Speaker 1: This is the OTP. I'm Amy Wells, and I am
Speaker 1: joined by the newest Tennessee Titan, your future quarterback, mister
Speaker 1: Cameron Ward.
Speaker 2: Cam.
Speaker 1: We're so happy to have you here. What has this
Speaker 1: day been like?
Speaker 2: Its good, It's been a dream come true.
Speaker 3: It has been a blessing, you know, and you know,
Speaker 3: I've just decided to get to work with my teammates.
Speaker 1: Your road to the draft and to the Tennessee Titans
Speaker 1: was anything but straight throughout your career from high school
Speaker 1: all the way through college. A lot of different stops,
Speaker 1: a lot of different obstacles that you had to overcome.
Speaker 2: Is there a stop along.
Speaker 1: The way, whether it be coming out of high school,
Speaker 1: going to Incarnate Word, going to Washington State, going to Miami,
Speaker 1: was there a stop that really influenced you or led
Speaker 1: you to this moment right now?
Speaker 3: I'll say you I w my first school, you know,
Speaker 3: who gave me the opportunity to play at the college level,
Speaker 3: and I just think that I learned a lot there
Speaker 3: from Coach Morris and Coach Leftwich. The staff that he
Speaker 3: had there is one of the first places where I
Speaker 3: was actually be able to make an impact on the game.
Speaker 3: Throwing the football, or I started really learning more about offense.
Speaker 3: So I'll say, U, I w made that made that
Speaker 3: that play special for me.
Speaker 1: You seem like a guy who, throughout your career you've
Speaker 1: just had to say, okay, watch me a lot of times.
Speaker 2: Is that fair to say? Yeah? I wouldn't say he
Speaker 2: watched me. I would just say pause.
Speaker 1: Really okay, why pause?
Speaker 2: Because I got the controller? Okay.
Speaker 1: So you like to be in control of showing people
Speaker 1: what you are capable of doing. That's interesting, That's an
Speaker 1: interesting way to approach it. Why is that control something
Speaker 1: that's so important to you.
Speaker 3: I just think the perception people don't put, you know,
Speaker 3: my all myself, but quarterbacks in particular, when in reality
Speaker 3: they might not know the first thing about us. And
Speaker 3: so it's actually kind of crazy to me in my being,
Speaker 3: but you know, it's it's the position you want to
Speaker 3: be yourself in, especially you know, as a little kid,
Speaker 3: want to be you know, the face of a franchise,
Speaker 3: the face of you know, organization, and you know just
Speaker 3: want to be a you know, a good teammate. So
Speaker 3: you know, I'm happy to be in a position though you.
Speaker 1: Were consistently putting yourself in positions to have the game
Speaker 1: on your back, have the team on your back, make
Speaker 1: the big play when it matters. Why is that a
Speaker 1: time that is so exciting to you?
Speaker 3: I just think just because all the hard work I
Speaker 3: put in, and then me also, you know, just praying
Speaker 3: about it each and every day since I was a
Speaker 3: little kid, and then also just you know, wanting to,
Speaker 3: you know, just be better than what I was the
Speaker 3: year before. It took a lot of hard work to
Speaker 3: get to where I was. Some bad days, also a
Speaker 3: lot of good days as well. And you know, I
Speaker 3: played with, you know, some unbelievable teammates at all my stops,
Speaker 3: even high school, and so I just think it all,
Speaker 3: you know, helped me get to, you know, this moment,
Speaker 3: being a Tennessee Titan.
Speaker 1: You come from a really athletic family. Dad was a
Speaker 1: football player, Mom was a basketball coach. All of your
Speaker 1: sisters played sports. What's it like growing up in a
Speaker 1: household where everybody else I'm thing.
Speaker 2: To do with sports. It's good.
Speaker 3: It makes you a competitor, off rip, I would say,
Speaker 3: And I'm just you know, glad that it's been done
Speaker 3: deal for a while now that I'm the I'm the
Speaker 3: best in the best athlete in the house.
Speaker 1: Are you the best athlete in the house? Even if
Speaker 1: you asked everybody.
Speaker 3: Else, they would they would say I am would they
Speaker 3: maybe I would say? The only one who wouldn't say
Speaker 3: it's probably Chantel. But everybody knows the truth. Who really
Speaker 3: is the best athlete in the house?
Speaker 1: What could she beat you in?
Speaker 3: Throwing a shot put a discus? That's really it. She
Speaker 3: can't beat me nothing else though, not even close.
Speaker 1: So this competitive nature that you have, does this come
Speaker 1: from your sisters? Does it come from your siblings competing
Speaker 1: all the way through life?
Speaker 3: I think I think it comes from them, my parents, everybody. Uh,
Speaker 3: we we canceled family game nights because we can't compete
Speaker 3: no more without fighting, and so we haven't had a
Speaker 3: game night probably about four or five years. And so
Speaker 3: it gets real competitive on our household. And if you're
Speaker 3: not competitive, you're not welcome.
Speaker 1: You're all grown up. Now, could you maybe bring it back?
Speaker 2: Or no? I don't think it's coming back. No times,
Speaker 2: So I don't think it's coming back.
Speaker 1: No to So do you think that there are values
Speaker 1: that that instilled in you that are really positive though?
Speaker 1: And maybe or why you're the leader that you are now?
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 3: Just from a from a I think it created, you know,
Speaker 3: just a relationship level in my opinion. Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: you just got to and I think it translates over
Speaker 3: to no matter what sports you play, me specifically playing football.
Speaker 3: You know, I think it connects me, you know, with
Speaker 3: the locker room, my guys, especially you know, being around
Speaker 3: Vetch was being in the league, you know for a
Speaker 3: couple of years. You know, I'm excited to you know,
Speaker 3: get that going, get their procession on everything they've been through.
Speaker 2: But I think it's helped me along the way.
Speaker 1: One of your teammates said that you are an incredible leader,
Speaker 1: and he described it as you know how to demand
Speaker 1: greatness out of your teammates while still being a respectful teammate.
Speaker 1: That's a hard balance to find. How do you know
Speaker 1: when to push and when to let guys be.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's kind of hard. It's kind of
Speaker 3: like all in the in the moment. To me, I
Speaker 3: never take anything into the locker room, you know. I
Speaker 3: love cracking jokes with my guys, whether it's in the
Speaker 3: huddle or in the locker room. But on the football fields,
Speaker 3: all business and like to me, if I have to
Speaker 3: give your ass a little bit.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm willing to do in it.
Speaker 3: So I just think it's just, you know, it all
Speaker 3: comes with the territory play the quarterback position. But you know,
Speaker 3: I love my teammates, and I think you know, I've
Speaker 3: always had respect for those guys and they always have
Speaker 3: respect for me.
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Speaker 1: to the OTP. Tell me a little bit about your
Speaker 1: play style on the field. How would you describe the
Speaker 1: things that you're able to do on the football field.
Speaker 3: I think what I can do is different. I like
Speaker 3: to call myself a playmaking pocket passer. I can win
Speaker 3: from the pocket when I need to. I can scramble
Speaker 3: and make plays when I need to. Whether it's quick game,
Speaker 3: intermediate or throwing the deep ball. I think I have
Speaker 3: all three of those in my bag. And I just
Speaker 3: think while I got better at throughout my college careers,
Speaker 3: playing more on time and also you know, getting us
Speaker 3: into good run checks and helping the run game helps
Speaker 3: with the past game I learned down the back end
Speaker 3: of my career, and so I just think, you know,
Speaker 3: me just playing in three different systems helped me, you know,
Speaker 3: to this moment. Even when coach Kyllahan, who's runs a
Speaker 3: similar offense than what I were in last year, a
Speaker 3: lot of concepts translate over and so you know, it's
Speaker 3: it's an e sighted time for me for sure. And
Speaker 3: I mean I'll get to play with one of the
Speaker 3: best offensive mines for my first year, hopefully for more
Speaker 3: years to come. But you know it's funny, you know,
Speaker 3: come May eighth, I'll be ready to go.
Speaker 1: Coach Callahan was very complimentary of you and your brain.
Speaker 1: The way that you're able to process and kind of
Speaker 1: ingest an offense, the way you're able to diagnose a defense.
Speaker 1: Does that come from switching systems so much You've learned
Speaker 1: how to kind of translate the different languages and put
Speaker 1: them all into something that makes sense in your head.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's come from that lot.
Speaker 3: And I also think it's come from me get a
Speaker 3: you know, extraordinary amount of reps throughout college. Me playing
Speaker 3: fifty plus games has also helped my case. And you know,
Speaker 3: once you do something over and over, you're gonna consistently
Speaker 3: get better at it over time.
Speaker 2: And so I think that's helped me.
Speaker 1: You've been called Houdini where even if things are breaking down,
Speaker 1: you can not only get out of trouble, but you
Speaker 1: can make something happen out of that play. How how
Speaker 1: do you learn how to do something like that? Some
Speaker 1: of the things you do are bananas.
Speaker 3: I would say, just practicing it, honestly, putting your body
Speaker 3: in where positions you don't think you're gonna throw the
Speaker 3: ball in. But you know, my my quarterback coach, he
Speaker 3: motivates me to do that stuff. He's one of the
Speaker 3: biggest reasons why I selected this high in the draft.
Speaker 3: And you know, I would say the thing I like
Speaker 3: about him, Daryl, is that he hasn't you know, changed
Speaker 3: my Game's only changed just my base and just my
Speaker 3: footwork to help me get to this level.
Speaker 2: But I say, My quarterback coach got a lot to
Speaker 2: do with that.
Speaker 1: How important is it to work with somebody who doesn't
Speaker 1: change what is innately you like? How valuable has that
Speaker 1: been to your growth?
Speaker 3: That's very important because the end of the day, where
Speaker 3: they work with somebody, they're not the ones on the field.
Speaker 3: You're the one on the field, and so if they're
Speaker 3: trying to change your whole game to fit what they
Speaker 3: think you should be doing, it's not gonna work out
Speaker 3: in the long run. You gotta be able to know
Speaker 3: how to play. You gotta be able to watch film
Speaker 3: and see how players are gonna end up. And I
Speaker 3: just think, you know, the the more reps you get
Speaker 3: like I got in my career is gonna help you over.
Speaker 1: Tom Here at the Tennessee Titans, you're gonna be working
Speaker 1: with Brian Callahan, as you mentioned earlier, and he is
Speaker 1: known for working with great quarterbacks. What are you most
Speaker 1: looking forward to about that relationship.
Speaker 3: I'm almost looking forward to, I would have to say,
Speaker 3: just him teaching me more about football than what I
Speaker 3: already know.
Speaker 2: I'm behind the eight ball.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of people who's ahead of me right now,
Speaker 3: who's you know, established themselves in the league, and so
Speaker 3: you know, I gotta I gotta catch up in a
Speaker 3: short amount of time, and so you know I'm ready
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 2: He's also gonna challenge me every day. I'm excited for it.
Speaker 3: But I mean, I get I'll get one of the
Speaker 3: best play calls in the NFL, So you know, I
Speaker 3: know it's gonna be all right.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: You had warn Moon come out and surprise you today
Speaker 1: and give you his number, essentially tell you that you
Speaker 1: could wear number one for the Tennessee Titans. What did
Speaker 1: that moment mean to you?
Speaker 2: It really didn't mean a lot to me.
Speaker 3: Just from the number standpoint, it meant a lot, you know,
Speaker 3: just cause He took Tom out of his way to
Speaker 3: come and do that for me.
Speaker 2: So I'm grateful that he did that.
Speaker 3: And you know, I'm grateful for you organization, you know,
Speaker 3: allow me to you know, wear a number. But you know,
Speaker 3: I I'm excited, you know, to make plays for my teammates,
Speaker 3: for his organization. You know, I'm excited to you know,
Speaker 3: get it going in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: It's time for you to create your own legacy with
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. Where do you start in creating something
Speaker 1: like that?
Speaker 3: Getting the playbook, watching film and also learning my teammates names.
Speaker 1: Learning your teammates' names. How hard is that going to be?
Speaker 1: Are you a names person?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I am okay it.
Speaker 3: It actually is really hard. But you know, once you
Speaker 3: see him every day, then it's easy. But I ain't
Speaker 3: see everybody yet, so that's that's the hard part though.
Speaker 3: But come come about. I would say, after Ot wants
Speaker 3: to vest get here at the rookie minning, can there
Speaker 3: That'd be easy for me.
Speaker 1: What are you hoping that people say about you and
Speaker 1: your rookie year when they watch you play.
Speaker 3: Well, if somebody wants to win, we wouldn't do anything
Speaker 3: you know, put himself in a team in the best
Speaker 3: situation to you know, ultimately try to win the championship
Speaker 3: at you know, some point in his career.
Speaker 1: Kim Wardan, you are so excited that you're here. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Tennessee Titans for Amy Wells and Kim ward
Speaker 1: of course, thank you for listening to the OTZ.