Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Locked on Titans: A look at impending free agents

Episode Date: January 18, 2018

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome in to another edition of Locked on Titans. I am Jimmy Morris, joined as always by Terry Lambert. Terry, how are you? Doing good. What's going on tonight? Not too much. Before we get started tonight, mybookie.ag, bringing you the podcast. Tonight we'll talk a little bit more about them in a little bit. But check out that site if you are into sports gambling.
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Starting point is 00:00:50 covering Titans for SB Nation. So we have multiple articles every day up there. So you can check that out to get all the most up-to-date information. So tonight we're going to talk a little bit about the coaching center what we know not a whole lot new from yesterday and then get a little bit into the players that were on the titans roster that are that will be free agents when the new league year starts so we'll kind of
Starting point is 00:01:17 go through those guys and talk about what value they have to this team and what we think their place might be going forward if we think they'll be back or not, uh, just quickly to reset the, the coaching search thing. We still have the three confirmed interview or, you know, reported interviews,
Starting point is 00:01:32 Mike Vrabel, uh, Matt LaFleur, and Wilkes are the three that we know the Titans are going to interview. Uh, it's been snowing here in Nashville. We talked about that last night a little bit, but that has kind of delayed things for a couple of days.
Starting point is 00:01:48 This city kind of shuts down when that comes. So Vrabel, I think, is supposed to be here on Thursday. So the Timeshift was talking to him. I've seen reports tonight that Steve Wilkes was en route, that his interview got pushed back. But it sounds like that interview will take place sometime before the weekend and in the same number. So those three guys are still what we have, what we know.
Starting point is 00:02:12 And, again, the Titans will be watching very closely the conference championship games this weekend because you've got to figure they are going to want to interview a person or multiple people from the Eagles staff and or the Patriots staff. So I think as a Titans fan, we should probably cheer. Well, I was going to say we should probably cheer for the Jaguars. I don't think I can do that. So anyway, so yeah, it's not.
Starting point is 00:02:38 But anyway, so that there, and then you can cheer for the Vikings, and hopefully those Eagles guys can get here if the Titans want to talk to them. So that's kind of where we are on that. Nothing really new there. If you check out our site, musicseamirrors.com, our friend Mike wrote a post today kind of getting you ready for free agency as far as guys that are on the current Titans roster are concerned. So we're kind of going to go through these guys one by one,
Starting point is 00:03:06 and Terry and I will kind of give you some thoughts on the player and what we think their role could be with the 2018 Tennessee Titans and beyond. So the first guy on the list, probably the most recognizable name, is Avery Williamson. And, you know, Williamson, he's a solid player. I would say he's been a little bit disappointing because I think the Titans were counting on him being an every down linebacker this year. That didn't happen.
Starting point is 00:03:37 He got outplayed by Wesley Woodard. And so Williamson was really in there on run downs and wasn't when they moved to nickel or something like that. So, you know, he's a guy that I think they would like to have back. I mean, I think he's a good player, but I doubt they're going to put as much of a premium on him as some Titans fans probably think they should. Yeah, and it's a personnel thing.
Starting point is 00:04:00 We talked last night about each guy and what changes they might make defensively and offensively. So we don't know if the Titans are going to be moving back to a 4-3, if they're going to stay in the 3-base. So obviously if you move to a 4-3, one of those linebackers come off the field. So that's something to keep in mind too. Avery is interesting. I feel like he's he's been good for where his draft slot was uh i don't know that he's a difference maker though
Starting point is 00:04:31 so if forced to choose between avery and wesley woodyard and that choice is easy to me uh you know wesley you don't have to have to bring off the field on third down passing situation so i'm really interested to see what they do with Avery. They might keep him on just simply for depth, but his problem might be the guys behind him in Jayon Brown. They can do a lot more of those things. They can fly around the field. And, you know, Avery's kind of a throwback player, whereas Jayon's kind of the new age linebacker.
Starting point is 00:05:08 So there's a very good possibility in my mind that Avery could hit the market. Yeah, I think that is a very real possibility. And like you said, I guess an important caveat that we should have up front is we don't know that they're still going to be running a 3-4, depending on who they hire. So with the defensive guys, and even, I mean, offensive guys don't know what the scheme is like, what the new coach is going to want. So, I mean, you don't have, you don't know all that there,
Starting point is 00:05:35 but it's a little bit more important on defense to kind of put that in context. But, yeah. And, you know, Wesley Woodyard was, I mean, one of the best stories, I think, of the other 17 Titans in a year when we saw a lot of offensive players regress uh woodyard had his best year uh since he's been here and um you know his best year in quite a while so yeah i mean woodyard is under contract through 2019 and owed a ton of money 2 $2.7 million in 2018, $2.95 in 2019. So, you know, it's still a manageable number there for a guy that played as well as he
Starting point is 00:06:11 did last year. So, like we said, I mean, if Williamson could have pushed Woodruff off the field, it'd be a little bit of a different conversation. But since he didn't, I don't know. It'll just be interesting. I don't know if they're going to place a premium on him. And then, again, so much of free agency comes down to how much does the guy slash his agent think that the player is worth?
Starting point is 00:06:33 Does the team think he's worth? And if those numbers are really far apart, then you'll see the guy hit the market. A lot of times you'll see – I mean, you see it go either way. A team may undervalue a guy. He may think that he's worth a number. He goes out there and he gets it early in a free agency and he's gone. Sometimes a guy goes out and he can't find the number that he wanted, so he's willing to come back to a team for the number that the team had kind of told him
Starting point is 00:06:55 that he was worth in the beginning. It'll be interesting to watch, but I do think there's a pretty good chance that Williamson hits the market. Doesn't mean he won't re-sign with the Titans, but he's a guy that I think you'll see, go out there and test it, and we'll just kind of see what it is for him. The next guy on Mike's list was Quentin Spain. He's a restricted free agent.
Starting point is 00:07:15 He's a guy that I think the Titans would definitely want to have back. A very solid player, a nice find as an undrafted free agent. And, you know, he's a guy that has gotten i think better every year um he was a little bit up and down this past year but he's a solid guy and then the next guy on the list we'll kind of group these together is josh klein he's also a free agent he's a guy that that wasn't very good uh in 2000 in 2017 and, he wasn't that good in 2016 either, but the rest of the line was so good that they were kind of able to cover up for him. I can't see them letting both of those guys walk,
Starting point is 00:07:53 so you would imagine that at least Spain will be back. But kind of give me your thoughts on Spain and Klein and what you think their future is here. There's no chance Spain leaves, in my mind. He's shown high upside as a young guy undrafted free agent uh big powerful he's your left guard of the future i think he'll be here for the next several years down the road i don't think it's even worth talking about uh josh klein is where it gets interesting because he was kind of the band-aid that they rolled out
Starting point is 00:08:23 last year when chance warmack went down uh and it just kind of worked out interesting because he was kind of the band-aid that they rolled out last year when Chance Wormack went down. And it just kind of worked out to where he was the starter, and he played really well in that role. But it's a spot where you can get better, and it's a spot, honestly, that took a step back this year as opposed to last year. Just not very strong, doesn't move like some of these guards do in today's game so I think Greg Cosell said it a few weeks ago the Titans need to get more athletic up front for what they did and of course he was talking about Markey's scheme but this
Starting point is 00:08:58 works in general if you're going to pull guards and stuff you got to be more athletic you got to be able to get to the spot where you're needed to go. Maybe Josh Klein can't do that. So, you know, he was part of the Band-Aid that fixed up this offensive line, and he's kind of served his worth. So it wouldn't surprise me if the Titans kind of let him hit the market and maybe even brought him back as a depth guy if they can find someone to replace him.
Starting point is 00:09:25 Yeah, and that's the thing. When you talk about interior offensive linemen, the hope there is, right, that you don't have to spend a lot of money or an early pick on these guys, that you can find a guy in kind of the middle of the draft that is good enough that you can plug those holes with. And that was the strength of the Titans for a lot of years. When Mike Munchak was the offensive line coach here, they found all kinds of guys, unrestricted free agents, late-round draft picks,
Starting point is 00:09:54 that came in and played really well and ended up getting a bunch of money to go play somewhere else, and they would just kind of find the next guy to plug in for them. They haven't had as much success with that lately, but Quentin Spain is an undrafted guy, so obviously they've still been able to do that a little bit so um yeah i mean i just i don't know it'll be it'll be a watch with klein and uh brian schwenke we can throw in this list also who you know they brought in on a one-year deal this year um and again similar type deal depth guy uh if you have them as your guy that fills in when somebody goes down, that's good.
Starting point is 00:10:27 Brian Schwinke is a good backup interior offensive lineman, not necessarily a great starter, but a guy that's good to come in and plug some holes. So, yeah, we'll just kind of see how that plays out. But, yeah, I think you're right. Spain's back, and then I think we have a new right guard next year. The next one is Eric Decker. Terry had a great line before we came on about the chances Eric Decker is back with the team. So I'll let you go ahead and run with that one.
Starting point is 00:10:51 Yeah, I think we both agree that there's no shot Eric Decker comes back. And I say, you know, maybe if they hire his dad to be the next head coach, maybe he comes back. But, no, what a disappointment. I mean, you talk about a guy that's just solid as a rock for the last seven, eight years in the league, did nothing but catch touchdowns from Peyton Manning and from whoever was throwing him the ball with the Jets, and he comes here and he can't catch a ball. So he really wasn't involved in the offense until about halfway through the year.
Starting point is 00:11:23 So a swing and a miss, I think, on all of our parts. I think everybody thought that he was just going to walk in and catch ten touchdowns and everything was going to be great. I think that was not totally on him. It was somewhat on Mariota. It was somewhat on the disconnect of this offense as a whole. But, you know, I just – they drafted Taewon Taylor for a reason and I could see him
Starting point is 00:11:47 moving into this role but unless he just doesn't progress at all I don't see any way Decker's back yeah and that's the thing I mean you know I think we had maybe a little bit unrealistic expectations for Eric Decker when they
Starting point is 00:12:03 signed him I never thought he was going to be a thousand yard receiver but like you said I thought he would be a big touchdown unrealistic expectations for Eric Decker when they signed him. I never thought he was going to be a 1,000-yard receiver. But like you said, I thought he would be a big touchdown scorer for this team, a threat in the red zone, a guy that would come in and run the right route and consistently catch the ball. And I don't know they did any of that stuff. So it was just kind of weird. And again, I don't know if we're ever going to know exactly what all went down
Starting point is 00:12:22 with the offense this year, but Decker just seemed to be another one of this group of offensive players that for whatever reason, it just didn't work out. You know, he was hurt in training camp. That didn't help anything. But, yeah, it was a disappointment all the way around. And a guy that we really thought was going to be a dependable guy, a guy that Corey Davis could learn some things from and all that stuff. And it just didn't play out that way.
Starting point is 00:12:46 So I don't envision him being back with this team. That may be the end of his career. Who knows? But it just didn't come to fruition like we thought it would. All right, we've got a few more guys on this list that we will talk about, and we will do that here in just a sec. Okay, so the next guy on the list is Daquan Jones. Now, he's a little bit of an interesting guy.
Starting point is 00:13:10 Again, you know, you've got to take the scheme into consideration. But a guy that, you know, had been propped up for a couple of years that the coaching staff was excited about. We hadn't really seen it come to fruition until the last couple games before he tore his biceps in week 13 and had to go on ir did a surgery to get that repaired so a guy that looked like he was about to make himself a bunch of money um because it seemed like he was really you know coming on at the right time and then you know went down so he's a guy that'll be interesting to see what kind of what kind of money he gets
Starting point is 00:13:41 and again might be a guy that ends up going to the market just because he's going to think that there's going to be a team out there that's going to be willing to pay him you know based on his potential we see that all the time in free agency right a guy that has shown some flashes but hasn't necessarily put it all together uh sometimes the team would be willing to overpay for that but again a guy that you know you would like for the titans to bring back has it has a role especially if they're still in a 3-4 defense. Didn't maybe come on as quickly as we hoped
Starting point is 00:14:10 he would, but he did start to show some of that promise that they drafted him for right before he got hurt. Yeah, I thought Daquan's been solid since he's been here. He's not going to show up on the highlight reel, but he makes a lot of down and dirty plays in the game game and he's
Starting point is 00:14:25 really strong in that area so two things uh you said and how much money will he get he was really coming on when he got hurt um but like you said he hadn't really shown you know that he can really put together a stretch of solid play um of being a difference maker i should say so and then you've got austin johnson who played in the spot, and the Titans really didn't miss a beat. So how does that affect things? I think it kind of devalues Daquan. So I don't really have a good reader on Jones.
Starting point is 00:14:57 Of course you want to have him back. You like to have him for depth. He's a solid starter. It's just one of those spots where, you spots where I think the Titans could probably draft a guy and get there, or they could plug in Austin Johnson and be fine and not fall off too much, but at the same time it turns into a numbers game. So Daquan's an interesting one. I don't really have a prediction either way.
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Starting point is 00:16:48 So, again, check them out, mybookie.ag. All right, so the next guy on this list is Ryan Suckup. You know, he was obviously the model of consistency, especially early in the year. I mean, a guy that was a good find kind of right before the season started a couple years ago when the chiefs cut him uh in in favor of santos out there uh so he's he's coming he's been a guy that's come in and been solid so um i would imagine that he ends up the team yeah same uh just been solid as a rock uh dependable i can't really think of too many instances where he let the team down. Like Mike said in the article, he's 32 years old.
Starting point is 00:17:29 I would totally extend that. We've seen teams that move on from a kicker and then go through one guy after another after another just not being able to find a guy that's steady. The Titans have got that, so I can't imagine him being
Starting point is 00:17:44 anywhere else. Next guy on the list, Eric Walden. We talked a lot as the year went on. One of the biggest issues the Titans had was depth at outside linebacker before the season started. Walden was a guy that was on the free agent market for a long time, probably thought that he was going to get more money than he ended up getting. But he signed a one-year deal, came in, was really solid.
Starting point is 00:18:04 And we expect the Titans to address that position in the draft again you know let's assume just for a minute that they stay as a 3-4 defense they've got to get some depth there i mean derrick morgan and brian arachpo are good players but they're up there in age and just more than that you need to have guys behind them they can come in and play, that can spell them, or that are there if they get hurt. So, like I said, you'll expect a guy or two from the draft to join that position group. But if you can get Eric Walden on another one-year deal or something similar to what they did last year, I don't think you have anything to lose. He came in and played really well.
Starting point is 00:18:40 Yeah, assuming they stay in the 3-4, if they get to a 4-3, I doubt he's back. But what a find. And I'm not sure why he was still out there. But the Titans would be lost as a defense without him because the time that Derek Morgan missed. And then really just the consistency that he brought to the team. I thought he was the best pass rusher on the team. Even better than Brian Arakpo at times. So he seemed to really to the team. I thought he was the best pass rusher on the Titans, even better than Brian Arakpo at times.
Starting point is 00:19:12 So he seemed to really bend the edge and really get after passers. So that statement right there should tell you the state of the Titans pass rushers and how big of a need it is going forward. But, you know, Kevin Dottie is not going to give you anything. We talked about that last night. So, yeah, I would expect Walton back. Yeah, next guy on the list, Bryce McCain. Is there any reason to believe that Bryce McCain will be back here next year? No.
Starting point is 00:19:34 Goodbye. I don't know. It was pretty clear, you know, once LaShawn Sims went down and then, you know, McCain got a little bit of a run, but then Ty Smith got out there and looked you know like a lot better than Bryce McCain so yeah I can't see any scenario where he's back here next up yeah yeah absolutely yeah uh next on the list Harry Douglas Mike Malarkey's boy Harry Douglas you know nobody was sadder that Mike Malarkey got fired than Harry Douglas because
Starting point is 00:20:04 he's worried about if he's gonna to have a job next year or not because there's no other scenario where he's on any NFL team next year. You know, maybe he gets with the Browns. As Mike said in the write-up here, there's a 100% chance the Browns sign him. Mike Mulcahy's a free agent. There is the off-court there. But, you know, a guy that we talked about all year, we just kind of wondered why he was on the roster uh joked a little bit you know when he returned to practice after you know being on ir we we knew there was 100 chance
Starting point is 00:20:34 that they were going to activate him um and they ended up doing that but just not not anything that uh that is going to be a part of this team going forward yeah and they activated him for the uh new england game so i just knew that the titan season was going to come down to a pass to Harry Douglas. Thankfully it didn't. I didn't want to see that. I'd rather get Bulls to do that. But, yeah, there's no reason for Harry Douglas to be on this roster. I feel like people forget about Tajay Sharp,
Starting point is 00:21:00 who's still going to be in the mix next year. You've got Taewon Taylor. We're thinking that Eric Decker's still going to be in the mix next year. You've got Taewon Taylor. We're thinking that Eric Decker's going to be out of the mix, but they'll probably bring in another face to kind of battle those guys for that fifth, sixth receiver role. I just can't see any other team, any other coaching staff, latching on to Harry Douglas like Malarkey did. No, there's absolutely no way.
Starting point is 00:21:25 His NFL career, I would imagine, is over. Eric Weems, next guy on the list. You know, he was a guy that John Robinson signed in free agency pretty early on. And, you know, the Titans had some holes in special teams, and Eric Weems is a solid special teams player. You know, we assume the return man when he was signed. Obviously, they drafted Adore Jackson, so they didn't need him to do that but you know a guy that if you can if you still have that need on special teams uh you know obviously you know he got some snaps at water
Starting point is 00:21:55 which was boggling to me but he got some plays drawn up for him yeah yeah absolutely you got to get him got to get him his touches but But anyway, I mean, if he's back, fine, whatever. But I don't see him. You know, he was a guy, he was like the second or third free agent they signed last year. I don't see it being as much of a, I guess, I don't know if priority is the right word, or whatever it was last year. But a guy that comes in and makes solid contributions to those special teams. But so if he's here or not, whatever.
Starting point is 00:22:27 Yeah, pretty much the rest of these guys on the list are kind of like that. You've got Curtis Riley, Demontre Hurst. Swanky, we've talked about, is a good depth guy. That's the one guy left on this list that I might see back. But you've also got Brandon Whedon on there. So everybody, again, you can check out the list on musiccitymiracles.com. Everybody else is just kind of just regular turnover on an NFL roster. Yeah, yeah, there's really, like you said, there's not a whole lot left here.
Starting point is 00:22:58 So, you know, and obviously we'll see other things that happen. You've got Mike went on to talk about some guys that that could be uh you know that could end up getting cut possible extension i mean in some way they're going to do something with taylor lejuan uh they they picked up his fiction for next year so they could let him play on that or they could try to work out a a long-term deal with him would make sense to do it now and they got the cap money before you have to redo Marcus' contract. So that would be something to keep an eye on. I don't see anywhere where DeMarco Murray is back here next year.
Starting point is 00:23:32 Definitely not the number that he's at right now. So that will be another something to keep an eye on that we'll be monitoring as we go into free agency. But, you know, all in all, it's not the titans are not losing anybody from their core they really need about and they don't they still i mean like i said lawan but outside of that they still don't have a lot of guys to that they need to pay up for that are that are under like rookie contracts or whatever so they're they're still in a really good cap cap situation and still in a place where if there's a guy out there,
Starting point is 00:24:05 you know, a first-day big-ticket guy that John Robinson identifies as a guy that can come in and plug a hole, they still have the flexibility to go out and sign that guy if they want to. And that was part of the deal with Mike Malarkey. Did you really want... You remember the Seahawks window. They had all of these guys that they drafted on their rookie deals. So they still had plenty of cap room to go play
Starting point is 00:24:28 and go sign whoever they wanted and plug some holes. It's kind of where the Titans are. The roster is close to what the Seahawks had during that time. So don't get me wrong. But you still got all these guys on their rookie deals.
Starting point is 00:24:43 And you really didn't want to waste that. There was an expectation that Mike Malarkey was going to maximize those guys. So you get a new head coach in here. You get some innovative stuff going on. You fix Marcus Mariota. You make a couple splash signings and shore up the defense. And you're going places. So definitely an exciting thing to be a Titans fan right now.
Starting point is 00:25:09 You know, just having that window open. I'm not saying they're ready to go challenge Tom Brady or anything, but at least with a new coach there's hope again. I don't think there was any belief that Malarkey was the guy that could go take you and beat the Steelers or beat the Patriots on the road. Yeah, and I think you're exactly right, and that's something that can't be understated when you talk about the window. Because not only, I mean, when you talk about Marcus Mariota's career,
Starting point is 00:25:33 but they only have so much time with him while he's still cheap, and you have that cap flexibility where you're not paying all that money to your quarterback. That's going to end eventually, you hope. So, yes, I think that is important. you're not paying all that money to your quarterback that's going to end eventually you you hope so um yes i mean i think that is important and again you know just just kind of the ceiling with malarkey and see there so anyway i mean the titans are in a really good spot right now as far as you know cap room uh roster flexibility all those things and again you hope that that they've got some guys now that you know in a couple years they'll be wanting to work long-term deals for.
Starting point is 00:26:07 And that kind of thing, when you looked at the last couple years and how much cap room they had, and everybody's like, oh, you've got to spend all the money and the Titans are cheap and all that stuff. Well, I mean, you know, whatever. But, like, we know that more often than not, spending all that money on day one of free agency doesn't lead to success. not um sending that money on day one a free agency doesn't lead to success and the teams that are the best are the ones that are paying guys that they've drafted now again you don't you don't have to do that exclusively the new england patriots everybody always points to that they have at times spent money on free agents when they have you know a need that they and that they want to fill but you need to be drafting guys you need to be developing in them and then you want to be
Starting point is 00:26:44 paying those guys in their second contract that should be where the majority of your cap is being spent and the titans just didn't have anybody to do that on for the last couple of years so that's going to change um you know first with lawan then mariotta jack conklin i mean you've got a lot of guys that now you that are going to be coming up through and that you hope that they're going to want to spend money on so it should be a little bit different from that standpoint. But, you know, you're not surprised when you're seeing right now expiring rookie deals that you're not real torn up about if they leave because we're kind of at the back end of these Rustin Webster drafts.
Starting point is 00:27:20 Once we move into these guys with John Robinson, it should be a little bit of a different conversation. You talk about free agency. The Jaguars, the free agency champions of the last two years, it's finally paid off for them. But like we were saying before, they really didn't draft well enough to extend anybody, so they just spent all their money in free agency.
Starting point is 00:27:40 And to their credit, it's work. It's kind of going against the grain of what really works in the NFL. You don't typically see spending big money translate on the field. But I think they're clearly better. But that plus the AFC being down has kind of helped them out. Do you give them any chance this weekend against Tom Brady? You know, if you can pressure Brady without blitzing, you can have success there.
Starting point is 00:28:11 So, I mean, I give them a chance just because that defense is so good and they're front four, front seven. They're really good at getting up to the passer there. They've got corners. They can lock down the guys. They can afford a double gronk um because you they feel like their corners can win on the outside playing man to man i think they got a chance i just again to me it goes back to blake bortles and you've got blake bortles going to go going up against
Starting point is 00:28:36 bill belichick i just you know you can't like those odds um so i mean i think it could be a good game but i just can't see any scenario where you know, Blake Bortles is the one holding up that trophy instead of Tom Brady. But, you know, crazier things have happened. And in general NFL news, one thing that we could touch on just for a minute, Todd Haley, the Steelers are going to allow him to move on. His contract expired. They're going to sign him. And so, you know, he's a guy that's obviously had success as an NFL play caller.
Starting point is 00:29:10 But, you know, we were talking about before we jumped on here and i said in a post on the site today how hard could it be to call plays when you have roethlisberger and tony levy on bell a guy that is known to be stubborn to um you know not want to change what his game plan is regardless of what the other team is giving you or whatever and then um but you know he could be tied to vrabel i mean we don't we don't know any of this but very well played for uh played for him in kansas city when he was the head coach there so um but i put up a poll on the site and like we had 1200 votes and 87 of them said that they don't want him so i mean i feel like that was a it was set in the right. We're looking for fresh ideas here. And he just kind of seems like more of the same of what we've had.
Starting point is 00:29:50 Probably a little bit better, but just kind of similar in philosophy. And there's some off the field stuff there. So, first year, first time head coach, probably not the hire you want to go make. Just from a fit standpoint, that offense in Pittsburgh was so vertical. They took shots down the field. And we've seen Mario to have success. We've seen him being consistent. I just don't think the Titans have the receivers to really run that type of offense.
Starting point is 00:30:19 Like you said, Le'Veon Bell, Antonio Brown, Big Ben, how much is he really doing there? It seems to me like most of the NFL is probably going to stay away. He might land some analyst-type role as he kind of rehabs his career. Yeah. So anyway, that would be something to watch there. Just an interesting note there. But anyway, all right, so that will do it for tonight.
Starting point is 00:30:41 We'll be kind of flexible on the schedule going forward, maybe not for a week like we have been doing, but may continue to do that through the coaching search just so we can see, you know, as things play out there. Like I said, we know of the three confirmed interviews, and then we'll see what happens with the championship games and who else they're going to talk to next week after those games. We'll definitely be back on Monday with a new pod,
Starting point is 00:31:08 and hopefully we'll have some information to give you there. And then, obviously, once they hire a coach, we'll have a show kind of breaking that down. And as the staff is announced and all that kind of stuff, we'll be covering that. And then we'll take you through free agency, the draft. So we'll have a ton of stuff here and plenty of stuff to talk about, especially from now until the draft.
Starting point is 00:31:29 So we'll still be coming out with regular podcasts, so stay tuned. Obviously, check out musicmiracles.com. We'll have Fred there all the time. East-West Shrine game this weekend, Senior Bowl. I mean, all that stuff coming up, so stay tuned for that. Terry, anything else before we get out tonight? No, you hit it all. Alright, that sounds good. Like I said,
Starting point is 00:31:48 check us out at museummiracles.com. Follow us on Twitter. I'm at jmoresmcm. Terry is at tlmfb. You can subscribe to the podcast, Locked on Titans, right in review. We'd appreciate that. For Terry, this is Jimmy saying thanks for listening to Locked on Titans, and we will talk to you on Monday.

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