Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Brian Daboll's CAM WARD PLAN Creates PERFECT Tennessee Titans Offense & Robert Saleh's Scheme WORKS

Episode Date: January 28, 2026

The Tennessee Titans have officially hire Brian Daboll as their offensive coordinator and his system sets Cam Ward up perfectly to succeed because it allows Ward to use his greatest asset to attack defenses, his mind. Daboll's version of Erhardt-Perkins is ideally suited to give Cam control of how he can attack coverage and also makes it easy to make adjustments on the fly and play with tempo. Daboll has actually created more success in the run game though and his multiple scheme on the ground, along with involvement from QB runs, gives the Titans a chance to properly support Cam with a balanced look. Also, the incorporation of RPO is something Ward should be relishing as he succeeded with it in college. Robert Saleh brings his own unique defensive scheme to Tennessee which has shades of a defense most NFL fans know well, the Seattle Seahawks' legion of boom. Saleh uses a zone heavy scheme with four-man fronts and focuses on preventing points, even at the risk of allowing yards. Saleh also will give his introductory press conference on Thursday and Tyler wants to hear his answer on how he plans to deal with the potential loss of Daboll after the year. LOCKED ON TITANS EVERYDAY CLUB: https://lockedontitans.supercast.com/ Subscribe to the TicTacTitans Film Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@TicTacTitans TicTacTitans Merchandise: https://dixons-dream.square.site/shop/tictactitans-gear/C3AAPNWXSXA6SBYG3USV2I7R?page=1&limit=30&sort_by=category_order&sort_order=asc Follow Tyler on Twitter @TicTacTitans Follow the show on Facebook @LockedOnTitansPod Subscribe to the Locked On Titans YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/LockedOnTitans/videos Everydayer ClubIf you never miss an episode, it’s time to make it official. Join the Locked On Everydayer Club and get ad-free audio, access to our members-only Discord, and more — all built for our most loyal fans. Click here to learn more and join your team’s community: https://lockedonpodcasts.com/everydayerclubSupport Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!TurboTaxFor a limited time, you can have your taxes done by a local TurboTax expert for just $150 — all in, if a TurboTax expert didn’t file for you last year. Just file by February 28. Visit http://TurboTax.com/local to book your appointment today.Rocket MoneyLet Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster. Join at http://RocketMoney.com/LOCKEDON FanDuelIf you’re a new customer, bet just $5 and get $200 in Bonus Bets if you win. Make it count — because after the Super Bowl, the season is over. Last call for football on FanDuel, an Official Sportsbook Partner of Super Bowl Sixty.  Rocket MoneyLet Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster. Join at http://RocketMoney.com/LOCKEDONPrizePicksDownload the PrizePicks app today and use code LOCKEDONNFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup.Click Here: https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/LOCKEDONNFLGametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONfor $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime.RobinhoodTrade Every Play with Robinhood. Now available across the U.S. Download the Robinhood app now to begin.Futures and cleared swaps trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for everyone. Event contracts are offered by Robinhood Derivatives, LLC., a registered futures commission merchant and swap firmIndeedListeners of this show get a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to help give your job the premium placement it deserves at http://Indeed.com/lockedonnfl.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Cam Ward is a perfect fit for Brian Dayball's offense, and I'm going to tell you why on today's edition of Locked on Titans. You are Locked on Titans, your daily Tennessee Titans podcast, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome to the Locked on Titans podcast. I am your host, Tyler Rowland Titans fans. Today's edition of the Locked on Titans podcast is brought to you by Price Pigs. Download the prize picks app today use the code locked on NFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first

$5 lineup on today's show I am gonna break down Brian Dables offensive scheme and why Cam Ward is such a great fit for it Also we're gonna talk about how Brian Dable's run game can help Cam Ward out even more and I'll tell you what to expect from Robert Sala's defensive scheme and talk about what I want to hear from Robert Sala and his introductory press conference on Thursday. Before I dive into all of it, do want to thank you for making Locked on Titans, your first listen each and every day. Remember, Monday through Friday, Tennessee Titans content all year round, always for free. Make sure that you get subscribe, stay subscribed. It's your team every day here on the Locked on Titans podcast. Speaking of every day, shout out to my everydayers out there. Tune in Monday through Friday. Couldn't do it

without you guys. If you aren't an everydayer, you got to be one. The coaching staff is going to continue to get filled out. Then we got to move. on to roster management. Who's going to get cut? Who's going to get traded? Who's going to get signed as a free agent? What are the Titans do in the draft? I'm going to have you covered all all season long. You're going to be as up today, as informed, and as entertained as a Tennessee Titans fan could possibly be. So make sure that you stay locked in with the Locked on Titans podcast. But with that being said, again, I think Cam Ward is a perfect fit in Brian Daibow's system. And the number one reason why is, I think it takes advantage of Cam Ward's best

asset and that is his mind. We talk about Cam Ward's competitiveness. We talk about Cam Ward's arm talent. We talk about Cam Ward's playmaking ability. We talk about the arm angles that he can throw with and all of that absolutely factors in to Brian Dable's offense and what he's gonna do with it. But number one, Cam Ward is a brilliant guy. He truly understands how to read defenses, where to go with the ball, when he's gotta go there. Like as we got through the back half of the season, to see Cam Ward hit his back foot, get it out. Oh, That's not there. I got a playmaking.

That decision-making process, Cam Ward was excellent in the back half of the season at reading the defense and understanding what he needs to do. And not only that, but Cam Ward in up-tempo situations, being able to have full control of an offense and understand what's best to attack a defense is something that he was great at in college and did really well with that sort of stuff later in the season as he got more comfortable. Obviously, he's a rookie in the NFL seeing certain defensive coverages and defensive rules that he's never seen before.

But as that season went on, the way that he won with his mind makes me think that this system that Brian Dable is bringing over is absolutely perfect. And the question I'm sure people are asking is, what is the system and how can Cam Ward use his mind to operate that system? Well, Brian Dable runs the Erhardt Perkins system. So in the NFL, there have been basically four kinds of systems and really three and really now, modern days, there's only two.

There's the Erhard Perkins, which was developed by Erhard and Perkins, two coaches with the Patriots in the 70s or 80s. There's Air Correel, which was invented by Don Correel with the Los Angeles, or not the Chargers, we'll just call them, now that things have changed. There's the West Coast system, which all of you guys have probably heard of, developed by Paul Brown early on, and then really famous by Bill Walsh with the San Francisco 49ers. And when you look at Sean McVeigh, Kyle Shanahan, Matt LaFleur, the Shanahan offense is basically a, modern version of West Coast. But Tom Brady and Peyton Manning and Josh McDaniels is a guy really carrying the torch right now along with Brian Dable they basically run a modern version of Earhart Perkins all right and what does that consist of and why is it different? Well number one it takes complex things

and it makes them simple. This is an offensive scheme that is built on concepts. There are one word concepts. Things that you've heard before a smash route which is like the outside guy does a curl the inside guy does a deep corner route you've heard of things like that a dagger concept where the outside guy runs a deep in route and the inside guy runs a seam basically throughout the entire offense different route combinations whether it be three man combinations or two man combinations all of the different routes are told to the wide receivers the tight ends and the running backs with one word a word like circus a word like A word like ram. Tosser Ghost was the biggest play that Tom Brady ran with the Patriots all throughout his career.

Tosser is double slants. The inside guy in the outside do a slant. Ghost is where the outside guy runs a deep route down the sideline and the inside guy runs a deep out route. Okay, so what can happen is, Cam can have full control at the line of scrimmage. Whereas in other systems like the West Coast system, each route is named. when you hear those super long, chunky NFL plays, X spot, Z cross, Y sit, you know, F this, blah, blah, that is West Coast. And think when you're at the line of scrimmage, if you come out and you have a route concept that is designed to beat cover 2, but the defense comes out and is showing cover 4, or they're showing cover 3, or they're showing quarter quarter half, cover 6. Well, how are you going to be able to tell your wide receivers how to change the play?

It's going to be very difficult if you have to go, X, change to this, Y, change to this, Z change to this, F, change to this, and you've got to do each individual guy. Wouldn't it be much easier if you could look at both your wide receivers and go, ghost, ghost. Or if they have tosser on and you can say, tosser, kill, kill, kill the tosser. Ghost, ghost, ghost, kill, kill, coffee, coffee. Wouldn't it be easier to operate at the line of scrimmage?

That's exactly how Tom Brady dominated the NFL for 20 plus years. Because instead of having to tell each individual guy their responsibility, he could simply tell them a concept. And here's the other thing where it really gets special. Is it doesn't matter what personnel. It doesn't matter what alignment you have. And I'm gonna break all of this stuff down with film from Brian Dable's offense with the New York Giants on the Tick-Tac Titans YouTube channel.

If you're not subscribed there, you gotta go over and subscribe to the Tick-Tac Tid-Tit-Tyton. YouTube channel where I actually show you all of the film that we talk about on this show. But again, Tom Brady could go up tempo. Think about the two minute drill. Rather than having to tell each individual guy what their new route is, you could just yell a concept and it doesn't matter whether, oh, you got trips to one side with three wide receivers. Oh, what if it's two tight ends in a wide receiver?

What if it's a wide receiver or a tight end and a running back? Doesn't matter if I yell a certain word out at those guys, No matter who's outside, inside, in the slot, no matter whether it's a tight-in, a wide receiver, or running back, doesn't matter if they have the concept memorized. They know, oh, I'm the outside guy. I got to run this route. Oh, I'm the inside guy. In the ghost concept, I got to run the deep out.

So it just creates the ability for a quarterback to have full control over the offense and have access to the entire offense the entire time. And again, that's different than the West Coast system where each individual player has to have their route spelled out to them. X spot, Z cross, Y hook, ready set. No, we're just going to say, ghost. You know what I mean? It just simplifies very complex things

to allow the quarterback to, with simplicity, explain to his offense what he wants to do. And again, in a two-minute drill, an up-tempo offense. It's so much easier for the quarterback to change the play. Change and basically at any point in time, at any point in time at the line of scrimmage, Cam Ward will be able to change which route concepts he wants on both sides of the field. Say he gets a man look on one side and they're running a cover four look, a diamond look on the other side. Well, the play that we called in the huddle was meant to beat cover two on this side and cover four on this side.

Well, that's not what we got. So I'm going to change it to a route concept that can beat the coverage that we saw. And again, in two minute drill, in no huddle situations, where Cam Ward is very good and up tempo. And the Titans didn't do enough tempo. Well, now they can. And not only can they do more up tempo, but Cam Ward has access to the entire playbook the entire time. And again, what I like the most is, is that it doesn't matter what personnel grouping you're in. You're in three tight ends.

And then you formation shift from a traditional three tight end set. And you have two tight ends split out wide, one wide receiver and another tight end split out on the the other side. You can run any two-man concept that you want no matter who is out there. You can have a wide receiver and a tight end, motion a running back out of the back field and have the running back be in the slot. If I look over at those guys and I call a three-man concept, China, coffee, RAM, they know it. They know it so you don't need specific personnel and specific people in specific places. If you memorize the formations and you memorize the route concept names, you know everything no matter where you are. Oh, the inside most guy in coffee and I'm not saying these are exact things.

I'm just giving you examples here. The inside guy in coffee runs a deep post. I'm the running back. I'm the most inside guy in the trips. Cam Ward just called coffee. I'm gonna run the deep post. That's how it can work and again, the West Coast system you gotta tell each individual person their route and assignment

which makes play calls super wordy and makes it hard to change things on the fly because you gotta give each individual person new direct Think about being able to yell out your furthest most way. I'm gonna yell out to my X wide receiver when I'm in the middle of, you know, Pittsburgh and the crowd's going crazy and renegades playing and they're waving the towels. No, but if I can just yell one word to the slot guy

and the slot guy can yell out to the X one word, now we're going to be able to change the play more effectively, more efficiently, and in the Air Coriel system it's even more complicated because they use the number system. I'm sure a lot of you guys have heard routes described as, numbers. A nine route is a go route. A zero route is a smoke. You know, a six route is a deep in. A seven is a corner. An eight is a post. The number system, well, the Dallas Cowboys ran that with Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin. And yeah, when you only had three wide receivers or three guys

going out for passes back in the 80s and early 90s, you could say 689. 689. But NFL offenses are way more modernized and complex than that now. So, a modernized version of the Earnhard Perkins system is absolutely perfect for Cam Ward to utilize his greatest strength and that is his mind because he will have access to any route combination in the playbook that he wants no matter what personnel, what alignment, what the situation and that right there is special stuff. And again, I'm going to show you what I mean on film over at the Ticktack Titans YouTube channel. Make sure that you go and subscribe over there. But now we got to talk about the run game, the RPO game, the QB run game, the QB run game,

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is perfect for Cam Ward. But we just talked about the passing game and the concepts in the passing game are absolutely critical. But Brian Dable has actually had the most success in his career in the run game. And I think what he brings to the ground game and the option. that he gives Cam Ward also will really help Cam Ward take his game to the next level. Before we dive in, I do want to thank you again for making Locked on Titans your first listen each and every day. Make sure that you get subscribed, stay subscribed again. It's your team every day and you're not gonna beat this anywhere else But in the run game

What I like about Brian Dable's system is it's multiple and we got a little bit of taste of this with Bill Callahan's run game system that we just saw where it wasn't like Arthur Smith or the the early days of Todd Downing, where it was all zone runs, inside zone, mid zone, outside zone. I mean, Derek Henry killed teams for years on that outside zone stretch run. Absolutely killed him and then the Titans would bootleg off of that and play action off of that and it would create open opportunities for AJ Brown and boy, weren't those good times folks. Weren't those good times. But they're on the way back, okay? They're on the way back.

But again, Brian Dable not only runs inside zone, mid zone. outside zone, zone, zone toss. But he also mixes in power runs as well, which we saw in the later years of Todd Downing, Tim Kelly. Tim Kelly ran Earhart Perkins as well because it's been modernized and kept alive by the Patriots. Josh McDaniels did this.

Charlie Weiss in the early 2000s is really credited with modernizing the system and turning it into a spread offense for Tom Brady. And again, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning destroyed the NFL. with this with their mind because they could do so many different things. But multiplicity in the run game is absolutely critical as well. And along with the zone runs that we're talking about,

there's also power runs, counter, G power where you have a pulling guard who kicks out a defensive end, counter where you have a tight end in the backside guard, pulling to the front side of the run to kick people out and lead up into the hole. And Daible gets so creative with how he uses that. Daible likes to run crowded backfields is what I would call. He will run Full House. He will run Pony.

What's Full House? Full House would imagine a quarterback in the pistol. The running back directly behind him. And two tight ends, because fullbacks really aren't part of the NFL as much anymore outside of San Francisco and Kyle Justneck. But Brian Daibble uses his tight ends like fullbacks. And he'll have two tight ends next to the quarterback.

That's called a full house alignment. because you have the running back and two tight ends next to the quarterback, it's a full house in the backfield, okay? And what he'll do is he'll use that to utilize his tight ends as lead blockers, as fullbacks, or think about a split flow action in an inside zone. You know how the Titans will just hand it off

on an inside run and the tight end will go across the formation behind the offensive line and cut off the backside defensive end? You're going to have better access and be able to get to that defensive end a lot quicker if you're lined up in the line up in backfield rather than being on the line of scrimmage outside of the offensive tackle. So, Dable is very good about manipulating the spacing in the backfield to create good angles to get to blocks.

Okay, so he does that in the power game and we just saw this year the Titans ran a ton of counter with G.H counter or GY counter. They ran a ton of power with Peter Skoronsky pulling and kicking out. So the Titans being able to do inside zone, mid zone, outside, zone. Toss plays that are zone-based. And then also mix in power counter, power pools, buck sweeps. The Titans ran a ton of plays where they would have, remember the big time play against the Cleveland Browns where Tony Pollard ran for a 65-yard touchdown? That was a power pool play where there were two pullers going out on the outside. The center and the front side guard, Kevin Zitler, both pulled out to the outside. One of them was able to kick out a defensive back.

the other one led up and took the next guy and it created a massive hole for Tony Pollard. So you're going to get the zone runs that are so prevalent in the Kyle Shanahan type schemes and you're going to get the power runs that are more effective in today's NFL because of the two high safety looks that a lot of defenses are doing. Okay?

So when you have all those different run games in the bag you're able to effectively attack whatever defense you need to attack. However they're playing you, you have a run game. And of course, Duo is a big part of that as well. That'll probably be the big staple. It was the Titans. Most used run and Duo is just an inside run to the running back

where there are two double teams. Imagine the center and the guard and then the guard and the tackle. Both double teaming the defensive tackles. And then after the double team is complete, one of those guys on each double team slides up to a linebacker at the second level. It's the most common run play in the NFL right now, the most standard inside run you could have. So, duo, counter, power, bucks,

weeks to the outside combined with inside zone, mid zone, outside zone and zone toss. Absolutely fantastic. And then you play action off of that. When you have that many runs and defenses have to worry about is this going to be zone? Where is it going? Is this going to be power? How do

I set up? When you have that many things going it becomes easier to full defenses with your play action looks because they're going to be so off balance trying to guess which run it is that they might not even notice it's not a run at all. It's play action. And we know we saw Cam Ward look.

I don't think that Cam Ward is a Ryan Tannahill quarterback where he has to operate off of play action all the time. He's not a Jared Golf type quarterback. We know that Cam Ward has more in his bag as a talent than Jared Golf or Ryan Tannahill have. That's just a reality here. But those things can be very helpful. And we know that Cam Ward is great with his mobility,

getting outside of the pocket, playmaking. So those bootlegs off those zone runs. Those bootlegs off of a counter and then he moves the launching point and slides outside. All of those different things are going to help Cam Ward so much. So I love the fact that the Titans are still going to have a multiple run game and how the play action passing game goes off of that. Now, if we're talking about the run game, we have to talk about QB run. And listen, I do not think that Cam Ward is as good of a runner as Jalen Hertz,

Josh Allen, Daniel Jones, Jackson Dart. But I think Cam Ward can use his legs more in short-yarded situations. And Brian Dable is an expert at running QB power, which is basically like just QB straight up the middle with a pulling guard in front of him. Or QB counter, where you fake the handoff to the running back going to the left and then two pulling linemen come to the right. And the quarterback basically takes a counter step to the left and then fakes the hand off and comes back to the right with two pullers in front of him.

Jackson Dart scored on that and had massive amounts of plays and yardage on that. Now, I wouldn't be using Cam Ward on QB counter and power in the middle of the field, but in the red zone, in short yardage, when you got to have it, Cam Ward has enough athleticism to run those kind of plays. Quarterback draw as well, you don't need to be Josh Allen to run quarterback draw. Brian Daibble was running quarterback draw with Russell Wilson, who's, you know, 40 years old at this point. Cam Ward and empty coffee coffee tosser tosser

You know what I love to do in Madden when I play somebody locally? I love to do hot routes before a run play Because they see the quarterback doing the animations that they do when they cut And they think it's a pass and then I run it Bam gotcha cam Ward can do that in this offense Hey I have a running back and a tight end in the backfield Shift Running back splits out tight end

splits out, now we're in an empty set. Defense adjust, they spread out. Cam Ward of the five, the four, the three yard line, hike, fake, quarterback draw in the end zone. That sort of, I don't think that Cam Ward's going to be Lamar Jackson, Jalen Hertz, Josh Allen, but those sorts of short-yardage QB run plays, Cam Ward is absolutely going to be able to execute them in proper situations. Now we don't want him to get hurt and again I don't think that he can execute those in the 20 to 20 range because you just don't want them to do that. But short yardage, fourth down, got to have it, goal line, red zone. I think he's capable of doing that.

And then you add in the RPO game. And look, RPO, as I explained earlier this week, RPO is different than a read option. When you're thinking about a read option, it's the quarterback can hand it to the running back or he can keep it himself and run. And Cam Ward can do that again, short yardage goal line. but RPO is either hand it to the running back or throw the ball. It's a run pass option. That does not include Cam Ward running.

Now, some college offenses also have a quarterback run tag in there. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that RPO's at the college level don't also include the option for a quarterback to run. And quite frankly, on a couple of RPO's during the season, Cam Ward had to run because the pass option wasn't there. The run option wasn't there. And then he's caught in no man's land. and you can't throw the ball because then it'll be illegal man downfield

because the offensive line has already started run blocking and you've got to get the ball out of your hands quick. But Brian Dable ran 12% RPO's in New York last year with Jackson Dart and Cam Ward ran RPO very, very well in Miami. So the Titans barely did RPO with Cam Ward as much as I expected to see it last year. They ticked it up after Brian Callahan left. But Brian Callahan never used Cam Ward. on any run plays.

I got this from Toron Davidsport from ESPN. Shout out my guy TD. But he even said in the video, the Titans ran nine design quarterback runs last year and eight of them were after Callahan got fired. So Callahan just was so committed to that West Coast system. He wouldn't get Cam Ward moving properly. He wouldn't utilize the RPO properly.

And that's what I thought Brian Callahan was specifically going to do with Cam Ward. But we know that Brian Dable will do that. So whether it's the concept-based Earnhardt Perkins, pass system, whether it's the multiplicity in the run game, the play action off of that, the quarterback run game and short yardage and goal line, or the RPO game that Cam Ward has proven that he can do so well, this system is absolutely perfect for what Cam Ward is, what he's going to be, and it's going to get the absolute best out of him as well. But we've talked a bunch of offense.

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boom Seattle Seahawks that won a championship in the two thousand teens Russell Wilson Richard Sherman Cam Chancellor Earl Thomas all those different guys that was a cover three based scheme so they run primarily cover three which is two deep the outside corners, one deep safety playing free safety. Your other safety is more of a box safety that comes up and plays against the run and his physical. Basically, Robert Sala cut his teeth in that system early in Seattle. Then he went to Jacksonville with Gus Bradley and worked under him. Then he went to San Francisco and became a defensive coordinator himself and has basically

evolved his scheme throughout the years in San Francisco in New York because a lot of NFL teams nowadays are running match cover 4. Now cover 4 is split the field into quarters. Outsides, a quarter of the field. Inside safeties, a quarter of the field. So when Robert Salah has specifically cover 3 and cover 4 coverages, it allows him to run single high safety looks or two high safety looks, depending on what he needs to do. And the way that cover 4 is run these days,

it's basically match cover 4 where it's zone, but as the routes declare themselves, It turns into man. Think if you're the backside safety and you're playing a deep middle quarter and a crossing route comes from the other side of the field, you would pick that up and turn it into man coverage and you would ride that crosser across the field

because if you don't, think if there's a vertical route on the outside and the outside corner goes with the vertical route down the field. If that backside safety didn't stay with the crosser, the crosser would be wide open where that cornerback went vertical with the other wide receiver. So you have to play some somewhat match coverage in the NFL nowadays. And Robert Salah has taken the heavy cover three version of his defense

and added in cover four principles so that he can be more dynamic. And I absolutely love that. So that's what the Titans are going to want to do on defense now. Heavy zones, cover three, cover four match. That's what Robert Salo wants to do. On the front end of things, I see a lot of conversation about 4-3, 3-4. Guys, 60 to 70% of defensive snaps are played in nickel with five defensive backs on the field.

It is an antiquated conversation to talk about 4-3 and 3-4. What you need to be talking about is player skill sets. What kind of skill set does Robert Salah want from his defense event? What kind of skill set does Robert Salah want from his interior defensive run? What kind of skill set does he need from his stand-up linebackers, his safeties from his corners. And again, we talked about the defensive backfield. You need diverse, versatile

safeties that can play different kinds of coverages. You need outside cornerbacks with length that can drop back into zones. And then on the front, rather than focusing on it's a four or three, think about it like this. Robert Sala plays exclusively four-man fronts. And if you were watching the show

during the season, week 15, when the Titans played San Francisco, I broke all this down too. This guy refuses to put five or six guys on the line of scrimmage in any capacity. He wants four guys on the line of scrimmage at all times.

And what he likes is penetrators. He doesn't want big, large nose tackles, two gappers. There are two ways to look at defensive line play. Two gappers and one gappers. So think about a traditional nose tackle like a Tierra tart, like a Vince Wilfork from the new instance.

is a guy that gets brought up like a Tavondre Sweat who is a guy who his responsibility because he's so big and strong is to take up two different gaps at the same time that is not what Robert Salah likes Robert Salah likes quick interior defensive lineman that are only responsible for one gap and they want to penetrate that gap shoot off the line of scrimmage get through that gap and slow it down that's what Robert Salah is looking for from his defensive lines And with that, if you're only going to have four guys on the line of scrimmage, your defensive ends better be able to set the edge.

Because if you have a weak-bodied defensive end that can't set the edge, like Arden Key, for example, and you're only going to have four guys on the line of scrimmage, then they're going to get run at non-stop and blown off the ball. So Robert Salo want strong, physical, bigger defensive ends on the outside so that they can set a firm edge in the run game since they're not going to have a lot of help with only four guys on the line of scrimmage.

Also, as I mentioned before, most of the game is played in nickel. That's five defensive backs on the field. And Robert Sala plays mostly, not a 4-3. He plays mostly a 4-2-5, which is what Dernard Wilson ran a lot of. Now, what they do schematically on defense, Dernard Wilson was way more multiple

with his zone coverages. quarter quarter half cover six. He'd run cover four man. He'd one standard cover forward zone. He'd run cover three. He'd run cover two. He'd run man coverage. Salah isn't that multiple with his coverages on defense. So they're both running a ton of nickel four to five, but the way that they do it is different. But nonetheless, when you run five defensive backs, your slot cornerback better be physical. And I think Kevin Winston isn't going to be a full-time slot, but I think Kevin Winston has the perfect skill set

to play that nickelback in the early down 425 defense of Robert Sala. We saw Dernard Wilson use Kevin Winston that way. We see Jalen Petrie, who is a safety in college, who's now more of a nickelback. Caleb Downs from Ohio State who's coming out in the draft. He's a guy who is probably going to play a lot of nickel in these big nickel packages. See, when you have three safeties on the field

and instead of having a slot cornerback, you have a nickel back who's a safety, I call that big nickel for me. So that's what I refer to that personnel package as. So Kevin Winston is going to be able to operate perfectly in that system. But that means you have to have three good safeties. So that's my take on Robert Salah's defensive scheme and what to expect. Now as for what I want to hear from Robert Salah in the press conference,

Let me know what questions you would ask Robert Sala down below. But we've heard a lot about Robert Sala having a succession plan because if Brian Dable does well, he'll probably get hired as a head coach after the year. So apparently Robert Sala not only had a plan for offensive coordinator now, but also had a plan for the next offensive coordinator if Brian Dable was hired away. I want to know what that plan is. Maybe not specifically, but tell me a little bit about what you're thinking. thoughts are there. I want his philosophy on team building. Does he want to build in the trenches?

Does he think that the NFL is modernized and you've got to work outside in? I want to know what his thoughts on the current Titans players are. What's his plan for Femiola Dejo? What's his plan for Kevin Winston? What does he see in Jackson Slater on the offensive line? Does he think Elykeye O'Manor and Chimdeka and Gunner Helm or focal points? What's he think about running back? I want to know his personal philosophy on players that are already on the team. Of course that includes Cam Ward and then finally I want to hear about the background story of how he got hired by the Titans and I want to hear his thoughts on Mike Borganzi and their relationship during the interviews But with that being said again I'll be here tomorrow to break all that down for you guys make sure that you get subscribed stay subscribed

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