WEBVTT - The OTP | OTAs Report 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.200 This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans, 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:17.000 better rates, better coverage, and better service. That's why Tennesseeans 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.599 have been relying on Farm Bureau Health Plans for their 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:24.040 health coverage for seventy five years. My name is Mike Keith, 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:29.080 and welcome back to the Official Titans Podcast. We apologize 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.519 that it has been a little while between OTP editions. 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:36.440 I was out of town. Actually, my niece got married 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:41.199 in Montana and I actually officiated their ceremony. That's right, 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.760 I married somebody and they're still married as we record 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.800 this edition of the OTP. It is still married, and 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:51.320 it is still legal as far as we'd know. But 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:53.840 really had a great time at that and that was 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.040 a very special experience for our family. Told them, and 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:00.880 I was missing football practice, this better be important. Of course, 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:04.880 a wedding is kind of important, so even a destination wedding. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:06.679 And while we were out one night, we were talking 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.039 about what I do this time of year, because there 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:14.080 is an assumption among most people that what most of 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.360 us on this end do this time of year is nothing. Well, 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:23.000 that's probably true. It's not as busy as the season, 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.760 but it is busy because we're in the process of 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.880 OTAs right now. We record a lot of things that 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.399 we will use later in the year because we have 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.319 access to the players and they're not on as tight 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:38.920 as schedule. And then obviously we watch practice. And one 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.920 of the people in the wedding party ask me, what 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:47.039 do you actually watch it practice? Because I describe OTAs 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:51.120 as Pro Football's answer to spring practice. There's no pads, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.280 but it is spring practice like in that you get 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:58.720 ten OTAs and then you get a three day mini camp, 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.760 and I think college football, I think they do fifteen 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.880 total practices, So it's almost the exact same thing for 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.280 me when I watched practice, I watch it quite differently 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:12.120 from Dave McGinnis because I don't understand all of the 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.440 schemes and I don't understand all of the techniques and 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:20.640 things like that. Just before we released the last OTP 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:25.760 we had the Titans Foundation dinner, and by the way, 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.120 it went really well. On May the eighteenth, we raised 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.280 two hundred and fifty five thousand dollars for the Titans Foundation. 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.880 So a great job to everybody who took part, A 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.800 great job by our friends at Pinnacle and our friends 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.400 at farm Bureau were kind enough to be there, and 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.840 we appreciate Randy Wilmore and everybody, everybody who came out. 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.880 One of the neat parts of the night was John 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:53.000 Robinson showed the crowd tape of Harold Landry when he 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.400 was at Boston College. Because I asked him, I said, 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.840 what do you watch on tape? And how is it different? 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.760 And then how we watch a practice or we watch 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:06.480 a game, And he showed six plays that really illustrated 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.919 the difference in what he's looking for and what we're 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.760 watching while we just basically watch a game and watch 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.720 the ball. So those are things in practice I don't 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.959 watch because I don't know to watch that. I don't 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.320 understand how all of that works. I'm doing basic things. 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:23.960 The main reason that I go to practice is to 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:28.960 learn players names and numbers and their body types, so 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.680 that recognition is the most important thing. You say, well, 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:38.120 that's essentially a memorization game. It is. I actually play 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:42.119 memorization games when I prepare for broadcast, because the most 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:46.440 important thing that I tell you on Titan's Radio is 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.240 who does what and who handles the ball? And being 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.600 able to identify people quickly is the number one thing, 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.000 And you say, well, that's kind of basic, but it's 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.800 pretty much a basic job if you get down to it. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.880 So I go to practice because I want to see 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:05.880 who's playing what position, who's starting, who's getting used in 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.200 different packages. When they go three tight ends, when they 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.240 go five defensive backs, when they put two backs in 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.560 the backfields, or go four wides, what does that look like. 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.680 And you're just reinforcing the names and the numbers for 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:23.479 the quick recognition and the body type thing too is 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.960 a big thing because I could see from having watched 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:32.200 practice day after day certain players and recognize them immediately 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.279 from what they look like in their pads. So that's 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.320 number one. And I know that doesn't sound very exciting, 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.920 but that's the job, you know, That's the number one 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.680 part of the job. The other thing that I try 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:47.120 to do is I try to watch a specific position group, 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.080 and I've spent several of the days that I've gotten 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.920 to watch practice really focusing on tight ends. I think 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.159 tight end is a position that took a step back 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.359 last year from twenty twenty, and I I think that 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.280 factored in the offense taking a step backwards and statistically 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:08.040 Ryan Tannehill taking a step backwards Jeff Swain did just fine. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.279 Anthony Ferkser did not develop the way the Titans hoped, 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:16.440 Michael Pruett and Tommy Hudson got hurt. And I really 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:20.480 believe the departure of John U. Smith because of all 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.960 these other things showed up more than maybe even I 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:29.800 thought it would entering last year. And so I've been 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.080 really interested to watch this twenty twenty two group because, ay, 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.520 I wanted to see Austin Hooper. You know, he went 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.119 to Pro Bowls with the Falcons, he played two years 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:42.320 for Cleveland. The Titans bring him in and you feel 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:46.600 like Austin Hooper can give the Titans that tight end 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.320 who can stay on the field in any situation because 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.520 he can and will block, and he can certainly catch. 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.280 He'll be a huge help on third down. He'll be 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.760 a huge help in the red zone. And the point 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:03.480 about Austin Hooper two is he's big. This is a big, 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.880 big guy. This is not an undersized tight end. This 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:12.400 is somebody who gives you a formidable nature. Ashley Farrell 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.640 yesterday at practice referred to him size wise like Anthony 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.360 Fasano that you remember who played for the Titans. After 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:23.480 being a Miami Dolphin and a Dallas Cowboy. Size is 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.480 a big factor at tight end, and Swain is a 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.719 good sized guy. Austin Hooper is bigger, and so Swam 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.120 continues to do nice things. I think the Titans were 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:36.200 right to bring him back again, a good player, certainly 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.560 as part of a group. Jeff Swain. Tommy Hudson has 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.640 been back and it's good to see him getting some work. 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.279 Briley Moore was the player out of Kansas State last 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.679 year in training camp, second day of practice towards ACL 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.120 was lost for the year, so you're wondering what he 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:57.000 may be able to give. Thomas Odou Koya from Eastern 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:01.560 Michigan is the Titans international player. He's originally from the Netherlands. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.000 He's got a long way to go to kind of 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.120 figure out how this thing sort of works. He had 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.960 a couple of fumbles in practice yesterday, but again, you 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.640 know he's a player getting a shot. And we'll see. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:20.880 The guy who intrigues everybody in the group is Chigaconquo. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.240 Now we got a guy who works here in the 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.120 office who's a Maryland graduate and he was like, oh, 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:32.600 Chicka Cockquo got a draft Chickacoquo Chigacquo maybe the steel 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.520 of this draft class in the fourth round, in large 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.640 part because he didn't play in twenty twenty and he's 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.040 the fastest tight end in this draft. He had a 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:44.640 nice year. If he had put together two or three 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.280 good years in a row, then I think he would 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.720 have gone a lot higher. But he comes back. He 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.560 has a good year at Maryland. He runs four five two. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.960 He's built a lot like John U. Smith. He's not 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.640 the biggest tight end, he's roughly two hundred and forty pounds, 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:05.440 but he can really really run. And the myocarditis which 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.200 sidelined him for all of twenty twenty, has totally cleared up, 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:13.160 and so everything is good to go. And he has 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.920 been fun to watch at this point for his athleticism. 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.560 Much like Malik Willis is fun to watch, Chicka Coquo 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.440 has been fun to watch. Is he doing everything right? 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.960 Probably not. Is he ready to take on a massive load, 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.960 probably not. He's a rookie, but he is really really 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.600 talented and he gives them a different element. I had 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.839 a chance to visit with Chickacoquo a few days ago, 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.640 talking about what he went through in twenty twenty and 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.200 talking to him about what it means to be a 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.800 Tennessee Titan. He has said he thinks this is a 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.480 great fit for him. Let's listen to my conversation with 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:58.800 Chickacock two years ago. Did you think did he sitting here? 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.000 Did I did? In spite of the my carditis and 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.080 everything you were going through, you still believe? I always knew. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.120 I just kept my faith and I always knew I 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.000 would come through. I know God would have let me 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.040 down and I was gonna make it through. How scary 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.600 was that? Oh, it was very scary, you know, just 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.559 sitting there just not knowing like what the future holds. 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:19.760 But it's just it really helped me back then, just 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.480 keeping my faith and just keep knowing that like just 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.000 keep going, just keep going, keep believing that you're gonna 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.400 get back. And then ended up getting back and got 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.080 to have got to play my senior year with all 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.199 my teammates, make a lot of great memories, lead that team, 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.400 you know, to our first Bowl game in like six years. So, yeah, 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.400 that year is very special for me. I was very 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.880 happy about it. What's the most important thing you learned 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.400 from that experience? The most important thing I learned from 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.679 that is don't take you don't take life for granted, 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.559 because it was like having that happen, just everything was 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:52.400 taken away in the moment like that. And then when 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.120 I got back, every single day I lived was like, 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.160 I want to live this day fully because I don't 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:58.800 know if it'll be the last time I'm playing football, 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.640 because I remember when it happen and I would think back, 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.360 I was like, wow, what if the last time I 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.000 put those pads on was the last time I put 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.280 those pads on? So for me, it was just don't 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.320 take nothing for granted, to live every day to the 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.280 fullest and make every moment count. Your faith got you 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.280 through it. Where they're specific people that also helped to 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.680 get you through it. Yeah, definitely my teammates, my close 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.920 teammates definitely encouraged me. My family, those guys, my coaches, 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.199 everybody was always encouraging me to just, you know, just 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.240 keep my head on straight and just keep going. And 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.600 I don't stop believing. Why did you come back actually 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.480 a better football player? Like what I said before, like 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.920 just not taking anything for granted. I felt like I 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.520 had to catch up. If I had to catch up, 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:38.720 I had a lot of stuff to do. You know, 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.160 I lost a whole entire year. You know, that's a 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.000 lot of That's a whole entire year of film. So 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.720 for me, it was just like catch up. I took everything. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:50.520 That's when I start taking everything extremely serious, like film practice, 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.120 the way I worked out, the way I took care 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.840 of my body, all those things. I took it extremely serious, 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:58.480 just knowing like, because you can be in great health. 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.199 I was in one hundred percent great health. I was, 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.839 you know, young, twenty year old, complete great health, and 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.679 out of nowhere I got my acarditis. Is it more 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.040 fun now? It is more fun now? It is more 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.520 fun now from the standpoint that you think back to 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.280 when you were seven and you think about what you 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:17.240 went through and now is it that same feeling? Do 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.280 you feel that again? Do you recapture that in a way. Yeah, 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:21.480 That's that's why I say what I was talking to 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.160 my family about, it feels like it feels like when 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.559 I first started playing football again. It's like when I 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.480 first played football, that was probably the most fun I've 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.120 ever had in my life. And then you know, when 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.160 you're going through all the stress of you know, high school, 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.559 worrying about getting offers in college or worrying about getting 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.360 into the NFL. But now that I'm here, it's like 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.120 I feel like a kid again, Like I get to 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.840 really enjoy football for what it is, but just just football. 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.800 What are Titans fans gonna see when they see you 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.720 on the field. Oh, they're gonna see a lot of energy, 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:48.640 a lot of energy, a lot of fun. I'm always 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.400 gonna be smiling. Oh, they're gonna see a lot of energy. 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:53.640 I'm gonna see a hard worker, super tough guy. When 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:54.880 I get the ball, I don't want to go down. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:56.839 I want to punish people. So they're gonna feel like 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.520 we're gonna have a lot of fun together. Why did 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.440 you feel like the Titans were eight spot for you? Honestly, 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.360 it's so close to home for me. And then it's 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.600 like the fan base was was awesome when when when 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.040 I got drafted, they were just awesome the way they 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.440 like reached out and like they were just congratulating me 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:16.280 and just welcome me in. So that and so close 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.520 to home. And honestly, the role I can I can 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.360 play on this team, I feel like that's also a 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.040 big thing. I feel like, can I can help this 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:23.800 team a lot with the role that I'm bringing to 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:25.880 the offense. And you have a couple of connections with 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.959 the draft class. Yeah, Chance Campbell played with you at 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.240 Maryland before he went to Old miss. What kind of 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.000 player is he? Oh, man, he's a dog. He's a dog, 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.520 I tell you, Like, he's relentless, he's he's a very 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.400 smart football player. Like wherever the ball is, he's gonna be. 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.000 He's gonna be flying around with his hair and fire. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.600 He's a dog. And did you know Malik Willis in 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:45.800 high school? Yeah? I did when he was so he 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.800 was really close. He went to Roswell. We played in 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:51.000 the same classification. We actually played as his team in 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.719 the playoffs one year. And yeah, so I remember him 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.439 from back then. I remember they went to a state 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.480 championship again his grace, and I remember that's when I 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.040 really started taking notice and I was like, Oh, this 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:06.800 guy is really good. Chickaca Quo one of the rookies 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:10.719 Titans fans are most excited about. F obvious reasons. Back 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.240 to what I watched in practice. Always watched the new guys. 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:17.920 Titan's got a new guy yesterday, Juwan Greene, wide receiver 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.640 who's been on the Falcons practice squad and was on 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.760 Detroit's practice squad for a short period of time. Played 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:29.560 his college football at Albany for the Great Danes wide receiver. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.679 We'll see what he's able to do. I've been watching 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.600 Aja Moore, the safety from Houston. He has shown up 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.040 some and certainly we feel like he'll show up a 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:38.960 lot more in pads because that's what he's known for. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.680 Justin Lawler and outside linebackers a player I'm really intrigued by. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.640 Justin Lawler went to SMU. Good pass rusher at SMU. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:51.480 He's six four, two sixty five is really good size. 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:56.400 He's drafted by the Rams late in eighteen, and he's 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.480 part of their plan in eighteen and he actually played 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.680 an all night team games including the Super Bowl, and 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.080 so they're thinking going into nineteen he's going to take 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.120 a bigger role. Well, then he starts having foot problems. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:12.080 Breaks his foot I think three total times miss nineteen 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:16.000 and twenty. Came back last year, made the team. The 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.160 Rams are excited to have him. Starts the season Week two, 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.240 they're playing Indianapolis. He breaks his hand. He needs surgery 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.440 and he spends more or less the rest of the 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.480 year on the practice squad. So you watch a guy 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.640 like Lawlor who has potential and you say, man, could 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:37.200 he be that fourth or fifth outside linebacker that plays teams? 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.920 I don't know. We'll see, but staying healthy will obviously 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.840 be his trick. Jamarco Jones in the offensive line, the 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.240 free agent from Seattle, is he going to have a 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.880 chance to be the left guard to take Roger Saffold's place. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:54.920 He certainly is an experienced looking player that you see 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.160 and when you see him get work, you're like, okay, 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.120 he can do it. Now we'll see. Is he able 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.520 to win that job? I don't think an Aaron Brewer 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.280 is going to give that up easily. I don't know. 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.840 You know, is Raidens going to move to left guard 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.280 Dylan Raidens? Or is he going to play right tackle? 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.400 Nicholas petit Frere the third round pick? Does he end 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.400 up dropping in there? But Jamarco Jones certainly going to 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.120 be part of the conversation. The other guy that's really 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:28.200 gotten me peaked though, is DeMarcus Walker. Now, DeMarcus Walker 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:32.360 is a defensive lineman. He's from Jacksonville. He originally committed 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:36.280 to Alabama and then he flipped and went to Florida's State, 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.000 has a great career in Florida State. Second round pick 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.560 of Denver. He goes to Denver and they try to 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.560 make him a stand up outside linebacker. Oh that didn't work. 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:47.840 I mean, he did very little his first two years. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.320 And then you know when Vic Fangio gets a hold 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.960 of him, Vic Fangio says, Okay, you're going back in 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:58.040 the defensive line, putting your hand in the ground. And 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:02.520 the thing about DeMarcus Walker is he is similar in 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.800 terms of what he has done the last three years, 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:09.320 not just two years in Denver, but also last season 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.320 with Houston. He played well for the Texans a year 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.920 ago and he can line up anywhere. So with the Broncos, 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.120 once they got him moved around again, he started making plays. 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:20.920 He had four sacks one year, four and a half 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:25.480 sax another year. But it's that Denico Autry thing about hey, 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.600 we're playing this opponent, we need you to line up here. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.080 We're in this game situation, we need you to line 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.920 up here. That's the thing about Denico Autry is so 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.400 successful and you have DeMarcus Walker now who has done 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:41.400 the same thing, and that flexibility was a great thing 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.480 for the Titans down the stretch last year as they 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:45.280 played good defense. So you know, I don't know if 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.320 any of those guys make the team. I don't know 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:51.160 what happens, but you're interested to see how those pieces 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:55.040 might fit when we put pads on going to training camp. 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.600 I'm always interested to when you bring in a rookie 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.640 kicker and a rookie putter. That's something that I watched 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.480 because I try to ascertain do either one of these 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.359 guys have a legitimate chance to kick in the league. 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:09.760 Some years you bring in a kicker and a punter 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.920 and all they're there to do is take reps off 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.680 your regular guys so they don't basically burn themselves out. 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.080 I think the two guys the Titans have in camp 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:25.720 both have an unbelievable shot to be in this league 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:29.040 at some point. Ryan Stonehouse, the punter out of Colorado State, 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:33.800 averaged forty seven point eight per punt in his career 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:38.040 with the Rams. That's the NCAA record, that's his career average. 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.560 Now you're saying, okay, he kicked in Fort Collins, Colorado, 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.760 which means he kicked at altitude right, the altitude of 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:49.640 Fort Collins, Colorado in case you're wondering, is three hundred 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:53.879 feet under a mile, So they are the three hundred 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:57.120 feet under a mile high city. Four nine hundred eighty 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.640 two is the elevation in Fort Collins. Still pretty good elevation. 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.840 Here's the stat on Ryan Stonehouse that gets you though. 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:08.240 Away from Fort Collins. He averaged forty seven point five 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:14.080 per punt, so he averaged three tenths of a yard 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.600 less on the road than he did at home, So 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.560 the elevation doesn't matter. Here's the other weird thing about him. 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:24.960 These punters today look like defensive ends. They're six five, 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.600 they're two fifty. There, you know, they're these massive dudes. 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.119 Ryan Stonehouse is five ten one ninety three, may not 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.840 even be quite five ten, but man, what a leg 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:38.920 and what hang time? And this guy is This guy 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:43.719 is interesting to watch. Speaking of not much size. Caleb 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.600 Shodac out of Iowa five to seven, one seventy seven. 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.480 He's the kicker. Stonehouse is the punter. Shodak is the 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:55.960 kicker five seven, one seventy seven. Here is a story 0:18:56.000 --> 0:19:01.640 of perseverance. He waited until his sixth year at Iowa 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.840 to become their regular kicker. He was the kickoff man. 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:09.480 At one point in year four he was gonna transfer, 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.520 he was gonna leave, He was going in the transfer portal, 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.800 and he chose to stay because they finally gave him 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:19.000 a scholarship. Last year for the Hawkeys, twenty four of 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.800 twenty eight on field goals, four of six from fifty 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.520 plus thirty six of thirty six on pats. Of course, 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:31.480 that's just a twenty yard pat. That's not the NFL's 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:37.640 thirty three yarder. Nonetheless, still, you know, really, really really 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:41.160 a good kicker who's a good kickoff man. So Stonehouse 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:45.240 the punter and shoot Act the kicker are both guys 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.679 to watch. I don't know if they're gonna have a 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.800 shot at the jobs here, but you you like what 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.640 their talent appears to be. Then you're looking at returnees. 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:59.520 That's another thing I'm watching at practice. Caleb Farley. I've 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.720 been saying on radio shows and the different places that 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:06.560 I've been that I think he looks great. He's recovered 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:11.439 from his surgery. He certainly, unfortunately, has had this experience. 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:13.800 In an interview that you'll hear later that he did 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:17.240 with us just recently, he talks about, you know, having 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:21.720 to go through some of these processes before and understanding 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.080 what it's going to take to come back. But you 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:27.560 know he has returned and you see the athleticism. He 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.399 still believes he's the fastest player on the Titans team, 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:32.440 and he may be. I mean, this is a guy 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.480 in the pre draft or run up before some of 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:37.480 the back things came up. He had run in the 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:43.040 four twos at nearly six three, two hundred pounds. I mean, 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.800 he's an unusual athlete. And so if you're up on Farley, 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.800 I can't tell you that he's better in coverage or 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:52.479 that he's better in a back pedal or you know. 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:55.440 I do think he makes clear and it would make 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.679 sense that he has seen his football IQ improve a 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.399 lot because he's gotten to be meetings and spend time 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:04.760 with the d backs and all of those sorts of things. 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.960 But what I can tell you is athletically he looks 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:12.200 like Caleb Farley and probably to a certain extent, more 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:15.919 comfortable than a year ago, staying with returnees and staying 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:21.080 in the secondary. Amani Hooker in Wednesday's Ota had just 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:25.920 a fabulous practice and continues to improve. When he was 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:30.199 drafted in the fourth round, like Chicka co Quo. I 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:32.919 referred to him in twenty nineteen as the steel because 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:35.200 he was a guy that the Titans had their eye 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:37.640 on and most people thought they would have to take 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:41.199 him in the second round. And just because of you know, 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:45.160 those weird circumstances that come up there, runs on positions, 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:49.080 or you know, not everybody has the same evaluation of 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:51.960 a player, and so he falls because of the needs. 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:57.200 The Titans got him at number one sixteen overall. This 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:01.240 is still twenty three years old, and year he started 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:05.720 twelve games, sixty two tackles, a forced fumble, an interception 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:09.600 in the playoff game against Cincinnati, seven tackles and an interception. 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:12.879 A Monie Hooker can play, and in year four, I 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:15.520 think everybody is really excited to see if he can 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:19.200