Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - TITANS SQUAD SHOW: Dream Staff FINALIZED, one of the BEST in the NFL

Episode Date: February 14, 2026

The Tennessee Titans have officially finalized their coaching staff for the 2026 season under new head coach Robert Saleh. We debate where this experienced group - led by coordinators Brian Daboll and Gus Bradley - ranks among the NFL's best. Plus, we discuss the imperative contract extension for All-Pro left guard Peter Skoronski and why securing his future is the top priority for this offseason.Support 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.FanDuelThe Winter Games are on. And there’s no better way to follow them than with a bet on FanDuel. FanDuel - Play your game.IndeedListeners 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.

I'm Julian Minnensohn, and the ball brigade is set. The Titans new coaching staff has been finalized. What we like about this group coming up next on the Titan Squad Show. And I'm Brad Hopkins, and this is the off season, but there's nothing off about this part of the season. Titan up. It's the Titans squad. Everything Tennessee Titans every week.

Covering all the big hits and game-changing plays from the heart of Music City, the way only the locked-on podcast network can. Squad up. The Titan Squad Show starts now. And welcome to the Titan Squad Show. As you heard off the top right there, I'm Julian Minnesone alongside the legend Brad Hopkins. We've got a jam pack show for you on this Friday. Of course, like, comment, subscribe, wherever you may be. If you're listening to the podcast live on YouTube, make sure you put your comments and questions in our live chat. We'll do our best to answer them at the end of the show. We're going to talk about Peter Skoronski, who could be due

for a new payday coming up soon, particularly in this year, as he is eligible for that. We're going to talk about some of the former Titans coaches where they're heading. But of course, I wanted to start with the big news that came out yesterday, Bhop, of the Titans coaching staff being finalized. They tweeted out a picture of all the staff members. Of course, the first thing we saw in our live chat from Stephen Crocio says, tighten up the bald era because there are like nine head coaches who are part of this bald brigade, whatever you want to call it.

But I want to start with the squad as a whole, right? What do you like about this coaching staff? What excites you the most about the potential that they could turn this thing around? You know, it's always a unique dynamic whenever you have three coaches that particularly have head coaching experience. I think that says a lot about the guy that's actually wearing the hat, that he feels comfortable, that he's not worried about one of these guys outperforming him in some form of fashion to ultimately end up causing, you know, give me dayball, you know, give me Bradley, all that stuff that happens. You know what I mean?

You know, because at the end of the day, when Brian Callahan was fired, weren't you quietly hoping that Mike McCoy would turn this thing around? Those are the kind of things that happen on a team for them to actually keep the interim head coach. It's usually an immediate impact. You know, players start galvanizing and coming together because they've pinpointed the problem. And they've eradicated it. So now they're moving forward. Or there's just been a push to the playoffs.

you know, a guy got in the playoffs or even public sentiment, like fans and players alike who are saying, hey, look, we really like this guy. We really play hard for this guy. We really like spending our hard-earned dollars coming to watch this guy's teams. Those kind of things are what keep a guy in that position. Mike McCoy, interview for the job. It wasn't one that was going to fit him in that capacity, so he now moves on to Las Vegas. Great.

Good luck to him, you know. But I think that when you look at this current roster that's been assembled as far as coaches, there's experience, not only from the head coaching sprites like I just mentioned, but also in some of the position coaches. Now, I know that we do have, you know, some familiar names, Ahmad Salah, you know, that's a coach's cousin, you know. Right. He's going to get a shot in the NFL.

He's never coached in the NFL. He's part of the program in coaching, but he wasn't ever on anybody's roster. He spent some time in Green Bay, spent some time in, I think, another place. But for the most part, Wayne State is his only position coach. But, you know, when you're in that, come from that cut from that call, that should be hard. for you to learn. And of course, when you talk about like the reunion of Bradley and I'm talking about Gus Bradley, the divets coordinator and Robert Sala, they were both in San Francisco together.

So they understand terminologies. They understand, you know, the ideologies, concepts that they would really want to implement that kind of stuff. So for the most part, there's some familiarity between these guys. So there shouldn't be a whole bunch of developing of the way to talk. You know what I mean? But I think it'll be interesting to see how they actually engage with the players. That's going to be the true to us. Yeah. You know the big thing for me, Bhop, is you just look at the experience of let's just take the big four, right? Robert Sala, Brian Dable, Gus Bradley, Bones Fossil, right? Let's take the big four and how experienced those guys. Those guys have all been in the chair before, right? They're coming from a staff. The Titans are coming from a staff in the Callahan era that didn't have any head coaching experience before. How huge is that just from knowing that whether they had success or not in their previous. as a stops, his head coach, just being in that position, knowing how to run a competent football program that can at least build the foundation for what you're trying to do for the future here.

I think you see multiple angles of influence and input. All of those coaches that you just mentioned have different backgrounds, right? They've all seen different things work and they've all seen different things that didn't work. So what they can do now collaboratively is engage the conversation on how to best attack the opponent, How the best attack getting better as a team. How to best attack the culture, the mindset. You know what I'm saying? Because Robert Sala doesn't come across to me as a guy that's a totalitarian.

Do it my way. Or that's it. You know what I mean? I don't see him carrying that. Think about it. He hired these guys or at least had something to do with them being hired. So he feels okay with him being in the building, which then means the reason why I hired you is because you have those levels of experience.

Hey, Gus, you and I, you know, we obviously spent some time in San Francisco. Francine some really high-powered offenses, but what do you think about the way that this team actually approaches the 13 personnel, man? They're really getting a lot of yardage out of that. How do we neutralize that? And what about this coverage in the zones back here? Are we deficient in some areas? Do we need to look at some more, you know, different options? What we need to do? So he can bounce these things off of a coach that's been in that position. Same thing with Brian Daibow. Brian Daibow has been the guy that called the shots in New York and has been in his position is in now in Buffalo and can impress him upon a young Cam Ward just the right things to do

and can then translate that to Robert Sala is like, hey, this is the direction. And Robert puts him completely with his side of the football, right? I think when you hire a Brian Dayball type because he comes in with cachet, because he comes in with experience and an understanding and, you know, a resume, right? It makes it easier than for you to just worry about doing the things they head coaches do, and not necessarily trying to call plays or worrying about the dummy that's calling. This ain't that situation. You know, totally.

And, you know, I think quietly they've put together one of the better staffs this offseason. Like, just when you think of the four big guys that were talking about what they do individually, like Robert Salas defenses, as much as the Jets didn't work out, his defenses were good there, right? Gus Bradley has tons of years of experience, right? John Fossel, we saw what he did with the total turnaround from the special teams unit last year. It was the Titans best unit collectively the entire season. And then Brian Davel offensively, just him as an OC has certainly, when you think about his experience with Josh Allen and developing young QBs, like this is all collectively each. I think individually each what they do has been really good.

I'd like to see collectively as a group what they like to do off the top of your head because it's almost impossible to, I guess, think about every single staff of all 32 teams in the NFL. But where would you put them just on paper? Because I think it's up there. I mean, you know, obviously, think of like Andy Reid, obviously in Kansas City, McVeigh and his staff. Obviously, they just lost LaFleur. But like, where are you putting this Titan staff among some of the NFL's best right now? Just on paper.

Yeah, for sure. You know, I'm not going to go by track record because obviously these guys were available to hire his assistant. Right. Just like your offensive lineman argument, hey, if he's a free agent, it means he's there for a reason, most like. Right. So, but maybe we've learned from our previous stint as the head coach, right? And we're comfortable in calling plays. We're comfortable in, you know, designing defenses.

We're comfortable in that space. Let's just go back to what we're best at for right now. You know, if this team starts experiencing a ton of success, then you're probably going to hear these names mentioned as far as replacing other guys that aren't having that kind of success. That's just the way this thing works. But listen, I'm going to take the national perspective for a second, okay? Because to me, the national perspective, when you talk about the four-letter, you're talking about the bigger networks, their perception is macro. It's not micro because they're not boots on the ground.

They're not, they don't have, you know, I know Toronto, Davenport works for ESPN, but, you know, ESPN's big people, the ones that talk, give us the news and stuff, then out over at 460 Great Circle Road, right? They're just not that engaged. They have to rely on the Toronto Davenport to get the news and all those other stuff, right? So when you look at the national, like the highest level, people are talking about the Titans, man. They're talking about the Titans. I heard multiple podcasts talking about that they're like top 10 staff right now.

Exactly. So I'm just going by this little buzz, this little, you know, this little, listen, it's been a long time since the Titans have gotten any sort of attention that was positive. You know what I mean? Like, just like saying that we're worth something. But what I think that this past year's results have, have kind of shown us is that we're always need to be looking on our head on a swivel for the next team coming up. Nobody picked the Patriots to win the damn division, let alone get in the Super Bowl.

You know what I mean? Now, some people might have the Seahawks. They might have, but because of the defense, not because of what Sam Donald did. And I'm glad Sam Donald's giving the defense a lot of credit for his success as supposed to the Super Bowl because that's exactly what happened. So it didn't I'm not saying to cover it up his deficiencies, but the Super Bowl this year was much like the Super Bowl last year with the defense dominated and the quarterback didn't have to be Joe Montana. You know, so at the end of the day, though, I think that when you listen to the buzz that's being set around this team, first off, there's there's familiarity in the names that you're going to be speaking. They're used to saying Robert Sala, you know, they're used to saying Gus Bradley. They're used to saying Brian Daibble. You know what I mean? The New York coach is more than anybody else, but for the most part, they're familiar in saying it. So, they're used to saying it. So, they're used to saying Gus Bradley. You know what I mean? The New York coach is more than anybody else. But for the most part, they're familiar in saying it. So they're going to be naturally tracking.

Hey, what happened to Brian and Robert? Where are they in Tennessee? What's going on down in Tennessee? Damn, you say Cam Ward is like, you know, ninth in passing efficiency? What are you saying? You know, the defense is getting sacks and stuff? Is this a team to watch? Is this the new Jacksonville team that came out of nowhere, basically,

when it's supposed to be Houston Division? You know what I mean? So I think that's what people are looking for, that national narrative, because especially in the South here, it's pretty much up in the air. I think any one of these teams could actually win. Sure. Absolutely. The gap between last place and first place, I don't think is as much as maybe people are thinking. And that's kind of the way the AFC South has been over the last few years.

You did mention something about a former Titans coach, the interim, the former interim and Mike McCoy. I want to touch on what he did in the second half of the season coming up next on the Titans Squad show and get Brad's perspective on that. Keep it here. All right. The Winter Games are officially here. And if you're anything like us, you're locking in for events you only get to see on the biggest stage every four years. And that's why following the winter games on Fanduel just makes sense. From metal counts to individual events to finding your angle on the sports you care about the most,

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bad rep maybe for not being, maybe being a little bit vanilla in the press conferences, not giving too much, being coy with injuries. And it didn't exactly, I guess, set the world on fire with things he was actually saying to the media. However, the results were a lot better in the second half of the year. If Mike McCoy had this type of pizzazz that you're talking about, I think the results would have been different for this team. Because it's not like he as an assistant head coach didn't have the autonomy to say some things. Hey, Brian, I think that this is the message that would be more received from our players.

Or just giving some instruction, if you knew you had that in the bag, to be able to just come in and say, bam, this is the way things are going to, going to go, then you could have been able to step up and should have been able to step up and do that a long time ago before things went south. So to expect him to have that type of impact, no, that's not reality. You know what I mean? At the end of the day, they put Mike McCoy through the same betting process like they did the other candidates. And they said, you know what? He's just not our guy. You might know our players better than any of these other candidates. You might have won two games in 11 weeks, you know, which was more than what the previous head coach had done.

sadly to say, but you're not the guy that we feel in the future is going to get us where we need to go. So they did that, right? But what Mike McCoy did do is just kind of usher in a glance in that mirror. Because when your head coach gets fired, man, that really puts perspective on everybody. Everybody's looking around like, damn, is it me? You know what I mean? That kind of deal. So when you had that ability to pause and then you pick up with a new direction, in essence,

new meaning, you know, a different guy calling the meeting times and just that kind of stuff, that change can be impactful. It wasn't to the degree where we entertained keeping him. But I do remember at some point in time, we saw a more competitive team, like versus the world champions. We talked about that last time we were on, you and I and Tyler. The fact that when we played the Seahawks, did the Lovart of a team, you might, hey, hey, hey, they're getting better.

You know what I mean? This was under Mike McCoy. It wasn't under Brian Callahan. So, you know, there were those glimpses, maybe a little spark, if you will, maybe, you know, like the match trying to light, but it never fully ignited. You know what I mean? To really say, yeah, this is the answer. Well, one thing he did do, though, was he at least was able to write the ship enough to see what you have out there because they were getting worse week after week under Brian Callahan early in the year. I don't know if you remember.

I mean, that Raiders game, the one right before he got fired, that was bad. So the ability to at least be a competent football team, we had more fun watching them in the back end of the season because they were putting points on the board. They were putting competent drives together, at least a little bit more than they were. And what that does be hop is it also gives the front office, like at least some sort of blueprint to say,

this is what we have in this young rookie class and a lot of these young players. These are the cornerstone pieces. These are some of the staff that we want to keep around like they did with Luke Stocker, like they did with John Fossel, like they did with Tony Odin. So I think, you know, as much as fans maybe deflect or Papu on what what Mike McCoy wasn't, I think he was able to at least get this thing going in the right direction so they can have some sort of direction for the front office as they go into this offseason with $100 million in cap space, nine draft picks, and when they ultimately found in their coaching search in Robert Sala.

Yeah, I think there's two things. one, the way Brian handled the fire, that heat as it started to go, get brighter and brighter and bigger and bigger, it just kind of revealed some things just about his ability to lead. And I think the players picked up on that, you know, they're like, oh, man, you know, some things ringed false here, man. Let's let's have, let's have some more, you know, the most interesting moment I saw that I wished up we would saw more of from Brian was, do you remember when Will Levis was in the lineup the year before and he threw a pick, some crazy pick. And the camera was on Brian and Brian was literally just looking at Will and he's saying, what the are you doing?

You know, I remember that. And you're just like, right. What are you doing? See, that's the kind of fire that people wanted to see, you know, on a consistent basis, I think. Now, the only thing I'm thinking about is, was there going to be some natural development anyway? I mean, this team can't play bad for a full 18 weeks, right? They got to start getting figuring out somehow doing something better. So would they have, if you didn't fire Brian, would those moments have happened organically because the team just keeps doing it. You know, at some point in time, the sun's got to shine on the dog's butt, right?

I don't know, man. I mean, it was hard to believe because even the win they did have against Arizona, do you remember how many fluky things needed to happen for them to win that game? like the like the the the fumble and the ball getting kicked around and tyler locket landing on it in the end zone yet like like that in a nutshell had to happen for them to just win that one game so uh there was nothing to me behop that said that if brian callahan was kept around for the entirety of the year that that they were going to get better um and it allowed them to start doing their homework earlier on a robert sala i mean it's been reported that jeff simmons was was in charge of like asking former players on the

Jets and the Niners like, hey, what do you think about this guy? And it all led to the conversation that Jeff and Robert Sala had after that Niners game saying, hey, you're going to come to Tennessee or what? You know, so they got a head start on things like that going into the coaching search. Hold on a second now. Was that something that Big Jeff took upon himself or was that by direction? That was by direction, yes. Can you do that?

Can you have other players go talk to other players? go talk to other players to get information on a coach? Well, that's what. This way. What if all of a sudden, okay, how about this? I just called George Kittle. Sure. And I said, I'm Jeff.

Okay. Hey, George. What's up with your man, Robert? You like him? And George is like, yeah, I know he's on the other side of the football, man, but he gets his guys going. He gets him playing hard and whatever else, right? And then maybe George goes back and say,

Robert, hey, you know what? Big Jeff just called me and was asking about you. You know what I mean? You know, just throwing it out there. You know, next thing you know, there's some backroom dialogue between Robert Sala and Amy. You know, they're like texting each other. You know, what's what's going on? You know, so I don't know.

It's just kind of funny to find that funny in the fact that Big Jeff, unless he felt compelled to do it on his own. I'm going to go out and get us a good goddamn head coach. You know, where did the direction come from? I'm curious about. Yeah, no, interesting indeed. Now, when you think about the potential of this team, obviously one of the big things, and you've mentioned it on the show, Bhop, is Brian Dable is going to probably get another head coaching opportunity if he has any sort of success here. So if you are Robert Salas sitting in that chair, and part of the reason he was hired was, hey, I have a contingency plan because of that.

How do you go through this season knowing that a staff member and an important one, and particularly one that's helping develop your young quarterback, could not, could be gone? in this time next year. What I'm doing is now I'm talking to my quarterbacks coach, some of my other assistants that know the offense, just like Brian does or are learning it. If anything, I would be just candid with Brian and saying, hey, look, what's probably going to happen is we're going to have a lot of success here, which is going to put your name at the forefront of a lot of teams that will be struggling for next year. I understand it. It's the way this goes. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to have ex-coach shadow you, okay? Because at the end of the day, we want to be able to keep consistency with our growth, our development.

We don't want to just scrap everything and have Cam Moore going into his third system in as many years. That's counterproductive. So what we're going to try and do is keep whatever style we have in place here, whatever traction we feel we're gaining with how we're running things. We want to keep that in place and continuous development. So he's going to be taking notes on what you're doing. So then that way when it comes down to it, if you do get the opportunity to go someplace else because we've had an unbelievable amount of success, then here's somebody else that can kind of fill your shoes because you groom them to be able to do that. Versus you going out and find some other coordinator that's got a whole different way of doing things.

Now, you can go out and find somebody that's got a similar fashion to you, but why not keep the one that you've already been developing? And this guy that's probably coaching underneath you is qualified enough to at least get the coordinator spot to run the exact same thing, keeping things consistent. I'll tell our Titans fans who are listening right now. One guy who could be maybe in a few years down the line is Luke Stor, soccer. I think he's got what it takes to potentially be an OC because he was a big part in helping the run game develop the way it did at the end of last season. So maybe not for next year if

Brian Daible is, you know, off the table and going elsewhere. But maybe a development guy down the line. As you mentioned, Bhoff, you talk to those assistant coaches. I mean, look at Kellyn Moore. Yeah. Kellyn Moore was a backup on the Cowboys roster and learning how to create offense, wasn't he? So then he goes to Philadelphia, becomes the O.C. there, goes to the Super Bowl, and now he's a head coach in New Orleans. Luke could be one of those. Listen, if Brian is willing to listen to listen to input from other of his staff members, which I'm hoping that he is, that's the best way to avoid being the dumbest guy in the room, you know what I mean? But if he can take that kind of

input from his assistance, then you see opportunity for Luke to grow in being able to help design things. I was listening to Drew Locke the other day talking about Clint Kubiak and how Clint loves to hear input from Sam Darnold, from Drew himself, from Cooper Cup. You see what I'm saying? He loves having input from people to kind of attack the same situation, you know? So I would definitely see an opportunity for a guy like Luke to learn, understand. get an opportunity because he's familiar with not only names,

but concepts and terminology to just keep this thing going, if in fact we do have an unbelievable season. And Brian does get the all of a sudden people looking at him like the next Ben Johnson. You know what I mean? Indeed. Well, and that's the coaches. Of course, there's the other element in this to the players. We're going to talk about one guy in particular on the offensive line

who's going to be important for the Titans to lock up in the future. And that is left guard Peter Skoronski. We'll talk about that on the Titan Squad Show next. Keep it here. All right. If you've ever hired someone who looked good on paper but wasn't the right fit, you know how important that is. When you want candidates who truly match what you're looking for,

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Now, the Titans must decide what they want to do with that fifth year by May 1st of this year. So he is considered a key extension candidate. How important is locking up Peter Scarazzi? Because I imagine the next time we'll be able to talk to Mike Borganzi is going to be in the combine here in a few weeks. And that is when he probably will be asked about Scoronzo. Ski's contract.

You want to have another negative knock on your ability to develop or even pick offensive linemen. Go ahead and let Peter Scranti walk. Remember Isaiah Ford? What was his name? Wilson? Who was the dude that wanted to be a rapper and decided to throw away his career? He was drafted as a left tackle, like number 18, like a high pick in the first round, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You want to be honest? Want to be honest? I think that was a train point for the Titans because Taylor's, you know, injuries caught up to him. He has to step down. You draft a guy that you think might be his successor, and he turns out to be a turd. And you've been struggling ever since to find a legitimate left tackle. Okay. So you draft Peter Skoronsky. He goes to guard, which is probably his best position, and he shows a lot of potential. He's handpicked. You drafted him. This is the model. This is the

blueprint of how you do it. You pick good players. You develop your rock. And if they're worth the salt, you pay them. And here's where we are. So if you want to watch Peter Scoransky, you go ahead and go down the road to, oh, you know what? We talked about finding replacement lineman. This is the perfect scenario to happen.

You got a team that really doesn't understand the value of a guy they got, and he let him walk. Now, hopefully we can take advantage of situations like that, right, and find us a Peter Scoronsky, but why would we need to find a Peter Scoronsky when we've got a Peter Scoronsky? Correct. So at the end of the day, the guy's getting better. Go ahead.

No, I was just going to say just for the clarity, the team option is for 2027. So he still got next year and then the team option would be for 2027, but he is due for that big payday that you're talking about because he is the heart and soul of this offensive line as it stands now. I mean, that offensive line was playing so much better at the end of the season, helping run the football, protecting Cam a lot better. And, you know, we talked to Peter in the locker room earlier this year. It was after that Jacksonville game. Remember the ugly 25 to 3 Jacksonville game that they had here? And Cam looked all out of sorts. Apparently, Skoranski in the meetings after that game,

stood up and said, this can't happen, right? And we were looking for a vocal leader of this offensive line, this whole entire offseason. And we thought it would be J.C. Latham, given like he's coming from Alabama, he's a violent dude. But Peter, whether it be willingly or unwillingly, stepped up. And I think that was one of the big difference makers

in why this offensive line played so much better at the end. of the year. He made him so vulnerable, didn't he? Yeah. He made him so vulnerable by telling you them how he felt. And that's what basically gave him the ability because you know what? Nothing he said was wrong. And as they sat around to a man and listened to someone passionately plea for them to improve what they're doing, if you denied that, then you're the problem. You see what I'm saying? So it was very easy for him to be noticed in that moment to say, look, I care about this stuff. You know what I mean? It matters to me. It matters to me enough to where I'm addressing how bad we're playing.

If you feel you're not part of the problem, go ahead and walk out. And if you walked out, stay out. You see what I'm saying? So Peter gets it. He committed himself. Emotionally, physically, you know, he's bought in. He's the guy. And that's exactly where you want leadership to start. You want leadership on a football team to start with those that can inflict the most pain. because that's what football's about. I'm not kidding.

Football is a violent sport. It's violent for a reason. It weeds a lot of people out. And when you're baddest boys on your team are the biggest dudes you got, nobody wants to go up against that. That makes people fearful. You make business decisions

when you go up against people like that. Like, oh, my God, this guy's a maniac. You know what I mean? So that's what we want. We want four more Peter Skoranskis that had that kind of ideology, that had that kind of mindset. You know what?

I got drafted to this team. This is my team. It's a crazy thing I started thinking about it. My first contract was four years. Yeah. Played three on that deal, got it done and got an extension. My next deal was five years. Played four years.

Then got an extension. My next deal was six years. Played four years and I was released. That's 13 for me. You know what I mean? A lot of football there. But I never saw free agency. Not even remember.

remotely. So hopefully the Titans won't quietly let people line up. They didn't start bidding on Peter Spruits because then what's going to happen is you're not going to be able to afford them. Yeah. So get him done now while you can. I'm sure he'll take the money that you give him because he wants to be here. I'm sure it's going to be a handsome compensation. So he's not worried about getting shortchanged, right? Because at the end of the day, when I was renegotiating my contracts, not me personally, because I wasn't ever in the room. but when my people were represented for me, they knew my mindset. I didn't have to be the highest paid.

You're doing about all that. You saying I'm making 36 million, and this guy's making 36 and a half million? God bless him. See what I'm saying? I'm not like, well, God dang, I don't you make 3.6. You know what I mean?

And I don't think that Peter's that guy. I don't think Peter's that. There are guys like that, but I don't think Peter's that guy. Right. You're 100% right, but I don't think Peter's that guy. And you mentioned you want your nastiest,

most violent players, you want to draft them, retain them. And Steve Crocio puts up a great comment. Hey, Skoransky, pay Simmons, do what you got to do to give the Titans a Super Bowl win. Because Simmons is going to be up for some new money soon too, because his guaranteed

money is dwindling down. And these are your two best players on your team, Bhop. Please do not do a Trey Hendrickson, guys. Don't get this man, these men so upset that they don't even want to negotiate with you. They just can't wait to get out.

You know what I'm saying? Don't do that. You know, these guys are ripe right now. They're invested. You put a nice juicy carrot in front of them. I know it sounds counterproductive. Juicy carrots don't even sound right, but you know what I'm saying. You dangled something in there that's attractive, like a really nice compensation.

And they'll take it because they're home. You know what I'm saying? So don't get into a big. war with somebody because it might be somebody more desperate that's that just you know hey i'm going to give this guy a hundred a jillion dollars you know what i mean and this you know you got the next has one if you're doing uh disown watching deals and we don't even say that don't even say that bhoff oh man well speaking of the juicy carrots carrots help your eyesight and hopefully the titans are able to see that peter scuronsky is part of the future moving forward so we'll

talk about not just Peter Skronsky, but some other players that you guys have questions about in the live chat on the other side of the break here on the Titan Squad show. Keep it here. All right. I wanted to get to this first comment because they addressed you directly, Brad, the CRA won. He just said, Brad, been a fan since 1992. I live in H-Town. We were lucky to have you. Wish we could clone the performance and character. That's nice from the fans right there. That's really cool. Now, think about that, though. The CRA goes way back. someone that's tracked this team's journey. I mean, probably well before I got there.

You know what I mean? So he probably sees the formula. When I first got to Houston, we had monsters up front. You know, Mike Munchak was my left guard. Bruce Matthews was my center. We had another first rounder at right tackle named David Williams out of Florida. Doug Dawson was my right guard. We had monsters up front.

And we kind of kept that standard. I mean, Bruce played 19 years. You know what I mean? So we were, we as a line, we're learning so many things from him every single season. You got to keep guys like that in the building. You know what I mean? That was always something that I marveled at. The fact that when I got to that roster, there were dudes that had been in that building for 10 plus years.

That's rare nowadays. Now, admittedly, my first year was the first year of the collective bargaining agreement and free agency really became a thing. You know what I mean? Because before that, you were pretty much locked in. But, you know, you can see where teams can do better by players and stop playing this game of getting the most out of them when you don't have to pay them

and then let somebody else pay them. And then you end up wishing you get them and, you know, whatever else. Say hi, Kevin. Oh, got another guest on the show. Taking Tyler's place for today. Yeah, right? He doesn't talk with my stuff. Billy Mann 5325 asks,

Who are we drafted in the first round? I'm sorry, number four pick. No, I said the kid from Texas Tech. David Bailey. Yeah. The production was there this year for that kid. Say it. He was productive this year.

Extremely productive. And you want a guy, I think, with that athleticism that could also cover in the flag. flat, that kind of stuff. You know what I mean? It's one thing, put this way, we find, is there, is there a Javon curse on the draft board?

Probably not. I mean, someone that's just an anomaly, you know what I mean? He looks like he could still play. God, isn't it sick? But you see this guy here, I think that when you look at a linebacker's body, you know what I mean?

Yeah. Especially with the ability in the interior of that line to force things outside, he's athletic enough to be able to play sideline to sideline. And that's why I like him. I like, he's probably got a toolbox that is definitely going to be improved when he gets into the league. But I guarantee you with that kind of athleticism, this kid got some, you know, he's going to bring it. You know what I mean?

I'm not going to say he's going to be the next Jared verse, but, you know, he's going to be doing some things. I do think that. Yes, exactly. I do think the Titans need to get another pass rush to line up next to Jeffrey Simmons at that four spot, whether it's Bailey, Rvel Reese. Ruben Bain is who I kind of like because I think he was obviously the heart and soul of a defense that went to the title game. And he has some familiarity opposite sides of the ball. But with Cam Ward, like there's another Miami buddy for you on both sides of the ball.

So when him and Jeff Simmons go at it, Ruben Bain could step in and be like, hey guys, you know, chill out for a second. So there's that aspect of it too. Billy Mann has had another question, too. Do you think sweat will be on the trading block? Where's the value? Yeah. He hasn't been healthy, healthy either. Okay, let me answer you this.

What would you give for Devon to Vondre Sweat? Sixth rounder, fifth round? Yeah. What would you give about? You're not going to get the second round value back. That's what I'm saying. So why do it? You know, at this point, if you felt either,

God, Lee, family, you're hairy. If you, I'm serious, His hair just went everywhere. He doesn't want to keep Andre sweat, I guess. For his audio listeners, that's Finley, that's on a Brad's cats. He's for a reason.

I'll get out. Finley distracting me. Oh, sweat. Okay, so for me, it's like, what years is for him? Going to his third? This would be third year, yeah. Okay.

So he's got one where you'd one more year left on his rookie deal. If you don't feel he's worth exercising the fifth year option, then you're probably saying that whatever you get for him is whatever you get for him. But if you're trading him because you think that somehow he's going to give you some draft equity, you know what I mean? I'm like, you know, right. You know, I don't know that he's got there yet to say that he's going to bring that type of,

you know, trade value. I just don't know. I just don't see it just yet. I'm not saying it won't happen. I'm just saying I don't see it. Right. And I know the big thing is, you know, he wanted to get his body right going into this past season. And then obviously both he and Jeff missed some time. They kind of staggered time and didn't get as much time together as they, as maybe they had hoped for. Jeff said after this off or after the season and Jeff said that he's bringing sweat with him to work out. He's got no choice. So I'd like to see what that looks like coming back to training camp because Jeff's like, it's not an option.

Like he's going with me. Well, listen, first off, why would sweat say no? You see, I put myself out there, but you're coming with me. And what we saw from Jeff's preparation in the offseason, he definitely improved, right? So if Devandre's doing what Jeff did and Jeff's even a year into his process even more, then that should yield a better Tavondre's sweat, one that's probably in shape. that's more durable can play longer that kind of stuff right maybe even stronger because we know big jeff man he'd be in that weight room you know so tivine's got to match that energy same thing jared verse

did with aaron ronald yeah remember he went worked out and he said he only did at one workout he did one workout but that was enough he said shoot this guy's crazy you know what i mean i saw him Julian, this guy was he had like 165 dumbbells and was wrapping him like you wouldn't believe. There's this video on YouTube of Aaron Donald and like what he eats during a day and there may have been a whole farm

of chickens in his oven. Like it was crazy man. I'm like how does one consume that much food? That's great. Well and also behalf you're thinking like somebody of sweat sweats care, you know, nature you're hoping for ascension under Robert Sala too. Like you're hoping that

because Sala is the defensive mastermind that he Gus Bradley has the pelts on the wall that like sweat's going to take a next step that maybe he hasn't taken before that we haven't seen. Do you remember Jim Washburn? Jim Washburn wasn't some designer of stunts and, you know, blitzes and stuff like that. What he was was a master of technique and motivation. He's the one that made Javon Curse. He's the one that made Tennessee's Albert Hainsworth. He was the defensive mind in that position room that got those guys going. If Robert Sala can make himself available consistently like Mike Rable used to do, going from position room to position room, his stop off in

the defensive line room can be so motivating if he can inspire those guys, especially on game day. Just get them so wound up that they're just unstoppable. You know, that's what you have to do. teach them the technique during the week, make sure the game plan gets put in, everything's done by Friday, and Sunday is just really my job is to motivate you. I'm not going over anything in the playbook. We already did that.

You should know at this point what we're doing. So now I'm to inspire you to be, to execute the best that you can. And that's Robert's job. It's not to, you know, necessarily teach, I mean, other than just the simple things,

that's the position coach's job. I can look you in your face when we get ready to take this feel and I can tell whether or not you're focused or not. I can see whether or not you've got just you've got bad intentions or fear. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to look at you. I'm like, I used to do that all the time, Julian. You know that? I used to do that.

I used to walk around the locker room before we went out in the field and I would walk in front of every single one of them. I've stared in front of their face just to see who was about to take the field. Because I didn't want no chickens. I didn't want no faint of hearts. I didn't want anybody out there that wasn't ready to do it. much damage as I was about to go do, you can't be out there with me. You know, so that's if, and I know they've got those people in the walk home that do that. I am challenging you by not saying a word to you.

I'm standing in your space. I'm looking at you in the face. I'm looking at you in your eyes and tell me what you were in. Because the first thing I do when I break the hole from the game starts, Julian, I stare that guy in the face that's right across from me, the guy I'm about the block, and I want to see who flinch is first. If you look down, you look away, you look worried. Oh, yeah, I got this way.

Getting real uncomfortable. Hey, Bruce, we got a live one over here. Let's go. That's the way we roll. And that starts in the locker room. That's Robert Salas job. Yeah. And then it maybe trickles down to Jeff Simmons standing in front of Devonre

Sweat's locker say, you're coming with me this offseason. You know what I mean? And Awaken to the Eternal agrees with you. Sweat still has a lot of value talent-wise for the titles. Let him play out his contractor. I still feel like a lot of meat left on the bones so far for Sweat. We haven't gotten, we haven't gotten there. Don't say that.

We're talking about dieting and get in shape. Oh, yes. Sorry. We're eating ham hawks and stuff. Sorry. All the taco places in Nashville are closed. I'm sorry. There were people asking where Tyler was today.

Tyler will join us again on Tuesdays. You will hear his perspective. And of course, every day on the Titans, locked on Titans podcast on Fridays. Bhop and myself, and we could have. Some more insight. Julian, just come clean.

Shut up in there, Tyler. We got him tied up. Yeah. He's gagged over there. Yeah, Tyler, you have a toilet with a rope around. A rope around his arms just like, can't get out. Exactly. Muzzle on the mouth.

That's what he even said after the show last time. You're going to have to put a muzzle on me. That's funny. All right. Well, that will do it for the Titan Squad. show as we head into the weekend. We're going to continue the off-season talk throughout these couple months, especially as we get closer and closer with the combine, which Bihop.

That's already in like two weeks. So it never slows down. Are we going? Are we going to be there? I'll be there. I'll be there. Damn. You said, I don't know about you, but I'm going to be there.

I got to give my lick back for not getting the invite to the penthouse suite in San Francisco. Here we go. The point thing is I'll be a bit. I'll be up there. Tyler will be up there too. So that'll be... Maybe this will be the first in-person Titan squad show. Yeah, it's like the Avengers assembling. So there you go.

All right, guys. We'll talk to you later and when the three of us are back next week, remember, like, comment, subscribe, all that fun stuff on the Titan Squad show. We love hearing your comments and questions. But for now, I'm Julian Minnesone. That's Brad Hopkins. We'll talk to you next time.