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Speaker 1: On today's OTP Road to Nashville, head coach Mike Vrabel

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Speaker 1: second team for the offseason program on Monday. He readies

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Speaker 1: for the NFL Draft in just thirteen days and returns

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Speaker 1: his staff largely intact, with one notable exception on his

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Speaker 1: leadership team. Mike Frabel our special guest on the April

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Speaker 1: twelfth OTP Road to Nashville. It's thirteen days until players

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Speaker 1: are drafted in Nashville. Welcome to the OTP Road to Nashville. Mike,

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Speaker 1: Keith and Amy Wells make How are you good? How

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Speaker 1: let's get right into our special gas. Mike Rabel is here,

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Speaker 1: real special. How are you the head coach? We're great?

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Speaker 1: This is cool. Yeah, this has been so much fun

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Speaker 1: because people are so pumped about this draft and we've

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Speaker 1: had a variety of guests. Charlie Daniels is coming in

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Speaker 1: next week. Yeah, we're going to talk about, you know,

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Speaker 1: sort of the music culture with this draft. And you know,

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Speaker 1: he's somebody who's been here a long time and knows

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Speaker 1: what having the draft is going to mean. To this community.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you if if you weren't an

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Speaker 1: and didn't necessarily think I'd be doing I get to

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Speaker 1: ask the first question. I think you'd be in sales. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say a pharmacist. I don't really know why, boy,

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Speaker 1: Pharmacy is tough for the people who go to pharmacy

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Speaker 1: I'd take me fifteen years. Yeah, that's tough. My question

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Speaker 1: I mean, it feels like you're enough of a fan

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Speaker 1: of the game and appreciate it. Yeah, did you take

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Speaker 1: the Boys and Jen? And you think I think Jen's

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Speaker 1: planning on having a friend come in. I think her

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Speaker 1: they're gonna do pretty much whatever it is that they're

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Speaker 1: So we've compiled questions I've seen from Titans fans and

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Speaker 1: Amy is going to pose these questions and we'll probably

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Speaker 1: There's good questions. Yeah. So this first one is from

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Speaker 1: the Titans fan club in the United Kingdom and they

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Speaker 1: wanted to know, other than the actual result of the game, kidding,

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Speaker 1: was there anything that you would have done differently during

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Speaker 1: know it's real. The signing of Cameron Wake. What are

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Speaker 1: Where does he go? You know? How do we get

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Speaker 1: these guys from doing what they did for us in

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Speaker 1: year one two doing some more and do some better

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Speaker 1: things for us in year two? Can Corey Davis make

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Speaker 1: as big a jump to year three as he did

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Speaker 1: in year two? I think he can. I think that

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Speaker 1: we've talked at nauseum about young receivers and they transition

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Speaker 1: to to this NFL game and to the multiple coverages

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Speaker 1: and the late rotation, the thes guy's you know, I

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Speaker 1: think just having another year in a similar system is

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Speaker 1: gonna you know, it would be. Corey's performance is no

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Speaker 1: different than our team's performance, where we just have to

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Speaker 1: be more consistent, and I know that he is a

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Speaker 1: ultimate hard worker. It's important to them. I've said this before,

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Speaker 1: our best blocking wide receiver and that rarely happens when

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Speaker 1: your number one receiver is your best blocking wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: Josh on Twitter would like to know we've seen this

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Speaker 1: team go through swings of intensity from game to game

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Speaker 1: throughout the season. Is this just kind of the way

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Speaker 1: it is with athletes, kind of the nature of sports,

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Speaker 1: or what can you do to avoid having a down performance?

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Speaker 1: I think that that's what we're striving for. I think

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Speaker 1: that that's the consistency that we've we've mentioned. I mean,

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Speaker 1: everybody can turn on a an NBA game or turn

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Speaker 1: on a baseball game, and you know, the records I

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Speaker 1: would say that in professional sports mean next to nothing.

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Speaker 1: I think that that's something that you have to look

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Speaker 1: at and say, records don't mean anything. It's it's how

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Speaker 1: the players play, It's how the coaches prepare them to play.

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Speaker 1: And if you don't play at a winning level, or

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Speaker 1: you don't play very well, you're gonna lose. And that's

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Speaker 1: very clear. And if you go out there and you

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Speaker 1: don't play well, you're you're supposed to lose. In the

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Speaker 1: National Football League or professional sports. All right, two more, Aby,

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Speaker 1: two more? That was stern. Yeah, I know, must be

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Speaker 1: getting hungry. We're watching your time, lunch time. He's done.

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Speaker 1: All right, Derek would like to know what would you

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Speaker 1: say are your top three most career defining moments, both

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Speaker 1: as a player and as a coach. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we won Super Bowl. I was an average

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Speaker 1: player on a great team. We want a couple of

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Speaker 1: Super Bowls. Um, you know, I think always getting your

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Speaker 1: first victory, you know, you wonder how long it's going

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Speaker 1: to take you to win a game as a head coach, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, and probably you know, beating the Patriots last

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Speaker 1: year was something that as as a head coach, considering

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Speaker 1: the time that I spent there. But hopefully there's better moments,

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Speaker 1: uh this year. Not being the Big Ten Offensive Player

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Speaker 1: of the Year twice All Pro Nah, I'm okay with

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Speaker 1: all that. Sorry, Mike Nice Try though, appreciate final social question,

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Speaker 1: what characteristics are attributes do you look for in young

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Speaker 1: men when you're projecting fits for your team's culture. So

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Speaker 1: it's got to be these guys have to care about

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Speaker 1: the team that I think that they have to be talented,

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Speaker 1: and we all understand that there has to be a

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Speaker 1: level of talent for their position that has to be

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Speaker 1: a part of what they do. But these guys that

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Speaker 1: are selfless, that care about the team, that have some energy,

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Speaker 1: they what are they when it when it gets tough?

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Speaker 1: Because so many players that come out they're the best player.

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Speaker 1: How do they handle not being the best player on

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Speaker 1: the team anymore? How do they handle getting punched back?

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Speaker 1: How do they handle this street fight that they're going

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Speaker 1: to be in on a weekly basis and our league?

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Speaker 1: How can they do that? And we don't want any

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Speaker 1: front runners. We don't want any guys that are entitled.

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Speaker 1: I want to try to eliminate and remove entitlement from

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Speaker 1: our program. So what kind of teammate aren't they? Do

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Speaker 1: they care about the team and are they willing to

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Speaker 1: are they coachable? And what level of development is still

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Speaker 1: left in their game? Is there? This is their ceiling

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Speaker 1: and we know that that's they're not going to get

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Speaker 1: any better? Or is this a player we feel I

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Speaker 1: can develop into, you know, a contributor or a starter.

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Speaker 1: You're walking in when you when you're drafted, you're walking

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Speaker 1: into a grown man league. I mean when you walked

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Speaker 1: into Pittsburgh. Was that the thing that was most striking? Yeah, like,

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Speaker 1: this isn't Purdue. This is no offense to Purdue Illinois.

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Speaker 1: I mean, these guys, you know, but this is you know,

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Speaker 1: the the Greg Lloyd played my position. I was scared

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Speaker 1: of death of them. He didn't talk to me for

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Speaker 1: four months, and you know, I didn't know what to do.

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Speaker 1: And I finally got into a fighting training camp with

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Speaker 1: a tight end and Greg Lloyd came over and he

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Speaker 1: looked at me and he said, yeah, next time in

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Speaker 1: his deep voice, he said, yeah, next time you get him,

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Speaker 1: hit him. He said, you hit him in the throat

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Speaker 1: with him, with you, you know. And I was like, Oh.

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Speaker 1: I was like, if if I knew that, this is

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Speaker 1: all I had to do for you to talk to me,

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Speaker 1: I would have gotten a fight in April because I've

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Speaker 1: been scared of death of you for four months. A

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Speaker 1: scary guy. Yeah, he wanted to make sure that I was,

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Speaker 1: you know, worthy of being a Pittsburgh Steeler. Apparently I

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Speaker 1: had to get in a fight with somebody. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I would have fought somebody in April if that's all

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Speaker 1: you know. I was scared of death of yet for

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Speaker 1: four months never talked to me. By the way, we

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Speaker 1: want to remind people we're doing some special things for

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Speaker 1: Titan season ticket members starting one, come all, Starting on Monday,

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Speaker 1: we're going to Jackson, Tennessee to see Titan season ticket

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Speaker 1: members there. You are involved in one and we want

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Speaker 1: to make sure that if you were a season ticket

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Speaker 1: member and you have not specified which event you'd like

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Speaker 1: to go to. Mike Vrabel will be with us on

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Speaker 1: the General Jackson, which will be docked right by Nissan Stadium.

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Speaker 1: We're doing a live broad casts. It's not a casino,

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Speaker 1: but it is a riverboat, but there will be If

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Speaker 1: you want a card game, we can get you a

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Speaker 1: legal like sometimes I put them on the water and

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Speaker 1: you can write yeah, not intend, not show boat not here.

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Speaker 1: So the General Jackson has parked at opery Land, but

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Speaker 1: it is coming down the Cumberland River. It will be

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Speaker 1: docked the East Bank landing by the Bridge building, which

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Speaker 1: is right by Nissan Stadium. John Robinson and Mike Vrabel

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Speaker 1: will be there. The night before the draft. Will be

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Speaker 1: doing a Titans radio special on our entire network six

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Speaker 1: to seven. That's Wednesday, April the twenty fourth, some of

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Speaker 1: the events are already filled up right, This one has

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Speaker 1: limited spots left for the season ticket members. Wednesday, April

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Speaker 1: the twenty fourth, reach out to your ticket rep or

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Speaker 1: buy season tickets and you can jump in. If you

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Speaker 1: buy season tickets right now today, you can. You can

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Speaker 1: go to this, you can go to this or Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's no wait list, like if you get tickets, you're

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Speaker 1: automatically Yeah, be agree with Mike Keith, meet and greet

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Speaker 1: with Mike Ray. If you're a new season ticket member,

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Speaker 1: we will make sure you meet Mike Rave. Done done.

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Speaker 1: That may scare him off. No, that won't scare him off.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, so am I Yeah, players back here. Coaching

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Speaker 1: stinks without players. Just so you guys know, Yeah, stinks

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Speaker 1: without players. You guys have been working hard. Monday is

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Speaker 1: gonna be fun though. Yeah, all right, don't leave because

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Speaker 1: we have to hit the closing music. Okay, so gotcha

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Speaker 1: see the closing music. I told you it gets very boss. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not getting Boston. We're just finishing the program. We're

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Speaker 1: finishing another week here and we're very excited. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for doing appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah, we're just pumped.

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Speaker 1: Thirteen days until players are drafted in Nashville for coach

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Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel and Amy Wells. Mike Keith says thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us for the OTP Road to Nashville. Have a

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Speaker 1: great weekend everybody,