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Speaker 1: dot com with Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith. As October

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Speaker 1: football is upon us, very exciting stuff. As we get

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Speaker 1: ready to go into Week four, a couple of things

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Speaker 1: really jump out. Obviously, Tom Brady with a chance to

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Speaker 1: pass Drew Brees for all time NFL passing yardage as

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Speaker 1: he goes back to Foxborough. Andy Reid could become the

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Speaker 1: first coach in NFL history to win one hundred games

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Speaker 1: with two different franchises as he goes back to Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: and then yeah, is he feeling better? It seems like

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Speaker 1: he is okay hopefully. Yeah, that was scary. The other thing, too,

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Speaker 1: is if you're a Titans fan, your team is two

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Speaker 1: and one right now. If you go to three and one,

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Speaker 1: your chances of making the playoffs sixty four percent. Really,

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Speaker 1: if you're two and two, chances of making the playoffs

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Speaker 1: thirty six percent. So this is a must win. Well,

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Speaker 1: you don't ever want to say must win, but it

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Speaker 1: would certainly bode better statistically. If you get to four

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Speaker 1: and one seventy eight percent chance of making the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: then four and one just sounds four and one sounds

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Speaker 1: very very good. Amy Wells the news from Titans camp.

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Speaker 1: The Titans have signed punter Johnny Townsend. Practiced with the

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Speaker 1: team today. Johnny Townsend is a University of Florida Gator

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Speaker 1: all time leading punter in SEC history. Averaged forty six

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Speaker 1: point two while punting at Florida. Was a fifth round

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Speaker 1: They cut him briefly with the Giants out of football

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Speaker 1: in nineteen. Last year in twenty twenty, ends up punting

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Speaker 1: one game for Baltimore, spent some time on practice squads,

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Speaker 1: and then was with Baltimore's practice squad this year until

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Speaker 1: September the twenty first. So Johnny Townsend on the active roster,

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Speaker 1: not the practice squad, the active roster for Brett Kern,

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Speaker 1: who is battling a groin injury. And that is one

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Speaker 1: to watch as we get ready to go to MetLife Stadium, right,

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Speaker 1: And that's that's an interesting one to watch, especially given

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Speaker 1: and you've got a flight to think about, you know.

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Speaker 1: And the other part of it is he is the

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Speaker 1: working with. Wow, it's always something, Mike key Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the changes in all of this and the Randy Bullock

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Speaker 1: don't know the final status yet, but at this point

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Speaker 1: Johnny Townsend signed to the active roster would seem to

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Speaker 1: give an indication that he may have to go for

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Speaker 1: Brett Kern on Sunday. And so then that means Randy

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Speaker 1: Bullock has a new holder at MetLife Stadium, where the

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Speaker 1: wind is still a factor, maybe not as big a

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Speaker 1: Giants Stadium, but I mean it's something to consider, definitely

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Speaker 1: something to stay tuned on if you are a Titans fan.

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Speaker 1: You talked with Ryan Tannehill. He's played five games there.

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. He very much downplayed what it is.

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Speaker 1: But when you talk to people just around, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Many people wondering the Titans with a minus three turnover ratio.

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Speaker 1: So the Titans had no takeaways, three turnovers, minus three

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Speaker 1: it hardly ever happens in the league. Well for the Titans,

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Speaker 1: had both of those players back. Absolutely? Did those players

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Speaker 1: It just didn't work out. It's one of those business things.

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Speaker 1: They have an interesting scenario. They have two guys named

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Speaker 1: Michael Carter that they drafted this year. Well that's weird.

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Speaker 1: How often does that? I can't remember it. So they

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Speaker 1: fifth round, Thank goodness. One plays offense and one plays defense.

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Speaker 1: But Michael Carter, the running back from North Carolina Michael Carter,

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Speaker 1: The other name, another name that you need to know

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Speaker 1: on this roster that's different than Michael Carter is Braxton Barrios.

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Speaker 1: with a team looking for their first victory. Absolutely, And

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Speaker 1: this Titans team has had enough heart stopping, kind of

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Speaker 1: my little soul a little bit. Bob was Shuston is

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Speaker 1: But Zach Wilson had a rookie nightmare game through four interceptions.

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Speaker 1: you would know this better than most people. Good pizza, Oh,

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