 3: thing that's different than the National Football League. Then it
Speaker 3: used to be you've got a week between games. Now
Speaker 3: another whole week between you know you're not going out
Speaker 3: to by you got to buy every seas is a bye.
Speaker 3: So I think they'll go completely through training camp.
Speaker 4: And all of those.
Speaker 3: Spots that I've talked about to evaluate those players, because
Speaker 3: there's no reason to be in a rush as long
Speaker 3: as you can keep the center guard triangle solid and
Speaker 3: the left tackle slot solid.
Speaker 5: Now, can we learn a little bit of ball real
Speaker 5: quick before we continue on, Because you talk about the
Speaker 5: center guard triangle, and you talk about it a lot
Speaker 5: on Titan's Radio, like that's something that we here discussed
Speaker 5: throughout games. Can you explain what that is and why
Speaker 5: it's so important.
Speaker 3: Those three work in tandem a lot together. Both edge
Speaker 3: players may work with their guards every now and then,
Speaker 3: but most of the times those guys on the edge
Speaker 3: are either by themselves or they're incorporated into a slide
Speaker 3: protection the center guard triangle. Those three guys, they are
Speaker 3: constantly working with each other. And the other thing that's
Speaker 3: happened even more recently in the National Football League, you
Speaker 3: are starting to see interior defensive lineman be the premier
Speaker 3: players on most teams defenses. We have one here right now,
Speaker 3: So it's extremely, extremely important. The way the rules are now,
Speaker 3: the best way you can get pressure. It used to
Speaker 3: be amy when you would take a seven step drop
Speaker 3: and basically be nine and a half to ten yards deep.
Speaker 3: When you dropped in a cylinder, the edge was the
Speaker 3: easiest way to get there if you had someone that
Speaker 3: could motorcycle, lean and skim an edge. Now, as quick
Speaker 3: as that ball's coming out, interior pressure in your face
Speaker 3: and not align the quarterbacks to escape up into the
Speaker 3: b gap on either side is a huge part of
Speaker 3: taking time in away from your quarterbacks. So your center
Speaker 3: guard triangle has to work together.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to follow up for the purpose of
Speaker 1: context here. Peter Skeronsky was going to be my next
Speaker 1: question about why they have left him at left guard
Speaker 1: only you've answered that you said they're trying to firm
Speaker 1: up the center guard triangle. If, however, they become unclear
Speaker 1: or uncertain about where they are at right tackle and
Speaker 1: they were to decide they might need to try him
Speaker 1: out there, how much time would they need to give that.
Speaker 3: He'd needs some time because he's been a left tackle
Speaker 3: all of his career and people will say, you know,
Speaker 3: coach Mack is just moving about four guys over. Well,
Speaker 3: it's a big difference in footwork, it's a big difference
Speaker 3: in lead hand, it's a big difference in your power
Speaker 3: punch hand. There's a lot of difference between the left
Speaker 3: and the right tackle. Just as far as I mean,
Speaker 3: it's it's basically writing with your right hand or writing
Speaker 3: with your left hand. You can do it, but it
Speaker 3: would take it would take a little bit of time.
Speaker 3: Now if they have to do it. We're fortunate in
Speaker 3: the fact that this is a very technique sound football
Speaker 3: player for a young player, so it might take him
Speaker 3: less time than it would somebody that is struggling. But
Speaker 3: to me, I think they would rather keep that solid
Speaker 3: and have somebody be able to man that thing adequately
Speaker 3: until NPF can come back.
Speaker 1: Your feeling is they're going to fight that with everything
Speaker 1: they have because they have put him at left guard.
Speaker 1: They've left him at left guard and they feel like
Speaker 1: he has a chance to be a top level left guard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and when you watch him at left guard, I mean,
Speaker 3: you can tell that that was a move for him
Speaker 3: from left tackle to left guard. But he has taken
Speaker 3: to it very very well. And the other thing too
Speaker 3: about you know, anytime you're around good guards in the league.
Speaker 3: We've had some great guards here with this franchise. I've
Speaker 3: been around good guards. You guys have seen them. They
Speaker 3: also right next to that center. They communicate a whole
Speaker 3: lot on protections. There's a lot that goes on. This guy,
Speaker 3: I think can be able to do that for quite
Speaker 3: a while there.
Speaker 5: As we're going through training camp. It's not just about
Speaker 5: solidifying that five up front, though, you also need to
Speaker 5: find a couple really good swing guys. How important is
Speaker 5: that going to be? Finding guys who can fill in
Speaker 5: at a multiple and multiple different spots throughout the course
Speaker 5: of the season in case somebody goes down.
Speaker 3: Legitimate, I mean, it's very legitimate. And now the league
Speaker 3: has alleviated some of that because you can dress the
Speaker 3: eighth one now and not be penlights. For it used
Speaker 3: to be, you know, you'd have to make a big
Speaker 3: decision between seven and eight as a head coach on
Speaker 3: your roster every week. Now they've allowed the eighth guy,
Speaker 3: which really really helps. But swing guys, I mean, we've
Speaker 3: experienced too much of that in the last two seasons.
Speaker 3: But that's critical because what happens is it's not so
Speaker 3: much in preparation, but it's when it happens during a game.
Speaker 3: You have to go in there immediately and be able
Speaker 3: to go to work and not miss a beat. So
Speaker 3: the swing guy is huge, and I think that, you know,
Speaker 3: just the rules Committee listen to a lot of offensive
Speaker 3: coaches and a lot of offensive line coaches and probably
Speaker 3: head coaches too, adding that eighth guy makes a big difference.
Speaker 1: All right, your question, now you're your hot topic. What's
Speaker 1: on your mind?
Speaker 3: Name?
Speaker 5: Well, there's a lot of things on my mind, but
Speaker 5: I want to start with Tim Kelly because as we've
Speaker 5: been going through training camp, we've been talking about some
Speaker 5: things on offense that were going to be a little
Speaker 5: bit different because Tim Kelly's taking on a bigger role
Speaker 5: as the fensive coordinator this year. What has stuck out
Speaker 5: to you, Coach Mack about the Tim Kelly offense pace?
Speaker 3: I mean the pace of it, and I think it's
Speaker 3: come from abbreviating things. I mean there are things now
Speaker 3: you can They're in and out of the huddle, you know,
Speaker 3: very very quickly. And again we get to watch practice
Speaker 3: every day, so there are things that we can't say
Speaker 3: that we see, but things that you can see and
Speaker 3: that they have in the open practices. You are going
Speaker 3: to see a multiplicity of personnel groups, I mean more
Speaker 3: than and you're going to see guys in different positions
Speaker 3: which you know. And I go to all the walkthroughs
Speaker 3: too like you guys do too, where you can hear
Speaker 3: them coaching, you can hear the corrections, but you can
Speaker 3: also get an idea of what they're trying to add on.
Speaker 3: Let me just say this about that they feel. I
Speaker 3: think they felt very good about the way this team
Speaker 3: was able to grasp the offensive, the newness of the
Speaker 3: offense in the OTAs because they've started to layer their installation.
Speaker 3: In other words, they're just the two call it periods
Speaker 3: that we had the thirty minute two call it periods
Speaker 3: of team period. They weren't just playing vanilla anything. There
Speaker 3: weren't vanilla on offense, and they sure weren't vanilla on
Speaker 3: defense because they were overload blitzing, they were boguing, they
Speaker 3: were I mean, so they're pretty their installation. Coaches feel
Speaker 3: like these guys are up to speed on it. But
Speaker 3: the thing that you notice just with the naked eye
Speaker 3: is the pace of it and then the as many
Speaker 3: personnel groups, you know, just not by down in distance
Speaker 3: but by scheme. And there's a lot of really good
Speaker 3: things that I'm watching that I like what they're doing.
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Speaker 1: fd I see along the lines of the offense, what
Speaker 1: have you seen DeAndre Hopkins' ad from a football standpoint?
Speaker 1: In terms of how he is affecting the offense.
Speaker 3: Is there another adjective other than everything?
Speaker 4: Okay, now it all so serious?
Speaker 3: He because look this guy and you think, you know,
Speaker 3: you say, well, coach Mick, I mean you know, you
Speaker 3: got that's just one guy. But what he has allowed
Speaker 3: them to be able to do, now you are able
Speaker 3: to now have complementary pieces do complimentary things. Ah, this
Speaker 3: is this is a dude, and he's a legitimate dude.
Speaker 3: And you can tell just with the with the setup
Speaker 3: that they are doing. And I'm not just talking about
Speaker 3: which side you line up on them. I'm talking about
Speaker 3: who lines up in the point on the three man
Speaker 3: the nine ball stack, who lines up at front on
Speaker 3: the stacks, who lines up into the boundary, who lines
Speaker 3: up to the field, who lines up with plus splits,
Speaker 3: who lines up with minus splits, and the other thing
Speaker 3: that he can do all of that right, well, yes,
Speaker 3: but see here's the thing about him. He can do
Speaker 3: all of that, but other people now can concentrate on
Speaker 3: the complimentary piece to what he's doing. The other thing
Speaker 3: that I've noticed, and again I gotta be careful with
Speaker 3: what I say, because you know, why is that with
Speaker 3: any of these hot red adjustments. You got a veteran
Speaker 3: quarterback and you got a veteran receiver. You already see
Speaker 3: that showing up out there, which is really really big
Speaker 3: because sometimes when you're able to get on that same page,
Speaker 3: a bad play can be a good play if you
Speaker 3: can make an adjustment. When I mean, it's the difference
Speaker 3: between driving in the parking lot and driving on the freeway.
Speaker 3: I mean, things are just moving fast, and if you've
Speaker 3: got somebody that understands how to operate in space when
Speaker 3: it's moving fast, it makes a big difference.
Speaker 5: So it's a circumstance where what is it? They say,
Speaker 5: I'm trying to make sure I don't botch the phrase,
Speaker 5: but rising tides raise all ships?
Speaker 2: Is that lift all boats, lift all boats? Or whatever?
Speaker 5: Or they say, basically, the caliber that he's playing at
Speaker 5: makes everybody able to raise their caliber of play. That's
Speaker 5: exactly right, because you have to account for him.
Speaker 1: It's exactly And also, I think what you're saying too,
Speaker 1: and correct me if I'm wrong, is he and his
Speaker 1: skill set allows other people to focus on what they
Speaker 1: do better one.
Speaker 3: Hundred percent, Mike, one hundred percent right there, because that
Speaker 3: is that's big. Instead of now making people have to
Speaker 3: do a whole lot of different things. You know that
Speaker 3: he can do different things, and so people can concentrate
Speaker 3: on just some things.
Speaker 1: And trailing Burkes is just concentrating on doing what he does,
Speaker 1: which is looks pretty special.
Speaker 3: He's a completely different person. I mean, you know, last
Speaker 3: year was a rough time for him. Let's just be honest.
Speaker 3: He came in here. First of all, he was not
Speaker 3: in condition. And very few of these guys come in
Speaker 3: from collegiate football in NFL condition. They you know, they don't,
Speaker 3: you know, their second year, they've got NFL bodies if
Speaker 3: they work on it. You know, collegiate body might be good,
Speaker 3: but it's not NFL. It's not professional. And then, I
Speaker 3: mean he was not in condition. And then he had
Speaker 3: the asthmatic problem, and you know that was I mean,
Speaker 3: people really jumped on that like they had him in
Speaker 3: an iron lung just about and it wasn't that drastic.
Speaker 3: But what he did he went to the people that
Speaker 3: could help him. The head coach Frank Perino, what Rob Moore,
Speaker 3: what do I need to do? He stayed here and
Speaker 3: work consistently. He's a different player. He's a different dude.
Speaker 3: And then you bring you bring d hop in here.
Speaker 3: I mean they're at the hip now. You can see
Speaker 3: him at the hip, and that's that's invaluable. All the
Speaker 3: years that I've coached Mike, I've seen really really good
Speaker 3: players take a young player under their wing and elevate
Speaker 3: their game quicker than they would elevate just being by themselves.
Speaker 5: We're talking about all of these different pieces and all
Speaker 5: of these different things that are going so well for
Speaker 5: those Titans off. If you're Ryan Tannehill, you've got to
Speaker 5: be licking your lips a little bit getting ready for
Speaker 5: this season and what's coming along, because all of the sudden,
Speaker 5: he's got a world of options open to him, whether
Speaker 5: it's schematically or because of personnel that he hasn't had
Speaker 5: in the last couple of years.
Speaker 3: Well, when you really look at it, and I mean
Speaker 3: we're looking at it objectively, I mean, you know, nobody's here.
Speaker 3: You know we has got any pom poms about this.
Speaker 3: We tell the truth here. He's got playmakers at every position.
Speaker 3: Now now he's got legitimate playmakers at every position. And
Speaker 3: I'm sure, because you guys are deep into it, we'll
Speaker 3: touch on you know what we've added there in the
Speaker 3: backfield too, But that makes a difference. But all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, now he's not just limited to basically, you know,
Speaker 3: you know, looking through a straw at what's going on.
Speaker 3: Now he's got a big picture of he's got a
Speaker 3: lot of people, a lot of places that can make
Speaker 3: plays well.
Speaker 1: And you talked about Burks and you talk about Tannehill.
Speaker 1: I mean, both of those players were directly impacted by
Speaker 1: the loss of age. I mean, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: And the thing that Ryan had with Aj is he'd
Speaker 1: throw it up and give him a chance. And you've
Speaker 1: got to have confidence in the guy to do that,
Speaker 1: and it didn't look like they had as much of
Speaker 1: that last year.
Speaker 3: Well, and here's the other thing too, And we talked
Speaker 3: about this before. You know, even when the thought of
Speaker 3: d Hop being here was his game, his entire career
Speaker 3: has been. Even if he's covered, throw it to him, right,
Speaker 3: because you guys have both watched him now, we've washed
Speaker 3: him up close and we've watched him on tape and
Speaker 3: you can I mean, the guy's got you know, he's
Speaker 3: got bear traps on his wrist. I mean, it's amazing
Speaker 3: how big his hands are. But the other thing is
Speaker 3: he can be covered and you could have your hand
Speaker 3: as a defender in the basket, which in the basket
Speaker 3: is when the receiver's here, right, this is the basket,
Speaker 3: and he can still catch your hand and catch the
Speaker 3: ball with it, so he doesn't have to be wide
Speaker 3: open all the time to throw it to him. You
Speaker 3: could throw it to him when he's closely covered, because
Speaker 3: he's gonna win most of those matchups. And he's always
Speaker 3: been deceptively like just wire cable strong. He's not real thick,
Speaker 3: but he's he's kind of like CJ. Two K was
Speaker 3: like that, Right, you remember how I mean CJ two
Speaker 3: K was wire rope. I mean he really was and
Speaker 3: had a lot of tensil strength to him. So does
Speaker 3: this guy. And plus, this guy's got an attitude. He
Speaker 3: always has had one, and he stills got it.
Speaker 4: Well, you talk.
Speaker 1: About the loss of Brown, but there had been other
Speaker 1: losses over the previous couple years. Well, now suddenly you
Speaker 1: have a tight end in a con Quote that you
Speaker 1: trust because he's in his second year. You have another
Speaker 1: receiver in Berks that you trust because he's in his
Speaker 1: second year. And you have d Hop and you potentially
Speaker 1: have Kyle Phillips in that in that place as well.
Speaker 4: So maybe you're sort of.
Speaker 1: Back to that nineteen twenty sort of field that Tannehill
Speaker 1: had where there was more confidence, more on the same page,
Speaker 1: not being worried about making a miss.
Speaker 3: Well, and a guy like Nick Westbrook a keine now
Speaker 3: doesn't have to be your top receiver. I mean he
Speaker 3: can fulfill the role that he needs to fulfill. And
Speaker 3: you've got a couple of young guys that can you know,
Speaker 3: that might be able to step in and help. And
Speaker 3: to me, that makes a huge difference. It makes a
Speaker 3: huge difference two ways in game planning and then in
Speaker 3: critical must have situations you've got other options rather than one.
Speaker 4: Right, all right, so you're up next to Amy.
Speaker 5: Can you guys believe we've made it this far and
Speaker 5: haven't said the name Derrick Henry yet?
Speaker 4: I think he said Derrick Henry.
Speaker 5: Did you say Derrick Henry?
Speaker 3: I said, running back.
Speaker 5: See that's not the same, No, I think just it's
Speaker 5: exciting to be talking about the offense and be talking
Speaker 5: about so many other pieces that aren't Derrick Henry. But
Speaker 5: I still feel like we should because he looks like
Speaker 5: it's more of the same here in your eight. And
Speaker 5: then there's the addition of guys like Taja Spears, who
Speaker 5: we're all so excited to you watching, you.
Speaker 3: Know, who's happy that we haven't talked about Derrick Henry
Speaker 3: as being just all we have on offense. Derrick Henry, Yes,
Speaker 3: because this this is gonna and and you're right, I
Speaker 3: mean he looks he's in he's in fabulous condition and
Speaker 3: and and he's got a mindset that now but you
Speaker 3: the things that he can do, he's he's different. I mean,
Speaker 3: we're really fortunate to be here during his career because
Speaker 3: he's different and and he's a big difference, and especially
Speaker 3: when he has help around him. And then you bring
Speaker 3: ty J Spears into it. I mean, this kid's got
Speaker 3: a little juju to him. He's got something to him
Speaker 3: and something that not I'm not talking about just going
Speaker 3: in for Derrick Henry. I'm talking about being a piece
Speaker 3: of this that Kelly can use in a several different spots.
Speaker 3: So that's that's got to be exciting too, because for
Speaker 3: Derrick Henry, because when he's the focal point and we've
Speaker 3: seen it, I mean he has he has played against
Speaker 3: more eight and eight and a half men boxes in
Speaker 3: the last three years than any run back in the
Speaker 3: league hands down. Now, he may not have to.
Speaker 1: Tell you what's going on at Duncan. It's always game
Speaker 1: on with Duncan. So grab a coffee and kick off
Speaker 1: the action, whether that's drinking a cup of coffee on
Speaker 1: your way to the game, or grabbing one to go
Speaker 1: before watching the game at home, or listening to the
Speaker 1: game at home.
Speaker 4: Duncan. They need to change that line, don't they.
Speaker 1: Duncan is always there to help you get your game on,
Speaker 1: just like the pros. We need to be at our
Speaker 1: best come game time, which is why Duncan is the
Speaker 1: most important part of our game day ritual and your
Speaker 1: game day ritual because it's always the best call for
Speaker 1: football America runs on duncan Can.
Speaker 5: We shout out the Duncan Donuts over by us here.
Speaker 5: They were just magnificent this morning. Got me in and
Speaker 5: out of their twelve donuts and a coffee in a
Speaker 5: like forty five seconds.
Speaker 2: So one it rose apart, the one it rose apart.
Speaker 4: We do a great job there.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5: It was the most efficient thing I did all day.
Speaker 4: They were great.
Speaker 1: Saturday, we got some doughnuts in a box of Joe,
Speaker 1: which is their coffee.
Speaker 4: Because we had some guests in.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's that's a five students in and you know
Speaker 1: they they ate everything.
Speaker 3: So I had Charles Davis, and Charles.
Speaker 1: And Paul Burmeister were here and they were one everyone
Speaker 1: and so everything our Duncan over here is it's top.
Speaker 5: It was the greatest part of my morning. So shout
Speaker 5: out to you guys.
Speaker 3: Impresses me about the Duncan thing, especially with Mike Keith
Speaker 3: and Amy Wells with the Titans. Is y'all know how
Speaker 3: to use that app?
Speaker 4: So good? The app?
Speaker 5: That's a Mike Keith thing. I struggle. Mike's an expert.
Speaker 3: He crushes the apps, master of the app. And you're
Speaker 3: sitting in the Snickers hot seat right now, the Snickers
Speaker 3: hot seat.
Speaker 1: Would you mind for the video viewers of this, would
Speaker 1: you mind taking the top off and just showing those
Speaker 1: are real snickers?
Speaker 4: How about that?
Speaker 3: This is this is a real snitch. This is the
Speaker 3: kind of snicker that you would want to get when
Speaker 3: you were trick or treating.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right, a fault, a full sizer if you
Speaker 2: don't want.
Speaker 3: To get those those little bitty ones that when you.
Speaker 4: They're good too.
Speaker 3: Well, they're good, but you got to eat about twelve
Speaker 3: of them. This right here when you're trick or treating
Speaker 3: and makes you so happy. I'm so happy sitting here
Speaker 3: by them.
Speaker 1: And if you're listening to this, if you're not watching it,
Speaker 1: if you're listening, you'll just have to trust this.
Speaker 4: That Israel.
Speaker 5: You know what a Snicker looks like.
Speaker 4: You know what it sounds like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got the wrapper and plus that's it.
Speaker 4: Thanks coming beautiful.
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Speaker 4: If you're if you're giving.
Speaker 2: Out a full sized candy bar, you're good.
Speaker 4: They're rolling the neighbors, yeah, rolling.
Speaker 3: If you're driving out Minni's and you're giving out toothbrushes,
Speaker 3: you're gonna.
Speaker 1: Get, well, the tooth brushes or people giving out something healthy.
Speaker 5: I give out dumb dumbs one year and I was
Speaker 5: told that I was the worst house on the block.
Speaker 4: I like that the show.
Speaker 2: Now, yes, sure, yeah, now you're getting sorry.
Speaker 4: After all this time, Now you're getting better. No, No, now.
Speaker 5: The line has been and you're seven.
Speaker 4: I mean you made reference to dumb dumbs. Are as bad.
Speaker 4: I think at this point it's time to move on.
Speaker 3: Amy's like she was in a confessional at the Catholic church.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to contribute my Halloween tale. But no,
Speaker 5: let us move on.
Speaker 1: Giving I was giving the ot people advice on have
Speaker 1: not to get your house rolled.
Speaker 3: Well, then she said her neighbors thought she was the
Speaker 3: worst house on the block.
Speaker 4: Did you get rolled?
Speaker 5: No, I lived in a townhouse, though they're harder to do.
Speaker 4: Can I ask a question now?
Speaker 5: Please save us all.
Speaker 1: Linebacker is he's Outshire, coming over from San Francisco. He
Speaker 1: has impressed coach Dave mcginni.
Speaker 3: Why you know what the dudes built like Keith Bullock
Speaker 3: number one.
Speaker 4: Okay, he's long.
Speaker 3: As a lifetime linebacker. Coach and Rand told me this
Speaker 3: about him, and so I went and watched the times
Speaker 3: he got to play in San Francisco. He is a
Speaker 3: real instinctive K and D guy K and D, which
Speaker 3: is key and diagnosed.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: He gets ahead of blocks so quick. He had a
Speaker 3: couple of plays in that thirty minute segment a couple
Speaker 3: of days ago when we were watching that. He gets
Speaker 3: ahead of the best second level linebackers I've ever been around,
Speaker 3: and I've been around some really good ones, but the
Speaker 3: best ones are guys that can get ahead of blocks.
Speaker 3: And what I mean by that for our listeners is
Speaker 3: by by getting and diagnosing and processing by film, study
Speaker 3: your bird rabbit keys, which are run pass sure really
Speaker 3: quick as to where you're not playing everything fifty to
Speaker 3: fifty and once you once he sees it, he's an
Speaker 3: immediate trigger. He is an immediate trigger guy. I love
Speaker 3: this player.
Speaker 1: So you're not running around a block, which is often
Speaker 1: dangerous because you oftentimes leave a hole. By doing so,
Speaker 1: you're beating the lineman or the blocker to the spot
Speaker 1: to where you can take advantage.
Speaker 3: That's it I mean. And in this league for guys
Speaker 3: behind the ball, because of how athletic and how much
Speaker 3: more physically larger offensive linemen are, you can't afford to
Speaker 3: do two things. You can't afford to middle them up,
Speaker 3: which I mean go right down the middle of them,
Speaker 3: because they're going to engulf you and they hold, which
Speaker 3: is fine, you know. And you also have to be
Speaker 3: able to get ahead of them because if you get
Speaker 3: if you if you keep trying to play a jazz
Speaker 3: linebacker all the time, which is a slipping slide, dude,
Speaker 3: they will just push you by so fast. So you've
Speaker 3: got to be able to get ahead. You got to
Speaker 3: be able to get ahead of a block, and then
Speaker 3: you've got to be able to work vertically back up
Speaker 3: the field as to where the hole is trying to open.
Speaker 3: But to get ahead of a block, you've got to
Speaker 3: understand what you're keen and looking. And if you're playing
Speaker 3: things fifty to fifty, you're behind on defense because a slow,
Speaker 3: correct decision on defense is wrong.
Speaker 4: It's wrong. You're done.
Speaker 3: You're done. I like this player a lot. I really
Speaker 3: like And here's the other thing I like about him,
Speaker 3: and Rand signed several of these kind of guys this
Speaker 3: year's free agents. He never was the dude, and he
Speaker 3: wants to be the dude. And those are the kind
Speaker 3: of guys at that stage in their career where they're
Speaker 3: just about to you know, they want to be the dude,
Speaker 3: but because of who's in front of them, they're never
Speaker 3: quite going to be. And you give them that chance.
Speaker 3: I think we're going to see the best of him.
Speaker 3: I really really like this player. I think arden Key's
Speaker 3: the same way.
Speaker 4: All right, let's he was on my list.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was great.
Speaker 3: Well that you know what that's because you and I
Speaker 3: really are smart.
Speaker 1: Well, no, it's well you are. Arden Key has grabbed
Speaker 1: everybody's attention. Everybody's attention. Are we getting too excited about
Speaker 1: arden Key?
Speaker 3: No, because here's about our arden Keys always really intrigued
Speaker 3: me since coming out LSU because he had he had
Speaker 3: a world of ability. But ardent Key, and he admitted
Speaker 3: it a couple of days ago when he was available
Speaker 3: to the press. He's matured, He's matured and figured it out.
Speaker 3: I mean, at one point he weighed two eighty. Now
Speaker 3: that's a big man, but that's too big for what
Speaker 3: his skill set is now he and the other thing
Speaker 3: is all of this energy that you hear that he
Speaker 3: has and if people never watched him practice, it's legit.
Speaker 4: It is legit.
Speaker 3: And the players say, and he starts at six thirty.
Speaker 3: I've been around these energizer buddings before. They start at
Speaker 3: six thirty in the morning, and they don't stop. I mean,
Speaker 3: they feed off of their teammates. And what we're not
Speaker 3: getting because he's another guy. He's never quite been the dude,
Speaker 3: but now with his maturity and he understands what being
Speaker 3: the dude can do. For you. I mean, let's just
Speaker 3: be honest, what it can do for you career wise,
Speaker 3: what it can do for you monetarily. And he is
Speaker 3: benefiting by the fact that now Harold Landry's coming back.
Speaker 3: He's benefited by that. And so to me, are we
Speaker 3: getting too excited about it? No, because it's okay to
Speaker 3: get excited about good players because you know that they're
Speaker 3: going to perform.
Speaker 1: So was it as He's Al Schier who had the
Speaker 1: quote this week arden Key is from Atlanta, he never talking,
Speaker 1: which is one hundred percent true. And I think arden
Speaker 1: might have said, I've never met anyone from Atlanta that
Speaker 1: you know that would stop talking.
Speaker 2: That's a good quote.
Speaker 3: Well, and if you're out there and listening, and I'm
Speaker 3: sure in the building, I mean, I'm sure in the
Speaker 3: building and the meeting rooms and he's but he does
Speaker 3: it in a constructive way. It's not a it's probably
Speaker 3: annoying to the offense, oh, I would think, but it's
Speaker 3: it's perfect that the best defenses I've ever been around
Speaker 3: in my career have been loud, loud communication, loud. But
Speaker 3: if you're loud and you're not producing, then you're just
Speaker 3: a big dog barking behind a fence, right, But if
Speaker 3: you're producing, then you're a big dog out in the
Speaker 3: front yard protecting things. And so this guy here, I
Speaker 3: like him.
Speaker 4: He's a fun guy.
Speaker 3: And plus he's got he's got a little bit of
Speaker 3: lean to him. And the other thing about him is
Speaker 3: he's not just an edge guy because he's got enough
Speaker 3: stuff in his neck that they can move him around.
Speaker 5: Harold Landry being back, you touched on it just a
Speaker 5: little bit. How much is that elevating the entire defense?
Speaker 3: I think mentally, First of all, it's big, and then
Speaker 3: you really looked at at the world. Harold Landry was
Speaker 3: going into next last season before he got hurt, he
Speaker 3: was just getting ready to peek. I mean, he came
Speaker 3: up a what a twelve and a half sax season,
Speaker 3: got the control, Yeah, got the contract, and he was
Speaker 3: The thing that makes me very happy just watching him
Speaker 3: out there with no brace on, is he smooth again?
Speaker 3: And he's still got the lean. He's got the lean,
Speaker 3: And so he adds a lot a lot to this
Speaker 3: defense mentally because when he's on the field, he's a
Speaker 3: dude and they respect him. But physically, I mean, he's
Speaker 3: better than he's ever been. And he'll say that, you know,
Speaker 3: because he had eleven months to do nothing but get
Speaker 3: ready for.
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Speaker 4: No, they don't melt. You know, they're great. They're great
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Speaker 1: Will Levis, it feels like has had a really nice
Speaker 1: start to training camp, good start last week through the
Speaker 1: course of this week with pads coming on and team
Speaker 1: things happening, and not obviously the quarterbacks aren't getting hit,
Speaker 1: but more things being added in on installation. Feels as
Speaker 1: if he's in a pretty good place.
Speaker 3: Do you agree both of y'all have watched practice with me?
Speaker 3: Since OTA's right, yes, you're much different than OTA's really correct,
Speaker 3: You feel.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, I know, okay, much different.
Speaker 3: He came in here. You never know how guys are
Speaker 3: going to react to being high draft choices, and he
Speaker 3: was a high draft choice, and you never know how
Speaker 3: they're going to especially at that position. He came in
Speaker 3: here trying to do everything at once. That's not the
Speaker 3: way it works in the National Football League, especially at
Speaker 3: that position. He's really gifted physically, tremendously gifted physically. He
Speaker 3: has slowed everything down now and is starting to throw
Speaker 3: just I can't say it on the air and the OTP,
Speaker 3: but his arm strength is different. But now what he's done,
Speaker 3: he's starting to understand cylinder pressure. He's starting to understand
Speaker 3: that windows close quicker here. He's starting to understand the
Speaker 3: concepts of what's going on. He's much different than he
Speaker 3: was in OTA.
Speaker 4: He's adjusting and he has worked at it.
Speaker 3: But it's a mental adjustment for quarterbacks so much because
Speaker 3: it's so much different the field. Dimensions within themselves make
Speaker 3: it so different as to where there is there a
Speaker 3: plane of view that they see so much different. The
Speaker 3: hash marks, you mean the hash marks, because I mean,
Speaker 3: the field's different, it really is. And then plus you're
Speaker 3: only going to see so many coverages, you know in
Speaker 3: the collegiate game, must be honest, because they've only got
Speaker 3: twenty hours a week to put it in. Now he's
Speaker 3: seeing everything, and that's what I liked about those two
Speaker 3: thirty minute call periods. Defense was bringing stuff, bringing stuff making.
Speaker 3: But he's a completely different guy than he was in
Speaker 3: the OTAs because he has applied himself. I like both
Speaker 3: of those guys. I like he and Maliku both. You
Speaker 3: know what you can see, you can see the growth.
Speaker 3: So they're getting good coaching, but they're they're taking to
Speaker 3: the coaching and they're working at it because that's it's
Speaker 3: it's hard. Playing quarterback in this league is hard, even
Speaker 3: if you've been at it for a while, but they've
Speaker 3: adjusted and I kind of like it. It's gonna be a
Speaker 3: big off, I mean big preseason for both of them.
Speaker 5: I want to talk about the secondary and this includes corners, safety,
Speaker 5: everybody back there. I want to talk about that whole
Speaker 5: group because it feels like to me, throughout what we
Speaker 5: have seen at training camp so far, there is not
Speaker 5: a group on the field that is bringing more heat
Speaker 5: and more excitement out to the field than that group
Speaker 5: of people. Am I correct in saying.
Speaker 3: That, I agree with you one hundred percent. They are
Speaker 3: they are, they are lit. Yeah, the whole practice.
Speaker 4: Starts with the new secondary coach, right, Chris Harris.
Speaker 3: I think it does. I mean coaches have an effect
Speaker 3: on their players, and you know I say that having
Speaker 3: a coach for a law you have an effect. And
Speaker 3: but they're playing with a lot of confidence, and that's
Speaker 3: what you know, that's what brings that's what brings it out.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of juice at practice when
Speaker 3: they're going offense against defense. But I agree with you, Amy,
Speaker 3: I think this group has And look, you've got two
Speaker 3: really solid people back here at the safety and we
Speaker 3: talk about talking and being loud, and I mean the
Speaker 3: people that are up in front of them and the
Speaker 3: people that are to the side of them, talking about
Speaker 3: are two safeties. Now they're so confident that what they
Speaker 3: are saying means something, that they are starting to feel confident.
Speaker 3: And then when they they're making plays. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: everybody that's rallying to the you know, And you're right,
Speaker 3: I mean, and I think that's a big thing. I
Speaker 3: think Christian Fulton knows this is a critical time in
Speaker 3: his career, critical time, and so he's come back ready
Speaker 3: to go. Sean Murphy bonding has added a lot to
Speaker 3: this thing, and Roger McCrary has settled in at that slot.
Speaker 3: So I agree with you. I think your observation there
Speaker 3: is one hundred percent correct, and that's contagio. Now we
Speaker 3: talked about how how the people up front have always
Speaker 3: started to but now what you've got with this defense,
Speaker 3: You've got dogs, You've got guys at every level. Start
Speaker 3: picking at every level. We talked about the line you know,
Speaker 3: we talked about the linebackers, and I think Money Rice
Speaker 3: is a really nice linebacker. He's a nice compliment, you know,
Speaker 3: to ass you know, next to him. But we moved
Speaker 3: from the front to the back. Now, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you've got playmakers, and that just that all that does
Speaker 3: is in gender confidence and confidence. As I said, best
Speaker 3: defenses I've ever been around have been loud. This group's loud.
Speaker 3: Right now, we'll see.
Speaker 1: All right, Amy, coach has to get to a meeting,
Speaker 1: so we have limited time remaining. Do you have any
Speaker 1: more questions? Do you have one more great question? What
Speaker 1: do you want to do here?
Speaker 2: What do I want to do?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think I want to pitch it to you. Do
Speaker 5: you have one more great question?
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a great question, but it's
Speaker 1: pretty obvious. This week is essentially over in terms of
Speaker 1: how it's going to go. Some wa through time off
Speaker 1: coming this weekend and next getting ready for the first
Speaker 1: preseason game, the Saturday noon preseason game on August twelfth
Speaker 1: at Chicago. How different is next week for these Titans
Speaker 1: in terms of what you've seen from what Mike Vrabel
Speaker 1: has done so far in this training camp, Well.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a little bit different. And once
Speaker 3: the coaches decide who they're going to play, and this
Speaker 3: first one the people they decide to play, Big week
Speaker 3: for him, Big week for him because all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: all of this thing that we've talked about, they've been
Speaker 3: doing it on familiar territory. I mean, it's kind of
Speaker 3: like when you were a kid, when you played in
Speaker 3: your backyard, you really felt good about what you could do.
Speaker 3: But once you went out and got out to the
Speaker 3: public playground and everybody else was showing up, then can
Speaker 3: you take that game to the big stage. This is
Speaker 3: the first big stage a lot of these guys will
Speaker 3: be on, So this week will be a little different
Speaker 3: once they decide who, you know, who they're going to pay.
Speaker 3: But you guys know this, I've said it so many
Speaker 3: times before, but it's an axiom in this league that
Speaker 3: is so true for players and coaches. Every day's an interview.
Speaker 3: You've got a big interview week coming up next week
Speaker 3: for these guys.
Speaker 1: And anything that goes wrong can put that check mark
Speaker 1: which can take you off the list in a hurry.
Speaker 3: Even if it looks like you're going to be on
Speaker 3: the list every day. Yeah, you are filmed every day.
Speaker 3: You are filmed every day and the film is there,
Speaker 3: and so if you have a problem, you can't say yeah,
Speaker 3: but there's no yeah butts when you look at tape
Speaker 3: it's right there. And so that's the middle pressure of
Speaker 3: playing in the National Football League that a lot of
Speaker 3: times eliminates players, even though everybody that's here's got some
Speaker 3: sort of athletic ability or they wouldn't be here. You
Speaker 3: don't just bring guys in the building because you like them.
Speaker 3: They've got some But those that can handle that kind
Speaker 3: of stress mentally, I've seen more of those guys that
Speaker 3: could do it physically but just could not handle the
Speaker 3: mental stress day in and day out, day in and
Speaker 3: day out, and then work it towards the competition point.
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be big to find out.
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Speaker 5: No, they sure aren't they sure are that.
Speaker 3: Tipped your gyro so quick?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Amy Wells fine.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be worse after the OTP. Yeah, this Susan
Speaker 1: not gonna go. We'll both get the raft.
Speaker 5: Everything is fine.
Speaker 4: It feels really fine.
Speaker 3: It's everything is a dog cartoon where the fire everything,
Speaker 3: the fire is behind him, he goes.
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