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Mike, Amie and Rhett Bryan break down Saturday's AFC divisional round opponent, Cincinnati, on The OTP, presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans.

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This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau with Health Plants. Healthcare coverage from Farm Bureau with Health Plants is like an extra set of heads. Would you need them? The most? They've been protecting Tennessee and since nineteen forty seven with htt Bran and Aby Wells, I am like Keith, five games in the books, one more to go tonight Tonight, Rams and Cardinals. Super Wildcard Weekend? Reet, Brian, did you

enjoy Super Wildcard Weekend? From a couple of different perspectives, from just being able to sit back, watch and see the other teams scrap it out hundred percent? Yes, really enjoyed that, and just to kind of see it unfold for whatever's going to happen with the Titans, which we now know. Aby Wells, did you watch all five games

to this point? I did watch all five games. I really enjoyed just kind of posting up on the couch and watching all the football unfold and knowing that none of it could hurt me because the Titans didn't play until the next week. It was great. Well, here's what we know. The Titans will play on Saturday Saturday at three thirty Central against the Cincinnati Bengals. As the seeds all hold in the AFC one, the Titans have a bye. The four seed is Cincinnati. That game again three thirty Saturday,

Nissan Stadium. We're on the air with Titans countdown at two Central. Retinamy will have that for you. So let's take a look at Saturday's opponent, the Cincinnati Bengals. After going two and fourteen and twenty nineteen and then four eleven and one in twenty twenty, Cincinnati is eleven and seven this season under third year coach Sack Taylor. They are, as mentioned, the number four seed. They get here by beating the Raiders twenty six to nineteen in the first

AFC Wildcard game. Joe Burrow through for two hundred and forty four yards two touchdowns, Jamar Chase nine catches for one hundred and sixteen yards. Joe Mixon seventeen rushes for forty eight yards. On defense, Jermaine Pratt had the interception that sealed the game. On Las Vegas final offensive play, Trey Hendrickson forced to fumble as he sacked Derek Carr that set up a Cincinnati's scoring opportunity. Overall, the Bengals sat car three times. Evan McPherson made four field goals,

the longest coming from forty three yards. Cincinnati the AFC North champion for the first time since twenty fifteen. They won the division in week seventeen with a thirty four to thirty one victory over Kansas City, and then in week eighteen they rested twenty of twenty two starters in the season finale at Cleveland. The Bengals lost that game twenty one to sixteen, and that snapped a three game

winning stream. Over the course of the season, Cincinnati has been really good to be Kansas City, they beat Pittsburgh and Baltimore twice, but they also lost to Chicago and the New York Jet. So Andy Wells, I start with you. You hear the background the resume overall of the Cincinnati Bengals. Are they a big surprise? I think on paper when you go through their resume, the success that they've had

this year has been surprising. It's not very often you see teams go from two and fourteen, four and eleven and one to all of a sudden being eleven and seven. That's a pretty substantial jump, and I think a lot of that is the Joe Burrow effect. I think that as this twenty twenty one season has gone on, we've seen a team kind of find their idea entity behind this quarterback Joe Burrow. We've seen them really find how their offense clicks and what pieces parts fit in the

right spot to really make them the most effective. And I think we all started to realize that this team was picking up smoke when they were they were beating the Ravens, and then they beat the Steelers, and then they beat them again, and then you know, they start to get these wins and all of a sudden you're thinking, oh, well, this might be an actual team. And they just kept going and kept going and kept grinding, and all along the way we've seen Joe Burrow get better and better

and more consistent and make more plays. And so I think on paper, yes, it's surprising, but if you've watched them all season long, you're not surprised that they're in the position that they're in right now. Right, Mike, I

agree with Amy. This team throughout the season, you've noticed the kind of done them growing up together, including their head coach Zach who, in there his postgame victory speech thanked owner Mike Brown for being patient with them, and they have kind of acquiesced and learned how to do all this together. And Amy's right to see some of the winds that they've notched. And they've done a lot of good things at home, and that's one of the big reasons why I think they won the AFC North

Division for the first time since twenty fifteen. But they've kind of grown up together. But they have a lot of youth and a lot of important places. And Amy is also right about one thing. Joe Burrow the catalyst to all of it. All right, Rett, take us through the Cincinnati offensive breakdown, if you would please, yes, sir.

The aforementioned Joe Burrow led the NFL by completing seventy point four percent of his passes his passer rating one O eight point three through for thirty four touchdowns, fifteen of those coming from thirty yards or longer. He's backed up by journeyman Brandon Allen, who started the Week eighteen game at Cleveland, who went fifteen of twenty nine for one hundred thirty six yards and a touchdown while taking

four quarterback sacks. Running Back Joe Mixon made his first Pro Bowl coming back from an injury plague twenty twenty season with twelve hundred five yards rushing, three hundred fourteen receiving yards, sixteen total touchdowns, and his backup is the two hundred and forty pound veterans and MOJ. P. Ryan, who is used on third downs in many situations. Twenty one year old wide receiver and rookie Jamaar Chase caught a one passes for fourteen hundred fifty five yards thirteen touchdowns.

Chase has five one hundred yard receiving games, two games of two hundred yards or more, including two hundred sixty six against the Kansas City Chiefs on January second. He was also named to the Pro Bowl. Okridge native t Higgins will turn twenty three years old this week. He also had over one thousand yards receiving on seventy four

catches with six touch years ago. With that, the Bengals are the first team in NFL history with a four thousand yard passer, a one thousand yard rusher, and two one thousand yard receivers all under the age of twenty six. The Bengals also have veteran tighter by wide receiver who were posted sixty seven catches tight end cj Uzoma. He

had forty nine catches, nearly five hundred yards and five touchdowns. Overall, Cincinnati average three hundred sixty two yards per game, one hundred three rushing on the ground, two hundred fifty nine yards passing A good red zone team. They scored thirty one touchdowns in fifty two trips inside opponents twenty yard line,

and the Bengals average twenty seven points per game. They're also one of the best teams in the NFL at scoring at the end of the first half sixty three points there and also on the first drive of the second half with fifty five points. They're one achilles heel. Though on offense, Mike, they've allowed fifty five quarterback sacks. Aby, how good is this Bengals offense? Well, I think Rhet

just gave you a lot of good numbers. And the thing about them that's so intriguing is not only that they're good right now, but they are set up to be good in the future. With so much youth on this team. This guy's really the limit for this offense. But I mean, when you listen to Rhet go through kind of the thumbnail on this offense. You hear names like Joe Mix and Jamar, Chase te Higgins, Tyler Boyd. You're watching the game and you think, oh my gosh,

they play for the Bengals too. Oh my gosh, he plays for the Bengals too. It's all of these names that if you're playing on fantasy, you want all of these guys on your team, and the Bengals have them in real life on their offense. So I think that there are so many different options of things that this offense is able to do, led by Joe Burrow, who is able to use them all just so expertly, and he has just grown into that position of being that leader.

These guys like playing for him, they like being around him. He's kind of a funny dude who has really kind of race kind of the position of being the quarterback for Cincinnati, but in his very own style, so he's not trying to be someone that he's not. And I think that that has worked really well with a lot of potential star power on one offense, and they've drafted

all those guys, right, That's what the key is. They have taken advantage of the fact that after Marvin Lewis left they were bad after being pretty good for a long stretch of time. As a matter of fact, the part of Lewis's the head coach. But they have drafted these guys and in doing so they have hit on all these draft picks. They have taken advantage of the fact that if you are bad, you get to pick

high in every round. And they have gone and played Joe Burrow at number one overall in twenty twenty, and then t Higgins going at number thirty three and twenty twenty Jamar Chase at number five in this year's draft. I mean, and on and on and on. They have done a good job picking players. And then Uzamba to tight end was with him in twenty fifteen. He was a draft pick and has developed into a really good player.

So all those draft picks and not having to go out and spend money on free agents, that enables you to build a great nucleus, which they have. So the question, Amy is what about the Bengals defense. Well, Mike, Cincinnati allowed their opponents just twenty two points and three hundred and fifty one yards per game, one hundred and three rushing and two hundred and forty eight passing. The Bengals gave up thirty two touchdowns on fifty three opponents red

zone trips. Opponents converted about forty two percent of their third down conversions, but the Bengals are excellent at stopping opponents on fourth down, allowing just seven successful conversions in eighteen attempts. Like the Rights, the Bengals have forty two quarterback sacks, led by Trey Hendrickson's fourteen sacks. He had at least half a sack in eleven straight games this season. Hendrickson was a big free agent signing from the Saints,

where he had thirteen point five sacks last season. Hendrickson didn't just get a new contract from the Bengals, he also made his first Pro Bowl in twenty twenty one. Now, Sam Hubbard might be even better at the opposite defensive end, as he is a superior run defender with sixty two

tackles and has seven point five sacks himself. The Bengals have several talented interior defensive linemen, including former Brown's Larry Ogan job They sustained several defensive line injuries, and Saturday's win over Las Vegas, Ogan Joby suffering a foot injury

second year. Linebacker Logan Wilson leads the team in both tackles with ninety eight interceptions with four The men who saved the game for Cincinnati on Sunday, Jermaine Pratt is another versatile, high intensity linebacker, and then in the secondary, reliable safety's Bonbbell and Jesse Bates are two of their defensive leading tacklers. Shadobi, a woozy, came over from Dallas

and has played great at quarterback. Former Steeler Mike Hilton is one of the best nickelbacks in the National Football League. So let's talk ret. The defense has been put together in a different way. They've gone and spent money there in free agency, and it feels like it's money well

spent for Lou and Rumo's unit well. And one of the first moves they made in the offseason, Mike was going and plucking away the aforementioned Mike Hilton, the former Steeler who has had a very nice gear for them, and it's one of those veterans that you bring in to help kind of set a tone to go with a guy all as Sam Hubbard, who was a a draft pick of their own back in twenty eighteen out of Ohio State. But yeah, they found some really nice

players to put in all three levels. The thing is is, Mike, they're little linked up going into this matchup against the Titans, and especially at the defensive tackle spot. Larry Ogunjobi has a foot injury, Mike Daniels has a groin injury. Trey Hendrickson, as Amy mentioned their leading socker as in concussion protocol. We'll see how that jury report looks like later this week. But those guys have really done a nice job and certainly is one of the reasons why they got to

eleven wins this year. All right, let's talk Cincinnati Special Team's thirteen year punter Kevin Huber is basically Cincinnati's Brett Curry's steady and great at penning opponents inside the twenty. The rookie kicker Evan McPherson has blasted nine field goals from fifty yards or longer after being drafted out of Florida. They're long snapper Clark Harris, one of the league's best biggles, were earned game unspectacular. They've used four different punt returners

seven different kickoff returners this season. Their coverage units average okay A couple other notes. The Bengals were number one in the NFL in penalty yards, and I mean that in a good way, not the Raiders way. They average just thirty seven penalty yards per game and they were hit with only four penalties on average per contest. Really really good in that area. Cincinnati's turnover ratio zero twenty

one turnovers, twenty one takeaway so that's a flat line zero. Now, these two teams played on November first, twenty twenty, in Cincinnati, and that weekend was not great for the Titans except Amy Wells got engaged that week. But that's actually Friday was good, right, Amy, But Sunday not so good. I had a great stake on Friday, I really did. The Titans played poorly in a thirty one to twenty loss

to the Bengals. Tennessee was especially bad on defense. Joe Burrow through for two hundred forty nine yards and two touchdowns. The Titans didn't sack Burn, the Bengals rushed for one hundred and eighteen yards, and Joe Mixon didn't even play in that game. Cincinnati converted ten to fifteen third down attempts and their only fourth down attempt Bengals kept them all for nearly thirty six minutes and scored touchdowns on four of their five red zone possessions. Now, this is

really amazing. Tennessee gained four hundred forty one yards in that game, but taking out the final kneel down. Basically at the end, the Titans had only eight offensive possessions in this game. That meant that every missed opportunity was problematic. Stephen Gaskowski missed a field goal. Ryan Tannehill was intercepted by Jesse Bates. Titans had punt three times. It doesn't sound so bad, but when you only have the ball eight times, the math simply does not work. Derrick Henry

eighteen carries for one hundred and twelve yards. Titans gained two eighteen on the ground on just twenty nine rushes. Tannehill through for two thirty three and two touchdowns, and yet the Titans lose the ball game. Aj Brown probably going to be motivated for this game. In the game last year on November first, he caught four passes for twenty four yards. So, Amy, what do you remember about that day in Cincinnati from fourteen and a half months ago?

As I read those numbers. Well, I remember being cold. That's a sideline reporter thing to remember, but it was like abnormally cold. I remember that there was a little bit of panic. Panic seems like a lot in retrospect, but there was a little concern because you have to remember where the Titans were when they played the Bengals that game. They had started that season five and oh lost to the Steelers at home in a close game, then went on the road thinking the Bengals are a shoeing.

The Bengals were a one win team. They had to win and they had to tie and that was it. And so they're thinking, oh, we'll get back on our feet against the Bengals. Everything will be fine, this is okay, and then the Titans get shocked and end up losing that game. So there was a little bit of alarm bells going off across the fan base. I remember, because it was one of those games that Mike you, I

mean you said it. There were missed opportunities. Overall, not a terrible game by the Tennessee Titans, but opportunities that really mattered were not taking advantage of. And so people started to say, well, what's happening to this Titans team. That's what I remember about this game. But I had the opportunity to talk to some guys, you know, just because we knew that some of these games could be coming up, and so you're talking about all the different

possibilities and everything. And I had mentioned to someone, you know, do you really look at a game that happened a year ago. I mean, there's been so much turnover on this Titans team. And he said yes, and no, I mean you look and see what they did. You look and see what we did. But they've had turnover, we had turnover. They're both different teams. So I'm interested to see what's going to happen this week. I'm very excited. But Rhett, it has to be advantageous to the Titans.

At A. They have played against Joe Burrow. B. They have played against Zach Taylor and his offense, and see they got to sit back and watch that this weekend. All of those are very valid points, and I'm sure they'll pull out some tape from that game in November first of twenty twenty to reference. In terms of Joe Burrow's passing ability, the big thing that they didn't have

back then is Jamar Chase. We talked about him fourteen hundred and fifty five yards and all those touchdowns as a rook and he is just throw it up and go get it. I mean, he's something else in this thing. The thing I remember about that game in twenty twenty is how they had a makeshift offensive line. I don't want to say Joe Burrow had already been sacked thirty or forty times at that point, and how the Titans defense was unable to get to him. No quarterback sacks

that day. And I think it's going to be a much different story because you have Jeffrey Simmons second team All Pro now just finishing up year three and leading this defense up front with Denico Autry who had a great year to go with it, Harold Landry who had a lights out year. Bud Dupree is now back and healthy, and that allows Kevin Byard back there to do things the way he's been needing to do them and get

a first team All Pro selection. So I'm very much looking forward to Shane Bowen's defense against this high powered offense. That's one of the big big matchups going into this I'm very much looking forward to this game. Well, if you want an example a of what the Titans defensive problems were in twenty that game was in off the field on third down, not able to sack the quarterback. That's why they did all these things in the offseason

to change it up. And so we'll see what are the differences in terms of how they approach this going against the Cincinnati Bengal team that's one of the youngest teams in the league and just doesn't care. They don't care, They're not scared. When do they have to be scared of? Now? They have plenty of moxie. You're right. I mean, they've got they've got swagger, and it starts with Joe Burrow.

I mean that guy. He's you know, you see his pictures of him sitting in the locker room and smoking cigars, you know, like he did at LSU after the point of the National Championship game, and it just kind of emanates from him. M Yeah, I don't think they're scared of anything. All right, let's get some weekend playoff thoughts. San Francisco twenty three, Dallas seventeen. Ret. Brian, you go first, Well, it's this simple. San Francisco forty now just came out

like a ball of fire. I mean, Deebo Samuel did Deebo Samuel things. I mean, that guy. It's unbelievable what

they've done with him at the running back position. And it was really out of kind of necessity, as Elijah Mitchell, the rookie from Louisiana Lafayette, had some injury concerns throughout the year, and they immediately went right down through a dagger done there, seven to nothing and then you know here they go from there, and you know, Dak Prescott and this Cowboys offense just never could get anything going.

I don't did ceedee lamb ever end up with a catching that game, because I don't, at one point deep into it, he didn't even have one. But if he did, it wasn't much. It wasn't even as close as what it appeared to me on the scoreboard. Did you enjoy this one? I did enjoy this one. It was a game that I enjoyed in the last probably three minutes, because it got really exciting there at the end. I mean, Dak Prescott's trying to do some of the things that we've seen him do before, which is just throw it

up there. Let someone go get it and score some points. And I mean they were moving that ball for a while and it was getting really excited. And there was a minute a minute where I thought, Dallas is gonna do this. They're gonna come back and they're gonna score, and that's gonna be the ball game, and it's gonna be a walk off and Tony Romo is gonna just fly out of the booth. I mean, this is gonna be crazy. But I mean, ultimately, they couldn't get out

of their own way. They couldn't they couldn't get the job done. And that's kind of the story for Dallas as of late. Yeah, for the last twenty something years, recent memory. Yeah, unfortunately for the Cowboys. I mean it continues. Read how good were Jim Nanson Tony Romo on the telecast? You know? I mean they're the number one team for a reason on CBS, and the chemistry they've got together

is really good. Anyway, Just the thing about Tony, you could tell he was just feeling so much for his old team and want to get them over the top, and it just didn't happen. But there's certainly certainly a reason why they are the number one team for CBS on television. Good stuff. I love listening to them together and in those final moments. I mean, you know, I thought their reaction to the last play was just perfect. They were kind of like everybody else what just happened? Yeah,

why would they do that? Yeah? They bring a human element to it, and that's a perfect example. All right. So I want to know, Amy, how much of the Tampa Bay thirty one to fifteen went over Philly? Did you watch? I'll be honest, Mike, I didn't watch the entire game. I'm just gonna lay it out here for the OT people. I realized what was happening pretty early, and you know, I got some stuff done around the house. But I think we can all agree that Tom Brady

is still good. He's still playing, all right, And I was surprised he was in the game as long as he was. I kind of thought that once this one was fully in hand, that maybe Tom Brady would sit a couple out. But that is not the Tom Brady way. And I mean, great game by Tampa Bay. They were dominant from the very beginning. There was really no question of who was in charge of that game at any point in time. So yeah, I didn't watch the whole thing.

I'll be straight with the OT people. I'm not too proud. I think he was the most predictable result of the entire weekend. Yeah, I agree with that. I watched part of it and I was like, this is just dull, and Troy Aikman sounded like he felt that way, and then he certainly said it was disappointed they weren't doing San Francisco and Ballance Bred. He said it was three time. Yeah, he did not hide any disinterest in that whole deal.

And sadly for anybody who's an Eagles fans, Jalen Hurts never was able to get anything running with his legs. They weren't able to start working in the RPO off of any of that Tampa based defense wouldn't have any of that. And really it's a sidebar out of this.

This will begin the conversation about the Philadelphia Eagles going forward, because Mike, they're the team that has three number one picks, picks fifteen, sixteen, and nineteen in the first round of the twenty twenty two draft, and you wonder, are they the ones that pull the trigger and make the trade for Deshaun Watson to upgrade at that position. Well, it's going to be a conversation of topic. Yeah. The only thing about that is will Deshaun Watson be willing to

go there and wave it's no trade clause? That is correct, because the only other part of that is if that's what the Texans still want, they can get it from those guys. Yeah, but can you imagine how the press in Philadelphia is going to be about Deshaun Watson after what his situation has been. Yeah, it's the only way it would be worse is if he went to New York. That's the way I'll answer that. But yeah, that that

game was very predictable. Tom Brady and crew just keep trucking and right along, and so here they go into the divisional round. Here's what wasn't predictable, Buffalo forty seven, New England's seventeen rat Can you ever remember a playoff game that was supposed to be competitive? This just being such a landslide. I've never seen a playoff game with dominance the way this was. It's not just Mac Jones

throwing two interceptions and them losing that battle. Buffalo had the equivalent of a Major League Baseball pitcher pitching a perfect game. I mean they did everything right everything. I mean, why don't they score the first seven possessions? They never punted, I mean, they just had no penalties. It was amazing.

I've never seen another game like it, and on a level you know of play where we have, you know, it's the wild card weekend, and I guess it was just a massive, massive do over for them for what they had. And what was that week eleven and that snow Dome snow Globe game where you know, the Patriots just ran all over them for two hundred and twenty two yards on the ground and you know, Mac Jones complete three passes and they win it. I think they were just so over that they wanted to blow it

out and buy George. They did it, they enjoyed it. I was a little disappointed that it wasn't more competitive, just because on paper, these two teams seem pretty equally matched there, I mean division rivals, so they know everything about each other, Like this is this could be like a real tip for tat game. It's freezing cold, it's like four degrees, like this is playoff football. This could be phenomenal. And then Buffalo just came in and said, no,

thank you. We're not interested in even entertaining the fact that New England is here. We're just gonna win this game and let you guys go home. Like it was really a dominant from the very beginning. They played it like it was a homecoming game. Oh yeah, they played it like they had like New England was like Northeastern State, Like I don't care. Yeah, yeah, okay. So Kansas City beats Pittsburgh forty two twenty one, and it was a game for a while, and then Pedrick Mahomes started going crazy.

So now Kansas City will host Buffalo this coming Sunday. So let me ask you, this ain't Is that a best case scenario potentially for the Titans, that these two teams and we're not putting the car ahead of the horse. But if you're the Titans, don't you want these two

teams to have a massive slug fest on Sunday. I want these two teams to just beat the ever loving daylight side of each other, like I want them to just I want it to be dirty, and I want it to be one of those in the trenches games where everybody's covered in mud for no reason, Like this is the kind of game that I want to have, like people are bleeding, but really I mean Buffalo New England game, then having Buffalo have to go to Kansas

City and potentially just dog fight for their life. I think that whoever is facing them after that going to get a pretty mangled team out of whoever wins. I think that that's going to be a game that's gonna be wooed. Just so much fun to watch, but just an absolute monster to play. Wait think Rit's it should be a really really entertaining game, and I'm everything that Amy said about the physicality of it. Whoever comes to Nashville,

I want them to be binged up, beaten, battered. And let me say, you know the amazing thing about that that game with them in Pittsburgh is here's the Chiefs did not have Clyde Edwards Hilaire. I think he was out with a shoulder if I'm not mistaken, And so here they have Jerick McKinnon, the former Viking and forty nine er. They elevate from the practice squad and he just absolutely takes over. Yes, Tyreek Hill does his things

and Patrick Mahomes slings it around the yard. Travis Kelsey's there, but Jerick McKinnon was a really big difference maker in this game, and I had well over a hundred yards from scrimmage, and he will be an interesting asset for them going forward. I like Buffalo's chances going into Arrowhead. I know that's a tough place to play, but if there's a team that can hang with them, Buffalo, I think is one of those that can do it, provided that Tyler Bass doesn't have a problem putting it through

the uprights if they need those kinds of things. Marik Cardinals against the Rams to see who gets to go to Tampa next weekend. Who you got rit I got the Los Angeles for Rams. I don't have a great feeling about the Arizona Cardinals. They lost four out of their last five, and we know that DeAndre Hopkins had an MCL that he had to have surgically repaired back in the middle of December. There's no word as so whether he's coming back or not. We hear that JJ

Watt will be back for them. On defense, I think that that Kyler Murray is really going to miss DeAndre Hopkins as a target. I know they have other weapons, but I just didn't like the way they literally limped into the playoffs, and that's why I like because it's a home game for the Rams. I think that. I think the Rams come out and take care of business. Wait think am I agree with Rhett? I think the Rams are going to get this one all the way.

I just I don't see Kyler Murray and the whole Cardinals, especially Cardinals offense, kind of getting back to what they were at the beginning of the regular season. They really lost their way somewhere around the midpoint of the season

and never really found that same mojo. Again. We've seen the Rams go up and down as well, so I'm not saying that they are far and away the superior team here, but I think that the Rams find a way to get it done at home, and the Cardinals have some recoiling or whatever people say of the roster to do in this offseason. The OTP Daily is presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. You can plan on Farm Bureau Health Plans for better coverage, better rates, and better

customer service. They've been protecting Tennesseeans for almost seventy five years. Go to FBHP dot com to learn more. Okay, so starting today Monday, we have something that the Titans are trying to do to sort of kick off this week of playoff football and trying to help the American Red Cross in the process. The nation's blood supply is that

its largest deficit over a decade. The American Red Cross has declared a national blood crisis of the Titans have decided to not only host a blood drive at Nissan Stadium on Tuesday, but to also use our platform to help promote blood donation by sponsoring drives across Middle Tennessee and quite frankly, wherever you're listening to the OTP, wherever you're listening, we want Titans fans anywhere to sign up

to donate blood at any location near you. Go to Red Cross blood dot org, slash donate and just type in your zip coat. Wherever you're listening to the OTP, you can find a blood drive and go give blood. Amy. Here's the way you can make a difference as a Titans fan in the lead up to the divisional weekend. Absolutely, the Titans all season, it's not a secret, have been putting a huge emphasis on serving their community. And the nice thing about Titans Nation in the way that it's

growing right now. Is that that's not just Middle Tennessee specific anymore. Titans Nation is all over the place. We are all over the United States, all over the Mid South, all over the world. There are Titans fans and so to be able to all do something together and get out and make such an impact in something so easy as donating blood, I mean you literally sit down the whole time like this is what you do. So let's all get together, band together, do something awesome, help save

people's lives by sitting in a chair. So, just like Mike said, head over to Red Crossblood dot org flash donate and you really just type in your zip clode. I've done it before. It's the easiest thing you could do. You can organize them by closest to the location where you are googling from. So I just organized it. Found the closest spot. It was church. I went down the road donated blood. It was very easy. So, yes, there's

going to be one Nissan Stadium on Tuesday. If you're already signed up to do that, I know that Mike Keith is going to be donating there. Keith is doing it. But even if you can't get out to the Stadium sometime this week in honor of the Titans being in the playoffs and what an awesome time this is. Let's all just go out and donate blood wherever we can.

It will really truly make a huge impact. And that blood drive the particular one at Nissan Stadium for all the OTP that's Tuesday from noon to six in the club section, and there will be Titans giveaways throughout the day, including you can sign up to win an aj Brown autographed helmet. I know that is one of the items they're giving away. And the important thing about going to the website to sign up ahead of time and register.

That's Red Cross blood dot org slash donate. It's because there's not a lot of walk up availability in a lot of cases because the Red Cross is staffing issues and things with pandemic and all those things in mind, So plea please do that. Go to the website and sign up that way you can get registered, get you a time in an appointment there to make sure that you get that to happen on that so you can

donate blood. That is important part of this to make sure that you can make your donation of blood instead of just trying to walk up and do it, and maybe in other places throughout these next three or four days. You can go to a place near you if you can't make it to Nissan Stadium, but it's a fantastic effort.

Red Cross Blood dot org slash donate, type in your zip code and give blood this week as we try to help the American Red Cross as we get ready for Divisional Football AFC Divisional Round Football the Elite eighth this weekend, three thirty Central time, kickoff Centcinnata and Tennessee at Nissan Stadium, Amy Wells and Reet Bryan The Titans capdown on Titans Radio beginning at two Central times. So for Amy and Rhett, I might key thanks for joining us the old t Gab. Welcome to the Big Show

where the Lagends go. Everybody knows it's our house, fighting for Tennessee, making us to read cleanness is meant to be ours now. We got tight and butter running through our face

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