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Speaker 1: My name is Mike Keith amy Wells is here as

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Speaker 1: usual in amy Wells. I am so glad that we

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Speaker 1: waited until the afternoon of Friday, August the seventh before

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Speaker 1: recording this edition of the OTP, because there is definitive news.

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Speaker 1: And when you have definitive news, who do you need

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Speaker 1: to have on the OTP, Amy Wells? Jim Wyatt of course,

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Speaker 1: Jim Wyatt, Tennessee Titans dot Com Senior writer editor. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk Vic Beasley. Let's delve into this right away. First

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Speaker 1: response to his reporting, Jim Relief, Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 1: I mean it, really you just want to have any

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Speaker 1: for the season. And that was going to be a

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Speaker 1: So fact, he has started the process of the COVID

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Speaker 1: testing and now you have to go through protocols like

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Speaker 1: everybody else, to be in a physician, to be on

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Speaker 1: the field this time next week. And you know, just

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Speaker 1: to hear some of his teammates on the conference calls today,

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Speaker 1: whether it's Kenny Vaccaro or Roger Sifold, you know they're

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Speaker 1: they're glad to have him on board. And that's what

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Speaker 1: the that's what this team signed him for him here

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Speaker 1: was a big free agent acquisition. Still has some pop

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Speaker 1: get out of him. And the bottom line. Jim touched

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Speaker 1: through those three tests, three negative tests, then he can

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Speaker 1: join the football team on Tuesday. Tuesday is when the

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Speaker 1: next phase of this unusual preseason training camp, summer camp,

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Speaker 1: more towards more football, if that makes sense. We're adding

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Speaker 1: or not he will be behind, I don't really think

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Speaker 1: starting with a clean slate, and I thought that that

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Speaker 1: And trying to wade through very bizarre time. So if

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Speaker 1: going to be that far behind. He's a veteran player.

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Speaker 1: I mean, football is football, you know. And Amy touched

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Speaker 1: other guys were asked about Vic Beasley too. Players don't

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Speaker 1: You can't blitz all the time. You just can't. Jim,

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Speaker 1: is not gonna have to come in and go through

429
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Speaker 1: a testing system and protocols that we put them behind

430
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,439
Speaker 1: the eight ball. When you're getting closer to the season,

431
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,639
Speaker 1: maybe you're better off waiting identifying some of those guys. Unfortunately,

432
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,960
Speaker 1: thing is without the preseason without the benefit of having

433
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Speaker 1: some of these in joint practices. You haven't been able

434
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Speaker 1: to see some of these guys up close, so you're

435
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Speaker 1: really doing some of this stuff blindly, which is completely

436
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 1: different than years past. Yeah, it's a it's a totally

437
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 1: different situation one hundred percent. And I think everybody understands

438
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 1: that that's going to be you know, how it all

439
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,879
Speaker 1: goes down now that what's going to happen at this

440
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:46,440
Speaker 1: point is eighty players will go out through the eleventh

441
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Speaker 1: in what is a conditioning period? Am I saying that right? Amy?

442
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 1: An acclamation period? I guess is how you better say it?

443
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,120
Speaker 1: And then the twelfth through the sixteenth that's gonna sort

444
00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:01,159
Speaker 1: of look like Phase two of OTA with helmets and

445
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 1: do I have that right? Yeah? It sounds like limited

446
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,920
Speaker 1: field work whatever that means. So, I mean that typically

447
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: is a lot of kind of individual position work. You're

448
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,400
Speaker 1: wearing helmets, maybe you're wearing shells, but you're not going

449
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 1: up against people, you're not putting your hands on guys

450
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 1: in other positions. Typically, that's what that means. I mean,

451
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 1: I didn't write it, so I don't really know. But

452
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 1: so the transition comes on August seventeenth though, right, Jim,

453
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 1: that's the day when you're allowed to start putting pads

454
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 1: on for the first time and have you know, contact,

455
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 1: And I mean this is also new to all of

456
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Speaker 1: us because we are used to guys reporting and then

457
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Speaker 1: being on the field the next day and a couple

458
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 1: of days in you're having goal line drills and you're

459
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: having eleven on eleven and doing things from a completely

460
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 1: different standpoint as far as intensity goes. You know, as

461
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 1: ask Bribal, you know this week during a video converence,

462
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Speaker 1: College is kind of to walk me through what phase

463
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: we're in, expecting him to say, well, we're in phase two,

464
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: and he said, well, the rookies are in phase seven.

465
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, you know what will happen in

466
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,360
Speaker 1: phase three, four, five, and six. I mean, there's all

467
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: this terminology and where they are so different than where

468
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 1: it's been in years past. And it has been a

469
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: slow lead in that has involved testing and walked through

470
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: and meetings and conditioning and a lot of work that's

471
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: been done before you even think about getting on the

472
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Speaker 1: football field. I think we're all excited about being out

473
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: there next Friday to watch, but it's still gonna be

474
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 1: a little while before we're really able to evaluate guys

475
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:46,680
Speaker 1: and seeing competitive drills. Jim, you have not watched this

476
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: team do anything yet, by rule, and yet you're still

477
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,120
Speaker 1: writing tons of stuff at Tennessee Titans dot Com. You're

478
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,880
Speaker 1: still on Twitter throwing things out all the time. How

479
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,920
Speaker 1: are you covering this team and this quote unquote training

480
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: camp without being able to see any of it. I

481
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 1: have stock pilots. I've talked to a lot of guys,

482
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 1: like at the Adam Humphreys story that I wrote for

483
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 1: this morning, I talked to him, you know, a couple

484
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: of weeks prior, and there are a couple of guys

485
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 1: I've talked to just to really make sure leading up

486
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 1: to camp, I had enough stuff to get me to camp.

487
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: And then it turns out that camp is not camp

488
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Speaker 1: as we know it. I have some stuff, some features

489
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 1: that I still have kind of held on too. I

490
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,360
Speaker 1: got to do position previews and usually roll those out

491
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 1: and the two weeks leading up to camp, and again

492
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 1: I had to put pauls on those, you know, partly

493
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,120
Speaker 1: because of the long build up to camp, and also

494
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 1: because I didn't want to put a position preview out

495
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 1: on the outside linebackers, and you didn't know exactly sure

496
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: what was going to happen with Vick Beasley. So I've

497
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: pressed Pauls on that and now I can get those

498
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 1: rolling again. So a combination of the interviews I've done,

499
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 1: the previews that I have, you know, these video conference

500
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Speaker 1: calls at four guys on today that I may able

501
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: to use content off of that. There's some other things

502
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: that I can do between now and then where I'm

503
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: gonna make it to camp. I've got I've got enough

504
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 1: stuff to get to access next week. What I'm most

505
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: looking forward to doing, I think what fans are most

506
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing these practice sports and hearing who's

507
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: looking good in camp and who's out there. And we're

508
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: not gonna be to tell them who's running with the

509
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: at nicol and who's running with the ones, but we

510
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: can at least give them, you know, some insight on

511
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: who looks good, what they're doing, you know, hopefully have

512
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 1: some some highlights on Twitter, uh from you know, from practices,

513
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 1: and just get football going again. But it has been,

514
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: I mean, it still has been a flurry of activity

515
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned. Because in the NFL, there's

516
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 1: always something right about. There's always something going on, and

517
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: you know, I try to keep doing my part to

518
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 1: keep the website fresh, Mike, isn't it Isn't it ridiculous

519
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 1: that there is no access to football for us right now?

520
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 1: We can't go to these practices, these walk throughs and things.

521
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: Jim Wyatt is still making us look bad, like this

522
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 1: is unbelievable. Out Jim Wyatt's grinding, I'm in a bubble

523
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: bath somewhere. That's not true. You've been to the facility.

524
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 1: I know you have. I have been to the facility

525
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: and it was the greatest feeling. You got to tape

526
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: an interview, right I did tape an interview, and I'm

527
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,719
Speaker 1: very excited about it, and it's amazing what they've been

528
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: able to do with the studio to get it set

529
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: up so that everybody is still safe, but we can

530
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: have interactions with people via video. It's very star Trek

531
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: the whole thing. But it felt really really good to

532
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: be back in the studio and be back in the facility. Mike,

533
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: I called you all emotional. Well, I felt that way too.

534
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: I was there for two days and got a chance

535
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: to start doing some interviews with players. They're not in

536
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: the same room with us. It's gonna look very I

537
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: think it's been described as Scott van Peltish. Yeah, how

538
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: he does his interviews where he talks to somebody on

539
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: the screen. That's how we're gonna have to do it,

540
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: you know. And and the setups from I mean, we

541
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: will continue to have to do some things from home.

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00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: I think it's going to continue all year. But what

543
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: we know for the three of us is we are

544
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 1: gonna get to watch ball practice one week from today.

545
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: I know it's coming. I can. I can hear the

546
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: sounds and smell the grass, and it makes me very happy.

547
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: The question is can Dave McGinnis socially distanced at practice.

548
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. I'll put twenty bucks on the fact that

549
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: coach Max whatever tracking beeper is going off within sixty seconds,

550
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: is being open. It's definitely gonna be a different season,

551
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: I mean, because as you mentioned, the interviews that you

552
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 1: guys are doing, and the fact that you know the

553
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: locker room's not going to be open to reporters all season.

554
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: You know, it kind of remains to be seen whether

555
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: anyone will be President Mike Rabel's press conferences, but I

556
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: anticipate the majority of those in video conference call and

557
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: after games, you know, I you know, I think the

558
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: league's still working through the process of how that's going

559
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: to be handled. I think you'll still maybe see Mike

560
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: Rabel behind the podium post game, and we'll see whether

561
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: players are there, you know, NC double a style behind

562
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: the desk, or whether they're gonna be all zoom. But

563
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a different year covering this team, you know,

564
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: for all of us. Let me ask you a question, Jim,

565
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: because and Amy, I want you to comment on this too,

566
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 1: because I know you're a big college football fan. So

567
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: sixty nine NFL players opted out. I was not surprised

568
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: by that in the least. I thought that that probably

569
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: sounded about right. Are you surprised, Jim and a lot

570
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: of these college players choosing to opt out? I'm not.

571
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I actually thought the number would maybe be

572
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: higher in the NFL than ended up being. Yeah, you know,

573
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: the college players. I kind of had gotten a sense

574
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: in talking to some people, you know, in the last

575
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, that this was coming and if football

576
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: doesn't go, I mean, I know, it's a lot of

577
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: these conferences are now talking about going to the spring

578
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: you know, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that, you know,

579
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: the SEC and these Power five conferences will be able

580
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: to play in the fall. But if the conferences or

581
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: football by some reason had to get moved to the spring,

582
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: use I think, you know, floodgates would open up with

583
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: everyone to claim for the draft and not come back

584
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: for their final season. So some of these other players

585
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: are going to see the moves that these guys are

586
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: making and have to start thinking themselves about, you know,

587
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: does it make sense for me to come back, you know,

588
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: for one more year with so many concerns with COVID,

589
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: and is it smarter for me to get ready for

590
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: the draft. And I'm just curious to see what those

591
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: numbers look like as we move forward here in August.

592
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, it's already so hard for players, especially players

593
00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: who are having some success at the college level, to decide, Okay,

594
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: when do I declare if that's something that looks like

595
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: I'm kind of eligible for I could have some success there,

596
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: when do I walk away? Do I stay? I want

597
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: to get that extra experience, But could I get hurt?

598
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: Will my I guess stock rise or fall in making

599
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: that choice? And now these poor kids also have this

600
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: virus that I could get sick, my teammates could get sick,

601
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: and then the season's over, I've lost tape then, Like,

602
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: there's all these different things that these kids have to

603
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: think about for them and their families, and I wouldn't

604
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: want to be them for the world. I wouldn't want

605
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: to be going to college myself right now, just as

606
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: a regular person who can't do anything like that's challenging.

607
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: So making some sort of an athletic decision that could

608
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: impact your career for years to come. Who I wouldn't

609
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: wish it on anybody. These kids are in a tough spot.

610
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: Some of the guys who have already declared that they

611
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: are going to opt out are players who, according to

612
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: the experts, that the three of us rely on our

613
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: first round picks. You know, that's a that's a big

614
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,959
Speaker 1: part of this right now is you've got some folks who,

615
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: I mean, these are these are big name players. Greg

616
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: Russo from Miamia, Florida, one of the best edge rushers,

617
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,479
Speaker 1: a six seven guy with incredible length, and I mean

618
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: Bateman from Minnesota, really good looking receiver who can do

619
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: a lot of things. Certainly gotten everybody's attention. You know

620
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: who's screaming right now, Agents of kids who are opting

621
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: out a year early because they now have to find

622
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: places for these kids to work out for a year.

623
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: They've got to find lodging for them with those trainers.

624
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: Usually they're paying for most, if not all of that,

625
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: all of their living expenses and things like that, while

626
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: these kids are trying to prep their bodies and make

627
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: sure that they're in shape to go to the next

628
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: level after taking a year off. If you're an agent,

629
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,239
Speaker 1: you better fire up that credit card because you've got

630
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: to supply a lot of things for these kids. A

631
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: year before they'd be needing places to stay in trainers

632
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: and all of that. Anyway, now you've got to do

633
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 1: it for a full six months too. You've got It's

634
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635
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637
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: Jim Wyatt, please tell everyone how they can follow you

638
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: on social media at j Wyatt Sports on Twitter and Instagram,

639
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: and in addition to my story has been on Tennessee

640
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: Titans Dot com post them on Facebook as well, So

641
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: you got a lot to write about it, and starting

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Speaker 1: gonna have a lot to write about starting next week.

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Speaker 1: Heyby Wells, how do people follow you on social media? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm at Titans Amy Amie on Twitter, Titans underscore Amie

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. It's kind of a long story, but underscore

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. I locked myself out of the real Titans Amy.

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Speaker 1: That's the story you did, I really did. I was

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Speaker 1: trying to make a Titans Amy Instagram profile. I decided

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Speaker 1: I didn't like something, so I tried to delete it

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Speaker 1: and I was like, no, I can do that. So

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Speaker 1: I tried to restart it and they were like no,

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Speaker 1: that name has already been used. And I tried to

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Speaker 1: contact them and be like no, it's me. I'm yeah no,

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Speaker 1: So I had to get clever. So Titans underscore Amy

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. That's good stuff, good good stuff. Jim, Thanks

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Speaker 1: for taking time with Amy and me for this edition

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Speaker 1: of the OTP. We appreciate you always and love what

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Speaker 1: you do at Tennessee Titans dot com. You do make

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Speaker 1: us all look good and look bad. The hardest working

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Speaker 1: man in show business Jim Watt Aby Wells I'm might Keith.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us for the o PT