1 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: This is the OTT. I'm Amy Wells. 2 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 2: We are joined by Titans radio greats Dave McGinnis better 3 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 2: known as coach Mac, and Rett Brian, and we're here 4 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 2: talking some training camp because, you guys, we've reached a 5 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 2: point where we've got a couple days of padded practices 6 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 2: under our belts. Now we've had about ten days worth 7 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 2: of practices on and off with walkers and joggers and 8 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 2: actual like full go practices, so we've got a fairly 9 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 2: good sample size. We're in a rhythm, we're in a 10 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 2: groove a little bit of training camp. So Mac, I 11 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 2: guess the question is, to this point, does this team 12 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 2: seem to be like on track with kind of what 13 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 2: you'd expect a team to be doing at this point 14 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 2: in camp? 15 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 3: Different teams had different personalities. This is a very young 16 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 3: football team. I mean I think I think that's gonna 17 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,279 Speaker 3: be the theme that I think to get across. This 18 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 3: is a young football team at some critical positions. So 19 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 3: you ask me, are they where they should be? 20 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:07,119 Speaker 4: Yes? 21 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,960 Speaker 3: They are? Now is everything going to be exactly a 22 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 3: picture perfect It's not. That's not how training camp works. 23 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 3: The other thing that all coaches in this league want 24 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 3: to do amy, and it depends on the tone and 25 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 3: the timber of your team. A veteran football team you 26 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 3: treat a little bit different than a young football team. 27 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,759 Speaker 3: But a young football team you want to put them 28 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 3: in as many tough situations as you can early to 29 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 3: see how they react. And that's extremely important because if 30 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 3: you don't ever test yourself as a player in practice, 31 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 3: and you and you and you play cautious in practice, 32 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 3: you're not going to survive in a game. You're just not. 33 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 3: So you ask me, are they where they should be? Yes, 34 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 3: they are with as young a team as this. 35 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 2: Is rit The thing that it seems we all forget 36 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,040 Speaker 2: as we're watching these practice is that. 37 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 1: The point is to practice. 38 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 2: The point is to figure out what works and what 39 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 2: doesn't work. Just like Mack was just saying, the point 40 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 2: is to mess some things up. 41 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 1: The point is to be in in. 42 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 2: A tough, hard situation, so you work through them, and 43 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 2: sometimes we watch them, we're like, oh, drop the ball, 44 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 2: bad team. It seems that dramatic, and sometimes we have 45 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 2: to recalibrate and be like, this is the point. 46 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 4: First of all, you're evoking thoughts of Alan iverson with 47 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 4: we're talking about. 48 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: Practice, talking about practice, not a game. 49 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 4: It is so important, and Mac hit the nail on 50 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 4: the head as he usually does. You know, we talked 51 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 4: about this in previous OTPs. Now that guys like KeAndre 52 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,519 Speaker 4: Coburn are not on the roster and that well Levis 53 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,359 Speaker 4: is on ir these things. I think it's less than 54 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 4: forty players from last year's squad that are on the 55 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 4: ninety one right now, and then the average median age 56 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 4: has got to be way down, because at one point 57 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 4: it was forty four of the ninety one or twenty 58 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 4: five years of age or younger. It's more than that 59 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 4: now and so a lot of young fellas are going 60 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 4: to be counted on. It depended on heavily in this 61 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 4: well guess what young players do. In fact, veterans still 62 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 4: do them occasionally, and that's make mistakes. But you're right, 63 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 4: I mean, the structure is there so that when you 64 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 4: get to a game, practice should be hard, so that 65 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 4: when you get to the game, the game is the 66 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 4: reward ultimately. But you got growing pains. That's where this 67 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 4: thing is. And you know, it's just like I had 68 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 4: someone ask me about watching the Hall of Fame game, 69 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 4: Like I'm not watching a minute of that and because 70 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 4: they're trying to get their teams right as well. Now, 71 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 4: if it was somebody the Titans were going to see 72 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 4: the preseason later or maybe week one or two, that'd 73 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 4: be different. But I have no interest in that because 74 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 4: we got to figure out what's going on here, because 75 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 4: there have been so many wholesale changes to them. And 76 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 4: that's what Brian Callahan and his staff are trying to 77 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 4: do is get all this wrangled into ninety minutes plus 78 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 4: of getting ninety one guys to do what you need 79 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 4: them to do. But yeah, it's never as good as 80 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,479 Speaker 4: it seems. It's never quite as bad as it seems either. 81 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 4: It's just what it is. And listen, for all the 82 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 4: talking about offense or cam Ward were throwing an interception. 83 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 4: Typically when the pads come on, the defense has the 84 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 4: advantage anyway regardless. I mean, we've seen this team with 85 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 4: veteran quarterbacks that had bad days because when you got 86 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 4: in the first few days of padded practice. I know 87 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 4: it's a long winded answer, but it's all true. 88 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 2: I think it's interesting that you bring up the defense 89 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 2: specifically because in the last couple of days with pads on, 90 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 2: they have looked pretty good. I mean, obviously there are 91 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 2: things to be changed and improved upon, but it seems 92 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 2: like mac this team is really thriving in year two 93 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 2: of Denard Wilson's scheme. 94 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 3: I've never in my thirty one seasons as a coach. Now, 95 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 3: not all of those were as a defensive coach, some 96 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 3: were as an assistant head coach over the whole team, 97 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 3: some were as a head coach over the whole team. 98 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 3: But in my thirty one training camps, I've never at 99 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 3: this point in training camp not seen the defense ahead, Okay, 100 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 3: not seeing the defensive ahead. And the other thing is 101 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 3: I give coach Callahan great credit because he's allowing Dinard 102 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 3: Wilson to stay with his install, and his install to 103 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 3: this point now is into some of his multiple blitzes. Now, 104 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 3: anytime you start blitzing early on and just bringing pressure 105 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 3: from everywhere, that's to the defense's advantage to begin with. 106 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 3: But that's what it's for, and that's for this young quarterback, 107 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 3: that's for the offensive line, that's for the But as 108 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 3: a general rule, and I can say this with pure impunity, 109 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 3: in thirty one seasons of training camps, I've never seen 110 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 3: at this point the defense not ahead of the offense 111 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 3: this summer. 112 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 2: Seat Geek has your ticket to the best live concerts 113 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:22,239 Speaker 2: in Nashville at Nissan Stadium. 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And and of course I 126 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 3: cut my teeth in line on linebackers in this league. 127 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:08,479 Speaker 3: But just the fact that and I was just when 128 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 3: I was starting to look at this roster, you know 129 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 3: that that area of behind the ball. Now, I've got 130 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 3: great confidence in Frank Bush. I know what kind of 131 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 3: coach he is. I've worked with him way too long. 132 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 3: He's a really good He's brought a lot of guys along. 133 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 3: But Cody Barton was a settling force for this defense 134 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 3: behind the ball, and he's he's made the two young 135 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 3: players James Williams and and and Gray made them better 136 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 3: too because now they're comfortable because he's directing them, he's 137 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 3: directing traffic. They're not worried about word to line up 138 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 3: or they're not worried about what the you know what 139 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 3: the offense is coming in because guess what the middle 140 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 3: linebackers telling them, Hey, move on over here, move this 141 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 3: so that they so that they can play. 142 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 4: Cody Barton, James Williams and his growth in year two 143 00:07:55,560 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 4: are something to me noted. Additionally, Kevin Winston June, You're 144 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 4: who works so hard to get to make sure he 145 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 4: was healthy when this thing started. Starting to see him 146 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 4: flash around the ball again. It's early, but if we're 147 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 4: going with a solid answer, I'm staying on defense and 148 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 4: I'm talking about Roger McCrary. It's super important for him. 149 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 4: In year four. We don't know what the status is 150 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 4: going to be with Lagarious need and when you take 151 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 4: him out of this, that's a pretty young secondary. When 152 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 4: you're talking about Jarvis Browne Junior in year two and 153 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 4: all the pieces and parts that are there. I mean, 154 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 4: Amani Hooker would be the oldest guy in the secondary 155 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:41,119 Speaker 4: basically or the most tenured. But Roger McCrary again continues 156 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 4: to be around the ball and to make something happen. 157 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 2: Is there ever a point Mac where the defense is rolling, 158 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 2: they're staying on kind of their install schedule like you've 159 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:56,839 Speaker 2: been talking about, and the offense says, well, we need 160 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 2: you to stop for a second, like pause, We've got 161 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 2: to do happen. 162 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 3: Yes, it happens, and it's a it's a very legitimate question. 163 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:08,079 Speaker 3: But that's that's coaching staff's talking about it. Okay, you 164 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,439 Speaker 3: know that they will they will talk about it and say, okay, look, 165 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 3: we need to start seeing a little bit more of this. 166 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 3: We need to start seeing some too high that we 167 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 3: can throw against a little bit and let let this 168 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 3: get let this get settled down. They've run quite a 169 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 3: few what we call call it periods as to where 170 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 3: it's not scripted. In other words, Donard's Dinards calling the 171 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 3: defense matching the personnel with the offense. The offense is 172 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 3: doing the same thing. They're they're they're those call it 173 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 3: periods are very very critical. So you can manage it. 174 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 3: That's the beauty of working against somebody else too, because 175 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 3: now you can have a lot of call it periods 176 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 3: against somebody else, but you haven't seen them before. So 177 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,959 Speaker 3: even if you're both playing your bass stuff, it's new. 178 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 3: Does that make sense? Absolutely, it's newest to what you're seeing. 179 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 3: That's why it's so smart what coach Callahan did setting 180 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 3: up going to two places to work out with this 181 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 3: young football team. Again, as I say, because with three 182 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 3: preseason games, you don't, especially what the team that's young, 183 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 3: you don't have enough padded practice work against real stressful situations. 184 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,440 Speaker 3: Now when you go to two teams, it's like having 185 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 3: five preseason games, which we used to have a lot of. 186 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 3: So anyway, that's a long answer to say, but there 187 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 3: is a time. It's got to be a yang and 188 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 3: a yang to it. It always is because at the 189 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 3: end of the day, you want the Titans to get better. Yeah, 190 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 3: I mean, it's practice is not a zero sum thing. 191 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 2: It's just not Well, it's interesting that you mentioned the 192 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 2: call it periods and explain for the ot people who 193 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 2: don't know what they are, because that was the listening 194 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 2: to you talk just then, was the first time that 195 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 2: it ever occurred to me that call it periods, while 196 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 2: always being beneficial for the players, are equally, if not 197 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 2: more so, beneficial for the coaching staff. 198 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:15,439 Speaker 5: Well. 199 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,679 Speaker 3: A communication, Yeah, the community, the communication is big and 200 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 3: plus you know, being able because you never stop your install, 201 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 3: but your install takes into consideration everything you've put in 202 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 3: on day one to where you are on day seven 203 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 3: or eight. So once you have a call it period, 204 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 3: all of that roller dex is open to you. So 205 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 3: the players not only it's not only what they've worked 206 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 3: on that day. 207 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: It's anything. 208 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,080 Speaker 3: It's anything. Yeah, and so that's that's a big plus. 209 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,439 Speaker 2: All right, let's switch over to offense. And we haven't 210 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 2: really done a deep diving cam Ward. We've let a 211 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 2: lot of other people, a lot of other pundits really 212 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 2: talk about him. 213 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 3: We're not pundits, no, we're not. 214 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 2: So I want to take some time here to talk 215 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 2: about what you've seen from him, what you like, which 216 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 2: you don't like, where where you're feeling about cam Ward. Rhett, 217 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 2: he had an interesting quote the other day that's getting 218 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 2: a lot of attention where he said he feels like 219 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:11,839 Speaker 2: this offense is very mid right now. A lot of 220 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:17,200 Speaker 2: people are taking that as a a knock. Maybe that like, 221 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 2: MID is bad. Tell me why MID is not bad? 222 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:27,719 Speaker 4: Well, it has a negative connotation. Yeah, uh, because the 223 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 4: kids say it, they say that's mid. The mid, if 224 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 4: you're going by literal definition, is not the best, but 225 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 4: it's also not the worst. I just think there's things 226 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 4: that need to be worked on and built off of. 227 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 4: I like the important here. The things I've gotten from 228 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 4: cam Ward's availabilities in the last few days, one is 229 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 4: just he doesn't care about the outside noise. He is 230 00:12:55,880 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 4: insulated into what he's doing here, and it's fortified by 231 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 4: something else. He said in another availability that I thought 232 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,960 Speaker 4: was very interesting. We have realized and certainly as we 233 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 4: started to see that they were gravitating towards him as 234 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 4: the number one overall pick. Hearing about his family dynamic 235 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 4: and how his parents are. They're workers. Work ethic is 236 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 4: strong in that family. Competition is strong in that family. 237 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 4: And cam said it recently. He said, if my dad 238 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 4: can get up at four point thirty in the morning 239 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 4: to go to a job that he hates, I shouldn't 240 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 4: have any problem getting up early and going to a 241 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 4: job that I really like. And he said, in my opinion, 242 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 4: good things come to those who put the work in. 243 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 4: And I'm like, that resonates with me because I think 244 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 4: about my dad worked physical labor his whole life. He 245 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 4: worked twenty five years at the Nissan plant and retired, 246 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 4: but worked and built lots of important things in construction 247 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 4: before that, and he instilled that and my mother too, 248 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 4: So that resonated with me. That's a takeaway. It's just 249 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 4: the foundation of who he is. And I think the 250 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 4: other part is the on field stuff. I saw him 251 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 4: at one point in one of the padded practices where 252 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 4: he actually goes into the defensive huddle and it's chirping 253 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 4: like he's people want to talk about that day. He 254 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 4: and Big Jeff got into it a little bit. The 255 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 4: moment's not too big for him. He appears to be fearless. 256 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 4: That competitive layer is there and it's strong, and that 257 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 4: if he makes a mistake, brush it off, let's go 258 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 4: to the next one. I just those are just the 259 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 4: initial things that I've seen, and he knows the work 260 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 4: is laid out there and there's a lot of it 261 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 4: to do. But I think I hear him coming from 262 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 4: a good place and admitting so much. In so many words, 263 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 4: there's a lot. I don't no, I don't know what. 264 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 4: I don't know, but I'm working towards it. 265 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 2: Mac you've worked with a lot of rookies throughout your career, 266 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 2: safe to say that cam Ward is not your typical 267 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 2: prototype for rookie coming into this lead. 268 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 3: He's way more material beyond his years, and I think 269 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 3: that comes a little bit. What Rev's talking about is upbringing. 270 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 3: But also, I mean his journey that he's been on, 271 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 3: it wasn't an easy journey. This was a five star 272 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 3: dude that had everything handed to him coming out of 273 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 3: West Columbia Brazoria. I played with dudes from West Columbia 274 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 3: Brazoria when I was at school at TCU. I mean, 275 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 3: you got to have some water in your bucket coming 276 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 3: out of West Columbia Brazoria down there on the coast. 277 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 3: But to be a zero star and to work through 278 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 3: three different universities to get to the point where people 279 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 3: notice you in the NFL at there's a lot to him. 280 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 3: But he's very honest. He's completely honest. He's being honest, 281 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 3: and he's un bothered by the noise that doesn't matter. 282 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 3: I mean there's this league engender's noise around coaches around players, 283 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 3: and if you're going to be in it and you're 284 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 3: going to be successful in it, you've got to learn 285 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 3: to keep the focus on what you're doing and not 286 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 3: worry about what people that think they know what you 287 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 3: should be doing are saying. Doesn't matter, and he's he's 288 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 3: able to brush that off pretty easily. 289 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 2: He's established relationships, we know, with people at Calvin Ridley, 290 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 2: and Calvin Ridley in my evaluation, which you know, take 291 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 2: that for what it's worth, has emerged as a leader 292 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 2: that I don't think he was in twenty four. I 293 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 2: think he's walked into more of a not just being 294 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 2: a veteran, because obviously he was a veteran last year, 295 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 2: but you see him intentionally seeking out cam Ward, intentionally 296 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 2: seeking out some of the younger receivers, intentionally seeking out 297 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 2: these different guys on the offense and bringing them along. 298 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 2: It's not just about what Calvin Ridley is able to 299 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 2: do and his skill set and all of the athletic 300 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 2: attributes that he brings to a football team. Now it's 301 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:15,199 Speaker 2: about Calvin Ridley as an athlete, but also as a 302 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 2: mentor and as a leader within that offense. Well, how 303 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:23,360 Speaker 2: beneficial do you think that is to someone like cam Calvin. 304 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:28,679 Speaker 3: Ridley is a veteran player that realizes how important it 305 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 3: is for this young quarterback to develop. Yeah, that's what 306 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 3: he's done. He realizes that most veteran players reach a 307 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:45,199 Speaker 3: point in their career where it's not just about their career, 308 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 3: it's about how the people around me can help the 309 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 3: whole team. He realizes that really quick, that's that's that's 310 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:04,360 Speaker 3: a sign of a mature player. And Calvin Ridley knows that. 311 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 3: You know, not only is it a quarterback receiver thing, 312 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:12,239 Speaker 3: but it's a veteran acceptance thing of this guy's got 313 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 3: a chance to really help us, but he's very young, 314 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:20,640 Speaker 3: and so it's I'm not very young. I'm a veteran. 315 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,879 Speaker 3: I understand what this is about and that there's nothing 316 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,879 Speaker 3: like time on task in this league to teach you. 317 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 3: So if you have somebody that's willing to teach you 318 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 3: from what they've learned, it accelerates your learning curve. 319 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 4: The other part of it is that Calvin Ridley is 320 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 4: right now he is wide receiver number one for the 321 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:50,120 Speaker 4: Tennessee Titans. So there's a place of he's never been 322 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 4: lacked for confidence at all, but there's a place that 323 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:56,360 Speaker 4: he's coming from, knowing that but never taking it for granted. 324 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 4: Every guy has a different path to meet at an 325 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 4: NFL facility to become a teammate. His path was much 326 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 4: different than cam Wards. And you got to remember it 327 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 4: hadn't been that many years ago. He was out of 328 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 4: football for an entire year when he was at Atlanta, 329 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 4: yep for something off the field that he paid his 330 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:18,919 Speaker 4: debt and moved forward. And then when he got his 331 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 4: opportunity and made some numbers in Jacksonville and then they 332 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 4: were able to steal them away and bring him here, 333 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 4: he's never looked back. I mean you're talking about he 334 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 4: didn't have one hundred yard game until the Detroit game 335 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 4: last year and then still had over one thousand receiving yards. 336 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 4: He also knows that, yes, he's he's pouring into the 337 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 4: young quarterback and all these young receivers and his teammates. 338 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 4: He knows it takes eleven and twenty two and then 339 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 4: you know, the forty six active on game day to 340 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 4: get it done. So if I give that extra ten 341 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 4: percent and instill that and invest that into my teammates, 342 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,119 Speaker 4: it's gonna pay dividends because at the end of the day. 343 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 4: He's got the same goals, he just wants to win. 344 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 2: Hey Titans fans, with a Kroger Boost membership, you'll score 345 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 2: big with double fuel points, free delivery, and lots more. 346 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 2: Go to Kroger dot com slash boost for details. Kroger 347 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:18,359 Speaker 2: the official grocer of the Tennessee Titans. Titan NU home 348 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,120 Speaker 2: is the forefront of all we do. It's why we're 349 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 2: so committed to caring for the places and spaces in 350 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 2: which we work and live. Ashley, the official furniture provider 351 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 2: of the Tennessee Titans. 352 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:31,640 Speaker 1: Now back to the OTP. 353 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 2: I would like to talk about Taj Spears though, because 354 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:40,199 Speaker 2: as we're talking about people who have experienced maybe an 355 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 2: understanding of what their role looks like in twenty five 356 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 2: and some maturity and some growth in whatever different way 357 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 2: on the field, mentally, physically, spiritually, whatever it's happening all 358 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 2: across the offense it feels like. 359 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: And Taj Spears is one of those guys. 360 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 2: He has a physical difference I think from twenty four 361 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:07,199 Speaker 2: to twenty five, and I think a mental difference is 362 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 2: what we're all noticing, right. 363 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,640 Speaker 4: Have you noticed that definitely? Is he is more dialed 364 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 4: in It was more akin to his rookie year, and 365 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 4: not that he didn't put in work in twenty twenty four. 366 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 4: But I can only describe Taja Spears as twenty twenty four. 367 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,640 Speaker 4: It was kind of like the Titans twenty twenty four. 368 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 4: It's Murphy's law. Anything that could happen did. There was 369 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 4: off the field stuff, on the field stuff. The biggest 370 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 4: thing is he ran into obstacles with his health, two 371 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,680 Speaker 4: different concussions, had a handstring. I think it kept him 372 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 4: out of five games. It was just one of those things. 373 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 4: If you want to sum up Taja Spears is twenty 374 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:51,880 Speaker 4: twenty four, and he would disagree with this. But Week 375 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:55,400 Speaker 4: seventeen in Jacksonville, Tony Pollard's banged up. They put him down, 376 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 4: let him have a rest that week, and here we are. 377 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,160 Speaker 4: And I went back look at the game book. Three 378 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,679 Speaker 4: minutes and twenty three seconds left in the third quarter, 379 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:08,199 Speaker 4: he has nineteen carries for exactly one hundred yards. WHOA 380 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,400 Speaker 4: And then the next play, josh hinz Allen comes into 381 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 4: the backfield hits him for a five yard loss, his 382 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 4: second concussion. That ends his season. And not only that, 383 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 4: it takes away his first hundred yard game ninety five yards. 384 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,199 Speaker 4: There was still the whole fourth quarter to go. He 385 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 4: was on track to have a career day and that 386 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 4: is in a Nutshelle in one game and less than 387 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 4: sixty minutes on four quarters of play. What his twenty 388 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:40,879 Speaker 4: twenty four was like and he came back a different guy. 389 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 4: It's clear he comes out there. He's one of the 390 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 4: first dudes out of the building every day to practice. 391 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:53,640 Speaker 4: There's a renewed focus and purpose there and hearing his 392 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 4: availability this week, he talked about living in the moment 393 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 4: and segmenting life and Okay, that's done, Let's move to 394 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 4: this and not dwelling on things that didn't go the 395 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 4: way that he wanted it to, not dwelling on a 396 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 4: fumble he had, any of those things. There's clearly a 397 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 4: growth here and I think you'll see it on the 398 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 4: football field. 399 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 1: I think so too. 400 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 2: We actually had the chance to talk to Taja Spears 401 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 2: a couple of days ago. 402 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 1: And I will warn you it's a little bit of 403 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: a chaotic interview. 404 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,120 Speaker 2: We talked about a lot of his mental state and 405 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 2: how he's growing and changing. But then we also have 406 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 2: some cameos from people like Jakwan Jackson and Big Jeff, 407 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,920 Speaker 2: So check this out. Taj Spears, running back for your 408 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans, joins us right here on the OTP. Now, Taja, 409 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,199 Speaker 2: I've just got to ask you, because you look like 410 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 2: you're having so much fun. How good does it feel 411 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 2: to be healthy and playing football? 412 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 6: First thing you gotta do is thank the Lord because 413 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 6: I've been through, you know, last year, I've been through 414 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 6: quite a few battles throughout the season. It's just this 415 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,919 Speaker 6: off season, just prepping, getting my body right, getting my 416 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:08,880 Speaker 6: mind right. So I just wanted to give a big 417 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 6: shout out to the Lord. It's so fun. 418 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so fun. 419 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 1: You look like you're having fun. 420 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 6: I am, Yeah, I am, I am, I am. 421 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 5: I am. 422 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 6: I was finna going through details by I am because 423 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 6: the Lord is so good, so good, because like I 424 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 6: don't know. 425 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 5: It's just like like he's just. 426 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,679 Speaker 6: Doing something to my soul right now, and I just 427 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 6: want to be able every chance I get. I just 428 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,440 Speaker 6: want to say thank you to him, and of course 429 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 6: thank you to everybody around me too. 430 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,360 Speaker 2: You know, people are noticing that it's not just you 431 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 2: that's feeling at I think other people are noticing that 432 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 2: something's happening in you. Because all of the comments that 433 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 2: we heard during the off season, as you're going through 434 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,360 Speaker 2: the off season program, you know, and all of the things. 435 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 2: It wasn't just about what you were doing on the field. 436 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 2: It was about how mentally you were different. You seem 437 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,399 Speaker 2: more mature, you seem more in sync, you seem more 438 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 2: almost in alignment. 439 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 1: Are you Are you feeling that? 440 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 2: Are you surprised that people are noticing that? 441 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 5: That? 442 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 6: That's that was one of my biggest things, like taking 443 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 6: my shift off of what people was thinking and noticing, 444 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 6: and like focus on Taj the way he's noticing about hisself. 445 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 6: And I do feel a maturity, I do feel a 446 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,439 Speaker 6: I do feel a connection with myself, and I do 447 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 6: feel the consistency. So yeah, and it's just that's just 448 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,360 Speaker 6: something you build on. It's just like like I'm honestly 449 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,120 Speaker 6: pride pride in myself every day to be the best 450 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 6: version of myself I can. I can show up ass 451 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 6: no knowing days wasn't perfect. I wasn't perfect at all 452 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 6: to day practice, but I guess I showed up as 453 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 6: my best self and that's all I can do. 454 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 5: Well. 455 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 2: And you had some big moments at practice today. You 456 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 2: made some big plays you know, I usually be. 457 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 5: So hard on myself. Yeah, all on myself. 458 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: Now, I'm great. How are you? 459 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 2: What have you noticed about Taj Spears being back here 460 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 2: at training camp? 461 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: Tell me tell me about your guy over here? 462 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,360 Speaker 7: Oh man, a lot of energy, fantastic, Yeah, a lot 463 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 7: of speed breaking tackles, doing what you always do. 464 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing different, He's just same old. 465 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:13,199 Speaker 6: He is. 466 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 7: Either is either he cut the cut the beard off 467 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 7: and keep the stash, or he do a different hairstyle. 468 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 2: Okay, So how do you decide what it's going to be? 469 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 2: What's the plan for this year? 470 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 5: Tell the people it's a game time decision. 471 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 6: It's a game time decisions. I'm in I'm in a 472 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 6: barber chair. Yeah, and I'll be like, man, I'm gonna 473 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,479 Speaker 6: keep it. Man, I'm gonna cut it. It's just a 474 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 6: game time decision. 475 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 2: Of all the styles he's had, which one was the 476 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 2: best one? 477 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 5: Oh? Lay, I'll probably say. 478 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 7: When it's all out, Really, there's nothing just regularly double 479 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 7: strand twists? 480 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 5: Okay? 481 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: Is that an option? 482 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 5: Something like that? 483 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 7: Is that an option like double strand twists? Or want 484 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 7: to just buy himself hanging down and we could just 485 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 7: flick it back and just you know it, let it flow. 486 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 2: Do you want do you want to take a picture 487 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 2: as like an inspo that you can take with you? 488 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 5: Yes? Of course. 489 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 2: You get a camera over here so we can all 490 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 2: all take over. We need in pictures for for Ta's hair. 491 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 1: Here do. 492 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 5: Try to take a pit had hold of mic? 493 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 1: Perfect? 494 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 5: All right? 495 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:27,919 Speaker 1: So now you're ready to go to the barber? 496 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,920 Speaker 6: Oh no, not yet, not yet. I'm just I'm going 497 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 6: through the process right now. 498 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: So is that a post capter? 499 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 7: How about you cut his hair? 500 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:36,160 Speaker 3: Oh? 501 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 5: How about? How about it? 502 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 2: I need you to know I cut my husband's hair 503 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 2: in the backyard. It's nothing fancy, it's a bus cut, 504 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:45,879 Speaker 2: but I can do it for you. 505 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 5: It's a bird chirping when he was cutting it. 506 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,719 Speaker 1: No, I don't know what that means. Were they birds 507 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: chirping outside? Maybe? 508 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:54,680 Speaker 5: Yeah? Let me tell you fun fact about me. 509 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 6: I love sitting in my backyard with a bird stirping, 510 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 6: sunlight so beautiful. 511 00:27:58,359 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 5: You do? 512 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 1: That's a your zen moments. 513 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,160 Speaker 5: My zen moment. Okay, I have my shoes on though. 514 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: Like it? 515 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 3: I like it. 516 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: I'll cut your hair. You won't like it? 517 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 5: You can't, don't, don't you won't enjoy to do? Yeah? 518 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:16,359 Speaker 5: Don't touch to do. 519 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, you won't like You won't like it. You would 520 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 1: not enjoy that you got. 521 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 5: We probably got to do something else. 522 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,360 Speaker 1: You will probably leave it to the professionals, but I. 523 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 5: Will probably got to get ice cream. 524 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna need a YouTube video. 525 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,400 Speaker 7: N Sorry for crashing the video, but tighten up, tighten up. 526 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 5: That's my that's my wave brother. That's my wave brother. 527 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 5: I love him to jeth man. I love him the jet. 528 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 1: You guys have like seen a lot of life together, 529 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 1: the two of you. 530 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 5: Yeah, we have. 531 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:50,239 Speaker 6: Man, it's that's so beautiful. Uh, just not knowing them 532 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 6: from a canna paint. My first day getting to college, 533 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 6: we was in we was in the same dormitory together 534 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 6: and just meeting him getting to know them, complete asshole. 535 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 5: Excuse my language, but please, that's that's that's my brother. 536 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 6: Though, Like, that's my brother, and he look out for 537 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 6: me when I can't coming for myself. 538 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 5: He's coming for me. 539 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 6: And you know, I the little bit I do for him, 540 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,959 Speaker 6: I I bet there for him too. So man, I'm 541 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 6: I'm nothing but thankful for him. 542 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 5: And he's not an asshole. He's really a great guy. Man. 543 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 6: He he had my back when he had my back 544 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 6: when I ain't had my own back. So each and 545 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 6: every day pushing me, get waking me up on time, 546 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 6: and taking care of my dogs. 547 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 5: Big thanks Mallow and Valentine. I love y'all. 548 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 6: But yeah, he took care of my dogs, like taking 549 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 6: care of my family, keep in contact with my dad, 550 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 6: make sure my mom straight, make sure everybody's straight. 551 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 5: So he's everything I could asks for the brother. 552 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 2: See, and that's a that's a great thing to have 553 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 2: as you're pursuing a career that's not only just bigger 554 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 2: than yourself. I mean, you're a professional athlete, you're part 555 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 2: of a massive industry, but you have someone here to 556 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 2: really help keep you grounded, keep you real, and keep 557 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 2: your head on straight. 558 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 5: Yeah, and you need that. 559 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 6: You need that because like not just like like the theme, 560 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 6: it's like social things, but like the pressure is gonna 561 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 6: take you for so many different loops, like the pressure 562 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 6: to perform, the pressure to to keep in contact with 563 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 6: your family so much, so many different pressures can just 564 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 6: like deteriorate you. But like having a brother to bill 565 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 6: up each and every day, Like that's a different guy. 566 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 1: Talk to me about stuff on the field. 567 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,479 Speaker 2: Where do you feel like you've improved technically this season. 568 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 6: I'm just really just being on the field, just going 569 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 6: through the reeds, like going through the reeds, like where 570 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 6: do the ball supposed to go, and like what's supposed 571 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 6: to happen? 572 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:29,360 Speaker 5: Jeff. I'm mad at Jeff right now. 573 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 2: He was practice to day y'all fighting, Yes, yes, yeah, Hey, 574 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 2: Tad the clip and you tell me if he helped 575 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 2: me down. 576 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 5: Haulk him down yesterday. That's what y'all y'all heard, Cali, 577 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 5: he said. It's in the media CALLI told the media 578 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:47,720 Speaker 5: day already that it was action on him there. But 579 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 5: I made him run that. If it wasn't for me, 580 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 5: he wouldn't have ran that down. If it wasn't for me, 581 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 5: he wouldn't have ran that. That's the fast you ever 582 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 5: ran because of me. 583 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 2: Okay, I gotta ask why is everybody on this team 584 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 2: feeling it's important to come over here and bother you 585 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 2: right now? 586 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 5: Because I'm a good person. 587 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 6: Yeah person, I usually probably stop buying bothering them, but 588 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 6: now I'm a good person. 589 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 5: It's like you say, it's just the energy, like people. 590 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 6: Not gonna come to people not gonna come mess with 591 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,959 Speaker 6: somebody to have bad energies like it's all about enjurgy, haveing, 592 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 6: good energy, and just try to be the best you 593 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 6: can't be every day. 594 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 2: Do you feel like this team has a better energy 595 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 2: than you've ever experienced before. 596 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 5: I do. 597 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 6: We are all fine around you know. Of course, it's 598 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 6: day two, but I don't believe in like day two. 599 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 5: I believe it stack in the day. 600 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 6: So of course, like we're in training, camping, the day 601 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 6: is getting longer and harder, but I feel like. 602 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: It's I feel like it's great, Taj. 603 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 2: This has been the most chaotic and the most entertaining 604 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 2: interview we've done in a long time one. This is 605 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 2: definitely gonna be my best one. So thank you for 606 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 2: taking the time. 607 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, and tighty Frians. I love y'all. 608 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 2: I think that when you have that many people teammates 609 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 2: crashing your interviews, coming in to talk nice about you 610 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 2: in the case of his fringe Kwan Jackson, or kind 611 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 2: of give you a hard time in the case of 612 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 2: Jeffrey Simmons, I think that says you're a pretty universally 613 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 2: liked guy. 614 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:12,920 Speaker 5: Mac. 615 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: Is that what you have found in your history to 616 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 1: be true? 617 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 3: They respect him, yep, because the kid's a ballplayer. The 618 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 3: guy's a ballplayer, and retch right, he had a really 619 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 3: good rookie year. He really did. But when you hurt, 620 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 3: then all of a sudden it's different, and then you've 621 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 3: got to read. Then you've got to regenerate yourself. Well 622 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 3: he's done that. But he's very well respected by his 623 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 3: teammates because once it's kicked off, he plays ball and 624 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 3: he loves playing ball. I just want him to be healthy. 625 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 3: If he's healthy, he is going to be a very, 626 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 3: very big contributor for this team. 627 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:54,840 Speaker 4: I think one of the things he would tell you 628 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 4: is that one of the things he was not as 629 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 4: prepared for as he'd like to have been in a 630 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 4: year two is the revolving door and changes that there 631 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 4: always is on a team. In his position group specifically, 632 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 4: I don't think there are a lot of players that 633 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 4: probably would, if they were honest and open with you, 634 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 4: would tell you, you know, I wouldn't really for that. 635 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 4: I didn't realize player X, y Z, whatever one's going 636 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 4: to be in his locker room or locker next to me. 637 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 4: The business part of it comes up and reminds you 638 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 4: sometimes harshly in this But yeah, I love Jeff getting involved, 639 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 4: and of course he's going to talk smack. Of course, 640 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 4: his teammate Jakwan Jackson's going to come in and crash 641 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,320 Speaker 4: the party a little bit. But I think Max right, 642 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 4: there's a level of respect there because he is a player, 643 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 4: and I mean literal definition of the player part of it. 644 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:53,800 Speaker 4: Just he can play, but he's an endaring person. He 645 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 4: will be one of those guys to say, hey, you good, 646 00:33:58,520 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 4: let me check on you. 647 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 5: You good? Yeah? 648 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm good too. You know, what's I just you know, 649 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 4: I'm the president of the fan club. Max got pointed out, 650 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:13,880 Speaker 4: But it's true. He is one of the very solid 651 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,400 Speaker 4: persons on this football roster. A good person. 652 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but there's a and I mean, he's one 653 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 2: of a couple really good people on this roster. One 654 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,520 Speaker 2: of the things that I'm quickly learning, and it has 655 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,719 Speaker 2: been consistent throughout my time with the Titans anyway, is 656 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 2: that one of the things that makes a Titan a 657 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 2: Titan is being a good human. We don't have too 658 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,759 Speaker 2: many people in these locker rooms that are not good 659 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,919 Speaker 2: people in my estimation anyway. All Right, speaking of good people, 660 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,560 Speaker 2: there are a lot of good people going back to 661 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,400 Speaker 2: work in the coming days and weeks, because there is 662 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 2: more training camp to get through and the Titans are 663 00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,879 Speaker 2: getting reaid ready to go on a pretty substantial road trip. 664 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:56,680 Speaker 1: They are going to. 665 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,839 Speaker 2: Tampa joint practice with the Bucks. They're going to play 666 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,000 Speaker 2: their first preseason game there. Then they are going straight 667 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,400 Speaker 2: from Tampa to Atlanta, where they're going to spend a 668 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:10,040 Speaker 2: week in Atlanta doing joint practices with the Falcons, also 669 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,080 Speaker 2: doing some independent work, and then they'll play their second 670 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,600 Speaker 2: preseason game in Atlanta before coming back to Nashville. All on, 671 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 2: all of the trip is about ten days, give or 672 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,440 Speaker 2: take a couple hours mac. How does a trip like 673 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,520 Speaker 2: that benefit a team like the Titans, Well, it's like it's. 674 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:25,960 Speaker 4: Like it was. 675 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:32,080 Speaker 3: See nowadays, not very many people go away to camp 676 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:36,000 Speaker 3: anymore because the facilities have been built out everywhere that 677 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 3: you stay at, the familiarity. We go back to a 678 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:43,319 Speaker 3: young football team. These guys now for ten days it's 679 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:48,160 Speaker 3: going to be us against them boot camp, boot camp. 680 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,640 Speaker 3: They there and they're going to live with each other, 681 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,359 Speaker 3: and there's a lot that comes out of that. I mean, 682 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,920 Speaker 3: I've had thirty nine training camps and I know that, 683 00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:01,080 Speaker 3: you know, living together in a dormitory when everybody's got money, 684 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,080 Speaker 3: and you're leaving a really nice house and a nice bed, 685 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 3: and you know, there's just there's something about it, and 686 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:12,600 Speaker 3: this we talk about making players uncomfortable on the field, 687 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:17,400 Speaker 3: get out of your comfort zone and kind of have 688 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,800 Speaker 3: to depend on the people around you. I like what 689 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 3: we're doing. 690 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,840 Speaker 4: Yeah. You there are still a handful of teams that 691 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,920 Speaker 4: I think about Pittsburgh or is it they go Latrobe? 692 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:28,399 Speaker 3: Yeah? 693 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:30,640 Speaker 4: Is it Latrobe? 694 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:31,480 Speaker 5: Yeah? 695 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:35,640 Speaker 1: Latrobe pay Yeah, the Cowboys go. 696 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,160 Speaker 4: To and the birthplace of Arnold Palmer. I think Latrop, Pa. 697 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe a couple of times. 698 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:42,320 Speaker 5: That's all I know. 699 00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:45,680 Speaker 4: I think about them every year, and the Cowboys and Oxnard, 700 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 4: and there's reasons why they do that. This type of 701 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:54,560 Speaker 4: ten day window is one of those main reasons. And 702 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,439 Speaker 4: I think that was very smart on Brian Callahan's part 703 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:01,520 Speaker 4: to orchestrate something where it's like, listen, we got so 704 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,279 Speaker 4: many new and moving parts here, let's just put it 705 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 4: and listen. I go back to his friend Jeff Fisher, 706 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,080 Speaker 4: the former coach here, and what they went through in 707 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:16,000 Speaker 4: four different seasons after they left Houston, they played in 708 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,960 Speaker 4: four different stadiums. At four years, they played in the Astronome. 709 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,480 Speaker 4: They played in Memphis, they played at Vandy, they played 710 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:25,560 Speaker 4: at what is now Nissan Stadium, and all they had 711 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 4: was each other and their families. 712 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:27,840 Speaker 5: That's it. 713 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:34,399 Speaker 4: Like they were vagabonds, they were gypsies, and they had 714 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:40,120 Speaker 4: building block cornerstone pieces and added to the fold. But 715 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,920 Speaker 4: they had melded together by the time nineteen ninety nine happened. 716 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,200 Speaker 4: And all right, it's weird. I kind of have those 717 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,520 Speaker 4: same kinds of feelings here. They were in a better 718 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,960 Speaker 4: place roster wise back then, but there's that same kind 719 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,200 Speaker 4: of feel to this. It's like Max, right, it's us 720 00:37:58,440 --> 00:37:59,120 Speaker 4: against them. 721 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:04,200 Speaker 2: Well that is that's the next step on this Titans 722 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,560 Speaker 2: training camp journey, and we're gonna get you there because 723 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,480 Speaker 2: of course the OTP IS may to be there every 724 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:13,719 Speaker 2: step of the way. But before we head out, a 725 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,759 Speaker 2: couple more days of practice here Dissension Saint Thomas Sports Park. 726 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,279 Speaker 2: We've got three more padded practices to get through at least. 727 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,160 Speaker 2: Then there will be a little bit of a break 728 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,520 Speaker 2: for a second, and then a couple more practices and 729 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,920 Speaker 2: everybody hits the road. So we will have all of 730 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,000 Speaker 2: the updates here. Of course for coach Mac, who will 731 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,160 Speaker 2: always be around for Rett Brian, who is so interesting 732 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,480 Speaker 2: and you guys should really just hang on every word 733 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,560 Speaker 2: that he says. I'm Amy Wells and this has been 734 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 2: the OTP