Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Tennessee Titans MUST BE BORING during Summer Break after EXCITING Offseason & PAY PETER SKORONSKI

Starting point is 00:00:00 The Tennessee Titans just had one of the most exciting off seasons in franchise history. But this summer, I want them to be boring. I'll 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 Fandle.

Starting point is 00:00:38 The biggest stage in world soccer is here. Let there be goals on Fandle. Visit fandle.com to get started now on today's show. We're going to talk about what the Titan summer break needs to be like. I'm going to tell you what's on the calendar next for the Tennessee Titans. When do they get into training camp? When's preseason? When's cut down day?

Starting point is 00:01:01 We're going to talk about why I think Peter Skoronski needs to be the the next Tennessee Titan to get a big contract, and I'm going to tell you exactly how much it should be for. But we're going to start with what I think the Tennessee Titans overall summer plan needs to be this year, and it needs to be boring. Just be boring. And this comes off the heels of one of the most exciting all seasons in Tennessee Titans history. I mean, if we're honest, two years ago with Brian Callahan and with Jerry Steve and Calvin Ridley. That all season was pretty exciting.

Starting point is 00:01:36 It didn't turn out. So it feels differently now, but that was an exciting all season. I know there have been all seasons before I started covering the team. Way back in the day that fans may remember, but this all season right here with new coaches, New jerseys,

Starting point is 00:01:52 new players in free agency with the most money spent in the NFL, the draft, multiple trades up the board. A shocking pick at the front. OTAs with Carnell Tate putting on a show, mandatory minicamp, with Cam Ward bouncing back and having some highlights. Like, this has truly been one of the most exciting all seasons in the history of the franchise with everything going on. You add in Jeffrey Simmons contract extension as kind of a cherry on top of everything

Starting point is 00:02:23 that's happened. And it's just been awesome, the positive momentum that this franchise has, the vibes in the fan base right now, the excitement and the optimism for what they, can do coming up. The new stadium on the horizon, there's just so much going on right now. It has truly been, again, one of the most exciting off seasons in Tennessee Titans history, maybe the most exciting off season of my time covering the team, I can say. I mean, the team has been better in previous years. I will say the Julio Jones trade, the hype I felt there going

Starting point is 00:02:54 into that season after a couple of good playoff runs. The hype was pretty high there. I felt the Titans were true Super Bowl contenders. But with all the newness, it just, just feels different. It feels like the beginning of something special for the Titans. And through all of that excitement, again, the Titans have delivered for us this all season with exciting stuff around every single turn. But now, we need to accept boredom.

Starting point is 00:03:22 Absolute, pure, unequivocal boredom. I don't want to hear a single thing about the Tennessee Titans front, not about the Tennessee Titans. I'm ready to talk Titans with you guys and talk Titans with me, of course. But from a news standpoint, I don't want to see the Titans' name in Adam Shepter's tweets,

Starting point is 00:03:45 Ian Rappaport, Jordan Schultz, Jay Glazer, I don't care who it is. I don't want to see hashtag Titans are in any report, any article, any TV segment. I don't want to hear Stephen A, Skip Bayless, anybody talk about the Titans, for six weeks.

Starting point is 00:04:05 Like until the Titans kick off training camp, I don't want to hear a single piece of national news about them. Point blank, period. Like, no drama, no incidents, no controversy, no injuries. Number one,

Starting point is 00:04:26 anything like that, anything within that realm, none of it. Boring. I will take the absence of anything good if it means the absence of anything bad. I want nothing at all. Make it hard on me.

Starting point is 00:04:42 I'm a Titans content creator. The answer I get or the question I get from people most when they find out that my job is I talk about the Titans. They say, how do you talk about all year? What do you talk about? Like, you know, especially this time of year when it's the dead of summer. This is the most dead five to six weeks.

Starting point is 00:05:02 weeks of the Tennessee of the NFL calendar, period. The NFL is a 12-month sport, and I am wholly thankful for it. But this five-week period here between the end of mandatory mini-camp to the start of training camp is the dead zone, and that's what I wanted to be. Make it hard on me. Make me hurt. I hope the Titans have me racking my brain going on Google and searching for

Starting point is 00:05:28 I hope I have to ask advice from my other podcast, friends. what are you talking about? I hope it's endlessly difficult on me over the next five weeks because that means again, no drama, no incidents, no controversy,

Starting point is 00:05:44 and no injuries. That's what matters most to me right now. So it's been, again, an incredible off-season. But be boring. And Robert Sala, Robert Sala talked about this break and I can say

Starting point is 00:06:00 that I want to, the Titans to be boring. I don't want to hear stories and news or anything like that about the Titans. I just want to talk about the team, the football, how the roster sets up. I don't want anything new to discuss. We'll talk about what we know right now and moving forward. But for the players, they got to get to work. This can't be the summer break. They're not a teacher taking summer break. It's time to go. And I want to read what Robert Sala had to say. because I thought it was great. He said for him personally,

Starting point is 00:06:35 I'll be taking a lot of naps on the beach, hopefully with the kids, if they let me and golfing. My kind of guy right there, naps and golfing. I'm all about that, Robert Sala. But he said, the next 40 days are critical. He said, and I feel like so many players lose their season before it ever starts because of the way they handle these next 40 days. It's not a vacation.

Starting point is 00:07:00 They've got to get ready to play ball. We kind of trick it by pretending the four-day acclamation period will help them kind of get a runway to get into the season. There is no runway. When you get here, we've got to go. And if you're not prepared to play, you're going to get hurt, and that's league-wide. We could put bubble wrap on these guys and delay the inevitable,

Starting point is 00:07:24 which leads to injuries week one through week five during the season. But the important thing is that our players attack the heck out of the next 40 days, get ready to play and have an amazing training camp. He talked about the time. Guys, think once training camp gets here and again, we'll go over what's next on the Titan schedule at the end of the show as we kind of close out this big picture summer discussion. But he said this.

Starting point is 00:07:52 It's all conditioning level. Our strength group put together a great program for them over the next 40 days to get them ready for that first day of practice. And then from there, the acclamation, the build up will continue to rise. But a lot of soft tissue injuries come because they're not prepared for the load that they're going to get hit with. And I get it. You're going to go out. You're going to enjoy your vacation.

Starting point is 00:08:12 You're going to go to the beach. You're going to have some drinks and all that stuff. But you've got to be mindful about what you're doing to your body and how you're preparing yourself to play because one injury, you set yourself back two weeks. And two weeks is everything, Robert Salas, says this right here again. take our situation in our schedule. A week and a half into camp,

Starting point is 00:08:31 we're having a scrimmage in the stadium. Two weeks from Report Day, we are in San Francisco practicing and we're playing a game. So you've got two weeks. A four-day acclamation period is not covering that. You've got to be able to prepare in a way that has you ready from day one. And so, like I said,

Starting point is 00:08:52 we got a great program that we put together for the guys to follow and they're always welcome to do more than what's being asked. That's a long quote, but I love every single second of and especially how he says a week and a half from training camp, we got a scrimmage. Two weeks. We're in San Francisco like the schedule is going to hit quickly. You cannot, in the four-day acclamation period that he's talking about,

Starting point is 00:09:18 is at the beginning of training camp. They do kind of a four-day ramp up where they do some practices without pads. they do conditioning tests, they do walkthroughs, you know, half-speed bird dog with the whistle. Like, they get guys ready to go, but like Sala said, that four days right there, if you didn't get your body right during the 40 days before that, four days isn't going to fix 40 days.

Starting point is 00:09:44 That's just not how it works in life. So, I want the Titans to be boring after the exciting all season, but the players can't necessarily have a boring 40 days themselves. They're a professional athlete, and that's a full round or full year, all-year round job. So let's hope that the Titans take what Robert Salas saying very, very seriously. But again, be boring Titans. Make it hard on me. That's what I want. That's what we need heading into training camp. But with that being said, the only thing that could happen

Starting point is 00:10:18 that I would be happy about newswise is for Peter Skoransky to get his big contract because he's the next guy who the Titans need to pay and I'll tell you what they need to pay him as well. Do you want to let you know that today's episode is brought to you by fan dual sportsbook the biggest stage in world soccer is here.

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Starting point is 00:12:15 I want the Tennessee Titans to be boring over the next 40 days, whatever it happens to be. But the one piece of news that I would accept, the one piece of news that I would find, okay, is Peter Skoronsky getting his extension? Because now that Jeffrey Simmons extension is done, the next extension that needs to get done for the Titans that we've discussed throughout this all season,

Starting point is 00:12:38 I've told you the entire time, it's going to be Jeff, it's going to be Pete. Those are the guys who need to get paid, and the Titans have gobs of money to do it. But regardless, Pete is the guy who's next after the Simmons extension. And we talked about the Jeffrey Simmons extension on the bonus episode. Absolutely deserved. On the field, off the field, everything that we could ever ask for.

Starting point is 00:13:03 Leader in the locker room, excellent player. Good deal as well at only 35 million per. That's going to get jumped by Jalen Carter from the Eagles eventually most likely. So Simmons was a good deal, smart move, deserved, got the drama out of the way as well. That goes to the boring thing. We don't have to hear Jeffrey Simmons is going to be a hold-in during training camp as he wants new guaranteed money on his deal. We don't got to worry about all that.

Starting point is 00:13:32 So let's get that done with Pete too. I know that Pete has the fifth year option, which the Titans picked up. So technically he's good this year and good next year on a contract. but that's not how the Titans want to operate. And they have the money where they don't have to delay and push things out.

Starting point is 00:13:51 They could pay Peter Skoronsky right now and get it over with. They don't need to play this game. And what would happen is Pete's final year of his rookie deal contract would still happen this year. So if they gave Peter Skoronsky an extension,

Starting point is 00:14:06 it would not make him more expensive salary cap-wise this year. It wouldn't affect the Titans at all. All right? the extension for Peter Skronsky would kick in next year, which is year five for Pete. That's when his number would go up. But it wouldn't hurt the Titans this year to get it done.

Starting point is 00:14:24 So let's get it done. Now, I will tell you this. I think that Pete's contract would get done closer to the regular season. It would be after training camp right before the year, get the new money done. That's a window where you see after cuts, when teams have their roster settled, they know what their salary cap picture looks like for sure, all of that. You see the first week of the NFL season, a lot of deals happen to get done.

Starting point is 00:14:58 And I think that Pete will get his extension before the season, but it'll be later in the summer close to after training camp. And he should get one. He is incredible and past protection, great pass protection guard. great hands in terms of his placement and his technique, really smart with his landing marks, knows what to do. Great feet. Pete has incredible feet. The way he's able to recover, the quickness of his feet, moving around.

Starting point is 00:15:29 He's a great athlete for an interior offensive lineman, just a smooth mover. Really good movement, catching guys at the second level, getting out on screens, climbing up to linebackers, executing a combo block with one of his teammates and then getting up to the next level. Really good at all that stuff. Now, I would tell you this. Pete doesn't have the best raw power.

Starting point is 00:15:54 Like Roger Saffel was a more raw, powerful guard to blow somebody out of a hole, to have great anchor against a bull rush. Pete is more, I don't want to say, you know, thin, because Pete is still 320, 330 pounds. he's a big boy, let's call it what it is. But Pete doesn't have that natural core power of a guy like, you know, Roger Saffold or Quentin Nelson, for example, who's just a little bit thicker than Pete.

Starting point is 00:16:27 But Pete wins in other ways, and he's one of the top five, top 10 at minimum. If you want to argue with me, then top 10 at minimum. But I think top five, he's one of the top five guards in the entire NFL. And right now, Peter Skoronsky, is the only guard, is the only offensive lineman on the team that you can rely on to be good. We don't know about J.C. Latham right now. He's had up and downs both his years, and now he's hurt. Recovering from an injury during OTAs, mandatory minicamp.

Starting point is 00:17:05 Wasn't out there. He's hurt. Austin Sloatman has been a career backup. Cordell Volson has been a career back. bad player. We know who Dan Moore is. He is a below average starting offensive tackle. Or I'd say he is average because if you want to say, I say starting. He's a below average starting offensive tackle. Dan Moore is, you know, probably among starting offensive tackles somewhere in the, you know, 50 to 66 range. Or how many is there 32 times two math, 64? I would say he's, you know, 48 to 64.

Starting point is 00:17:47 It's probably where Dan Moore is among starting offensive tackles. So that's not good. That's average, you know, for all offensive tackles. Peter Skoransky is the only good offensive linemen we know the Titans have. It's the only one we know for certain.

Starting point is 00:18:06 You cannot play with him when you have nobody to pay. There's nobody else to pay for a couple of years. Who's the next guy who's going to get a big contract extension from the Titans? after Peter Skoransky. It would have to be Latham, right? And are we doing that?

Starting point is 00:18:27 So there's nobody to spend big money on for the Titans for the next couple of years. He's the only good offensive linemen you have. He's a top five guard. You got to pay him. You got to get it done. There's no reason to mess around. Now, here is why, though,

Starting point is 00:18:43 I do think that it will take a little bit of time. because it is a new coaching staff and a new system and a new offensive line coach. So I think the offensive line coach, I'm sure that they have a ton of faith in Pete right now. This could get done immediately. But maybe Sala, Dable, Bracillo, I'm going to throw Stocker in there

Starting point is 00:19:06 because I think Luke Stocker is the next offensive coordinator in my personal opinion. If things go well and Brian Dable gets a head coaching job, Luke Stocker's going to be the next O.C. in my opinion. But all of those guys maybe want to see Pete. Maybe they just want to see him work in the offense, see how he fits, see how much, you know, they think he should be paid. How big of a priority should this be for the titles?

Starting point is 00:19:34 Now, I think Pete will check all those boxes for the new coaches. I don't think it's going to be a concern at all. But nonetheless, that might be part of the delay here too. Now, when we talk about what Pete is going to get paid, what should the extension look like? to me, I think we're going to be looking at $21 to $22 million per year. Now, I was about $3 or $4 million, $3 to $5 million off on Jeffrey Simmons. I thought he'd get $38 to $40 million per year somewhere in there,

Starting point is 00:20:03 maybe $37.5 and he got $35 million per year. So maybe I'm a little bit off on Pete. But you look at Tray Smith from the Chiefs who got $23.5 million. You look at Tyler Smith from the Cowboys who got $24 million. Those are the two highest paid per year average annual contracts for guards in the NFL. Chris Lindstrom is right there from the Falcons with $20 million per year. I think Pete comes in right in between all that. I think Pete's at about 21 and a half to $23.5 million is where I would say Pete is.

Starting point is 00:20:38 22 and a half $21, 20 to $22.5 million per year. I think four years, $88 million with about $45 million guaranteed. I think that would be a good deal for Peter Scoronty. That would make sense right there for the type. Four years, $88 million, $22 million per year. That's not resetting the guard market. Linderbaum got 27 a year. Again, I talked about the Smith boys, Tyler and Trey,

Starting point is 00:21:07 who are at 23 and a half and 24. So I think Pete comes in just a little bit below that. $22 million per year. Again, $40 to $45 million guaranteed. top five guard contract in the NFL. He deserves it. They can afford it. And that's the only news that I would want to hear from the Titans

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Starting point is 00:23:09 Again, we're taking a big picture of you of the summer break for the Tennessee Titans. I want no drama, no problems. I'd like to see Peter Skoransky's extension get done. If the Titans do anything, he deserves it. But other than that, let's just be boring as we head towards training camp. And again, let's talk about what's next on the schedule, what the key dates are for the Titans throughout the rest of the time until we get to week one against the Jets.

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Starting point is 00:24:12 Will it be July 27th, which is a Monday, July 28th, which is a Tuesday, July 29th, which is a Wednesday. Can't know for certain exactly when the Titans will start to do things. I think it'll be the 27th on Monday. All the guys come in, they report. You get, you know, all the official stuff, everything you need to know about the training camp schedule, where we're going to go,

Starting point is 00:24:35 the travel, all that different stuff. Do your weigh-ins, maybe a conditioning test, make sure everybody's good, hydration, body fat measurements, blah, blah, blah, you're playing going forward, all that. And then usually they get out on the field for some walk-through level, jog-through level practices, install, understand, this is what we're doing. And then by the beginning of the second week of training camp, as we get into the first week of August,

Starting point is 00:25:04 pads are coming on. Probably the end of that first week of training camp and then into that second week of training camp, pads are coming on. And like Robert Sala said in the quote that we looked at, first segment, August the 8th, which is basically two, a week and a half,

Starting point is 00:25:24 into training camp, the Titans are going to have the Bud Adams Bowl, the inner squad scrimmage that they have at the actual stadium. So the Bud Adams Bowl is going to be the 8th of August probably, Saturday. And then literally, less than a week later, they're going to San Francisco for joint practices with the 49ers before August 13th is their first preseason game. It's a Thursday. So they're probably going to have joint practices with the 49ers. I would say Monday and Tuesday.

Starting point is 00:26:00 And then a break day on Wednesday. and then the preseason game on Thursday night. And then they got to come home. Probably have practice on Sunday, Monday, and then the Seahawks show up. And they'll probably have practice with the Seahawks on Tuesday and Wednesday or Wednesday and Thursday. Yeah, they'll probably practice Sunday, Monday

Starting point is 00:26:25 and then break on Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday, joint practices against the Seahawks. And then Sunday on Sunday night football. the 23rd of August, they have another preseason game. And then six days later, Saturday the 29th, against the Bears. And Robert Salasani wants to have joint practices with the Bears during that week. Then they have their final preseason game against the Bears on August 29th. And then the NFL has changed cut down day,

Starting point is 00:26:51 which used to be on Tuesday at 4 p.m. after the final preseason game. Now it's Sunday. Literally Sunday at 6 p.m. on August the 30th, the Titans will cut down their roster. So we'll know at 6 p.m. on Sunday night on August 30th what the Titans 53-man roster is. And then from there, we break it all down.

Starting point is 00:27:17 Two weeks later, September 13th, Titans have their first game against the New York Jets. Week 1, at home, Robert Solis, former team, Gino Smith, Breeze Hall, Garrett Wilson. good offensive line. Going to be a challenge for the Titans defensive line early on. It's going to be a challenge

Starting point is 00:27:38 for the Titans secondary early on. Now the Jets defense not as worried about the Jets defense if I'm honest with you. The Titans off. What a great matchup. The Jets' offense is going to be better than their defense,

Starting point is 00:27:50 but the Titans defense should be better than their offense. And the Jets defense isn't really that good. So it gives the Titans a decent matchup to start off with. And David Bailey is a good rusher and Will McDonald is a good.

Starting point is 00:28:02 good rusher and, you know, they got a lot of big guys up front, like Tavondre Sweat, of course. They don't really have a terrifying, dominant pass rusher. So kind of a great matchup for the Titans, like we talked about when the schedule came out. But with that being said, that is the schedule. That is the lead up. That's what we have, the five-week break, training camp, pre-season, cut down. Season is here. So football will be back before you know it.

Starting point is 00:28:29 But I have so much playing for you guys. We're going to talk summer goals for individual players. We're going to build a World Cup team out of Tennessee Titans players. We're going to talk about where each individual position, you know, group is, how I would rank them. We're going to do a 53-man roster prediction. Now that we're into the summer, we're going to talk about free agents. The Titans could still add.

Starting point is 00:28:49 We're going to do a ASC South divisional breakdown week that I do every single year. There is a lot more content coming your way over the summer. So make sure again that you stay locked in with the number one. Tennessee Titans podcast in the world. That's going to do it for me today, though, folks, as always, I am your host, Tyler Rowland, and this was Locked on Titans.

Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Tennessee Titans MUST BE BORING during Summer Break after EXCITING Offseason & PAY PETER SKORONSKI

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