 What's up, John? Hey, bud, welcome to town. Man, thank you. Yeah, I guess what I would imagine there were a lot of people vying for your attention there as a free agent. Were there multiple teams involved? And what made you, or were some of the reasons that you wound up picking the Titans? Yeah, man, multiple teams were involved. But when my agent called me with the Titans, man, just all made sense from the team standpoint, really. I wanted to be on the winning team already and come in a program that already has described and be able to just help out as much as I can. So it all made sense just to be a part of this organization. And I know, I'm sure you're aware of the numbers. Titans had a grand total of 19 sacks last year. How can you help change that and make it better going forward? Definitely, man, I'm going to go out and just play on my hand on fire, just trying to get out the quarterback as much as I can, creating pressure, trying to get the ball out. Just everything I can do just to keep the train rolling, man. And just help those guys on D. I'm all with it. Teresa. And bud, as somebody who went to Kentucky, how much did Tennessee make some geographical sense for you as well? Definitely, it made sense geographically, like you said, being a UK guy and also being from Georgia in the middle, it's right in the middle of both. So I can get those fans that follow me from my college career in Kentucky, also the fans that follow me since my high school days in Georgia. And capture that again, being in the central location is always key. Tehran. Yeah, welcome to Nashville. But looking at your career just over the years, it seems like the last two or three years, you've really hit a mark and established yourself. What has been the key to just finding that groove and being able to settle in the way you have? Man, you know, just you don't feel a lot more. Also, just changing my training as well. I know my second year in the league, I missed like 10 games. So also just being healthy, man. And that played a tremendous role in it. And so now, since I hit that scribe, I'm coming back stronger than ever and just continuing to develop my game, keep my arrow pointed upward, and just make sense of everything like that. And when you look at a guy like Harold Landry and Derek Roberson, some of the other guys they have, how can you help them just contribute and establish that past Russian culture that this organization needs? Definitely. Those guys are already working together as a group. So I'm going to come in and just try to bring us a little bit closer, making sure guys are just learning from each other. That's the biggest part when you're on a team. You want to make sure you feed off each other. You feed out the energy from the other guys. You're taking advice from the other guy on the team. And I'm just making that statement that way. Jim Wyatt. Hey, bud. Tyron mentioned, Harold, how much familiarity do you have with other guys on this defense? And how much are you looking forward playing with guys like Jeffery Simmons and Kevin Byer? Maybe some other guys you're familiar with. Man, a lot of those guys are established, man. Byer, he does what he does. He's a great one. Sing is coming in, man. Young guy, but he's a tremendous player. Now, I've trained him in all season a couple of times. There's a lot of other guys on the team that's just making plays and always in the mix, man. Brown as well. So, man, I'm excited to be a part of this team with these guys coming in, just trying to just be the best. I can be myself, not only for me, but for them. They deserve it. And I feel like the team deserves it, as well. Buck. And how do you feel from a health standpoint? You go ahead, Jim. Are you ready? Will you be ready to go? How do you feel from a health standpoint, bud? And will you be ready to roll when camp starts? Oh, yeah, definitely. I'll be ready in camp. I'll be full speed in camp, full steam ahead, getting back in the groove and just making sure I'm healthy then. But I'll be healthy way before camp. I'll be full speed training in May. I'm excited about that progress and the progress that I made so far in XOs in Arizona. That's why I'm training that now and doing my thing, trying to make sure that I'm the best tip to our shape when I get back. Buck. What's going on, bud? How big a difference has Chuck Smith made for your kind of development throughout the course of your career? I know you spent a lot of time working with him. Yeah, man, Chuck is a great guy, man, to work with, get foundational and get foundational things from. He's always just teaching technique. I tell every pass versus man, when you want to start, when you're trying to start your pass versus repertoire and getting better and better at pass versus, you've got to kind of start with Chuck Smith because he always lays the foundation. And then you got also other pass versus specialists, too, who we work with, like BT, Jordan and Mark Hall, people like that, man, it's a translation from Chuck. Being able to start from Chuck, to go to guys like BT and Mark Hall, those guys instilling the different types of techniques into them, and Chuck laying the foundation, it all plays hand to hand, man. It's a great opportunity to be able to work with a guy like Chuck, he's one of the greatest that we're doing at that. It's just also, you know, all those guys, man, just also going to work with them and keep learning from those guys, BT, Mark. You know, man, it's a great situation to be in with those type of guys, learning in all seasons, not only learning on the field, but also learning mentally. Luke? But how much have you communicated at this point with Vrable and Bowen, and how do you feel that you fit into their defense and the scheme here? Man, I've been communicating with them since I found out I was going to come and be a titan. I'm excited, man. They're excited for me. The number one thing right now is making sure I'm healthy. But other than that, man, I'm trying to come in and be ahead of the playbook. So as soon as I get a chance to get the playbook, I'm going to be all in head first into that, make sure I learn that right away so it's no step back on that part for me. And the communication is going to stay the same, man. I'm always going to be trying to find out what they're looking for, trying to find out things that they think we need to get better on as a unit. So when I come in, I can already be a step ahead on that aspect of it. You mentioned playing with your hair on fire. Can you elaborate a little bit on that and what sort of separates you from maybe other players at your position in that regard? Yeah, man, just chasing the ball, man. Running to the ball no matter what it is. If it's a pile, get in the pile, get dirty. A guy running the ball, chase the ball, man. Get down line of scrimmage and make sure you're tackling the ball line of scrimmage. Never turn down contact. No, just trying to make as many players as you can. Not looking around for somebody else to make play, but putting up on yourself to be like, I'm going to make the play easier than every time. So you always have that mindset in the back of your head. It's a big play need to make. I know I got to be the one to make the play, not necessarily saying that this is a mindset that I have. And I feel like everyone on the field should feel the same way. Every player should be like, all right, this moment is crunch time. I'm about to make the play. So that's just a mindset that every guy should have on the field at the same time to make the unit great. Paul. Hey, Bud, you mentioned the guys here and your respect for them. You come from a great defensive unit with TJ and Cam and Stefan. And you working together is obviously a great group, Titan signing you in large part. So you could lead their group and infuse it with some talent. What's it going to be like to be asked to be the lead dog coming from a group where you had maybe four lead dogs? Yeah, man, sometimes, that's how it happens in the business world. You got four lead dogs, but now we're going to come make, on this team, we're going to make 11 lead dogs on defense. So we instill that into everybody, making sure everybody's on the same page. It'd be 11 guys on the field, 11 guys want to make sure we take your face off. So that's the fun part about it. And as long as everybody on the same page, man, it's going to be a great time. And I already see those guys already moving that way. They have been doing it for the past couple of years. And so, man, I'll come in and bring a couple of things of my game and I'll take a couple of things for those guys' game as well. And they can show me the ropes and also we can come to collectively together and do something special. How extensive is your repertoire in terms of pass rush moves? Is there stuff you're still looking to add or is it a matter of refining things? Definitely refining things, but as a pass rush, you always want to be one step ahead of offensive linemen. So maybe a new move that guys aren't really doing yet around the league because everyone wants to start. So basically like the cross shop, a lot of guys start using the cross shop. So now a lot of linemen are prepared for the cross shop when we're doing it. So now we have to go into the lab and try to find another move to compensate for that. You know, anything like that. You got to stay a step ahead, man, because, you know, Olam and I are really working in the all season as well, just like we're working in the all season. Thanks. David Bocair. Taking with the pass rush, Bud, what's your feeling on how important the call is in getting there versus a guy's desire just to get there and get to the quarterback? I mean, the call is the call. You got to be able to know just when, you know, be able to win. Despite the physical scheme, if it's a scheme, you got to do what you're told to do in that scheme. Always never go against the grain. You know, you want to make sure, like, unless you just know it's a, unless you know it's 100% what you're thinking. But, you know, man, you stand within the scheme, but it's the want to, man, you got to be able to make sure that you want to calculate in your wrist, calculate what move you undo, you know, just beat them to the spot. Corey Curtis. But talking about the want to, you know, everybody comes into the league with that chip on their shoulder, and now you're getting paid. What's the key to keeping that chip on your shoulder for you? Oh, yeah, keeping the ladder climbing. You know, we got to keep climbing the ladder, keep climbing the ladder. When you get to one point of your life, man, it's never, just, you can't, you can't, you're not going to be able to reach the sky. So what, what I mean by that is, it's always room for improvement. So the more you climb, the higher you climb, even a skyscraper, you still got a lot of ways to go before you touch the clouds. So, you know, keeping that hunger and that, and that attitude, you know, making sure that I'm, I'm still had that fire put in my belt, seeing other guys around me get better and better. You know, that's the main part about it. Couple more for you, bud. Gentry. Okay. Glennon. Yeah, bud. I know you mentioned earlier, of course, a lot of those talented teammates in Pittsburgh. You know, I guess there, there are some analysts, and I'm certainly not saying I'm one that, that say some of your numbers were, were boosted a little bit by having such good teammates and having such a blitz heavy scheme as well. What do you say? I mean, I'm sure you've heard that kind of thing before. What, what do you say about that? Yeah, I mean, just turn the tape on. You see the 101s. If I get a 101, I win with chips I win in the run game. No, I saw a linebacker playing around like me in the league. So, I mean, I don't know what people get that from. You just can't, you can't get mad. Cause I got other great players on the team as well. It's just anywhere you go. No, it's always going to be excuses why people do this and why people do that. But if you turn the tape on, you see me here to run back three yards behind the line of scrimmage. How can you say that it's because of someone else? Thank you. What about when the- Try denture again. One second. How can you say that it's because of someone else? Yeah. Hey, bud. I know it's kind of a part of your story that you were, you know, maybe a little lightly regarded as recruit coming out of high school. And that was, I wanted to ask how much motivation that was for you, you know, becoming the player you did at Kentucky. And, you know, talking about keep climbing the ladder. Did it really kind of start there with you trying to prove yourself in the SEC? Yeah, man, it started from being young, man, being from a small time, you know, being from a small time, not really having a lot of exposure, not a lot of money in the town, not a lot of money in the city, you know, being overlooked our whole life, you know, not really, people are not thinking you're going to mount anything. So, you know, that kind of started a chip on it right there. You know, then also again, in Kentucky, not getting offers until my senior year when I went to a camp, which I had to drive myself to and my coach transmission blew up actually in Tennessee. Coming to the University of Tennessee, his transmission went up. So that was like my first camp that we're coming to and, you know, started getting attention then. And, you know, everything, man, you know, just want to make sure that you're one of the ones that people talk about. So, you know, like I said, there's never enough room for improvement. So each and every year, I'm trying to see growth in my game until like I feel it's like it's time to give it up. Tehran? Yeah, but a few years ago, you made the proclamation, you wanted to get a sack for each of your pit bulls. I want to ask you how that kennel was coming along, is that something you still have going what is it that attracts you so much to that dog? Man, I love dogs, man. I've been living dogs since I was young, man. You know, the bully breed, man, it's a special breed. You know, none of them come out looking the exact same. And a lot of people use them as companion dogs now. So, you know, I have like $13 right now. So, you know, it's always fun just to go home, let all of them out at the same time. They let them run in the water, let them run the ride yard. Just something I got, just a love I got for them. You know, it's always fun, man. I've been having dogs. I don't feel right unless I got a dog. They're just a part of my life. Last question. Oh, go ahead, Tehran. I was just going to say, just for fun, a proclamation, you're going to have a sack for each pit this year? Oh, definitely, let's do it, you know. I'm always trying to get the best I can and most I can. And, you know, I don't like to put a limit on my sack, because, you know, sometimes you think about a number, you're settled for that number. So, I just want to make sure that I'm getting the most I can and capitalizing every opportunity I have, because, you know, it's hard to get those moments back. I like that, appreciate it. Sure. Last question, Jim Wyatt. Hey, bud, I know your buddy Ramon Foster's talked you up on the radio here in the morning. You probably consulted with a lot of people. Did you talk to him at all through this process? Or what did he tell you? Yeah, it's crazy, because as soon as we found out they weren't going to franchise me again, Ramon came back and said, you might want to come to Tennessee. And we had a conversation like, man, I wanted to go to Tennessee last year if I would have been a free agent. And so he was like, yeah, man, they may come around. So free agency came and the day of and they called. And, you know, as soon as my agent told me the Titans, he was telling me other teams and saying this and that, but soon he said the Titans. Right away I said, man, go ahead and negotiate. Let's get it done. So that's exactly where we wanted to go.