NFL Insider expects Cam Ward to get the “green light” in Titans offense after firing Brian Callahan

NFL Insider expects Cam Ward to get the “green light” in Titans offense after firing Brian Callahan

What’s up? A Toz Sports here live on a Wednesday as this crazy week continues. The uh remnants of the firing of Brian Callahan. We heard from interim head coach Mike McCoy for the first time yesterday about his plans for the next 11 weeks, 11 game, I guess 12 weeks, 11 games in 12 weeks for the remainder of the 25 Titans season and what he will do, some changes that he will make. And one NFL insider expects Cam Ward to get the green light in this Titans offense. And we’ll go through what does that mean exactly? Uh is that just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks or is uh this something that’s legitimate change is on the horizon with what uh Mike McCoy has coming up? Uh so J JT had a fat finger moment uh because at first it looked like it was going to be at 8:55 a.m. Central time show. No, we’re we’re here uh alive and well ready to go here at our normal 8:08 to 810 time that we typically do here. But uh we’re going to have a uh a fascinating conversation because all of these shows this week are are going to be potentially blamable, right? Like I I think anytime we go live for the next several days, there is a potential for things to go off the rails based off of how this fan base is reacting to the firing of Brian Callahan, what the actual problem is, how to fix it with Cam Ward, and uh how bad this team is and what Amy’s doing and what Amy’s not doing because more people naturally are continuing to write and talk about Amy out of the trunk and the Titans dysfunction from the top down over the last three years since John Robinson was canned following the trade of AJ Brown. So, there’s a lot of context from uh that we have been living this last three plus years of being in the the middle of the Titan stuff. So, here talking about today Cam Ward, the green light, and also something that Jeffrey Simmons is doing that I think is being uh misconstrued a little bit, but uh we’re going to talk about that. And uh it’s funny enough uh I get a text just now that Xfinity is working in my neighborhood to enhance the network. So hopefully that means that I stay online and don’t get kicked off the internet because I just got that text come in at 8:12. Uh so fun stuff this morning. JT, what’s going on? Hey, what’s going on Austin? Yes, apologies for the fat finger on the 855. Uh, you know, five and zero, as many people know, are very close to each other on the keyboard. Not at all. I don’t know. My bad. Maybe I put just 85 and it put in there. Either way, we’re here. We’re live. We’re ready to go. Good morning, everybody. Good to see all of you guys in the chat this morning. From Jacobe to Robbie to Eric, good morning all of you guys. Katie, Jeff, John, Andrew. Good to see all of you guys here this morning. A couple things we need from you guys before we get started. First of all, make sure you are liking the show. Make sure you hit that subscribe button so you don’t miss any of the content we are bringing you here at the A Toz Sports YouTube channel. If you’re watching on Facebook, make sure to hit that like button. Make sure you like the page and hit that share button with a friend who wants to talk Titans this morning. Going to be very, very good uh discussion because we heard from Mike McCoy. I have some thoughts and maybe changing opinions on my initial reaction to him uh being named the interim based on what he had to say yesterday. excited to get into all of that. And I’m sure what other whatever other, you know, hills everybody in the chat wants to die on because I think that’s what we’re ultimately it is what what I’ve learned this this Titan season because I always come away with a with with a with a I guess message or narrative or thing that I I take into the next season afterwards. Uh there is no there’s you you have to die on your hill. There is no inbetweeness here. It has to be all or nothing. And uh it’s getting very very funny to watch a lot of the time, but I’m excited to do it nonetheless. Yeah, there there is no room for nuance and context and specific conversations ever when it comes to this team. So, uh let’s go ahead and get to it officially. Welcome in AD to Z Sports here live on a Wednesday. I’m Austin Stanley. He’s JT Runky. We are Nashville’s on demand sports talk network. Going live weekday mornings at 8 central time on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch. Links to the show segment by segment on our Twitterx timeline. 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Jacob says, “You think we are smart enough to understand context?” It’s not that like people, we all individually are smart enough to understand context. I think the problem JT that we were kind of talking about in the cold open uh of this Titan season is that nobody is on the same page when it comes to having the conversation that they want to have, right? Because it’s everybody has the hill they’re dying on. And so you’re you’re arguing and yelling across the valleys from these different hills you’re dying on and none of it’s making sense because by the time your message gets to the other hill that guy’s like, “No, my hill thinks this way.” Like, “No, we agree, but you can’t hear anything.” And so it’s we individually understand it. We’re not dumb people. The chat is not full of dumb people. Collectively, the chat is dumb. individually the chat is smart, right? I think that that’s just masses, right? That’s I’m being funny and I don’t want people to get offended be calling the the chat collectively dumb because I’m I’m joking. But I think there was a comment that I favored uh early on because we’re talking about uh Albert Brerier uh on top of the Athletics. So Mike Silver, Albert Brerier, Dian Rsini, uh others who have pointed out the uh organizational dysfunction of the Titans from a national perspective. Uh Adam Shfter has talked about it nationally on ESPN. Uh and I’m sure there’s many other big national names around the NFL that I just haven’t mentioned that have been taking their shots uh right, you know, off the top when it’s convenient to at Amy Adams and the owners and we have too. Yeah, it was basically yesterday’s show and I feel very strongly about how this was handled even though uh Brian Callahan uh getting fired was the correct decision in a vacuum because Jeff says the mainstream media somehow doesn’t realize that all four of these people deserve to get fired. John Robinson, Mike Vrabel, Ran Carthon, and Brian Callahan. Uh yes, in a vacuum, but it’s the fact that all of these people got fired within 34 months of one another. Um, and it has created this roundabout chaos way that is not giving anybody confidence for how this can move forward because Albert Brerier brought up in his column on SI his Monday morning quarterback that he took over for Peter King a few years ago talking about how Brian Callahan was bad. 419 is not good enough. Everybody understands that. We all nod say yes 419 is bad, not good enough. Deserves to be fired in a vacuum. But when you look at the Titans bigger problems, it is not anything that Brian Callahan had in his control to fix. The roster stinks because of the 2020 draft, the 21 draft, the 22 draft, and beyond, right? Not just the first round picks that John Robinson missed out on, but the entire draft classes of those three years. And then you look at how all of that trickles down and it makes everything so muddy, so ugly, so bad. You’re missing on offensive linemen. You’re over and over again. You can’t hire the right person after firing the person that deserved to be fired. Now, if you want to say who we This is a completely different topic. Maybe I should not go this route. We can save this for tomorrow. Uh I’ll I’ll stop myself. So yes, all four people deserve to be fired in a vacuum, but we’re not living in a vacuum. We’re living in this entire situation and so the Titans are an easy target for Albert Brerier, for Mike Silver, the athletic, for anybody else that wants to go after him, for us. U so JT, any response to that before we dive into the the green light topic for Cam Ward? Absolutely. Like you talk about for Mike Silver to go after, who by the way was not looking to go after him, but had his entire story ruined because this happened. uh other other than hey like he he was going in to talk about the growth that Brian Callahan and Cam Ward were trying to have together as a tandem coach and rookie quarterback and they fire him and say well there goes that. So I got to figure out like they ruined my story because of how they did this. And so I think that’s it’s just very funny to me sometimes. I think also like you said it’s it’s nuanced. It’s not in a vacuum. A lot of this stuff, what you said about about the hills, right? Like when you were shouting across, there’s a real chance that both hills could be right. Like there like both hills could be right and just for the for different reasons because I see I I just want to address it before we get over. Randy said, “I just want to say you guys and Buck made it seem like it was an object disaster yesterday, which I believed.” Then I read the respected uh Jim Wyatt in his mailback say there was absolutely a plan in place. And here’s where the nuance comes in. Two things can absolutely Let’s pause. Let’s pause because I want to clear this up and be as direct as we possibly can. Randy is pointing out the fact that Buck, Eastston, Paul Kaharski on Monday and then you and I adding with Eastston on Tuesday on the show were talking about how there was no plan in place with an interim coach after the firing of Callahan Monday midday, right? And then Jim White comes back in his in his mailbag and says there was a plan and laid things out and we were frustrated with the timeline and so I’ll let you take it from there. Just be as dragged as possible. Exactly. Two things can be true. Jim is correct in saying that Chad Brinker had a plan or a idea of a plan in place for when the time came that that Brian Callahan was going to get fired. It can also be true that Chad Brinker and the rest of the staff and the the front office was not ready to enact that plan on Monday because once again I don’t think Chad Brinker wanted to make this decision this week in that morning meeting when he sits down with Amy Adam. I don’t think they were ready. So both things can be true. They cannot they can have a plan in place for post Brian Callahan which Jim Wyatt says. They can also not be ready and have to kind of hobble that that plan together in the span of like not preparing for it ahead of time Monday morning because they didn’t want to make that decision. I will say uh and and bizarre PK is that was not your show take yesterday. We all saw it. That was the show take yesterday. They were not prepared for that moment. Um, and so the same way that like a toz we had a plan for when Brian Callahan was getting fired. We did. Uh, but I don’t think anybody was expecting it. Like we had graphics made. We had articles that were kind of like the newsers kind of ready to go, but it was a it was a guard down uh on Monday as we were doing other things, regular Monday business. Not expecting that to be the Monday that Brian Callahan got fired knowing that it would be a Monday in season, not Tuesdays. Tuesdays happen for coaches after the season’s over. Uh like what happened with Mike Greybel, but in season it would be going to be a Monday. Uh, and so we weren’t ready, but we had a planned, but we didn’t take seven hours uh to have a press conference or I think that’s so when Eastston is saying that he’s talking to people inside the building that didn’t that said they weren’t they didn’t have a plan is because the people that were in the building that were not fired had no idea what was happening after Brian Callahan was fired. So when Brian and Albert Brerier laid this out, he in his article in SI that there was supposed to be a regular 12:30 staff me or 11:30 staff meeting that got pushed back to 12:30 because the Vegas travel late. Then that initially got cancelled. Then it got rescheduled. Uh and it comes in Callahan tells his staff, I’m out. I’m fired. I’m done. And then after that, it’s kind of like a what’s next? Because in the statement that we got at 1253, there was no Mike McCoyy’s the interim coach. It was just like, okay, open-ended. Here we go. And then the 230 presser is gonna happen, right? Nope. Maybe. No, that’s canceled. Okay. When’s the presser gonna happen? Oh, I don’t know. And here we are four hours, five hours later. Okay, now Mike McCoy uh is the interim coach leaked out by National Tom Pelero. And then 7:30 p.m. press conference, which was over seven and a half hours after the initial news. that’s why it feels like they didn’t have a plan or they weren’t prepared to enact their plan on that day. And so that is what I think we’re going to talk through. So hopefully we can be on the same page of that. Um and now we can move forward to talk about uh green light, right? Because that was the idea of this show is that a NFL insider um expects Cam Ward to get the green light in the Titans offense after the firing of Brian Callahan. We will do that here uh for the next 25 30 minutes or so. But first, JT, tell us all about Bero Carts. Yeah, Bero Carts. Listen, just like the Titans and Brian Callahan, life is short in terms of being a head coach sometimes with this organization. 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Exfinity ruined my internet like I said I was going to do. Uh and but hey, good job with the Ber Carter. That was a great timing where I was frozen but never gone. Uh but all right, make sure BTA Sports you download the BTA Sports app. uh it’ll make you a better sports better to help you win in the margins and they can uh do a great job for you. You do that by downloading the app using our link in the Facebook title in the YouTube description or use the code at oz14 that gives you a 14-day free trial for a $9.99 weekly subscription. So, you get two full weeks to try out BTA Sports before you have to pay a dollar to help uh make you a better sports better. BTA Sports. Uh, better for betterers right there. Okay. Now, let’s dive into this. Uh, we’re first gonna get started um with uh let’s let’s hear from Mike McCoy first because we’re going to go through the the whole Greenlight uh offensive situation because uh what was it? Mike Borggoni on on Monday evening. Uh kind of hinted that Mike McCoy has some ideas and some things he wants to do differently with Cam, with practice, with the offense, with with everything, right? Uh, so let’s hear from Mike McCoy to get to know him a little bit and then we’ll dive into uh NFL insider who expects Cam to get the green light and talk about what the Titans can actually change after Brian Callahan is gone with Cam War in the offense who tried to uh resurrect the last 11 games. Um, things like this come up. It’s a bad part of the business. And when I look at it, you know, it’s not just coaches, but there’s families involved, there’s kids involved, things like that. So, it’s a tough situation for everybody. But, uh, that being said, I think, you know, um, I’ve got a job to do now, and I’m excited for that opportunity. It’s an honor and privilege to be standing here in front of you guys today, um, and leading this organization. Uh, we got a lot of hard work ahead of us. Um, but the one thing, um, you know, I’m going to I’ve talked to the staff already. I’m going to talk to the team tomorrow about, you know, togetherness. You know, we got to stick together. That’s the only way to do it is stick together. You know, we all have a part in this where we are today. It’s not just Brian. And that’s the unfortunate thing in this business that happens and we all have a hand in it. Every player, every coach, every person in the organization, we have to hold each other accountable. So, we all have to be accountable for everything we’re doing on a daily basis. So, that’s two things, you know, the togetherness part of it and the accountability moving forward. Um, those are two big things that I’m going to stress to everybody because uh it’s a bad feeling when you see someone um that’s such a good person like Brian um have this happen to. So, look, a lot of that’s coach speak, but it’s not wrong, right? Like and I think that to like what McCoy ended with is why you see interim coach bumps when it comes with juice and bad teams playing better out of the gates with an interim coach is because the firing of the head coach is a wakeup call and everybody says oh like everybody had a hand in their head coach getting canned and that is a an awakening type of a feeling of a guilt responsibility. and a kick in the ass to go be better uh to make sure that you’re not costing somebody else. Now, Brian Callahan’s fine because he’s got a five-year contract that he’s going to get in full with a with a bait with a payout and a buyout. So, he’s not hurting by any means. Now, there the fact that he’s a 419 head coach and he’s going to go down as one of the the most unsuccessful worst NFL head coaches in NFL history is is is a tough thing to live with, but financially he’s okay. But, you know, I think it’s everybody else has to figure out how do they be better, stay together, and not just unravel and fall apart because there’s a lot of they can still accomplish many assignments over the next 11 games without winning more much more football games. Like, they have to build here and it’s a lot of people that are are putting their jobs in the line here for future teams. Mike McCoy is not going to be the head coach in 2026, but what job does he want in 2026, whether here or elsewhere? That’s what he’s going to to try to prove overall here. So, any thoughts on Mike McCoy first before we dive into the green light? Yeah. Well, first of all, you talk about, you know, trying to play a little bit more improved football, although in terms of what that does for wins, I don’t I don’t think it does much, like I said yesterday. Um, however, yeah, I he said a lot of the right things that make me feel a little bit more like he can maybe calm the ship, you know, steer it in a right in the right direction. Um, maybe put a rudder to this rudderless ship. um get these guys going in in the right direction because you are right that from everyone from players to personnel to front office everyone has their hand in the firing of Brian Callahan right the players just simply as Brian Callahan started to say over and over again they they didn’t the players got to play better and we got to coach better you know like and they didn’t do that and so that does light a fire under them and I think the experience experience that Mike McCoy has uh in in the NFL and to to kind of weather this storm, I I think is a good thing to have right now. And so he may not be the the biggest I guess, you know, the biggest mind that is going to totally reshape this team and give him, you know, buzz as, oh, he could be the next head coach of the Tennessee Titans because that’s not going to happen. It would take a miracle. Well, Kevin brings this up because I said that and then Kevin immediately comes in. if I can go find the comment. Um, Kevin says, “You say that, but all three interim coaches this franchise has had kept the job.” Now, I know of two. I know Jeff Fischer and Mike Malarkey. I don’t know what the the third is that Kevin’s referencing. Maybe that it had to have been before Jeff Fischer, which again is a completely different organization. And you know, Mike Malarkey is the only one you can say because that was under current leadership. And Amy Adam Strong is the one who kept Mike Malarkey as the coach after the interim of the firing of not Mike Kim Wizenhunt. So I I don’t know who the other one is, but um maybe Kevin can follow that up. But I mean sure Amy did it before, but that was also right after she took over as the Okay. Jerry Glennville is what Kevin says. So yeah. Okay. So, but again, Amy had just taken over the April uh before firing Wizen Hunt. So, that was a very new situation for her. So, she wanted to stick with what was uh uh with what she could really kind of like trust and that was Mike Larky who was a trustworthy guy. So, overall um yeah, I mean I don’t expect that to happen again. She’s had a decade into the job now. Yeah. And once again, like I don’t think this roster is talented enough to to win more than maybe unfortunately two or three more games, which goes against what I believe this team could do at the beginning of the season. But now that we are six weeks in, I don’t I don’t I don’t think we’re going to get there. However, like it would take some miracle and Mike McCoy like revamping his entire uh coaching mindset to come back and go on a winning streak in the N in the NFL here because I mean you also look at what Mike McCoy did in his tenure. you know, there obviously different situations, different times. Like also coaching under a pretty dysfunctional ownership group in the uh Spanos family over there in uh Los Angeles, formerly San Diego. But he he did hand Hugh Jackson his one and only win in his one and what 31 or 32 one and 31 uh coaching career as the as the Browns head coach. So like I I I I don’t think there’s any possibility in which he gets, you know, 2026 and beyond. Yeah, agree. All right, but let’s hear from about what can happen under Mike McCoy. This is Albert Brrier of SI uh who wrote uh this in his uh column on si.com yesterday um about Cam Ward and really as a whole and what this means for a new coaching candidate moving forward. What a coach thinks of Ward will obviously be a part of how attractive the Titans job is after the season. And I do think you’ll see some change with McCoy in charge just based on McCoy’s background. To this point, Ward has looked a little like fish out of water. And knowing what I know about McCoy, my guess is he’ll get a green light to be more of a playmaker now given where the team is. McCoyy’s experience with quarterbacks is varied from pure pocket passers like Pton Manning and Philip Rivers to a true option quarterback like Tim Tibo, an improviser like Jake Delhomme. Uh, so at least on paper he should have it in his bag to give Ward leeway. And again, his performance is important in part because the situation Strunks put her football team in. This is Ward. The Titans are not moving off of Ward in all likelihood in 26 or 27. And it’ll be hard for any coach to trust given the history that he’ll get more than two years to prove himself with that franchise. So finding someone who believes in Cam Ward will be important if not essential. and there will be more believers uh the better Ward plays. So, I think that is a big deal on what level of coaching candidate can the Titans hire is based on how well does Cam Ward play or what does he show you within the margins of the box scores of how well he can play under Mike McCoy by changing some things up. So, yeah, go ahead. I I was just gonna say, yeah, I that that is the ultimate goal for Mike McCoy. Obviously, like he talked about it yesterday in his press conference, like is this a job that you could that you’re trying to go for in 2026? And he was, you know, very much like it’s always a dream to to get to be a head coach. It’s one of 32 jobs just like a GM. Like ultimately, even with what Brier is saying there about the more options you’ll have, the better he plays, like there will be some options no matter what because just like a GM job, this is one of the most highly soughtafter jobs in all of of I guess the world probably. And um and I think what when he says, you know, the the hiring uh you know, you’ll have more options. I think you’ll have better quality options as well when with Cam Ward. So yeah, and it starts with Cam Ward playing now. How do they get Cam Ward to play better? And I think Mike McCoy had some really good things to say about their approach to the rest of the season with him that we’re about to get to, I imagine. Yep. Let’s hear from it. Here is uh this is Mike McCoy’s answer to Boronzi floated Monday. Hey, there are some things you might want to change. And so this is how Mike McCoy approached that question. Well, I think you know um we’ve got to I’m a big believer um as as we go moving forward uh you always got to think um players and not plays. And I think we guys got to you look at this and we got to decide okay moving forward and it’s early in the week still. So each week you you look at what a defensive scheme what they’re going to run what do our players do best. So, you know, we got to sit down and and like we’ve done the last, you know, couple hours this morning, getting into the game planning against a good New England team. Um, is is what does Cam do best and what do we do best as an offense? And that that’s but that’s going to be every week. So, that that’s the big thing. When we go in there, we got to look at our look at our scheme. What are we doing? Um, and it’s going to change from week to week on what we do best. So, a lot of those things, again, coach speak, but not wrong, right? It’s like uh it’s easy things to say, but how are they being implemented? So, let’s go ahead JT and get to our our first uh com uh I guess question to the audience of the day. And so, going off what Brewer said of he believes that Mike McCoy will give Cam Ward more of a green light to make plays. So, does giving Cam Ward the quote unquote green light mean the opposite of Callahan’s structure or is it just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks? And so JT, I’ll have you put that comment in the chat there uh for the audience to dive into that. I’ve already seen some comments that I favored uh that uh we can go back to that kind of address the question before we even asked the question. So look, the collective chat is on it today. I like how the chat’s going today, even after I called the collective chat dumb individually smart earlier in the show. All right, JT. So you’ve got that comment uh in the sections there. So tell us all about our friends at the Bone and Joint Institute and then we’ll see what everybody says. Yeah, the Bone and Joint Institute. 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That gets you a 14-day free trial before a weekly subscription of just $9.99 to be a better sports better and better daily fantasy player. BTA Sports changing the game and dominating the game. help uh beat Vegas with them on your side. They do make it easier uh with Pro Football Games coming up this weekend. Uh so check them out BTA Sports with a code ATZ14 or the link in our descriptions there uh for that free trial. So JT, I will send you to the chat. The question here, I’ll I’ll put up a YouTube poll here in a moment. Uh does giving Cam Ward the quote unquote green light mean of Callahan structure or just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks? What are you seeing here from the chat as far as uh this topic goes in the post Brian Callahan season? Yeah, Adam starts us off and says definitely the opposite of what Callahan was doing. Eric says seeing what sticks. Jack says mashed potatoes at the wall. I was going with personally like a spaghetti. You know, usually it’s spaghetti. It is. But yeah, mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes is messy. And maybe that’s what this is. It’s messy. I don’t know. Spaghetti is probably messier. Uh, but mashed potatoes has more velocity. This is true. Uh, let’s see. DLO says, “Throwing stuff at the wall.” Daniel says, “Opposite of Cali.” Chase says, “Seeing what sticks.” Patrick says, “It means the kids got to just go out there and play.” Anthony says, “Yes, it’s the opposite. Callahan was so freaking conservative with Levvice and now Cam.” Uh, Allan says McCoy getting the the U playbook. So, I’m assuming he’s talking about uh going back to what they did at Miami. Uh Troy says, “Throwing stuff together and hoping it sticks.” Uh Jeff says, “Throwing stuff against the wall. This could go sideways fast though.” Um kick it to the king, which I think is a very smart comment here. Doesn’t matter until Bo changes his play calling tendencies. I think that’s also a very fair element of all of this. Like Mike McCoy can have Cam do whatever he wants, but if Bohard Agree is still going to be this bad at play calling, will it matter? Very fair comment there. Um Jeffrey says they should already have an idea of what works and what doesn’t. Well, you’d be surprised, I guess. Um Brian says, “Let Ward use his legs and make plays.” Edward says, “We got to stick together.” You heard Mike with I guess he’s talking about the chat. Uh Titans Kyle says, “The opposite.” Darius says the opposite. Uh Corey says just throwing at the wall. Uh opposite of Cali. Curtis says throwing stuff at the wall. Christopher opposite of Callahan giving him more opportunities. Opening up the playbook. So a lot a lot of difference. 50-50 split. If I had to using my quick math and remembering all the comments, it felt close to 5050 there. Okay. So, I just started the YouTube poll because my Exfinity situation of being having work done in my area uh logged me out of Facebook on my desktop. So, I had to get back in as a toz to appropriately set up YouTube poll. So, that’s that’s fresh. So, I think because Brian Callahan since Cam Ward was drafted also said, “We’re trying to do the same stuff that worked at Miami.” and Cam said the same things that well hey what’s the difference is it’s kind of the same it’s the same stuff just named differently and so my answer is going to be throwing stuff at the wall because I don’t like as a comment came in uh Daniel Caribbean says he can’t rewrite the playbook right now so McCoy just has to be a leader of men and get this team improving I agree overall with this comment I think in the context of our question of giving Cam the green light. I think you’re just trying to be more experimental and being okay with not like the only way you can have a failed experiment is if you didn’t find out an answer. So if the answer to the experiment is that didn’t work, then okay, great. Move on to the next thing, right? Like like it’s okay if it if it didn’t work. Find out what will work or what doesn’t work and do more of what does work and stop doing what didn’t work and keep on trying until you’re throwing just stuff out there. Whether it’s spaghetti, mashed potatoes, the green beans, the mac and cheese, whatever it is, just throw it. Keep throwing until something does stick on the wall. Yeah. And to somebody’s point there, if you keep doing that, Titan Up says that wall’s going to smell bad. But hey, at least he tried. Uh I I agree. that there and like I do think that there is a lot more in this playbook that Cam Ward knows and was installed with him and yet this coaching staff potentially didn’t think he was either ready for it or could handle it through six games because of what we saw with the his footwork issues with the, you know, inability to get the ball out fast, the inability to kind pull that trigger and try to make that throw that you could see and I’m with you ultimately that obviously it’s it would be bad to go I I think it would be bad to go the opposite of of Callahan here because Cam Ward cannot if he wants to be successful in the NFL cannot play out of some sort of structure because that’s kind of what the opposite of Callahan is you know like seeing what sticks at what um throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks is kind of playing out of structure. Kind of like people are saying like go just go out there and let Cam go make plays. Like that’s never going to work. I’m sorry. Cam Ward cannot do that. Um no, nobody can. Yeah. I I it would be very hard for me to think of a quarterback who can just go out there and do that. Nobody can consistently. like you can figure stuff out. Like if it’s, you know, two-minute warning, uh, and you’re down by four, you need a touchdown. Like, of course, the best quarterbacks can go figure it out and make plays in those moments, but sustainably over week after week after week across the rest of the season. It’s just not going to happen that way. Yeah. Right. And so I I’m with it that it’s it’s kind of throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks because I do think that if you don’t at least try it, you’re never going to know. And I think you have to kind of give Cam a little bit more freedom here because if you keep trying to push him into like keep trying to push this square uh Cam Ward Peg into the round hole of trying to operate consistently and often uh as they wanted him to. I think it’s going to continue to kind of uh ruin his confidence and kind of go the opposite way of what you want things to do. So I I I think you you want to just give him the opportunity to maybe do what feels comfortable to him, try some other things out. And even Mike McCoy in that in that comment said that it could look different from week to week. So I think there is going to be a lot of testing things out, finding what Cam is comfortable with because ultimately Mike McCoy is right. The last 11 weeks or 12 weeks, 11 games has to be about the players and not the plays. This is going to be a totally different playbook with whoever comes in, clean out this this staff and do whatever they they do to get the next head coach in here. But ultimately, right now, it’s on the development of a lot of these young guys. Cam Ward, it’s on the development of Ela Manor fixing his drop issues, working on his route concept, those types of things. It’s on the development of JC Laam getting back in there. It’s on the development of Gunner Helm potentially getting more snaps here. It’s on the development of the defense getting tore sweat back. Hopefully, obviously, we I don’t think we’ll have time to talk about this, but it’s kind of a big blow that Feio is on IR now. The guy who needed the most development and the most time is going to take even longer now. Um, so that’s unfortunate coming off of maybe his best showing before he got hurt. And like I said, like, yeah, maybe it was his best showing against the Swiss cheese offensive line of the Raiders, but progress is progress, you know, like that that is good. Um, but yeah, the development of Kevin Winston, Cedric Gray, all these guys, it’s going to be about the players and getting them to play up to their best potential inside the structure because they have not done that yet. So, yeah. And so, I want to get to Pastor Raymond says, “Coaches have to stop being scheme stubborn. Shape your scheme around players, not force players in your scheme.” Like, like, yes. Like, everybody agrees. And Brian Callahan said that for the last however many months like he like at the go back to the NFL combine and I don’t know if I can’t pull up the clip. I won’t be able to find it in time and get it loaded quick enough for it to work here. But he was literally asked at the combine when again preor Sanders draft stock falling off a cliff. He was asked basically do you go with uh scheme fit or talent? And the answer because that’s scheme fit shador Sanders talent cam ward right is structure shador talent cam and the answer was you never sacrifice I’m paraphrasing you never sacrifice talent to fit the scheme and so that was Callahan now Mike McCoy saying that every coach will say that now you go pick the players that you think best fits how you think your football team can win right but once you have the players, you are game planning for what they do well. And so that’s a fair comment from Pastor Raymond. You’re right. But I think that’s that’s been the whole goal here. It just the execution’s been bad. Why has the execution been bad? Because the play calling hasn’t been consistently good. The offensive line hasn’t been consistently good. Neither has the quarterback play. Neither has the pass catchers. And the wide receivers are not doing what they need to do because talent’s not there. Yes. Every like one thing goes wrong on just about every play that means it falls flat. Yeah. Cam Cam Ward can have all the talent in the world, but I I think you heard this from Mike McCoy yesterday or Mike Porzi, someone. Um there’s a 10 other guys on the field that need to be doing their job better as well. Like if those guys can play better at a consistent level, uh you’re going to hopefully see a lot of these other things work. Each unit, running backs, quarterback, offensive line, tight ends, wide receivers, all those units have been not good enough. Now, individually, there have been good efforts and good plays, but at the at the on the same time that like Tony Pard has been really good, but he’s also fumbled twice. That’s really hurt, too. Like, you know, outside of that, like Chig has been pretty good. He’s, you know, not been perfect. He’s gotten like bullied in some pass protection situations at times that have hurt on those plays, but over that he’s been net positive. So, it’s just you go up and down the offensive roster and the defensive roster for that matter, you find out that sometimes guys make big plays, but one of their teammates shoots them in the foot, right? Sack gets made, face mask. You get a third down stop, lined up in the neutral zone. What do you know? Another third down stop, illegal contact by Armor Davis down the field. All it takes is one person to mess up the entire play. And that’s what this Tit Titans team is doing at a crazy level, a crazy high level. One thing blows up the whole play. Uh, so look there, there’s a lot of issues going on, but um, I’m going to get to the YouTube poll update that. So, does giving Cam Ward the green light mean dot dot dot a the opposite of Callahan structure or b throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks? currently 54% throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks um is the answer on that. So, uh I apologize if my connection isn’t the cleanest. Exfinity is doing maintenance in my area that I found that out like three minutes after we started the show. So, that’s that’s great. Um a couple other comments I wanted to get to here and we have a Jeffrey Simmons topic we will we will discuss here momentarily. Uh but first, we’ll tell you guys about our friends at the Barton Jury Insurance Group. Customized solutions for all of your insurance needs. bartendingjury.com. That’s where you should go. 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It’s not as bad as it seems, but it just every one thing breaks every play that makes it really, really bad um overall. So, uh I want to get to a super chat and then uh I have another follow-up question to the Mike McCoy topic of things. Hub says, “Uh, the answer is simplify the playbook shortterm, get with Cam to find what plays make him comfy, and give him easy answers while working on mechanics.” It’s a very good, clean comment from Hub right there. Simplify the playbook shortterm, find what he likes to make him comfortable, which McCoy talked about, and then give him easy answers to the test while working on his mechanics long term. So what what you don’t want to do with any type of testing or development is test too many variables at once. So the working on mechanics while you’re doing these things in season is a really tough task because now you’re thinking too much and you’re not you’re simplifying now gets more complicated because you’re thinking too much. So I wanted to kind of use this to branch out and a ask the question because Mike McCoy said find out what Cam does well, what he likes and do more of it. What does Cam do well? What do we think Cam Ward likes as far as play style, play calling? I I want to hear uh JT your thoughts, but also keeping an eye on the chat as well. So, like what do we think what actual changes and adjustments can Mike McCoy make that we’re kind of trying to figure out what can look different? Yeah. Well, first of all, I think it’s getting Cam earlier past success. We’ve seen on their a lot of their drives, they start out pretty runheavy. And I think for Cam right now, obviously their idea was to establish the run first to then set up Cam to be very uh very, you know, easier on him in terms of the pressure I in the long term in the passing game. I think there needs to be more passing game early to then have the run take some of that pressure off later. um which is kind of inverse but and probably not the right way to do it in the long term but like right now Cam Ward when he gets into that pocket no matter what the situation is he’s drifting his footwork looks bad he’s not trusting what he sees downfield like you need to get him that early success to build that confidence because we do see that confidence end up happening down the you know during the late stretch of the game when they start playing a little bit more shell soft coverage. Yeah. Then he starts getting the easy throws and he starts to make throws better and feel more comfortable. And obviously you’re not going to get that type of coverage early in the game. But if he starts making those completions earlier on, I think you can then have him settle in and not be drifting and not be as afraid in the pocket as he has looked the past couple of weeks. And I think also there’s been a lot of questions and rightfully so about RPO, play action, those types of things that get him on the move. Obviously, the wide receivers also have to do their part on those by creating a lot more separation because the separation that they’re getting right now on those design rollouts and boots is not there. and Cam is still even on the things that he likes to do, which is going outside of the pocket, he’s not executing on because the the wide receivers aren’t simply there. Um, and so I think you need to simplify that, get him going earlier at the sacrifice of maybe establishing the run a little bit. Yeah. So, the chat mostly agrees with you. I’ve seen a lot of people saying um play action uh some rollouts moving him. I like I think what you what you’re say I agree with what you’re saying. Here’s the problem with the Titans. There’s always a Yeah, but because if you try to throw early, yeah, but one incomp completion puts you in second and 10 and then you’re really likely to face third and eight and then you’re toast or worse, right? Or what if you Yeah, but he’s taken some sacks and early downs and now you’re in second and 15 and now you’re screwed. Um, right. like or a drop happens and now you’re behind the sticks. So like running the football allows you to stay out of third and long more often than you have been. So that’s why I think you they did that uh you know earlier on in the season. And then I see uh Titanup 2 says faster pace on offense, more uptempo like yeah like I think Cam likes that. Cam’s told us he likes that. Cam’s also told us that he likes real grass and not turf. Tough. you’re gonna have turf in that new stadium for the rest of your Titans career at home games, right? So, but here’s the thing about that. Like, yeah, you can go up tempo all you want, but what do we always talk about the defense? The damn breaks in the second half. They play really, really good until the damn breaks. Why the damn break? Because they’re on the field for so many minutes. Well, if you just run up tempo and all you do is go three and out faster than the defense is right back out there on the field. So it’s that again the problem that Roger brought up of I describing every bad team ever is yeah I do because every time you think you can say this might be good for Cam. Yeah but that’s going to hang something else out to dry and now if you run up tempo you don’t convert. You’re in third and long. You’re punting faster. Your defense is out there playing well early. They the damn breaks. Now you’re down by two scores. Now you got to throw. Now the defense is pinning their ears back. now you’re getting sacked six times a game. It’s just like that’s the slippery slope this entire offense is. But I I do agree the idea is roll him out earlier, get him moving, putting the defense in conflict. And you know, I I think that’s kind of the best answer that we have here right now. Yeah. Yeah. It’s once again it goes back to that idea of they’re not going to know unless they try. And that’s why we ultimately came to the answer of we’re gonna they’re gonna throw stuff against the wall and see what sticks with Cam Ward because at this point you got to try other things because I I don’t think that you you got to have a more player focused approach and I don’t think Mike McCoy and this offensive staff can continue to try to run what they were doing and kind of go back to basics. And so that that includes trying everything and everything. So yeah, uh NB says the O line will likely get more penalties during tempo too. Yeah, because now there’s more likeliness for false starts. There’s more likeliness for uh some illegal procedure type stuff for illegal motion. And then Jack says you can’t run uptempo if you can’t get a first down. And I think when you see uptempo, especially in college where it’s more prevalent, uptempo happens after you convert your first first down of the drive, right? You get that first first down, go. And that’s something I’m okay with, but so many times they can’t get that first first down and you’re just punting all all. I do like there was there Yeah, there was also um Keeland says try the pistol like Atlanta. I do think the one thing that they have not done a lot of that Cam did in Miami is run play action in a lot of their offense out of shotgun. I I think that’s also a thing. you might see a lot more shotgun from uh from him getting him out outside underneath center at least which I think whether it’s pistol or shotgun or anything like that like getting him out so that the quick passing game can happen a lot faster and make that defense think just for that split second more I think you could see that work as well. Uh this is from Albert Brers. Talk about Mike McCoy on the right side of this the top paragraphs. Uh McCoyy’s experience with quarterbacks is varied. Pure pocket passers like Pton Manning, Philip Rivers, true option like Tim Tibo, improviser like Jake Delhomme. Uh remove Jake Delhomme. The first three guys uh there don’t have a lot in common. Pton Manning, Philip Rivers, Tim Tibo are very three different quarterbacks, but they do have one thing in common. Shotgun. Yeah. Right. Jake Delhomme. That was back, you know, in the early mid 2000s where shotgun was not what it is today. But you at least I think that’s a good point is is shotgun pistol. Uh that allows Cam’s eyes to stay up and forward when he’s doing uh play action. Um it might look more like RPOS’s even though I don’t know if it is or not. It doesn’t necessarily mean it is an RPO if it’s a play action from the shotgun uh overall. But um uh Hub has some more super chats. play chig in the slot over locket helmet wide. Sure, works for me, man. Yeah, works for me. Uh, hub also says, “RPOS’s in quick game. Keep everything five to 10 yards to draw the defense up and set up shots. Take your two-minute offense and make that the standard.” I mean, I Yeah, I think Cam does better in those situations and with that script, but that script hurts other things kind of like we’ve talked about. Um, all right. Let’s uh let’s JT, let’s go ahead and get to our our next topic here. And this is something that I want to talk about because I think it’s a I think this is a good deal. The situation between Jeffrey Simmons and JC Laam. So JT, I’m going to throw in the chat right now. uh what are your thoughts on the reported J Jeffrey Simmons JC Laam practice situation from last week? And so we’ll get to that here in a second here from Mike McCoy and his thoughts on the matter as well. But let me tell you guys about our friends at Windendonation. Windonation.com, that’s the website. 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Use that code in the uh when you download the app or just use the the link in the description or right below the Facebook title to get uh a 14-day free trial before a weekly subscription of $9.99. Uh smart bets, no guesswork. BTA, better for betterers. All right, JT, we’re gonna hear from Mike McCoy. We asked people, “What are your thoughts on the Jeffrey Simmons JC Laam situation from practice last week that was reported by M Mike Silver, the Athletic?” Uh, here is Tron Davenport asking Mike McCoy uh yesterday about Jeffrey in that situation from last week. I mean, what are your thoughts on on those comments? Well, your opponents can say what they what they want to say. Um I I don’t I don’t agree with it to be honest with you. Um I think if you look at how we’ve practiced, our players work their tails off. Uh they they work extremely hard every day. Okay. In the situation last week where the first couple plays of period, uh not we want to know, but I love the fact that at practice somebody stood up and said, “Start it over. this is not good enough. You know, we got to fix this. This is not acceptable. And there’s a certain standard you have to have. And that’s like I mentioned Jeff earlier that that’s I love that that he you know, it’s like I talked about that that’s the accountability factor. if he wants to he wants to win so bad. You know, he’s a great example to look at from any player on this football team and say if we all play if we all work as hard on a daily basis and go out there and play the way he is playing on Sundays, great things are going to happen for this organization. So I I you know I understand the frustration. Um but so so there’s Matt McCoy. So the the situation from Mike Silver the Athletic was that last Thursday the practice that Jeffrey Simmons said they started out flat. Uh Jeff said that or Mike Silver reported that um he went at JC Jeff went at JC Laam to challenge JC Leam said the last 10 reps I’ve been watching you that’s not what we need. We need more from you. And then Mike McCoy adds the extra context there that you just heard. I I want to know what people think about this because I I’ll start because I’ve been very hard on Jeffrey Simmons and what I’ve been viewed of his uh lack of leadership. This is the best level of reported leadership that we have heard from Jeffrey Simmons. This is that good stuff. It’s not a bad thing. I don’t A lot of people I’m expecting to say JC bad look man. I don’t think that is a bad look on JC Laam. I just think it was a slower start to a practice and that happens. And JC Laam was practicing. Look, he was out for what, four weeks with a hip situation. And he practiced for the first time on Wednesday. And so we’re talking about Thursday’s practice. So JC Laam was back on his on day two after first day back after missing a month of practice. Like are you expecting JC Laam to be just ready to go? No, but I like the fact that Jeff is pushing him. Like I think this is a great situation overall and it should not be a negative on JC Laam. I honestly don’t think it should be a negative on Brian Callahan at all. I think the fact that that Brian Callahan has empowered Jeffrey Simmons to do that in a practice to have a player say nope started over. That’s good. All up and down. I like that. It’s not a negative whatsoever, but it was being viewed as a bad thing on Brian Callahan, like bad practices don’t happen at any point of the year. So, that’s my thoughts on it. I don’t know if you see any comments from the chat or if you want to uh hit your own, JT. Yeah, I I I think I mean, you heard from both McCoy in that answer a little bit and Mike Borgonzi on Tuesday night or Monday night um that it’s not those practices happen. So, I don’t think that was that as big of a deal. But Kevin says, “Good on, Jeff. Calling out guys not working hard enough or just at least not bringing the type of attitude and in energy that you need to when you’re coming off a win like that.” Hub said, “Finally, someone stepping up and holding the team accountable.” Bour says, uh, Jeff was clearly right. Um, a lot of people saying that they ju just both should be traded. Pastor says, “I love it. be big Jeff being a captain. Uh Stephen says Jeff Simmons was right to call him out. Uh Curtis says Jeff called him out and Laam still got his butt kicked in that game there. Yeah, that’s because Max Crosby’s really freaking good and Jason Laam is a secondyear player in his first game back from injury. So yeah, I I think listen, I think it is really really good for Jeff to do this because and and this is to get to the bigger point of why I don’t think Jeffrey Simmons should be traded or or will be because if he’s doing that in that moment after a win, I’m imag I I just want to imagine and ultimately it’s hard for us to know if this happens in practices Because a little inside baseball, the the guys the boots on the ground media that are there Monday through Friday don’t get to watch much of practices during the during the the year. We get to see the warm-ups and we get to see individual, but nothing like that where you see JC Laam and Jeffrey Simmons going at it. So, I imagine that that type of leadership and that type of drive and that Jeffrey Simmons is displaying is going to be invaluable for this team for the next 11 games. And I think that for the young guys, for him to finally show up in this moment when the team is, we keep saying it every week, but like at rock rock bottom. I I think that’s more invaluable than the Jeffrey Simmons and a fourth for a third pick swap that you’re going to get ultimately from a trade. Yeah. Uh for sure. So, uh I think Vanessa had something about like why why isn’t the coach doing this? Why aren’t the coach Why didn’t the coach stop practice like this? Because the best football teams, the best teams in any sport, the best organizations are run by not the top people. Like the culture is created by the top and the culture is run and managed and operating by the people that are in it, by the players. And so if I were if I were, you know, what I love as a leader manager of our company is when I see something done that needed to be done and I had nothing to do with it. Hell yeah. That’s what I’m talking about, right? Because it works better. If it comes from somebody else, then it it it it holds a lot of weight, right? Like I think that’s what the whole point is is that Jeffrey Simmons is doing exactly what the coaches want him to do as a fivetime captain of this football team. That’s his job to do. Player le teams work best at and part of the part of the reason why this team does not have player leadership or enough of it right now is because it wasn’t developed over the last couple of years of Mike Vrabel’s tenure. When you lost some of those big veterans that you won a lot of games with and Vrabel became the leader, then you did not develop and help polish up leadership skills within the veterans that were the next group, you know. Yeah. I mean, because I mean, Harold Landry was not much of a leader. Ammani Hooker, you know, is a captain, but not an outwardly spoken leader. Ammani Hooker should have been working on this path over the last two to three years because Kevin Bard was the guy, right? So after Bard’s gone, Hooker should have been groomed and developed to be a leader now, but it wasn’t happening. Yeah. You mean, same thing you could do with with uh Roger Mccur? A lot of these guys, it just never happened. And also, it should have happened more with Jeff and better with Jeff. It’s it’s taken Jeff a couple years to get to this point. It’s also hard when all of your players from those draft classes are basically out of the league. Yeah. You can’t you can’t make leaders if they don’t stick around for more than a year and a half playing. So, you gota be good. Yes, fair enough. Good point. Yeah. How about And Nick Nick asked, “How about leg? He has now officially played more games this season than he did last season for the Knights. He wasn’t around.” Yeah, you can’t lead being injured, you know, like mute myself. Injured, injured. Um, so it’s just and there’s a difference in being a leader and being a hype man. Like I think Jeffrey Simmons is making his transition officially from a hype man to a leader. And I think that’s where I wanted to see more from Jeff. And I and to to his credit, he’s doing it. and I respect it. I’ve been hard on Jeff. I’ve been calling him out for a while. The penalties have stopped for the moment. His play has continued to increase and his leadership has also continued to increase. Those are all great things for this organization and he will not be traded. Yeah. I mean, at this point, I think the trade would have to be like a first plus for Jeff and nobody’s going to do that for because of where he is at his age and whatnot. Um, but yeah, you’re getting this type of production and this type of leadership when you are at the rock bottom. Yeah, I think that it’s pretty important to keep him around. No doubt. No doubt at all. All right. Hey, Darren says, “I’m proud of both Jeff and Austin.” There you go. Look, I’m I’m not I’m open to the changing of of things, right? Uh, let me just double check. All right. No more super chats uh that I see. It is now time for us to do trivia if I can. I was not prepared ahead of time like I normally am. Uh but let’s uh hopefully my uh my phone hotspot. Oh, you’ve been on your phone hotspot this entire time. This entire time I’ve been on my phone hotspot because uh Exfinity texted me four minutes after the show started and said, “We’re working on improving uh Queen of Trivia Anne H. turned and says, “Let’s go.” She’s ready. So, all right. Uh hopefully, uh my hot spot will continue to hold up and let’s do some trivia. First, shout out to Wilson County Hyundai. Wilson County Hyundai.com. That’s where to go. Make them a part of your new car buying process. Team 11, Wilson County Hyundai. Okay, JT. I’m going to share my screen. Uh let’s see if this can work smoothly. Here we go. How we do? All right. There. No bad. Okay. All right. Yeah, I’m I’m looking fuzzy right now. Okay. Let’s go quickly here. NFL for our trivia. Uh, who caught the most touchdown passes from Curt Warner during during his NFL career? My guess is Tory Holt. Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, it has to be, right? Oh, wow. uh host to multiple UFC events following the COVID pandemic. Yas Island aka Fight Island is located in what? In what country? Um probably the UAE. Yeah, I was that. Yeah, something like that. United Dubai Arab area. All right. TV. Currently starring as Ed Gins on Netflix monster. Charlie Hunm played Jax Teller on this FX series. I have no idea. Jack’s Teller. Who is Jack’s Teller? What’s I have no idea what I don’t know any of these characters. Sons of Anarchy. Go Sons of Anarchy. Let’s do that. All right. Movies. Johnny Depp and Benio Del Toro starred in this 1998 dark comedy adventure film that was based on Hunter S. Thompson novel. H I don’t know. Um, I’m not a big novel person. Fear and Loathing. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Never heard of it. Well, there it is. Music. This rapper had popular albums in the 2010s with Acid Rap, Coloring Book, and had been featured on hit songs like Justin Bieber’s Holy and DJ Khaled’s I’m the one. Uh h I don’t know. Holy the rapper. That sounds right. Yeah, cuz coloring book. Yeah. Okay. Uh grocery products. Everyone Everybody doesn’t like something but nobody doesn’t like is a partial slogan for the slice of bread brand named after a woman. Named after a woman. Everybody doesn’t like something but nobody doesn’t like what Sarah Lee. It’s got to be Sarah Lee because that’s the only that’s the only Yeah. MLB the San Francisco Giants defeated this team in the NLCS in both 2012 and 2014. Oh, uh St. Louis, the Reds or I’m sorry, the Cardinals. I I’m gonna wait for the chat, but that’s I believe that’s who it was on the way to who they beat their titles. Uh yeah, yeah, it’s the Cardinals NBA. CJ McColl and Chris Middleton and Marvin Bad really are currently on what Eastern Conference team? Um the Bucks. The Is Matt Is Middleton still on the Yeah. I think it’s I think it’s bucks. Hold on. Oh, well, hold on. Hold on. We’re getting Sorry. I I Wizards. Wizards. Okay. Yep. H Oh, that’s uh Who is that? That’s uh what’s his name? This looks like crap. Adam something. And first of all, yeah. Oh, Adam. Adam Scott. Adam Scott. Yes. Use double dip. And we’re going to go with NFL or NBA. NBA. Because we know it’s the Wizards. We don’t know for sure what the Curt Warner answer is. Okay. Okay. Curt Warner. 27%. So, yeah, that was the hardest one of the day. That’s crazy. Larry Fitzgerald. Larry Fitzgerald. H. All right. I didn’t think it was gonna be long enough for him in Arizona to do that, but hey, I guess it is. All right, that’s it for us. Make sure you hit that like button, like the show before you go. That goes a long way for us. We’ll catch you guys tomorrow on a Thursday morning and Buck Rising back live tonight for AD to Esports Prime Time at 7. Appreciate it as always.

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