 Come to the bet MGM studio and the Mike Vrabel show presented by seat geek. I'm Mike Keith Mike Vrabel will be joining us shortly as he's currently detained by ghosts Goblins and gremlins. He is continuing a Titans tradition that has spanned 25 plus years Tonight is the night where every Titans staff member every coach every player can bring their children to trick or treat here at Ascension St. Thomas Sports Park. Each position room is decorated and the rookies are responsible for coming up with the candy. Next Tuesday is Halloween and with the Titans playing two nights later in Pittsburgh most everyone on the football side will miss taking their kids trick or treating. So this night is a big deal and has been since the team moved to Nashville and Mike Vrabel loves the event. So he is finishing his duties and will join us momentarily. Today has already been a busy day for Mike in the football team as they return from four days off to start preparations for Sunday's game at Nissan Stadium with the Atlanta Falcons. There are two top stories for the Tennessee Titans today first who placed quarterback on Sunday against the Falcons second the trade of safety Kevin Byer to the Philadelphia Eagles. Here's what Mike Vrabel had to say about the move during his press conference earlier today. Just want to thank Kevin you know his family I think the personal relationship that I have with Kevin goes well beyond football. We know that there's a business side of this and sometimes you know you have to make tough decisions and certainly was one of them you know Ran and I are trying to continue to grow the team and continue to do what we think is going to be best now and in the long run to add to our roster to strengthen our roster and this was an opportunity to do that. You know again just can't thank Kevin enough for the personal relationship and you know what he's meant to this organization on the field off the field. These things are never easy but hopefully if you if you handle them with with class and integrity and respect and you know honesty you know hopefully it works out for everybody. We'll discuss the quarterback situation and the decision to trade Kevin Byer later when Mike Vrabel joins us on this edition of the Mike Vrabel show but next first round pick Peter Skoronsky has been exactly what the Titans thought he would be. It comes as no surprise to anyone especially his proud parents. Meet the Skoronsky's next in our epic western spotlight as the Mike Vrabel show presented by Seat Geek continues after the break. When the 2023 NFL draft rolled around Peter Skoronsky was invited to Kansas City as he was a sure first round pick. Peter was certain to join his legendary grandfather former Packer Bob Skoronsky as an NFL offensive lineman so why not celebrate at the draft. Peter said no thank you instead he and his family hosted a large party at peace pizza and brewery in Chicago because you knew Peter was going to be drafted in the upper half of the first round so was it a hard decision to not go to Kansas City and be involved in all of that. We were surprised and frankly jealous. Pizza in Chicago sounded great to us but we were even more intrigued when we found out it was New Haven style pizza in Chicago so we hit the road to experience peace pizza on our own and we had Peter's parents Bob and Ann Skoronsky as our hosts for this week's epic western spotlight. All right so here we are we're at peace pizzeria in Chicago why was this the perfect place. Peace opened in 2001 Peter was born in July I think it opened in May or June we had his christening gathering here it's always been part of our family and a little bit of family history in terms of it being New Haven style pizza and Bob's dad being from New Haven and just a thing you know obviously Skoronsky's love pizza too and love food generally and like beer and beer don't forget that we're good with that too. What's your best memory of the night Bob. There was a there was a couple of teams that we really were hoping that that he didn't go in that direction and when they both went by him his head coach Pat Fitzgerald looked at me and said you just won the draft. Peter had such strong pre-draft interaction with our man Carthon and Mike Rable that he he really was he was really hoping that was what's going to happen and I would say for me really maybe the obvious point is when he turned around he was on the phone and he turned around and the look on his face when he said Tennessee I mean he was just so genuinely happy and what came flooding back to me was just the memory of talking to Peter after the Combine and really the entire conversation was dominated by meeting Coach Rable and ran and just the whole connection he felt with the team at that point. I thought that was that was really the first thing I thought of. Bob when did you start to think Peter could be a good enough football player that he could follow your dad into the NFL. I would say his sophomore year he before they played Michigan he was sick as a dog that Saturday the opposition was Aiden Hutchinson and David Ajabal so I felt like after that game that his game was good enough to go to the next level that would be a tipping point for me in terms of his future that that particular game. I was so thrilled for him to have an opportunity to play in college to do something that he loved and really embrace the whole team and you know playing in a D1 situation in the Big Ten amazing. Now I will say that my dad was a little more bullish than I was on the whole thing because when he was an eighth grader my dad came to a game and you know grade school football and you know five plays into the game he just looks and he goes Bob that's in the Big Ten tackle out there an eighth grader and I go you know I didn't you know I took with a grain of salt I guess but he was pretty pretty prescient in his analysis to be honest and I guess there's that would be the only disappointment of what's happened in the last year or so it's him not being able to see that kind of thing go through but you know he's still he's up there watching. Most important note from that trip New Haven style pizza is amazing if you ever have a chance to visit peace in Chicago do that. Speaking of good things in New England or from New England Mike Vrable had a great buy weekend back in his old haunt and he allowed us to go with him to see it all next on the Mike Vrable show presented by Seeky. If I asked Mike Vrable about his playing career he blows by it. Mike's point has always been that what he did as a player does not help the Tennessee Titans win games but Mike found out that he was being inducted into the New England Patriots Hall of Fame he knew that he would have to drop his guard and reminisce about the eight fantastic seasons that he spent in Foxboro. Mike Vrable headed north last weekend for the ceremony and he allowed our colleagues Todd Gray and Jack Mummert to give you a behind the scenes look at his amazing weekend. Hey guys this is Coach Brave just landed in Boston it's great to be back heading making a trip down to Foxboro so sure we'll pass a lot of familiar sights and we'll look forward to seeing everybody soon thank you. Yeah bring back memories that's you know coming back from the airport or going to the mall with the kid that's probably what I think about now. How are you buddy? None of that was there. None of that was there. Hi Matthew. Good to see you buddy. How are you thank you. Congratulations. Ladies and gentlemen please join me in welcoming 2023 Patriots Hall of Fame inductee Mike the 34th member of the Patriots Hall of Fame. Never forget you get a call and you tell you know I was in the last year of my deal you know when you're 33 years old and you're in the last year of your deal you try to get some more security and so it was like hey you know would like to talk about a contract extension or or maybe you know I I could probably you end up somewhere else be careful what you ask for because you end up somewhere else that's how that goes. I'm very appreciative of this so thank you to the Patriot organization thank you to Mr. Kraft the Kraft family thank you Bill thank you to my my teammates this is an unbelievable honor thank you. This should be fun this should be great to be able to enjoy it with my family and what I did here with the teammates that we had and the coaches and just the success that we had and I don't know if I've ever really reflected back on it I just kind of moved on and then I figured whenever the time was right and it just kind of seemed like the time's right. Welcome back to the Mike Vrables show and the coach is here by the way Todd Gray Jack Mumbert fantastic job documenting the weekend. They were awesome. I mean that thank you for letting us do that. I'm looking at you standing next to those football players and I'm thinking that's a pretty good group of football players that you were hanging around right there. It's got to be impressive to be part of that club. It was and you know just like I told the fans there and I told everybody there like that this is that's what I wouldn't try to emulate here. Then I come to work and try to try to put that together because I know how special it was with those teams and the success and that's that's I'm never going to stop trying to do that here. Good stuff. Thank you again for letting us do that and congratulations. Thank you. All right as Mike Vrables would say it's time to get back to business. The business of knocking off the Atlanta Falcons when we come back we move forward with the six pack presented by SeatGeek. The Mike Vrables show continues. Welcome back to the Bet MGM studio and the Mike Vrables show presented by SeatGeek. SeatGeek also sponsors the six pack and usually we show highlights but of course Titans didn't play last weekend so I've got six questions for Mike Vrables. First of all let's start with the Kevin Beyer trade. Can you share anything about the process that led you and the team to trade Kevin Beyer to Philadelphia? Well I think you just try to add and try to look and strengthen in your roster in the future and what we're trying to do and obviously it's win consistently it's win championships and um felt like that there was value there. Try to listen to Philly and try to you know ultimately do it was best for for the football team. That may not seem like it today but hopefully that that'll be the case in the long run and a lot of respect for Kevin and personally and professionally what he's done since I've been here um had some great conversations so just he just uh I want to tell you he's a he's a class individual everything we we saw here I would say even more so. You obtained two draft picks in the trade you also obtained safety Terrell Edmonds what do you hope he can potentially add and where can he fit on this defense? Well he's played in the league here he's played he's started and you know has good good range back there he stays on his feet and seems to be a sure tackler and so we'll get him brought up to speed as as soon as we possibly can and he showed up with a great attitude played Sunday night and was out there with us getting some work in so excited just to have the person. With Beyer's departure you obviously have an open spot at safety who do you look to fill that spot at least initially? Well and then we'll see how much Terrell knows we will see how much uh you know if the Moldin's availability and shy Carter and Matt Jackson those are the safeties that we have on the roster and you know Dane's on the practice squad so um you know we'll have 11 out there and make sure that they're they're flying around and and they know what to do. Does safety Amati Hooker's role change with Kevin Beyer's departure at all? No I mean I think his leadership may increase in that room I mean being a veteran player in that room but what we're going to ask him to do on the football field I don't think that anything will change we'll need his impactfulness when we can get it in ball disruption and everything else. Let's turn to quarterback what is the status of Ryan Tannehill as we sit here tonight? Ryan didn't practice so today he was unavailable that that may change tomorrow and then we'll reevaluate where things are after that. If Ryan can't go at the end of the week would you announce a starter for Sunday's game with Atlanta would you anticipate doing that? You know I don't know I mean I think that the you know the players may know I think that you know I'm positive that both quarterbacks will play in some capacity so we'll see where Ryan's at and we'll see what we're doing with the game plan. All right so that's the six pack of questions for Mike Vrable. We now turn to our youth for our kid. Thank God. We now turn to it really hurts. We now turn to our youth for this edition of Kids Ask Coach Vrable. Aliyah has tonight's question coach. What's it really sitting in the box with a Patriots owner? Aliyah it was only weird that I didn't get booed usually I'm the last times that I've been back there I've gotten booed and I didn't get booed. First time that I've ever been in that box ever so didn't know how to get there took an elevator up and it opened up into it but everything went pretty quick and it was good to see a lot of friends and coaches and and former players and teammates. What do owners talk about during the game? Should we go for it on fourth and one at the minus 34 why can't we stop the quarterback sneak all the same things I say you know I mean and I was like well let's probably punt and see if we can play some defense and that you know same thing every other fan says. Is it hard to watch a game like that for you without putting the coach hat back on? Again I was thinking about just the entire day and taking in a lot of things and half time and you know what what I would try to say in the 60 seconds that I had and but it was good just to watch and I was happy for those coaches and players that they were able to win. You still got a lot of friends up there. Yep that's a good ball game for sure. All right when we come back it's time for Mike Vrabel's Nissan Keys to success as the Titans get ready to take on the first place team in the NFC South the Atlanta Falcons. Those keys are next on the Mike Vrabel show presented by SeatGeek. Stay with us. This is Stadium in 60. Quick update on the Titans new stadium. Yes the new Titan stadium will have a roof but this will not be one of the old school dark domes. Oh no this roof will be translucent and the style was chosen to give the new Titan stadium a totally indoor outdoor field. I've told people look you can leave your umbrella at home but you still might need to bring your sunglasses on a sunny day because it's that type of sunlight ambiance that comes in and it's a really really special feeling. Great a great way to watch an NFL football game. This feels totally different. This feels like you're outside and we're also going to have garage doors on the outside walls so that on a nice day in Nashville we can have those garage doors open. You'll get a cross breeze throughout the building and you'll still have the sunlight coming through so it's really the best of both worlds. It's an indoor experience you're protected from the elements you're not going to have games that get delayed or canceled because of lightning and yet you still get the benefits of those outdoor feelings. For the latest news visit titansnewstadium.com. Welcome back to the Mike Vrable show time for the Nissan Keys to success. Mike Vrable can you run the three down four? Absolutely you know Mike this Arthur Smith coach football team they're going to run the football they've got three great backs we've got to stop the run we've got to set an edge we've got to swarm can't have any cracks in the wall and we have to tackle these guys are great they run hard out jeer runs hard Robinson so we got to be great tacklers you know offensively we've got to stay efficient and and if we get in third and long we have tough time being great in punt coverage and making sure we're casting in that and and doing what we're supposed to do in special teams and you know exactly what's coming from Arthur that's good fundamental football period it is and it's going to be a great challenge they're playing well and and we got to stand up to them all right ready to be back at home wearing those oilers uniforms come sunday titans and the falcons kickoff is set for 1202 we're on your favorite titans radio station at 11 with titans countdown for Mike Vrable Mike Keith says thanks for watching good night everybody