WEBVTT - The OTP | Super Bowl Week 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:13.560 This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:17.120 Our Bureau Health Plans is celebrating not seventy five years, 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:21.240 but seventy six years of providing Tennesseeans with high quality 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:26.400 health coverage at an affordable cost. Visit FBHP dot com 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:31.000 to learn about our history in Tennessee. With Amy Wells 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.559 and the ever reliable Rhet Bryan I, Mike Keith. We 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:38.040 are backed from Senior Bowl. We are five weeks away 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.879 from the start of the league year, sort of the 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.120 calm before the storm, if you will. As it is 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.640 super Bowl week. It is super Bowl week, so things 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:50.800 are a little stormy here. For a different reason. I'm 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:54.680 always cranky during super Bowl week, so I apologize in advance. Yeah, 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.960 when I'm not there, it just makes me a little salty. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.920 So well, think about this though. Super Bowl next year 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.720 in Vegas. Oh, that's fun? Would that be? I think 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:05.920 that would be good. That would be real good. Super 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.479 Bowl the following year, super Bowl fifty nine, February nine, 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:13.920 twenty twenty five, Caesar's Superdome in New Orleans. That would 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.119 be fun. It would be fun. Yeah, yeah, Okay, those 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.680 are good places. Seem like that helps, So maybe maybe 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:25.200 it's on the horizon for us. Yeah, location specific, location specific. Yeah, 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.800 of course I would go to Iceland if the Titans 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:30.640 were in a Super Bowl, and I would be thrilled 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:32.720 to be there. Yeah. Listen, if it was on another 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:36.240 planet and we needed one of Elon Musk's rockets, I 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.720 would want. I would go. I would volunteer. I'm with you, 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.320 I agree, I'd do it. All right. So as we 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:45.280 start the news of the week and we begin to 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:50.840 look at things, first of all, congratulations Rhett Bryan from 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:55.360 the Reese's Senior Bowl. That guy hit the talk of 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:59.120 the week, Taj Spears running back to lane. He started 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:00.880 in on him early in the week, and then the 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:07.360 rest of the national media copied. Rhet Bryan's exactly what happened. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.120 But you were on him early, you were on him often, 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.080 and by the time the week was up, he was 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.400 the talk of the week. So congratulations Wretch. You got it. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.120 Nice young man and gonna make somebody a really nice 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:27.000 running back at the next level. His game if we're 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.440 talking camp right now, because he's a bigger player than 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.799 one I'm about to mention, but he reminds me of 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.720 kind of Elijah Mitchell and what he's been doing for 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.440 the San Francisco forty nine ers. But you know Taj 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.800 Spears five nine, two oh five, and he's got an 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:46.200 explosive first couple of steps. The only question about Spears, however, 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.040 is he's had some knee stuff and gonna have to 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:54.400 answer that at the Combine, which is actually three weeks away. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.679 We will be at the Combine February twenty eight through 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.520 March sixth, that's when it concludes. Probably won't be there 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.920 and through March sixth, but we'll be there for the 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.400 week and so the medicals and all of the things 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:11.720 done back in amy Well's favorite city of Indianapolis as 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:16.680 the Combine continues. It is my favorite city for the 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.520 NFL Scouting collection. Just be honest, that's what it is. 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.359 You want to move there. I've already lived there before. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.960 I don't want to go back. Mayor of I mean, 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.880 she loves Indianapolis. Let me say this, for convenience and 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.320 those things, I would vote that it stay there in perpetuity, right, Brian, 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.880 Ladies and gentlemen, will we get the new stadium built 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.040 here and we're able to host it here, Let's do that. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:41.320 I'm telling you, Okay, I'm telling you it's gonna be 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.840 with the new stadium, that's going to be something else 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.960 that will be able to be hosted here because guess 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.000 what we have in Nashville. A lot of good healthcare. Yeah, 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:54.680 that's with a sention Saint Thomas and the relationship that 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.680 that we have, and I mean they're fabulous doctors and 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:02.920 nurses and technicians and and monofilament, field turf and all 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.840 of that. We will be able to host the Combine 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.280 someday here because of that facility. Just one more reason. 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:13.200 We're excited to get the new stadium in twenty twenty 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.719 six or twenty twenty seven, and that will be wildly convenient, 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:22.080 yes for us, Yes, which is what I ultimately care about. Convenient. 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.600 Have to get your sleep, I like to get traffic. 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.640 I don't like traffic. You'd like to have places to eat? Yeah, 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.719 all things that Nashville provides three weeks away from the Combine, 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.400 and you will learn names. Over the next few weeks. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:39.159 You will learn all sorts of things that lead up 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.680 to the draft. Kind of let me take you through 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.920 the timetable really quickly. Of course, the Super Bowl is 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:50.719 in Glendale, Arizona this Sunday. The waiver system begins for 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.279 twenty twenty three on Monday. Wow. So it's like the 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:58.520 old Steve McNair post Super Bowl commercial that was on 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.440 where he was sitting in the Shay's lounge out by 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:06.520 the pool with his fancy bathrobe on and they were 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.159 singing tomorrow, tomorrow, the sun will come out tomorrow. Because 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.360 it was a great ad. Because as of next Monday, 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.840 we're all O and O. Thirty two teams are O 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:21.800 and O. As the year starts, love It Tuesday February 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:28.840 twenty first two weeks, teams can designate franchise or transition players. 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:33.000 That is going to be interesting to watch, particularly in Baltimore. 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:37.400 We think with Lamar Jackson we shall see. The combine 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:41.920 opens Tuesday, February twenty eighth. Already mentioned that, and it 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:47.119 runs a week and then March the thirteenth, five weeks away, 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:51.680 less than five weeks away. What do they call it? Here? 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:58.520 The free agency negotiation period begins, otherwise known as legal tampering. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.800 I love legal tampering, and I just call it what 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.839 it is, yeah, because it sounds so wrong, it sounds shady, 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.400 and I love it. But that's the whole thing is 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:13.720 NFL teams get to be shady for forty eight hours 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:19.039 before the league year begins on Wednesday, March the fifteenth. 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.080 I think it's great. I love that the league built 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.480 it right into the calendar. But it's so great because 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:28.360 you've got this feeling that people are sitting in somebody's 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.880 driveway ready to walk up and knock on the That 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.359 doesn't happen anymore. Used to used to happen, yeah, but 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.120 now with technology you don't have to. But a coach 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:41.359 would be waiting outside because he wanted that player to 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.120 know we want you this badly. We're sitting outside your 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.760 house at eleven fifty nine. I think it's great. I 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.479 like that they were like, well, we know you guys 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.039 are going to do this anyway, so we may as 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.720 well make it legal for forty eight hours, do whatever 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.960 you need to do, and then let's rock and roll. Okay. 0:06:55.000 --> 0:07:00.480 So then three o'clock Central time, Wednesday, March the fifteenth, 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.840 what happens. The league year starts, and that means you 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:08.920 can sign free agents. So you will probably have agreed 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:13.000 to some deals beforehand, but you can sign free agents. 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:16.080 You can do all the things with the testing in 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.320 terms of the medical you can bring them in. Those 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:23.560 things certainly can happen, and at three o'clock that day, 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:27.440 the top fifty one rule is in effect. That means 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:32.840 all clubs must be under the twenty twenty three salary 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:37.040 cap of two hundred twenty four point eight million dollars 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:42.280 prior to three o'clock based on their top fifty one salaries. 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.800 And then with the fifty three part gets when you 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.080 get into the regular season correct it gets to the 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.240 first week of the seasons, I think roughly midweek. It's 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:55.000 either Tuesday or Wednesday of week one. First week of 0:07:55.080 --> 0:08:00.960 the season is going to be Sunday, September ten, so 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.560 obviously there will be a Thursday night game on the seventh. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:07.120 There's Monday Night football on the eleventh, but for that's 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:12.600 the week you have to be fifty three salaries, practice, squad, injured, reserve, 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:17.560 anything else. But starting five weeks from now three o'clock 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:22.239 on March the fifteenth, teams must be under the salary 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.080 cap by three o'clock Central Time based on their top 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:30.320 fifty one salaries. Two weeks after that, the league spring 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:35.240 meetings at the Builtmore Arizona and that's where we'll find 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.680 out about rules changes, we'll find out about other things 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.520 that the league is going to bring about. For twenty 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:47.400 twenty three, there are four major league meetings there quarterly. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.280 This one is clearly the biggest win in terms of news. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.960 This one's the biggest one in terms of news, mainly 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.160 because of those rules committee meetings and all of the 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.680 rules changes that come out of it. This is really 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.240 it's a three day event. There's a lot of things 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.560 that happen. Everybody makes it a point to be at 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.480 these meetings. It's not just owners. There's head coaches, there's 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:13.000 general managers, there's front office staff there. So those are 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.439 kind of the big meetings of the year, and there's 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.400 always some interesting stuff that comes out of there, and 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:23.680 they're always a very beautiful place. They're beautiful locales built 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.880 more Arizona this year. Very nice place, which isn't any 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.320 built more is you know outstand Yeah, it's okay that 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.920 one has birds in the lobby. Well, the Vanderbilt's liked 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.280 birds in the lobby well, and that's I mean, good 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.720 for them. More in Asheville is very beautiful as well. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.240 If you've never been there, you should go highly suggested, 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:47.800 highly suggested travel tips. All right, so this is what 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.680 we got going on, and it's about to get rolling. 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:55.240 You're gonna hear about coaches that are added to the 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:59.640 Titans roster. The Titans still without an offensive coordinator, still 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:04.640 without an offensive line coach, still without a secondary coach. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.000 They haven't announced anything. There are certainly reports that are 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.840 out there right now. The reports that are out there 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.160 is the Titans have agreed to terms with Washington's Chris Harris, 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:19.680 but he's interviewing for defensive coordinator jobs so recently the 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.640 Houston Texas, so he may never get here. Who knows 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.920 and who knows if any of this is even accurate. 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.480 Reports that the Titans have agreed to terms with Lorid Locus, 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:35.480 who spent time in Tampa on their defensive staff, believe 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:39.520 she was an assistant with the defensive line. Correct, that's correct. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:45.040 Coach Max says she can coach. Coach Max says she's 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.360 a ball coach. He knows her, Ye knows her. Well, 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.480 says she's a ball coach. That's all I need to know. Yep, 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.480 I'm here for it. I'm excited. So wherever she's coaching 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.000 on defense. Fined by me. Yep, yep, that's what I say. 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.240 Coach mc and had a conversation about this. I met 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.480 her at the Senior Bowl last week when she came 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:07.160 rushing over to coachman. Coach Dame McGinnis. Yes, she had 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:11.559 been with that the Football Alliance, the Birmingham Iron, I think, 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.640 and that Bruce Arians had inquired about her and brought 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:18.880 her to Tampa and so. But yeah, so it sounds 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.520 like she interviewed with coach Vrabel and sounds like things 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.920 are going well. And uh yeah, he gave her the 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.520 seal of approval. Coach mac did, so we know that. Yep. 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:32.080 Coach mack by the way needs a shout out the 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.520 player that he talked about at the Senior Bowl, the 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:41.880 most Osyrius Torrence, who played at Louisiana and then transferred 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:47.320 with his coach to Florida. According to Dane Brugler, whose 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:51.199 opinion I respect, draft analyst Dane Brugler of the Athletic, 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.079 I'm a big fan. If you have to admit, I've 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:54.360 been a big fan for a long time. You have 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.959 even before he was Dane Brugler of the Athletic, when 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.439 he was just Dame Brugler. Well, and then finding out 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:04.280 he was trained by our legendary scout Seal Bracado. Makes 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:09.520 a lot of sense. He says, Osyrius Torrence guard Florida, 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:17.080 was the best player at the Senior Bowl regardless of position. Wow, 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.760 regardless of position. And he's coach Max guy. Coach Max's 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.480 been on him all along. Thinks he's a guard that 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.760 you're going to draft and he will play right away. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:31.439 Whispers that I hear lately is that he helped himself 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.319 well enough last week in Mobile that he is the 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.040 bottom third of the first round of the NFL draft well. 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.240 And the good news for the Titans, who have the 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:46.440 forty second pick is because he's a guard, he probably 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:50.920 won't go as high as what his projection is. Whereas 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:55.439 a quarterback normally goes higher, right, a guard normally falls, 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.960 and the cornerbacks and the edge rushers and the quarterback 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.720 and those things push those things down exactly right. We 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:06.520 have seen that in mini drafts. So it's possible that 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:11.040 Osiris Torrence, Florida Gator could end up there at forty 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.000 two if the Titans want to select him, or he 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:18.000 could go more highly if somebody is absolutely in love 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.040 with him. As a player or if they have a need, 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.240 or if they just say, this is what our board says, 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.520 and we're gonna stick with our board, and that does happen. 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.680 And the other thing that happens is positionally sometimes there's 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.360 a run on the first round or higher graded talent 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:37.080 of a particular position. It's true. Well, last year cold 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.200 Strange went to New England at the end of the 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:44.079 first round at twenty four I think much more high 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:48.120 in terms of the pick than what anybody anticipated, because 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.360 they clearly had him at the top of their board 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.320 from what was less left, and they just stuck with 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.560 their pick. They just said, this is what we're gonna do. 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.679 And he played very well for the Patriots by all rights. 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:05.440 This year, some people can't be that true because of 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:10.360 their need. Oh at another position and they say, well, 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.719 we'd like to take this player here, this is where 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.080 we have him ranked. But we gotta get a receiver, 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.880 we gotta get a corner, and as Ritt says, we 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:23.160 fear a run. So we shall see. But kudos to 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.640 coach Dave McGinnis. Can I give a shout out to 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.520 go right ahead, Amy Wells. I would like to give 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.640 a shout out to Mike Keith, Oh boy, here we go, 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.960 who has also been making news in the last say, 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.120 thirty six hours news if I made well, Mike Keith, 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.920 thank you for asking. Turns out Peyton Manning is a 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.160 huge fan of yours. According to Jim Wyatt, hang on, 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.960 just rhet, do we have the audio? Can we roll that? Please? 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.040 Here we go? Absolutely, And I wouldn't call like what 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.680 I'm doing broadcasting, you know, Eli and I we're the 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.000 I'm not sure what we're doing. But Mike's the best. 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.200 I stay in touch with Mike, you know, text them 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:05.320 obviously earned Tennessee Valls victories, and he texted me kind 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.240 of a clip of Ram Carthon. They were watching some 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.800 film of when Ram was playing when I was playing. 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.880 So Mike's the best. I've been doing it a long time, 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:18.440 true pro and obviously a great volunteer as well. Okay, 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.160 so there you have it. Apparently he's a big friend 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.960 of a friend of yours. You guys, nice back and forth. 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.680 That was nice of him to say, it's possible it's 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.280 the first nice thing he's ever said about me public. Well, 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.240 it's nice that you say that, because I actually had 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:36.680 a conversation with Peyton Manning about you in like twenty nineteen. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.800 Don't ask these questions. But we had a conversation and 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.000 he actually said the exact opposite. So Ratt, can you 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.120 play that too? This banquet is over. That's what ibvious 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.040 celebrating more, not just being ducted into the Hall of 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.960 Famers of life about emailing me and texted me. He 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.480 texted me and email is the same famil In case 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.520 I don't get the text, I have an email as 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:08.080 a back. So it's a lot. So now Peyton Manning 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:09.960 speaking out of both sides of his mouth, Hang on 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.960 just a second. That's more like it. That is my 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:17.640 relationship with Peyton Manning over the years. He when he 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.400 was a player at Tennessee. I know this is hard 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.280 for people to believe, but I had a talk show 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.120 in Knoxville. I think a lot of people would believe that. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:29.760 So I had a talk show and Brent Hubbs, who 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.880 works for ON three and runs the Vault Quest website 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.960 and is you know, absolutely the authority on vall sports. 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.280 He was just starting out and he worked with me 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.800 at that point, and he comes in and he says, 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.680 during a break, he says, you're gonna want to take 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:51.640 a line. Whatever, it's Peyton Manning when we come back 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.280 from break, you're gonna want to take this call, I said. 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:58.480 Peyton Manning is not He's Tennessee's quarterback. I can't have 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:03.920 current athletes on my show by rule really well by 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.000 rule of the University of Tennessee. So if I violate this, 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:09.600 then I'm going to be in trouble with the Sports 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:13.040 Information Department. So I'm sitting here going, okay, A, is 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.560 it really Peyton Manning? Because a lot of times when 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.159 you host a talk show for the OT people, I 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.840 pull back the curtain when you get in those situations 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:27.040 and you're discussing it off air, A very good chance 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:31.960 it's not Peyton Manning. B very good chance it's somebody 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.120 who's going to get on there and then just say 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:38.400 something obscene, right because they're trying to embarrass you. They 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.919 want to tape it. Hey, let's welcome Peyton Manning to 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:45.200 the show. And then whomever comes into its curses yes, 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:49.080 and it becomes something that just ends up being obscene. 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.720 Those are the moments that you have you hope you 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.600 have a dump button. I mean, just all kinds of 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.720 bad things could happen. So I'm weighing this. Am I 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.280 going to get in trouble with the Sports information depart 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:07.520 They're already crazed when it comes to Peyton Manning right well, 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.040 because he had just done the thing where he said 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.480 I'm coming back for my senior year. So now he's 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.479 a bigger hero than Davy Crockett. He's on all of 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:20.120 the different shows and whatever around the Country's on Good 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:24.760 Morning America. I mean, the whole thing is crazy. So 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:28.800 Hubber says, I think it really is him. I said, 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.399 do we do this? He goes, well, he said, you know, 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:33.520 we got a chance to have Peyton Manning on the show. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.760 He says, whatever trouble we're gonna get in will be 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:42.000 worth it. Yeah, because that's the way Hubbs is. He's 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.000 this guy forgiveness not permitted. Well, who did he learn 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.360 it from? You? Yeah? So I'm like, you're right, We've 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.800 got to take the chance. So we come back. Welcome 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:54.200 back to sports talk here on Newstalk ninety nine. Let's 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.280 go to the phones. Peyton online. I don't remember line three, 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:02.639 it's Peyton Manning. Is hey just driving along? What's going on? Well? First, 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.000 first part of the stories, it's nineteen ninety seven, and 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.440 he's got a car phone. Yeah, and it was at 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.359 that time a car phone. It wasn't a mobile device. 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.840 It was just attached to the car. But his dad's 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.119 Archie Manning, and you know the whole thing. Yeah, so 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:20.159 no surprise. So I'm like, hey, Peyton, how are you doing? 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.080 So I ask him something that only Peyton would know, 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.479 and sure enough, he goes, I'm just calling to quiz you. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.960 And I'm like, oh, this is not gonna be good 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:34.600 for me. He goes. They had the pro scouts in today. Everybody, 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.920 even the guys who aren't eligible for the draft, ran 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.840 forty times. Who do you think was the fastest? Well, 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.840 Tennessee has a who's who of receivers at that point. 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.680 I mean, it's a track team. It's Marcus Nash, it's 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:52.320 Peerless Price. I mean, it's Greg Kyler. I mean, they've 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:57.439 got all these guys that can run run um and 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:00.280 so of course every one of my guesses is wrong. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.200 It's actually a guy named Andy McCullough who went to 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:06.600 high school with Peerless Price, who was this unbelievable athlete. 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:10.680 Never became a great receiver. He was more great athlete, 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:14.199 but he ran like four three something. So Peyton did 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:16.159 exactly what he wanted. He made me look bad on 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.919 my own show, yeah, which is and that was the 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:23.080 first of a series that's us you just heard. That 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.600 was the whole thing. So I don't really have a 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:31.919 relationship with him for like fourteen fifteen years because he 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.840 plays for the Colts where the Titans all we want 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:38.600 to do is beat him. I mean, that was the 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.800 whole thing. All these my relatives from East Tennessee would say, 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:47.320 isn't that great? Peyton did so good? You know, I mean, no, no, 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:50.000 it's how can you not pull for Peyton? I'm like, 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.959 got very easily. Yeah, somebody else in his division signs 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:56.919 my paycheck. It's my job. Yes, yeah. So I think 0:20:56.960 --> 0:20:59.280 I saw him probably one time, and we always had 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:01.879 a solid relationship. When he was a player at Tennessee. 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:06.920 He'd liked to give me a hard time just constantly 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:10.600 because he thought and probably accurately so that I was 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:13.040 being a know it all all the time, because that 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:14.840 was kind of the I mean, we did a talk show, 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:18.800 so what was I going to do? Talk and you 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.439 have to offer opinions, and when the opinions are wrong, 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:25.760 certain people always yeah, I want to give you the 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:30.000 business occupational hazard. So I get a call in twenty 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:34.840 sixteen and they said, Peyton Manning's friend of mine at 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:41.000 the University of Tennessee says, Peyton Manning is giving multimillion 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:45.080 dollars to the University of Tennessee. It's like, WHOA, that's nice. 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:50.840 Say he's doing a reception and it's a very exclusive 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:55.000 delio with like fifty of the biggest people and there 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:57.719 were several billionaires in the room, by the way, I mean, 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:01.680 it was a thing. And they say, Bob Kessling, who 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:06.879 the voice of the Valls, has to do a baseball game, 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:11.840 would you be willing to come host with Peyton. I 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:16.840 was like, yes, he's retired at this point, there's no 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:19.320 problem anymore. I was like, yes, I will be there. 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:21.720 So literally, I drove over there on a Friday, and 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:23.840 I drove back that night. I was in Knoxville for 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:27.440 two hours because we were busy doing something during the day, 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:29.359 and I just said, yeah, I'm gonna do it. So 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:33.960 I had worked with him on what he wanted to 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:38.360 talk about. Because this will stun you, he prepares forever. Yeah, 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:42.680 that seems about right. I would have guessed. And so 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:47.160 since that time, I've gotten to do four events with him, 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:49.680 four or five events with him. He prepares the same 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.880 every time. What would you guess? Is the one story 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:55.959 he has to tell that everybody wants to hear at 0:22:56.000 --> 0:23:02.800 every event. I don't know, college or NFL. While he 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:11.159 was in the NFL, Oh, I don't know, he tells 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:14.200 the story he has to tell the story about when 0:23:14.200 --> 0:23:17.640 he hosted Saturday Night Live. Oh yeah, yeah yeah, And 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:21.080 the skit is the one where he's playing football with 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:25.399 the little kids. It's really good neighborhood yep. If you 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:27.600 haven't ever watched it, I mean, I'm sure it's on 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:31.440 YouTube orwere Yeah, it's everywhere, and it's like a fake 0:23:31.600 --> 0:23:37.000 United Way commercial or something. Yep. It is so good 0:23:37.040 --> 0:23:39.760 because when Eli hosted, he did something similar that was 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:44.280 pretty funny. But the only thing I've ever seen, so 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:48.720 it's totally against his persona. You know, that's I don't 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:50.840 want to give the bit away, and I'm certainly not 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:52.920 going to tell his part of the story because if 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:55.560 you ever have the chance to hear him speak, hearing 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:58.560 him tell the story of how they shot it is magnificent. 0:23:59.560 --> 0:24:03.200 But the only thing I've ever seen where somebody goes 0:24:03.359 --> 0:24:06.720 so against their type. One eighty was Wayne Brady on 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:10.440 Dave Chappelle and if you've ever seen that skit, that's 0:24:10.480 --> 0:24:14.119 one of the most ridiculously funny things ever. It is 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:17.239 so wrong. Well this is so wrong too, and he 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:19.520 loved doing it, and he tells I mean, he tells 0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:21.840 just great stories. I got to host something with his 0:24:21.920 --> 0:24:27.280