 Ryan Tannehill has agreed to terms to stay with the Tennessee Titans. Ryan Tannehill, what a run! It's MC, the ability to sign Derek Henry and Ryan Tannehill, both this offseason to retain their quarterback in running back. Derek Henry! The Janavian Clowney is now with Tennessee Titans. It was a stellar offseason for the Tennessee Titans. Four, make some noise, let's go! Blitz presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans, Lance Smith, Eddie George. And look, it's COVID, we can't have an audience here, but we have the Blitz Lounge. These folks right here are ready to party wherever they are, they look good. Make some noise, y'all. I'm seeing helmets and hats, I've got beard envy. This is great. The Blitz Lounge is live, it is hot. This is great. My man, Eddie George. Good seeing you, with air fist bump. Air fist bump, COVID responsibilities. Okay, so craziest offseason in the history of ever. Without a doubt, insane. This is the first time it felt like football season, seeing all the Titans fans, the Blitz Lounge, outside of that it was just like another day. Real regular season football is happening tomorrow night. Tomorrow night, it's insane, but I'm glad to hear that. And it sneaks up on you. You look good, by the way. Thank you, man. You said you slimmed down. Trimmed down, man. Had put a couple pounds, COVID-19, and I've just been trying to eat right, exercise a lot of swimming, golf, walking, chasing the kids around, so it's been awesome. He's still in football shape, ladies and gentlemen. Let me tell you. All right, let's kick off the show and do this thing, because we're going to be talking about some real football. Let's do four downs with Eddie, since we got Eddie right here, and I want to get right into it offseason, man. The gentlemen got paid. We're talking about Tannehill and Henry. Got the money, got the contracts, and deserving. Yeah, well, COVID-19 shut the economy down, shut everything in, but didn't stop Tannehill and Henry from getting paid. Deservingly so, two of the integral parts of the offense, obviously, with Tannehill, signing the huge contract and Derek signing later on, feeling comfortable with his contract, with his numbers, and so forth, and what he was able to contribute. And if you're going to have a playoff run, if you're going to go, not the playoff run, you're going to have a championship run, those two guys have to be a part of that mix. Yeah, and it's so funny because you often hear, oh, you don't pay running backs. That's the thing. Here I am talking to one of the greatest ever players in the game. You don't pay running backs because they break down. These two guys compliment each other. Tannehill would not have had a season without Derek, and Derek hated Tannehill's arm. This is complementary football at its best. Absolutely, because Tannehill can make the deep throw. He's made some very key passes during the playoff run. He showed accuracy. And I believe now he has a full season under his belt. Coming under his belt, he's going to get better and better each week. New contract, new confidence. And I think this team, this office is poised to have a big year. Yeah, absolutely. And Henry, you know, it's funny, because at the beginning of last season, can he pick up where he left off the year? And he did all season long. All season long. Greatest running back in the league last year. In my opinion, the best running back in the league. The best. They got paid deservingly so. All right. I'm glad they got paid, and they're on our team. Moving on, next down, we did it. I'm sure you've heard the news by now. We got us a clowny. Man, this was the biggest off-season what-if. Could it be? Possibly, we don't know. And J-Rob and company, Mike Vrable included, you know, got it done. We got, we got today. There was speculation out there. I would look on Twitter. When is David coming to Tennessee? Clowny's coming. It'll be a Titan. You heard his name linked to Detroit, other places, the Saints, but he chose Tennessee. And it got it done. And J-Rob and Mike Vrable have done a masterful job this off-season, getting Tandy Hill signed, Derrick signed. Now you add in a premier rush in that they needed last year. I think he'll be a difference maker this year against Kansas City. It gets those teams to have mobile quarterbacks. So that bringing him was a huge addition. Right now, Miss Moser's training camp. We probably won't see him really take form probably till like the middle of the season, which is perfect, but to get him on the roster was a brilliant move. Yeah, and all teams are sort of dealing with the same sort of situation, obviously, lack of an off-season. But Vic Beasley also on the field today, on the practice field today. And that's the thing, Vic Beasley, Judevian Clowny, these guys are going to elevate everybody else's play around them. We're going to see more Herald Landry sacks because Judevians probably on the other side. I mean, this is... But not only that, you now have a problem. You've got a single love. Jeffrey Simmons, who is going to have a monster year, in my opinion. Yeah. Last season he played hurt. Now, when he played hurt, well, not hurt. He wasn't at 100%. Full season of Simmons right here. Full season of Simmons. All season, he's made vast improvement, both as a leader. And as a player, he's going to be, this defense is going to be really, really special. Jeffrey Simmons coming off the injury as early as possible. So, yeah, he didn't quite have that full season. He played with the leg brace. And all the reports I'm reading out of camp are saying this man is an animal. And I'm saying people could be saying Aaron Donald too. Yeah. Right? Yeah, Aaron Donald is still a beast. But this dude here is going to be special. I mean, he has... The tenacity, he has the ability to be one of the premier defensive tackles in the league. I hear he plays with violence. He plays with bad intentions. Bad intentions. Yeah. Yeah, that line. And Daequan Jones, of course, getting also named as a captain. It's like the defense is just better and better and meaner and stronger. And the secondary. Yes. A secondary with that defensive front. Yeah. Who is talented. They have a great deal of chemistry. They trust each other. It's another full season that they're together minus Logan Ryan. Yeah, my slogan Ryan. Jarell Casey, unfortunately, part of the business. Right. It's part of the business. That's how it is. But for the most part, the nucleus of this defense, which really was pretty solid all last year, I think is going to go to another level this year. It most definitely could. And with all that added QB pressure, I see that secondary just licking their chops for these interceptions. Best secondary in the league. I think the best defensive line in the league right now. Well, let's talk about airing it up here and forth down a deep ball threat, you know, AJ Brown. AJ Brown, I think should have gotten rookie of the year. Yeah, I think so too. There's really no excuse for it. You know, I think he's probably had the best rookie year of in the Titans history. And he wants to be great. Yes. He wants to be the guy that's just about Twitter followers or Instagram likes, or he wants to be the showman. He wants to be great. He wants to be a Hall of Famer. He wants to be legendary. And with that raw ability that you see there as a deep ball threat guy. What he can do after the catch, what he does in the open field with his size and his ability is amazing. But another guy though, Khalif Raymond, I don't think got enough credit for all he did for us last season. He was all the talking training camp and he proved it. He would just pop up and give you these long bombs down the field. You saw what he did in the Ravens game. Yeah, yeah, stretch the field. Stretch the field. He, you know, he did it against the Chiefs here at Nissan Stadium. I'm excited about our receiving court. You should be. Excited. And you talk about, you talk about Brown and Raymond together stretching the field. You have Gianlu Smith who owns the middle. We haven't even gotten him. Yeah. The middle of the field in a slew of other receivers or complimentary. Yep. Now you have to pick your poison. Are you going to bring eight, nine minutes in a block to stop Henry and make Tandy Hill beat you or you got to deal with two guys that can stretch the field to the top of it. It's video game style. I'm getting goosebumps. All right. You guys know what? Fifteen minutes can save you 15% or more on your car insurance and just to wet your whistle since we're kicking off some football this week. Here is your Geico Fast 15. Stick around. Titans Blitz will be right back. Make some noise. Blitz lounge. Back to the Titans Blitz presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. It's now half time on the show. And you know, Eddie, kids say the Darnest Things, but they also, they also draw the Darnest Things. We actually, we asked Gavin, who's nine years old to draw a Titans player. And then we asked the rest of the Titans team if they could tell us who it is. So take a look at Vague Van Gogh presented by Coca-Cola. Vague Van Gogh. Well, it's a lot to take in right now. First thing I'm seeing are the muscles. So what we got here, man? We got, it looked like he yoked. He been in the weight room for a little minute. Okay. So obviously we got a player that has a short left leg and a short left arm. Trying to figure out what's on the shoulders here. I love the face mask, the detail there. Definitely got the arms. Someone's been working out a good bit. Man, okay. Got the blue head, headband, or helmet. He has a mean face mask. So I would have to say he plays either D-line or off as a line. If I had to guess just by the sheer bulk, I would say it's Jeffery Simmons. There we're here. We got the big arms. Looks like you're ready to run with the dress. I like the colors. This clearly is obviously A.J. Brown. He looks like Roger in my opinion. It's probably the closest thing to Roger. Roger has real big arms, long arms. Okay, I'm looking at the face mask. It's kind of looking very, very similar to somebody I know. And I'm going to go with Jeff Simmons. And the winner is... Rashawn Evans. Face mask. This was a good job. Rashawn Evans. I knew it was going to be Rashawn. Rashawn, huh? No, Rashawn Evans' arms are not that big. This is me. I mean, I do like the arms. I agree with them. My arms are that big for sure. I mean, big, you know what I'm saying? Nice job, Gavin. Thank you so much. All right, so moving on. Let's play a little game with our Blitz Lounge folks. Let's do this. All right, so I think we've got Abdul Hassan on the line. You there, Abdul? Yes, I am. Hey, man, tighten up. How you doing? Tighten up. Great. How are you? I'm great. I'm great. So we're going to put you up against a tighten. You think you can beat a tighten? You're my best. You do your best. All right, that's all I can ask for. Just solid effort. Okay, so here's the deal. We're going to put you on the clock. You're going to name something. And then we've already played this with a tighten. So I know this score. You're going to try to name as many sports as you can. 20 seconds on the clock. Abdul, ready? Name those sports. Keep going. Name as many as you can. Baseball, basketball, swimming, hockey. You got seven seconds. Soccer. Time is up. Abdul, you got five. Here's what I know. Here's what I know. You love football. And that's all you need to love. Abdul, you're going up against Khalif Rehman. You're going up against Khalif Rehman. So right now we're going to see how Khalif did. If Khalif names more than five, he wins. Right now, let's check out Khalif Rehman. Wrestling, track, football, basketball, soccer, swimming. What else am I saying? Water polo. Tennis. Volleyball. Is a question in the sport? A question? You should be ashamed of yourself. What happened? Khalif smoked you. Like I said, hey, he watches football. That's the only sport that matters. That's all you need. The cross, soccer. The Blitz Lounge still loves you. Titan's Blitz still loves you. Good job, Abdul. Hang out with this. Guys, stick around. We've got more Titan's Blitz. We've got to talk about this game coming up in Denver. Keys to victory when Titan's Blitz returns. Stick around. We'll be right back. Funny to the Titan's Blitz presented by Farm Bureau Health plans. Lance and Eddie hanging out with our Titan's Blitz Lounge folks up there. It is now the two-minute warning here on the show. So let's talk about the Keys to Victory to getting a W out there in Denver. Big game coming up. Hey, we are the exclamation point on week one. Final game. Final game. Of week one. And Eddie talked to me about the importance of this national spotlight game. This being the location where Tannehill took the Keys. And took the Keys and ran away with it. Yeah. Obviously, you deal a lot in all of that. But when you go back to the first game of the year, it's always exciting. Monday night football. Last game. Everybody's watching. Right. The level of excitement is going to be a little different. Yeah. Because there's no fans in the stands. I think they reported now it's going to be like 5,000. Oh, well, that's good. I mean, we'll take that better than zero. Trust me. I played in those type of environments in my career. It was not a lot of fun. But it's going to be a big game for them because I think the Titans want to show everybody around the country just who they are. Yeah. That they're not a one-year wonder or half season wonder that they're here to stay and compete hopefully over the next few years with this new police and football team. It's a statement game. A statement game. Week one. Yeah. Second key to victory here and being a statement and doing what we do. It's our identity. Unleash Henry, right? Yeah. I mean, listen, you know, that's the offense. Yeah. We go as he goes. Yes. And it'll be great to see him run against, chuck off big yards against eight and nine man fronts. Because the Broncos are going to commit to say, listen, 22 cannot and will not stop us. We're going to put all the pressure on Ryan Tannehill and his receivers. Week one without a preseason. Yeah. And throw different blitzes at them. Yeah. And we're just going to take our chances that way. So we know that the Broncos are going to load up the box and try to stop Henry. And if we can get out five, six yard runs and make those young defensive backs pay that are light behind, if you can run them over stiff armor does, it's going to be a long night for Denver. And it's already setting up to be a long night for them as Vaughn Miller is potentially out for the season. Bradley Chubb is going to potentially on a pitch count. He might not even play at all. We're not sure. And there is one drill Casey that's wearing Broncos colors on the other side. He's going to be pissed off. Yeah. Little bit. He's going to be pissed off. It's going to be a good game though. Unleash Henry. And finally, pressure drew lock. I would think it would be the third key. I mean, he's, this might be his fifth start, I believe, as quarterback there. Young QB still. But hey, he's got an arm. There's a reason they drafted him. And he hooks up with Cortland Sutton often. Yeah, he's going to be the key guy out there. And again, I would expect for Denver to get the run game going early. They have a baby of running backs that can rely on. Yeah, Melvin Gordon's there now. They don't want to put a lot of pressure on lock. Clearly with no preseason to look at for both teams, you don't know exactly what you're going to get. So the element of surprise for both teams is going to be on paramount for both teams to look out for. Yeah. You see a lot of running across the league early on. I see a lot of close ball games. If I'm a betting man, I'm taking the under on a lot of these games, especially for the first couple of weeks. And I'm thinking it's going to be some tight ball games, 16, 17, 16, 13, 10. Until the offense gets up to the defense. Yeah. Blitz Lounge, can you believe it? We've got real football being played Monday night. Blitz, can you believe it? It's happening. Keep it going, y'all. Keep it going all the way to Monday night. Guys, stick around. We've got to take one more little break. We'll be back on the other side. We've got overtime here on Titan's Blitz. Stick around. Here we go. What? What? Oh, no. Oh, no. Like that? The virtual love of Ace. Even virtually, the Eddie, Eddie, Eddie works. That's great. Welcome back to the Titan's Blitz presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. Back with Eddie. It's overtime here on the show. Look, this is amazing. It's amazing to be here. It's amazing to be back with you. Football is back. But what a year it's been. And Eddie, I just wanted to ask you with all that's been going on, not just with COVID, but social and civil unrest, social injustice. How important is this moment right now for us collectively, psychologically? Oh, man. Just in terms of the community itself or football, it's very important because it's got to, and we can be here all night and we've talked about this before, but it's got to be a humanity issue and everybody has to see it from that perspective. It can't be something that's used in politics because it's not about that. And politics certainly is a part of it, but it's not about that. And for us to really move the needle is going to take for our players to continue to use football as a platform for basketball or baseball to push the envelope for change for everyone, equality for everyone. And that's what we're talking about. There's certainly a lot of issues that has to be ironed out, but I love the fact that we're using this platform for good. Yeah, well, hey, we're back. The players are back. We're excited. The fans are excited. Blitz Lounds, are you excited? Yes, they are. My man, Eddie, it's good to see you again. We'll do it again all season long. Thank you to the audience. Thank you for hanging out with us. The NFL has begun. Football is back. Thank you. Tighten up.