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Speaker 1: This is the OTP.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Wells and I am joined by Will Bowling

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Speaker 2: from Titans Radio. We have been rolling through Titans training camp,

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Speaker 2: of course, and today the greatest day of the year,

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Speaker 2: the first day in pads. Will, I feel like we've

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Speaker 2: been waiting for it for an eternity, something about the

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Speaker 2: season ends and you kind of get a break and

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Speaker 2: you're like, oh, okay, I'm ready for football again. And

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Speaker 2: then we do all the drafty things and then they

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Speaker 2: come back, but they're not really back because we can't

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Speaker 2: put pads on right. So finally this team is in pads.

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Speaker 2: It felt good, it was hot, it was loud, it

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Speaker 2: was a football practice.

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Speaker 1: What did you notice?

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I just think the sound of

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Speaker 3: pads popping right, it is a nice sound. It means

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Speaker 3: football is closer. It means we're within a couple of

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Speaker 3: weeks of preseason game one. I think that's the first thing.

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Speaker 3: Was that term you used real football. We heard that

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Speaker 3: from Peter Skronsky after practice today. We heard it from

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Speaker 3: Brian Callahan in the conversations we've had with him and

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Speaker 3: his meeting with the media before practice. Real football continues

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Speaker 3: to really be the phrase. But I think you noticed

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Speaker 3: the competitiveness of the energy levels going up. I think

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Speaker 3: you saw early in the practice the defense setting the

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Speaker 3: tone a little bit. I think you saw the offense

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Speaker 3: start to match that. Towards the middle of practice, then

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Speaker 3: I thought you saw the defense have a really strong

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Speaker 3: finish to practice in creating some turnovers. So you want

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Speaker 3: that in any practice. You want ebbs and flows. You

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Speaker 3: don't want just one side of the ball to totally dominate.

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Speaker 3: And I thought the energy level was there. I thought

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Speaker 3: the level of physicality both from receivers and DB's O

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Speaker 3: line and D line really good to watch. And you

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Speaker 3: could tell those guys were very excited to play real

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Speaker 3: football again.

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Speaker 2: Today they talk all the time about how practic just

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Speaker 2: without pads is really skewed in favor of the offense

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Speaker 2: because obviously they're the ones who are able to complete

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Speaker 2: passes and do all these things, and if you can't

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Speaker 2: hit them, that's only.

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Speaker 1: Really half of a football game there.

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Speaker 2: So do you think the defense had such a strong

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Speaker 2: day today because they've been itching for this day to come?

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Speaker 4: I think a little bit.

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Speaker 3: And I think two, you have a lot of competition

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Speaker 3: in the front seven, especially, and when you have a

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Speaker 3: new pass rusher in Dreymont Jones, who has a lot

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Speaker 3: of that defensive line, is not just there to get around.

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Speaker 4: The pocket, but to collapse the pocket.

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Speaker 3: And I think you saw that level of physicality, that

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Speaker 3: level of aggression, not just to get upfield and getting

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Speaker 3: after the passer, but you saw that in collapsing the pocket,

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Speaker 3: which also in turn helps stop the run as well.

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Speaker 3: So I think you did see that, and that's the

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Speaker 3: way that Mike Braganzi, Chad Brinker, and Brian Callahan have

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Speaker 3: really tried to intentionally build this roster. But I'm looking

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Speaker 3: at these pass rushers and inside linebackers with a lot

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Speaker 3: of opportunity, and you look at a guy like Fimi

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Speaker 3: Oladjo who's in for his first pad of practice and

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Speaker 3: one on ones, maybe it struggles to find that second

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Speaker 3: move kind of the change up to his fastball, but

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Speaker 3: he is showing up so much more for me in

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Speaker 3: team periods actually, where I think Fimi has been really disruptive.

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Speaker 3: I think he's forced cam Ward off of his spot

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Speaker 3: a little bit, and I think that's a really encouraging

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Speaker 3: sign for him. Early and James Williams. I know we

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Speaker 4: That's a guy that.

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Speaker 3: The inside linebacker position is so difficult to evaluate. Until

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Speaker 3: the pads come on and until you can really take

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Speaker 3: guys to the ground, we're still not getting one hundred

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Speaker 3: percent of that evaluation process.

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Speaker 4: But I did think that there was a level of.

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Speaker 3: H Finally, you know, we've heard about this remade offensive line,

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Speaker 3: We've heard about Dan Moore and JC Latham. It's time

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Speaker 3: to remember that the D line can make some noise

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Speaker 3: as well. And I thought that front seven really showed

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Speaker 2: Femi Elodesha is such an interesting guy because we have

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Speaker 2: to remember he's relatively new to this outside position where

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Speaker 2: he is right now, and it's interesting because it feels

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Speaker 2: like there's only so much you can do from like

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Speaker 2: to know what everybody's doing anyway. But what's interesting is

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Speaker 2: that there's still something different about actually executing it and.

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Speaker 1: Being able to go one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: I can be really good at something if I'm only

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Speaker 2: allowed to go like fifty sixty percent. But if I

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Speaker 2: have to complete the motion, complete what I'm being asked

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Speaker 2: to do, I mean there's more steps there, obviously, So

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Speaker 2: watching him evolve from Okay, I've done this a couple

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Speaker 2: times in college. Now I'm doing it at the next level.

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Speaker 2: I need to understand what this defense is asking me

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Speaker 2: to do. I can map it out, walk it through,

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Speaker 1: To actually complete what I'm being asked to do.

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Speaker 2: Watching that progression is I think something that's going to

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Speaker 2: be really fun for us to watch as he continues

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Speaker 3: I think so too, And I think for a guy

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Speaker 3: there's a lot to learn, but there is a lot

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Speaker 3: of growth and ceiling and potential there. I think the

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Speaker 3: deployment of the way Dinard Wilson and this Titans defense

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Speaker 3: can use Fimiola Djo and the skills that he had

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Speaker 3: as an inside linebacker UCLA, he hasn't just forgotten, and

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Speaker 3: I think there are elements of him dropping back in coverage,

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Speaker 3: him being able to get around the edge, because for me,

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Speaker 3: he is kind of the speedier, more fast, twitched kind

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Speaker 3: three guys or four guys upfront that he's with are

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Speaker 3: there to collapse the pocket, well, how much does Fimioladejo

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Speaker 3: benefit from that? But just running into the quarterback, and

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Speaker 3: I think that's where Fimioladejo getting the privilege of playing

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Speaker 4: Who I thought had a really good practice today and

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Speaker 4: was really active.

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Speaker 3: I think there's a bet being made, a gamble being

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Speaker 3: made by this organization in that there are some edge

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Speaker 3: rushers who can go from good to great with the

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Speaker 3: help of Jeffrey Simmons at Devandre Sweat. If we're collapsing

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Speaker 3: the pocket and forcing the quarterback off of his spot,

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Speaker 3: let's just run him into Femi who's on the edge,

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Speaker 3: who is containing that pocket as well. So it's gonna

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Speaker 3: be really fun. It feels to me Amy like he's

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Speaker 3: kind of like a pitcher that has a really good fastball,

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Speaker 3: kind of that relief pitcher that's got to learn. Hey,

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Speaker 3: if I had a change up, if I had a

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Speaker 3: slider that I can drop in there. How much better

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Speaker 3: does that make my fastball? If I make this lineman

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Speaker 3: have to be ready for me to change speeds, well,

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Speaker 3: then if I go full speed and go fastball right like,

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Speaker 3: then how much tougher is my fastball? So he's learning

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Speaker 3: those things in real time. He's worked with rush doctors

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Speaker 3: and things like that and pass rush summits here over

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Speaker 4: But I really think this guy's the limit for him.

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Speaker 3: I think we're going to see the best of him

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Speaker 3: as the season and goes, and I can't wait to

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Speaker 3: watch that process unfold.

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Speaker 2: When we talk about defensive backs, is there anybody that's

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Speaker 2: catching your attention more than Kevin Winston Junior. I literally

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Speaker 2: wrote on my notes I can't show you because it

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Speaker 2: might have a curse word on it, but it says

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Speaker 2: he is not messing around.

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Speaker 1: He's not like it's crazy. He's everywhere all over the

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Speaker 1: a good tongue.

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Speaker 4: He is.

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Speaker 3: And I remember talking with people back before this break back,

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Speaker 3: before training camp and in mandatory mini camp and OTAs

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Speaker 3: he is the kind of student that is intently watching

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Speaker 3: and observing everything in practice. When he's not on the field,

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Speaker 3: there are players that are there getting water, talking with

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Speaker 3: guys who are so locked in and taking those mental

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Speaker 3: reps and understanding, all right, this is what I would

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Speaker 3: do here, op, I wouldn't have thought about that, but

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Speaker 3: I liked what Xavier Woods did right there. So I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna remember that once my time comes and you talk

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Speaker 3: to anybody around this organization, and Kevin Winston Junior is

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Speaker 3: that he is a student of the game. He is

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Speaker 3: someone I think they have a lot of hope for.

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Speaker 3: I think of Kevin Winston Junior amy similarly to the

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Speaker 3: way Amani Hooker carved out a role for himself as

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Speaker 3: I think remains to be seen whether that's hey, you're

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Speaker 3: You're the guy coming in on third downs that we're

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Speaker 3: gonna rely on. That was Amani's role early in his

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Speaker 3: Titans career. He was the third down big nickel. I'm

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Speaker 3: taking away the bigger slot receivers, but I think in

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Speaker 3: today's NFL where nickel packages are kind of your base defense,

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Speaker 3: Kevin Winston Junior has a role to play in twenty

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Speaker 3: are role player as a rookie, maybe you're less likely

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Speaker 3: to run into a rookie wall as well. In your

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Speaker 3: first you're implementing things, you're ascending, you're growing towards maybe

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Speaker 3: a starting position. But the early returns are really really good.

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Speaker 3: He looks very confident and really strong in that defense.

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Speaker 2: All right, so defense had an overall really good day today.

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Speaker 2: to the OTP. How important is the way the offense

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Speaker 2: responds tomorrow?

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Speaker 4: Find to be?

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Speaker 3: That has been the thing I'm most looking forward to

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Speaker 3: is what happens the first time cam Ward has a

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Speaker 3: couple of picks and the interceptions were a case by

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Speaker 3: case basis. There's some miscommunication on Hey, an all out

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Speaker 3: blitz is here.

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Speaker 4: I've got chickacong Quo on my left.

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Speaker 3: You could already see some of the dialogue happening between

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Speaker 3: Cam and Chig to say, Hey, I want you to

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Speaker 3: sit and kind of pull back a little bit. Just

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Speaker 3: give me a hot read there when I've got seven

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Speaker 3: or eight blitzers, you know. Peter Skronsky said after practice today,

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Speaker 3: that was as much pressure as the offense had seen

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Speaker 3: from Dennard Wilson all off season. So that was as

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Speaker 3: much as he kind of brought it at us. So

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Speaker 3: I'll be really interested to just kind of hear more

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Speaker 3: And you know, talking with Calvin last week, he used

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Speaker 4: I've been really impressed.

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Speaker 3: You can tell it is a night and day difference

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Speaker 2: This offense well, And there's been a lot of change

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Speaker 3: One hundred percent and by my last count, forty five

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Speaker 3: what I'm really interested in with these wide receivers is

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Speaker 4: Let's do it.

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Speaker 3: It's the fun of training camp and the competition that

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Speaker 3: What I saw from two guys in particular, Peter Skronsky

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Speaker 3: Focus loved him, said he was the best pass protector

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Speaker 4: Of those things.

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Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to talk to J C.

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Speaker 2: I had every intention of talking to him about just

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Speaker 2: So check out this conversation with me and JC Latham.

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Speaker 2: JC Latham first padded practice of training camp. How long

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Speaker 6: And then a life situation as it was today, tell me.

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Speaker 5: me and my training UJ we started building that plan

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Speaker 5: with you know, being able to improve on my footspeed, mechanic,

441
00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,280
Speaker 5: my handspeed, me you know, me my boxing coach really

442
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,800
Speaker 5: working on handspeed, conditioning and footwork and all that, and

443
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Speaker 5: then talking to Bill about you know, just the small

444
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Speaker 5: things that I can work on to improve. So you know,

445
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Speaker 5: I mean, as the off season went by, day by day,

446
00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,280
Speaker 5: we stacked and stacked and stacked to really get to

447
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Speaker 5: where we are today.

448
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Speaker 2: What food are you missing the most that you haven't

449
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Speaker 2: had in a while.

450
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Speaker 5: It's going to sound really, really stereotypical. I haven't had

451
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Speaker 5: a lot of like fried anything. It's like fried chicken.

452
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Speaker 5: I love that. Haven't really had that. I've had pizza

453
00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,919
Speaker 5: here and there, so I can't really say I missed pizza.

454
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Speaker 5: You know, if you make weight or you're a couple

455
00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:35,080
Speaker 5: of pounds under whatever it might be, you can reward

456
00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:38,640
Speaker 5: yourself with some pizza. But I mean outside the chicken

457
00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:40,480
Speaker 5: part would definitely be something I haven't had.

458
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Speaker 6: Cheesecake. It's like a cheesecake factory right down the road.

459
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Speaker 5: And you know, it was funny because when we first

460
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Speaker 5: went over, like what I ate and we counted, we

461
00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,280
Speaker 5: counted the calories as an app that helps us count

462
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Speaker 5: the calories, and you know, he was like, I told him,

463
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Speaker 5: like what I would get and I'm not going to

464
00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:54,960
Speaker 5: say it here, but the dessert would be cheesecake. And

465
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Speaker 5: you know they say, well, hey, your goals two thousand

466
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Speaker 5: calories for the day, twenty to twenty three hundred. You know,

467
00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:03,440
Speaker 5: a slice of the cheeseca from cheesecake factories probably a

468
00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:04,720
Speaker 5: thousand to twelve hundred.

469
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Speaker 6: So they're like, that's a whole meal.

470
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Speaker 5: So I mean, you can choose which one you want

471
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Speaker 5: to get, but you're not putting the right stuff in

472
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Speaker 5: your body if you get that. So definitely missing out

473
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Speaker 5: on all the desserts.

474
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Speaker 6: I mean, you.

475
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Speaker 5: Realize there's a lot of like cheese and milk and

476
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Speaker 5: whatever that might be that really builds up onto all

477
00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,040
Speaker 5: the good food that you got to cut back on.

478
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Speaker 2: So you really were just like not following a plan,

479
00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,000
Speaker 2: but you were a student of this. What this means

480
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,840
Speaker 2: for you in your life. It feels like you've learned

481
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Speaker 2: a lot about nutrition.

482
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, yeah, I mean honestly, you know, I know next

483
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Speaker 5: year for sure, like I want to really go down

484
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Speaker 5: that route not only with my nutritions, but maybe even

485
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:39,960
Speaker 5: get like a degree in that, so I really know

486
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 5: I can assess, like, Okay, if I'm going into the day,

487
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,120
Speaker 5: like for example, on a heavier load day, he'll load

488
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Speaker 5: me up with cars for the energy the energy portion,

489
00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,480
Speaker 5: or he'll replenish me with cars whatever it might be.

490
00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:51,680
Speaker 5: When we're lifting, He'll make sure I have a lot

491
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Speaker 5: of protein in my system so I can have whatever

492
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,439
Speaker 5: I need whatever I lost to gain it back, so

493
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,000
Speaker 5: you know, and then the different ways you can go

494
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Speaker 5: about that. It is really fascinating what food can really

495
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,200
Speaker 5: do for your body. And you hear it all the time,

496
00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,440
Speaker 5: especially at Alabama and here. You know, when you lift

497
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,440
Speaker 5: and work out and train, as soon as you get done,

498
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 5: if you're not putting nothing back into your body, you

499
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:12,880
Speaker 5: kind of did it for nothing. So that's definitely something

500
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Speaker 5: I wanted to really get into.

501
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Speaker 2: When you came back for the off season program, everyone

502
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,119
Speaker 2: was talking about how different your body looked and just

503
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Speaker 2: the physically it was very impressive.

504
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Speaker 1: Is that rewarding to you?

505
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,399
Speaker 2: Does that feel better to have people actually notice what

506
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,400
Speaker 2: it is you're doing and get some real tangible results.

507
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Speaker 6: Yeah. Absolutely.

508
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Speaker 5: I think positive reinforcement I think is a very big,

509
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 5: big deal, not just for me, but for anybody. If

510
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:38,680
Speaker 5: you're you know, telling somebody like, hey, you're doing a

511
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Speaker 5: great job at what you do, you know, put a

512
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Speaker 5: smile on your face. You want to keep going, you know,

513
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Speaker 5: And now I tell you know, my trainers and everybody

514
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,760
Speaker 5: around me, like, acknowledge the mountains that you've climbed. You know,

515
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 5: you got a lot of mountains to climb, and you

516
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:50,199
Speaker 5: got to do a lot to get to this position.

517
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Speaker 5: And get to the positions that you want to be

518
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 5: in in life, and sometimes we kind of get overwhelmed

519
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,920
Speaker 5: with everything that's going on. And one thing that I

520
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 5: learned throughout the off season when I got into art,

521
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,200
Speaker 5: I saw a lot of road and the artist told me,

522
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Speaker 5: he said, like just kind of a way to like

523
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 5: remind the audience to stop and smell the roses, you know.

524
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Speaker 5: So I kind of took that as like stopping acknowledge

525
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Speaker 5: the mountains that you've climb. So when people kind of

526
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Speaker 5: acknowledge that, it kind of just gives me that mental

527
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,120
Speaker 5: refresher in that boost, like I'm on the right track,

528
00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:14,439
Speaker 5: I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, and I'm

529
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Speaker 5: getting acknowledged by my closest peers.

530
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Speaker 2: Okay, what kind of art did you get into? Tell

531
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Speaker 2: me about this A Man of the World now.

532
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

533
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Speaker 5: I mean it's a lot of different art. So Shabaz

534
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,159
Speaker 5: was the artist that I was purchasing some stuff from.

535
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 5: I got some from a local art gallery as well,

536
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 5: but the main pieces, I mean, it just it just

537
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,199
Speaker 5: sticks out to me. So I got something from he

538
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 5: calls it African Twins. It's a symbol, it's a symbol

539
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 5: of good luck and something to not be messed with,

540
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 5: especially in their culture over there in Africa. So now

541
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,120
Speaker 5: it's something that I, you know, put right in front

542
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,200
Speaker 5: of my house when you walk in. And then there

543
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,199
Speaker 5: was one he was he had a kind of a

544
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 5: phase where he did a lot of paintings with no face.

545
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 5: So one where it's you know, jay Z, but it's

546
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,760
Speaker 5: no face and he's around his piers and you see

547
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 5: the gold dust being sprinkled on them. And I hung

548
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 5: that above my bedroom because I just I feel like

549
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 5: that really empowered me being a you know, African American.

550
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 5: That really empowered what it felt like to kind of

551
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,199
Speaker 5: represent my culture. So you know, amongst a lot of

552
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Speaker 5: other paintings, that really means a lot to me.

553
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Speaker 2: So you're learning about nutrition and really how to fuel

554
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 2: your body. You're fueling your mind with art. You've incorporated

555
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 2: boxing and this whole new routine when it comes to

556
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 2: your fitness and how you're training. Do you feel like

557
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:27,120
Speaker 2: a very different person than you were in twenty twenty four?

558
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean absolutely.

559
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Speaker 5: I mean I knew that would happen, of course, because

560
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 5: you know, it's no knock to Alabama. Alabama is a

561
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 5: is a grind. It's twenty four to seven, go, go go.

562
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:36,439
Speaker 6: You know.

563
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 5: I came to realize when I was there that time

564
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 5: is a man made construct that you know, when you're

565
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 5: at Alabama, doesn't it doesn't matter.

566
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Speaker 6: You know.

567
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 5: I remember days where you know, we start at seven

568
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 5: o'clock in the morning, we wouldn't be back to eleven

569
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 5: thirty at night, so you know, it'd be a long day.

570
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 5: So you had to kind of just forget about the

571
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,159
Speaker 5: time and just get to work, you know. And I

572
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 5: knew once I got say the NFL, especially the off season,

573
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 5: official off season, I would have time to kind of

574
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,120
Speaker 5: figure myself out my interest, what I like to do.

575
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Speaker 6: Do you have a couple?

576
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Speaker 5: You know, you got a three week period before the

577
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 5: season starts, when summer training starts at Alabama. But I

578
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 5: mean they're so their program is held to such a

579
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 5: high standard for the college level, you don't really have

580
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 5: a lot of time. Like for me, I was able

581
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 5: to not only go into art, but you know, travel

582
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 5: to like Napa Valley to get into wine, you know,

583
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 5: so like being able to have that experience as well.

584
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 5: You really wouldn't have the opportunity like that in college.

585
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 5: That really anywhere. So having that chance here in the NFL,

586
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 5: I'm really grateful for.

587
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 2: You think feeding into yourself as a human, as like

588
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 2: a man is making you a better football player.

589
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:29,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, for sure.

590
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 5: I think it's really important to you know, my trainer

591
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,400
Speaker 5: kind of has to remind me of this too, because

592
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,199
Speaker 5: I get so locked in on hey I want to

593
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 5: do this, this and that, where he tells you like, hey,

594
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 5: take a mental break, you know. And you know, Bill

595
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 5: talks to me about this too, because I've been boxing

596
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,919
Speaker 5: and doing all my explosive woman workous whatever it might be,

597
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 5: you know, since January. So when we ended OTAs, I

598
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,640
Speaker 5: literally had an Airbnb book to go down to Dallast

599
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 5: and train with Duke like the next day after OTA

600
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:55,959
Speaker 5: has ended, And all of them were like, hey, just

601
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 5: you know, take a couple of days off, give your

602
00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 5: mind some time to rest, your body, some time to heal,

603
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 5: and really, you know, be I know you want to

604
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 5: attack it heavy in the off season, but be a

605
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 5: pro and let your body heel and let your mind heel.

606
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 5: So I think dabbling into your interest in rewarding yourself

607
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 5: with that as such kind of definitely helps you be

608
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:11,680
Speaker 5: missily refreshed.

609
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Speaker 6: To go out there and form well.

610
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Speaker 2: Jac Latham, We're excited to watch you work as training

611
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Speaker 1: Thanks for taking the.

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Speaker 6: Time, absolute, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: a renaissance man. Will are you surprised? You don't hear

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Speaker 2: that from the big guys very often?

625
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Speaker 3: No, you don't, Hey, Sometimes the offensive lineman, they they

626
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Speaker 3: grew in the shadows. We just let them marin a

627
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Speaker 3: We sit them over here. We're talking to skill guys.

628
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Speaker 3: All of a sudden, they're gaining new skills.

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Speaker 4: They're learning out of their pros.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

631
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Speaker 3: So I saw many of them make good broadcasters. So

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Speaker 3: not just because I host a show with one for

633
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Speaker 3: four hours of morning. No, JC is really growing into

634
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,680
Speaker 3: his own and you think about him amy and hidden

635
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 3: the path that he's had. I am g Academy, Alabama

636
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 3: first round draft pick. The guy has been a winner

637
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,479
Speaker 3: everywhere that he has gone. And when I look at

638
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,479
Speaker 3: this offensive line, it's hard not to hear arden Key

639
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 3: and Jeffrey Simmons on the defensive line. Yes, Fimio oladejo

640
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 3: is is stepping into that kind of role the offensive line.

641
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 3: You don't often hear chirps back, you don't hear things

642
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 3: from their side. Kim Wored's gonna help that. First of all,

643
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Speaker 3: I think JC Latham is an emerging leader on this

644
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 3: football team, offense and defense. And I think last year

645
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 3: he took ownership of some things that he liked. I

646
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 3: think he took some ownership of some things that he

647
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 3: maybe didn't like from his rookie season. I'm really expecting

648
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 3: a big year for him and playing next to Kevin

649
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 3: Zeidler one of the best to do it. And if

650
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 3: he makes fifteen starts again this year, that'll be ten

651
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,959
Speaker 3: straight seasons of fifteen plus starts for Zeidler. What a

652
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 3: wealth of experience to have next to you, and what

653
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Speaker 3: an opportunity this offensive line has to really take a

654
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Speaker 3: step forward this year.

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Speaker 1: Well, well, there's more practice on the way.

656
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Speaker 2: Tell me what you're going to be watching tomorrow when

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Speaker 2: the Titans are back in pads at Ascension Saint Thomas

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Speaker 2: Sports Park at eight o'clock in the morning to try

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Speaker 2: and beat this heat.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 3: I think I'm just watching how the offense bounce back.

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Speaker 3: I think cam Ward after a three interception day, and

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Speaker 3: again not all of those totally on him, some good

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Speaker 3: defensive plays, some miscommunications, a bad throw. But I think

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Speaker 3: ultimately what you love about cam Ward is his short

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Speaker 3: memory and his ability to have the utmost confidence in himself.

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Speaker 3: And you know the answer that he had after mandatory

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Speaker 3: mini camp when he was asked, what's your confidence level

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Speaker 3: as an NFL quarterback? And he just said ten and

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Speaker 3: went on the next question. Right, he knows how to

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Speaker 3: get the point across quickly, and there is I can

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Speaker 3: promise you, there is nothing that can happen on that

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Speaker 3: practice field that's going to make that number go any

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Speaker 3: lower than a ten. So how does that manifest itself?

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Speaker 3: How does that look? Does Camboard take some of the

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Speaker 3: same gambles? Does he have a conversation with some of

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Speaker 3: his wide receiver to say, hey, I need you to

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Speaker 3: do this instead.

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Speaker 4: I need you to sit here.

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Speaker 3: If there's pressure, if I'm hot and got to get

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Speaker 3: rid of the football quickly. I think that's what I'm

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Speaker 3: watching most Tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Well, we are looking forward to it.

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Speaker 2: The Titans have a couple more training camp practices before

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Speaker 2: they head on the road. They're going to Tampa, they're

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Speaker 2: going to Atlanta. It's gonna be a wild time, but

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Speaker 2: we're going to have it all right here on the OTT.

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Speaker 2: So for Will Bowling. I'm Amy Wells and this has

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Speaker 2: been the official Titans podcast, better known as the Ott