This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau health plans far Bureau health plans has been serving members and protecting their health for 76 years learned about our Tennessee roots at fbhp.com From the bet MGM studio at Ascension st. Thomas Sports Park with Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith special guest Yes special guest alert. Yes former Titan special special Former Titan's sixth round pick. Yeah Jason McCordy now of NFL Network. We can't really do the whole reference to your Patriots days Yeah, that's a little tough for us involves my brother. I don't like talking about him. He gets annoying Yeah, too much so that's part of being on that team in the Northeast They just get a lot of attention that did work out pretty well for you, too It wasn't bad. It wasn't bad a little hardware to go So it was it was you get a chance to play with your twin brother like you can't beat that So those three seasons were pretty pretty incredible and now NFL Network. Yes Good morning football a lot smaller of a locker room. Just as much fun A lot less taxing on my body Mentally, I get to use all of that stuff. But yeah, good morning football NFL Network. It's been a lot of fun It's been a huge learning curve to though of just being thrown into the fire and having to pick up but you came in at the same point with the host Jamie Erdahl and It feels like the chemistry clicked right away because the two new kids came in with the two old kids and Because you had somebody to bond with over the newness of the experience It never appeared that you were a fish out of water. No doubt about it Me and Jamie will complain to one another about Peter and Kyle Just go to each other like can you believe this but no Jamie's awesome And I think we just celebrated this past Tuesday the 25th was our one-year anniversary Since starting the show and I remember I met Jamie. It was the month before the end of June We did a little audition down and NFL films in Mount Laurel, New Jersey and that was the first time She had already got the job. I was kind of figure my way out and see if they were gonna hire me And from that point on we went on a week before we started on the show hung out a little bit And it's been awesome. I think to your point You're both starting a new endeavor Jamie was doing sideline reporting for CBS So now she's coming in studio on a three-hour show. I just walked off to football field So this is a brand new experience and Jamie became my buddy because there were a lot of TV terms that I didn't know I'm being thrust into fine. No football. I'd be like Jamie What does that mean? What's a line producer? Wait, why do we have 18 producers on one show? So it was really cool being able to start together and kind of go through that experience with each other Let me back up one second. How did you even get in the mix for good morning football? So last April I finished the 2021 season I ended up doing a Liz Frank on my foot Don't know whether I'm a player or not NFL Network does a broadcast bootcamp out at LA at the headquarters there and I go out there It's about a two three day experience and you you learn and do everything and there's CBS is there NBC Fox NFL network Amazon Everybody's there and you're talking to some of the producers and people have done this for a ton of years And you go there in the first day you learn about what's it like to be on the radio to do a podcast to call a game for TV radio Be in the studio and a very last day of the experience.  We're hanging out the whole time a year months later We're both I caught some Thursday night games for Westwood one radio And he obviously was doing Thursday night football for Amazon and we're sitting there on the sideline before the game We're like just think about that back in April. We were out here doing a boot camp now Here we are both transitioned into the media and doing our thing and from there I left that boot camp and I had an opportunity to work with Westwood one to call games on the radio The audition for good morning football and there was something else with CBS sports network that just didn't come to fruition But three opportunities and I was like do I still want to play and I was just like I got an opportunity for life after football. I'm gonna go ahead and take it and save my body to rest So it's been it's been a really good transition That's unbelievable that you were able to Have that experience be able to get in a room where you're learning all those skills And then get the opportunity so quickly to use them. Did you ever have a moment where you felt like This is I mean this is a live three hour show where you're being asked to do everything You're not just calling a game. You're not just Doing an interview. You're doing all kinds of different stuff. Did you ever feel like okay? What am I doing? Why am I here the whole time? I'll give you the game part first So my first game ever was cleveland browns game in cleveland against the pizburg stealers Thursday night football And I get the email from Howard dinner off who works for westwood one And it says that I'll be calling the game with iron eagle So my initial reaction is just like they're going to let me Call a game with I've never called a game in my life I've done a audition for a half or a quarter and they're about to let me call this game with iron eagle So the weeks days leading up to that game I was just so nervous because you don't know what to expect and something that helped is The week before the game I called The vikings were playing philly monday night football kevin harland and kurt warner do the games for westwood one I went there for a half and just watched them. I just sat in a booth and just watched the way they interacted the things They said the whole nine and that was really cool. I'm a guy that learns from being able to watch so Seeing them and then listening to other people call games helped a lot But with good morning football It was just being there every single day you learn so fast But I would watch the other three we'd have guests come on and the part where we start talking about the game That's easy for me. I've sat in meetings for 13 years But then when you bring a guest on and you got to start asking them questions Or now that you're in the teleprompter and you're reading and you're sitting up, right? And you're trying not to fumble on any of the words, but you also want to seem natural You don't want to look in the teleprompter and just read line by line So those were the parts where like I'd get really nervous before the show I'd have my script in front I'd read everything that I had in a prompter to try to memorize some of it to kind of build that That comfort level so it's it's come a long way in one year So I'm just excited about I think I got in not knowing how passionate I was going to be Now I follow all the people that talk about sports media and all of that And now there's a legit passion to want to get better at it. You're you're a full on media member now it happened But we've got to go back to calling the game because it just occurred to me How many games have you actually? Listen to on the radio or watch an entire broadcast because think about it high school You're playing football college. You're playing football NFL you're playing football This is a great point You're not hearing the broadcast because if you're watching film of somebody you're not getting the broadcast You're not watching for enjoyment. You're not listening because you're curious about a game because you've got your own game You're preparing for so you didn't have maybe the cadence of what a broadcast would be in your head already, right? No, not at all and I'd watch a ton of football I've watched my brother play But I'd be lying if I said I was listening and hanging on to every word that iron eagle and charles day was Was saying or what jim dance was saying on this one? Like you're just watching the game and i'm watching the db's or what the offense did or what the defense did and Radio never until I got the job. I was like, well, I need to go listen to a radio broadcast and see And sees what it sounds like I knew touchdown Titans I knew that part though. Thank you. So, you know To that point because you got to be in the car on a sunday. I'd be parked in front of the tv But that's not me even if you knew what I did That's the play by play. That's not No doubt about it. I wonder in some ways if it's not almost better Because you didn't have a preconceived notion of what that job is So that's the way I took it even for the good morning football I will I watched good morning football But never the way that you need to watch it as you're preparing to go on it And I thought about going back and watching Nate burleson who sat in my seat before who obviously is Amazing he's on cbs now and I was like, well, I don't want to do that I said because if I do that I'm gonna have in my brain already the things Nate says how he goes about it And I don't want to be Nate. I want to make sure when I sit in that seat I'm my own person So to your point when I was kind of studying getting ready for it I wanted to listen and pay attention more to When do I talk like that was the biggest thing for me? We're doing radio and I remember when I did my audition at the boot camp There was a touchdown There was a two minute drill and the guys are over there dancing and they're having fun And I didn't let the play by play guy finish saying what happened because I was so excited of what just happened on the field So learning that cadence of like it's okay When Mike Keith stop talk stops talking I can give it a breath before I say all right on this play x y and z happened Just to make sure he's done and the other part on the other end is shutting up Where I may have this great point to make and they just broke they walked They broke the huddle and they're walking to the line of scrimmage I have to let him set the play up and be able to tell people especially if it's the radio because They can't see what's going on now next You know there's a whole play happening and they have no idea what just happened So you have to let the play by play guy do a thing Jason McCordy will now expand his repertoire On CBS you'll be calling games on sunday You're with chris lewis and you have a third partner right ross tucker ross tucker who's a good guy Um, how have you been preparing to take on that role? I'm still figuring that out So the way I've gone about uh, robbie who works in our pr department. He connected me with charles davis So I was with charles out in la we had a nfl network talent summit So I just peppered him with questions for 10 minutes I had already had my document filled out of everything I wanted to ask him I just had a conversation with the partner ross tucker for about 20 minutes of asking him a ton of questions So that's how i'm preparing obviously the the easy part is the watching film part You're watching football and you're learning especially the college part because I've been in nfl for the past 13 years So going back watching and the names part is going to be the the toughest thing I'm figuring out all the names the nfl isn't as hard because I talk about it every single day All of the guys and then from playing you know more than just the superstars and you pride yourself on that So that's been my preparation. So you guys are also going to do some college. Yeah Where are you going to do that? It'll be some big team game. So still figuring all out. I didn't know that. I'm sorry. I apologize No, no, so it's it's been a ton of fun of of excitement But very nervous of seeing how it's going to be calling the game for a radio Someone's listening, you know, mike someone's listening. They can't see the game So it's up to you to be extremely descriptive and set the scene for them Well now when you call the game on the tv somebody's watching it and your producer dials up a replay And he's showing how the offensive line made a great pull block But on the play I was looking at the corner covering I can't talk about the corner what he just did when the people at home are watching the offensive line And so those are the tricks of the trade that i'm going to really have to learn and I think the one good thing is having other people in it You can learn and ask them questions as long as you're able to humble yourself And realize you're not the best thing to step in the booth since they created football How much does your Skill set which I think it really is a skill set of preparing for games help you now Preparing for shows or games or whatever you're obviously looking at very different things But you'd think that kind of the routine is the same, right? Yeah, very much so when you're watching film you're not just looking at the ball But you're looking at all 22 players on the field and seeing what they're doing And not only the film part just my 13 years in the league and I always joke with my brother He spent all 13 years in New England Belichick was his head coach and it was more or less the same system Fortunately for me now as you transition I've played for probably eight different head coaches four or five different general managers So you get the perspective of so many different people that now when you watch football I think a little bit about what dick Lebow used to teach me in the defensive meeting room But then I go to what bill belichick said oh, then I had greg williams in Cleveland so you have all of these personalities and different ways they go about things that are all In your head that when you see a play you think about a million different things that you can talk about on that one play Well, you've been through it.  You can reference In your memory something At any level of football and say well, I've sort of been through this. Here's what's happening there. I mean What a library you have that's the fun part my last year in miami was my 13th year I'm 34. We had drafted a kid javon holland there who's a rookie. He was born in 2000 like literally that's the age difference And you're sitting there and when you become older as a vet to your point It's all about storytelling.  Is he okay? And they were like they were like no, those are the red contacts you can get I was like well We didn't have those at ruckers. So I never So just the ability to be able to tell a story about something that a guy might be going through And it's just like well, what you're going through somebody else has already gone through Whether it's on the football field dealing with Management contract coaches or whether it's in your personal life dealing with a significant other Welcome in a new baby or something of that nature You can give a guy advice whether you experience it or you know somebody that experiences that goes a long way This is the otp with jason mccordy former titan great and now part of nfl network and cbs sports You're on cbs. I believe that's crazy. That's the tiffani network. What's wrong with these people? I don't know what they see that's what I tell charles We went to college together and I said oh, and so when I saw that come out this week that that whole rundown Of all the different teams. I said charles you're on cbs You're on the tiffani network. He goes. I know crazy, right? Anyway, I gotta read this Open a titans checking account for pentacle with at least 100 dollars at a reoccurring direct deposit by august the 18th And you could get two tickets to five titans home games. Can that be right? Am I reading you're reading tickets to five titans home games Details at titans banking.com titans checking from pentacle play hard bank easy member fdic What time does your day start jason mccordy? 440 the alarm goes off 440 and did they send a car for you they send a car for me. So no complaints. I'm not complaining with time I wake up as early. I've gotten used to it. I'm out the door probably by 5 15 Get to the studio around 6 a.m. We're on air at 7 is go time We finish the show jump in the car. I'm home by 11 a.m So, you know why they do the cars that right? No Just to make sure that getting through traffic and that somebody's picked up on time And there's constant communication When you work the morning show in radio the overnight guy would give you a call to get you up Now sometimes you didn't get up Well, yeah, because you would a big problem But in this way with television, they make sure you're there That's not because jason mccordy demanded a car I did but no But to your point when you get picked up the driver sends a message to dispatch that you've been picked up One morning. I had a different driver. He never sent that message next to you know, they're calling them I'm like, where are you right? I'm just like no wrong schedule. We're up But you have to to that point of making sure you're there on time But obviously some somebody has to go on air. So wrong time in makeup You know what? It's a beautiful thing being bald.  So and you don't get a clothing budget I get I get somewhat of a clothing budget, but I'm so stylish Mike that they just said just Just bring your own stuff in, you know, and you're just impress us with what you got You are Great stuff You always wore great shoes and you were one of the stylish guys on the plane I know but I mean it was well now I see Kevin Byer and Derek Henry And these guys are runway models with some of the stuff that they're putting on It's a whole different world now. I mean, it's it's fashion central here at the tennessee titans We've really upped our game in a variety of ways. Derek's clothes wouldn't fit me. Some of those alphas. They're so tight So I know it's a totally different ball game now But some guys, I mean, you know people are clothes horses. They're they're they they love it and that's what they're into Some people love watching.  I like shoes It's a it's a great thing. Um The the different things they throw at you on good morning football The different topics The one morning they had you sing. I remember Please um, there's not gonna be a clip. No, no, we don't have a clip, but it was we can find it was fantastic You got jamie urdall laughing so hard She basically couldn't finish the rest. I'm just happy you said it was fantastic. It was fantastic My wife did not share it all said It was great. Okay, but I mean you do some goofy stuff You do some hardcore football. You do a lot of things in the middle. You talk fantasy I mean, is that one of the allures of of doing the show I don't even know. I I knew the extent of the things we were going to be doing. Um, what I love about it is It's an opportunity to not be too cool for school me singing on national television is horrible as a voice as I have But being able to laugh through it and kind of make fun of yourself Is just awesome and like you said the laughs that we share on that show are genuine because it's all live There's nothing that's tape. So when jamie standing behind me listening to me saying how bad it is But seeing how hard i'm going for it. She's dying laughing. We had a segment Tom pelicero was on the show this week And we were coming up with different names for past catching running backs because the game has changed so much And pelicero goes first and he comes up and he goes i'm gonna call running back swingers And from that point on yes The entire segment Went nothing to do with football That went way wrong. All I looked at was Kyle brand and I was like, I can't wait to see what you have to say about this And he continued to say he has a giant pineapple outside his door and him Here we go for a bit. So yeah that part of the show like and that's the part I think when we're playing or even for you guys when you're doing this on an everyday basis Like no, I can do more than just talk about for a while about the interest I like to laugh about things and that show allows us to do it but I when when kay and nate were there and now with you and jamie and Kyle and peter all the way through I have liked the balance of that show because that that could With with people who take the nfl as seriously as we do It could go horribly wrong if you stray too far But you have just the right amount of goofiness. Does that make sense? It definitely makes sense And we're a show that's on all year round So we're on in the off season So we have to do a star wars segment on in the off season sometime in may to just switch it up and then bring it back to football I think that's the key thing is we find ways whether we talked about our summer vacation When we were all and we're putting pictures up But we're relating them to storylines that are going on in the nfl It may not be for everybody But I think it's seven o'clock in the morning eastern time when we come on air six o'clock here So if i'm waking up and I want I may not want the x's and o's of how the tennessee titans are going to be to Houston texans this sunday and that deandre hopkins has to run and i'll like it may be like let me wake up Let me have a cup of coffee first and then you see something pop culture wise and you're cracking up laughing I think that's the part of it whether we're talking about when we go into archives with nfl films old players different things We try to keep it fresh and original last Good morning football question best in studio guests since you've been there. Oh wow We had I'll I'll go with football one right now, but we had um Who do we just have we had dalvin cook in this past week? And that was a big time for us because of everything that's gone on it's going on with him right now The visits and all of that but the football players who cares about them? We had kelly rolling come in to the studio We had babyface come into the studio. We had brett kreischer come in who's a comedian. He has a uh He calls himself the machine and does stand-up comedy His whole thing is he takes his shirt off on air So me and him are both shirtless on air the comedians and actors and different people We get come on the show like that part of it for me is really cool because they love it. They love it Eric stone street How funny they are and the whole andy reed brother That he does and then I ran into him and paul rudd in kansas city paul rudd who is ant man stone street Who is on um, I can't uh modern family has cam the whole time and i'm hanging out with them too because I met them On good morning football and it's cool for me because i'm a fan of their work So that part of it Um meeting the having guests come in that are in totally different worlds has been a lot of fun All right titan's fans. It's always game on with duncan You drink a lot of coffee in the mornings. No coffee. No coffee. Well, you should drink duncan Thanks a lot for ruining this segment Whoa, we just lost a sponsor. Okay. I loved our doughnuts though. Okay. We okay. We're back on It's always game on with duncan So grab a coffee and kick off the action whether that's drinking a cup of coffee on your way to the game or Having a doughnut with jason bachordy or grabbing one to go before watching the game at home Duncan is always there to help you get your game on Just like the pros we need to be at our best come game time Which is why duncan is the most important part of your game day ritual Because it's always the best call for football america runs on duncan Wait a minute. You're waking up in the four o'clock hour every morning and you're not consuming coffee and he has kids Yeah, and you have children and like a life What do you what does a person do in the morning if they don't drink coffee? Like that's my first stop is the coffee pot somebody slap you like john henderson used to get I probably get a foot in the face from one of the kids who had a nightmare Three gremlins got a wife. It's a lot going on, but I've never liked the taste of coffee. So nobody likes the taste of coffee I like that love coffee as long as it's for duncan See now see you go and grab your coffee. I'm gonna get myself a vanilla frosted doughnut Maybe some sprinkles on top and I'm all set. I get there's a little sugar in that But I can't coffee. I can't do like if I need if I'm absolutely dead tired I can do an energy drink or something All right, can we talk football now? Yeah, I'm sorry You're here you've seen the titans albeit briefly. Yeah anything surprise you surprise me I'll see and deandre hopkins out here is just really cool Um, I think for me hop came into houston when I was here. I I can still remember I hate to talk about this. We're playing down in houston We go into overtime they bring this rookie in and I'm like, all right He's on my side and we lose the game because I have him covered in the back of the end zone He goes up catches it up top gets his feet in and you that playing ride home when you just lost the game as one of the leaders players There was just awful and those were the battles with him as we were laughing about it out there on the field I was I always felt like I covered them well But I couldn't finish the play because somehow he would come down with the ball So coming into practice is almost like one of those things where you're like you see he signed you're like He's not gonna he's not gonna be there and then you come out here and you see him And I know there's so many people that say like hey when he was in arizona this guy didn't practice And he's out here working hard working his butt off in the slot outside one-on-ones So i'm tweaked the other day like and they say I don't practice after making a A beautiful catch on fulton and one-on-one drill So I think that wasn't a surprise but the feeling it gave me when I walked in here and I saw him out there Was just like I got a little giddy inside to see he's going to be wearing number 10 For the tennessee tines. I'll say another guy ardent key was a guy that He's a ball of energy. I said what's up to him after he's oh, what's up, man? I was just like, oh, okay Don't hit me don't hurt me But I I called two of three or four of jacksonville's games last year and he's a monster and him Coming over here. How are land how are landry being back off injury from the acl? Obviously simons jeffrey simons in the middle I'm excited about that in the defensive front. What can happen up front? How are you going to run the ball on these guys t or tart? You called his interception last year. It was a beautiful. Um Those guys up front. It's going to just be awesome to watch You got a football question. Oh, yeah. No, I definitely have a football question. Thank you I know you got really excited because he said you had a good ball. I get it Um, we you and I were able to do a little a little chat back and forth The things that we talked to I had to be on NFL network She was a star too for exactly 35 seconds and it was great. They asked her back. Yeah, it was magnificent But I Honest to god only did it because j mac was coming to do it. Well, yeah So that's a real thing. I wanted I wanted to hang out with my friend for a while um But you and I had the opportunity to talk about ryan tanahill and what this camp means to him and Just all of the pieces that seem to be coming together for him this season How exciting is it to watch an offense kind of Form and grow almost right before your eyes here at camp. It's awesome And I think the part of that especially for tanel is a guy who went through some injuries last year And just you think about how he got here. He came here from miami came here to be the backup To mariota gets in and just starts killing it and now next thing, you know Last year they draft malik willis in the third round and all the hype that was around malik coming out of liberty And there was tanahill about uh being a mentor all that other nonsense and then The next year they draft will levis and tanahill still the guy in the front and You think about this training camp in this season for him. This is a guy is 35 years old He's a veteran in this league. He started in every place he's been in so whatever you want to think about him This is a guy that's been a leader and a consistent player throughout his career And sometimes we overlook consistency because we see the amazing play by patrick mahomes or josh alan jump over somebody This is a guy that has been able to play at a high level for a long time And if you're him and i haven't asked him personally, but if i'm him i'm coming into this season I'm fired up to be around my guys, but there's a little part of me that's pissed off like I love my titans But i'm also coming in to show you that i'm the guy like hey, I love will back here I love malik i'ma bring him along with me But like you're not going to need them to play until i'm ready to hang them up And if i'm tanahill that's the approach I have and I get a guy like de andre hopkins I'm working with him. I'm building that connection and i'm pulling trellum berks aside too like come on like This is year two You're going to be taking the next step and now he comes in berks Now I know the expectations of what it's like to be an nfl player versus last year You have this star and aj brown and he's training around the draft and the next thing you know They draft you know just all right. He's aj brouser placement get in there and do what he just did and just like well I'm still a rookie. I'm still figuring this thing out So I'm excited as hell for him roger mccrary on the other side guys in that next step who had good rookie years chiggle Conqueror like hey, you know this kid was and he's out here making one hand catches on his helmet So that part of the game being out here at training camp seeing it up close and personal Seeing that derrick Henry is still bigger than everybody else around him that part of it's been a lot of fun I guess the last two titans on the roster you played with derrick Henry and kevin bier Yep, they're rookie years and you think about the success that they have had I was with kevin bier at the nfl pa meetings and we're talking about this past season and Whenever I talk about my titan's days as soon as you guys see me you're like, yeah, it was it was it was rough While you were here I'm sitting with the media and they have the good guy award now And the first thing I think teresa says to me it's like too bad They didn't have it when you were around because it was hard then to talk to the media And me and kevin talking and I didn't even realize that last year was his worst season as a tennessee titan And his expectation of what it means to be here is way different than mine And it was cool to hear him say that of just like we got to get back to the standard because the standard is different now This is a team where it's not just like all right. We went seven or eight games in our world Okay, like no we're chasing a championship with super bowl and that's where we're trying to get to Well, I think though what was so important about you and delaney and you know several of those other guys of that era is You held us together through some rough stuff. I mean the ken whiz and hunt thing didn't go well And you know john robinson came in and obviously amy adam strunk had taken over the franchise And john always said he goes listen I inherited some solid players and some solid people We didn't have to fix the locker room And that was a lot because of you and those other guys and I know a super bowl ring means more But you sure should be proud of that too. Oh no When I retired I got the questions of just like Where's home for you as far as playing? I was just like I played eight years here Like this is a team that gave me a chance with the 203rd pick in the 2009 draft I got married here all three of my kids were born in franklin in the hospital there So this for me is always will be home when it comes to being an nfl player Being down here yesterday and coming in today and seeing amy seeing you mike and seeing ashley behind the camera over there I I can remember the last and people don't realize that when you're two and 14 and you're three and 13 It's tough sure it is But you still find ways to find enjoyment and doing something that you grew up dreaming about doing And it brings you closer together because everybody on the outside is just pointing fingers and talking about you So my eight years here were unbelievable just some good times and We started this all we talked about relationships and people there's some really good people here And I'm always happy to be able to be in the building here. 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I think if you say it with authority It's did you know jason mccordy is doing the tennessee new warlands game on cbs the opener I had heard the last time you were there was mike malarkey's first game as interim coach tennessee titans victory touchdown pass to anthony fosano Jersey guy on the full throwback across the field forgot about that So you've done some titans games before Yep Is it still a little hard to kind of not because you had that oilers jersey on the other day on tv and You clearly you clearly liked it. I mean it clearly He's he's family Jason mccordy is family It's different. We got those jerseys and they all have our name on the back and that's your 30 earl doll Shrager his brand. I'm like, well like mine is for real Like this this was this was a thing at some point. So no, of course I I think when you get a chance to be around So many people that you know and that you love like when the titans are playing I may have never spent time with ryan tannahill as my quarterback, but as I'm watching that game I'm like Jarrett puffer in the media department if he can go and win a super bowl if mike heave amy wells There's so many people team to toggle behind the scenes that you are around matt and joey In the equipment room like you're rooting for the team because you so badly want to see everybody within the organization went because When we were 214 it wasn't like it wasn't like Todd torsellian talking the training room or matt It wasn't like they weren't in the training room and they weren't Trainering is hard because we weren't a good football team. Everybody still shows up here early as heck in the morning You're still putting the same amount of working and you're not getting the result So even a year I went in cleveland and I get released here after after my eighth year I go to cleveland. We don't win a single game and here I am sitting in cleveland as negative It feels like negative 10 outside. We're watching the titans in the playoffs and I'm just like End is perfect the year before I got here. They went to the playoffs the year after I leave They go back to the playoffs But even as you're watching and you're pissed off that you got cut But then you're watching the game and jarrell casey gets a sack or a ragpole or westley woodyard I'm just like those are my guys I got so badly want them to win because a guy like casey like we were here in the struggle together Like I want to see those guys succeed. So it's always the other balance. That's cool Do you still have the oilers jersey from 2009? I got the helmet too. Wow. Look at that. These are better Yeah, oh, it's no offense, mr. Adams But the houston oilers 1981 to tennessee oilers 1997 98 with the red face mask and oh I love your blue the back of the jersey and the collar says love your blue They were awesome. Yeah, I love it It's just thank you. Thank you for thank you just first of all, thank you for what you did for us when you were here On and off the field I reached out to my friend charlie uke at nfl network when I read an article That they were considering you And I told him unsolicited and i'm sure he went. Why are you doing this? I said if you don't hire him, you're crazy You you are the most natural person for this role that we've had in the whole time I've been here and we've had some people who've done good media, but I knew that that you would have this kind of success because I knew just like being a sixth round pick having to work your way in You would approach it the exact same way and it is a craft And it and it does take some work And uh, even coach max found that out of But even if you're natural, you know, just even if you're a great natural talent in sports You still have to refine. Yeah, and you are clearly doing it. We are so proud of you My god appreciate that uh, so many years being around you learning from you as well And that's the fun thing I spent eight years here and you do a lot of these things and You get a chance to talk and the whole time we're talking you're seeing how somebody's doing something charlie told me You said that's all uh, I just greatly appreciate that our friendship You know, whenever you text or anything we're able to come down here I was coming a friend of her neck. We was like, would you hop on? I'm like, of course How long you need me? I'll do it. So fired up to be with you guys. We spent a lot of times here All right, so what else do you have Amy? What would you like to conclude with? That was just a lovely moment. Well, and I'm trying not to cry. I have no control over my faculties It's just it's so good to have you back. It's just it's good to have family back. You know, and that's what it is I love it. Good morning football six to nine central Every morning on nfl network jimmy erdole Our friend jason mccordy, peter schrager and kyle brand. Yeah, it's a really good show. Thank you and keep it up and We'll see you in new orleans. We'll see. I'll see you there in new orleans for jason mccordy and amy wells I'm mike keith thanking you for joining us for the otp