Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Tennessee Titans Cam Ward DISRESPECT CONTINUES, Backup QB Panic Meter & Tyjae Spears Injury Timeline

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

Cam Ward wasn't perfect in the Tennessee Titans preseason loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but he had a very good showing that earns him a B+ grade. As the first overall pick with that performance, the amount of disrespect Cam Ward is receiving in terms of coverage is quite insane. The reality is, that will only make his success feel sweeter. While Ward's play was exciting, the quarterbacks behind him left a lot to be desired, but that is by designed and should not change. However, panicking about the state of the defensive depth is certainly warranted. Tyjae Spears was carted off during Friday's game and his timeline has been announced by Brian Callahan. It seems more optimistic than what it looked coming out of the game. Plus, injury updates on a lot of other players like L'Jarius Sneed and T'Vondre Sweat! 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 Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Yahoo FantasyPresented by YahooFantasy #YahooPartner. Play Now at https://yahoofantasy.com/lockedonnfl.GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNFL for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime.FanDuelToday's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Football season is around the corner, visit the FanDuel App today and start planning your futures bets now.Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONNFL at monarchmoney.com/lockedonnfl for 50% off your first year.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)

I thought Cam Ward had a very good debut for the Tennessee Titans, but despite that, the disrespect continues. That and more 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 Roland Titans fans. Today's edition of the Locked on Titans podcast is brought to you by Game Time.

Download the GameTime app, create an account, use the code Locked on NFL for $20 off your first purchase on today's show. I'm going to give you guys a major injury update on Tage Spears. Talk about what's going on with Kevin Winston and we got updates on Lageria Sneed, Lloyd Cushenberry, Tewett. Also, I'm going to talk about the panic meter with backup quarterback, Femiola Dejo, and other things. But we'll start with my grade of Cam Ward's game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I gave them a B plus. I'm going to explain why, plus dive into how Cam Ward continues to get disrespected by the national NFL media.

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Couldn't do it without you guys. If you aren't an everydayer, you need to be one. On tomorrow's show, I'm going to do a preview of joint practices against the Atlanta Falcons. The Titans practice against the Falcons on Tuesday and Wednesday. I'll be here to break down everything you need to know. Coming out of those, I'll get you ready for the game. on Friday night and then the Titans play again. I'll be going live immediately after that

to break it all down. So much Titans content coming your way, not to mention all the film content that I'm going to be putting out this week for you guys. My Cam Ward film breakdown is already out on the TikTok Titans YouTube channel. Go ahead and check that out. I'm going to do Femiola Dejo, James Williams, some of the offensive line stuff. So much content. Again, make sure that you stay locked in with me here on the Locked on Titans podcast. But I gave Cam Ward a B plus. I look back at the tape Listen to Brian Callahan's press conference going over his evaluation of Cam Ward And going through I think B plus is the right grade

Now I can't give Cam Ward an A for a couple of different reasons One I thought the throw on third down on the first drive Was incredibly irresponsible Didn't make a lot of sense And going back and seeing it on tape Made me dislike that play more than even when I saw it in real time It was more risky and more unreasonable when you go back and watch it

there's nobody. Cam Ward's you think it's a throwaway it looked like a throwaway on the broadcast tape but really the ball lands in bounds next to two Tampa Bay Buccaneers it just didn't make a ton of sense and he missed Calvin Ridley on that play early Brian Callahan said that everyone gets mad at me all the time for pointing this stuff out but Brian Callahan said it himself that Cam Ward left the left the read a little too quick

and missed Calvin Ridley open over the middle so missing somebody who's open leaving a clean pocket making an irresponsible throw that was by far Cam Ward's worst play of the day in my opinion even worse than the near interception which was his other bad throw

but to me that was a bad throw and that was a learning experience Cam Ward is going up against cover two and you see the cornerback the cornerback supposed to sink into the flat in cover two but the cornerback runs vertically with Elyke Iomanor down the sideline on the vertical route and the hole isn't there that Cam Ward's trying to fit it into. That is a learning situation of hey, NFL corners are going to

play a little more instinctively. They're going to play a little more intuitively. I can't necessarily force that stuff down the sideline. So those are two bad plays from Cam Ward that for me prevent from giving him an A. But everything else that he did out there was absolutely fantastic. We saw the arm strength, we saw the arm angles, we saw the velocity, we saw the wherewithal to come back from adversity when things don't look great on a first and 20, on a third and nine, on a third and six in the red zone. He gets it done in all those circumstances. Professional operation ran the offense good, no pre-snap penalties, got everybody in the right spot.

We saw Cam Ward audibling adjusting protections, changing up things with the offense communicating with his teammates. he looked like a professional quarterback out there. So that's why even with two bad plays, is what I would call it. I gave Cam Ward a B-plus a very, very solid, very good debut for Cam Ward. Here's the frustrating part, in my opinion. Even though Cam Ward went 5 for 8, 67 passing yards, let a 65-yard touchdown, did all of the good things that I talked about,

even with the two bad plays mixed in there, you would have no idea that Cam Ward had a very very very good. good debut if you were just a casual NFL fan consuming NFL media and I know a lot of you guys out there are I don't care whether the media covers the team and and you know what the reality is the media covering Cam Ward how much they do it whatever that is not going to determine wins and losses and how successful Cam Ward is throughout his career so does that stuff ultimately matter but no I can't help it I've been a Tennessee Titans fan for 25 years and I'm just tired of all of the best players that I've always liked and even when the Titans have good teams, they just get disrespected, they never get the credit and that adulation that they deserve. And I'm tired of it. Look, I'm a fan of professional sports. None of this matters. Watching these grown men play a child's game for insane amounts of money

while we pay $15 a beer and $500 a ticket. None of this matters. So don't give me the argument that this doesn't matter. None of it matters at the end of the day. I want Cam Ward to get the respect that he deserves. I want him to get the treatment that he deserves. I want him to be covered properly. I want the Titans to get their respect.

I want the Titans brand to be elevated on a national level. And I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for caring about those things, whether they impact winning or not. And to see every ESPN video or every NFL network segment or all of these national shows, oh, Shador Sanders, Shador, and Shador deserves his shine. I'm not mad at him about this He played solid in his debut too

But I saw an ESPN video come across my YouTube feed And it had Chador It had Travis Hunter It had Jackson Dart In the headline In the tagline in the thumbnail But no Cam Ward And we just throw Cam Ward into the C block of the show

At the very end for a minute to just say Oh the Titans might have their guy And I'm tired of hearing This is the least talked about number one pick of all time Then talk more about him you got real football games to watch now where he's showing you the same things he showed you on tape talk about him it's on you everybody acts like they're a victim

oh cam words the least talked about like there's not well if all of you guys who were saying that he's the least talked about number one pick of all time talked about him more he wouldn't be so forgive me for going on a baby roland's rant here about this because again i understand that the impact this has on the wins and losses is long-term minimal, but I don't, I'm not just a professional sports fan because I like to watch games on Sundays. I'm a sports fan because I love all of it. I love the entire ecosystem. I love the conversations, the debates, the arguments online,

the stats, the all-time banter, the back and forth with, oh, I see a Jags fan at the golf course. Ah, screw the Jags, oh, forget your Titans, blah, blah, all of that. the entire ecosystem of being a sports fan is just as important as the games themselves. That's why we do it. That's why we care because it's so enjoyable. So forgive me if I'm annoyed that Cam Ward had a really good debut

and he's getting pushed to the back page for all these other guys who quite frankly don't deserve as much shine as Cam Ward does. But it's not on the players, it's on the coverage. So with that in mind, shout out the dart, shout out to Sanders. all had pretty good debuts out there, but Cam Ward did too, and he deserves to be discussed like the number one overall pick that he is.

But with that being said, Cam Ward was good, but there was a lot out there that wasn't good. Titans fans are panicking, and I'm going to tell you what makes sense to panic about and what doesn't. Today's episode is presented by Yahoo! Fantasy. It's the best time of year.

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breaking down more stuff coming out of the Titans preseason game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers We talked about my grade for Cam Ward and why I gave him that grade, all the good and the bad. We talked about the disrespect that he continues to face, but now I want to talk about some things that Titans fans are panicking about coming out of the preseason game

and tell you, well, I think it's fair to panic or whether it's not fair to panic. Also, I got a major injury update for you. I'm going to tell you how long Taj Spears is expected to be out, what's going on with Kevin Winston, and we should be getting to Vangay sweat back soon, so I'll dive into all of that at the end of the show. Do you want to thank you for making Locked on Titans,

your first listen each and every day. So, everyone, everyone is freaking out about the backup quarterback situation. Brandon Allen was not very good out there. Tim Boyle was even worse. Okay, Tim Boyle had like a 0.7 passer rating in the game or something like that. They were both not very good. And Titans fans are watching the game and looking at that and saying, oh my God, we have a terrible backup situation.

Titans need to go make a mood Titans need to go make a trade Titans got to bring somebody in We got to have a better backup situation than that And I'm here to tell you You shouldn't panic Now let me explain it this way I'm not telling you

That you shouldn't panic about the backup quarterback situation Because the backup quarterbacks are actually going to be fine No they're bad Brandon Allen is not a good backup quarterback Tim Boyle is not a good backup quarterback They're not good.

I'm not telling you not to panic because I think they're actually good. I'm telling you not to panic because the plan is for them to not be good. I have explained this throughout the off season. Like, if Cam Ward were to miss games, winning is not what's best for the type.

It's not best to win games if Cam Ward gets injured. Okay? What's best for Cam Ward is to have, quarterbacks who are in the room with him who want to actively invest their time in making him better. The reason that Brandon Allen was signed as the Titans backup quarterback is not

because he's good. He's got less career passing yards than Will Levis. He's 2 and 8 and his 10 career starts. Brandon Allen is not good. But what Brandon Allen did do is he mentored Joe Burrow. He taught Brian Callahan's offense to Joe Burrow.

He was the liaison in the room between Joe Burrow and Brian Callahan and Zach Taylor and the offensive decision makers in Cincinnati. Brandon Allen is a coach in the locker room. And right now, that quality is far more important than being good on the field. I will again bring up the Bengals situation. Joe Burrow gets hurt, tears his ACL's first season. The Bengals suck because they don't have a good backup quarterback. They get a top five overall pick and they get Jamar Chase.

Everybody, the next thing we're going to talk about, the next freak out is about Femiola Dejo being a bus after 20 snaps in the preseason. He's a bus now. Everybody's freaking out. Well, if you're worried about Femi not being an answer at the edge, then you know that the Titans need to get a high-level number one alpha edge rusher, which I don't think that Femiola Dejo is

and I'm high on Femi and I don't think that that's who he ultimately is going to be. So if the Titans need that, wouldn't it be best for the Titans to get as best of a pick as they can in the draft so that they can address that alpha edge rusher position with a really, really good edge rusher draft class that's supposed to be coming up?

So, again, I know I'm not the only person out here saying this. There's a lot of people in the Titans media or saying the same thing that I am because it makes sense and the team believes it as well. Don't panic about backup quarterback because the Titans don't need a good backup quarterback. They aren't a contending team.

They aren't a playoff team. They aren't a team that needs to hold the tide for a couple of weeks while Cam Ward's hurt. If it's not a long-term injury, if Cam Ward's out for two weeks or whatever, you still don't want a great quarterback because the Titans aren't going to be a contender anyways.

What's best for the Titans is building this roster back up because as we saw out there with some of the things we should be panicked about this team is not close to being a playoff team. This team is not close to being a contender. They need way more talent than what they have right now and they need more blue-chip players. And you get that most often

high in the draft. Like the Titans need a Cam Ward and an abyss. Abdul Carter. Boy, Abdul Carter looks absolutely disgusting for the Giants in his first appearance. Wow, really impressive. But like, the Titans need both of those players. And they're not going to get them at the same time, as we saw. You took Cam Ward number one. You can't get an Abdul Carter at number three. The Titans aren't set up like that. So the only way to correct that problem for real is to get a pick where you can get a guy like that.

And the Titans need one or two more guys like that, in my opinion, before they can worry about, oh, we need the best backup quarterback possible to win games of Cam's hurt. Like, that's just not what this team should be focused on, in my opinion. Now, to Femiola-Dasia, panic meter, should you panic? Again, no, you should not panic. I just think it's insane the amount of people that are already in my comment saying Femi's a bus, the Titans blew it.

He played 20 snaps of NFL football. and now he's a bust and it's over. And people say, oh, there were better edge rushers on the board. I literally have said this so many times. Yeah, there were people on the board who will be better this year. Mike Green will be better this year. There will be other players drafted after Femi who will be better this year. He is transitioning from offball linebacker.

It's going to take him a while to develop. He is a development project. That's why I said I want him to be an early down edge. but he shouldn't be a consistent pass rusher for the Titans early on because he's not ready for that in his development. Pass rush hand usage and pass rush moves are some of the most difficult technique things to learn in football and to master in football.

And Femi hasn't mastered any of it. So all of the guys that you're saying, oh, they should have picked him and picked him, picked him, they've played edge way more than Femi has. We knew that Femiola Daja was going to be a project. We knew that the Titans weren't going to get max return on Femi in year one. That's not how it was going to work.

We said the same thing about Kevin Winston. So it's just crazy to me to switch up that people were so ready to crap on Femi. Yeah, the numbers are bad. Yeah, you didn't win a pass rush move. It wasn't as bad as what the TV broadcast made it look like and I'm going to break that down on the film this week. But like, relax.

No, it is not time to panic over Femiola-Dasia. He is a developed, project with great tools, great athleticism, great physical size, great potential, and great character. We knew that all along. So it's just crazy that people, oh yeah, he doesn't look like he's very polished. He doesn't look like he necessarily knows what to do. But it's because he doesn't.

All right. And that's why getting him reps as much as you can is important. But moving along the depth issues. at cornerback, interior defensive line, running back at this point with the Tajay Spears situation, yes, you are okay to panic. But quite frankly, I have been panicked about these situations for the Titans. Before the preseason game,

I've been complaining about the interior defensive line depth for two off-season now. We knew that the cornerback room outside the top four of Sneed, Brownlee, McCreary, and Baker, we knew that the cornerback room had nothing outside of that. like nothing proven whatsoever that you can be excited about. So yeah, when the cornerback group doesn't look great and when the interior defense, now,

there are some guys on the interior defensive line who did a ride. I thought Cam Horsley, number 72, he had a pretty good game. You know what I mean? There was, I think Isaiah Rikis had an okay game as well. But I'm sorry, a lot of the guys on the interior defensive line. I'm just not a big fan of. Lynch. Timmy Horn was okay in the game as the nose tackle. He's a guy who they brought in recently, but there's just not good depth on the interior defensive line.

There's not good depth in the secondary, and those are real problems that aren't going away for the Titans. The last panic meter conversation I want to have here is about Xavier Restrepo. And again, I called Restrepo a lock. I thought the chemistry and his ability to get open in games when it matters. He's a gamer. He's a guy who's going to step up when it matters. I thought that would make him a lock to make this roster because I believed in him to prove it.

But the Titans didn't really give him a lot of opportunities this week. He barely got on the field. I think he played 11 snaps on offense. Got one special team snap, which he's got to play special teams to make the roster. Just not looking good for Xavier Restrepo. I don't think that I'm going to be right about him making the roster at this point, it makes me sad that I'm going to be wrong about that

potentially, but if you want to panic about Xavier Restrepo making the team, I think you're okay to panic because I don't think it's looking good for him, especially not only because of how the Titans are treating him, but you see James Prochet being clearly the best returner. They're going to have to keep him on the team, and that's the seventh wide receiver and I don't think the Titans are going to keep eight. So if you want to panic about Xavier Restrepo, you're more than welcome to panic. But with that in mind, let's update some injuries. We got so many injury updates and I got something to say about the Kevin Winston situation, man.

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of the concerns coming out of preseason game number one. Now I want to get into the injury situation because we got to keep an eye on that as we move toward towards the regular season, move forward towards the regular season. Say that five times fast. But we got a big time update on Tage Spears and we got some more reporting around the weird Kevin Winston situation that's going on. Before I dive into it though, do want to thank you for making locked on Titans your first listen for your second listen. Check out locked on bets. Betting experts Lee Sterling and Kevin Rogers have daily MLB locks and can't miss football futures.

Find locked on bets on YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts again. Make sure that you check out my Cam Ward film breakdown out right now on the Tic Tacit Titans YouTube channel. But Taj Spears left on a car, was in a boot and on crutches in the locker room after the game and people were freaking out. But for me, that tells me what I've typically seen from covering football is that that is going to be a high ankle sprain, and it could be anywhere from, you know,

two to eight weeks, depending on the severity of it. It sounds like things aren't as bad as they could have been for Tajay Spears. Brian Callahan said that it'll probably be out for a few weeks and confirmed it is a high ankle sprain. A few weeks, Adam Shepter had a report out that the Titans expect, Tajay Spears could be back for the regular season. So that's good news. But in the meantime, the Titans probably need to bring in another running back

just to take carries. If they think that Spears is going to miss any significant time into the regular season, they absolutely have to bring in veteran help because, again, Tony Pollard cannot take the workload that he had last season or he will break down. Now, I do want to talk about Kevin Winston because his situation is weird.

So Winston played all of training camp up until the end of last weekend. And then they said they were going to manage some soreness. And he hasn't played in six days. Didn't play in the preseason game. Hasn't played in practice at all from last week. Didn't play in the joint practices. And then Brian Callahan said earlier this weekend,

there's no new injury to report with Kevin Winston. There's no injury to talk about. They're just managing his soreness. Okay, there's no injury. You're just managing him. All right, that makes sense. They have a rest plan for him. That makes sense.

Well, then on Sunday's press conference after the game, Brian Callahan said that he doesn't know when Kevin Winston's going to return. So, I would ask, if you guys have him on a management rest plan, then how do you not know when he's going to return? That doesn't sound like planned rest. That sounds like a reaction to something. And then we get some reporting from Nick Suss of the Tennessean, I believe, saying that Kevin Winston is managing new quote from the article, quote,

new injuries and soreness. So he is dealing with injuries, a new injury according to Nick Suss. Although Brian Callahan said a couple of days ago, there was no injury to report and they're just managing soreness. And then Paul Kaharski reported that there might be some hamstring tightness associated to the knee that he had ACL recovery surgery on. Okay, well, then Brian Callahan is not telling the truth about what's going on. This isn't planned maintenance and planned rest.

This is, hey, he had a hamstring reaction in the same leg next to the knee that he had the ACL tear on. We worked him too hard in five straight patterns. practices in six days and now we got to dial it all the way back. So either Brian Callahan is lying about there not being an injury and it's just soreness and there is an injury to manage or the other side of it is there is no injury but the Titans overworked him too soon and now he's got excessive soreness where he's going to have to sit out multiple weeks to get over the soreness. So there's two ways.

Either the Titans are lying and there is an injury. Or they overworked Kevin Winston and now they got to back him down. No matter which way you intellectually want to go, the Titans had bad process. Either they overworked him or they're lying about his injury and putting a spotlight on him and making it again, Mike Vrable lied all the time about injuries, and in my opinion, he thought he was protecting his players by doing that. But what I think is by not being transparent, you create more conversation, you create me doing this right now. You create fans all over social media wondering what's going on, pontificating about what could be the problem. What you do is you open Pandora's box when you aren't transparent about these types of things.

So Brian Callahan skirting around the truth and playing the semantics game and all of the injuries now, all the beat reporters are putting out tweets about what they've heard and when you try to make things a mystery, you make it worse on everyone. Now, I want to read this tweet from Tehran Davenport from ESPN with more clarity on Kevin Winston Jr. Quote, he's dealing with normal soreness that comes from post-ACO surgery recovery. Brian Callahan has mentioned before about being smart, carefully managing, select players during training camp, Winston is one of them. Titans don't want to send him on the field while dealing with soreness.

Not sure the risk of re-injury outweighs the reward. Big picture approaches to have him healthy and ready to go from week one. And all of that messaging makes sense from the team. But what doesn't make sense is Brian Callahan saying, I don't know when he's going to be back. And what doesn't make sense to me is if he's so sore, that he has to miss multiple weeks of practice, then that means you overworked him in the first place.

So again, if the answer is, hey, he's just super, super sore, well, I think the better approach is practice a couple of days, rest a couple of days, practice a couple of days, play in the joint practices, play in the preseason games. I think that running them into the ground five straight padded practices in six days and then making him sit out two weeks, that doesn't make any sense to me.

A couple of days on, a couple of days to rest. A couple of days on, a couple of days to rest. You can play in the joint practices. You can play in the preseason games where you get live reps. That makes way more sense to me than what this is because this wasn't a plan. They did not plan on him being as sore as he is. They did not plan on Kevin Winston

missing two weeks of practices in the middle of training camp. That was not the plan. I don't buy that. So that's the update on Winston and it doesn't make any sense. Now, some other updates. Tavondre Sweat, the abdominal issue? And again, look at that. Tavondre Sweat's abdominal issue.

It came out on the broadcast during the game that actually Tavondre Sweat had his tonsils out. Why would they call getting your tonsils out an abdominal issue? Maybe there's medical people listening who can make that make sense to me like, oh, well, actually your tonsils are connected to the thigh boned, but whatever, and be like, oh, that, but again, to me, that's just weird lies. Why say he has an abdominal issue? Why not just say, hey, Tavondre Sweat's getting his tautils taken out? He's going to be out a week. Like, why? It just creates more speculation. It adds gasoline onto the fire of the conversation.

But Brian Callahan said that they're hoping that they get Tavandre sweat back for joint practices later this week. They're giving him a few more days to recover from having his tonsils out. Okay, that's normal. That's a regular person thing to deal with. But again, why cloud it in mystery? Legerius Sneed, we didn't know that he had a serious quad issue last year until three weeks after he already had a surgery. We heard about Lloyd Cushingberry's surgery on his Achilles before we heard about Sneed surgery. So they omitted and skirted around the truth on that.

We didn't know that Trayland Burks had an ACL injury until three weeks after his injury happened. The Titans have historically, not just Brian Callahan, not just Mike Brable, the Titans historically have hid, omitted, skirted around the truth, injury situations. So back to the Kevin Winston thing, forgive me if I'm skeptical of this organization and football teams in general because football teams lie.

It's just the truth. So again, Tevondre Sweat had his tonsils out and he'll be back in a couple of days at least. Anyways. Moving right along with Legerius Sneed. Brian Callahan said that they expect Lloyd Cushenberry back sooner than Sneed. Cush might get out on the field at some point this week and start warming up and they're not as certain about Sneed.

Lloyd Cushenberry is a 300-pound offensive lineman that tore his Achilles after Legerius Sneed had a quad injury and then a knee cleanup that we didn't find out about until two months after it happened of course even though I'm as healthy as I've ever been shrouded in mystery Tennessee Titans the fact that Cush and Mary is going to get back on a field and do football stuff before Lageria Sneed again as I've said

a couple of weeks ago months ago my optimism for Lageria Sneed ever playing high quality meaningful snaps for the day Titans is so, so low right now. Cushingberry though, like I said, the Titan said maybe this week he could get back out on the field and start doing stuff. Blake Hans, Brian Callahan said he's hopeful to get back out on the field, the Titans backup interior offensive lineman. And then do want to mention that Anthony Osri or Orgy or however you pronounce his name, I've heard every different version, he tore his ACL in practice over the weekend, last weekend, and is out for the

entire season. I didn't expect him to be a primary contributor, especially with James Williams and Cedric Gray looking pretty good, but with Otis Reese, basically not playing at all in the preseason game, which is surprising. He didn't play at all in the preseason game. That gives the depth linebackers a better shot, so that's disappointing for Anthony Orsry. But with that being said, tomorrow I'm going to be previewing joint practices against the Atlanta Falcons Tuesday, Wednesday. I'll be here to break down what happened at those practices. but that's going to do it for me today, folks.

As always, I am your host, Tyler Rowland, and this was Locked on Titans.