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Speaker 1: Hey, we welcome you to the OTP. I'm Taylor's. Our

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Speaker 2: Wells is off at least at the beginning of the program.

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Speaker 2: That's because we have a chance to sit down with

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Speaker 2: the general manager of the Tennessee Titans, Mike Borgonzi, recap

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five season and get ready for the

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Speaker 2: head coaching search as well as the NFL Draft in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. So here is our conversation with the

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Speaker 2: Titans general manager. And we're visiting with Mike Borganzi, the

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Speaker 2: general manager of the Tennessee Titans, at the end of

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five season as we prepare for twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six. We're already into twenty twenty six, Mike, and

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Speaker 2: we appreciate your time. How would you evaluate the twenty

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Speaker 3: You know, it was a tough season. Obviously the wins

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Speaker 3: didn't add up the way we wanted it to. But

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Speaker 3: the one thing that we can take away from this

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Speaker 3: is that we have a good young nucleus of players

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Speaker 3: here from that rookie class, and you know, I think

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Speaker 3: they did really things. There was growth throughout the season,

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Speaker 3: so I think there's a lot of things to be

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Speaker 3: to look forward to in the future in terms of,

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Speaker 3: you know, this could be the foundation here for in

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Speaker 3: terms of the culture that we want to set here.

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Speaker 3: And we also have some other really good players in

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Speaker 3: didn't add up, but really just happy about the growth

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you took the words out of my mouth.

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Speaker 2: You laid a foundation in twenty twenty five. And while

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Speaker 2: wins and losses, I know isn't the end result you

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Speaker 2: would want, it feels like there were a lot of

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Speaker 2: other wins that happened off of the field. Did it

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Speaker 2: feel that way to you in terms of building a

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Speaker 2: front office, in terms of the players that you drafted

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Speaker 2: all the time that they got on the field in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's part of the process when you come

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Speaker 3: you got half the right people in there.

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Speaker 4: And I think we do.

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Speaker 3: Have the right people in that front office with Chad

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Speaker 3: and Dave Ziegler and and Reggie and Dan say, entire

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Speaker 3: scouting crew is really good. It's going to be beneficial

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Speaker 3: to go through it for a year, and this is

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Speaker 3: going to be year two that we implemented the new system.

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Speaker 4: There so a lot of positive things.

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Speaker 3: There are a lot of really good people in the

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Speaker 3: these young players too.

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Speaker 2: And before we move forward, just a word about Mike

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Speaker 2: McCoy and the job that he did in twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: I mean tremendous. You know, Mike and I have a

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Speaker 3: great relationship. It was it was very seamless from day one.

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Speaker 3: We communicated every day. But what Mike really did is

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Speaker 3: he brought that positive energy to the building every day.

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Speaker 3: And it was a reflection on our players too, the

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Speaker 3: way they showed up every day and worked. The energy

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Speaker 3: they had you would never know that, you know, we

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Speaker 3: I credit Mike and the entire coaching staff for really

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you more about the culture because

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Speaker 2: being on the Prime just field with you throughout the season,

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Speaker 2: something that you would say to me as we were

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Speaker 2: you said, I've been through some tough times in the

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Speaker 2: NFL where it was hard to come to work, and

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Speaker 2: you said that was never the case in twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: Can you give us some specifics of what you meant

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Speaker 3: Yeah, culture is just all about your habits every day

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Speaker 3: so and then when you start to build the roster

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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Simmons in twenty twenty five, Mike, you've seen some

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Speaker 2: special play in the National Football League throughout your time

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Speaker 3: I've always been a well, I guess not a fan,

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Speaker 3: but when I was playing, we playing against him over

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Speaker 3: I certainly when I came here, and uh, just the

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Speaker 3: And then to actually get on the field and see

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Speaker 3: the strength that he plays with, the determination, he's relentless,

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Speaker 2: Fans see his impact on the field and the way

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Speaker 2: They don't see what he does off of the field,

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Speaker 2: what he does in the locker room, what he does

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Speaker 2: It felt to me he was just as special as

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Speaker 3: I'm glad you at that point too, because he does

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Speaker 3: every day he's trying to help people out, whether it's

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Speaker 3: Jeff is just a special human being.

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Speaker 1: He's an all pro.

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Speaker 4: Oh, he's an all pro to me, Yeah he should be.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that there's some people that will be

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Speaker 2: making that decision here in the weeks to come about

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Speaker 2: him and about Jim Decay, who led the National Football

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was really proud of Jim.

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Speaker 3: And that goes back to just the culture and the habits,

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Speaker 3: and he exemplifies all that from day one when he

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Speaker 3: got into rookie Minnie camp, he was just relentless on

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Speaker 3: made a lot of big plays for us here this

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Speaker 3: So yeah, he's got a bright future here.

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Speaker 2: You said that he had extraordinary practice habits. I mean,

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Speaker 2: he's everything that you would want from somebody that you

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Speaker 3: Everything I mean, I mean, the competitive juice, he's unselfish.

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Speaker 4: He just works as his craft daily. That's what we

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Speaker 3: But like you love football not just on game day,

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Speaker 3: All those practices was long hours that no one sees

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Speaker 2: You know, Mike, I've looked back at a lot of

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Speaker 2: your time in Kansas City, and you guys had a

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Speaker 2: lot of great draft classes there from a year in,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think they've been really good.

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Speaker 3: Like I said, I think they can be the foundation

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Speaker 3: here because of not only their physical talent, their abilities,

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Speaker 3: it's it's it's the all the other stuff that they

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Speaker 3: these guys had an opportunity to get up there in

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Speaker 1: I was.

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Speaker 3: I was glad Jackson finally got out there and did

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Speaker 3: a nice job here. The lost game, but they've all

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Speaker 3: they can play in this league now and some of

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Speaker 2: And of course that includes the first pick in the draft.

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Speaker 2: What did you think of cam Ward's first season in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, everything that he went through, you know,

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Speaker 3: we love them coming out. Not just the physical arm talent,

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Speaker 3: because he didn't make a lot of those wild throws

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Speaker 4: Can see it, but it's just his ability to push through.

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Speaker 2: Lots of injuries to deal with it happened around him,

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Speaker 2: and you said that you never saw his preparation, his confidence,

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Speaker 3: It's amazing because I'm always looking. I'm always studying people

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Speaker 2: You can't take football away from that guy. Like he

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Speaker 4: Sometimes you have to kick him out of the building.

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Speaker 2: I was going to say, he's here right now as

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Speaker 2: we're talking. In the days ahead, this organization is going

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've We've done a lot of work, a lot

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Speaker 3: of a lot of calls, research calls, and these candidates

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Speaker 3: background information and it's obviously you know, it's gonna be

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Speaker 3: one of the most important decisions we make here. The

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Speaker 3: We really don't care one side of the ball or

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Speaker 3: build a culture, that can have a vision that brings

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Speaker 3: and then he can hold people accountable and and that's

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Speaker 3: what we're looking for here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you just basically answered what you're looking for as

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Speaker 2: a head coach, and you constantly talk about those leadership

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Speaker 3: It's it's demanding. You see it in all different ways.

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Speaker 3: Some people have the Alpha personality and being demanding. Some

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Speaker 3: You're looking for somebody that's that's just They're They're tough,

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Speaker 2: We certainly have that in our general manager, Mike. Congratulations

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Speaker 1: Titan Up.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, sir, Tighten Up, Thank you.

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Speaker 2: So grateful to Mike for his time here today and

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Speaker 2: Up next, a roundtable with my friends Amy Wells, Rhett Bryan,

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Speaker 2: Here we go, Amy, we brought in some friends.

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Speaker 1: Well, we won't air personal grievances.

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Speaker 7: Here starting this good. It's gonna be an a boys.

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Speaker 2: After the season has been completed. I don't know that

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Speaker 2: We have a lot to uh to discuss on the show.

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Speaker 2: But Coach Mac, the last game started really strong. First

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Speaker 10: Absolutely, so I was thinking about, you know, i'd stick

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Speaker 10: franchise has never picked at number four Oilers or Titans never.

445
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Speaker 5: But in the fourth round.

446
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Speaker 10: Mike Morganzi made some hay in this draft, and that

447
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,360
Speaker 10: first pick number one oh three, chim dk is where

448
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 10: I would start because you're talking about I looked at

449
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 10: year over year stats last year between three returners punt

450
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:44,240
Speaker 10: returners seven point four yards per punt return. He set

451
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Speaker 10: a new franchise record yesterday, breaking Billy White Shoes Johnson's

452
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,680
Speaker 10: punt return average for the year. It's seventeen point three.

453
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Speaker 10: So you're talking about pick one oh three, twenty four

454
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,720
Speaker 10: hundred and twenty seven all purpose yards, forty eight catches,

455
00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,560
Speaker 10: four hundred twenty three yards, four touchdowns, two punt returns

456
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,320
Speaker 10: for touchdown, nineteen hundred and eighty six yards in returns,

457
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,920
Speaker 10: seventeen point three on punt, twenty five point six on kick.

458
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:15,879
Speaker 10: That's a huge reason why the turnover differential was better

459
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,440
Speaker 10: this year than it was in twenty twenty four. The defense, also,

460
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Speaker 10: with what Jeff and those guys did up front, was huge,

461
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,680
Speaker 10: but this time of year ago they finished minus sixteen

462
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Speaker 10: in turnover ratio, near the bottom of the league. Minus

463
00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 10: five after the pick six yesterday by Brandon Allen. So

464
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,880
Speaker 10: a dramatic improvement in that a lot of the year

465
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Speaker 10: over year stat you can tell there was a lot

466
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Speaker 10: of young guys playing on this football team. In fact,

467
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Speaker 10: looking at last year's roster at the end of twenty

468
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Speaker 10: twenty four, by the time you got to the trade deadline,

469
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Speaker 10: it was twenty five different guys that weren't on this

470
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Speaker 10: roster by the time you got to that point. And

471
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Speaker 10: that's not counting to Micah Robinson's of the world, it's

472
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Speaker 10: way more than that. So to Max's point, roster turnover, attrition, injuries,

473
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Speaker 10: all these things are so real. But knowing that you

474
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Speaker 10: have your quarterback and a good crop of not rookies anymore,

475
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 10: these are vets now with the time on task, Uh,

476
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Speaker 10: there's a lot of things to look forward to. They

477
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 10: just got to keep restocking the cupboard.

478
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Speaker 8: Oh that's that's one hundred percent true. And it was

479
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 8: really remarkable with these what they did with these young players.

480
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Speaker 8: And you've got to give credit to the coaches, but

481
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Speaker 8: give credit to the players. To give credit to also, uh,

482
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,679
Speaker 8: there were several veterans on this football team that really

483
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,639
Speaker 8: stepped up because this would have been very easy to

484
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Speaker 8: fracture a locker room with, you know, with what went

485
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 8: on and it they went completely opposite of that. I

486
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 8: mean they were they were very very supportive of one another.

487
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Speaker 8: But but we'll talk about him in a minute, I know.

488
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Speaker 8: But Jeffrey Simmons, what he did this year was incredible.

489
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Speaker 8: It was incredible, and he also lifted everybody else with him.

490
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Speaker 1: I mean he really did.

491
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Speaker 8: Now some of them they're never going to get to

492
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Speaker 8: Jeff's level. This guy's a special, special player. But he

493
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Speaker 8: lifted him and did everything that he could. And that's

494
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:12,120
Speaker 8: important because when you're this young and this and this

495
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 8: brand new with what with what you're trying to figure out,

496
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Speaker 8: it's important to have somebody that's been there and not

497
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Speaker 8: only has done that, but has done it at a

498
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Speaker 8: very high level. So there's a lot of people that

499
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Speaker 8: deserve credit for at least holding this thing together.

500
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Speaker 2: Well, said Amy, I want to finish this segment by

501
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Speaker 2: mentioning this. You did a fantastic interview with jeff Simmons

502
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,400
Speaker 2: on the ots, really really good. Yes, yeah, no, it

503
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Speaker 2: it was fantastic and it was just great to hear

504
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,399
Speaker 2: him and the two of you and you can tell

505
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 2: there's a lot of mutual respect there was. That was

506
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Speaker 2: a that was a fun watch for me during the holidays.

507
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Speaker 2: What was most encouraging to you, Amy about this team?

508
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Speaker 6: The thing about talking to Jeff that is so interesting

509
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 6: is he's stayed exactly the same guy from the day

510
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 6: that we drafted him to the day that he was

511
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Speaker 6: sitting in front of me on these couches over here

512
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Speaker 6: having a conversation.

513
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 7: He wants to do.

514
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 6: Right by this team, he wants to do right by

515
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 6: this fan base, he wants to win here, and he's

516
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 6: not shying away from the challenge of building this thing

517
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 6: back to what he knows it can be. He made

518
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 6: the point that, like, listen, I know winning football. I'm

519
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,159
Speaker 6: one of the few people that have been with this

520
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 6: team long enough to have known not so great football,

521
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:30,639
Speaker 6: really good football, and everything kind of in between. So

522
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,239
Speaker 6: he feels like he almost has like the roadmap and

523
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 6: also the obligation to show other people the way to

524
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Speaker 6: do it.

525
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Speaker 7: He talked a lot about.

526
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Speaker 6: The foundation of this team and how it's not what

527
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 6: we want it to be yet, but that's because we

528
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:48,439
Speaker 6: have to keep going.

529
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Speaker 7: We have so many good things now.

530
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Speaker 6: I have to encourage these people, jeff has to encourage

531
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Speaker 6: these people to keep going, keep doing more, keep pushing

532
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,919
Speaker 6: to a higher level. And that's his leadership style. And

533
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 6: that's been the same as when he first started and

534
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 6: he came in and he had an acl tayar and

535
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 6: he was coming in and all of a sudden he

536
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:11,400
Speaker 6: was a contributor in.

537
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Speaker 5: What was it October Week seven?

538
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, in week seven, and he was not projected to

539
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 6: contribute nearly that early, if at all, that season. But

540
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 6: he came in and worked and worked and worked and

541
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Speaker 6: got himself to be able to be on the field

542
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 6: in his rookie season. And that is what he expects

543
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 6: of everybody on this team. It doesn't matter who you are,

544
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,199
Speaker 6: where you were drafted, where you come from. That is

545
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Speaker 6: the expectation that he has for everybody else on his team.

546
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Speaker 6: And so I think it's Jeffrey Simmons leadership that's going

547
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Speaker 6: to carry this team forward.

548
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Speaker 2: And watching that on a daily basis is the thing

549
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Speaker 2: that I've enjoyed most. Seeing it after the game yesterday,

550
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 2: but throughout the season and after the game yesterday is

551
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Speaker 2: most encouraging to me. That's to have your best player

552
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Speaker 2: take that sort of ownership up in leadership role I

553
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 2: think is really important. Okay, coming up next, I want

554
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 2: to go through a bunch of other players. Rhet's already

555
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,880
Speaker 2: wetted our appetite for that with Chim Dka, and we've

556
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 2: we've already Coach just talked about Jeff Simmons, and so

557
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 2: did Amy. There's a bunch of other players I'd like

558
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,439
Speaker 2: to talk about, and we'll talk about where.

559
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Speaker 1: We go from Herett.

560
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Speaker 2: We've already talked a little bit about Chim dk and

561
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Speaker 2: the remarkable rookie season that he had in the National

562
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,159
Speaker 2: Football League. He's going to the Pro Bowl. We've already

563
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Speaker 2: talked about Jeff Simmons and the terrific year he had

564
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Speaker 2: where he had as many sacks as any Titan ever

565
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 2: that's played defensive tackle ever in the history of the

566
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Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans. In twenty twenty five. He missed a couple

567
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 2: of games too, and still was able to pull that off.

568
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 2: He of course, is going to the Pro Bowl. Let's

569
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Speaker 2: go through some other Ada boys, if you will. Amy,

570
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Speaker 2: I want to start with you, what did you think

571
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 2: of quarterback cam Ward and how he played for the

572
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Speaker 2: Titans this year.

573
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Speaker 6: I think cam Ward met, if not exceeded expectations for

574
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Speaker 6: a rookie quarterback. Obviously, you know that there are going

575
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 6: to be some challenges. Obviously, you know that he is

576
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 6: going to experience adversity because he's never played at this

577
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 6: level before. What struck me when I say met and

578
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 6: exceeded expectations for me, was his level of maturity. Was

579
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Speaker 6: his level of calm in the face of adversity, in

580
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 6: the face of potentially chaos, in the face of some upheaval,

581
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 6: whether it be injuries within the offense, whether it be

582
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 6: some changes when it comes to coaching staff and personnel

583
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 6: around him.

584
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 7: He's had a lot of.

585
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 6: Moving pieces in parts this season, and he has maintained

586
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 6: the same level of his demeanor has remained the same.

587
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 6: He doesn't seem like a super high and low kind

588
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 6: of guy.

589
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 5: Now.

590
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 6: He is candid, but I don't think that candid is

591
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 6: the same as being overly ational one way or the other.

592
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 6: You know, he just kind of stays cam Warden no

593
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 6: matter what. He has never been mac What is.

594
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Speaker 7: It you say, a dog in traffic? Yeah, he never

595
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 7: looked like a dog in traffic.

596
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 9: No, he's He's.

597
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 8: Got something intrinsically in him that I mean, he understands

598
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 8: who he is, and he also understands the work that

599
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 8: is entailed with what he's doing. And it's look, it's

600
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 8: hard for a rookie in this league anyway, but at

601
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 8: the quarterback position to be from day one, you're the

602
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 8: dude and all of this coming. Look, I've caught a

603
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 8: lot of defenses in my career in this league, and

604
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 8: I tried to wreck guys like this because that's what

605
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,239
Speaker 8: you do. I mean, you try to work on you

606
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 8: try to wreck them because they haven't seen anything. And

607
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 8: you're right, you're one hundred percent correct. He's just been

608
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 8: he's been very very straightforward. Your point about the fact

609
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 8: that he is not up and down, but when you

610
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 8: say he's candid, because he's real, he's real about who

611
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 8: he is and he's real about what's about what's going on.

612
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: Uh, And he experienced a lot of things.

613
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 8: I mean, he got about five years worth of life

614
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 8: in the NFL in one year, and that that is

615
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 8: going to be valuable. It's painful going through it. It's

616
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 8: kind of like when you you start a weight program.

617
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 8: You're working out the ways. It's painful to try to

618
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 8: get to a plateau. And so I mean, he's been

619
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 8: through the he's been through the pain of it, and

620
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 8: I'm just talking about it.

621
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Speaker 1: You've got it.

622
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Speaker 8: It's a it's a stress that that is on you

623
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 8: when you are trying to assimilate everything.

624
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Speaker 9: He had to a symbol. I think the guy's got

625
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 9: what it takes.

626
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 7: It never broke him.

627
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: It never it never, it never broke him.

628
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 9: It it really did, It really did not.

629
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Speaker 1: You're right.

630
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Speaker 8: I mean you've you've sat down and talked with him,

631
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 8: He's talked with him. You guys talk with him more

632
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 8: than I do. It's just the fact that he's who

633
00:30:58,040 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 8: he is.

634
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: Yes, he's genuine, and he's level headed. He is candid.

635
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 2: He was very candid on that couch right over there,

636
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 2: and he calls it like he sees it and statistically

637
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 2: ret there. I know you've got some numbers to back

638
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 2: this up, but I mean, only seven interceptions, that's one

639
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 2: of the league's lowest totals.

640
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 10: Well, you think about it, he had seventeen total touchdowns,

641
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 10: fifteen through the air, seven interceptions, thirty one hundred and

642
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 10: sixty nine yards, passing just under sixty percent completion percentage

643
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 10: thirty nine for one to fifty nine to two scores.

644
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 5: On the ground.

645
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 10: Four point one per carry the number that's got to improve.

646
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 10: And it's not just him, it's all eleven. But he

647
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 10: was sacked fifty five times. Need to get that number down.

648
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 10: But and agreeing with all of you guys, there are

649
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 10: three things that tell you cam Ward is it. First

650
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 10: of all, his work ethic is ridiculous, ridiculous the moment.

651
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 10: Second of all, is never too big for him because Third,

652
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 10: it's his attitude. He expects more out of himself than

653
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 10: anybody on this planet except maybe his parents. And that's

654
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 10: been his approach. One of the startling things of all

655
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 10: the availabilities he's had, whether OTP or at the podium

656
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 10: every week, he said something recently, he said, I don't

657
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 10: need positive reassurance. I don't need at a voice. That's

658
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 10: just not how I'll work. And I'm like, this guy's

659
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 10: just different. He's just different. And you know who else

660
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 10: is like that, You've already mentioned him, Jeffrey Simmons. Jeffrey

661
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 10: Simmons is the foundation of this franchise. And the next

662
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 10: level is a guy like cam and a guy like

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Speaker 10: Chim and all these rooks and the vets that are

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Speaker 10: pepped in throughout this thing. But cam Ord it's amazing.

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Speaker 10: I mean, he he is. It's cliche, but he is

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Speaker 10: literally first in last to leave kind of guy.

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Speaker 6: Well, and I hate to keep referencing this interview, but

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Speaker 6: if you haven't watched me sit down with Jeffrey Simmons

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Speaker 6: on the Officials, please wherever you get your podcast, like

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Speaker 6: and subscribe to all those things. But one of the

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Speaker 6: things that Jeffrey specifically talked about was making cam Ward

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Speaker 6: the best leader that he could possibly be, because if

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Speaker 6: cam Ward is the best leader that he can possibly be,

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Speaker 6: then this team there's no limits for this team, and

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Speaker 6: that is something that is so important to him because

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Speaker 6: he knows how vital that leadership is not only with

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Speaker 6: the offense and having the offense be successful, but for

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Speaker 6: this team as a whole to be a cohesive unit.

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Speaker 7: You've got to have that leadership from your quarterback.

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Speaker 6: And jeff basically said, if I've got to beat it

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Speaker 6: into him, I'm going to, like whatever it takes to

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Speaker 6: me to the leader that he needs to be is

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Speaker 6: what he's willing to do.

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Speaker 7: And that just felt so so wise to.

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Speaker 6: Me, understanding that, like, yes, I'm a great leader, but

686
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Speaker 6: there's got to be more can't just be me. And

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Speaker 6: I thought that was a really powerful thing for him

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Speaker 6: to say and for him to recognize.

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Speaker 7: And again it's also on YouTube. Don't watch it on YouTube.

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Speaker 5: It's well worth your time.

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Speaker 1: Go watch it.

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Speaker 2: And while you're there, if you want to watch the

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Speaker 2: one before that with Cam, watch that one too. And

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Speaker 2: of that and that one, I was it was kind

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Speaker 2: of fun to stump Cam and that one when I

696
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Speaker 2: asked him how many quarterbacks in the NFL have taken

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Speaker 2: every snap this year? And he was thinking about it,

698
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 2: and he kept thinking and kept thinking and kept thinking.

699
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Speaker 2: He finally guessed three and I said one, and he goes, well,

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Speaker 2: that would have to be me then. And the fact

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Speaker 2: that he was he was available the entire season, I know,

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Speaker 2: the last game unfortunately not to be able to finish that,

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Speaker 2: but being available the entire season is big. But one

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Speaker 2: last thing I'll add that really makes me excited about

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Speaker 2: cam Ward.

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Speaker 1: He has a rope. Man. I mean, that guy's got

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Speaker 1: a cannon for an arm.

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Speaker 9: Well, you just got to I mean, if you really

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Speaker 9: dig back on where he came from.

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Speaker 8: And again I know, I mean, I don't anybody sitting

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Speaker 8: at this little L shaped table, I know where West

712
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Speaker 8: Columbia Brazori is. I know what he's come up and

713
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 8: he's never been given anything football wise in his life. Never,

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Speaker 8: I mean every step in his journey. He has earned

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Speaker 8: it by all of a sudden. I mean, and I

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Speaker 8: don't you know, the five star and all of that stuff.

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Speaker 8: It doesn't really rock my boat a whole lot. But

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Speaker 8: I know that nobody knew who he was. Nobody knew

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Speaker 8: who he was, and but he he knew who he was.

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Speaker 8: And so through all of through all of this, I

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Speaker 8: mean this this this guy, this guy is, as they

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Speaker 8: say in West Texas, has got some tall to him

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Speaker 8: and so and look you get here's a percentage chance

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Speaker 8: of getting hurt playing in the National Football League. It's one.

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Speaker 1: And so.

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Speaker 8: That was something that I mean, it's great, but you

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Speaker 8: look at all of these great quarterbacks that play sooner

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Speaker 8: or later they're going to go through something physically. So anyway, well.

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Speaker 2: The dudes, oh gus what he is, no doubt about it,

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Speaker 2: and the Titans have their quarterback. There are a number

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Speaker 2: of other players that don't want to grill each of

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Speaker 2: I got to talk about a few other guys rerat

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Speaker 2: that are worth a mention here on the Titans team.

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00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 2: How about Tony Pollard setting a career high in rushing

760
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Speaker 2: yards with his fourth straight one thousand yard season.

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Speaker 10: Tony Pollard, First of all, I liked that guy becoming

762
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 10: a Titan di minuity walked in the door just because

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Speaker 10: I saw the evolution of his career, splitting carries, his

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Speaker 10: first couple of things, turns around the sun there with

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Speaker 10: Ezekiel Elliott and Dallas, but just to see that grow

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Speaker 10: and then to get him here you talking about an

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Speaker 10: executive class in how to be a pro, how to

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Speaker 10: be a leader and doing it by action as Max,

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Speaker 10: because he's not a super vocal guy, but he goes

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Speaker 10: about and does his work every day without you said

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Speaker 10: it yesterday in the broadcast. He carries just as hard

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Speaker 10: in a practice as he does in the first preseason

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Speaker 10: game as he does in the last game of the year,

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Speaker 10: and anything in between. The consistency level is just remarkable

775
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 10: because of the kind of clearly what kind of person

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Speaker 10: he is is to be that kind of guy on

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Speaker 10: the field, a huge stabilizing force in this especially in

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Speaker 10: this last month of the season where things have shown

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Speaker 10: it up.

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Speaker 2: Tick there's a handful of times in every game where

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Speaker 2: I don't see anything there and he still gets three

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Speaker 2: or four yards, always falls forward, always gets that extra yard.

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Speaker 2: Such an impressive guy and had another really solid season.

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Speaker 2: Amy how about chick A Konkuo, who set a career

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Speaker 2: best in how many receptions he had this season.

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Speaker 6: Watching chickaconk Wo grow up has been really fun through

787
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 6: his time with the Titans because for so long he

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Speaker 6: was blocking.

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Speaker 7: That's pretty much all he was doing.

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00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 6: Titans weren't really utilizing tight ends in that way, and

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Speaker 6: you could hear that every now and then he'd be like,

792
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Speaker 6: I think I could do more.

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Speaker 7: I think I want to do more.

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Speaker 6: And now we see what he has been talking about

795
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Speaker 6: all along what he could do, and that's contribute, that's

796
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Speaker 6: catch balls, let's make plays, let's score touchdowns. And so

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Speaker 6: it's been fun to see chigaconk Wo grow into a

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Speaker 6: little bit more of a leadership role, become more of

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Speaker 6: a producer within the offense, and just be a consistent,

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Speaker 6: consistent force, whether it's whether he's being asked to block,

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Speaker 6: which is something he can still do whether he needs

802
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 6: to be there to help cam Ward and make plays

803
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Speaker 6: and kind of turn something out of nothing a couple times.

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Speaker 7: He's a rely liable.

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Speaker 6: Guy, and that's what you need, especially in that position,

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Speaker 6: because boy, he's built big enough and he's got the

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Speaker 6: athleticism to really make some awesome things happens. It's just

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Speaker 6: putting him in the position to do so. And he

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Speaker 6: was really able to do.

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Speaker 7: That this season.

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Speaker 1: He let the team in receptions this year rtt.

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Speaker 5: He sure did.

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Speaker 10: And you know he posted on social media thanks to

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Speaker 10: Titans fans, and clearly he's somebody that's going to be

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Speaker 10: a free agent. We'll see what all happens with that.

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Speaker 10: But a really nice year and what has been a

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Speaker 10: good year over year build in his career here after

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Speaker 10: being a previous draft pick out of Maryland.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, coach.

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Speaker 2: Mc, let me ask you about another person that deserves

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Speaker 2: a shout out, a guy that you know extremely well.

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Speaker 2: Special teams coach John bones Fossil. What did you think

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Speaker 2: of the job he did this year?

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Speaker 1: But he did exactly what I knew he would do.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've said it before.

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Speaker 8: I mean Jeff fish and I work very hard to

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Speaker 8: get him there at the Rams when we when we

828
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Speaker 8: took that job, and he flipped that thing. He flipped

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Speaker 8: the script. He flipped the script here a complete one eighty.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 8: But I've spent a lot of I mean our offices

832
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:14,879
Speaker 8: were right next to each other for five years there

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Speaker 8: at the Rams, and I spent a lot of time

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Speaker 8: with Bones. I'd spent a lot of time with his

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Speaker 8: dad when his dad was alive, you know, with the

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Speaker 8: former head coach in this league.

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Speaker 1: Uh, he just gets it.

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Speaker 8: And here's here's the thing about Bones Fossil. He's a

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Speaker 8: special teams coach that that's all he wants to do,

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Speaker 8: and he makes those guys really want to do it.

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Speaker 1: It's just it.

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Speaker 8: It's really incredible the way that that he draws uh uh.

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Speaker 8: Special teams coach has to be able to draw everybody

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Speaker 8: on the team in and it's incredible the way that

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Speaker 8: that that he does it.

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Speaker 1: You saw it. I mean, just in we talked about

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Speaker 1: Jim d k had a great year. He really did.

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Speaker 8: But all the guys that espacially with these new these

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Speaker 8: new return rules that they have, Bones was on the

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Speaker 8: committee that formed this new new I mean the dude

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Speaker 8: is just he's an elite coach. He's an elite coach,

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Speaker 8: but he's also a guy that you guys, I mean,

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Speaker 8: I know him very well, but when you guys visited

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Speaker 8: with he's genuine too. He is as real as real

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Speaker 8: can get. And the players loved playing special teams for bones.

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Speaker 2: He has an infectious personality, There's no question about that.

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Speaker 2: One of the top tacklers in the National Football League

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Speaker 2: this year, at top five in the NFL, was Cedric

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Speaker 2: Gray of your Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 10: And would have had a franchise record for a season

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Speaker 10: tackling and maybe a notch higher in that pecking order

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Speaker 10: League White, had he not missed a game a couple

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Speaker 10: of weeks ago with concussion. Cedric Gray is remarkable in

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Speaker 10: how much time that he missed in his rookie season.

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Speaker 10: Because Mic always points it out, I say ten games

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Speaker 10: he missed itau is wait wait, wait, but he missed

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Speaker 10: all the stuff leading up to that because he was

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Speaker 10: hurt in the offseason as things were building up to

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Speaker 10: this and so on, that shoulder got out of whack.

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Speaker 10: He missed valuable time on the practice field and preseason

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Speaker 10: games and all those things. So that last seven games

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Speaker 10: he was available. This time last year, he was just

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Speaker 10: really kind of freshman orientation, learning his way through things.

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Speaker 10: And then we talked about the youth at that second level.

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Speaker 10: That's one of the reasons why they brought a Cody

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Speaker 10: Barton in to help with some of that, and it

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Speaker 10: was him and James Williams just to see how all

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Speaker 10: of that worked out. And it goes back to what

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00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 10: Mac always talks about. Frank Bush, the linebackers coach, deserves

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00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 10: a lot of credit for the development of these young

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Speaker 10: guys because you're seeing in the game that Cedric Gray missed.

882
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 10: James Williams went right in there and had nearly double

883
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 10: digit tackles himself in a quarterback sack.

884
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,760
Speaker 5: That is very.

885
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 10: Promising going into twenty twenty six and beyond miss Amy.

886
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 2: I know you talked a lot about this during some

887
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 2: of your Pinnacle Sideline reports, but the young players and

888
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 2: I have a handful of them to mention here and

889
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 2: you can go through all of them if you'd like.

890
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 2: Gunner a helm second on the team and catches this

891
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:17,800
Speaker 2: year as a rookie tight end, Kevin Winston turned into

892
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 2: a top shelf safety in the NFL once he was

893
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 2: out there on the field. Marcus Harris, rookie out of

894
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 2: col started at cornerback. Elk Io Manor from our trival

895
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 2: Stanford had multiple catches in just about every single game.

896
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 2: I know we didn't see Femi oladajhow a lot, but

897
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,439
Speaker 2: when we did early in the season, what we saw

898
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 2: from him was promising. It was great to see him

899
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 2: practicing again at the end of the season. What do

900
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 2: you think of a handful of other rookies.

901
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 7: I'll tell you what.

902
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 6: This rookie class as a whole was just very impressive

903
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 6: to me because of the way that they stepped into

904
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 6: roles that they weren't necessarily expecting to be stepping into

905
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 6: when they were drafted by the Tennessee Titans. Now, every

906
00:44:58,239 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 6: guy says, I'm going to get there, and I'm going

907
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 6: to and I'm just gonna shock the world. But in reality,

908
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,439
Speaker 6: when you get drafted to an NFL team, or even

909
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 6: if you were an undrafted and you're in your rookie season,

910
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 6: the expectation is that you learn. You are predominantly just

911
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 6: trying to figure it out. You know, once you know

912
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 6: where the bathrooms are and you know when your meeting

913
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 6: times are, then you can actually start to learn the

914
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 6: playbook and you can understand how this works and the

915
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 6: speed of the game and all of these things that

916
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:28,759
Speaker 6: you just can't know until you know.

917
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 7: In the National Football League, these.

918
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 6: Guys were expected to do that very quickly and start contributing,

919
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 6: and they all did.

920
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:38,760
Speaker 7: Nobody flinched.

921
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 6: And to have a team full of guys at one

922
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 6: point we had what eleven rookies who were on the

923
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 6: field contributing in meaningful ways.

924
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 7: That's incredible.

925
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:54,879
Speaker 6: We had a lot of games where it was seven, eight, nine, ten,

926
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 6: eleven guys who had never done this in.

927
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 7: Twenty twenty four. They were in college, they were not here.

928
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 6: And to have them contributing to this team in that way,

929
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 6: and to be making the plays like a gunner Helm,

930
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 6: to be rising to the top on defense like a

931
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 6: Kevin Winston, it was just so amazing to watch. And

932
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 6: I'm so excited about the future of this team because

933
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 6: those guys were such impact players in twenty twenty five.

934
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 8: Well, here's You've got to go back to the beginning

935
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 8: of all this with these guys. It's the vetting process,

936
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,399
Speaker 8: right that Mike Borgonzi and his group did with these

937
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 8: guys to begin with because football character.

938
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 1: Was very important to them, and you can see it.

939
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: It's a thread that runs throughout this group. And so

940
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: they've got it.

941
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,879
Speaker 8: They've got a maturity beyond there, beyond their years that

942
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 8: helped them do what they you know, had had to

943
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 8: do to step step into this.

944
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 1: That again gives you a lot, a lot.

945
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 8: Of really good feeling going into the future, because there's

946
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 8: a difference in putting together a group of players that

947
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,720
Speaker 8: can coalesce and come together rather than just collecting talent.

948
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 8: Collecting talent doesn't do it for you in the National

949
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 8: Football League. You gotta you gotta, you've got to be

950
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 8: able to collect something that's deeper than that, and they

951
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 8: did it with this rookie class.

952
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 2: One more guy that deserves a shout out here, at

953
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:30,320
Speaker 2: least one more, in my opinion, is Peter Scarnsky, the

954
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 2: left guard for the Titans, who has turned into one

955
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 2: of the best guards in the National Football League.

956
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 8: Well, Peter's Peter again. Let's go back to to who

957
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 8: he was at Northwestern. I mean, there's a lot he's got,

958
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 8: as I say, he's got a lot of bottom to him.

959
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 8: I mean, he's very, very he's a stable human being

960
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 8: that really enjoys playing the ball game. But yeah, I

961
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 8: mean he's another building block, uh that that's going to

962
00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 8: be extremely extremely important. There's there's pieces you're trying to

963
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 8: put a team together. I mean, it's like building a house.

964
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 8: You put pieces together to make it work, to make

965
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 8: it fit. And he's a good piece.

966
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 2: Heyrhtt Before we finished this up. There's a few others

967
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 2: that deserve shoutouts, and you please name somebody if you

968
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 2: think they deserve some attention here. But like Jalen Harrol

969
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 2: had at least half a sack in the.

970
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 5: Last first name, I'd put a hashmark by at least

971
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 5: half a sack.

972
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 2: In the last handful of games, jahad Ward matched the

973
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:32,319
Speaker 2: most sacks he's ever had in a season. Joey Sly

974
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:35,720
Speaker 2: had nine fifty plus yard field goals. That's the record

975
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 2: by two by a Titan. Nobody had ever had more

976
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 2: than seven in a season. Morgan Cox is almost forty

977
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 2: years old.

978
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:44,800
Speaker 5: Two hundred and fifty games, two.

979
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,720
Speaker 2: Hundred and fifty games, and the guy is perfectly snapping

980
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 2: the football back to the punter and the kicker and

981
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 2: to the punter in the holder every single time.

982
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: Those guys certainly deserve some shot outs.

983
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 10: I mean, Morgan Cox is just ridiculously good and what

984
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,280
Speaker 10: a good person too. Yeah, I mean less than seventy

985
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 10: five guys had played in two hundred and fifty games

986
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:03,879
Speaker 10: or more.

987
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,319
Speaker 5: That's an elite club. It's an elite club.

988
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:08,359
Speaker 1: He's not going anywhere either.

989
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:09,839
Speaker 5: I like that.

990
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 10: Jalen Harrold would have been the first one I would

991
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 10: have mentioned, just because he started, like a lot of

992
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 10: guys do, cutting his teeth on teams, got to be

993
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 10: good at that, and then as things went along with

994
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 10: the attrition. Max Mack always talks about he got some

995
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 10: snaps on defense. I mean that last six weeks now,

996
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 10: actually the last ten to eleven weeks, he had at

997
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:34,399
Speaker 10: least twenty five snaps per game on defense, So he's

998
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 10: starting to contribute there. I would go a step further,

999
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 10: and you mentioned Peter Scronsky. I think Tovandre swetten year two.

1000
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 10: I think he came along as things went along because

1001
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:47,280
Speaker 10: he and Jeff were healthy in playing together, some patico

1002
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 10: in the front of that defense. And another one that

1003
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 10: I think is sneaky. He didn't get a lot of

1004
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,800
Speaker 10: touches this year, but he played a lot of teams.

1005
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 10: He had a touchdown in Vegas and that's David Martin

1006
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 10: Robinson a tight end. There's some young pieces in this max, right,

1007
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 10: there's some pieces. There are shelves on this cupboard that

1008
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 10: are empty and they've got to restock and that's what

1009
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:13,280
Speaker 10: Mike Borganzi and his crew are working on as we speak.

1010
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:16,839
Speaker 2: Good stuff, guys. I asked miss Amy this question all

1011
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 2: the time. I'm gonna ask her this question on the

1012
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 2: air coming up next about what's next? Hey, Amy, what

1013
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 2: do we do now?

1014
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:28,800
Speaker 6: Oh Taz, I forget this is your first time.

1015
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 7: Welcome to the off season.

1016
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 6: It's fun here, No, I mean what happens next is

1017
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 6: everything is kind of wrapped up here at the facility

1018
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:38,839
Speaker 6: for the next couple of days. There will be some

1019
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:43,760
Speaker 6: exit meetings, guys kind of getting squared away, exit physicals,

1020
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 6: all of that kind of stuff, getting ready to head

1021
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 6: into the off season program. So that's what's happening downstairs.

1022
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:51,319
Speaker 6: And then we've got a new head coach to hire,

1023
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 6: and so those meetings are going to be underway, those

1024
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 6: interviews are going to start happening. You'll start to see

1025
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 6: some of that stuff trickling out on the socials. I

1026
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 6: would like to take this time to remind everybody that

1027
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 6: the team probably won't confirm things when you want them to,

1028
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,720
Speaker 6: so just know it is not official until the Tennessee

1029
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 6: Titans say it is so. And for for more information

1030
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 6: about why that is important, Dave McGinnis can tell some

1031
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 6: very funny stories about that.

1032
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:22,240
Speaker 10: This public service ANNOUNMAENT is bratche you by Amy Wells

1033
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 10: and the ad Council.

1034
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 6: Yes, so, just an important thing to remember throughout this

1035
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 6: year as we go into the off season. Don't believe

1036
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:30,240
Speaker 6: everything you see on social media and if it doesn't

1037
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 6: come come directly from the Tennessee Titan socials, EH, proceed

1038
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 6: with a grain of salt.

1039
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:35,720
Speaker 7: Anyway.

1040
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 6: There is also the draft that's going on kind of

1041
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 6: at the same time. The pre draft process, the Mike

1042
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 6: Borgonzi and the scouting team are going to be bringing

1043
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 6: all of their notes together that they've collected over the

1044
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:50,400
Speaker 6: last like year two years almost of working on the

1045
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 6: twenty six draft class. These people are not new to them,

1046
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:56,839
Speaker 6: but they will be new to us, so they are

1047
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 6: bringing all of that information together, starting to get in

1048
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 6: the same room and have some of those conversations about

1049
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 6: what this team needs, what they're looking for in players

1050
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 6: at different positions, and they're gonna start hitting the road.

1051
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 6: Pro Day's are going to be here before you know it.

1052
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:12,720
Speaker 6: Some of the All Star Bowls like East West Shrine,

1053
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 6: the Senior Bowl, those things are going to be happening.

1054
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 6: And then we all head to Indianapolis for the Combine.

1055
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:21,399
Speaker 7: The greatest week of the year.

1056
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 6: We're going to Indy in February to talk NFL Scouting Combine.

1057
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 7: So that's gonna happen.

1058
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:31,280
Speaker 6: And then we will blank and it will be April

1059
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:33,720
Speaker 6: and we will be drafting a whole new crop of rookies.

1060
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 6: And then we just keep moving forward. So we call

1061
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 6: it the off season. We do it with air quotes

1062
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 6: because nobody's really stopping. No one's sleeping. It's just a

1063
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:44,280
Speaker 6: different cadence of chaos.

1064
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's why you need to everybody that's involved. I mean,

1065
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 8: this will be starting my fortieth year in the league.

1066
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 7: You've got should we throw a party or something?

1067
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: No party, I get a lot of stuff that.

1068
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 7: Well I wasn't gonna get you anything.

1069
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, because I'm your fourth favorite.

1070
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 5: Now there it is second to four year.

1071
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 1: Everyone.

1072
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:07,239
Speaker 6: I was going to say you were closing the gap,

1073
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:13,360
Speaker 6: but anymore anyway, the divide between my first favorite and

1074
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:14,840
Speaker 6: my second favorite.

1075
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 7: Coach, it's a valley.

1076
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 2: I'm really excited about going through the draft process, whether

1077
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 2: it's you know, the Senior Bowl, or it's the the

1078
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 2: end of it's the it's the team workouts, the private workouts,

1079
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 2: the combine all of that. The thing that makes me

1080
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 2: most excited about the Titans for the future is what

1081
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 2: Mike Morganzi and the personnel department did this past year.

1082
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 2: Amy just went through a number of rookies. We talked

1083
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 2: about Cam, we talked about Chim, and there were seven

1084
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,279
Speaker 2: guys that had a massive impact on the team that

1085
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 2: were rookies. There were twelve, Amy as the total that

1086
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 2: was of rookies that actually played during this during the

1087
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 2: season this year, which is a huge number. But given

1088
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:00,839
Speaker 2: their ability to identify talent, I'm very excited to see

1089
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 2: them add to what the Titans already have.

1090
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 8: Well, the people that have don't have not lived. The

1091
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 8: draft process is a grind. It's a grind. I mean

1092
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 8: it's that they'll go dark, they'll go dark and being

1093
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:17,480
Speaker 8: as as as Amy mentioned, but it's it's just the

1094
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 8: accumulation of information and then I mean the attention to

1095
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 8: detail that you have to do. Uh, I mean I

1096
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 8: had to learn to do it forty years ago. I

1097
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Speaker 8: mean it's it's different. It's different, not only the evaluation,

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Speaker 8: but to be able to to separate them.

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Speaker 1: And that's extremely important.

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Speaker 8: I thought Mark Borganzi and his group, they got a

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Speaker 8: lot of experience in that room.

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Speaker 1: They did a tremendous, tremendous.

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Speaker 8: Job with that last year. They will do the same thing.

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Speaker 8: But it is and Amy's right, it's a continuous process.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it really is.

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Speaker 8: And so the things that you know that I do

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Speaker 8: that we that we do when because we'll have programming,

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00:54:57,480 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 8: but you just have to you have to put the

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00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 8: work in to be able to you know a little

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00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:02,480
Speaker 8: bit about these about these players.

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Speaker 1: That's big.

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Speaker 10: So I mentioned at the top of the hour, Titans

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00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,920
Speaker 10: slash oilers never picked at the number four spot before,

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00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 10: so it'll be a first barring something else and just

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00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:19,800
Speaker 10: looking at recent drafts. Of course, Will Campbell, the tackle

1116
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 10: from LSU, was the fourth overall pick of the Patriots

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00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 10: last year, Marvin Harrison Junior the year before that by

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00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 10: the Cardinals. Sauce Gardner's fourth overall pick, Kyle Pitts in

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00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:31,400
Speaker 10: Atlanta but there's been some really good ones throughout the league.

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Speaker 10: One of the first drafts I was covering when the

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00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:38,800
Speaker 10: team had moved here was when the Colts took Edrin

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00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:42,200
Speaker 10: James fourth overall in ninety nine, Jonathan Ogden in ninety six,

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Speaker 10: the left tackle for the Ravens, William McGinnis Hall of

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Speaker 10: Famer ninety four, and then I got to looking at

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00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 10: some older ones too, Mac dan Hampton, fourth overall pick

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00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,359
Speaker 10: for the Bears in seventy nine, the fourth overall pick

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00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 10: in the nineteen seventy five draft, Hall of Famer, Walter Peyton,

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Speaker 10: yeph John Hannah, one of the All World offensive lineman

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Speaker 10: by the Patriots, and seventy three Joe Green in sixty

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Speaker 10: nine was the fourth overall pick in the draft. Gail

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00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 10: Sayers in nineteen sixty five. You're gonna start hearing names

1132
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 10: if you're not a mock draft simulator junkie like myself.

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00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 10: You're gonna start hearing names like Ruben Bain, pass rusher

1134
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:23,919
Speaker 10: from Miami, Manster Delaying, the cornerback from LSU. You're gonna

1135
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 10: hear wide receiver names like Jordan Tyson from Arizona State,

1136
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 10: and Makai Lemon the twenty twenty five, Belita cough Winner

1137
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:35,279
Speaker 10: at wide receiver. You're gonna hear Keldric Falk, a pass

1138
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 10: rusher from Auburn. There's all kinds of names you're gonna

1139
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 10: be hearing, and I'm looking forward to starting to dig

1140
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 10: into these layers and see who these guys are and

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00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 10: what they can do.

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00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:47,239
Speaker 8: Yeah, and you know, get something to keep in mind too,

1143
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 8: is that you're gonna hear a lot of names. And

1144
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 8: what Amy's saying is one hundred percentury. Here's what you

1145
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 8: believe right now.

1146
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 7: None of it nothing.

1147
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:59,919
Speaker 8: Don't believe anything about it because you know, and team

1148
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:05,880
Speaker 8: draft boards are remarkably different throughout the league, remarkably different.

1149
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 8: I mean, I you know, spent a lot of years

1150
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 8: working the phones during the draft, and you know where

1151
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 8: people had people people ranked, and so you know you're

1152
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 8: gonna have You're gonna have local experts that think this guy,

1153
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 8: this guy, this guy. You're gonna and here's what you

1154
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:21,680
Speaker 8: bet none of it.

1155
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 6: It's shady season. Everyone's a liar until proven on.

1156
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 8: It's not only Lions. Some people, you know don't know

1157
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 8: whether it's pumped or stuff. They're trying to talk about it,

1158
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 8: So don't even don't even pay attention to that stuff.

1159
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 2: So just to let you know, hey, don't you love

1160
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 2: the passion that mister Brian has for the NFL Draft?

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00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 2: Have you seen the game that he plays on his

1162
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 2: phone too?

1163
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean Draft Simulator?

1164
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:48,360
Speaker 7: He is all into it.

1165
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 5: And I mean David Bailey Texas Tech.

1166
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 7: We do not have.

1167
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 6: We do not have, Like there aren't better people who exist.

1168
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 6: We have the best on Titans Radio TEP.

1169
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 5: Oregon guy from Miami. Is he number seven? Do you

1170
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 5: know about Ruben Bain Ruben Bang's number four?

1171
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: Before?

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00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 6: Okay, I knew it was a structured number.

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00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:10,000
Speaker 7: He's a very good player.

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00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: You get to watch him again on Thursday night, I know.

1175
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:12,480
Speaker 5: Yeah.

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00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 10: That's the other part is as the college football playoffs,

1177
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 10: you'll see some of these guys. Let Matteo young Lela

1178
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:21,080
Speaker 10: is a nice pass rusher for the Oregon Ducks who

1179
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 10: you should kind of keep.

1180
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 5: An eye on.

1181
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 10: But yeah, I love seeing all these things. And of course,

1182
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 10: you know we're a few days away from underclassmen declaring

1183
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 10: for the draft and a deadline there, and you know,

1184
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 10: the transfer portal and all of those things are big, big,

1185
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 10: big part of this now and name image likeness and moneys.

1186
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 10: But uh yeah, it'd be interesting to see how many

1187
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 10: underclassmen declare and those numbers fluctuate and really have with

1188
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:49,000
Speaker 10: nil and transfer portal these last couple of three years.

1189
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 1: We have a couple of minutes left in the broadcast. Amy,

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Speaker 1: I just.

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Speaker 2: Want to say how much I love being part of

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00:58:56,080 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 2: Titan's Radio. And I gave everyone a shout out and

1193
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 2: in our final love broadcast against the Jacksonville Jaguars. But

1194
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:09,560
Speaker 2: you are the first Lady of Titan's Radio, and thank

1195
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 2: you for dealing with all these knuckleheads self included throughout

1196
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 2: the season.

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00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 7: You guys aren't knuckleheads. You guys are great.

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00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 6: This has really been a phenomenal year of Titans Radio.

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Speaker 6: We've built something that is really really strong and that

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00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:25,840
Speaker 6: I'm very proud of. And I think that the work

1201
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 6: we do here is good and I think that Titans

1202
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:30,760
Speaker 6: fans appreciate it, or at least I hope they do.

1203
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:35,440
Speaker 6: And we are honestly telling the stories of the Tennessee Titans,

1204
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:37,480
Speaker 6: whatever that looks like, the good, the bad, the ugly,

1205
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,439
Speaker 6: that's what we're here for. We are here to tell

1206
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 6: their stories and do them justice, do right by the

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00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:47,440
Speaker 6: people that we work for, and just make sure that

1208
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 6: the people who want it can get Titans information and

1209
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 6: Titans news and hear a good broadcast and maybe laugh

1210
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 6: like those are the things that we're here for. And

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00:59:57,800 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 6: so I'm very proud that we've been able to do that.

1212
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 6: Ta You've been a great addition to what we're doing,

1213
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 6: as well as Will Bowling, who has held it down

1214
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 6: force on the sidelines, and Kevin Maloney who's been in

1215
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 6: the booth helping you guys out, and who am I forgoing?

1216
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:17,280
Speaker 6: Joseph Bonono of course keeps everything on the air, and

1217
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 6: then of course Mac and Rhet. You guys just keep

1218
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 6: me saying and hold everything together. And so I'm just

1219
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:26,480
Speaker 6: so thankful for this group of people, and I can't

1220
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Speaker 6: wait for twenty six to keep going.

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Speaker 9: Just what what do I have to do to just

1222
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 9: kind of move up in your eye?

1223
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Speaker 5: Here we go.

1224
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Speaker 7: I don't know.

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01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 6: You got me a very nice necklace, so maybe that's it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, No, I mean, Mac, you're just gonna have to

1227
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:43,440
Speaker 7: play your cards, right, dude. I don't know what to

1228
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Speaker 7: tell you. It's been a long time, coach.

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Speaker 2: You're my guy, you know that. Thank you for putting

1230
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 2: up with me this year, my friend.

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Speaker 9: No, Look, you've been a great You've been a great addition.

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Speaker 8: And this is this is you know, because what we do,

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01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 8: we all of us, you know, the people are in

1234
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 8: that room back there recording this for us to take

1235
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Speaker 8: it seriously because it's important and it's this. Titans Radio

1236
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:14,760
Speaker 8: is the connection for Titans fans. Yes, that is the connection,

1237
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 8: and there's there's a responsibility to that and I think

1238
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 8: we all enjoy carrying that responsibility.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to Chloe Smars behind the glass, Yeah, helping

1240
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 2: put this program together while she was going through her

1241
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:27,680
Speaker 2: lunch break.

1242
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Speaker 1: There we go, Ret Brian, you're in charge of this show.

1243
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 2: You're in charge of all of what we do, in

1244
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:35,080
Speaker 2: charge of everything, and.

1245
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 1: We can't we can't and we won't do it without you.

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01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 1: My friends.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 10: I appreciate that very much and much too, echoing what

1249
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:45,000
Speaker 10: you guys have said, Titans fans, we do this for you.

1250
01:01:45,240 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 10: This is your team, and we tell the story as

1251
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:51,479
Speaker 10: best we know how. And those names on the name plate,

1252
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 10: they are more than just a name. There's a person there,

1253
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:55,920
Speaker 10: and we want to try to convey that and humanize

1254
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 10: these guys, especially you know when life is great, not

1255
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 10: so great, but certainly what it's great on the football field,

1256
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:06,919
Speaker 10: and those days are coming. This year was a long year,

1257
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 10: but their sunshine coming in the forecast. As I like

1258
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:12,680
Speaker 10: to lean back to the.

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Speaker 2: Weather always, the weather resets are hard, but they're worth it.

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Speaker 1: And the Titans arrow is pointing up.

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01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 2: I know we like to say tighten up, and I

1262
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:26,720
Speaker 2: really believe this franchise is headed that way in twenty

1263
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:30,360
Speaker 2: twenty six, so I took coach Max chair. Thank you

1264
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:33,600
Speaker 2: for listening to us here today and for watching. If

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01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 2: you did on YouTube, like subscribe, tell all of your

1266
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 2: friends about the OTP.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back in a few weeks.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna head down to the Senior Bowl and go

1269
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 2: to those practices for a couple of days, so we'll

1270
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:49,640
Speaker 2: have some fun interviews for you there. In the meantime,

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01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:52,640
Speaker 2: we're gonna take a little break, recharge the batteries, and

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01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:54,560
Speaker 2: be back fresh for the OTP.

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Speaker 1: I'm Taylor Sarzer. Thanks for watching and for listening.