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Speaker 1: to learn about our history in Tennessee. With Amy Wells
Speaker 1: and the ever reliable Rhet Bryan I, Mike Keith. We
Speaker 1: are backed from Senior Bowl. We are five weeks away
Speaker 1: from the start of the league year, sort of the
Speaker 1: calm before the storm, if you will. As it is
Speaker 1: super Bowl week. It is super Bowl week, so things
Speaker 1: are a little stormy here. For a different reason. I'm
Speaker 1: always cranky during super Bowl week, so I apologize in advance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I'm not there, it just makes me a little salty.
Speaker 1: So well, think about this though. Super Bowl next year
Speaker 1: in Vegas. Oh, that's fun? Would that be? I think
Speaker 1: that would be good. That would be real good. Super
Speaker 1: Bowl the following year, super Bowl fifty nine, February nine,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, Caesar's Superdome in New Orleans. That would
Speaker 1: be fun. It would be fun. Yeah, yeah, Okay, those
Speaker 1: are good places. Seem like that helps, So maybe maybe
Speaker 1: it's on the horizon for us. Yeah, location specific, location specific. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course I would go to Iceland if the Titans
Speaker 1: were in a Super Bowl, and I would be thrilled
Speaker 1: to be there. Yeah. Listen, if it was on another
Speaker 1: planet and we needed one of Elon Musk's rockets, I
Speaker 1: would want. I would go. I would volunteer. I'm with you,
Speaker 1: I agree, I'd do it. All right. So as we
Speaker 1: start the news of the week and we begin to
Speaker 1: look at things, first of all, congratulations Rhett Bryan from
Speaker 1: the Reese's Senior Bowl. That guy hit the talk of
Speaker 1: the week, Taj Spears running back to lane. He started
Speaker 1: in on him early in the week, and then the
Speaker 1: rest of the national media copied. Rhet Bryan's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: But you were on him early, you were on him often,
Speaker 1: and by the time the week was up, he was
Speaker 1: the talk of the week. So congratulations Wretch. You got it.
Speaker 1: Nice young man and gonna make somebody a really nice
Speaker 1: running back at the next level. His game if we're
Speaker 1: talking camp right now, because he's a bigger player than
Speaker 1: one I'm about to mention, but he reminds me of
Speaker 1: kind of Elijah Mitchell and what he's been doing for
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers. But you know Taj
Speaker 1: Spears five nine, two oh five, and he's got an
Speaker 1: explosive first couple of steps. The only question about Spears, however,
Speaker 1: is he's had some knee stuff and gonna have to
Speaker 1: answer that at the Combine, which is actually three weeks away.
Speaker 1: We will be at the Combine February twenty eight through
Speaker 1: March sixth, that's when it concludes. Probably won't be there
Speaker 1: and through March sixth, but we'll be there for the
Speaker 1: week and so the medicals and all of the things
Speaker 1: done back in amy Well's favorite city of Indianapolis as
Speaker 1: the Combine continues. It is my favorite city for the
Speaker 1: NFL Scouting collection. Just be honest, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: You want to move there. I've already lived there before.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go back. Mayor of I mean,
Speaker 1: she loves Indianapolis. Let me say this, for convenience and
Speaker 1: those things, I would vote that it stay there in perpetuity, right, Brian,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, will we get the new stadium built
Speaker 1: here and we're able to host it here, Let's do that.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Okay, I'm telling you it's gonna be
Speaker 1: with the new stadium, that's going to be something else
Speaker 1: that will be able to be hosted here because guess
Speaker 1: what we have in Nashville. A lot of good healthcare. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's with a sention Saint Thomas and the relationship that
Speaker 1: that we have, and I mean they're fabulous doctors and
Speaker 1: nurses and technicians and and monofilament, field turf and all
Speaker 1: of that. We will be able to host the Combine
Speaker 1: someday here because of that facility. Just one more reason.
Speaker 1: We're excited to get the new stadium in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six or twenty twenty seven, and that will be wildly convenient,
Speaker 1: yes for us, Yes, which is what I ultimately care about. Convenient.
Speaker 1: Have to get your sleep, I like to get traffic.
Speaker 1: I don't like traffic. You'd like to have places to eat? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all things that Nashville provides three weeks away from the Combine,
Speaker 1: and you will learn names. Over the next few weeks.
Speaker 1: You will learn all sorts of things that lead up
Speaker 1: to the draft. Kind of let me take you through
Speaker 1: the timetable really quickly. Of course, the Super Bowl is
Speaker 1: in Glendale, Arizona this Sunday. The waiver system begins for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three on Monday. Wow. So it's like the
Speaker 1: old Steve McNair post Super Bowl commercial that was on
Speaker 1: where he was sitting in the Shay's lounge out by
Speaker 1: the pool with his fancy bathrobe on and they were
Speaker 1: singing tomorrow, tomorrow, the sun will come out tomorrow. Because
Speaker 1: it was a great ad. Because as of next Monday,
Speaker 1: we're all O and O. Thirty two teams are O
Speaker 1: and O. As the year starts, love It Tuesday February
Speaker 1: twenty first two weeks, teams can designate franchise or transition players.
Speaker 1: That is going to be interesting to watch, particularly in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: We think with Lamar Jackson we shall see. The combine
Speaker 1: opens Tuesday, February twenty eighth. Already mentioned that, and it
Speaker 1: runs a week and then March the thirteenth, five weeks away,
Speaker 1: less than five weeks away. What do they call it? Here?
Speaker 1: The free agency negotiation period begins, otherwise known as legal tampering.
Speaker 1: I love legal tampering, and I just call it what
Speaker 1: it is, yeah, because it sounds so wrong, it sounds shady,
Speaker 1: and I love it. But that's the whole thing is
Speaker 1: NFL teams get to be shady for forty eight hours
Speaker 1: before the league year begins on Wednesday, March the fifteenth.
Speaker 1: I think it's great. I love that the league built
Speaker 1: it right into the calendar. But it's so great because
Speaker 1: you've got this feeling that people are sitting in somebody's
Speaker 1: driveway ready to walk up and knock on the That
Speaker 1: doesn't happen anymore. Used to used to happen, yeah, but
Speaker 1: now with technology you don't have to. But a coach
Speaker 1: would be waiting outside because he wanted that player to
Speaker 1: know we want you this badly. We're sitting outside your
Speaker 1: house at eleven fifty nine. I think it's great. I
Speaker 1: like that they were like, well, we know you guys
Speaker 1: are going to do this anyway, so we may as
Speaker 1: well make it legal for forty eight hours, do whatever
Speaker 1: you need to do, and then let's rock and roll. Okay.
Speaker 1: So then three o'clock Central time, Wednesday, March the fifteenth,
Speaker 1: what happens. The league year starts, and that means you
Speaker 1: can sign free agents. So you will probably have agreed
Speaker 1: to some deals beforehand, but you can sign free agents.
Speaker 1: You can do all the things with the testing in
Speaker 1: terms of the medical you can bring them in. Those
Speaker 1: things certainly can happen, and at three o'clock that day,
Speaker 1: the top fifty one rule is in effect. That means
Speaker 1: all clubs must be under the twenty twenty three salary
Speaker 1: cap of two hundred twenty four point eight million dollars
Speaker 1: prior to three o'clock based on their top fifty one salaries.
Speaker 1: And then with the fifty three part gets when you
Speaker 1: get into the regular season correct it gets to the
Speaker 1: first week of the seasons, I think roughly midweek. It's
Speaker 1: either Tuesday or Wednesday of week one. First week of
Speaker 1: the season is going to be Sunday, September ten, so
Speaker 1: obviously there will be a Thursday night game on the seventh.
Speaker 1: There's Monday Night football on the eleventh, but for that's
Speaker 1: the week you have to be fifty three salaries, practice, squad, injured, reserve,
Speaker 1: anything else. But starting five weeks from now three o'clock
Speaker 1: on March the fifteenth, teams must be under the salary
Speaker 1: cap by three o'clock Central Time based on their top
Speaker 1: fifty one salaries. Two weeks after that, the league spring
Speaker 1: meetings at the Builtmore Arizona and that's where we'll find
Speaker 1: out about rules changes, we'll find out about other things
Speaker 1: that the league is going to bring about. For twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, there are four major league meetings there quarterly.
Speaker 1: This one is clearly the biggest win in terms of news.
Speaker 1: This one's the biggest one in terms of news, mainly
Speaker 1: because of those rules committee meetings and all of the
Speaker 1: rules changes that come out of it. This is really
Speaker 1: it's a three day event. There's a lot of things
Speaker 1: that happen. Everybody makes it a point to be at
Speaker 1: these meetings. It's not just owners. There's head coaches, there's
Speaker 1: general managers, there's front office staff there. So those are
Speaker 1: kind of the big meetings of the year, and there's
Speaker 1: always some interesting stuff that comes out of there, and
Speaker 1: they're always a very beautiful place. They're beautiful locales built
Speaker 1: more Arizona this year. Very nice place, which isn't any
Speaker 1: built more is you know outstand Yeah, it's okay that
Speaker 1: one has birds in the lobby. Well, the Vanderbilt's liked
Speaker 1: birds in the lobby well, and that's I mean, good
Speaker 1: for them. More in Asheville is very beautiful as well.
Speaker 1: If you've never been there, you should go highly suggested,
Speaker 1: highly suggested travel tips. All right, so this is what
Speaker 1: we got going on, and it's about to get rolling.
Speaker 1: You're gonna hear about coaches that are added to the
Speaker 1: Titans roster. The Titans still without an offensive coordinator, still
Speaker 1: without an offensive line coach, still without a secondary coach.
Speaker 1: They haven't announced anything. There are certainly reports that are
Speaker 1: out there right now. The reports that are out there
Speaker 1: is the Titans have agreed to terms with Washington's Chris Harris,
Speaker 1: but he's interviewing for defensive coordinator jobs so recently the
Speaker 1: Houston Texas, so he may never get here. Who knows
Speaker 1: and who knows if any of this is even accurate.
Speaker 1: Reports that the Titans have agreed to terms with Lorid Locus,
Speaker 1: who spent time in Tampa on their defensive staff, believe
Speaker 1: she was an assistant with the defensive line. Correct, that's correct.
Speaker 1: Coach Max says she can coach. Coach Max says she's
Speaker 1: a ball coach. He knows her, Ye knows her. Well,
Speaker 1: says she's a ball coach. That's all I need to know. Yep,
Speaker 1: I'm here for it. I'm excited. So wherever she's coaching
Speaker 1: on defense. Fined by me. Yep, yep, that's what I say.
Speaker 1: Coach mc and had a conversation about this. I met
Speaker 1: her at the Senior Bowl last week when she came
Speaker 1: rushing over to coachman. Coach Dame McGinnis. Yes, she had
Speaker 1: been with that the Football Alliance, the Birmingham Iron, I think,
Speaker 1: and that Bruce Arians had inquired about her and brought
Speaker 1: her to Tampa and so. But yeah, so it sounds
Speaker 1: like she interviewed with coach Vrabel and sounds like things
Speaker 1: are going well. And uh yeah, he gave her the
Speaker 1: seal of approval. Coach mac did, so we know that. Yep.
Speaker 1: Coach mack by the way needs a shout out the
Speaker 1: player that he talked about at the Senior Bowl, the
Speaker 1: most Osyrius Torrence, who played at Louisiana and then transferred
Speaker 1: with his coach to Florida. According to Dane Brugler, whose
Speaker 1: opinion I respect, draft analyst Dane Brugler of the Athletic,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. If you have to admit, I've
Speaker 1: been a big fan for a long time. You have
Speaker 1: even before he was Dane Brugler of the Athletic, when
Speaker 1: he was just Dame Brugler. Well, and then finding out
Speaker 1: he was trained by our legendary scout Seal Bracado. Makes
Speaker 1: a lot of sense. He says, Osyrius Torrence guard Florida,
Speaker 1: was the best player at the Senior Bowl regardless of position. Wow,
Speaker 1: regardless of position. And he's coach Max guy. Coach Max's
Speaker 1: been on him all along. Thinks he's a guard that
Speaker 1: you're going to draft and he will play right away.
Speaker 1: Whispers that I hear lately is that he helped himself
Speaker 1: well enough last week in Mobile that he is the
Speaker 1: bottom third of the first round of the NFL draft well.
Speaker 1: And the good news for the Titans, who have the
Speaker 1: forty second pick is because he's a guard, he probably
Speaker 1: won't go as high as what his projection is. Whereas
Speaker 1: a quarterback normally goes higher, right, a guard normally falls,
Speaker 1: and the cornerbacks and the edge rushers and the quarterback
Speaker 1: and those things push those things down exactly right. We
Speaker 1: have seen that in mini drafts. So it's possible that
Speaker 1: Osiris Torrence, Florida Gator could end up there at forty
Speaker 1: two if the Titans want to select him, or he
Speaker 1: could go more highly if somebody is absolutely in love
Speaker 1: with him. As a player or if they have a need,
Speaker 1: or if they just say, this is what our board says,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna stick with our board, and that does happen.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that happens is positionally sometimes there's
Speaker 1: a run on the first round or higher graded talent
Speaker 1: of a particular position. It's true. Well, last year cold
Speaker 1: Strange went to New England at the end of the
Speaker 1: first round at twenty four I think much more high
Speaker 1: in terms of the pick than what anybody anticipated, because
Speaker 1: they clearly had him at the top of their board
Speaker 1: from what was less left, and they just stuck with
Speaker 1: their pick. They just said, this is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: And he played very well for the Patriots by all rights.
Speaker 1: This year, some people can't be that true because of
Speaker 1: their need. Oh at another position and they say, well,
Speaker 1: we'd like to take this player here, this is where
Speaker 1: we have him ranked. But we gotta get a receiver,
Speaker 1: we gotta get a corner, and as Ritt says, we
Speaker 1: fear a run. So we shall see. But kudos to
Speaker 1: coach Dave McGinnis. Can I give a shout out to
Speaker 1: go right ahead, Amy Wells. I would like to give
Speaker 1: a shout out to Mike Keith, Oh boy, here we go,
Speaker 1: who has also been making news in the last say,
Speaker 1: thirty six hours news if I made well, Mike Keith,
Speaker 1: thank you for asking. Turns out Peyton Manning is a
Speaker 1: huge fan of yours. According to Jim Wyatt, hang on,
Speaker 1: just rhet, do we have the audio? Can we roll that? Please?
Speaker 1: Here we go? Absolutely, And I wouldn't call like what
Speaker 1: I'm doing broadcasting, you know, Eli and I we're the
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what we're doing. But Mike's the best.
Speaker 1: I stay in touch with Mike, you know, text them
Speaker 1: obviously earned Tennessee Valls victories, and he texted me kind
Speaker 1: of a clip of Ram Carthon. They were watching some
Speaker 1: film of when Ram was playing when I was playing.
Speaker 1: So Mike's the best. I've been doing it a long time,
Speaker 1: true pro and obviously a great volunteer as well. Okay,
Speaker 1: so there you have it. Apparently he's a big friend
Speaker 1: of a friend of yours. You guys, nice back and forth.
Speaker 1: That was nice of him to say, it's possible it's
Speaker 1: the first nice thing he's ever said about me public. Well,
Speaker 1: it's nice that you say that, because I actually had
Speaker 1: a conversation with Peyton Manning about you in like twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Don't ask these questions. But we had a conversation and
Speaker 1: he actually said the exact opposite. So Ratt, can you
Speaker 1: play that too? This banquet is over. That's what ibvious
Speaker 1: celebrating more, not just being ducted into the Hall of
Speaker 1: Famers of life about emailing me and texted me. He
Speaker 1: texted me and email is the same famil In case
Speaker 1: I don't get the text, I have an email as
Speaker 1: a back. So it's a lot. So now Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: speaking out of both sides of his mouth, Hang on
Speaker 1: just a second. That's more like it. That is my
Speaker 1: relationship with Peyton Manning over the years. He when he
Speaker 1: was a player at Tennessee. I know this is hard
Speaker 1: for people to believe, but I had a talk show
Speaker 1: in Knoxville. I think a lot of people would believe that.
Speaker 1: So I had a talk show and Brent Hubbs, who
Speaker 1: works for ON three and runs the Vault Quest website
Speaker 1: and is you know, absolutely the authority on vall sports.
Speaker 1: He was just starting out and he worked with me
Speaker 1: at that point, and he comes in and he says,
Speaker 1: during a break, he says, you're gonna want to take
Speaker 1: a line. Whatever, it's Peyton Manning when we come back
Speaker 1: from break, you're gonna want to take this call, I said.
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning is not He's Tennessee's quarterback. I can't have
Speaker 1: current athletes on my show by rule really well by
Speaker 1: rule of the University of Tennessee. So if I violate this,
Speaker 1: then I'm going to be in trouble with the Sports
Speaker 1: Information Department. So I'm sitting here going, okay, A, is
Speaker 1: it really Peyton Manning? Because a lot of times when
Speaker 1: you host a talk show for the OT people, I
Speaker 1: pull back the curtain when you get in those situations
Speaker 1: and you're discussing it off air, A very good chance
Speaker 1: it's not Peyton Manning. B very good chance it's somebody
Speaker 1: who's going to get on there and then just say
Speaker 1: something obscene, right because they're trying to embarrass you. They
Speaker 1: want to tape it. Hey, let's welcome Peyton Manning to
Speaker 1: the show. And then whomever comes into its curses yes,
Speaker 1: and it becomes something that just ends up being obscene.
Speaker 1: Those are the moments that you have you hope you
Speaker 1: have a dump button. I mean, just all kinds of
Speaker 1: bad things could happen. So I'm weighing this. Am I
Speaker 1: going to get in trouble with the Sports information depart
Speaker 1: They're already crazed when it comes to Peyton Manning right well,
Speaker 1: because he had just done the thing where he said
Speaker 1: I'm coming back for my senior year. So now he's
Speaker 1: a bigger hero than Davy Crockett. He's on all of
Speaker 1: the different shows and whatever around the Country's on Good
Speaker 1: Morning America. I mean, the whole thing is crazy. So
Speaker 1: Hubber says, I think it really is him. I said,
Speaker 1: do we do this? He goes, well, he said, you know,
Speaker 1: we got a chance to have Peyton Manning on the show.
Speaker 1: He says, whatever trouble we're gonna get in will be
Speaker 1: worth it. Yeah, because that's the way Hubbs is. He's
Speaker 1: this guy forgiveness not permitted. Well, who did he learn
Speaker 1: it from? You? Yeah? So I'm like, you're right, We've
Speaker 1: got to take the chance. So we come back. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to sports talk here on Newstalk ninety nine. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the phones. Peyton online. I don't remember line three,
Speaker 1: it's Peyton Manning. Is hey just driving along? What's going on? Well? First,
Speaker 1: first part of the stories, it's nineteen ninety seven, and
Speaker 1: he's got a car phone. Yeah, and it was at
Speaker 1: that time a car phone. It wasn't a mobile device.
Speaker 1: It was just attached to the car. But his dad's
Speaker 1: Archie Manning, and you know the whole thing. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: no surprise. So I'm like, hey, Peyton, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: So I ask him something that only Peyton would know,
Speaker 1: and sure enough, he goes, I'm just calling to quiz you.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, this is not gonna be good
Speaker 1: for me. He goes. They had the pro scouts in today. Everybody,
Speaker 1: even the guys who aren't eligible for the draft, ran
Speaker 1: forty times. Who do you think was the fastest? Well,
Speaker 1: Tennessee has a who's who of receivers at that point.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a track team. It's Marcus Nash, it's
Speaker 1: Peerless Price. I mean, it's Greg Kyler. I mean, they've
Speaker 1: got all these guys that can run run um and
Speaker 1: so of course every one of my guesses is wrong.
Speaker 1: It's actually a guy named Andy McCullough who went to
Speaker 1: high school with Peerless Price, who was this unbelievable athlete.
Speaker 1: Never became a great receiver. He was more great athlete,
Speaker 1: but he ran like four three something. So Peyton did
Speaker 1: exactly what he wanted. He made me look bad on
Speaker 1: my own show, yeah, which is and that was the
Speaker 1: first of a series that's us you just heard. That
Speaker 1: was the whole thing. So I don't really have a
Speaker 1: relationship with him for like fourteen fifteen years because he
Speaker 1: plays for the Colts where the Titans all we want
Speaker 1: to do is beat him. I mean, that was the
Speaker 1: whole thing. All these my relatives from East Tennessee would say,
Speaker 1: isn't that great? Peyton did so good? You know, I mean, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's how can you not pull for Peyton? I'm like,
Speaker 1: got very easily. Yeah, somebody else in his division signs
Speaker 1: my paycheck. It's my job. Yes, yeah. So I think
Speaker 1: I saw him probably one time, and we always had
Speaker 1: a solid relationship. When he was a player at Tennessee.
Speaker 1: He'd liked to give me a hard time just constantly
Speaker 1: because he thought and probably accurately so that I was
Speaker 1: being a know it all all the time, because that
Speaker 1: was kind of the I mean, we did a talk show,
Speaker 1: so what was I going to do? Talk and you
Speaker 1: have to offer opinions, and when the opinions are wrong,
Speaker 1: certain people always yeah, I want to give you the
Speaker 1: business occupational hazard. So I get a call in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen and they said, Peyton Manning's friend of mine at
Speaker 1: the University of Tennessee says, Peyton Manning is giving multimillion
Speaker 1: dollars to the University of Tennessee. It's like, WHOA, that's nice.
Speaker 1: Say he's doing a reception and it's a very exclusive
Speaker 1: delio with like fifty of the biggest people and there
Speaker 1: were several billionaires in the room, by the way, I mean,
Speaker 1: it was a thing. And they say, Bob Kessling, who
Speaker 1: the voice of the Valls, has to do a baseball game,
Speaker 1: would you be willing to come host with Peyton. I
Speaker 1: was like, yes, he's retired at this point, there's no
Speaker 1: problem anymore. I was like, yes, I will be there.
Speaker 1: So literally, I drove over there on a Friday, and
Speaker 1: I drove back that night. I was in Knoxville for
Speaker 1: two hours because we were busy doing something during the day,
Speaker 1: and I just said, yeah, I'm gonna do it. So
Speaker 1: I had worked with him on what he wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about. Because this will stun you, he prepares forever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that seems about right. I would have guessed. And so
Speaker 1: since that time, I've gotten to do four events with him,
Speaker 1: four or five events with him. He prepares the same
Speaker 1: every time. What would you guess? Is the one story
Speaker 1: he has to tell that everybody wants to hear at
Speaker 1: every event. I don't know, college or NFL. While he
Speaker 1: was in the NFL, Oh, I don't know, he tells
Speaker 1: the story he has to tell the story about when
Speaker 1: he hosted Saturday Night Live. Oh yeah, yeah yeah, And
Speaker 1: the skit is the one where he's playing football with
Speaker 1: the little kids. It's really good neighborhood yep. If you
Speaker 1: haven't ever watched it, I mean, I'm sure it's on
Speaker 1: YouTube orwere Yeah, it's everywhere, and it's like a fake
Speaker 1: United Way commercial or something. Yep. It is so good
Speaker 1: because when Eli hosted, he did something similar that was
Speaker 1: pretty funny. But the only thing I've ever seen, so
Speaker 1: it's totally against his persona. You know, that's I don't
Speaker 1: want to give the bit away, and I'm certainly not
Speaker 1: going to tell his part of the story because if
Speaker 1: you ever have the chance to hear him speak, hearing
Speaker 1: him tell the story of how they shot it is magnificent.
Speaker 1: But the only thing I've ever seen where somebody goes
Speaker 1: so against their type. One eighty was Wayne Brady on
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle and if you've ever seen that skit, that's
Speaker 1: one of the most ridiculously funny things ever. It is
Speaker 1: so wrong. Well this is so wrong too, and he
Speaker 1: loved doing it, and he tells I mean, he tells
Speaker 1: just great stories. I got to host something with his
Speaker 1: dad one time as well. I don't email and text him.
Speaker 1: I don't. That's not true. That's not what he says.
Speaker 1: Clip and the second clip of the first clip, the
Speaker 1: first one he says, I did send him. So Coach
Speaker 1: Mack did the Microsoft Surface Beneath the Surface feature with
Speaker 1: Ran Carthon where Rand was playing for Indianapolis against US,
Speaker 1: and Ran really enjoyed it. He really enjoyed seeing the
Speaker 1: clips of him play and it was fun to watch
Speaker 1: Peyton as his quarterback and he referenced Peyton, and so
Speaker 1: I did. I forwarded that to Peyton and he did
Speaker 1: watch it, and he did enjoy it. If it anybody's texting,
Speaker 1: I don't text him for it's him texting you occasionally. Well,
Speaker 1: when I've got to do something or his son, Marshall
Speaker 1: is a huge Derrick Henry fan. So Marshall's all in
Speaker 1: anything Derrick Henry. I have seen pictures of Marshall into
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry jersey, which we like. Yes, that's very cool,
Speaker 1: that's very cool. But I mean it was nice of
Speaker 1: him to say something nice about me, and I'm appreciative.
Speaker 1: So Marshall make a couple of tosses at the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: There's something there. Huh. Do you see Marshall throw that
Speaker 1: ball as I did? So I watched that back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna run that back. I watched
Speaker 1: it three times. Marshall has a better throwing motion, maybe
Speaker 1: even than his dad. He I mean to be what
Speaker 1: is he eleven? He has eleven? It's pretty awesome. So
Speaker 1: the future is bright for the Manning family. So the
Speaker 1: future is bright. A couple of questions before we finish
Speaker 1: up this OTP, which is really just have been all
Speaker 1: over the block, hasn't it? Yeah? But I kind of
Speaker 1: liked these all over the road Uncle Mike's storytime. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I like being able to pull back the curtain of
Speaker 1: what our conversations are actually like, which is chaotic. But
Speaker 1: let me just say, let me go back to the
Speaker 1: Manning thing. I don't text him every day, and he
Speaker 1: doesn't text me every day. When when I saw the
Speaker 1: look on his face when Jim White asked him the question,
Speaker 1: I thought, Okay, now I'm going to get hit again.
Speaker 1: I thought I'm gonna get hit hard. He's gonna make
Speaker 1: But it is true. I did send him the Ran
Speaker 1: Carthon thing, which is probably the first thing I've texted
Speaker 1: him in a long time, like a week. No, that's
Speaker 1: not true. I don't do that. I do not do that.
Speaker 1: Don't say that because I'm just asking. Yeah, a long
Speaker 1: time is different for everybody. Yeah, but when you're missing
Speaker 1: your friend, well, but Ran Carthon is this guy. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it's very nice. That was a very heads up play
Speaker 1: by you. I thought that was nice, awesome, It really
Speaker 1: was good. It was so good and to see Ran
Speaker 1: and how thrilled he was to see himself in action.
Speaker 1: Did Ashley Farrell edit that? I'm not sure who edited it,
Speaker 1: one of the three, but it was phenomenal, really well
Speaker 1: done well Ashley Farrell, Jack Mummert, Jeanette Morley, whomever did
Speaker 1: it that works on our team. Just really well done. Yep, agreed.
Speaker 1: You can go to Tennessee Titans dot com and find
Speaker 1: that you could go to Tennessee Titans dot com and
Speaker 1: find interviews that we did from the Senior Bowl. We
Speaker 1: are posting them every day this week to a day,
Speaker 1: some really good ones and giving you a chance to
Speaker 1: meet these guys a little bit, get to know their names,
Speaker 1: a lot of them very very impressive. Earlier this week
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Speaker 1: Chattanooga who actually is from Chattanooga, which is kind of cool.
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Speaker 1: She had all the shots of Coach Mac being the
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Speaker 1: and Rhet in their matching sweatshirts. That might be my
Speaker 1: Christmas card this year, might be Titans Radio's Christmas card
Speaker 1: this year. It's just so quality the thing you missed
Speaker 1: and I think you did a brilliant job, but I
Speaker 1: do have to critique. There had to be some step
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Speaker 1: Duncan immediately. Conclusion of this podcast. Okay, so who wins
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl? Rep? Brian, I say the Kansas City
Speaker 1: Chiefs still do it? I just Patrick mahomes Is. I
Speaker 1: think about the conversation speaking of OTPs that we had
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl with Stefani A Belle, the injury
Speaker 1: analyst for ESPN. She said, he'll have two weeks to
Speaker 1: prepare for this, and she said, in my opinion, I
Speaker 1: think he was just playing through a difficult injury and
Speaker 1: did not hurt it any worse than what it was.
Speaker 1: And if he's got two weeks to get ready, which
Speaker 1: he will have by the time that happens. I just
Speaker 1: they've been there and done that. But there's a part
Speaker 1: of you that goes but the Eagles are riding something special.
Speaker 1: I still say it's the Kansas City Chiefs, though, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's the Philadelphia Eagles. I think that they've
Speaker 1: had They've just had it firing on all cylinders all
Speaker 1: season long. I think they've got too many complete phases
Speaker 1: of that game. I mean, Kansas City is riding a
Speaker 1: lot on fancy things and kind of a flick of
Speaker 1: the wrist, and there's a lot of smoke and mirrors
Speaker 1: and magic that seems to happen with Kansas City, and
Speaker 1: they're winning and it works and that's great. I think
Speaker 1: that Philadelphia is a more complete, stable team, and I
Speaker 1: think that's going to show on Sunday. I think we
Speaker 1: run it back to Super Bowl. I guess it was
Speaker 1: fifty where Carolina came in fifteen and one and they
Speaker 1: were supposed to be Denver and then didn't. I think
Speaker 1: Philadelphia is Carolina in that equation. I think if the
Speaker 1: game were played with no week off, Philadelphia wins. I
Speaker 1: like Kansas City with two weeks, not just because of health,
Speaker 1: but because of coaching, because they've been there. But most importantly,
Speaker 1: I think Kansas City can block Philadelphia's front And because
Speaker 1: I believe that, I think Patrick Mahomes will show out.
Speaker 1: I also think Steve Spagnola will have something for Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts and the Philadelphia offense. I'll tell you what I guess.
Speaker 1: I wasn't playing paying too close attention to this matchup
Speaker 1: due to my overall anger of not being in it.
Speaker 1: This is the Andy Reid Bowl, like all roads lead
Speaker 1: to Andy Reid. In this matchup, I was watching some
Speaker 1: yeah coached in Philly. He's coached with like every single
Speaker 1: person that's going to be on the field. Fired Nick
Speaker 1: Serry any when he became the head coach of the
Speaker 1: Chief and that has always been a little pain point
Speaker 1: for him, which also I think makes this matchup interesting
Speaker 1: from a coaching perspective. I shouldn't say that he didn't
Speaker 1: fire him, he did not retain him as receivers coach.
Speaker 1: I mean he let him. He let the guy walk,
Speaker 1: and Syrian, to his credit, has said Andy Reid was
Speaker 1: super about He said, listen, I got a guy. You
Speaker 1: know you'll be okay. You know you're gonna do well,
Speaker 1: and then he went on to the Chargers and everything's
Speaker 1: worked out. But Sirian, he's clearly a guy who keeps Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, he keeps your sipts. But I just thought
Speaker 1: that was so interesting. Every road leads to Andy Reid
Speaker 1: in the super Bowl. It's wild and it's the biggest
Speaker 1: gap in coaches ages in Super Bowl history. And it's
Speaker 1: the two youngest quarterbacks starting against each other in super
Speaker 1: Bowl history at twenty seven and twenty four years old. Yes,
Speaker 1: two African American quarterbacks, who black quarterbacks starting in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl for the first time ever. A lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of firsts in this one. How do we
Speaker 1: feel about the Kelsey brothers Mom? Do you think she's
Speaker 1: a nervous rack? I think she wins either way. I
Speaker 1: think I've had enough. Oh you're done, You're done with Donna.
Speaker 1: I'm a little yeah that story. Of course, during super
Speaker 1: Bowl week I get grumpy like you do, and when
Speaker 1: I start to get the same stories over and over again,
Speaker 1: it makes you. Yeah. That's why I wanted to record
Speaker 1: this otp early in the week, so because because I
Speaker 1: could get I could go off on tangents about so
Speaker 1: many different things. All the dumb questions at media night.
Speaker 1: That's the point of media nighted, Yes, that's the whole point.
Speaker 1: You get so many non sports people covering a sports event.
Speaker 1: You've got to give him one night to get all
Speaker 1: of the goofa loop stuff out and then we can
Speaker 1: carry out. Having done that and having witnessed that twenty
Speaker 1: three years ago, it hasn't changed. You know, things in
Speaker 1: life have progressed. You know, we have we have better technology,
Speaker 1: we have better healthcare, we have better cars, we have
Speaker 1: The Super Bowl press day has not No, there are
Speaker 1: still some people there that ask, and I mean I
Speaker 1: know they have to. But the most chaotic experience there
Speaker 1: when we were there and he was in later hosen, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that was a kind of an interesting Well it
Speaker 1: just makes you wonder. It's like, did they filter anybody
Speaker 1: for credential Well, I don't. I mean, I guess they
Speaker 1: have to credential them because this guy was with a
Speaker 1: legitimate outlet. I guess he's part of the thing leader
Speaker 1: hoose and weekly maybe monthly. You're there, you're looking at that,
Speaker 1: You're going, I mean, you know, it's a look. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't work on me, but from Beerstein collectors magazine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I there, you know, it's just chaotic. I
Speaker 1: did meet Tara Leapinski there at a media day. Every
Speaker 1: time you see a figure, well, and I didn't cry.
Speaker 1: I just it was very exciting, Like Sean Johnson. You okay,
Speaker 1: she is a gymnast. Yes, but I didn't cry. But
Speaker 1: but you really, but you get real excited. I did
Speaker 1: get really get really excited over Yes, it's great, touches
Speaker 1: my heart. Hayton Manning didn't say you were the best, okay,
Speaker 1: And this is going to happen for the rest of
Speaker 1: our lives. Yes, may wait till my next contract negotiation.
Speaker 1: BUREA health plans. We gotta get out of here. We
Speaker 1: gotta get out of here. Yeah, and so are you,
Speaker 1: Mike Key, thank you so much. But see, this is
Speaker 1: what I love about being able to say that on
Speaker 1: the OTP. The ot people know that's a joke. They
Speaker 1: get that. See this is why. And you got on
Speaker 1: me because I retweeted it to because weird look faces. Okay,
Speaker 1: they were a little eye rolly heads because I knew
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Speaker 1: we love the OT people. We do, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: We need to have some sort of gathering of the
Speaker 1: OT people. Well let's work on that. Yes, you need
Speaker 1: to have a gathering of the OT people, and do
Speaker 1: an otp live in front of the OT people? Yes?
Speaker 1: Can we call it something better than a gathering? No?
Speaker 1: I like the gathering of the ot it's the conclave
Speaker 1: of the OT people. It feels like we should be
Speaker 1: drinking out of goblets or something. Oh wow, that's terrible.
Speaker 1: I've got to find a place and we'll make it happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're called gathering gathering. Yes we will. We will call
Speaker 1: it the Gathering of the OTP. I think this is
Speaker 1: a terrible name. You don't like that. No, And because
Speaker 1: you turn everything into acronyms, it would be the g
Speaker 1: ot EP the got I didn't and that would be
Speaker 1: terrible at that And now that sounds like a T shirt.
Speaker 1: All right, we're done. I hope you've enjoyed this edition
Speaker 1: of the OTP for Rett Brian and Amy Wells, I,
Speaker 1: Mike Keith, thank you for listening to the acronym filled
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