Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - DISASTER: Cam Ward HURT by Mike McCoy MALPRACTICE, Draft Pick Update & Mike Borgonzi Takes CONTROL

Starting point is 00:00:00 Cam Ward gets hurt and the Tennessee Titans get destroyed. The game was a disaster, but the weekend, the weekend was actually good for the Tennessee Titans. And I'll tell you why on today's edition of Locked on Titans. You are Locked on Titans, your daily Tennessee Titans podcast, part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day. Welcome to the Locked on Titans podcast podcast. I am your host Tyler Rowland Titans fans today's edition of the Locked on Titans podcast is sponsored by prize picks

Starting point is 00:00:37 Download the prize picks app today use the code locked on NFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup on today's show we're going to talk about that disaster of a game Cam Ward got hurt and I think it's Mike McCoy Mao practice on the way out after we wrap up the game We got to talk about the weekend that was because again the game was a disaster but I think it was a good weekend for the Tennessee Titans. They're getting some help with their draft pick and Mike Borgonzi got clear control of the football operation. So we'll talk about all of that before we dive into it.

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Starting point is 00:02:20 We'll talk about that in the moment. But early indications, seeing early reports from different medical sources. Paul Kajarski reported that early indications are, It's not a serious injury, but I'll tell you this, seeing Cam Ward on the sideline in a sling, that doesn't make you feel very good no matter what happens, no matter what the outcome is. But early indications are Cam Ward will be fine, it doesn't look like it's going to be something serious. But I'll tell you, you know what makes it serious or not in my mind? Whether surgery is required.

Starting point is 00:02:47 I do not want Cam Ward to have to have a surgery no matter how minimal, no matter how maximal, no matter how serious or non-invasive or whatever they want to call it, whatever terms, I'm not a doctor. As I say all the time, but no matter what happens under any circumstances, I do not want Cam Ward to have to have surgery going into such a crucial offseason where you're going to have a brand new head coach with a brand new playbook. You're going to have a ton of new weapons. The Titans are likely to sign some wide receivers, to draft some wide receivers.

Starting point is 00:03:16 Pieces have to be put into play, and this is a critical all season for Cam Ward to have a fool. Last all season, remember how they talk about rookie all seasons. You've got to prep for the draft and prep for the combine. prep for the interviews. It is not like getting ready to play football whatsoever. So most of the all season for these rookies is spent doing that and then Cam Ward went straight into rookie minicamp and all the rest that they talked about

Starting point is 00:03:39 that he didn't take during the training camp time and during the preseason, during the bi-week. Like this guy is an absolute psychotic competitive junkie and I love that but he got no break from his college season into draft prep into the NFL season to be a rookie starter in his first year. Like that takes a toll on somebody and I want Cam Ward to be fresh, healthy,

Starting point is 00:04:02 good to go as we go into a critical all season where he can just focus on being an NFL player and doing all the things that you have to do and not on meetings and combine testing and measurements and all of these different things that come along with getting ready for the NFL draft. Like he can finally settle in and have time and not have everybody breathing down his back about being number one

Starting point is 00:04:21 like it's critical. So the thing that differentiates whether this is a serious problem that we just witnessed or whether it's not is whether surgery is required or not. If Cam Ward is going to heal with no surgery, this is not a big deal whatsoever. But let me just say this. Absolute malpractice by Mike McCoy and Bo Hardegree as well, who is calling the plays, who deserves his blame for calling the actual play.

Starting point is 00:04:45 But the Titans didn't run a read option with Cam Ward on a third and shorter on the goal line. They didn't run a veer option like we saw there where you can hand off inside or take a suite to the outside. They haven't run a single design quarterback run like that. The only time Cam Ward has run and it's looked like a design quarterback run has been a busted RPO, which we literally saw earlier in the drive where Cam Ward either hands it off to the running back or throws it out on the quick screen. He chose to throw it out on the quick screen, but a defender got in the way and he couldn't throw it. So he has two options right there.

Starting point is 00:05:19 Either he throws it to the ground where someone else is at so it's incomplete and takes an intentional or an illegal man downfield penalty because his linemen are blocking downfield because it's RPO timing or he has to run it to avoid a penalty and gain some yards. He did that earlier, got a couple yards, went down fine. I don't think it was that. It was a designed quarterback run and for them to pull that out. In week 18, on the opening drive of a game

Starting point is 00:05:45 when the game isn't even on the line and in the balance yet, on first down from six yards out, you're not even on the one yard line on the goal line where he can get in easily. On first down where it's not even a money down where you gotta have it. You could just run Tony Pollard up the middle and be fine. For the Tennessee Titans to run a design QB run with Cam Ward

Starting point is 00:06:04 for what feels like the first time all season. In that moment, in an inconsequential game, when you as Mike McCoy and Bowhart agree know that you are out on your can tomorrow morning. For them to, I mean, that is like, that is like if you're a house sitter for a rich person and you eat McDonald's off their China on the last night before you've got to give up the house and give it back.

Starting point is 00:06:30 That's what just happened. Mike McCoy ate a Big Mac on our family China because he knew that he was leaving the house tomorrow. That's what just happened to us. It's despicable, it's disgraceful. You can defend it as, oh, it's football, it's a football play. No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry calling that kind of play at this time

Starting point is 00:06:48 after what's happened all year. That is malpracticed by Mike McCoy And just another reminder for anybody Who thought that he should be a serious candidate For this long-term head coaching position That you're insane Just a Cam Ward is not Lamar Jackson and Jalen Hertz

Starting point is 00:07:04 And Jackson Dart He's not shouldn't be used on these plays like that If you want to run like Tannahill Tana Hill Tana Hill used to run the read option Right on the one yard line or third and one third and two You want to do that? You want to do that perfectly fine But people defending Mike McCoy saying

Starting point is 00:07:20 oh, it's just a football play that's perfectly fine that they did that blah blah blah blah like I'm just like no I'm sorry I hate to be harsh and critical but it was ridiculous it was ridiculous so the fact that that happened really made me angry but whether Cam Ward has to have surgery

Starting point is 00:07:36 or not will be what happens now I think it's funny that both of the coaches that had the reins this year both of them gave a parting gift to the Tennessee Titans Brian Callahan gave the Titans the gift of Brandon Allen, who was absolutely terrible

Starting point is 00:07:53 and ensured that the Tennessee Titans never scored another point. The Titans were up 7 to nothing with Cam Ward. They lost 41 to nothing with Brandon Allen. So there you go. Thank you, Brian Callahan. This is why I wanted a bad backup quarterback. If Cam Ward isn't in the game, why would we want to win? And especially at this point in the season,

Starting point is 00:08:10 when you know the season is over. If Cam Ward's out, they can lose by a million. I don't care. Especially with it being week 18. I mean, give me a break. So the fact that Brian Callahan left us with his quarterback coach in the locker room, in the quarterback room,

Starting point is 00:08:27 Brandon Allen to secure this draft position. Thank you, Brian Callahan. But on the other hand, Mike McCoy left us the piece of coal that is getting Cam Ward hurt in the final game in the season. So both of the Titans head coaches this year left us with a little gift on week 18. All right. But again, early indications are,

Starting point is 00:08:47 early indications are that Cam Ward did not suffer a serious injury but nonetheless that will be determined in my opinion by whether or not he has to have surgery or not so we wait and see on the update on that and confirmation on that and we may not get it anytime soon with the season being over they have no reason to do that so we hope that an insider of some kind or someone locally will give us a report on whether Cam Ward has to have surgery this all season because if it's an AC sprain a joint sprain something like that again I'm no doctor

Starting point is 00:09:18 but just NFL examples in the past some guys have had to have surgery I think you know again I don't want to misremember but Will Levis might have had surgery for something similar to that so it's not out of the question and that's my biggest fear going forward now I do want to quickly say

Starting point is 00:09:34 that although the game was a disaster Jeffrey Simmons again a great player gets another sack right off the rip and shout out Miles Garrett who set the NFL sack record against the Bengals even though we'll talk about that the Bengals. Let us down, folks, like always. But anyways, I thought Simmons, James Williams had some plays. They mixed him in with Cedric Gray. I thought James Williams played pretty well

Starting point is 00:09:56 in Chimdeka. Again, continues to look good. Alec Iommanner, some physical catches, and Jackson Slater got to play. I can't wait to break down his tape over on the Tick Tac Titans film channel and maybe we'll talk more about Jackson Slater later when we do a final year-end rookie review. I got a lot of content playing for you guys coming up both here with the conversations on locked on Titans and on the Ticktack Titans YouTube channel with the film breakdowns. But with that being said, again, the game was a disaster. But the weekend, the weekend was pretty good for the Tennessee Titans

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Starting point is 00:12:37 That's code locked on NFL to get $50 in lineups after your first $5 lineup. its prize picks, it's good to be right. Titans fans, let's continue today's edition of the Locked on Titans podcast. We talked about the game. It was a disaster. Mike McCoy malpractice, Cam Ward hurt. Hopefully it isn't serious. It doesn't sound like it's serious right now, but we'll see whether surgery is required, and that will tell me whether it's serious or not. Moving forward, though, again, a disaster game, but a good weekend for the

Starting point is 00:13:22 Tennessee Titans. If you're a Tennessee Titans fan, you should be very excited right now about what happened to the Titans this weekend outside of the game itself. That includes Mike Borgonzi in the news that he is fully in control of the Titans football program. I'm going to talk about that at the end of the show, but right now the Titans draft pick, and we're seeing it unfold a As you guys know, I record the show live. Make sure that you get subscribed, stay subscribed. It's your team every day here on the Locked on Titans podcast. But we're looking at all the games around the NFL and the Giants got a win.

Starting point is 00:13:55 The Dallas Cowboys helped out the Titans. They pulled Dak Prescott and a lot of their starters. And midway through that game, the Giants get a win. And that moves the Giants up to four wins on the season. And this is exactly what we hoped would happen when we talked a couple of weeks ago about the remaining schedule. You had the Giants against the Raiders last week The Giants are obviously a better team They beat the Raiders

Starting point is 00:14:17 The Giants don't need a quarterback So the Giants would be a team that would take a trade down If the Raiders get the number one pick They're just going to take a quarterback I don't want another team up there To get a big trade down package And then there won't be as many teams Who would be willing to give a trade up package

Starting point is 00:14:36 Like there's only going to be one at max Maybe two if we're lucky teams that are actually willing to package a bunch of picks and move up. And one of those teams that would take a big package is the Giants. So if the Giants are at number one, then that means they'll probably trade back. That ruins the Titans opportunity to get a good trade back for a potential quarterback. So I'm happy that the Giants did this.

Starting point is 00:14:57 They beat the Raiders last week, and then they beat the Cowboys. Like, this is great news for the Tennessee Titans. Now, what remains? The Raiders got two wins. The Raiders are not going to win. And even if they do, they'll be tied with the Titans for the number one overall pick. So with strength of schedule and everything like that, even if the Raiders win,

Starting point is 00:15:14 they're still going to get the number one overall picks. So the Raiders are entrenched. Who cares what happens with them against the Chiefs? But after that, you have the Jets who have three wins. But here's a big development. The bills are literally sitting everyone. They have all of their backups in. They're inactive with some of their best players

Starting point is 00:15:31 like Joey Bosa, Dionne Dawkins, Christian Benford. But they are not playing anybody. So maybe the Jets in Buffalo get a big time win. in. If that happens, that would be critical and the Titans can move all the way up to the second pick, but here's one of the issues that we do have to worry about. The Arizona Cardinals play the Los Angeles Rams.

Starting point is 00:15:51 The Rams are playing for seating and are going to play their starters. The Cardinals right now are behind the Titans and the draft pick situation because they have a harder strength of schedule. They have a 577 strength of schedule and the Titans is at 576. Well, some of the games that the Titans need to go their way did not go their way. They needed the Browns to lose to the Cincinnati Bengals. That was a big time one

Starting point is 00:16:16 for the Titans and it went against them. So that's not going to help the strength of schedule right there. Not only that, but they needed the Cowboys to win. They needed the Packers to win. They needed the Falcons and the Falcons won. They need Miami. They need Miami to win. Miami plays New England right now in the 4 o'clock window. But they needed three stars, two and a half stars at minimum to secure a weaker strength of schedule than the Cardinals and make sure they're ahead of them in the order. I don't think that that's going to happen.

Starting point is 00:16:47 Even if Miami wins, they're only going to have two stars because the Packers, Cowboys, and Bengals all lost. So that's going to be up in the balance. There is a chance that the Giants move behind the Titans, but the Cardinals move ahead of the Titans and the Titans still sit at pick number four. but the way things are looking right now, the Tennessee Titans cannot have anything less

Starting point is 00:17:10 than the fourth overall pick. We're looking at 2 through 4. The Jets need to give the Titans a miracle. And the Cardinals need to win? Yeah, yeah, that's what it's looking like. The Cardinals straight the schedule has dropped to 568. The Titans is still at 576. So if the Cardinals lose against the Rams,

Starting point is 00:17:34 the Cardinals are going to have a high. higher pick than the Titans. So right now, unless the Jets win and the Cardinals win, the Titans will not pick number two. So Jets win, Cardinals win, Titans pick number two. Jets win, Cardinals lose. Cardinals win, Jets lose the Titans pick number three. If both of them lose, then the Tennessee Titans will pick number four.

Starting point is 00:18:03 So now it's all down to the Cardinals and the Jet. who, again, are both playing in the 4 o'clock window. You're listening in this on Monday morning. You already know the results of those games. But no matter what, the Tennessee Titans are in a position to have a top four pick. And that's critical. And now, you know, we look at the draft,

Starting point is 00:18:22 and I talked about it on my episode on Friday. There are basically eight players who I want, I want the Tennessee Titans to leave the first round with one of those players, whether it's them picking them sticking and picking, or whether it's them trading back a little bit, I want either Ruben Bain, R. Vell Reese, or David Bailey on the edge. Jordan Tyson, Carnell Tate, or Mackay Lemon at wide receiver. Jeremiah Love, Caleb Downs.

Starting point is 00:18:55 I might even reluctantly throw Sunny Stiles in there. If the Titans traded down like to 10 or 11, I would not be angry if that happened. It would have to be with all those other guys off the board. So essentially, being in the top four, if there are two quarterbacks, like a Mendoza and a Dante Moore, maybe the Titans don't get a trade for one of those guys. But if those guys go off the board,

Starting point is 00:19:19 then you're getting one of Reese or Bain. You're getting, you know, one guy is going to go off the board. And if it's the Cardinals, and it goes, Raiders, jets, and they take two quarterbacks, and then the Cardinals are up, I mean, they've taken Marvin Harrison Jr.

Starting point is 00:19:37 They have Trey McBride. Would they take a wide receiver? They could probably go edge rusher. They need some other things in Arizona, though. It would be interesting to see what they do there. So I think that the Titans, no matter what, based on what's happened with the Giants losing their game, the Titans are in a great position

Starting point is 00:19:55 and there's still opportunities for things to get better. I think the Jets might have a serious opportunity to win against the bills based on what the bills have done, even though the bills are at home. So, there are still things that could play out for the Titans. They didn't get much help to stay above Arizona, but they did get help from the Giants. So that could leave them at minimum at number four. And I think going into the week,

Starting point is 00:20:16 they could have dropped as far as number seven, and that would have been a true disaster. So the fact that they avoided that, that's great. And then we moved to Sunday night football. Where remember, if the Ravens win on Sunday night football against the Steelers, if the Ravens win, Titans fifth round pick they got for a Draymont Jones becomes a fourth round pick. That's critical.

Starting point is 00:20:37 And again, the draft pick situation and the Titans having a good draft pick for sure now, no matter what takes place, they're going to have a top four pick. And I think that makes sure that they get a really good player in a really good situation and can even take a trade down still, even if somebody wants to trade up for a specific position player. And it's not a quarterback. It doesn't always have to be. We just saw Travis Hunter get drafted up for her. knows what can happen.

Starting point is 00:21:04 But either way, the Titans are going to have a good draft pick, early reports on Cam Warder that he's going to be fine, and the Titans provided clarity for the fan base and for potential head coaches coming up here in the future with a statement they released on Friday, and I think it's a very interesting statement. It tells us a lot. We're going to go over why this was also a very good part of the weekend

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Starting point is 00:24:55 But either way, you know what I mean? The draft pick could get even better as the Titans sit at the number four pick right now with the Giants winning the game. But nonetheless, the weekend started good for the Tennessee Titans. As Friday, we got a Friday news dump. And if you don't pay attention to media,

Starting point is 00:25:10 you aren't maybe used to these kind of terms and things. A Friday afternoon is the best time to release bad or controversial or less than ideal news or anything because the weekend comes. nobody really pays attention. And by Monday, there's new news to talk about you. It's kind of the news equivalent of sweeping the dirt under the rug or like I used to do when I was a kid,

Starting point is 00:25:32 putting all my crap into my closet and closing the door. That was a classic Tyler move when I was growing up. But either way, the Titans dropped the press release that basically says it's from Amy Adams' drunk saying that Mike Borganzi is taking full control over the Tennessee Titans football operation. He owns the 53-man roster. He's leading the head coaching search.

Starting point is 00:25:54 He is in control. And instead of him reporting to Chad Brinker who reports to her, now Brinker and Borganzi are equal. And Borganzi and Brinker both individually report to Amy Adams Strunk. Basically, it takes Chad Brinker from being Mike Borganzi's boss and puts him as Mike Borganzi's co-worker instead. And I think that that is great news. Now, I said when it came out, I made a little video saying,

Starting point is 00:26:16 hey, this is news, but it's not new. I mean, if you have been listening to my show, and you're a Titans fan who kind of pays attention a little bit more to all the ongoing stuff and all the ins and outs and you care about

Starting point is 00:26:28 some of the inner workings behind the scenes we've talked about this I thought Mike Borgonzi had had 53 man roster control the entire time that's something that we were told early on

Starting point is 00:26:39 now you knew that Chad Breaker was the vice president or the president of football operations for the Tennessee Titans so he was going to be involved in the decisions but I guess what the Titans

Starting point is 00:26:48 put out in this press release that Mike Borgonzi is full control of all the football decisions and that Chad Brinker is now back in the role that he was in originally when he was hired to work alongside Rand Carthon he is helping with salary cap and injury predictive stuff and the analytics and doing field equipment and making sure that the injury staff is well stocked and you know, Chad Brinker is doing some of these other more businessy aspects of the general manager duty while providing data and analytics and analysis to Mike Borgonzi as information

Starting point is 00:27:22 Soundboard, that's what I thought they were all along, to be honest with you. I just thought Chad Brinker was a liaison who can translate all of the ongoings to Amy Adam Strunk. So quite frankly, this isn't really a deviation from what I thought their role delineation was anyway. I didn't think that this was a difference from what we already knew. But nonetheless, the reason that this is coming out and the reason that this is being said publicly, even though it's something that could be sorted out behind closed doors, you didn't need to do this publicly. The reason that they did do this publicly was so that the potential head coaches that they're getting ready to interview know exactly

Starting point is 00:28:02 what's going on. Clearly there were questions or concerns from potential candidates about what the actual hierarchy, what the actual structure is. So this is just an announcement. Hey, we're going back to a traditional hierarchy and I think this tells us a couple of things. Number one, this tells us that Mike Borgonzi has done the opposite of Rancarthon. After one year in full control, the Titans are like, hey, this guy should be in charge. He knows what he's doing. And when we look at some of the signings, let's be honest, Dan Moore has worked out. That worked out.

Starting point is 00:28:35 Dan Moore has been fine this year. He has not been great, but he's been fine. And I don't want to get into each individual move. We don't have time for that, but the draft class as well has performed very well. So I think with what Mike Borgonzi has showed us in year one, it's like the opposite where, hey, we didn't make this massive mistake and we got to get rid of this guy right away and move on. It's the opposite of, hey, we did pick the right guy.

Starting point is 00:28:58 And I think while most people called Chad Brinker a snake and he wanted to snake the power from Rancarthon and he went behind Rancarthons back and was Jafar and Amy Adamsrunk ear and used the swirly-eyed scepter, snake scepter on Amy Adam Strunk to get power from Rancarthon, I think in reality what we really see now after all the moves have played out this is what happened. Rancarthorn was a disaster.

Starting point is 00:29:24 It was a bad hire. It was a big mistake by Amy Adams Strunk. Chad Brinker didn't want the all-end B-N power all along. He just was the only guy that Amy Adams-Trunk could trust after she messed up with Rancartan. They hired Mike Borganzi who is worthy of that power. And Chad Brinker said, hey, I don't want to be in control anymore. I don't want all this power. I never wanted to have all this power anyway.

Starting point is 00:29:48 I want to be a mad scientist on the side, cooking up intellectual property algorithms about injury predictions and salary cap management. I want to be a tinkerer off on the side. I don't want all the power. I didn't want to snake this away from Rancarthorn. He was just a bozo. And I was the only person Amy Adams Strunk could trust.

Starting point is 00:30:07 And now that we have Mike Borgonzi, who is worthy of the power, I'll give it back to the guy and go back to doing what I wanted to do all along. I think that there were a lot of rumors and a lot of opinions and a lot of conjecture about what Mike Borgonzi and Chad Brinker and their roles and their involvement and I think this kind of tells us the truth Brinker didn't want that power all along anyway he gave it back as soon as somebody worthy came along to take the mantle

Starting point is 00:30:32 he didn't want it so I think that we've learned a lot of truth this weekend but again the most important part of this is this was a public relation statement to potential head coaches of Mike Borgonzi He is in control. He is hiring you. He has control of the roster. He is your partner. He's who you're going to work with and Chad Brinker is a guy who's helping on the side in the process. But Borganzi is the guy. There is no confusion. There's no uncertainty. It's not clear as mud. It is crystal clear. Mike Borganzi is in control. That's who's going to hire you.

Starting point is 00:31:06 That's who's your partner. And making that definitive public statement is why this statement was made at all. It did not need to be made but the fact that they made made it was for that purpose. So the fan base knows who's clearly in control, and then that's who the head coach is. More importantly, know who's clearly in control. And folks, it is popping off already.

Starting point is 00:31:26 We got official reports, and I posted on all my socials from East and Freeze at A to Z that Mike McCarthy and Matt Nagy will get a formal interview request from the Tennessee Titans. I would imagine they both take it. We will see. But also, there are some names out there like a Robert Sala, Jeff Hathley, Chris Shula,

Starting point is 00:31:47 who should and intend to get interview requests from the Tennessee Titans. Some of the people that they're going to interview are going to be in the playoffs. On tomorrow's show, we are going to go through all of the reported candidates that have been tied to the Tennessee Titans. There's like 11 or 12. Right now I'm going to go through every single one of them and talk about all of them, what stage I think they could be at for the Tennessee Titans, the timeline for interviewing them, what it could look like.

Starting point is 00:32:13 going to do all of that on tomorrow's show but again this weekend was a good weekend for the Tennessee Titans yes Cam Ward got hurt again early reports are it's not serious

Starting point is 00:32:26 hope he doesn't have to have surgery if he doesn't have to have surgery no harm no foul no surgery no problem that's how I feel with Cam Ward's situation so maybe we get a report on that later

Starting point is 00:32:39 tonight on Sunday evening that would be great I would love to hit my pillow later tonight after recording Locked on NFL after the Sunday night game check me out on Locked on NFL where I break down the entire NFL for the number one sports podcast network in the entire world holler at your boy but nonetheless when I hit my pillow tonight I want to know that Cam Moore doesn't have to have surgery on his shoulder

Starting point is 00:33:04 that's what I want to know I will wait for that confirmation before I am no longer concerned so hopefully we get that soon But nonetheless, outside of that, if that goes fine, which again, early reports are good, the Titans draft pick is in a good spot. They're going to get a really good player who can help this team. Mike Morgonzi has clear control, the guy who we trust and want to pilot this ship. And now all of the future head coaching candidates know that. The coaching candidates interviews, requests are going out.

Starting point is 00:33:35 They're being communicated as legally as they possibly can. This was a good weekend for the Titans in a weekend. that you should feel very hopeful. And I would add on to that that when Cammore did play that one drive, it was 7 to nothing. He had a multiple good plays, showed us that he can score on that kind of play

Starting point is 00:33:53 if he needs to, even though I hate the call in the situation. And not only that, but all of the guys that the Titans want to draft, Bain, Bailey. Looking pretty dang good in the college football playoff. So, very excited about the first. future and I am going to keep you locked in to everything you need to know on the coaching search

Starting point is 00:34:17 free agency the draft everything here on locked on Titans make sure that you get subscribed stay subscribed at your team every day with that being said that's going to do it for me today folks as always I am your host Tyler Rowan and this was Locked on Titans You know,

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