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Hutton & Withrow: Titans Disaster: Cam Ward Concerns Grow After Brutal Loss to Jets | Hour 1 · Hutton & Withrow Show

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Speaker 1: We are out of the gates on Sport and State.
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Speaker 1: Glad you're with us this morning. Happy Monday to you.
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Speaker 1: as well, all socials. Chad, good morning to you. Hope
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Speaker 1: the weekend was great, man.
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Speaker 2: Weekend was better for me than it was for the
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Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans, Hutton. I can assure you of that. And hey,
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Speaker 2: my daughter's softball team went 0-6 over the weekend in
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Speaker 2: their first time playing up against 12U competition, and it
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Speaker 2: was still far better of a performance and effort than
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Speaker 2: what we saw from the Tennessee Titans.
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Speaker 1: So they say Week 1 is a liar. I say they.
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Speaker 1: Most teams will say that. Most analysts will say that.
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Speaker 1: Because Week 1, even some of the worst coaches... that
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Speaker 1: we've seen. Ken Wisenhunt comes to mind for me with
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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. He won both of his games with
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Speaker 1: the Titans in week one because you have all offseason
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Speaker 1: to prepare for an opponent, prepare a game plan, make
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Speaker 1: adjustments to something that you've shown on film that no
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Speaker 1: one's seen, right? You're doing something brand new that no
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Speaker 1: one's caught on tape on anything they've been able to
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Speaker 1: dig on you with. So just looking around the league,
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Speaker 1: we saw some upsets. We saw some bad teams from
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Speaker 1: last year win some games in week one.
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Speaker 2: I think what Hutton is getting to is what everyone
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Speaker 2: knows who watched that game for the Tennessee Titans. And
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Speaker 2: it's very simple. The Tennessee Titans, and we got Hutton
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Speaker 2: back now. Hutton, the Titans, you get a lot of
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Speaker 2: time to prepare to make an entrance, right? Like there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of talk. There's a lot of buildup. There's
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Speaker 2: a lot of preparation. And you watched that Titans game yesterday,
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Speaker 2: and it opened with a penalty, a kicking it out
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Speaker 2: of bounds. a timeout to avoid 12 men on the field,
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Speaker 2: and disaster from start to finish.
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Speaker 1: A total disaster. And think about the teams last year, Chad.
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Speaker 1: The Raiders won in week one. Giants get a win.
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Speaker 1: Jets get a win. Titans loss. And it's the same
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Speaker 1: old thing. It starts with Cam Ward. It starts with
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Speaker 1: the lack of energy from the game. And every time
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Speaker 1: we looked up at the event yesterday at Hard Rock
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Speaker 1: Bet down in Miami, they were getting their asses kicked.
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Speaker 1: This was.
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Speaker 1: No gas, all break in week one for the Titans.
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Speaker 1: And it will continue to be because we've seen this
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Speaker 1: play out before with this organization. They went from all
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Speaker 1: of the all gas, no break to starting to slow
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Speaker 1: their roll a bit and say, by the middle of
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Speaker 1: the year, we're going to get better. We'll look at
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Speaker 1: how we improve as we get to December. That's not
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Speaker 1: what this is about. You're playing the Jets, the New
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Speaker 1: York Jets. And Chad, it was the same Cam Ward.
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Speaker 1: who can't complete a pass that we saw him not,
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Speaker 1: he was unable to do that in San Francisco. And
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Speaker 1: it was just preseason, just preseason, that the backups were
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Speaker 1: winning in the preseason against the Titans. That was just preseason, though.
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Speaker 1: It played out against the Jets starters, against Geno Smith, who,
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Speaker 1: you know, we don't know, what was a nearly 12-minute
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Speaker 1: drive at one point, 19 plays. That's the only thing
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Speaker 1: that helped the Titans offense, because they didn't have to
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Speaker 1: go three and out again.
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Speaker 2: I mean, where to begin? I like to use analogies,
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Speaker 2: real-life analogies, to try to explain a situation or a team.
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Speaker 2: The Titans are a little boy that put on their
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Speaker 2: father's sports coat and pretend that they're going off to
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Speaker 2: work every day and that they're the CEO of their company.
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Speaker 2: That sums up the entire pathetic organization. They're all role-playing
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Speaker 2: like they're professionals.
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Speaker 1: J.C.
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Speaker 2: Latham is role-playing before the season starts like he's a
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Speaker 2: badass offensive tackle. He's nothing. Cam Ward role-plays like he's
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Speaker 2: a professional starting franchise quarterback. He's not. He's not even accountable.
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Speaker 2: Once again, he had a chance to say, I ass,
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Speaker 2: and instead he said, receiver's ass in his response to it.
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Speaker 2: We're going to get to that here soon. He's not accountable.
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Speaker 2: I take back what I said about him being accountable.
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Speaker 2: He does not appear to be accountable. He's now looking
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Speaker 2: to roll someone else under the bus for his repeated
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Speaker 2: bad performances. Robert Sala is going to talk about identity
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Speaker 2: and what they are, and he's going to walk into
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Speaker 2: a press room and explain why someone had their credential
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Speaker 2: removed before the season starts for daring to criticize a
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Speaker 2: franchise that repeatedly picks top 10 and somehow is the
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Speaker 2: one team in the NFL that can't improve. after getting
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Speaker 2: top picks year after year. We joked for years, Hutton,
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Speaker 2: about the Jacksonville Jaguars organization, how if you draft one
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Speaker 2: or two every year, eventually you're going to have a
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Speaker 2: good roster, even if your organization, your coaching wasn't up
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Speaker 2: to par. Eventually you back your way in to having
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Speaker 2: undeniable players at certain positions that you win games and
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Speaker 2: you threaten for the playoffs. I watched that Titans performance yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Every single person in that organization should be embarrassed. They
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Speaker 2: should be embarrassed about the tickets sold to the game.
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Speaker 2: They should be embarrassed about what I saw, the pregame
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Speaker 2: presentation of the team. The players and coaches should certainly
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Speaker 2: be embarrassed. If you went and sat in 100-degree heat,
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Speaker 2: as bad as it was in Nashville yesterday, and watched that,
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Speaker 2: I pity you.
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Speaker 1: I pity those who went to that game. This is
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Speaker 1: a broken organization. Chad, when you say how the players
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Speaker 1: were introduced, I was on the flight to Florida. I
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Speaker 1: didn't see this. What happened?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm just saying the pregame, they had some knockoff
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Speaker 2: country star on the field. I mean, just everybody was
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Speaker 2: cringeworthy throughout. Titans radio. I happen to listen. I'm on
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Speaker 2: my daughter's softball tournament watching on my phone throughout the
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Speaker 2: games there, but I'm driving home in the postgame, and
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Speaker 2: I'm hearing Taylor Zarzer deliver a pep talk like he's
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Speaker 2: Vince Lombardi.
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Speaker 1: To the team.
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Speaker 2: This is the floor. This is a talented group. This
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Speaker 2: is a young football team. It's only going to go up.
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Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, goodness gracious. I know that organization is
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Speaker 2: note-keeping on everyone and what they're saying and what's being
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Speaker 2: said about their team. And I'm sure they all feel
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Speaker 2: threatened that if they don't say the perfect thing, they're
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Speaker 2: going to get fired. But come on, man. Like, you can't.
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Speaker 2: You cannot condescend your audience that much. Everyone who's going
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Speaker 2: to call into a show or who's going to watch
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Speaker 2: that performance, if you're a Titans fan and you've been
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Speaker 2: around the NFL at all, you are pissed off for
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Speaker 2: greatness today. You're not sitting there thinking about, boy, I
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Speaker 2: tell you what, this team is going to turn the
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Speaker 2: corner any second. No, my first thought watching that, Hunt,
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Speaker 2: was you had a season where you added players, you
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Speaker 2: added coaches, and this was your debut to show a
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Speaker 2: functional operation. And instead, you've got two penalties to start
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Speaker 2: the game. You've got one player running into your all-pro,
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Speaker 2: by the way, return man, at one point. He has
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Speaker 2: to go into concussion protocol. You put him back out
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Speaker 2: there and he fumbles the next. It is a clown show.
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Speaker 2: I can't say this strong enough. What we saw at
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Speaker 2: Nashville yesterday was a clown show.
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Speaker 1: Chet, it's beyond that because it's been the clown show.
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Speaker 1: You know, now it's just the entertainment show looking for
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Speaker 1: next year. I mean, I mentioned a couple weeks back,
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Speaker 1: I guess, now, they were going to get to this,
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Speaker 1: this is the floor, we're going to get better. They're
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Speaker 1: going to continue to say that. The fans aren't going
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Speaker 1: to buy into that. They didn't have 64,000 of the
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Speaker 1: attendance yesterday. 40% off tickets going to that. And how
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Speaker 1: many of those were green? Every time I'm just looking
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Speaker 1: at the TV camera angles, what is this organization going
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Speaker 1: to sell to fans this year? discounted tickets is what
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Speaker 1: they're going to sell. And they can't even sell those.
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Speaker 1: They can sell it to the opponent's fans that are
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Speaker 1: coming to Nashville for a quick vacation over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: But this was an opportunity, Chad, the opportunity for the
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans to have a winning record in season, to
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Speaker 1: hold a winning record for the first time since 2022.
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Speaker 1: And they couldn't do that. It has been a while.
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Speaker 1: And coaches, general managers, firings, new hirings, you can go
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Speaker 1: down the list. They can overhaul an offense, defense, offensive line.
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Speaker 1: You can have a rebrand, but still not have an
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Speaker 1: identity on the field. They don't start fast because they
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Speaker 1: have no identity to start from. They're always in search
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Speaker 1: of it and talking about it and trying to speak
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Speaker 1: it into existence. Instead of actually producing something of tangible
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Speaker 1: value that you can point to and say, at least
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Speaker 1: they're on the right path. You know, this isn't even
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Speaker 1: a loss where you look at it and go, man,
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Speaker 1: they just, you know, ref screwed us. The kicker missed
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Speaker 1: a kick, whatever. You take a drive and you miss
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Speaker 1: a 40-yard field goal wide right on a shank. You
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Speaker 1: can blame them. No, you can't even do that. They
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Speaker 1: were housed. They were pushed around by a bad team,
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Speaker 1: by a bad organization. So if you want to get
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Speaker 1: out of the cellar, this is the team that you
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Speaker 1: go and slap around. You've got the Giants coming up, too.
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Speaker 1: You could have two wins in the month of September.
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Speaker 1: That's unheard of by this franchise. And instead, they're talking
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Speaker 1: down the road, December. It's same old Titans. New color scheme,
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Speaker 1: new logo, same Titans. Remember the Titans.
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Speaker 2: Button, one positive from the game. Uniforms look good. We
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Speaker 2: talked about it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they do.
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Speaker 2: People continue to react to it. Uniforms look good. That's it.
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Speaker 2: That's the positive. And that goes back to what is
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Speaker 2: the fundamental issue with this organization. When it stopped being
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Speaker 2: football-driven When it stopped, the football carried the– it was
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Speaker 2: the front of the train. And everything else behind it followed,
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Speaker 2: ticket sales, marketing. It was all following the lead of
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Speaker 2: football and football being the priority. But when it became
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Speaker 2: less of that and more of a business person in
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Speaker 2: charge of the team here with an absentee owner out
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Speaker 2: of town and that's running everything, it became so much
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Speaker 2: more about, hey, pitch me ideas on this instead of worry.
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Speaker 2: about the NFL draft. Or let's go look at this
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Speaker 2: next marketing move we're going to make instead of worrying
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Speaker 2: about our team being terrible. It's too much of that.
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Speaker 2: The whole organization is broken. And Hutton, later this week,
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Speaker 2: I want to put together a power ranking of who's
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Speaker 2: to blame individual wise for the Titans failure. Cam Ward's
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Speaker 2: going to be on that list. Amy Adam Strunk is
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Speaker 2: going to be on that list. Mike Borgonzi is going
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Speaker 2: to be on that list. Robert Sala. I'm putting everybody
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Speaker 2: to account. Everybody that's currently with the organization.
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Speaker 1: Because I think some of it counts for who's not.
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Speaker 1: You know, they're like Brinker and others who can't define
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Speaker 1: their job.
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Speaker 2: No doubt. And Callahan and all that. But here's what
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Speaker 2: I want to get away from. It is not about
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Speaker 2: Mike Vrabel or John Robinson anymore.
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Speaker 1: That's right. It is not.
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Speaker 2: Stop it with that. Stop it with it. It wasn't
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Speaker 2: about Mike Vrabel having an affair with Diana Rossini. It
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Speaker 2: had nothing to do with his job with the Titans.
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Speaker 2: It's not about John Robinson, who was fired, by the way,
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Speaker 2: as a first-place division team at the time when he
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Speaker 2: was fired, which is hilarious to think about now as
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Speaker 2: to where the Titans are. It is not either one
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Speaker 2: of those two guys. Put that out of your mind,
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Speaker 2: Titans fans. They're no longer to blame. It's people in
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Speaker 2: the building now that's to blame.
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Speaker 1: Chad, Cam Ward. Let's discuss coming up. the biggest concern
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Speaker 1: is the quarterback. That's where we start with this. And
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Speaker 1: no matter what they're going to say about, they're not
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Speaker 1: going to coddle him. The fact that he stood at
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Speaker 1: the podium and said that he's still on track because
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Speaker 1: of the way they practice, he's excited about what the
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Speaker 1: offense is going to be doing. How can you be
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Speaker 1: excited about this performance and what he's been able to do?
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Speaker 1: How can you be excited? I can't be optimistic about
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Speaker 1: the intangibles when I see some of these throws on
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Speaker 1: screens to Wandel Robinson that are extensions of the run game.
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Speaker 1: These are layups. And the errant passes are just 19
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Speaker 1: of 33 or whatever he was for the game. That's
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Speaker 1: even including the five for five on the drive where
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Speaker 1: they scored the touchdown late in garbage time. We discussed that.
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Speaker 1: We got to discuss what he said and what happens
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Speaker 1: from here, the development. What do you do if you're Dable,
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Speaker 1: if you're going back to the drawing board today? There's
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Speaker 1: a lot on the table there, a lot around the league.
12:21
Speaker 1: Great college football with some interesting results, especially Oklahoma State.
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Speaker 1: Did we speak this into existence? I thought about you
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Speaker 1: with the stat about the FBS. Two years.
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Speaker 2: Two years in between wins over an FBS opponent.
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Speaker 1: And they couldn't do it with Tulsa.
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Speaker 2: They became the first ever team, this is an amazing stat,
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Speaker 2: to snap a 10-game losing streak by beating a top
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Speaker 2: 10 opponent. when they snapped that 10-game losing streak by beating.
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Speaker 2: And Oregon, by the way, is not good.
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Speaker 1: Through two weeks. And they were not good through the
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Speaker 1: first half of last year either. Remind me of this.
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Speaker 1: I've got a question that I think every– we can
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Speaker 1: all think of backyard football when it comes to the
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma State quarterback. Forgive me for not remembering his name.
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Speaker 1: Drew Mestemaker. Mestemaker, thank you. I wanted to say Mettenberger.
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Speaker 1: That was in my head.
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Speaker 2: It's very similar, very close.
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Speaker 1: I've got something to ask you about the touchdown that
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Speaker 1: everyone remembers, the Elway-like touchdown. Whenever we bring this up.
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Speaker 2: And since we're teasing things right now, the response to
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Speaker 2: me calling Steve Sarkeesian an asshole for how he treated
13:28
Speaker 2: ESPN and Holly Roe, I think is as we honored
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Speaker 2: 9-11 and the memory of it on Friday, like that,
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Speaker 2: that was a remembrance of the response to that, of
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Speaker 2: where we are as a society in 2026, 25 years
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Speaker 2: after 9-11.
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Speaker 1: Insane.
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Speaker 2: Insane, the responses to that from people. Let's clear some
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Speaker 2: runway a little bit later and we'll discuss.
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Speaker 1: We've got a lot.
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Speaker 2: That whole moment and the whole relationship of network and teams.
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Speaker 2: We can discuss all facets of this because I think
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Speaker 2: the whole story is fascinating. starting with Laura Rutledge apologizing
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Speaker 2: at one point when he walked out on them.
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Speaker 1: He clearly told to do it by ESPN. And I
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Speaker 1: also think it told us a lot about Holly Roe
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Speaker 1: So, Cam Ward, he's asked about accuracy. He's asked about
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Speaker 1: why things are going to improve. I mean... There's just
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Speaker 1: so certain things are going to improve. You're playing the Jets, Jack.
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Speaker 1: Playing the Jets.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't get any easier than this. Of a week scheduled
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Speaker 2: by NFL standards, it's not like it's getting a lot
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Speaker 2: easier than the Jets at home. The Jets thought to
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Speaker 2: be a contender to draft Arch Manning, and now the
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Speaker 2: Titans are the lead contender to draft Arch Manning, number
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Speaker 2: one overall.
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Speaker 1: And let's say it was across the board. Across the board,
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Speaker 1: they got their asses kicked. Pushed around. You know, it's...
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Speaker 1: It's one thing to just say it's one area that
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Speaker 1: cost you the game. This was in all facets, all
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Speaker 1: three phases. And this is after an offseason of a
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Speaker 1: lot of turnover. And the team's already promoting, hey, come
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Speaker 1: out to the final season of Nissan Stadium. They're already
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Speaker 1: pushing that. But when I hear this from Cam Ward,
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Speaker 1: and Chad, I know you heard it too, we roll
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Speaker 1: our eyes at it.
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Speaker 4: I just think we weren't great in the first and
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Speaker 4: second down. I think that's where a lot of our
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Speaker 4: plays went missing right there. We had a couple of
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Speaker 4: three and outs. And, you know, before I watch the tape,
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Speaker 4: that's why I think, you know, the biggest thing that
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Speaker 4: we've got.
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Speaker 2: To do better in the first and second down.
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Speaker 3: It came to accuracy continues to be an issue. There
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Speaker 3: were a few layups. I know you haven't watched the film,
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Speaker 3: but looking back on some of those plays, like the
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Speaker 3: one that Tate on that cross, what's happening to make
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Speaker 3: your accuracy off how it's been?
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Speaker 4: Just continuing to emphasize flatness to guys.
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Speaker 2: You know, the decisiveness of the route. Then me just
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Speaker 2: hitting the stride.
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Speaker 4: That would be the one that Tajay just got to
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Speaker 4: continue to, you know, put the ball in their radius.
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Speaker 4: But I think we got a lot more stuff to
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Speaker 4: clean up than those. Those are some big plays that
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Speaker 4: we could have had. But, you know, we still got
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Speaker 4: a lot of things to clean up for sure.
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Speaker 3: When you say you want to emphasize flatness, exactly what
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Speaker 3: do you mean? Because there's some who don't know it.
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Speaker 3: what you're saying there?
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Speaker 4: Just continue to, you know, get flat on the route.
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Speaker 4: And what I mean by that is, you know, if
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Speaker 4: it's at a certain depth, shaving it, depending on how
18:26
Speaker 4: the safety plays, you might have to take a sharper
18:29
Speaker 4: angle because of how fast they drive it. So, you know,
18:32
Speaker 4: and then, you know, me, myself, you know, giving them
18:35
Speaker 4: an accurate ball so they have a chance for a yak,
18:37
Speaker 4: not just getting a catch and tackle.
18:39
Speaker 1: That's courtesy of Teron Davenport. Great questions there. Chad, is
18:42
Speaker 1: it flattened or does it get taller? Because Wondell Robinson
18:45
Speaker 1: needs to be about seven feet tall in some of
18:46
Speaker 1: these passes.
18:47
Speaker 2: But some guys need to go into the earth and
18:50
Speaker 2: then come back out of the earth on the other
18:51
Speaker 2: side to catch a simple screen pass.
18:53
Speaker 1: Right.
18:53
Speaker 2: Because he's skipping rocks to guys on a screen pass
18:57
Speaker 2: to the outside. That's just a simple pitch and catch,
19:00
Speaker 2: as the old ball coach would say. Pitch and catch.
19:02
Speaker 2: And he can't complete that at times. I'm starting to
19:05
Speaker 2: believe that Cam Ward's just not that smart. And that
19:08
Speaker 2: is not a good quality for an NFL franchise starting quarterback.
19:13
Speaker 2: The way he answers questions, the way he defers to this,
19:15
Speaker 2: the way his father is DMing people, going after them
19:19
Speaker 2: for criticism. I'm not getting good vibes. We talked about
19:22
Speaker 2: bad vibes and good vibes in college football last week, Hutton.
19:25
Speaker 2: We may revisit that again this week. I'm getting no
19:28
Speaker 2: good vibes from Cam Ward right now based on how
19:30
Speaker 2: he's answering questions about his accuracy by immediately responding to
19:34
Speaker 2: the flatness of the routes and talking to his receivers
19:38
Speaker 2: about flattening out the routes.
19:40
Speaker 1: No starting quarterback has more games. with 150 or fewer
19:44
Speaker 1: passing yards than Cam Ward dating back to last season.
19:49
Speaker 1: Just combine it. plus week one. He has seven of those.
19:53
Speaker 2: Seven already.
19:54
Speaker 1: And this is par for the course. They scored 10.
19:58
Speaker 1: They were lucky to score 10 points. It took garbage
20:02
Speaker 1: time to score 10 points. It's It's just awful. And
20:06
Speaker 1: then the defense with the run game. You mentioned the
20:10
Speaker 1: opening possession. How do you start the season like that?
20:15
Speaker 1: With all of the talk, all of the emphasis on
20:21
Speaker 1: all gas, no break. And I saw no energy. There
20:27
Speaker 1: was just a lackluster energy to this. It's got to
20:32
Speaker 1: be way better than that. And now they're starting to
20:36
Speaker 1: preach patience again. And that's because everybody in the organization
20:40
Speaker 1: is always walking on eggshells or pins and needles. And
20:44
Speaker 1: you think Stillman was critical last week or two weeks ago.
20:48
Speaker 1: Get ready for everybody to be asking questions to the
20:50
Speaker 1: quarterback about this. They have to.
20:52
Speaker 2: It goes back to, you know, we ask versus I ask.
20:57
Speaker 2: And on that question about your accuracy, you've got to
21:00
Speaker 2: bite the bullet and say it's got to be better.
21:02
Speaker 1: You're right.
21:03
Speaker 2: I mean, everybody's got to be better, but it starts
21:06
Speaker 2: with me. Like, yeah, I missed that throw. Or that
21:09
Speaker 2: was a stupid play. Or here's the other thing, too.
21:13
Speaker 2: The one thing he's getting some praise on is his scrambling.
21:16
Speaker 2: And I know the first first down pickup, he's got
21:19
Speaker 2: 10 or 15 yards in front of him if he
21:21
Speaker 2: just takes off. And that was one of the slowest
21:23
Speaker 2: attempts at a first down. He barely gets it. but
21:26
Speaker 2: I'm not seeing any speed with him running the football
21:29
Speaker 2: when he has to tuck it if nothing is there.
21:32
Speaker 2: There's nothing. I hate to beat a dead horse, and
21:36
Speaker 2: I don't want to be that guy who just says
21:38
Speaker 2: the same thing over and over, Hutton, but I'm just
21:40
Speaker 2: getting no positivity after a 23-10 home loss to the
21:45
Speaker 2: Jets where that score is not indicative of the game.
21:47
Speaker 2: It was worse than that. It was a worse beating
21:50
Speaker 2: than the 23-10 score. It was a trash-time touchdown. that
21:55
Speaker 2: made it 23 to 10. It's just, you got suffocated
21:58
Speaker 2: by the New York Jets. You couldn't stop them running.
22:00
Speaker 2: You talk about you're going to be physical.
22:02
Speaker 1: And what was it, JC?
22:03
Speaker 2: They weren't going to be anybody's bitch. That's what they
22:06
Speaker 2: did to you.
22:06
Speaker 1: They were the bitch.
22:07
Speaker 2: In that game. That's what the New York Jets did
22:09
Speaker 2: to you. The team that everybody else in the NFL
22:11
Speaker 2: wants to make fun of. Oh, Robert Sala. Yeah, he
22:13
Speaker 2: was fired and he was a failure, but it's the Jets.
22:16
Speaker 2: Nobody succeeds with the Jets. Everybody's a failure. You let
22:20
Speaker 2: Aaron Glenn, who's on the hot seat coming into the season,
22:23
Speaker 2: like every Jets coach, by the way, is permanently on
22:25
Speaker 2: the hot seat. But he comes in and they're clouding
22:29
Speaker 2: you after the game. I mean, you've got Brees Hall
22:32
Speaker 2: saying someone smart said before the game they wrote a
22:35
Speaker 2: bunch of checks they can't cash, talking about all the
22:37
Speaker 2: Titans free agent acquisitions and high draft picks. That's the
22:41
Speaker 2: New York Jets, Hutton. The New York Jets are over
22:45
Speaker 2: there laughing at you right now.
22:46
Speaker 1: At former Jets. They're laughing at a bunch of former Jets, too.
22:48
Speaker 2: And then you get asked a question where you can
22:50
Speaker 2: be accountable and you're the face of the franchise and
22:52
Speaker 2: Cam Ward, the number one pick, and your response is
22:54
Speaker 2: to throw your receivers under the bus.
22:56
Speaker 1: Well, that looks good.
22:57
Speaker 2: That's going to go over well in a locker room.
22:59
Speaker 2: That's going to endear guys to want to play for you.
23:02
Speaker 2: I mean, I watched this one game, and I don't
23:03
Speaker 2: think it's an overreaction at all. I give it one
23:06
Speaker 2: more week. If he looks bad against the Philadelphia Eagles,
23:09
Speaker 2: I'm sitting down in a coach's meeting and having an
23:11
Speaker 2: honest conversation with Brian Dayball and everyone else about, does
23:15
Speaker 2: Mitch Trubisky give us a better chance to win football games?
23:18
Speaker 1: They would think that. I think this is a legitimate
23:22
Speaker 1: question for the organization that needs to be discussed because
23:25
Speaker 1: it's week one. There's a lot of overreaction. I get it.
23:28
Speaker 1: This is now a trend. because all the reports about
23:31
Speaker 1: what they've seen at practice, all of the OTA, this
23:34
Speaker 1: is a trend that's carried over from last year, even
23:37
Speaker 1: with the new coaching staff, and Dable, who's the best
23:40
Speaker 1: OC available this offseason. If they want to move quarterbacks,
23:46
Speaker 1: Cam Ward is the face of that new stadium. Everything
23:50
Speaker 1: is a... They have Cardinal Tate. They have two first-round picks.
23:55
Speaker 1: They have plenty of other storylines.
23:57
Speaker 2: Two top-five picks. Not just first-round picks, two top-five picks
24:01
Speaker 2: to sell right now, both on offense.
24:03
Speaker 1: No, I'm saying two first-round picks this past April.
24:05
Speaker 2: Oh, I got you.
24:05
Speaker 1: Okay, I got you. That they can market. Jeffrey Simmons,
24:09
Speaker 1: who they sell jerseys for, there's not many other players.
24:13
Speaker 1: It's just Cam Ward that everybody talks about within that building.
24:17
Speaker 1: It's just Cam. So with that in mind, with an
24:23
Speaker 1: organization that is about the new stadiums, and the decision-making
24:30
Speaker 1: is going to the upstairs part of the building instead
24:33
Speaker 1: of the football department, do they make that call? I
24:38
Speaker 1: honestly don't know, because they are so intertwined now with
24:43
Speaker 1: the two departments, unlike they were before. And that's even
24:47
Speaker 1: with Borgonzi reporting to ownership. Well, ownership, Burke Nihill speaks
24:52
Speaker 1: on behalf of ownership, both publicly and privately, I'm sure,
24:56
Speaker 1: within the buildings. I'm not saying it's a concern or
24:59
Speaker 1: it's definitely going to happen. It's worthy of discussion because
25:04
Speaker 1: Trubisky's played for Dable. And I didn't see anything wrong
25:08
Speaker 1: with Trubisky's play in the preseason. He'll certainly do better
25:12
Speaker 1: than what we've seen here. Geno Smith just outplayed him.
25:18
Speaker 2: But I get what you're saying. It sounds so stupid,
25:22
Speaker 2: but it's this organization. They're perpetually scared. Of going to management.
25:27
Speaker 2: If I'm just ignored by whoever my superior is, then.
25:31
Speaker 1: That means I'm not going to get fired today. But also,
25:34
Speaker 1: they were hired. Brian Dable's hired because he takes quarterbacks
25:39
Speaker 1: and improves their accuracy. So you can't go away from
25:42
Speaker 1: him this early. What does that say about what you
25:44
Speaker 1: were hired to do and why you took the job?
25:47
Speaker 1: They were all about this. I mean, man, it would be...
25:51
Speaker 1: And they just got rid of a– they got rid
25:53
Speaker 1: of Stillman because he asked a legitimate question.
25:55
Speaker 2: Well, just don't sell– like, you can't sell this team. Well,
26:00
Speaker 2: you can sell the team to Trammie Adams-Tronkin. I pray
26:02
Speaker 2: she does. But I'm saying you can't market this team,
26:06
Speaker 2: this brand of Titans football. You can market the uniform.
26:08
Speaker 2: You market the stadium.
26:10
Speaker 1: That's what they're doing.
26:10
Speaker 2: The stadium is the sales pitch because it's going to
26:13
Speaker 2: be beautiful and it's going to have bigger events than
26:15
Speaker 2: Titans games that come to that stadium. So you sell
26:17
Speaker 2: the stadium. If your actual thought is– Boy, we were
26:21
Speaker 2: really banking on Cam Ward to deliver this year because
26:24
Speaker 2: we've got all these marketing materials printed up and all
26:27
Speaker 2: this stuff we're going to do to push Cam Ward
26:29
Speaker 2: in the new stadium. I'm sorry, but that's not a
26:32
Speaker 2: proper response. If you get fired for bringing that up
26:36
Speaker 2: to your boss that, hey, we might have a problem here,
26:39
Speaker 2: then you are better off not working for that organization
26:42
Speaker 2: and going and finding a job somewhere else because that
26:44
Speaker 2: is a toxic, non-functioning place to be if that's the case.
26:47
Speaker 2: Here's what you sell, Hutton, the way this team looked.
26:50
Speaker 2: You sell Arch Manning in the new stadium. Because you're
26:54
Speaker 2: headed towards the number one pick. So you can sell
26:56
Speaker 2: the next quarterback you draft. You can sell Dante Moore
26:59
Speaker 2: if that's the route you go for the next one.
27:02
Speaker 1: Or guess what?
27:03
Speaker 2: You can go trade the pick away, go get some
27:05
Speaker 2: other first-round draft picks, and sell a rebuild. But this
27:08
Speaker 2: team is not going to be sold or marketed to
27:11
Speaker 2: anyone with any belief.
27:12
Speaker 1: Why?
27:13
Speaker 2: Because they continue to lie to you in marketing efforts
27:16
Speaker 2: about the team repeatedly. And Titans fans are sick of it.
27:19
Speaker 1: I would just say, though, it's layered, though, because Stillman's
27:24
Speaker 1: no longer credentialed because he asked a question to the quarterback.
27:26
Speaker 1: That would be about three or four weeks later when
27:29
Speaker 1: they would bench him. You know, like, how do you
27:31
Speaker 1: set your preseason play? That was a lack of journalistic integrity.
27:38
Speaker 1: That's where I'm going with it. It would be the about-face.
27:40
Speaker 1: And Dable wants to be a head coach again, and
27:43
Speaker 1: Salah's on his second opportunity. He won't get a third opportunity.
27:46
Speaker 1: if he's fired in year one or year two. And,
27:49
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just saying, like, they can't move on
27:51
Speaker 1: from him yet. But, I mean, it's sooner rather than
27:55
Speaker 1: later based on this play because they will– Amy Strzok
27:58
Speaker 1: will move on from them. That's her MO. She will
28:01
Speaker 1: pay coaches not to work and GMs. So that– I mean,
28:05
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying. It's bad enough. I just
28:09
Speaker 1: think that they have to improve him. That's what they
28:13
Speaker 1: said they were going to do. I'm not sure it's–
28:17
Speaker 1: He was such a playmaker in college. And there's nothing
28:21
Speaker 1: like that here. Nothing. Part of that's the old line.
28:25
Speaker 1: Part of that is just his footwork and his accuracy issues.
28:30
Speaker 1: It is abysmal what they've shown.
28:33
Speaker 2: I don't think the intangibles are great either. The more
28:36
Speaker 2: I watch the guy, the more I see him in
28:37
Speaker 2: press conferences. You're right. I mean, I, I, the whole
28:40
Speaker 2: response of, Hey, he's there early and he stays late.
28:43
Speaker 2: I'm out on that.
28:43
Speaker 1: I'm, I'm, I'm leaning more to where I'm coming back
28:46
Speaker 1: to the, the, to your side of this. Now, based
28:49
Speaker 1: on what we've seen, we've got, we've got a segment
28:51
Speaker 1: coming up that we call project runway. And we're going
28:54
Speaker 1: to feature two quarterbacks in that. And Cam's one of
28:56
Speaker 1: them with the game day gear that he's pointing out. Chad,
29:02
Speaker 1: we've got plenty to get to. We've got the Vols
29:05
Speaker 1: who they look really good. I mean, they, That's a
29:08
Speaker 1: sound football team.
29:11
Speaker 2: Too many penalties, but other than that, that's exactly what
29:14
Speaker 2: you would expect of a team that's way better than
29:16
Speaker 2: their opponent is to go handle business the way Tennessee
29:19
Speaker 2: did in that game.
29:20
Speaker 1: Yep, and we have some teams across the SEC that
29:23
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29:25
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29:31
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29:36
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Speaker 1: Chad, your biggest takeaway from the NFL, I'm curious where
30:56
Speaker 1: you go with this. Is it in the AFC-NFC? Because
30:59
Speaker 1: we saw some great performances in both.
31:02
Speaker 2: Biggest takeaway hunting to me was game of the week
31:05
Speaker 2: was AFC, and it was Bills over the Texans. That
31:08
Speaker 2: was a heavyweight bout. Those are two teams that should
31:10
Speaker 2: win their division. Those are two teams that have Super
31:13
Speaker 2: Bowl aspirations. I mean, if you're a division champion, you
31:16
Speaker 2: should have Super Bowl aspirations if you can win your division.
31:18
Speaker 1: Get in the dance.
31:20
Speaker 2: And then see what happens. And it delivered. I mean,
31:22
Speaker 2: Josh Allen delivered late. I was surprised it was that
31:25
Speaker 2: much of a shootout, given the Texans' propensity towards defense
31:29
Speaker 2: and not offense. That's a good sign for C.J. Stroud,
31:32
Speaker 2: you know, bouncing back after.
31:33
Speaker 1: A difficult season. You're right.
31:35
Speaker 2: So I came away from that game with really good
31:38
Speaker 2: feelings about both teams. You know, that was one that
31:41
Speaker 2: I think both teams helped their case, even though the
31:43
Speaker 2: Texans lost late. I really enjoyed that one. All the points...
31:47
Speaker 2: in that Bears-Panthers. I thought it was– I had to
31:49
Speaker 2: look twice when.
31:50
Speaker 1: I saw the score.
31:51
Speaker 2: I'm like, this looks like a second-half score in a
31:54
Speaker 2: blowout college basketball game.
31:55
Speaker 1: It does.
31:56
Speaker 2: When it was 59-37, I'm like, huh? That doesn't look
31:58
Speaker 2: like week one when we see offensive struggle usually. I mean,
32:02
Speaker 2: those were my two big tickets. We talked about the
32:03
Speaker 2: Titans and their disaster. I mean, that's the low end
32:06
Speaker 2: of what we saw over the weekend. But I think, Hutton,
32:08
Speaker 2: the thing that jumps out to me about week one, Bills, Bills, Bills, Texans, Texans, Texans,
32:14
Speaker 2: and those two teams delivering– on what was a heavily
32:18
Speaker 2: anticipated matchup.
32:19
Speaker 1: I've got two, and they're both in the AFC South. First,
32:24
Speaker 1: I'm with you on Bills-Texans. I'm going a different direction. Baltimore,
32:28
Speaker 1: with how they looked. Derek Henry, with that run. Lamar Jackson.
32:34
Speaker 1: They came out and looked the part with the new
32:36
Speaker 1: head coach. And then the former head coach got it
32:39
Speaker 1: done last night. That's not where I'm going, though. It's
32:43
Speaker 1: the way that they played at Indianapolis. And then Jacksonville.
32:47
Speaker 1: The Jacksonville Jaguars, I know they're playing the Browns, but
32:49
Speaker 1: they went up and just whipped their ass. They did
32:51
Speaker 1: what they're supposed to do in week one on the road.
32:54
Speaker 1: There were some passes by Trevor Lawrence that were just phenomenal.
32:59
Speaker 1: Touchdown pass in between a linebacker and a safety. A seed, Chad,
33:06
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. That's what Trevor Lawrence was doing in
33:09
Speaker 1: college that he's doing last year, and it carries over
33:12
Speaker 1: to week one. That's the bar. that the Titans are chasing.
33:16
Speaker 1: And Indy, meanwhile, they start off slow, and Baltimore goes
33:21
Speaker 1: on the road and wins. I was impressed by Baltimore.
33:23
Speaker 1: I didn't think they were going to do that. Yeah,
33:25
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, three touchdowns. Helped out my fantasy football team.
33:28
Speaker 2: Sorry, Catfish Jake, that I had to take it to
33:30
Speaker 2: you this week with that Derrick Henry performance in the
33:32
Speaker 2: opening win of the season. 1-0 in our show's fantasy
33:36
Speaker 2: football league. Yeah, the Ravens' performance sticks out to me.
33:39
Speaker 2: Here's another depressing stat. When you look at QBR for
33:43
Speaker 2: the week, Yes. Deshaun Watson had a better QBR than
33:46
Speaker 2: Cam Ward.
33:47
Speaker 1: Wow.
33:48
Speaker 2: It's basically the same one. It's like percentage points difference.
33:51
Speaker 2: But Deshaun Watson is playing the Jags. He's clearly outmanned.
33:57
Speaker 2: You thought the Titans, they were a Vegas favorite going
34:00
Speaker 2: into that game, playing the Jets at home. And that's
34:02
Speaker 2: where the Titans quarterback situation is right now. I'm with you, though,
34:06
Speaker 2: on Jacksonville. That was impressive. I don't know what to
34:09
Speaker 2: think of Indianapolis after one week with the Ravens and what.
34:12
Speaker 1: They did to them.
34:13
Speaker 2: I don't know. I really don't know. And look, we
34:15
Speaker 2: don't know about a lot of these teams, right? I mean,
34:18
Speaker 2: the Cardinals beat the Chargers. I was not expecting that
34:21
Speaker 2: to happen. Chargers are sort of a sneaky Super Bowl
34:25
Speaker 2: pick for some people. One of our girls on On Tilt,
34:28
Speaker 2: I feel like, picked the Chargers to go to the
34:30
Speaker 2: Super Bowl or do something big this year. So we
34:32
Speaker 2: don't know after one week. But there are certainly signs
34:36
Speaker 2: of some things that could be a recurring problem. And
34:39
Speaker 2: I don't know about Sunday Night Football. I picked the
34:41
Speaker 2: Cowboys to win that division. But John Harbaugh, I mean, that, again,
34:47
Speaker 2: if we're talking about going back to Robert Sala's debut
34:50
Speaker 2: and John Harbaugh's, I watched John Harbaugh on the Giants,
34:53
Speaker 2: and I'm like, okay, I know what they're trying to
34:56
Speaker 2: do right now. I also laughed, too. I was listening
34:58
Speaker 2: to the pregame, driving around, running some errands last night
35:01
Speaker 2: of the Sunday Night Football game, and whoever was on
35:04
Speaker 2: the pregame for Nationals said, You know, John Harbaugh, what
35:07
Speaker 2: he's known for, is really liking a good offensive and
35:10
Speaker 2: defensive line. And I'm thinking, is there a coach in
35:12
Speaker 2: America at any level of football that wouldn't prefer to
35:14
Speaker 2: have a great offensive and defensive line? I'd love to
35:17
Speaker 2: go into an interview, Hutton, and they ask me, like, hey,
35:19
Speaker 2: what's your identity? And I'm like, you know what? I
35:22
Speaker 2: really think that offensive and defensive line are important. That's
35:25
Speaker 2: what I'm going to go with as a coach. I've
35:28
Speaker 2: always valued those guys up front. I'm thinking that's what
35:30
Speaker 2: every program, no matter how you do it, they want
35:33
Speaker 2: to establish a line of scrimmage and have really good
35:35
Speaker 2: players on that. Very easy thing to say. I was like,
35:38
Speaker 2: I think there's more to it than John Harbaugh with that,
35:41
Speaker 2: the way they described it. But he's like a guy
35:43
Speaker 2: known for valuing offensive and defensive line. I'm like, yeah,
35:45
Speaker 2: of course.
35:46
Speaker 1: You mean the Titans? The Titans weren't the only team
35:49
Speaker 1: that wanted to draft, develop, and retain? Right.
35:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You know what I really want? I
35:55
Speaker 2: want really good players that are dedicated to it. I'm thinking, yeah,
35:59
Speaker 2: we're going to develop them. The next time a coach
36:02
Speaker 2: says something like makes you think on that, like, you
36:04
Speaker 2: know what I look for is this, right? Like the
36:07
Speaker 2: great coach Doug Matthews, who we know at one point said,
36:10
Speaker 2: you know, every good football team in college needs a
36:13
Speaker 2: few guys that you just got to kind of keep
36:15
Speaker 2: your thumb on. Talking about guys that you didn't know
36:17
Speaker 2: if they were going to get arrested at any point
36:19
Speaker 2: or were kind of liabilities in practice because they might
36:21
Speaker 2: fight someone. He's like, most good teams, they have a
36:24
Speaker 2: few guys that are like that. I'm like, that is
36:26
Speaker 2: something that I'll forever remember. I'm not going to forget
36:29
Speaker 2: that one.
36:30
Speaker 1: I would love to know Coach Matthews' take on some
36:34
Speaker 1: of the project runways that we see across the NFL.
36:37
Speaker 1: We call it project runway because it's better off on
36:39
Speaker 1: Bravo than than it is in an NFL stadium with
36:43
Speaker 1: how it's treated now. It's more about the walk-in in
36:45
Speaker 1: a fashion show down the runway than it is getting
36:48
Speaker 1: to the locker room and putting the pads on sometimes.
36:50
Speaker 2: Hutton, better on Bravo, by the way, that you just said.
36:52
Speaker 2: Good band name. That's a good name for a band.
36:55
Speaker 2: Better on Bravo.
36:56
Speaker 1: I like that.
36:56
Speaker 2: Let's go with it.
36:57
Speaker 1: I'm going to play into the name in just a
36:58
Speaker 1: second with our second quarterback. But first, Cam Ward. Cam
37:01
Speaker 1: Ward makes the list for Project Runway. This is a
37:05
Speaker 1: shirt post-game yesterday. He walks into the stadium here. Seed.
37:10
Speaker 1: A dot right next to someone's effing face is what
37:13
Speaker 1: it says on his T-shirt. Is this like, of course
37:18
Speaker 1: he's talking about throwing seeds, but is this also like
37:21
Speaker 1: some sexual innuendo as well? I don't know. I don't know.
37:25
Speaker 1: I don't care.
37:26
Speaker 2: You know what I like for you to wear? A
37:27
Speaker 2: dress shirt.
37:28
Speaker 1: And go up there and take your beating with the
37:30
Speaker 1: media after the game. The fact he's throwing seeds, he
37:34
Speaker 1: missed on those passes, man. Again, it's... There we go.
37:38
Speaker 2: I get that some of it is– I'm aging out
37:41
Speaker 2: of this generation of young people. I understand that.
37:44
Speaker 1: Oh, wait.
37:46
Speaker 2: This looks like a bunch of people playing dress-up.
37:48
Speaker 1: Just wait.
37:49
Speaker 2: You're putting your dad's sports coat on. It's a bunch
37:52
Speaker 2: of players playing dress-up on a bad team.
37:54
Speaker 1: Oh, it certainly is on the next one because here's
37:56
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. I'm calling Joe Bravo TV dressed like a
38:00
Speaker 1: lesbian walking into the game. Look at this. I mean,
38:05
Speaker 1: we're talking like half the WNBA can't get this off
38:09
Speaker 1: on repeat on their screensaver today.
38:11
Speaker 2: He looks like Ellen DeGeneres in Ibiza is what he
38:14
Speaker 2: looks like. That's what she'd be wearing at a nightclub.
38:18
Speaker 1: He's one of my favorite quarterbacks. I'm just like, what's
38:20
Speaker 1: going on here? I don't get it.
38:21
Speaker 2: I'll give Joey B. I'll cut him some slack. Only
38:24
Speaker 2: for this reason.
38:24
Speaker 1: For two reasons.
38:25
Speaker 2: One, he's really good. He's one of the best quarterbacks
38:28
Speaker 2: in the league. So he can wear a thong and
38:31
Speaker 2: nothing else. And I'd be like, you know what? If
38:34
Speaker 2: my quarterback wants to wear a banana hammock and go
38:36
Speaker 2: out and throw for 300 yards and win football games,
38:39
Speaker 2: let him wear a banana hammock. He's earned the right
38:42
Speaker 2: to wear whatever silk or satin he wants to wear.
38:45
Speaker 2: Totally fine with Joe Burrow. Two, the dude's a legitimate
38:48
Speaker 2: like fashion connoisseur. I don't get that world. I don't
38:52
Speaker 2: understand it, but he's into it. Like he likes to
38:54
Speaker 2: watch how things are designed and made. And that's one
38:57
Speaker 2: of his actual interests is like Milan Fashion Week. He's
39:01
Speaker 2: truly into it, that part of the life. So that
39:04
Speaker 2: part of it, I'm like, well, at least it's a
39:05
Speaker 2: passion of his.
39:06
Speaker 1: I mean, someone took away our carpenter pants for those.
39:12
Speaker 1: So Joe Burrow could wear a blouse. JT will hop
39:15
Speaker 1: in on this. JT, what's up? When we went to
39:24
Speaker 1: our first all-inclusive in Mexico, and I didn't understand that
39:28
Speaker 1: I needed to wear pants.
39:29
Speaker 2: So what did I do?
39:31
Speaker 1: I grabbed my wife's pants, the Palazzo pants, and showed
39:35
Speaker 1: up to dinner. And these, minus him being a little
39:37
Speaker 1: taller and skinnier, we kind of looked the exact same.
39:42
Speaker 2: Palazzo pants. Can you describe a Palazzo pant? Since we
39:46
Speaker 2: don't have Joe Burrow on the line, JT, you're going
39:47
Speaker 2: to have to describe what that looks like for us.
39:49
Speaker 2: So Palazzo pants are kind of big, fluffy at the bottom,
39:53
Speaker 2: much like what Joe wore there.
39:55
Speaker 1: And it's kind of free-flowing. I mean, it was great.
39:57
Speaker 1: It was better than tight pants in Mexico, but it
39:59
Speaker 1: was my only option if I wanted steak that night.
40:01
Speaker 1: I want to see this so much.
40:02
Speaker 2: So I put on my wife's pants. Hey, if someone
40:05
Speaker 2: said you either eat steak and wear Palazzo pants or
40:09
Speaker 2: you wear cargo shorts... and you don't eat steak, I
40:12
Speaker 2: probably would have put on the Palazzo pants too. JT
40:14
Speaker 2: Hutton is now our new Fashion Week correspondent, Project Runway
40:18
Speaker 2: correspondent on what these guys are wearing. So JT, be
40:21
Speaker 2: prepared to pop on as we go through each Project
40:24
Speaker 2: Runway each and every week, and we ask you your thoughts.
40:27
Speaker 2: Here's what I love about our show and how we
40:28
Speaker 2: handle Project Runway is it's a joke because it's ridiculous
40:32
Speaker 2: and it's silly and it takes away from everything. Football
40:36
Speaker 2: Night in America treats it like it's a big deal.
40:39
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, let's see what swag OBJ has tonight
40:43
Speaker 2: as he walks into the stadium. I'm thinking, come, please stop.
40:46
Speaker 1: We started it for the Titans on the road trips,
40:49
Speaker 1: on the tarmac walking to the team playing. They've got
40:52
Speaker 1: slow motion going with all the cameras and the team photographers.
40:58
Speaker 1: You got some girl on social media that's backing up?
41:00
Speaker 1: on them real slow as they're walking out. They've got
41:02
Speaker 1: another guy with lighting up.
41:04
Speaker 2: They're zesting water on the players as they come out
41:07
Speaker 2: to give them a nice little bit of lather. I mean,
41:09
Speaker 2: come on.
41:10
Speaker 1: They have a DJ. You've got the ooch, ooch, ooch.
41:12
Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. It's like the red carpet event we
41:15
Speaker 2: went to for Nate Bargatze's movie with the guy out
41:17
Speaker 2: there playing music the whole time, but that's as they're
41:20
Speaker 2: entering a stadium.
41:21
Speaker 1: Zoolander. Yeah, you've got Zoolander there as well.
41:27
Speaker 2: One of my favorite descriptions of attire is, A buddy
41:31
Speaker 2: of mine, Wisconsin basketball, when they were good, and they
41:34
Speaker 2: would just beat teams like 48 to 42, and they
41:37
Speaker 2: were playing an NCAA tournament. They were playing some team
41:39
Speaker 2: that had like– it was like Max Cady and Cape Fear.
41:42
Speaker 2: You didn't know whether to look at them or read them.
41:45
Speaker 2: Their warm-ups had like eight different social justice messages on it.
41:49
Speaker 2: You know, unite as one. We are all together. Black
41:53
Speaker 2: Lives Matter, whatever else is on it. And my buddy said,
41:56
Speaker 2: what I respect about Wisconsin basketball, he's like, there's not
42:00
Speaker 2: one social justice matches on their jersey. It's just red
42:02
Speaker 2: top from 1988 with a W on it. It's like
42:06
Speaker 2: they unite over one thing, playing team defense and kicking
42:10
Speaker 2: your ass. I'm like, that's perfect. That's what I want
42:14
Speaker 2: my message to be. We don't unite over fashion. We
42:16
Speaker 2: don't unite over wearing silk together. We don't unite over
42:19
Speaker 2: wearing cowboy hats in Nashville. Who was the jackass for
42:23
Speaker 2: the Titans behind Cam Ward? looking like he's an extra
42:26
Speaker 2: in the gay version of Yellowstone, if it was on Bravo,
42:30
Speaker 2: with the cowboy hat on and the jokes.
42:31
Speaker 1: Are you talking about that let in the... Let's.
42:35
Speaker 2: Go back to the Cam Ward walking in with the
42:37
Speaker 2: seed shirt on. If we show that video again.
42:39
Speaker 1: Walking in front of him. I believe that's Cody Barton. Yes,
42:41
Speaker 1: Cody Barton.
42:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll see gay Rip from Yellowstone walking in behind him.
42:47
Speaker 1: Oh, behind him. Okay.
42:49
Speaker 2: Well, no, that may have been the guy that was
42:50
Speaker 2: in front of him.
42:51
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, Cody Barton.
42:52
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, you're not going to a rodeo, dude. You're
42:55
Speaker 2: going to a football game. Again, take the Wisconsin basketball approach.
42:59
Speaker 2: Unite on playing team defense and kicking your ass. That's
43:02
Speaker 2: what they unite behind. No social justice messages. Shout out
43:06
Speaker 2: to Alan Bean, by the way, who said that in
43:08
Speaker 2: our group chat.
43:10
Speaker 1: At least with Cody Barty just wearing some jeans and
43:13
Speaker 1: a cowboy hat, which maybe he does on a regular basis.
43:15
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's the bag, the boots that he
43:19
Speaker 1: has in it, maybe. There he is.
43:21
Speaker 2: I think that, Hutton, what happened there in this is–
43:24
Speaker 2: This is recency bias on my behalf. The Titans' performance
43:28
Speaker 2: was so effeminate that I cut off jean shorts on
43:31
Speaker 2: them mentally because of the way the team looked. So
43:34
Speaker 2: my apologies to Cody Barton, who is wearing an actual
43:37
Speaker 2: full jean instead of jorts in that. Mentally, I said, boy,
43:41
Speaker 2: a team that loses 23-10 to the Jets, he must
43:44
Speaker 2: have been wearing jorts on the walk into the stadium.
43:46
Speaker 1: Maybe they're bedazzled on the back. We didn't look.
43:48
Speaker 2: We're having some fun with this, but Cam Ward wearing
43:51
Speaker 2: the seed shirt is an all-time– Terrible decision of just
43:56
Speaker 2: the look of what you're presenting.
43:58
Speaker 1: Next week, is he going to have accurate? Is that
44:00
Speaker 1: going to be the next word on his shirt?
44:02
Speaker 2: Accuracy. The definition of it. Then after that, it's going
44:06
Speaker 2: to be flattening. Because he's giving a message to his
44:08
Speaker 2: receivers on how to flatten out their routes better. Ridiculous, man.
44:13
Speaker 1: The deep third. Deep ball. Passing game. Completion. All that.
44:20
Speaker 2: Speaking of Yellowstone, I wish Taylor Sheridan could write this
44:23
Speaker 2: Titans season. If the NFL was scripted, I need a
44:25
Speaker 2: Taylor Sheridan script when I see Cody Barton in the
44:28
Speaker 2: cowboy hat walking in. The team would be much better if.
44:30
Speaker 1: That was the case. They would be relevant after one week, right?
44:36
Speaker 1: Coming up, quarterbacks who were feeling irrelevant, maybe. in college
44:41
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44:44
Speaker 1: the equivalent of that in the NFL. There are three
44:47
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that you believe in on the list. That's kind
44:51
Speaker 1: of obvious that they'll bounce back. And then there's two
44:55
Speaker 1: that you don't feel like they're going to make it happen.
45:00
Speaker 1: We discussed those two and the two that made it
45:04
Speaker 1: happen in college football and what it means for their teams.
45:06
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45:22
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Speaker 1: All right, so I've got some quarterbacks that had a
46:39
Speaker 1: bounce back in college football, and I want to try
46:42
Speaker 1: to compare to the quarterbacks that need one in the
46:44
Speaker 1: NFL for week two. But let's start with Mestermaker. I mean,
46:50
Speaker 1: what we saw from Drew Mestermaker, the touchdown, all right?
46:54
Speaker 1: Three touchdowns, like what, 400 total yards plus, but 317
46:57
Speaker 1: yards passing. The Elway-like touchdown, Chad. When I see that,
47:04
Speaker 1: I'm going to backyard football here. I can't think of
47:08
Speaker 1: a better highlight that I would want to have as
47:12
Speaker 1: a quarterback than something like that touchdown. You could have
47:16
Speaker 1: a deep ball. Everybody's got a deep passing touchdown or
47:19
Speaker 1: a touchdown run, something of that nature. Not everybody has
47:23
Speaker 1: that type of moment. And it was of that magnitude
47:27
Speaker 1: as well. I don't know what play you would go with.
47:30
Speaker 1: I'm kind of choosing that. Well, I mean, let's compare
47:33
Speaker 1: it to John Elway's great career, right? I mean, he
47:35
Speaker 1: had a lot of highlights at Stanford. He had a
47:37
Speaker 1: lot of highlights for the Denver Broncos. And you remember
47:40
Speaker 1: the drive in Cleveland in the playoffs, and you remember
47:43
Speaker 1: some of those throws. But if we're looking at one
47:46
Speaker 1: signature highlight of Elway's career, it is that first Super
47:49
Speaker 1: Bowl win where he goes careening through the air as
47:52
Speaker 1: he jumps up and gets spun like a top to
47:55
Speaker 1: pick up a first down.
47:57
Speaker 2: That wasn't even a touchdown. on that play, just to
47:59
Speaker 2: pick up a first down. Drew Mestemaker goes somersaulting into
48:02
Speaker 2: the end zone, completely giving up his body. I'm with you.
48:05
Speaker 2: If you wanted to put something on tape of this
48:07
Speaker 2: is who I am as a competitor, and as a captain,
48:09
Speaker 2: and as a player, you can't do much worse, you
48:13
Speaker 2: can't do much better, I should say, than Drew Mestemaker
48:15
Speaker 2: and what he put forth in that game. I'm shocked
48:17
Speaker 2: at Oregon. We thought, okay, Boise State's really good, and
48:20
Speaker 2: they look good against Memphis this.
48:21
Speaker 1: Week, too.
48:22
Speaker 2: They are a good team. So they just got hit
48:24
Speaker 2: by a team who can run the ball, but Then
48:26
Speaker 2: I watched week two. They're a 24-point favorite on the
48:30
Speaker 2: road at Oklahoma State, and they lose by eight points.
48:33
Speaker 2: I was stunned.
48:34
Speaker 1: Going back to Bestmaker briefly, did you know that he
48:38
Speaker 1: did not start? The previous two in college, he didn't
48:43
Speaker 1: start since his freshman year in high school. He didn't
48:46
Speaker 1: start sophomore, junior, or senior year. As a high school quarterback.
48:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, he never was the starter. I didn't think... Like
48:53
Speaker 2: on the freshman team, you're saying he may have started.
48:55
Speaker 1: On the freshman team, he was the starter. And then
48:56
Speaker 1: the JV team.
48:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was on a really good high school team.
48:59
Speaker 1: I forget the quarterback that started over him that went
49:01
Speaker 1: to college. Yeah, he was the team punter. They kept
49:03
Speaker 1: recruiting over him. But incarnate word is where he links
49:07
Speaker 1: up with Eric Ward. He's kind of following the same
49:11
Speaker 1: storyline as Cam Ward, in a way. In a weird way. But,
49:17
Speaker 1: he's throwing bombs over Baghdad, going for the bundle. Not
49:20
Speaker 1: good against Tulsa, but great against Oregon. I'm with you
49:24
Speaker 1: on Oregon, man. They were slow out of the gates
49:25
Speaker 1: last year, too. Won some close ones. That's not the
49:30
Speaker 1: case here. Michigan, when they fall, they fall forward. I'm
49:36
Speaker 1: tied in Oregon. They always do. I've said that for
49:40
Speaker 1: a while. They always find a way to fall forward
49:42
Speaker 1: if they fall. They fell. They should be 0-1. They're
49:46
Speaker 1: now 2-0. But Bryce Underwood, he's not good. He hasn't
49:50
Speaker 1: been playing great. The passing game is not there. But,
49:55
Speaker 1: I mean, he struggles, but then the rushing ability gets
49:59
Speaker 1: him to a point where they win against a top-10 opponent,
50:03
Speaker 1: and they quiet the controversy. They quiet the talk about
50:06
Speaker 1: him being bitched. They have his head coach, Whittingham, saying, yeah,
50:14
Speaker 1: he's our guy. I don't know what you're talking about.
50:16
Speaker 1: Everybody could lose their job day to day. You know,
50:18
Speaker 1: the about face after the call-out. At least he received
50:21
Speaker 1: the criticism. He didn't do it well at the podium.
50:24
Speaker 1: But on the field, they get the win when they
50:27
Speaker 1: needed to. I was impressed with the way he responded,
50:31
Speaker 1: given the fact that the spotlight was on him in
50:33
Speaker 1: a negative way.
50:34
Speaker 2: He ran the ball well in that game. I don't
50:36
Speaker 2: know that I come out of that game thinking much
50:38
Speaker 2: more about him as a passing quarterback or as someone
50:41
Speaker 2: who's got a liver on his promise.
50:43
Speaker 1: They're not good in that area.
50:44
Speaker 2: I am with you that I give him full marks
50:46
Speaker 2: for responding and then winning the game and finding enough
50:50
Speaker 2: plays to win. That offense was still not great in
50:53
Speaker 2: that game. The passing offense is certainly archaic right now
50:58
Speaker 2: for Michigan. I don't see a lot of hope. in
51:00
Speaker 2: the passing part of this. I want to flip side
51:03
Speaker 2: of this also. Great response, obviously, to win that game
51:07
Speaker 2: and all that. And their defense really performed well, I thought,
51:09
Speaker 2: in that game. Colorado, I think– sorry, Oklahoma is going
51:13
Speaker 2: to have some problems this season also. That's a takeaway
51:16
Speaker 2: from that. I don't leave– it's not like the Bills-Texans
51:18
Speaker 2: where I leave even in a loss feeling better about
51:21
Speaker 2: the Texans. I leave that game really feeling poorly about
51:24
Speaker 2: Oklahoma as a team and what they're going to look
51:27
Speaker 2: like in the SEC. And I'll go back to saying this.
51:29
Speaker 2: All those– Photos and videos of John Mateer all rocked
51:32
Speaker 2: up and just huge, looking like a bodybuilder. When was
51:37
Speaker 2: the last time a quarterback looking like a bodybuilder a
51:40
Speaker 2: good thing? Will Levis was one of those guys who
51:43
Speaker 2: was seen as that. Tim Tebow got all rocked up
51:47
Speaker 2: in the NFL. I don't think that is the build
51:51
Speaker 2: to have. to be a great quarterback. I think we're
51:55
Speaker 2: seeing more evidence of that with Mateer. Mateer getting all
51:58
Speaker 2: jacked up has not helped his game at all. That
52:00
Speaker 2: was not a good performance for him or Oklahoma's offense. So, again,
52:04
Speaker 2: tough environment. Michigan, I'm sure, was pissed here and all
52:07
Speaker 2: week how bad they were and how they lost the
52:09
Speaker 2: game and all that. And their defense came out and responded.
52:13
Speaker 1: And also falling forward where they get that win and
52:16
Speaker 1: Ohio State and Oregon both lose. Yeah. The NFL equivalents
52:22
Speaker 1: of who needs to respond now. There are three that
52:24
Speaker 1: I think we all agree they're likely to. But these
52:30
Speaker 1: teams don't need to start 0-2. Matthew Stafford was not good.
52:34
Speaker 1: Sean McVay's offense stagnant. It never got off the ground.
52:39
Speaker 1: The plane did for about a 24-hour period. But when
52:42
Speaker 1: they landed, they weren't ready to go. And he had
52:45
Speaker 1: just 155 yards passing time. He had the interception, no
52:48
Speaker 1: touchdown passes, no points in the second half for the Rams.
52:52
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, he had a sharp opening drive and then nothing.
52:57
Speaker 1: They did not sustain drives against Arizona. Arizona dominated them
53:02
Speaker 1: in the second half. Let's go with Jordan Love. You've
53:08
Speaker 1: got a game where Kyler Murray goes down and Love
53:11
Speaker 1: didn't step up like he normally does in this game. 50%
53:14
Speaker 1: completion percentage. But he played bad, but you look at
53:19
Speaker 1: the stats, he still produced something, which is where I'm
53:22
Speaker 1: going with the other two. Cam Ward and Deshaun Watson. Both,
53:29
Speaker 1: even when they're bad, they can't produce something. And that's
53:33
Speaker 1: the detriment of the teams and the spot that those
53:36
Speaker 1: teams are in. When they're really bad, they're not putting
53:39
Speaker 1: the drive together to keep them in games.
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Speaker 2: I'm with you.
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Speaker 4: Also.
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Speaker 2: Eagles, the next opponent for the Titans, right? I'm watching
53:47
Speaker 2: a lot of that game this afternoon, them and Washington.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 2: Washington has fallen so fast. I know Jaden Daniels got hurt,
53:54
Speaker 2: but it just feels like just the outlook of that
53:56
Speaker 2: whole team. You know, they go from NFC championship game
53:59
Speaker 2: two seasons ago and like, oh boy, this is a
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Speaker 2: team to watch. Jaden Daniels, one of the best players
54:03
Speaker 2: in the league. And now just not a lot of
54:05
Speaker 2: excitement or anticipation around that team. And I, Even in
54:08
Speaker 2: a close game, I didn't feel like they were ever
54:10
Speaker 2: really in it. It was a weird feeling watching that
54:14
Speaker 2: team yesterday. But that is the Titans' next opponent, the Eagles,
54:17
Speaker 2: for Cam Ward to bounce back. Yeah, Matthew Stafford, I mean, look,
54:22
Speaker 2: in hindsight, go out there for a week to Australia
54:25
Speaker 2: the same way the 49ers did. Let's see how he plays.
54:27
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a little bit different. So you can one-off
54:29
Speaker 2: that thing and say, look, weird circumstances, weeknight game, which
54:33
Speaker 2: was in the morning in Australia. He'll come back and
54:36
Speaker 2: be just fine. I think he'll be just fine. The
54:38
Speaker 2: other ones, yeah, I'm with you. They badly need a
54:41
Speaker 2: bounce back.
54:42
Speaker 1: The Bills are playing Thursday night football.
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Speaker 2: Opening the new stadium. Against the Lions. It's going to
54:48
Speaker 2: be awesome. That Bills schedule this year is packed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And early on, it's brutal. If they can just kind
54:56
Speaker 2: of tread water, if they do really well this early schedule,
54:59
Speaker 2: look out. But if they can tread water early, they're
55:02
Speaker 2: going to have a really good record.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to mention just a few of the games
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Speaker 1: in the NFL next week from week two. And I
55:08
Speaker 1: know we've got Broncos Chiefs tonight. Bills and Lions on
55:12
Speaker 1: Thursday night. Bengals and Texans. Packers on the road against
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Speaker 1: the Jets who are 1-0. You have the Vikings and Bears.
55:22
Speaker 1: The Bears just blitzed the crap out of Carolina. And
55:27
Speaker 1: you've got a quarterback deal going on in Minnesota. I
55:30
Speaker 1: was just surprised with how well Minnesota played in that game.
55:33
Speaker 1: Eagles are coming to Tennessee. But how about the Steelers
55:35
Speaker 1: and Patriots? A chance for New England to be 0-2
55:39
Speaker 1: if they fall to Aaron Rodgers. And the Jaguars and Broncos.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars on the road against the Broncos who are going
55:49
Speaker 1: to be on a short week. Potentially 0-2. We'll see
55:52
Speaker 1: what our picks are doing later with the hard rock bet.
55:56
Speaker 1: It always ends up being that they'll say that week
55:59
Speaker 1: one is a liar. It's because of matchups in week
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Speaker 1: two that the NFL sets up well. And there's a
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Speaker 1: theory going, Chad, that the NFL intentionally scheduled the Jets
56:08
Speaker 1: and the Giants in September against the Titans so that
56:11
Speaker 1: the New York teams would get off to a fast start.
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Speaker 1: I've heard that. Maybe that's true.
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Speaker 2: Maybe. And I'll tell you this. I know there's one
56:21
Speaker 2: clear winner early in the season in SEC versus Big Ten.
56:24
Speaker 1: It's the SEC.
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Speaker 2: But let's discuss.
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Speaker 1: Let's discuss. And we have to get into that epic comeback.
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Speaker 1: that Texas pulled against Ohio State. We'll do that next
56:33
Speaker 1: year on how to withdraw.