The OTP | Preview of Week 8 at Texans

lineman MALIEK. Collins has not practiced the last two days with a chest injury. Wide receiver Nico Collins, who has eighteen catches for three hundred and five yards, has not practiced either of the last two days with a groin injury. Brandon Cooks didn't practice yesterday and Jerry Hughes didn't practice yesterday as they were getting rest. They were back today. And then aj Can, an offensive lineman who used to play for Jacksonville now plays for Houston, out today with

an illness. Justin McCrae, offensive lineman hand injury, has been limited the last two days. Rookie offensive lineman Kenyon Green shoulder injury back to practice today. So that's Houston. They're pretty healthy, yep. The Titans, on the other hand, Tory Carter neck injury has not practiced either of the last two days. Jeffrey Simmons ankle injury has not practiced either of the last two days. Right Win seen him no. Ryan Tannehill ankle did not practice on Wednesday. Was a

limited participant today. It's not bad, not bad. Rashad Weaver back injury has not practiced either of the last two days. Aaron Brewer toe injury limited yesterday, practiced today. Dylan Cole linebacker hamstring injury limited yesterday, practiced today. Morgan Cox long snapper ankle injury limited yesterday, practiced today. Nate Davis, who's missed the last two games the foot injury limited each of the last two days. Bud Dupree hamstring injury limited yesterday,

full participant today. Ben Jones knee injury limited yesterday, Full participant today. David Long groin limited limited, so he's been limited yes Zack Cunningham elbow injury, missed the last three games. He has fully practiced each of the last two days, and special teams Ace Joe Jones knee injury has fully participated the last two days, so there's a lot to digest and there's a lot more to come. And the question now that is on everyone's lips, is Ryan Tannehill

going to play? Right? I think the legitimate answer is we don't know. I think that's the only answer you can give because we don't know. Thank you for that. Thank you for that reinforcement. I was trying to help you out. You really did. Yeah. I like how you did that. You're welcome. The thing about Tannehill which will be so confusing is he does not have to practice

to play. So they may go out tomorrow and he may be limited again, and they will probably list him as questionable, and he literally will be questionable because he doesn't have to. Most guys, if they don't do much during the course of the week, are not going to play. Ryan Tannehill is thirty four years old and he started one hundred and forty two NFL games. He's done this before.

He's done this before. But what it does mean it's a lot of work from a leak Willis, and I think it comes at a great time in his development to have this kind of work and this kind of pressure Yeah, it definitely gives him the opportunity to have a bit of an adjustment in mindset because, yes, every week you prepare as if you will be the starter, absolutely, but the truth is you really don't. If you're not taking any first team reps, right, you're not preparing to

be the starter. Right In reality, there is an entirely different kind of workload and function that comes along with getting ready to be the guy playing the game on Sunday. He's working with the ones, like you said, you know, he is taking those reps. He's getting that experience. So even in the event that Ryan Tannehill does end up playing on Sunday, what an opportunity for Malik to have this week of preparation to understand what it's like to be in that role, to be the guy, to be

the guy. I think it's good for him to have experienced that experience, the workload mentally, to experience what that requires in terms of how he's processing information, how he's studying. It's a great chance for him to learn. So no matter who is starting on Sunday, I think that it's a great opportunity for him. And after being as frustrated as I know, he was with himself after the matchup

against the Colts and his performance in that game. I should say, I think this is a great opportunity for him to really turn the page and move on to the next game. Well, he's been with the organization for almost six months. He did all the things in May and June and then training camp, and he started all three preseason games. But then when September came, he became the show team quarterback. And the show team quarterback, for those of you who don't know, is the guy who

runs the scout team. He's running the other team's plays, and Vrabels said it very clearly that they had to get him used to the fact that you're running the other team's plays with the intent of beating the first team defense. At first, I think he was just running the plays and he's like chucking it all over the yard and thinking that it doesn't really matter because this doesn't count or whatever. It all counts, right, and so he has really stepped it up. Now it really counts.

He's handing off to Derrick Henry. I don't know that he's ever handed off to Derrick Henry. Maybe he hasn't a drill. Yeah, but he's on the field with the regular tight ends and the starting wide receivers and it's like whoa. And so if a practice doesn't go, well, that's on him because he's the guy who dictates the

offensive practice tempo. I think it certainly none of us want Ryan Tannehill to be hurt, but I think for him to get the opportunity to be the guy in terms of preparation and to see what that's all about, I think that's a good thing. Yeah, after six months, Yeah, it's coming at a good time in his development development. Sure, well, put all right, so we'll see. We don't know, No, we don't know about Jeff Simmons, be sure, don't. And that one makes you nervous. Yeah, he got rolled up

pretty tight there in the ball game. That that hand is smart. Yeah, he didn't look like he was feeling good. It didn't look like it was a comfortable experience for him. And I mean, we don't know anything. We're not his doctors. I haven't even seen him, so I have no idea. But it's definitely something to watch because man, he is such a big part of this Titans defense. He's been playing so well. He's another one though, he doesn't have

to practice. No, he doesn't. He gets to Saturday and says I can go, or gets to even Sunday morning and says I can go. The decision though, with him, comes down to how many snaps can he play? Because you can only keep up forty eight guys, You're probably only going to keep up five defensive linemen, maybe six.

But you lose a guy after eight or nine snaps, that's tough, and then potentially you've lost him for two to three more weeks with the bye being over with, If there's any question, are you smarter sitting him for one game and then hopefully getting him back against Kansas City Not because you think Houston is inferior to Kansas City, but because you're saying, for the long term of this, we don't want this to linger, and we don't want to be in this situation. That is an interesting point

that you make about the bye week being over. Everyone kind of looks to the bye as okay, if we can just get there. You get a minute to breathe, you get a minute to get people healthy. Now that this has past, your next real opportunity is after the Green Bay game, when you get a couple extra days, Right, So that's your next kind of area of relief, your next place to take a want to lose Big Jeff for a month, No, I don't want to lose Big

Jeff for five minutes. I understand, but I'm saying, right if you if you told me you've got to go try to win a game without him, or you're you're fearful that you may lose him for a longer period of time, I just think you you air on the side of caution, especially understanding he's gonna want to play. Yes, Yeah, he's a guy that you're gonna have to say no. You're gonna have to say no as opposed to wetting him.

I mean, he's a tough cookie man. So a lot of connections between the Titans and the Texans, but most of those connections are on the Titans side, Like, for example, Texans from the state of Tennessee. One Jalen Reeves Mayben from Clarksville play at the University of Tennessee. He's a backup linebacker, came over from Detroit Titans from the state

of Texas. I'm sure there's tons, Ryan Tannehill, Big Spring, lo Raven Clark, Bryan Salina, Jordan Rouse, Cleveland, Kevin Strong, Dallas, Aaron Brewer, Denton, Mario Edwards, Junior Houston, Joshua klou Klein, Randy Bullock, Nakodochus, Josh Thompson the new defensive back. This comes from the Texans release. By the way, I'll give them credit. So you have nine Titans are from the state of Texas, one Texan who's from the state of Tennessee.

Coaching connections. There's nobody on the Texans staff who has a Titans connection. Nobody, seriously, none surprising on the Titans staff. Head coach Mike Vrabel was there from twenty fourteen through seventeen. Linebacker coach King did two long stints there before joining the Titans this season. Passing game coordinator Tim Kelly was there from two fourteen through twenty twenty one and is

now in the Titans staff. Titans secondary coach Anthony Midget worked with the Texans twenty fourteen through seventeen and then eighteen and nineteen. Quarterback coach Pat O'Hara was with the Texans twenty fifteen through seventeen. Defensive coordinator Shane Bowen coached with the Texans as a defensive assistant in twenty sixteen and seventeen. So we've got a few. Oh and it gets better. Former Titans on the Texans roster. Can you

name the guy former Titan on the Texans roster? Hold, okay, just tell me, because we don't have all this king former Texans on the Titans. Ben Jones, DeMarcus Walker, Dontrelle Hilliard, Dylan Cole, Lonnie Johnson, Randy Bullock, Terrence Mitchell. So there is a lot of Texans influences on the Titans. There's very little Titans influence on the Texans. I thought it was really odd. That's very interesting. Usually it goes a

little bit more both ways. The one that doesn't surprise me at all is all the Titans from Texas because that's I mean, Texas is such a football state. You always have a state too. Well it's a big state, but it's a big football state, and so you have all kinds of players always coming out of Texas. Half your rosters always Texas, guys. That's just the way the world works. Texas in Florida and Georgia, California. Yeah, like you know, the big states where you're gonna get most

of your rosters, so that doesn't surprise me. The coaching one is kind of hilarious, like that's a little comical how many guys that we have from there. But it's all about coaching trees and where you've made those connections and where paths of crossed. It's very interesting. All roads lead to Houston, all roads lead from Houston to Nashville in this case, right, that's true. By the way, So the best Texans running back of all time played at the University of Tennessee, but he was not a starter

at the end of his career at Tennessee. You know who I'm talking about, Arian Foster. Yes. The funny thing is I believe the Texans now have the best running back that they have had since Arian Foster in the rookie Damian Piers. I would agree with that. Damian Pierce is really a wacky story because he goes to Florida and in his career at Florida he never carries more than one hundred six times in a season. Ironically, through six games for the Texans, He's already carried exactly one

hundred and six times. That's crazy, But they never used him that much at Florida. He became a viral sensation when he scored a touchdown against Florida State with his helmet off. He was breaking tackles. If you ever look that up. Look up Damian Pierce, no helmet versus Florida State, and I mean it's impressive. The truth is, though it didn't count because he didn't have his helmet on it. At the moment you lose your helmet in the college game, the play is blown dead. So I think it was

blown dead at the two or three yard line. That's disappointing, but it was crazy fun to watch. I'm sure it was. Now here's what's really funny. So I'm at the Senior Bowl and they're doing the running backs against pass rushers pass protection drill. This is comical normally because a most of these backs have never blocked anybody in their life. Okay, so they don't know what they're doing. B A lot

of the backs today are small and there there. You don't have those bow Jackson looking guys anymore, who are six one six two two thirty two forty. I mean most of the dudes are five eight one seventy five net. They're bigger than that, but they're you know, they're they're two hundred pounds maybe maybe on a good day, and so they don't know how to block anybody. They're not very big, and then they have these dudes running straight at them and they're like, you could just see him

freak out. They don't know what to do. But this is important for the scouts to see because this is the biggest reason that running backs don't play as rookies. They may get the quarterback killed right because they don't know which way to go in pass pro. A lot of times, they don't know who to pick up because they've never been involved in this and they don't know how to do it right. So what you're looking for is you're looking for a guy who shows some traits.

It's like, okay, we may be able to teach him. Damian Pierce gets in this drill and somebody runs at him and he hit this guy so hard it was just absolutely brutal. Really and I looked at my sheet and I said, who is that guy? What's Damian Pierce from Florida? And all of a sudden, all I can think about is Marshawn Lynch. Because there's some backs who are just really mean. I mean, they're just violent people. Yeah, they play running back so they can hit you first,

and that's what this guy does. And he's unbelievably physical. He's five ten two eighteen. He will remind you of a guy who played at the University of Tennessee and then played for the Titans for a while named Travis Henry fifteen sixteen years ago. He I mean, he is violently physical. So they've got a back. And what's interesting with this team is, so I was with Lovey Smith at Tennessee. I know Lovey Smith. I know what he's all about. He was a secondary coach at that time.

But philosophically, what he wants to do is he wants to play defense. He's gonna limit you from big plays, and he's gonna try to make a kick field goals. And then on offense, he's gonna want to run the ball, do some play action things and have his quarterback not take many hits. And he's got Davis Mills, who I think it's a good quarterback. Davis Mills doesn't run. His longest career run is eleven yards against the Titans this

year on January ninth, So it is a run. No, he's just a big guy who stands in the pocket and throws it. He was a number one quarterback in America coming out of high school. He's from Atlanta and he ends up at Stanford. He dees Olcate Stanford, but the you know, the pandemic hits and all this stuff happens, and he'd have been the first quarterback taken easily had he come back for one more year at Stanford. Yeah,

you're probably right. Well, I think he goes number one overall in this past draft, so they've probably got a little something now. They got a back, they got Brandon Cooks, they got Nico Collins. I don't know if he's gonna play or not, but you know, they've got a few dudes, and then they play Lovey's defense. They've been in every game, but with a running back, they now have a chance. Yeah,

they have. They're starting to get the pieces, and once you get the pieces, you can start to form a foundation. And it sounds like that's kind of where they are right now. They've got that foundation. They've been in close games, They've got a lot of fight to them. They show up for all four quarters. That's most of it. Like, that's most of the recipe right there. It's just about pulling it together. Now, it's just getting it all together and putting it over the top. And we hope they

do that at some point down the road. Not against us. Now they're in the division, so we hope they never do well. I mean, good on you. You'll win a couple of games, but not to get inst us. They probably will. Yeah, you're right, they will do that at some point. Yes, they will, because they have the pieces. By the way, need to mention right now during the OTP this specially for the ot people. Duncan has a new rewards program. It's known as Duncan Rewards. Very good,

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They're nice people that always do my coffee correctly, which I'm so appreciative of. That is rather nice. And they're always excited about the Titans. Yes, always very fired up about the Titans. Checking to see how many rewards points I have six hundred and seventeen right now. I checked this morning. Yes, well that sounds like a donut for all of us. I think you get a donut for one hundred and fifty points, so I theoretically could get four donuts. There's four people in this room. But maybe

I don't want to donut. Maybe I want a breakfast sandwich. Well, you could get a breakfast sandwich. I don't I would rather have a donut. Maybe I'm doing it for me, all right. So as we move through this edition of the OTP, there a couple more things we have to do. The number one thing that I need to do is reminds you that Sunday's game is three oh five Central time.

That's important. So wherever the ot people are, Sunday's game is three h five, Amy Wells rhet Brian Titans countdown at two o'clock Central Time on your favorite Titans radio station. They're exactly fifty of them as a matter of fact. Five Oh, I like that. Yes, we appreciate all. We have great stations in great markets, supported far and wide, all of the state of Tennessee, western Kentucky, and a

good bit of Alabama. Really Birmingham, North is where we have the majority of our radio stations, but all the way to Scottsboro, Alabama. Wow, yes, that's pretty good. I love it hang out in Scottsboro, Alabama sometimes. So the neatest thing about Scottsboro, Alabama, and I haven't been in a couple of years, but they have the lost luggage outlet. What is that? So everybody who's lost luggage. Janette Morley

is nodding it. So they have a warehouse in Scottsboro, Alabama, and it is filled with things that people have left at the airport or on a plane or just never claimed. So you can find clothes, you can find shoes, you can find sporting goods, equipment, you can I mean, it's unbelievable. It's like the Island of Misfit Toys. It was so big they opened a second location. So Larry Stone and I went on a trip to Scottsborough once and it's one of the most fascinating things. Scottsboro is a great town.

It's the hometown of Bear Bryant's favorite player when he was a coach in Alabama, quarterback named Pat Trammell. So that's just a little piece. It's right sort of the north eastern part of Alabama. It's not far from Chattanooga, Okay, it's right below South Pittsburgh, Whitwool and in that area. I want to go to this, but the ot people need to know if you want to visit a cool place,

and I assume it's still there. Then the Lost Luggage Outlet, I can't remember the specific name, but the Lost Luggage Outlet in Scottsboro, Alabama, is one of the most fascinating places I've ever been. Well, you can purchase this stuff. Absolutely, they have some sort of agreement with the airlines and maybe it's phenomenal. We were there for an hour and a half. Oh my gosh, here it is on the interwebs. What is the actual name of it, Unclaimed baggage. Unclaimed

Baggage Scottsboro, Alabama. Oh my gosh, buys orphaned bags and gives them a second line. That's right. It is the Island of Misfit Toys. Mike. Okay, so we've told a little story there. Uncle Mike's given you another tip. Here on the OTP, Uncle Mike is sending me on a shopping adventure. You would, knowing you as long as I've known you, you would have so much fun just seeing what was there. You won't believe what's there? Yeah, some of it I can't and won't mention, But I mean

some of it's absolutely fascinating. I am fired. There you go. This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. Don't get sacked by the high cost of healthcare. Make Farm Bureau Health Plans your first line of protection. They've been protecting Tennesseeans for seventy five years. Now everyone in the room is pulling up ye blamed luggage. We have moved on from this podcast and now I'm a shopping I see. I always tell people all the interesting little

spots to go to. You do. You are one of the best people to know when traveling in the Mid South region. I love it because you know all the little places. You know the best places to eat. Clanton, Alabama, place you need to stop, what you need to see on the way. Oh, be sure to stay at this whatever I mean. Mike Keith is the man. Well, I don't know. I don't know about the man, but I've been a few places in a car. Yeah. I was raised in a family with a man who didn't fly,

and so we drove everywhere. And then Larry Stone and I and now Rhet Brian and I have driven everywhere. I've decided that in twenty twenty three, I'm gonna proclaim it here on the OTP. In twenty twenty three, I'm going to visit all ninety five counties in the state of Tennessee again. In one year. Yes, I'm gonna do it. In one year. I'm gonna do it. I'm excited. I've done it. You know, I'm one of the few people you'll ever meet who's been in every county. But I

want to do it again in one year. I'd really like to have lunch in every county in the state of Tennessee, or at least a meal in every county. I really like that idea. I would love to do that. There's so many neat places. Are they all going to be work trips? Or will some of them just be for fun? Be for fun? Okay, but that could be work too. Could be out seeing the radio stations and speaking at the Rotaries and the Civitans, and you put a lot of miles on your car's We can do that,

all right. It would be fun, all right. Part of the reason I'm going to do it is because I know I'm gonna be talking about the new stadium. Yeah, and I tell you, the stadium thing is blown up so big. Since the renderings have come out earlier this week, it has been so fantastic to see and hear the reaction and be asked all the questions. The radio stations I've been on, they want to talk about it. The show we did with Keith Bulleck Titans Tonight presented by

Pinnacle Financial Partners. We talked about it for a whole segment. It's we go through the three the three top questions. Okay, okay, so the three top questions that we're getting. Number one is if I have a PSL at Nissan Stadium, will I get credit for that PSL moving to the new stadium. The answer is yes. Now, there will be some parameters in terms of, you know, did you buy it originally, when did you buy it, what seed did you buy,

you know, things of that sort. But yeah, the team Amy Adam Strunk is going to give you credit for your PSL. Right, she is going to save you dollars, which is huge. I think it's the other thing we get too, And I'm building up in terms of level of importance. That one is really number three Okay. Number two is what about the super Bowl? Yeah? Are the Titans guaranteed a Super Bowl if they build the stadium? And the answer is, they're not guaranteed a super Bowl. No,

that's not how that works. That's not how that works. The owners pick them, and the question comes up, does it happen? But I had a chance to interview Roger Goodell when he was here last weekend. Most of the OT people know him as Commissioner Goodell, the guy with the great recliner chair, that recliner chair. Do you think when he's inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the recliner will be part of his display. Yes, it

should be. I think it should be too. It was such a huge part of two different drafts, right, so I think, yeah, it's part of the Goodell legacy. Yeah, is that chair? Well, it humanized him, did I think that draft? You know, he'd always been viewed as kind of a Yeah, he's a fan, but he doesn't have a lot of personality. And I've done four things with him now I find him to be a good guy, more of a normal guy than what he appears on TV, which I mean he can't really because he's has to

be very like down the middle of business always. But yeah, but he seems a little stuffy, but he's sorry. Like I had a chance the other day to meet Katie Hill from the NFL office. She's from Nashville, and she went to Harpeth Hall and I was so excited to talk about Nashville with her and her family lived in Cottonwood or lives in Cottonwood out in the Franklin area, which is one of the great neighborhoods that ever, that

ever was, And that was really exciting. And so the commissioner came up and immediately started saying, oh, you're talking Nashville with Katie and funny in a funny way. He's obviously proud of her, but he thought that was kind of humorous, like, right, yeah, jovial guy. But you're right,

that draft special. Typically, that twenty twenty draft really made him seem a lot more relatable, sure, because he was doing what the rest of us were doing, right, We're trying to pick players from our houses, and that's what he was doing. He was doing the same thing. And how he got progressively more casual as the days went on, well, and they whoever had the idea, Hey, why don't we bring your recliner down, and the fact that he went along with it was quite funny. Yeah. I thought it

was really good. It was very well done by the NFL as a whole yea, and him being a good sport about it and really kind of getting into it. It was a nice touch. It was a nice touch. I had a chance to ask him three questions and they're all related to the stadium, and so we'll let you hear these right now on the OTP special for the ot people. The last one is about the Super Bowl. Spoiler alert. He's not going to give a direct answer, but see if you don't think this is very positive

towards Nashville. Here's the commissioner, Roger Goodell, are the team commissioner injure experiences with teams that get a new stadium. What do these venues do for the cities and their faiths? Well, I really they're obviously there's an economic driver to them.

I think they create activity. I think they create events that it can produce economic but to me as much beyond that, I think really they become signature pieces of the community and they are really that platform for every community to show a global audience what's going on in that community. And while they'll bring in new events and be able to do the same thing, I think that's really the core of what they do. And this is going to be an opportunity here at an outer show.

The Nashville is continuing to grow, it's continuing to progress, It's continue to expand and it's it's showing people what a great community this is. If you take it a step further and talk about Aby Adam Strong and how this is a next step in her journey of taking us to a different level, how it pressed are you with what she's been able to do and the fact that this stadium and the look of it in the

field of it is so special. Well, Amy cares deeply about this community and she keeps really it feels deeply about the Titans and creating a world cross organization ultimately, but one that reflects well on this community. And that's the that's the core what drives her. I know that would make her father prout. And her father felt the same way about this community without a lot of knowledge, but with this short period of time, he really he

realized how special this community really was. And Amy's just like she's raised the bar, She's created a new vision. She's worked with everybody here in this community and listen to them and said, here's what we want to do, here's what you want to do. Let's do it together. And to me, when you get that public private partnership and that kind of leadership, somebody special is going to happen. Our last one got to ask you about the super

Bowl again. Sure everybody wants to know if we built this stadium, are we going to get a super Bowl in Nashville? You know, the super Bowl has become an incredible event. I think this community, they showed us where they raise the bar in the draft. I think they have the opportunity here to raise the bar for the super Bowl. I think the stadium itself is an important

piece of that, but it's much more behind that. It's it's really all the infrastructure, but more importantly, this community's enthusiasm for making this be on a global state chair and so I look forward to that day. That is the Commissioner of the National Football League, Roger Goodell, talking about the stadium, talking about Nashville. He's a Nashville fan, yes, I mean you could tell that from the twenty nineteen draft. He is a fan. Yep. So does Nashville automatically get

a super Bowl if the stadium is built? The answer is not automatically, But I would say technically no, but not automatically. But what that sounded positive to me? That was how I took it. I think the NFL, like the League office as a whole is a fan of Nashville, the community, what they've been able to do, how they showed up for the draft. I like our odds. Okay,

well said by you, thank you. Finally, the number one question that I've been getting, You've been getting, Rhett Brian's been getting, Jim Wyatt's been getting, everybody associated with us, Bert Nyhill's been getting, is how do we get a Super Bowl here if you're only going to seat sixty thousand. Now, OT people, listen carefully and share this with your friends. How can we host a Super Bowl if we only hold sixty thousand in the new stadium. This is from

Peter O'Reilly. He is the NFL executive vice president for Club Business and League Events. I was told I could share this with you the OT people. The National Football League is excited about the team, the city of Nashville, and the state of Tennessee reaching this point as they look ahead to a new stadium for the Tennessee Titans and the community. While there is still more work to do in the process, this new stadium will undoubtedly create

a first class experience for NFL fans. The Super Bowl host city selection process is a thorough one guided by the league's Fan Engagement and Major Events Advisory Committee and voted upon by full ownership. A number of factors are considered when selected a Super Bowl host, including stadium quality, local venues in hotels, participating team experience, vision for fan activities, and more. Now, listen to this, and this is a quote. There is no minimum stadium capacity that precludes a stadium

from hosting the Super Bowl, America's most watched event. Interesting, let's say it again, Peter O'Reilly, NFL Executive vice president, Club Business and League Events. There is no minimum stadium capacity that precludes a stadium from hosting the Super Bowl, America's most watched event. End quote. Well, there you have it, folks. Well just trying because there it was in place at one time, but it hasn't been I'm told for a decade. I don't know the exact time it went away, but

there it is not there anymore. It used to be seventy five thousand, but it has not been that way for quite some time. Well, there was the Super Bowl in Dallas where they had all of the seating issues and they said they could hold more than they actually could hold. And that was a little goofy and I think ever since that you never heard about that again. So this is not a thing. Right. The reason the Titans want to build it at sixty is because it's going to make it the most high quality venue in

terms of experience. We hope anywhere right, you'll be able to see everything good, You'll be able to have lots of experiences. You'll be able to get places from where you sit, if you want to do the standing room thing, if you want to do a club, if you want to do something with a suite at mean, if you just want a regular great end zone seat, building it this way will make it the highest quality for every person who walks through the door, which is a big deal.

That's how you get the super Bowl, not a number. And so as we've tried to talk about it, I'm not saying the people who think this or way off base. It did used to be like that. It is not anymore. It's not it's not a thing. It's not a thing. That's the best way to say it. So ot people, it's gonna be okay, Yes, it's gonna be good. Yes, And we are fired up about it. We're fired up

about it. And I mean so the super Bowl. If Nashville were to get a super Bowl, the next three are laid out, and so I mean it would be twenty twenty nine or thirty. I would think before you could get you'd be into the sixties in terms of super Bowl number. Because we've got fifty seven coming up this year in Glendale, Arizona. Fifty seven. Already fifty seven. Man, I remember being so fired up about fifty. This is epic. I remember super Bowl ten vividly Dallas in Pittsburgh, Mike

twenty one seventeen in Miami. That it makes it so easy, I know, but I'm not afraid of this. It's two easy. I don't sit and claim to be twenty eight years old. I'm not even swinging at it. It's so easy. But I don't fare. I don't claim to be twenty eight years old. People know, Hey, people who've been listening to the radio, no, that you're not twenty eight years I'm not twenty eight years old. I wasn't even twenty eight years old when I got the job. That's true. I

was young. Yes, you were my ger, you were young, Ger, you were young Mike. All right, So again to repeat, excited this weekend Titans Texans. This is gonna be a dogfight. We know it's going to be a dog fight. We've talked about the Texans and the challenge they will pose. We understand what has to happen. Three oh five, three oh five Central Time, two o'clock Titans Countdown on any of your favorite Titans radio stations. We hope you will tune in and be part of the show, especially those

of you in Alabama. At this cool story at Scottsboro, Alabama. Yes, you thought I was making that up, didn't you. No, I didn't think you were making it up, but I wanted to kind of see what was what. And now this is my afternoon, so you've got the rest of the day to figure out what you would want from there. This is unbelievable. And I'm looking at there's a clearance section. Isn't it all a clearance section? Really? Correct? Janette Morley will go with you, she will, She may even drive

you down there. Oh my gosh, there's a surface on here, in a surface like a Microsoft so not like a table talk like they have a floor. You got to claim to be a young man, folks. I knew what you meant. I was just but you're bringing it up for an audience that can't see what you're talking. You can't see what I'm talking about, but you should have said Microsoft surface to be clear, because this is not a visual medium. The OT people know it. By the way,

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