 there's always a lot of debate between Titans fans and Texans fans as to who should get from where Oilers throwbacks and celebrate the Oilers maybe you can set the record straight on that but which team and which city do the Oilers belong to right now? I'd have to say here I'd have to say Nashville, Tennessee that's where our legacy went like like Crowley was saying it doesn't matter where you are we're still all connected and I'm just glad that Amy kind of reached out to all the former Oiler players and gave them a place that they can call home now because for a long time especially guys who only played for the Oilers really didn't have a place that they could call home really they could have a place where they could come back for an alumni weekend or come back and you know watch the team practice or whatever but she's done that now by reaching out not only this year but the last couple of years we've had some functions in Houston and now she's actually brought everybody here to Nashville and I'm sure all these guys are very very grateful about it especially the guys who never played for another organization but the Oilers. What do you think about this? How closely you watch this team warn and what do you think about what they like? Well I watched them very closely because I watched the teams that I played for were associated with the closest throughout the league and I was at the game last week and was very torn because I worked for the Seahawks for 15 years. I played for them for a couple of years and I know a lot about this organization as well so it was a game where I think I was more impressed with the Titans because of the way they were able to come back. I think everybody kind of expected that the Seahawks would play well in the game and they were probably going to win the game at home but the way the Titans came back in that football game was really impressive and to go and win it in overtime was huge so it was a really entertaining football game. All the big players in that game Russell Wilson and everybody else made the plays that they needed to make but in the end it was the Titans that came out with the victory. Warren when you were running the run and shoot it was sort of revolutionary at the time. When you watched the NFL today how much do you see run and shoot concepts around the league now? I see it everywhere and I talked to a lot of coaches because I've been in the broadcast business so you know the things that they're doing today are the same concepts that we ran back in the 1990. You see the back shoulder they throw, you see all the adjustable routes that they make in the route combinations, all those things we were doing way back when where everybody thought that was kind of a gimmick so I'd have to say we were ahead of our time. I think the biggest difference between today's football and what we were doing is we played with only wide receivers where we didn't have a tight end on a roster. These tight ends today now a lot of them like the George Kittles and the Kelsies and those guys they're like hybrid wide receivers. They can play tight end, they can come and get next to the tackle and block but they can also split them out in the slot, put them out wide and use them like a wide receiver so I think that's the biggest difference otherwise teams are running the same type of pass combinations. What do you look at these rules changes and how it's so much geared towards the offense that running shoot you think you can throw for $5,000, $6,000? Oh yeah definitely definitely five you know I did that a couple of times close but the game has just changed it's a quarterback receiver game today and you look at if you don't throw for 4,000 yards now it's considered you know a down season where back when I played if you threw for 4,000 it was considered a big year so that's where the game has changed even though Tennessee is a little bit different because they have a Derek Henry who can run for 2,000 yards but there's not a lot of those guys out there in the league so they take advantage of what they have personnel wise would having a guy like him otherwise you would be you know knocking yourself in the head if you didn't use him the right way but most teams around the league are going to throw the football all around the lot. A few former Titans that are up for the Hall of Fame again this year and wonder if you could kind of talk about maybe Steve McNair and Eddie George in particular and whether you think good cases might be able to be made for them. Yeah I've been saying that for the last couple of years especially with Steve you know I thought Steve considered was considered or should have more consideration up until now that guy was a warrior you know he he was a really tough physical football player he was an MVP of the league took a team to the Super Bowl very well respected around the league so I think he's a guy that definitely deserves a strong consideration for the Pro Football Hall of Fame and I'm the only African-American in there right now and I'd like to have maybe another buddy in there because I took a team picture this year with about 14-15 of us and I stick out a lot in that picture. What do you think about the quarterback here now in Taney Hill? I really like that he's found a home for himself you know things in workout will form in Miami. Ultra talented player very versatile as a quarterback you know had some injury problems in Miami that that didn't help and not a very good football team but they've really found and he's found his niche here and they're using him the right way with the play-action pass getting him out on the move some the guy has great athleticism for for the quarterback position as well he can use his legs and make things happen and very very accurate with the football so he's the perfect quarterback for this offense and I think that's one of the reasons why you see this offense do so well. You mentioned the atmosphere in Seattle when the Astrodome was full what was it like playing there? Man it was it was a really tough place for the opponent to come in and play it got really really loud in there and it really added juice to our football team especially our defense and you know during those early days when Jerry Glanvir was there he named it the house of pain which I didn't like a lot because other teams came in and tried to say we've got our house of pain too and they usually tried to put that on me but our defense especially played well in that environment offensively you know you wanted to be quiet when you have the football but but definitely defensively that place could get really rowdy. Living in your neck of the woods where you are now I wonder if you ever run into Jake Locker or if you've seen him? I have not I know he moved up north back where he where he's from I think it's called Ferndale and he's probably doing some ministry stuff and things like that but it's too bad that his career was so short because he was a really good guy really good athlete but it just didn't work out for him so he's probably doing what's best for him right now and as long as he's happy that's all that's all I really care about. We'll talk about how you guys are connected to someone why is it important that all of you are connected to this franchise and what it's become now and how often do you watch the Titans and pay much attention? I watch the Titans a lot but I just watch football I'm a I'm a Jim Ratten when it comes to football I watch it all college I watch CFL I watch everything so that part of it for me is easy and you definitely want to watch the good football teams and the Titans have been a really good football team here for the last you know five or six years so and it's gone even further than that back when Steve and all those guys were here and then because of my my connection to the organization makes you want to watch even more and I think it's important like I said earlier that that the guys who played for the Oilers and the guys who only played for the Oilers have somewhere to call home now and Amy has made that possible by bringing everybody in and I'm really looking forward to seeing a lot of these guys that I played with over the years because I haven't seen a lot of them in a long time and it's gonna be really good to just to have all these guys together and they can feel like this is home even though none of us really ever played here but it still will feel like home because you have somebody that really cares about you you know it's really hard to say I think you'd have to ask you know a lot of players that I'm sure everybody's gonna have their differences of opinion like every guy isn't coming here there's some guys that that aren't coming there's a lot of different reasons why some guys aren't coming some has to do with COVID some has to do with health reasons so but I think for the guys who are coming in the 70 or 80 guys that have said they're coming it it means something to them you know and and they loved playing for the organization doesn't mean it was always perfect when they were there no but no organization is perfect every guy has contract problems or whatever it might be or the way he was released or all those things play into it but after a period of time is how long can you stay bitter about things you know when you really would have really boils down to is was my experience there good did I have good relationships with the guys that are there because that's the thing you miss the most when you when you leave the game you miss your relationships with your teammates in that and I think a lot of these guys are looking forward to seeing a lot of these guys they haven't seen in a long time and being able to you know just have a great time together remember maybe Amy from when you played for her father's team and how do you think she may be involved as an owner of what your relationship like with her to tell you the truth I don't remember much about her when I was there I think she kind of stayed you know in the background but I've gotten to know Amy really well over the last probably seven or eight years we're on the the board of the pro football Hall of Fame together so we got a chance to know each other there and and she's reached out to me a you know a few times over the years to to come to different functions or whatever it might be so I just love what she's doing and I love that she has the heart to do it that she cares and she understands that the legacy of the of the organization is important as well not just what's happening here in Tennessee but this legacy goes all the way back to when the Houston Oilers first started and she understands the importance of that because all of my records in passing or whatever are here in Nashville and so that's all part of that legacy so she's just reaching back and bringing everybody in so we can all be one big happy family