WEBVTT - The OTP | Training Camp Wrap Up 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.400 This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.119 With Farm Bureau Health Plans, you'll get lower deductibles and 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:23.159 premiums and less hassles. Visit FBHP dot com. Along with 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.520 Amy Wells, I'm Mike Keith. Pleased to be joined by 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:29.640 our Titans radio partners, Coach Dave McGinnis and Rhet Brian. Welcome, 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:31.960 Thank you. It's great to be back on the OTP. 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:34.040 This is good, always good to be on the OTP 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.720 with his crew. How was it to see all of 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:41.240 the alumni at the Thursday practice today, Amy well First, 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.400 it made me feel kind of old because more and 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.960 more of the alumni coming back are people that I've 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.120 worked with. Now, when you've been someplace for a decade, 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:52.040 I guess that happens, but normally yeah, but it was. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.040 It was so good to see everybody come back. More 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.840 and more people are choosing to move to Nashville, and 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.720 so that's always fun to hear that. People are kind 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.880 of you know, they play in their respective teams and 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.759 then they come back to Nashville to settle down because 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:08.960 there's no place like home. There is no place like 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.559 m Coach Mack, how many of your guys were here today, 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.480 all of them that live in this area. It was great. 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:16.920 Retina and Amy were upstairs, you know where they're they're 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.080 all gathered, and what I really like not only seeing 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.640 the guys with their families. I mean, you know, I 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:23.600 mean Karl Kluge was up there, one of my all 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.120 time favorites. Was talking to him, and he and his 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.280 wife and then he had a whole gang with him 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.520 and a litter of childress got He's got little stair 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.800 steps and that, you know, that was really fun. It 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.600 was fun upstairs seeing all of them. And then Tory 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.160 Holt was here, you know with NFL Legends, and that 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.959 was great seeing Tori because I've got history with him 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.119 there at the RAMS and what a solid human being. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:46.240 I mean, it was a great day, it really was. 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.360 And great that Amy Adams Strunk wants these guys back 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.040 so much and they feel so welcome to come back. 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.080 That was the overwhelming feeling from all of the guys. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.200 Whether it was Kevin Long, or it was kenn A Motto, 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.840 or it was Andy Levitri who has moved back to town. 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.640 First of all, I didn't recognize the place, and just 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.680 the overwhelming feeling of generosity on her part and the 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.000 ownership group to still make them feel important because they 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.359 were a part of this all right, So I got 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.960 some business to take care of before we dive directly 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:22.840 into football. A week from today, Thursday, September first, we 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:28.480 the Titans are helping to celebrate nine oh one day 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.880 in Memphis. We share are we're going to Memphis and 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.560 very excited about that. A lot of things that the 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.480 organization will be involved in. But the four of us 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.839 coach Dave McGinnis, Amy Wells, Rhet, Brian and me, we 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.440 will be at rail Garden. Rail Garden, which is at 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.880 twenty one sixty sixth Central Avenue, will be there from 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.040 four to six pm and we are going to record 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.480 the OTP live. So, Amy, you like taking the show 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.480 on the road, I do, and now we're going to 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.679 take the show on the road to Memphis one week 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:01.880 from today, right. And we had a lot of people 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.760 ask us when we did the OTP road tour back 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.680 in the spring, are you going to Memphis? Why aren't 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.480 you coming to Memphis? And honestly, we couldn't go that 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.560 far because one of us was kind of a medical 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:19.480 risk and that person would be me and really say 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:24.040 medical risk. Well, if there's an ambulance an EMTs on standby. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.800 How about how about just saying with child, I'm not 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.000 trying to have a baby on a bus, is what 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.440 it came down to. And so now that the problem 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:37.240 has resolved itself, you're calling your kid a problem when 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.520 she doesn't sleep, she is a problem. Okay, But now 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.640 that I'm not pregnant anymore, we can go to Memphis, 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.080 and so the nine o one day felt like the 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.680 perfect time to do that. And we're so excited to 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:51.760 continue to take the show on the road. It's my 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:53.760 favorite thing to say. It's like a lovely ballad from 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.520 the early nineties with Vanessa Williams. We have saved the 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.720 best for last. Yeah, the Bluff City, We're coming. We'll 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:01.960 see you next Thursday. Yeah, we did it with some 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:07.120 rookie season ticket members on August fourteenth, and now Thursday, 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:11.200 September first, one week from today, for everybody in Memphis, Tennessee, 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:15.240 and the surrounding area. Rail Garden twenty one sixty six 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:19.039 Central Avenue, four to six pm. I'm hearing there maybe 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.720 Ribs involved with some of this trip. You know, I'll 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.520 do anything for Ribs. You guys know that I'm really 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.159 looking forward to this trip, and I'm going to just 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.000 go back to what Amy said just for a minute. 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:30.960 Then I'm gonna get off of it. I was very, 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.599 very disappointed she didn't have Livy Corey on the bus. 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:39.120 I didn't deliver Livy Corey on the bus. Yes, I 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.080 was not at all disappointed. Did you not think it 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.839 was weird that coach was pulling so hard for that rat? 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.200 In hindsight, yes, yeah, it was really odd. He really 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.839 want I was just fearful, as like, oh God, I 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:53.760 made it all the way through to eagle Scout. I 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.159 don't want to deliver this baby. I don't, but Ratt 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.440 was my choice of everybody on that bus. I drett 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.680 because he was an eagle scout. Figure it out. Up 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.560 some bed sheets, let's rock and roll. Boil some water, ye, 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.640 come here. They always boil water on TV. If you 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.720 ever noticed that, you don't know why there was no 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:15.960 water involved. I mean, now that I've done it, there's 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.559 no need for boiled water. Could have delivered the baby. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.640 I just wanted to narrate it. No, God, no, he 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.280 wanted to be the color Anily's color an I can't 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.240 think of it by play too, because this boy had 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:32.400 been out, I'd have been gone. I can't think of anything. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:37.839 Here's your line the other night RP. No, Well, the 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:42.719 whole thing would be, isn't there's someone more qualified? Yeah? Doctor, yeah, doctor. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.800 But fortunately I know a guy, and that's what I 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:46.400 would have done. I would have called a guy and 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.800 we would have gotten a guy, and I would have left. 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.680 He can do it. Maybe. Wells is not pregnant. Nope, 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.520 she has a child. Everything's great except the sleeping part. 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:58.640 And we're going to Memphis, and she's coming to Memphis 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.640 with us. Libby's coming to Memphis, so she'll be there. 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.919 And then I think some people are going to stick 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:08.159 around after the OTP taping at Rail Garden to watch 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.200 Tennessee open this season next Thursday against ball State. I 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.360 think that will probably happen. I think that is going 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:17.600 to happen. Yes. Southeastern Conference football. Vanderbilt opens this weekend 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:21.200 at Hawaii Hawaiia. They're they're out there at Hawaiian now. 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.840 In fact, that's why the Cardinals are practicing over They're 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:27.279 at Vanderbilt because Vanderbilt built is at Hawaii, and didn't 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.919 the Cardinals have to get out of Glendale because of 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.719 John bon Jovi. Did I hear that right, that bon Jovie? 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:35.600 I believe that is correct, Yes, yea. So they had 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:39.440 to clear out because they practice indoors. Once they come back, 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.440 do they still go to Flights Down? Oh? They practice 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.880 their whole training camp is there in the stadium because 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.440 it's air conditioned and it's a little bit warm there 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.720 in Phoenix this time of year during training camp. So 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.400 they practice in the stadium constantly. They've got a hotel 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.880 right there, right across the street where they keep their 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.040 players and their coaches, and so they were having to 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:58.719 move out anyway. They were going to come here to 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.800 play the Titans, and so a good move by them. 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.400 I spent a lot of time with them yesterday morning 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.840 before practice started, and then you know, I saw several 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.200 of them last night. I mean it was a plan move. 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.920 Is bon Jovi really big enough to kick out a 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.240 whole NFL team during training camp? Apparently? Like of all 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.559 the name like I mean, like I don't know Elton John, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.200 I'd do that far. Well, isn't the Rock and Roll 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.280 Hall of Fame? I mean there's roughly and he has 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.800 toured consistently of course, if he owned the Buffalo Bills 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.280 right now, you wouldn't be there. That's true. I'll tell 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.680 you that. That was an interesting story listening to him 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.800 tell Howard Stern about him trying to buy the Buffalo 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:43.760 Bills and how he says Donald Trump sabotaged him on 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.160 that because he didn't want him to own the team. 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.960 But he was going to move to Buffalo. He was 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:51.680 going to be an active owner, he was going to 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.520 stop touring. He was gonna all he was gonna do 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:56.880 is be the Buffalo Bills owner. And he was very 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.960 serious about it. Wow. Wow, that's commitment. If you say 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.559 I'll move to Buffalo. You know. I'm glad that coach 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:07.960 Mac clarified what the field situation is in their stadium 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.920 situation in the house that Mac built in Arizona, because 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.440 I called him during that Ravens preseason gave me that. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.280 I said, why does it look like they just had 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.600 the Shelbyville Celebration walking horse show in there? I don't understand, 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.400 what are we doing? Is it grass? They had a 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.360 concert there? Okay? And plus and plus they practice on 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.880 it all the time, and so what they'll do, you know, 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.600 before the season starts they'll slide that tray back out, 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:31.960 resaw the tray and then keep it out there in 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.200 the sun where it can grow. But they practice on 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.680 it every day and that's why right now it's got 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.360 some where to it. There was more divots there than 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.800 a polo match. Wow, it slides in and out right. 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.280 The mechanics of it are amazing. It's a huge tray 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.240 like how Houston's used to be. Yeah, and then Houston 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.120 couldn't keep it up. No, a lot of people got 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.880 hurt on it, right, lots of injuries. And Arizona theyn 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:55.480 keep it up because they got weather that can you 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.839 know that grows all year. I mean it's it was 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.080 a pretty it's pretty much of a mechanical moral we 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.400 why I was there when we went through it, mister Bidwell, 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.439 you know, went over to Amsterdam to look at a 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.760 soccer stadium that that did it and brought it back. 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:10.000 I mean, it's amazing. Tell me if you if you 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.760 could pick any place that would be the perfect site 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:18.760 to host training camp, I think Flagstaff, Arizona and Northern Arizona, 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.600 the university there, I think that would be perfect. It 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.439 was perfect. I mean I did it for eight years. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.160 It was absolutely beautiful. First of all, it's a destination 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.360 place because it's right on the way in the summer 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.480 to the Grand Canyon, and we would have four in 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.160 five thousand people a day at training camp. Of course 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:35.880 that's back when you went, you know, twice a day. 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.560 The biggest problem for me as a head coach and 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.080 even as a you know, as an assistant head coach, 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:45.040 there was the in the afternoon because the San Francisco 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.160 Peaks are there, which is the highest point they got 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.240 you know, snow skiing there, but it's the highest point 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.320 in Arizona. But because of the elevation there, it's at 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.120 seventy two hundred feet, they've got an Olympic training center 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.480 up there. Because of the elevation, you know, with the 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:02.000 whole oxygen thing, you've got real problems understorms every afternoon. 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.600 And with that those mountains comes the electricity and so 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.280 you're I mean, I became a real weather guru up 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.960 there looking at them, looking at dopper radar and trying 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.800 to decide when or when not to have you know, practice, 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.360 or to move it back or to move it up. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.520 But as far as a place to have it, it's 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.760 beautiful and we stayed in the dormitories, which were really nice, 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.160 but no air conditioning because it's sixty five degrees at 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.160 night in the in the mountains. It's like it's in 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.760 the mountains. And it was a beautiful place, had three 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.160 beautiful fields. I loved Flagstaff, you know. I had a 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.800 you know place in the summer and Flagstaff up there. 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.640 You really that I could go to. Yeah, And I 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.880 mean the whole thing was it's a great, great setup. Really, 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:40.840 it was a great setup. The only thing that happens 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.440 is is that when you come back down the mountain, 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.520 when you have to come back down the mountain, you 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.400 sit there and you watch that temperature gage in your 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.160 car go from eighty two to one hundred and eighty two, 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.480 you know. So it's a big difference when you come 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:56.160 back down the mountain. Sleep Away training camp is very underestimated. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:00.319 I think when you go off site four three weeks, 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.240 is it more beneficial in your opinion as a coach 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:08.200 to do sleepaway training camp? No, No, I like it 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.400 when I came. When I came here, and well, because 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.200 you've got everything here, it's a massive move. Ye, it's 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.840 a massive move for every for everybody that supports it. 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.320 I mean just you know, just for all of this 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:22.440 stuff you know that we do electronically, and it's a 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.040 massive but not for the ball club. It's not talking 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.760 about the players and the coaches. It's better for everybody 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.520 because you got you got familiarity as to where you are. 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.720 You're not uprooting things, You're not constantly having you know, 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.760 because you know, things always come up. These guys have families, right, 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.679 and if something comes up, they have to leave and 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.719 go you know, I mean because they have children that 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.120 I mean, things come up, you know that are more 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.520 important than football. It's much better. I've always thought that 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.560 on site, if your if your facility could handle it 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.840 was much better. Well, it's funny when we went in 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.760 two thousand and six to Austin, p they did a 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.360 really nice job up there, But it was funny. I 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.160 had a massive problem at my house that went on 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.679 while I was up there. And that's only an hour 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:09.319 fifteen from where I live. But to be several hours 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.360 away or like the teams that go to Wisconsin and 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.440 then they're right, I did that too. We went to Platform, Wisconsin, 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.000 you know, which is three and a half four hours 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.960 away from Chicago. And no way to get there, and 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:21.880 you know when you get up there and then you 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.120 know flagstaff, flagstaff three hours. I mean, it's it's it's 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.960 up there. So I can just what you said, we'd 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.640 always experience it when we were off somebody had something 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.240 come up just because of life. What impresses you most 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.280 about a Mike Vrabel training camp, Amy, I think the 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:41.920 speed of it. I think how quickly everything moves, and 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.160 how quickly all of the players are able to get 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:49.040 acclimated and they're able to start doing real, real work 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.560 that gets you prepared for the season right away. It 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:55.160 doesn't feel like there's a lot of revving up. It 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.920 doesn't feel like there's a really long acclamation period. It 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.040 feels like everybody right away, whether you're a VET who's 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.040 been with Mike Vrabel for four or five years, or 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:09.000 you're new to the organization, you understand the expectations, you 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:10.760 know the speed that he wants to go out, and 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.840 you're moving and I don't think every training camp in 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.400 the NFL is like that. I think some training camps 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.320 it takes a while to kind of get everyone on 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.960 the same page. When you can start getting real work done. 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.440 That's not the case in a Mike Varabel training camp. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.120 The consistency of it, I mean, he's very consistent with 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.840 what he does. Also the way that he is able 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.800 to manage his players during training camp. It's not all 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.240 just we're in training camp and so everybody's going to 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.720 go one hundred percent of the time, one hundred miles 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.360 an hour all the time. He understands it. He understands 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.760 it in a lot of levels, and he spends a 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.920 lot of time in his offseason planning that, preparing that, 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.679 and then also his flexibility. He is able to adjust 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.040 on the run and it looks like it's just a 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.880 continuous motion, but there's some adjustments that always take place. 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.600 But his consistency is what makes it really really good. 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.240 And plus he gives it. There's a lot of variety 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.800 to his to his training camps, and he does it 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.280 for a reason. We've all seen it, the different periods 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.199 he has when he has him how he does it, 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:13.079 he knows what he's doing. For me, it's the watching 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.960 coach Verbel teach and go from position group to position 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:21.640 group and knowing what he is looking for and what 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:28.560 he needs to see from them with you know, Ay's hands, feet, body, language, fundamentals, technique, 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.440 all of those things. And I was reminded of it 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.560 by by rookie Nicholas petit Frere the other day, who 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.040 who said in an availability, he said, I've never had 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.840 a head coach to come over and teach me one 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.840 on one and him knowing exactly what I needed to do. 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:45.840 And he said, it's not just my group. I see 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.880 him doing it with a dB and the linebackers and 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:53.000 the secondary and you know, the special teams. He's all 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.120 over the place and he is so he's hid. He's 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.440 the smartest coach I've ever had because I see him 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:03.040 working with everyone and he knows exactly what everyone is 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.560 supposed to be doing. It feels as if Mike does 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:09.000 a good job coach Mac of threading the needle between 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:14.080 being involved in the groups and yet not overshadowing or 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.560 usurping his position. Coaches great observation. Mike, he lets his 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.680 coaches coach. But at the same time, he's a ball coach. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.320 And this was how he was as a player. I mean, 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.240 this is how he had a double digit career, is 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.760 he was aware of everything that went on and as 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.760 a head coach, you know, I experienced it too. You 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.920 have to be able to be proficient in everything that 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.640 goes on, but you also have to be cognizant of 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.640 the fact you need to let your coaches coach. And 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.680 the thing that he does such a great job of 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.520 is any time that he wants to make corrections or 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.640 do those types of things or something that's going on, 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.360 he will always address that inside the building with his coaches. 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.080 But he never steps over his coaches on the practice field. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.920 That's something that you know that and as a former 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.800 head coach sometimes you know that's that's hard to do 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.240 because at the moment you want to step in, he 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.880 understands how to feel that. Plus, I mean he hires 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.240 coaches that know what they're doing. But that's an art. 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:11.560 That's an art to be able to let your coaches 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:13.800 coach and then be able if you're going to coach 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.240 your coaches do it in the building well. And he's 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.840 also so hands on. I mean, it's not that he 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.080 just walks over and says, nope, you need to be 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.760 doing this differently. I mean he gets in there if 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.600 he's going to show you how to make a change 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.400 or make a correction, especially with a lot of those players, 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.080 he gets down to their level. He's able to act 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.040 it out in the way that they need to be 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.360 doing things. He I mean, how many times have we 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.120 seen him with a chess pad or some sort of 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:44.160 weird bopping device where he is doing what needs to 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.680 be done because he can demonstrate it. He can show 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.600 a guy physically what they need to be doing or changing. 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.120 And I think that as a player, that's something that 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.960 you respect so much. Is this not just some guy 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.680 telling me what I need to be doing or trying 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.200 to teach me what to do. He can physically show 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.880 me what it is. He can physically do it with me, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.639 and it helps with the teaching part of it, and 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.960 it also probably helps kind of keep everything in line 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.080 as far as the chain of command with coaches, because 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.600 it's not like he's saying, Nope, you've been taught wrong. 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.240 It's let me help correct your technique. Here for a second, 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.480 I see something, let me just show you, and then 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.080 he can move on to the next thing. You hit 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.880 the nail on the head, Amy, it's a demonstrative practice. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.720 That's a better word. Yes, Well you said demonstrate. I'm 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:28.919 just saying that's what is one word I would describe 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:34.960 it it's a demonstrative hands on practice. Every practice. Derrick 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.320 Henry got more work in practice than we have seen 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.840 so far in training camp or at Brian. What did 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.960 you see from him? More of what you expect to see. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.800 I mean, twenty two is ready to go. That's the 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.840 question that we all get during the off season is 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.800 how's his health? How's his health? His health is fine, 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.920 and the indicator that the season is right around the corner. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.680 September the eleventh against the Giants, three twenty five kick 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.280 on Titan's radio. It's here and so big boys getting work. 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.720 He was in some eleven on eleven drills and you 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:08.800 can see some people got around his legs. So people 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.000 falling around his legs, and when you're watching it, that's 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.320 why you know they've been very judicious as far as 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.800 to doing that. But as far as Derek Henry goes, 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:17.960 I mean when he gets when he gets it, he's 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:19.440 taking it all the way to the end zone like 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.440 Walter Payton used to do every practice, take every run 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.879 to the end zone. He's ready to go. It's a 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:29.920 Derrick Henry is. I hope people really appreciate his time 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.720 here because you're you know, I spent some time with 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.800 the Cardinals people again, and every team that comes in 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:37.679 here where they say, you know, when they see him 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.119 in person, especially when his pads are off, when he's 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.920 out there after the practice, they go, WHOA, that's different. 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.080 But watching him now, we've been watching him, you know, 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:49.960 the whole time. But when he was in that that teams, 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.640 those team periods, I would say twenty two is probably 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.960 kind of riffed up. Mac made an interesting point about 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.640 the use of twenty two and you know, making sure 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.399 that he of course stays healthy and all of the 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.639 things that you watch people during camp, but you also 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.080 want to protect people around him who are trying to 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.520 make a play, you know. I mean, you really do 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.720 see people kind of get a little more tangled up 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:16.879 in each other in some of those eleven on eleven 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.520 drills when he's in the mix, because guys are trying 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:22.240 to show out, they're trying to stop him, they're trying 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:23.840 to make a play, they're trying to do the things 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:25.919 that you do at the end of camp, and you 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.360 don't want to see those guys get hurt either. I mean, 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.680 you want to keep everyone healthy and when you're going 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.760 a little bit harder to stop the big man out there, 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:36.320 the dynamics shifts a little bit. So that was an 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.920 interesting point that Mac made when we were watching practice, 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.720 just about why we haven't seen him so much. It's 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:44.840 not only for his safety, it's for the safety of 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:47.520 everybody else who's trying to show what they can do. 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:50.880 Ramped up. No doubt this week Derrick Henry will not 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:55.520 play on Saturday night against the Arizona Cardinals at Nissan Stadium. 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.879