1 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: Welcome to the OTP, presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 2 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: Go to FBHP dot com to learn more about Farm 3 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 1: Bureau Health plans seventy seven year history in Tennessee and 4 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: to get a quote today. That's FBHP dot com for 5 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: Farm Bureau Health Plans. Happy New Year everyone. Glad to 6 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: have you with us on the OTP and going to 7 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: share a really special conversation that I had with one 8 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: of the Titans greats in recent years. That's punter Brett Kern. 9 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: He was something else during his time with this football 10 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: team and means a lot to the people in the community. 11 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:47,919 Speaker 1: And I got to take him as part of our 12 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: follow Me through Tennessee series to Manchester, Tennessee and Jiffy 13 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:57,279 Speaker 1: Berger where I had the Bonneruberger. That's another story. If 14 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: you've never been to Jeffy Berger, you must go. And 15 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 1: if you like something crazy, the bonn U Burger outstanding, 16 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: the fry's outstanding. Everything they do at Jiffy Berger is phenomenal. 17 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: Tell them we sent you when you go by, and 18 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: I have a feeling they'll take extra good care of you. 19 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 1: But as we rode down in my truck, I got 20 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 1: a chance to talk with Brett Kern at length about 21 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: his career. He told some funny stories, and we wanted 22 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 1: to share that entire conversation with you on the OTP. 23 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: So here's Titan's Great Brett Kern on the road, following 24 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 1: me through Tennessee to Jiffy Berger in Manchester on the OTP. 25 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 1: I know you're just starting it, But how's retirement going. 26 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 2: It's going great? You know. 27 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 3: I kind of had in my mind, you know, up 28 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 3: in Philly, just experiencing being away from family, and yeah, 29 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 3: I'm a man of rhythm and routine, and you know, 30 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 3: you could probably call my wife on a Wednesday at 31 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 3: eleven o'clock and say, hey, what's Brett doing right now? 32 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 3: What she'd be able to tell you. 33 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 2: Right. 34 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 3: So, going up to Philly, great spot, great, great organization, 35 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 3: but everything was just it was different. You had a 36 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 3: new rhythm, new routine, things that I've been used to 37 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 3: for so long, for you know, thirteen years at Tennessee. Right, 38 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:19,920 Speaker 3: it was just totally kind of flipped upside down. And 39 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 3: so I knew that if I wanted to keep playing football, 40 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,079 Speaker 3: you know, I'd be in a different city. It wasn't 41 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 3: going to be at home in Nashville. And and so 42 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 3: that's when you know, I kind of started thinking about, 43 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 3: you know, being done, and you know, I'm also I 44 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,399 Speaker 3: always told myself and you were to ask other guys 45 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 3: you know that I play with that the day that 46 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 3: I don't feel like I'm punting at the elite level 47 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 3: that I know I can punt, you know, it's kind 48 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 3: of the day that I need to be done because 49 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 3: I don't want to be out there just punting and 50 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 3: kind of surviving. 51 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 2: And if people know me for the. 52 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,799 Speaker 3: Type of punts that I had and you know, the consistency, 53 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 3: if I'm not there, then you know it's time. It's 54 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 3: time to move on. So I think another big decision 55 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 3: for that was, you know, family. My kids are older, 56 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 3: you know, thirteen eleven seven, right, so they're the sports 57 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff, right, and I want to 58 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 3: be there for all of it. I want to start, 59 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 3: you know, coaching and helping out and you know, as 60 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 3: you know football, your weekends are kind of tied up 61 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 3: for half the year or so. 62 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 1: It's funny because people always said to me, they say, 63 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: do you do you hunt or fish? And I tell them, no, 64 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: I don't do either, and oh, you don't like that 65 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: or you against that, It's like, no, no, no, it 66 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: doesn't have anything to do with that. It's right at 67 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: work weekends, right, I mean, you don't generally go out 68 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon, you know, right, And so that's yeah, it 69 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: it is a life change because the commitment to anything 70 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: related to sports. And I tell college kids this too, 71 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: if you want to work in anything in sports, it's 72 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: gonna be nights and weekends, that's right. Yeah, And that's 73 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: the hardest part of it, really, right, because it's hard 74 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: on a family, it is. 75 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 3: And so yeah, you get to the point where it's 76 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 3: just I mean, if you were to ask me in college, hey, 77 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 3: you're going to play in the NFL for fifteen years, 78 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 3: I would have I mean I would have laughed and 79 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 3: I said, I mean, that will be unbelievable what that happens. 80 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 3: But you know, I mean the chances, the percentages of 81 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 3: that happening is so slim, right, unbelievable. And so I've 82 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 3: been blessed for fifteen years and it's just just felt 83 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 3: like it was time to to hang him up and 84 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 3: just kind of see what the next chapter of life brings, 85 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 3: and more importantly, you know, just spending more time with 86 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 3: family and uh, you know, get the uh the coaching 87 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 3: hat on for for the kids. 88 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 2: You know. 89 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: So your son Bryce is thirteen, what sports is he 90 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: involved with? 91 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 2: H he's he's doing flag football. 92 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 3: I got him into golf and so we're we're trying 93 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 3: to play golf a little bit more. 94 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 2: And honestly, you. 95 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 3: Know, we go we go over to the little course 96 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 3: there in Franklin, right right there by Legends, and I 97 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 3: love it because it's not a difficult course like it's 98 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 3: It always keeps him engaged, right and it's working on, 99 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 3: you know, parts of his game that he you know, 100 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:22,359 Speaker 3: needs to work on, but just to be able to 101 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 3: walk and talk, you know, from hole to hole. It's 102 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 3: a lot of fun. And it's time that I just 103 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 3: want to cherish right now, you know, because when he's 104 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 3: got five years left, which seems like a lot, but 105 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 3: I mean, you know how fast things go, right and like, 106 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,280 Speaker 3: and I just want to be able to to make 107 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 3: the most of those those years that I have left 108 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,239 Speaker 3: with him before he goes off to college. 109 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: Any interest in punting or kicking. 110 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, we fool around in the front yard. So he's 111 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 3: he's he's natural. He's got longer legs, so I think 112 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,160 Speaker 3: that'll cater more towards punning. And I think he's a 113 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 3: little bit more interested in punning. But his thing is 114 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 3: he's growing so fast that his foot his foot size 115 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 3: is growing as well, and for the size football that 116 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 3: they would kick, it's just kind of it's it's difficult 117 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 3: for him, but but it works out well for punting. 118 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean I give him. 119 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 3: I give him pointers here and there, and sometimes they're 120 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 3: taking well and other times it's the dad, come on, 121 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 3: like I got a dad. 122 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, welcome to being a dead right. Yeah. 123 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 3: I just hope I don't have to send him to 124 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 3: a camp to learn punting when you know, you know, 125 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 3: he's got a pretty good resource in his home. So 126 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 3: but we'll see how that goes. 127 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: So my neighborhood, I had my son out one day 128 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: and we were working on punting and at the time, 129 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 1: Craig hentricklifted in the back of my neighborhood. 130 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 2: That's good, that's good. 131 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: It was well, it was it was really great. So 132 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: so Craig comes by one day. Matthew's probably ten or eleven, 133 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: and Craig just pulls over. He says, show me one 134 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 1: and so he hits one. He's like, Okay, try this, 135 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: and it was something that I had just shown Matthew 136 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: not five minutes before, which he of course had not 137 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: listened to at all. And Matthew did exactly what Craig 138 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: told him and then hit a spyroll that went you know, 139 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: twenty five or thirty yards, which was a really good kick. 140 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: And Craig gets back in the truck and says, okay, 141 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: see layer. Thanks, And so it was so Craig, it 142 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: was so underwhelming. He's like, hey, try I mean he 143 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: said like six words, right, but it was Craig Hentrick. 144 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: And so my son was like, that's Greg Hendrick. And 145 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: that was one of the neat things for my kids 146 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: growing up around the team is they have all these 147 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: pictures where Javon Kurse palmed their heads, you know, with 148 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: his massive hands. Albert Hainsworth had him in bear hugs, 149 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: and you know, Carrie Collins was doing stuff with him. 150 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just what a what a blessed way 151 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: for them to to grow up so fun. I think 152 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: they thought everybody was. 153 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 3: Like that, right, Yeah, well, I mean that's you know, 154 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 3: when you know, for Bryce to be able to go 155 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 3: on the field after games or in the locker room. 156 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 2: Pro Bowl. 157 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's you know in the Pro Bowl, 158 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 3: you know, playing catch with Lamar Jackson and it's you know, 159 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 3: mark Ingram's trying to trying to teach him a dance, 160 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,679 Speaker 3: and you know, it's you know, being being able to 161 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 3: hang out with Mahomes and some of those guys and 162 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 3: just play catch with. 163 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:41,559 Speaker 2: Them, and uh yeah, I mean it's it's been. It's 164 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 2: been a huge blessing. 165 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 3: I mean, you got, you know, kids that obviously look 166 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 3: up to Derrick Henry and you know, Kevin Buyer, some 167 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 3: of the you know, Jeffrey, the guys on the team 168 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 3: that are just phenomenal role models. 169 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 2: Right. 170 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 3: And I always tell people, you know, don't buy a 171 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 3: jersey unless of somebody, unless you know they're somebody that 172 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 3: you want to you know, have their last name that 173 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 3: you're representing. And uh, you know, thankfully the Titians have 174 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 3: a lot of those guys, right. But you know, but 175 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 3: Bryce and Derek are you know, buddies rights and so 176 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 3: it's sometimes sometimes you got. 177 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 2: To pinch yourself, you know. 178 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 3: Sometimes even through my whole career, I've just been you know, 179 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 3: to go in when I was in Denver and John 180 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 3: Lynch was the locker across her mind, right, And I 181 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 3: just remember thinking, this is this is John Lynch, right, 182 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:38,719 Speaker 3: and Brian Dawkins was, you know, two lockers down to. 183 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 2: The left Kriton. 184 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all throughout the years that the guys have 185 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 3: been able to play with and you know, to be 186 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 3: in a locker room with Randy Moss and you know, 187 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 3: that's it's been a huge blessing. 188 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: Who was the most excited guy? Who was the guy 189 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 1: you were most excited to me? Excited to me or 190 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: that floored you the most? 191 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,440 Speaker 3: Well, probably Randy, Yeah, because I had a Randy Moss 192 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 3: Vikings Jersey growing up, right and so and and I 193 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 3: remember I was on the verge of my agent and 194 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 3: the Titans were talking about an extension because I was 195 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,439 Speaker 3: right on that that cusp of hey, we can get 196 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 3: him locked up. 197 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: For four years, three four years, maybe five whatever. 198 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 3: It was that that that my agent the Titans were 199 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 3: talking to and uh, you know, it didn't happen for 200 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 3: two three weeks, and which is not the easiest thing 201 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 3: to do during the season. I definitely wouldn't recommend that 202 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 3: to any youngster out there, but uh, but the Titans 203 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 3: called my agent and said, hey, we're gonna have to 204 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 3: put this this deal on hold till after the season 205 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 3: because we're we're signing Randy Moss. And my agent calls 206 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 3: me and he tells me, and I remember being frustrated 207 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 3: for about five right, and then I thought, well, wait 208 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:04,439 Speaker 3: a second, We're signing Randy Moss. This is somebody that 209 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 3: I've looked up to, you know, since I was in 210 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,439 Speaker 3: high school when he came to the league and seeing 211 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 3: how he played. 212 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 2: And now I'm gonna be a teammate with Randy Moss. 213 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: Uh. 214 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 3: And so I was okay with that, and it ended 215 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 3: up being as advertised and. 216 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 2: Heck of a teammate. And there's always always like story. 217 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 3: Time by Randy's locker, you know, before practice, after practice, 218 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 3: you just tell stories. So it's uh, Randy Moss is 219 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 3: definitely that's definitely a tough one. 220 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: I got a call during a funeral that we were 221 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: signing in. I'm sitting in a funeral. Wow. And I 222 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:46,719 Speaker 1: don't usually bring my phone into things like that, Right, 223 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: You're always afraid your. 224 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 3: Phone as much as you try to how many times 225 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 3: you check too, right? 226 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:56,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I don't bring it into church, and I 227 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: try not to bring it into like weddings or funerals 228 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: or anything, right, cool performance or anything important. Right, So 229 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 1: I had it in my coat and I didn't realize it, 230 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: and then it was just like buzzing. And this was 231 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 1: twenty ten, right, and so the buzz wasn't terribly subtle 232 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: at that time. It's like, you know, and so it 233 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: wasn't ringing, but it just kept going off. And so 234 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and and of course I'm not answering it, 235 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 1: but it just keeps going off. And then we're in 236 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: like the receiving line to give condolences and get up 237 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: to the folks, and it's umb like, oh gosh, this 238 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: is so embarrassing. It's so I get outside and you 239 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: know they've you know, I could have gotten a text 240 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: message at the time, but everybody at that point still called. 241 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: It's like nobody calls on the phone anymore. 242 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 2: Now was that still? 243 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: Now? 244 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:58,319 Speaker 3: That wasn't When did it switch? Where your text messaging? 245 00:12:58,360 --> 00:12:59,959 Speaker 3: Because I remember you had to pay like five. 246 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: To you did you did? 247 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 3: No? 248 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: This is twenty ten, So but we're in that spot 249 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: where later we're so I walk outside, I tell my wife, 250 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:09,839 Speaker 1: I said, I got to go outside and to see 251 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: what this is. And so I listened to the voicemail 252 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: We're signing Randy Moss, and we had to do a 253 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: live hit. I'm standing in the parking lot under an underhang, 254 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: it's pouring rain, and I'm doing an interview because this 255 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: is a huge deal. It's Randy Moss. And you know, 256 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: at that point in the twenty ten season, we're still 257 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: in it. Yeah, you know, because that was the year 258 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: we started five and two and then ended up six 259 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 1: and ten and everything kind of went crazy down the stretch. 260 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: But we added him and you're thinking, Okay, this is 261 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: going to be great. And he was so different than 262 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: when he was being recruited. He's one of the most 263 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: bizarre recruits recovered. And I didn't have the primary role 264 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: for my for the radio station. Another friend of mine, 265 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: Brent Hubbs, dealt with him more. But he was bizarre, 266 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 1: just completely baffling, and I think, now, maybe he was 267 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: just messing with people, Yeah, I think so, yeah, yeah, 268 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 1: But then he ends up being almost positively delightful what 269 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: he was here. And then you know, he's great on TV. 270 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 2: He's great on TV. 271 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, and we still I mean, you know, I took 272 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 3: Bryce down to the Super Bowl when Ryan Sucker was 273 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 3: playing in it, and we drove out you know because 274 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 3: Matt hasseback is on that the countdown as well. Yeah, 275 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 3: so we I was texting Matt he said, hey, come 276 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 3: out to the to the beach, that's where we're at. 277 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 3: And so we drove out there and got to see 278 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 3: the set and uh, you know, anytime I see Randy 279 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 3: he's always been uh so nice and friendly and smart man. 280 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 3: Smart guy, Yeah, very smart and yeah, he's it was 281 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 3: fun to be around it. I wish it was for longer. 282 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 3: But yeah, what a what a teammate. 283 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: You ever counted up how many different teammates you had? 284 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 1: You know? 285 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 3: My wife thought, uh, you know, playing with with FITZI 286 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 3: you know what he did, Remember how he listed every 287 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 3: teammate that he played with, and and I thought about 288 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 3: doing that. 289 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 2: I just didn't. I just didn't know where to start. 290 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 2: I didn't know where to start. 291 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 3: But it's a lot, it's a lot of really good 292 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 3: guys that I've been able to play with, a lot 293 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 3: of guys I've been able to get close with. 294 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 1: Where does Ryan Fitzpatrick rank on your list of characters that. 295 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 3: You Yeah, he's in that. Uh, Matt Castle Ryan Fitzpatrick. 296 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 3: It's like this this category of guys that are just 297 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 3: they're smart, uh, very witty and. 298 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 2: Extremely funny and quick like Ryan was. His humor is 299 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 2: it's quick. Uh. 300 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 3: And so you felt like if you got into some 301 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 3: type of I don't want to say argument, but you 302 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 3: know the jabs right that happened in the locker room, 303 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 3: you were gonna win because he was so quick and 304 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 3: witty with it. That had just left you kind of 305 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 3: and I don't I really don't know. 306 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 2: How to respond to that. 307 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 3: I don't know what to say while you're while you're 308 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 3: laughing hysterically as he made fun of you. 309 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 2: Right, But you rank Matt Castle in there too, Yeah, 310 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 2: Matt's up there. 311 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have thought of that. 312 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, yep. 313 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 1: Well he's certainly a bright guy who had a really 314 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: good career too. 315 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 2: He played for a really long time too. Yeah. 316 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 3: I've I've been I've been really fortunate, blessed with that row, 317 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 3: you know, that kind of that quarterback row that I've 318 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 3: been a part of, uh, you know, with with Marcus 319 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 3: and uh, you know, Marcus is. 320 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,199 Speaker 2: You know, one of my favorite teammates I've ever played with. 321 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 3: But that some of those quarterbacks that have come through 322 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 3: have been I shoot, I remember being next to Carrie 323 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 3: Collins and how awesome he was to be around. And 324 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 3: you know, I had Craig on one side and Carrie 325 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 3: on the other side. And and you know, after I 326 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 3: got cut in Denver, to be able to come here 327 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 3: and to have those two guys Craig to your left 328 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 3: and and Carrie on your right, was I mean that 329 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 3: alone right there helped me kind of recover and bounce 330 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 3: back from you know, from getting cut and those two guys. 331 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:44,679 Speaker 3: To be around those two guys for as young as 332 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 3: I was, and to be able to pick their brain 333 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 3: and talk and what's like what you said earlier, Craig, 334 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 3: it was just he would come out to practice and 335 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 3: you know, I'd hit three or four balls in a 336 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 3: row that I didn't like, and he would just say, hey, 337 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:56,920 Speaker 3: why don't you, hey, move your drop inside an itch. 338 00:17:58,200 --> 00:17:59,880 Speaker 3: You know he's back there, and I'm thinking, I didn't 339 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 3: even know he was really paying attention that much. And okay, yeah, 340 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 3: you got it. Craig and I do it man four 341 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 3: in a row, five in a row, and I would 342 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 3: look back at Craig would be gone, he'd be headed 343 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 3: back to the training room just you know, he didn't 344 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 3: say much, but you know his advice was. 345 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 2: It was just so on the point. 346 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 1: But he never wanted anything, No, he didn't. 347 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 3: He just wanted to give his opinion and what he 348 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 3: thought and he. 349 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:26,640 Speaker 2: Was right and off he went. 350 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 3: He you know, he didn't need the attention, he didn't 351 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:32,160 Speaker 3: need they thank you so much. 352 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 2: I appreciate it. 353 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 3: I mean he would he would stop you before he 354 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 3: even got started to compliment him. 355 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: How lucky was Rob Baroni's that he had Craig Hendrick 356 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: when he made the Titans, when he became an NFL kicker. 357 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, I you know, I've had a lot of conversations 358 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,479 Speaker 3: with guys over over the years that I played, and 359 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:58,360 Speaker 3: you know, with kickers, and just how important holding is 360 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:03,639 Speaker 3: and how important you know your your holder is as 361 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 3: a person because the things, the things that you say, 362 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 3: you're kind of like, you know, suck up. And I 363 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 3: always used to talk about like, I mean, he's the golfer, 364 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 3: right and right, and the holder is the caddy. 365 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:17,959 Speaker 2: Right, the golfer is the one that's going to get 366 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 2: all the attention. Look at that. 367 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 3: Shot, Look what you did, But the work kind of 368 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:25,439 Speaker 3: leading up to it you know the caddy is just 369 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 3: as important, right, sure, So. 370 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: It's great in golf. Now they are giving us those 371 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: conversations more on TV. Yeah, it's fascinating. 372 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 3: It is fascinating and just to see really how much 373 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 3: detail goes into every shot. 374 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:41,679 Speaker 1: More of our conversation with Brett Kern coming up. But 375 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: we remind you that Titans fans, it's always game on 376 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: with Duncan, so grab a coffee kick off the action. 377 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:49,959 Speaker 1: Whether that's drinking a cup of coffee on your way 378 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,719 Speaker 1: to the game or grabbing one to go before watching 379 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: the game at home. Duncan is always there to help 380 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: you get your game on. Just like the pros. We 381 00:19:58,040 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: need to be at our best come game time, which 382 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:03,120 Speaker 1: is why Duncan is the most important part of your 383 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 1: pregame ritual because it's always the best call for football 384 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: America runs on Duncan. Now here's more of my conversation 385 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: on the way to Manchester and Jiffy Berger with Brett 386 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 1: Kerr on the OTP. 387 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 3: Because there's I mean, there's so much. It's such a finite, 388 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 3: you know, a shot here or there. I mean it's 389 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 3: just like a football game, right to play here and 390 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,119 Speaker 3: play there. Can cast you a ballgame, well, you know, 391 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:29,679 Speaker 3: a shot here, shot there, throughout a. 392 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 2: Tournament, and you know, you go from. 393 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,880 Speaker 3: Winning a tournament to you know, now you're now you're 394 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 3: not even top ten and and all that kind of 395 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 3: stuff that goes along with it. But yeah, I mean 396 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 3: for for Rob to have Craig not only as a person, 397 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 3: right for Rob coming in the league. Anytime you can 398 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 3: get just a veteran leader, and I know there's a 399 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 3: couple of times here, you know in Tennessee where we 400 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 3: had some young guys in that would you know, they're 401 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 3: gonna battle it out. They're gonna let them, you know, 402 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 3: battle out to see who can do it right. And 403 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 3: you know, I just felt like it was part of 404 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:06,680 Speaker 3: my responsibility to help them out mentally and really take 405 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 3: a lot of the pressure off of them, you know, 406 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 3: as far as holding, like, hey, I'm going to be 407 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 3: as consistent as I can be, and I'm going to 408 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 3: help you out as much as I can so that 409 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 3: you don't even have to think about all that, because 410 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 3: there are there are times where you know the holding 411 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:24,160 Speaker 3: is not great, and sometimes you get a veteran kicker 412 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 3: that gets a young punter in there and they don't 413 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:28,919 Speaker 3: understand the finite details. 414 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 2: Well, then that's something else that the kicker now has 415 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 2: to think about, right on top of everything else that's 416 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 2: going on. 417 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 3: And if you can just go out there and just 418 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 3: know just hey, all I have to worry about is 419 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 3: just kicking it through these yellow things, right and getting 420 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,400 Speaker 3: three points or an extra point, it makes their job 421 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 3: a lot easier. 422 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: So when you were suck ups Caddy at Kansas City 423 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:52,439 Speaker 1: at twenty sixteen, when he hit the kick at the 424 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 1: end of the ball game, So what are you telling 425 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 1: him leading up to that? I've always wanted to know that. 426 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's the hard part. Was is that 427 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 2: in warm ups, I don't know if Ryan got past 428 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 2: forty two? 429 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,719 Speaker 1: He did, right, Yeah, So I thought I had him 430 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: because I watch to get engage. I thought I had 431 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:22,679 Speaker 1: him at like forty seven, maybe barely kind of sort of. 432 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 1: I mean he went anywhere near. 433 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 3: Fifty, right, because Dustin and I I remember Dustin Colquitt 434 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 3: and I talked to warm ups and punting that I 435 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 3: don't think I got a ball over forty five rude, right, 436 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 3: And he hit one that was fifty, but it was 437 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 3: I mean, nothing looked like an Aaron Rodgers Kilbarry. It 438 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 3: didn't even you know, barely got off the ground. And 439 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 3: so so I remember Ryan and the warm ups and 440 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:46,679 Speaker 3: he was just he's like he's like, Bret, I think 441 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 3: an extra points even gonna be, you know, a call. 442 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 2: Task in this game. And because the ball, I mean 443 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 2: it was so cold and that ball was so hard 444 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 2: that the sweet spot just shrunk and you had to 445 00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 2: hit it perfectly on top of your body. 446 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 3: Just you know, you can only be by the heater 447 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 3: so much because if you're by the heater then all 448 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 3: of a sudden, your muscles are staying really really lose, 449 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 3: and then when you go to the cold, it's. 450 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 2: Just it's not it's not great. 451 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 3: But I just remember us talking, and you know the 452 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 3: thing is is, you know, you get that far back, 453 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 3: you know, to get a little extra distance, sometimes you 454 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 3: can lean the ball forward, right, but in doing that, 455 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 3: it lowers your trajectory, and so there's kind of a 456 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 3: finite the detail of what's too much, what's not enough. 457 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 3: I mean, if you want to hold it straight up 458 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 3: and down, you know, So we kind of had that 459 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 3: conversation and you know, if anything, we just we just 460 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 3: kind of kept it a little bit straighter than normal 461 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 3: for him, just so he can maybe get a little 462 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:49,399 Speaker 3: bit more of a draw to maybe try to get 463 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 3: an extra rd or two. And I just remember jogging 464 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:57,640 Speaker 3: out there thinking, how I cannot believe we're attempting this thing, 465 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 3: but we have no other option, no, right, So he 466 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 3: got that first crack at it, and it was short, 467 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,680 Speaker 3: barely I don't you know. From my view, it looked 468 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,719 Speaker 3: like he barely missed it. I'm not sure what your 469 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:09,639 Speaker 3: view was, but. 470 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. It was apparent when he hit 471 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:14,399 Speaker 1: it wasn't gonna. 472 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:15,159 Speaker 2: Have enough, Okay. 473 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 1: I mean you could sometimes you can see from where 474 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: we are right and where our booth was a great angle. 475 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,880 Speaker 1: We were closer to that yard line than the other 476 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,400 Speaker 1: side of the field, right. And so when it came 477 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 1: off his foot and Andy Reid had called the time out, 478 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,640 Speaker 1: You're like, well, did he not hit it as hard 479 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: as he could because of the time out? Or I 480 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 1: think he took a full swing though, didn't he? 481 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 3: I think he did too. But I also know I 482 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 3: know with Ryan that he really really goes after it. 483 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,680 Speaker 3: He tends to hook it and he'll miss it left. 484 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 3: And so I think there was in his mind, Okay, 485 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 3: I know, I have to go after this really hard. 486 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 2: But if I do, you know what, I at least 487 00:24:57,960 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 2: want to. 488 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 3: Give it a chance, right, And so I mean he 489 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 3: he gave it all he had and it was straight 490 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 3: as an arrow, and then they called the time out 491 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 3: and I just remember him bending over and retying his 492 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:13,120 Speaker 3: kicking chew and he's like, well, he's well, I better 493 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 3: get this all I got. I said, Ryan, you better, 494 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 3: you better get this all you got, buddy. And then 495 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 3: the next one he just he smoked it and it 496 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 3: went in and he went right to the chief's bench 497 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 3: to celebrate. 498 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 2: And I'm not sure if that was kind of a hey, 499 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 2: you know, I played here for a long time. This 500 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 2: is you know, he's had some. 501 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 3: Game winners before in chief uniforms, right, But or if 502 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 3: it was more or less like you know, we called 503 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 3: him the Chief Killer. 504 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,120 Speaker 2: He did it because that's what he that's what he does. 505 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,919 Speaker 3: I remember his first game as a Titan, opened up 506 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,120 Speaker 3: an arrowhead and he went like four four, five for five, right, 507 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 3: and you know we won the game. 508 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 2: The rest of that season is something not to talk about. 509 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 3: But you know when he started one, started one and 510 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 3: oh he's Chief Killer and he did it in the 511 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:04,360 Speaker 3: Super Bowl. He did it in twenty sixteen, and that's 512 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 3: that's something I'll never. 513 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 2: Never, ever forget. 514 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 1: One of my favorite guys I ever covered, Bryan Suckham. Yeah, 515 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: quality human being, one of the nicest guys you'll meet, 516 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 1: I mean, but a true professional. Talk to you after 517 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 1: he hit him, talk to you after he missed him. 518 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:24,679 Speaker 1: Understood everybody had a job to do. One of my 519 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: big thrills was getting to see him when we practiced 520 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 1: against Tampa in twenty twenty one down there and to 521 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 1: just congratulate him on being a Super Bowl champion. You 522 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 1: know those guys who go other places. I mean, we 523 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: certainly want to win one desperately, right, but you're happy 524 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,120 Speaker 1: for those people who do it the right way. 525 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 2: And that's h. 526 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,400 Speaker 3: I think that's why you know, Bryce and I drove 527 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 3: down there is I just didn't want to miss that. 528 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 2: You know, he's. 529 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 3: We were brought together through football, but obviously we're brothers, 530 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 3: you know, for life outside of that. That's something that 531 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 3: you want to be there for. 532 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 1: So I was. 533 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,120 Speaker 2: Excited for him to win a super Bowl. 534 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 3: And I remember the conversation that we had his training 535 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,200 Speaker 3: camp and he was like he was down in Tampa. 536 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 2: He's like, man, I got this workout down here. 537 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 3: I just don't know. I just don't know if I 538 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 3: should do it. I don't know if you should sign here. 539 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 3: And it's like, dude, you're with Tom Brady, Like you 540 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 3: got a chance. I mean, what do you what do 541 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 3: you have to lose? 542 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 2: Right? 543 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 3: So, and so that's worked out worked. 544 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 2: Out well for him. 545 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: Yeah he did Okay, Yeah, he. 546 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 3: Did heck of her career because one of the most 547 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 3: accurate guys that I've seen. He'd be one of those 548 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,239 Speaker 3: guys where you tell him forty yards you know, I 549 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 3: want you to aim and hit this crossbar or this 550 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:47,879 Speaker 3: field goal post. 551 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 2: Every time. 552 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 3: He's gonna he's gonna hit it. So sometimes it almost 553 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 3: became boring. It was just so straight and just down 554 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 3: the middle. And he's like, why why are we even 555 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 3: ran Like you're gonna put it right down the middle 556 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 3: every time? 557 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 2: Can we just can we just move on and do 558 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 2: something else? 559 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 1: But were you surprised he came to your retirement announcement? 560 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:17,159 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we're I was just thankful that he 561 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 3: was able to come. I knew he was I knew 562 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 3: if he could come that he was gonna be there, 563 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 3: you know, for Bo to fly in obviously Morgan to come. 564 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 3: You know, they've met a lot because those those three 565 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 3: guys right there are you know, my my favorite teammates 566 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 3: really have altership and guys that I've gotten they're they're 567 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 3: guys that are they're just more than teammates, you know, 568 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 3: hang out his families and we're just we're just close. 569 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 3: And so for the three of them to be there, 570 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 3: you know, it meant a lot. 571 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:58,960 Speaker 1: What you probably by the way that they couldn't have 572 00:28:58,960 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: gone any better. 573 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, you I see, you're not the sling anymore either, 574 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 3: which is healthy. You're healthy, healthy, training staff got you, 575 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 3: got it going, got. 576 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: You through, good rehair, gotta be ready for Hey. Availability, availability, 577 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: that's what they say. That's that's what the you know, 578 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: you walk into the training room and that's the best 579 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 1: the best availability is Hey, we we lived that too. 580 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 1: I mean, when you get the opportunity to work for 581 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 1: an NFL team, you know, there aren't a lot of 582 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: people that are lucky enough to get to do that, 583 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 1: So yeah, you don't miss stuff. 584 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 2: Availability is the best, the ability, I. 585 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 1: Think that's what it says. 586 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,959 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of a lot of scenes up 587 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 2: in the building. 588 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 3: I haven't written down in a notebook I do because 589 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 3: you never you never know, or you never knew when 590 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 3: Frabel was gonna either show a teammate on the board 591 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 3: and ask, hey, who's who's this teammate? 592 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 2: Right? 593 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 3: And of course it was great because it was like 594 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 3: a high school throwback or a college throwback, and it 595 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 3: was it was pretty use. Yeah, you know, Stretch would 596 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 3: find these pictures that were just gold. Right, But you 597 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 3: never knew when he was gonna ask a question of 598 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 3: what does it say in the training room or what 599 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 3: does it say outside the locker room? Line for right? 600 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 3: And there might be five lines, and you have what's 601 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 3: line for well. I think I had one, two and 602 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 3: three memorized, but four and five were a little sketching. 603 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 2: Yes, So I just remember. 604 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: When he came. 605 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 3: When he came in twenty eighteen, he started doing that 606 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 3: and I just thought to myself, I better go around 607 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 3: the building and write this stuff. Now. 608 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 2: I don't know if he'll ever call me right. I 609 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 2: went through Rotadel down and I think I still have 610 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 2: the notebook in my office at the house. 611 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 1: And that's so Greaty. 612 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,520 Speaker 3: Nerves, you got nervous during team meetings. Yeah, Like I 613 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 3: started special teams meetings totally fine. 614 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 2: I was obviously. 615 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 3: I knew all the calls, I knew all the returns, 616 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff, right, But you know team 617 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 3: meetings is when you started, you know, hands got a 618 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 3: little cold, started to sweat a little bit because I 619 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 3: mean you just did not know what he was gonna ask. 620 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: So, I mean you played for all of the Titans 621 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 1: head coaches. Fisher, I did, mind check, yeah, to wizen Hunt, 622 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: to Malarkey and out. 623 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 3: Of right, yeah I did. And it was each one 624 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 3: was you know, I kind of learned from from each 625 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 3: one kind of you know, the how they're how they taught, 626 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 3: how they their expectations, you know, kind of for each 627 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 3: coach you played for, you knew like when the next 628 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,480 Speaker 3: one came up, kind of what to expect and different 629 00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,960 Speaker 3: situations styles that they liked. Uh. 630 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: And it was hard. 631 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 3: I mean every time you got a new coach, you know, 632 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 3: you feel you have to you have to prove yourself 633 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 3: to somebody that you don't know. 634 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 2: Right. 635 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 3: My check was was a little bit easier because he 636 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 3: was under coach phisial staff, right, and so he'd seen you, 637 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 3: you know, he'd seen a lot of the guys that 638 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 3: were there. He saw me play before all that. But 639 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 3: you still have to still have to prove yourself, right, 640 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 3: You have to prove yourself every year, regardless if you 641 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 3: make a Pro Bowl or you know, obviously you maybe 642 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 3: maybe you don't have a great year. 643 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 2: And so. 644 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 3: Because I remember twenty sixteen year was I mean, I 645 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 3: didn't have a great year. It wasn't wasn't hit the 646 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 3: ball great, wasn't as consistent as consistent as I wanted to. 647 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 3: And I knew twenty seventeen had to be a really, 648 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 3: really good year, and thankfully it was, you know, the 649 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:49,400 Speaker 3: first Pro Bowl. 650 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 2: I went to. 651 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 1: But wut it's good. 652 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 2: It was a good bounce back. 653 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,600 Speaker 3: Yere right, But yeah, every time you get a new coach, 654 00:32:55,720 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 3: new GM, there's just that extra pressure to perform for 655 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 3: somebody that you don't I don't I don't know who 656 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 3: Ken Wizen it was. 657 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 2: I knew that he'd coached, but you know, he doesn't 658 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 2: know me. I don't know him. 659 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:12,959 Speaker 3: You have to go out there and improve yourself and 660 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 3: that could take that could take a lot out of 661 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,719 Speaker 3: you mentally and physically. And uh, you know, I remember 662 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 3: us chatting on the on the podcast you know, kind 663 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,240 Speaker 3: of about the biggest accomplishment, and I think to be 664 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 3: able to play for all the gms, all the coaches 665 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 3: that the types have had, Yeah, that's probably been my 666 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 3: biggest Yeah, that's probably the thing I'm probably most proud of. 667 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: Get that. What do you remember about when they let 668 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 1: wizend Hunt go at Malarkey but he came the head coach. 669 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 1: What do you remember about that week? 670 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember what game he got? Was it 671 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,480 Speaker 3: after the Texans? 672 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 2: Yeah? 673 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,640 Speaker 1: Because I give it set up on that So Jimmy 674 00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 1: Stanton is our director of mediate res or is over 675 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 1: all of our communications at the time, right, and we 676 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:11,759 Speaker 1: had wondered if if we lose this game, do they 677 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 1: make a change because it was in Houston's. 678 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 3: It's there's something about, well, well something about going to 679 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,919 Speaker 3: Houston though, Like I remember Coach Fisher and Coach Munch 680 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,720 Speaker 3: really preaching about and we're going to Houston. 681 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:24,040 Speaker 2: Do you know what this means? 682 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, dark, I don't know. Every player needs to understand that. 683 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:32,320 Speaker 1: To our ownership, the Houston game is significant. We played 684 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:36,240 Speaker 1: particularly poorly in that game. Marcus took a beating. 685 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:37,000 Speaker 2: YEP. 686 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,960 Speaker 1: So Jimmy gets on the plane and since his seat 687 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,719 Speaker 1: is next to mine, and I said, so, what do 688 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,040 Speaker 1: you think He goes, he gayes, I don't think any 689 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,920 Speaker 1: decisions been made. So normally, if you're going to fire 690 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:51,960 Speaker 1: a coach in season, you fire the coach on Monday, 691 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:56,480 Speaker 1: right and they you know, we get to Monday and 692 00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,799 Speaker 1: I walked by Jimmy's office Monday morning. He goes, I'm 693 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,399 Speaker 1: not hearing anything. And the reason we're talking about it 694 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:03,920 Speaker 1: is we have TV shows to do. 695 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:05,719 Speaker 2: It's the radio show. 696 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,520 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you got a lot, but the Monday 697 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,719 Speaker 1: night radio shows one thing. But we have to put 698 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,440 Speaker 1: out TV shows for later in the week, and we 699 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 1: have to shoot them early in the week because if 700 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,879 Speaker 1: we're in a situation where somebody's going to get fired, 701 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,719 Speaker 1: you don't want to send out a show with somebody 702 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,680 Speaker 1: in the show who's not there by the time the 703 00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: show airs. So we're going to film Titans All Access 704 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,879 Speaker 1: Monday afternoon. And I looked at Jimmy again. He goes, 705 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,640 Speaker 1: he said, I think there's some talk, but he goes, 706 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:46,680 Speaker 1: I don't know. And so we go film the show. Well, 707 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:51,480 Speaker 1: Rustin Webster is our general manager, and we do this 708 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:56,400 Speaker 1: late Monday afternoon, five o'clock and we film his segment 709 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 1: and he says, walk outside with me here for a 710 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,879 Speaker 1: second week. Okay, the segment was great. I was hoping 711 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 1: I didn't ask a question that he didn't like, right, 712 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,080 Speaker 1: He said, I just got the call before I walked 713 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,640 Speaker 1: in here. We're making a change first thing in the morning, 714 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:20,880 Speaker 1: and ownership. Amy Adamstrong wanted to take the day to 715 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:24,120 Speaker 1: not be emotional because of the Houston game and to 716 00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:27,520 Speaker 1: take but it says a lot about who she is, 717 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,240 Speaker 1: you know, because she knew she she knew she wasn't 718 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:35,080 Speaker 1: making the decision for the New Orleans game that Sunday, 719 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,719 Speaker 1: she was making a decision for the whole franchise, right, 720 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,919 Speaker 1: And he said, we are. We're making a change first 721 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 1: thing in the morning. He said, I just wanted you 722 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,520 Speaker 1: to know that. So I have to walk back in 723 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,440 Speaker 1: and film the rest of this show that I know 724 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,360 Speaker 1: is not gonna air, that we're gonna have to go 725 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,880 Speaker 1: back and reshoot it. And I can't tell anybody, because 726 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:02,520 Speaker 1: you know, that's that's one of the areas, right. I 727 00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:08,240 Speaker 1: very rarely know things because honestly, Brett, I don't ask. 728 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:13,520 Speaker 1: It's easier not to know because when somebody asks you 729 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,560 Speaker 1: you can say truthfully, right, I don't know because I'm 730 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 1: not interested in lying to anybody. 731 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:18,440 Speaker 2: Right. 732 00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:25,560 Speaker 1: And so Tuesday morning comes down and they call wizen 733 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,360 Speaker 1: Hunt in at eight o'clock and he's fired then, and 734 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,799 Speaker 1: we think it's gonna be malarkey as the interim coach, 735 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,359 Speaker 1: but quite frankly, if you don't know if he's gonna 736 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:34,719 Speaker 1: take it. 737 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:35,759 Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that. 738 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,359 Speaker 1: So then you pick up the story from there from 739 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:39,480 Speaker 1: the players perspective. 740 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:40,719 Speaker 2: Yeah, I just. 741 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,000 Speaker 3: You know, like I said earlier about the Houston, like, 742 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 3: you know, obviously, you know you have to perform every 743 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,319 Speaker 3: Sunday that that's just part of your job. 744 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:55,360 Speaker 2: But there's something extra when you go down to Houston. 745 00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,719 Speaker 3: This and I really didn't understand it the first year 746 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 3: or two, and then it finally you know, it's like, yeah, 747 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,279 Speaker 3: this is this is a very very important game. It's 748 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,160 Speaker 3: a thing regardless of what your record is, like, this 749 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:14,799 Speaker 3: is important. And so and we lost bad, really bad, 750 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,040 Speaker 3: and so guys were kind of talking like. 751 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,680 Speaker 2: Do is there gonna be a change? Do we need 752 00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:22,520 Speaker 2: to make a change? 753 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,799 Speaker 1: Oh? You thought that was possible at that point? 754 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:29,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, Because I mean I remember coach Fisher 755 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,400 Speaker 3: and Coach Munchek. They would always talk about, hey, if 756 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:36,400 Speaker 3: we don't if we don't perform down here in Houston, 757 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,839 Speaker 3: there's gonna be a change made in some way, shape 758 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,400 Speaker 3: or form, right right, So you didn't know, probably not 759 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,880 Speaker 3: coaching maybe, but whoever maybe didn't play well, whoever to 760 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:50,520 Speaker 3: perform like, you're probably gonna get cut, right, And so 761 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,080 Speaker 3: the guys that have been there, that had been through 762 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,560 Speaker 3: the transition, they understood that. 763 00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:00,160 Speaker 2: And so guys thought, well, it could be some play. 764 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,280 Speaker 3: You know, things with with coach Whiz aren't really going 765 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,880 Speaker 3: how we thought they would or how how they probably should. 766 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,000 Speaker 3: That's pretty crazy to make a change right now. There's 767 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,040 Speaker 3: just all kinds of thoughts. And then nothing happened Monday, 768 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:16,160 Speaker 3: and then we just. 769 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,040 Speaker 2: Okay, well let's let's just keep plugging along. 770 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,160 Speaker 3: Because you're in the building Monday, you're working out, you're 771 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,000 Speaker 3: doing all kinds of things for post game recovery and 772 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:25,680 Speaker 3: all that, and you don't really hear anything. And so 773 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:31,680 Speaker 3: for it to go down Tuesday, it was it's like, wow, okay, 774 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:35,120 Speaker 3: so who on the staff can take over? And I 775 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,160 Speaker 3: remember texting some guys and they were like, man. 776 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,040 Speaker 2: I hope it's coach Blarkie. Who's coach ble ARKI I 777 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:40,600 Speaker 2: think he would. 778 00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,920 Speaker 3: He's got experience, you know, I like I kind of 779 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,680 Speaker 3: like the way he conducts things, and you know, talk 780 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,000 Speaker 3: to the tight ends and they were all likely. 781 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:53,319 Speaker 2: I really hope it's him, right, So, uh found out 782 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:54,279 Speaker 2: it was him, and. 783 00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,400 Speaker 3: You know, to come back the following week, you know, 784 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,040 Speaker 3: and win how we did in overtime in New Orleans? 785 00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:07,279 Speaker 2: Right? Uh was it Fasano anthy? That was that? 786 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,200 Speaker 3: I remember celebrating and uh, I remember going down to 787 00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,560 Speaker 3: the end zone celebrating and it got a little too 788 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,880 Speaker 3: crowded for me because I remember thinking, if someone steps 789 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,799 Speaker 3: on my foot, I'm in trouble. So I did a 790 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:21,160 Speaker 3: couple of helmet taps and I remember just getting. 791 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:21,880 Speaker 2: Out of there quickly. 792 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:26,520 Speaker 3: So, but yeah, that's that's not an easy thing to 793 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,000 Speaker 3: go through coaching changes like that. 794 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,839 Speaker 2: So, uh, it just. 795 00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,200 Speaker 3: Puts there's already enough pressure to perform and to do 796 00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:38,000 Speaker 3: your job. Uh, you know every Sunday and when you 797 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,319 Speaker 3: throw on a coaching change, and you know that there's 798 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:45,160 Speaker 3: a little instab instability kind of going on, and and 799 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,879 Speaker 3: if you're willing to make a change with a head coach, right, 800 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,080 Speaker 3: you know, what does that tell you for the players, 801 00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:55,279 Speaker 3: And so yeah, that was that. That was a tough here. 802 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,440 Speaker 3: That was that was a tough, tough season. 803 00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,880 Speaker 1: Thanks so much to Brett Kerr for taking time with 804 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,440 Speaker 1: me to go to Jiffy Berger in Manchester and to 805 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,760 Speaker 1: share some good stories in the truck as he followed 806 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,799 Speaker 1: me through Tennessee. 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