WEBVTT 1 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:15.800 I don't want to hear any more. It's more talk off that short Piara 2 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:19.600 trek along walk way stale free because it ain't off top of that show Trupnickpoff 3 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:22.440 drop, I don't want to hear any More's more talk off that short piar 4 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:25.480 trek along walk wat stale free because it ain't off top of that children. 5 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:31.960 What's up? Titans Fans? S Maximus Titan Fan and your boy flame Douglas 6 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:38.079 off the Hayden Lever duplicated main't tighten up and we are the Titans Fan Battle 7 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:42.600 Podcast, part of the Fan Battle Sports Network, the best network because it's 8 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:47.679 by the fans, for the fans. Today's show, we're gonna talk about 9 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:53.479 how to maximize our wind total and what our wind total we think will be. 10 00:00:55.280 --> 00:01:00.799 Um. You know, I'm gonna start this off basically because uh, 11 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:03.599 you know, it's pretty easy answer. Mostly, UM, the injury. 12 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:07.640 You know, we gotta stay we gotta stay healthy. We gotta keep people 13 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:10.920 on the field. We can't have injuries injuries like we've had the past two 14 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:15.040 years. That can't happen, not if we're going to be successful. Um. 15 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:19.480 You know, another big part of it, uh is the offensive line. 16 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:23.599 Um, I really feel like the offensive line has improved a lot this 17 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:29.280 year. You know, Dennis Daly's not there. He's replaced by Andre Dillard. 18 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:34.519 Yeah, thank god, right? Uh and Andre Dillard. You guys, 19 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:37.000 I don't know if you look this up, but he's more of a 20 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:40.920 pass blocker than he is a run blocker. Um, that's the way he 21 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:45.120 was drafted, That's the way his play is. He's he's good at keeping 22 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:48.159 the pocket clean. He's not a very good run blocker. And I think 23 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:56.840 that's why he didn't get the chance to start UM in Philly Peter Scronsky, 24 00:01:56.879 --> 00:02:00.200 we you know, the bill is out. But again, he's supposed to 25 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:07.319 have excellent pass blocking skills. M Brewer is if you look back now, 26 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:10.680 I am a big Aaron Brewer hater. You know this, if you watch 27 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:15.360 my videos, you know this. But if you look back when when Ben 28 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:19.919 Jones was playing for US uh, not last year, but the year before 29 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:23.639 that. In the early early of last offseason, there were a couple of 30 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:30.199 games that Ben Jones missed at center and Aaron Brewer stepped in for him at 31 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:34.800 center. And when he did play at center, he played actually really well. 32 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:38.800 He played pretty darn good and got pretty darn good scores there, so 33 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:44.280 we'll have to give him a nod until he proveses us wrong. Um brun 34 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:47.439 skill is more of a run blocker, but as a right tackle or excuse 35 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:53.159 me, as a right guard, that's what you want. And Nicholas Petit 36 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:58.759 frere, excuse me if I said that wrong. Is uh, he proved 37 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:00.960 to be pretty darn good. And to be honest, you know, I 38 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:05.319 mean he had Nate David standing next to him last year, which is a 39 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:08.960 run blocker, is a really good run blocker, but he's not very good 40 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:13.479 pass blocking. And I mean, you know, when you're trying to do 41 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:15.759 it all by yourself, it's just like again Aaron Burr. You got to 42 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:19.080 give him a little bit of, you know, a little bit of a 43 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:24.240 break because I mean, to his left he had the worst left tackle in 44 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:31.479 all of football and he's trying to block for these guys. The other big 45 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:36.719 parts of the offense that need to that need to improve is Kyle Phillips and 46 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:39.599 need to stay healthy, stay on the field, and I think he will. 47 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:46.120 And don't drop any more punts or kickoffs, please please, if you 48 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:51.719 get a chance to punt or kickoff return catch the damn ball first, number 49 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:58.840 one, catch the ball, number two run. Thanks. And we need 50 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:00.840 and we need Colton down step up a little bit this year. I think 51 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:04.439 if we don't sign d Hop, of course we'll get into that later. 52 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:08.919 But if we don't sign d Hop then we need we need Calton Dale to 53 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:14.280 step up to maximize our wins. Um. The defense is pretty easy, 54 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:16.879 man, just do what you've been doing on the front seven. I think 55 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:20.120 you're going to be improved because of hair Landry coming back and our key and 56 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:25.560 all these things that we've done. Um, but with the with the guys 57 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.800 in the back, the young backfield, y'all, y'all gotta you know, 58 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:31.199 y'all gotta produce a little better. Y'all gotta do a little better. Even 59 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:35.600 though Colton Fulton, Christian Fulton, excuse me, was on I think he 60 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:42.199 was number eight on the top ten list for the cornerbacks of what was his 61 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:44.920 name, some ESPN writer. I can't remember his name right now. I'm 62 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:47.560 sorry, man, yea, um, but I did read that. I 63 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:51.199 saw that. It surprised me, so I posted it. If you need 64 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:54.959 to see that, you can see it on my Facebook page. But what 65 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:59.079 do you do? What do you think flame. What's your take on mentioned 66 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:01.879 I'll mentioned at the end of yours what our what our wind total will be? 67 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:05.040 Go ahead, yeah, yeah, we'll save the winding totals to you 68 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:12.759 know after this offense offense, offense, man, I think to maximize our 69 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:16.519 offense, the number one thing we must do, let's protect the quarterback. 70 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:20.319 You got to protect the quarterback. That's what we sucked that last year. 71 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:25.839 I'm talking about struggle, struggle, struggle. Offensive line could not get it 72 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:30.240 together at all. So number one, we gotta protect the quarterback. And 73 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.240 I think we will. Like you said, we got Dillard on the offensive 74 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:42.439 line. Now, we got Skronski Brewery Center. Now, m Petite forever. 75 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:46.399 I'm liking what we're bringing on the offensive line now, Like I'm really 76 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:49.519 excited about this new group. They're young. Hopefully they can jail together and 77 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:56.319 by time the season start, we should be dominating the line of scrimmage. 78 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:59.920 And that brings me to my second point of how we need to maximize the 79 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.560 offense. We gotta dominate the line of scrimmage. And when I say dominate, 80 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:06.800 I'm talking in both phases of offense. We have to run the ball 81 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:10.560 for Derek. We have to open up host for Dereck Henry, and we 82 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:14.920 have to pass block for Tannehill. If we're gonna have any kind of offense, 83 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:17.360 we have to run the ball, which we know we're gonna do anyway. 84 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:23.000 So holes will have to be made. The blocks have to be held 85 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:27.519 on too, so Tannehill can go through his progressions and make the right pass. 86 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:30.920 And you know, we want an offense to be this high scoring offense. 87 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:33.920 But like I said, we have to dominate the line of scrimmage or 88 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:40.600 we'll be struggling again. And now number three, number three, we gotta 89 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:45.120 let the run open up the passing game. So we gotta get our run 90 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:48.439 game going. Last year we struggled on first down getting the run game going. 91 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:51.000 You know, we'll give the bottle Derek Henry. He running into a 92 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:56.959 wall. We have to we have to open up these holes like that's the 93 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:00.480 only way our offense is gonna work. You know, everybody wants us to 94 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:02.519 go out here and be this five wide, spread it out, throw the 95 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:05.120 ball over the top. Come on, y'all, we got Derek Henry. 96 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:10.240 That's not gonna happen. We're still gonna be that smash mouth. Run the 97 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:14.439 ball run the ball down your throat football team. First. Now, we 98 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:17.079 might with Tim Kelly, we might open up the pass game a little more 99 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:21.399 than we have in the in the past, but we're still gonna be that 100 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:25.959 smash mouth football team. We're not getting away from that, trust me, 101 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:30.000 not just yet. The longest number twenty two is on our team. We're 102 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:32.720 gonna run that ball. So we need to let the let the run game, 103 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:36.680 open up the pass and by that, I mean switch it up. 104 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:41.160 You know, we gotta we can't be so predictable. That's another thing. 105 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:45.240 We can't be so predictable on offense. We can't first down, we're gonna 106 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:46.959 run. Second down, we're gonna run third down, we're gonna pass. 107 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:54.680 We gotta get away from run run pass. And now that our old offensive 108 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:58.800 coordinators out of there, I'm feeling good about what we're gonna do with this 109 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:03.319 offense. Like, no, it's not gonna be run run past so and 110 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:07.639 then my fourth thing is we have to score points in the red zone. 111 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:11.800 We before, before last year, we were good at scoring points in the 112 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:16.439 red zone. We kind of took a step back last year and we just 113 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:18.600 you know, we struggle, which most of the time you know, either 114 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:22.600 tune Hill got hit he didn't have enough time to run the ball, I 115 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:26.800 mean to pass the ball or the whole one and open for Derek hen't really 116 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:31.800 hit the thing, or shit, we didn't have no receiver that it was 117 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:33.759 gonna catch the ball right, Like, who the hell was we're gonna throw 118 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:37.159 into you know what I'm saying. So those are things that we struggled on 119 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:41.480 last year that I think we'll do better with this year. And all four 120 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:46.720 of those things would definitely help maximize our offense. And another key thing that 121 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:52.159 we'll talk about a little later is signing DeAndre Hawkins if that was to help 122 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:56.360 it, If that was to happen, I'm pretty sure that would help maximize 123 00:08:56.360 --> 00:09:00.879 our offense. That would give us two nice rous two number one one receivers 124 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:05.919 on both sides with Treylan Burkes and DeAndre Hopkins. Stick up Kyle Phillips in 125 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:11.039 the slide. Hey man, Hey, it could be nice, but um, 126 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:16.399 we we're talking about maximizing our offense. I think those four things would 127 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:20.080 definitely help us, you know, be more efficient, take less sacks, 128 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:26.519 less turnovers. That would those things would definitely help us maximize our offense. 129 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:33.679 Mat I agree, I agree, And what is your win total right now? 130 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:41.039 My projective win total for Tennessee Titans next year is nine to ten wins. 131 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:43.279 And I mean that's honestly, just being as honest as I can, 132 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.120 not trying to be biased, take my heart out of it. I see 133 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:54.440 us get nine to ten wins simply because I do think our defense will still 134 00:09:54.480 --> 00:10:01.320 play good. We will we will struggle a little bit in the secondary because 135 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:05.120 I'm not really knowing what our corners are gonna bring. You know, we 136 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:09.639 always struggled against good wide receivers. Our cornerbacks have always struggled. And now 137 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:13.840 you got good well I can't say good yet, but you got potentially good 138 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:18.360 quarterbacks in the division. So I mean, I can still see us having 139 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:24.159 some problems in the in the in the with receivers, covering receivers and tight 140 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:28.600 ends. Our offense. I do think our offense is gonna be a lot 141 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:33.039 better than people think. I don't think we's gonna we're gonna struggle too much 142 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:35.159 our offense. I actually think we're gonna put points on the board this year. 143 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:39.039 I think um trailing Burks is gonna take He's gonna make a lead. 144 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:43.879 I think Kyle I'm hoping Kyle Phillips make a leap. Chiague is gonna probably 145 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:48.320 be one of our most dynamic players. And um, I see us. 146 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:54.159 I see us being better than last year our offense, but not good enough 147 00:10:54.759 --> 00:11:01.000 to to be eleven to twelve win team. So I got us right now 148 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:05.120 if I had to pick one, if I had to pick one number, 149 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:09.559 I got us and nine wins. What about you? What about you? 150 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:13.679 Max? What's you? What's your projected win total for us? Well? 151 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:20.120 Well, my projected win total and my my maximum win total are two different 152 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:26.399 things. Okay, but um my my maximum win total um is twelve wins. 153 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:33.320 Uh without DeAndre Hopkins. Obviously, if we get DeAndre Hopkins, I 154 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:37.159 guess that goes up a little bit. But that's my maximum win total. 155 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:43.000 That is the the the ceiling of what I think we could achieve. Okay, 156 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:48.039 Um, realistically anyway, Uh, you know, like you said, 157 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:50.679 take my heart out of it as a Titans fan, you know, because 158 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:56.759 I think we could go sixteen to no. You know you're seventeen to no. 159 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:58.720 I'm sorry, Yeah, I keep forgetting. I'm sorry, I'm old 160 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:03.960 school man, um, but yeah, that you know, I always want 161 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:07.960 us to win every single game. But you know, realistically, I think 162 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:13.559 the maximum total wins we could get is probably twelve. Um, you know 163 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:16.879 what do I think we'll actually get. I think you nailed it. I 164 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:22.840 think I think nine. I think nine wins is probably exactly how many will 165 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.840 end up with, either nine or ten. Yeah. Um, I still 166 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:30.240 expect to go to the playoffs. Um, you know, I don't know 167 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:35.480 if we'll win the division or not because of Jacksonville and Houston actually doesn't look 168 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:41.759 terrible. Um the Colts do though, so that's nice. Shout out to 169 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:46.200 all my cult fans out there, my cousins, if you're watching ha ha 170 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:54.159 you live in Indie. Um, sorry any more, guys, I know 171 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:58.120 I feel sorry for him ever since, ever since Andrew luck Cliff, they've 172 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:07.039 just had no luck. Wop. Sorry, But Jacksonville, you know, 173 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:09.600 you know, I mean, I'm not really that worried about them until they 174 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:13.679 have back to back winning seasons. But they did look pretty good last year. 175 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:18.159 They didn't change that much in the off season, so I don't expect 176 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:20.080 them really to be that much different than they were last year. However, 177 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.919 I don't think, you know, we would have lost both games to them. 178 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:26.240 I think we only really should have lost one game to them. But 179 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:31.480 well, we'll leave that, you know, a whole mess for another discussion 180 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:35.480 or whatever. If we want to talk about the failures of last season. 181 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:37.440 I think that it might be a good topic for a show coming up. 182 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:41.759 Um. Actually, I think that would be a great topic for We're gonna 183 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:46.840 have to do that now. I think, yeah, we discussed it all 184 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:50.360 right, so let's just let's just transition right off since we're talking about the 185 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:54.600 offense and how to maximize and all that good stuff. Everybody wants to know. 186 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:58.919 You know, everybody's talking about it right now. DeAndre Hopkins and nash 187 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:03.559 Phille. We swewed him, you know, we put him. We put 188 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:07.799 him in the limo with the with the nice picture of him up there in 189 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:11.639 a Titans jersey. You know, uh, you know, we we we 190 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:16.159 took him to the CMAS. Apparently, uh, some guy on Twitter said 191 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:20.720 he saw him at an eye hop I hope that's not true. Um on 192 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:26.159 Dickerson Road, I really hope that's not true. Um. Right, So 193 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:30.879 I'm not from Nashville, but I do know Nashville. Come on, guys, 194 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:35.559 uh, don't go to that one. That's not the one you want. 195 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:39.879 You know, there's more eye ops. Man, don't go to that 196 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:43.200 one anyway. Uh. So, yeah, I think we swewed him. 197 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:46.679 I think we did a good job. And uh I think honestly, at 198 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:50.879 the end of the day, you know, if he looks at the situation 199 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:54.960 as a realistic, you know guy, which I think he is, I 200 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:56.440 think he'll end up looking at it and going, you know, this is 201 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:03.559 probably my best my best shot tonight. What's up, Matt? Thank you. 202 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:05.960 I'll see you tomorrow too, Buddy. That's one of the guys I 203 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:11.399 work with. But we had, Yeah, we had kind of an accident 204 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:13.600 at work today, so I think it's probably but he's he's just showing me 205 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:18.519 love and I love it and thank you for the support. And you know 206 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:20.000 we're all thinking about you, Johnny. Hope you pulled through, buddy. 207 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:28.519 Um but anyway, sorry DeAndre Hopkins. So we swewed him. We did 208 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:31.600 our best, and I think at the end of the day, he'll probably 209 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:35.559 say that that you know, where else is he gonna play? Jersey? 210 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:39.519 Um? You know, I mean he's he gonna play in Cleveland, h 211 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:43.440 don't think so, Detroit and probably not. Um, you know, he's 212 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.679 the Southern guy. You know, he's been up there or he's been out 213 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:50.000 there West. You know, I don't think you liked that too much. 214 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:52.039 You know, come back to the South. You know he played in South 215 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:56.320 Carolina. I think he grew up in South Carolina. You're a Southern man 216 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:58.559 at heart. Come back to the South, bro. We're a tax free 217 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:03.279 state. You know, eighteen million dollars tax free. You know that's uh, 218 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:06.759 that's like one point eight million dollars. You ain't gonna give up, 219 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:08.720 bro, you know, I mean think about that. You know. Um, 220 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:11.600 also, you know a lot of our games are in tax free states. 221 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:15.960 You know, so again, your paycheck is gonna be higher. And 222 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:19.360 and and you signed with us. I mean it found financially it makes sense. 223 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:25.720 Yeah, financial Yeah, I mean he said he wants some money. 224 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:27.639 This is you get some money here. You know, we can't offer you 225 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:33.039 the biggest bag, but we're gonna offer you a nice size bag, and 226 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:34.759 we give you know, we're gonna give you a chance to win. You. 227 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:38.200 I mean, we can't, we can't guarantee that you you know, 228 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:44.480 we're gonna be a Super Bowl contending squad next year, but we're gonna we're 229 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:45.720 gonna give you a chance to win. What do you say we give him 230 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:55.960 the rudy to fruity man. That's that's a dish man, that's fruity he 231 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:59.240 te man. You're speaking the truth. Brother. Hey, we try to 232 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:02.720 everything. We pulled out all the stops, man, I'm sure on the 233 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:06.480 way from the airport we were like, hey, you know, uh Taylor 234 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:11.359 Specials right over there, and there's a McGraw and there's uh, you know, 235 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:17.920 uh jelly Roll. You know, you know, we got all these 236 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:19.599 people here, and i mean, look at look at how sweet this place 237 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:22.880 is. You know, the CMA's. Actually that that lined up really well 238 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:26.839 that he could go to the CMA's because I'm sure he's not a huge country 239 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:33.039 music fan. But at the same time, the energy you feel from something 240 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:34.640 like that, you know what i mean, and you have you get a 241 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:40.480 feel for how alive the town is at an event like that, you know 242 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:44.480 what I mean, Like if you them to Yeah, if you've been to 243 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:48.480 something like that in Nashville or back when opry Land was actually producing some stuff 244 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:52.279 and doing stuff and it used to actually liven up the town a lot. 245 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:57.799 Yeah, sure, with it being in Nissan you know, that was all 246 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:00.759 good. It's on you. They look, man, this is where you'll 247 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:06.000 be playing, you know. Like, uh, I think they did that 248 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:08.319 thing with the visit, you know, bringing them in, you know, 249 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:12.880 picking them up in the vand with the welcome to Nashville with the d with 250 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:17.240 the d hop in the tightest uniform. Man, that was very creative. 251 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:19.400 Shout out to our marketing team for that. You know, they had the 252 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:25.799 champagne bottles in there. Uh. I'm pretty sure he had a good visit, 253 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:27.240 man. You know, we treated them to the concert, had him 254 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:32.640 up in the President's box. Hey. I know he probably don't listen to 255 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:34.880 a lot of country, but hey, that one. Hey, that's just 256 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:38.440 showing you that deep be hot. That could be a little dirt, that 257 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:41.920 could be Uh, any of these rappers when they come to Nashville, you 258 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:47.160 know they're gonna put you always put you up in the highest thing. But 259 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:49.759 um no, what's funny. I was listening to Rabel last week, you 260 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:53.799 know, saying that he's not a recruiter. This is not a recruitman. 261 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:57.160 You know, he's done with the recruitment, rearing a recruiter. He left 262 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:02.799 that in college. But yeah, but I sounded like recruiting to me, 263 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:06.400 Man, you bring be Hopping, you show him a good time. You 264 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:11.160 know, you tell him that we can probably give him probably ten fifteen million, 265 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:15.400 you know, depending on the the incentives we can give him. And 266 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.680 I mean, we give him a good chance to win. Man, we 267 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:22.680 got we got a pretty good offense. We got my opinion, we got 268 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:26.599 the best running back in the NFL. You know, we gotta you know, 269 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:30.480 we got a decent Tannehill has been a decent veteran quarterback with the big 270 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:33.039 arm. Dudes got a cannon. He want to put it there. He's 271 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:36.680 gonna put it on you long as long as you get open, Tannehill will 272 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:38.519 put the ball on you. So, I mean, I know and I 273 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:42.119 know Hoppings. You know, he's very familiar with some of our players, 274 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:45.759 you know, with him playing in Houston, and you know, just being 275 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:51.480 in the AFC South for a while. I'm feeling good. I'm actually feeling 276 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:55.119 good about what the Titans did bringing them here. I'm feeling good about what 277 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:59.200 I'm hearing about him wanting to be here. Like Rabel said, Man, 278 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:02.440 we won't play. They want to be here. So you know, if 279 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:04.680 you even show a little interest, I want to be a Titan, and 280 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:07.839 you know we're showing you. You know, we got a new general manager 281 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:14.119 who's who's determined to win. He's gonna bring more players in. You know, 282 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:18.640 who wouldn't want to play for a general manager like Rand Carton. I 283 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:22.960 mean, everything the guy said so far it just sounds good. You know, 284 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:26.839 he's gonna he's gonna draft the right players. We're gonna we're gonna turn 285 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:30.519 this thing around. And you know, right now it sounded good. Man. 286 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:34.920 Hey, Hopefully one day I can say that DeAndre Hopkins is a Titan. 287 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:41.160 You know, I'm not gonna get too hyper because I got two hyper 288 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:45.599 when we signed Julio Jones and we all seen how that turned out. So 289 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:48.720 I'm not gonna get too hyper off about the DeAndre Hopkins, but I think 290 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:52.960 we would love to have him. I think he'll be a great mentor to 291 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:57.680 Trailing Burkes. He'll be a great, uh great another teammate to play on 292 00:20:57.720 --> 00:21:03.200 the other side of the field and open up stuff for Trailing. Trailing will 293 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:08.000 open up stuff for Hopkins and Chig and Wildly and everybody. So, I 294 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:11.519 mean, I feel like he'll be a perfect fit. I just I'm I'm 295 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:18.599 hey right now, I'm excited. I'm I'm liking when I'm here here. 296 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:23.359 Let's get this guy signed, and we do have the money to do it. 297 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:26.359 And the money may say, Amy, give it to this guy. 298 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:29.640 He's gonna sell plenty jerseys, he's gonna put some butts and some seats and 299 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:33.119 he signed. Let's do it. Let's come on, bring Hopkins to the 300 00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:37.279 Titans. Yeah, let's get it exactly. I mean, it's just that 301 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:41.799 simple. No, it's you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right, one hundred 302 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:45.359 percent. But honestly, like I said, I don't see him going anywhere 303 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:49.680 else um finance. You know, as much as Hopkins makes sense for the 304 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:53.839 Titans, I think the Titans make just as much sense for DeAndre Hopkins. 305 00:21:55.039 --> 00:21:57.119 Yeah, and I know I get a lot of argument on this from other 306 00:21:57.200 --> 00:22:02.519 people outside of my organization because they don't see my organization like I see my 307 00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:07.640 organization. But I see my organization as an improved offense. We've got a 308 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:11.279 better offensive line, so we're gonna be able to keep Tannahill up longer. 309 00:22:11.559 --> 00:22:15.599 We're gonna be able to throw the ball. That means more time for him 310 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:21.160 to scan the field. If you have Burkes, then that also creates more 311 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:25.960 opportunity for you. So I mean, not only do you get the money, 312 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:30.319 but you get Tim Kelly, who you were highly productive under. You 313 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:33.000 already know he knows how to use you and what your favorite routes are to 314 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:37.559 run and all that kind of stuff. You're already familiar with Vrabel and you 315 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:41.480 had high praise for him when he became a head coach. He said he 316 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:45.079 know how to win championships, and that's always done. Since he's got here 317 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:52.279 is is bring us to the playoffs AFC Championships. I mean, and there 318 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:56.519 is a lack of what he is. You know what I mean. There 319 00:22:56.599 --> 00:23:00.559 is a lack at wide receiver, so there are plenty of targets or or 320 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:04.920 or passes to go around. You know what I'm saying. There's plenty for 321 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:08.200 him to eat. There's plenty of food for everybody to eat. So come 322 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:11.960 on in here, Derek DeAndre Hopkins, eat, eat up. You gonna 323 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:15.319 love it here in Tennessee. I'm telling you, I think, honestly, 324 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:18.279 you're just making a sweat and trying to drive the price up a little bit 325 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:23.960 by going to meeting other other teams, because I honestly think that you've already 326 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:29.319 chosen. I think I believe that. I believe that he's already decided pretty 327 00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:32.160 much who he's going with. He's just kind of gonna ride this out and 328 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:34.519 see where you get out of it or whatever. Get some nice visits, 329 00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:38.559 you know, use up some time, you know there. I mean, 330 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:45.039 just he's gonna he's gonna enjoy the hospitality while he's on he'saying, I think 331 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:48.519 this is his first time ever really being a free agent, so he might 332 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:51.440 as well, you know, go on a little tour, have fun this 333 00:23:51.559 --> 00:23:53.960 summer a little bit, you know, soak it all up. But yeah, 334 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:59.519 it's not just say that that the Browns don't do something completely stupid and 335 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:03.599 offer him like thirty million dollars a year. All right, then he's gone, 336 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:07.480 you know what I mean, So I understand what he's doing. Yeah, 337 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:14.480 it wouldn't At the same time if we're within two million of anybody else's 338 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:18.079 offer out there. Even if we're not, I think he calls us back 339 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:21.559 and goes, hey, man, you want to match this offer, you 340 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:25.039 know? I mean, like, I really believe that he would want to 341 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:27.319 play for the Titans. It just makes sense. It makes me way too 342 00:24:27.400 --> 00:24:30.680 much sense, way more sense. Than the Patriots. Yeah, I don't 343 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:34.480 know if I don't know if you know about the Bill O'Brien comments, but 344 00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:40.400 you know, he said some really nasty stuff about DeAndre. I'm not even 345 00:24:40.440 --> 00:24:44.480 gonna bring it up, DeAndre, because that was that was just uncalled for. 346 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:48.079 I mean, you don't as a as a as a man, and 347 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:51.440 as a as a coach, you should never say things like that about your 348 00:24:51.480 --> 00:24:56.240 players unless I mean they've just done something heinous, and he had at that 349 00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:59.799 point, so I mean, I don't understand it. And then they do 350 00:24:59.839 --> 00:25:03.480 that baffling trade off, which just didn't make any sense to me at all. 351 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:08.960 But hey, DeAndre, come back to the AFC south Man. You 352 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:14.480 can play Houston twice a year, and this year you can wear an oiler's 353 00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:18.519 jersey and smash their Facebook. Yeah, that's gonna not be beautiful. That's 354 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:26.519 gonna be beautiful. And I can't say the last two franchises that Hopkins played 355 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:32.200 for have been discubobulated, you know what I'm saying, Like Texas, the 356 00:25:32.359 --> 00:25:37.839 Texans were going through a whole new rebrand. You we all know where Arizona 357 00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:41.759 was going through. I mean, they ain't trying to get new coaches that 358 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:47.160 their front office was just a rick, Hey, we have some stability finally 359 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:49.359 in the front office. And right here in Nashville, we got a new 360 00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:55.400 general manager, Miss Amy. She's a great owner. She's gonna give us 361 00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:59.960 what we need to be successful. Rabel being the coach of the year couple 362 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:03.400 years ago, he ain't done number when CCV being here, man like, 363 00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:08.359 we're stable. All we need is that other receiver, a veteran catch the 364 00:26:08.359 --> 00:26:12.000 ball. And we all know when we you know, we've had this past 365 00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:18.559 catcher this conversation. DeAndre Hopkins is definitely a pass catcher. He's a He's 366 00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:22.359 not a guy that's gonna get a lot of run after the catch. He's 367 00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:25.599 you know, he's gonna catch that ball, get out of battles or get 368 00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:29.160 down, but he's catching that ball if it's coming his way. So I 369 00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:32.079 feel like he, I mean, why not? Why not? Hopkins? 370 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:36.000 The only reason I can see you not coming to the Titans is probably because 371 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:41.319 money. But I think we got enough for that finally to give you at 372 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:45.759 least for one or two years. So at this point, I don't really 373 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:48.640 see a reason that he wouldn't want to come here. You know what I'm 374 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:53.240 saying, I feel like we have the best looking jerseys. I mean, 375 00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:56.960 there's a lot of reasons I can see, yes, and it's very few 376 00:26:57.039 --> 00:27:00.240 reasons I see no. But we're gonna don't see how they all play out. 377 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:03.559 But why not? Why not play on the side of a first round 378 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:07.160 rookie. Why not play on the same team as the best running back in 379 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:11.440 the NFL whose big at hell? When you see him in person and you 380 00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:15.359 can see why he still saw on people to the ground, and you know, 381 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:21.279 at for a team who who's about to be rebuilding the stadium and you 382 00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:23.680 know it's gonna be a nice man? Just why not just you know this, 383 00:27:23.799 --> 00:27:26.599 I just feel like this. I feel like it would be And then 384 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:30.279 you know, like you said, with the links with with Rabel and Tim 385 00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:34.440 Kelly, like I just feel like it's it's just a match made in heaven 386 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:41.759 for Hopkins this this offseason, and like you said, with all the with 387 00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:47.240 all the pay the taxes and uh, it's just it's just all green light. 388 00:27:47.319 --> 00:27:49.200 Man, Come on, Hopkins, do what you're gonna make. What 389 00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:56.640 you gotta think about the last gem m traded off our Star Wars receiver the 390 00:27:56.720 --> 00:28:00.319 year after he dragged her. He went out and at the Julio Jones deal, 391 00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:07.519 right and we're still paying Julio Jones even though he hasn't played for US 392 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:11.279 in two years. Right now, a lot of a lot of people are 393 00:28:12.279 --> 00:28:19.440 comparing this situation to the Julio Jones A J. Brown situation. And let's 394 00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:27.160 get something really clear. Right now, Julio Jones and DeAndre Hopkins at their 395 00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:30.799 stages of their career when when we signed them, if we were to sign 396 00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:37.000 DeAndre Hopkins now, are at completely different stages. They are completely different talent 397 00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:45.160 levels. It's Julio Jones already had two busted up years of his knee getting 398 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:51.079 busted. DeAndre Hopkins hasn't. I mean, DeAndre Hopkins has been producing the 399 00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:53.160 last two years. He just had to sit out of six game suspension because 400 00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:56.720 you know some stuff. Don't worry about that though. DeAndre is no big 401 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:00.640 deal. Man. Come on down to Tennessee, bro. Serious. We 402 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:04.480 love you, man, love you, we want we want you, We 403 00:29:04.519 --> 00:29:07.519 want you man, we want you. The VT. Stop with that now, 404 00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:11.720 you know, Come on now, quit What do you say? I 405 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:15.559 missed that? I just said. It's all coming down, the money, 406 00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:22.440 all coming down, the money. Look at my dog TJ flame, My 407 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:26.720 dog ain't gonna start nothing. Shout out out to the whole thing. Shout 408 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:29.079 out to my dollar, Shout out to my dollar. TJ. Man, 409 00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:32.119 he is still a fan, but you know, I guess the still So 410 00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:34.359 that's my dog man tightened up though, t J. Yeah. Hey that's 411 00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:37.720 cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's cool. Man. I feel 412 00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:41.079 that I'm the same way with UT. And you know when they play Georgia, 413 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:44.319 you know, I always want UT to win. Yes, they're playing 414 00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:52.200 Georgia exactly, all right, man, So let's kick off our Honestly, 415 00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:56.000 one of my favorite segments of the Favorite I don't know. I think it's 416 00:29:56.039 --> 00:30:00.559 a hard choice between this and the Fans Facts segment, but I love the 417 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:03.680 segment that we do. It's called the Legend segment. Each week we choose 418 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:10.160 a legend, one offensive, one defensive. Yeah that's right, Titans Legends, 419 00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:14.200 everybody. Um, So you want to go first or do you want 420 00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:17.559 me to go first? This week? I can go first this week. 421 00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:19.559 I think I think you went first last week. I don't know how we 422 00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:23.880 do with it, but I'm going first this week. I went defense. 423 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:27.480 It was my turn to go defense, y'all, And I think you know 424 00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:32.440 it was kind of hard, not too hard. But my first defensive player 425 00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:37.720 I picked was Javiron Curse. This this week, I'm going with probably the 426 00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:42.759 best cornerback we've ever had on the Titans. Possibly. I mean, it's 427 00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:47.519 it's very it's very I mean you could argue it's very you know. I 428 00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:52.319 mean, hey, I'm going Samari row Man. Shout out to Samari roll 429 00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:56.359 Man. He's it was lockdown. It was that guy was one of them 430 00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:00.440 corners you really didn't want to throw his way because he was elusive, you 431 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:04.680 know he was. He was very aggressive. You know, he beat you. 432 00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:07.920 He can wrestle with you at the line of scrammage. You know that 433 00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:12.440 guy he wasn't to push over at corner at ain't. He had nice sizes 434 00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:18.400 too. But let's talk about his stats with the Titans. With the Titans, 435 00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:22.480 and I'm not pretty, I'm not I didn't do a little more research 436 00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:26.279 about how many years and all he was with the Titans. But while his 437 00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:30.960 time in Tennessee, he had twenty three interceptions, three hundred and forty three 438 00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:34.079 return yards on the interception, and then one he took it all the way 439 00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:38.039 to the house. In two thousand, the year two thousand, he was 440 00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:42.680 All Pro at corner and he made the Pro Bowl. Shout out to Samarrow 441 00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:48.519 Row during and during that time in Tennessee, he had twenty two I said, 442 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:53.960 twenty two hundred and fifty five solo tackles, nine tackles for laws, 443 00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:59.480 and eight and a half sacks as a corner with eight and a half sacks 444 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:02.920 out out the Samaria role. Man, he was a mean beast on that 445 00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:07.640 corner position. That's who we used to put on all the star receivers we 446 00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:12.200 used to play against. That was back in the Jeff Fisher days. Those 447 00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:15.119 was the days where we had a nice defensive line. So our defensive line 448 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:21.000 used to make plays. And you know, he a Samaria role. He 449 00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:24.160 was a monster. And we know we're talking about legends. Samari role was 450 00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:30.319 definitely definitely a Tightens legends, a Titan's legend, and uh, you can 451 00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:35.680 say arguably one of them, I mean the best, if not if he's 452 00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:39.160 not thieve Ben's corner, he's definitely one of He's definitely top. Yeah, 453 00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:45.440 arguably, Yeah, I'd have to put that asterisk there because, yeah, 454 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:47.039 man, it's hard to check that there's been a there's been two or three 455 00:32:47.160 --> 00:32:51.519 that we've had pretty pretty dumn good. But yeah, like I could have 456 00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:53.880 I could have went Courting and Finnegan, as my daughters TJ say, I 457 00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:58.519 could have went Finnegan. I could have went Nick Harper, I could have 458 00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:02.680 went Andre Diceon. I could have went I could have went, Antron Werner, 459 00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:07.480 Jason mccordy. I mean, you know, all those guys was legends 460 00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:13.839 at corner. Hey, hopefully we got one plan could win pac Man Jones. 461 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:17.279 Hey, I mean hopefully we got one plan a corner right now. 462 00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:22.599 And Roger McCreary. I thought we would have one in California. But that's 463 00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:25.440 the story for a whole another day. But so shout out to my legend, 464 00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:30.960 Samari Role. Shout out big Donald number twenty one lockdown one side of 465 00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:35.200 the field got us. He you know, he played with us when we 466 00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:38.000 was the dominant Titans on defense. Shout out to Samari Role. Who you 467 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:42.920 got for your legend on offense this week? Max, Well, uh, 468 00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:45.559 that's hard to compete with Samari Roll Man, I ain't gonna lie. You 469 00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:52.559 always come with good ones. Um I went. I went with someone who 470 00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:57.720 is my personal one of my personal favorite Titans. Um. Not only is 471 00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:00.920 he one of the Titan legends in my eyes? But I honestly didn't know 472 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:04.880 how good he was until I looked up his stats. And I think that 473 00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:07.800 he's one of the most overlooked Titans because of the way that he ended his 474 00:34:07.840 --> 00:34:14.039 career and someone else began their career. And today I'm gonna talk about Michael 475 00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:19.760 Ruse left tackle. Yeah, and the reason I want to bring up left 476 00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:25.119 tackle is because of how crappy our left tackle was last season. We know 477 00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:34.199 how important left tackle is in the NFL. Now we've learned very very important 478 00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:37.440 position. Man, You protecting the quarterback's blindside if he's a right hand quarterback. 479 00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:43.119 Very important position. All right, So I'm gonna try to be fast 480 00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:45.400 with this because I just the more I learned about Michael Ruge, the more 481 00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:49.760 I was intrigued. So I kept going. And I'm sorry if I get 482 00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:54.559 off on a little tangent here, but listen, let's go. Michael Ruge 483 00:34:54.599 --> 00:35:00.719 was born in Estonia and then came to the United States. Wow, So 484 00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:05.960 that's interesting. He doesn't really talk about that very much, though I don't 485 00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:12.440 know why he was drafted in two thousand and five. He was drafted ninth 486 00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:17.559 in the second round. I think it was forty one overall out of Eastern 487 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:24.800 Washington. That's a D one school one, all right. He was the 488 00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:30.159 first D one player drafted that year. So he was the highest pick, 489 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:37.119 and he has been the highest pick out of Eastern Washington ever since. Nobody's 490 00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:42.119 ever been drafted from that school higher. So, yeah, Eastern Washington. 491 00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:46.039 I'd never heard of the Eastern Washington. I think they're the War Eagles. 492 00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:50.679 I was just gonna say, what's their mascot? Brod Never even heard of 493 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:54.719 you guys, the War Eagles. All right. Yeah, In two thousand 494 00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:59.920 and eight, he was elected to the Pro Bowl. Um, even though 495 00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:05.519 to be honest, two thousand year was or twenty eleven was arguably his best 496 00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:09.159 year at left tackle. I don't know why he wasn't selected to the Pro 497 00:36:09.239 --> 00:36:14.320 Bowl that year as well. Maybe there was somebody else, Maybe it was 498 00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:19.239 just by I don't know us like that. Well, I mean, you 499 00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:22.199 know, we might have been terrible that year, might have been one of 500 00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:24.039 the four and twelve years or something. I don't know. It's hard. 501 00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:29.079 It's hard to think about those years, right, four and fifteen, whatever 502 00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:36.920 we were. Anyway, in twenty fourteen, in October twenty fourteen, which 503 00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:43.719 was Week four, Michael Ruse suffered as a season ending leg injury that required 504 00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:51.239 surgery, and he never played another game. Now, the reason that I 505 00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:57.719 said he was overlooked is because waiting in the wings for him was first round 506 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:05.760 draft pick at number eleven overall, Taylor Lawe. Taylor one was literally ready 507 00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:10.039 to step in. They were literally just letting Ruse right out of his contract 508 00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:14.159 and then they were gonna just let Lawan come right in the next year. 509 00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:17.840 It just so happened that he hurt himself and didn't make it through the year, 510 00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:22.679 and Luan stepped in and continued on, and Luan was so good as 511 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:28.000 a rookie that people just kind of were like, that's okay, we don't 512 00:37:28.079 --> 00:37:30.360 you know, that's cool Michael Ruse. So I think that's why people don't 513 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:37.039 really appreciate what this man really did for the team. He retired in twenty 514 00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:40.239 fifteen. The next season, he never played for another team. Um, 515 00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:45.760 I will say that he played one hundred and forty eight games for US. 516 00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:53.320 That means he missed one if you're keeping countra Wow, Yeah, that's what 517 00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:59.719 consistency. Man and man play all them games. And just miss one game. 518 00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:07.280 Wow, nine seasons, nine seasons, he missed one game, and 519 00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:12.719 the reason he missed a game is because he had emergency appendectomy surgery. Come 520 00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:15.880 on, men, that just showed back out there the next week. Man, 521 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:20.199 come on, they just show you he had the damn near be dying 522 00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:22.800 to miss a game. Man, shout out on Michael rules Man. They 523 00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:27.920 don't make enough tackles like him, no more. Man. Now we're gonna 524 00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:32.280 go over some stats real quick, and for comparison. I've also got Taylor 525 00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:37.159 the One stats here because a lot of people say, you know, he's 526 00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:40.559 a really good left tackle for the Tennessee and I don't disagree with him. 527 00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:47.280 But let's see what the stats say about Michael Ruse compared to Taylor the one. 528 00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:52.480 Um. Like I said, he played one hundred and forty eight games 529 00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:55.920 for the Titans. Over that time, he played eight thousand, three hundred 530 00:38:55.920 --> 00:39:04.280 and twenty seven snaps eight thousand. He had forty two penalties over those eight 531 00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:12.039 thousand snaps. Forty two over eight thousand snaps. Wow, twenty eight sacks 532 00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:15.320 allowed. Now that sounds like a lot. You think about spread that out 533 00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:20.400 over nine years. Yeah, yeah, and one year we had a really 534 00:39:20.519 --> 00:39:25.400 terrible O line and he had nine sacks. But honestly, that was the 535 00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:30.960 year I think we had like forty or fifty two sacks or something like it. 536 00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:34.440 We were the number one sack team in the NFL that year, I 537 00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:37.360 think, So it was just our O line was crap. The next year 538 00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:40.880 we got Kevin Mawai and everything kind of balanced. I think we also got 539 00:39:42.199 --> 00:39:45.639 David Stewart I think was the right guard at that point of the right tackle. 540 00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:49.320 I mean, so we kind of like shifted everything around on the O 541 00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:52.039 line and really straightened it out, and then for the rest of his career 542 00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:58.599 he get the ride out. But anyway, compare that to Taylor of the 543 00:39:58.679 --> 00:40:02.679 one. Okay, the one UM had forty nine hundred snaps, so five 544 00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:07.360 thousand snaps versus eighty three hundred. Okay, so we're talking about three thousand 545 00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:14.599 more snaps. Okay, Okay, three thousand more snaps. That's crazy, 546 00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:22.559 that's nuts. Uh Okay. So Taylor the one had sixty three penalties where 547 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:28.519 Michael Rusee had forty two, all right, and Taylor the one allowed twenty 548 00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:32.679 six sacks where Michael Ruge allowed twenty eight. Wow, I'm talking about three 549 00:40:32.679 --> 00:40:37.880 thousand more three snaps, three thousand more snaps, and he only gave up 550 00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:46.119 two more penalties sacks. Come on, man, and the big the big 551 00:40:46.159 --> 00:40:51.920 thing to me that will always stand out for me on him is the one 552 00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:57.639 game you miss, one game that you need out of your old lineman. 553 00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:01.159 That's what you need out of you, old lineman. Man, that's consistency. 554 00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:06.719 And not only consistency, he's fucking performing while he's out there. Man, 555 00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:13.199 Like, that's a legend. Hey, big legend, Man, that 556 00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:16.480 might have been the best legend we even came up with. Right now, 557 00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:22.000 Max Man, shout out, shout out the big Ruse Man, Michael Rule. 558 00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:29.000 Yeah, most underappreciated Titan ever. Man is Michael Ruse. Bro And 559 00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:34.639 I don't know if little known facts, Uh what is it? Is it? 560 00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:39.960 Cousin? Uh, nephew something like that. Jordan Ruse is actually a 561 00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:45.239 kin to him. So we actually have somebody on the team currently who's still 562 00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:49.400 ken to Michael Ruse. Michael Ruse is huge, man. I love Michael 563 00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:55.039 Ruse. Good dude, man. Oh the funny fact, Yes, what's 564 00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:58.960 the fun fact? I forgot the fun fact. I always try to throw 565 00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:00.920 in fun facts like Bullock he had, you know, the cafe that he 566 00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:07.039 opened or whatever. So with with Ruse, the funny fact is and it 567 00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:12.679 brings Keith Bullock into it too. Uh. Jared Allen decided in twenty eighteen 568 00:42:13.199 --> 00:42:16.920 that him, Mark Boulger, Keith Bullock, and Michael Ruse was gonna form 569 00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:22.639 a curling team, and they tried out for the twenty twenty two Olympics, 570 00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:25.760 although they did not make it. Yeah. Did you see him out there 571 00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:32.199 with little sweepers? Yeah, we're sliding the curler. Do you do you 572 00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:37.320 think that's Michael Ruse? Probably Ruse. Yeah. You probably gotta keep billing 573 00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:40.920 them out there sweeping. It's gotta be him or Allan. Man, I 574 00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:52.360 can't imagine. I can't imagine this idea. That's a cool fun fact right 575 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:54.480 now. Man. Yeah, much much love to Michael Ruse, much love 576 00:42:54.559 --> 00:43:00.320 to to all our Titan legends. But says Michael Ruse in my heart is 577 00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:04.880 always one of the biggest Titan legends. Man. I miss him so much. 578 00:43:05.239 --> 00:43:07.320 Uh. You know I love Taylor too, Don't get me wrong. 579 00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:10.320 I love Taylor the One. I'm actually a huge Taylor the One fan. 580 00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:15.519 Shout out Taylor if you ever see my podcast which I probably never will, 581 00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:19.440 but if you do, i'd love you to be on my podcast for me, 582 00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:22.880 be on your podcast. Man, just just rap, dude. I 583 00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:24.599 think you're cool and I would love to talk to you. Seem like a 584 00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:30.960 really cool dude. Anyway, on that other tangent, we're we're at our 585 00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:36.880 next segment. I think, yes, sir. The fan fan involvement, 586 00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:42.840 man, Yeah, this is the tying all the fans involved. You know, 587 00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:45.880 we love you know, love our fans like the Titan Fan Battle podcast. 588 00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:49.960 So you know, each week we're gonna take a question from a fan 589 00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:52.760 and we're gonna discuss it. That's what we got this week, Max. 590 00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:59.760 Uh. This week our question comes from c. J. May and he 591 00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:07.840 asked, uh, where does Colton dow fit in our offense? You want 592 00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:12.760 you want to take off of that one? Well, all right, so 593 00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:19.840 well obviously he's a wide receiver, so uh, you know he fits in 594 00:44:19.880 --> 00:44:22.480 our offense in the wide receiver position. But not to be a smart elliot, 595 00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:25.000 because you know, I you know, I don't I don't ever want 596 00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:30.800 to come off that way. Um Uh, Colton dowl is probably gonna start 597 00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:35.039 off on special teams. I hope that he starts off in like the fourth 598 00:44:35.079 --> 00:44:39.400 wide receiver spot. I'd like him to be just a smidge add of NWI 599 00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:45.880 Nick Westbrook at Kene um So in my in my eyes, towards the end 600 00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:51.360 of the season, I would like to see him progress into the the third 601 00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:53.639 wide receiver or if if, like I said, if we don't sign DeAndre 602 00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:57.880 Hopkins, I'd like to to see him towards the end of the season move 603 00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:02.760 up to the second And I think it's on to sleep pretty plausible. I 604 00:45:02.800 --> 00:45:07.079 don't I don't know how much of these videos y'all watch on this Titans Ota 605 00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:10.079 and Mini camp. And I know a lot of people don't make you know, 606 00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:13.599 big deals out of stuff, but if you watch things, you can 607 00:45:13.639 --> 00:45:19.320 pick up on little things that mean a lot. Like Treylon Burks was given 608 00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:22.079 an interview where he was talking about Colton dow and he was talking about how 609 00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:27.679 prepared he was and now he knew the playbook front to back already, and 610 00:45:27.719 --> 00:45:30.760 that he made a joke that if he was going up for a route or 611 00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:36.280 whatever, he would ask Colton what he was supposed to do on that route. 612 00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:39.360 It's a it's a brand new offense, and for both of them, 613 00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:43.119 they're kind of like I mean, Treylon ain't a rookie, and he even 614 00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:45.599 mentions that in the press conference that was as downfall as a rookie and that's 615 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:50.159 how he glosses it over or whatever. But the point or the key out 616 00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:53.800 of that is is that Colton Dow already knows the handbook front to back better 617 00:45:54.519 --> 00:46:00.000 than our number one wide receiver. So I think that Colton Dow I think 618 00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:05.559 he's gonna shock people, really, I really do. But um, you 619 00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:08.199 know that that might just be my hope, my blissful hopefulness. I don't 620 00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:10.920 know what's your take on that. Where do you think Colton Dow fits in? 621 00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:16.239 I mean, with us having a very big hole and a weakness at 622 00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:22.039 wide receiver, he definitely has a chance to have a have a spot on 623 00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:28.320 the offense. Like I mean, right now, it's it's basically Traylon Burke's, 624 00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:32.119 Kyle Phillips, Nick Westbrook, Kenner and who else. You know what 625 00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:37.320 I'm saying. It's so it's it's so much, so many you know, 626 00:46:37.719 --> 00:46:42.800 a room for a wide receiver like Colden Dower to make the team to you 627 00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:45.599 know, come in and phil a spot. So right as of right now, 628 00:46:46.039 --> 00:46:50.960 him being a rookie, him being you know, the only wide receiver 629 00:46:51.039 --> 00:46:53.519 we drafted. Right now, I feel like he got a good chance to 630 00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:58.760 actually make the roster, and you know he's gonna he's definitely gonna have to 631 00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:01.280 work special teams before you know he's gonna be able to get out there and 632 00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:05.960 catch passes. So you know he's definitely gonna get on the field and get 633 00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:10.159 those special team minutes and then you know, that way he can prove himself, 634 00:47:10.440 --> 00:47:14.960 showvrable that he's willing to go out there and you know, playing ball, 635 00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:17.559 and then you know, chances on the offense will open up for him. 636 00:47:17.639 --> 00:47:21.840 Right now, I feel like coden Down has a good chance, a 637 00:47:21.960 --> 00:47:25.440 very good chance to make the roster and get some time, get some get 638 00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:30.840 some plays, or get some snaps at wide receiver, whether it be slot 639 00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:35.599 or outside receiver. Right now, it's looking good. Now that could change 640 00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:38.760 with the signing of DeAndre Hopkins. If we were to sign DeAndre Hopkins, 641 00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:43.920 you know that would push him on, you know, further down the death 642 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:47.039 chart when it comes to you know, getting white, getting snaps that wide 643 00:47:47.079 --> 00:47:52.360 out. But right now, I feel like coden Down has a good chance 644 00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:58.320 as long as he keeps showing up in many count catching passes, making plays. 645 00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:00.119 Man, all you gotta do is catch to coach I a couple of 646 00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:04.960 times and hey, next thing you know, you on the field. Man. 647 00:48:05.039 --> 00:48:07.840 So shout out to Coden down right now. I'm saying he got a 648 00:48:08.239 --> 00:48:13.400 sixty five to seventy percent chance to get on that field and make some play. 649 00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:16.679 So all Coden Down fans, y'all should be happy right now, y'all 650 00:48:16.679 --> 00:48:21.239 should be excited of what to see what he can bringing. Hey, we're 651 00:48:21.239 --> 00:48:23.360 all, as Titans fans, were all excited. You know. We we 652 00:48:23.440 --> 00:48:28.719 just want that that one other wide receiver to just blossom, man, because 653 00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:31.719 you know, as of right now, that's still one of our weakest spots 654 00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:35.800 on the team. And you know, right now, we just we just 655 00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:40.960 need anything to happen besides Trey Line, besides Bert's phillips and a kena. 656 00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:46.320 Hey, anybody else that can catch the catch the ball and possibly run after 657 00:48:46.440 --> 00:48:51.639 catch. Hey, you're fine with us. So shout out to Colon now 658 00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:55.000 at six one with four or four chief speed. I mean, you know, 659 00:48:55.079 --> 00:48:59.039 that's a burner on the outside. He's real physical, you know, 660 00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:01.840 I mean, I think it could be a pretty darn good receiver. If 661 00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:06.199 nothing else, he could you know, he'll make you think, you know, 662 00:49:06.239 --> 00:49:07.920 as a cornerback, he's gonna he's gonna make you think, you know 663 00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:12.199 what I mean, and react and with that kind of speed. Actually, 664 00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:15.159 you know, I'm not sure if what I've been hearing has basically been mainly 665 00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:20.039 Taija spears, but hey, he could get a crack as some kicking punt 666 00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:22.480 returns. You never know what that kind of speed, you know, why 667 00:49:22.599 --> 00:49:25.840 not throwing back there? You know what I mean? That was a that 668 00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:30.119 was a big, big, big thing about me on the Colton Daal. 669 00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:34.000 Thing was I didn't realize it at the time. I mean, like I 670 00:49:34.159 --> 00:49:36.719 when I saw him drafted, I got really excited because I was like, 671 00:49:36.719 --> 00:49:39.440 oh my god, is that the kid from Ut Martin Because you know, 672 00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:43.679 I thought it was funny that he burned UT so bad, so bad, 673 00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:47.920 you know. And but his RAS score was a nine point seven eight. 674 00:49:49.679 --> 00:49:52.679 And that's out of every wide receiver that's been drafted. It's like forty something 675 00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:59.559 thousand people, and he scored a nine point seven eight. That's almost a 676 00:49:59.639 --> 00:50:07.800 perfect at ten at a forty thousand people's that high up? I mean, 677 00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:12.159 do you know how freakishly athletic you have to be to score that high. 678 00:50:12.280 --> 00:50:16.440 And I mean a lot of our players when you look at him draftwise, 679 00:50:16.599 --> 00:50:21.159 a lot of them have super high r scores. And I think that's what 680 00:50:21.280 --> 00:50:23.719 ram Carton was going after. Like I said, that's why we're drafting for 681 00:50:23.800 --> 00:50:29.880 next year or whatever. And so but on that front, I think that 682 00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:34.000 Colton dow I agree. Both of us agree that we think he has a 683 00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:36.800 good chance to make it on the roster, a really good chance to make 684 00:50:36.840 --> 00:50:44.760 it on the roster, pretty good chance to contribute early on special teams and 685 00:50:44.800 --> 00:50:49.719 then maybe you know, even get into some some wide receiver action because of 686 00:50:49.719 --> 00:50:52.239 the speed and the body size and the body type. If you can get 687 00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:55.880 your your hips and your hands right and show the coaches that you can do 688 00:50:55.960 --> 00:51:00.159 it in practice. I mean Mike Rabel is one of those guys is that 689 00:51:00.199 --> 00:51:01.320 if you show him you can do it, he's gonna put you on the 690 00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:05.639 field and let you give it a shot. I mean, that's why we 691 00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:08.760 had Kyle Phillips returning punts last year, even after he dropped too, he 692 00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:13.320 was still returning him because Mike Rabel saw him in practice do it well. 693 00:51:13.760 --> 00:51:15.760 He knew what he could do. He knew its potential. So yeah, 694 00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:20.760 yeah, yeah, shout out to Titans called Sam podcast. Everybody. That's 695 00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:25.840 the other TAM podcast. What would be guys, that's the other Titans uh 696 00:51:27.159 --> 00:51:30.480 podcast on the on the fan Battle Sports Network. If y'all don't, if 697 00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:31.880 y'all don't know them, go check him out, show him some love. 698 00:51:32.840 --> 00:51:37.239 Yeah, there there is room for every Titans podcast out there. I say, 699 00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:40.679 the more, the better, the more the merrier. Yeah, yes, 700 00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:45.119 we all we all tightens fans at the end of the day. So 701 00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:50.559 hey, once you need some more Titan content, definitely go check out the 702 00:51:50.559 --> 00:51:54.559 Titans Collar Sam podcast. There you go. Well you think take it? 703 00:51:55.679 --> 00:52:00.039 What'sa my boy, teachers, that's your boy. Yeah. But TJ say, 704 00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:04.400 I support the times, but y'all still don't have the quarterback to take 705 00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:07.360 y'all there. And when you say that, when you say there, TJ, 706 00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:12.920 you're talking about the Super Bowl, you know what I mean? Yeah, 707 00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:15.159 of course that's what he means. But only one team was I take 708 00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:19.159 it back, only two teams gonna go to the Super Bowl eas here? 709 00:52:19.719 --> 00:52:23.920 And I mean, hey me personally, bro, I feel like Tannehill could 710 00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:28.079 take us to the Super Bowl with the right weapons, you know what I 711 00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:31.519 mean, Like he has to have the right weapons. A lot of people 712 00:52:31.559 --> 00:52:37.599 don't believe in Tannehill because he's he's not giving them good reason with his postseason 713 00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:39.960 play, you know what I'm saying. Like like I said, like I 714 00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:43.960 said, I said it on a couple of podcasts, Ago Man, that 715 00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:50.519 Bengals game just still hurts man, that three and it still hurts man. 716 00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:54.079 That was a game, that was a season. I feel like we really 717 00:52:54.119 --> 00:52:59.199 had the team to win the Super Bowl. Bro Like, if we would 718 00:52:59.199 --> 00:53:02.400 have beat the Bengal we would have went on to play Kansas City where they 719 00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:06.960 would have to come to Nashville. Kansas City would have to come to Nashville. 720 00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:09.800 They came to them. They came to Nashville a couple of weeks ago 721 00:53:10.360 --> 00:53:15.039 that same season, and we beat the ship out of Patrick Mahomes, made 722 00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:17.280 him fumble. He was out there crying about his ankle. We beat the 723 00:53:17.320 --> 00:53:21.440 snot out the Chiefs. So we would have beat the Chiefs in the AFC 724 00:53:21.599 --> 00:53:24.559 Championship. Then we would have went on to play the Rams, another team 725 00:53:24.599 --> 00:53:29.599 that we beat kicked the dog shit out of on Monday night football in their 726 00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:32.440 house, which we would have been playing on the same field again and where 727 00:53:32.440 --> 00:53:37.119 we smoked the Rams. That was our years. So that hurt Man, 728 00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:40.519 that that hurt. Ten Michael Neussle comes in. Tune Hills. Tun of 729 00:53:40.599 --> 00:53:45.760 Hill took us to Tune Hills, took us to a two possession lead in 730 00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:50.480 the AC Championship. Fact of course he can take us to the super Bowl 731 00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:53.119 if we give him hell good comment, Mike, he did. Don't forget. 732 00:53:53.159 --> 00:53:58.760 We were just in the AFC Championship against the Chiefs. What was that 733 00:53:58.880 --> 00:54:02.199 three years ago? Now, hey, we started that game off good. 734 00:54:02.239 --> 00:54:07.199 We started We started that game off seventeen to seven. Our defense folded though, 735 00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:10.840 like and it was coaching, I mean our defense. We started giving 736 00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:15.039 up Hill. And I'm still man that we let my homes run for that 737 00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:19.079 touchdown. Bro, Like, when I think about that game and I see 738 00:54:19.159 --> 00:54:22.960 my homes taking off and I think it was Rashaan Evans Man, one of 739 00:54:23.320 --> 00:54:31.559 our linebackers took a poor angle on man. It was terrible man, Tennehill. 740 00:54:31.679 --> 00:54:37.440 Listen, give the Tennehill the weapons, the line and Derrick Henry. 741 00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:42.880 We can win the Super Bowl with Derreck Henry. Trust me. Michael comes 742 00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:45.079 back one more time. If go ahead, I'll let you take that one 743 00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:50.559 up. Man. He said, if Kyle Phillips fumbles week one and week 744 00:54:50.639 --> 00:54:54.039 two again, he will absolutely get playing time. Look, man, uh, 745 00:54:55.199 --> 00:54:59.519 he's talking about He's talking about Colden Doll, That's what he's saying. 746 00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:04.480 He's saying if if Kyle even if he's talking about Kyle Phillips. I mean, 747 00:55:04.519 --> 00:55:07.760 look, dude, uh yeah, you're right. I'm sorry, but 748 00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:12.159 you're right. If he fumbles two weeks in a row, especially in week 749 00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:15.719 one a week two, yeah, we're probably still gonna play him. I 750 00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:20.079 mean, it's not like we're gonna give up a day after two weeks. 751 00:55:20.440 --> 00:55:24.079 Now, there's a long season. But now it does change if those two 752 00:55:24.199 --> 00:55:30.119 fumbles turn into touchdowns and loses the game or something like that, and then 753 00:55:30.199 --> 00:55:32.039 that kind of changes things a little bit. We might back up off of 754 00:55:32.079 --> 00:55:35.559 him a little bit. Yeah. I think I think he refermed, you 755 00:55:35.599 --> 00:55:38.159 know, we was talking about cold and down again. Pt. I think 756 00:55:38.199 --> 00:55:46.079 he's saying, if Kyle Phillips fumbles one week one weeks oh yeah, yeah, 757 00:55:46.119 --> 00:55:50.159 now I did think about that also. That was another I did, 758 00:55:50.199 --> 00:55:52.159 actually, but if I got off on a tangent, but that was one 759 00:55:52.199 --> 00:55:57.800 of the other things I was gonna say is if injury happens, which has 760 00:55:57.840 --> 00:56:00.800 been plaguing us for years, if that happened, like Kyle Phillips gets injured, 761 00:56:01.199 --> 00:56:07.320 or Chris Moore gets injured, or Nwi gets injured, Colton now is 762 00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:10.199 gonna play. I mean, he's just the next best option we got. 763 00:56:10.320 --> 00:56:15.239 I mean, the only other option we really have is like Mason Kinzie, 764 00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:20.920 and I keep forgetting about the guy we signed from the Texas. He's been 765 00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:28.079 getting a lot of what's Chris Moore? He's smooth man. I don't know. 766 00:56:28.679 --> 00:56:30.519 Yeah, I don't know if you watched any of the tape or anything, 767 00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:36.360 but he's got real smooth hips. I mean, you know you haven't 768 00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:39.199 been. We haven't been talking about him a lot, but he's a name 769 00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:44.559 we gotta watch man with him knowing knowing Tim Kelly and knowing that offense, 770 00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:47.320 he could be a big player in this offense. Man, So you might 771 00:56:47.400 --> 00:56:52.920 not only that he had if you watch his season progression, look at his 772 00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:55.239 stats. You know, over his career you can see tick tik tik tik 773 00:56:55.280 --> 00:56:59.360 tik, and last season out that thinking went from like three hundred to like 774 00:56:59.360 --> 00:57:02.400 five hundred for the eight yards last year or something like that. So he's 775 00:57:02.440 --> 00:57:07.280 definitely on the rise in his career. If he can keep it up, 776 00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:10.440 man, he could be a name to watch for. And I've been hearing 777 00:57:10.440 --> 00:57:15.480 and I've been hearing about him lately, So watch out for Chris Mori, 778 00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:19.519 y'all watch out. I'm telling you with with with the holes that we got 779 00:57:19.559 --> 00:57:22.159 and receive a room. I mean, you think about it this way. 780 00:57:22.280 --> 00:57:28.760 If he can get seven hundred yards, Burkes can get a thousand, Henry 781 00:57:28.800 --> 00:57:32.199 can get about fifteen hundred on the ground, tay Jay can get about five 782 00:57:32.320 --> 00:57:36.920 hundred on the ground, about three hundred the air. Chick can get about 783 00:57:36.960 --> 00:57:39.519 seven hundred the air. And then while he can get about three hundred, 784 00:57:42.519 --> 00:57:45.800 that's a legit things, bro. I mean, that's a lot of offense. 785 00:57:45.920 --> 00:57:50.840 That's a legit offense. Bro. There's a lot of touchdowns, y'all. 786 00:57:50.840 --> 00:57:53.280 If y'all got any questions, now is the time to ask him anything 787 00:57:53.360 --> 00:57:57.119 you want to say, You want to give a shout out, you just 788 00:57:57.199 --> 00:58:00.920 want to say I like the show. Yeah, we we want all fan 789 00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:05.960 engagement, man, bring it on, man. We yeah, we always 790 00:58:05.960 --> 00:58:09.639 gonna communicate with the fans. We appreciate everybody coming here rocking with us, 791 00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:14.760 Man Tightest Fan Battle Podcast. You know, this is just our third show, 792 00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:16.280 and like I said, we only gonna get better. Man, me 793 00:58:16.360 --> 00:58:20.559 and Max, we keep coming up with new ideas. Hey, we got 794 00:58:20.559 --> 00:58:23.840 a nice intro coming up soon. Man, I'm right, I'm gonna just 795 00:58:23.840 --> 00:58:27.960 give y'all a little peak. Man, we got a nice intro coming soon. 796 00:58:28.199 --> 00:58:32.960 Man, We're gonna and uh and you know we are, and we're 797 00:58:32.960 --> 00:58:37.400 welcome. Welcome in our guests too. You know, you're somebody who you 798 00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:39.320 know, got some knowledge on the team and you want to come in and 799 00:58:39.400 --> 00:58:43.599 say some stuff, you know, shooting shoot one of us a DM and 800 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:45.960 hey, instead of just being us too, we might can get you know, 801 00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:50.519 add one more person on here. Hey, calling the Titans party. 802 00:58:50.599 --> 00:58:53.800 So you know, hey, I'm that's right. And if you if you're 803 00:58:53.800 --> 00:58:58.360 watching the show and you're liking the show, drop a you know, drop 804 00:58:58.400 --> 00:59:00.920 all thumbs up, you know, share, you know, tell your friends 805 00:59:01.199 --> 00:59:04.880 all that kind of stuff. The more the merrier, man. Yeah, 806 00:59:04.920 --> 00:59:07.960 for sure, for sure, we love doing it and we love it because 807 00:59:08.199 --> 00:59:12.440 you know, we just love it and we're gonna keep doing it. Whether 808 00:59:12.480 --> 00:59:19.159 you guys watch us or not so Yeah. Anyway, Um, if we 809 00:59:19.239 --> 00:59:22.719 get Hopkins with Burke's Phillips, Chig and Henry, we are good. Yeah, 810 00:59:22.760 --> 00:59:27.360 I agree, man, If we get DeAndre Hopkins, it takes us 811 00:59:27.440 --> 00:59:35.360 from UM a playoff contenderish team. If you ask me, you know, 812 00:59:35.400 --> 00:59:39.079 we're we're we're in that middle phase. Might hit the playoffs, we might 813 00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:45.920 not. If we get DeAndre Hopkins, we're automatically a contender. I mean, 814 00:59:45.920 --> 00:59:51.920 we're if you ask me, right up there with the Bills with the 815 00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:53.679 Chiefs, you know. And I'm sure a lot of people right now are 816 00:59:53.719 --> 00:59:58.119 thinking I'm a homer for saying that, But I don't care. Wait till 817 00:59:58.159 --> 01:00:01.559 the season starts and just watch because it's gonna happen. I like to call 818 01:00:01.679 --> 01:00:05.880 the new offense. I haven't seen a whole lot of the offense, but 819 01:00:06.400 --> 01:00:08.639 I've mentioned before I'm a coach. I watch xus and o's a lot. 820 01:00:09.199 --> 01:00:15.119 I've seen what Tim Kelly's doing. I've seen four plays already in the OTAs 821 01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:20.880 and the mini camp footage that get me really excited. And I like to 822 01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:25.519 call it smashing dash with a little razzle dazzle. That's what it looks like. 823 01:00:25.559 --> 01:00:29.440 It looks like We're just gonna play smash mouth, or that's what I 824 01:00:29.559 --> 01:00:31.239 meant to say, smash mouth with a little root of razzle dazzle, because 825 01:00:31.280 --> 01:00:35.440 that's what it looks like. We're playing smash mouth football. And then all 826 01:00:35.480 --> 01:00:38.079 of a sudden you see just a little sprinkle of some razzle dazzle and it's 827 01:00:38.199 --> 01:00:43.440 it's it's absolutely amazing. I could see that. I could see that. 828 01:00:43.559 --> 01:00:45.599 Hey, I think, hey, man, don't sleep on the Titans. 829 01:00:45.599 --> 01:00:49.679 Man. That's what I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say with Tim Kelly coming 830 01:00:49.760 --> 01:00:54.920 in with our offensive line, Hey, listen, as bad as our offensive 831 01:00:54.960 --> 01:00:59.960 line played last year, if it would have just played a little bit better, 832 01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:01.639 we would have been a little bit better. We would have beat the 833 01:01:01.719 --> 01:01:06.519 Jaguars last year. We would have went to the playoffs last year and had 834 01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:08.559 a chance to beat the Charges or whoever it would have been. We would 835 01:01:08.599 --> 01:01:13.840 have played in the first round. Our offensive line killed us last year, 836 01:01:13.960 --> 01:01:15.599 and it was the death of the whole football team. I mean, we 837 01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:21.719 were bringing guys in Denis daily missing blocks. Everybody was missing blocks. It 838 01:01:21.800 --> 01:01:24.880 was a mess on the offensive line, and they kept running these same guys 839 01:01:24.920 --> 01:01:30.239 out there. And I'm pretty sure Tannehill was frustrated because he kept getting hurt. 840 01:01:30.559 --> 01:01:32.639 It was a mess. Derek Henry couldn't even run left. All he 841 01:01:32.639 --> 01:01:37.719 could do was run right. Like we were so predictable. Tannehill had no 842 01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:40.119 time to throw the ball when he did throw it a ship. Who was 843 01:01:40.119 --> 01:01:44.320 he throwing it too? Who was who was on the field? Nobody was 844 01:01:44.360 --> 01:01:46.800 on the field most of the time, Like when he was throwing the ball 845 01:01:46.880 --> 01:01:51.960 up training, it was. It was games where trailing Burke smissed and he 846 01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:54.519 was supposed to be our number one receiver. Kyle Phillips missed a ton of 847 01:01:54.800 --> 01:02:00.519 shit basically the whole season, like half the time. Who was out there 848 01:02:00.559 --> 01:02:04.519 catching the ball? The only the only person we had out there the catch 849 01:02:04.559 --> 01:02:07.840 the ball was cheat And hey, I mean that was terrible. Go ahead, 850 01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:10.880 broh, yeah, I got I'm sorry. I gotta say something real 851 01:02:10.920 --> 01:02:15.719 quick. By the way, if you're still watching VT, enjoy Bobby Trees. 852 01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:22.519 Enjoy Robert Woods all you want, brother, you enjoy him. I 853 01:02:22.639 --> 01:02:25.960 love that you're optimistic about what he's gonna bring to your team, and the 854 01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:30.920 Titans were just so terrible that he couldn't produce on our team. You just 855 01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:35.079 believe that all you want, brother, because Bobby Trees is terrible, man. 856 01:02:35.119 --> 01:02:37.920 He is washed up. He's just he's just a possessional receiver and he 857 01:02:37.960 --> 01:02:43.079 can't even get open, Like, he can't even get open. And and 858 01:02:43.280 --> 01:02:46.679 newsom here says that a huge difference between Julio and Hopkins. We talked about 859 01:02:46.719 --> 01:02:50.440 that earlier in the show, but yeah, there is a huge difference there. 860 01:02:50.760 --> 01:02:53.639 Julio was already busted up for two seasons. Hopkins is healthy right now 861 01:02:53.719 --> 01:02:58.440 and he's been producing. He just had to sit out six games last season. 862 01:02:58.760 --> 01:03:00.679 Shout out the news. Shout out the news, somebod. I definitely 863 01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:04.719 agree with that, definitely, yeah, yeah, yeah, put out some 864 01:03:04.760 --> 01:03:07.719 good comments. Now let's see what do we feel about the cornerbacks. Well, 865 01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:10.559 I mean, hey, we just talked about corners, but Mike Man, 866 01:03:10.639 --> 01:03:15.000 look that's a group right now. We got a group of corners I 867 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:20.159 feel like should be better than last year because we brought it in Sean Murphy 868 01:03:20.159 --> 01:03:22.760 Bunting, which I think was a good pickup. He's a solid pickup. 869 01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:28.199 I think he can he can play man and hold his man to you know, 870 01:03:28.440 --> 01:03:31.039 he can you know, hold his side of the field down. On 871 01:03:31.039 --> 01:03:34.719 the other side, I don't know if we're gonna start full teen. I 872 01:03:34.719 --> 01:03:37.599 don't know if we're gonna go McCreary, but I like I like McCreary. 873 01:03:37.679 --> 01:03:42.559 I would pick Mercury over full teen. I would put Fullton in the slide. 874 01:03:43.840 --> 01:03:45.960 Uh. I'm like, I'm liking what we got. I want. 875 01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:50.760 I won't calab Farley to be good. I know we all do. Don't 876 01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:53.320 know what the fuck is really going on with the guy, but we want. 877 01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:58.840 I mean, we drafted him first round. Like those are players that 878 01:03:58.960 --> 01:04:02.480 hurts our franchise when we draft them first round and they don't fucking play like 879 01:04:03.199 --> 01:04:08.480 that shit that kill us in the long run. These other franchises they draft, 880 01:04:08.559 --> 01:04:13.320 you know, corners number one and they go Pro bowl Sauce Gardener like, 881 01:04:13.599 --> 01:04:16.159 come on, like, come on, my guys, we drafted, 882 01:04:16.280 --> 01:04:20.119 we dressed Kayleb Farley number one. We need that guy to do something. 883 01:04:20.599 --> 01:04:25.679 If he's not gonna do something, get him off the field. But to 884 01:04:25.719 --> 01:04:29.239 answer a question, Mike, I'm feeling good about the corners. I'm feeling 885 01:04:29.239 --> 01:04:34.400 good about Sean Murphy bunting. And I hope I hope, uh yeah, 886 01:04:34.440 --> 01:04:40.360 Farley Dunn. I hope Christian Fulton can stay healthy because he is a decent 887 01:04:40.480 --> 01:04:45.079 corner. Roger McCreary showed us last year that he can, uh, he 888 01:04:45.119 --> 01:04:48.000 can, he can play Moden too. Molden Is I see Moden as a 889 01:04:48.039 --> 01:04:50.480 safety? How about you? Max? I mean I kind of see Molden 890 01:04:50.559 --> 01:04:56.400 as he can play corner. But yeah, they're they're they're, they're they're 891 01:04:56.440 --> 01:05:00.239 indicating that they want to play him at safety. But y'all, I don't 892 01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:04.199 know if you know this or not, but he hadn't been at many camp 893 01:05:04.280 --> 01:05:06.719 last couple of days. You know. Yeah, I've been hearing about it. 894 01:05:06.760 --> 01:05:10.239 I've been hearing about that. I don't know what's going on with that, 895 01:05:10.320 --> 01:05:15.480 but they got hurt to answer a question, Mike, I'm feeling okay 896 01:05:15.519 --> 01:05:18.920 about the corners. I did say early in this show that that's probably going 897 01:05:18.960 --> 01:05:21.760 to be one of our weaknesses on defense. Again, bro, Like, 898 01:05:23.440 --> 01:05:27.880 until we could draft a star, until we could sign a star, or 899 01:05:27.920 --> 01:05:32.880 at least somebody who can who's a certified man corner and can like shut down 900 01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:38.400 a star receiver, We're going to continue to struggle at corner and with our 901 01:05:38.519 --> 01:05:41.079 with our front seven has been as good as they're going to be. Because 902 01:05:41.079 --> 01:05:44.760 I'm telling our front seven gonna be good. Our corners are still gonna struggle. 903 01:05:44.800 --> 01:05:46.760 Bro, We're still not We're still gonna get burned, trust me. 904 01:05:47.480 --> 01:05:54.119 Yeah. I think I think Folting shown flashes of you know, amazingness and 905 01:05:54.199 --> 01:05:57.440 what he can be. If he can do that a more in consistent basis 906 01:05:57.440 --> 01:05:59.800 and stay on the field, you know, then I think he would make 907 01:05:59.800 --> 01:06:01.960 a of a QB one. Um. But honestly, I don't think he's 908 01:06:02.039 --> 01:06:08.239 r QB one this year based on CB one, thank you sorry, Holy 909 01:06:08.320 --> 01:06:12.559 cal Yeah, definitely not a quarterback. I don't want to see him doing 910 01:06:12.599 --> 01:06:15.760 that. Um, But I don't think he's the CB one this year. 911 01:06:15.840 --> 01:06:21.679 I think honestly CB two um that that job belongs to Sean Murphy Bunting. 912 01:06:23.280 --> 01:06:26.559 Um. You know, people might think I'm crazy on that, but man, 913 01:06:26.599 --> 01:06:30.280 watching him in practice against Traylon Burks and Traylon Burks is and improved Traylon 914 01:06:30.360 --> 01:06:33.920 Burks from last year, I was impressed. I have been impressed so far. 915 01:06:34.519 --> 01:06:38.840 One day, there was one day they were even talking about how smothering 916 01:06:38.960 --> 01:06:43.199 he was that he just absolutely shut him down for a whole period of practice, 917 01:06:43.239 --> 01:06:47.320 that he just completely um. Although Burks did come back in that in 918 01:06:47.400 --> 01:06:51.360 that and show up. But still the point is is that I think Sean 919 01:06:51.480 --> 01:06:58.159 Murphy bunting is gonna be a huge surprise. Roger McCreery sizes what kills him 920 01:06:58.199 --> 01:07:01.000 otherwise he is a star man. I mean, like he showed it last 921 01:07:01.079 --> 01:07:04.719 year with his heads up play as he was going out of bounds, catching 922 01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:08.519 the ball and throwing it back in bounds. So the way to get it, 923 01:07:08.920 --> 01:07:12.599 I mean, who even thinks about that when they're in the game. 924 01:07:12.679 --> 01:07:15.559 That is nuts. And for a rookie to pull that off, yeah, 925 01:07:16.280 --> 01:07:19.639 hats off to you, bro. Good job, man, good job, 926 01:07:19.920 --> 01:07:23.639 because that's that's the kind of stuff we need. And I hope that you 927 01:07:23.719 --> 01:07:26.599 play like that next year or this year. I want to see that. 928 01:07:26.679 --> 01:07:30.760 I think our I think our dbs are gonna be okay. Um. I 929 01:07:30.800 --> 01:07:34.119 do think it's probably the weak spot of the defense if we I don't know. 930 01:07:34.760 --> 01:07:40.519 I guess linebacker is ish, but I don't think I was gonna say 931 01:07:40.519 --> 01:07:48.559 I don't because I really believe that Ziz I'll shyer. I think those two 932 01:07:48.559 --> 01:07:56.239 are they're gonna do what what we ask linebackers to do. Stop the run, 933 01:07:56.719 --> 01:08:00.119 and you know, watch the tight ends for ten yards Michael Newsom says, 934 01:08:00.159 --> 01:08:03.039 a lot of people are down on our dbs. But last year we 935 01:08:03.159 --> 01:08:08.360 allowed twenty one points per game. Any kind of decent offense, and you're 936 01:08:08.400 --> 01:08:12.079 a twelve win team. If the defense a lot twenty one points per game, 937 01:08:12.119 --> 01:08:15.079 you're right, You're right. I see that's the problem. Last year. 938 01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:20.479 Our offense just couldn't match our defense. Yeah, we couldn't. Offense 939 01:08:20.520 --> 01:08:25.279 couldn't get the twenty one. To say their life, bro. So that 940 01:08:25.359 --> 01:08:29.680 was to say, go back and look at how many games there are where 941 01:08:29.680 --> 01:08:34.840 we score twenty one unless it's so ridiculous, and go back and look at 942 01:08:34.880 --> 01:08:39.079 how many This is the part that gets me excited about Tim Kelly. Go 943 01:08:39.159 --> 01:08:43.560 back and look at how many games we started off. Well, it's a 944 01:08:43.680 --> 01:08:46.000 fact now. It was a theory then, but it's a fact now that 945 01:08:46.039 --> 01:08:51.399 he was he was pre planning and prescripting the first few drives of the game 946 01:08:51.920 --> 01:08:57.560 and after half, and then he was also scripted and he was also responsible 947 01:08:57.600 --> 01:09:02.159 for a red zone. And now our red zone total did dip a little 948 01:09:02.159 --> 01:09:06.199 bit last year, but in red zone goal to go we were like number 949 01:09:06.199 --> 01:09:09.279 one in the league, I think, or number two in the league. 950 01:09:09.920 --> 01:09:13.279 So we was good on the scripted plays. Well, once we went off 951 01:09:13.359 --> 01:09:15.920 script, we were terrible. And that's my point, man. So so 952 01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:18.399 I really have a whole lot of faith in that. I'm sorry, VT, 953 01:09:18.479 --> 01:09:23.199 I ain't showed it till now. But you know he said when you 954 01:09:23.279 --> 01:09:27.479 when when could he produce when your quarterback's only throwing six times in the second 955 01:09:27.520 --> 01:09:30.520 half. I guess he's talking about the two or three games that we had 956 01:09:30.520 --> 01:09:36.920 with Malik Willis and where Tannehill was hurt um. But because because Tannehill slings 957 01:09:36.920 --> 01:09:42.960 the ball. You look at look at the first three games of the season. 958 01:09:42.960 --> 01:09:45.479 Man, You'll see what I'm talking about. I'm telling you, tanne 959 01:09:45.560 --> 01:09:49.640 Hill's gonna if Tanne Hills, if the if a passing play is called, 960 01:09:49.640 --> 01:09:54.159 tanne Hills gonna throw the ball. Like yeah, I have no No, 961 01:09:54.520 --> 01:10:00.399 I don't doubt Tannehill at all. No answer this real quick. No, 962 01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:06.439 He's under contract. Yeah, he's under contract, So I mean he ain't 963 01:10:06.479 --> 01:10:13.760 going Yeah, man, he's what hey, you know, with them asking 964 01:10:13.840 --> 01:10:15.399 him to take a pay, could they could look into trading them? You 965 01:10:15.479 --> 01:10:19.920 never know, if you know, I've heard a lot of trade talk about 966 01:10:20.000 --> 01:10:24.119 the Mayor of Murphersborough and you know how I feel about that. Uh. 967 01:10:24.119 --> 01:10:26.760 And you know, maybe it's my bias that just doesn't want him to be 968 01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:33.479 traded, but I just feel like he brings something extra to the defensive backs 969 01:10:33.680 --> 01:10:39.239 and and he I mean, if you look at what he's done, always 970 01:10:39.359 --> 01:10:43.680 done since he's been here. Yeah, but take away the ball. You 971 01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:46.479 gotta think, though, Matt. He's getting older too though. I mean, 972 01:10:46.680 --> 01:10:50.960 I know he's getting older. I know he might only have about two 973 01:10:51.000 --> 01:10:55.279 more years left in him, but I don't care. I want those two 974 01:10:55.359 --> 01:11:00.560 years. I want him. I want him, right. I just got 975 01:11:00.880 --> 01:11:05.800 talking about a Titan legends one game in his whole career and play the entirety 976 01:11:05.800 --> 01:11:11.199 of his career with the Tennessee Titans. Listen, That's what I'm with you, 977 01:11:11.239 --> 01:11:14.680 bro, Listen, as Titans fans, we deserved all his last two 978 01:11:14.760 --> 01:11:17.640 years. We deserved, right. It's just like Derrick Henry Man. Look, 979 01:11:17.840 --> 01:11:21.840 I love Derrick Henry I know he's probably gone after this year, and 980 01:11:23.199 --> 01:11:27.760 that breaks my freaking heart. Oh my god, it hurts so bad to 981 01:11:27.800 --> 01:11:30.439 say that. I don't want to say that. I say it through my 982 01:11:30.439 --> 01:11:35.239 teeth because it just hurts that bad. But I got jerseys up in the 983 01:11:35.239 --> 01:11:40.439 air thing. Man, it's gonna hurt man. King. Listen, man, 984 01:11:40.640 --> 01:11:45.319 if if you can hear me, Man, you've heard you you're the 985 01:11:45.399 --> 01:11:48.359 king. You've already established that. You know. You stay with us. 986 01:11:48.600 --> 01:11:51.359 We're gonna do this. You know we're gonna keep doing it. You know 987 01:11:51.399 --> 01:11:55.840 we're you know, we're gonna ride you until you you're just done. So 988 01:11:55.880 --> 01:11:58.800 I mean, just stick stick with us, man until you're done, and 989 01:11:58.800 --> 01:12:01.720 then and then go out of legend like all the well, you're still a 990 01:12:01.760 --> 01:12:06.079 legend. I don't care. But anyway, as a franchise, that's what 991 01:12:06.079 --> 01:12:10.359 we gotta start doing. Though. We gotta start keeping our players, you 992 01:12:10.479 --> 01:12:14.119 know, to the end of that career man, Like we're tired of seeing 993 01:12:14.119 --> 01:12:17.279 our good players have to play with a team for two years then retire, 994 01:12:17.359 --> 01:12:21.560 comeback and retire as a Titan. Don't let buyer players contract out as a 995 01:12:21.640 --> 01:12:26.159 Titan. Pay the man what you've been paying him. He definitely deserved it. 996 01:12:26.279 --> 01:12:30.079 He definitely deserved what he's getting. Just let him. Mister news coming 997 01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:32.520 with some good with some good comments here. A little something extra that Bayard 998 01:12:32.600 --> 01:12:35.800 brings to the DVS is the ability for them to make a mistake because he's 999 01:12:35.800 --> 01:12:40.960 going to correct it in real time. He's right. I've seen him do 1000 01:12:41.039 --> 01:12:44.600 it in games. I've seen him literally grab a cornerback by the helmet and 1001 01:12:44.680 --> 01:12:46.439 yank him over there and tell him and show him and move his hand. 1002 01:12:46.600 --> 01:12:50.960 You can tell he's telling him on the route when he cuts. Buyer plays 1003 01:12:51.079 --> 01:12:58.199 better when the cornerbacks are playing good because that allows him to free roam back 1004 01:12:58.239 --> 01:13:01.840 there instead of having the foe kiss owned up the wide receiver that's torching our 1005 01:13:01.920 --> 01:13:05.960 fucking corner. So then n break takes him out of position as a safety 1006 01:13:06.000 --> 01:13:12.239 because he's having to step up and uh and you know, and make up 1007 01:13:12.239 --> 01:13:15.359 the slack for that corner. So if our cornerbacks can be solid, Buyer 1008 01:13:15.479 --> 01:13:20.520 will continue to have Pro Bowl seasons. So we just need our cbs to 1009 01:13:20.680 --> 01:13:26.239 play and guard these wide receivers, and Buyer will sit back there and pick 1010 01:13:26.319 --> 01:13:30.760 shit out the air. If Henry doesn't get ten thousand Russian yards of tightness 1011 01:13:30.840 --> 01:13:34.920 to crime against Titan nation, that's correct. Hopefully, it's hopefully, hopefully 1012 01:13:35.079 --> 01:13:40.880 Harry can finish as the leading Russian Titan. I think he has a while, 1013 01:13:41.000 --> 01:13:44.359 he has a little bit to go before he even hits it. I 1014 01:13:44.399 --> 01:13:46.199 just I had to look it up because I knew it was eight something. 1015 01:13:46.600 --> 01:13:49.560 I just didn't know what the next number was. I was hoping it was 1016 01:13:49.600 --> 01:13:53.920 an eight seven so that I can say, hey man, we got a 1017 01:13:54.000 --> 01:13:56.920 shot this year. I mean it's a long shot, but we got a 1018 01:13:57.000 --> 01:14:00.520 shot. But at eight three, I mean, you got to score twenty 1019 01:14:00.520 --> 01:14:05.159 seven hundred yards in one season. You do that? Bro, you are 1020 01:14:05.439 --> 01:14:13.399 the king? Yeah he has. Has he even passed Chris Johnson yet? 1021 01:14:14.520 --> 01:14:18.399 Uh? In the Titans? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. The only the 1022 01:14:18.479 --> 01:14:25.199 only two that doesn't he doesn't have yet is Earl Campbell and uh Eddie George. 1023 01:14:26.119 --> 01:14:30.760 Yeah okay, and he's almost caught up to Eddie George, so yeah, 1024 01:14:30.840 --> 01:14:35.079 yeah, yeah, George. He on your ass, Eddie. Oh 1025 01:14:35.199 --> 01:14:38.560 yeah, yeah. Man, You're right. I can't do math. I'm 1026 01:14:38.560 --> 01:14:42.119 sorry. I'm sorry, man. You see y'all get to see how bad 1027 01:14:42.119 --> 01:14:50.079 at math I am right now in my hey man, you know, um 1028 01:14:51.199 --> 01:14:55.720 talking about football, not arithmetic, And I'm sorry, but yeah, you're 1029 01:14:55.800 --> 01:14:59.359 right, Michael Newson. We might actually get to see Derek Henry. There 1030 01:14:59.439 --> 01:15:01.319 is a good chance. So we get to see Dereck Henry because last year 1031 01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:06.000 he was slated, uh or the year he got injured. Excuse me, 1032 01:15:06.079 --> 01:15:12.399 let me rephrase that. You're here, you damnip going for twenty two Say, 1033 01:15:12.520 --> 01:15:15.640 yeah, he was slated to hit twenty two five, which was what 1034 01:15:15.720 --> 01:15:19.960 he was That's crazy, that's an insane amount. And if he's able to 1035 01:15:20.000 --> 01:15:26.439 get eighteen hundred yards, which I think is plausible, Um, then yeah, 1036 01:15:26.439 --> 01:15:29.680 we see him as a ten thousand yard rusher and that's great. And 1037 01:15:29.800 --> 01:15:31.800 I think he goes down into the Hall of Fame. I mean, I 1038 01:15:31.840 --> 01:15:34.840 think he's a Hall of Famer pretty much anyway, don't matter. You know, 1039 01:15:34.880 --> 01:15:40.399 he's gonna finish in the Hall of Fame. So, but I don't 1040 01:15:40.399 --> 01:15:44.279 want to drag this show on too much longer. We've already went way over 1041 01:15:44.359 --> 01:15:47.920 and now, yeah, I don't want to keep going too much longer, 1042 01:15:48.000 --> 01:15:51.760 So let's wrap it up, guys. We really appreciate all you guys for 1043 01:15:51.840 --> 01:15:56.119 coming out. Thank you so much, Thank you, thank you, thank 1044 01:15:56.159 --> 01:16:00.720 you. Um, all right, one morning, then we really have to 1045 01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:09.520 go because this is a good question. What think you talking about Joshua Wily? 1046 01:16:09.720 --> 01:16:13.119 I think josh I'm sure he's not talking about Trevon Westco. I mean, 1047 01:16:13.159 --> 01:16:16.640 come on, he's talking about josh Will Yeah, josh Wily. He 1048 01:16:16.880 --> 01:16:23.079 I watched some of his college highlights. He's a pass catcher. Uh, 1049 01:16:23.159 --> 01:16:26.520 he's a he's a man guy. He's tall, he's big size guy. 1050 01:16:26.680 --> 01:16:30.920 He's uh checks four, He's he's gonna he's gonna make some plays. He's 1051 01:16:30.920 --> 01:16:32.960 gonna make some plays. You know, he's gonna try to make up for 1052 01:16:33.039 --> 01:16:38.520 that that week wide receiver room we got. I think josh Willer would be 1053 01:16:38.560 --> 01:16:42.439 a good pass catcher for Tan of here. He'll he'll uh do some of 1054 01:16:42.479 --> 01:16:45.800 those things that uh that Austin Hooper did, you know, get in the 1055 01:16:45.840 --> 01:16:48.000 middle of the field, get open, make some crazy catches. And he's 1056 01:16:48.039 --> 01:16:51.640 tall, so you know he's gonna be taller than a lot of these linebackers. 1057 01:16:51.640 --> 01:16:57.000 So I feel I like Joshua will I think he's gonna do some big 1058 01:16:57.039 --> 01:17:01.439 things. So yeah, yeah, yeah, I really agree on that. 1059 01:17:01.520 --> 01:17:05.039 I had to look it up. He's six six, I'm sorry, sixty 1060 01:17:05.159 --> 01:17:09.000 six six, Yeah, and he's got to think a thirty four or thirty 1061 01:17:09.039 --> 01:17:14.640 seven inch vertical Yeah. So yeah, uh big, big And if you 1062 01:17:14.680 --> 01:17:19.079 watch his stats, are I mean, is um his highlights at Cincinnati. 1063 01:17:19.920 --> 01:17:25.399 Um. He is a pass catching tight end. He runs, he's big 1064 01:17:25.439 --> 01:17:29.720 though. He's physical, fraid to just dig in and take the block, 1065 01:17:29.880 --> 01:17:33.840 which I like, but also h he doesn't really run after the after the 1066 01:17:33.880 --> 01:17:36.319 catch very much. I mean, he doesn't have a lot of wiggle in 1067 01:17:36.399 --> 01:17:42.680 him or anything like that. So I see him as an intermediate pass and 1068 01:17:42.880 --> 01:17:45.960 a big touchdown target. Ye now I could I could see Josh Wiley maybe 1069 01:17:46.000 --> 01:17:51.279 only pulling yeah, two hundred, three hundred yards, but I could also 1070 01:17:51.359 --> 01:17:56.039 see him pulling five or six touchdowns this year, you know, and then 1071 01:17:56.159 --> 01:18:01.359 Chig have like sixty seven eight hundred yards and then still only six touchdowns, 1072 01:18:01.399 --> 01:18:09.000 just as much as Josh Wi. But that's because Josh Wiley is so throwing 1073 01:18:09.039 --> 01:18:11.520 at the crossbar and he can still catch it, you know what I mean. 1074 01:18:11.560 --> 01:18:15.600 That's yeah, that's easy. So there's that. Um. Yes, 1075 01:18:15.760 --> 01:18:19.079 No, we don't come on every evening. We come on every Monday night 1076 01:18:19.920 --> 01:18:25.119 at this time, which is well we started at seven thirty Central, eight 1077 01:18:25.199 --> 01:18:29.640 thirty sir, Monday nights. That's our night. That's where y'all get us. 1078 01:18:29.880 --> 01:18:34.199 We appreciate everybody tuning in to watch us, man, I know everybody. 1079 01:18:34.319 --> 01:18:36.800 Maybe in the in the future, you know, we'll probably had we 1080 01:18:36.960 --> 01:18:41.000 might move up to two shows a week. You never know when the season 1081 01:18:41.039 --> 01:18:44.279 start. We got a little bit more to talk about, but until the 1082 01:18:44.399 --> 01:18:47.840 end, just catch us every Monday, seven thirty Central. I appreciate everybody 1083 01:18:47.840 --> 01:18:50.560 for rocket with me and my guy Max. Man. I'm the tightest fan 1084 01:18:50.600 --> 01:18:58.239 battle podcast. Uh. Follow the Facebook. We got a tight fan battle 1085 01:18:58.680 --> 01:19:03.199 podcast Facebook follow follow out. You can catch us there. You can catch 1086 01:19:03.239 --> 01:19:08.960 my guy Max on his page Maximus Titans fan. I'm on my personal page 1087 01:19:09.000 --> 01:19:14.439 Flame Douglas. Y'all need anything, y'all can hit us up there. We 1088 01:19:14.520 --> 01:19:16.920 just appreciate you' out for rocking with us. Man, keep the views come 1089 01:19:16.960 --> 01:19:20.560 and keep the shares coming. We only going up. Man. This is 1090 01:19:20.600 --> 01:19:26.359 gonna be one of them podcasts that you're gonna want to watch every week because 1091 01:19:26.359 --> 01:19:30.399 we're gonna bring the facts and we're gonna integrate the fans. So, I 1092 01:19:30.439 --> 01:19:32.800 mean, this is y'all podcast, just like it out as ours. Man. 1093 01:19:32.840 --> 01:19:36.720 We want y'all to put and I mean this is for the people, 1094 01:19:36.760 --> 01:19:42.079 man, Tighten up. That's right, everybody. We want y'all to be 1095 01:19:42.159 --> 01:19:45.079 a part of this podcast. That's kind of the whole idea is that y'all 1096 01:19:45.479 --> 01:19:50.119 help produce the content along with us. Get your ideas out there. 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And that's it, everybody, 1107 01:20:35.039 --> 01:20:38.279 Thank you, and good night, and have a good night. We'll see 1108 01:20:38.319 --> 01:20:44.119 you next week right here, Monday night, seven thirty Central, eight thirty 1109 01:20:44.119 --> 01:20:54.479 Eastern. Thank tighten up. I don't want to hear any more it's more 1110 01:20:54.520 --> 01:20:58.800 talk off that short free because it ain't off top of that show drop. 1111 01:21:00.000 --> 01:21:01.600 I want to hear of any more small talk off that short pair took a 1112 01:21:01.640 --> 01:21:03.920 long walk. My style ain't free because it ain't off the top of that 1113 01:21:04.079 --> 01:21:08.359 Joe throw go put the cop drop his cush, but let me too much 1114 01:21:08.359 --> 01:21:10.680 in your brain. Turn the munch, but foot on your toush