 Matthias, welcome to town. I appreciate your time. I guess why was the tight the good fit for you? And what do you think about your opportunity in Nashville? Yeah, I'm really excited for like you said, it's a new opportunity. It's a new city and just it's an a winning organization, you know, I was an indie for three years. We always had battles when I was there against the Titans always had a lot of respects for the Titans and just you know What was brought to the table week in and week out the character of the guys the competitive nature of the guy So now to come in leaving New York to come and be a part of that I'm really really excited playoff caliber team and you know, I'm just here to serve and do whatever I can to help the team John Glennon Hey Matthias, I know you're pretty much Playing a lot of special teams the last couple of years, but I wonder you know back in indie When you were playing a lot of defensive snaps, you know, kind of what was your role there? And do you hope to see more defensive snaps instead of you know, primarily special teams? Yeah, well in India, you know, there's a lot of guys who were injured at the time that I was playing more significant role in defense I was very grateful to be able to experience that to contribute in that way My one goal coming in is just to be trusted to be trusted on special teams and you know work my way from there But the big thing is, you know, I just want to come in and be trusted and you know, whatever doors open from that I'm very available to I'm excited about but you know, you got to earn the respect earn the trust and so that's my mindset coming in Terry It's been a big time makeover of the defense this offseason and especially in the secondary How much do you view that as an opportunity to kind of show them what you can do in our role? Yeah, it's a huge opportunity Terry. It's It's rare that you get to come in and have an opportunity to contribute But you know at the end of the day, it doesn't matter unless I come in and handle my business So I'm excited to get in the room. I'm excited to be back with coach Booker He was my coach all through college So I'll it'll be great to be back in a room with them and I'm really excited about meeting the guys and just you know Iron Sharpen's iron. So they're gonna push me. I'm gonna push them and you know, Lord willing We're just gonna make a great run again dateable Claire Mathias it's obviously a different sort of offseason with the salary cap issues and what not a lot of guys are Gonna have to wait till later Maybe even after the start of camp to get a contract on how happy are you? How much does it help you to have gotten this thing done early here? It's a huge blessing, you know, I definitely don't take any of it for granted You know, I didn't know how free agency was gonna go like you said, especially in a stranger with the cab being different So to have an opportunity to be on not just a team but a great team a great organization is a blessing and to you know Go into OTA as a part of a team is huge too because you know, you get signed and camp You're on the back end of the learning curve. So you got a lot of catching up to do So I'm excited to be able to get in the playbook and see the installs more than once Going into camp Emily Hey, Matthias John Robinson and Mike Frable always talk about they want to bring in guys who love ball and love football Did they make that clear to you in this process and then also why do you love football? Absolutely, they made it very clear every conversation I had has been you know we want guys who love football who are Making football the priority in their lives and are going all in and the pursuit of that I love football for a lot of reasons one because it's an incredible platform to have a positive influence To it's an incredible challenge personally to get up every day and go compete against the best in the world And then three it's just like it's been an amazing Way to take care of my family to take care of my parents to take care of my wife So none of that I take for granted and I'm really excited to be a part of an organization Where that's really preached and put into practice as well Tim Wyatt And Matthias Grip me from wrong but you spent some time in the indie with the Nico all three What is he like as a teammate and what do you think he'll bring to the Titans and how excited are you to play with him again? I'm really excited towards Nico. He came in my second year there and he's just he's got a super high motor high character guy You know, he demands a lot from those around him He's an energy guy who makes big plays, but he's super humble and I think you know Just being around a guy like that is inspiring and I'm really excited to be his teammate again And you were a special teams captain and with the Jets How much pride you take in in the leadership standpoint and kind of set the tone in the locker room and and how do you go about doing that? On a new team when you're trying to find your way And I was honored to be a captain. It's never something I thought that would be in the cards for me if I'm being completely honest I think before you do anything as far as leading goes you have to serve So that's my mindset. It's always been my mindset See where I can serve how I can serve who I can help If I can be an encouragement if I can be a listening ear Try to play at a high level. I try to give max effort and all things I do how you show up to anything It's how you're gonna show up to everything So I try to put my best foot forward and just be somebody that guys can talk to Somebody that's encouraging those around me but you know my mindset has always been and always will be just to be a servant of the the men in that locker room the community and You know, everyone really just just to be a servant is is really my mindset Emily Hey, you mentioned your family. You have a very interesting upbringing I know your brother was profiled in the New York Times that the ballet dancer and he's just one of many siblings that you have How have they shaped you? Being I'm the sixth and seven I have four brothers time in Nathan Kean and Silas two sisters Kersen joined my parents Mark and Phil and are absolutely wonderful We grew up very humbly we grew up with not a lot of connection with our extended family. So it was really Just us and the encouragement that they've been in my life the support that they've been in my life is the reason I'm here. No doubt about it You know, it's awesome to be back in Charlotte right now just to get to love on and spend time with them I've been away for really almost a decade so To spend this offseason with my family has been has been huge and just you know reconnecting those relationships. We're all super real Super real. We are all Real, but we're all still super close and That's something that's really special as we've all gotten older to still have that closeness and the support of each of my siblings means the world to me Harry Thais you played You mentioned as you signed here that it was important for you to You were happy to be on a team that's got made the playoffs last year How important it was that factoring into your decision to find a team that has deep playoff aspirations after Being with the Jets for a couple of years and then in a rebuilding mode It's huge, you know, I'm in going into my sixth year and to be on a team that Not only has gone to the playoffs, but is is built to go to the playoffs. I think is super super exciting It's only gonna make me a better player being around that caliber of Not just teammates but organization when people really really are bought in and are excited and I've seen it You know have gone to the playoffs. I've seen the work it takes. I've seen the sacrifice it makes That everybody has to make in order to get there I'm really excited to come alongside and serve and be a part of that David Bulkler If I mentioned your relationship with Scott Booker, how how important to have a guy who knows you like that Not only on the staff, but we'll be working with you directly when you come to a new team Yeah, I'm really excited for coach Booker, you know When I got to Notre Dame, he was the assistant receivers coach I was quite a receiver and to see his growth just throughout the college process You know was all the way to the special teams coordinated by the time My time there was over so I'm really excited to be Reconnected with him excited to you know be coached under him again I really feel like I gleaned and learned a lot of information just about the game of football about life From him in college, so I'm sure he's even a better coach and he was then I think he was a phenomenal coach Then so to be under the tutelage again. I'm really excited about Hey guy who's who's hard on guys typically or does he love on you more? What kind of coach is he? In college he was a coach that he's gonna tell you how it is. There's a lot of love He's honest and I really respect that a lot as a player I think all you want is honesty, you know whether you did good whether you're bad You know but have a coach is gonna come alongside you tell you where you can improve Tell you what you did that, you know, was it right but still love you in the process I mean, I think he exemplifies that and I'm really excited to to learn from him again And the thighs you you've mentioned you've used you you've used the word servant several times here both in the locker room And maybe in the community how important is the given back process and is that something you're planning to do in Nashville as you establish yourself here Absolutely, absolutely I You know being an NFL we all have a platform We all have different levels of gifts and talents and favor and all of those things but using the platform We have to have a positive influence I'm not just the people that we're around every day with the people within the community of Nashville and around Nashville It's near and dear to my heart growing up. I was on the receiving end of a player coming from the Panthers to to read to my Elementary school and that a huge impact on me. So now to be on the other side of it and realize just by showing up by being kind By being, you know, authentic you I can have a positive influence on You know someone younger than me just like someone older than me when I was younger did the same It's super humbling and I take it very seriously and I'm excited to get involved In the community as well as in the locker And I think if you do Google search on you've got the long hair. You've got a long beard Is this your is this your Nashville look and how does that kind of evolve? Well the hair honestly I had no choice in I was gonna be bald from the time I was born thanks to my father So I just kind of jumped the gun with the hair and just shaved it before it was too bad and Then my wife and I we got married in November due to COVID our families weren't there. So we did a Wedding celebration with our families last week at the beach. I had a beard in the original wedding pictures we had so I just went clean shaven for Our wedding celebration this past weekend, but I Think I'm gonna keep my facial hair lower just for fun. It's a fresh start. Why not change everything, right? And you know any other guys on this team aside from the Niko and have they reached out to you? I was very close with Chris Milton I know he just recently signed with the Giants and our teammates in Indianapolis for three years And I've kept up gone on trips in the offseason So I've really picked his brand a lot and he had nothing but really positive things to say So I'm excited to get in the locker room to get to meet everybody and like I said just serve