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Speaker 1: be joined for the final time for the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four season. I guess for the first time in twenty

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Speaker 2: Oh no, we're not doing this last first.

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Speaker 1: Last, first than coach Brian Callahan, Welcome, thank you, and

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Speaker 1: as usual, Amy has the first question for you.

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Speaker 2: It only feels appropriate to ask, now that the entire

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Speaker 2: first season of your coaching career is complete, what are

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Speaker 2: some of the things that surprised you about this job

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Speaker 2: and what it was going to be like.

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Speaker 3: There's the surprising The thing that was probably felt the

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Speaker 3: most surprising because you can't simulate it or understand it

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Speaker 3: is take no offense to this either. It's just the

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Speaker 3: amount of media that that's always that was kind of surprising.

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Speaker 3: It's like you meet on Monday, and then the radio

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Speaker 3: and then the TV, and then I meant again, I'm

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Speaker 3: then I have a production meeting Saturday and then you

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Speaker 3: meet up for the game on Sunday, and it's just

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Speaker 3: it's kind of this constant having to be sort of

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Speaker 3: on in the press conference form and that that's that

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Speaker 3: was jarring. You know, After like two three weeks of it,

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Speaker 3: you're like, man, this is a lot.

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Speaker 1: Because when you were in Cincinnati, you probably talked once

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Speaker 1: a week, once a week, you know, and there's and

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Speaker 1: that's just not something that when you're talking to guys

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Speaker 3: Part of the job, Like you just get used to

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Speaker 3: it. It becomes part of your normal rhythm, which I'm used

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Speaker 3: that first five or six weeks where it's like, whoa,

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Speaker 3: this is a lot.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: This is especially when it's not going well, you know,

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Speaker 3: and you just you get that feeling when you're up

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Speaker 3: there all the time. And that's probably the most that

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Speaker 2: Well, at some point it almost has to feel like

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Speaker 3: Sometimes sometimes it does there's also times when the you know,

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Speaker 3: where it feels like I repeat some of the same messaging,

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Speaker 3: But there's also times when there's really things that are

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Speaker 3: so you try to balance those things and at least

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Speaker 3: if it's something that's asked in a similar faction, you

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Speaker 1: You answer questions, which is great, which is why we

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Speaker 1: enjoy working with you, which is why the media enjoy

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Speaker 1: Is that something you have to do differently as a

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Speaker 3: Yes, the best way I can put it. And I

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Speaker 3: don't think this is revealing anything extraordinary, But every time

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Speaker 3: Not all the guys pay attention to stuff. But I'm

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Speaker 2: Have you had to learn to balance how guys ingest

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Speaker 2: There's other guys who get it casually scrolling through social media.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of different ways that guys are getting information.

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Speaker 3: You know, some guys don't pay attention to it. They

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Speaker 3: Those are the things that I look at when I

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Speaker 3: That's how you should That's how it should be. Now

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Speaker 3: And I've been a part of that different processes, different places,

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Speaker 3: The right way? And I think that that's the credit

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Speaker 1: What is the number one thing that has to improve

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Speaker 3: The turnovers number one by far, you know, I think

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Speaker 3: you cut those turnovers in half. I mean, we lead

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Speaker 3: It's just purely about how we can control things better.

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Speaker 3: And again, I got to do a better job of

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Speaker 3: making sure we clean those areas up. Because you clean

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Speaker 3: that up the penalties, the sacks, and the turnovers, and

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Speaker 3: you have half of that in all three of those categories,

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Speaker 3: I think you're looking at a much different football team

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Speaker 2: Look at things like that that are like you just

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Speaker 2: describe controllables, things that you can kind of have control

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Speaker 2: a major schematic flaw, it's not the people that are

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Speaker 3: Correct?

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Speaker 2: These are small things?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And it usually is. And and you know, I'm

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Speaker 3: not going to gloss over that. We do need to

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Speaker 3: keep adding talent. We still need good players, but there

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Speaker 3: is a lot of things that we do have good

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Speaker 3: those are the things that make you feel much worse

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Speaker 3: about a performance. When you turn the ball over four

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Speaker 3: a chance team to win. Those are all the things

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Speaker 3: that that's how you lose games, and we got to

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Speaker 3: that makes sense, and that's part of it. That's part

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Speaker 1: It felt like that five of every ten questions that

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Speaker 2: Coach, you have mentioned a couple different times that you

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Speaker 3: I'll start with on offense. It's very clearly JC and Pete,

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Speaker 3: and it's gonna be another guy we're counting on. So

436
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of guys in there that I probably named.

437
00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,240
Speaker 3: That was a lot of names, maybe, but those are

438
00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,439
Speaker 3: the guy There's there's still some other guys that were

439
00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,080
Speaker 3: counting on, but those are the main main guy.

440
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Speaker 1: But that's a reason for optimism that you have these players.

441
00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:02,080
Speaker 1: And obviously you're probably gonna want another corner, and you're

442
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,640
Speaker 1: gonna want another edge rusher, and you're gonna want another receiver,

443
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:06,919
Speaker 1: and there are all kinds of things you need in

444
00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,679
Speaker 1: free agency and in the draft, but so much of

445
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,160
Speaker 1: it is about quarterback play.

446
00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,480
Speaker 3: Everything in the league is about the quarterback. You know,

447
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:14,959
Speaker 3: it's the hardest position to playing sports.

448
00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:15,399
Speaker 1: It is.

449
00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,879
Speaker 3: There's probably five or six transcendent sile players that are

450
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,600
Speaker 3: playing right now. Obviously they're all in the best teams

451
00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,240
Speaker 3: in football. Funny how that works. And there's some young

452
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,879
Speaker 3: players that are exciting in the league that are starting

453
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,200
Speaker 3: to find their footing some But if you have you

454
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:37,840
Speaker 3: you have to have really above average quarterback play to

455
00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:41,160
Speaker 3: have a playoff caliber team. And if you have above

456
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,119
Speaker 3: average play and you got a really good roster around it,

457
00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:44,960
Speaker 3: you can you can be a good football team. If

458
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Speaker 3: you have really good quarterback play, they sort of elevate

459
00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:52,440
Speaker 3: the rest of it. If you have dynamic quarterback play,

460
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 3: sometimes it doesn't matter. They take the whole show. And

461
00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 3: but yeah, it's it's the most important position in sports

462
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,439
Speaker 3: there accordingly, you know, the good ones are paid like

463
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 3: that and we have to have that.

464
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Speaker 1: Are you looking for a quarterback who fits what you

465
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Speaker 1: want to do or are you looking for a quarterback

466
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Speaker 1: who's just so talented that you will fit your system

467
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Speaker 1: to him.

468
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Speaker 3: I think you're always looking for the talent first. And

469
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,800
Speaker 3: what I mean by that is there's enough offense out

470
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,679
Speaker 3: there to fit to anybody in this style of player.

471
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Speaker 3: If he's that dynamic of a player, you find it.

472
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:29,280
Speaker 3: You find a way and figure it out. And I

473
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Speaker 3: think what's different nowadays than you know, maybe fifteen years ago,

474
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Speaker 3: is the willingness to do that. You know, a guy

475
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,120
Speaker 3: like Lamar Jackson twenty years ago probably isn't Lamar Jackson.

476
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 3: You know, they're just not the creativity involved. And look

477
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Speaker 3: at what they did with Jayden Daniels in Washington and

478
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 3: you know, Jalen Hurts and Philly. There's just the styles

479
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 3: are so much more wide open for the quarterback position

480
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,640
Speaker 3: that you there's enough offense out there that you can

481
00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:00,480
Speaker 3: fit a quarterback. You know, whatever you're saying to whatever

482
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,960
Speaker 3: plays you like, you can fit to their talents. Uh,

483
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 3: that to me is a no brainer. But there's there's

484
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 3: a part of the quarterback process that that gets overlooked,

485
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,679
Speaker 3: and that's going to be the processing part. The person

486
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Speaker 3: in the process. How do they carry themselves? How what's

487
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 3: their leadership style? Do they bring people? Do they elevate

488
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:24,399
Speaker 3: people around them? What is there out hear me say this,

489
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,159
Speaker 3: I'm sure as we go through the draft process, but

490
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,120
Speaker 3: the nervous system. You know, what is that? What does

491
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 3: their their brain tell them to do when it's time

492
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,439
Speaker 3: to do it. What does the processing look like at

493
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 3: the defense? Do they understand? Can they see in the moment?

494
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 3: And one of the one of the only way I

495
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 3: can give an example is, you know, one of the

496
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Speaker 3: things that Joe Burrow is so good at is is

497
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,159
Speaker 3: he had such an unbelievable sense of where everybody was

498
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,640
Speaker 3: on the field on both sides, and he just has

499
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 3: this natural feel for what's happening. And that's a Again,

500
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 3: that's a that's a processing, that's an internal brain functioning

501
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,719
Speaker 3: that he can feel and see things that that some

502
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 3: guys can't. And that's what you look for. You those

503
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 3: are the things that separate There's they're all going to

504
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 3: have talent, but that's the other part is what does

505
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 3: that look like?

506
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Speaker 2: How do you evaluate that? How do you how do

507
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 2: you find someone that you can see that they are

508
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:13,640
Speaker 2: processing information?

509
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 3: Well, the thing is, if we all had that answer,

510
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 3: there would be a lot less, a lot less top

511
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 3: picks that don't pan out. You know, it's hard to

512
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 3: evaluate that and sometimes you don't know until they start

513
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,679
Speaker 3: playing whether they really have it or not, but you

514
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 3: have to do your due diligence. You have to do

515
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 3: the work on it. You have to spend time with

516
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,359
Speaker 3: the players, you have to be around them. You have

517
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,560
Speaker 3: to really evaluate that and you have to really pay

518
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 3: attention on when you're when you're evaluating the tape and

519
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:40,879
Speaker 3: how you're grading it. It's it's critically important. You know,

520
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 3: you got to see guys. You want to see them communicate,

521
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:45,200
Speaker 3: you want to see them talk to players. You want

522
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,719
Speaker 3: to see what they look like when they're uh in

523
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 3: the All Star Game. You know, there's there's just there's

524
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,400
Speaker 3: all there's the checklist of things is endless, and it's

525
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 3: there's no perfect science is my is my point, and

526
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 3: you got to do your best to uncover as much

527
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Speaker 3: as you can so you can determine whether or not

528
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 3: they have what it needs, what needs to be for

529
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Speaker 3: a quarterback.

530
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Speaker 1: All right, So let me follow that. You you get

531
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Speaker 1: a guy who's a veteran like Gino Smith, who basically

532
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: didn't play. He was on a roster, but he didn't

533
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: play for eight years and now he's been very successful

534
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 1: for the Seattle Seahawks. Baker Mayfield has found himself with

535
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We know about Sam Darnold in

536
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: the year that he's had overall, and I could give

537
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 1: other examples. So when you talk about that nervous system

538
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 1: and almost that fighter pilot mentality that comes in, is

539
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 1: that something that when you watch one of those veterans,

540
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 1: you can see that Baker Mayfield has now developed more

541
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 1: of that Joe Burrow sence than when he had than

542
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:47,200
Speaker 1: when he played in Cleveland.

543
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you can see all of that development. It's

544
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,439
Speaker 3: it is also something that can be developed and is

545
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 3: not It's hard, but it can be developed. And you know,

546
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 3: I think those some of that thing comes from experience

547
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 3: to it comes from just the years of repetition and

548
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,639
Speaker 3: being a part of it. And then you know, finding

549
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 3: the right fitting. You know that fits. You know what

550
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 3: they do in Tampa Bay Fitzbaker, Well, they do a

551
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 3: good job with it. Gino continues to throw the balls

552
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 3: because anybody right in terms of his production, and those

553
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 3: things come with with a bit of time too. It's

554
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 3: not always immediate. It's it's harder, I think, to be

555
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 3: what Jayden Daniels was this year, what Joe Burrow was

556
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 3: as a young player, to immediately come in and do that.

557
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 3: I do think it starts to take more time. Uh,

558
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 3: and you kind of grow as you learn, you know,

559
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,360
Speaker 3: your banking experience as you're as you're playing. And that's

560
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 3: the challenge of playing young quarterbacks is that there's there's

561
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 3: always going to be a curve that they're that they're

562
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Speaker 3: working through.

563
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Speaker 2: Given your background, given the quarterbacks that you've worked with,

564
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 2: the experiences that you've had, and the experience that you've

565
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 2: had now as a head coach, are you incredibly well

566
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Speaker 2: qualified to be leading this search for the Tennessee does no.

567
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've spent my life, you know, I think that's

568
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 3: what that's I mean, this is my life's work, right,

569
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 3: this is what I do. This is what I do

570
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 3: daily for hours upon hours of days is football. And

571
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 3: I've spent a lot of years of evaluating quarterbacks every

572
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 3: year in the league. I've I've evaluated the draft classes,

573
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 3: and I've written reports and I've done the research, and

574
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 3: I've been a part of selecting a quarterback number one overall,

575
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,479
Speaker 3: and I've I've worked with guys that were selected one

576
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 3: number one overall. I see what it looks like and

577
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 3: what they need to be like. But you know, everything

578
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 3: I've ever done has been centered around quarterback play, and

579
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 3: I feel very confident in my ability to diagnose it,

580
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 3: see it, evaluate it, coach it. You know, That's just

581
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 3: that's all I've ever done. And I've played some of

582
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 3: it too, you know, I've I've not played at a

583
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 3: high enough level, but I've played quarterback. I know how

584
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 3: to go through progressions, and I know footwork, and I've

585
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 3: thrown the football and I know what it feels like,

586
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,360
Speaker 3: and I know it feels like to get to get

587
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 3: hit really hard and that effects how you play. It's

588
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 3: those are all things that I feel really confident about

589
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 3: as a coach, and so I'm gonna have to lend

590
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 3: every bit of that ability to help us find the

591
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 3: best player at that position that we can find. And

592
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 3: we'll see where that comes from, whether it's free agency

593
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 3: or the draft, and but we'll evaluate every option possible

594
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 3: and then we'll have a great feel for what that

595
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 3: looks like for us, and we'll have a good answer

596
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 3: when we get to one.

597
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah, that was a good question. Good question. We

598
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 1: need that gotask all right, So let me ask you

599
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: this in terms of going forward with the quarterback. Is

600
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: one of the prospects coming out who will be a

601
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: rookie gonna have to convince you dramatically not to go

602
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: ahead and take a veteran who can come in and

603
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: guide the ship. Because with sixty something million dollars in

604
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: available cap room and picks, and the fact that you

605
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: have the number one pick in the draft, I mean,

606
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: if you want to make a move for a veteran,

607
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: you can quite easily do that. So is one of

608
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 1: these guys got to show you I'm so good, don't

609
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: do the safer thing, which most people would say, pick me.

610
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 3: I think that's there's something to that, you know, you

611
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 3: gotta feel you got to feel really confident that their

612
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 3: ability to lift your program is going to be better

613
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 3: than what's available, and that's our job is to find it.

614
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 3: The hard part is that the free agency period starts

615
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 3: well before the draft does March twelfth, and so there's

616
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 3: there's also a distinct possibility that you that you sign

617
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 3: a veteran and still draft one. You know that that's

618
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 3: a possibility. I think. I think literally every option is

619
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 3: on the table right now until we til we sort

620
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 3: of get through our process and get get down into

621
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 3: the nuts and bolts of the evaluation period. All things

622
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 3: are sort of on the table, and the timing of

623
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 3: both is what makes it a little bit trickier is

624
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 3: that you know, you're not the phragency starts in mid March,

625
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 3: and by that point you're sort of really just kind

626
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 3: of starting on the draft, you know, because you just

627
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 3: you've finished free agency and so you phree agency always

628
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 3: comes first and then you get to the draft part,

629
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 3: and it's just the way the calendar goes. So but

630
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,479
Speaker 3: those are things that we rely on. The scouting parts process.

631
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 3: They've been evaluating these guys for sometimes two and three years,

632
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 3: you know, through the through the years of evaluation, and

633
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 3: you lean on that as well. So it's it's all

634
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 3: on the table, to be honest.

635
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 2: So what comes next for you, Brian Callahan and the

636
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 2: rest of the Titans coaching staff in the next couple

637
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 2: of days weeks.

638
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 3: They I've given our guys a very sort of clear

639
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 3: set of things I want them to think about. I

640
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 3: have a meeting schedule with every coach, be roughly you know,

641
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 3: that schedule for an hour or something. Take that long,

642
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 3: some won't. Where I just I want their feedback on everything,

643
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 3: you know, and I want their their thoughts on their players.

644
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 3: I want their thoughts on the process. Where can we

645
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 3: get better? How can I serve better? All those things

646
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 3: are really important to me, and so that's that's what

647
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 3: I'll be doing. Really once I even leave here, that'll

648
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 3: process will start for me. And then I'll do that

649
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 3: until Thursday. I'll have our final staff, meaning Thursday afternoon,

650
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 3: and then they'll be off until February third, and we

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Speaker 3: We'll need it. Take a step back, remove yourself from

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Speaker 3: of us, and a lot of work that I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: need everybody's best. And once you're refreshed and we hit

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Speaker 1: want to ask you, I know, and this is what

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Speaker 1: I want to end with. You may have a note one,

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Speaker 1: but this is my last year. You wrote a lot

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Speaker 1: of notes this year. You put notes in books, Yes,

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Speaker 1: handwritten handwritten notebooks, help books and notebooks notebooks. Yes, how

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Speaker 1: many notebooks did you fill up?

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Speaker 3: Three? Three? And they're not all three fully like full

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Speaker 3: page to page. They also have different topics one of

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Speaker 3: the one in one book that's probably halfway fulls. Every

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Speaker 3: week I make note of all the you know, the

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Speaker 3: Because so I have a kind of quick reference. I'm

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Speaker 3: we have it on a computer system, but I have it.

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Speaker 3: I can look it up very quickly. And then that

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Speaker 3: whole front part of that page is what did I

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Speaker 3: talk to the team about Saturday night? What was the message,

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Speaker 3: what did I use, what did I talk about?

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Speaker 1: And that.

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Speaker 3: Helps me because it helps me know when and what

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Speaker 3: I talked about at certain times. You don't repeat messages

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Speaker 3: or anything like that. And then I have a list

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Speaker 3: of pregame notes, So when I sit in the locker

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Speaker 3: room in the morning, I take a bunch of notes

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Speaker 3: about the week, things that came up, what I could

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Speaker 3: do different, how, what did I what did I learn

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Speaker 3: from a week? Anything weird, you know, like for example,

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Speaker 3: like trade deadline, Like that was a really uncomfortable, strange week, right,

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Speaker 3: there was a lot of weird things that the team

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Speaker 3: felt different and I and I kind of document all

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Speaker 3: of those things so I know what it what I

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Speaker 3: went through and you can refer to it. I have

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Speaker 3: a decision making notebook that's you know, sort of like

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Speaker 3: critical decisions that I made at certain junctures and why

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Speaker 3: I made it and what and what what went into

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Speaker 3: making that decision, so you can look back and be like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I remember that that's man, I could do this differently

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Speaker 3: this time, or maybe that was good. I should I'll

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Speaker 3: handle it the same again, and then the last one.

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Speaker 3: I have a sort of like a you know, kind

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Speaker 3: of catch all notebook that I kind of sometimes carry

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Speaker 3: with me on I just I take notes, I write

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Speaker 3: things in it. Sometimes I'll transfer those things into one

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Speaker 3: of the other notebooks, but most of the time that's

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Speaker 3: just got all kinds of stuff in it, from reminders

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Speaker 3: for something for the day, or or you know, actual

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Speaker 3: like real commentary about something I wrote down in the moment.

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Speaker 3: So I just kind of I learned it from Zach Taylor,

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Speaker 3: and over the years in Cincinnati, we would occasionally pull

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Speaker 3: out a notebook from you know, off season one or

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Speaker 3: off season two, and he just you know, we go

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Speaker 3: through and flip through and just kind of interesting to

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Speaker 3: see what thoughts you had in those moments. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's a good resource to have and a good thing

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Speaker 3: to have you able to go look back on.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for taking time. We got the season.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having more wins to come in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: That's the plan. That's that's the plan for Brian Callahan

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Speaker 1: and Amy Wells. Keith, thank you for joining us for

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Speaker 1: the Oh Teeth. Keith