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Speaker 1: Combine twenty twenty four. We lead things off with the Goat,

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Speaker 1: one of our good friends, the voice of the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: Seems like we were here just yesterday talking about Week eighteen.

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandamir is our guest here on Radio Row here

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Speaker 1: at the Combine.

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Speaker 2: Mark always a pleasure, man.

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Speaker 3: I love talking to you guys. I love coming to Indianapolis.

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Speaker 3: I really do you know. I know this has been

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Speaker 3: a house of horrors for the Texans for a long time,

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Speaker 3: but maybe not lately, right, but I always love coming

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Speaker 3: to India. It's a great city. I always tell people

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Speaker 3: the people who designed, for lack of a better word,

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Speaker 3: this city knew exactly what they were doing. Let's make

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Speaker 3: it an event town.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 3: We had the five hundred, Let's build the RCA Dome

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Speaker 3: with the Hoosier Dome, Let's build events around that, Let's

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Speaker 3: bring everything in.

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Speaker 4: And they did a heck of a job. They still do.

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Speaker 1: And it seems like like we talked about just yesterday

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Speaker 1: that Week eighteen game. I don't know about you, and

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Speaker 1: certainly you know on the losing end of things now

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Speaker 1: you're missing the playoffs. That was a really fun atmosphere

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Speaker 1: in terms of Colts Texans. I don't think it gets

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Speaker 1: any better than that. And the good news is, from

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Speaker 1: a parody standpoint, you're gonna have that matchup now for

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Speaker 1: the next hopefully eight nine years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we saw what Anthony Richardson did in the

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Speaker 3: opener between these two teams, in the opening game of

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Speaker 3: the series. I mean, he went nuts early and then

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Speaker 3: he leaves the game and we thought, oh, Gardner Minch

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Speaker 3: is in. This could be handle a bowl no as

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Speaker 3: he played really well and the Colts won that game.

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Speaker 4: And we saw what happened in the finale.

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Speaker 3: But you know, we've talked about this, Matt that throughout

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Speaker 3: the years, the Colts are just the Texans nemesis. But

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Speaker 3: for some reason in Indy, the Texans are now five

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Speaker 3: and four in their last nine and I know one

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Speaker 3: of those is the weird Davis Mills comeback game where

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Speaker 3: you don't want to win that dude, Well it turns

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Speaker 3: out you do because look what happened in the draft,

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Speaker 3: and you know, history changed and here we are.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely so what was the most enjoyable part of this season?

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Speaker 1: You know, off air we were talking about, you know,

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Speaker 1: the the Sean Watson stuff and how kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: in a valley you were, the Texans were, and then

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Speaker 1: just the peaks and light at the end of the tunnel.

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Speaker 1: Now with CJ. Stroud, you've been doing this since two

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Speaker 1: thousand and two Voice of the Texans. Where is this

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Speaker 1: past year rank in terms of just most enjoyable season?

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Speaker 3: I think it's the most enjoyable season I've ever had,

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Speaker 3: and I've done all of them. It look twenty eleven

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Speaker 3: was great because we made the playoffs for the first time,

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Speaker 3: and that was really special. It's hard to outdo the

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Speaker 3: first of anything, right, and.

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Speaker 4: It took a long time.

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Speaker 3: That was the tenth season in Texans history, and you

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Speaker 3: know how this goes. I love the NFL because you

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Speaker 3: could have a sub five hundred season, but Week five

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Speaker 3: you might have had this tremendous win that you could

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Speaker 3: talk about for a long time. We've had a lot

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Speaker 3: of sweet wins and right now we're celebrating Andre Johnson

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Speaker 3: getting into the Hall of Fame, and that brings that

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Speaker 3: whole era back for me where they didn't win as

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Speaker 3: much as they wanted, but they had some really great

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Speaker 3: games along the way, and it's great to relive those.

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Speaker 3: But this season, to me, was the best because Demiico

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Speaker 3: and it turns out he's this marvelous quarterback. All these

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Speaker 3: down to the wire victories. He proves that he's a

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Speaker 3: clutch player, and the other young players play so well.

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Speaker 3: Offensive Rookie of the Year, Defensive Rookie of the Year,

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Speaker 3: and Andre getting into the Hall of Fame at NFL Honors.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that was another great night to be a

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Speaker 3: bookend to the draft night euphoria really when they moved

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Speaker 5: You know, it's funny you mentioned that first matchup in

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Speaker 5: that was that was kind of the game where CJ.

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Speaker 5: I think he threw for over three point fifty and

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Speaker 5: which you talked about Davis Mills. I mean, you talk

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it does that when an experience that was and

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Speaker 3: I love any kind of win, but it felt odd

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Speaker 4: Did you really want the second pick? Wouldn't you rather

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 4: But I'd never fault the team for trying to win.

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Speaker 2: A game, exactly.

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Speaker 4: And everybody got on players, everybody got.

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Speaker 3: On Lovey Smith for going for two in that one,

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Speaker 3: and I said, no, no, no, no, he did not

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Speaker 3: I know him fired or whatever, you know. The narrative was,

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Speaker 3: that's not it. He went for two because he said,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna end the game right here, win or lose

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Speaker 3: fifty to fifty shot whatever the percentages are. Because my

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Speaker 3: rebuttal to those who think he was it's a conspiracy,

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Speaker 3: a draft choice. I say, look, if he kicks it,

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Speaker 3: it's tied, you're going overtime. You have just as much

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Speaker 3: to the draft. It took you to CJ. Strott, honestly,

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Speaker 3: and you know how these things are, and people ask

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Speaker 4: The time, who's your team gonna draft? We don't really know,

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Speaker 3: I figured they were gonna take Will Anderson Junior at

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Speaker 3: We got the quarterback, and then they move up to

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Speaker 3: take Will Anderson Junior, it.

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Speaker 4: Was why'd you think it was gonna be flip flopped?

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Speaker 4: I just didn't think they were gonna take Stroud. And

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Speaker 3: I was buying into all the outside noise maybe and

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Speaker 3: don't want people to know. They don't want people in

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Speaker 4: And that's the right thing to do.

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Speaker 3: Don't let it get out, don't let your plans get out,

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Speaker 3: number three and get Will Anderson Jr.

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Speaker 5: Now Here we are preparing for twenty four and the

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Speaker 5: You got a late first round pick, but you got

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Speaker 5: your two key pieces in place, with the quarterback coach

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Speaker 5: clearly one of the best edge rushers up and coming,

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Speaker 5: with Will Anderson being named Defensive Rookie of the Year,

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Speaker 5: you got a lot of money to spend. Where is

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Speaker 5: the ceiling on what this offseason means, because clearly right

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Speaker 5: now it is win now mode for sure.

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Speaker 4: From where you were a year ago.

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Speaker 3: It is I think to field a team as good

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Speaker 4: You have a lot of work to do.

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Speaker 3: You have over thirty free agents on this team, and

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Speaker 3: you do have some all right, So you don't have

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Speaker 3: these marquee like first day, oh my gosh, they're gonna

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Speaker 3: make you know, King's Ransom contract type of free agents.

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Speaker 3: But you have Dalton Schultz, he played a big part

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Speaker 3: You know, you have all these things to think about

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Speaker 3: you have to fortify that defensive front if those guys

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Speaker 3: ton of war to do, but they have the cap

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Speaker 3: to see how they're going to put together the twenty

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Speaker 3: going to be constructed, because you guys know, all right,

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Speaker 3: so you went to the divisional round. Great to get

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Speaker 3: back there is excruciatingly difficult, right.

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Speaker 6: No doubt.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you might make the playoffs and lose the

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Speaker 3: go nine to eight, which would still be a winning season.

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Speaker 3: But you know how this league is. You know the

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Speaker 3: Texans got there fast in the Demigo Ryans era. And

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Speaker 3: super Bowl next year, right, Well, it's not that easy,

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Speaker 1: Well, not only do you have cap space, but some

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Speaker 1: premium positions, you have those positions solidified, but they're also

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Speaker 1: on rookie contractsje Stroud, tang.

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Speaker 1: How does that factor in the aggressiveness and the urgency

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Speaker 1: that the Texans have either in the draft or in

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Speaker 4: That's a great point.

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Speaker 3: You know, when you bring in free agents, high priced

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Speaker 3: it not work more often. More often it doesn't work

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Speaker 3: than it works because you have to sort of put

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Speaker 3: a lot of free agents. The guys I mentioned, Schulz, Singletary, Rankins,

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Speaker 3: these were all on one year deals. Right, Jimmy Ward's

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Speaker 3: still with the team. He's not a two year deal.

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Speaker 3: That's good, But so you're thinking, I got to put

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Speaker 3: together a culture.

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Speaker 4: They did last year. It worked.

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Speaker 3: They have to do the same thing this year with

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Speaker 3: whoever they bring in they all got to fit together.

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Speaker 3: But I think one thing that really makes things fit well,

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Speaker 3: great head coach, you know so far Tamik O'Ryan's and

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Speaker 3: quarterback who's off to a rip roaring start. And I

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Speaker 3: think a lot of people want to play with this

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Speaker 5: Now, I know we don't have the answers to this.

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Speaker 5: If we did, you know, we'd probably go out and

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Speaker 5: the answers. But you go from where you were heading

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Speaker 3: You're right, he's the hunted. Now everybody's coming after him.

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Speaker 3: We'll see how they respond. The old lives got to

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Speaker 1: As you said, Tamiko Ryans, I mean, the dividends are great.

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Speaker 4: And you know, so far it's working out really well.

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Speaker 5: Now, one of the big topics we've been talking about

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Speaker 3: If you told me nearly thirteen hundred yards, I'd say whoa.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: You could see signs of it along the way.

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Speaker 3: But look in twenty twenty three, performs like a number

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Speaker 1: The draft's just loaded every year at wide receiver, you

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of it as far as need

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Speaker 1: I texted you that that Cleveland game. I listened to

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Speaker 3: On fire that you got a great game going on

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Speaker 4: Sure, so you know, thanks a lot.

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Speaker 2: No, Yeah, I always appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: I would offer you some suggestions on where to go

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Speaker 2: To eat, where to stay.

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Speaker 4: But we know, but you know, but you guys have

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Speaker 5: Of the Yeah, he comes bearing gifts, It probably be

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Speaker 2: Mark love you man.

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Speaker 4: Always appreciate your time, guys. Yeah, thanks a lot, man

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Speaker 7: A lot of familiar faces here at the NFL Combine.

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Speaker 7: We say hello again to Frank Frangie, our friendly foe,

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Speaker 7: our friendly neighbor. I like to call Frank Franchi ass

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Speaker 7: voice of the Jackson Bill Jaguars. Thanks for being here,

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Speaker 7: and I appreciate the time. I got to start right

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think that's the big question is what

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Speaker 1: No doubt about that, Frank, I know you're tired of

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Speaker 6: Did, You know, Matt, I think I don't want to

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Speaker 6: I think you could just feel, you could feel it

439
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Speaker 6: turning a little bit. And you know how it is

440
00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,960
Speaker 6: if you're a golfer and you've missed three four footers

441
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Speaker 6: in a row, Now you know the next four foot

442
00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:21,120
Speaker 6: of you're nervous. You're gripping the club, and I think

443
00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,000
Speaker 6: they did. I think they gripped the club really tight,

444
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Speaker 6: and I think all of it kind of snowballed. And

445
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Speaker 6: that's why I don't think there's one thing. I think

446
00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:29,639
Speaker 6: it was an eight and three team that started to

447
00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,119
Speaker 6: lose a little bit and then and then, Matt, what

448
00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,280
Speaker 6: happens then is you never you never can get your

449
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Speaker 6: footing again. And I think that's what happened, I really do.

450
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Speaker 1: Speaking of that, you mentioned Trevor Lawrence. He was banged up,

451
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Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it, fighting through all those injuries,

452
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Speaker 1: but twenty one turnovers. The twenty one turnovers led the NFL.

453
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Speaker 1: Any issue there or was that just all injury correlated?

454
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Speaker 3: No?

455
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Speaker 6: I think he's got to get better. At that. I mean,

456
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Speaker 6: I think the injuries affected him a little bit. I

457
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Speaker 6: think you try and you try and make throws of

458
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Speaker 6: that big arm as you've always been able to make,

459
00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:59,320
Speaker 6: and after your shoulders sore and you can't stip into

460
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Speaker 6: it because you got to knee thing the ball that

461
00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:03,600
Speaker 6: all of a sudden. The NFL is a fine line man.

462
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Speaker 6: A tight window can be a great thrower, can be

463
00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:08,159
Speaker 6: a pick. That was part of it, but that's not

464
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Speaker 6: the main thing. And Trevor's got to turn the ball

465
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Speaker 6: over last. He knows that you got to take better

466
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Speaker 6: care of the ball. You have that many turnovers, it's

467
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Speaker 6: not just because you were hurt. He's got to. My

468
00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:20,800
Speaker 6: read on Trevor in the turnovers is he's been so

469
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Speaker 6: great for so long he's been He's had a better

470
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Speaker 6: arm than anybody he's ever played against. He was a

471
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Speaker 6: first overall pick. He could get throws in again Clemson

472
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Speaker 6: because that Wake Forest cornerback wasn't fast enough. And carters

473
00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:37,040
Speaker 6: go high because that because that Atlanta high cornerback wasn't

474
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Speaker 6: fast enough. Right, Well, they're fast up here, and I

475
00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,680
Speaker 6: think sometimes you take chances that you've always gotten away with.

476
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Speaker 6: And he'll tell you that he's got to secure the ball.

477
00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:46,960
Speaker 6: Bettery fumbled too much. You got to put the ball away.

478
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Speaker 6: The offensive line wasn't good, so you hold in, you

479
00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:51,200
Speaker 6: hold on the ball a little bit longer. But no,

480
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Speaker 6: that it's fair to say that's an issue. I think

481
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Speaker 6: Trevor would tell you that's an issue. I think Doug

482
00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,320
Speaker 6: would say that's an issue in this league. You got

483
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Speaker 6: to take better care of the ball. Way too many turnovers.

484
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Speaker 7: No, that's Frank Frangi the host of the Franji Show

485
00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,960
Speaker 7: on ten ten Excel in Jacksonville. That is daily and

486
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,080
Speaker 7: he's also obviously voice of the Jaguars. I'm sorry, I

487
00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,200
Speaker 7: gotta stick with Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, two years ago I

488
00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:14,800
Speaker 7: said this an MVP, a future MVP winner in this league,

489
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Speaker 7: and then we saw what you talked about. I think

490
00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,600
Speaker 7: everybody got puckered after eight and three and started going downhill.

491
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Speaker 7: What's the outlook for Lawrence and Jacksonville as far as

492
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Speaker 7: the command of the room when he's in there in

493
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Speaker 7: the offseason, the command of the quarterback room and that offense.

494
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll preface it with I'm very biased. I think

495
00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,000
Speaker 6: he's one of the best people I've been around in

496
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Speaker 6: the league, not just best players. He is unassuming, he

497
00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:40,320
Speaker 6: is selfless. He is a great teammate. I saw something

498
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Speaker 6: when he was when he was leaving Clemson. They did

499
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Speaker 6: this feature of the Trevor Lawrence career and they put

500
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Speaker 6: on video because all the departments put everything on video now,

501
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,160
Speaker 6: and they said, what do you want to be remembered for?

502
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Speaker 6: And was it going to be the national Championship? Was

503
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Speaker 6: it the long run against Ohio State? Was at the

504
00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,960
Speaker 6: big throw at the end of he said, I hope

505
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Speaker 6: the first thing is how I treated people. That That

506
00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,000
Speaker 6: was his answer. His answer was, I hope the first

507
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,399
Speaker 6: thing is how I treated you?

508
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Speaker 4: And does he stand up to that?

509
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Speaker 6: He really does. He is his regular. Let me tell

510
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,560
Speaker 6: you a story. So we are in London two years

511
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,399
Speaker 6: ago and we're in this They're standing of this posh

512
00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,640
Speaker 6: resort in London because God's gonna put you to push

513
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:19,600
Speaker 6: resort because he's shocked the good courts is the push resort.

514
00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,480
Speaker 6: So with this posh resort in London and the country

515
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,879
Speaker 6: club like setting is for lunch, right, So you go

516
00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,840
Speaker 6: to this setting for lunch and and well I got

517
00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 6: in there late because it was labor jet lagged well,

518
00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:31,800
Speaker 6: Trevor was in he's only he got in there late,

519
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,720
Speaker 6: so nobody all the team is gone. So there's used

520
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,560
Speaker 6: to serve yourself buffet, but there's five or six workers

521
00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,680
Speaker 6: behind the buffet line, and then there's this big buffet,

522
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,119
Speaker 6: and then there's the dining room. He sat, so Trevor

523
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:43,359
Speaker 6: was getting up when I was coming in. It's We

524
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,560
Speaker 6: talked for about five minutes or so. Then I then

525
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Speaker 6: I left to the other side of the quarters. He

526
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,720
Speaker 6: couldn't see me, so he's literally the only guy left

527
00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,760
Speaker 6: in the end of the lunch roll. Instead of walking out,

528
00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,720
Speaker 6: or before he walked out, he went to every one

529
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Speaker 6: of those servers and said, hey, thank you man. You

530
00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:00,720
Speaker 6: guys have made this lunch great for us. We were

531
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:02,159
Speaker 6: all talking about how good is We don't take it

532
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 6: for granted. We know it's hard work. Leader he really is,

533
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 6: and I watch it now. He wasn't grandstanding because there's

534
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,400
Speaker 6: nobody in there, right, He wasn't trying to show off.

535
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,720
Speaker 6: He couldn't see me. I was around the corner and

536
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:13,960
Speaker 6: so there was there was nobody to grand stand for.

537
00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 6: That's just how he handles himself. So he's a great

538
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Speaker 6: and I think he's a good player. He's a he's

539
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 6: got all the you know, the hardware. He's sixty six

540
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 6: with the big arm in real athletic He's took it.

541
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Speaker 6: He's got to learn, he's got to learn he can't

542
00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,040
Speaker 6: take some chances. And I think that's the big thing

543
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,520
Speaker 6: with him is is sometimes it's better to throw it

544
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Speaker 6: in the stands and play another down rather than try

545
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:34,360
Speaker 6: and stick it in there and the safety picks it off.

546
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Speaker 6: I think that's the biggest thing. But I think he's

547
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Speaker 6: going to be I have a big career. I think

548
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Speaker 6: he's going to be one of the best quarterbacks in

549
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Speaker 6: the league for a long time. I haven't lost one

550
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Speaker 6: ounce of confidence in Trevor Lawrence.

551
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Speaker 1: And he talks of a franchise or I should say,

552
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Speaker 1: a contract extension with him.

553
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Speaker 6: I we'll see, we'll see there. There's always talking in

554
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Speaker 6: the shore, in the atmosphere about it. I wouldn't be

555
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Speaker 6: surprised if it's not this year. It could be this year.

556
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Speaker 6: I don't anticipate. With everything else they're trying to get done,

557
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Speaker 6: I don't think it's going to be this year. I

558
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,399
Speaker 6: think this he's going to be the Jaguar for the

559
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,480
Speaker 6: next ten years, right, regardless of whether they do it

560
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Speaker 6: next year whenever. But I haven't heard a lot of

561
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:06,400
Speaker 6: talk about it yet.

562
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 7: Frank Freendy right there, and I'll tell you what tanned handsome,

563
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 7: the most tanned man here.

564
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Speaker 2: I should see this guy's backyard. It's like Disney World.

565
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:15,199
Speaker 2: I can only imagine.

566
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Speaker 6: Can we everything he's got the pool?

567
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Speaker 2: I gotta visit.

568
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Speaker 6: That's what I'm asking.

569
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Speaker 7: Welcome, all right, go ahead, put I love doing this too,

570
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:27,440
Speaker 7: especially voices Matt Taylor and I over many a launch.

571
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 7: Put your GM hat on you, you know, and what's

572
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,359
Speaker 7: what's your vision for this team with this upcoming draft

573
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:35,440
Speaker 7: and filling holes that they need. I know a loco's

574
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,639
Speaker 7: in that, who signed, who's not resigned? But what do

575
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Speaker 7: you like to see?

576
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Speaker 6: Yeah, player procurement. I think they've got to get more physical.

577
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 6: They got pushed around at the line of scrimmage too

578
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 6: many times, and I think that more than anything else,

579
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Speaker 6: that last game was really kind of a microcosm of

580
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Speaker 6: the last quarter of the season for them, when Derek

581
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 6: Henry was having gigantic holes to run through. So I

582
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,680
Speaker 6: think they've got to improve their offensive front and really

583
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Speaker 6: the interior of the offensive front. I think the thing

584
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 6: is the interior, the defensive front. That's what I think

585
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,120
Speaker 6: of the two big areas. Now, look, you're gonna you're

586
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Speaker 6: gonna my if I could do a blueprint, if I

587
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,160
Speaker 6: can map out the blueprint, I'd say get your big

588
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 6: people in free agency and draft some speed, which means

589
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,360
Speaker 6: you draft corners and wide receivers. So I think corners

590
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,640
Speaker 6: and wide receivers are the second part. But I think

591
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 6: big people. They've got to get more physical. They were

592
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 6: not a very physical football team, and in my opinion,

593
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 6: they were not a very physical football team. And I

594
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,719
Speaker 6: listen when when when Ryan Kelly and Quentin Nelson were

595
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Speaker 6: worth their best and you guys were physical, you know

596
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,640
Speaker 6: you didn't want you you you didn't want to see

597
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,639
Speaker 6: Jonathan Taylor coming at you because he was running through

598
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,679
Speaker 6: a gaping hole in that big But then when your

599
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 6: line tailed off, you weren't the same team, right, And

600
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 6: nobody knows that better than the Colts know it.

601
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Speaker 8: Well.

602
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Speaker 6: I saw the same thing happen all of a sudden.

603
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Speaker 6: The line wasn't very good. In Travis Ytno, I think

604
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,159
Speaker 6: is a really good running back. He may not be

605
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 6: Jonathan Taylor. He's a good bat He became ordinary because

606
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:51,439
Speaker 6: the holes were there. They got to get more physical.

607
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Speaker 1: Speaking of that offensive line, I know they were banged

608
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Speaker 1: up last year. Sounds like from Trent Balk the other day,

609
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 1: majority of that offensive line is gonna come back. What's

610
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 1: the ceiling of that offensive line? If it's intact and

611
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Speaker 1: fully healthy.

612
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 6: You know they believe if they have a healthy line,

613
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 6: it's a pretty good line. Matt. I want to see that.

614
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,959
Speaker 6: If you asked me to measure, if I did a

615
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,439
Speaker 6: power poll of position groups, it probably wouldn't be in

616
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Speaker 6: my top three or four. For the Jaguars, I would

617
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 6: say they're they're running back room is really good. I

618
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,440
Speaker 6: love Trevor, I like the receivers, I like the back end.

619
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Speaker 6: I would say, though, so I think he can be

620
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Speaker 6: a good line until there's more Peter Anton Harrison, the

621
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 6: rookie tackle is gonna be really good. Ezra Cleveland that

622
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 6: if they can resign him, the free agent or the

623
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Speaker 6: traded left guard could be really good. I want to

624
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 6: see the other guys, so I would say I would

625
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Speaker 6: say that's not gonna I'd be surprised if we're talking

626
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 6: this time next year, and I'll look back and say

627
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 6: that was one of the strengths of the team. It's

628
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 6: got to get better, and I don't think it's an overnight.

629
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Speaker 6: An overnight the thing I don't.

630
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Speaker 7: Frank Frangie right, their voice of the Jaguars, What do

631
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Speaker 7: you think of mister much respect to mister conshot kind

632
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Speaker 7: and family and everything. A lot of London, a lot

633
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Speaker 7: of gas over there. Is this a franchise if they

634
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 7: do do something like this I'm talking about in the

635
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 7: next decade, that Jacksonville would be one of the first

636
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 7: to pick up and go somewhere that's possibly overseas. I

637
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,679
Speaker 7: know that's a loaded question, but the NFL wants to

638
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 7: expand so much, and that connection shod has with London.

639
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:16,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think you can ever have a team

640
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,400
Speaker 6: over there, whether it's Jacksvill or anybody else. I mean,

641
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 6: how many guys you try out during the season, fifty

642
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 6: to sixty guys tryouts. You can't. They don't have passports.

643
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 6: It's hard to get over there. It's an eight hour flight.

644
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 6: I think running the operations of a team, someone said, well,

645
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 6: maybe you can have a home base here, and then

646
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Speaker 6: I don't think so.

647
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 4: I two buy weeks or whatever.

648
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think it could ever work. What I

649
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 6: do think will happen is an expansion of international games.

650
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 6: We're already seeing it. We're playing in Germany. Now, we're

651
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,119
Speaker 6: gonna be playing in Mexico. Now in brazil's on the table.

652
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 6: So I think you're going to see an expansive international teams.

653
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Speaker 6: I don't think you'll ever see. I don't think you'll

654
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 6: ever see a team in London. And to that end,

655
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:57,479
Speaker 6: I'll addend him to that. Sead loves Florida. He's got

656
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 6: a home in Naples where where we live now look

657
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 6: the byas I'm from there, So it's a loaded answer too.

658
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 6: But Sead wants to develop real estate. Shod wants to

659
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 6: develop business. We're in Florida. We have a gorgeous beach,

660
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 6: we have a gorgeous river, we have gorgeous golf, we

661
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:20,159
Speaker 6: have beautiful weather, fishing, fishings. Could why and this is

662
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 6: no knock on other parts of the country, but why

663
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 6: would Shad take a team to Saint Louis or Portland

664
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Speaker 6: when you've got Florida, when you've got this this weather.

665
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 6: If you're trying to develop business, you've tried to develop

666
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 6: your business interest Jacks aren't going.

667
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 2: Anywhere going along with at the stadium.

668
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: What's the latest with Not to get all too political,

669
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: but what what what's the biggest hang up on renovating

670
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: ever Bank State.

671
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 6: It's going to happen, and Matt it will almost be

672
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 6: more I say renovation. It's technically a renovation, but it's

673
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 6: really going to be a new stadium with a few

674
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 6: of the walls still there. It's it's not going to

675
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 6: be renovated. It's gonna be new. It's gonna be some

676
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 6: something like what hard Rock did in Miami. They'll get

677
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 6: the deal done this year. I think they've gone back.

678
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 6: If there's a new mayor and she's been very progressive

679
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,120
Speaker 6: and very helpful, they'll get the deal done. They're back

680
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 6: and forth. Shot originally wanted to wrap it into a

681
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 6: redevelopment of that area and wanted the city and the

682
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 6: team to get together on that. I'm not sure that's

683
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 6: going to happen now, and may be Shot in developing

684
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 6: that area himself and the city just participating in the stadium.

685
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 6: But it's going to be a one point five billion

686
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 6: dollars stadium. I think you'll see an announcement. My guess

687
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:28,199
Speaker 6: is spring that they've agreed to something. I think it

688
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 6: won't begin until after twenty five because the Florida Georgia

689
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 6: game is there every year and that contract is through

690
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 6: twenty five. I think in twenty six and twenty seven

691
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 6: the renovation will take place. I think the new stadium

692
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 6: will launch in twenty eight. I think we all have

693
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 6: a pretty good idea that's what they're going to do.

694
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 6: They've got to decide do they go play in Gainesville

695
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 6: for two years? As I ask you, then what there's

696
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 6: the possibility of Gainsville Orlando. Probably Gainsville for two years.

697
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 6: I mean, you go to Florida because they know how

698
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 6: to do it.

699
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 2: It's a college.

700
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,719
Speaker 6: They're already putting on seven home games a year. They

701
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 6: see ninety thousand dollars. They've got the security and the

702
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 6: concessions and the operational people. So my guess is there

703
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 6: there is some talk that one year they'd play in

704
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 6: Jacksonville while it's being renovated forty thousand capacity, and the

705
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 6: other year they'd go to Gainsville, because there's been some

706
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 6: pushback in the populace about do I really want my

707
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 6: team gone for two years? So they're trying to figure

708
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 6: that part out my opinion, I'd go to Gainsville for

709
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 6: two years.

710
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 7: Gift to load up and pick at pack everything. The

711
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 7: Gainesville like operations, daily operations is now in.

712
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 6: The team would practice. The team would practice there. Okay,

713
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 6: they would drive the Gazel for the game. They would

714
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 6: drive the Gazel fru. But I listen, it's an hour,

715
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,719
Speaker 6: maybe an hour and ten minutes. It's a ninety thousand

716
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 6: seas stadium. They know what they're doing. It's a beautiful

717
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 6: grass field. I know the fans don't want the team

718
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 6: to be gone for two years, and I get that.

719
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 6: There I'm not buying the season tickets they are, and

720
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 6: I understand that. But I would do I would blow

721
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 6: it up, and in two years you've got this beautiful

722
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 6: new stadium for the long office. So that's how I

723
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 6: would do it.

724
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 7: All right, Well, let's after this interview set up some

725
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 7: off season plans.

726
00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: We go visit Frank. Franc You should have seen Rank

727
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: this morning. I love you, Frank, but he looked cold.

728
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 6: Oh I am the biggest cold weather whip you've ever met.

729
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 6: Whoever you know to gets cold, I get colder. I'm

730
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:10,959
Speaker 6: not guys, I love it.

731
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Speaker 7: Oh, well, you're in the wrong place for the next

732
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 7: couple of days. But hey, Jacksonville, I love you in

733
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 7: the corner. Excellent joby, one of the best in the business.

734
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Speaker 7: Appreciate the time. Don't forget one more time. Fans follow

735
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 7: this man, give me give me some information. Now we

736
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 7: can get an Instagram story from me, Frank, that's what

737
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 7: we want.

738
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 6: Here's what I am on X or whatever. I'm not

739
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 6: even on Instagram. I wouldn't how to do it. But

740
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 6: on X I'm at Frank underscore Franzie about They're just

741
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Speaker 6: starting point.

742
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 7: And don't forget daily and I'm taking talking Daily her

743
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 7: host of the Franzie Show on ten ten XL in Jacksonville,

744
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 7: that podcast up daily. Appreciate the time, everything, best of

745
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 7: luck except for two games, actually your best of luck?

746
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 4: Right, I see you later. All right.

747
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 7: I am sitting right next to I mean one and

748
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 7: two in the business. I like to call him voice

749
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 7: Voice of the Coltch Matt Taylor, Voice of the Titans,

750
00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 7: Mike Keith. This ere you guys, rank one and two

751
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 7: in my book. I won't tell you who ranks where,

752
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 7: but I'm.

753
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 2: Just I was gonna say, who's who.

754
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 7: You ranke one and two in my play by play

755
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 7: analyst rankings, Mike Keith and by the.

756
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 2: Way, I bowed down, by the way, no you don't.

757
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 7: What an interesting tidbit before we get into football. A

758
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 7: dear friend of Kenny Jesney. I remember Mike Keith right here,

759
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 7: it's dear friend. Dear friend, right could we call him

760
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 7: that he broke his career?

761
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 2: Let's be honest. No, that's what you.

762
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 7: Play his records, Mike.

763
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 2: I didn't play his records.

764
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 8: I talked to him. Well, he was trying to get

765
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 8: his records. But he does know my name. Yeah, okay,

766
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 8: which is kind of okay, cool, you know it's all right,

767
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 8: But no, I would I did not break his career.

768
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 8: I was there when his career broke. I worked at

769
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 8: w i v K in Knoxville. He is from the

770
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 8: Knoxville area. He's actually from Coryton and would see him

771
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 8: around the station when he was just an up and cumber.

772
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 7: So you told us that story a couple of years ago,

773
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 7: and I always remember that about it.

774
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 2: So I just make you the star maker. I tell

775
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 2: that story a lot now.

776
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 8: I'm now I've gotten to the each I'm repeating myself

777
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 8: all the time.

778
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 2: That's great, and like my Dad.

779
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 6: That's so. That's great.

780
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 7: One of the best in the business, played by play

781
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 7: man for the Titans, Mike Keith's era. I want to

782
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 7: go back, and then I want to go forward a

783
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 7: little bit. I bet I've always been a Mike Vrabel fan.

784
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 7: I'm about him. The way he played the game when

785
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 7: he played here, the way he coached, and you hate it.

786
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 7: I hang on, Mike, he he got hung up here.

787
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 2: I'm hung up. Sorry about that?

788
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 6: Sorry about that.

789
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 8: He wraps his he wraps his leash around my legs

790
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 8: and takes me down the hill.

791
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 2: I mean, what's going on with you people?

792
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 8: Now? I tell you what we may have done that you?

793
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 8: I mean, you beat us twice this year? Can you

794
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 8: not just let it go? That's why we struggle in

795
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 8: the AFC South you hear say, have you do that

796
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 8: to me? I mean just because he was so bitter.

797
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 8: You can get over it. Wan't your job trying to

798
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 8: trip you up?

799
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 6: The best I can?

800
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 7: You want me to leave you kid? He loves Nashville,

801
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 7: all right, Mike Key's back. I wanted to talk about

802
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 7: Mike Rabel and I was gonna. I was a little

803
00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 7: shocked at that. I don't know how you were you

804
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 7: were too, You're hands on the pulse of this franchise

805
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 7: and stuff like that, and obviously he's out of work

806
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 7: this season. I love Vrabel when he's playing. I loved

807
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 7: when he's coached, the surprise of that, you know, a

808
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 7: month or so back when they did make the switch,

809
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 7: and your initial thoughts of Brian Callahan.

810
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 8: Very pleased with Brian Callahan, very excited about what he is,

811
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 8: what he brings, and in particular the staff. The staff

812
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 8: is really something else, and so I think if you

813
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 8: were going to make a change, he's so different from

814
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 8: Mike Rabel, and I think anytime you do that, I

815
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 8: think doing something totally different is always, on the surface

816
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 8: the right answer, because if you're shaking it up, don't

817
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 8: shake it up with the same type of person the

818
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 8: same type of personality, all of those sorts of things.

819
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 8: Brian is really a good guy and he is totally

820
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 8: ready to be a head coach. I compare it to

821
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 8: this when I was at the University of Tennessee, Philip

822
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 8: foehmercame the head coach at the end of the nineteen

823
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 8: ninety two season, and I'd never been around to anybody

824
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 8: in my life who was more ready to be a

825
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 8: head coach. He had done everything. The only thing he

826
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 8: had not done was be the head coach, and it

827
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 8: obviously worked out. I think this is the same sort

828
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 8: of thing. This is somebody grew up with a coach

829
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 8: in his house, did went and did his own thing,

830
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 8: never worked for his dad, never worked with his dad,

831
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:27,399
Speaker 8: and yet has the experience of seeing his dad do this.

832
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 8: And he said this to me earlier while we're here

833
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 8: in Indianapolis, that he is not as shell shocked as

834
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 8: a lot of first time head coaches because he's seen stuff.

835
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 8: Zach Taylor let him see things, gave him that insight,

836
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 8: and then obviously through so much with his dad.

837
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 2: The Frabel thing was.

838
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 8: A surprise, and I think it was a surprise to

839
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 8: Titans fans because Frabel's this guy. I mean, even if

840
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 8: he didn't like to play he called or what he

841
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 8: did in this situation.

842
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 2: He's your head coach.

843
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 8: He's that strong personality that you're like, that's our guy. Yeah,

844
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 8: maybe kind of like how Chuck Pagano was for people.

845
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 2: They just like you.

846
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 8: There was no outcry of people saying get rid of

847
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 8: the coach. But what had happened is the owner when

848
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,879
Speaker 8: she let John Robinson go as general manager, she had

849
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 8: set in place a very different communication structure that she

850
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 8: wanted to see. She wanted the influence of the organization

851
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 8: to go beyond just the head coach and the general manager.

852
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 8: She wanted the analytics people to have a say, the

853
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 8: training staff to have a say. All of these things

854
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 8: probably a lot like what they're doing.

855
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 2: In baseball now. You know, if you look at most

856
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 2: of the really.

857
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 8: Good baseball teams, they have a lot of people, sort

858
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 8: of a board of directors almost now. The general manager

859
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 8: and the head coach are still the biggest part of it.

860
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 8: But what she had done with rand Carthon and what

861
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 8: she was looking to do was very different, and Vrabel

862
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 8: had been doing something different for five years. It was

863
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 8: more traditional, and I think in the end, in her mind,

864
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 8: it just didn't all fit together the way she wanted

865
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 8: to see it go, and that's why she made the change.

866
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: You're talking about Brian Callahan, and I know that the

867
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: Titans obviously haven't played a game yet, but culturally, dynamic wise,

868
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 1: what's the biggest difference between Mike Vrabel and Brian Callahan.

869
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: I know the culture wasn't bad. Mike Vrabel just you know,

870
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 1: bottom line is you gotta win games. But can you

871
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:36,800
Speaker 1: can you sense a different you know, in terms of

872
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: subtleties between Callahan and Vrabel, in terms of how they're operating.

873
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 8: Vrabel is literally and figuratively so big, Matt and Mike's

874
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 8: personality is so big. There was a Mike Ditka effect

875
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 8: with Mike Vrabel and Dave McGinnis, who's my broadcast partner

876
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 8: on Titans Radio, work for Mike Ditka from nineteen eighty

877
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 8: six through nineteen ninety two, and he saw the exact

878
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 8: same thing. He said, this guy is the modern day Ditka,

879
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 8: and that sometimes overshadows everybody else and everything else. This

880
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:20,280
Speaker 8: guy's not like that. Brian Callahan is is very measured.

881
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 8: You know, he's a dad with an eight year old

882
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,959
Speaker 8: and a six year old, and he's just a low

883
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 8: key sort of guy. I'm sure he can get angry

884
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,280
Speaker 8: and can yell when he needs to because he's ball coach.

885
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 8: But it's just different. With Mike Rabel. Everything was always on.

886
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 8: I mean, it was always on all the time, and

887
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 8: the building reflected that, and it was really it was

888
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:46,959
Speaker 8: a good thing.

889
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 2: I mean for those who say, well, I mean the report.

890
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 8: Came out, and I'm so glad I get to mention

891
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 8: this that teams didn't hire him because he was big

892
00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 8: and intimidated. Okay, well yeah, but what I will say,

893
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 8: he's also very kind and gigantic heart. I don't think

894
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,879
Speaker 8: Mike Rabel always wants you to see that because that's

895
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 8: not convenient, right, right, But he's he's a big softie.

896
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 2: This guy is just a It's just he's more.

897
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 4: In the road all the time.

898
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 8: And I haven't seen him on the practice field yet, sure,

899
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 8: so waiting to see all of that. But yeah, there's

900
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 8: a different field downstairs. When Rabel would come barreling down

901
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:31,720
Speaker 8: the hall, you knew it.

902
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 2: You knew it.

903
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 6: I mean it's a.

904
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,800
Speaker 2: Big shadow, right, It's a big shadow.

905
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 8: But you were gonna I mean, he was going to

906
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 8: give you the business about something or I mean there's

907
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 8: just and and you see Brian in the hall, He's like, hey,

908
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 8: how you doing. I mean, it's just it's just different

909
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 8: in that way. Not a bad thing necessarily, but just

910
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 8: a different thing.

911
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 7: Okay, Mike Keith Boyce saw the Titans right there. Some

912
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 7: offseason things we got to talk about. This not since

913
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 7: Eddie George is somebody who been around to advance of

914
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,320
Speaker 7: football on the ground like Derrick Henry and the position

915
00:38:58,360 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 7: that they're facing there.

916
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 2: Well, you know, Chris John was pretty good.

917
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 7: He was pretty good too. Yeah, I will say that.

918
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 7: So CJ two K, I apologize heard this and I

919
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 7: didn't correct you. CJ would fly to my hand, Yeah right,

920
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 7: I apologize on behalf of you and the family. Yes, yeah, yeah,

921
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 7: But but what's going on with Derek Henry and obviously

922
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 7: the salary camp gets, you know, it gets boosted up

923
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 7: by a record margin and stuff like that. To lose

924
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 7: somebody that potentially to lose somebody like that, and what

925
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 7: he means to that franchise, what does that mean to you?

926
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 4: You've seen this kid from day one.

927
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 8: No, he's the face of the franchise period, and we

928
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 8: think he's a Pro Football Hall of Fame. If you

929
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 8: look at the five years plus slightly plus from the

930
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 8: early part of December twenty eighteen to the end of

931
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 8: the twenty twenty three season, you're talking about a player

932
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 8: who had a five year period that probably is not

933
00:39:55,680 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 8: mirrored since Jim Brown. It's pretty crazy. Maybe Earl Campbell,

934
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 8: and that's really what you judge running backs on you

935
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 8: don't say, well, he played sixteen years, unless it's Frank Gore.

936
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 8: In most cases, you look at a window of time,

937
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 8: and his window of five years is one of the

938
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 8: five best in NFL history.

939
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 2: That being said, people don't pay running backs anymore. They

940
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 2: just don't. I mean they just as I sit with

941
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:29,760
Speaker 2: the Colts.

942
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 6: They don't.

943
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 8: They don't for the most part, they don't. They don't

944
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 8: pay running backs. And you are making a philosophical decision

945
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 8: offensively when you do so. When Derek's on the field,

946
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,760
Speaker 8: Derek's getting the ball. Derek doesn't play third down, just doesn't.

947
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 8: He's not a he doesn't run ten routes. It's not

948
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,720
Speaker 8: what he does. He's not a past protector, not afraid

949
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 8: to hit anybody, certainly a tough guy, but just not

950
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 8: what he does. So when you pay him, and we

951
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 8: went through this when we made the decision to pay him,

952
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 8: we had to let John neu Smith the tight end walk.

953
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 2: John wu was a huge.

954
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 8: Part of what we get in game yeah, right, and

955
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,959
Speaker 8: the and the past game and I mean we'd pitch

956
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 8: it to it. We do all kinds of things with him.

957
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 8: But you make those decisions. It's philosophical. The game is

958
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 8: now outside in. It's receivers and corners and edge rushers

959
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 8: and tackles. I mean that's and the and the quarterback obviously,

960
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 8: but the game is outside in. And he took over

961
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 8: seven percent of our salary cap him out last year,

962
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 8: which was the highest running back room allocation, not just

963
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 8: one player of any team in the league. So you're you,

964
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 8: You've got to make a philosophical decision at that point,

965
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 8: and I think that's where the Titans are right now

966
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 8: because they do it. The Titans have a lot of

967
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:07,800
Speaker 8: cap room for the first time ever ever. Remember I

968
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 8: don't know, I mean literally because when the salary Matt

969
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 8: won't remember this because you're like two. But when the

970
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 8: salary cap, your dad came into being in nineteen ninety four,

971
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 8: the Houston Oilers were on a run of seven straight

972
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 8: playoff appearances. They had not prepared for the salary cap,

973
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 8: so they had to take the Warren Moon teams apart

974
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 8: because and the salary cap was thirty five million dollars.

975
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 8: They were not ready for that. So in some ways,

976
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 8: we've been behind the eight ball since the salary cap started.

977
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 8: We've had years where we had a little bit of

978
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:43,720
Speaker 8: room and it was going to kind of work out,

979
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 8: but overall, we've never been in this position. So what

980
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 8: they're doing now is they are resetting the modern day

981
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 8: priorities to take it forward.

982
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 6: And it took a minute.

983
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, I mean really, I mean, with what you

984
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 7: just said the way to describe it, and being hamstrung

985
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 7: all the way back to the start of the salary

986
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:07,879
Speaker 7: cap and predominantly been behind.

987
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 8: The eight ball, this is a this is a moment

988
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 8: in time, nice place, well, and you have the new coach,

989
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 8: you have the new president of football operations, you have

990
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 8: the second year general manager, and you're saying, Okay, how

991
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 8: do we do this to set it up to go

992
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 8: forward in this way? And you're you're making decisions not

993
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 8: just about this year, you're making decisions about how it's

994
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 8: going to look going forward. Because and this is a

995
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 8: long answer, I apologize, but this is a this is

996
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:44,399
Speaker 8: a bigger philosophical question than just Derrick Henry right right,

997
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,240
Speaker 8: And that's the tough part of it. Because Will Levis,

998
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 8: we think Will Levis might be the guy. We really

999
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:54,479
Speaker 8: do don't know. Had guys after rookie years, we thought

1000
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 8: we're the guy, and then it didn't work out. But

1001
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 8: we think there's a real chance. Well, let's say he is.

1002
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 8: You're not going to have to pay Will Levis for

1003
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 8: the next two years, so you can start to set things.

1004
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 8: You said, well, let's get an edge rusher and let's

1005
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 8: go get a free agent wide receiver. The other thing, too,

1006
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 8: is you can make a trade right now because you

1007
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 8: have cap room. You could take somebody's cap problem off

1008
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,439
Speaker 8: of their books for them, and maybe you give them

1009
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 8: back less in a draft pick than you would normally

1010
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 8: have to because you're doing them a favor. I mean,

1011
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 8: you've got all kinds of options. Well, you're also going

1012
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 8: to have to be prepared that if Will Levis is

1013
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:35,280
Speaker 8: the dude in year four, now fifty million dollars plus

1014
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 8: at least yea, right, that's where it's going. Well, so

1015
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 8: then you can set your cap towards the day you

1016
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 8: have to do that to where you don't have to

1017
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 8: let eighty two guys go in order to make it happen.

1018
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 8: That's where the Titans are at this moment, and as

1019
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 8: you watch the Titans in this offseason, that's what you're

1020
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 8: going to see. That's Mike Keith, the voice of the

1021
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 8: Tennessee Titan, speaking of legacies. You talked about Derrick Henry

1022
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 8: will Levis now being past the torch from Ryan Tannehill, who's.

1023
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 2: A free agent as well.

1024
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 1: How will you remember Ryan Tannehill.

1025
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:12,280
Speaker 8: The second best quarterback we've ever had bind Steve mcnaor. Yeah,

1026
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 8: I mean for a three year period outstanding winning football,

1027
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 8: made plays with his arm and with his legs, provided

1028
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 8: stability and leadership. Was exactly what we needed as we

1029
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 8: knocked on the door of a couple of special things.

1030
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 6: And you know, that's.

1031
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 8: Really what you ask for, is you get in those

1032
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 8: positions and you hope it's your moment and then you're

1033
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 8: able to kick it in. We went to the AFC

1034
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:42,760
Speaker 8: Championship game in nineteen we're actually ahead of Kansas City

1035
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,720
Speaker 8: in that game, and then Patrick Mahomes did Patrick Mahome

1036
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 8: things and we lost in twenty win a division in

1037
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 8: twenty one, win a division to get home field and

1038
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,919
Speaker 8: then don't beat Cincinnati. Yeah, you know, and we've that's

1039
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 8: three times we've had that happen where we've been in

1040
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 8: position and didn't take advantage.

1041
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 6: So that's all you can that's all you can hope

1042
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 6: for really quality football player. I think he still has

1043
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 6: ball left in him cost thirty six point six against

1044
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 6: the cap this year. It's gonna be interested to see

1045
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 6: what his market is and what he wants to do,

1046
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 6: because I think he can play in the league into

1047
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 6: his forties. I think he could do a good job

1048
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 6: doing that as.

1049
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 2: A backup, right, I don't know that he wants to

1050
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 2: do that.

1051
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:40,959
Speaker 8: Kids, family, great home in South Florida. Be interested to see.

1052
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,720
Speaker 8: He'll be thirty six entering this season, so be interesting

1053
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 8: to see what he wants to do next. But is

1054
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:51,800
Speaker 8: he a long term starter for somebody? I'm not that smart.

1055
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 8: Do I think he's an unbelievable backup potentially? Oh?

1056
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure.

1057
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 8: I mean that's what he did the last week of

1058
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,399
Speaker 8: the season, stepped in and then beat a Jacksonville team

1059
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 8: We had no business beating him because he played so well.

1060
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 7: That's right, Mike Keith right there, the voice of Titans football,

1061
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 7: and we're gonna let you go. You haven't seen this

1062
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:11,280
Speaker 7: for a while. I'm taking you've been with this franchise

1063
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 7: a long time. The new GM comes in, the new

1064
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 7: head coach comes in, there's a there's a stadium being built,

1065
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 7: there's Super Bowl aspirations for this team, for not only

1066
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 7: hosting but getting to there. Is this different from the

1067
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 7: last few years.

1068
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:23,919
Speaker 2: The most exciting offseason we've ever had?

1069
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 7: Say no more, and or.

1070
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 8: I think I've said the most interesting offseason based on

1071
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 8: never being in this cap situation, based on the decisions

1072
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 8: we have to make on the Derrick Henrys of the world,

1073
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 8: the stadium, we're putting shovels in the ground. This week,

1074
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,359
Speaker 8: he has to go back and do some shoveling season Schoffler, Well,

1075
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 8: you know, I'm a good shoveler. People would tell you

1076
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 8: that for years. I've been shoveling for the majority of

1077
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 8: my career.

1078
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 2: We never stopped shoveling.

1079
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 8: But you know, it's and then the coach thing, which

1080
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 8: was a surprise, only added to all of this. And

1081
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 8: you know, for the first week after we let Vrabel go,

1082
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Speaker 8: it's pretty tough.

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Speaker 2: Around our shop. Fans were like hmm.

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Speaker 8: And then you get to Monday afterwards and like, Okay,

1085
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Speaker 8: who's the next coach is going to be?

1086
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 2: Who's that going to be?

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Speaker 8: And then that process started and everybody got really excited.

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Speaker 8: And so you know, what he's finding is unlike Cincinnati

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Speaker 8: when he went in with Zach Taylor, they had to

1090
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Speaker 8: take that thing down to the studs. Our situation is

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Speaker 8: not like that, because we've got some nice pieces and

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Speaker 8: we have a quarterback. So could we get back and

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00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 8: be in the middle of it quickly? Yeah, I think

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Speaker 8: we could.

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Speaker 4: Excellent.

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Speaker 7: Well, you do great work and appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: So too, Mike Keith is so big time. Sure they're

1098
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 1: building the new stadium. They're actually consulting Mike. See now

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Speaker 1: on where the radio booths where should look like? Well,

1100
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Speaker 1: vantage point everything. You know, they have the wherewithal to

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00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: ask a legend on how this.

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Speaker 2: You haven't assault in your uh, let's see, you're gonna have.

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Speaker 8: That's what happened. You take a little part of what's

1104
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Speaker 8: really happened. And now it's a sauna. What on fridge?

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Speaker 6: Right on?

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Speaker 2: Bathroomstay now, wait a minute.

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Speaker 8: I did ask for the cubbies that you have in

1108
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Speaker 8: the booths at Oil.

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Speaker 2: Cubbies are it's a great use of space. It's a

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Speaker 2: big help.

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Speaker 8: And I don't fall and bust my tail when I

1112
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Speaker 8: try to walk out because.

1113
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Speaker 2: I step over somebody's bag. So that's great.

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Speaker 8: I did ask for a bathroom forever broadcast booth.

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Speaker 2: That's the dream.

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Speaker 1: You care what you have in it. Just no corner,

1117
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 1: no corner, don't well the plant.

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Speaker 8: The plan now is not to do corner. It's center

1119
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Speaker 8: of the field. It's going to be higher.

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Speaker 6: That's fine.

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Speaker 8: We have the lowest booth in the NFL, which everybody loves.

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Speaker 8: It's gonna be higher because the stadium is gonna be

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Speaker 8: constructed differently. But right now it's at midfield. That could change.

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Speaker 1: There's only two people right now that are enjoying this conversation.

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Speaker 8: But but I just you know, just enough space, a

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Speaker 8: place to hang your coats.

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Speaker 2: The dream would be a bathroom, but that's not gonna okay.

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Speaker 7: The sauna may be a stretch, might be Voice of

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Speaker 7: the Titans. I love it, obviously, A dear friend of

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Speaker 7: Kenny Chesney, a stadium designer, and his day job the

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Speaker 7: best in the business.

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Speaker 4: Voice of the Titans.

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Speaker 2: I love talking to a lot of people. Don't know.

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Speaker 7: A great singer too. We're gonna do it again. See

1135
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Speaker 7: you down there here and we'll see you up there

1136
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Speaker 7: next time. We see you know the drill at some point,

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Speaker 7: all right, Thanks, thank you,