WEBVTT - Drive Time: Alec Ingold Chat, AFC South Preview with Cam Wolfe 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:04.720 You are listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.600 This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:10.640 Back to throw to a looking clips adult. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:16.400 A wide open touchdown time, Rickquel uncrelievable, just. 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:18.240 Blue by for a second time. 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:20.320 You knew where he was going right away. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:21.880 I want to hit that man. 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.400 I'm gonna help you. Someone will keep on his man away. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:28.440 Wad Wadle to a shotgun back to throw, looking at 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.120 them up Myers touchdown. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.560 It's Waddle his sixth touchdown. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:34.840 Patown tea. 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.040 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:41.519 Now let me check your pulse if you're not for. 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:45.360 What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.479 And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of the 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:53.400 Miami Dolphins Podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.560 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.680 And on today's episode, we have our summer content officially 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:02.680 here for you guys, and I'm very fired up about this. 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:04.840 We're doing it a little bit different this year. I 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.800 have seventeen player interviews we're going to play over the 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.080 course of the next six or seven weeks or so. 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.280 We're also gonna get traded for training camp come a 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:14.679 few weeks from now. But right now we're focusing on 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.080 the twenty twenty three NFL ski's in preview and it 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.400 kicks off today with my guest Cameron Woolf from NFL 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.120 Network to break down the AFC South. We're also gonna 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.200 hear from Dolphins fullback alec Ingold. Plenty to come your 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.160 way from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:29.959 Training Complex. 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.160 This is the Draft Time podcast. Heye Gaff. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.160 We're gonna kick this thing off with the very first 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.679 interview I did during media day and also one of 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:41.720 my favorite folks to talk to you around the entire building, 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.520 Dolphins fullback alec Ingold. What's up, guys, Travis Plainfield here 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:46.959 back with Dolphins full back Alec Ingle. 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:47.760 This is one hundred yards. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:49.480 We're gonna make a way across the practice field here. 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:49.920 Alec. 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:51.280 How you been, Matt? How's the offeason going? 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.080 Off seasons good? We're with the boys. We're you know, 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.040 in that mini cam Ota grind. It's been good. Every 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.000 single week you get a new little challenge from coach McDaniel. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:04.000 It's been fun to embrace that throughout this whole sole operation. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:05.880 It's fun to be out here in South Florida. It's 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:07.480 not super hot yet, you know what I'm. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.239 Saying, not quite yet, six seven o'clock in the morning, 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:10.760 a couple of hours will be a little toastier, but 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:12.440 you find a chance to actually get back on the field. 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.360 For ota is this time of year that's kinda feel 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:15.960 way better this year, so much better. 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.480 You feel like you are a part of the team. 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.240 When you get onto you sign that contract and we talked, 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.360 we sat right away, But until you're on the field 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.600 with the guys, it's a little bit different. And every 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.440 single year so many new people coming in. It's a 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.160 new opportunity. So like to be at the very start 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.120 on the field with the guys. It's it's been a 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:34.040 big blessing for sure. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:35.679 You had the orange jersey the other day. 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:36.920 Yeah, is it just me? 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:38.240 It was a too big on you can they get 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:39.040 you please? 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.840 It looked like the JV penny from like, you know, 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.079 a local high school or something that's it didn't even 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:47.440 fit like it was a varsity jersey. 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:47.720 It was. 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:48.519 It was a tough deal. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.160 I was looking forward to asking that. I was like, man, 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:51.600 get this guy jersey that fits you earned it for 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:52.160 the player of the day. 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:52.720 Give me jersey. 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:53.080 It fits. 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.160 So you mentioned you're getting married here pretty soon. You 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.480 picked a good time. The little mini break we get 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.480 tell us about the wedding with the plans. 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:00.400 Who's the man. 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:05.240 We are going up to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and my best 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.720 man is my best friend in high school. He's an 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.519 eighth grade teacher and man, we're gonna have a blast 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:12.320 up there. It's gonna be on a golf course, got 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.360 friends and family, big old Catholic wedding, and it's gonna 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.160 be a fun time. Excited to see all the family 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.320 up in Wisconsin this summer. You gonna all get it 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:20.919 around it before the summer morning, I think. 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:21.000 So. 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:22.840 I think I had to talk to somebody about getting 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:24.679 that Friday AMT time going there. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.040 You go, ab the dogs with you. 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:28.919 Dogs are gonna make the road trip. We're actually driving 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:32.120 up so you know what's that twenty four hours, twenty 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.480 six hours all the way up there. So it's gonna 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.120 be a long drive for us, but it's gonna be 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.800 worth it. Get the dogs up there running around on 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:40.920 some grass. It's gonna be a good time to just 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.640 get away for a little bit, see family, and then 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.680 come right back ready to roll. For training camp. 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.480 You've got a really exciting year two come up here 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.120 for the Miami Dolphins, and you know, speaking of that 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.400 year two in the offense, you know, going back over 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.800 Mike McDaniel Stopps under Kyle Shanahan in previous places, second 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:56.440 year has really been when the offense takes off and 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.600 you guys started off pretty good last year. I'm curious 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.200 to get your depending on how year two of the 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.240 offense can kind of, you know, go to that next level. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.400 I think it's just like being fast, being physical, having 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.920 an understanding of the concept they're trying to teach us. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.280 You're not just asking like what you're doing, You're asking 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.720 why you can do it. And to have that deeper 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.560 understanding of the offense. I think that's going to play 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:17.760 well for us. So now it's just on the players 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.320 to execute, hold that high standard and be the best 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:21.160 versions of ourselves. 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:22.800 So this is the one hundred yards walking talk with 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:24.840 Travis Wingfield. We're supposed to go this way to goal 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:26.400 line to goal line, So I wanted to ask you 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.120 we're kind of the two yard line here. Yeah, when 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:30.520 you get down here, what's your favorite play call? 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.280 Ah? Shoot, I'm a like inside zone with my guy 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.080 Raheem most you're getting the ball with the ball. 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:37.920 I don't want the ball. I don't want Raheem scoring. 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.400 I want him to do his You know, we're diving, 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.760 we're swimming a little bit surfing. When you get your 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.800 guys in the end zone, they get to celebrate. I 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:46.840 think that's the coolest thing in the world. 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:48.800 That is the most underrated touchdown celebration in the NFL. 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:49.800 I think I think so too. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.760 Aleck appreciate man. Thanks a lot. Let's go every time 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.640 Alec does the podcast or anything content related, it's an 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:56.359 absolute treat. 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.480 So thank you to Alec for doing that with us. 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:00.440 Here, let's go ahead and take our first I know 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.360 very early on in the show, but we have a 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.440 lot more to get to here with Cameron wolf breaking 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:08.160 down everything AFC South. That's next drivetime podcast, your host 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:14.560 Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Joining me 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.839 today to break down the AFC South is Cam Wolfe, 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.080 a national reporter at NFL Network. He puts the talent 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.760 in on air talent there really had about half the 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.440 divisions that he could have covered here in earnest but 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.279 we landed Cam on the AFC South, because really you're 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.920 in these cities like half the damn time anyway, So 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.440 I figure, let's get you on talk about some Colts, Titans, Jags, 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:36.920 and Texans here. 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:38.520 Cam. How are you living, man, How you doing? 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.440 I'm great, man. It's the summer. We're getting ready. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:45.640 For our deeper summer vacation. But I am looking forward 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.880 to this NFL season, So appreciate you for the intro. 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.640 And it's gonna be a fun season, man, particularly with 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:52.479 the AFC South. 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.080 It's been a long time since. 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.159 We've been able to like really have a lot of 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.600 new flavor in this division, so I'm excited to talk 0:05:58.600 --> 0:05:59.080 about it. 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.520 Was gonna It's a division that has kind of produced, 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.320 you know, those four seeds every year, right that the 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.120 division winner gets in, but no one else is really 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.360 close to stuff in the playoffs, and we see these 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.560 cycles that kind of go, you know, throughout the years. 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.120 And I was just talking to Fran Duffy over at 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.360 the Philadelphia Eagles, one of the divisions you could probably 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.599 cover pretty well there at the NFC East, and he 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.520 was talking about how the NFC East was you know, 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.680 bad for a long time, but last year turned around. 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.240 We've seen the AFC East kind of. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.200 Become more you know, top to bottom in terms of 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.159 the parody there. So it's cool to see that we 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.080 got lots of new quarterbacks here in this division. 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:30.599 That makes a lot of fun too. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.080 And we'll see the Dolphins playing one team out of 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.840 this division Week fourteen at home here at hard Rock 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:39.440 Stadium against Titans on December eleventh and Monday night game 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:40.520 at eight fifteen. 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:41.880 So we'll go ahead and start there. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.159 But before we do that real quick, actually I should say, 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.600 I want to get your I guess, just overall snapshot 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.800 your thirty thousand foot view of the AFC South, because, 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:52.919 like we talked about, a lot has changed here. What 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:54.880 are some of the main storylines you're looking forward to 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.320 heading into this year's training camp, this year's season here 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:58.200 in the AFC South. 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.680 Yeah, it's one of the most interesting divisions football for 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.320 me this year, and it starts because of those young quarterbacks. 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.360 You got one team in the division and the Jacksonville 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:10.080 Jaguars that has approven quarterback for the long term. The 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.120 rest of the teams are really playing catchup. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:13.440 And you saw C. J. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.640 Stroud go number two to the Texans. Anthony Richardson go 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.600 number four to the Indianapolis Colts, and then the Tennessee Titans, 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.040 who will probably start Ryan Tannehill at least the beginning 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.280 of the year, drafted Will Levis in the second round. 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.240 And so you got three teams that potentially drafted their 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.120 long term quarterbacks this year, and so that means a 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.960 new breadth of quarterbacks in this division will track all 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.400 three of those quarterbacks coming forward, and then are any 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.320 of those guys good enough to compete with Trevor Lawrence 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.680 and the Jags going forward? And so we talked about 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.120 the AFC South. Let's keep it one hundred. You know, 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.360 this is a division that we always joke they played 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.760 Thursday night football every year and you're like, do we 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.400 want to watch it? We watch it anyway. I don't 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:53.960 think that's going to be the case anymore. I think 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.240 we're really going to be excited. I know I will 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.920 be to watch AFC South matchups, Like just thinking of 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.520 about Anthony Richardson versus Trevor Lawrence. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:03.720 You know C. J. 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.240 Stroud's in that mix, even if Will Levis gets in 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.720 there at some point. I think the big thing for 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:14.200 this division is which of those quarterbacks is him, since 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.560 we use that phrase a lot. Him like establishes uf 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:20.760 himself as a player fastest and right now CJ. Stroud 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.000 probably is the favorite for that, but I'm very intrigued 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.800 with Anthony Richardson and his potential. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.680 I love BOTHO quarterbacks, especially Stroud. I think that he 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.520 plays the game the right way in terms of you know, 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.040 winning from the pocket, ball placement, all that fun stuff. 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:34.679 And you're talking about those. 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.719 Those Thursday night games, man, I can just picture back 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:38.680 to like week thirteen, twenty fourteen. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:43.160 Really annually the Jags wear those like you know, pe green. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.679 Like the like the mashed up stuff you feed your 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.040 daughter of uniforms, and then the Titans would have those 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.160 baby blue ones that were that were okay, but they 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.120 just didn't aesthetically please the I very much when you 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:54.560 see that game, especially when it was like four and 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:58.280 seven versus four and eight on those late season TNF games. 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.360 But you talked about, you know, the quarterbacks that coaches 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.120 in this division too. Now at this point, man like 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.920 Mike Rabel's proven obviously almost said Frank Reich, but Doug 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.640 Peterson with the Jaguars as well, and then Shane Stikeen 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:10.600 and Dimigo. Ryan's two coaches I think have a chance 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.440 to really kind of, you know, earn their worth here 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.160 and show what they're made of in the NFL. I'm 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:15.599 sure you'll talk about each of those guys here to 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.000 go along. But you mentioned the team that the Dolphins 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.280 will play this year again Week fourteen, Titans coming here 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.880 for Monday Night football. Let's go ahead and start there, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.120 because this is a team that coming into the year, 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.960 cam Or, I should say the off season, the scuttle 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.160 butt that I heard on national podcast and things I 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:31.760 listened to is that they're going to tear it down 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.600 and rebuild, and they didn't do that. Like Ryan Tannehill 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.839 is still there. You know, Malik Willis is drafted in 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.000 the third round last year. You go second round this 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.079 year with will Levis. You have depth at quarterback and 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.480 some young guys that can you know, kind of earn 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:44.800 their way as well. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:46.080 But they kept Derrick Henry. 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.160 They've been recording this podcast on June fifteenth, that'll come 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.120 out a while from now, so we'll see what happens here. 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.719 But they've been linked to DeAndre Hopkins. Doesn't tell like 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:54.679 a team of me that wants to rebuild. 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.200 They something. They want to go out and win the 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.400 division once again. They're in the AFC South. 0:09:58.600 --> 0:09:59.960 Yeah, this is not a tanking team. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.280 I think that was the assumption, like what essentially how 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.400 you put it was, Hey, you know they bring it 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.199 in a new GM and ran Carthon. They're getting to 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.720 the point where the Jags have passed them. The Jags 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:13.440 will probably enter this twenty twenty three season as the 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.640 favorites since division, whereas the Titans for the last four 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.400 or five years have been that team. They've been good, 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.520 they haven't got over the hurdle of bad. They've been 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.800 in number one seed, they've been in the AFC Championship Game, 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:26.920 but they haven't yet got over that hurdle. And so 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.880 the question is has their window expired? 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:30.240 Right? 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:34.080 I think they are retooling rather than rebuilding. And what's 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.800 interesting about this team is they really tore down their 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.000 offensive line. They had an aging group with Taylor Lewan 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:42.040 and Ben Jones. 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.320 Guys who are really the core of what built. 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:48.080 This Tennessee Titans franchise from really a laughingstock to a 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:48.920 true contender. 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:49.959 And now they're. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.280 Starting over with that spot and a couple of other 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.880 areas while keeping the veterans at other spots, and I 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.439 think this Titans team could be a pleasant surprise because 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.360 trust their head coach, Mike Frabele is one of the 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.240 best head coaches in football, and no matter how much 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.040 you count them out, they seem to always rise to 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.640 the occasion. I think it was last year or the 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.400 year before, maybe both years where they've had the most 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:17.560 injured players in the league and most players they've played with, 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.200 and they still end up competing towards the end. And 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.800 so this Titans team is very intriguing for me because 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:24.720 last year. 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.280 They just did not have much on offense. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.160 They didn't have the weapons, they didn't have the offensive 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.560 line play, and so how much better can they be 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.200 on offense? Trey Lion Burks is their number one receiver, 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.320 Ryan Tannehill and him had some spurts last year, but 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.520 can they be more consistent? Derrick Henry as well, You 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.680 know we started to see him slow down a little 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.720 bit last year. Is he still a top three, top 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.360 five running back in this league? They have always battled 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.480 the Jags very well, and so although I said the 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:55.559 Jags will be the favorites, I don't think you should 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:56.520 write off the Titans. 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.600 If they play, they're playing their best. 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.400 They have a guy in Jeffrey Simmons, this is one 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.560 of the best defense tackles in football. Kevin Bayer, who 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:05.200 you know, he's had a little bit of rum wins 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.559 this offseason because they asked him to take a pay 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:08.600 cut and he'd decline. 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.560 But he's still a huge leader of that team. And 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.400 so right now, if. 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.360 You're painting the picture, the Titans are still probably the 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.280 most the most difficult challenge for the Jags to overcome 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.880 with their current roster. Now, the question I have for 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.880 them is if it starts off rocky middle of the season, 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:26.319 do they start that. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.800 Rebuild a little deeper? Do they look. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.760 Into trading a a Derrick Henry, Do they end up 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.080 trying to trade a Kevin Bayern? 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.840 Do they end up benching to Ryan Tannehill and. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.880 Moving forward with a World leves So even though Malik 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.600 willis these are intriguing questions around midseason, But right now, 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.719 this Tennessee Titans team is building as if they want 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.320 to compete for this AFC South title. 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.160 Yeah, they kind of gave themselves two routes there in 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.480 terms of maybe you can compete for a division. Maybe 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.360 if it doesn't go so well the first two months, 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.480 you can get some valuable experience and you know, wins 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.200 and losses. At that point you still care, but maybe 0:12:58.240 --> 0:12:59.800 they don't matter as much if you are like we 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:01.640 talkalked about earlier four and seven at that point of 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:03.760 the year, and I want to talk about that defense 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:05.960 I think is pretty underrated still that has been for 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.080 a long time. A guy like Kevin Bayer, to me, 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.840 is the microcosm of how underrated it is, because he's 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:12.600 been one of the best safeties for a long time 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:14.680 and no one seemed to talk about him. But I 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.400 think cam it's really important these next couple of years 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.320 for Mike Frable to maybe establish not not necessarily a 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.760 new identity, but re establish what they want to be 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.680 on offense because, like you mentioned, Derrick Henry, he can't 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.120 run that way forever. It's just it's just not possible 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.320 to be that physically dominant that relied upon for as 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.280 long as he has been. Like he's actually kind of 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.160 age better than we thought he would, I think, but 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.200 at some point it's not going to be the Dereck 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.920 Henry of old. And I remember listening to again going 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.360 back to the National podcast, the Around the NFL podcast 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:47.840 on NFL Media. Their producer, Justin Graver, is a diehard 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.960 Titans fan, and he talked about last season how he 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:52.720 wants to see the Titans pivot to more of the 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.319 modern style offensive attack because the Titans for so long 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.520 have been this, you know, two bad personnel, two tight 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.440 end personnel. I formation, run the ball with their Henry's 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.640 out play action passing that way, and that I think 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:04.880 maximized Bryan Tannehill's ability to throw the ball down the 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.640 field off play action. Do you think that happens this 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.120 season because looking at the weapons right now, like you mentioned, 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.240 Traylon Burks is you know, a good prospect, still not proven, 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.280 and then beyond that a lot of unproven names that 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.920 receiver as well. Can they pivot to that this year 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:19.960 or might that take another year? Are they interested in 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:21.680 doing that? Like does any of this stuff make sense? 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.680 I'm just really curious to see how the offense shakes out, 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.960 not just this year, but down the road as well. 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.240 Yeah, they have a new offensive coordinator and Tim Kelly, 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.920 he was essentially the past game coordinator for this team. 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.480 Last year they moved on from Todd Downing and so 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.480 it's gonna be his scheme, and so you implement different 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.200 elements that come from Tim Kelly. He's a guy who's 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:42.040 been in a lot of different areas. He's played it, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.520 he's been in college, he's been and under Bill O'Brien 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:47.640 in New England, and so do we still see more 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.800 of a Bill O'Briant type of offense here and Tennessee. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.640 I think the issue you always run into is Mike 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.840 Vrabel's going to be who he is the head coach. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.000 He's gonna want to play defense, he's gonna want to 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.320 run the ball. Now, that doesn't mean they always have 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.520 to be this smash mouth type of style. I think 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.760 they are understanding of the analytics of football right. This 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:12.760 is a team that knows that passing is a passing league. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.960 But the problem is their current personnel does not add 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.240 to that. They may have just being transparent. The worstwide 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:23.160 receiver corps football, like Treylon Burks is a really solid player, 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.920 but beyond him, there's not a lot of proven talent there. 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.400 So to ask yourself to transform into a Ryan Tannehill 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.440 led passing attack with not much weapons, it's probably not 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.160 your best way to be a conducive for success. Now 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:36.680 if they make a move like going and get a 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.760 DeAndre Hopkins. I know they had him in for a 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:40.920 visit in June. We're not sure where he is at 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:42.880 this point when this podcast runs out, But if they 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.000 end up getting the DeAndre Hopkins and that exponites maybe 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.280 that process and maybe you have Traylon Brooks and DeAndre Hopkins, 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:50.480 and now that passing game is a. 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:51.560 Little bit more intriguing. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.640 Derrick Henry's always been the best player on their team, 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.120 and just like every good coach, you give the ball 0:15:58.160 --> 0:15:59.920 to your best players. And so I think, based on 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.000 their roster, has been the function of their offense. But 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.840 as we get into an era where Derrick Henry is 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.000 not the focal point, which is coming. It may not 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.920 be this year, but Derrick Henry is coming towards the 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:12.720