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And why are we having coach mack on Because it's time to get his expertise on what has happened so far in training camp. I have some burning questions for Coach mack. Oh great, do you have burning questions for coach Mack.
I do, but I would like to hear yours first, back and forth.
So you know, like a burning question that I have the right tackle situation. Nicholas Patifreer is suspended for the first six games. From everything I've seen, he's run third team the whole time because they know he's he's going to leave here the first week of September and not be back until mid October, until after the London trip, which is understandable. So they've had different people rotating at
the spot. How quickly do they need to make a decision from a continuity standpoint, who's the right tackle?
It's not It's not time yet. It's not time yet at all. The thing that he's done. And you remember when this came about about NPF, the debate was and we talked about it all the three of us talked about it. Do you make one move or do you make two? They decided to make one move. They want to keep that center guard triangle as solid and as together as they can. Find someone to step ahead of the others at the right tackle. But it's not time yet, I think, Mike, I think they will go come all
the way through it amy. They will go all through training camp doing this because you've got some real test, You've got practice against the Vikings, You've got practice against New England. You've got a lot more call it practices that they're going to do out here, and then you've got the preseason games. And so I think they will go right up to the edge because here's the other thing that's different than the National Football League. Then it
used to be you've got a week between games. Now another whole week between you know you're not going out to by you got to buy every seas is a bye. So I think they'll go completely through training camp.
And all of those.
Spots that I've talked about to evaluate those players, because there's no reason to be in a rush as long as you can keep the center guard triangle solid and the left tackle slot solid.
Now, can we learn a little bit of ball real quick before we continue on, Because you talk about the center guard triangle, and you talk about it a lot on Titan's Radio, like that's something that we here discussed throughout games. Can you explain what that is and why it's so important.
Those three work in tandem a lot together. Both edge players may work with their guards every now and then, but most of the times those guys on the edge are either by themselves or they're incorporated into a slide protection the center guard triangle. Those three guys, they are constantly working with each other. And the other thing that's happened even more recently in the National Football League, you are starting to see interior defensive lineman be the premier
players on most teams defenses. We have one here right now, So it's extremely, extremely important. The way the rules are now, the best way you can get pressure. It used to be amy when you would take a seven step drop and basically be nine and a half to ten yards deep. When you dropped in a cylinder, the edge was the easiest way to get there if you had someone that
could motorcycle, lean and skim an edge. Now, as quick as that ball's coming out, interior pressure in your face and not align the quarterbacks to escape up into the b gap on either side is a huge part of taking time in away from your quarterbacks. So your center guard triangle has to work together.
All right.
So I'm going to follow up for the purpose of context here. Peter Skeronsky was going to be my next question about why they have left him at left guard only you've answered that you said they're trying to firm up the center guard triangle. If, however, they become unclear or uncertain about where they are at right tackle and they were to decide they might need to try him out there, how much time would they need to give that.
He'd needs some time because he's been a left tackle all of his career and people will say, you know, coach Mack is just moving about four guys over. Well, it's a big difference in footwork, it's a big difference in lead hand, it's a big difference in your power punch hand. There's a lot of difference between the left and the right tackle. Just as far as I mean, it's it's basically writing with your right hand or writing
with your left hand. You can do it, but it would take it would take a little bit of time. Now if they have to do it. We're fortunate in the fact that this is a very technique sound football player for a young player, so it might take him less time than it would somebody that is struggling. But to me, I think they would rather keep that solid and have somebody be able to man that thing adequately until NPF can come back.
Your feeling is they're going to fight that with everything they have because they have put him at left guard. They've left him at left guard and they feel like he has a chance to be a top level left guard.
Yeah, and when you watch him at left guard, I mean, you can tell that that was a move for him from left tackle to left guard. But he has taken to it very very well. And the other thing too about you know, anytime you're around good guards in the league. We've had some great guards here with this franchise. I've been around good guards. You guys have seen them. They also right next to that center. They communicate a whole
lot on protections. There's a lot that goes on. This guy, I think can be able to do that for quite a while there.
As we're going through training camp. It's not just about solidifying that five up front, though, you also need to find a couple really good swing guys. How important is that going to be? Finding guys who can fill in at a multiple and multiple different spots throughout the course of the season in case somebody goes down.
Legitimate, I mean, it's very legitimate. And now the league has alleviated some of that because you can dress the eighth one now and not be penlights. For it used to be, you know, you'd have to make a big decision between seven and eight as a head coach on your roster every week. Now they've allowed the eighth guy, which really really helps. But swing guys, I mean, we've experienced too much of that in the last two seasons.
But that's critical because what happens is it's not so much in preparation, but it's when it happens during a game. You have to go in there immediately and be able to go to work and not miss a beat. So the swing guy is huge, and I think that, you know, just the rules Committee listen to a lot of offensive coaches and a lot of offensive line coaches and probably head coaches too, adding that eighth guy makes a big difference.
All right, your question, now you're your hot topic. What's on your mind?
Name?
Well, there's a lot of things on my mind, but I want to start with Tim Kelly because as we've been going through training camp, we've been talking about some things on offense that were going to be a little bit different because Tim Kelly's taking on a bigger role as the fensive coordinator this year. What has stuck out to you, Coach Mack about the Tim Kelly offense pace?
I mean the pace of it, and I think it's come from abbreviating things. I mean there are things now you can They're in and out of the huddle, you know, very very quickly. And again we get to watch practice every day, so there are things that we can't say that we see, but things that you can see and that they have in the open practices. You are going to see a multiplicity of personnel groups, I mean more than and you're going to see guys in different positions
which you know. And I go to all the walkthroughs too like you guys do too, where you can hear them coaching, you can hear the corrections, but you can also get an idea of what they're trying to add on. Let me just say this about that they feel. I think they felt very good about the way this team was able to grasp the offensive, the newness of the offense in the OTAs because they've started to layer their installation.
In other words, they're just the two call it periods that we had the thirty minute two call it periods of team period. They weren't just playing vanilla anything. There weren't vanilla on offense, and they sure weren't vanilla on defense because they were overload blitzing, they were boguing, they were I mean, so they're pretty their installation. Coaches feel
like these guys are up to speed on it. But the thing that you notice just with the naked eye is the pace of it and then the as many personnel groups, you know, just not by down in distance but by scheme. And there's a lot of really good things that I'm watching that I like what they're doing.
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Is there another adjective other than everything?
Okay, now it all so serious?
He because look this guy and you think, you know, you say, well, coach Mick, I mean you know, you got that's just one guy. But what he has allowed them to be able to do, now you are able to now have complementary pieces do complimentary things. Ah, this is this is a dude, and he's a legitimate dude. And you can tell just with the with the setup that they are doing. And I'm not just talking about
which side you line up on them. I'm talking about who lines up in the point on the three man the nine ball stack, who lines up at front on the stacks, who lines up into the boundary, who lines up to the field, who lines up with plus splits, who lines up with minus splits, and the other thing that he can do all of that right, well, yes, but see here's the thing about him. He can do all of that, but other people now can concentrate on
the complimentary piece to what he's doing. The other thing that I've noticed, and again I gotta be careful with what I say, because you know, why is that with any of these hot red adjustments. You got a veteran quarterback and you got a veteran receiver. You already see that showing up out there, which is really really big because sometimes when you're able to get on that same page, a bad play can be a good play if you
can make an adjustment. When I mean, it's the difference between driving in the parking lot and driving on the freeway. I mean, things are just moving fast, and if you've got somebody that understands how to operate in space when it's moving fast, it makes a big difference.
So it's a circumstance where what is it? They say, I'm trying to make sure I don't botch the phrase, but rising tides raise all ships?
Is that lift all boats, lift all boats? Or whatever?
Or they say, basically, the caliber that he's playing at makes everybody able to raise their caliber of play. That's exactly right, because you have to account for him.
It's exactly And also, I think what you're saying too, and correct me if I'm wrong, is he and his skill set allows other people to focus on what they do better one.
Hundred percent, Mike, one hundred percent right there, because that is that's big. Instead of now making people have to do a whole lot of different things. You know that he can do different things, and so people can concentrate on just some things.
And trailing Burkes is just concentrating on doing what he does, which is looks pretty special.
He's a completely different person. I mean, you know, last year was a rough time for him. Let's just be honest. He came in here. First of all, he was not in condition. And very few of these guys come in from collegiate football in NFL condition. They you know, they don't, you know, their second year, they've got NFL bodies if they work on it. You know, collegiate body might be good, but it's not NFL. It's not professional. And then, I
mean he was not in condition. And then he had the asthmatic problem, and you know that was I mean, people really jumped on that like they had him in an iron lung just about and it wasn't that drastic. But what he did he went to the people that could help him. The head coach Frank Perino, what Rob Moore, what do I need to do? He stayed here and work consistently. He's a different player. He's a different dude. And then you bring you bring d hop in here. I mean they're at the hip now. You can see
him at the hip, and that's that's invaluable. All the years that I've coached Mike, I've seen really really good players take a young player under their wing and elevate their game quicker than they would elevate just being by themselves.
We're talking about all of these different pieces and all of these different things that are going so well for those Titans off. If you're Ryan Tannehill, you've got to be licking your lips a little bit getting ready for this season and what's coming along, because all of the sudden, he's got a world of options open to him, whether it's schematically or because of personnel that he hasn't had in the last couple of years.
Well, when you really look at it, and I mean we're looking at it objectively, I mean, you know, nobody's here. You know we has got any pom poms about this. We tell the truth here. He's got playmakers at every position. Now now he's got legitimate playmakers at every position. And I'm sure, because you guys are deep into it, we'll touch on you know what we've added there in the
backfield too, But that makes a difference. But all of a sudden, now he's not just limited to basically, you know, you know, looking through a straw at what's going on. Now he's got a big picture of he's got a lot of people, a lot of places that can make plays well.
And you talked about Burks and you talk about Tannehill. I mean, both of those players were directly impacted by the loss of age. I mean, there's no doubt about it. And the thing that Ryan had with Aj is he'd throw it up and give him a chance. And you've got to have confidence in the guy to do that, and it didn't look like they had as much of that last year.
Well, and here's the other thing too, And we talked about this before. You know, even when the thought of d Hop being here was his game, his entire career has been. Even if he's covered, throw it to him, right, because you guys have both watched him now, we've washed him up close and we've watched him on tape and you can I mean, the guy's got you know, he's got bear traps on his wrist. I mean, it's amazing
how big his hands are. But the other thing is he can be covered and you could have your hand as a defender in the basket, which in the basket is when the receiver's here, right, this is the basket, and he can still catch your hand and catch the ball with it, so he doesn't have to be wide open all the time to throw it to him. You could throw it to him when he's closely covered, because he's gonna win most of those matchups. And he's always
been deceptively like just wire cable strong. He's not real thick, but he's he's kind of like CJ. Two K was like that, Right, you remember how I mean CJ two K was wire rope. I mean he really was and had a lot of tensil strength to him. So does this guy. And plus, this guy's got an attitude. He always has had one, and he stills got it.
Well, you talk.
About the loss of Brown, but there had been other losses over the previous couple years. Well, now suddenly you have a tight end in a con Quote that you trust because he's in his second year. You have another receiver in Berks that you trust because he's in his second year. And you have d Hop and you potentially have Kyle Phillips in that in that place as well.
So maybe you're sort of.
Back to that nineteen twenty sort of field that Tannehill had where there was more confidence, more on the same page, not being worried about making a miss.
Well, and a guy like Nick Westbrook a keine now doesn't have to be your top receiver. I mean he can fulfill the role that he needs to fulfill. And you've got a couple of young guys that can you know, that might be able to step in and help. And to me, that makes a huge difference. It makes a huge difference two ways in game planning and then in critical must have situations you've got other options rather than one.
Right, all right, so you're up next to Amy.
Can you guys believe we've made it this far and haven't said the name Derrick Henry yet?
I think he said Derrick Henry.
Did you say Derrick Henry?
I said, running back.
See that's not the same, No, I think just it's exciting to be talking about the offense and be talking about so many other pieces that aren't Derrick Henry. But I still feel like we should because he looks like it's more of the same here in your eight. And then there's the addition of guys like Taja Spears, who we're all so excited to you watching, you.
Know, who's happy that we haven't talked about Derrick Henry as being just all we have on offense. Derrick Henry, Yes, because this this is gonna and and you're right, I mean he looks he's in he's in fabulous condition and and and he's got a mindset that now but you the things that he can do, he's he's different. I mean, we're really fortunate to be here during his career because he's different and and he's a big difference, and especially when he has help around him. And then you bring
ty J Spears into it. I mean, this kid's got a little juju to him. He's got something to him and something that not I'm not talking about just going in for Derrick Henry. I'm talking about being a piece of this that Kelly can use in a several different spots.
So that's that's got to be exciting too, because for Derrick Henry, because when he's the focal point and we've seen it, I mean he has he has played against more eight and eight and a half men boxes in the last three years than any run back in the league hands down. Now, he may not have to.
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Linebacker is he's Outshire, coming over from San Francisco. He has impressed coach Dave mcginni.
Why you know what the dudes built like Keith Bullock number one.
Okay, he's long.
As a lifetime linebacker. Coach and Rand told me this about him, and so I went and watched the times he got to play in San Francisco. He is a real instinctive K and D guy K and D, which is key and diagnosed.
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He gets ahead of blocks so quick. He had a couple of plays in that thirty minute segment a couple of days ago when we were watching that. He gets ahead of the best second level linebackers I've ever been around, and I've been around some really good ones, but the best ones are guys that can get ahead of blocks.
And what I mean by that for our listeners is by by getting and diagnosing and processing by film, study your bird rabbit keys, which are run pass sure really quick as to where you're not playing everything fifty to fifty and once you once he sees it, he's an immediate trigger. He is an immediate trigger guy. I love this player.
So you're not running around a block, which is often dangerous because you oftentimes leave a hole. By doing so, you're beating the lineman or the blocker to the spot to where you can take advantage.
That's it I mean. And in this league for guys behind the ball, because of how athletic and how much more physically larger offensive linemen are, you can't afford to do two things. You can't afford to middle them up, which I mean go right down the middle of them, because they're going to engulf you and they hold, which
is fine, you know. And you also have to be able to get ahead of them because if you get if you if you keep trying to play a jazz linebacker all the time, which is a slipping slide, dude, they will just push you by so fast. So you've got to be able to get ahead. You got to be able to get ahead of a block, and then you've got to be able to work vertically back up the field as to where the hole is trying to open. But to get ahead of a block, you've got to
understand what you're keen and looking. And if you're playing things fifty to fifty, you're behind on defense because a slow, correct decision on defense is wrong.
It's wrong. You're done.
You're done. I like this player a lot. I really like And here's the other thing I like about him, and Rand signed several of these kind of guys this year's free agents. He never was the dude, and he wants to be the dude. And those are the kind of guys at that stage in their career where they're just about to you know, they want to be the dude, but because of who's in front of them, they're never quite going to be. And you give them that chance. I think we're going to see the best of him.
I really really like this player. I think arden Key's the same way.
All right, let's he was on my list.
Yeah, he was great.
Well that you know what that's because you and I really are smart.
Well, no, it's well you are. Arden Key has grabbed everybody's attention. Everybody's attention. Are we getting too excited about arden Key?
No, because here's about our arden Keys always really intrigued me since coming out LSU because he had he had a world of ability. But ardent Key, and he admitted it a couple of days ago when he was available to the press. He's matured, He's matured and figured it out.
I mean, at one point he weighed two eighty. Now that's a big man, but that's too big for what his skill set is now he and the other thing is all of this energy that you hear that he has and if people never watched him practice, it's legit.
It is legit.
And the players say, and he starts at six thirty. I've been around these energizer buddings before. They start at six thirty in the morning, and they don't stop. I mean, they feed off of their teammates. And what we're not getting because he's another guy. He's never quite been the dude, but now with his maturity and he understands what being the dude can do. For you. I mean, let's just be honest, what it can do for you career wise,
what it can do for you monetarily. And he is benefiting by the fact that now Harold Landry's coming back. He's benefited by that. And so to me, are we getting too excited about it? No, because it's okay to get excited about good players because you know that they're going to perform.
So was it as He's Al Schier who had the quote this week arden Key is from Atlanta, he never talking, which is one hundred percent true. And I think arden might have said, I've never met anyone from Atlanta that you know that would stop talking.
That's a good quote.
Well, and if you're out there and listening, and I'm sure in the building, I mean, I'm sure in the building and the meeting rooms and he's but he does it in a constructive way. It's not a it's probably annoying to the offense, oh, I would think, but it's it's perfect that the best defenses I've ever been around
in my career have been loud, loud communication, loud. But if you're loud and you're not producing, then you're just a big dog barking behind a fence, right, But if you're producing, then you're a big dog out in the front yard protecting things. And so this guy here, I like him.
He's a fun guy.
And plus he's got he's got a little bit of lean to him. And the other thing about him is he's not just an edge guy because he's got enough stuff in his neck that they can move him around.
Harold Landry being back, you touched on it just a little bit. How much is that elevating the entire defense?
I think mentally, First of all, it's big, and then you really looked at at the world. Harold Landry was going into next last season before he got hurt, he was just getting ready to peek. I mean, he came up a what a twelve and a half sax season, got the control, Yeah, got the contract, and he was The thing that makes me very happy just watching him out there with no brace on, is he smooth again?
And he's still got the lean. He's got the lean, And so he adds a lot a lot to this defense mentally because when he's on the field, he's a dude and they respect him. But physically, I mean, he's better than he's ever been. And he'll say that, you know, because he had eleven months to do nothing but get ready for.
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Will Levis, it feels like has had a really nice start to training camp, good start last week through the course of this week with pads coming on and team things happening, and not obviously the quarterbacks aren't getting hit, but more things being added in on installation. Feels as if he's in a pretty good place.
Do you agree both of y'all have watched practice with me? Since OTA's right, yes, you're much different than OTA's really correct, You feel.
Like, oh, I know, okay, much different.
He came in here. You never know how guys are going to react to being high draft choices, and he was a high draft choice, and you never know how they're going to especially at that position. He came in here trying to do everything at once. That's not the way it works in the National Football League, especially at that position. He's really gifted physically, tremendously gifted physically. He has slowed everything down now and is starting to throw just I can't say it on the air and the OTP,
but his arm strength is different. But now what he's done, he's starting to understand cylinder pressure. He's starting to understand that windows close quicker here. He's starting to understand the concepts of what's going on. He's much different than he was in OTA.
He's adjusting and he has worked at it.
But it's a mental adjustment for quarterbacks so much because it's so much different the field. Dimensions within themselves make it so different as to where there is there a plane of view that they see so much different. The hash marks, you mean the hash marks, because I mean, the field's different, it really is. And then plus you're only going to see so many coverages, you know in the collegiate game, must be honest, because they've only got
twenty hours a week to put it in. Now he's seeing everything, and that's what I liked about those two thirty minute call periods. Defense was bringing stuff, bringing stuff making. But he's a completely different guy than he was in the OTAs because he has applied himself. I like both of those guys. I like he and Maliku both. You know what you can see, you can see the growth. So they're getting good coaching, but they're they're taking to the coaching and they're working at it because that's it's
it's hard. Playing quarterback in this league is hard, even if you've been at it for a while, but they've adjusted and I kind of like it. It's gonna be a big off, I mean big preseason for both of them.
I want to talk about the secondary and this includes corners, safety, everybody back there. I want to talk about that whole group because it feels like to me, throughout what we have seen at training camp so far, there is not a group on the field that is bringing more heat and more excitement out to the field than that group of people. Am I correct in saying.
That, I agree with you one hundred percent. They are they are, they are lit. Yeah, the whole practice.
Starts with the new secondary coach, right, Chris Harris.
I think it does. I mean coaches have an effect on their players, and you know I say that having a coach for a law you have an effect. And but they're playing with a lot of confidence, and that's what you know, that's what brings that's what brings it out. I mean, there's a lot of juice at practice when
they're going offense against defense. But I agree with you, Amy, I think this group has And look, you've got two really solid people back here at the safety and we talk about talking and being loud, and I mean the people that are up in front of them and the people that are to the side of them, talking about are two safeties. Now they're so confident that what they are saying means something, that they are starting to feel confident.
And then when they they're making plays. I mean, it's everybody that's rallying to the you know, And you're right, I mean, and I think that's a big thing. I think Christian Fulton knows this is a critical time in his career, critical time, and so he's come back ready to go. Sean Murphy bonding has added a lot to this thing, and Roger McCrary has settled in at that slot. So I agree with you. I think your observation there
is one hundred percent correct, and that's contagio. Now we talked about how how the people up front have always started to but now what you've got with this defense, You've got dogs, You've got guys at every level. Start picking at every level. We talked about the line you know, we talked about the linebackers, and I think Money Rice is a really nice linebacker. He's a nice compliment, you know, to ass you know, next to him. But we moved
from the front to the back. Now, all of a sudden, you've got playmakers, and that just that all that does is in gender confidence and confidence. As I said, best defenses I've ever been around have been loud. This group's loud. Right now, we'll see.
All right, Amy, coach has to get to a meeting, so we have limited time remaining. Do you have any more questions? Do you have one more great question? What do you want to do here?
What do I want to do?
Yeah?
I think I want to pitch it to you. Do you have one more great question?
I don't know if it's a great question, but it's pretty obvious. This week is essentially over in terms of how it's going to go. Some wa through time off coming this weekend and next getting ready for the first preseason game, the Saturday noon preseason game on August twelfth at Chicago. How different is next week for these Titans in terms of what you've seen from what Mike Vrabel has done so far in this training camp, Well.
It's going to be a little bit different. And once the coaches decide who they're going to play, and this first one the people they decide to play, Big week for him, Big week for him because all of a sudden, all of this thing that we've talked about, they've been doing it on familiar territory. I mean, it's kind of like when you were a kid, when you played in your backyard, you really felt good about what you could do.
But once you went out and got out to the public playground and everybody else was showing up, then can you take that game to the big stage. This is the first big stage a lot of these guys will be on, So this week will be a little different once they decide who, you know, who they're going to pay. But you guys know this, I've said it so many times before, but it's an axiom in this league that is so true for players and coaches. Every day's an interview.
You've got a big interview week coming up next week for these guys.
And anything that goes wrong can put that check mark which can take you off the list in a hurry.
Even if it looks like you're going to be on the list every day. Yeah, you are filmed every day. You are filmed every day and the film is there, and so if you have a problem, you can't say yeah, but there's no yeah butts when you look at tape it's right there. And so that's the middle pressure of playing in the National Football League that a lot of times eliminates players, even though everybody that's here's got some
sort of athletic ability or they wouldn't be here. You don't just bring guys in the building because you like them. They've got some But those that can handle that kind of stress mentally, I've seen more of those guys that could do it physically but just could not handle the mental stress day in and day out, day in and day out, and then work it towards the competition point. So it's gonna be big to find out.
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And these are two.
Well they're too exactly.
The same, but well no they're really not to one of them is upside down. Two legitimate snickers.
That's right.
Great being with you guys, Yes, thanks thanks, not dumb dumbs.
No, they sure aren't they sure are that.
Tipped your gyro so quick?
Yeah?
Amy Wells fine.
It's gonna be worse after the OTP. Yeah, this Susan not gonna go. We'll both get the raft.
Everything is fine.
It feels really fine.
It's everything is a dog cartoon where the fire everything, the fire is behind him, he goes.
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