The OTP | Training Camp Wrap Up

with his crew. How was it to see all of the alumni at the Thursday practice today, Amy well First, it made me feel kind of old because more and more of the alumni coming back are people that I've worked with. Now, when you've been someplace for a decade, I guess that happens, but normally yeah, but it was. It was so good to see everybody come back. More and more people are choosing to move to Nashville, and

so that's always fun to hear that. People are kind of you know, they play in their respective teams and then they come back to Nashville to settle down because there's no place like home. There is no place like m Coach Mack, how many of your guys were here today, all of them that live in this area. It was great. Retina and Amy were upstairs, you know where they're they're all gathered, and what I really like not only seeing

the guys with their families. I mean, you know, I mean Karl Kluge was up there, one of my all time favorites. Was talking to him, and he and his wife and then he had a whole gang with him and a litter of childress got He's got little stair steps and that, you know, that was really fun. It was fun upstairs seeing all of them. And then Tory Holt was here, you know with NFL Legends, and that was great seeing Tori because I've got history with him there at the RAMS and what a solid human being.

I mean, it was a great day, it really was. And great that Amy Adams Strunk wants these guys back so much and they feel so welcome to come back. That was the overwhelming feeling from all of the guys. Whether it was Kevin Long, or it was kenn A Motto, or it was Andy Levitri who has moved back to town.

First of all, I didn't recognize the place, and just the overwhelming feeling of generosity on her part and the ownership group to still make them feel important because they were a part of this all right, So I got some business to take care of before we dive directly into football. A week from today, Thursday, September first, we the Titans are helping to celebrate nine oh one day in Memphis. We share are we're going to Memphis and very excited about that. A lot of things that the

organization will be involved in. But the four of us coach Dave McGinnis, Amy Wells, Rhet, Brian and me, we will be at rail Garden. Rail Garden, which is at twenty one sixty sixth Central Avenue, will be there from four to six pm and we are going to record the OTP live. So, Amy, you like taking the show on the road, I do, and now we're going to take the show on the road to Memphis one week from today, right. And we had a lot of people ask us when we did the OTP road tour back

in the spring, are you going to Memphis? Why aren't you coming to Memphis? And honestly, we couldn't go that far because one of us was kind of a medical risk and that person would be me and really say medical risk. Well, if there's an ambulance an EMTs on standby. How about how about just saying with child, I'm not trying to have a baby on a bus, is what it came down to. And so now that the problem has resolved itself, you're calling your kid a problem when

she doesn't sleep, she is a problem. Okay, But now that I'm not pregnant anymore, we can go to Memphis, and so the nine o one day felt like the perfect time to do that. And we're so excited to continue to take the show on the road. It's my favorite thing to say. It's like a lovely ballad from the early nineties with Vanessa Williams. We have saved the best for last. Yeah, the Bluff City, We're coming. We'll

see you next Thursday. Yeah, we did it with some rookie season ticket members on August fourteenth, and now Thursday, September first, one week from today, for everybody in Memphis, Tennessee, and the surrounding area. Rail Garden twenty one sixty six Central Avenue, four to six pm. I'm hearing there maybe Ribs involved with some of this trip. You know, I'll

do anything for Ribs. You guys know that I'm really looking forward to this trip, and I'm going to just go back to what Amy said just for a minute. Then I'm gonna get off of it. I was very, very disappointed she didn't have Livy Corey on the bus. I didn't deliver Livy Corey on the bus. Yes, I was not at all disappointed. Did you not think it was weird that coach was pulling so hard for that rat? In hindsight, yes, yeah, it was really odd. He really want I was just fearful, as like, oh God, I

made it all the way through to eagle Scout. I don't want to deliver this baby. I don't, but Ratt was my choice of everybody on that bus. I drett because he was an eagle scout. Figure it out. Up some bed sheets, let's rock and roll. Boil some water, ye, come here. They always boil water on TV. If you ever noticed that, you don't know why there was no water involved. I mean, now that I've done it, there's no need for boiled water. Could have delivered the baby.

I just wanted to narrate it. No, God, no, he wanted to be the color Anily's color an I can't think of it by play too, because this boy had been out, I'd have been gone. I can't think of anything. Here's your line the other night RP. No, Well, the whole thing would be, isn't there's someone more qualified? Yeah? Doctor, yeah, doctor. But fortunately I know a guy, and that's what I would have done. I would have called a guy and we would have gotten a guy, and I would have left.

He can do it. Maybe. Wells is not pregnant. Nope, she has a child. Everything's great except the sleeping part. And we're going to Memphis, and she's coming to Memphis with us. Libby's coming to Memphis, so she'll be there. And then I think some people are going to stick around after the OTP taping at Rail Garden to watch Tennessee open this season next Thursday against ball State. I think that will probably happen. I think that is going

to happen. Yes. Southeastern Conference football. Vanderbilt opens this weekend at Hawaii Hawaiia. They're they're out there at Hawaiian now. In fact, that's why the Cardinals are practicing over They're at Vanderbilt because Vanderbilt built is at Hawaii, and didn't the Cardinals have to get out of Glendale because of John bon Jovi. Did I hear that right, that bon Jovie? I believe that is correct, Yes, yea. So they had to clear out because they practice indoors. Once they come back,

do they still go to Flights Down? Oh? They practice their whole training camp is there in the stadium because it's air conditioned and it's a little bit warm there in Phoenix this time of year during training camp. So they practice in the stadium constantly. They've got a hotel right there, right across the street where they keep their players and their coaches, and so they were having to move out anyway. They were going to come here to play the Titans, and so a good move by them.

I spent a lot of time with them yesterday morning before practice started, and then you know, I saw several of them last night. I mean it was a plan move. Is bon Jovi really big enough to kick out a whole NFL team during training camp? Apparently? Like of all the name like I mean, like I don't know Elton John, I'd do that far. Well, isn't the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? I mean there's roughly and he has toured consistently of course, if he owned the Buffalo Bills

right now, you wouldn't be there. That's true. I'll tell you that. That was an interesting story listening to him tell Howard Stern about him trying to buy the Buffalo Bills and how he says Donald Trump sabotaged him on that because he didn't want him to own the team. But he was going to move to Buffalo. He was going to be an active owner, he was going to stop touring. He was gonna all he was gonna do is be the Buffalo Bills owner. And he was very

serious about it. Wow. Wow, that's commitment. If you say I'll move to Buffalo. You know. I'm glad that coach Mac clarified what the field situation is in their stadium situation in the house that Mac built in Arizona, because I called him during that Ravens preseason gave me that. I said, why does it look like they just had the Shelbyville Celebration walking horse show in there? I don't understand, what are we doing? Is it grass? They had a

concert there? Okay? And plus and plus they practice on it all the time, and so what they'll do, you know, before the season starts they'll slide that tray back out, resaw the tray and then keep it out there in the sun where it can grow. But they practice on it every day and that's why right now it's got some where to it. There was more divots there than a polo match. Wow, it slides in and out right. The mechanics of it are amazing. It's a huge tray

like how Houston's used to be. Yeah, and then Houston couldn't keep it up. No, a lot of people got hurt on it, right, lots of injuries. And Arizona theyn keep it up because they got weather that can you know that grows all year. I mean it's it was a pretty it's pretty much of a mechanical moral we why I was there when we went through it, mister Bidwell, you know, went over to Amsterdam to look at a soccer stadium that that did it and brought it back.

I mean, it's amazing. Tell me if you if you could pick any place that would be the perfect site to host training camp, I think Flagstaff, Arizona and Northern Arizona, the university there, I think that would be perfect. It was perfect. I mean I did it for eight years. It was absolutely beautiful. First of all, it's a destination place because it's right on the way in the summer to the Grand Canyon, and we would have four in

five thousand people a day at training camp. Of course that's back when you went, you know, twice a day. The biggest problem for me as a head coach and even as a you know, as an assistant head coach, there was the in the afternoon because the San Francisco Peaks are there, which is the highest point they got you know, snow skiing there, but it's the highest point in Arizona. But because of the elevation there, it's at seventy two hundred feet, they've got an Olympic training center

up there. Because of the elevation, you know, with the whole oxygen thing, you've got real problems understorms every afternoon. And with that those mountains comes the electricity and so you're I mean, I became a real weather guru up there looking at them, looking at dopper radar and trying to decide when or when not to have you know, practice, or to move it back or to move it up.

But as far as a place to have it, it's beautiful and we stayed in the dormitories, which were really nice, but no air conditioning because it's sixty five degrees at night in the in the mountains. It's like it's in the mountains. And it was a beautiful place, had three beautiful fields. I loved Flagstaff, you know. I had a you know place in the summer and Flagstaff up there. You really that I could go to. Yeah, And I mean the whole thing was it's a great, great setup. Really,

it was a great setup. The only thing that happens is is that when you come back down the mountain, when you have to come back down the mountain, you sit there and you watch that temperature gage in your car go from eighty two to one hundred and eighty two, you know. So it's a big difference when you come back down the mountain. Sleep Away training camp is very underestimated. I think when you go off site four three weeks, is it more beneficial in your opinion as a coach

to do sleepaway training camp? No, No, I like it when I came. When I came here, and well, because you've got everything here, it's a massive move. Ye, it's a massive move for every for everybody that supports it. I mean just you know, just for all of this stuff you know that we do electronically, and it's a massive but not for the ball club. It's not talking about the players and the coaches. It's better for everybody because you got you got familiarity as to where you are.

You're not uprooting things, You're not constantly having you know, because you know, things always come up. These guys have families, right, and if something comes up, they have to leave and go you know, I mean because they have children that I mean, things come up, you know that are more important than football. It's much better. I've always thought that on site, if your if your facility could handle it

was much better. Well, it's funny when we went in two thousand and six to Austin, p they did a really nice job up there, But it was funny. I had a massive problem at my house that went on while I was up there. And that's only an hour fifteen from where I live. But to be several hours away or like the teams that go to Wisconsin and then they're right, I did that too. We went to Platform, Wisconsin, you know, which is three and a half four hours

away from Chicago. And no way to get there, and you know when you get up there and then you know flagstaff, flagstaff three hours. I mean, it's it's it's up there. So I can just what you said, we'd always experience it when we were off somebody had something come up just because of life. What impresses you most about a Mike Vrabel training camp, Amy, I think the

speed of it. I think how quickly everything moves, and how quickly all of the players are able to get acclimated and they're able to start doing real, real work that gets you prepared for the season right away. It doesn't feel like there's a lot of revving up. It

doesn't feel like there's a really long acclamation period. It feels like everybody right away, whether you're a VET who's been with Mike Vrabel for four or five years, or you're new to the organization, you understand the expectations, you know the speed that he wants to go out, and you're moving and I don't think every training camp in the NFL is like that. I think some training camps it takes a while to kind of get everyone on the same page. When you can start getting real work done.

That's not the case in a Mike Varabel training camp. The consistency of it, I mean, he's very consistent with what he does. Also the way that he is able to manage his players during training camp. It's not all just we're in training camp and so everybody's going to go one hundred percent of the time, one hundred miles an hour all the time. He understands it. He understands it in a lot of levels, and he spends a lot of time in his offseason planning that, preparing that,

and then also his flexibility. He is able to adjust on the run and it looks like it's just a continuous motion, but there's some adjustments that always take place. But his consistency is what makes it really really good. And plus he gives it. There's a lot of variety to his to his training camps, and he does it for a reason. We've all seen it, the different periods he has when he has him how he does it,

he knows what he's doing. For me, it's the watching coach Verbel teach and go from position group to position group and knowing what he is looking for and what he needs to see from them with you know, Ay's hands, feet, body, language, fundamentals, technique,

all of those things. And I was reminded of it by by rookie Nicholas petit Frere the other day, who who said in an availability, he said, I've never had a head coach to come over and teach me one on one and him knowing exactly what I needed to do. And he said, it's not just my group. I see him doing it with a dB and the linebackers and the secondary and you know, the special teams. He's all

over the place and he is so he's hid. He's the smartest coach I've ever had because I see him working with everyone and he knows exactly what everyone is supposed to be doing. It feels as if Mike does a good job coach Mac of threading the needle between being involved in the groups and yet not overshadowing or usurping his position. Coaches great observation. Mike, he lets his coaches coach. But at the same time, he's a ball coach.

And this was how he was as a player. I mean, this is how he had a double digit career, is he was aware of everything that went on and as a head coach, you know, I experienced it too. You have to be able to be proficient in everything that goes on, but you also have to be cognizant of

the fact you need to let your coaches coach. And the thing that he does such a great job of is any time that he wants to make corrections or do those types of things or something that's going on, he will always address that inside the building with his coaches. But he never steps over his coaches on the practice field. That's something that you know that and as a former head coach sometimes you know that's that's hard to do because at the moment you want to step in, he

understands how to feel that. Plus, I mean he hires coaches that know what they're doing. But that's an art. That's an art to be able to let your coaches coach and then be able if you're going to coach your coaches do it in the building well. And he's also so hands on. I mean, it's not that he just walks over and says, nope, you need to be doing this differently. I mean he gets in there if he's going to show you how to make a change or make a correction, especially with a lot of those players,

he gets down to their level. He's able to act it out in the way that they need to be doing things. He I mean, how many times have we seen him with a chess pad or some sort of weird bopping device where he is doing what needs to be done because he can demonstrate it. He can show a guy physically what they need to be doing or changing. And I think that as a player, that's something that you respect so much. Is this not just some guy telling me what I need to be doing or trying

to teach me what to do. He can physically show me what it is. He can physically do it with me, and it helps with the teaching part of it, and it also probably helps kind of keep everything in line as far as the chain of command with coaches, because it's not like he's saying, Nope, you've been taught wrong. It's let me help correct your technique. Here for a second, I see something, let me just show you, and then

he can move on to the next thing. You hit the nail on the head, Amy, it's a demonstrative practice. That's a better word. Yes, Well you said demonstrate. I'm just saying that's what is one word I would describe it it's a demonstrative hands on practice. Every practice. Derrick Henry got more work in practice than we have seen so far in training camp or at Brian. What did you see from him? More of what you expect to see.

I mean, twenty two is ready to go. That's the question that we all get during the off season is how's his health? How's his health? His health is fine, and the indicator that the season is right around the corner. September the eleventh against the Giants, three twenty five kick on Titan's radio. It's here and so big boys getting work. He was in some eleven on eleven drills and you

can see some people got around his legs. So people falling around his legs, and when you're watching it, that's why you know they've been very judicious as far as to doing that. But as far as Derek Henry goes, I mean when he gets when he gets it, he's taking it all the way to the end zone like Walter Payton used to do every practice, take every run to the end zone. He's ready to go. It's a

Derrick Henry is. I hope people really appreciate his time here because you're you know, I spent some time with the Cardinals people again, and every team that comes in here where they say, you know, when they see him in person, especially when his pads are off, when he's out there after the practice, they go, WHOA, that's different. But watching him now, we've been watching him, you know, the whole time. But when he was in that that teams, those team periods, I would say twenty two is probably

kind of riffed up. Mac made an interesting point about the use of twenty two and you know, making sure that he of course stays healthy and all of the things that you watch people during camp, but you also want to protect people around him who are trying to

make a play, you know. I mean, you really do see people kind of get a little more tangled up in each other in some of those eleven on eleven drills when he's in the mix, because guys are trying to show out, they're trying to stop him, they're trying to make a play, they're trying to do the things that you do at the end of camp, and you don't want to see those guys get hurt either. I mean, you want to keep everyone healthy and when you're going a little bit harder to stop the big man out there,

the dynamics shifts a little bit. So that was an interesting point that Mac made when we were watching practice, just about why we haven't seen him so much. It's not only for his safety, it's for the safety of everybody else who's trying to show what they can do. Ramped up. No doubt this week Derrick Henry will not play on Saturday night against the Arizona Cardinals at Nissan Stadium. But somebody who we would imagine will is Ugo Amadi.

And Ugo Amadi is an Nashville native, played at Oregon, played very well at Oregon, fourth round draft pick of the Seattle Seahawks, drafted at number one, thirty two overall fifty games played in his career with the Seahawks twelve starts. He was there nickel back on defense the last two seasons. His position, I think is technically safety, but realistically he's just always been a nickel in this league. At five nine, two hundred one pounds. The Titans obtained him from the

Eagles yesterday. The Eagles obtained him nine days earlier from the Seahawks. Dave McGinnis, why is Ugo Amadi here? John Robinson and Mike verb One, a veteran guy to look at that, because, as you say, it's gonna be an it's gonna be an altered position, an altered personnel group position. And when you're looking for that person behind your two starters, you would like to have somebody that has some experience doing those things. I mean, I know he's a local product.

I remember you know vetting him, even when you vetted him at the but he ran four or five one. This guy's got some movement skills and he's also a pretty big hitter. And so when you at this stage of the training camp you bring someone in for that role, you want somebody that has already been in the bright lights of the National Football League for real, that is

not overwhelmed with that. And then you want to be able to incorporate them because look, everybody's nomenclature is a little bit different, but the schematics and the theories are a lot the same, and you want somebody that you can incorporate into that pretty quick. That's what they're looking for. Maybe like Desmond King when they acquired him a couple of seasons ago from the Chargers, and he stepped right in his charicle. Well, that's exactly what you want and

you need that. And so I mean, you see that he's been flipping through some veteran defensive backs, especially at that safety position, you know, the last couple of weeks. That's what he's looking for. I had a chance to speak to Ugo Amadi after his first Titan's practice and he indeed says he has been asked to be the nickel.

That's what they're looking at. And he just talked about the whirlwind of the last two weeks for him, because you mentioned it twelve days ago, whatever it was, he was a part of the trade to the Eagles for jj Arsega Whiteside, and two weeks later he's here, and he said it was a surreal moment because he said, well, I asked him about what were the notifications like on his phone, knowing he's coming back home because he played

at John Overton High School right here in Nashville. He said, I was already in the air coming back to Nashville when it happened. When I touched down, I turned off my phone off of airplane mode. The notifications went bananas, And of course my next question was, okay, you and THEO Jackson have a lot of ticket requests for Saturday night at Nissan Stadium. Who is handling that? He said, Oh,

the rook is handling that. I said, okay, Well, THEO says he is very grateful that his mother is handling that. So it looks like THEO Jackson's mom is taken care of all of those requests as mom should do. That's right, that's what That's a good mom. That's outstanding. So THEO Jackson has been playing the nickel too since he has

come back. They're trying to get him experience at that spot. Obviously, we've seen other guys line up when you know, the Titans have used a package with McCrary and Farley on the field, with Fulton and Bayard and Hooker as the as the five, so there are a lot of different options. I think the other part of it too about Ugo Amati five hundred eighty special team snaps in his career, so not just a guy, but a guy who's been

a special team's stalwart throughout his time in Seattle. You can't manufacture experience in this league, Mike, and that's and that's what they were looking for now. THEO Jackson, you know, has missed some time. He's missed some time early, you know, in his first year, and any of that time missed, especially for a first year player, is very very valuable, you know, to them. But it also as time comes down to we're getting ready for the regular season, you

want dudes with some experience. And that's exactly why he has been chumming the water for these types of players. Give me a Titan that needs to play well. Saturday night, Amy Wells, I'm gonna put you on the spot first. I'm gonna buy you just a second by mentioning. This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. Farm Bureau Health Plans is celebrating seventy five years of providing Tennesseeans with high quality healthcare coverage at an affordable price.

Visit FBHP dot com to learn about our history in Tennessee and we love the fine folks at Farm Bureau Health Plans. Ryan Stonehouse, Oh, the punter. Yes, I think that that punter spot is there are some decisions that need to be made there. I think there's upside no matter what direction you go. And I think that if Ryan Stonehouse wants to earn that job. He needs to

have a great game. I would not want to be John Robinson when it comes to making that decision, because, on one hand, Brett Kerrn is a three time pro bowler, He's had a really good camp, He's thirty six, you know him, you can trust him. On the other hand, it all ends at some point for everybody. This kid does not go through not claim somebody's going to be

interested in Stonehouse. You do save some cap money. You don't have a lot of excess cap money, and so people would say, well, you save a few hundred thousand, up to a million and a half. I don't know what the number is, but at this point the Titans could use every dollar out there because they are tight snug man. I would not want to be John Robinson

any day with that job. But in particular about that decision, well, it is one of the ear marks of a team who has had six straight winning seasons is the cuts are easy when you're not good. You know, in Jacksonville, cuts are gonna be pretty easy. Yeah I took that shot, That's fine, But I'm just saying he did. He went there. That's the difference and involved Listen, I do not envy John Robinson's position at all, and in particular for that battle right there that may very well come down to

the Cardinals game Saturday night. I've made those decisions. And but here's what you want, and retz point is one hundred percent correct. When you're a good team, you're gonna have tough decisions. That's what you want. You know, if your decisions are easy, then you've got problems because then you're gonna be looking for everybody else's team to bring in. The player that I think has to show up is

Laurell Murchison. I mean he needs to, you know, he needs to continue to show up because that group is pretty crowded. Somebody is getting cut in the defensive line. Who's going to play Week one for another team in

this league. I think you're correct. I think you're correct, you know, and that and to me, that's and and again that goes along the same theme of if you've got a good football team, that you're going to be making cuts of people that are going to play as soon as you as soon as you release them, because your people you're releasing are better than their's that they're releasing.

And so I mean it's a cychnical thing. But if you've got an established program like we have here at the Titans, sooner or later people will being looking at your cuts pretty hard. Well you took mind, Coach Mac. But that's all right, you can do that. Well, Ret, I know you well enough, and I looked at you and I thought that that's who you were thinking. So it's you saw the blood leaving you SAA. So that's why I did it on purpose. I am looking at

Death Fitzpatrick. That's a crowded room and you start thinking about the numbers. I think you can see who you're going to pencil in for the first four, maybe five receivers. And I'll say this, Death Fitzpatrick has had a nice week. I have seen him flash in more than one place at same time of sports Park this week, in red zone situations, in just individual drills. He's put together a nice week and I think he knows it, and I

think he knows what he's got to do. You know who else has had a good week is Malik Willis. He absolutely has. Coach Mack and I were having a phone conversation about that a couple nights ago. In terms of I don't want to say, like a huge major step forward, but you're seeing progress towards what can be. And for me, it is the clock in his head when it is time to release that football, and he's doing that with more consistency, and he's finding receivers and

completing passes. Now that's also taken into consideration that no one is trying to come and take his head off like they would in a regular game. And it's you know, sure having game plan thrown at him, but I'm seeing progress in that area in particular parameters. All four of us have watched him since he's been here in May, and we've watched what he's been taught, and he's a sponge.

He's absorbing what he's been taught. But what he has to do to marry you know, his feet, his bottom part to what he's seen when to see it, learn to throw people open, not wait till they come open in this league, and has has referenced to have that NFL clock in your head. And then as as Mike Vrabel said, and it's very important when you escape out of the back of the pocket in the National Football League, you're setting yourself up for some problems. And let's just

say this. Malik Willis has had two preseason games, but he has not done a lot of ACA against real dude yet. When you're playing against real dudes in this league, all three levels can walk you down as a quarterback unless you're just exceptional, unless you're one of those four three guys, and you know those guys are rare, and

so all of these things. Learning how to manipulate a pocket and learning how to make escaping up in that A or B gap once you've manipulated the cylinder your friend, rather than trying to forfeit to the edges, which is the quickest way to get run down. Plus the field is cut in completely off when you escape to a sideline. He's learning all of this stuff, but he's making progress.

Rt Namy and I we watch it from upstairs where we can see it all, especially in the two minute and the clock in his head is getting better and he's working on that. But that's not something that comes immediately. You have to be under fire for that to work. I think he still has a lot of welcome to the NFL rookie moments ahead of him, which is to be expected. He is a rookie, and that was also kind of the point to give him a year to learn. So this is working as we're seeing exactly how it

was supposed to. He was supposed to have the time to come in understand the system, and he's going to all the right people for help. He spends a ton of time with Pat O'Hara, He's constantly talking to Todd Downey, He's constantly talking to the other quarterbacks in that room. I mean, the guy's going to the right places for information. So I think that this is all kind of working as it was designed to work, and so I'm excited about his future in that regard. Another thing that's stuck

out to me. Do you guys just call each other and talk about players? Like, is that a thing that you guys do? Rehet said, you guys talk on the phone and just drinks evaluate people during during the sea I talked to coach Dave McGinnis at least once a day on the phone, and sometimes two or three times a day on the phone. Yeah, because you can still talk on the phone. It's kind of cute. Yeah, Well it's time I'm gonna start calling you. There's nothing every day,

there's nothing. There's nothing cute about our conversations. Sure, Okay, there's nothing cute about our conversations because there's some things we talk about that we can't talk about now. But the players, there's some time foolery there. Yeah, yeah, but absolutely because and not only are this team, but other teams too, Because you know we amy and I started that today, I mean looking at starting to look ahead.

I mean, as you well know, Mike, you spend how much of your time do you spend looking at other people's personnel, looking at what's going on? And I was doing before you guys came in here, well, working on that. That's I know that. That's what we do, and that's what we do, and there's no way to do it any better than to converse about it. I mean, that's what coaches do. It's what coaches do down here every day. When when you see him walk in the building after practice,

they're sitting down talking about players. I have the hotline number to the coach Mac Bunker and he answers. But you know the bat phone has he has done with all of us. He is the open book, I always say, and he's been very generous with his time and information and if there's something truly I want to ask, like I called him about the field conditions in Arizona the other night against the Ravens, and he answered, he said, yeah, that's because they don't do it the flagstaff anymore. They

do everything inside. Okay, makes sense, all right? So final preseason game Saturday Night, Titans Radio is on the air at five pm Central Time with the award winning Titans Countdown presented by far Bureau Health Plans. Yes, and Amy and I have a spectacular show planned spectacular. Yes, the OT people are putting it in ink right now. You have set yourself off. We're going to finish the preseason in style. No, we will hear from obviously head coach

Mike Rabel and general manager John Robinson. But you will hear from Ugo Amadi, the newest Titan, and the hometown guy. You will hear from Theo Jackson, who is also from the same high school, and the Nashville guy. Amy has got a great conversation lined up with Chicko con Quo, the tight end from Maryland, and everyone is very excited

to hear about. And I have a great conversation with Stefania Bell of ESPN, the lead injury analyst who is everybody's best friend during the season, checking her timelines on Twitter about who is going to be affected in their fantasy lineup because of injuries in this thing. And you know, she was a physical therapist for twenty years and she knows what she's talking. So if you don't know who she is, think about Cynthia Freedland with NFL Network on

Statistics and Analytics. Stefani A. Bell is that same person in the NFL media circles about injuries. That is a great comparison and that is exactly how I would describe her. And she's smart, smart lady, and you know, unlike some folks that are in that game and social media about well that looks like an ACL He's done. She's vetting

this properly. We talk about this in the conversation about how she actually approaches her job from her medical background and consulting others in the field instead of just jumping to a conclusion. She's I don't want to be the first to break the story. I don't want to be

the scoop person. I want to be the right person when we put the information out, So that'll be a good Titans countdown, five o'clock Central time on Saturday on your Titans radio station and they kick off shortly after six Central Titans and the Cardinals at Nissan Stadium to wrap up the preseason for Dave McGinnis, Amy Wells, Rhett Bryan, Ashley Farrell and me Mike Keith. Thanks for joining us for the O T. Pete. Welcome to the Big Show

where the legends call. Everybody knows it's our house, fighting thought. Tennessee making its three greenness is mets of bean