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Speaker 1: Amy Wells. I am Mike Keith. We are at Nissan

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Speaker 1: Stadium in the Titans Radio Suite. Mike, this place is nice,

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Speaker 1: it's cavernous. Why don't we hang out here more often?

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Speaker 1: I've been invited in here a couple of times, but

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Speaker 1: Now this is really I mean, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: and we miss out on everything fun because we have

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Speaker 1: the food parts, some of the best parts. I end

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Speaker 1: if you bandy, Well, I have snacks. Yeah, there's candy various,

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Speaker 1: vegan something or other. No, but like maybe a hamburger. Well,

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Speaker 1: People are like, hey, aren't you that guy? Shouldn't you

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Speaker 1: concession stands at Nissan Stadium. They have legitimate food. It's

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Speaker 1: from some of my favorite places. It's good food. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the hamburgers are outstanding. Yes. Sometimes if I'm just

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Speaker 1: I didn't know this. I've been here a long time

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Speaker 1: and never cansidered that option. Never considered the option. All right,

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Speaker 1: first preseason game in the books, backups on backups, pretty

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Speaker 1: good overall performance for the Titans. Didn't see roughly I

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Speaker 1: Falcons didn't play their big guys either, so it's hard

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Speaker 1: to make big judgments. It's as if Rashad Weaver, who

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Speaker 1: that feels pretty smart right now that we had him

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Speaker 1: in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Correct. But being

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Speaker 1: Your job is to win, and he won consistently in

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Speaker 1: there's a balance. And the nice thing about that game

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Speaker 1: He asked, with the league going into a seventeen game

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Speaker 1: big deal. And listen, all of this, every bit of

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Speaker 1: Here's another one, TJ from Vicksburg, Mississippi. I've been there. Well,

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Speaker 1: He asked. The Titans have had some underwhelming receiving cores

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Speaker 1: All right. Moving on Andy from Lenore City, Tennessee, he says, Hello,

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Speaker 1: OTP and April, y'all did an episode on the proposed

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