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Speaker 1: through it. They've been protecting tennesseean's for seventy five years.

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Speaker 1: I'm Ammy Wells. Thank you for listening to the Titans

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Speaker 1: Amy and Coach Mac podcast. Mac of course is here. Mac.

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Speaker 1: How are you doing great? I'm doing great, looking forward

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Speaker 1: to this podcast, looking forward to this game coming up

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Speaker 1: this weekend. So let's go, let's go. The Titans are

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Speaker 1: coming off of a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. There

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Speaker 1: now seven and five this season. They're still three and

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Speaker 1: o in the division, and if the playoffs started today,

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans would be the number three seed and

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Speaker 1: would host the Cincinnati Bengals. So, same as last week,

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Speaker 1: we continuing forward. The Titans have had a tough stretch.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the best way to say it. The

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Speaker 1: game against the Eagles was a tough one. Things just

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Speaker 1: didn't go the Titans way for a variety of reasons,

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Speaker 1: and then the Titans part ways with their general manager

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Speaker 1: John Robinson. MAC after two losses and a just a

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Speaker 1: hard week overall. How do you keep your team focused

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Speaker 1: and motivated through a stretch like that, Well, you just

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Speaker 1: said it. I mean you had a division game coming up.

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Speaker 1: Because you know, the National Football League is full of

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Speaker 1: a lot of ups and downs, and there are some

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Speaker 1: things that are going to happen. They're gonna be, you know,

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Speaker 1: very They're going to be a very disruptive throughout the season.

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Speaker 1: But the other the thing about the National Football League

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Speaker 1: is is the season doesn't It never stops. It doesn't stop.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a train that is on a

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Speaker 1: very quickly. Okay, so the game is coming up, and yes,

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Speaker 1: you go back and you dissect the ball game in Philly,

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Speaker 1: and there's reasons that the Titans lost that game, mainly

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Speaker 1: self inflicted, you know, in all three phases. And that's

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Speaker 1: that's something that you can correct with the John Robinson situation,

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Speaker 1: that's a decision that was made and so you take

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Speaker 1: that for what it is. But you have to move

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Speaker 1: forward because the timing of the way you prepare for

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Speaker 1: either one of those circumstances. You've got to get ready

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Speaker 1: for this game. You mentioned three and on the division.

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Speaker 1: This is an important division game on Sunday at home.

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Speaker 1: You need to win this football game, So everything for

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Speaker 1: the players and the coaches has to be pointed towards

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Speaker 1: that event. Does the urgency of a division game and

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Speaker 1: the familiarity with this opponent help make all of the

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Speaker 1: easier to focus in well, I think the division game.

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Speaker 1: You've got to be focused basically this late in the

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Speaker 1: numerically as far as to what's going on. You mentioned

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Speaker 1: to being three and oz. This puts you four and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the separation that you have becomes greater.

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Speaker 1: That's what you're looking for to be able to secure

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Speaker 1: a spot in the tournament. But you can only do

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Speaker 1: it one week at a time. The last two weeks

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Speaker 1: have been losses. You need to get a win. We

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Speaker 1: started this season out and two regrouped, ran off five

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Speaker 1: light of it being Jacksonville Week, and because if you're

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Speaker 1: Ich coming off of a loss sucks like. There's just

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Speaker 1: I went through and I picked out some bright spots

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Speaker 1: So I think we should just run through these. Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, I'm sorry that your feet and I

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Speaker 1: I mean, that doesn't sound good. Well it doesn't the

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Speaker 1: weather kind of make you feel me? No, not at all.

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Speaker 1: And also I'm sorry that you feel blah. I don't

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Speaker 1: I need to feel bright and cheery. Mac. I had

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Speaker 1: It's rather nice. So here's some of my bright spots

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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill has only thrown four interceptions. In twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: It also means that he's making really really good decisions,

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Speaker 1: tan Hills also five and no against the Jags. Well,

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Speaker 1: And now I'm not saying you're just any people because

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Speaker 1: your Titans Aimy. No, it's too late. You were about

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Speaker 1: to just call me people, and that's fine. Continue with

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Speaker 1: going to say whenever you say, well, they're so and

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Speaker 1: but it's also history, and it's also not relevant to

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Speaker 1: But go ahead, Well then you're not going to like

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Speaker 1: the remainder of my bright spots, but I will persist.

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry is really good against the Jags. You want

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Speaker 1: most in NFL history, second to Who You Ask Eddie George.

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Speaker 1: All right, let me tell you another thing, a lot

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Speaker 1: you're you're really kind of blowing some of these up.

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Speaker 1: So let's be more positive here. Derrick Henry has one

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Speaker 1: we've played this iteration of the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Titans

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Speaker 1: need to be the Titans themselves. Talk about running the

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Speaker 1: it's got to be the receivers. Everybody's got to do

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Speaker 1: I mean, there is no magic run scheme that says

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Speaker 1: all right, here's my final piece of joy here to

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty season, the Titans have a thirteen and two

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans are number one, ahead of who you

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Speaker 1: fastest path to the tournament is dominate your division. That's

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Speaker 1: what the Titans. They're so far you've told us early

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Speaker 1: Do you feel brighter than you already did? Oh? No,

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Speaker 1: I felt really bright coming in. If I get any brighter,

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Speaker 1: don't want to miss it. For Coach Mac, I'm Titans Amien.

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