Speaker 1: This is the OTP presented by far Bureau Health Plans,
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Speaker 1: FBHP dot com with Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith in
Speaker 1: Booth seven at Nissan Stadium. We're home, home, sweet home.
Speaker 1: It does feel nice to be here in the booth
Speaker 1: knowing that there is Titans football on the horizon. Everything
Speaker 1: feels right in the world right now. Mike and we
Speaker 1: are here as part of the Kickoff Luncheon, the inaugural
Speaker 1: Kickoff Luncheon that benefits the Titans Foundation. Raised a lot
Speaker 1: of money for the Titans Foundation earlier today. Thanks to
Speaker 1: our friends at Pinnacle who underwrote the event, and we're
Speaker 1: the presenting sponsors, so we're certainly appreciate them. And thanks
Speaker 1: to the man who totally stole the show, Dave McInnis
Speaker 1: from Titan's Radio. I did not steal the show by Keith.
Speaker 1: You were the MC and you're always the star of
Speaker 1: the show. But that was a really nice event. No
Speaker 1: you did. I mean so, Mike rabels On and we're
Speaker 1: going to hear that, and John Robinson's on and we're
Speaker 1: going to hear that. And we had Kevin Byard on
Speaker 1: and Burke Nyhill, the President was on. But the man
Speaker 1: who stole the show as he did the telestrator showing
Speaker 1: Bud Dupree, Josh Reynolds, Julio Jones, and Denico Autry Amy.
Speaker 1: People were captivated. People were so locked in and Mike,
Speaker 1: you do a great job of hosting an event. But
Speaker 1: when Coach Mack was talking, nobody was on their phone,
Speaker 1: different level, nobody was doing everything. They were all just
Speaker 1: totally focused in on what he was showing them, which
Speaker 1: says to me that people love football here in Middle
Speaker 1: Tennessee and they want to learn more about it. Learning
Speaker 1: some of those intricacies that the average person never gets
Speaker 1: to experience that is so valuable. So it was so awesome,
Speaker 1: Mac that you were able to do that. Well, it
Speaker 1: was It's fun. It is fun for me, and you
Speaker 1: know that we all, all of us, we do this
Speaker 1: a lot, you know, when we're when we're doing events
Speaker 1: and speak to people because you're right in what you say.
Speaker 1: They want to know, they'd like to know the details,
Speaker 1: they'd like to know something they can take back so
Speaker 1: that when they're watching a ball game, they can say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what coach Mike and Mike Keith and Amy
Speaker 1: Wills told me this. This is what they are doing,
Speaker 1: something as simple as the personnel groups that we all do,
Speaker 1: you know, in the places we go. I mean, it
Speaker 1: just makes watching the game more fun and more interesting.
Speaker 1: And I had a blast today, I really did. That
Speaker 1: was very cool, nice set up that you know, that screen,
Speaker 1: that telestrator screen was really the first class. I loved it.
Speaker 1: I mean that was very, very cool. I would like
Speaker 1: to do it again. I think we ought to take
Speaker 1: that on the road somewhere and we could do a
Speaker 1: whole game and it'd be fun. All right. So anybody
Speaker 1: who's listening and wants to get Coach Mac a birthday present,
Speaker 1: he would like a telestrat. You'd like a telestrator? Yes?
Speaker 1: Why not? I'd also need all those uh technical people
Speaker 1: there to run it. Well that group did they fantastic job? Yes,
Speaker 1: yes they did. Steve was Zensky, who was your cowboy Gods.
Speaker 1: Steve had to run the tape back and forth, and
Speaker 1: that was one of the great moments of the entire thing,
Speaker 1: is that Coach got to call out Steve in front
Speaker 1: of the audience. You actually complimented Steve more than you
Speaker 1: harassed him. Well, because he was good. I mean Steve,
Speaker 1: he was good. I mean if he did if he
Speaker 1: did not do if he did not do something right,
Speaker 1: well then then then I was gonna. I was I
Speaker 1: was gonna. I was gonna let him know. But and
Speaker 1: I told him that before it started. You went over there.
Speaker 1: You went over there and introduced him to me, and
Speaker 1: I told him, I said, Steve, look, I'm talking football
Speaker 1: right now. So if you don't do this right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call you out. And if you don't believe me,
Speaker 1: ask Amy Wills because she's operated a cowboy from me before.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's just a coach in me, and I
Speaker 1: just want it right when I'm doing it. He was
Speaker 1: fantastic and speaking of calling people out, Mike Vrabel was
Speaker 1: on via zoom as he recovers from COVID nineteen at home.
Speaker 1: He wanted to be part of this. He was really
Speaker 1: a driving force behind making the kickoff luncheon happened. They
Speaker 1: went to him and said, what do you think. He said,
Speaker 1: this is a great idea, and so he got his
Speaker 1: coordinators involved. He had ideas about different things, and he
Speaker 1: was scheduled to be in person and it was going
Speaker 1: to be a big wing thing with him, and then
Speaker 1: obviously the news on Sunday changed all of that. But
Speaker 1: we said, hey, would you feel up to being on
Speaker 1: by Zoom? He said yes, And I thought his segment
Speaker 1: was great and it looks like he feels a lot better. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, because he was like very nice to
Speaker 1: you at the beginning of the program, which made me
Speaker 1: think that maybe he's sicker than we all think, but
Speaker 1: may changed. Yeah, but then he changed. By the end
Speaker 1: of it, he was back to his old way. So yes,
Speaker 1: I think Mike Vrabel is feeling pretty okay. Hey, all right,
Speaker 1: so let's take a listen to that from the Titans
Speaker 1: inaugural kickoff Luncheon presented by Pinnacle. Here's our ch at
Speaker 1: with Mike Vrabe. If you have your run of show,
Speaker 1: you see Mike Vrabel at one oh five with chalk talk. Well,
Speaker 1: you know there's not gonna be a chalk talk with
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel because Mike, unfortunately was COVID positive over the weekend,
Speaker 1: but he wanted to be part of this event, so
Speaker 1: through technology, please welcome the head coach of your Tennessee Titans,
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel, who's joining us coach. I get. First question, obviously,
Speaker 1: is how you feel it? Feeling great? Mike. I want
Speaker 1: to thank everybody for coming out and supporting us. We
Speaker 1: love the fans, we love the support, we love the energy.
Speaker 1: I love how you ran up on that stage today.
Speaker 1: We playing a little run up music. Mike. You got
Speaker 1: a little juice, little pep in your step. Coaches football season,
Speaker 1: we gotta be ready, right you know? I did anybody
Speaker 1: tell you that we played some of your highlights to
Speaker 1: the team the other day after Tampa because I lived
Speaker 1: until him and I'm like, man, this guy, we are
Speaker 1: so blessed to have you to juice the energy. Molden
Speaker 1: sack that call. So we just instead of showing them
Speaker 1: my silly cut ups to the team, I just showed
Speaker 1: the highlight videos that had had your voice in it,
Speaker 1: and I think they liked it better than what I
Speaker 1: can show them. Wow. Thank you. Well, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: leave now, good night, everybody. I'm done. Um gotta ask
Speaker 1: you work wise, what have you been able to do
Speaker 1: over the last couple of days and what do you
Speaker 1: hope to be able to do over the next couple
Speaker 1: of days. Well, we're kind of set up like we
Speaker 1: were before. You know, everybody, you know, they were able
Speaker 1: to bring me my stuff, computers, iPad, screens, you know,
Speaker 1: great capability to connect into our server, to have access
Speaker 1: to our film and practice as soon as it's done.
Speaker 1: Film from around the league. So trying to stay in
Speaker 1: communication the football team. Have had you know, zoom meetings
Speaker 1: with them in the morning and then you know, been
Speaker 1: able to check in on them as they go off
Speaker 1: into their meetings. But I'd prepare the zoom meeting the
Speaker 1: same way I would any other meeting to try to
Speaker 1: get our message across or my message across to them
Speaker 1: for that particular day. Things that we have to work
Speaker 1: on from practice from the previous day, the things we
Speaker 1: did well, the things we did bad, and the things
Speaker 1: that are going to get as beat that we have
Speaker 1: to eliminate. Usually is the emphasis of my meetings and
Speaker 1: that that's continued, so you know, without me just running
Speaker 1: around the halls, I would say everything's been pretty much similar,
Speaker 1: all right, So you've been at this for a month now.
Speaker 1: The things that have pleased you the most about the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans so far in twenty twenty one camp. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm really appreciative of, you know, the way that we've
Speaker 1: played these first two games. You know, I felt like,
Speaker 1: no matter who's been in there, whether they're new, whether
Speaker 1: they're young, that they've tried to approach these games and
Speaker 1: play them in a style, in a manner in which
Speaker 1: we feel like is to our advantage. And I think
Speaker 1: we've We've taken care of the football, We've been efficient
Speaker 1: throwing the football, we've been able to run the football,
Speaker 1: we've stopped the run, we really played complementary football, We've
Speaker 1: gotten turnovers on defense, and I felt like there's an
Speaker 1: energy in playing games, and sometimes that's not always the
Speaker 1: case when you're talking about preseason games. And so when
Speaker 1: I watch our games or I hear people say, hey,
Speaker 1: watch the preseason game, and look like guys were flying
Speaker 1: around having fun and playing with energy and passion, you
Speaker 1: know that that's what we're trying to preach and coach
Speaker 1: and with no met with with with whoever is in there.
Speaker 1: Several of the top Titans have gotten back to practice
Speaker 1: this week. Was that really by design? With the opener
Speaker 1: eighteen days away against Arizona well as we You know,
Speaker 1: everybody has a different plan and they work their way
Speaker 1: through it as we get back to return to to
Speaker 1: play or individual or jog through, and you know, it
Speaker 1: was good to have some of those guys that weren't
Speaker 1: weren't out there or hadn't been out there in previous practices.
Speaker 1: UM certainly makes looking at the film a little better.
Speaker 1: I thought it made COVID go away when I saw
Speaker 1: Derek out there and Julio and aj out there and
Speaker 1: in the offense together. I think COVID COVID went bye
Speaker 1: bye after that. So Arizona is a team that we
Speaker 1: have to joke. Mike, you're allowed to chuckle a little bit. Joke.
Speaker 1: I love that. Okay, See he's on zoom and he's
Speaker 1: still telling me what to do. It's great. Um. Arizona
Speaker 1: is a team we have played since twenty seventeen. They're
Speaker 1: an unfamiliar opponent. So I just wonder, is it better
Speaker 1: for you, the coaching staff, and the players that you
Speaker 1: have extra time to prepare hair for a talented yet
Speaker 1: unfamiliar opponent in week one? Well, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we have to focus
Speaker 1: on a lot of things that we believe are still
Speaker 1: our foundation what we believe in for you know, training
Speaker 1: camp is so critical for the conditioning and the callous
Speaker 1: for the season to develop technique and fundamentals, and you know,
Speaker 1: I think we'll have plenty of time to prepare for them.
Speaker 1: You don't want to overanalyze things. You want to make
Speaker 1: sure that you know the team is where it needs
Speaker 1: to be fundamentally and a conditioning standpoint to hopefully prepare
Speaker 1: yourself for those battles of the regular season. But you know,
Speaker 1: they are talented, just like a lot of teams in
Speaker 1: the National Football League, we aren't very familiar with them.
Speaker 1: The quarterback poses just a lot of problems just from
Speaker 1: an athletic standpoint and an ability to to extend plays well.
Speaker 1: Obviously our familiarity with DeAndre Hopkins and what he's able
Speaker 1: to do offensively, they do have a lot of great
Speaker 1: weapons Defensively, They're they're gonna be long, they're gonna blitz,
Speaker 1: they're gonna pressure. You know, they got big inside linebackers
Speaker 1: that are young, obviously edge guys, you know, and then
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna bring a lot of different pressures.
Speaker 1: Chicago's the final preseason game Saturday night here at Nissan Stadium.
Speaker 1: The Bears have announced that they'll start Justin Fields at quarterback,
Speaker 1: who was their number one pick and is their quarterback
Speaker 1: of the future. Their offensive line is going to play,
Speaker 1: but otherwise they're gonna play backups. So have you decided
Speaker 1: yet how much your number ones are gonna play Saturday
Speaker 1: night here against the Bears. No, I haven't made that decision,
Speaker 1: you know, And whatever Matt does, you know that that's
Speaker 1: what he's doing with his football team. We'll try to
Speaker 1: focus on, you know, what we think is best for
Speaker 1: our team. Hopefully, you know, we can get everybody that's
Speaker 1: healthy and available, you know, out there for the football
Speaker 1: game that we can start tom you know, continue to
Speaker 1: build and create that continuity that's so critical, and if
Speaker 1: it works out that way, great, and if it doesn't,
Speaker 1: then we'll continue to put the guys in there that
Speaker 1: that are the next guys in And you've seen that scene,
Speaker 1: us do that over and over and guys have responded
Speaker 1: and taken advantage of those opportunities. How will Mike Vrabel
Speaker 1: handle Saturday nights preseason game? Probably like a fan, I guess,
Speaker 1: unless I get cleared, which you know, it's still always
Speaker 1: a possibility that that I could have two negative tests
Speaker 1: in a forty eight hour period. If that doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll be uh. I'll probably put you and
Speaker 1: Coach mac on and put the TV on mute and
Speaker 1: listen to you guys, no pressure, Well, coach listen. Making
Speaker 1: this effort, you were a driving force behind getting the
Speaker 1: lunch and started a new tradition for Titans fans. We
Speaker 1: thank you for making the effort, and certainly you've been
Speaker 1: the subject of a tremendous amount of thoughts and prayers
Speaker 1: by a lot of great Titans fans all over the
Speaker 1: Mid South. Thank you so much for taking time with us, Mike,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Again. I want to thank everybody for
Speaker 1: coming out. I know how much money we raised for
Speaker 1: the Titans Charitable Foundation. That's what it's all about. It.
Speaker 1: We are blessed and lucky to get to do what
Speaker 1: we do, where we get to do it and with
Speaker 1: the people that we get to do it with. There's
Speaker 1: so many more people that are less fortunate than us,
Speaker 1: so we're very conscious. So that that was reiterated to
Speaker 1: the football team again today. Just in recognizing you folks
Speaker 1: for your contributions to be there to help our charitable foundation.
Speaker 1: So again, thank you and to everybody there, have a
Speaker 1: great day and we'll see you guys out there on
Speaker 1: Saturday night. Mike Rabel everybody. And he gave me permission
Speaker 1: to laugh. That was good. Um, it's so great. Oh
Speaker 1: now you're still here. And then we couldn't turn his
Speaker 1: microphone off, which is the best part of the whole.
Speaker 1: So I'm going on to something else and he's still talking. Great.
Speaker 1: He starts answering me like from above. It's it's like
Speaker 1: a nightmare. It was that nightmare. I agree with Amy,
Speaker 1: that was That was a high point moment for me. Well,
Speaker 1: Coach Max face still Coach Max's favorite part of the
Speaker 1: week of the Friday production meet. Oh yes, yours. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get it because so we go in with the
Speaker 1: coach and we sit down and we record the stuff
Speaker 1: for the pregame interview a little behind the curtain. It's
Speaker 1: not live surprised. Uh, that's what you get for being
Speaker 1: one of the OT people. Yeah, now you know if
Speaker 1: you didn't suspect it. Um. But so we also talk
Speaker 1: about some different things and he is really great to
Speaker 1: us coach with what the insight he gives and the
Speaker 1: helpfulness that he gives us. It's it really is fantastic
Speaker 1: to sit down and talk ball with him. But what
Speaker 1: you know if you walk in that room is when
Speaker 1: you start asking questions to get what you'd like to
Speaker 1: get or what you need, you're gonna get it. And
Speaker 1: that ends up being me right as it should be
Speaker 1: every time. Now that's what I can't wait. I mean,
Speaker 1: I go in there and I can see the look
Speaker 1: on Rabel's face. And Mike Keith is a consummate professional,
Speaker 1: but he knows it's coming. It's coming. He knows it's coming.
Speaker 1: And so when we're sitting there and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he starts asking a question. I go here,
Speaker 1: here it comes. We really could make cuts out of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it was completely uncensored, whatever we were
Speaker 1: on it, we were on HBO. We can do it.
Speaker 1: Because it is it is, it is, it is something.
Speaker 1: I mean, we ever do hard knocks, ye, that should
Speaker 1: be part of her. It'd be a huge part of it.
Speaker 1: And I've been on hard knocks and it would be
Speaker 1: a great part of it. Because, as I say, I
Speaker 1: for the five years that I've done this and have
Speaker 1: walked in that room with you, and then especially with him,
Speaker 1: with him as the head coach. I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for the production meetings. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Every time I go out to the field on Friday,
Speaker 1: my first question is always to coach Mac and it's always, so,
Speaker 1: how is the meeting? And he always goes, oh, it's perfect.
Speaker 1: And that means that Mike's going to emerge at some
Speaker 1: point with his head hanging. What it's like during the
Speaker 1: breaks on the TV show? Yeah, what kind of question
Speaker 1: was that? It's great? I live for these moments. It's
Speaker 1: so funny. People think, you know, people wonder They said,
Speaker 1: do you you know, do the two of you get along?
Speaker 1: And I mean I think we do. Oh, you definitely,
Speaker 1: But I think but he's I mean, he's a tough one. Now, Mike.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, though I've been a head
Speaker 1: coach and I've had people in there, if if he
Speaker 1: didn't like you, it would be worse. No, is that
Speaker 1: it would be completely bland and vanilla with so he
Speaker 1: really he likes you because I mean, you're just one
Speaker 1: of the dudes. But he loves Oh, my goodnesses, he
Speaker 1: has some nice ones and and Vrabel. I can imagine
Speaker 1: Vrabel as a player. I mean, I bet he was
Speaker 1: slinging it back and forth from the time he came
Speaker 1: on the field until the time after they beat you,
Speaker 1: when he was walking on I love the dude. I
Speaker 1: love Mike Vrabel, and I love his interaction with Mike
Speaker 1: Keith production meetings. He's pretty good coach too. The general
Speaker 1: manager can be the same way. He can be hardcore
Speaker 1: and Amy Wells actually got to experience some of that
Speaker 1: as we took Twitter questions from the audience. Can't really
Speaker 1: walk around with a microphone, slips a paper, It's kind
Speaker 1: of not not a cool time pretty that. So we
Speaker 1: did the Twitter questions which we mentioned on the last
Speaker 1: OTP that we were going to do. So Amy got
Speaker 1: the five best ones. She got to ask the questions.
Speaker 1: And here's Amy with John Robinson from the Kickoff Luncheon
Speaker 1: presented by Pinnacle and Amy gets hit a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Your two Okay. The tough part of Amy's job has
Speaker 1: been picking out through hashtag Titans kick Off, the five
Speaker 1: best questions for Titans general manager John Robinson. Do we
Speaker 1: have John on the line, Let's bring him in John Robinson.
Speaker 1: Everybody thanks for joining us. Sir Mike Keith, can you
Speaker 1: hear me and we can hear you, Amy Wells, can
Speaker 1: hear you too? Say hello to her up standing? Hey, Amy,
Speaker 1: how are you hey? I just wanted to take a
Speaker 1: quick minute and say thank you to everyone that is there.
Speaker 1: Our intent was to be there with you in person,
Speaker 1: shaking hands and taking pictures, but out of an abundance
Speaker 1: of caution, giving Coach Rabel situation trying to keep you
Speaker 1: guys safe and the football team safe, we thought this
Speaker 1: was the best mechanism that to visit with you guys.
Speaker 1: We'll be there with your lives soon. Thank you for
Speaker 1: coming today, Thank you for what you've done for our
Speaker 1: football team, our organization, the foundation. And to echo what
Speaker 1: Coach Rabel said yesterday about the folks over in Waverley,
Speaker 1: the announcement we made today to try to help provide
Speaker 1: some relief to that community over there. That's a strong
Speaker 1: community filled with a lot of proud Tennesseeans. I grew
Speaker 1: up about two hours west of there, and it's about
Speaker 1: an hour from here, so I know that they're going
Speaker 1: to keep fighting to get back to some degree of normalcy.
Speaker 1: But thank everyone in attendance, and for what you've done
Speaker 1: to come to this luncheon today. All right, John, are
Speaker 1: you ready for five questions? Far away? All right? Amy,
Speaker 1: Welles take it. This is so great. Okay, here's the
Speaker 1: first one from hashtag Titans kickoff. How have for Shaun
Speaker 1: Evans and Jayon Brown looked in camp so far? Oh?
Speaker 1: They looked like two linebackers, Amy, they looked like two linebackers.
Speaker 1: Anything else? Now, you know, I think the one thing
Speaker 1: that though, it's it's great to have that that pair
Speaker 1: back together. Um, you know, stylistically they're they're different. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, Rashawn is an aggressive downhill run stuffing thumper. Um.
Speaker 1: He had a play yesterday where he met the fullback
Speaker 1: in the hole and it was to say, it was
Speaker 1: a pretty loud collision. And jay On has kind of
Speaker 1: prided himself more on, you know, his coverage skills, his
Speaker 1: range of speed. UM. But to both of their credit,
Speaker 1: they knew that coming into the season. Rashaan has been
Speaker 1: better in coverage. UM, he's really focused his attention on that,
Speaker 1: and jay On with his run fit. So I'm proud
Speaker 1: of the work that those guys have put in, uh
Speaker 1: in the offseason. Looking forward to them putting the opposing
Speaker 1: offensive ball carry on the ground. Allot this fall? All right,
Speaker 1: here's another one from hashtag Titan's kickoff. This one's about
Speaker 1: the secondary. Where has a Moni Hooker improved the most
Speaker 1: and what does he give us at safety that maybe
Speaker 1: this team didn't have in twenty twenty. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: great question, Amy. I think he's hook was a really
Speaker 1: versatile player coming out of Iowa and it kind of
Speaker 1: carved a roll out for himself on special teams and
Speaker 1: was really our third safety last year where he played,
Speaker 1: you know, mostly in subdefense in the back part of
Speaker 1: the field. I think he's improved his play down around
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, which is where Kenny mccaro, who
Speaker 1: has been with us the last few years has played.
Speaker 1: He's been active, he's been more vocal. He's an extremely
Speaker 1: smart player. He's helped a lot of these um, you know,
Speaker 1: younger dbs, whether it's you know it's Caleb or Molden
Speaker 1: or Chris Jackson, Breon Borders, those guys, just making sure
Speaker 1: that they're lined up where they need to be with
Speaker 1: the proper leverage, letting them know that he's back there
Speaker 1: as at safety to help them when they need it.
Speaker 1: Here's a question I really like it says. I keep
Speaker 1: hearing Mike and Coach Mack talk about Nick Westbrook Akeena
Speaker 1: at wide receiver. Is that just hype or is he
Speaker 1: really good? It's probably a little bit of both. You know,
Speaker 1: Coach Mack has been known to belish or the last
Speaker 1: seam sitting there in the front row. But but you know,
Speaker 1: I think Nick, I mean, Nick was an undrafted guy
Speaker 1: who came in here last year out of Indiana, and
Speaker 1: he was on the practice squad, and you know, he
Speaker 1: kept getting better at practice. And that's what Coach Rabel
Speaker 1: and I preach all the time, is you're going to
Speaker 1: earn the opportunities that you have to go out there
Speaker 1: on game day. Has presented itself by his special teams
Speaker 1: really as a gunner, as a kickoff cover guy, as
Speaker 1: a front wall blocker on a kickoff return. He maximized
Speaker 1: his opportunities. He kept working offensively, you know, honing his
Speaker 1: route craft and being more detailed because he's a bigger,
Speaker 1: longer receiver and sometimes it's harder for those guys stature
Speaker 1: wise to maybe get in and out of some of
Speaker 1: those breaks when they're running those routes. But he's done
Speaker 1: an outstanding job this offseason of getting himself and honing
Speaker 1: those skills, and he's been a trusted target for Tanney
Speaker 1: Hill and I'm excited to watch him play. You're the
Speaker 1: general manager, so this seems like a good question for you.
Speaker 1: What is the possibility of keeping three quarterbacks and the
Speaker 1: Titans active roster? Yeah, Amy, that's I am the GM.
Speaker 1: You are correct, that's what you tell me. Um, But
Speaker 1: you know it's a coach. Fraybell and I we you know,
Speaker 1: we were talking about it last night or we were
Speaker 1: texting back and forth about it last night. UM, you know,
Speaker 1: we've got some tough decisions, uh, this coming weekend after
Speaker 1: this game, is we try to trim this roster down
Speaker 1: to fifty three. Um. You know, certainly we all know
Speaker 1: what Tanny Hill is and what he's what he's capable
Speaker 1: of doing being an outstanding player for us. But it's
Speaker 1: been a battle between between Logan and Matt and UM,
Speaker 1: you know what, at the end of the day, we'll
Speaker 1: do what's what's best for the team. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we want to try to have the
Speaker 1: right fifty three guys on the football team and if
Speaker 1: that means keeping you know, three ques on the roster
Speaker 1: to try to help us win. Then that's what we'll do,
Speaker 1: all right. For our final question, now that we've made
Speaker 1: it abundantly clear what your role with your organization is,
Speaker 1: this question is what is the part of being the
Speaker 1: Titans general manager that you enjoy the most? That is
Speaker 1: a great question. I think the one thing that UM,
Speaker 1: I joke about it, I say, I generally manage a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff, um most of the time. But I'm
Speaker 1: extremely blessed. I'm I'm fortunate, uh that Amy took a
Speaker 1: chance on me back in in twenty sixteen and brought
Speaker 1: me back to the state that that I love. Um.
Speaker 1: It's it's I love uh coming in every day. It's
Speaker 1: not work to me because I love what I do.
Speaker 1: I love being around our scouts, our coaches, our players, UM,
Speaker 1: our fans. On game day, my job is to put
Speaker 1: a product on the field with the football team, UM
Speaker 1: that our fans can be proud of that we can
Speaker 1: entertain our fans UM and and win football games. And
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's about winning football games. UM.
Speaker 1: There's really Uh. The probably the thing I enjoy the
Speaker 1: least is releasing players. That that's those are hard conversations
Speaker 1: to have because these guys worked so hard and the
Speaker 1: league only let's us keep so many guys. Um and
Speaker 1: and those are those are tough decisions, tough conversations that
Speaker 1: I have to have. Um, But that's what I signed
Speaker 1: up for. But I love every day I come in here.
Speaker 1: Well done, John Robinson, thanks so much for taking time
Speaker 1: with us. You got it? Thanks like he got soon
Speaker 1: righting up? You got ding? How did it feel? All? Right? Now?
Speaker 1: What did we all learn? John Robinson is the general
Speaker 1: many Titans. If you walk away with nothing else, let's
Speaker 1: all walk away with But you're just that's the great
Speaker 1: part is you're just reading the question, I'm not here
Speaker 1: to hurt anybody, and you get and you get ding. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I knew my number would be called though, because
Speaker 1: he wasn't really interacting with you, and you being around
Speaker 1: gets everybody all riled up. So I knew I was
Speaker 1: probably going to take the hits. I knew it was well.
Speaker 1: It was good. It was great. His answers good questions,
Speaker 1: and his answers were good, and the crowd was thrilled
Speaker 1: to have a chance to see him as well. Kevin
Speaker 1: Bayer did a great job, Todd Downing, the offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: Shane Bowen, the defensive coordinator. We mentioned Burke Nyhill. It
Speaker 1: was just it's a good show. So thank you to
Speaker 1: everybody for being part of the inaugural Titans kickoff lunch.
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, So what do you expect that a
Speaker 1: preseason game? Number three, Coach mat gonna be very interesting
Speaker 1: with you know, with the developments of what's going on.
Speaker 1: The thing I expect, I do expect to see. I
Speaker 1: expect to see some more of our frontline players maybe
Speaker 1: play a little bit, just a tad, you know, any
Speaker 1: of you from Texas nor tad is not a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, but I expect to see, you know, a
Speaker 1: little bit of that. But the thing that I think
Speaker 1: that they still want to carry over, there's still some
Speaker 1: decisions to be made on this football team because some
Speaker 1: of these down the line players, Mike and Amy and
Speaker 1: for our listeners, they've put themselves in consideration just because
Speaker 1: of the way they've been playing. So I expect to
Speaker 1: see those guys get one more chance, you know, the
Speaker 1: down the line guys, get one more chance to show
Speaker 1: what they can do. I was going through the drive
Speaker 1: through the other day at a non sponsored business so
Speaker 1: I'm not going to mention where and somebody said, hey,
Speaker 1: what about Mason Kinsey. Yeah, so it's like, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: people are people are starting to get you know who
Speaker 1: some of these down the line guys are that you mentioned.
Speaker 1: And you know McKay sergeant is, I tell you he's
Speaker 1: got something interesting going on right now? Well he doesn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, you just heard from John Robinson. You know,
Speaker 1: we talked about Westbrook, Akina, the thing that he's done.
Speaker 1: McKay sargeant is. You know before after the Tampa thing,
Speaker 1: Before the Tampa game, you asked me what position I
Speaker 1: was looking at and I said the running back? Did
Speaker 1: I said, because one and two are not going to play,
Speaker 1: So two, three, and four move up to one, two
Speaker 1: and three and so let's see what they can do.
Speaker 1: McKay sargeant is taking full advantage of this, of this
Speaker 1: opportunity he has coming in here as a free agent
Speaker 1: from IOWA and Mason Kinsey all that kid does is
Speaker 1: make plays. You know what's really interesting is when you
Speaker 1: talk to the head coach and the general manager about
Speaker 1: McKay sergeant, they both start smiling. They both have something
Speaker 1: good to say right off the bat, he hits him
Speaker 1: in the heart as a football player because of how
Speaker 1: he goes at it. And he hits him in the
Speaker 1: heart too, the way he sees the holes he runs
Speaker 1: to daylight. I don't know if he's on this football
Speaker 1: team or not, but I think he's got a future.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what else helps him in the heart.
Speaker 1: The fact that after he scored that touchdown on that
Speaker 1: role boot, he went right out and lined up on
Speaker 1: the kickoff team and ran down hard and ran down hard.
Speaker 1: That's what hits you in the heart as a coach
Speaker 1: because you know that's the way he's gonna have to
Speaker 1: make it. It's great to see him out there from
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, but when that's gonna be his
Speaker 1: role and he's more than willing to do it, that's
Speaker 1: why they smile. The way that snaps are split up
Speaker 1: in this last preseason game is going to be really
Speaker 1: interesting because a lot of times in the fourth preseason game,
Speaker 1: you see a lot of guys that are getting a
Speaker 1: lot of time on the field just because they need
Speaker 1: some tape and they're trying to keep everybody healthy, and
Speaker 1: so the guys that are getting more time on the
Speaker 1: field doesn't necessarily mean they're going to make the ball club. Now,
Speaker 1: there are some real spots where guys have places that
Speaker 1: they can earn their keep, I guess, And so it's
Speaker 1: going to be really interesting to see if they keep
Speaker 1: some guys in that really have a shot at playing
Speaker 1: for a little bit longer and we see kind of
Speaker 1: a real ball game. Yeah, I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: Can we tell a couple of Floyd Reese stories before
Speaker 1: we go absolutely listening? Do you mind? No? I want
Speaker 1: to tell one from nineteen ninety eight because it was
Speaker 1: one of my first year with the team. Plays Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: October twenty fifth, nineteen ninety eight at Vanderbilt Stadium. Jeff
Speaker 1: Jager Remember Jeff Jager the kicker? Yep, he makes a
Speaker 1: field goal with just over a minute ago. The Bears
Speaker 1: take a twenty three twenty lead. The Oilers get the
Speaker 1: ball back and they drive to the forty into They
Speaker 1: drive into Chicago territory. Steve McNair gets sacked on first down.
Speaker 1: Oilers don't have a time. On second down, he has
Speaker 1: to spike the ball. It's third and sixteen. He completes
Speaker 1: a pass to Willie Davis okay for thirteen yards to
Speaker 1: make it fourth and three at the thirty one yard
Speaker 1: line of Chicago. So the Oilers are in field goal range.
Speaker 1: Now a long time Oiler fans will remember this. They
Speaker 1: can't find Al del Greco, the kicker, like they don't
Speaker 1: know where he is. They don't know where he is,
Speaker 1: and so Craig Hendrick has to run out onto the field.
Speaker 1: Dave Craig came out to hold. The Oilers had too
Speaker 1: many men on the field or weren't said it was
Speaker 1: going to be a penalty anyway, and the kit got blocked.
Speaker 1: It was a forty nine yarder which del Greco could
Speaker 1: have made. Now here's the behind the scene of this story.
Speaker 1: It was not Al del Greco's fault an assistant coach.
Speaker 1: When Willie Davis caught the thirteen yard pass, an assistant
Speaker 1: coach told him it was a first down, so he
Speaker 1: went back to the net to keep warming up, thinking
Speaker 1: there were there was a fresh set of downs. So
Speaker 1: Al took the fall for this, I mean, And the
Speaker 1: next week he beat the Steelers with a field goal,
Speaker 1: and so all was forgiven at that point, but he
Speaker 1: had had an awful week, which again was not his
Speaker 1: fault because he had been told, hey, you've got a
Speaker 1: first down, you have time. Wow. So it's a big controversy. Well,
Speaker 1: after the game, I'm doing the postgame interviews. It's a
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt stadium. I'm in a side room. Greg Williams is
Speaker 1: standing there with me. Now you think the story is
Speaker 1: gonna be about Greg Williams, right, because Greg Williams is
Speaker 1: a complete hothead about a lot of things. So we're
Speaker 1: standing there waiting to go on. There's a screen door
Speaker 1: of some sort in the Vanderbilt locker room. I can't
Speaker 1: really understand why it was there. Okay, when Floyd Reese
Speaker 1: came through, it was not there anymore. He was so
Speaker 1: angry about how the Oilers lost to the Bears. He
Speaker 1: took that screen door. Oh and I mean slammed it
Speaker 1: to where it came off its hinge. I mean it
Speaker 1: went flying everywhere. And I'm standing there with Greg Gregs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's mad, and you know it hit me At that
Speaker 1: point I said, this is serious, This is serious. This
Speaker 1: NFL is serious business right here. This was not anything
Speaker 1: like I'd ever seen in college anywhere. But the general
Speaker 1: manager storming through, I mean he was fierce and this
Speaker 1: was not necessarily going to be a playoff team or
Speaker 1: a super Bowl team. It was an October game, but man,
Speaker 1: it showed how much Floyd Reese wanted to win well.
Speaker 1: And that's a great story. I've been around you a lot,
Speaker 1: I've never heard that story. That's an outstanding story. But
Speaker 1: you know what that that does. That just tells you
Speaker 1: and anybody that knew Floyd Reese. I knew him since
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six when he was a linebacker coach, you know,
Speaker 1: still with the Oilers. He was a linebacker coach. Then
Speaker 1: he was in NFL all the way through. He was
Speaker 1: an NFL guy. He was an NFL guy through and through,
Speaker 1: and it was and the oiler slash Titans were very
Speaker 1: very important. I remember when Jeff Fisher brought me in
Speaker 1: here to be hired and Florida as a general manager,
Speaker 1: and I met with Floyd for about an hour, and
Speaker 1: you know, he was talking because I'd been coaching the
Speaker 1: league while and we knew each other, but you could
Speaker 1: just tell just the passion that he had for this team.
Speaker 1: And at that time he had put together a super
Speaker 1: Bowl team. He had and he was trying to hold
Speaker 1: that super Bowl team together and he knew that sooner
Speaker 1: or later he was going to have to pay the
Speaker 1: price for holding that Super Bowl team together. And he's
Speaker 1: very honest with me telling me about that as we
Speaker 1: were going through it. But I love Floyd Reese for
Speaker 1: the reason of you knew exactly where he stood with
Speaker 1: him at all times. And he was a football guy.
Speaker 1: And he was a funny guy too. He was he
Speaker 1: had a great sense of humor. So I've told several
Speaker 1: stories about how he helped us with off the field
Speaker 1: things like with the caravan, and he had gotten to
Speaker 1: the point that he trusted me and that he was
Speaker 1: very similar. We would bring him the list of guys
Speaker 1: that we were going to have for the caravan, and
Speaker 1: he would he would approve it. He would say, yes,
Speaker 1: that's a good one. That's a good one. Hey, what
Speaker 1: about this guy? Very helpful. Jeff Fisher was the same way,
Speaker 1: very helpful. Well, we're a week from going out on
Speaker 1: the caravan and he sees the list of players is
Speaker 1: published in the paper. The last guy he calls me about,
Speaker 1: he goes, uh bo, he called everybody bo bo bo.
Speaker 1: He goes, pretty good chance he's not gonna be with us.
Speaker 1: So he said you might want to make another plan.
Speaker 1: Oh no, he's a pretty good chance. Well he's clueing
Speaker 1: me in big help. So part of my job is
Speaker 1: to decorate, is to get the rap done for the
Speaker 1: vehicle we were going to take out. Right, we would
Speaker 1: always put the players who were going to be on
Speaker 1: the caravan on the side of the vehicle on this rap.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking about mister last Day, and I said, Okay,
Speaker 1: I can't put him on there, because if he's not
Speaker 1: with the team, we're gonna get made fun of at
Speaker 1: every I mean, it's a it's a conundrum, right, what
Speaker 1: do you do? So I just put a generic shot
Speaker 1: of various players as the last sort of they're not
Speaker 1: in any sort of order, so you can't tell the days.
Speaker 1: But this gentleman's picture is not on the RV. And
Speaker 1: so we get to the last day and a staffer
Speaker 1: of ours points out to this player, you're the only
Speaker 1: guy not on the side of the RVY. Don't They
Speaker 1: don't end up cutting him, They end up So this
Speaker 1: person just for whatever reason, points this out. Now, remember
Speaker 1: nobody on our staff, nobody knows why he's not on
Speaker 1: the side of the RV. Because the general manager had
Speaker 1: told me this. I didn't share this with anybody, right,
Speaker 1: I just told you know, I just said, this is
Speaker 1: what we need to do as far as the rap goes.
Speaker 1: So this player, who is very large, is very angry
Speaker 1: and is just standing there outside of an o' Charlie's
Speaker 1: in a city that I won't name, is screaming in
Speaker 1: my face. Seriously, you don't respect what I do. You're
Speaker 1: you're a non professional yourself. I mean, and and this man.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm a diminutive size man. So
Speaker 1: this guy is obviously much larger. And I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a scary moment for the staff because the other particularly
Speaker 1: the younger people, because they've they've never seen anything like that.
Speaker 1: I've been screamed at quite a bit, so you know,
Speaker 1: I know what it goes. So we get back caravan's over.
Speaker 1: I go in and tell Floyd Reese this story. He
Speaker 1: leans back in his chair and starts laughing. He goes,
Speaker 1: that's a tough one. Bow. No sympathy, no no way
Speaker 1: to hang in there, no thanks for keeping the confidence. No.
Speaker 1: So I've always wondered to this day, was he just
Speaker 1: setting me up? I don't think so. But those are
Speaker 1: two amazing. But that was so here. I mean, he
Speaker 1: was laughing all he was just belly laughing. And that's
Speaker 1: what I just remember seeing him crack up because when
Speaker 1: he lost it, he laughed like it was nobody's biz. Absolutely, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we lost it. We lost a really good person way
Speaker 1: too soon. Yeah, and here in Nissan Stadium, when his
Speaker 1: name goes up later this year, that will be as
Speaker 1: deserving as anybody whose name has ever gone up here.
Speaker 1: I think all of us that were involved with him
Speaker 1: too will really feel it at that moment. Yep. And
Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher too, Yes, sir, I still say, and I
Speaker 1: said this on our flagship one O four five the Zone.
Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher and Floyd Reese were as important to this
Speaker 1: as we're. Steve mcnairri and Eddie George no doubt as
Speaker 1: a pairing that, no doubt they were. They were the
Speaker 1: four cornerstones of what it began. Good stuff. Well, thank
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Speaker 1: you for stealing the kickoff luncheon presented by Pinnacle today.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being the star of the show. Thank
Speaker 1: you for helping the Titans Foundation to raise all this money.
Speaker 1: And I have a feeling you're on the docket for
Speaker 1: next year already. That's more than okay with me. But
Speaker 1: anytime I can be on a docket with you and
Speaker 1: Amy Wells, sign me up well, Amy Wells, nice job
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