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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 2: It's good to be here.

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Speaker 1: It's good to have you as always. And Sunday's loss

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Speaker 1: to Green Bay, was there an area where you really

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Speaker 1: felt like the team took a step backward.

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. I mean, we didn't perform as

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Speaker 2: well as I think we're capable of. You know, I

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Speaker 2: think the mistackles on defense was something that was out

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Speaker 2: That part was expected, But I don't think we took

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Speaker 2: a step back. I think that, you know, they did it.

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Speaker 2: They hit a couple of plays, and we continue to

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Speaker 2: give the ball away at a rate that's not sustainable

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Speaker 2: and put ourselves in a really tough spot. And that's

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Speaker 2: ultimately where the NFL games are won and lost.

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Speaker 1: So in some ways. Maybe you feel a little better

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say I feel better.

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Speaker 1: You were pretty down after the game.

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Speaker 2: it'd be one thing if I didn't think we were

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Speaker 2: I think we have a team that's capable of a

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Speaker 2: lot better than what we put on tape through three weeks,

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Speaker 2: and I'm frustrated and disappointed, and I think I should be.

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Speaker 2: I think our players are, and I think they should

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Speaker 2: be because we're better than that. We're an own three

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Speaker 2: But I do believe we're better than that one three

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Speaker 2: But I still believe in our football team. I believe

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Speaker 2: and we got to find a way to get over

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Speaker 3: Now, you amounts earlier today, when you spoke with the

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Speaker 3: I'm going to start with a schematic question. Do you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's always an element of what do they do

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Speaker 2: I thought there was some good and some bad, like

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Speaker 2: So there there's some things he's got to clean up

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Speaker 1: The Titans gave up seven plays of twenty yards or

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Speaker 3: Only two penalties against the Packers, and they were both

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Speaker 2: I don't feel that. And one of the things that

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Speaker 2: And we put a stat up today of our turnovers

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Speaker 3: So Ernest Jones led the team with thirteen tackles. Kenneth

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a group that, you know, we

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Speaker 2: And he's made progress really every time we've we've went

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Speaker 3: The Titans got off to a really good start against

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Speaker 2: The third down conversions when we've had opportunities, you know,

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Speaker 1: So like last week, you're not going to know who

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Speaker 1: In all of your travels in coaching, have you overlapped

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Speaker 3: Another week and another great corner. This time it's Jalen Ramsey.

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Speaker 2: He's able to take away receivers and that's what these

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