 Why does the game mean so much to you? Because you get to play with your brothers, you get to play with people who love the games just as much as you do, and it just makes it special. I've seen you in practice, and I've even seen you in pre-game warm-ups. Sometimes pop a guy a little too much. Do you get, is it just the overall enthusiasm of all of it, is the opportunity to be out there? What gets you so fired up? What gets you so excited? Because I've been playing this game since I was nine, and I just want to have fun with it, and sometimes it warm-ups, I'm a little too juiced up, like, naturally, and I'm like knocked the hell out of somebody by accident, so, you know, but just getting ready for the game. Do you have to apologize? Yeah, sometimes I'm like, my bad, my bad, my bad. No. The thing about how you hit people, I mean, there is a force with you. My broadcast partner, Coach Dave McGinnis, who coached linebackers in the league for 30 years, he says you're a heavy player. Everything you do is a heavy hit. Why do you think that is? I mean, to be honest, my goal is not to, like, smack people all the time. I'm just trying to make the tackle, and if I happen to smack you on the way to doing that, it just happens, you know, it just happens, but, you know, I'm just trying to be a sure-tackler and make plays in space, because that's what today's game is, you know what I mean? Sometimes in coverages, you're matched up on a guy who is faster than you, quicker than you, and you got to use your technique and fundamentals of what you've learned and been coached to do to be able to make up for that discrepancy, you know? We know the stories about you coming to Nissan Stadium as a kid from Huntsville, Alabama. What are your best memories of that? I just, well, actually the Titans lost, and so I was just kind of here, I was with the Chris Minsky family to actually come into the game this weekend. I played football with their kids back in the day, and I remember it was Peyman, it was Sunday Night Football, Reggie Wayne, Dallas Clark, Van Abysse, Bullock, Cortland Fannigan, Michael Griffin, like I remember like it was yesterday, and I was like, I'm just sitting in the stands, like, man, I'm gonna be playing. I ain't say I was gonna be at the Titans, but I'm like, man, I'm gonna be playing, you know, in the NFL one day, you know what I mean? Like I just knew it since I was nine, honestly. And so, you know, it's crazy to now be not watching, but actually playing, you know what I'm saying? It's crazy how he like just came the full circle like that. That's remarkable, because I mean, here you are with the Tennessee Titans, we're in number 56, playing against the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday Night Football in prime time for the whole country to see, and you expected it? I know how hard I work, you know what I'm saying? I know my capabilities, and like, I played at one of the best schools in the world, like for college football, and that's Georgia. And I think we all know that, you know, you see the players coming out of there. So, you know what I mean? And I just know my capabilities, and it's my mindset, like, that's just how I roll, that's just how I was brought up from kids, to James Clemens, to now, to college, like that's just how it's been. Monty, you realize that's an incredible story though, that you've come from there, sitting in the stands, said I'm gonna do this, visualized it, and then made it happen. So, with something that remarkable, what would you say to a young person who wants to chase any sort of dream like that? Football or otherwise? Yeah, like, I always hate when people, when like, coming up as a, when you're playing sports, people like, you need to have a plan B, you know what I mean? But how I look at it is, when somebody wants to be a doctor or a lawyer, nobody tells them to have a plan B, you know what I mean? And with me saying that, what I'm trying to say is, don't let nobody like, tell you what you can and can't do, you know what I'm saying? Cause it's up to you, that person, to get up every day and, you know, chase what they wanna chase, you know what I mean? Nobody else can control that, but God. So, honestly, you know, obviously, all those football players, we get a lot of doubt from people by having plan B's and I'm not gonna play scared, I'm not gonna flinch and I'm just gonna roll, you know what I'm saying? I'm just gonna roll and whatever happens, happens. That's why you're gonna be a great linebacker in this league. You're a good linebacker, but you expect to be a great linebacker. 100%.