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Speaker 1: This is the OTP Daily, presented by Farm Burero Health Plants.

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Speaker 1: Healthcare coverage from Farm Bureau Health Plants. It's like an

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Speaker 1: extra set of pads when you need them the most.

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Speaker 1: They've been protecting Tennessee and since nineteen forty seven. It

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Speaker 1: is Wednesday, January twelfth, and we welcome the ot people

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Speaker 1: to the OTP Daily. Amy Wells, Mike Keith amy Wells.

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Speaker 1: A practice today, A practice today, not a long practice,

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Speaker 1: but a practice nonetheless, not a spectacular practice, not a

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Speaker 1: deep detailed practice, just kind of stretching it out. Wednesday

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Speaker 1: than is Thursday. If you're going to put on pads,

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Speaker 1: you generally put on pads on a Thursday because then

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Speaker 1: this wouldn't have been a wild day anyway. And yet

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Speaker 1: Mike Vraibel has spent the majority of the last two

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Speaker 1: saying that, you know, this team has a week to

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Speaker 1: really focus on getting healthy, resting their body, making sure

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Speaker 1: being able to have the opportunity to get in the

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Speaker 1: meeting rooms talk about a lot of the fundamentals, really

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Speaker 1: of internal kind of self scouting, and then get them

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Speaker 1: I think it's a good balance that Mike Vraibel has

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Speaker 1: found with this team in balancing getting people moving, continuing

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Speaker 1: to push them, but also making sure that they're taking

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Speaker 1: to be a big push. A big push for sure,

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Speaker 1: and the team is going to kind of take it

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Speaker 1: specifically on Friday, on the OTP Daily, you're going to

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Speaker 1: hear an interview that I did with Julio Jones, which

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Speaker 1: was so fascinating, And I really like Julio Jones. I

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Speaker 1: that he has come here to win a championship. This

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Speaker 1: too old. He probably knew he didn't have that much

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Speaker 1: the weekend. I was able to have a conversation with

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Speaker 1: Roger Staffold and it was a very similar mentality, which

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Speaker 1: leads me to believe that there is a lot of

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Speaker 1: veteran leadership right now on this Titans team, and a

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Speaker 1: We have some guys on this team who have had

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Speaker 1: Roger Staffold was saying, way the hardest things right now

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Speaker 1: They're fully in vacation mode, and when you're still grinding

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Speaker 1: Many of you have asked us when we think the

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Speaker 1: I think with the two AFC games this weekend on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: It just came out. That's seventy five of the top

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Speaker 1: more losses by good teams than we have seen since

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Speaker 1: Really well, I didn't know that Well, that OTPD thrown

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Speaker 1: national media has gotten the Tennessee Titans. He's not the

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Speaker 1: only one. But a great article in the Wall Street

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Speaker 1: Jenneral written by Andrew Beaton about the Titans and who

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Speaker 1: which I think most people would agree that's the perception, right.

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Speaker 1: and a win for the Predators. Think about the pro

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Speaker 1: That's what Larry Munson said. You know who was so

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