1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: On today's OTP Road to Nashville, Walter Amy inside, they 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: give it to Delaney Walker around right end. He is 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: going to trot in for the touchdown Titans looking for 4 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: Delaney Walker. Did he catch it? Yes, sir, he dad 5 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: bum looks like it's caught it in. It's Walker, Delaney Walker. 6 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 1: He's the man all the time. Com for eighty two 7 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: is next on the April eleventh, OTP Road to Nashville. 8 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: It's fourteen days until players are drafted in Nashville. Welcome 9 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: to the OTP Road to Nashville. My name is Mike Keith. 10 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: Glad you're with us on this Thursday, two weeks away 11 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: from the start of the NFL Draft. Amy Wells, draft fever. 12 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: Catch it. I've already caught a hashtag draft fever. Is 13 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: that a thing? No? No, but people have draft fever. 14 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: I think we could start it. I think that's a 15 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: good hashtags like biber fever, like people use fever. Hashtag 16 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: fever good. I don't know, but I mean the fever 17 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: think of work. We could start the hashtag. But I 18 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: think we've already had it for a while. I feel 19 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: like I've I've had it for a month. It's like 20 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: a cold that just won't go in truly is Delanny 21 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: Walker is going to be here. He will and we 22 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: are very excited. If you are watching this show live 23 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,639 Speaker 1: on the Titans social media channels via Facebook or Twitter 24 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: or YouTube, you can submit your questions and we will 25 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: ask him as many as possible. And I'm going to 26 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: ask him how his ankle is. Don't worry, so you 27 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: don't need to do it. How's your ankle? How are 28 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: you feeling? I got that, Amy. I think Amy's actually 29 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: got that. You thought to ask that it is. It 30 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: is going to be incurred to the course of the program. 31 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: So if there are other things you want to know that, 32 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: please let us know. Let's up right into headlines because 33 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: I'm excited about headline one. Oh yeah, So I have 34 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: been monitoring very closely, very closely. I have been monitoring 35 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: to see when the NFL Fan Mobile pass app is 36 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: really rolling. I can actually confirm that you have been 37 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: anxiously awaiting. Here It is right here, It's it's rolling. 38 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: Oh so you actively active. I did everything I've got. 39 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: I've got it and it is as cool as they say. 40 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 1: I can see what it's going to be during the 41 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: course of the draft. Look at this, You've got all 42 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: kinds of access. It's going to be able to tell 43 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: you where you can be in the best places. Any 44 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: notifications about people signing or different things happening than the 45 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: unleash the potential, you know, with the with the scan 46 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: right there, I registered. I went ahead and registered and 47 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 1: then look at all this. The ask vents, I don't 48 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: know who Vince is your draft concierge raft concierge. M 49 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: he's like the paper clip in Microsoft work. Okay, Oh gosh, 50 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: he's no one listening to this remembers that. Okay, So, 51 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: so you've got the schedule of the draft, transportation, anything 52 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: you need to know about policy and security, can you 53 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: bring it? Can you not? Weather updates? Deals where you 54 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 1: can buy gear, all kinds of discounts. Remember now, the 55 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: draft itself is free, yes, but if you want to shop, 56 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: if you want to buy team stuff, and then then 57 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: it's got all the stuff about the NFL experience presented 58 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: by Oikos Triple zero, which has fifteen grahams of protein. 59 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: By the way, I love a little Oikos Triple zero. 60 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: You do like but yogurt, I'd like oatmeal too. But 61 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: did you say old man. You're gonna say something about 62 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: old man anyway, download this app, do it. I mean, 63 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: if you are even thinking about coming to the Draft, 64 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: download this app. And again, I was playing with it 65 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: this morning, and I mean obviously two weeks out, so 66 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: the information is not updating constantly, but it's going to. 67 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: And this is such a great thing. It's just at 68 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 1: the app store. Yes, okay, NFL Fan Mobile pass cool. Download, 69 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 1: I have it. I have it right here on my phone. 70 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it during the show. Okay, Well, concentrate 71 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: on the show. Well eventually I'll do it, all right. 72 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: So our encouragement to download and remember the Draft is free, free, free, free, 73 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: free in downtown Nashville, it's free. Now the food you 74 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: know you're gonna have food trucks, you're gonna pay for that. 75 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: Merchandise is not. But to attend all of this free, 76 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: just to walk in the doors. You can go wherever 77 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: you want to go free, no dollars. Parking at Nissan 78 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: Stadium also free free. Yep. So what we want to 79 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: encourage you to do and what we're trying to do, 80 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 1: and by by really pushing the app and things like that, 81 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: we want you to be able to take in the 82 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 1: whole experience because we want you to have draft fever. Well, 83 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: you don't want to miss anything, really truly though, you 84 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: don't want to miss anything, and you don't want to 85 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: have an experience where your buddies on Monday are like, man, 86 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 1: the draft was awesome. Did you see so and so? 87 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: And you're like, no, yeah, don't know that was going on. 88 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: Don't be that guy, right, don't be that guy. You 89 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 1: do not want to be that guy. Help us help you. 90 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: Headline number two from Pro Football Talk Bill Belichick quote 91 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:31,799 Speaker 1: which is pretty interesting about why it's so hard to 92 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 1: evaluate skill players coming from the college game to the 93 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: pro game, and he says this, this is a quote 94 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: I'd say. The issue in college football is there's just 95 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 1: not the same passing game in college football that there 96 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: is in the NFL period. So it's hard to evaluate 97 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: the receivers, it's hard to evaluate the quarterback, it's hard 98 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: to evaluate the offensive linement, it's hard to evaluate pass rushers, 99 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: and it's hard to evaluate coverage players. You know, we're 100 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: looking at all the same film, so all the teams 101 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: in the league, we all see the same games. But 102 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 1: the college passing game is very different from the professional 103 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: passing game. When you're looking at it, you're looking at 104 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 1: a lot of different things, projecting all these positions a 105 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: little differently. To a certain degree. It's different in the 106 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 1: running game, true too, but probably less different in the 107 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: running game than the passing game in my opinion. Interesting. Well, 108 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: and I wanted to ask Delaney about this specifically, but 109 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: I mean it just I mean, he just put it 110 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: very succinctly about the concepts. I think the difference in 111 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: the concepts is, as a pro skilled player, you have 112 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: to make reads. Well, here he is Delanny Walker tight 113 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: end on a prayer with his bon Jovi shirt. That 114 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 1: is nice. I know, yes, that is true. We are 115 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: so glad you're here. Let's make sure got microphone. Okay, 116 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: So let me jump right in and ask you this 117 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:06,159 Speaker 1: because Bill Belichick, in talking about draft stuff, says it's 118 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: hard to project, hard to evaluate receivers, quarterback, offensive lineman 119 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: because the college pass game is so different from the 120 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: pro pass game. My contention is, as a professional skill player, 121 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: you have to make reads. Indeed, a lot of these 122 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: college players don't. They hold up some card and they 123 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,239 Speaker 1: just do one thing. Is that the biggest difference? Why 124 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: guys coming from the college game to the pro game 125 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: have such a problem and some can't do it. Or 126 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: is there something else I'm missing? I would say he's 127 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: right on that point. When a system is built where 128 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: you don't have to read defenses, basically, you just run 129 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: the route no matter what. You don't have an option, 130 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: you don't you don't have to look at the coverage 131 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: and say if it's covered too to break it over 132 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: top or sit underneath. It's kind of hard once you 133 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: get to the NFL, because that's what we do. They 134 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: want you to read the defense to tell what kind 135 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: of routes you run. If it's covered too, you gotta 136 00:07:58,040 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: take it over the top, If it's covered three, you 137 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: gotta breaking down. So sometimes it's hard for receivers and 138 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: transition into that when they've never done it before. Would 139 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: you say, you've been in the league a long time. 140 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: You've been in the league a long time. See if 141 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: you agree with this. There are less non smart guys 142 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: in the NFL today than there were when you came 143 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: into the league. Mentally, it is a harder game. I 144 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: would say, you're right. I noticed I said non smart. Yeah, 145 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: you didn't say dumb jobs. Rude. I think it's a 146 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: harder from a mental standpoint. And listen, you don't have 147 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: to be able to split the atom or be a 148 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: doctor or whatever, but you you do have to understand. 149 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: I mean, you guys study like crazy. But you know, 150 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: I feel like the new generation of this game is 151 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: they they baby these guys. Now. It's way different than 152 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: when I came in and oh six, and oh six, 153 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:57,680 Speaker 1: it was a lot harder. They just gave you a 154 00:08:57,679 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: playbook like you better learn this or you getting cut. 155 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: Now they got they like tutors here, like, oh, let 156 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: me tutor you how to learn this playbook and how 157 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: to read it and how to study it. So the 158 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 1: game has changed a lot. Yeah, because I guess that 159 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 1: they figured that it it kind of dumbed down a 160 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: little bit. I'm gonna use the word it dumbed down 161 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 1: a little bit. So they trying to make sure that 162 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: these guys get the system down because it's very hard. 163 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: I've never bought into the dumb athlete thing, because as 164 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: a non athlete, it has always been very impressive to 165 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: me the amount of details that football players specifically can 166 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: keep in their brains. But you know what else too, 167 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: they're also smart people who can't do this right because 168 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: they can't process, or they think too much right or 169 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: you know, they may be book smart, but they don't 170 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: necessarily understand how the football puts together. You have to 171 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: have a delicate balance of being able to know the material, 172 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:56,559 Speaker 1: understand what a certain call means, what a certain how 173 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: to evaluate a certain situation. But you also have to 174 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: have some of that ability to as I would say, 175 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 1: read the room, like you have to be able to 176 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 1: look around and actually assess what's actually going on as 177 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: opposed to just what you've seen on the boarder in 178 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: your playbook. Very true when we all learned differently. You know, 179 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: I can't just look at the playbook and learn to play. 180 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:17,680 Speaker 1: I actually, if anyone to tell you, I write every 181 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: play down here and it's in the playbook. But I 182 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: still have to write it. I have to write the formation. 183 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: I have to write the play, and then I put 184 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: the concepts, every concept that's two by two, three by three, 185 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: you know, so some dudes they don't get that into 186 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:32,679 Speaker 1: like year three. Like this is the way you have 187 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: to learn it, because everything these players are just concepts. 188 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: If you learn the concept, you're gonna understand the play. 189 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 1: And that's pretty much the difficult part is just trying 190 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 1: to understand the concept and put them in categories that 191 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 1: where it makes sense. I'm gonna call an audible. Oh, 192 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 1: I'm gonna skip headline three because Delaney referenced the fact 193 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:51,959 Speaker 1: that he was drafted in two thousand and six. He 194 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:56,559 Speaker 1: did the one hundred seventy fifth pick of the two 195 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: thousand and six NFL Draft out of Central musule Zuri. 196 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: Now a Hall of famer for the Mules. Yes, how 197 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 1: about that? How about that? I mean it, The draft 198 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: back then was Saturday and Sunday. It was not the 199 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: big deal that it is now. What do you look? 200 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: Number three from Central Missouri? Look at that boy? See 201 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: what we're gonna do? This highlight dory about us? Okay, okay, 202 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,439 Speaker 1: there he is carrying the ball. Now you were technically 203 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: a wide receiver there, Yeah, I was a wide receiver. Yes, 204 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: all my life, I was a wide receiver, you know. 205 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: And then got to San Francisco. It's like we need 206 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:41,319 Speaker 1: a new tight end, we need an edge back, and 207 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,319 Speaker 1: man I had them blazers. Look look at it, walking 208 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: off and leave it. I don't even remember this blocking 209 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 1: from my boy. There you go nice. This is good stuff. 210 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: What do you remember about your draft weekend? Being around family? 211 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: Pretty much had had the family there, man, and they 212 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: all was supporting me. And that call. I remember getting 213 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 1: that call from San Francisco and as soon as it 214 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: popped up on the TV, my mom was like, that's 215 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: San Francisco because we had direct TV at the time, 216 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: so it popped up on the TV the area code 217 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 1: and she like san Francisco. I'm like, no, it ain't. 218 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: She like, yes, it is. Picked it up. So I 219 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,839 Speaker 1: picked it up and he was like Delaney. I was 220 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:26,439 Speaker 1: like yeah. He was like, how would you like to 221 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:28,679 Speaker 1: play for San Francisco? And I had had it loud 222 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: and my mom broke down in tears and damn near 223 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 1: fainted and I'm I started crying. My brother was crying 224 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 1: hugging me. So I remember just the love that my 225 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: family gave me on that day. It was, you know, 226 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: it was the best feeling I ever had, being getting 227 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: that call and then seeing how my family reacted to it. 228 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: Can we play a fun little game and look at 229 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: some of the other people who were drafted in two 230 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 1: thousand and six. Let's do that because I'm still in 231 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: the NFL it's probably light. But let's see. Well, here 232 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 1: we go. I've got the name right here, Vernon Davis. 233 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: My guy, Mercedes Lewis. All right, wait minute, let me 234 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: look at Vernon Davis then and now. Yeah, I hope 235 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:15,439 Speaker 1: he don't see that because he who is that fantastic? 236 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: He looked totally different. Yes, he looks thinner in the face. 237 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, he's more cut up now, yeah 238 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 1: he is. Though he was big when he had the dress. 239 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: Vernon that cried when he had the dress. He's all right, 240 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: So Vernon Davis is still in that your friend, your 241 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: former teammates. All right? Who else? Mercedes Lewis good friend 242 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: of we have. He's another guy who looked we try dame. Yeah, love, 243 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 1: he looked grown. Now, well he's a he is, I know. 244 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: I'm just saying that. Beard Andrew Whitworth is still in 245 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: the National Football League. We came in the same year. 246 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: He's a mustard. He's had a great career out of Yes, 247 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: he's a mustard. Ye, all right. Stephen Gostkowski, I thought 248 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: that was the goat at first. No, No, where is 249 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 1: he He's back in. He just re signed with the 250 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: Patriots two years eight and a half million dollars. Wow, 251 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 1: that's what's up. It's a great picture at the University 252 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: of Memphis. He was not only a very good kicker, 253 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: but he was also a really good baseball player. Wow. 254 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: His face has changed a wow so much? He got eight, 255 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: got bigger. Yeah is that possible. It's like maybe his 256 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: hairline just moved. All right? Sam Cook is still in 257 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 1: the National Football League books. He looks about the same 258 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 1: to say, he didn't change. Yeah, and Antoine Basset, Wow, 259 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's all we could find. We could only find. 260 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: You are one, we think one of seven. Wow, that's good. 261 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: And there he is. Look at that. At that I 262 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: looked totally different too, you think so I was darker. 263 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: I was darker for sure. Yeah, I had braids. There 264 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: it was darker. I look better now. So we're gonna 265 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: let's stay with the theme. Wait a minute, here we go. 266 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: No way, they got throwbacks, so they must be fighting 267 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: all this as we're talking. Which one are you the bigger? 268 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: My sister, that's not you in two thousand and six, though, No, okay, 269 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: that's me and like probably ninety no, not no, ninety 270 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: oh yeah, probably that's probably me in ninety Uh five. 271 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 1: My sister you think so? Oh yeah, Mando is probably 272 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: like two. She was born in ninety Here is this 273 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: guy's I don't know what year hers is. Mine I 274 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: think is from nineteen ninety one. Two thousand and nine. 275 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 1: This is two thousand your two thousand and nine. You look, 276 00:15:56,280 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: baby face, wig look very different. It's very different way 277 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 1: the way the comb over the comb over and starts slower. Now, hey, 278 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: speaking of that? Okay, who did this? But I think funny? 279 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: Do you think it's funny? Not as good as the 280 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: Osman's thing, which we're still going to talk about. Oh, 281 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: I'm sure two thousand and six Titans draft. Take a 282 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: look at this list, you will. You will really appreciate this. 283 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: Bench Young and Lyndale White the Titans. We're gonna take 284 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: Devin Hester and we're on the phone with Devin Hester 285 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: and ended up taking Lyndale White instead. Interesting choice. Some 286 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: some disagreements. I think was Stephen Tulloch is probably he 287 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 1: and Courtland Fennigan are the two guys that jump out. Unfortunately, 288 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: two guys on that list are no longer with us. 289 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: Jesse Mahalona and Quinton Ganther are no longer with us. 290 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 1: But that was that was an interesting group. Didn't turn 291 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: out quite as well as what we had hoped at 292 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 1: the time, but at the moment that it happened, and 293 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: really into the second year, at first we thought this 294 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: was a big, big time draft class that was going 295 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 1: to be an anchor of the franchise for a long time. 296 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: Didn't quite work out that way. I mean, because Vince 297 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: Young was probably the problem. Yeah, yeah, and I mean 298 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:21,120 Speaker 1: he was Rookie of the Year. Lindale White, Linda White 299 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: played well overall. Thought Lowry was going to be a 300 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: starter at safety. Tulleck turned out to be a player, 301 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 1: Finnigan came out of nowhere, Quenton stayed in the league 302 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 1: for quite a while as sort of a rotational back. 303 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: Mahaalana looked like he was gonna be sort of a 304 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: rotational defensive tackle, and it just didn't quite you know, 305 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: sometimes that happened. See, sometimes you have classes that jump 306 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 1: right away and then they just don't sort of take 307 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: that proper arc to be a baseline that you hope 308 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: is going to anchor you for several years. I didn't know. 309 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: I came out with accordingly, not gonna lie. How about that. 310 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 1: I did not know that this is funny was older 311 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: than me. It's been an eye opening game for everybody. 312 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 1: But I mean, really looking at this list and thinking 313 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: back to when you were drafted, can you believe how 314 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: much bigger the NFL Draft is fourteen years later? Of course, 315 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: you know when I was a kid looking at the draft, 316 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:19,879 Speaker 1: it started off small and it got bigger and bigger 317 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 1: every year. And so just like when I'm done playing, 318 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:25,879 Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be like a Disney parade when I 319 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 1: when I'm like forty years old, I mean that's close. 320 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: Let me there should be a parade. We were talking 321 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: about this the other day when we were downtown. There 322 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: ought to be a parade, That's what I mean. Like 323 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: coming into Nashville, I think it's gonna open up everyone's 324 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: eyes on how to do the draft because people don't 325 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: understand how Nashville is, but they about to have an 326 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,400 Speaker 1: eye opener once they come here for the draft. It's 327 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: about to be crazy. They're gonna do a lot of 328 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: things here after this draft. I promise you are you 329 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 1: gonna go down and check it out? Like? Are you 330 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 1: gonna be down around where everything is happening? Do you 331 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 1: care about the draft at all? I do? Not really 332 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 1: care about I do not, but um, I will because 333 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 1: I played for the Titans, and obviously they want us 334 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: to be out there and do interviews and meet the fans. 335 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 1: So I will be out there doing things like that, 336 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: but partaking in the festivities. It's like, I think it's 337 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,880 Speaker 1: gonna be like a hundred thousand people or day. Yeah, 338 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,959 Speaker 1: so I don't know if I can walk the streets 339 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: in Nashville. It's really gonna be tough, even for you, 340 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 1: I would say, people who are gonna be like, we 341 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,679 Speaker 1: know who you are, we want pictures with this, Like 342 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 1: you can't go nowhere. So I feel like going downtown 343 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be hard. I'll take my chances. 344 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: You're going down there, I'll live. Yeah, I'm gonna get 345 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,959 Speaker 1: right in it. I mean, we gotta work it. But 346 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:44,880 Speaker 1: I'm not. You know, I've said it time and time again. 347 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: I know it gets old, but I grew up here, 348 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: so for us to get this, I'm I have draft fever. 349 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: I have a bad case of draft fever. And the 350 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,360 Speaker 1: only cure is April twenty five through twenty seven. It's 351 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: not more Cowbell. Everybody's saying I want I want to 352 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: get down in it. I want to see it. I 353 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:05,119 Speaker 1: want to go. I want to go. You know, at 354 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: the times that we're off, I just think it's gonna 355 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: be remarkable because I'm like you, I believe with all 356 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: my heart Nashville will set the stand. Yes, they who 357 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 1: I promised you. Well, here's from a football standpoint, interesting 358 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,640 Speaker 1: little stats. Since two thy ten, only seven tight ends 359 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: have been first round picks, but it's looking like there 360 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:29,920 Speaker 1: could conceivably be three this year. What does that say 361 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: to you about the value of the tight end position 362 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: and how it's changed over the years. Well, you know, 363 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 1: if you look at it, previous years, tight ends were 364 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: basically a skilled tackle. He was a little faster than 365 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 1: a tackle, but just as big as him can block 366 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: is him. Then you are a receiver. You have to 367 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 1: catch the ball. You have to be able to run routes. 368 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: It's not so much you need to block. They want 369 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:57,359 Speaker 1: you to get in people way now, so most of 370 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: these guys don't block. They just get in ways. But 371 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: they can catch the balldy just a bigger receiver. So 372 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: that's why you start to see these guys, probably more 373 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: guys going first round because they want to skial receiver. 374 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 1: They finding the next Travis, the next delaying, the next Grunk. 375 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,919 Speaker 1: They want that type of receiver. So receiving tight end. 376 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:17,719 Speaker 1: And that's what you're starting to see because all these 377 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: spread offenses in college that through tight end. No, he 378 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 1: don't know how to get in three points stand he 379 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: stands up most of the time. So now you're gonna 380 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: start seeing more guys going in first round. And I'm 381 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 1: happy for it. Give us more money, please. I wish 382 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 1: I was younger so I could get more money. I 383 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 1: love the honesty. Write a letter that doesn't work for Amy, 384 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 1: and I hope it works for you. Oh yeah, you know, 385 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 1: I've just got Oh I'm the old guy on the team. 386 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,400 Speaker 1: I just say with some of my mind, and that's 387 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: why they love you. You have a social question. I do. 388 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 1: I have some social questions if you don't mind. Okay, 389 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 1: This first one is from John and he says, what 390 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: has been your regiment for being able to have such 391 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: a long lasting career in the National Football League. That's 392 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: a that's a good one. That is a good one 393 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 1: if anyone knows me. I take care of my body. 394 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: I feel like the body is the key to being 395 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:11,400 Speaker 1: successful in this league. The way I eat, the way 396 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 1: I work out, and then you know, when I step 397 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 1: away from football, when I when this is the offseason, 398 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: I take time off. I'd let my body heal and 399 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 1: then I get back to it. I try to get treatment, massages, yoga, 400 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: everything pretty much that you should be doing and take 401 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 1: care of your body. I do it constantly. Do you 402 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: have time for another one? True? Okay? How has your 403 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 1: mindset changed after having an injury like the one that 404 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,439 Speaker 1: you've had. Does it change the way that you approach 405 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: the game at all? You know what, I've been asked 406 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,119 Speaker 1: that a lot so far. I really don't. I haven't. 407 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,120 Speaker 1: I feel like I haven't changed anything. I don't want 408 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: to feel like I have to go into the game 409 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 1: and change my game because I broke my leg, because 410 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 1: I feel like that's gonna make me play slow. So 411 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,959 Speaker 1: I just I really haven't thought of that part yet. 412 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: We have to wait until I get out there and 413 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: start running right now. I'm just I'm just trying to 414 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 1: get back on the field. Were you surprised Rob Gronkowski retired? 415 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,400 Speaker 1: You know, man leading up to him, he's a big guys. 416 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,880 Speaker 1: He was the best tight end. Don't get me wrong. 417 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,160 Speaker 1: I'll say Gronk was one of the best tight ends 418 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: because the way he played the game. He'd go out 419 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: there and give it all he had. But the dude 420 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 1: was big, and everyone takes shots at him, at his knees, 421 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:33,120 Speaker 1: his ribs, and I remember, I think two years ago 422 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 1: he got hit by in Seattle and I think probably 423 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,719 Speaker 1: fractured a rib or something or something happened to him. 424 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: And I know he was talking about retiring after that 425 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: because he took some brutal hits in the past, so 426 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: it didn't surprise me. I think he's he's put a 427 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: footprint in his game, and be honest with you, he'll 428 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 1: probably make more money outside of football. So if he 429 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: can do that, man, kudos to him and I wish 430 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,200 Speaker 1: him the best. Well. Some people have said that he 431 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: is the best tight end of all time. Do you 432 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: agree with that. I wouldn't say that. No, No, it's 433 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: it's it's it's some guys, Johnny Mackie. You can't you 434 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 1: can't you do these people this millenniums. They don't know 435 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 1: anything that happened. They don't even know who Blues Brothers are. 436 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: So you can sit here and tell me that this 437 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: man is the best tight end of all time, and 438 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 1: they go on national TV and say this, they are crazy. 439 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 1: There you go, were you surprised Jason Witten decided to 440 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: come back. Now you can see it in his eyes 441 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: when he was up there Nelson games. He wanted to 442 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: be on that field and and the dude is competitor man, 443 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,159 Speaker 1: and and I would say he's that's a guy that 444 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,360 Speaker 1: you can say probably is one of the best tight 445 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: ends in the NFL. I've done it for a long time, 446 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,880 Speaker 1: consistent and can keep doing it at his age. That's 447 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 1: where I'm That's what makes him special. That's what makes 448 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 1: them special. That's where I'm confused. Where these people go 449 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: on TV and say these guys, is this this that 450 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:58,880 Speaker 1: they don't block, They don't even play the game that long. 451 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: But you got guys like winning that played the game 452 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 1: so long and do it well, and they don't talk 453 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: about this. Man. It makes me upset speaking of people 454 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,680 Speaker 1: who look different from when they were drafted. Now, he 455 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 1: looks different from when he was on TV last year exactly. Well, 456 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 1: for a lot of different people in the National Football League, 457 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: what they do is they watch other players and kind 458 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: of steal some stuff from the watch. Really good players 459 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: and try to emulate what they're seeing. Have you ever 460 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,640 Speaker 1: done that? Have you stolen things from other players? Sponge, 461 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: if you do something that, like, I'm soaking that all up. 462 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna try it too, Like I steal from everybody. 463 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: I mean, this is a copycat league. Coaches do it, 464 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: We do it. I mean, if it was if you 465 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,360 Speaker 1: see a technique that he did as very well, I'm 466 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna tell I'm gonna try it, and if 467 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: I can do it, well, I'm gonna take it. And 468 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: then you just make it your way. But we all 469 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 1: take from each other. I mean this is a copycat league, 470 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 1: as you see. Can I ask you about your health? 471 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 1: How seven months after they technically called it dislocating your 472 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: right ankle? Indeed, how are you? What's going on? I'm 473 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 1: actually really really good, you know, been on a treadmill, 474 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,440 Speaker 1: been running at eighty percent body weight, getting up to 475 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: eleven miles per hour on the treadmill, um doing one 476 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 1: leg balance pretty much. I can run if I really 477 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:20,959 Speaker 1: wanted to on the field. But you know, we got 478 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,679 Speaker 1: really good trainers, really good staff, our coaches, and they 479 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: believe in me, so they letting me take my time 480 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: on just getting in one hundred percent. But health is great, 481 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 1: feel good, in shape, looking good. We just got to 482 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 1: take it one day at a time, you know. I 483 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: want to make sure that I can go out there 484 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 1: and give it all I got before I tell anybody, Oh, 485 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 1: this is what I'm doing. Yeah, it's about September eight. Yeah, 486 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 1: it's not about April eight, June eight. All we're aiming 487 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 1: for with number eighty two is September eight. Well, I mean, 488 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 1: outside of your rookie year, you've never played less than 489 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: seven games? Correct, very true? So I've never played less 490 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: than fourteen games. You've never played less than fourteen games. 491 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:03,239 Speaker 1: I don't know, y'all just about yeah, because you got 492 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 1: notes right there, I could say anything and yeah, yeah 493 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 1: that's about right. Yeah. Yeah, there's somebody tweet me that 494 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 1: ain't even correct. Well, let's put it this way. Let's 495 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,879 Speaker 1: get it correct. His rookie year, he only played in 496 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: seven games. Right after that, he's never played less than 497 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: fourteen until last year. Yeah, that was my first major injury, 498 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,119 Speaker 1: like set me back. So what has it been like 499 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 1: for you? Not playing for basically a whole season? But 500 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 1: that was that was difficult. It was it was a 501 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,159 Speaker 1: tough moment. It was a very tough moment. Luckily I 502 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: got good friends, they can come. They came out and 503 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: hung out with me, because it was a tough one. 504 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 1: I I've that hurt. Just not being able to play, 505 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,440 Speaker 1: be out there with the guys, not even being able 506 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,960 Speaker 1: to walk and go into the locker room and and 507 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 1: just to talk to them was was tough. It it hurts, 508 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: you know, um not being able to play. And like 509 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,679 Speaker 1: you said, I've been in the league. This is going 510 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: on my fourth team season season. Really never missed the season, 511 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,880 Speaker 1: so it was different. It was different. It was tough, 512 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: but I got over it, you know. I realized that 513 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: it's part of the game we all signed up for. 514 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: You get hurt. Now I got to make an impact. 515 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 1: So that's that's all I'm focused on right now. So 516 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 1: it's the hardest part just not being a part of 517 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 1: that locker room, part of that routine. I feel like 518 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: I wasn't And honestly, you know, I don't. I don't 519 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 1: want this to seem bad, but I felt like I 520 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 1: wasn't even part of the team. I you know, just 521 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 1: not knowing what was going on week to week, not 522 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: being able to be in the meeting rooms because I 523 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,479 Speaker 1: had to get treatment constantly, just and then then hear 524 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: the stories from the guys. I felt like I was 525 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 1: being left out, you know. So it was tough. That's 526 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: why sometimes I wasn't here because you know, people, why 527 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 1: are you in here? It's tough on me not to 528 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 1: be able to be a part of it, knowing what 529 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 1: I've done with this organization. So biggest development of the 530 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: off season was that your position coach Arthur Schmill, which 531 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: named the offensive coordinator. You rejoiced. Indeed, explain why, man, 532 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 1: you know, been around Art? I would say, Art is 533 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 1: a really good friend of mine, really good friend of mine. Man, 534 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: I can't even shay out love the guy. You know, Man, 535 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 1: we've been through so much ups and downs. Always he's 536 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 1: always had my back and you know, sitting in there 537 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 1: and we talk and this is all he'd been, you know, 538 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: looking forward to. Obviously he want to be a head coach, 539 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 1: but this is the next step. This man, if anyone 540 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: knows who's Arthur Smith is, he really doesn't have to 541 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 1: do this, No he doesn't. But this man was quality 542 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: control defense. He went through all phases, became a tight 543 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 1: end coach. They'd really good. They had the opportunity to 544 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: be the offensive coordinator. And I know what kind of 545 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: man this is. I know how he put plays in, 546 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 1: I know how he teaches this. That's why our group 547 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: is pretty much one of the best groups on the field. 548 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited to see when he got the 549 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: control of the whole offense what we can do. And 550 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: he knows what he can do. No, and I don't 551 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: want to, you know, seeing like I'm in love with him, man, 552 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 1: But I'm telling like, the guy, the guy knows football, 553 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 1: and like I said, he doesn't have to be here, 554 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 1: but he loves being in the game. So if you 555 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 1: like that, and I know what type of person in 556 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: the kyp of family you have and you still work 557 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 1: hard as you do, I respect that and I got 558 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 1: your back. What should we know about Arthur Smith that 559 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: we don't already know? Um? Art quiet to everybody else, 560 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: But he's not really a quiet guy. You know, I 561 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 1: don't tell you right now. Everyone's like he's so quiet, 562 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: So that's yeah, that's what he shows that. But he's 563 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: a real down the earth dude. And and I just 564 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: I just love the realness. And y'all see his realness 565 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 1: when once the season start. I'm pretty sure some of 566 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 1: it gonna come out when once we win some games. 567 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: Watch how has he helped you improve as a player? Man? 568 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 1: Because Art is always honest with me. You know some 569 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: sometimes you get coaches when you have a good player, 570 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: they let me slip technique, Oh you're good, you're right, 571 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: or every day you got it black. You gotta get 572 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 1: your hands inside, you gotta do this, look the ball, 573 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: and you gotta break down, keep your arms pumping. And 574 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 1: you know, even though I look at him like right, God, 575 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 1: he'd do it every day, and I liked the consistency. 576 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 1: He didn't care who I was and how many catches 577 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 1: I had. He was like, I don't care how many 578 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: catches you got. I'm still gonna tell you every day, 579 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 1: look the ball in. I don't care how good you 580 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 1: run roundes. Every day I'm gonna tell you pump your hands, 581 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 1: get out your brakes. And I like that. You know 582 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,479 Speaker 1: it's sitting on the field sometimes you like, you tell 583 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 1: me this every day. But I realized he was only 584 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 1: trying to make me better, and he did that. Have 585 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: you gotten a chance to spend time with Todd downing 586 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: the new tight ends coach. I've had a little time 587 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: to talk to him. We talked and basically, you know, 588 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: he let me know what type of coach he was, 589 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,200 Speaker 1: and you know, I me be having his back, which 590 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 1: I'm always gonna have his back. Was gonna help with 591 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: the younger guys and setting the way he wants the 592 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,960 Speaker 1: game to be taught. And I'm excited just the way 593 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 1: he was talking to me. I loved it. And the 594 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 1: first first thing he said was I'm a past guy. 595 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 1: I said, we already got We're good. We're good. That's 596 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 1: all you had to say, Todd, Todd, I got you 597 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 1: back now. But so we had a good conversation, laughed 598 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 1: a little bit just like that, and uh, I'm excited, man. 599 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: I'm excited for the guys that came in here on 600 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 1: the fifteenth then meet him and be able to say like, Okay, 601 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 1: we got another Arthur in the room. So I have 602 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 1: a question from social media. It would like to know 603 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 1: what do you think about the new additions to the 604 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans with Humphreys and Saffold and Cameron Wake and Tannehill. 605 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 1: I'm I feel like our John Jay Rob does a 606 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 1: great job on bringing guys in that's gonna help this team. 607 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 1: And everyone he brought in, I feel like got some 608 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 1: type of leadership. They've been there, if they've done it before, 609 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 1: they got some experience in the NFL. So I think 610 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 1: that's just another good, good group of guys that can 611 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: mode this locker room, modest locker room and what we're 612 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 1: looking for athletes, computers, you know, just real tough guys. 613 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 1: And I feel like that was what we needed. Added 614 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 1: some um, some new guys to the office of line, 615 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 1: some new receivers, just to mix it up. Get guys competing. UM. 616 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 1: A quarterback, you know that the kid help Marcus too, 617 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 1: that they can help each other, get Marcus going, UM, 618 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 1: and then their own defense. We bring in a guy 619 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 1: that's a munster, you know. We go out there and 620 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: he plays hard every play. I'm excited. I can't wait 621 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 1: to see these guys come in. We see how they 622 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: react to the other guys and get going. Most of 623 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,800 Speaker 1: what I'm seeing on social media's people just saying hi 624 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,239 Speaker 1: and they're glad you're back, Like that's the big thing 625 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: you heard from fans And have you really been able 626 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 1: to feel how excited they are to have you back 627 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 1: on the field. Oh, of course, of course. Um, every 628 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: time I post the video, the fans, the fans that 629 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 1: comments are crazy. Um, the love, the support, and you 630 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,200 Speaker 1: know it's and it's crazy. Every time I go out 631 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 1: in Nashville, everyone tells me, man, how are you feeling? 632 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 1: We missed you? Man, I love you. I cried when 633 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,600 Speaker 1: people tell me they cried when I got hurt. Oh 634 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 1: I didn't. All right, we'll see. That's dedication. So they 635 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,279 Speaker 1: told me they cried, and that just shows me how 636 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 1: much everyone they're here in the Nashville loves me and 637 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,919 Speaker 1: they missed me. And that's why, you know, I'm trying 638 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 1: to get back on this field so I can show 639 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,359 Speaker 1: them how much I missed them and I love them, 640 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,360 Speaker 1: and I just want to bring a championship back to Tennessee. 641 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,320 Speaker 1: Outside of your health, here's my number one question for you. 642 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 1: Are you excited that past interference is now a reviewable course? 643 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,040 Speaker 1: Explain why, because I don't know if you notice, they 644 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,680 Speaker 1: called a lot of past interferences on me, and so 645 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,920 Speaker 1: for some reason, yeah, for some reason. So now that 646 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,359 Speaker 1: we can review it, they will see that this dude 647 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,640 Speaker 1: is holding my face mask and all I did was 648 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,759 Speaker 1: smack his hand off and made him look bad. Now 649 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,840 Speaker 1: we can review that. So when I'm when I'm crying 650 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,759 Speaker 1: at the ref and yelling, y'all know what I'm talking about, 651 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,719 Speaker 1: because we're gonna review the play and then I'm gonna 652 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 1: be pointing at it like this to the ref. See see, 653 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,240 Speaker 1: you should be pointing to the coaches to throw the challenge. 654 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, I hate. I hate telling the 655 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,800 Speaker 1: coaches to throw the challenge. Fact, that's the worst feeling. 656 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,760 Speaker 1: You'd be like, he'd be like, did you what happened? 657 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,560 Speaker 1: Did you not throw it? You know, you sometimes because 658 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,719 Speaker 1: you always think it can't. You always if you're a 659 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,399 Speaker 1: great player, you always think you can't. I caught it? Yeah, 660 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,680 Speaker 1: you know. Is there another rule change that you think 661 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,440 Speaker 1: would help the game? If you, Delaney Walker could make 662 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,359 Speaker 1: a rule change, what would it be? I would say, 663 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,680 Speaker 1: players um diving at your knees, um on a receiver 664 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,439 Speaker 1: catching the ball not looking in a player being able 665 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,520 Speaker 1: to dive at your knees. I think that needs to 666 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,560 Speaker 1: be ticking out the game. I think that should be 667 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,600 Speaker 1: a rule that you shouldn't be able to do that. Like, 668 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,920 Speaker 1: I feel like that's where most of the injuries are 669 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 1: calls from guys coming down diving at the legs. That's 670 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,360 Speaker 1: the worst. That's the only thing I fear as a 671 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:02,279 Speaker 1: receiver is someone I'm catching the ball and when I'm turning, 672 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,560 Speaker 1: he's already dove at my knees. I think that should 673 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:06,960 Speaker 1: be a rule. You shouldn't be able to do that. 674 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:08,920 Speaker 1: I think it's better if we hit They hit this 675 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,880 Speaker 1: up top more. They need to change the rule. I 676 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 1: think those people should go to jail. But that is 677 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,839 Speaker 1: just me. You're literally trying to break my leg I'd 678 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,520 Speaker 1: say that when I get up like bra you're trying 679 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,560 Speaker 1: to break my legs. See straight to prison, see you later. 680 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:28,160 Speaker 1: That's not cool. That's what I'm saying. The whole different game. 681 00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:32,759 Speaker 1: Then it's Yeah, what was the movie called Hunger Games? No? 682 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 1: When he was in jail playing football grid artua gridarn 683 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 1: game Yes, main machine. Okay, so you're seventeen catches away 684 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,359 Speaker 1: from a very important landmark. Really being a tight end 685 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 1: with five hundred or more catches. Wow, see again, he'll 686 00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:00,799 Speaker 1: believe whatever this list? Yeah, we actually have it. Really Yeah, 687 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,640 Speaker 1: other tight ends with five hundred plus catches. Wow, it's 688 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,440 Speaker 1: only eight of us. Now there's that's the first page 689 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:13,840 Speaker 1: it's Gonzales, Witton, Gates, Shannon, Sharp, Olsen, knew some Graham 690 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,399 Speaker 1: and Miller and then flipping to the next page, your 691 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:22,080 Speaker 1: buddy Vernon Davis. Yeah, for sure, Shocky Winslow, Watson, Gronkowski 692 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,000 Speaker 1: retires with five hundred and twenty one and then tied 693 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:29,360 Speaker 1: at number fourteen Dallas Clark and Titan legend Frank Waichek. 694 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,400 Speaker 1: So you have a chance to become number sixteen on 695 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,800 Speaker 1: that all time list. I'm probably gonna be on that 696 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,759 Speaker 1: list for sure. I hope it's in like week two 697 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:46,080 Speaker 1: with Arthur. Arthur as I'm thinking like week one. Hey, 698 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,080 Speaker 1: is it hard for you to believe that as of 699 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,120 Speaker 1: this year, you will have been with the Titans as 700 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,200 Speaker 1: long as you were with the forty nine ers. This 701 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,440 Speaker 1: is years seven? I know. I tell people to they like, 702 00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,759 Speaker 1: what seven, You've been here seven years? I'm like, I know, 703 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,360 Speaker 1: was winning by so fast? It has gone fast, so 704 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,839 Speaker 1: fast the city has changed within seven years. I can't. 705 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,960 Speaker 1: I'm so who I'm gonna be in Tennessee longer for sure. 706 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,279 Speaker 1: So this is probably the place where I retire. Good, 707 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,400 Speaker 1: that's dead. So here's the thing though about your career, 708 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,239 Speaker 1: And we've talked about it several times. You're an anomaly. 709 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,000 Speaker 1: So you play for San Francisco for seven years, you 710 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,320 Speaker 1: catch one hundred and twenty three passes, basically won a 711 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,239 Speaker 1: game a little more than one a game. You've been 712 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:36,440 Speaker 1: here since then, and you've averaged five catches per game, 713 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:40,279 Speaker 1: almost three hundred and sixty total catches. YEP, guys don't 714 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:44,320 Speaker 1: blossom in year eight of their NFL career. I was 715 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,279 Speaker 1: patiently waiting. You were just waiting. Didn't blossom, you were 716 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,520 Speaker 1: just waiting. I was just waiting. You know, in San Francisco, 717 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,560 Speaker 1: they didn't give me an opportunity. If you watched film, 718 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:55,680 Speaker 1: I was the decoy. I'll play tackle, I'll play fullback, 719 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,960 Speaker 1: I played slide, I played wing, I play I played 720 00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:06,040 Speaker 1: the damn every sport, every position I played. So I 721 00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,239 Speaker 1: played that position and they really didn't throw me the ball. 722 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,239 Speaker 1: That wasn't my role. I knew what my role was 723 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:13,960 Speaker 1: played spece teams. They wanted me to be the hype man. 724 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,200 Speaker 1: Just go out there, hit people, be nasty, blocked, just 725 00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,879 Speaker 1: be nasty. So I was waiting. I knew my opportunity 726 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,600 Speaker 1: was gonna come. And when Tennessee called me and telling 727 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,320 Speaker 1: me that they wanted to give me that opportunity. I 728 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:29,759 Speaker 1: had to jump on it because I knew what I had. 729 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,000 Speaker 1: I knew what I can do. I've been doing it 730 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:33,960 Speaker 1: all my life, so I just needed someone to give 731 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,719 Speaker 1: me the opportunity. What should Titans fans expect out of 732 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:42,160 Speaker 1: Delaney Walker in twenty nineteen? Expect what you always see me, 733 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:46,120 Speaker 1: going out there giving it all. I got making big plays, um, 734 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,520 Speaker 1: but this year, I'm I'm even more hungry. So it's 735 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,800 Speaker 1: it's probably gonna I wounna probably be real stingy with 736 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,080 Speaker 1: the football. I missed the year, you know, so I 737 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,640 Speaker 1: gotta get back. I gotta catch up. Corey had a 738 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,360 Speaker 1: good year. I gotta catch up to Corey. What do 739 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,840 Speaker 1: you expect out of you in twenty nineteen? Is that 740 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:06,040 Speaker 1: different at all? It's not different. Whatever I'm gonna give 741 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,279 Speaker 1: the fans, that's what I expect for myself. I'm gonna 742 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:11,200 Speaker 1: go out there, like I said, I'm not even gonna 743 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,319 Speaker 1: think about this injury, y'all. I'm gonna go out there 744 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,560 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna play like I've never been hurt, because 745 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,640 Speaker 1: I feel like when you think about the injury, that's 746 00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,239 Speaker 1: when you get hurt. So I'm gonna go out there 747 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,359 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna y'all don't think I'm twenty one again. 748 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,000 Speaker 1: I promise you everyone that's listened to me, I say 749 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:25,799 Speaker 1: that today, y'all, don't think I'm twenty one in a way. 750 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:29,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna move out there and act so and behave 751 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:34,239 Speaker 1: as if he's still twenty one on the field and 752 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:38,239 Speaker 1: the boys are back on Monday right. Indeed, indeed, what's 753 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:42,759 Speaker 1: exciting about it for you? Primetime? That's when I show 754 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,360 Speaker 1: up you every Primetime game where you playing and watch it, 755 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,640 Speaker 1: I go, I go crazy. So I like just I 756 00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,800 Speaker 1: liked everyone to see what the Titans can do. You 757 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,280 Speaker 1: know a lot of people don't get to watch the Titans. 758 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,640 Speaker 1: They don't get to see our game. So Monday, Monday 759 00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,239 Speaker 1: Night games, they get to see us playing and they 760 00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,520 Speaker 1: get the really the whole schedule. We can afford to 761 00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,800 Speaker 1: seeing that the whole skit what I was referred to. 762 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,400 Speaker 1: I didn't ask that very very well though. I was 763 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,200 Speaker 1: asking about the guys getting back for the offseason program. 764 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:10,520 Speaker 1: I thought you talked about Monday Night. Now, I don't know, 765 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,520 Speaker 1: I don't have any I don't know that. Trust me. 766 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,120 Speaker 1: I'm I'm actually excited for the guys to get back. 767 00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,120 Speaker 1: They having to see me. A lot of them haven't 768 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,279 Speaker 1: seen me walk, haven't really seen me run. They you know, 769 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,160 Speaker 1: so last night they saw me, I was skinny, left 770 00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:28,440 Speaker 1: hair skinny, and so they like when they come back, 771 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:33,000 Speaker 1: how much you lose. I lost about fifteen pounds, fifteen 772 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,279 Speaker 1: pounds because and now they want all that weight on 773 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,680 Speaker 1: my ankle. So I looked skinny. I mean, guys like, 774 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,640 Speaker 1: you look like a receiver when I was u. Now 775 00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,000 Speaker 1: they're gonna come back see me running, see how I look. 776 00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:44,919 Speaker 1: And I want to see all the guys I missed 777 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,200 Speaker 1: they face I'm you know, it's been a while, and 778 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,480 Speaker 1: then it's place, especially the new editions. I just want 779 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,200 Speaker 1: to see what they gotta say. I wouldn't pick there. 780 00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:53,879 Speaker 1: I want to see how they work in the weight room, 781 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,600 Speaker 1: you know. So it's exciting to get everybody back, all right. 782 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:03,399 Speaker 1: The next edition of Vote our special guest Titans head 783 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:09,360 Speaker 1: coach Mike vrabelbe Yebel. Straight to the Top, Straight to 784 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,880 Speaker 1: the Top. What should we ask the head coach on 785 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:16,480 Speaker 1: the official Titans podcast, The OTP Road to Nashville. Um, 786 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:18,600 Speaker 1: is that who we talked to about getting you more 787 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,759 Speaker 1: money or was that all? You know? He don't care 788 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,560 Speaker 1: about that. Don't take that to him. He like, we 789 00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,359 Speaker 1: won't cheat. We won't the person we ain't gotta pay. 790 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,160 Speaker 1: That's what he gonna say. He won't the person that's cheaper. 791 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,759 Speaker 1: Uh No, I don't know. You know, Mike Man, he's 792 00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,440 Speaker 1: he's dope man. You can ask him anything. I really 793 00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,960 Speaker 1: don't have no question as he's funny, he's he he 794 00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,160 Speaker 1: reminds me of a player. I can't even lie to 795 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,319 Speaker 1: he the type of coach that to fight you if 796 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,800 Speaker 1: you say something crazy to him. So I love that, 797 00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,279 Speaker 1: you know. I love a coach that's honest, that's real, 798 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,640 Speaker 1: that it doesn't fear the players. And he even talked 799 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,640 Speaker 1: crap to me. One day, I dropped the pass and 800 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,840 Speaker 1: gainst Tampa in the in the practice we had and 801 00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,160 Speaker 1: he pulled it up and he said, we don't pay 802 00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:07,319 Speaker 1: you to drop pass. Everybody looked at me. I'm like, hey, 803 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:12,759 Speaker 1: I gotta get into everybody gets everybody. Marcus gets it, 804 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,160 Speaker 1: Derek gets it, and I mean gonna get it. I 805 00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:19,839 Speaker 1: mean everybody's gonna get Hope they know that they get 806 00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,320 Speaker 1: it back because everyone gets it. I hope you listening 807 00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,480 Speaker 1: to this Cameron because he will. Oh yeah, you trust me, 808 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,399 Speaker 1: and you're so glad Cameron wakes here because he's older 809 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,600 Speaker 1: than you are. Yeah he does. He's the older and 810 00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:34,560 Speaker 1: he can really still play. Yeah, he's the oldest guy 811 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:36,560 Speaker 1: on in team. Now, this has been so much fun. 812 00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,120 Speaker 1: Thanks for doing That's why we just wanted to just 813 00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,040 Speaker 1: you know, sort of kicking around and thank you for 814 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:46,320 Speaker 1: taking time, no problem, Thank you so for Delaney Walker 815 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:50,000 Speaker 1: and Aby Wells, I, Mike Keith. Remember it is fourteen 816 00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:54,399 Speaker 1: days until players are drafted in Nashville. And that does 817 00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,120 Speaker 1: it for this edition of the OTP Road to Nashville. 818 00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:58,440 Speaker 1: Have a great rest of your day.