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Speaker 1: nineteen forty seven. With Amy Wells at Mike Keith preparing

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Speaker 1: to go to Indianapolis, Woo woo, where you once lived?

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Speaker 1: I did. I lived in Indianapolis for I think ten

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Speaker 1: whole months. What was the best part of living in Indianapolis?

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Speaker 1: You know, downtown Indianapolis is actually, I think a very

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Speaker 1: once you put your car somewhere, you can kind of

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Speaker 1: I really liked living there. The people were nice. It's

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Speaker 1: a very Midwestern vibe, which is something that is very

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Speaker 1: comfortable to me. I really enjoyed living there. I could

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Speaker 1: have lived there long term. Nashville's way better. Once I

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Speaker 1: so disappointed that it looks like the Combine is going

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Speaker 1: to be leaving Indianapolis after twenty twenty two. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: really just makes me sad. The Combine is one of

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Speaker 1: those experiences. And this is very me centric because I

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Speaker 1: evaluations of players and have everything they need and more

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Speaker 1: in every city. But for me personally, Mike, the Combine

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Speaker 1: is where I see all of my friends. Everybody is there,

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Speaker 1: and the way that Indianapolis is set up, everybody is

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Speaker 1: don't know. We've been there, winsmen, I see, snowy, brainy,

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Speaker 1: you name it. You never have to go outside. The

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Speaker 1: tunnel system that they set up for the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: in what was a twenty eleven, I guess is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: So you can walk everywhere, you never have to go outside,

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Speaker 1: and you run into everybody in the National Football League

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Speaker 1: because everybody's going to the same restaurants, you're all kind

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Speaker 1: spread out, it's just not going to be the same.

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Speaker 1: But the NFL will make a lot more money. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: even if it ends up going back to Indianapolis, they

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Speaker 1: will make a lot more money as Indianapolis or whomever

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Speaker 1: lot of money, and from the fan perspective, they're going

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Speaker 1: to be able to invest that much more in making

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Speaker 1: it the big experience that you see it some of

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Speaker 1: these other things, the Draft, the super Bowl, those types

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Speaker 1: which will be such a fun experience for everybody. So

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Speaker 1: I get it, I really get it. But I'm so sad.

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Speaker 1: We get it that you're sad. I am sad. I'm

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Speaker 1: very disappointed the culture calling this game must win. They

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Speaker 1: are using the term must win as they try to

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Speaker 1: draw within one game of the Titans with what will

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Speaker 1: be nine remaining after this one. Does that seem dramatic

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Speaker 1: in Week eight? Yes, I think it's a nod to

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Speaker 1: the fact that the Titans are two games in front,

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Speaker 1: and it's a nod to the fact that these two

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Speaker 1: teams will not see each other again the rest of

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Speaker 1: the regular season. Might see each other in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: but the two games set is done. The Titans won

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Speaker 1: the first one on September twenty six, twenty five to sixteen.

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Speaker 1: So the Titans have achieved at the very least a

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Speaker 1: half of the season series. If the Titans win this

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Speaker 1: football game, they are in essence, three and one half

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Speaker 1: games in front with nine to play, right, And that's

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Speaker 1: a big deal. I mean, that's a very big deal

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Speaker 1: in this division. And so I understand. I understand it's

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Speaker 1: And I get all of that, but a must win

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Speaker 1: And they're not coming out and saying that, but that's

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Speaker 1: First of all, Carson Wentz has two good ankles. He

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Speaker 1: one versus two rushers. Their defense has sixteen takeaways. They

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Speaker 1: win streak. For more on these Colts, not the Colts

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Speaker 1: that we saw in September twenty six, but the Halloween

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Speaker 1: this week with the voice of the Indianapolis Colts, my

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Speaker 1: friend Matt Taylor, and here he is on the OTP. Matt.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with changes to the Indianapolis Colts. These two

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Speaker 1: I think the Colts are a much better football team

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Speaker 1: Week three in Nashville. And you know, I've been saying this,

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Speaker 1: it's it's almost as if, Mike that it's training camp

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Speaker 1: camp they just they didn't get much out of it

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Speaker 1: and cohesion, especially on offense with Carson Wentz and then

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Speaker 1: he gets banged up with the two ankle sprains the

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Speaker 1: I mean, they've won three of their last four. Really

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Speaker 1: it should be you know, a four game winning streak.

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Speaker 1: good to see. But I think the biggest catalyst has

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Speaker 1: The Colts are getting chunk play after chunk play, and

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Speaker 1: he's taken care of it. So that just goes to

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Speaker 1: to a degree. They're three and four, and obviously it

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Speaker 1: goes without saying this game on Sunday against Tennessee is

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Speaker 1: a monster game for the Colts. That gotta have it

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Speaker 1: First game between the two teams, Matt, we thought that

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Speaker 1: the Coats would run Jonathan Taylor a lot. They didn't

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Speaker 1: do it. Since then, he has run a lot. Why

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Speaker 1: last month. Well, the offensive line is getting health here, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Quenton Nelson was back in the lineup left

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Speaker 1: it just speaks to more time on task with that

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Speaker 1: settled on an answer out there with Matt Pryor. It

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Speaker 1: they have solidified the personnel up front. But Jonathan Taylor

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Speaker 1: the end of last year, he heat up like this.

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Speaker 1: As you know, so far this season he has counted

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Speaker 1: And so he is the pig blend of speed, power vision.

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Speaker 1: certainly since Edger and James. Colts defense has played some

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Speaker 1: better ball since we saw them last. Matt Taylor, what

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Speaker 1: do you like about Matt Eberflus's unit right now? Takeaway ability?

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Speaker 1: Quite frankly, that's it. You know, they've given up yards

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Speaker 1: they have sixteen on the season. And the guy that

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Speaker 1: I mean he is. He is so good at being

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Speaker 1: he's got three forced fumbles, a couple of picks this season,

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Speaker 1: a couple of fumble recoveries. He's been part He himself

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Speaker 1: has been part of a takeaway play in five straight games.

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Speaker 1: He has eight takeaway plays on the season, Mike, That

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Speaker 1: is more than fifteen teams at this point in the season.

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Speaker 1: And he's doing that all by himself. And he's still

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Speaker 1: so he still banged up. He's not one hundred percent himself.

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Speaker 1: You see that kind of when he gets out in

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Speaker 1: He's just not as athletic as he used to be

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Speaker 1: the takeaway and the Colts have needed it. And you

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Speaker 1: know it sounds crazy, but before the season started, Mike,

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Speaker 1: the Colts had an ambitious goal of forty takeaways by

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Speaker 1: the defense and a lot of people laughed at that.

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Speaker 1: It hadn't been done in the NFL since twenty twelve.

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Speaker 1: That's a big time number. But I tell you what,

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Speaker 1: the trade deadline. Holy smokes. The Titans fans on the

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Speaker 1: trade for him, he's definitely on your team a year

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Speaker 1: from now because you're taking on a deal that you

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Speaker 1: can move around. So there's a lot of calculus, a

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Speaker 1: lot of choreography here. That's why there the football trade

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Speaker 1: deadline is rarely like the baseball trade deadline because fewer

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Speaker 1: teams have cap room at this moment, and it's hard

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Speaker 1: to find a player who would fit in all of

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Speaker 1: those scenarios. Now, if there's a player at a position

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Speaker 1: of need who a team just wants to get rid of,

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Speaker 1: you feel like his twenty twenty one contract fits. Maybe

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Speaker 1: there is no contract beyond twenty twenty one or twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two is a very favorable contract. Would you deal

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Speaker 1: a late round pick for this player? You might do it.

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Speaker 1: Do I think John Robinson will answer the phone? Do

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Speaker 1: I think he will pick up the phone? Yes? Does

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Speaker 1: that mean he will make a trade? No? Does that

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Speaker 1: mean it's going to be a trade of the Julio

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Speaker 1: Jones ilk which he's already made in this calendar year.

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Speaker 1: I seriously doubt it. Yeah, so you know, I've got

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Speaker 1: my friend Will who works at Kroger. Every time I

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Speaker 1: go into Kroger, he's wanting to make a deal, right,

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Speaker 1: he wants to have a super team like his fantasy tick.

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Speaker 1: And I get it as a as a fan, we

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Speaker 1: all do. But you can't have everybody because then that's

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Speaker 1: going to dictate what your decisions are next year. If

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Speaker 1: you make one of those trades, then that means you're

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Speaker 1: automatically saying goodbye yea to a player next year. John

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Speaker 1: Robinson never backs himself into the corner, which is why

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Speaker 1: he could make the Julio Jones trade back in June. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he leaves himself a bunch of different avenues that he

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Speaker 1: can go down. So when there is a dynamic player

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Speaker 1: like a Julio, not everybody could afford him. Well, most

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Speaker 1: people could couldn't couldn't, And they made the deal based

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Speaker 1: on the fact that they had not already redone a

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Speaker 1: bunch of contracts. He made hard decisions to let guys

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Speaker 1: walk right who they didn't want to let walk. But

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Speaker 1: he knew, if we're gonna sign Denico Autry, which looks

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Speaker 1: like pretty good. You know that was a good idea. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna sign Jack Rabbit Jenkins who started every game,

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Speaker 1: if you're good, I mean, if you're gonna do these things,

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Speaker 1: then you had to let a couple of the offensive

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Speaker 1: players leave. John's always going to do that. And guess

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Speaker 1: what he's gonna have to do it in the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two offseason. Yeah, it's gonna happen. And that's hard

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Speaker 1: as a fan. It's hard as a fan. But here's

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Speaker 1: what you need to know. You have a good team.

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Speaker 1: Good teams go through this. Bad teams generally don't. That's true.

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Speaker 1: I mean they really don't, that's true. Yeah, because you

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Speaker 1: can keep your players. Everybody else's right now. A lot

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Speaker 1: of a lot of times you're good players will leave

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Speaker 1: because they're tired of losing. Yeah, and if it's dollar

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Speaker 1: for dollar, you're gonna take the same money somewhere you

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Speaker 1: feel like you can win. But you think about it,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not even going to go through all the

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Speaker 1: decisions that he has to make in so many different

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Speaker 1: areas in twenty twenty two because we're a long way

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Speaker 1: away from there. But just know, if you sit down

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Speaker 1: and plot them, it's a lot. It's a lot, so

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Speaker 1: I would anticipate he will listen. I will anticipate he

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Speaker 1: will be involved, but I would not anticipate blockbusters unless

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Speaker 1: he gets a deal that fits all of that criteria.

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Speaker 1: If they want to trade him an All Pro player

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Speaker 1: for a sixth round pick and the all Pro players

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Speaker 1: remaining contract is very favorable and his future contract is

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Speaker 1: very favorable, yeah, i'd say he'll do that, right. I'd

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Speaker 1: also like to be six four. Yeah, I understand that

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Speaker 1: ain't happening. Well, I think it's time for our annual

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Speaker 1: PSA that just because whatever you wanted to happen and

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Speaker 1: didn't happen, doesn't mean that John Robinson is asleep at

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Speaker 1: the wheel, and please stop saying those things. Well, it's

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Speaker 1: just because you desperately want something to happen. I get it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I get it. But remember when you say that he

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Speaker 1: traded for Julio Jones. Yeah, let's all, let's all be

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Speaker 1: realistic here. The crazy trades are probably best suited for

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Speaker 1: your fantasy team. Just enjoy that fair all right, That's

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Speaker 1: how I feel with this trade deadline coming up quick

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Speaker 1: all right, trade deadline coming up quickly, no doubt. Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: three o'clock Central time. It all has to be done.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there'll be a lot of trades period

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Speaker 1: in terms of major Now, could you get an extra

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Speaker 1: tight end, could you get an extra offensive lineman, could

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Speaker 1: you get an extra safety? Or Yeah, I mean those

511
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 1: guys are potentially out there, and some teams are looking

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Speaker 1: to stockpile some day three picks and if you feel

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Speaker 1: like that player can help you win now or could

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Speaker 1: be part of your future, sure that, I think of

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Speaker 1: all the teams, ours is not the most interesting of

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Speaker 1: situations to watch. I don't want to say any names,

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Speaker 1: but Houston, Oh, I don't want to name names. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that is something interesting to watch, very interesting to watch. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: undoubtedly they are. You know, they've already been in the

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Speaker 1: market trading mark Ingram to New Orleans right much to

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Speaker 1: the chagrin of some of their current players. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem to be a happy space right now. No, I

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Speaker 1: don't think so. But I mean, enjoy the NFC mark Ingram.

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Speaker 1: They're probably really happy to have you back. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: played well for them, Sure, got about it. So that's

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Speaker 1: going to do it for this edition of the OTP.

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Speaker 1: Reminding you Amy Wells and Rhet Brian with Titans Countdown

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Speaker 1: at eleven am Central on Titans Radio, your favorite stations

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Speaker 1: in Nashville. That's one oh four five Zone. But there

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Speaker 1: off with Coach Mack and me shortly afternoon. A big one,

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Speaker 1: A big one, A big one, a big one in

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Speaker 1: the AFC South Titans at Indianapolis and we will be

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Speaker 1: there for Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith. Thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: us for this edition of the O Team. He Welcome

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