 Titans head coach Mike Vrable. We are here in Phoenix, Arizona at the 2023 annual meetings. And I'm interested to know what are some of the most important pieces of information that you have learned throughout your time in Phoenix? Well, it's become a lot about player safety and how we make the game better, more exciting, more competitive, but also safer and healthier for our players. That's something that we have to continue to look at. And make sure that we're teaching it properly. And then the rules help us do those things. As a member of the competition committee, how do you balance the obvious need to keep the game as safe as possible and do whatever you can do to prevent injuries and prevent some of the violent plays that can happen in this game, while also preserving kind of the integrity of the game and what makes football football? How do you balance those two? Well, the game is going to be violent. It's played by professional athletes that embrace that lifestyle and the sport. It'll be fast. It'll be physical. But we also want to make sure that there's rules in place that will lend themselves to players having other options. You don't want to use the helmet as a weapon. There's going to be helmet contact. How do we reduce that? How do we make the force of those contacts as minimal as possible? In some of the times that we've talked to you recently, you've cited data and studies and different information that you've gathered. Is that indicative of maybe a push or an extra effort to maybe incorporate some numbers, analytics, different research into your preparation? Yeah, and we can say analytics. And then that's fantastic in understanding what those numbers mean and really trying to understand how do you use them and how do you prepare and plan practices or train or get the players to be prepared for the season. We talk about the first few weeks of training camp and we talk about the time on the field or how many days in a row or the load management. So those things are critical. The guardian caps and that data from the impacts and the ability to reduce the force between two players that have them on. So those are some really, really cool numbers. So the numbers are more another tool in your tool? It is, yeah. I mean, I think you have to try to combine just like we try to do on the field, what the numbers would say and what the analytics would say in certain situations than having a feel for the game and where it's at and then also going back to health and safety is understanding what the numbers look like and then being able to translate that to preparation. You're starting your sixth season as the head coach of the Tennessee Titans. Wow, how time flies first. Yes, it goes quick. Are you noticing that maybe you're tweaking or refining your approach a little bit less every offseason? I know you change things every year, but maybe the changes are a little more minute? Well, I don't know. I mean, I think it just depends on what it is that we're talking about. It could be a personnel group. Could be a position group. Excuse me. We've had some changes on the offensive staff. We added a few new coaches and some new faces. We'll have some new players that'll come in. We've already added some of those. So I mean, I think that the change, you don't want to change just to change. You want to figure out what you do, what you do well, and continue and enhance that. And the things that you don't do well, you have some areas of focus that you have to improve on. One change that struck me was a little bit of a change to the routine of the offseason program, where mandatory mini camp happens in between two weeks of OTAs. What was the thought process behind making that shift? And maybe are you trying to accomplish something different in the latter half? Just wanted to try to move it up and use the entire week. We'd always done that last week where it was like, come in, physicals are Monday, practice Tuesday and Wednesday. You go bowling, fishing, golfing, whatever it may be, that last day and get them out of there. We're just trying to move the week up to take advantage of the entire week of practice for mini camp. The Titans are going to London. This will be the second time that you've done that as a head coach now. Are there things that you're going to take from the first time to inform your decisions on the second time? Yeah, just be able to execute that two-point play better. And then we'll come home across the pond. I thought more like travel, maybe. Oh, sorry. No, they were amazing, I think, that everything that we did in our operations department to get us over there. Loved every bit of that. Tried to let the players see a little bit of the city, but also get them prepared to play in a different country. You're facing a roster that's coming up this season that is going to look a lot different than it has in the past couple of years. Maybe look a little bit younger. Are you excited about the opportunity to start building those relationships with a new crop of guys? Yep, we're excited for anybody that comes into the building, whether that's now or at April 17th. Always excited to continue those relationships. And I think there's a fine line between trying to keep those relationships as strong as during the season and the offseason understand that the players, we all need some time away. We're around each other for a lot of time during the season. And so I really appreciate their ability to communicate with us as where they're going, who they're going to be training with and the communication just that the players have with our coaches and our staff. How do you balance the desire to teach and really get these guys up to speed with what you like to do as a coach, as a teacher, as all of that, but also not overload them so early? Well, I think we'll just start and give them what they can handle. We have a lot of different times to be able to install different things. And so we always refer back and we come back and circle back through and continue to build that foundation. So we'll start where we always start with the general knowledge and terminology. Some of that will change. And I think that it's good so that we all, so I have to learn new terminology and the coaches have to and the players have to. I think that that's a good time to do it. Give it to them once, we'll come back, we'll give it to them again, see what sticks, we'll have the rookies, we'll start back over again. So it's a continual building of a foundation through the off season and then take a little break, come back to training camp, see kind of where things are at, see where you need to reinforce some teaching and then start to practice it. As a coach who's such a relationship-driven guy and who really enjoys getting to know these guys not just as players, but as human beings and having them in the building and having them around. It's gotta be an exciting time for you, right? Getting close? Yeah. I mean, I think for the first time, we're starting to get around that two week window and really starting to come together with the draft E-Val pro days, but then not losing sight of what's the most important thing is that's the players that are on our roster. Are you ready to get back to work? Are you starting to feel that? I am ready to get back to work. Well, Mike Ravel, thank you so much for taking some time to talk to us.