 How much was it to be out here in the element today practicing? I think it was fun. I haven't practiced in the rain in a long time, so it was just football. It felt like a movie when you watch a movie and they practice outside in the rain and they're out having fun and things like that, so it's always good to practice in any kind of element you can when you get the chance. Obviously, it's a physical challenge, but how much of a mental challenge is it as well? Yeah, you just gotta lock in every play. I mean, something that you want to do, no matter what the elements are, you can't let those affect your everyday style of play. And just the things that you do on a football field, you have to lock in and just take every play, play by play and really dial in. It feels like communication has been good so far during the camp. How's it been, I guess, from your perspective and being kind of new to bunches has it been the same pace with some of these guys? Yeah, it's been fluent. Everybody has the same mental goal and that's really to just be a better version of themselves every day. And we're reaching the same goal as a defense. We want to be number one in every category that we possibly can, so we just do the little things every day, the small details that really add up to the final goal. How do you like what you guys are doing in the meeting room to make sure that that communication is consistent, clear and concise? Yeah, we communicate. Coach Harris, Coach Buck, Coach Shane, they do a good job of detailing and explaining everything. And then as far as in the DB room, we go through the plays, we go through scenarios, we go through situations. And we just see how everybody sees it from their point of view. And we just try to be on the same page before we really come out here and execute it. What difficulties might Chris Moore present when you're lining up the calls for him? Chris is a really good football player. He's got size, speed. He attacks the ball very well. So every day is a battle with him along with every other receiver. You know, we just want to make each other better at the end of the day. If there's some things that he sees with me that I can do better, he's going to tell me if there's some things that I can see from him that I think he should do better, then I'm going to tell him as well. So, you know, we're all one team. We're just trying to really get to that one end goal and just make each other better. How do you go through the strength of the better? They're talented. You know, they go hard every play, whether it's blocking, whether it's running a route. They do the little details correct, so it's hard to get to jump on the things that they do. But they're all smart and they have a new bed in there, a savvy vet, all a famed guy. So just probably being able to pick his brain makes them way more attentive to just what's going on and the things that they can do. You're competing against DeAndre a lot in the past, and how has that mutual respect kind of gone in those two times? Yeah. I mean, I went against him a few times. I believe my rookie year I went against him, and then last year I went against him. But the mutual respect is always there. I know he's a very, very good receiver, a very fierce competitor. So it's just hard work, man. It's just competition. He's going to win some. I'm going to win some. But obviously, I would want to win more than not. But he just gets me better. You know, he's making me a better corner, making me able to really just guard, you know, everything that he has to give. And if I can do it, I'll be just fine. How about those match-ups go? You remember? As far as in the past? His number? I'm not really sure. I'm sure you probably know. You can look up the stats. I don't really know if it topped my head. How have maybe my great little Titans training camp been compared to maybe with the bucks we've been in the past? I would say just, I guess, just emphasis on different things. For me, I'm a vet now. So it's a little different. Certain special teams things I'm not really involved with. So I go to the side with Coach Harrison to get better and do little small details in that regard. But I would say it's the same. It's very intense. It's hard work. You've got to be dedicated to want to play this game. You've got to have fun with it at the same time. So there's no walking around. There's no moping around. There's always just high energy, high intensity involved to the wall play. How much production can you get out of those special teams periods when you're working on something? Yeah, I mean, I think whenever it's just, if it's a special team that I'm involved in, obviously I'm doing everything I can to help the team make them better. If something I'm not involved in, we go to the side and we work on things that I can do better. We go over certain techniques that we just put in, whether it's footwork, whether it's top of the route stuff, whether it's rock recognition. He's just always doing something to make sure that my mind's always stimulating football. How much will camp change next week when there's an opponent to look forward to, even though it's just a pre-season game and a lot of guys may not play a whole lot of snaps? Just game-planning, really. I guess it wouldn't be game-planning against each other as much as it would be to just game-plan against another team and to get to fly around and just be on the same page and be on the same little details, like I said earlier, and just really just being able to play football. I know in the past you've got to play a lot of difficult, and I've seen you do that as much here. Are you more comfortable playing on the outside? I would say I'm comfortable really anywhere. But as far as just playing on the outside, I played there in college. I am more familiar with, I guess, the techniques, the types of releases and the types of stamps you get. It's easier for me to be able to read a receiver there. And the nickel's a hard job for anyone, really, but it's a little more detailed than being on the outside. But I would say I can do both, but I prefer to be outside. Would you like to get some opportunities to play some of the games? If they need me to. If they need me to. I'll be more than willing to go in and do my job. Are you getting Rodger any advice about what to do on the slot? Yeah, I mean, I just try to help him out as far as, you know, he gets on himself a lot when he's getting into man-to-man, certain things. And I just try to tell him to be more patient. You know, on a slot you can't really dictate a receiver's rod based off their release as much as you can on the outside. So you have to be more square, you have to be more patient. You have to have a little bit more, they have a little bit more timing. So you just got to be willing to sit in there. And your time's playing the corner. I'm sure Mike Evans is talking a lot, but if you could recall what receiver talked the most trash. What receiver talked the most trash? That's a great question. I really don't know. Honestly, I feel like there hasn't really been many times. You know what? I do know, Robbie Anderson. Robbie. Yeah, me and Robbie went and added a couple of times. I think every time we played Carolina we pretty much yapped it up. But it was all respect. You know, just getting better. But I'm obviously going to be a competitive force there. Try to get an edge any way you can. Thank you. Thank you. Do you want a day like today? Obviously more of a challenge with the rain. How do you kind of approach that when it's pouring the whole practice? I mean, at this point in my career, it's just another day of practice. You just got to go out here as a receiver. You just got to focus more on catching the ball. And that's it. I mean, it gives you a chance to work on different things. Like seeing what type of equipment you would use out there, whether you're using the rain gloves, no gloves, stuff like that. It's something I've been doing my whole career. So it's just another day in the office for me. I feel like I pick up offenses real well. I don't know. I've had tons of offensive coordinators in my career. So I just go out there and study and try to learn everything I can. Do you feel like you were able to play fast right away and not have to think as well? Definitely. Just like I said, because I study hard. I study the whole concept. I try to learn everybody's job, everybody's position. And like you said, it allows you to play faster. When you don't have to think, that's this game. I try to tell young guys that like, if you can go out there and not think and just play full speed, you can be out there. And what about getting opportunities as a gunner? You know, a special team. That's not for that too great job. I believe you did that in Boston. Oh, yeah. I mean, I always tell people that's how I made my career in NFO with special teams and playing gunners. So if they had me out there, I'm going to be out there running. Because I love it. That's one of my favorite things to do, for sure. Being an offensive guy, a lot of guys don't love special teams and all that goes in on that. What kind of caught your eye about it? So when I first got into NFO, my gunner's coach at the time, he showed me film of Matthew Slater and said, this guy's been in the league for X amount of years just playing gunner. He doesn't play receiver or anything else. And I'm like, man, if that's how I get to stay in this league, I'm going to do it. And I'm going to try to be my best at it. Because that's all I want to do is have an opportunity to be on the field every Sunday. Yes, another week to go into your first preseason. How much? Start to look forward to that, competing against another team and guys that are your teammates. Yeah, I mean, right now we're just trying to get each other better. So I don't look too far ahead. But I mean, it's always nice to go against somebody else. You get tired of seeing the same guy, same defense every week. So it's always nice to go out there and see a different defense and just work different techniques against somebody else. He's awesome. I feel like it's because he has so much experience as playing a receiver. He knows how we run routes and he can go in there and be very detailed of like how he wants us to do a certain stick or how the coverage unfolds this way, how he wants us to break out flat or something as opposed like somebody just telling you, oh, I want you in the spot. He has very detailed and clear instructions of where he wants us to be. So as a receiver, that's all you want to know. Where do you want me to be so I can make a play for you? I don't think so. Like I said, he's one of a kind. I love Ryan. His ability to see like the whole defense, the whole field and see it from our perspective as well as his is definitely one of a kind. It's always too early to talk about injuries. It is always, listen, like we spend a lot of time together with these guys starting in April going all the way through. We take a quick break and then we spend a lot of time with them. We're here for early in the morning until, you know, six o'clock whenever they leave for dinner. So you're in meetings, you're on the field, you know how hard they work. And so you don't want to see any of them get injured at all. And, you know, part of that process is then just mentally trying to get them back and then not be frustrated because they know that they're missing important time. But you can also stay up and then get healthy and then take advantage of the opportunity when you get back out there. Which Chris Hover has been since he's been here and maybe what's the competition like is like tackling now? Chris has been great. Chris has been professional. He's been attentive. Again, not without a mistake like everybody else but seems like he's put a lot of work in to figuring out what we want to try to do each and every day in the early installation. And I think things will start to calm down, you know, going forward here when we move into next week just because we've gotten most of everything in. And so hopefully there'll be some more improvement. But I've liked everything that I've seen from him as far as his attitude and his professionalism. Overall philosophy, when you've got a new group that has a lot of meshing and gelling to do, how important is preseason play against another team? I think it's important. I think it's important based on where you're at. I think trying to evaluate and see where they are and everybody is going into next week before the preseason game and then making a decision about that and how much, how little and to the extent that you want to evaluate people and competitions and so I do think that it's important. How does Peter's strength translate when you plop him on this field against Tartt and Autry? I think it's actually, you know, I mean, I think it's been kind of what we thought. You know, I think that that's his play strength, his core strength, his balance in there. I mean, he's some pretty significant players that he's, you know, wrestling with and so I think that'll be really good work. And those guys have been going hard. They've been trying to take care of each other. You know, that's, those are valuable reps. You know, you can't recreate those. I mean, maybe not even in the game. So I really think that those guys are all working together and trying to push each other. Is it that I find alignment? It is rookie season because he goes, he's doing combine training and all that. He doesn't have like the same off season of lifting work that he has in the normal off season. I don't know. I don't know what Peter did. Yeah, I mean, so, you know, again, we get them when we get them and we evaluate them and then try to get a plan for them and get them ready. And we do think lifting is certainly at this point in time an opportunity for recovery, maybe not strength gains, but just trying not to lose anything. In the past, you carried a full back on the roster, at least in the camp and for part of the regular season. Was it the change in the offense or change in the just in the thought? They're hard to find. So hopefully you can find some tight ends that can do some of that work. And, you know, but, you know, nobody's playing. I mean, there's not coming out of college. And again, if we felt like there was somebody out there that, you know, could help us, maybe we would consider it, but, you know, starting to find some of these tight ends that can do some of that work for, you know, the handful of plays that you have in there. Anybody that received a rotation, how do you see some of the younger guys that made the care as Jackson, Reggie Robertson, when that started to emerge? Well, Reggie's made some plays down the field. I mean, we failed to cover him a couple of times the other day, but when given the opportunity, he's, he's, he showed up. You know, we had some footballs. And again, this is good work today. It's probably not our best day offensively because, you know, the rain and that's obviously an excuse, but there were, I thought the quarterbacks handled it fairly well. We saw a lot of footballs that got through, got through us and got onto our shoulder pads and those balls are going to be intercepted. But, you know, mentioned earlier in camp, I thought Kieris came back moving better than, than where he was, you know, once we had him in May. And so that was always a good sign. And these, these preseason games are critical for, for some of these receivers, young receivers, all the way down. So we'll keep working with them. How do you think overall your team handled practicing today? I thought they handled it okay. I don't think the execution was, was great. I thought that, you know, there was some good plays. I thought we missed a couple. We made, made a few, you know, defensively, you know, just some of the, the short yarded situations or, you know, but, but again, I thought they worked well. I thought we tried to stay up. It was good. You can't recreate this with, with a lot of playing throughout a course of a practice. We've played numerous games where it was like that. And so the operation from the quarterback center exchange shotgun, we didn't have them, you know, flying over everywhere, but it could have been cleaner and we need to be able to, to make some plays down the field, even in this conditions. Mike, did the decision on Jamargo as simple as him doing some things outside of what you're looking for in practice? Yeah. I think I'm going to leave it at this, that we all have a responsibility to the team. I think my job is to protect the team. I think the player's job is to, to find a way onto that team. And so we always are going to hold the team in high regard and make sure that everything we do and how we carry ourselves is in the best interest of the team. Is it hard with Jamargo, since you know him, since he was in high school? Protecting the team isn't hard. No. Mike, how do you evaluate Andre Dillard's progress to this point and how do you see the team coaching very coachable player? I mean, he, I go in there in the morning just to check in with Haas and he's in there before the meetings, just getting early jump on the installation. Those are things that he likes to do, to be able to, you know, make sure that he's sound on whatever installation they put in the night before. And I think he has improved. I think every day that he's out there, he's gotten better. So we'll just keep working and keep going but he's out there every single day and trying to get in condition and up to the standards in which we've set about effort and about finish and, you know, and then again, all the tech, athletically, he's got all the skills and then now just making sure that, you know, he continues to progress each and every day. Mike, how much does the Hull of Fame matter to you? I mean, I think it's the best of the best. I know it's the best of the best but I've never thought, you know, too much about it. I used to go to those breakfasts when I was a kid. My dad and I would be lucky to get a couple tickets or, you know, go down there and be around those great players when I was a kid growing up. I mean, I grew up 20 minutes from the Hull of Fame. So when you have an opportunity to play in this league and coach in this league, you realize that you go back and I played with a lot of those guys that are in it and played on the field with some of those coaches that are in it and the contributors. And so I don't take that for granted at all. Mike, what have you made of Alize and Max camps and farm? I think it's been good. I think it's been sometimes up. I think as a new installation, you see when he has a comfort level, I see a player that can play fast and has a good skill set and good size and just making sure now that we're able to stay on top of things. And again, play that full back role. Play on the line of scrimmage. Play off the ball. You know, moving those guys around. So the more that he can stay on top of some of that stuff and play fast, you know, that's going to help him. How do you open a camp? You discussed a couple guys that were contenders out at right tackle, but then run skill and maybe some other guys, it's like second options that weren't in that first group. At what point in camp is it too late to reshuffle the deck if you feel like it's necessary and are you already at that point? What point? Where you wouldn't want to reshuffle the deck if you felt like a move was necessary. I think that that could go on. You know, we would still have time. I don't think we're past that. I don't think we're at that point right now, but you know, we'll keep evaluating and sure we'll bring some guys in here to work out and keep moving guys around and see what gels and what works. How much do you look at his impact and think about what it meant to the game? I mean, I think him and Lamar Hunt, you know, visionaries of, you know, our league and what became the Super Bowl, one of the, you know, the greatest sporting event, single sporting event, you know, in the world. You know, I mean, I think, you know, I mean, I think, you know, I mean, I think, you know, I mean, I think, you know, our sporting event, you know, in the world is based on how many people watch it and cover it. But I also look at the way that, you know, our organization is run and what Amy, you know, learned from him and Kenneth and Barkley. And so I appreciate that. I appreciate how they operate and run the team. But I don't know what goes into the selection process. I don't know the criteria and I don't know what puts some players and coaches and contributors over the edge and what doesn't. So I know that it's an unbelievable honor, the highest honor that you can get in our game. And hopefully very soon that Mr. Adams can be celebrated. Playing linebacker, communicating, getting lined up, tackling, playing fast, all the things that he's doing in practice and, you know, we've got guys competing and that's what we're trying to do. It seems engaged. I mean, Monty's been a very good special teams player for us here and finished the season last year playing with some speed. And again, we just want to make sure that there's competition at each spot. And Monty's doing that and these pre-season games will be critical for him and, you know, being able to understand everything that we're asking him to do. But no, I mean Monty's attitude has been great. He's been working hard. I cannot wait to watch OTIS in that pre-season game and playing fast and when he knows, you know what I mean, when he triggers, you know, yesterday in the bubble and came through, there was a level of play speed that when he is sure of where he's going, it's pretty cool. So, you know, excited for him to be able to go out there and play fast and see where he can find a, you know, a role on special teams and watch him cover some kicks and watch him play on a punt return and, you know, all those good things.