1 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: This is the OTP sponsored by your good friends at 2 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,280 Speaker 1: far Bureau Health Plays. Far Bureau Health Lands is healthcare 3 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: coverage the way it should be, high quality, sensibly priced, 4 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: and easy to apply for it at FBHP dot com. 5 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 1: Mike Keith and Amy Wells. Late on this Thursday afternoon, 6 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: September eighth, we are in the window within seventy two 7 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: hours of kickoff for the Tennessee Titans twenty twenty two 8 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: season is it is rapidly approaching. Now, it is rapidly approaching. 9 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: We are right in the thick of it. It's been 10 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: really good to be back in a regular season flow. 11 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Mike Keith, but I miss it. 12 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:05,759 Speaker 1: I miss the consistency, I missed the pace. I miss 13 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: the excitement of a regular season week of game day prep, 14 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: like I really enjoy that. And so for week one, 15 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: I'm always very excited to be back because it feels 16 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,759 Speaker 1: like home. It just feels good. Wow, So I'm very excited. 17 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,199 Speaker 1: It feels like home. It feels like home. My body 18 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 1: knows how to do this. There's a lot of stuff 19 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: I don't know how to do, but I know how 20 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: to do a game week. Well, that's good to hear, yeah, 21 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: because it is game week. It is game week, all right. 22 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,039 Speaker 1: Not sharing my enthusiasm. Well, I'm just good. I mean, 23 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: you were going into something poetic there, and I didn't 24 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: want to interrupt. I guess I'm just feeling some type 25 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: of ways. You're feeling some type of way today. Injury 26 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: report for Thursday is out again. Titans defensive backs Lonnie 27 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: Johnson and Elijah Molden do not practice. Added to the 28 00:01:54,880 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: do not practice list is linebacker Chance Campbell. Limited participants 29 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: in practice today Jamarco Jones with a triceps injury, and 30 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: Ola A. Dainty with a neck injury. He is new 31 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 1: to the injury list. Giants did not practice on Thursday. 32 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: They're doing that kind of funky thing where they practice 33 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: on Tuesday, practice on Wednesday, and then take Thursday off 34 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: before going back onto the field Friday and Saturday. I 35 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: don't know if they're going to do that the whole season, 36 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 1: but some teams do that on a regular basis. It's 37 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: very interesting. Not many teams do that, but there are 38 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: some that do. When you talk about being in the 39 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: flow of a regular season week, that just really trips 40 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: my brain up. I've never been with a team that 41 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,519 Speaker 1: does it that way, but I can see the benefits 42 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,639 Speaker 1: do it. So Jeff Fisher started doing that later in 43 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: his career, but he didn't do it with the Titans. 44 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: He did do that with the Rams. The feeling is 45 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: you give the fellas a chance to get off their 46 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: feet on Thursdays, to bounce back from the Tuesday and 47 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: Wednesday practice, and then potentially they're fresher when they get 48 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: to Friday and Saturday for their prep towards Sunday. So 49 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: I guess my question is after a Sunday you play 50 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: game on Sunday on the back end. Is that kind 51 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: of a heavier lift on Monday and Tuesday or are 52 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: those Well, there are some people who feel like that 53 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: you should be doing something on Tuesday to sort of 54 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: get the soreness out. So you take Monday and it's 55 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: a little light Tuesday, you're just working the soreness out. 56 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: It's not a heavy day of practice. Wednesday is a 57 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: heavy day of practice. Then you're off Thursday, and then 58 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: you come back with a little more than the average 59 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: Friday on Friday. Interesting. Yeah, it's a different sort because 60 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: normally it's off Monday, off Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, very 61 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: light on Saturday. Yeah, well, hopefully it doesn't work for them, Okay, 62 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: I mean we're playing them in seventy two hours. I 63 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: don't want them to be successful. In case you have 64 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: not heard, the officiating crew for this game is led 65 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: by Jerome Bojer and he is in his nineteenth year. 66 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: I found these things pretty interesting occupations. Yes, he is 67 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 1: a retired insurance underwriter. That's what he did. Now. The 68 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: majority of his crew, five of his six guys are back, 69 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: so this is a crew that will have six of 70 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: seven back for the twenty twenty two seasons, so they 71 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: have continuity. They do have one of the ten rookie officials, however, 72 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: field judge Alonzo Ramsay is coming into the league for 73 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 1: the first time and this will be his first NFL 74 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: game as a rookie official. It's probably nice to be 75 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 1: with a team that has such consistency. There's not a 76 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: lot of change up there. It's easier probably to get 77 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: in a groove to understand how everything works as we 78 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: record this. The Titans, speaking of rookies, have eleven rookies 79 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: on their roster. Wow. If ten or more play on 80 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: Sunday against the Giants, that'll be a Titans record isn't 81 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 1: really it would be a record. Now here are the rookies. 82 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 1: Ryan Stonehouse the punter. He's gonna play, Malik Willis backup quarterback. 83 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: You wouldn't wouldn't think Treylan Burke's wide receiver, Kyle Phillips 84 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:24,040 Speaker 1: wide receiver, Roger McCray defensive back, Hassan Haskins running back, 85 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: Trey Avery cornerback, Julius Chestnut running back, Chance Campbell linebacker, 86 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: Nicholas Petit Frere offensive tackle, chig A co Quo tight end. 87 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna get to ten. No, I 88 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: don't think so either. But still that's a lot of 89 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 1: rookie presents and a lot of people who are being 90 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 1: expected to perform. Even if it's not a record, it's 91 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: still a lot. Nine is the record. And that happened 92 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: on September eleventh, two thousand and four, at Miami. That 93 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 1: was a game that was played on a sad because 94 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: they were anticipating a hurricane and so at the very 95 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: end of the week they moved this game up to Saturday. 96 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: So we hurriedly got out of town on Friday night, 97 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:14,679 Speaker 1: got to Miami, got up, played the game the next 98 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 1: day in what was just a crazy sort of windy day. 99 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 1: The hurricane didn't ended up it did not end up hitting. However, 100 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, there's a lot of weird stuff 101 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: that happens in Miami, especially weather related. Counting the eleven rookies, 102 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 1: they're twenty one new players on the titans fifty three 103 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: man roster, which is a lot. Last year, the Titans 104 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: added eighteen new players. So here are the ten veteran 105 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: newcomers we've already mentioned the eleven rookies. Wide receiver Robert Woods, 106 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: defensive back Lonnie Johnson, defensive back Joshua Kalu, who's not 107 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,159 Speaker 1: really new, but he's new from last year. Kalu was 108 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:00,359 Speaker 1: on the Giants injured reserve a year ago. So Joshua Kalu, 109 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: Ugo Amadi defensive back, a J. Moore defensive back, Derek Tuska, 110 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: outside linebacker, Dennis Daley, offensive lineman, Jamarco Jones, offensive lineman 111 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: Austin Hooper, tight end de Marcus Walker defensive lineman. It's 112 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: a lot. It's a lot for a team that won 113 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: that mini games. Your normal turnover is like thirteen to eighteen. 114 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: It's like twenty five percent to thirty three percent roughly 115 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: of your roster. That's a normal for a team that 116 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: returns the same GM and the same head coach. So 117 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 1: this goes to show I mean, when you look at 118 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: why it happened, and when you look at who the 119 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 1: newcomers are. There was obviously turnover at wide receiver, yes, 120 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: so you drafted him, you traded for him. There was 121 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: some turnover in the secondary, so you did a few 122 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: things there, and you've had some injuries in camp. You 123 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: had to let some guys go because of salary cap reasons, 124 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: and that drew in some other plays. And then you're 125 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: just trying to get better, right, you know, you were 126 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: just you're just trying to improve yourself in different areas. 127 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: You took a quarterback in the draft in the third round, 128 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: you took a running back in the fourth round of 129 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: the draft, so on and so forth. It's very interesting. Well, 130 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: and you have to think also the Titans roster that 131 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 1: they ended the season with was dramatically different than the 132 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: roster they started the season with, and so that changes 133 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: a couple of things too. You had some people that 134 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:32,439 Speaker 1: were on that roster that didn't have long term contracts 135 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,959 Speaker 1: or have any sort of extended commitment to the team. Well, 136 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: there weren't plans for all of these guys because the 137 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: basis was needed people. Now, you needed a person now, 138 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: that's exactly right. So maybe a little bit more turnover 139 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 1: than normal to all of the reasons you mentioned before, 140 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 1: but also because there were a lot of people on 141 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 1: the roster who weren't intended to be their long term. 142 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: The Giants come into this game with their new head coach, 143 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 1: Brian day Ball. He is the twentieth head coaching Giants history. Wow, 144 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 1: which is pretty interesting. I mean, I guess they've been 145 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 1: around well the year history. Okay, that's true. I mean 146 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: they are a franchise that I mean, they're one of 147 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: the flagship franchises in the NFL. Been to five Super 148 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: Bowls one four of them, so they've you know, they've 149 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: got a tremendous amount of history and they are the 150 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 1: reason in many ways for the success of the NFL 151 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 1: because at the time where college football was so much 152 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: bigger than the NFL, even toward the late fifties, they 153 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: had an opportunity to get their own TV deal because 154 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: they were the New York Giants, and they said, no, 155 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: we should make a TV deal and share it with everybody. Well, 156 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,559 Speaker 1: I mean, I guess sure, but it fur I didn't 157 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: expect you to say nice, Well, I mean it is. 158 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: And think about how it changed everything. The impact of 159 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: one decision, it's the whole thing. With the league. To 160 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,679 Speaker 1: a certain extent, our media in this country is still 161 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: centered around New York. Yes, because that's really where it started. 162 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: That's where it came from. And if you have that 163 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: in your mind, you can see how a network would 164 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: go to the New York Giants and say we'll carry 165 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: all your games because to the people in New York, 166 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: it's everything, and they think it's New York and then 167 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 1: it's the rest of the country. You know. It's amazing 168 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: when we would meet people from New York who would 169 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: come here early in the days of the Titans, they 170 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: didn't really know where Nashville was. Oh no, people from 171 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: New York being from Missouri telling someone you're from Missouri 172 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: to a person from New York, no clue where is that? Yeah? 173 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: It could be anywhere from about where Ohio is to 174 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:53,439 Speaker 1: about where Oregon, Yeah, Oregon is or Wisconsin. Right, they 175 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: have no idea in any direction. There is what exists 176 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: outside of New York. There is no spatial awareness about 177 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:04,199 Speaker 1: the rest of the country in that way. Texas, California, right, 178 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 1: they know where Los Angeles is. It's far yea. And 179 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: but that I mean, that's okay. I mean the people 180 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: from New York have, obviously, with the league office and 181 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: with everything that goes with the media that covers the 182 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: national football they have come to love Nashville. It is 183 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: a favorite spot to visit, to eat, to watch football, 184 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: to to talk to the people. Many of them fell 185 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:32,439 Speaker 1: in love with it with the draft, but there were 186 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: a lot who fell in love with it just with 187 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: the early days of the Titans, because they would come 188 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: here and I have friends from up there who would say, 189 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:45,439 Speaker 1: this place is really nice. I'm like, yeah, that's why 190 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: I live here, thank you. I've thought it was wonderful 191 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:53,439 Speaker 1: for many years. But again, the Giants, big Blue, I mean, 192 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:56,560 Speaker 1: it's a whole thing. And there are people in this 193 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: part of the country who grew up following the Giants 194 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: and they are one of those flagship teams. So they're 195 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: trying to get back on track right now after going 196 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 1: twenty two and fifty nine in the last five seasons, 197 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,719 Speaker 1: which is hard to believe because over the course of 198 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,959 Speaker 1: my lifetime, in your lifetime, they've been good. Yeah, they 199 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: I mean, they've been great for a long time, and 200 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: you kind of There are some franchises that when you 201 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 1: think about them, you think, oh, wan't want you know, 202 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: But the Giants are never that way. Even when they're 203 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:28,679 Speaker 1: not having a great season. You don't think of the 204 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,320 Speaker 1: Giants as a team that's struggling. But they have been. 205 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: But they have been recently, There's no doubt. So the 206 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: lore overrides the actual big story out of New York 207 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:41,440 Speaker 1: this week is that Brian day Ball, the former Buffalo 208 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, will not call the plays. It'll be Mike Kafka, 209 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: who is a former NFL quarterback, came over from Kansas City. 210 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:53,439 Speaker 1: He will call the plays. Mike Kafka is a former 211 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: tight really rhet. Brian pointed this out to me, and 212 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: I remembered it after he said it to me, and 213 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 1: I went and I looked it up. Mike Kafka was 214 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 1: on the Titans practice squad from December sixteenth, twenty fifteen 215 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: to December twenty second, twenty fifteen. He was a Titan 216 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: for six days on the practice squad. Here you were here, 217 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,439 Speaker 1: Eshley Farrell was here. We were all here. Mike Kafka 218 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: for six days was on the Titans practice squad in 219 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, which is a very forgettable year, but it 220 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: is very forgetable. I wonder what he remembers aboudy six 221 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: days in Nashville. The Marriott, Yeah, I mean the room service. Well, 222 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:43,079 Speaker 1: he probably stayed up the street here at the Millennium 223 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: Maxwell House. Yeah, I'm sure he did so. He probably 224 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: went to the Quick Mart on the corner. Yeah, I'm 225 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:53,440 Speaker 1: sure he ate at the McDonald Jimmy Johns. Yeah, Jersey 226 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: Mikes Jerseys, Yeah, a Jersey Mikes. Went to the Starbucks 227 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: on the corner, it was there in twenty fifteen. Yeah, 228 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:04,559 Speaker 1: and Taco Bell Wendy's down here. He probably he probably 229 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:07,680 Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of wold, I remember that whole 230 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: six days I was here. Yeah, I'm sure he didn't 231 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: like go see the Parthenon or Hey, I'm gonna tell you, 232 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 1: Mike Kaflic's gonna be a head coach in this league. Yeah. 233 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: He's thirty five years old. He played at Northwestern. He 234 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: was a quarterback in this league and kind of bounced 235 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: around for six years. Originally a fourth round draft pick, 236 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: and his ascent has been so rapid, much like a 237 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel. I think a lot of people think Kafka, 238 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: if he can get Daniel Jones in this offense, going 239 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: is going to be sort of that next level guy. 240 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: Were you surprised when it was announced that he would 241 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: be the one calling the place because that was not 242 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: the assumption. That was not the assumption. But I think 243 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: everybody realizes he's a boy wonder and I think day 244 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: ball in especially having been with Nick Saban. You know, 245 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: he was with Bell Belichick, He's with Nick Saban. I mean, 246 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: he's been with some really good coaches, Sean McDermott in Buffalo. 247 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: I think he sees that as the head coach, especially 248 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 1: at this moment in time right now, it's probably better 249 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: if he just concentrates on being the head coach. Did 250 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: you say he's thirty five Kafka, Yeah, Kafka's thirty five. Wow, 251 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 1: offensive coordinator in the NFL. Thirty five, right, that's pretty good. Well, 252 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: you know one thing, one thing he's gonna do is 253 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 1: he's going to hand the ball to sae Quon Barkley 254 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: A bunch, yes, And we had the opportunity on our 255 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: Wednesday night radio show, which is on Titans Radio including 256 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 1: one H four five Zone in Nashville. It's called Titans Tonight. 257 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: It's with Keith Bullock. You may remember him. He played 258 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: linebacker for the team and he was good. He was good. 259 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: So we got into a great discussion because you think 260 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 1: about Keith Bullock's career and how many great running backs 261 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: he and the Titans defense took on and in many 262 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: cases stymied in a big way. And so we got 263 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: into sort of a roundtable discussion Amy Ret, Brian, Keith 264 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: bullicking myself about the keys to stopping say Quon Barkley. 265 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: Here's that segment from Titans Tonight earlier this week, actually 266 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: on Wednesday on Titans Radio. Everybody has to be at 267 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: the point of attack. And by that, I mean he 268 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 1: can you know, take it inside, bounce it, jump cut, 269 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: you know, if there's a crease there, he's going to 270 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: take it. You know, you just have to build a 271 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: all we you know, when we played against him, it 272 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: was a couple of years ago, but you know, our 273 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: our good players were ones where we had the edge 274 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: set and there was you know, not a whole lot 275 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: of space inside and trying to avoid those opportunities where 276 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: there's just one guy making a tackle on him, because 277 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: those are difficult, all right, So you've done it against 278 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: all kinds of backs, Jerome Bettis, you know, Jamal Lewis, 279 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 1: then Jacobs. I can go on and on. How do 280 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: you what's the key from the linebacker position for the 281 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: entire defense? Just slowing down a back like this guy 282 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: who has a lot to prove and he's finally healthy. Well, 283 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: I would think that his style is most you know, 284 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,199 Speaker 1: in this size. You know, you can kind of, you know, 285 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 1: compare him to a Fred Taylor maybe but minus the 286 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,960 Speaker 1: quick as not as quick or as fast, but he's 287 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 1: still just his style that he plays. He's able to catch, 288 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 1: can run between the tackles, can do all the things 289 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: you ask of him on the football field. So it 290 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: actually starts. I started on Monday, since it's the first 291 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:40,439 Speaker 1: game of this year as a linebacker, I'm letting my 292 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 1: whole defensive unit know. And you heard Mike Vrabel say, 293 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: and at the end of that pressor that we just 294 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 1: heard that, you know, the one on one tackles. You 295 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:50,880 Speaker 1: don't want to be in too many one on one 296 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 1: situations with this guy. So that's why I say I'm 297 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:57,400 Speaker 1: making sure that my defensive line knows as well as 298 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 1: my safeties that look, we got a gang tackle this 299 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 1: guy early and often. And me as a linebacker, I 300 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: would assume if I were like Schwartz with Jim Schwartz, 301 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,160 Speaker 1: who was our coordinator at the time, would always give 302 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: me the assignment, like on third down or those blitzing 303 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:17,160 Speaker 1: downs up the one on one you know, matchup, whether 304 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,199 Speaker 1: it's man to man in passing situations. So someone like 305 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 1: say Quin, you can't let him get going. You know 306 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 1: you gotta you know, you gotta snuff him out in 307 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 1: the run early. Hopefully some of those d linemen get 308 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: some big hits on them. You'd be surprised when a 309 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: defensive lineman is able to get a solid hit on 310 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,679 Speaker 1: a running back how much it slows them down. I 311 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: remember one year we were playing Ricky Williams here, um 312 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: the Ricky Williams that won the rushing title, and I 313 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:46,959 Speaker 1: was in the hole and he cut back into Robert 314 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 1: Smith and it was like one of the biggest collisions 315 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: I've ever like, it was just crazy and then but 316 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 1: you could tell that took a lot of steam out 317 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,880 Speaker 1: of the way. Ricky Williams was hitting the hole, so 318 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 1: you get some big hits on him and gang tackle 319 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,679 Speaker 1: him and frustrate him. You know, he'll come back in 320 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: the second half thinking he's gonna get But that just 321 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,399 Speaker 1: the formula. You know, get to him, cut off his 322 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 1: running lanes, gang tackle him, be real physical with him, 323 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: and running backs don't like that. How dangerous is a 324 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,439 Speaker 1: player like that? Though, to the way Mike described him 325 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:24,199 Speaker 1: as completely correct. He's healthy, he's motivated, he's kind of 326 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 1: angry at a lot of people for a lot of things. 327 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: He's got a chip on his shoulder and it's week one, 328 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,199 Speaker 1: so he started him right out of the gate. He 329 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: wants to set the tone for this season. He's got 330 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:37,400 Speaker 1: something to prove. How dangerous is a guy like that? 331 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: He's very dangerous because he's one of those guys. You know, 332 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 1: the guys that scared me the most weren't like the 333 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,680 Speaker 1: Brandon Jacobs, the bigger guys. You know, they can take 334 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 1: it at the distance if they get a crease. But 335 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: these guys, a guy like say kan one miss tackle. 336 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:55,439 Speaker 1: He's cutting against the grain and he's going eighty five yards. 337 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: You know, and you bring up a very very very 338 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: critical and important point. It's the first game of the season, 339 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 1: and we normally see in the first game of the 340 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 1: season very poor tackling. The Titans have to be great 341 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,880 Speaker 1: tacklers on a guy like this, you know, that's why 342 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 1: it has to be. I don't care if everyone's running 343 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:14,879 Speaker 1: to the ball and people are missing, you know, but 344 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: if people are constantly getting to the ball, one person missed, 345 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 1: second person miss but the third and fourth guy is 346 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 1: going to clean it up. So you need to see 347 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,440 Speaker 1: gang tackling. Definitely don't want to see one on ones. 348 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: What is the reason for the tackling being Is it 349 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,199 Speaker 1: just knocking some rust off? Is that what makes it 350 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: a little more tricky in week one? No, I think 351 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,959 Speaker 1: you know, the way that the offseason is in the 352 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: preseason is formatted. You know, they're not tackling. That's how 353 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:41,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not in camps, but I'm sure 354 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: they're not tackling to the ground in camps. And you 355 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 1: know they're not even getting live reps until the first 356 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: game of the season. We were speaking earlier, you know, 357 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,159 Speaker 1: back in the day. You know, Jeff would have us 358 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,119 Speaker 1: not that I agreed with it, but he would have 359 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,199 Speaker 1: us out there until like the second third quarter in 360 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: the third and fourth game. And for me as a player, 361 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: I always worried about, like man, am I as good 362 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: as I was last year, and I would have a 363 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: hard time going into the first game of the season 364 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:14,160 Speaker 1: without making the play. In the preseason, I always made 365 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 1: it a point to go out there and make a play. 366 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 1: I mean, we'll be sitting in the room and Coach 367 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 1: Mack will just be running the film and we're not 368 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 1: game planning anything. But I knew as a pro that, yeah, 369 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: these basic players, I'm gonna make a play out there. 370 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: So I think that's where the rust comes from, just 371 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,920 Speaker 1: guys not having enough live reps to get out there 372 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: and tackle someone full speed. Keith, something I've always wondered 373 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: about you when you played for the Titans, and not 374 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: to stereotype all big physical backs, but how much did 375 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: an Eddie George you seeing him in practice and go 376 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: in two days and those things back then prepare you 377 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 1: for these battles that you're describing. It was great to 378 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,440 Speaker 1: go against Eddie, although you know our practices would be 379 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,239 Speaker 1: a little more turned up. You know, Jeff didn't want 380 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: you to, you know, hit the starters Eddie. Eddie was 381 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 1: with whatever, so you know, we bang a little bit. 382 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: Obviously we're not wrapping up and doing all those things, 383 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: but we're gonna run into each other full speed, and 384 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,199 Speaker 1: you know, let it be what it is. Um it 385 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,919 Speaker 1: was a mentality, you know, like I got here and 386 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: there was just a mentality. You know. I was told 387 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 1: how to play against Jerome Bettis, I was told how 388 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: to play against Corey Dillon. I was told how to 389 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 1: play against you know, the Fred Taylor's, the Eric Retz 390 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 1: and all the older school guys when I came in. 391 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: So then, um, look, you don't want to be on 392 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: that film look in a certain way. So you take 393 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:35,439 Speaker 1: your shot and you just hope you end up on 394 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 1: the right side of the play. Keith Bullock is always entertaining, 395 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: always he is, and he has very good insight. He 396 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: has tremendous insight. 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On the Monday night edition this 406 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: past week of the Mike Vrabel Show six o'clock on 407 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 1: Titans Radio. That's sixth Central at Kevin Kugler on Kevin 408 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 1: Cougler is a really good announcer. He's been working baseball 409 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: all summer. Now he's starting to do football for Fox. 410 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: And guess which game he drew this week, Titans Giants. 411 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 1: There it is. He'll work with Mark Sanchez and your 412 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:49,439 Speaker 1: friend Laura Oakman, Big Laura Oakman, Nashvillion Laura, and so 413 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: they'll have a good crew. They're getting this game. By 414 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,919 Speaker 1: the way, they're getting to go to London in just 415 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 1: a few weeks, so they're pretty fired up about that 416 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 1: getting that trip. But in talking with him, I wanted 417 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: to know from way outside and he's in Nebraska. He's 418 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 1: a Nebraska Cornhusker. What we don't mess with Nebraska in Missouri, 419 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 1: you don't know, we don't mess with those people. I'm sorry, 420 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 1: that's okay. You're not in Missouri though, you're in the 421 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 1: Midwestern man that he is a nineteen ninety four Nebraska graduate, 422 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 1: so from the thirty five thousand foot view of Lincoln, Nebraska, 423 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 1: or maybe he lives in Omaha, but he's in Nebraska. Guy, 424 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 1: what are the storylines as he prepares to do this 425 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: broadcast and come to Nashville. Some of our talk from 426 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: Monday Night with Kevin Coogler on the Mike Rapel Show 427 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:47,679 Speaker 1: from Titans Radio. Kevin, you're doing the game on Fox 428 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: on Sunday, and at every week, whether it's Fox or 429 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,400 Speaker 1: CBS or NBC or whomever has the game, there are 430 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,360 Speaker 1: storylines that the national media will pull out of every game. 431 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,160 Speaker 1: They're generally three. Obviously, one is people want to see 432 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: what the new look Giants look like. I think the 433 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: people want to see Derrick Henry is he back from 434 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 1: the foot injury? But the other one that jumps out 435 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: to me is how does Ryan Tannehill respond after an 436 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: end to twenty twenty one that was not what he 437 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 1: or anybody else wanted. What do you think Tannehill has 438 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,160 Speaker 1: to do to start to answer that question? I think 439 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 1: what he has to do and I don't want to 440 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: use the word manage because game management associated with a 441 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,399 Speaker 1: quarterback seems to be sort of a stigma, don't I 442 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 1: don't approve of that notion. I think that's one of 443 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 1: the main jobs of a quarterback is to manage the game. 444 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: And what that could mean is maybe he has to 445 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: throw for three hundred yards or maybe he has to 446 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 1: hand it off thirty times. To me, managing the game 447 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: means you're managing something to get the win. It's feel 448 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 1: different to me that you're managing a store. You're managing 449 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 1: a business. You're managing it. However you need to manage 450 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: it to be profitable, to be successful. Well, that's the 451 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 1: same thing for me as a quarterback. If you're managing 452 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 1: the game, to me, that means you're doing what you 453 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,919 Speaker 1: need to do to get the win. Nothing else matters 454 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: in this league other than at the end of the day, 455 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 1: do you have a w But what I think you 456 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: need to see from Ryan tannehiz how did he recover 457 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: from that dark space that he talked about at the 458 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: end of the season and where does he go this year? 459 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: Having Derrick Henry back certainly helps a defense that hopefully 460 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: will be better for the Titans helps as well. But 461 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:32,640 Speaker 1: I think Ryan Tanny will just need to go out 462 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,399 Speaker 1: play a clean game on Sunday. Go out, play clean, 463 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 1: navigate your team to a win, and a lot of 464 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: that dies down after Week one. Once you see that 465 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: he's able to navigate the team to a season opening win, 466 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: then you kind of settle in to what the season 467 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: brings you in the ups and downs of a regular season. 468 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: But I think that's the thing that people are gonna 469 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: want to see coming out of the gate, is all right, 470 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,120 Speaker 1: what's he doing to make sure this team wins this 471 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,159 Speaker 1: game their favorite I think by five and a half 472 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,400 Speaker 1: of the early line. Make sure that they do what 473 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 1: they have to do to win. However you get there. 474 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,400 Speaker 1: To me, it doesn't matter a whole lot as long 475 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 1: as you get there. And I think that's what people 476 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,160 Speaker 1: are gonna want to see from Ryan Tannehill, Kevin Coogler. 477 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: Who is the Titans player or players that, in your opinion, 478 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 1: does not get discussed enough nationally for what they really 479 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:26,200 Speaker 1: are as an NFL standout? Oh boy, that is a 480 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: great question, because the names at the top of the 481 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: list are Ryan Tannehill, they are Derrick Henry, they are 482 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 1: you know, big names on the defensive side of the ball. 483 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: But when you're looking around this Tennessee Titans team and 484 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 1: you say, all right, give me one guy that you 485 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: look at as a standout that nobody is talking about, 486 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna say, shoot, boy, there's a couple of 487 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 1: names that i'd like to you know, I love love 488 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: dupre if I could see him be a standout. I 489 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 1: think Zach Cunningham has the potential to be an outstanding player. 490 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,639 Speaker 1: He certainly made his name in Houston as a tackler, 491 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: always around the ball. I know people liked him as well, 492 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 1: and that's somebody that you could really look through as 493 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,160 Speaker 1: a star in the making on the defensive side. And look, 494 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,400 Speaker 1: there are a couple of guys at wide receiver Robert 495 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,120 Speaker 1: Woods Westbrook as well, but I think have the chance 496 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 1: to be really really big names that Titans fans are 497 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: going to be very excited about again as this season 498 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 1: goes on. All right, give me a couple of rookies 499 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: on either side, or pick one from both teams who 500 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: you think will factor into this game on Sunday in 501 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: an interesting way. Kevin Romer Robinson for the Giants I 502 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: think has the factor in an interesting way because they 503 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: don't have playmakers at the wide receiver spot. And I 504 00:28:53,800 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 1: think that's an area in which you can maybe see 505 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: some impact at that wide receiver spot. It's a it's 506 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 1: a tricky spot for them right now. They just don't 507 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 1: have a lot in that in that room, and I 508 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,719 Speaker 1: think that's the place that you really need to find 509 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: some impact. And I think he's a guy who certainly 510 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 1: has the potential at least to make an impact. And 511 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: I know everybody would you know, the quarterbacks position always 512 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 1: gets the discussion, always gets the love, and so you 513 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: know you think hold alike willis well, No, I think 514 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill is your guy right now at quarterback. I'm 515 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: looking at Burks at the wide receiver spot. That is 516 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 1: a that's I mean, you're talking about one of the 517 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,280 Speaker 1: top two or three receivers depending on how the game goes, 518 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: and I'm anxious to see what he can bring from 519 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 1: a rookie standpoint at that wide receiver spot. I want 520 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 1: to talk about one Dale Robinson just a little bit 521 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 1: because you're a Nebraska guy. He was at Nebraska for 522 00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: two seasons and then transferred to Kentucky and exploded. Did 523 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: you have any idea in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty 524 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: that he could be eventually an explosive college player in 525 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 1: a second round pick that you would be talking about 526 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: as part of a preview in the first game of 527 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 1: his rookie year. I'm not sure I thought that much. 528 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 1: I will say this, his skill set was evident as 529 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 1: a young player at Nebraska. The problem he ran into 530 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 1: at Nebraska is they were trying to figure out ways 531 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 1: to get any level of skill on the field in 532 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: an offense that was sorely lacking at the skill positions, 533 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 1: and so they put him at running back and he 534 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: got banged up a lot. Now, he never begged out, 535 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: he never tapped out. He just kept going out there 536 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 1: and playing. But he got punished and in a position 537 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 1: that wasn't necessarily suited for his skill set. I mean 538 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 1: they would win him up in single back sometimes and 539 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 1: hand him the ball and run between the tackles because 540 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 1: he was a playmaker that they didn't have on their roster. 541 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: So to have him in that position and then see 542 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: him go to an offense where he was put in 543 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: a position with other skills set guys around him, that 544 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 1: took a little bit of that pressure off him. It 545 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me to see him get the high pick. 546 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: Now does surprise me that I'm talking about him as 547 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 1: somebody who could make a big impact on the game 548 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 1: on Sunday, And I think that's partly him, and I 549 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 1: think that's partly the fact that you don't know what's 550 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 1: going on with Kdarius Tony, You don't know what's going 551 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: on with Kenny do will Day. Neither of those guys 552 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: caught a touchdown past last season for the Giants during 553 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: that position that Nebraska was in. They need somebody in 554 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 1: that right receiver room to make plays. Kevin Coogler straight 555 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,000 Speaker 1: out in Nebraska, straight out of Nebraska? Is that a thing? 556 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,200 Speaker 1: Don't think that? Are you? Straight out in Nebraska? They've 557 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: beat the Zoo a lot of times? Is that right? 558 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: It was pretty ugly? I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah, it's okay. 559 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 1: Someone's just have a good team there. Yeah, they used 560 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 1: to have a great team. Is really really disappointing. How 561 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: how excited are you about going to the stadium in 562 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: less than seventy two hours and wearing your get up 563 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 1: for the sidelines and just being ready to go back 564 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 1: on and work a ballgame on Titan's Radio. I am 565 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,960 Speaker 1: so excited to be back my get up is gonna 566 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: get wet. I think, we hope not. I'm hoping not. Better. 567 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 1: Reet Brian's acting like it might not get here meteorologist 568 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 1: Rhet Brian. Yeah, and I trust Rett Bran, the ever 569 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:40,080 Speaker 1: reliable Rehet Brian acting as if that rain might not 570 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 1: get here until Sunday night. It's going to be close. 571 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 1: I hope, I hope he's right. I'm preparing for the worst. 572 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:51,880 Speaker 1: But there's something about game Day in Nashville that is different. 573 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,920 Speaker 1: It's just better than anywhere else. To drive in is 574 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 1: great because you drive through where all the tailgates are happening. 575 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 1: I'm excited I did about being in that environment with 576 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 1: all of the fans back. I mean, golly, after having 577 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:10,400 Speaker 1: a couple years of fan attendance being different, and the 578 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 1: Titans tickets have sold, Titans tickets sold like crazy, and 579 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 1: people are fired up. I know, man. Kickoff week has 580 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 1: been incredibly successful, and just hearing the buzz around this 581 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 1: program right now, I'm so excited to get everybody in 582 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 1: one place, be cheering on the Titans and just have 583 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: it be loud and rowdy. That's what I'm looking for. 584 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 1: My stomach hurts now, does it? My stomach started hurting 585 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 1: Wednesday night. WHOA, that's early for you. Oh it's awful. 586 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,800 Speaker 1: I mean, I like a three twenty five kickoff. It 587 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 1: gives you more time in the morning. Though. Well, you 588 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: get up and you don't have to get up at 589 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 1: five thirty or something and get rolling, which is nice. 590 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,080 Speaker 1: But I'll probably still get up at five thirty because 591 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:59,320 Speaker 1: it's like, oh man, I just can't every first game weekend, 592 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 1: I'm just ill. It's a tone setter. Yeah, but I 593 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 1: mean I just my head hurts, my stomach hurds. I'm 594 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,959 Speaker 1: so nervous, and I mean, I'm nervous for what we do, 595 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,840 Speaker 1: but I'm really nervous for the team in the season 596 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,399 Speaker 1: because you want it. You're like, this has gotta be 597 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,400 Speaker 1: the year, right, But here's the thing, Mike, it's glass 598 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 1: half empty versus glass half full. This is the year. 599 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,920 Speaker 1: Well do you know why? Because nothing has happened to 600 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 1: make it not be the year. Well, I know, I know. 601 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,239 Speaker 1: This is like the best week of the year. I 602 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 1: love it. Until now my head I've been we're going 603 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,160 Speaker 1: all the way. I'm gonna have to take like a 604 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,239 Speaker 1: why not us? I don't disagree, why not us? But 605 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,759 Speaker 1: you're just like, oh, you know you you want it 606 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,880 Speaker 1: so badly. I mean, I saw somebody last night. I 607 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,160 Speaker 1: was talking with him about the type, like, oh, come on, 608 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,880 Speaker 1: just broke me. When we lost to Cincinnati, I'm like, 609 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,360 Speaker 1: how do you think I felt? Yeah? Hello was dark? Hello? 610 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:03,680 Speaker 1: Not great? We were there too, Mike, psychic people. When 611 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,879 Speaker 1: people say things like in a in a bad game, 612 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 1: they'll be yeah, it wasn't good. So I left early 613 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. I can't leave. Nope, we're trapped 614 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:16,839 Speaker 1: where you can't leave, Like like we don't know Hello, Yeah, 615 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,280 Speaker 1: we live in it. Ashley Farrell's laughing, we live in it. Okay, 616 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,719 Speaker 1: but this is except So let's do this. Let's have 617 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 1: a light moment on the OTP to help your head 618 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,799 Speaker 1: to share just a little bit of laughter. I think 619 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,560 Speaker 1: that's good. And let me tell you what this has 620 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,920 Speaker 1: to do with. Okay, So, our friend Ben Odo of 621 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,759 Speaker 1: the Maury and Ben Show, both writers and comedians, and 622 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 1: you've been a guest on their show. Coach Mack has 623 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,239 Speaker 1: taken over their show before. I've been a guest on 624 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,240 Speaker 1: their show. They only do it once a year now 625 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:49,320 Speaker 1: because they're both doing different things. But he has done 626 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 1: what would you call it a short. It is a short, 627 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,319 Speaker 1: is a documentary sort of, but I can promise you 628 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,799 Speaker 1: it's funny. And if you've seen the bachelorette parties in Nashville, 629 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,000 Speaker 1: especially on the weekends, and if you go to the 630 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,840 Speaker 1: game this weekend, you'll see him. And if you go 631 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,640 Speaker 1: to brunch before the game downtown, you are going to 632 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: see the bachelorette parties. Yes, Nashville has become the bachelorette 633 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:20,160 Speaker 1: party capital of America. So he's done this film. It 634 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:25,319 Speaker 1: is called Nashville Bachelorette's a Ben Odo Investigation. Okay, so 635 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,160 Speaker 1: our friend Ben Odo, who's a Titans fan, did an 636 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,319 Speaker 1: interview with us to talk about this. Let's share a 637 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,680 Speaker 1: moment of levity and learn about this short from our 638 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:45,719 Speaker 1: friend Ben Odore on the OT Ben Odo, welcome back. 639 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,719 Speaker 1: We are glad to see you again. I'm glad to 640 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,479 Speaker 1: be here. Great to see you guys. You've seen Ben 641 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,279 Speaker 1: since I have because you and Coach Mack went on 642 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 1: the Ben and Morey Show. Last year. We did, We 643 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,799 Speaker 1: did Mac and I. We went for like a one 644 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,919 Speaker 1: night only revival. Is that what that was? Yes, Benn 645 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,480 Speaker 1: and Moorey Show is now defunct, but we like to 646 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,560 Speaker 1: revive it every year, and it wasn't defunct that night, 647 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,759 Speaker 1: Mike Keith, it was very much alive and well, oh 648 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,400 Speaker 1: I was the funk. Yeah, actually Mac was the funk. 649 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,879 Speaker 1: I was just kind of his straight man. I think 650 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:22,239 Speaker 1: he had just gotten engaged when you were on that show, 651 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:26,120 Speaker 1: is that right? Yeah? Yeah, or just gotten married. I guess, okay, 652 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,439 Speaker 1: I'd just gotten married. So yeah, we got to talk 653 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,279 Speaker 1: about life events. And this is the theme of my 654 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,040 Speaker 1: life in the last two years. All I do is 655 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,319 Speaker 1: go around talking about like life events because I've done 656 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:40,480 Speaker 1: like thirty five in the last two years. Everybody else 657 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,399 Speaker 1: just like quarantined at home and learned how to make 658 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:47,440 Speaker 1: bread during the pandemic, and I kid, you married and 659 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,319 Speaker 1: had a kid, bought a house, got a dog, got 660 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,520 Speaker 1: a kid, did the whole thing. That's it. Two years, 661 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,319 Speaker 1: so now you have nothing to look forward. I have 662 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:58,000 Speaker 1: nothing else to contribute. The conversation Nashville Bacheloretz a ben 663 00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,719 Speaker 1: Odo investigation applicable applicable You like how I did that. 664 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:06,360 Speaker 1: I'm a trained profession Thursday, September twenty second at the Bellcourt. 665 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,239 Speaker 1: I love the idea. It's a short, right, It's a 666 00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,640 Speaker 1: comedic short thirty minutes. Thirty minutes, but debuting at the 667 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,120 Speaker 1: Bell Court that's pretty great. Yeah. Yeah, so I guess 668 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,480 Speaker 1: I should explain, Well you should explain. But if you 669 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:23,719 Speaker 1: didn't know in Nashville about the whole bachelorette phenomenon, you 670 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:29,080 Speaker 1: found out during the twenty nineteen NFL Draft, because that's 671 00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,680 Speaker 1: where it became apparent that this was a massive deal, 672 00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:38,080 Speaker 1: because many of the bachelorette parties got furious that they 673 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 1: had planned to hold the NFL Draft here. Yeah. Oh, 674 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:45,200 Speaker 1: they were hot mad. There was no publicity about the 675 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,640 Speaker 1: NFL Draft coming. You know, it's a really low key event. 676 00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:50,880 Speaker 1: You don't know unless you know. They try to keep that. 677 00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,920 Speaker 1: Only six hundred thousand people found out. But it just 678 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,440 Speaker 1: goes to show how these bachelorette groups are in their 679 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,880 Speaker 1: own world, that's right. Yeah, and it's I was thinking 680 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,120 Speaker 1: coming here today, I was like, what does what does 681 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,680 Speaker 1: the Nashville bachelorette culture have to do with the Titans 682 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,600 Speaker 1: and NFL football? And the first answer is nothing, But 683 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,520 Speaker 1: then the second answer is everything. Yeah, you're if you're 684 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,240 Speaker 1: going to go to a Titans game and walk across 685 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:24,160 Speaker 1: the pedestrian bridge, you are going to pass Bachelorettes. So yeah, 686 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:25,680 Speaker 1: what this is and why I'm here today is I'm 687 00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,080 Speaker 1: here to promote this communic short that I've been working on, 688 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,120 Speaker 1: Nashville Bachelorettes, a Benoto investigation. It's sort of like a 689 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:36,400 Speaker 1: sixty minutes meets daily show type thing, wet, yeah, and 690 00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,200 Speaker 1: I'm the host of it, and I sort of donned 691 00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:44,680 Speaker 1: my journalist sport coat and we basically just investigated this culture. 692 00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:47,799 Speaker 1: I mean, there's it's it's huge in Nashville. Everyone that 693 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,680 Speaker 1: lives here knows that. But I don't think there had 694 00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:52,640 Speaker 1: been There have been some great pieces written about it, 695 00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:54,279 Speaker 1: but I don't think there had been like this sort 696 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,440 Speaker 1: of deep dive video investigation yet. So I thought, you know, 697 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,480 Speaker 1: you know who's the guy for that? Ben? So how 698 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,000 Speaker 1: deep of a dive are we diving here? Because it 699 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,440 Speaker 1: can get a little murky. That's a weird thing to 700 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,600 Speaker 1: dive into as a dude, especially, And of course, like 701 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:12,239 Speaker 1: I'm not an idiot, obviously, I know I should not 702 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:14,560 Speaker 1: be the one to do this. It's it's a little 703 00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,000 Speaker 1: you should. Yeah, it's a little tongue in cheek, And 704 00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:19,640 Speaker 1: I do want to say right off the bat that 705 00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,839 Speaker 1: we do not laugh at the bachelorettes. We laugh with them. 706 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,399 Speaker 1: So this is not like a hit piece at all. 707 00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,560 Speaker 1: It's it's really just, you know, it's not a divisive 708 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:30,440 Speaker 1: issue in Nashville, as you guys know, it's a lightning 709 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:35,000 Speaker 1: rod issue. Like everyone has a strong opinion on the bachelorette. 710 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,560 Speaker 1: So so how deep amy it was, Well, let's get 711 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,640 Speaker 1: opinions from the business people, people who benefit from them, 712 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,560 Speaker 1: people who maybe don't benefit from them. I think we 713 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:46,040 Speaker 1: talked to like a dozen business owners in town, hockey 714 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:50,320 Speaker 1: tonk owners, transportainment owners, bar owners. We went outside Nashville. 715 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,720 Speaker 1: I talked to a bachelorette expert like professor at Penn 716 00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:59,239 Speaker 1: State Abingdon it goes deep. There is a there's an 717 00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:03,680 Speaker 1: expert bachelor rites. She is a sociology professor at Penn 718 00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:08,239 Speaker 1: State Abington and her like her expertise is on like 719 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:12,359 Speaker 1: women's rituals and she wrote a book on the bachelorette 720 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,440 Speaker 1: ritual and bachelorette parties. Oh. I also, here's another one 721 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:19,440 Speaker 1: for you. I'd read on Wikipedia that Eleanor Roosevelt hosted 722 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,799 Speaker 1: the first ten party in the White House in the 723 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:25,360 Speaker 1: nineteen forties. So we had an interview with the nation's 724 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:29,919 Speaker 1: leading scholar on Eleanor Roosevelt. So we got deep here 725 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:35,560 Speaker 1: man as a person here, this is funny, it sounds hilarious. Allegedly, 726 00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:40,240 Speaker 1: there's nothing like Eleanor Roosevelt for a big laugh. It works, 727 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,960 Speaker 1: and like for instance, you know, so it's it's it's 728 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,840 Speaker 1: about the bachelorettes, but it's about kind of how people 729 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,640 Speaker 1: in town contend with it. Like Tom Morales. Yeah, she's 730 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:54,880 Speaker 1: a guest butch spiritan who brought the NFL draft to Nashville. 731 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,200 Speaker 1: You know, we interviewed him, and then of course we 732 00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,960 Speaker 1: we followed around a group for a weekend and we're 733 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,000 Speaker 1: all right, well let me let's go, let's go experience 734 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,040 Speaker 1: us firsthand. Oh so you participated in a bachelorette party. 735 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,160 Speaker 1: I was a bachelorette for a weekend. That's right. How 736 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:11,160 Speaker 1: did that go for you? And I don't don't spoil it, 737 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,200 Speaker 1: but I mean, do you feel like a different person 738 00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:17,719 Speaker 1: after experiencing that? Without giving away what we learned, I 739 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:19,840 Speaker 1: think we got to the root of what this is 740 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,239 Speaker 1: really all about. Because there are bachelorette I mean, part 741 00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,919 Speaker 1: of the reason is that they've become so big, right, 742 00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:30,880 Speaker 1: aren't Nashville and Austin the two biggest bachelorette destinations. I 743 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,520 Speaker 1: mean Nashville is the one, Yeah, there's no question. Yeah, 744 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,000 Speaker 1: I think Austin's actually number two because when I was 745 00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:39,680 Speaker 1: in Austin in February, I saw the same sort of 746 00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:43,640 Speaker 1: culture when I knew what I knew what it was immediately. Well, right, 747 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,520 Speaker 1: because I mean, you know the signs you live here. Well, 748 00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:50,560 Speaker 1: because I always end up following around the party bus thing. 749 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,960 Speaker 1: They're right outside Nissan Stadium. Every time I pull out 750 00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,759 Speaker 1: of a meeting at Nissan Stadium, I get behind they 751 00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:58,560 Speaker 1: they pick up there. Yeah, well they let them off 752 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,640 Speaker 1: there to take a picture by the river. And so 753 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,600 Speaker 1: I mean sometimes it will take me fifteen minutes just 754 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,920 Speaker 1: to get to the interstate following the you know, the 755 00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:12,239 Speaker 1: moonshine wagon or whatever it is going or well, you 756 00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,920 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Can I ask you, Amy, because 757 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,040 Speaker 1: this is I mean, right, this is relevant to us 758 00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,960 Speaker 1: as people that live here, but you are recently, what 759 00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:24,880 Speaker 1: is your sort of take on it as someone of 760 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:30,160 Speaker 1: bachelorette age. Bachelorette age, that's nice. I think I think 761 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,360 Speaker 1: it's fun. I think it can get out of hand 762 00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:36,239 Speaker 1: rather quickly. I don't scream and I don't jump, which 763 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,160 Speaker 1: are two things that happen weirdly a lot, even on 764 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,360 Speaker 1: the field during games. Yeah, I don't really, I'm not 765 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,520 Speaker 1: a screamer per se. And so I'm not gonna like 766 00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:47,720 Speaker 1: ride around in a bus and like it just doesn't 767 00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:49,360 Speaker 1: do anything for me. And I'm not going to go 768 00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:51,120 Speaker 1: to a concert and like jump up and down. Those 769 00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:54,319 Speaker 1: are things I don't do. But like the gathering of 770 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:58,000 Speaker 1: friends just for a weekend, I think is great and 771 00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,480 Speaker 1: I think that's what it should be. I think sometimes 772 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,960 Speaker 1: they can get a little ridiculous. I'm excited to get 773 00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:06,600 Speaker 1: your perspective on what what is she? A doctor of 774 00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:13,200 Speaker 1: female rituals, women's ritualogist, is a sociologist professor? Yeah, name 775 00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,960 Speaker 1: is Beth Montemiro. I want to meet this woman. I'm 776 00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:20,240 Speaker 1: excited to get your perspective on bachelorette parties. Yeah. Again, 777 00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,880 Speaker 1: without giving too much away, this what this thing is is, 778 00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,799 Speaker 1: it's really we kind of straddle both worlds in this. 779 00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,800 Speaker 1: We call it a documentary, it's really a news magazine piece, 780 00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,640 Speaker 1: but it's the ritual itself, the bachelotte ritual, and then 781 00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:36,879 Speaker 1: it's also the Nashville of it all. I live here, 782 00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:38,719 Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a citizen, so I come at it 783 00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:42,239 Speaker 1: from a citizens perspective. So I guess what I can 784 00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,120 Speaker 1: say without giving I keep saying without giving too much 785 00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:50,960 Speaker 1: what I think the conclusion is that bachelorettes are a 786 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,800 Speaker 1: symptom of some sort of thing that's going on in 787 00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:57,480 Speaker 1: Nashville right now, and not not the issue itself. I 788 00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,359 Speaker 1: think they're a bit of a scapegoat. And and I'm 789 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,080 Speaker 1: with you, Amy, Like the gathering of friends just to 790 00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,440 Speaker 1: be with one another, that's fantastic, and we're we're all 791 00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:08,520 Speaker 1: just trying to do that and to find an excuse 792 00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,240 Speaker 1: to hang out with one another. But there's something else 793 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:15,239 Speaker 1: afoot here in Nashville that's bugging people that live here, 794 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,000 Speaker 1: and we get into that and hopefully it's a little funny. 795 00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:21,279 Speaker 1: I don't know, But for twenty dollars you can find 796 00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:25,319 Speaker 1: out at Court September twenty second at the Bell Court. 797 00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,040 Speaker 1: Where can they purchase tickets? Tickets can be purchased on 798 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,800 Speaker 1: the Bellcourts website and you can also follow us nash 799 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,840 Speaker 1: Batch film. Is there a Star? Does a star emerge? 800 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:42,279 Speaker 1: From this short? I? Outside of you? Of course, well, yeah, 801 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,319 Speaker 1: I mean it really and I'm not saying this like 802 00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:48,200 Speaker 1: a but it is sort of about me in a way, 803 00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,439 Speaker 1: like I'm sort of your guide through this whole thing. 804 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:55,320 Speaker 1: You you're Sarpa, if you will, the old bachelor at SARPA. 805 00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:58,879 Speaker 1: It's like that professor at Penn State. Yeah that made up. 806 00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,680 Speaker 1: That's great going. She's the bachelor. It's kind of like 807 00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,560 Speaker 1: how I went through college, just made something. Oh and 808 00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,239 Speaker 1: then the other star would would be these I would say, 809 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:14,480 Speaker 1: these two women, the jug Sisters. What the Jug Sisters. Sorry, 810 00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:16,520 Speaker 1: I'm saying a lot of words today that they from. 811 00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:20,319 Speaker 1: They're from nash Trash Tours, which is the pink Yeah. Sure, 812 00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:24,880 Speaker 1: I've been too. Yeah, and they're like the original transportainment owners. 813 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:28,680 Speaker 1: And they have strong feelings against the bachelorettes. They really 814 00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:30,680 Speaker 1: they do. And I would think they would be totally 815 00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:32,400 Speaker 1: for it. But I guess I'll have to watch the film. 816 00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:40,960 Speaker 1: Some might say, and but for you, yes, why did 817 00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,359 Speaker 1: you have a bachelor party? I did not. We went 818 00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,160 Speaker 1: and played golf the morning I got married. We decided 819 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,000 Speaker 1: that's what we wanted to do, and so as a 820 00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:51,520 Speaker 1: group we played. We played in a scramble golf tournament 821 00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:53,680 Speaker 1: and had a great time. I had a great round, 822 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:58,640 Speaker 1: so I did not regret that fantastic good I had, 823 00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:03,000 Speaker 1: like a bachelorette afternoon. I had a shower in the morning, 824 00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:06,080 Speaker 1: and then a couple of us went and went wine tasting. 825 00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:10,040 Speaker 1: But don't you think, don't you think the bachelorette parties 826 00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,760 Speaker 1: are better than those stupid games. Oh I allow games 827 00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,239 Speaker 1: at no events. Yes, if there's a if there's a game, 828 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,439 Speaker 1: I'm not doing it like it showers. Yeah, they have game. 829 00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:23,520 Speaker 1: Oh oh oh No. Forced entertainment is what we call 830 00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,879 Speaker 1: it in my house, and it's not allowed at any events. No. 831 00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:31,719 Speaker 1: I feel husband loses hair, you know what. It's so fun? Yeah, 832 00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,759 Speaker 1: they we we do games. I mean we listen, we 833 00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:39,160 Speaker 1: on this short We go to a we go to brunch. Obviously, 834 00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:45,000 Speaker 1: we go to like a facial oil place. Well this 835 00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,759 Speaker 1: sounds lovely so far. Yeah, we go to a spin art. 836 00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:51,080 Speaker 1: We we do like some art during the weekend. That's weird. 837 00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:57,080 Speaker 1: A male dancer. Yeah, it's the spin art as they know. Separately, okay, separately, 838 00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:58,880 Speaker 1: just wonder we had the strite. It's not in it. 839 00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,400 Speaker 1: We cut it, but there is. What you're saying is 840 00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:06,920 Speaker 1: Rhet Bryant's in this Yeah, good good, Yes that I 841 00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,480 Speaker 1: didn't mean to give it away, but that may help 842 00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:11,799 Speaker 1: you sell some more tickets. I'll be honest, I don't 843 00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:18,640 Speaker 1: know who that is better. There's astrology, like a reading 844 00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:21,799 Speaker 1: of some sort, Yes there is. We cut that scene, 845 00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:26,440 Speaker 1: but but they're all okay. So that's I'm glad you 846 00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:30,080 Speaker 1: asked that. We we shot I think thirty six hours. 847 00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:34,080 Speaker 1: Did you really for thirty minutes? Wow? So did you 848 00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,520 Speaker 1: set out to make it thirty minutes or did you 849 00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:38,480 Speaker 1: eventually say that was going to be the best way 850 00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:40,279 Speaker 1: to do it? I think that, you know, people say 851 00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,879 Speaker 1: like a story should take as long as it takes 852 00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,759 Speaker 1: to tell it. Sure, and I think we knew it 853 00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:48,320 Speaker 1: was going to be somewhere around like forty five minutes 854 00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,680 Speaker 1: or whatever. But we only had the resources to make 855 00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:55,359 Speaker 1: it about thirty minutes. And that's how That's how long 856 00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,239 Speaker 1: people want to watch it. That's about it. That's where 857 00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:04,279 Speaker 1: it caps out. How long did you hear just in 858 00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:07,080 Speaker 1: your dream or do you still hear that in your dreams? Yeah, 859 00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:11,360 Speaker 1: so you're referring to the girl. Yes, it's not that 860 00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,239 Speaker 1: I heard it that. I mean, we we certainly heard 861 00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:16,319 Speaker 1: it a lot, and you hear it if you live 862 00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:19,320 Speaker 1: in Nashville. I think the thing that I really felt 863 00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,160 Speaker 1: deep in my bones coming away from this was like 864 00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:24,840 Speaker 1: they really are everywhere, you know, Like it's like wherever 865 00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:28,160 Speaker 1: you go, there they are. And that was kind of 866 00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:29,840 Speaker 1: my thing coming away from this is like, well, we 867 00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:31,719 Speaker 1: were downtown and they were downtown, and then we were 868 00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:34,080 Speaker 1: going out to the Airbnb and there at the Airbnb, 869 00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:36,920 Speaker 1: and then like we were just always crossing paths with 870 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,880 Speaker 1: the bachelorettes. So I mean, they're everywhere. So I was 871 00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:43,080 Speaker 1: at twelve South having dinner last Friday night and they 872 00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:45,560 Speaker 1: were all the way out at twelve South. Oh yeah, 873 00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:49,160 Speaker 1: popular spot, get brunched, some light shopping. Yes, But can 874 00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:52,120 Speaker 1: I can I just say something to that part In 875 00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:54,120 Speaker 1: trying to take a balance to look at at the 876 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,800 Speaker 1: bachelorette culture in Nashville. One thing we discover in the 877 00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,879 Speaker 1: documentary is like they really are just a small percent. 878 00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:04,960 Speaker 1: They're like less than one percent of overall tourists in Nashville. 879 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:09,200 Speaker 1: So it's again very visible, very loud, not really you 880 00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:12,239 Speaker 1: know a thing. At the end of the day, Can 881 00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:15,920 Speaker 1: I ask a silly question, are the are the fellas 882 00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:19,520 Speaker 1: flocking to Nashville the same way that girls are. Is 883 00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:22,759 Speaker 1: it also a bachelor party destination or is that still 884 00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,280 Speaker 1: like Vegas? No? I think I think Nashville is becoming 885 00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,800 Speaker 1: a bachelor party destination as well. They're just not as loud. 886 00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,280 Speaker 1: I guess no, they're They're probably louder and more obnoxious. 887 00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,399 Speaker 1: I think behind the scenes, I was definitely feeling more like, Wow, 888 00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,719 Speaker 1: I really like the bachelorettes a lot more than I 889 00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,719 Speaker 1: do the Bachelor's or just the other tourists who are 890 00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,279 Speaker 1: like trying to jump in front of our camera. The 891 00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:48,480 Speaker 1: bachelorettes were certifiably lovely. Oh that's nice. What do you 892 00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:51,279 Speaker 1: think of that? Mine? I think it's I think it's fascinating, 893 00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:53,319 Speaker 1: and I think this is going to be a massive hit, 894 00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,000 Speaker 1: which is why we wanted to tell the ot people 895 00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:57,960 Speaker 1: about it and have you on the show. Well, thank you, 896 00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:02,799 Speaker 1: Nashville Bachelor rettz ben Odo Investigation thirty minute film set 897 00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:06,800 Speaker 1: to premiere Thursday, September twenty second at the Bell Court 898 00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:12,480 Speaker 1: and you can get tickets at nash Batch film dot 899 00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:16,520 Speaker 1: com dot com, nash Batch film dot Com or at 900 00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,840 Speaker 1: the Bellcourt which speaking of lovely, how nice is the Bellcourt. 901 00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:23,719 Speaker 1: Bellcourt's great yep, Ben, thanks for stopping by. Congratulations on 902 00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:26,680 Speaker 1: the project, and I hope you'll have coach McK and 903 00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,680 Speaker 1: amy back on the revival of the Ben and Morey 904 00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,200 Speaker 1: Show when it comes back around, no question, and and 905 00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:41,080 Speaker 1: thank you for having me. Good luck this season. Tighten up. Okay, 906 00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,239 Speaker 1: that was worthwhile. Feld. It does make me feel better 907 00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:48,640 Speaker 1: momentarily because because he's a funny guy and I'm sure 908 00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:53,080 Speaker 1: that's going to be absolutely fantastic. The Bellcourt is amazing. 909 00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:58,840 Speaker 1: And uh September twenty second, Yes, everybody get tickets. Everybody 910 00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,239 Speaker 1: you can. Yeah, and so so take a break, do 911 00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:06,799 Speaker 1: things tomorrow, Saturday, even Sunday morning, to take a deep 912 00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,279 Speaker 1: breath to ease your mind. Ease your mind, like we 913 00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:11,920 Speaker 1: just took a deep breath on the OTP for the 914 00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:15,560 Speaker 1: ot people and for our friend Ben. Yes, and I 915 00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:17,799 Speaker 1: feel a little better now. I'm gonna go take six 916 00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:22,759 Speaker 1: more etc. That's okay, whatever, probably not, whatever you need 917 00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:27,160 Speaker 1: to do, just watch your liver. It's okay. I really 918 00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:29,080 Speaker 1: did I get this worked up? I know you do. 919 00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:32,480 Speaker 1: I think it's an exciting time. I will admit I'm 920 00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:35,799 Speaker 1: still glad that in twenty in the twenty fifth year. 921 00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,040 Speaker 1: I still get this worked up. It means care. It 922 00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:40,920 Speaker 1: does mean you care, and I'm I'm thankful for that 923 00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,600 Speaker 1: part of it. Once the game kicks off, I'm still 924 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:49,920 Speaker 1: very superstitious. So I'm very superstitious. Yeah, it's because you 925 00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:53,160 Speaker 1: have no control. You have no control, and of course 926 00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:57,440 Speaker 1: this is like the worst sport for that, because everybody's 927 00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:01,640 Speaker 1: so equal. Yep. I mean, the Titans are favored over 928 00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:05,080 Speaker 1: the Giants, but if the Giants win, nobody's gonna be 929 00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:10,960 Speaker 1: just worldly shocked. Because it's the NFL. Everybody's good. Everybody 930 00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,880 Speaker 1: can get everybody. Yep. What makes it fine? Titans need 931 00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,280 Speaker 1: to go get this one. Yes, they do. Three twenty 932 00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:20,640 Speaker 1: five kickoff Central Time. Titans count Down with Amy Wells 933 00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:24,440 Speaker 1: and Rhett Bryan at two o'clock Central Time. You've got 934 00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,319 Speaker 1: a big show planned. We've got a big show planned. Um, 935 00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,360 Speaker 1: just a lot of good stuff from coach Mac. You 936 00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,319 Speaker 1: know he brings the heat every single week. Then we're 937 00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:36,960 Speaker 1: gonna have some Kevin Byard, We're gonna have summer shop Weaver, 938 00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:39,839 Speaker 1: We've got We've got all kinds of little tricks. First, 939 00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,320 Speaker 1: twenty seven thousand fans through the gate. Get a rally 940 00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:45,600 Speaker 1: towel do they Yeah, I love rallytowl games. I love 941 00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:49,080 Speaker 1: rally towel games as well. Yes, that's great. Come early, 942 00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:51,759 Speaker 1: Sure you get a town, I would go early. Yeah, No, 943 00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:56,360 Speaker 1: I would go early because it's the first game of 944 00:53:56,480 --> 00:53:59,279 Speaker 1: the year. But it's also the first game of the 945 00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:01,920 Speaker 1: year with a rowled this size. Yes, there were two 946 00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:06,640 Speaker 1: preseason games, but the place is gonna be packed, and 947 00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:09,359 Speaker 1: so get to your parking space early, get to your 948 00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:14,359 Speaker 1: tailgate early, get in the gate early, because everybody first game, 949 00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:18,879 Speaker 1: everybody's working out every kink yep, it's just normal. Get there. 950 00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:20,920 Speaker 1: And once you're in there, it's not like you have 951 00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:23,640 Speaker 1: to just like sit and stare at nothing, walk around, 952 00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,800 Speaker 1: get your beer, get you some pizza. It's lemon huskies, 953 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,400 Speaker 1: enjoy yourself. What would you get if you if you 954 00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:34,279 Speaker 1: could get anything as you went through, what would you hit? 955 00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,640 Speaker 1: I think I would probably hit Martin's Barbecue. Yeah, I 956 00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:43,120 Speaker 1: was gonna say, after years of walking by the Martin's 957 00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:48,520 Speaker 1: Barbecue little Kiosk, because they smoke everything there, and so 958 00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:52,960 Speaker 1: they start just ungodly early smoking things and getting all 959 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,319 Speaker 1: of their barbecue going. So by the time we get 960 00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:59,480 Speaker 1: in there, oh, it just smells like heaven and we 961 00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,560 Speaker 1: never have chance to stop and actually eat it, So 962 00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:05,000 Speaker 1: I would say Martin's, but also Slim and Huskies is 963 00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:09,680 Speaker 1: very legit. Party Foul people who don't know that's great pizza, pizza, 964 00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:13,400 Speaker 1: flatbread pizza. It's really good and it's really good. I 965 00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:17,600 Speaker 1: went there during CMA Fest twice twice. Yeah, at Nissan 966 00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:22,080 Speaker 1: Stadium because it's just really good pizza. Party Foul is 967 00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:24,520 Speaker 1: really good. Fret chicken. If you're looking for the hot chicken, 968 00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:26,799 Speaker 1: got the hot chicken. So there's a lot of good 969 00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,640 Speaker 1: stuff over at Nissan Stadium. And now they have all 970 00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:32,879 Speaker 1: those little twice daily kiosks where you can just run 971 00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:35,480 Speaker 1: in and grab a drink real quick and check yourself out, 972 00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:39,120 Speaker 1: check yourself out, lickety split. That's a good thing. Yes, 973 00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:42,759 Speaker 1: it's so fast, so convenient. So come in early, grab 974 00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:44,719 Speaker 1: you a drink, grab you some food, and hang out. 975 00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,160 Speaker 1: And as we wrap up, we also want to mention 976 00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:50,480 Speaker 1: the new television show that is part of our Titans 977 00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:55,879 Speaker 1: Arsenal ten thirty. Every Sunday morning, it's Titans Game Day 978 00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:01,120 Speaker 1: on w SMV four in Nashville, and looking forward to that, 979 00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:03,800 Speaker 1: Coach Mac and I will be doing that show with 980 00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:07,320 Speaker 1: Chris Harris. Very excited, very excited to do. That's something 981 00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:11,320 Speaker 1: we've never done before. But that program that will emanate 982 00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:14,680 Speaker 1: from the West Club and we're kind of getting that 983 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,680 Speaker 1: started and underway and we'll have really everything up and 984 00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:22,120 Speaker 1: running in a normal fashion coming up for the Las 985 00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:25,000 Speaker 1: Vegas game on September twenty fifth, because the first two 986 00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,520 Speaker 1: games are a little odd. The first games of three 987 00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:31,600 Speaker 1: twenty five start. The second game at Buffalo is a 988 00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:35,520 Speaker 1: Monday night game. But you will, you know, with the 989 00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:37,680 Speaker 1: Las Vegas game, you will be able to come up 990 00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:41,440 Speaker 1: to the Westleigh Mortgage Club on the West Side and 991 00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:45,360 Speaker 1: you know, hang out with Coach Mack and enjoy a 992 00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:49,120 Speaker 1: beverage and something to eat and watch the show and 993 00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,480 Speaker 1: be part of the show. And it's going to be 994 00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:53,799 Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Ten thirties on Sundays, Channel four 995 00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:57,280 Speaker 1: in Nashville. What a great opportunity to get one final 996 00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,680 Speaker 1: update before the thing. Well that's it. That's why we 997 00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:02,640 Speaker 1: were like the idea because you'll have the inactives and 998 00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:06,600 Speaker 1: it came off what we did with Ashley Farrell for years. 999 00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:09,520 Speaker 1: We did the live look in right, and that was 1000 00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:13,800 Speaker 1: something we streamed on all our social and digital channels. 1001 00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:17,920 Speaker 1: Lots of people watched it. Yeah, I mean tons of 1002 00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:21,360 Speaker 1: people watched it. We were stunned, and it's like, well, 1003 00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:25,960 Speaker 1: let's think about this. They want football information before a 1004 00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:28,920 Speaker 1: football game. Well we can do that. We can do that. 1005 00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:32,800 Speaker 1: We know how to do that. We have that ability. Ye. So, 1006 00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:34,640 Speaker 1: and we have the best guy in the world in 1007 00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,040 Speaker 1: Coach Mac. I'm so excited. I think he's going to 1008 00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:40,480 Speaker 1: become a massive television star. Well he'll be. He'll be 1009 00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:43,480 Speaker 1: a presenter at the CMAS after this. As long as 1010 00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:48,520 Speaker 1: he plugs the podcast. He won't. He won't, he won't 1011 00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:53,640 Speaker 1: do that. But as long as he plugs this podcast, yeah, 1012 00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:57,080 Speaker 1: thank you. You weren't talking about tack him, No, I 1013 00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,000 Speaker 1: was talking about the OTP. Actually he could also promote 1014 00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:03,640 Speaker 1: that one. We do have Titans Aemy coach podcast. Yes, 1015 00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:08,360 Speaker 1: you do have a lovely tackle. Now he's gonna plug 1016 00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:11,320 Speaker 1: Coach Mac stuff. Yeah, that's true, that's what he's But 1017 00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:14,160 Speaker 1: I think he will be the breakout star of the 1018 00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,800 Speaker 1: show because people who aren't familiar with him will become 1019 00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:21,440 Speaker 1: will become very familiar with him. So he'll be presenting 1020 00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:25,320 Speaker 1: the new Artist of the Year. The Horizon Award. Well, shoot, 1021 00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,880 Speaker 1: what coach Mac needs is more friends and to present 1022 00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:34,400 Speaker 1: this year's Horizon Award with Tanya Tucker. It's coach Dave 1023 00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:38,800 Speaker 1: McGinnis could happen. I'd watch that in a heart absolutely, yep. 1024 00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:41,920 Speaker 1: That would be awesome. It really would to see the 1025 00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:44,760 Speaker 1: witty banter between them before they present the award. I 1026 00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:47,120 Speaker 1: don't know if Mac would let her banter back is 1027 00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:49,760 Speaker 1: the problem she would say something me go, that's interesting. 1028 00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:54,600 Speaker 1: Now let's get on that. Fascinating thank you. That's what 1029 00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:57,080 Speaker 1: he did when he was on bed Odo's show. Yes, 1030 00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:00,919 Speaker 1: that's what he said. I'm still talking. I'm still talking here. Well, 1031 00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:03,200 Speaker 1: and that's what he does on the radio. It's great. 1032 00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:05,520 Speaker 1: It's like, that's enough for you over there, shorty, Let's 1033 00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:09,360 Speaker 1: get on with this. I think it's fantastic. It is. 1034 00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:12,080 Speaker 1: That's why people love it. It really is, because it 1035 00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:15,760 Speaker 1: really is because he is him, Yes, through and through, 1036 00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:19,320 Speaker 1: and we are us, we sure are, we are Mike 1037 00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:23,880 Speaker 1: Keith and Amy Wells and this he's the o t PE. 1038 00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:40,520 Speaker 1: So I got into that. That was good. Welcome to 1039 00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:44,600 Speaker 1: the Big Show where the legends called never got enough