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Speaker 1: This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans.

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Speaker 1: Farm Bureau Health Plans is healthcare coverage the way it

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Speaker 1: for at FBHP dot com with Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith.

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Speaker 1: It is Monday, August the twenty second. It sure is.

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Speaker 1: How are you? I'm really good? How are you? I'm well?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? Two preseason games in the books, yea, one

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Speaker 1: more to go. The end is in sight, Mike, the

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Speaker 1: end and the beginning exactly. Once you get through the

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Speaker 1: preseason games and you get through training camp, then all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, the world is in hyperdrive and it's

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Speaker 1: so exciting. But I have really enjoyed this training camp

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Speaker 1: slash preseason. I've enjoyed the two pre season games because

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Speaker 1: I think the work has been excellent from the standpoint

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Speaker 1: that we have gotten to see Titans young players and

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Speaker 1: backups play against two teams, two good teams also playing

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Speaker 1: young players and backups, plus two practices. So I think

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Speaker 1: the work has been good. I think the efforts have

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Speaker 1: been solid, and I think you can kind of stake

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Speaker 1: out some things pretty quickly. It has not been as

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Speaker 1: sometimes dull as a preseason can be now if you

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Speaker 1: look at the scores, you know, you look at twenty

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Speaker 1: three to thirteen and thirteen to three, you're like, but

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Speaker 1: I'm just talking about guys we've seen playing and what

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Speaker 1: they're able to do. Right. There has been a lot

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Speaker 1: of really good work and it has been a more

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Speaker 1: And I think part of that is because this is

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Speaker 1: the first one where we're really bad, like all the

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Speaker 1: way back, you know, and so it's felt really good

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Speaker 1: to be back in the swing of things, be around people,

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Speaker 1: you're seeing great work being done. I feel like we're

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Speaker 1: in it more. But I am I'm starting to crave

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Speaker 1: the football routine. Sure, I'm starting to crave the practices

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Speaker 1: at the same time, and all of the other bits

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Speaker 1: and pieces and things that we do here covering the team.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm missing the TV shows, I'm missing the

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Speaker 1: radio shows. I'm ready to get back to all of

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Speaker 1: that stuff. I'm ready to be in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the season. It's about to happen. I know. I can't wait.

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Speaker 1: It's about to happen. Okay, right off the bat, On

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Speaker 1: this Monday edition of the OTP, four players were waved

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Speaker 1: earlier today cornerback Shaheim Carter from Alabama Shakur Brown, a

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Speaker 1: guy who plays the slot from Michigan State. So two

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Speaker 1: defensive backs waved. Outside linebacker Justin Lawler, late of the

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Speaker 1: La Rams waved, and Terry Godwin, wide receiver from Georgia

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Speaker 1: who was the leading receiver in the Baltimore game, waved.

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Speaker 1: So four layers waved at this point. The Godwin thing

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Speaker 1: is probably the big surprise. The two defensive backs were

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Speaker 1: waved injured, but the Godwin thing is the big surprise.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if that has to do with a couple

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Speaker 1: of things. First of all, they've now seen Godwin. They

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Speaker 1: know what he can do. Could he be back with

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Speaker 1: the practice squad at some point when it's formed and

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Speaker 1: that's only a week and a half away. Wow, so

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Speaker 1: he could be back. I mean, any of these guys

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Speaker 1: could be back once they clear all the protocols and

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Speaker 1: you meet the standards of whatever. But Godwin is the

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Speaker 1: interesting way. The second part of that is Reggie Robertson's

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Speaker 1: And so you wonder about the rookie from SMU if

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Speaker 1: that sort of gave them a chance to say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: now we want to see more Robberson to figure out

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Speaker 1: what struck me about this list of names. Was that

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Speaker 1: exactly what you just said. They're in groups that have

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Speaker 1: we've talked about this on the show before that sometimes

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Speaker 1: guys are released not because they're bad players, but because

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Speaker 1: They know what they've got with this person, now they

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Speaker 1: press availability, and each of us have picked a comment

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Speaker 1: regards to so minus in regard to Kyle Phillips, and

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Speaker 1: they were talking about his performance not as a wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: but on special teams. That's a bright spot. You know,

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Speaker 1: but you know, I love what he did is being decisive,

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Speaker 1: So here's why I thought this was interesting, Mike Keith.

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Speaker 1: Usually when Mike vrabel is asked about what was a

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Speaker 1: when he caught what could have been should have been

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Speaker 1: fair catch. He should have just let it go. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: something twenty six yards. Yeah. My expectation from Rabel when

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Speaker 1: don't want him to do that. We're working on it.

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Speaker 1: You know. Then some coach speak about rookies and fixing it.

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Speaker 1: That's not what he said there. No, he called him

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Speaker 1: a bright spot. He said that what he's been doing

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Speaker 1: has been very impressive. Obviously he made a mistake, but

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Speaker 1: a player overall, and the trust, Yes, they have a

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Speaker 1: he catches the ball over his shoulder and then immediately

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Speaker 1: the momentum of the ball, even if you contacted, if

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Speaker 1: then then it's a touchback. So he fields. Phillips fields

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Speaker 1: And in talking to Kyle Phillips, that has been his

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Speaker 1: goal all along. It's not just the athletics stuff. It's

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Speaker 1: building trust with the quarterback, building trust with the coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: that's his goal, right. I mean, the athletic stuff obviously

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Speaker 1: to feel good for him. When you have a returner

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Speaker 1: ten guys, you are energized, Yeah, you are energized to

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Speaker 1: because this is a person who can take it all

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Speaker 1: Andy's shifty. He is shifty. I love it part returners

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Speaker 1: to pick on his feet. What I call him a weasel. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because I don't think weasel is positive. I think weasels

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Speaker 1: talk about poor thing that you like. Mabel's comment, which

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Speaker 1: Vrabel laid out after being pushed to answer it, Mike

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Speaker 1: Vrabel laid out the reason that we saw so much

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Speaker 1: of Caleb Farley Saturday night against Tampa Bay. We really

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Speaker 1: want to start seeing guys string some days together, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's where you start to build consistency, you

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Speaker 1: Caleb's second day was better than his first day, and

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Speaker 1: so you know, hopefully that we could string a third

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Speaker 1: it makes total sense. He's right, he has not played

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Speaker 1: coming back from an ACL that's a confidence. The more

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Speaker 1: to play guard, that means that they saw something in

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Speaker 1: me that they think that I could play that position,

433
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Speaker 1: and they have all the faith in me. And as

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Speaker 1: long as I have a coaching staff that instills that

435
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Speaker 1: faith in me and says that, hey, we believe in you.

436
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 1: We drafted you, this is why we picked you the

437
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:25,960
Speaker 1: way that we picked you, and this is why we

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00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 1: as a team and as an organization, said that we

439
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Speaker 1: want you to be this next guy, and this next

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Speaker 1: guy has to play an interior position. That would give

441
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 1: me all the faith in the world, know that not

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Speaker 1: only that I can do it personally, but that they

443
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,479
Speaker 1: believe in me as well. What is the part of

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Speaker 1: your game that you think most people don't know just

445
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 1: reading a draft capsule or a bio. How hard I

446
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:50,480
Speaker 1: play I mean I say that I'm one of the

447
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 1: hardest playing players in our draft class, and not only

448
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Speaker 1: it's just in terms of how much I work on

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Speaker 1: the field and how much I do in terms of

450
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,399
Speaker 1: making an extra extra efforts on the plays things like that,

451
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 1: and running down field of my running backs and other

452
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,880
Speaker 1: players and things like that. Like, I'm always trying to

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00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: do extra effort and do things that show toughness and

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Speaker 1: physicality and extra effort. So that's something that not a

455
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Speaker 1: lot of people talk about because usually people talk about

456
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Speaker 1: strength or speed or foot quickness, but like, no one

457
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 1: really talks about the nuts and bulls about football, which

458
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 1: is being tougher than another guy that cross from you

459
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 1: and playing with a lot of effort and a lot

460
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,360
Speaker 1: of energy. Now they do talk about how much weight

461
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: you've gained. I know, you get tired of being ask

462
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:28,919
Speaker 1: about that. The other thing that gets written up is

463
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 1: it says that, hey, he's not a finished product. His

464
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Speaker 1: upside is tremendous. Do you agree with that or does

465
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 1: that sort of make you mad? It doesn't make me mad.

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00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm always looking for me to improve on.

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00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,879
Speaker 1: So that's never been something that I really looked at

468
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Speaker 1: as a negative that people think that I can still

469
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Speaker 1: improve in my game. What that tells me is that

470
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 1: there's things that people see that are apparent, and that's

471
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,439
Speaker 1: just more motivation for me to go out there and

472
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Speaker 1: fix those things and to keep grinding and keep competing

473
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,120
Speaker 1: and trying to find a way to fix those things

474
00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: that people think are they're not there yet, or technique

475
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 1: or things that are not as fine tuned as they

476
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Speaker 1: may believe. But as long as I have a belief

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Speaker 1: in myself that I can keep improving and doing things

478
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,160
Speaker 1: like that, all those comments are just fielded to fire

479
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,160
Speaker 1: and things that I take as more of a way

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Speaker 1: to get better. Finally, we all have idols. We all

481
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Speaker 1: have people we look up to. We all have people

482
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: we emulate. Is there a current or former NFL offensive

483
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 1: lineman that you try to pattern your game after or

484
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 1: think your game looks like or could look even more like.

485
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,479
Speaker 1: I want to model my game after Andrew Winthrow because

486
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,160
Speaker 1: when you look at him, he's a forty year old

487
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Speaker 1: who started in the NFL Championship game. So you think

488
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: super Bowl, So you think yourself, how do you do that?

489
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Speaker 1: Why is he doing that? And like, from what I've

490
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: learned from people who used to coach him and like

491
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Speaker 1: from just watching him in his tape is that he's

492
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Speaker 1: one of the most technically sound players in the league,

493
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Speaker 1: not only at the office of line position but in general.

494
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Speaker 1: So the way that he does his technique, how dedicated

495
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Speaker 1: this to his craft. I mean, he's one of the

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Speaker 1: best players in terms of that. So my goal and

497
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Speaker 1: aspirations for me to be as good as he is

498
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: and turns the technique, he's impressive. He's very impressive, very impressive.

499
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Speaker 1: He may be a starter against the Giants. So nice.

500
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Speaker 1: The way he talks about his mom, I know, well

501
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 1: and grandparents and I mean some pretty amazing people. You know,

502
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Speaker 1: he was a five star when he signed with Ohio State.

503
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Speaker 1: Oh I didn't realize. Oh yeah, he was a five star.

504
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: I mean he was like everybody's all American. He was

505
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Speaker 1: the deal. He was the deal. His problem was he

506
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 1: only weighed two seventy five when he got to Ohio State,

507
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,640
Speaker 1: and they like offensive lineman well into the three hundreds.

508
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,439
Speaker 1: He had to take a red shirt and then he

509
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: really had to eat just to eat, don't come to practice,

510
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: just eat. He's about three fifteen right now, but he

511
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 1: has to work hard. To keep his weight up. I

512
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 1: think he's very similar to what Michael Ruse was, to

513
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: what Brad Hopkins was. I mean, we've had several guys

514
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Speaker 1: over the years who've had to really work hard to

515
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Speaker 1: keep that weight up. And he's an athletic guy, obviously,

516
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 1: very intelligent. And you know, the Titans make the trade

517
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Speaker 1: with the Eagles and get pick number eighteen and one

518
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: oh one, and then with eighteen they end up taking

519
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: Treylan Burkes. Then they trade out of the original pick

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00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: they had twenty seven with the Jets. They get thirty five,

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Speaker 1: sixty nine, and then a fifth round pick, which ended

522
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Speaker 1: up being Kyle Phillips. So for those picks, they got

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Speaker 1: Roger McCrary at thirty five, they got Nicholas petit Frere

524
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: at sixty nine, and they got Kyle Phillips at one

525
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 1: sixty three, all of whom are going to play for

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Speaker 1: this football team this year. Yeah. That's that's a pretty

527
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:52,360
Speaker 1: solid hall right there. It's a very solid hall. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So interesting week for the Titans. The Arizona Cardinals are

529
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 1: coming in. The two teams practice against each other on

530
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Speaker 1: Wednesday and then play on Saturday night. No jj Watt,

531
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: he will not be making the trip because he has COVID.

532
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 1: The Cardinals are a beat up football team right now,

533
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: and they're certainly gearing up for they're opener, like the

534
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: Titans are, so they're probably going to be a little

535
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 1: bit cautious, but still good for these young players to

536
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: work against another team. It really is. It's really good.

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00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: I talked to Chicka Coquo after the game just about

538
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: kind of what he had learned in a week of

539
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: doing these joint practices and kind of what he could

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Speaker 1: take into the next one, and he was like, you know,

541
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:36,959
Speaker 1: it was just kind of good to get some reps,

542
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 1: like to just understand what that was. So I think

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Speaker 1: I think that this might be even a little bit

544
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Speaker 1: more productive for the young guys the second time around,

545
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 1: because they know what to expect, they know kind of

546
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: how it works now because there's a lot of adjusting this.

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00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: Poor guys doing a lot of adjusting this this training camp.

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Speaker 1: This edition of the OTP and all editions of the

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Speaker 1: this edition of the OTP with something that I think

553
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: is very special. There was a great, great, great broadcaster

554
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: in the booth at Nissan Stadium on Saturday night. His

555
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 1: name is Gene Deckerhoff. Gene Deckerhoff is one of the

556
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Speaker 1: more amazing figures in broadcasting because he was one of

557
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Speaker 1: the first guys that did a college game on Saturday

558
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: and then turned around and did a pro game on Sunday.

559
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Speaker 1: And he did it for thirty two years. He did

560
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Speaker 1: Florida State on Saturday, and he did the Tampa Bay

561
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Speaker 1: Buccaneers on Sunday from nineteen eighty nine through twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Not crazy, it's exhausting. You think, well, yeah, well, and

563
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: he did it well. That was what was really amazing.

564
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: He has one of those memorable voices when he says,

565
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: fire them cannons, you know, when they score a touchdown

566
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: at home in Tampa. That's his line. And he's a

567
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 1: legendary figure. He's one of those guys who's a character,

568
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: which is fun. And I had a chance to spend

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Speaker 1: some time with him before the game, and if you

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00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: don't know him, you'll immediately get why he's a special

571
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Speaker 1: deal when you hear this. So for the ot people.

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Speaker 1: One of the great NFL broadcasters and a guy who

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Speaker 1: is a great college football broadcaster, just stopped doing Florida

574
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: State in the spring, now only doing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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Speaker 1: My visit with Gene Deckerhoff on the OTA. What is

576
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Speaker 1: it like for you to just be calling one football

577
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: team now instead of two? Well, well, Michael, I'm still

578
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: full of those goals on one on Saturday. But yeah,

579
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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you have to slow things down. And

580
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: I turned to seventies having back in May, and so

581
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 1: it's just time to And the part of the decision

582
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: was this is strictly football. There's no basketball, no baseball,

583
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: no talk shows, no calling shows, no pregame shows and

584
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Speaker 1: play by play. And I thoroughly enjoy the preparation. Mike,

585
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: I know you do too. I mean, you know what

586
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: people say. You don't just show up and say it's

587
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay versus the Titans. We put in twenty twenty

588
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: four hours worth of work and type in depth charts

589
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: and typing stats and trying to get some notes together

590
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: that will make the broadcast interesting. And when you have

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00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: two teams that you're preparing for two games the time

592
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: of preparation just is it's outrageous. So anyway, I've made

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Speaker 1: the decision. I'm happy with the decision. This is our

594
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: second game and I haven't I haven't looked back, and

595
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: I do know that I have my tickets for FSU games.

596
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: I can go to three of them this year because

597
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: of the Buck schedule, and I look forward to going

598
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: to those balls. They've including that Florida game the Friday

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Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving. We'll fly to Cleveland the next day for

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00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: the Bucks game on Sunday. But now that I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I answered your question, may someday you're gonna

602
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: have to phase that decision. Well, here's what I wondered, though.

603
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: I wonder a lot because your career has been fascinating.

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00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: You did Florida State for forty three years, football for

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00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: forty three, and then in nineteen eighty nine you started

606
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,719
Speaker 1: doing both. My number one question is how did you

607
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: convince Anne decker Hoff that was okay? Well, at the

608
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: time Anne was working and she worked for the Leon

609
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: County tax collectors for thirty seven years. She and I

610
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: may have made many a trip down to Tampa home games.

611
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: We leave at six oh five am and arrive at

612
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: the hotel At ten thirty, I get drop ann off

613
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: and go to the stadium, broadcast the game, come back

614
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: and for the last ten years now going on eleven,

615
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: she has been retired. So we spend Sunday night in Tampa,

616
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: then drive home leisurely on Mondays. More leisurely this year

617
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: because I won't have to do a seven o'clock TV

618
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: talk show. Florida State has been a national team because

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Speaker 1: you were with Bobby Bowden, and so they played all

620
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: over the country. Obviously, an NFL team plays all over

621
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Speaker 1: the country. Did you ever almost it's one or the other.

622
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: I had to leave the Clebson game after the first

623
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Speaker 1: quarter twenty nineteen, catch a little plane there right right

624
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: near the university, and fly to Atlanta and catch a

625
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 1: plane to go across the Atlantic Ocean. And I arrived

626
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Speaker 1: at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium forty five minutes before kickoff. I

627
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: didn't miss anything there, but I saw I missed the

628
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Speaker 1: three quarters of the Florida State game game earlier against Maryland.

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Speaker 1: It would have been in the nineties, our first game

630
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Speaker 1: in London or second game in London. And I left

631
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Speaker 1: at halftime, same thing, small plane Tallahassee Atlanta, Big play

632
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: to you know, across the ocean, and we played at

633
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: Wimbley Stadium there and that that London game. We're going

634
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Speaker 1: to Munich this year and I don't have to worry

635
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: about what I'm doing on Saturday. I'm gonna fly with

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Speaker 1: a team to Munich. And boy, I've see the ads

637
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Speaker 1: about the London games on the NFL net one That's

638
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: stadium just looks I mean, I thought Tottenham Hotspur was

639
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: a spectacular building, but this one even looks more impressive.

640
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Speaker 1: Like I don't split into the h I can't speak

641
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Speaker 1: a lend of German, but maybe I'll learn how to

642
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Speaker 1: say hello. And you know, Donka, donka, Shane, thank you

643
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: very much. I've about that's a soul song. I'm aware

644
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: of that song. Don't remember that song. Maybe that's a

645
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: long time ago. Wayne Newton, Wayne Newton from Las Vegas, Nevada. Yeah, okay,

646
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:14,240
Speaker 1: So tell me this. Have you ever had problems keeping

647
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: the two teams separate? Have you ever called a Florida

648
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: State player a Tampa Bay buccaneer or a Tampa Bay

649
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: buccaneer a Florida State player. Not so much the players,

650
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: but sometimes that Florida Buccaneers having at the twenty two

651
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 1: yard lint. I mean, you know, so you catch yourself,

652
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: but you try very hard not to do that. But

653
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: if if you do make that mistake, our broadcast manager

654
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: will let me know in the IFB it's Tampa may

655
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: but that doesn't happen very often, and who knows that

656
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: may happen this season too, even though I'm not doing

657
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: two games, you know, but uh, five hundred and twenty

658
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,359
Speaker 1: nine college games and over six hundred and seventy pro

659
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: games and all of the space of them, you know,

660
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: the four months of the fall, I mean August two, December,

661
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: five months, and uh, it's it's it's a grind, and

662
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: I expect it to be a grind now. I mean,

663
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,280
Speaker 1: I'm I'm probably working harder in preparation for the Bucks

664
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: than I've been able to in the past thirty three years,

665
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: you know. But Mike, this is I was thinking about

666
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: this on this trip. This will be when I go

667
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: to a Florida State football game, the three that I mentioned,

668
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: that will be the first time I have sat in

669
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: the stadium as a fan and not a broadcaster or

670
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: a TV reporter. Half a century, forty nine years, same

671
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: thing with basketball. I drive by the basketball facility that

672
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,280
Speaker 1: dot a little Tucker Center, and I said, man, thirteen

673
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty four games, a lot of them right

674
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: there in that building. I saw that building built in

675
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one. We used to play a tiny Telly

676
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: gym Imber although a Metro Conference fellow by then, Bob Costas,

677
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: he broadcast the game of the week, and he came

678
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,439
Speaker 1: to town. The Metro seven. Maybe the Metro to begin

679
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: we've had seven. It expanded had about eleven twelve, but Louisville, Memphis,

680
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 1: Memphis was in that. And every time I've talked to

681
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: Bob said, he says, if they tore down that Telly gym,

682
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: and I said, no, it's still. That's where the volleyball

683
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 1: team plays into the volleyball that's the volleyball teams for

684
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: Florida State. It's primary arena and it still holds about

685
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: the same number. It doesn't have cushioned seats, and there's

686
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,479
Speaker 1: a crow's nest where we have the broadcast from Florida State.

687
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: Fans have been effusive in their love for you, particularly

688
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: since you decided to step down after the spring game.

689
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: In reading things and hearing things and watching things. It's

690
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: it's been remarkable. How gratifying is that, you know, fans

691
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 1: make athletics special. Without fans, I mean, I guess you'd

692
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: go out and compete. But we'll just go back two

693
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: years we had the COVID thing. Nobody will says. I mean,

694
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,760
Speaker 1: it was weird, but the fans make and particularly college fans.

695
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: I have talked to people on a regular base sate.

696
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: You know, you're the only guy I've ever listened to

697
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: do Florida State. And you're the only guy that my

698
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: son has ever listened to do Florida State. Very gratifying

699
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: to me, and I think it is to you. You know,

700
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: you see people all the time that hey they've got

701
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 1: on radio, you're gut radio, You're the gout radio. Yes

702
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: I am. And now the big course. How does it

703
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 1: feel to being retired in Tallahassea, Well, you know, I'm

704
00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 1: retired from the Knolls, but I still got a job

705
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: on Sundays. Speaking of fans. Some of the Boosters one

706
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,760
Speaker 1: of the largest organizations to raise money for athletic program

707
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: to the country, and I just gave a talk at

708
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: the Lakelands, Polk County set of the club. One of

709
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: the joint practices with the Dolphins, went over to Lakeland,

710
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: did the talk, and on September the fourteenth, I'll be

711
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: here in Nashville with a group of sem of the boosters,

712
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: tell them how great the Noles are going to be.

713
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, you know, Mike Norvell has

714
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: got Tennessee roots he coached at Memphis. And I'll come

715
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: up and tell the few tall tales of reminists a

716
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: little bit and obviously say the Oles are gonna win

717
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: nine or ten and you know, making it for a

718
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: big Bowl game. And but that'll be that's after the

719
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,320
Speaker 1: Dallas game, before the New Orleans game. You've won super bowls,

720
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: You've won national championships, just one standout as your most favorite.

721
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: Three national championships and two Super Bowls. Kylie, we should

722
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: we should have. We should have beat the Saint Louis

723
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: Rams or the NFC championship game in nineteen ninety nine.

724
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: We just felt a little bit short and never forget

725
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: a busted play and they score a touchdown and that

726
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: was what got you know, the Rams into the end

727
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl. But we didn't make it. But

728
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: uh uh yeah, the first very first wood stands out obviously.

729
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: I mean, you know the Super Bowl at San Diego, golly,

730
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: forty eight to twenty one. I mean, we just took

731
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: Oakland out of the woodshed. But earlier, the Knowles had

732
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,760
Speaker 1: won two championships before that first Super Bowl. The fs

733
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: U's went in ninety three. That has to be. That's

734
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: the benchmark of Bobby Baldrey. The ninety nine was the

735
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: undefeated season, the twelve and old Wire to r number one,

736
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: that Chris wake highst Ptrophia winner, Charlie Award, Highs Matova

737
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: winner ninety The thing about that ninety three championship game,

738
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: Mutual Radio had exclusive rights and we could not broadcast that.

739
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,800
Speaker 1: I watched that game on my television at home. I

740
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: had a Bucks game the next day, so I said,

741
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: you know why you go to Miami and you know

742
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: I missed that game. And uh. Derek Brooks, when he

743
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 1: was enshrined at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he

744
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: gave a little talk, thanked all the friends for coming, family,

745
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: for coming coaches from college and from pro being there

746
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: when he was being trined into the Hall, and then

747
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: as he wrapped up his cope said I want this

748
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: guy over here to come up here and it was me,

749
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: is this G Deckeroff? And I walk up there and

750
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: I'm said, what's ther? He said, this guy right here

751
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 1: broadcast every game I played in my college and pro career.

752
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: And I said, wow, you know, I hadn't thought about that,

753
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: but I didn't tell him I did not do the

754
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: ninety three championship game. That's the only game that I

755
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 1: missed that the great Derek Brooks played and what fourteen

756
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: years in the NFL, four years in college. And I

757
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,720
Speaker 1: told Jamis Winston this past year. He's now with the Saints,

758
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 1: but he came to a Florida Stay baseball game that

759
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: I happened to be and he's somebody told him Deckerron

760
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: was up there. So he comes up and we got

761
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: big hugs at all that I told him the story

762
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: about Derek, I said, I said, you know, Jamis, I

763
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: thought I was going to do the same thing with

764
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,479
Speaker 1: you all your college games and all your pro games

765
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: with the Bucks, but it didn't work out. He's Bobby Bowden,

766
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: the most special person that you've had a chance to

767
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: work with through the entire half century now, Bobby, Bobby

768
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: Bowden is a very special man. Almost everything I have

769
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: in my office and the Wall of Fame stuff has

770
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: something to do with Bobby Bowden. I've been bless my

771
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: Bobby Bowting to the college level and Tony Dungee at

772
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: the pro level. Two of the greatest human beings on

773
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: the planet, whether there were a football coach, a Coca

774
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: Cola salesman, or whatever. Those guys are just the top

775
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 1: of my list. Very religious, spiritual and in fact, if

776
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 1: you see Tony now, he'll he'll coach a subscripture. I

777
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: try to keep up with that, Bobby. Bobby, I know

778
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,399
Speaker 1: when I was born again, he sent me a beautiful note.

779
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,320
Speaker 1: This is in April the ninth, two thousand, two thousand,

780
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 1: and he sent me a beautiful note that I still have.

781
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: And he sent me a little little cross that I

782
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 1: put on Mollapelle when I go to church when I

783
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: wear a coat. I'm trying not to wear a coat anymore, Mike.

784
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 1: I think I've worn a tie once in the last year.

785
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 1: I don't like ties anymore. But unfortunately I don't have

786
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,959
Speaker 1: to wear a tie because nobody can see me on radio.

787
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: Bobby Bowting, Tony Dungee right at the top family and

788
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: then those two i'd have to I'd have to say

789
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: that I've lived a charmed life, just a blessed life.

790
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: I was pretty nervous talking to Gene decker Off. I

791
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: must say, you really sure a nice guy. I got

792
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: to sit around once. He was at a convention and

793
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: there were a couple of other older broadcasters at this

794
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,720
Speaker 1: same convention, and we get to sit around and listen

795
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: to the older guys tell a few stories from back

796
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: in the day. That's the best free phones. Yeah, well

797
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,399
Speaker 1: they might run around, they might run around a little

798
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: late and have some funded. Those those guys the I mean,

799
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: they to do what they do and to do it

800
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: the way they did it for so long and in

801
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: those days, and certainly before television was so dominant, they

802
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: could tell a story like nobody's business and off the

803
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: air telling even better story that great stuff. That's awesome. Yeah,

804
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 1: it was a thrill to talk. Gene decker Off is

805
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: an extremely nice man too. He was very nice to

806
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: me when I was a young guy, and certainly was

807
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: very nice to give me that time the other night.

808
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,399
Speaker 1: Now that I'm not a young guy, yeah, you're still

809
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: a young guy to us, well compared to Gene, I am,

810
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 1: But that's okay. Yeah, all right, what do you got

811
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 1: anything good? Anything you want to say here before we depart?

812
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: In defense of the weasel, did you know a weasel

813
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 1: can travel at speeds of up to fifteen miles per hour.

814
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: That's pretty fast for a little guy. And they are

815
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 1: killing machines? Yeah? See what do? They kill everything? Anything

816
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: that gets in their way. They have a similar hunting

817
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: style to that of the jaguar. But they're little. Yeah,

818
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:40,320
Speaker 1: but they're little. Here's what I'm saying, unsuspecting little furry,

819
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:44,399
Speaker 1: cute face killer weasels. In defense of the weasel, Mike,

820
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 1: I think it's a great nickname. I don't think he

821
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: would like it very much. And you know he's known

822
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,760
Speaker 1: as the professor on the team. Yeah, which is fine,

823
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 1: but like, you're not gonna get killed by a professor.

824
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: That's not a hard core name. Have you watched Dateline? Okay?

825
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: I saw this one stalking a student kind of a thing. Okay,

826
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 1: you don't want to be like predatory? Yes, like a

827
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 1: weasel Keith? And then the yeah, see that's not what

828
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 1: we need. We need a good in game name, but

829
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 1: we need but we need what we really need more

830
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,320
Speaker 1: than anything weasel related, is to get Keith Morrison on

831
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: the OTP. Yes, yes, Oh that would make me happy.

832
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:32,839
Speaker 1: And then Cincinnati fumbled the ball? Or did or did

833
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: they a review? We've gone off the left, Prince on

834
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: the ball? Oh we have all right? I just wanted

835
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:51,320
Speaker 1: to defend my nickname. Maybe that should be your nickname, weasel? Okay.

836
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,320
Speaker 1: I used to work with a guy named Brian Tatum

837
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: in Knoxville, and I gave him the nickname the weasel.

838
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: I have a nickname and are the owner if the

839
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 1: radio station get very upset and made me stop calling him? That?

840
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 1: Did you stop calling him? Which of course made me

841
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: want to do it more so I did. It's a

842
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 1: fine nickname. He loved it, Actually, he loved having a nickname.

843
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,719
Speaker 1: They're angry little rodents, and he was. He was pretty angry.

844
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: He was like a real grown up. For Amy Wells,

845
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 1: I might key thanking you and bless you for staying

846
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: with this, thanking you for listening to the OTP. Or

847
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: is it welcome to the Big Show where the legends call?

848
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:40,439
Speaker 1: Everybody knows it's our house making three greatness? Is mes

849
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: be