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Speaker 1: Wyatt of Tennessee Titans dot Com at j White Sports
Speaker 1: on like every social platform? Now are you on every
Speaker 1: social platform?
Speaker 2: I'm not on TikTok. I haven't made the leap there
Speaker 2: on Instagram, on Twitter, X use Facebook still to post stories,
Speaker 2: but I'm not on TikTok. I'm on Snapchat, but just
Speaker 2: to my wife, my daughter, and my son. I've got
Speaker 2: a twenty three hundred day street going with my daughter,
Speaker 2: which is so I ought to send her snap maybe
Speaker 2: from in here, but you should should.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, let's do it here.
Speaker 2: That's one every day. So I've done it for twenty
Speaker 2: three hundred days in a row of sent her a snap.
Speaker 1: So so you take a picture, take a picture.
Speaker 2: I'll take a picture of all us in here, and
Speaker 2: then I just send that to her and then she'll
Speaker 2: send me what she's doing during the course of her day.
Speaker 2: It's just uh, I talk to her as well. I
Speaker 2: just don't snap. But apparently young people they don't. I
Speaker 2: ask her, well, if you talk so and so. Now
Speaker 2: I haven't talked to him about my snapper every day,
Speaker 2: so I guess young people just communicate by snapping.
Speaker 1: Nobody talks on the phone. Yeah, the streak is my mother. Yes,
Speaker 1: I will talk on the phone for quite a while.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, don't answer my like my phone ring on
Speaker 2: my phone rings, you know, fifteen times a day from
Speaker 2: tellmarkers and uh spam calls my dad. I try to
Speaker 2: help my dad on different things, and sometimes I'll tell them, Dad,
Speaker 2: if somebody's got a question, you just tell them to
Speaker 2: call me. Don't don't. Don't deal with these people anymore.
Speaker 2: They're trying to sell himself with the phone. So he
Speaker 2: apparently gave somebody with Medicare my phone number, and I
Speaker 2: get about fifteen calls from Medicare. And if people want
Speaker 2: to know if I need any kind of devices as
Speaker 2: I get older, they think i'm him. So I get
Speaker 2: all his Medicare calls about fifteen a day.
Speaker 3: Oh nice, thanks Dad.
Speaker 1: Your parents just keep on giving all the way through
Speaker 1: all right, So this is OTP pre game. Jim Wyatt
Speaker 1: is sitting in the Snickers hot seat, which he likes
Speaker 1: because he's a huge Snickers fan.
Speaker 2: Sure do you like Snickers?
Speaker 1: Yes? So we have five topics that we're going to
Speaker 1: bring up till are you and you're not prepared for
Speaker 1: these five topics? Obviously just about candy.
Speaker 3: He's Jim. He's always prepared.
Speaker 1: He's always prepared.
Speaker 2: Ask if I needed my Packers depth chart here?
Speaker 1: You know. I mean, we're going to hit some Packers stuff,
Speaker 1: but I think you'll be okay.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Topic one on the OTP pre game. What do you
Speaker 1: remember about Thursday November seventeenth, twenty twenty two when the
Speaker 1: Titans won at Green Bay on Thursday night football? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: you remember the final score?
Speaker 2: M What was the final score of that game? Don't
Speaker 2: remember the final score?
Speaker 1: I remember my.
Speaker 2: Niece was at the game. Okay, didn't get this, didn't
Speaker 2: get to see her.
Speaker 1: What was the final score that twenty seven to seventeen
Speaker 1: Titans won?
Speaker 3: Yep, I was cheating.
Speaker 2: Twenty seven seventeen. It was a Ryan Tannehill had a
Speaker 2: decent game.
Speaker 1: And Ran Tannehill had a very good game. Actually, he
Speaker 1: threw for over three hundred yards three hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: three yards and a couple of touchdowns, completed twenty two
Speaker 1: of twenty seven passes, one twenty seven point three passer rating.
Speaker 2: Yes, I remember him having a great game, and I
Speaker 2: remember leaving there feeling like the team had a lot
Speaker 2: of momentum.
Speaker 1: Titans were seven and three leaving there.
Speaker 2: And then I remember it not going so well after that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought on that day that the Titans were
Speaker 3: never going to lose another game, like this is it.
Speaker 3: This is where the streak just takes on.
Speaker 1: Seven and three at that point, Traylon Burke's best game
Speaker 1: is Titan Yes, seven catches for one hundred eleven yards,
Speaker 1: including a fifty one yard catch. Derek Henry threw a
Speaker 1: touchdown pass to jeff Swain, Jeffrey Simmons had a sack, sure,
Speaker 1: and they kind of did to Aaron Ers. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: had basically the exact same game that night for the
Speaker 1: Packers that he did last Sunday for the Jets. Two
Speaker 1: touchdown passes, ninety four point seven quarterback rating, nothing great
Speaker 1: but just very efficient. But boy, what all has changed
Speaker 1: since that night in Green Bay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the start of an end of a
Speaker 2: rough season and kind of got us to where we
Speaker 2: are today with a new coach and kind of starting
Speaker 2: over with a new team. But feel like we're all
Speaker 2: the right path. Just need to win a couple of
Speaker 2: games here and get some momentum.
Speaker 1: The Packers have a lot of familiar names that are
Speaker 1: still with the team. They've obviously added players over the
Speaker 1: course of the last two seasons, but they are just
Speaker 1: such a consistently built organization.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they don't do it by spending a lot
Speaker 2: of money in free agency or being real aggressive when
Speaker 2: it comes to player acquisition. They draft, they try to
Speaker 2: retain their own guys. They've got an approach that they
Speaker 2: believe in and they stick to it. And you know,
Speaker 2: I was impressed by what they did this past week,
Speaker 2: winning and winning against the Colts without Jordan Love. And
Speaker 2: that is in large part because of the system that
Speaker 2: they have in place and the guys they have leading
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 1: Better on defense than what people know. They have a
Speaker 1: good offensive line. But the other thing too, that they
Speaker 1: do with receivers that's so impressive is they find their
Speaker 1: receivers largely at the Senior Bowl. Yeah, Yeah, it's really fascinating.
Speaker 1: So Christian Watson, Romeo Dobbs, right, and they find and
Speaker 1: you go back to the Jordie Nelsons and the Randall
Speaker 1: Cobbs and all of these other guys. So they find
Speaker 1: fits that are perfect. Jayden Reid, their slot receiver, was
Speaker 1: a guy that really impressed us at the Senior Bowl
Speaker 1: and the Senior and he was drafted in the second round.
Speaker 1: So they find system fits. And because the system is
Speaker 1: so well established, they can have a second or third
Speaker 1: or fourth round receiver become a star. They don't have
Speaker 1: to draft the guy in the top ten. They can
Speaker 1: find a defensive lineman that would become a star for
Speaker 1: them because like the Steelers, like the raven and they
Speaker 1: have that system in place. They have the scouting staff
Speaker 1: in place, they keep the general managers in place, the
Speaker 1: head coach, I mean, their head coach has been there
Speaker 1: now for six years, which is hard to believe that
Speaker 1: it really is. It really is.
Speaker 2: And I think you know you're starting to see the
Speaker 2: team here do that a little bit as far as
Speaker 2: I think you know that. Look at the number of
Speaker 2: players here that were in the Senior Bowl last year
Speaker 2: and in some of the Senior Bowls in the past
Speaker 2: and you want to get as system in place and
Speaker 2: stick with it.
Speaker 1: No, that's what you know. Chad Brinker, ran.
Speaker 2: Carthon, you know, Brian Callahan, all want to do and
Speaker 2: that's just a matter of getting consistency and just cycling
Speaker 2: guys in.
Speaker 1: And where does Chad Brinker come from?
Speaker 3: Green Bay the epitome of old school NFL.
Speaker 1: You know, they now have the NFL record for wins,
Speaker 1: They have overtaken the Bears, and they just last Sunday
Speaker 1: won their eight hundredth game in the.
Speaker 3: National Football Do you get a cake or something for
Speaker 3: that eight hundred games as a franchise win.
Speaker 1: I would say to you, not meaning to be facetious.
Speaker 1: Normally in that situation you would probably give the owner
Speaker 1: a cake. But they have no single owner.
Speaker 3: So everybody gets cake. The community.
Speaker 1: The community, the community in essence owns the Green Bay Packers, which.
Speaker 3: Is so cool.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, the owners don't just love it in the
Speaker 1: league because since the Packers are public, you can you know,
Speaker 1: you can buy the share of stock and all that.
Speaker 1: And then you go to the shareholders meeting, which they
Speaker 1: have every year, they tell everyone what they got from
Speaker 1: the league dispersal. They tell everyone all of these things.
Speaker 1: So the owners are not phenomenally crazy about that. When
Speaker 1: that information gets out from the Packers shareholders meeting, it's official, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they've told their shareholders what it is. The the
Speaker 1: the NFL is not a publicly traded company. They don't
Speaker 1: really want to share that information, and yet the Packers, yes,
Speaker 1: have to share it with the group.
Speaker 3: Interesting the things you never think about.
Speaker 1: Well, I think about that.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm sure a lot of people think a lot
Speaker 3: of people in Green Bay probably think about it too,
Speaker 3: But I never have.
Speaker 1: Do you know someone who owns the sheriff stock in
Speaker 1: the Packers? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I have. I have a sister that lives uh in
Speaker 2: Milwaukee and her husband to who's Packers family. I don't
Speaker 2: think they own a share of the Packers.
Speaker 1: I know a couple of people who come.
Speaker 3: Can I ask a silly question, Sure, do you get
Speaker 3: like a like a check in the mail? I don't
Speaker 3: think Or does it just kind of go back into
Speaker 3: the park collect I don't think there's a there's not
Speaker 3: like a buyout.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a public dispersal.
Speaker 3: Interesting, so it just kind of goes back into the pot.
Speaker 3: But they are kind of in the know of like
Speaker 3: financially what's that?
Speaker 1: And you get to go you get to go here
Speaker 1: the president, who's I think getting ready to cycle out
Speaker 1: Mark Murphy. They have the annual gathering and they I
Speaker 1: think they do it at Lambeau. I think they do
Speaker 1: it become the stadium.
Speaker 3: It's like the State of the Union.
Speaker 1: Whi's what it is.
Speaker 3: It's very cool. Yes, it's just different. I like different,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 1: Topic number two on the OTP pre game every Thursday.
Speaker 1: It posts at eight o'clock Central time. Jim whittt pass
Speaker 1: catcher that needs a breakout game to help Will levis Aby.
Speaker 1: You can answer this too if you'd like.
Speaker 3: I shall you know?
Speaker 2: I think you know? Does Sunday kind is a breakout
Speaker 2: game for Kylin Ridley. I mean, I guess it does.
Speaker 2: I think it touchdowns? So because I think he's just
Speaker 2: scratching the surface on what that's going to be. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think more is coming from him, So I think
Speaker 2: i'd say DeAndre Hopkins. I mean it just because he
Speaker 2: has been pretty much invisible the first couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Part of that's because he's not hasn't been completely healthy.
Speaker 2: Another part of us because they just haven't worked him
Speaker 2: in from a snap standpoint. You know, Brian Callahan talked
Speaker 2: earlier this week just about wanting to make him the
Speaker 2: primary receiver on some plays, which is going to lead
Speaker 2: to him getting the ball more. I think if you
Speaker 2: can start taking advantage of Hopkins and him winning one
Speaker 2: on ones, that opens things up for other people. So
Speaker 2: I mean, so far it's been quiet for Hopkins, has
Speaker 2: been quiet for Boyd, has been quiet really for everybody
Speaker 2: except for Ridley's you know, big catch on Sunday. So
Speaker 2: I'll go Hopkins here. I think. I think he needs
Speaker 2: to kind of get into a groove and turn into
Speaker 2: a threat that other teams have to worry about.
Speaker 3: I say, Traylon Burkes, I think it is. I think
Speaker 3: for his his own personal career, it's time for him
Speaker 3: to show what we've all seen him do in practice.
Speaker 3: It's time for that to translate into a game and
Speaker 3: for him to have a really big game. I think
Speaker 3: it's obvious in watching them work together that Will Levis
Speaker 3: has a good rapport with Traylon Burg'd be dire, right,
Speaker 3: and so I think that that is a well that
Speaker 3: he is going to go to every Sunday. If given
Speaker 3: the opportunity because I think that there's a familiarity there.
Speaker 3: Now it's on Trailan to complete the play, to finish
Speaker 3: the job, and so I think that if he can
Speaker 3: have a breakout game on Sunday, I think that if
Speaker 3: those two can get some traction under their wheels a
Speaker 3: little bit and really start to make something happen, I
Speaker 3: think that can be a really good thing for all
Speaker 3: people involved.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think Traylan needs some good things to
Speaker 2: happen to him to build confidence. I mean, they've talked
Speaker 2: him up so much during the course of this offseason.
Speaker 2: I don't care whether it's a quarterback or the coordinator,
Speaker 2: or the head coach or the they've all set bragged
Speaker 2: on him. But there comes a time where he has
Speaker 2: to start making some plays, I think, to generate some
Speaker 2: confidence for himself. He'd love to see him come down
Speaker 2: with a ball on Sunday. I thought he had a
Speaker 2: better chance to catch it than the Jets defender, but
Speaker 2: he didn't come down with him. If he can make
Speaker 2: a play like that, but.
Speaker 1: What could that have been for him though?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Instead, it's a momentum play going the other way, and
Speaker 2: he has to take advantage of his opportunities when they come.
Speaker 1: All Right, topic, number three Packers player you are most
Speaker 1: worried about from a Titans perspective.
Speaker 2: I guess it depends on who the quarterback is. I mean,
Speaker 2: if it's Jordan Love, that's who I worry about, just
Speaker 2: because he'll give them a lot more on offense. And
Speaker 2: I think what Malik Willis would be able to and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, Malik proved on Sunday that he can win
Speaker 2: a game. They did it by running the football and
Speaker 2: while protecting him and him protecting the ball and him
Speaker 2: picking the spots. But if Love's back in there, that
Speaker 2: opens up the offense even more and he'd be the
Speaker 2: guy I think would be a more much more considerable threat.
Speaker 3: Do you have one that was mine? I think I
Speaker 3: think that anything else you can game plan for the
Speaker 3: wildcard of who's going to be back there is going
Speaker 3: to change up what they do schematically enough that there
Speaker 3: are reasons to worry about each individual quarterback being back there.
Speaker 3: So I think that is the that's the ticket either way.
Speaker 1: Mine's Rashaun Gary.
Speaker 3: Really, Okay, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: He is a you know, he doesn't have double digit
Speaker 1: sacks in a season yet, and this is year six
Speaker 1: out of Michigan. But he's a really good pass rusher.
Speaker 1: He's nearly two hundred and eighty pounds, and so he's
Speaker 1: one of those outside linebacker defensive end guys who's less
Speaker 1: linebacker and more defensive lineman. He's really good against the run,
Speaker 1: and he's he's a he's a good power pass rusher
Speaker 1: as well. I mean he's due a double digit sack year.
Speaker 1: I mean that's gonna hap. I mean, he's a really
Speaker 1: good player and so that's going to happen for him
Speaker 1: at some point even and he has won right now
Speaker 1: through the first two games. But yeah, you know, the
Speaker 1: the edge guys for the Titans, Latham was was much better.
Speaker 1: Petit Frere did not have a good game. This kind
Speaker 1: of player is a tough player to go against, both
Speaker 1: against the run in the past because he's heavy. I
Speaker 1: know the Titans liked him coming out of Michigan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nobody was. Those players are really hard to project because
Speaker 1: they they're not as twitchy as the six five two
Speaker 1: forty five, two fifty guys. And sometimes you're saying, okay,
Speaker 1: does that guy eat his way further into the defensive
Speaker 1: line yeah, does he become just a guy out there
Speaker 1: or does he morph into this player who does both well?
Speaker 1: And you're like, yeah, we're really glad we drafted him.
Speaker 1: That's what happened with him. So that's mine.
Speaker 3: That was a good one, Mike, that's a good one.
Speaker 2: And I know we didn't name Josh Jacobs, but he
Speaker 2: that's that's a good one to a reason I didn't.
Speaker 2: I just I think the Titans defense is gonna be stout.
Speaker 2: I mean, especially the way Ernest Jones play. I don't
Speaker 2: care who the running back is. I think they're gonna
Speaker 2: be good defensively stopping the run all year. And uh,
Speaker 2: I don't think they have the same success they try
Speaker 2: to take that approach against this defense as they did
Speaker 2: against the Coles.
Speaker 3: I agree.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Topic number four for Jim Wyatt is this Titans
Speaker 1: defensive player who has been the most pleasant surprise to
Speaker 1: you through two games. And that doesn't mean he's come
Speaker 1: out of nowhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, And I just I wish I
Speaker 2: would have just said his name because Ernest Jones watching
Speaker 2: him play on Sunday and I'm watching him from a
Speaker 2: far against uh, you know, for the Rams. I knew
Speaker 2: he was a good player, but coming to here and
Speaker 2: just seeing the attitude he plays, with the way he
Speaker 2: runs the football, how physical he is. Knowing that was
Speaker 2: just a second game and he's playing every single snap,
Speaker 2: I think he qualifies as the most as the the
Speaker 2: biggest eye opener to me, Landry has been very impactful.
Speaker 2: Three sacks so far, and I think the corners have
Speaker 2: done a mostly solid job. But I'm giving it to
Speaker 2: Jones just because I think of what's coming next, and
Speaker 2: we've always seen him one full game.
Speaker 3: Mine was Harold Landry. I knew that he would be
Speaker 3: back and he would be good, and he was coming
Speaker 3: off of a great end to twenty three, and so
Speaker 3: we were expecting good and consistent from him. He has
Speaker 3: been great, and I think that he exceeded even my
Speaker 3: expectations because he's usually a guy that really peeks towards
Speaker 3: the mid end of the season, like he typically finishes
Speaker 3: strong given that he's healthy. So I was kind of
Speaker 3: expecting that again and he I mean, he has come
Speaker 3: out guns of blazon early in the season. So what
Speaker 3: does that mean for the remainder of the year. Who knows?
Speaker 3: Is he just getting fired up? Who knows? But I'm
Speaker 3: excited about him. I'm excited watching him play, and I've
Speaker 3: been pleasantly surprised about how consistent and how impactful he
Speaker 3: has been so early in the season.
Speaker 1: It's a great point. And you know, he stayed hot
Speaker 1: for the end of last year. He was hot at
Speaker 1: the end of the season. Seemed like he was getting
Speaker 1: a sack every game in November, December, in the first
Speaker 1: part of January. And when you have those players get
Speaker 1: on those streaks, I mean you love to see it.
Speaker 1: And he's just kept going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he hasn't stopped it. I mean, we spend a
Speaker 3: lot of time talking about the big guys, and rightly so,
Speaker 3: I mean, we have some great defensive linemen and a
Speaker 3: lot of guys to talk about, but Harold Landry always
Speaker 3: kind of gets oh yeah, and Harold's there and he's
Speaker 3: good too. But I mean, Harold Landry is having a
Speaker 3: remarkable first couple of games.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean he's on pace for I mean, he's
Speaker 1: got three sacks through two games. I mean, you keep
Speaker 1: that pace going, you start talking about crazy stuff.
Speaker 3: Well that's what I'm saying. I mean, and he could
Speaker 3: do crazy stuff, that's right, because he gets he typically
Speaker 3: gets better as the season goes on.
Speaker 1: That's very fair.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 1: Okay, topic number five for Jim Wide. Who's in the
Speaker 1: Snickers hot seat on this edition of the OTP pre
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Speaker 1: Sports Park.
Speaker 3: Isn't it, Coke?
Speaker 1: It really is? Don't you like this?
Speaker 2: It is very nice in the fireplace in here?
Speaker 1: Getting one?
Speaker 2: Are you getting a fireplace?
Speaker 3: Well? You know I'm buying one now, all right.
Speaker 1: Former Titan that has a bigger impact on Sunday's game
Speaker 1: or I guess should say the biggest impact Malik willis
Speaker 1: Brandon Nervusen, Andre Dillard. That's a great question. I'll repeat it.
Speaker 1: That former Titan who has the biggest impact on Sunday's
Speaker 1: game Malik willis Brandon Harvison, Andre Dillard.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess, I mean it depends on what the
Speaker 2: Milik plays. Obviously, if Malik's starting quarterback, that's an easy ame.
Speaker 1: What's your gifts?
Speaker 2: My guess is he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: I think so too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they're gonna play this game, you know, and
Speaker 2: you know all the way until Adam After or Tom
Speaker 2: Pellasero or Ian Rappaport tweets something out Saturday night at
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1: Well, and the Thursday tweet from Chefter is already out,
Speaker 1: and he's saying that his sources are saying it's fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty.
Speaker 2: Yes, And I think, as you know, eleven pm, those
Speaker 2: things seem to roll out eleven pm on Saturday night,
Speaker 2: right after midnight Eastern, we'll probably get a more definitive word.
Speaker 2: But they're gonna play this game all the way through.
Speaker 2: That's why I answered. You know, I watched the videos
Speaker 2: of love and practice yesterday and he did some movement.
Speaker 2: You know, it was obviously just individual and and it
Speaker 2: wasn't it wasn't team portion of practice. You know, if
Speaker 2: he plays, he's obviously gonna make gonna make a big
Speaker 2: impact of this game. I just can't see it. I
Speaker 2: don't know why you would risk putting love out there
Speaker 2: for the you know, for week three, and risk potentially
Speaker 2: having something happen to him. It would impact the season.
Speaker 2: So I my gut tells me it's going to be Maleik.
Speaker 2: And uh so, Malik is gonna have the biggest impact,
Speaker 2: whether that's good or bad. I mean, the Titans know him,
Speaker 2: he knows the Titans. I think the Titans have a
Speaker 2: plan for him, but obviously Matt Lafleur knows what he's
Speaker 2: doing as well. He's gonna have a plan to take
Speaker 2: advantage of Malik's strengths, and they did that very well
Speaker 2: against the Colts.
Speaker 1: All Right, So, Amy, I'm gonna ask you the same question. Okay,
Speaker 1: former Titan that has a bigger impact on Sunday's game,
Speaker 1: Malik Willis, Brandon Arvis and Andre Dillard.
Speaker 3: Assuming Malik Willis, assuming just answer the question. Well, I
Speaker 3: don't want to pick the same thing as Jim again,
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna say Brandon Narvison, Okay, because I think.
Speaker 1: That now we're assuming he's still the game. We're assuming
Speaker 1: he's still the kicker on Sunday, which if we feel
Speaker 1: like he will be. Although Matt Lafleur did not give
Speaker 1: him the greatest vote of confidence.
Speaker 3: This is exhausting.
Speaker 1: This is an exhausting game, isn't it wonderful?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: But I think that assuming he is the kicker and
Speaker 3: he comes into town and play, I think that he
Speaker 3: will probably be the person scoring a lot of points
Speaker 3: for this team. I think that the Titans defense's whole
Speaker 3: plan is to force them to be kicking at field
Speaker 3: goals as opposed to scoring touchdowns given the option. So
Speaker 3: I mean he'll probably be a big part of that.
Speaker 1: I think it's Narves and too because I think Maleik starts.
Speaker 1: I think the real question is can Jordan Love be
Speaker 1: the backup? Because if Jordan Love is able to be
Speaker 1: the backup, then they don't have to elevate Sewn Clifford.
Speaker 1: They could, they would have the ability to elevate another player,
Speaker 1: and the Packers do have more guys banged up at
Speaker 1: this point than the Titans. Do you know? They even
Speaker 1: threw in the caveat the source and the Adam Schefter
Speaker 1: piece through in the caveat that they would feel more
Speaker 1: optimistic towards Jordan Love being ready to play against Minnesota
Speaker 1: week from Sunday against the Titans.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So if it is Malik, Malik has shown they can
Speaker 1: that he can move the football, no problem with that
Speaker 1: at all. But they probably do kick at more field goals.
Speaker 3: Yep, that is my guess.
Speaker 1: And if that is the case. Nrvisson is six of
Speaker 1: eight on field goals at this point. He's missed a
Speaker 1: forty six yarder and a forty five yarder. You know
Speaker 1: that could prove to be a key in this because
Speaker 1: we know what his range is. We know he's talented.
Speaker 3: We saw him in the preseason absolutely, and.
Speaker 1: I mean he's a good kicker, but he's also a rookie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but and so does you know I said bigger impact, Well,
Speaker 1: for him, the bigger impact could be making.
Speaker 3: The kicks or missing them or.
Speaker 1: Missing the kicks. And you know this is going to
Speaker 1: draw two the side by side comparison between he and
Speaker 1: Nick Folk. Mmm, yeah, did you you know? So you're
Speaker 1: gonna I mean, all of that's going to come up
Speaker 1: because I think this is going to be a game
Speaker 1: where you're gonna see some kicks. That's just me.
Speaker 2: Not long after the Titans part of ways with Brayden,
Speaker 2: he ended up being the Packers kicker. I've got a
Speaker 2: lot of people questioning, well, why would you not stick
Speaker 2: with him? You know why? You know he's got He's
Speaker 2: a young guy, you can develop shook. Kickers are no
Speaker 2: sure thing. We all know that, and this team has had,
Speaker 2: you know, after such a great run of having dependable kickers.
Speaker 2: That ended a lot of way in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: After Ryan's suck up left his team's been through a
Speaker 2: lot of kickers, and so I've certainly thought it was
Speaker 2: the right decision to go with Folk for.
Speaker 1: Of a sure thing.
Speaker 2: And he's been good and hopefully Norviston has a great career.
Speaker 2: I really like him as a nice kid. It's one
Speaker 2: of those guys that would you go out of his
Speaker 2: way to say hello to you. But he was twenty
Speaker 2: one to twenty eight camp he uh yeah. He hit
Speaker 2: the long field goal in the preseason.
Speaker 1: We also missed some made the game winning kicks in
Speaker 1: the Seattle game, tess yep.
Speaker 2: So he's uh, he's a tough minded kid. But I
Speaker 2: think Folk is what this team needs. Don't need it,
Speaker 2: don't need another issue to be raising its nickle point.
Speaker 1: It's thirty one of thirty two since he got here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean after kicker Palooza in twoenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: That makes it sound like it was fun. It was
Speaker 3: not fun.
Speaker 1: It was kicker palooser.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, kicker hell.
Speaker 1: I mean we saw Cairo Santos in Week one and
Speaker 1: he has righted his career, yes, but he was four
Speaker 1: of nine when he was here, and he was out
Speaker 1: of football for the rest of twenty nineteen before the
Speaker 1: Bears brought him in in twenty twenty, and he reach,
Speaker 1: I mean, there were some good kickers who were part
Speaker 1: of the roster and got here and just, oh god,
Speaker 1: I mean, Stephen Goskowski's going to call the game on
Speaker 1: national radio with Larry kah Here on Sunday. His twenty
Speaker 1: twenty was, you know, kind of all over the road.
Speaker 3: It was just seating pads so many Yeah, fully smokes,
Speaker 3: I've never seen anything like it. I'm scarved.
Speaker 1: But Kicker Palooza in twenty nineteen was that was crazy, dude.
Speaker 3: Kicker Palooza sounds like fun, sounds like there's rides and
Speaker 3: rises there were. I mean it was kicker.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: An emotional roller coaster.
Speaker 1: Yeah was. I mean the Titans were eight of eighteen
Speaker 1: on field goals. Virtually every high school in Middle Tennessee
Speaker 1: is better than forty four percent on field goals.
Speaker 3: I mean it was just it was crazy, right, awful,
Speaker 3: is what it was.
Speaker 1: So you got you got a guy who's made thirty
Speaker 1: one out of thirty two.
Speaker 3: Go with that guy.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you're talking about analytics, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you're yeah, I mean, Nick folks probably not gonna kick
Speaker 1: a sixty yard field goal. And at this point, ye, well,
Speaker 1: I know, but you're That's what I'm saying. You're gonna
Speaker 1: try a lot more forty forty one yarders than you
Speaker 1: are sixty yarders. I think Narvis might have been on
Speaker 1: the practice squad had he I think so. I think so,
Speaker 1: had he cleared waivers. I agree with.
Speaker 2: That, And if he ever becomes available at some point again,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if he's back here.
Speaker 1: Right because you'd like to have a young guy that
Speaker 1: you're working with all the time, who's working with your
Speaker 1: snapper and you're holder and your position coach and things
Speaker 1: of that sort. So I don't think that's a bad
Speaker 1: strategy at all. Some teams do the free agency thing.
Speaker 1: Some teams draft a guy and then say, you know,
Speaker 1: we're going to ride with this guy. Of course, you know,
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers, young kicker who's very talented,
Speaker 1: had an extra point blocked in the Super Bowl that
Speaker 1: tried not to be a key place.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: But here's the other thing that's wild with kickers. Kickers
Speaker 1: through the first two weeks of NFL play are thirty
Speaker 1: five of thirty nine on kicks of fifty or over. Wow,
Speaker 1: they're making ninety percent of kicks fifty or over, and
Speaker 1: of the four missus, Justin Tucker has two of them.
Speaker 2: That's because he is pretty much autumn for many works. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the quad of stat.
Speaker 1: I mean they're talking about him very legitimately as a
Speaker 1: potential Hall of Famer at some point.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, how ironic is that.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying it with a twinkling I'm not saying.
Speaker 1: It with a twinkle in mind. I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: is really surprising.
Speaker 3: It is very surprising.
Speaker 2: But yeah, these guys are putting in They're putting them
Speaker 2: in the net. They're putting them in the net from
Speaker 2: fifty five yards.
Speaker 1: Jim, you remember if a guy was making sixty seven
Speaker 1: to seventy five percent of forty yards, yes, he was
Speaker 1: considered good. And now, I mean they send those guys
Speaker 1: out there, they expect him to make seventy five, eighty percent,
Speaker 1: in this case, ninety percent of fifty plus, just like
Speaker 1: you and I can remember when a forty two yard
Speaker 1: punt was good. And the Titans have a guy right
Speaker 1: now whose career average is fifty three plus.
Speaker 3: But think about how different the training for kickers is now,
Speaker 3: I mean kids start when they're eight in like serious
Speaker 3: regimented kicking program.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest difference is soccer. And I think
Speaker 1: soccer the prevalence of the training and then how many
Speaker 1: kids are involved in soccer. I think has you know,
Speaker 1: as soccer has boomed in this country, that's where it's
Speaker 1: really come from.
Speaker 3: But I mean, like the Titans punter has been practicing
Speaker 3: punting his whole life, and some of that is family.
Speaker 1: And he's one of only like five guys who punt
Speaker 1: in the NFL who are not from Australia. Yeah that's yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the other part of this that's so int I
Speaker 1: mean the Bears punter in Week one was a twenty
Speaker 1: seven year old rookie from Australia. Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And there's more and more coming all the time.
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Speaker 3: That's pretty good.
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Speaker 2: I can't do it, big boy. Yeah, well I can't
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Speaker 1: Picture of that. Whoever plays quarterback for the Packers on
Speaker 1: Sunday at Nissan Stadium, they will be handing the ball
Speaker 1: to Josh Jacobs. Jacobs carried thirty two times for one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty one yards and the Packers went over
Speaker 1: Indianapolis last weekend. They would love for him to get
Speaker 1: thirty plus touches again this week. Key number one pretty obvious,
Speaker 1: slow down, Josh Jacobs. Key number two pretty straightforward as well.
Speaker 1: Take care of the ball. Titans are minus four in
Speaker 1: turnover ratio. Packers are plus four in the same department.
Speaker 1: Titans need to flip that script and win the turnover battle.
Speaker 1: The third key is also about the Tennessee offense. They
Speaker 1: must stay on the field. In their first two games,
Speaker 1: far too many three and outs. Titans offense needs to
Speaker 1: move the chains, extend drives, slip the field, and most
Speaker 1: obviously score points. Less three and outs are a key.
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Speaker 3: I'm so proud of you. This is awesome.
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