 Welcome back into the Bette MGM studios and it's time for talking ball with a special guest. This is Pro Bowl Offensive Tackle Michael Ruse of Your Tennessee Tights. I guess I have to say former. What is Michael Ruse doing now? Tell us all about what you got going on in your life. Mostly just living it, you know, enjoying it and did a lot of traveling after retiring and now we have a little boy and it takes up a lot of my time. And he's a big fella. He's big, yeah. He's three feet tall, about 32 pounds already, 20 months old. So basketball recruiters, you want to get Michael Ruse on your list already? The AAU coaches will be calling. All right, so how involved do you stay with football now? Now that you have a little perspective being away from it for a decade or more? Watching it, you know, go on Twitter occasionally to vent, but mostly just watch it, you know, still watch it every weekend. When you watch the game, what do you watch? I weirdly recently started watching a lot more defense, you know, try to learn it as much as I could when I was playing and now I watch the O-line and as soon as the ball is kind of snapped, but through a second or so, I kind of end up moving to the secondary to see what's going on, to know who's going to be open. Wow. Just trying to teach myself a little more and just understand the game a little more. You thinking about coaching? No. No? No, no, no. No interest? As smart a player as you were? Never. And you were a technician too? I have a few friends or coaches at different levels and the amount of hours needed to put into it, I just don't want to give. All right. So the Titans this Saturday are playing against the Houston Texans. You saw them twice a year through your entire career. Do you have a game against the Texans that jumps out to you the most? Yeah. Vince's. 2006 in Houston? Yeah. Vince's game at the overtime baron and then Rob Barona's with the seven field goals. Eight? Eight for the game winner, yeah. Eight for the two, I think. They were back-to-back years? Yeah. They were pretty physical games. Yeah. There's always a lot of fun playing against Houston. All right. So the Titans start a rookie right tackle this year. His name is Nicholas Petitfarer. He started every game. You started your first game at left tackle for Brad Hopkins and then when Brad came back you moved to right tackle. What are the challenges that Nick has gone through this year playing that spot knowing you did it in 2005? I think the biggest thing is probably just speed. I'm sure by now it's whatever week 15, 16 things have slowed down but early on it's just the speed of the game is just so different and trying to probably get a good rapport and a good back and forth with your guard, the center, quarterbacks, trying to understand everything, get everybody's saying and doing. By now I would assume he's probably feeling a lot more comfortable than he was week one. You were part of a tackle to some that was together a long time. David Stewart, big country. What is big country doing now? He is a preacher in Alabama. He's a preacher? The guy that never spoke is talking to a congregation every Sunday yet. You know he set the record with me for most questions asked in an interview in a minute 15 because every question was a one word answer. Nice guy, literal great Titans player, worst interview in Titans history and he delivers sermons now. It's a miracle. It is, yeah. And he's pretty rough character too. He might have hit some guys a couple of times. He's a softy at heart. He is a great guy and you guys were fantastic together. All right, tell me how the Titans win this game Saturday over the Texans. What do we got to do? What coach has been harping? I mean you just got to play your game, play football. You can't do too much. You can't overthink it but it comes to you. No, so are you available to come back and no? It's so good to see. Thanks for talking about presented by Duncan Lee. That's Michael Rouge, former Pro Bowl Titan offensive tackle one of the greats of his era. When we come back another great Derek Henry and more of his story as the Titans 2022 Walter Peyton Man of the Year. That's next on Titans All Access.