 How does it feel to be in here today? It feels awesome. It was a lot more than I expected. So we appreciate the fans. This is, we want to make this a hard place to play. So we need our fans to come out and support. So I appreciate everybody who did come out. Everybody did. And it was a great turnout. Do you want to change the energy a little bit? Definitely. Definitely. What are your early impressions of Drake London? I think, dude. Of who? Drake London. Oh, smooth. Like you said, tall. So for him to be that tall and fast and smooth is good for us here. Has he come to you for any advice yet? Or have y'all talked? What are your thoughts on him? He's came, but that stayed between me and him. But he's a good guy. What's your assessment of the guys in the tight end room? A lot of tight ends coming in and having a lot of smooth things. What do you think about the overall talent of the guys in the captain room? I think our room is great. We're all brothers. So we all grind together, compete together. And Coach Smith has done a great job of, you know, we all skimmed it up right. And we just got there and played as hard as we can as a group. I just sit in those meeting rooms this year as opposed to last summer. How different was it for you? I would say it's like night and day. Kind of just having a year under my belt, being a little bit more comfortable, but knowing it's still work to put in. How's it about to change your quarterbacks? How's it going to be leading? What is your position? What needs to be a little bit more? Can you repeat that? New quarterbacks, a quarterback change. Where ever the starter is, should he be leading a little bit tight ends, getting a little bit more? I don't have that answer. You said, would they be leaning on me more? Oh, yeah, I can't. I technically, I really can't give that answer. Back and get that chemistry again, when you'd already worked it out with Matt? I think with practice, you know, that builds chemistry. So just going out, routes on there, just throwing with him after practice, things like that, that builds our chemistry. I would say from year one to year two, coming in this time, like I said, just mentally trying to get better. And it's always, like I said, room for improvement and physically getting stronger, bigger, faster. Same thing, kind of just blocking. Mental, like I said, mental. Being able to dissect the coverage faster. I love it. I love it. Felipe has long time friends since I was in Florida, so I love it. What's your thoughts on the overall size, collectively of just tight receivers? You guys have all the other places? I mean, we all see it. It's 6-3, so I love what Coach Smith is doing. And it's a lot of big bodies out there. You and Drake in a one-on-one basketball. Competitive me is going to save me. But knowing I can't really play basketball like I used to, I never was good. But I'm going to let him know that. I'm going to let him see. Oh, well, then no. I know he was on the team. What's going on, bro? What's up? Anything else? You might have been necessary. I jumped in a little bit, like, for you, the difference between a year ago and, like, where are you? Just being able to kind of mature a little more. I feel like I matured in a little bit of my life, just on the field, off the field. Trying to have it all correlate to be the best player I can be. Was there a thing that you noticed when you were coming back this year? Are you like, OK, no, this makes more sense. This is different. This is comfortable. Just the mental side, that just kind of helps you play faster. You know what you're doing. You know what the defense is doing. Just be able to be the best player you are and not worry about anybody else around you. What was the benefit of the targets and yards you got, so most Titans don't come in the first year, get that many yards, obviously. But also, you're not a target you got. How do you think that adds to that decision? What did it do for you? I just feel like it was a good start. I feel like Coach Smith did a great job and introduced me to the NFL. And I feel like this year would be another step. Last year you said that, well, you weren't good. For the first game of the season, you weren't good blocking, you were good on the straight line. Where are you? Do you feel that you need to be better? How do you feel about that passing? That just comes along with being stronger, mentally stronger, physically stronger, being able to beat the man across from me. So that's just an on-grown improvement thing that you're trying to do better each day. So it's like you're going for an hour round, not necessarily just being a catch man. Definitely. Tell me a little more comfortably in your team. I mean, it's different, but it's also great meeting new people. These are all great guys. We're really close. And we got close fast. Like, believe it or not, we hang out a lot. So it's a new field. We're trying to bring the camaraderie together as a team and build our chemistry. Kind of just knowing that if we trust each other off the field, it'll correlate onto the field. Yeah, we go different places to go out to eat. Strangers at this point have guys who are a little bit different. No? I'm learning from Ferk. Ferk been in this for some years, and I'm just always wanting to get better. So he's been in Tennessee playing a different offense, and I always ask him different. I ask him a question almost every other player, so I try and just soak up as much now as I can. What's something you're asking recently? That's a little too detailed, but... Is it though? Yeah. What has he asked you? Because he literally told me, he's like, yeah, I'm learning from him. I've learned from him. You've got five, six years on there. Just certain things in offense, just as a player. It doesn't have to be specific to, you know, land and fighting, but just football and general. You were talking about a joint being there. You said he's been here for the first time this year. Could you tell me a difference in your turf fitters and style? Yeah, I like it. It's just soft. It's different. I like them too. Kyle, do you feel like a leader on this offense and on this team in general? That's something that I want to try and work towards, to being one of the top leaders on the team and on the offense as well. Just like I said, that's something that this offseason I want to grow into and watch behind Marcus and Jake and all the other vet guys to learn how to be a leader. I feel like I'm slowly starting to step in their shoes. Does it happen vocally or just by, you know, you're on the field work? I'm not really a big screamer. Godfrey, I can't scream. So I'm not really a screamer. I'm just kind of like at first, you know, worry about my room and then the tight ends. We're fine. And then that's when we go to offense and then the whole team. So just working in different increments. How does that feel right around the corner? Uh, I'm just kind of worried about I'm glad we got through today. I'm living where my feet are. So we got a long time until then. So just, you know, continue growing up until then. Your second year, kind of that better space. What's the thought on the workings? Especially the workings on offense? Um, I find they're doing a great job. We're all bidding each other up to, you know, have the team that we want. So that's kind of where we're going, training in the right direction. Oh, it's been great. That's funny. That throws a nice ball as well. When you see all the changes, because you're watching from far away, you're kind of a little different. You know, you're still going to be here. What's going through your head that you've seen all the shifting in the past? He's putting in God's hands and believing that he'll bring us to a victorious season with the guys that coach Smith brings in the building. Do you wonder what happened when Natsley Bay obviously was your developer or that you start wondering what that's going to look like? Because that's very, that's much more, like, depending on his playing quarterback, that has a direction. Right. What goes through your head that you've seen? I mean it. I don't really have, like, a great answer for years. It's kind of just, you know, just the NFL. So it was going to be someday where I maybe would have to play with someone else, but Matt was a great guy. And I love my year with him. And if we do come back together, we'll get the same thing. Oh, I told Art early, man. It's the best idea we ever had, man. Come out here and practicing with the fans. Beautiful. You get your little extra juice, you know what I'm saying? And then you get a city or something to look forward to. So it was good. Thanks. In terms of your readiness to. Say I was just a little more calm. You know, I was always ready to play. Just a little more calm. Now I'm just taking it slow. He's playing, letting it come to me. You know, I'm just making sure I get my communication out. We all communicate as a defense, but just way more calm this year. Short answer. It might not be the right time for you to ask this, but do you think Dean, now that with different personnel, new personnel is going to call the game differently, is able to put in more or different stuff? Or just because it's here too? Just say, wait and see. Yeah. I mean, we still got some of the same goals, but it's pretty much, you know, we want to be a physical team, we want to be a fast team, and then we just want to do things the right way. You know what I mean? We want to bring energy. Every single player, every single game. You know, that roller coaster is easy to get on, but we're trying to do this, trying to go forward at all times. I said we all lean on each other, because it's a bunch of new guys, it's a different group. It's pretty much about building chemistry right now and trying to play as fast as we can. Last year personally, you know, I didn't feel the need to hang out, you know, and have fun, because I wanted to, you know, football, you know, I wanted to get it right, I wanted to do it the right way. But this year, you know, like I said, I'm a little more calm this year, hang out with the guy, you know, we can chat a little bit, you know, and when we get down time, obviously, not in the game, but chat a little bit and we're just having fun now. Yes, ma'am. Do you have something to prove? Every single year. I never look at another year, you know what I mean, every single year is something to prove, you know, nobody's going to be perfect, but you always strive for perfection, and that's exactly how I approach the game. Is there something specific? Everything. That's not a short answer, you know, that's the real answer. Every single part of my game I want to improve on. Oh, it's great, just being out here in the Benz, trying to get used to the scenery, just taking advantage of being at home, but I mean, I love it. It's nothing better, really. Yeah, it's good. We always have a lot of energy coming out of the OTA, making the most out of these chances we have, but a lot of fans out here and have our family and close friends out here just means more to let them see the work we're putting in right now. How do you feel about progress? What are you watching for to let you know there's progress being made? When you look at this room, you're new, but it's a room that's other than OTA, basically, completely new. What was your expectation of what you thought this room would be? What has it been? Well, every year you come in, it's a new team, so the effect that we have is it's a new team. It's a new team, it's a new team, it's a new team, so the effect that we have a lot of new guys doesn't really mean much. The expectation is high for all of us. We're one of a few. There aren't too many of us that can play at this level, so Coach, make sure we know that we're held to a high level and we hold each other to that high level, so we're going to keep pushing each other, keep pushing each other to get better and hold each other up. When you look at it, you're kind of the most experienced guy in the team. No, not really. I'm kind of used to being one of the older guys in the room. In New York, I was the oldest guy in the room for what felt like two years. And then being down here, I mean, even from high school, you got to keep being leaders. Everybody's a leader on this team and that's what we're holding each other to and making sure that we all are held to the same level. There's nobody that's held higher. Ooh, rookie year. We got a chance to play here my rookie year. Did you have any memories when you came in here of perhaps the time you played when you were in college? Oh yeah, of course. Just thinking about the SEC and National Championship. I mean, it's a good place. I love being home. It's Atlanta, so this is the home field for me. Ah, amazing. It's great to come back in here and get this feeling with this environment. There's some fans out there cheering us on. It's going to be exciting. We also had to get that feel for that home field again so we come out here this year and do a lot of good things here. How things progressed with the new faces? Oh, amazing. I love it. I'm loving it. There's a lot of new faces, new receivers, new tight ends, so a lot of competitive. We're going to be very competitive and I like that Coach Art do that because it helped all of us grow. As players, as regular people on the street, it's amazing to me. I know it's helped me get better each and every day as I compete with some of the vets even with the draft pick too. It's going good for me. How much do you... The only thing I knew, I called him like magic. The one that took the sense to you all the way. He got sun up his sleeve. I didn't know him too well but I knew he was a competitive guy and when somebody make it that far in college football, he's somebody special and he got the talent to come at the next level and he's up here too. He's doing his job. Now you can tell that he's developing, learning, learning to play books, so by the time camp come he could be playing faster out there and better at competing with him. How much do you know about Jared Burnham's story? No, not too much. He was a college cross player. Oh yeah, Bernie, Bernie. That's Bernie, Bernie, Bernie. I got like a nickname for him. But it's crazy though. Being that he was a lacrosse player he's tough, you know. He's ready to hit somebody, ready to go after, ready to go in there and do the dirty work and when he told us he played lacrosse I was like clowning him and running around like I got a stick. This is how we run around. But he's actually coming on fast. He's learning to play books fast and he's actually doing a lot of things that a lot of people didn't expect him to come here and do. Does he look like he can hang athletically? Yes, fast, quick, you know. It's like a different type of quickness. He took off with you. It's a good thing to have, you know. A secret weapon. Yeah, I see. I love it to be honest with you. I love it. When you're a person that likes to compete with anybody and that's what your whole life is. You compete in a college, you compete in a high school to get that job. So if I know if I got to do what I got to do and compete against these guys I could put myself in the best position for the coaches to throw me out there and that's how I took it. That's how I looked at it. Once I started seeing all these new face people coming in, some of them actually played against and I was just like, you know what, it's on now. That's the level you got to go as a monster that you got to have and you just got to control what you control and I'm just going to go out there and put everything I got online and let everything follow. Most importantly, what's the playbook? That's one thing I wanted to do is get the playbook down inside or down as much as I can. And also just like my route running, trying to get open, topping my route and just doing all the little details that they preach about each and every day so I put myself in a good position. As a receiver, can you tell me the difference and this is your first time here since I replaced the turf? Can you tell the difference in this turf compared to your indoor facility or the turf you played on here last week? Nah, I looked at it as turf as turf. Yes. Each and every day he gets better and you can just tell because right now I'm on the side with him and we're going to do jog through away some of the offensive plays and he's just coming in now just like calm, relax, you can tell he's getting comfortable each and every day. The playbook, how he's saying the plays now and y'all, if y'all heard our plays, y'all would be like wow, how he remembered that. It's good for him and I'm just excited for him especially for pre-season because I know I'm probably going to get out there with him and he's the guy. What do you feel for a rookie that perhaps you might know a little bit more than a rookie or can you tell that he's putting extra work? You can just tell that he's going to put in the work. I wouldn't say that he know more than a lot of rookies because a rookie they really don't know. He's just trying to get comfortable trying to learn everything especially with the playbook and everything. You can tell he's putting in the work. They tell him to stay late. He got extra hours in with the OC and everything and I'll always see him walking around with the quarterback so you can tell that he's picking up quick because it come out here and he's shown it. Making plays of 7-0-7, y'all see what he did. He's just going to be a secret and then when it's time for him to blow it he's going to do his thing. No problem.