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Speaker 1: Let's bring them on in, Coach Brian Callahan. Welcome, Thanks,

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Speaker 1: good to be here. All right, let's dive in. Titans

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Speaker 1: fall to the Colts twenty to seventeen. It's your ball

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Speaker 1: club's third one score loss all games that you've led,

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Speaker 1: two of them in the fourth quarter. So you don't

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Speaker 1: want overall frustration to creep in on your team with

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Speaker 1: this having happened multiple times, because it could. But is

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Speaker 1: there a balance of anger that you kind of do

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Speaker 1: want to see out of your football team at a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, anger is probably the wrong word, I think. I

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Speaker 2: think frustration, Okay, probably is probably more apt. I think, uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, you felt it from the guys in the

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Speaker 2: being so close but yet not being able to get

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Speaker 2: fully capable of getting it done. And that's I think

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Speaker 2: what makes it frustrating. It's we We We do a

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Speaker 2: We haven't scored many points on offense, we've given up

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Speaker 2: is what what looks like a one and four team

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Speaker 2: Where do we find that play that turns the game?

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Speaker 2: Because we are close, and we are doing a lot

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Speaker 2: But there's a lot of things that are going in

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Speaker 2: that makes me feel good that we got a bunch

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Speaker 3: After the game ended yesterday and since you've been asked

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's my job as the head coach. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm not the offensive coordinator. That's what that's next job.

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Speaker 2: I don't call the defensive plays. That's Denard's job, don't.

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Speaker 2: Certainly I have many conversations with individual players and all

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Speaker 2: And again, even though I'm the play caller and I'm

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Speaker 2: You have to be able to set that standard of

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Speaker 1: You mentioned that you need more explosive plays, more big plays.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's their MO. That's Gus Bradley's m O. He's

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Speaker 2: And it's hard to do that over the course of

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Speaker 2: a high likelihood that you've performed well enough with seven

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Speaker 1: It's hard to drive fourteen plays against any defense in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's and just the nature of NFL football

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Speaker 2: and it's just it is. You have to be able

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Speaker 3: It is the current situation where this whole team finds

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Speaker 3: other reason than he's been in your shoes. He's had

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not many people that know it. It's a

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Speaker 1: Speaking of offensive line, you mentioned that Leroy Watson did

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Speaker 2: The same thing that I that I said about Nick

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Speaker 2: So we'll work through that over the next couple of

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Speaker 1: All right, Will Levis got the ball out very quickly

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Speaker 2: I think we. I think we are making weekly improvements

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Speaker 3: You could start, I can start, all right, Let's talk

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Speaker 3: about the touchdown pass to Nick Westbrook Akine. It was

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Speaker 2: And it was it was a play I felt good

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Speaker 2: We The last thing we do after we go through

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Speaker 1: Is that fair because you call the plays, Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: It's a pretty It was a pretty play in practice,

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Speaker 2: I mean, it looked just like it didn't practice in

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Speaker 3: I know you have things you want to talk about too.

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Speaker 2: I'm an incredible effort. You know, we generally would not

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Taja Spears hamstring makes him weak to weak.

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Speaker 2: But Julia should have an opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Okay, That's what I wanted to know from just our perspective.

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Speaker 3: So we're turning the page now. Titans take on the

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Speaker 2: They are a they're running the ball well, they're a

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Speaker 1: Brian Callahan, thanks for the time. Can't wait to see

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Speaker 2: Us as always, thanks for having me.

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