WEBVTT - The OTP | Titans Great Brett Kern 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.800 Welcome to the OTP, presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:18.200 Go to FBHP dot com to learn more about Farm 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.639 Bureau Health plans seventy seven year history in Tennessee and 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.759 to get a quote today. That's FBHP dot com for 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.240 Farm Bureau Health Plans. Happy New Year everyone. Glad to 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.760 have you with us on the OTP and going to 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.400 share a really special conversation that I had with one 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.800 of the Titans greats in recent years. That's punter Brett Kern. 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:42.879 He was something else during his time with this football 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.240 team and means a lot to the people in the community. 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:47.919 And I got to take him as part of our 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:52.680 follow Me through Tennessee series to Manchester, Tennessee and Jiffy 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:57.279 Berger where I had the Bonneruberger. That's another story. If 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.760 you've never been to Jeffy Berger, you must go. And 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.319 if you like something crazy, the bonn U Burger outstanding, 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:08.280 the fry's outstanding. Everything they do at Jiffy Berger is phenomenal. 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.160 Tell them we sent you when you go by, and 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.640 I have a feeling they'll take extra good care of you. 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.960 But as we rode down in my truck, I got 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.760 a chance to talk with Brett Kern at length about 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:23.720 his career. He told some funny stories, and we wanted 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.640 to share that entire conversation with you on the OTP. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.720 So here's Titan's Great Brett Kern on the road, following 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.679 me through Tennessee to Jiffy Berger in Manchester on the OTP. 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.960 I know you're just starting it, But how's retirement going. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.840 It's going great? You know. 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:45.200 I kind of had in my mind, you know, up 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:50.120 in Philly, just experiencing being away from family, and yeah, 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:55.120 I'm a man of rhythm and routine, and you know, 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.680 you could probably call my wife on a Wednesday at 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.000 eleven o'clock and say, hey, what's Brett doing right now? 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:01.040 What she'd be able to tell you. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:01.320 Right. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:07.400 So, going up to Philly, great spot, great, great organization, 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.440 but everything was just it was different. You had a 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.040 new rhythm, new routine, things that I've been used to 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.400 for so long, for you know, thirteen years at Tennessee. Right, 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.920 it was just totally kind of flipped upside down. And 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.120 so I knew that if I wanted to keep playing football, 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.079 you know, I'd be in a different city. It wasn't 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.480 going to be at home in Nashville. And and so 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.840 that's when you know, I kind of started thinking about, 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:39.560 you know, being done, and you know, I'm also I 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.399 always told myself and you were to ask other guys 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.520 you know that I play with that the day that 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.960 I don't feel like I'm punting at the elite level 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.840 that I know I can punt, you know, it's kind 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:50.880 of the day that I need to be done because 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.360 I don't want to be out there just punting and 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:54.200 kind of surviving. 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.560 And if people know me for the. 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.799 Type of punts that I had and you know, the consistency, 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.400 if I'm not there, then you know it's time. It's 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:08.400 time to move on. So I think another big decision 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:13.080 for that was, you know, family. My kids are older, 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:17.639 you know, thirteen eleven seven, right, so they're the sports 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.200 all that kind of stuff, right, and I want to 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:21.600 be there for all of it. I want to start, 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:25.760 you know, coaching and helping out and you know, as 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.560 you know football, your weekends are kind of tied up 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:28.800 for half the year or so. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.639 It's funny because people always said to me, they say, 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:37.200 do you do you hunt or fish? And I tell them, no, 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.400 I don't do either, and oh, you don't like that 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.680 or you against that, It's like, no, no, no, it 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.320 doesn't have anything to do with that. It's right at 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.320 work weekends, right, I mean, you don't generally go out 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:51.720 Tuesday afternoon, you know, right, And so that's yeah, it 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:56.680 it is a life change because the commitment to anything 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.160 related to sports. And I tell college kids this too, 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.840 if you want to work in anything in sports, it's 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.400 gonna be nights and weekends, that's right. Yeah, And that's 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.760 the hardest part of it, really, right, because it's hard 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:10.400 on a family, it is. 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.640 And so yeah, you get to the point where it's 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:16.840 just I mean, if you were to ask me in college, hey, 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:18.760 you're going to play in the NFL for fifteen years, 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:22.440 I would have I mean I would have laughed and 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.840 I said, I mean, that will be unbelievable what that happens. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.400 But you know, I mean the chances, the percentages of 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:32.200 that happening is so slim, right, unbelievable. And so I've 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.440 been blessed for fifteen years and it's just just felt 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.440 like it was time to to hang him up and 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:39.960 just kind of see what the next chapter of life brings, 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.960 and more importantly, you know, just spending more time with 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:47.440 family and uh, you know, get the uh the coaching 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:48.760 hat on for for the kids. 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:49.000 You know. 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.520 So your son Bryce is thirteen, what sports is he 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:53.200 involved with? 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.040 H he's he's doing flag football. 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:01.360 I got him into golf and so we're we're trying 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:02.520 to play golf a little bit more. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:05.520 And honestly, you. 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.040 Know, we go we go over to the little course 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.760 there in Franklin, right right there by Legends, and I 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.360 love it because it's not a difficult course like it's 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.440 It always keeps him engaged, right and it's working on, 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.080 you know, parts of his game that he you know, 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.359 needs to work on, but just to be able to 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:27.680 walk and talk, you know, from hole to hole. It's 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.280 a lot of fun. And it's time that I just 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.680 want to cherish right now, you know, because when he's 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.159 got five years left, which seems like a lot, but 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.360 I mean, you know how fast things go, right and like, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.280 and I just want to be able to to make 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.680 the most of those those years that I have left 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.239 with him before he goes off to college. 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.000 Any interest in punting or kicking. 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.800 Yeah, we fool around in the front yard. So he's 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:57.760 he's he's natural. He's got longer legs, so I think 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.160 that'll cater more towards punning. And I think he's a 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.240 little bit more interested in punning. But his thing is 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.040 he's growing so fast that his foot his foot size 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.760 is growing as well, and for the size football that 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.719 they would kick, it's just kind of it's it's difficult 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.760 for him, but but it works out well for punting. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.560 So yeah, I mean I give him. 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.960 I give him pointers here and there, and sometimes they're 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.640 taking well and other times it's the dad, come on, 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:24.680 like I got a dad. 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:28.480 I'm like, okay, welcome to being a dead right. Yeah. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.880 I just hope I don't have to send him to 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.400 a camp to learn punting when you know, you know, 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.800 he's got a pretty good resource in his home. So 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:39.880 but we'll see how that goes. 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.200 So my neighborhood, I had my son out one day 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:47.720 and we were working on punting and at the time, 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:49.839 Craig hentricklifted in the back of my neighborhood. 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:50.920 That's good, that's good. 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.440 It was well, it was it was really great. So 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.880 so Craig comes by one day. Matthew's probably ten or eleven, 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:05.640 and Craig just pulls over. He says, show me one 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.720 and so he hits one. He's like, Okay, try this, 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.360 and it was something that I had just shown Matthew 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.960 not five minutes before, which he of course had not 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:19.480 listened to at all. And Matthew did exactly what Craig 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.640 told him and then hit a spyroll that went you know, 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.920 twenty five or thirty yards, which was a really good kick. 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.720 And Craig gets back in the truck and says, okay, 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:32.160 see layer. Thanks, And so it was so Craig, it 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.400 was so underwhelming. He's like, hey, try I mean he 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.920 said like six words, right, but it was Craig Hentrick. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.400 And so my son was like, that's Greg Hendrick. And 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.080 that was one of the neat things for my kids 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:48.720 growing up around the team is they have all these 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.960 pictures where Javon Kurse palmed their heads, you know, with 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.960 his massive hands. Albert Hainsworth had him in bear hugs, 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.560 and you know, Carrie Collins was doing stuff with him. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.760 I mean, it's just what a what a blessed way 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:07.600 for them to to grow up so fun. I think 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:08.800 they thought everybody was. 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.200 Like that, right, Yeah, well, I mean that's you know, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.400 when you know, for Bryce to be able to go 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.000 on the field after games or in the locker room. 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:18.520 Pro Bowl. 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.680 Yeah, I mean he's you know in the Pro Bowl, 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:26.520 you know, playing catch with Lamar Jackson and it's you know, 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:28.720 mark Ingram's trying to trying to teach him a dance, 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.679 and you know, it's you know, being being able to 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.240 hang out with Mahomes and some of those guys and 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:36.160 just play catch with. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:41.559 Them, and uh yeah, I mean it's it's been. It's 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:42.400 been a huge blessing. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:46.840 I mean, you got, you know, kids that obviously look 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.760 up to Derrick Henry and you know, Kevin Buyer, some 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.199 of the you know, Jeffrey, the guys on the team 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.640 that are just phenomenal role models. 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:53.880 Right. 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:58.480 And I always tell people, you know, don't buy a 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:02.280 jersey unless of somebody, unless you know they're somebody that 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.160 you want to you know, have their last name that 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.880 you're representing. And uh, you know, thankfully the Titians have 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.000 a lot of those guys, right. But you know, but 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:17.360 Bryce and Derek are you know, buddies rights and so 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.360 it's sometimes sometimes you got. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:21.040 To pinch yourself, you know. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:25.040 Sometimes even through my whole career, I've just been you know, 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.120 to go in when I was in Denver and John 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.640 Lynch was the locker across her mind, right, And I 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.880 just remember thinking, this is this is John Lynch, right, 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:38.719 and Brian Dawkins was, you know, two lockers down to. 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:39.640 The left Kriton. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.320 Yeah, it's all throughout the years that the guys have 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.160 been able to play with and you know, to be 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.760 in a locker room with Randy Moss and you know, 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.600 that's it's been a huge blessing. 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.560 Who was the most excited guy? Who was the guy 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:03.600 you were most excited to me? Excited to me or 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.120 that floored you the most? 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.440 Well, probably Randy, Yeah, because I had a Randy Moss 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:14.160 Vikings Jersey growing up, right and so and and I 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:18.680 remember I was on the verge of my agent and 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:22.120 the Titans were talking about an extension because I was 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.439 right on that that cusp of hey, we can get 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:26.160 him locked up. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.400 For four years, three four years, maybe five whatever. 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.520 It was that that that my agent the Titans were 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.880 talking to and uh, you know, it didn't happen for 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.240 two three weeks, and which is not the easiest thing 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.480 to do during the season. I definitely wouldn't recommend that 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:47.280 to any youngster out there, but uh, but the Titans 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.560 called my agent and said, hey, we're gonna have to 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.760 put this this deal on hold till after the season 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.520 because we're we're signing Randy Moss. And my agent calls 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.920 me and he tells me, and I remember being frustrated 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.040 for about five right, and then I thought, well, wait 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.439 a second, We're signing Randy Moss. This is somebody that 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.880 I've looked up to, you know, since I was in 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.439 high school when he came to the league and seeing 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:09.920 how he played. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.480 And now I'm gonna be a teammate with Randy Moss. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:13.520 Uh. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.840 And so I was okay with that, and it ended 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.600 up being as advertised and. 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.360 Heck of a teammate. And there's always always like story. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.360 Time by Randy's locker, you know, before practice, after practice, 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:33.120 you just tell stories. So it's uh, Randy Moss is 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.200 definitely that's definitely a tough one. 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.520 I got a call during a funeral that we were 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:43.400 signing in. I'm sitting in a funeral. Wow. And I 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.719 don't usually bring my phone into things like that, Right, 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:48.520 You're always afraid your. 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:52.880 Phone as much as you try to how many times 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:53.800 you check too, right? 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.679 Yeah, Yeah, I don't bring it into church, and I 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.200 try not to bring it into like weddings or funerals 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:03.080 or anything, right, cool performance or anything important. Right, So 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.800 I had it in my coat and I didn't realize it, 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.200 and then it was just like buzzing. And this was 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:12.840 twenty ten, right, and so the buzz wasn't terribly subtle 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.400 at that time. It's like, you know, and so it 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.760 wasn't ringing, but it just kept going off. And so 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:24.679 I'm sitting there and and of course I'm not answering it, 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.200 but it just keeps going off. And then we're in 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:34.280 like the receiving line to give condolences and get up 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.200 to the folks, and it's umb like, oh gosh, this 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:43.000 is so embarrassing. It's so I get outside and you 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:47.120 know they've you know, I could have gotten a text 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:51.240 message at the time, but everybody at that point still called. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:53.880 It's like nobody calls on the phone anymore. 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:55.240 Now was that still? 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:55.520 Now? 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.319 That wasn't When did it switch? Where your text messaging? 0:12:58.360 --> 0:12:59.959 Because I remember you had to pay like five. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.600 To you did you did? 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:01.760 No? 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.880 This is twenty ten, So but we're in that spot 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:08.640 where later we're so I walk outside, I tell my wife, 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:09.839 I said, I got to go outside and to see 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.040 what this is. And so I listened to the voicemail 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.600 We're signing Randy Moss, and we had to do a 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:22.720 live hit. I'm standing in the parking lot under an underhang, 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:28.280 it's pouring rain, and I'm doing an interview because this 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.520 is a huge deal. It's Randy Moss. And you know, 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.520 at that point in the twenty ten season, we're still 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.600 in it. Yeah, you know, because that was the year 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.880 we started five and two and then ended up six 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.560 and ten and everything kind of went crazy down the stretch. 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.640 But we added him and you're thinking, Okay, this is 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:54.160 going to be great. And he was so different than 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.640 when he was being recruited. He's one of the most 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:04.120 bizarre recruits recovered. And I didn't have the primary role 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.280 for my for the radio station. Another friend of mine, 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.160 Brent Hubbs, dealt with him more. But he was bizarre, 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.840 just completely baffling, and I think, now, maybe he was 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:20.360 just messing with people, Yeah, I think so, yeah, yeah, 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:25.440 But then he ends up being almost positively delightful what 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:29.080 he was here. And then you know, he's great on TV. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:29.800 He's great on TV. 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.840 Yeah, and we still I mean, you know, I took 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.640 Bryce down to the Super Bowl when Ryan Sucker was 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.480 playing in it, and we drove out you know because 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:44.560 Matt hasseback is on that the countdown as well. Yeah, 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.280 so we I was texting Matt he said, hey, come 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.160 out to the to the beach, that's where we're at. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.760 And so we drove out there and got to see 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.440 the set and uh, you know, anytime I see Randy 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:58.920 he's always been uh so nice and friendly and smart man. 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:05.240 Smart guy, Yeah, very smart and yeah, he's it was 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.200 fun to be around it. I wish it was for longer. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.400 But yeah, what a what a teammate. 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.600 You ever counted up how many different teammates you had? 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:15.880 You know? 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:20.000 My wife thought, uh, you know, playing with with FITZI 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.600 you know what he did, Remember how he listed every 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.640 teammate that he played with, and and I thought about 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:27.000 doing that. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.160 I just didn't. I just didn't know where to start. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:31.160 I didn't know where to start. 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.080 But it's a lot, it's a lot of really good 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.480 guys that I've been able to play with, a lot 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.880 of guys I've been able to get close with. 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:47.000 Where does Ryan Fitzpatrick rank on your list of characters that. 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:54.880 You Yeah, he's in that. Uh, Matt Castle Ryan Fitzpatrick. 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.880 It's like this this category of guys that are just 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:04.080 they're smart, uh, very witty and. 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.920 Extremely funny and quick like Ryan was. His humor is 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:12.640 it's quick. Uh. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.640 And so you felt like if you got into some 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:19.240 type of I don't want to say argument, but you 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.560 know the jabs right that happened in the locker room, 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.720 you were gonna win because he was so quick and 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:26.560 witty with it. That had just left you kind of 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:28.480 and I don't I really don't know. 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:29.240 How to respond to that. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.320 I don't know what to say while you're while you're 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.920 laughing hysterically as he made fun of you. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.400 Right, But you rank Matt Castle in there too, Yeah, 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:38.280 Matt's up there. 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:39.680 I wouldn't have thought of that. 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.640 Yeah, yep. 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.400 Well he's certainly a bright guy who had a really 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:45.200 good career too. 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.280 He played for a really long time too. Yeah. 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:53.120 I've I've been I've been really fortunate, blessed with that row, 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.320 you know, that kind of that quarterback row that I've 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.160 been a part of, uh, you know, with with Marcus 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.840 and uh, you know, Marcus is. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.199 You know, one of my favorite teammates I've ever played with. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.480 But that some of those quarterbacks that have come through 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:13.440 have been I shoot, I remember being next to Carrie 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:19.280 Collins and how awesome he was to be around. And 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.160 you know, I had Craig on one side and Carrie 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.960 on the other side. And and you know, after I 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:29.040 got cut in Denver, to be able to come here 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.440 and to have those two guys Craig to your left 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:35.359 and and Carrie on your right, was I mean that 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.280 alone right there helped me kind of recover and bounce 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:42.440 back from you know, from getting cut and those two guys. 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.679 To be around those two guys for as young as 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:46.080 I was, and to be able to pick their brain 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.040 and talk and what's like what you said earlier, Craig, 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:49.639 it was just he would come out to practice and 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:51.879 you know, I'd hit three or four balls in a 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.080 row that I didn't like, and he would just say, hey, 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.920 why don't you, hey, move your drop inside an itch. 0:17:58.200 --> 0:17:59.880 You know he's back there, and I'm thinking, I didn't 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:02.680 even know he was really paying attention that much. And okay, yeah, 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.760 you got it. Craig and I do it man four 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.160 in a row, five in a row, and I would 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.000 look back at Craig would be gone, he'd be headed 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.520 back to the training room just you know, he didn't 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.680 say much, but you know his advice was. 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:18.359 It was just so on the point. 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.280 But he never wanted anything, No, he didn't. 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.080 He just wanted to give his opinion and what he 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.520 thought and he. 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:26.640 Was right and off he went. 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:30.160 He you know, he didn't need the attention, he didn't 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.160 need they thank you so much. 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:32.879 I appreciate it. 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.159 I mean he would he would stop you before he 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:36.840 even got started to compliment him. 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:40.600 How lucky was Rob Baroni's that he had Craig Hendrick 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:45.560 when he made the Titans, when he became an NFL kicker. 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:50.440 Yeah, I you know, I've had a lot of conversations 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.479 with guys over over the years that I played, and 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:58.360 you know, with kickers, and just how important holding is 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:03.639 and how important you know your your holder is as 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:07.240 a person because the things, the things that you say, 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.000 you're kind of like, you know, suck up. And I 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.600 always used to talk about like, I mean, he's the golfer, 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.359 right and right, and the holder is the caddy. 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:17.959 Right, the golfer is the one that's going to get 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:20.280 all the attention. Look at that. 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.280 Shot, Look what you did, But the work kind of 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:25.439 leading up to it you know the caddy is just 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:27.960 as important, right, sure, So. 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.600 It's great in golf. Now they are giving us those 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.760 conversations more on TV. Yeah, it's fascinating. 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.280 It is fascinating and just to see really how much 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:38.600 detail goes into every shot. 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.679 More of our conversation with Brett Kern coming up. But 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.560 we remind you that Titans fans, it's always game on 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.480 with Duncan, so grab a coffee kick off the action. 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:49.959 Whether that's drinking a cup of coffee on your way 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.719 to the game or grabbing one to go before watching 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.560 the game at home. Duncan is always there to help 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.000 you get your game on. Just like the pros. We 0:19:58.040 --> 0:19:59.840 need to be at our best come game time, which 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:03.120 is why Duncan is the most important part of your 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.639 pregame ritual because it's always the best call for football 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:11.040 America runs on Duncan. Now here's more of my conversation 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.080 on the way to Manchester and Jiffy Berger with Brett 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:15.240 Kerr on the OTP. 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:19.000 Because there's I mean, there's so much. It's such a finite, 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:23.600 you know, a shot here or there. I mean it's 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:25.200 just like a football game, right to play here and 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.119 play there. Can cast you a ballgame, well, you know, 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:29.679 a shot here, shot there, throughout a. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.280 Tournament, and you know, you go from. 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.880 Winning a tournament to you know, now you're now you're 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:37.720 not even top ten and and all that kind of 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.800 stuff that goes along with it. But yeah, I mean 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:44.480 for for Rob to have Craig not only as a person, 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:47.280 right for Rob coming in the league. Anytime you can 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:50.600 get just a veteran leader, and I know there's a 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:52.760 couple of times here, you know in Tennessee where we 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:54.560 had some young guys in that would you know, they're 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.040