 Good afternoon Robert. This is a group that seemed kind of deep and a lot of people but injuries are starting to take its full. What's the good thing about this group right now with the guys that are available or potentially available this week. Yeah. I would say I know I know the Titans last year have been through been through this kind of last year with a lot of guys going down and the guys getting called up and really I would say it's the mindset that Coach Brebel brings to this team. You see how guys prepare this year he always tells us you know prepare like you're going to start you never know what's going to happen. And that's all the way down to our practice squad guys and so guys are just you know it's kind of next man up is everybody you know preparing to be a starter and situations like this. We've been working with a lot of our practice squad guys draw training camp throughout this whole year for moments like this that are familiar with the style of play that we bring and I would say it's just next man up and be prepared like you're going to start. Hey Robert appreciate your time. I guess four games in the season me what are some of the things you think are trending in the right direction what are some other areas maybe for the offense you think you guys have got to get better at if you can get to where you want to be. Yeah, I would say, I mean, it's kind of the same things that kind of everyone's been saying these four weeks is second half. Be better in the second half. But when you really look at what we've been doing on offense. Scoring on our first possessions. Being able to do that consistently every game, being able to score in the red zone when we're down there not just field goals, touchdowns. So really it's like we're doing the right things it's just we just have to be consistent with it in the second half obviously we're fast. I would say we're a fast starting team is more so just keeping that tempo up throughout the whole game and I would say just finishing finishing in the end zone we get down there and get down there a lot more. Yeah Robert as far as your involvement in everything it seems like that's increasing what would you say is behind that over the last couple games that has gotten you you know more involved. Just rhythm, I would say the kind of he'll be able to trust me out there being able to find that spot in the zone, beat man coverage. Really it's just him getting comfortable with me finding finding me with throwing the ball, TV calling the plays, and obviously just me being out there. Being getting in rhythm again, being able to play fast and I think it just just having those opportunities with the quarterback and the play call and to work hand in hand. Corey. Hey Robert I know Derek's message to you guys after the game was about staying hungry, but how much of a sense of relief is there for you guys after starting oh and to to get back into two and to and being in a prime spot in the division. I would say it didn't it doesn't really matter the two games that we won obviously you want to you want to keep keep the trend going forward we flipped the narrative from the first two weeks. But really just being able to keep keep the trend going keep keep winning it's all about the the next game. The first quarter of the season the first four doesn't matter. It's a long season. We got to win this one at Washington that's the most important one lined up and really once you get that ball rolling and keep them in them have the guys playing playing fast playing confident and having fun I think that's what we really see the scene, getting rhythm and becoming unstoppable. Hey Robert. Yes. Yeah I know you talked about the second situation there a little bit earlier, and also what you've done well in the first half does the first does the fact that you guys have done so well in the first half, make the second half and a little bit more puzzling to you and I guess same sort of question how do you keep it from kind of getting in your heads a little bit, you know with upcoming games. I mean you can't let it get in your head I mean this one of those things when you're a football player just got to keep your head down and keep keep working. In some of the situations I feel like it's in the fellow teams are good teams are competitive. Obviously we're jumping on teams or whether it's the first drive or the first half. And they're just being able to make some adjustments and just make plays as well and then obviously when you're up you obviously want to play the clock game, clock game possession game. So it just goes hand in hand it's a you being up you want to close out and win the game and then it's also defense is playing well being able to make some second half adjustments and then are in. I will say a lot of times we have been stepping on our own foot whether it's protection run blocking catching the ball can convert on third downs I think all those situations, we just have to be better in the second half. Toronto. Yeah, one more Robert, how do you feel you guys have done you know on that on the perimeter there taking advantage of the one on one matchups and just the whole situation of defense is being so overly focused on Derek Henry. I'm going to capitalize when when the when the when the play is called, whether it's a play action or a quick game, being open target whether it's downfield quick quick in the flat finding zones. I would say the guys been playing pretty well when Cal Phyllis was up available trailing Nick Westbrook being able to contribute on some key third downs for us. I think we've been able to see Hollister at times, our tight ends getting involved see chicken able to make some place. I'll say really. The guys has just been really make making the plays when it comes to when the when that ball is in the area see guys trying to do everything to possess that ball and keep this keep the change movement, whether it's young guys that I think everybody's trying to to help this past game we know we could do on the ground. And we know we could be really really dangerous in the air. It's a mean combination with our ground game in the past. Chris here. Hey Robert and curious as a veteran and a leader in that room what do you say to trailing to kind of keep his spirits up over the next couple weeks. Yeah, it's a tough. Andrew especially your rookie year you want to go out there and make plays prove your value prove your work. Just having an injury like this I haven't spoke with him haven't even seen the timeline of how long or what, but I do know just just being injured out there you want to get back as fast as you can. And my thing is just come back healthy. Come back ready, whether it's mentally, physically. We're gonna need all our guys we got the right guys to step up and make plays while he's gone we just gonna need them to hone in and take care of his foot or toe and just just give back a healthy and come contribute when he can. Corey. Robert. I guess AJ Brown did an interview last week, where he talked about how, I guess, serious things were in Tennessee under coach for able and, and there wasn't a lot of room for for fun. This is your third NFL team. Is it really any different or things more serious here. Every, every coach and team has their own style has their philosophy. And I would say, yeah, Tennessee, it is a serious and you want guys in a team that takes winning serious and I think that's just how it is that practice and that work in the workplace. You got to come in and work with a purpose. It's way room film it is like know your job know your assignment and really I think once you once you do that and know your assignment know what you're doing when you go out there on Sundays and that's when you're able to play fun have fun play fast and then play loose you know Sundays are our day. I just dropped the week is the working week, but go out there on Sundays you make plays you win games. That's when that's when the fun comes in. Last one Jim. It's kind of along the same lines driving and when you came here you kind of knew what you were getting into it what's the culture been like what's the vibe around the team been like, compared to what you thought it would be. Exactly what I what I thought it would be a lot of hard working guys obviously getting done on a defensive end being able to get some turnovers. Every game that we played in. Defensive and playing pretty well, an offensive side, obviously, you know we feed off the ground game kind of he'll be able to deliver in the play action and also work with his legs. Really it's just as hard as football we want to go out there and beat it up on our opponents run the ball play physical when we have the ball as receivers we want to finish violently. Really it's just it's the same as we want to go out there and win games want to play physical obviously it is a different culture. Then then the two places that I have been in the coaches that I have experienced with. But at the end of the day it's all for winning games. And our team is buying in and that's how you. That's how you win games. You're a guy who does a lot of dirty work usually guys and you know on that defense line don't get a lot of attention what's it been like for you this week. Where you have been getting a lot of attention for the play you made on Sunday whether it's from teammates, you know, family friends just what what's your, what's your text and phone calls been like. It's been going up it's been pretty it's been pretty fun and funny, you know, getting some in some jokes from the DB shout out Christian phone. Yeah, but we can something in some jokes from the DB's and some of the teammates about me day break break dancing on my head so it's been fun. It's been cool to find other ways to impact the game. Yeah, I was going to ask you, you know, we've all seen that play and the celebration afterwards to you what what are you most excited about the interception the headstand or the long power slide in the end zone. I'm going to say about the interception just because it was a big play to help the team may not think no way from the headstand or the slide I just think that was all just a great momentum boost for the team and it brought a lot of positive energy to our sideline. So the interception definitely. Yeah, I'm sure the some parts of the towards the end of last season were were a little difficult for you probably not in as much as you would like what what kind of mindset did you take, you know to the off season and going into this year to kind of win back your spot and get back on the field, you know as much as possible and why has that worked so well. I mean I think the biggest part of all seasons just like not taking anything for granted, because I mean I have one point you could feel like you're on top of the world and next minute everything can be gone from you. So just not taking anything from granted, putting a lot of more focus on taking care of my body to prevent injuries and just trying to stay focused so I mean I like, and also like coming into this season I just wanted to improve on every little detail I could try to become more of a student in the game. Toronto. I mean we're talking about to getting to this point I mean we're talking about four different schools, you know a lot of grinding and everything the juco route all of that. How rewarding has it been for you to, you know get to this point and what has been the key for you to just keep keep pushing when things may have looked like it was coming to a close. I mean the key for me to get to this point is just resilience, you know being through all those jucos, a lot of emotions, you know, a lost family at some of the juco so it was really hard. So I mean just staying resilient and staying focused and knowing like if you just keep staying resilient and keep fighting mean something got to something's good going to come from it. I don't have anything good for coming just standing on one spot. So, just staying resilient and keep working and not giving up but this is honestly. I mean this is dream come true, you know I'm saying I have an opportunity to play in the NFL playing at this level, I just don't want to. I don't want to ever take, I don't want anybody that would feel like you can take this for granted because this is something that doesn't happen often, you know. Here along those lines how frustrating was last year I guess you probably weren't healthy for much of the year right I mean how hard was it to sort of grind through that and try and stay involved. It was extremely difficult. I mean, I mean, I know just dealing with pains from from day to day to practice just trying to go out there and battle like it's really it's really really really frustrating. When you get to see your team is out there celebrating fighting fighting fighting the asses all practicing hard and all you can do is sit there and watch, and it's extremely frustrating but I think it also speaks to like being resilient. Like I was saying like, I learned how to be resilient to you go, you know, through all the schools adversity, tell me how to be resilient tell me how to not stop and I quit and I give up. So it's just, it's just it was just another test. And, you know, I'm gonna keep getting tested throughout my whole career but you know, just staying resilient and keep moving forward is the goal. Corey. Hey, tear this Titans organization seems to be a pretty good match for you as far as getting the most out of you and seeing you improve. What is it about coach for able in this culture that has really connected with you to make you the player you are now. I mean, I think a career and and coach T they just, they, they know how to coach individual, you know, I mean they got a whole collected which is a team. They, they coach individual to they're going to put you in the best position to be the best player you can be, period, at all times so that's that's one thing that I'm, I know this personally from rabble and T and also that they, it's not just about football it's about life. They care about you as an individual in the person, and they want to see you succeed they want to see you do well. I think a lot of times a lot of coaches inside of that of building a relationship and building real genuine relationships and care about the mental health, the physical health of a player of a player in a person, because at any day I mean football is going to end at some point for everybody but you know for them to care about you outside of this and more for then more than just football is this is something a lot of people, a lot of the players can experience because you know they don't play. Yeah, I'm just doing tears and tears. I think I'm gonna be okay. Sounds like you're pretty self motivated guy and have been you know since you started your career me what do coaches. Maybe coach T what other coaches what do they harp on you what do they stay on you about to kind of keep you getting better, you know from their stand, never getting satisfied never getting comfortable, never feeling like you can't find a way to improve. I think is a thing that I you know I don't you know, at every game I talked to the coaches to sit down and go over my film, tell them what they told me what I need to work on. And I feel like never, never getting satisfied, you know, never, never being content and you know, you know, yeah. Cory. Yeah, I also just wanted to ask you know you guys were sitting there in that oh to whole. And you know you had the Raiders and the Colts coming up and things weren't going to be easy. How big of a relief is it to get out of there with two wins and kind of reset the season two and two after a quarter. I mean, it's huge huge, you know, going down another game would have been. I would never been, you know, we built off of resilience and scrappiness and always and always fighting but you know it's huge for the teams huge huge field morale around here. You know, it's great for the chemistry and you know it just gives us more confidence and where you just decided to go back out there and fight again man at this point. Last one Jim. Yeah, I think I read you maybe you're the second of 11 children in your family 11 kids in the family what was that like what was age range and and how how much do everybody kind of support one another. The age range. So the oldest right now is 48 and the youngest which is my little sister, just 23. So I mean it's a pretty big age range. So as far as just like a war zone. You didn't eat first he wasn't eating. So, but um, but it was good having a having a large family, you know, it brought everybody together closer we all have to learn how to work and negotiate. Imagine trying to get the TV remote. You had to learn how to work and negotiate with each other so it's good man. I have, I have three older brothers and the rest of sisters. And so it's a good family came from a basketball family.