1
00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,960
Speaker 1: This is the O t P pre Game presented by

2
00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:20,000
Speaker 1: Farm Bureau Health Plans. Plan on paying less for the

3
00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:22,320
Speaker 1: coverage you need with Farm Bureau Health Plans. Get a

4
00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:26,360
Speaker 1: quote today at f v HP dot com with Amy Wells.

5
00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,000
Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith. Welcome to the O t P pre Game.

6
00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:30,720
Speaker 2: I love the O t P pre game.

7
00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,120
Speaker 1: And you know who our special guest is today, the

8
00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:40,159
Speaker 1: Great Jim Why Tennessee Titans dot Com Senior writer editor, Welcome,

9
00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:41,080
Speaker 1: glad to be here.

10
00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:42,720
Speaker 3: When's the last time I did what game? Was this?

11
00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:43,320
Speaker 1: Uh?

12
00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:45,720
Speaker 4: When I did this the last time? Trying to figure

13
00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:47,720
Speaker 4: out where it brought us? Any uh any luck?

14
00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:49,440
Speaker 3: You know it?

15
00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:53,559
Speaker 1: Prid of Miami, Yeah, of Miami.

16
00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:55,840
Speaker 4: That could be. I'll go ahead and say that we'll

17
00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:57,720
Speaker 4: go with it. We'll have good vibes to start.

18
00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,080
Speaker 1: The O t P pre game involves five topics for

19
00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:06,200
Speaker 1: our guest to discuss with us. Topic one has obviously

20
00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,760
Speaker 1: got to be the trades, which are now official. The

21
00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,759
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans made a trade with the Kansas City Chiefs.

22
00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:18,039
Speaker 1: The Titans receive a conditional fifth round selection. Kansas City

23
00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:23,479
Speaker 1: receives DeAndre Hopkins. Then the Titans have made a trade

24
00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:27,120
Speaker 1: with Seattle. Tennessee receives linebacker Jerome Baker and a twenty

25
00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:32,360
Speaker 1: twenty five fourth round pick. Seattle receives Ernest Jones. All right,

26
00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:37,520
Speaker 1: so here is the question for topic one, with twenty

27
00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,960
Speaker 1: four hours of reflection since we started to hear the

28
00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:45,160
Speaker 1: word of these trades with them becoming official today, the

29
00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:51,120
Speaker 1: bigger surprise the Titans trading DeAndre Hopkins and getting what

30
00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:55,320
Speaker 1: could be a fourth round draft pick, or the hall

31
00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,840
Speaker 1: that the Titans got from Seattle for trading Ernest Jones.

32
00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,480
Speaker 4: Before I go farther, it was the Packers game, so

33
00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:03,560
Speaker 4: not to kill the vibe, that was the last time

34
00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:08,720
Speaker 4: I was on here. So the biggest surprise to me.

35
00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,240
Speaker 4: The Hopkins deal did not surprise me. I felt like

36
00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,960
Speaker 4: he was on the move. I felt like he felt

37
00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,720
Speaker 4: like his time was up here. Uh the way this

38
00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,320
Speaker 4: season is gone, it just hasn't been a DeAndre Hopkins

39
00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,600
Speaker 4: type season. The Chiefs needed help a receiver. It was,

40
00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,280
Speaker 4: you know, final year of his contract. You know, I've

41
00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:34,320
Speaker 4: kind of anticipated that happening. I understand it. It's always

42
00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,800
Speaker 4: hard when you lose one of your good players, one

43
00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:42,320
Speaker 4: of your well known marquee players. But but that happens

44
00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,440
Speaker 4: in the league didn't surprise me. Ernest Jones Wan did

45
00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,880
Speaker 4: surprise me. Initially. It surprised me that we would move

46
00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,480
Speaker 4: him because I really like Ernest Jones. I liked him

47
00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:51,040
Speaker 4: from the time he got here. I think he's really

48
00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:55,600
Speaker 4: good players, a great guy. Won the NFLPA Community Award

49
00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:57,560
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago for what he did back

50
00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:02,000
Speaker 4: in his hometown. He's a great culture guy. And I

51
00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,400
Speaker 4: was surprised by what the Titans were able to get

52
00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,520
Speaker 4: in return for him, the fourth round pick. And I

53
00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,639
Speaker 4: think Baker's a really good player. Erna Jones in the

54
00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,640
Speaker 4: last year of his deal, he was going to be

55
00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,080
Speaker 4: looking for a big money contract. This team has a

56
00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,040
Speaker 4: really good player in Keneth Murray, and I think you

57
00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,000
Speaker 4: had Baker to the mix. And I think he's going

58
00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,120
Speaker 4: to be a good player too. So I get that one,

59
00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,280
Speaker 4: and I think the Titans won that trade, even though

60
00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:27,840
Speaker 4: I'm acknowledging the urst. Jones the hell of a player,

61
00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,160
Speaker 4: and I think he's gonna be really good in Seattle.

62
00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:35,520
Speaker 1: And we know that the Titans wanted Jerome Baker back

63
00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,840
Speaker 1: in March. It took till October to get him. But

64
00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,960
Speaker 1: seven months ago They put a lot into trying to

65
00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,160
Speaker 1: get him when he departed Miami.

66
00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,280
Speaker 5: Right, absolutely, So you knew there was some synergy there

67
00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,680
Speaker 5: with what he's able to do, how he fits with

68
00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:53,080
Speaker 5: what the Titans are trying to do, and it felt

69
00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,200
Speaker 5: like a great fit there. So to be able to

70
00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,720
Speaker 5: get a player that you already kind of wanted and

71
00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,280
Speaker 5: a fourth round pick, you're kind of getting a little

72
00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,000
Speaker 5: something extra, it feels like it feels like a great trade.

73
00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,480
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker will wear number seventeen. Really, yes, what do

74
00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,080
Speaker 1: we think about seventeen on a linebacker?

75
00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,440
Speaker 4: It takes them getting used to. You don't see seventeen

76
00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,680
Speaker 4: linebacker and seventeen very often. You don't see the seventeen

77
00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,160
Speaker 4: making a tackle unless he's thrown an interception most of

78
00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,120
Speaker 4: the time. So that's gonna take some getting used to.

79
00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,000
Speaker 1: That's what he wore in Ohio State. Yeah, what he

80
00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:28,040
Speaker 1: wore in Seattle.

81
00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,680
Speaker 5: That is not a linebacker number. And especially coming to

82
00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,360
Speaker 5: a team that has a history with a number seventeen,

83
00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:39,560
Speaker 5: it feels like double weird. I don't like all the

84
00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,720
Speaker 5: crazy things we're doing with numbers now. We're getting a

85
00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,479
Speaker 5: little too creative, getting a little too loosey. Goosey with

86
00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:47,720
Speaker 5: the rules. I don't love it.

87
00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:52,440
Speaker 4: Ryan Tannehill, of course, seventeen. Chris Davis seventeen.

88
00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,480
Speaker 2: Yes, not a linebacker.

89
00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,080
Speaker 4: Doryel Green Beckham a seventeen.

90
00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:59,480
Speaker 2: Yes, yep, also not a linebacker.

91
00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,200
Speaker 1: Big not a line bigger than a linebacker.

92
00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,600
Speaker 4: What other seventeenth do we have I'm trying to think.

93
00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:08,600
Speaker 2: Wasn't Damian Williams seventeen?

94
00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,479
Speaker 4: Damian Williams might have been.

95
00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:15,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have had in my brain. Wow, I'm not

96
00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:16,279
Speaker 2: great with the numbers.

97
00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:21,880
Speaker 1: So that has been a lot of seventeen wild success here.

98
00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,640
Speaker 2: But what do they all have in common? Not linebackers.

99
00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,760
Speaker 5: But he's a linebacker and he is so maybe he

100
00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:29,560
Speaker 5: can put some respect on that number.

101
00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:31,520
Speaker 1: He was born on Christmas Day.

102
00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,400
Speaker 5: Hey, I bet he doesn't like that as much as

103
00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:36,320
Speaker 5: the rest of us will think.

104
00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,000
Speaker 1: That's it. I twenty eight on Christmas Day. Was originally

105
00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:42,039
Speaker 1: a third round pick of Miami out of Ohio State.

106
00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:46,080
Speaker 1: In twenty eighteen, they cut him, they give him a

107
00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,479
Speaker 1: big contract in twenty twenty one, the Dolphins did. They

108
00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,800
Speaker 1: cut him before what would have been the last year

109
00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:58,800
Speaker 1: of the contract. March sixth. He visited here March the fourteenth, left,

110
00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:03,000
Speaker 1: went to Seattle, signed with Seattle. Seattle had him for

111
00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:06,159
Speaker 1: five games, he missed two games due to a hamstring injury.

112
00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,760
Speaker 1: Thirty seven tackles, one sack, one forced fumble, one hundred

113
00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,080
Speaker 1: career games, six hundred and eighteen tackles, thirty three tackles

114
00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,960
Speaker 1: for loss, twenty three and a half sacks, five interceptions,

115
00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,600
Speaker 1: seven forced fumbles. He is an upgrade as a pass defender.

116
00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,560
Speaker 1: He is an excellent pass defender, which Murray is not.

117
00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,960
Speaker 1: And so now you're kind of before there was a

118
00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,560
Speaker 1: feeling that you had two of the same kind of

119
00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,440
Speaker 1: player in Grant and Murray, and now you have two

120
00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,320
Speaker 1: players that may compliment one another. He ran four or

121
00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:40,880
Speaker 1: five three at the combine?

122
00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,239
Speaker 2: Did you say he played in one hundred games?

123
00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:46,720
Speaker 1: One hundred career games ninety nine regular season, one postseason.

124
00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,960
Speaker 5: So you're telling me that he only missed He played

125
00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,520
Speaker 5: one hundred games, and he only missed seven games in

126
00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:55,200
Speaker 5: his whole.

127
00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,119
Speaker 1: Career, right, Why the final four games of twenty twenty

128
00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,440
Speaker 1: three due to a knee injury. But he has been

129
00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:05,000
Speaker 1: a remarkably healthy player. Has been battling the hamstring since

130
00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:05,919
Speaker 1: training camp.

131
00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,159
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I mean still for a linebacker. That is

132
00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:13,600
Speaker 5: a very physical position to be so well intact, that's

133
00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:14,480
Speaker 5: very impressive.

134
00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,560
Speaker 1: Topic number two for Jim White, the Great Jim Wyatt

135
00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:24,960
Speaker 1: from I don't how long have I called you that?

136
00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:25,840
Speaker 2: Yeah?

137
00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:26,760
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.

138
00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:28,880
Speaker 1: So don't act like I'm new to the party, buddy

139
00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:36,160
Speaker 1: with you, hot seed.

140
00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:37,160
Speaker 2: Trying to be nice.

141
00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:38,480
Speaker 1: Wha wha, wha, whoa whoa.

142
00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:40,840
Speaker 2: First of all, hot table, I didn't do this.

143
00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,760
Speaker 1: First of all, the stickers hot seat is where Jim

144
00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,880
Speaker 1: Wyatt is? Where are the snickers.

145
00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:47,720
Speaker 2: That would be.

146
00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:49,920
Speaker 3: Disappearing?

147
00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:50,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.

148
00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,000
Speaker 5: I don't want to name names and call people out,

149
00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:54,680
Speaker 5: but that is what we do on this podcast.

150
00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:56,040
Speaker 2: We name names, and.

151
00:07:55,960 --> 00:08:02,360
Speaker 5: Coach Mac is pillaging our snicker jar for his trigger treaters.

152
00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,320
Speaker 5: Every time I come in here, it gets lower and lower.

153
00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,920
Speaker 5: By the time we get to the end of October,

154
00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,120
Speaker 5: when the trigger treating actually occurs, it will be empty.

155
00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:18,680
Speaker 1: All right. So topic number two, who takes DeAndre Hopkins

156
00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:22,400
Speaker 1: snaps at wide receiver for the Titans starting in Detroit

157
00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:23,000
Speaker 1: this weekend?

158
00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:28,720
Speaker 4: I think probably Nick Westbrickakina moves up, I think Riddley

159
00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:32,280
Speaker 4: Hopefully you know that's a spot that Titans have been in.

160
00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,439
Speaker 4: They've got a guy in Calvin Ridley who they're obviously

161
00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,360
Speaker 4: trying to get the ball to and they've not had

162
00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:38,920
Speaker 4: a lot of success doing it. And then you've got

163
00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,880
Speaker 4: DeAndre Hopkins out there who obviously wants the ball too,

164
00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:46,240
Speaker 4: and uh and clearly not very pleased. He wasn't getting

165
00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:50,120
Speaker 4: it on Sunday. And now that dynamic's gone, I mean

166
00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:54,040
Speaker 4: with DeAndre Hopkins in Kansas City, so I think maybe

167
00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:56,640
Speaker 4: you have more success with Ridley and you don't have

168
00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:01,480
Speaker 4: to worry about the other Hall of Famer in the

169
00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:05,400
Speaker 4: room not being happy. But then that's Nick Westbrikakina, who

170
00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,840
Speaker 4: has just always just stepped up and done his job.

171
00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,600
Speaker 4: I think he obviously is going to get opportunities. Tyler Boyd,

172
00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:14,120
Speaker 4: you know all those guys move up. I'm curious to

173
00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:16,280
Speaker 4: see what the move is on the practice squad because

174
00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,800
Speaker 4: we're we're thin. Now we've got three We've got three

175
00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:23,320
Speaker 4: guys on there, and obviously Mason Kinsey and Tay Martin

176
00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:27,080
Speaker 4: and then Bryce Oliver, who I thought did really good

177
00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,559
Speaker 4: in training camp. I'll be curious to which one of

178
00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:30,800
Speaker 4: those guys gets bumped up.

179
00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,599
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if the Titans even need to bump anybody

180
00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:40,400
Speaker 1: up immediately based on how much three tight end they're

181
00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:43,640
Speaker 1: playing right now, and that seems to be I mean,

182
00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,480
Speaker 1: it's a and on this very podcast, the Official Titans Podcast,

183
00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:51,080
Speaker 1: Cynthia Friedland from NFL Network was our guest and she

184
00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:55,480
Speaker 1: talked about that as one of the huge trends through

185
00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:56,760
Speaker 1: the first two months of the season.

186
00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, she was talking about how many three tight ends

187
00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,480
Speaker 5: set you're seeing just across the league. There's so many

188
00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:06,720
Speaker 5: different things that guys are doing involving more tight ends.

189
00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,280
Speaker 5: And then today Nichols was talking about it in his

190
00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:13,160
Speaker 5: media availability. He was talking about the tight end group

191
00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:15,040
Speaker 5: kind of as a whole in some of those young

192
00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:17,400
Speaker 5: guys and starting to get them involved in seeing what

193
00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:19,640
Speaker 5: they can bring to the table. Yeah, I think this

194
00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:23,240
Speaker 5: is a huge opportunity for the tight ends group as

195
00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:27,000
Speaker 5: a collective here because of the amount of things that

196
00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:28,280
Speaker 5: you can do with that group.

197
00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,000
Speaker 1: Well, we saw Thomas Odiquoia play for the first time

198
00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:35,920
Speaker 1: this year special teams in the game at Buffalo. I

199
00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,760
Speaker 1: just wonder do they start to think about DMR David

200
00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:45,079
Speaker 1: Martin Robinson as somebody who and I know, you've got

201
00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,000
Speaker 1: five tight ends, so you think, boy, that's a lot,

202
00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,120
Speaker 1: but he's such a good receiver and he's such a

203
00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:53,800
Speaker 1: big matchup problem. Do you start to think about him

204
00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:54,880
Speaker 1: a little bit in that mix?

205
00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,480
Speaker 3: Jimmy, I do. I like him.

206
00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,240
Speaker 4: I thought he had a great training camp, really impressive preseason.

207
00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:02,000
Speaker 4: I think is season goes on, I mean, the coach

208
00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:03,760
Speaker 4: is still going to win. I think when people see

209
00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:06,040
Speaker 4: what happened this week and see the moves, they think, Okay,

210
00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,000
Speaker 4: you're tanking. There's no such thing as tanking in the NFL.

211
00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:11,560
Speaker 4: Coaches are playing to win. Players are playing to win.

212
00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:13,839
Speaker 4: But I think as this season goes on and if

213
00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,720
Speaker 4: this I think part of it is gonna be finding

214
00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:18,840
Speaker 4: out what you have and other guys and David Martin Robinson,

215
00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:22,520
Speaker 4: I'd like to see him. I guess I personally wouldn't

216
00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:26,079
Speaker 4: mind it if he was active instead of maybe Nicknette

217
00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:28,720
Speaker 4: on a game day, just to see what he has.

218
00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:31,959
Speaker 4: So that's not taking away thank for Viannette. It caught

219
00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:34,280
Speaker 4: some passes on Sunday, but that's how much I like

220
00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:35,959
Speaker 4: David Martin Rominson, so I.

221
00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:36,560
Speaker 3: Could see that.

222
00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,000
Speaker 4: I do think this becomes more of a team that

223
00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,160
Speaker 4: focused on trying to run the football and to the

224
00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:45,520
Speaker 4: personnel may be different out there, and that sounds great,

225
00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:48,040
Speaker 4: But if you fall down thirty four to ten like

226
00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,400
Speaker 4: you did against Buffalo, then that guy's more difficult. Yeah,

227
00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,680
Speaker 4: you gotta sling it around. So yeah, it makes sense

228
00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,000
Speaker 4: to go light receiver and just live but try to

229
00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:58,840
Speaker 4: run the ball. But this there's a game with the

230
00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,440
Speaker 4: times that could probably have to score points to be competitive.

231
00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,800
Speaker 1: Well, Jakwan Jackson was a guy that while he's doing

232
00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,680
Speaker 1: a nice job on the kickoff returns, he's been very solid,

233
00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:11,760
Speaker 1: he was not ready to play a lot of receiver

234
00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:13,959
Speaker 1: early in the season, which is not a surprise. A

235
00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,800
Speaker 1: lot of rookie receivers aren't. Is he ready to do

236
00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:19,400
Speaker 1: more there now? And I don't know that we know

237
00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,600
Speaker 1: the answer to that. And if he's not, do you

238
00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:26,719
Speaker 1: call up Mason Kenzie for a game like this and

239
00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:30,760
Speaker 1: he's the fifth wide receiver because you know Mason, having

240
00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,920
Speaker 1: been here five years, knows what to do. He also

241
00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,920
Speaker 1: gives you a team's possibility. Or do you look at Oliver?

242
00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:44,400
Speaker 1: Do you? I mean Oliver is a pretty good looking talent. Now,

243
00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:48,000
Speaker 1: I don't know where he is in the sphere of

244
00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,080
Speaker 1: understanding of the offense, but he has some physical ability.

245
00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:52,280
Speaker 1: We saw that in the preseason.

246
00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,520
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, And I think that's what's gonna be interesting

247
00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,200
Speaker 4: to watch. Obviously, we'll see how things develop in practice

248
00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,520
Speaker 4: and who's getting the reps, and then of course the

249
00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,480
Speaker 4: decision have to be made whether one of those guys

250
00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:05,720
Speaker 4: a game day elevation, whether they're elevation to the fifty three.

251
00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,600
Speaker 4: You know, maybe it's scenario where they've give each of

252
00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,959
Speaker 4: those guys a chance as we move forward to and

253
00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:13,800
Speaker 4: I will be curious to see what it is. I

254
00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:16,200
Speaker 4: like Oliver too. I thought Oliver did a really solid

255
00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,839
Speaker 4: job during the summer and has put himself in a

256
00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:21,760
Speaker 4: position to help his team if he needs to.

257
00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:27,400
Speaker 1: All right, Topic number three, Did we miss it with

258
00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:33,600
Speaker 1: Isaiah Prince? Meaning did because he was signed earlier this

259
00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:39,480
Speaker 1: week to the practice squad. Look at you, I'm not

260
00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,720
Speaker 1: saying you missed it, but so he signed the practice

261
00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:46,600
Speaker 1: squad earlier this week. He's an offensive tackle, He's a

262
00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:51,080
Speaker 1: veteran offensive tackle, and I think he would have been

263
00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:55,280
Speaker 1: more of a topic had the trade news not hit yesterday.

264
00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,960
Speaker 1: So let's take a second and then, Jim, I want

265
00:13:58,040 --> 00:13:59,800
Speaker 1: you to talk about where you think he may or

266
00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,720
Speaker 1: may not fit, not necessarily for this week, but does

267
00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,160
Speaker 1: he get a look. This is a player Isaiah Prince,

268
00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:13,840
Speaker 1: who was drafted in round number six by Miami in

269
00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:19,040
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. He is twenty seven years old. He played

270
00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:24,640
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins four games, started to at right tackle

271
00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:32,200
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. They waived him twelve five nineteen. December five,

272
00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:37,480
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, he was claimed by Cincinnati off waivers same day,

273
00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,120
Speaker 1: well the next day, I mean a being technically correct,

274
00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:46,479
Speaker 1: Oh my god. So he doesn't really do anything for Cincinnati,

275
00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,640
Speaker 1: and then in twenty twenty he opts out for COVID.

276
00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,160
Speaker 1: He opted out, and we forget that A lot of

277
00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:57,240
Speaker 1: players did that. That's something that until I was reading

278
00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:00,600
Speaker 1: his bio, that was something I thought to mysel, Oh gosh,

279
00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:01,720
Speaker 1: I haven't thought about.

280
00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:03,080
Speaker 2: That and forgot that was the thing.

281
00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,680
Speaker 1: He opted out for the whole year July thirty first,

282
00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:13,760
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. So he went off and worked out, did boxing,

283
00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:16,400
Speaker 1: learned a lot of things, felt like he filled out better.

284
00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:20,920
Speaker 1: Came back to Cincinnati in twenty twenty one, was a backup,

285
00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:26,760
Speaker 1: and then Riley Reef injured an ankle, and so guess

286
00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:31,120
Speaker 1: who becomes the right tackle Isaiah Prince. He starts the

287
00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:35,480
Speaker 1: final three regular season games. He started Cincinnati's playoff game

288
00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:39,640
Speaker 1: here after starting their playoff game where they beat the

289
00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,120
Speaker 1: Raiders at home, and then he started the AFC Championship game,

290
00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,480
Speaker 1: which they won, and then he was their right tackle

291
00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:52,320
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl WOW. In training camp twenty twenty two,

292
00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:56,680
Speaker 1: he injures an elbow and he's put on injured reserve

293
00:15:56,760 --> 00:16:01,040
Speaker 1: to start the season. He was taken all injured reserve

294
00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:05,000
Speaker 1: November twenty first, they waived him, signed him to the

295
00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:07,760
Speaker 1: practice squad, and he was up and down the rest

296
00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:12,320
Speaker 1: of the year. He signed with Denver last offseason in

297
00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,640
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, was cut in training camp, was in

298
00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,120
Speaker 1: Atlanta for a period of time, but has been away

299
00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:23,840
Speaker 1: from football since last September. And now he is here

300
00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:29,480
Speaker 1: and is a veteran presence, good size, six five six

301
00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:33,560
Speaker 1: seven six seven three h five. I think who forty

302
00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:36,240
Speaker 1: one game college starter. He was a top hundred recruit

303
00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:40,880
Speaker 1: out of green Belt, Maryland and here he is, so

304
00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,160
Speaker 1: does does he? I don't know that he factors into

305
00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,880
Speaker 1: any rotation this week, but is that a name We've

306
00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:51,240
Speaker 1: got to really start to learn, especially with his history

307
00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:52,240
Speaker 1: with Brian Callahan.

308
00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:56,200
Speaker 4: I think so. I mean as I think Leroy Watson

309
00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,880
Speaker 4: is who I expect to kind of be back in

310
00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:01,880
Speaker 4: the fold, back in the rotation, or back in the

311
00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:05,520
Speaker 4: starting lineup this week. And again that's without any hints

312
00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,760
Speaker 4: from practice, just the way things have gone. Jalen Duncan's

313
00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:12,640
Speaker 4: sideline with a hammy Nicklas batiff ear. While he stepped

314
00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:16,680
Speaker 4: in and replaced Duncan on Sunday didn't. I don't think

315
00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:20,800
Speaker 4: he did anything to help solidify that his spot there

316
00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:24,600
Speaker 4: and probably continue to frustrate coaches by the white way

317
00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:25,160
Speaker 4: he played.

318
00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:26,400
Speaker 3: So what they're.

319
00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:32,000
Speaker 4: Looking for is a tough, physical player who is going

320
00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:35,120
Speaker 4: to bring an attitude to that position. I think literally

321
00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:39,679
Speaker 4: Watson gives you that. And now Isaiah Prince has to

322
00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:43,119
Speaker 4: prove himself to Bill Callahan and Nick Colts and Brian

323
00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,840
Speaker 4: Callahan that he potentially could be the next man up

324
00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:48,440
Speaker 4: behind Watson.

325
00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:49,440
Speaker 3: So we'll see.

326
00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,480
Speaker 4: I watched him a little bit in practice on Wednesday.

327
00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:57,080
Speaker 4: He is a big man. He stepped in worked on

328
00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,520
Speaker 4: it was Olga or Bertha, one of the two sleds.

329
00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,720
Speaker 4: Oh there, you've handled handled a sled pretty well first day,

330
00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:08,600
Speaker 4: and and I think they'll try to develop him over

331
00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,120
Speaker 4: the course of the next couple of weeks. Again, don't think

332
00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,320
Speaker 4: it's this week. It's just kind of getting his getting

333
00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:17,160
Speaker 4: his feet wet. But I would think that behind Watson,

334
00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:21,280
Speaker 4: he probably is uh trying to convince him he's a

335
00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,480
Speaker 4: better option than Nicholas Patifair at this point.

336
00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,200
Speaker 5: Hey Titans fans, with a Kroger Boost membership, you'll score

337
00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:31,880
Speaker 5: big with double fuel points, free delivery, and lots more.

338
00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:36,640
Speaker 5: Go to Kroger dot com slash boost for details. Kroger

339
00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:39,520
Speaker 5: Official grocer of the Tennessee Titans.

340
00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:43,199
Speaker 1: Tighten Up Holm is at the forefront of all that

341
00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:46,479
Speaker 1: we do. It's why we're so committed to caring for

342
00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,320
Speaker 1: the places and spaces in which we work and live.

343
00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:54,960
Speaker 1: Ashley the official furniture provider of the Tennessee Titans. The

344
00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:59,159
Speaker 1: OTP pre game with the Great Jim Wyatt continues topic

345
00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:00,680
Speaker 1: number four. Are you ready to Jim?

346
00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:02,040
Speaker 4: I am.

347
00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,280
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell started his tenure as head coach of the

348
00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:12,120
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions four nineteen and one. For me to repeat that, yeah,

349
00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:18,879
Speaker 1: four nineteen and one. Since then, Dan Campbell and the

350
00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:24,560
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions are twenty seven and eight. That's seventy seven

351
00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:26,479
Speaker 1: percent winning percentage.

352
00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:26,919
Speaker 2: It's pretty strong.

353
00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:32,199
Speaker 1: What do you believe changed to turn the NFC's worst

354
00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:37,640
Speaker 1: team into what is arguably the NFC's best team as

355
00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:39,840
Speaker 1: we talk about them going there this weekend.

356
00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:41,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty amazing because I think a lot of

357
00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:45,600
Speaker 4: people were questioning whether he had what it took to

358
00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,879
Speaker 4: be a good head coach and maybe he's just a

359
00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,399
Speaker 4: lot of bluster that comes with him, and he's proven

360
00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:53,960
Speaker 4: that he can coach. And I think what change is

361
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,560
Speaker 4: that guys bought into what he's preaching, and that's playing together,

362
00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:04,720
Speaker 4: that's playing physical, that's holding each other accountable. He holds

363
00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,840
Speaker 4: himself accountable when they lose. He's the guy that usually

364
00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,160
Speaker 4: takes the blame. And you can get away with that

365
00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:13,640
Speaker 4: every once in a while when you're losing every once

366
00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:15,520
Speaker 4: in a while. You can't get away with that when

367
00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:17,399
Speaker 4: you're losing all the time. And they have figured out

368
00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:21,400
Speaker 4: a way to consistently win. So I think his players

369
00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,919
Speaker 4: believe in him. I think they love his passion for

370
00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:29,160
Speaker 4: the game, and I think that this is the best

371
00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,439
Speaker 4: team on the schedule I think this year, and the

372
00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,960
Speaker 4: biggest challenge that they're gonna have the Titans. They're gonna

373
00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,240
Speaker 4: have all season, all season, I do.

374
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:38,480
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a strong statement.

375
00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:42,199
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no Ravens on the schedule, no Chiefs on

376
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,359
Speaker 4: the schedule. And I think the Lines are the best

377
00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:46,160
Speaker 4: team in the NFC.

378
00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,280
Speaker 1: Well, I mean they're They're clearly for real. I mean

379
00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 1: some of their offensive numbers are just stupid. Their offense

380
00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,360
Speaker 1: averages seven point two yards per play on first down.

381
00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,919
Speaker 1: That's number one in the league, number two in the

382
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,600
Speaker 1: NFL in total yards, number two in yards per play,

383
00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:08,679
Speaker 1: number two in points per game. Wow. Jared Goff is

384
00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:09,840
Speaker 1: doing unheard of.

385
00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:11,119
Speaker 2: Things out of his mind.

386
00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,600
Speaker 1: He is playing, and they got him in a twenty

387
00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,520
Speaker 1: twenty one trade that I think worked for both teams,

388
00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,120
Speaker 1: I really do. I think it worked for Matthew Stafford

389
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:22,840
Speaker 1: he won a Super Bowl and got the Rams what

390
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 1: they needed. And Detroit certainly golf has played brilliantly. He's

391
00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 1: on his way to his fourth Pro Bowl. He might

392
00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:30,600
Speaker 1: be the MVP.

393
00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:32,320
Speaker 2: Wow.

394
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:36,800
Speaker 5: I mean, who would have thought that one day having

395
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,880
Speaker 5: conversations about thirty.

396
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:39,280
Speaker 2: Wow.

397
00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:42,000
Speaker 1: Do you know what's wild about him is he was

398
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 1: the number one pick in the twenty sixteen draft, the

399
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:50,000
Speaker 1: pick the Titans traded to the Rams. Yep, so he's

400
00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,879
Speaker 1: he's the first you know, he's the first pick in

401
00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,080
Speaker 1: that draft. So he's been in the league nine years.

402
00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:00,600
Speaker 1: He's still just thirty. His backup is Hendon Hooker. Yeah,

403
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,680
Speaker 1: Hendon Hooker is in his second year in the NFL.

404
00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 1: In January, he'll be twenty Seven's weird, isn't That's true.

405
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 1: That's because after Jared Goff got into the pros, the

406
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 1: transfer portal became a thing. COVID happened, All of these

407
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:21,119
Speaker 1: things happened, and so his backup is twenty six year

408
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,640
Speaker 1: old headed Hooker who will be twenty seven in January.

409
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 1: But Jamiir Gibbs and David Montgomery in the backfield, they

410
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 1: get Amen Ross Saint Brown in the fourth round, the

411
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,919
Speaker 1: fourth round, and he's one of three players in NFL

412
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:42,159
Speaker 1: history with ninety receptions plus in his first three years.

413
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,800
Speaker 1: And then on defense, they've gotten all these guys and

414
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,800
Speaker 1: I mean everything is just fit together perfectly. And then

415
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:51,879
Speaker 1: they've gotten lucky. Let me give you the best idea

416
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 1: of how they've gotten lucky. Did you see how they

417
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:54,959
Speaker 1: won last week?

418
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 4: I don't know that I did.

419
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,879
Speaker 1: Okay, forty four yard field goal with like fifteen second

420
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,160
Speaker 1: to go was kicked by a guy named Jake Bates.

421
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 1: Do you know that Jake Baits story?

422
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 4: Though I don't know the Jakes.

423
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 1: So Jake Baits, the kicker for the best team in

424
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 1: the NFC right now, is from Tombule, Texas, which is

425
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:23,199
Speaker 1: twenty eight miles from Houston. It's in Harris County. He

426
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 1: was an unbelievable high school soccer player, I mean, like

427
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 1: recruited high school soccer player. He goes out for football

428
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 1: his senior year and he becomes the kickoff guy. Tries

429
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 1: two field goals that year, doesn't make either one of them.

430
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter because he's going to college to

431
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 1: play soccer. So he goes to Central Arkansas to play soccer,

432
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 1: plays two seasons at Central Arkansas and then decides, you

433
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go to Texas State,

434
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,919
Speaker 1: and he backs up a guy named Seth Keller and

435
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:03,920
Speaker 1: becomes the kickoff man at Texas State. Well, then in

436
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, he says, you know what I'm gonna do,

437
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to Arkansas. I'm going to go try

438
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 1: to play in the SEC sure, and he becomes All

439
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,879
Speaker 1: conference as a kickoff man at Arkansas. Their place kicker

440
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 1: is a guy named Cam Little. So here's what you

441
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:24,639
Speaker 1: got in Jake Bates of Tombole, Texas. Never made a

442
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 1: high school field goal, never made a kick in college. Okay, sure, sure, sure,

443
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 1: So he says, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm

444
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 1: going to go out for the Houston Texans. So he

445
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:42,120
Speaker 1: gets a free agent undrafted contract with the Houston Texans.

446
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 1: I mean, they've got Kymie Fairbaird, who's one of the

447
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 1: four or five best kickers in the league, might be

448
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:53,679
Speaker 1: the best kicker in the league if Baltimore didn't have

449
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. Anyway, he's really good. So he does

450
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:02,200
Speaker 1: not beat out Kymie Fairbar so he's done.

451
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:03,640
Speaker 2: They tried good job.

452
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 1: He sells bricks in Houston last fall. This time last year,

453
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: Jake Bates is selling bricks in Houston.

454
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 2: Didn't even know that was the thing.

455
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 1: It's in it, man. So he decides, you know what

456
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go out for this USFL.

457
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 1: And then suddenly he starts getting on everybody's radar because

458
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 1: he makes three sixty plus yard field goals. He actually

459
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:35,360
Speaker 1: made one of them twice. He hit a sixty four

460
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 1: yard field goal, but the other team had called time out,

461
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 1: so they did it again and he made it.

462
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:40,879
Speaker 2: Wow.

463
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, everybody's pretty excited about Jake Baits.

464
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: So the hometown Detroit Lions bring him in to compete

465
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:55,920
Speaker 1: with Michael Badgeley. Okay, so the only place kicking he's

466
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: ever done in a game where he made a kick

467
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: was in the USFL. Michael Badgeley gets hurt on July

468
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 1: thirty first, and Jake Bates has been the kicker ever since.

469
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: Wild He is ten of ten on field goals, twenty

470
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 1: of twenty one on extra points. He has twenty nine

471
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: touchbacks on kickoffs. And this guy never made a field

472
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 1: goal in high school, never made a field goal in college,

473
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: and now he is the kicker.

474
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 3: For the Detroit for the Detroit line.

475
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, I'm gonna say something. That's how you get

476
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: to twenty seven of them.

477
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 2: You get that guy, But.

478
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 1: I'm saying you get you get your first round picks

479
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 1: to work out. You make a good trade for a quarterback,

480
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: you get i'm Unross Saint Brown in the fourth round

481
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: and he turns out to be a player of historic proportions.

482
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: And you've got Ben Johnson as the offensive coordinator, and

483
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 1: you got Aaron Glenn as the defensive coordinator. You get

484
00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 1: all this good stuff. Yeah, and yet you still need

485
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: Tombo Texas' own I mean.

486
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 4: A year ago Jim selling bricks.

487
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,120
Speaker 1: I mean that could be seriously, that could be your

488
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 1: son or my son age wise. Yeah, yeah, yep, that

489
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 1: because we have kids that age. Yeah, and they say, yeah,

490
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out for kicker of the Detroit Lions,

491
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,120
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, that's crazy.

492
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 3: Wow, that's a great story.

493
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 4: I didn't know that about.

494
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 1: Jay Bates makes that forty four yarder the other day

495
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: and looks like he's yeah, okay, whatever.

496
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 5: Got ice in his veins? Well, I mean everybody was

497
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 5: brick salesman in America.

498
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: Everybody, everybody wants a kicker, like Nick Folk, who's done

499
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:47,959
Speaker 1: it one hundred million times. And yet Dan Campbell and

500
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: Brad Holmes and the people in Detroit, they're like, if

501
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: he can make a kick. I mean because when Badgeley

502
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: got hurt, everybody's like, oh, you got to bring in

503
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 1: the you know the assortment of kickers who were out there.

504
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 1: Who it feels like all those guys right around in

505
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 1: a van from city to city. Well, they do. It's

506
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: the same five guys, and you'd think they just get

507
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 1: a VW band and just ride around and they're like, oh, look,

508
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: you know New England kicker got hurt. Let's go up

509
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: and all try out.

510
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 2: And you know that would be a great TV show.

511
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: It would be a great TV.

512
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 2: Like a really strong TV show.

513
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: It's time for the key ingredients of the game. Wait,

514
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: are you ready?

515
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 2: I don't know my props, Mike.

516
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: Okay, Jim's going there. We go. Okay, Jim.

517
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 4: We did this last time.

518
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 3: I remember.

519
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 1: Yes, we do it every time because we're a sponsored program.

520
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: It's time for the key ingredients of the game, delivered

521
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: by Little Caesars. Aby Wells will time me. I'm supposed

522
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: to do this in under a minute. Key number one

523
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: for the Titans in Detroit is keeping the tight ends

524
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: involved in the offense. Check at Cockwoa, Nick Fannette, and

525
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: Josh Wiley combined to catch eleven passes for over one

526
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: hundred yards last Sunday. The tight ends were good in

527
00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: every situation. It's certainly helpful to the team's offensive flow.

528
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,479
Speaker 1: More tight end involvement is needed Sunday in Detroit. Key

529
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: number two is to keep Tony Pollard involved and successful

530
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: for all four quarters. Pollard rushed for sixty four yards

531
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: on eleven carries in the first half at Buffalo as

532
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: the Titans took the lead into halftime. In the second half,

533
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard five carries for minus three. He didn't have

534
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: a carry in the last quarter and a half of

535
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: the game. Pollard has to be a part of the

536
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: offense for all sixty minutes for the Titans to beat

537
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: the Lions. At key number three, the Titans defense has

538
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: to make a big play last week. One sack, no takeaways.

539
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 1: If the Titans want to beat Detroit this Sunday, that

540
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: will not cut it. The Tennessee defense needs to sack

541
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: Jared Goff more than once, and they need to take

542
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: the football away from the Lions offense to help set

543
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 1: up easy scoring opportunities. You didn't do it.

544
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 2: Six seconds over, Mike.

545
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: We'll show the point a minute. You've got to show that. No, no,

546
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: not that. The pizza boxes we did come.

547
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,479
Speaker 2: He held them like, oh my gosh, you didn't do it.

548
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 5: Little Caesars is the official pizza partner of your Tennessee Titans.

549
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 5: Download the Little Caesars app and get your favorites delivered today.

550
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 2: Delivery fees do apply.

551
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: Mike, Yes, six seconds.

552
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I got too excited.

553
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 3: Here you go, Jim, all right, Ja Jake Bits could

554
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:21,719
Speaker 3: have done that.

555
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 2: He could have done it.

556
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: I've got to read this. It's a mayotivation from.

557
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 5: Helman's Mayo Titans Cheers, be loud, and your buffalo chicken

558
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 5: dip make you your mama and the entire family proud. Helman's

559
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 5: the official mayo of the Tennessee Titans.

560
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: Jim is not as enthusiastic, holding the helmets.

561
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 3: A little heavier.

562
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 4: I'm having to keep it closer to the table.

563
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 2: Mayo game Day be delicious.

564
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: Hey, Titans fans, See geek makes it easy to find

565
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: tickets so you can be a part of all the

566
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: touchdown celebrations this season.

567
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 5: Whether you're buying herself football tickets, seat geek is the

568
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 5: place to do it. Seat Geek is the official primary

569
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 5: ticketing partner of the Tennessee Titan.

570
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: The most disruptive idea in ticketing ticket that works, expect

571
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: the expected.

572
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 2: See geek.

573
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: Se Geek made a rookie mistake this football season. Maybe

574
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: you should have had snickers, because.

575
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 5: Now you can enter for the chance to turn those

576
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 5: rookie mistakes into prises, including a trip to Super Bowl

577
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 5: fifty nine.

578
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: Visit Snickers dot com slash Rookie Mistakes for details. Topic

579
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: number five we only did four. Because we only did

580
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: four is we want to congratulate Jim Waatt on being

581
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: conducted into the Tennessee Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame. We

582
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: got the news this morning, and uh we already had

583
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: you set up for this, so we were so happy.

584
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: Come on in here, come on in. We got stuff,

585
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: we got people, we got a king.

586
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 3: I appreciate this. I appreciate this, Jim.

587
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 1: I want to tell you something that's really special. Is

588
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: I know how you started. I know I know what

589
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: you had to do to get into the business. Come

590
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: on in, come on in, to bring everybody in whatever

591
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: I mean you you started at the bottom. You were

592
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: part time at the Tennessee and and had to work

593
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: other jobs to make ends meet while you were trying

594
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: to fulfill your dream. And then you became the preps writer.

595
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: No offense to anybody else, you're the best preps writer

596
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: I ever saw.

597
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.

598
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: They could put you in the Hall of Fame. Strictly

599
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: for what you did on preps that's awesome. And then

600
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: with some great tutors, especially our friend Jeff leg Well,

601
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: you became the Titans beat writer and went on to

602
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: do special things with and then twenty fifteen for our

603
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: great Titans fans, we convinced you to come over here

604
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: and be part of our team because we thought you

605
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: could do something really special for what we do with

606
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: our website and for how we covered the team, and

607
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: you have been an absolute top five pick for us.

608
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: I mean, it is thirty five years of busting your

609
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: butt and we are so happy for you to be

610
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: inducted into the Tennessee Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame.

611
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 1: You are so deserving. You are as we've always known,

612
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: the great. You are the great gym waller, are the

613
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: great gym ware.

614
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Appreciate it.

615
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 4: Your cake, Yeah, what a great cake. I don't know

616
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 4: if I hold this up, I may drop it. But

617
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 4: I appreciate you saying all that. I appreciate everybody come

618
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 4: in here. It was a great surprise for me to

619
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 4: find that out. You know, some great people in the

620
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame, people I worked with, and you know

621
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 4: when I've got out of school. As you mentioned, I

622
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 4: worked a full time job somewhere else, at a place

623
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 4: called the Register of Deeds. From the time I got

624
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 4: out of college, I was working at the newspaper at

625
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 4: night part time, and I worked full time job forty

626
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 4: hours and they go down work at the paper thirty

627
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,240
Speaker 4: thirty five hours a week. I did that for about

628
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:20,399
Speaker 4: six seven years, working seventy five eighty hours a week,

629
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 4: and then I got a chance. You know, John bib

630
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 4: was the sports that I worked with, Jimmy Davey and

631
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:29,800
Speaker 4: David Clymber and Larry Woody end up working with Joe Biddle.

632
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 4: You know, Michael Oregon helped break me in. You mentioned

633
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 4: Jeff Legwald, Larry Taff, Yeah, Larry Taff. Mean, so many

634
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 4: people just kind of showed me the way. I just

635
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 4: didn't want to let them down. I mean, that was

636
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 4: my whole motivation when I started working there is I

637
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:43,799
Speaker 4: didn't want to be the week link and I didn't

638
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 4: want to get beat on stories. I want to do

639
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 4: the best job I possibly could do, and so I

640
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 4: love working the paper and I love working here. I've

641
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 4: been very fortunate to be able to do it so long.

642
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 4: I always tell people you start maybe getting recognitioned like

643
00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:00,919
Speaker 4: this when you're getting older. The sign I'm getting old.

644
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 4: But I appreciate it. I appreciate the cake, appreciate everybody

645
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 4: you know coming in here, and uh, there's been a

646
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,359
Speaker 4: This has been a great part of my career too,

647
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,879
Speaker 4: being to work for my hometown team. Nashville native as

648
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,720
Speaker 4: you mentioned, went to father on high school. Never dreamed

649
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 4: of have an NFL team in the city, and uh,

650
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 4: never dreamed I'd be working for it. So been, I've

651
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 4: been very lucky.

652
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: We're just proud of you. Yeah, I appreciate it. I

653
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,320
Speaker 1: could say when we saw the news today, it made

654
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: all of our days. And you are truly You've always

655
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: been a Hall of Famer in our books, but to

656
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: see this great organization recognize you, it's just it's the

657
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: right thing. It's a special thing, and it's certainly a

658
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 1: happy moment for everybody who's involved with the Tennessee Titans.

659
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,879
Speaker 1: And you're many fans and you do have them. They

660
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: love you. To know that this has happened to you.

661
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: I know I've joined with a lot of people in

662
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: wishing you the best. Congratulations and uh, a job well done.

663
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: Now go to practice.

664
00:35:58,239 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll get out.

665
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: We get a cake later.

666
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 3: You know, I appreciate that. I appreciate it.

667
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: Way to go, Thank you all right. For Hall of

668
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: Famer Jim Wyatt. It ain't well, it does so good.

669
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith. Thanks for joining us for the O

670
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 1: T Y.

671
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you,