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

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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith. This is an OTP QES edition with

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Speaker 1: John Robinson, Titans General Manager. Welcome, Hey Mike, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm well, How are you doing? I'm outstanding? Can you

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Speaker 1: believe that training camp is now just a few weeks away?

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Speaker 1: Right around the corner? I swear it seems like when

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Speaker 1: the season ends and you know, you start seeing your

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Speaker 1: Bowl prep and you're looking at Combine and it's like,

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Speaker 1: we got it. It's a long four or five months

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Speaker 1: here and OTAs at many camp and then you blink

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Speaker 1: and you're like, well, where did it go? It seems

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Speaker 1: like the days are long, but the weeks shore are short.

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Speaker 1: In early July, are you able to turn it off

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Speaker 1: for a period of time. Yeah, we'll unplug for a

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Speaker 1: little bit, and you Mike talks about it all the time.

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Speaker 1: This is the time of the year where we've got

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Speaker 1: a good team that and a bunch of dependable guys.

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Speaker 1: And guys that do the right thing, make good choices. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we try to pride ourselves on bringing those

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Speaker 1: kind of guys to our football team. But still there's

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Speaker 1: you know, your stomachs and knots a little bit like

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Speaker 1: are they working the way that we want to want

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Speaker 1: to work, you know, and getting themselves ready for for

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Speaker 1: August and the rigors of training camp and all that. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm able to kind of shut down. Unfortunately, I can

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Speaker 1: always find me on the cell phone. You know, I'd

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Speaker 1: love to be able to throw that thing in the

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Speaker 1: ocean shelf somewhere. But maybe one of these days, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll unplug for a little bit, little family time. You know.

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Speaker 1: I try to immerse myself in the summers because in

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Speaker 1: October and November and December, you know you're gonna you're

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Speaker 1: gonna want those days. Your girls are invested in your

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Speaker 1: job too, though. They're very interested in what you do

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Speaker 1: and know a lot about it, which has got to

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Speaker 1: help you stay connected even through the rest of the year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is. I mean, I think my oldest tailor, she's sixteen,

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Speaker 1: my wife and Bailey not so much. They just kind

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Speaker 1: of cheer for the two tone Blue because that's who

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Speaker 1: dad worked for. But yeah, they love coming to games,

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Speaker 1: they love being around the team and the guys because

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Speaker 1: that's all they've known their entire life. What has this

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Speaker 1: offseason been like overall for you compared to your first

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Speaker 1: six as the Titans general manager? Yeah, it's it gets

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Speaker 1: it gets more difficult every year. You know, as you

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Speaker 1: get you get to be a better football team. It's

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Speaker 1: it's a lot different it was that in that first

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Speaker 1: year when it was really a blank slate and you're

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Speaker 1: trying to get to know the players and the coaches

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Speaker 1: and you're trying to establish a culture and a style

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Speaker 1: going to play the game. And everybody kind of knows

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Speaker 1: and how we want to approach our jobs and stylistically

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Speaker 1: how we want to play. But it's it's you're managing

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Speaker 1: and but it's fun. How a blast, you know, coming

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Speaker 1: every day to work. It's not really worked for me.

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Speaker 1: It's something that I love to do. And just as

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's always been a player that

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Speaker 1: just a pro and how he approaches everything. Austin Hooper

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Speaker 1: having seen him in the OTAs in the mini camp,

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Speaker 1: had been blown away with him. Yeah. I was a

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Speaker 1: kicking myself for not taking him when he came out

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Speaker 1: and fortunately for us, he was available. And yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: But he may be the only prospect that hand wrote

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Speaker 1: thought it was a pretty cool gesture for you know,

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Speaker 1: out with a handwritten letter. Nobody. You know that somebody

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Speaker 1: And he certainly approached his job, you know, the spring

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Speaker 1: Mike has has known. I've certainly you know, been around

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Speaker 1: the questions that you've received from the OT people. Are

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Speaker 1: I didn't see the questions beforehand. Were you supposed to?

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I was or wasn't. It's your show,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm just on my show. It's really Amy's show,

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Speaker 1: so she's not here. Jason Lloyd says, when interviewing coaches

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Speaker 1: And I would say the coaches that tend to steer

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Speaker 1: But it's generally about relationships and it's not like you're

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Speaker 1: previous seasons, according to coach v Abel, whether successful or unsuccessful.

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Speaker 1: Is there a specific mindset or approach for this twenty

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Speaker 1: it's a new year. Yeah, I mean I think this

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Speaker 1: time of year. You know, that's the beauty beauty about

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Right, it's the parody of the NFL. You

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Speaker 1: got new teams coming in the playoffs, you know every year.

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Speaker 1: I mean we were one of those teams, you know,

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Speaker 1: here we are, and we've had six winning seasons in

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Speaker 1: the way the league has kind of set up with

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Speaker 1: the draft and the cap and all of that. You know,

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Speaker 1: the expectation is every team, thirty two teams, they've got

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Speaker 1: one goal. That's to win the Super Bowl. And in

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Speaker 1: order to do that, you have to start stacking days

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Speaker 1: and that starts in training camp. That's the way we've

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Speaker 1: hopefully you're playing into January. And on John and Krista

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Speaker 1: Uton from the twenty second Element want to know how

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Speaker 1: do teams hand out big money contracts and come in

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Speaker 1: line with the salary cap better than others. Are they

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Speaker 1: it's a very complicated answer because you can restructure contracts

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Speaker 1: some of the plays that you saw him make for

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Speaker 1: the balls, we're seeing him make some of those plays

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Speaker 1: now and we're putting him in some different positions. You know,

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Speaker 1: maybe then he played for Tennessee. But he's adapted to

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Speaker 1: him well. He's coachable, he's been a nice edition. He's

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Speaker 1: carving out a cool role for himself. That defensive back

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Speaker 1: room is a really good room, isn't it. It is.

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Speaker 1: It's a bunch of good football players, but maybe even

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Speaker 1: better people. You know, you talk about Kevin Byrd and

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Speaker 1: and yeah, there's a lot of guys are He's been great.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's just he's a football guy. I'm really

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Speaker 1: proud of all those guys. Are some of these guys

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Speaker 1: that we've signed in the offseason. Williams who was in

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Speaker 1: Atlanta last year, he's made some plays this year. That

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Speaker 1: Griffin is a rookie undrafted free agent on South DA

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Speaker 1: Coast and he's made some play. I mean, all these

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Speaker 1: guys have kind of shown up. Mats Blade hadn't been

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Speaker 1: too big for him. As you approach year seven, where

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Speaker 1: do you feel like the organization has come to furthest

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Speaker 1: That's a good question. I think that we now as

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Speaker 1: an organization, as a football team. I think we now

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Speaker 1: know what good looks like. I think when I first

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Speaker 1: got here that had gotten lost somewhere from when the

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Speaker 1: team moved here and they were so good and everybody

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Speaker 1: you know, somewhere in there like just had kind of

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Speaker 1: was on the walls, the old walls that we're here

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Speaker 1: about first class and this and that, and it just

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Speaker 1: it wasn't to be quite frank when I got here,

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Speaker 1: and it took a lot of long days and a

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Speaker 1: lot of hard work and a lot of hard conversations

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Speaker 1: and a lot of managing different personalities and trying to

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Speaker 1: to do it because this is what it looks like.

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Speaker 1: But I think we're we know what it looks like

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Speaker 1: now we've gotten back to that as an organization, and

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Speaker 1: that it is important. It is important to do things

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Speaker 1: the right way. It's important to treat people in the

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Speaker 1: right way. And I'm proud of where it come and

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Speaker 1: what we've been able to do in six years. And

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Speaker 1: you know, hopefully we can keep keep stringing winning seasons

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Speaker 1: together and continue to build this thing and ultimately, you know,

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Speaker 1: hopefully one day reach the ultimate goal. If you know

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Speaker 1: what good looks like for real, then all the sudden

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Speaker 1: and high expectations aren't just words no, because that's the standard, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, the standard is the standard. Correct. It's it's like,

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Speaker 1: we're we've got to hit the standard because that's we

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Speaker 1: know what good is and that's who we're going to be. Then,

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Speaker 1: in every facet or of the organization. That's going to

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Speaker 1: be our goal is to maintain that standard, and that

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Speaker 1: standards a good one, that's a winning standard really and

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Speaker 1: everything that we do, you know, whether it's ticket sales, marketing,

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Speaker 1: stadium certainly, the players, coaching equipment, everything, you know. So

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Speaker 1: I'm proud, super proud of of the buying. You know

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Speaker 1: that everybody has gotten under Amy's leadership and what she's

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Speaker 1: done for the organization and her vision and blessed that

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Speaker 1: that you know, she hired me to um kind of

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Speaker 1: oversee some of the football stuff and put our blueprint

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Speaker 1: on it and and and really try to indoctrinate her

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Speaker 1: vision and from that comes to buy in from the

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Speaker 1: fan base. Yeah. Absolutely, of course, you know, when something

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Speaker 1: doesn't go right or a player don't work out, they

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Speaker 1: want to tar and feather me. But I mean that's

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Speaker 1: the way it goes. But um, yeah, I mean I

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Speaker 1: think I think our fans are they're passionate and it's

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Speaker 1: so cool, you know, whether certainly when we're at home

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Speaker 1: and I mean remember that first year and I think

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Speaker 1: out and there may have been I don't know, fifteen

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Speaker 1: thousand Titans fans at about forty five Green Bay. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't great and it was just like what, you know what,

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Speaker 1: And now that's Nashville is a destination city. I get it.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to be able to keep all the

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Speaker 1: opposing fans out, but I don't think there's forty five

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Speaker 1: thousand opposing fans in there anymore. You know, our fans

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Speaker 1: believe in what we're doing, and you know, we've put

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Speaker 1: a product on the field that they can be proud of.

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Speaker 1: We put guys in the community that they can rally

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Speaker 1: behind because they know they do what's right. And it's cool.

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Speaker 1: You know when you're when you're rolling out pregame, you

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Speaker 1: see all the two tone blue and it's even cooler

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Speaker 1: when we're in now where that team that invades the

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Speaker 1: in LA and Sunday night football we beat the Rams

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Speaker 1: and you look behind you and there's what looks like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, eight ten thousand Titans fan. That's pretty

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Speaker 1: it's a pretty cool thing. It was amazing, Thanks for

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Speaker 1: taking time. Absolutely enjoyed it. I'm like John Robinson, Titans

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Speaker 1: general manager, joining me. Mike Keith and we appreciate you

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Speaker 1: listening to the O T P. Welcome to the big

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Speaker 1: Show where the legends go. Everybody knows it's our house, Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: making us to read greatness is to be