 All right, man. Walk off with glory, man. The numbers are tremendously impressive. What's it feel to, I guess, the most since 2010 for Titans in terms of tackles? How do you feel about that mature season? Man, obviously, like, really good individually. Obviously, the team wasn't where I wanted us to be, or I'm sure anybody expected one of us to be either. So that was obviously tough. But, yeah, I mean, I'm definitely, like, grateful. Like, first season, I came here with an opportunity, trying to be the guy, and was finally given the platform to do so. And I feel like I just, you know, was kind of cracking the surface for, you know, what I can do. So what's, you know, with the numbers you put up this year, what would you say looking forward to next year, and I guess, would you like next year to be here? Yeah, I mean, I think, just whenever you're learning a new scheme, you do things a little different. It was different things that throughout the season took more time for me to just be comfortable doing consistently, and just knowing, like, another year under my belt, being able to be in the same scheme around the same group of guys. And obviously, I would expect the numbers to be a whole lot higher, because I know I can make a lot more plays than what I did. You know, I left a lot of plays out there, made a lot of plays, but I just know how good I can be. So definitely, like, I would love to be back here. What's the toughest part about this season, disease, when you're coming here hoping to win, it was a whole fresh mentality or whatever, and then you guys end up how you end up? Oh, I mean, it's like kind of anything in life. Like, we all have our own things that we want to accomplish. Whatever it might have been, like, I've all experienced that, where you set a goal, say you want to do something, and then you come up short of that goal. Like, it's just, you know, it sucks, you know, but you got to always try to, like, find the gratitude, and you know, as I was saying, I'm Muslim, so as I was saying, in Islam, it's like, if you're grateful for little things, gotta give you great things. If you're ungrateful for little things, it'll also give you great things. So there's always try to put things in perspective. Like, it wasn't everything that we wanted, but we're still able to do some good things here. And, you know, I think we just can build off of it into the softsies, and, you know, the games that we lost, and the margin that we lost them by were so small, so easily this could be, you know, getting ready for a playoff game. So just knowing that is just, you know, I think it's what gives everybody, like, the confidence and the hope and the faith to, like, come back harder and do it right next year. You talk about wanting to be back. Does the unknown ever get easier? I mean, I never know anything, you know, so in the day, I don't know what I'm gonna do, but I said this all year, and I said this really for most of my life. Like, I have no clue what's gonna happen, five minutes from now, you know, let alone five months from now. So I honestly had no expectation to ever become a Tennessee Titan when I was going into the free agency, and I ended up coming here. You know, I would have never thought I was gonna be here, so I'm definitely just, like, not even gonna thank that far ahead, I guess. When you see a hundred and fifty tacklers, it's a lot of contact in one year. Is that a number you ever thought you'd achieve? Well, I actually had that as my goal, it was 150 for the season, so I made 163. So I mean, like I said, I'm just grateful, because at the end of the day, I set goals for myself that, yeah, maybe it might seem out of reach, but, you know, I surpassed the goal I even set for myself, so it's definitely something that I believed I could have did, and I could show you the notes. It was from, as soon as I signed here, two days after, it was when I started writing down all my goals and stuff, so I have the most confidence in myself, and I just believe that I can be as great as I wanna be, and my story is not written yet, so I just gotta keep playing it out. How, I guess, are you by will to work your season go? You know, not how we wanted to, obviously, with the record, and that's what you're gonna look at. We needed to win more games to do what we wanted to do, which is obviously gonna be winning the championship for every year that I'm here and we're here, so I think personally, we did a lot of good things and developed pretty well, I think I'm able to go into next year with confidence knowing that I could do this, and that, you know, even with the shortcomings that I had here and there, that I showed some promise, I think, so. How much it helped you to be able to sit back, maybe for the first six weeks, and, you know, before you became a starter to help your growth, you think? I think so, I think so. I mean, it would have been interesting to see how it would have gone, if, you know, I started right away, but I think just with how it went for me, it was all meant to be, and kind of how it all worked out was pretty serendipitous, and in terms of when I was even healthy enough to start playing, and when Ryan got hurt, that at that point, I feel like I kind of took my preparation up to the next level and got myself ready, and kind of had that approach, even before I got the opportunity to get the job, so it helped a lot, you know, and Ryan and Malik and Tim and Charles, all did a great job, I think, of getting me ready for that moment. You mentioned your confidence. Where would you say you took the biggest step forward in your play, your rookie year? I'd say just my situational football, I think my ability to go in and execute, and, you know, those situations that we talk about and harp on a lot in practice and in meetings, and honestly, parts of the game that I really hadn't been able to really execute him in college, so the two-minute stuff, the end of half and the game stuff, I think the growth that we showed there and our ability to execute and play good ball in those situations was cool. How long before the foot and the ankle get you to a place where you're back to, like, 100% training? I've got crystal ball, I don't know. Just hoping that sooner rather than later, but I'd say not too long. A few weeks. Sprains? Yeah, yeah. You spent all last half season obviously getting ready for the draft, the combine, you know, how much it definitely will be this year where you can just focus on yourself and this team. Yeah, I mean, I'm excited to, first and foremost, just decompress and allow myself to enjoy some of the other parts of my life before even, you know, touching a football, probably not for a few weeks, so that's what's on my mind right now, but I think I'm just ready to attack. I think I'm, first and foremost, need to get my body back, and I'm excited to be able to show these guys and get back in a physical condition that no one I feel has seen me yet, very. Do you have a chance to talk to Ryan yesterday after the game? We're in the last 24 hours. Yeah, not actually. I wanted to be able to take some time to find an appropriate time to talk to him and just weird, you know, it's a weird situation to be in and I'm just so happy for him and to get that win yesterday. It was awesome for our team and just to send them home was pretty cool. Also, Derek Henry's last potential last game yesterday. You had a chance to play with him for your rookie year. What was that kind of like reflecting back on being able to play with him? It's incredible. I mean, I have to remind myself, I'm handing the ball off to a hallfamer. You know, sometimes it's pretty cool as a rookie to be slinging it around to a hallfamer and hand it off to a hallfamer. And he's an excellent teammate. He's just a guy who instilled his trust in me from the second that I took the field and I'm just blessed to be able to have him as a teammate and hopefully, you know, stick around. Do you have a third quarterback? How do you handle the offseason in the locker room and what your responsibility is there? Yeah, yeah, I think this will be a huge offseason just because I think with my leadership role and kind of how I approached it, it was tough, you know, with Ryan here and with not being the starter to start the year. I feel like my leadership role developed a lot and transformed throughout the season and I think I need to figure out what that looks like for me this offseason and it includes obviously getting with the receivers, getting with the skill guys, whether bringing them to me or finding out where they were going to be at and meeting up with them and talking to the coaches and developing a good plan just to make sure that we're in the best shape and as knowledgeable about what is going to be expected of us come OTS. Do you have a personal expectation for those guys? Do they have to know what your expectation of them is to perform and to work? Yeah, I think all of them know kind of the things that they're good at, the things they need to work on, the things that, you know, we need to do as an offense and what we're expecting out of them for us to win the games we want to win. So it'll be on me to also when I'm doing myself scouting for this year and not only looking at myself but for the other guys to, if I do see something to say something and I'm sure that they'll respect that and understand that I'm just doing it because I want to make sure that we're putting ourselves in the best position to win. How much input do you hope to have in terms of this team going forward as you communicate with the coaches and communicate with, you know, the roster and things like that in terms of, I want, you know, I want this sort of input or I want to be as one of the leaders of this team. Yeah, I'm not wanting to make any decisions. I'm not expecting to make any decisions. I just want to be in the loop, you know? I just want to know what the thought process is and if they want my opinion, then I'm more than welcome to share it but I'm not expecting to make any draft picks or any free agency decisions but I'm excited to at least be in the loop on that and to see what we can do to get some guys in here to help us win. I know you mentioned situational football. Anything else that Charles and Tim maybe helped you develop mechanically or anything else? I just said the different types of throws and started going back all the way to rookie mini-camp working on the layered type throws and how obviously, you know, I can throw a good drive ball and I could really, you know, stick it in there but some of the intermediate type throws that, you know, require some of that pace, I think I developed a lot in that way and need to get better too. I think just with some of my timing throws, especially the front of my left, I feel like I'm closing myself off a lot and just trusting my placement and trusting my footwork. Some good things all across the board but obviously a few that I need to work on too. One of the things that you have said was across the board, how much better can you solve in three? How much better? Oh, I mean, shoot, we could, I mean, shoot for the stars really. Like we just need to, I feel like, be more consistent and we got a good taste even just in this last game of how we were able to move the line of scrimmage and get the run game going to open up everything else. So that was exciting to see that. But, you know, I feel like we can be as good as, you know, we want to be and which is, we'll see but I'm excited. The other day, DHOP said you were one of the three most competitive quarterbacks he's ever played with. You mentioned him kind of being like a hollow family caliber. What does it mean for a guy like that to speak so highly of you, particularly as a rookie? That's cool. I mean, because at the end of the day, regardless of how you play, that's a compliment that I'll take and that I take a lot of pride in just because it doesn't matter, you know, how skilled you are, how talented you play on the field. But if you're able to compete and you bring that energy, that's something that can help any team. So I'm glad that he sees me that way and I'm looking forward to continuing to be that guy for these guys. Is playing in the foundation kind of being laid? Will, how do you think you did that this year to kind of set you in motion for what's to come? Yeah, I mean, I think, I think I just very least showed that I can do it, which is, you know, my goal, I think personally, at the beginning of the year was to, was to leave the building on this day with, you know, our ownership and the coaches confident that I'm our guy. So not that they've told me that in words, but I feel like I did a good job of, of putting those thoughts in their heads. And I'm just looking to do whatever I can this off season to get a start on the right foot next year. Like I said, that should be the message going into this off season. And coming back, getting ready for next season, we all have to do better and do our job better. Jeff, as a guy who's definitely going to be here next year, he's a team that's lost 18 of 24 games. A lot of guys have already left, some more will leave. How do you feel the culture is in this room and in this building right now? I can say that's the main focus is trying to rebuild that, you know, since I've been here, what, it just last year and this year, my first time not making a playoff, my first three years, I made the playoff. So we have a winning culture around here. We know how to win around here and it's just, how can we get that back? Of course, you know, it's their job upstairs to do what they got to do to get the guys here that want to be here and that want to help us win. So, and it's my job as a leader, as a captain to help try to, you know, give that message out and kind of like set that example. Because sometimes, you know, even when the time gets tough, you know, we need that guy in the locker room, we could keep the locker room together. And also by, you know, like I said, with my plan, I just got to be more consistent with that. But at the end of the day, we need these guys who want to be out there and we need guys who want to win and can't help us win games. In terms of your health, how close are you? Could you play in the Pro Bowl if you get the nod in a couple of weeks and then what happens after that to attack the offseason? Well, yeah, I feel great now. You know, I've been continuing getting better. My knee feeling way better than it did, you know, a couple of weeks ago. So, but at the end of the day, I'm not really thinking about the Pro Bowl. I'm thinking more past that. I'm thinking about my offseason. Like I was just telling on Kayla here, but like I said, I think this is going to be the most important offseason of my career. You know, I honestly feel like, because I'm one of the best at my position and I really feel like I have to establish that again. I know I'm going on year six, which sounds crazy, but you know, my mindset is, you know, reestablish yourself in this league. Because I mean, five and a half stacks, whatever I had this year wasn't good enough. You know, I'm more like, you know, everybody is great, but hard on you. And I'm hard on myself. You know, I don't think I had a season for sure I wanted to, you know, outside of being hurt. So, you know, I'm looking forward to this offseason. Here, I enjoyed my time and, you know, whatever happens in the future, I know that that's what God wanted for me. You still feel like there are still big pieces in place for this to be a really good defense. Correct. I agree. I agree. I mean, yeah, you got Harold, you got Arden, you got guys that are here long term, Jeff, Monty. So, you know, you got a lot of talent still here. And I would, like I said, I would love to be a part of that, and a part of that growth in that future. So. What's it like, I mean, you've been through this before dealing with uncertainty going to the offseason, kind of not knowing what the future holds. Honestly, for me, last year, it was pretty tough. You know, I think it was more trying to control the uncontrollables. And I think for me now is really just understanding that everything that happens happens for a reason, no matter if it's what you wanted or if it's completely different than what you wanted. So just understanding that and really just living and just being able to just be myself. So. I know it kind of goes without saying that this year wasn't what anyone wanted finishing six and 11 and I get into the playoffs isn't, but how would you categorize or characterize kind of how this season went for you guys? I think it, I think it obviously we had our ups and downs, right? The game where we played really, really well and it showed and then there was games where we didn't play as well and it showed. But I would honestly just categorize as just being resilient, man. I think all year guys were resilient. Guys showed up to work, win, lose or draw, they made it fun. And that's just the coaches, that's the players, that's everybody in the building. And that's really just a test of just how, you know, this program is. And I think, you know, when you're in an environment and you're not winning, it can be toxic, it can be long days, frustrating days, frustrating hours of just constant losing. And I just didn't feel that here. Even when we were losing, I still felt like guys were locked in and guys had something to work for. And I still feel like that now. He taught me and everything that I learned from him. I hope he come back next year and I appreciate him for everything that he helped me with and that he did for me. What was the initial reaction like when you guys met and did you ever dream of it kind of turn out like it did? Nah, it was crazy. He was like, what up, TyJ? Like, you know, like he been knowing me. So I feel like we got a great relationship. He's a great guy. And honestly, I really want him to come back, but you know, that's out of my power and that's kind of like out of his too. Did it crush your mind yesterday that it could have been the last game that you're on the field with Derek Henry? Yeah, I think it did and it did. And like, after, you know, he was thanking the crowd and all that, I was like, dang, but you know, everything, you know, it's gonna play out how it's supposed to play out. First of all, it's from a, you know, speed, a strength, a training standpoint. What's this obviously look like compared to like last year and what you've tried to do? It's definitely gonna be a little different, you know. Now I'm saying like that you got, all right, all right. It's definitely gonna be a little different now that I got a full season on my belt, you know, in the NFL. So who's to say? Like, I don't know, you know what I'm saying? Just taking one day at a time. You go back to a Louisiana trainer, what do you think you're doing? Yeah, I'm gonna be in Louisiana. I'm gonna be here. I'm gonna be in Miami. I'll probably be like all over. So yeah, I'm gonna be back in Louisiana. And last year, you kind of gearing up for the draft. Yeah, it was different, you know what I'm saying? Cause you didn't know what to expect now that I got a year on my belt. I know what to expect now. I know areas that I feel short in this year. So I can attack it in the off season. What would you say is the biggest thing you've learned that you're working here? Um, details matter, you know what I'm saying? Everybody, everybody play off instinct now. But, um, if you got that little small detail, you know what I'm saying? That can separate you from the guy that you're going against, the guy that's across from you. And what would you say is the biggest thing you learned from Derek Hennerson? Um, the biggest thing I learned from him. Um, he's very detailed, aren't you? Like everything you do is just details. You know, every time we get back to the sideline, he grab the iPad. But like, he a true brother though. So I, um, he a true brother. He taught me, he taught me how to be, you know, the person I'm being a few years to, a rookie that's coming in. So in a few years, a few years from now, when a rookie that come in, he taught me how to treat him. So I'm, I'm gonna treat him well like here, like he did for me. One of the things, like you don't want to hit your 60-yard ball, but you really can't hit it to the 20. I feel like I really improved there this year. You know, doing a little bit of the hook punt, playing a little bit more games with the returner. I feel like that's, that just comes from maturing, you know, and playing a little bit more, getting a little bit more experience. But yeah, like I'd love to improve that plus 50 area this year. And that's probably what I'm gonna be working on the most. No, no, no. I'm talking about like for the rehab, considering of like the rehabbing a kicking leg, right? You're, you're snapping your leg a lot harder than you would like a plant leg. You're not really snapping that hard. So that's what I was talking about in reference to like the rehab of it. How difficult or how long do you expect that process to be where you can get to a point where you can do that with confidence? Yeah, I mean, the biggest thing obviously is just planning. Like that's, that's where you gotta get your confidence back is just being able to plant. But once that process is done, I mean, it's basically back to where I was, you know? And that's kind of where I'm gonna work is strength and getting back because that's really the most important thing. Or gold, right? Yeah, I don't really have like a goal necessarily to like get back because, because really what I want to try to do is just get as strong as I can to where I was back. You know, I don't want to rush it to where you're not as strong and you at risk of hurting yourself again. So I don't really have like a timeline of like, oh, I want to try to get back. I just want to get as strong as I can before I start punting again. I don't want to get into specifics of the injury, but. I mean, I love the way he calls plays and the way he teaches us is often. So I love that. Will is an amazing quarterback. I think he's going to be one of the better quarterbacks in the league in the future to come. So I'm definitely excited to see how we grow. What did you see from when in the last half of the season? You just see a lot of tests on to somebody earlier. He's a dog, like the energy he brings out there on Sunday gets everybody juiced the way he's willing to sacrifice his body for this team to win is amazing. It's infectious for the whole team and his disability to sit in the pocket and throw the ball is very at a high level. So I'm definitely excited to see how he develops and grows. You mentioned the disappointment of the season. There are very few teams that no one likes to stay, but very few teams ended with a win. Does that make the state kind of, I don't know, bittersweet or just weird? I'll say it makes the day better because if you lost this last game and you had to come in here, it does no matter what win he makes the day better. So it would have been a lot worse if we didn't win yesterday and had to come in here and do this.