Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Vic Beasley Reports to Titans Training Camp, Titans Teammates' Reactions & Locked On Titans Fantasy Football League Details

Episode Date: August 10, 2020

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Welcome to the Locked on Titans podcast. I am your host, Tyler Rowland. Titans fans, today's Monday edition of the Locked on Titans podcast is brought to you by rockauto.com. Amazing selection, reliably low prices, all of the parts your car will ever need, rockauto.com on friday finally beasley watch 2020 came to an end when titans free agent signing vick beasley finally reported to training camp we are going to start off today's show talking about what that means and what comes next for vick beasley as he begins the process of catching up to his Titans teammates.

And then we also heard from four different Tennessee Titans on Friday. Let's hear their reactions and their words of encouragement for Vic Beasley as he joins the team. So excited to bring you those comments as well. And then we will cap off today's show talking about the Locked on Titans Fantasy Football League. I'm going to announce the first four official contestants in the league, when the draft will be, and what we will officially be playing for.

So really excited to get into all of that with you guys. Of course, if you don't know already, you can get your automatic entry into the Locked On Titans Fantasy Football League by sending me a confirmation of you on rockauto.com putting in the code LOCKEDON in the how did you hear about us box for your purchase. That'll guarantee your spot in the league. And to get more information about the league and more content Monday through Friday on the Tennessee Titans, subscribe to the Locked on Titans podcast on Apple podcast, follow on Spotify or whatever platform you do stream.

But we have a lot to talk about today in terms of what will happen next for Vic Beasley now that Beasley Watch 2020 is over. Let's get it. Throughout the first few weeks of training camp around the NFL, if you looked at the storyline surrounding each team and you had to pick which storyline was the most quote-unquote drama-filled throughout the entire league, you may end up selecting Vic Beasley's absence from Tennessee Titans training camp. It's very

uncommon to see a newly signed free agent miss this sort of time, especially combined with the mandatory fines that Beasley was being hit with, $50,000 every single day. Well, after a total of a half a million dollars worth of fines were assessed to Beasley, he finally arrived to Titans training camp on Friday, August the 6th. Now, Beasley will begin the process that his teammates were already 10 days into. Taking his COVID test, coming back with multiple negative results on those tests, having one day of quarantine in between. And then ultimately beginning his equipment fitting and physical.

So taking a look at the calendar right now. Vic Beasley will have to pass a COVID-19 test. Come back with negative results on day one. Day two another COVID-19 test. Hopefully with negative results. Day three a quarantine for Vic Beasley. Day four, another, a third COVID-19 test has to come back negative. And then the day after that, Beasley will be allowed into the Titans facility to begin,

as I mentioned, his equipment fitting. And then we'll have to pass his physical. After that, if you've noticed the players who showed up on time, they didn't go directly from the physical portion of the ramp-up period directly into on-field activities. There were conditioning phases in between. So, when Beasley does arrive, although he will make it before the Titans' first padded practice on August 17th he will have to have that necessary ramp up period that was negotiated by the players association before he will be able to join his teammates in normal team activities on the field so although Beasley is getting to Titans training camp before the pads go on he is still going to be largely behind the rest of his Titans teammates who showed up on time.

This obviously hurts Beasley than it would hurt other members of the Titans team since he is a new free agent acquisition, is not familiar with the defense, has never played with one of the primary defensive coaches that the Titans have on the staff, and isn't familiar with any of his teammates teammates how they like to do things think about a stunt on the defensive line with the defensive tackle moving to the outside to try to take the defensive ends man so the defensive end can loop underneath something that Vic Beasley is very good at that we showcased on a Tic Tac Titans film breakdown on Twitter and also something that has been discussed in the Titans media as well Beasley's

ability on stunts well part of the success that you can have on those types of plays is having chemistry between the two players who are running it know exactly what spot they're going to be at on the field those sort of things are going to be delayed but the reality is if Beasley is able to catch up quickly and produce on Sundays, all will be forgiven. And by the comments from his Titans teammates over the weekend, it seems obvious that the Titans locker room is ready to welcome Beasley in with open arms so that he can help this ball club. John Robinson, Titans general manager, made this signing because Beasley is someone who at peak performance can help this Titans ball club immensely. That wasn't the only news from over the weekend for the Titans. Titans new free agent acquisition also coincidentally coming over from the Atlanta Falcons defensive lineman Jack Crawford

was placed on the COVID reserve list. We don't know whether Crawford himself tested positive for COVID-19 or if he has just come into contact with someone who has, but we do know that he was placed on the reserve list and will not be allowed off the list and be allowed to rejoin his teammates until he is cleared on multiple tests and has days of quarantine. The issue with this, like Beasley, is that Crawford is a new member of the Tennessee Titans, and any missed time whatsoever can severely put him behind on the learning curve. Speaking of curves, if your car is having trouble maybe taking a curve,

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Gave you my analysis and some of the cons that have come from this situation, even if Vic Beasley has returned to the team. One thing that I didn't mention is it is a little bit of a conspiracy theory. You get your 10 foil hats on, but why did Beasley do this? Concerns over COVID-19 are an obvious answer, but there are some rumblings along the interwebs that this was a pseudo holdout that Vic Beasley is upset about the Jadavian Clowney rumors that are connected to the Titans the amount of money that's being discussed between Clowney and the Titans and Beasley thinks that the Titans

should maybe pay him a little bit more money if they're willing to have that money left over for Clowney now that like said, is a complete conspiracy theory. I didn't want to make it too official or give it too much room, but hey, just something to mention. I wonder, just like you all wonder, why this took place, and until Vic Beasley is put in front of a microphone, or better yet, in front of a laptop for a Zoom conference for someone to ask him that question, we won't know for certain, but if Beasley ever does answer this question, I will be the first to not only report it for you guys, but give you my analysis. But not my analysis is the focus of this segment right here.

But what do Vic Beasley's teammates have to say about his return to the team? We got some quotes from Kenny Vaccaro, from Daquan Jones, who will be teammates of Vic Beasley on the defensive side of the football, but also got some information from Roger Saffold, who knows a lot about Vic Beasley from his times going against him. So I will bring you that audio now, courtesy of TennesseeTitans.com. We will start with somewhat of a defensive leader at the safety position, and that is Kenny Vaccaro talking about how the defense will welcome Vic Beasley now that he has arrived to Titans training camp.

I've never met the guy. I'm excited to get to meet him. Whatever was going on before training camp and him getting here late has nothing to do with me that's his personal business you don't know what's what somebody's going through their situation this has been a crazy year 2020 so I'm not judging anybody for when they show up to camp if they opt out or all types of things this year so you know I'm just I'm focused on you know my brothers that are here and this team

and, you know, John and Coach Vrabel and I'm sure they're handling whatever that situation. Kenny makes some really great points there about the uniqueness of 2020 and how maybe this year more than others is time to save judgment with everything that's going on. But I do want to bring notice and attention to the last comment that you know John and Coach Rabel got everything under control well we know from comments from Mike Rabel that he really hasn't had much discussion with Vic Beasley whatsoever his most recent even after the statement from John Robinson that he's had contact with Vic Beasley, Mike Vrabel's press conference, he said he hadn't talked to him since.

So, you know, it wasn't like the lines of communication were constantly open and Robinson and Mike Vrabel knew what was going on the whole time. And they admitted they didn't know. They hadn't talked to him. There wasn't a lot of communication. So keep that in mind as we hear these additional comments from additional people. they admitted they didn't know. They hadn't talked to him. There wasn't a lot of communication. So keep that in mind as we hear these additional comments from additional people. But I think it is worth noting, one, that Kenny Vaccaro makes some good points about 2020 being very strange

and not judging people's decisions or the time that they take. But also bring attention to Kenny Vaccaro saying, you know, John and Mike got it under control. That's something interesting that we'll see as a common theme throughout these answers. Moving forward, but staying on the defense and staying within the defensive pass rush unit, Daquan Jones, who doesn't talk a lot, isn't doing a lot of media availability,

but I enjoy his candor for the most part. Very intelligent answer. Seems like a very thoughtful guy. And the most tenured Titan on defense. He was around for a lot of the rough times, the roughest times that we remember as people who follow the Titans. So having Daquan put some perspective on Vic Beasley

was an interesting thing to hear. I mean, yeah, I mean, come in and just catch him up as fast as we can. I mean, I don't know why he was gone. That's something Coach Red Bull and John would know. I mean, you know, just know when he comes in, just embrace him and help him learn to play as fast as he can and get the ball rolling. Again, two big things of note coming off of that comment from Daquan Jones. Number one, it is all about the playbook, really. If Vic Beasley is in shape, which as a professional athlete who just skipped 10 days of training camp,

where most of it is testing and conditioning and a physical, so Beasley must be confident in his physical shape so after that it all becomes the mental battle learning the playbook and especially like I mentioned in the first segment a defensive tackle someone who's going to be working stunts and working directly it's just like how a guard and an offensive tackle have to be on the same page or a center and a guard for their combo blocks and getting up to the second level when they're going to do certain double teams what technique they're going to use against certain pass rush alignments and formations and fronts that they see it's the same thing for the defensive

tackle and the defensive end edge rush outside linebacker whatever you want to call it it's just an edge defender there so having Beasley and someone like a Daquan Jones or Jeffrey Simmons be on the same page based on not only the playbook and knowing the play itself but how they individually want to do things and the chemistry they have between one another that's very important as well so Daquan having that sort of focus with Vic Beasley will be important but secondly the second point comes back to like Daquan just said there as long as head coach Mike Mike Vrabel general manager John Robinson know what's going on but well they didn't know what was going on so a lot of these guys that's two comments in a row basically saying as long as coach and and GM know what's going on or in communication, then, you know, that's all right, blah, blah, blah.

But he didn't have that communication really with them. So that's interesting. And you don't want to press guys or be too antagonistic in these Zoom conferences. As a reporter, obviously, you're just lucky to have any access at this point with this sort of situation that we are in because of COVID-19. So you're not going to press anybody's buttons really at this time. But an interesting follow-up would have been.

What's your comment on the situation? Knowing that there wasn't any communication. But at the end of the day these guys are professionals. And at some point as mentioned in the next comment. It could be them in that situation. In a pseudo holdout or an absence from training camp. So you don't want to crush your teammates that are just joining the team so that makes a lot of sense too but I guess that's what

I am here for is to fairly and you know reasonably in an unbiased way give you my take on the situation but the next take that we are going to hear comes from someone on the offensive side of the ball and that is Roger Saffold. Saffold has actually played against Vic Beasley before so he had some really interesting comments about his play style what he can bring to a defensive pass rush as an offensive lineman what you fear from Vic Beasley or how he can beat you or throw you off so I really enjoyed Saffold's perspective being an offensive lineman who's going against Vic Beasley.

This is what he had to say. Honestly, you know, I don't know the situation going on with that at all. So I don't really want to comment on that. But all I can say is that, you know, hey, everybody goes through things. I go through things. Different people on the team go through things. And it's all about how we handle it. And as long

as the coaches and GM knows what's going on I always know they'll look after us but the one thing I know that this team is going to do is we're going to support them we're going to love them and we're going to just bring them in and we're going to work with them day in and day out just popping in real quick right here in the middle of Roger Saffold's comment to bring more attention to as long as the GM and the coach know what's going on. Well, they didn't. All right, back to the regularly scheduled Roger Saffold comments about Vic Beasley.

I think that it's pretty obvious. I mean, he has such great speed off the edge. I mean, he's very, very athletic. He's strong. And, you know, you really get great production out of him. You know, I think that that's just an excellent quality to have, bringing him onto the team. And then, you know, you look at a lot of our younger guys

who are just constantly making plays. And, you know, just that consistency from our entire defensive line, I mean, it's going to be extremely, extremely helpful. He's got some power to speed the power game because people are worried about the speed. And I don't know, man. I'm just really excited to just have him on our defense. I think that that's a great piece to add to the team.

That's some excellent analysis there from Roger Saffold about Vic Beasley and what his best skill as a pass rusher is. He certainly doesn't have any fantastic moves, as I've broken down earlier this offseason, but he most certainly has the speed to get around the edge, and if he can catch people off guard with the speed, get them on their heels, and then use a little bit of power, he can make a lot of splash plays for the Titans defense. Feel like it's a good spot, being positive, end on a positive. The holdout is over. Beasley Watch 2020

is over. Now it's time to focus on what he can do to improve this football team but hopefully that is the last time that we talk about Vic Beasley in regards to his absence from Titans training camp and everything else will be about his actual play on the field next we are going to talk about the lockeded On Titans Fantasy Football League. I told you earlier in the show how to get an automatic entry into the league by taking advantage of the Locked On promo code on rockauto.com and sending that confirmation to me on Twitter at TicTac Titans. We are going to talk about the specifics of the league. When is the draft going to be? We are going to talk about the specifics of the league.

When is the draft going to be? What are the scoring settings going to be? The rosters? What will be the prize? We will talk about all of that next. The Locked On Titans Fantasy Football League will have its annual opening season here in 2020, a very strange year of course, but I feel like if we start the Fantasy Football League now, then every year after this will be a little bit easier. Either way, I'm going to win the league, but I want you guys to be a part of it. I've had discussions with a lot of you on Twitter through DMs or just regular tweets

about the league, about your interest in the league, getting a lot of interest internationally from New Zealand, the UK, Southern America. So that stuff, I must say, really warms my heart. Thank you so much for listening in America, of course, but listening overseas. Definitely do appreciate all of our international listeners quite a bit since football isn't a huge deal there. So appreciate you guys. But anyone can get in the league and a lot of you have asked

exactly how you can and some of you have already confirmed your spot so what I want to do is I want to lay out the details of the league what my plan is here how you can automatically enter even though I covered that earlier in the show rockauto.com so we'll do that we'll talk about that and i'll announce the four confirmed members of the league so far so number one the draft will take place on august the 29th that is the saturday two weeks from now so this upcoming saturday the 15th two weeks from then. So this upcoming Saturday, the 15th, two weeks from then, the 29th, the draft will be 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time when I get everyone in a group message for the league when all of the contestants are confirmed. We can alter the date, edit the, not the date, edit the time since there will be different

time zones represented. We can talk about that more. But the 29th, Saturday night, is when I would like to have it. It's about two weeks before the season will kick off. Well, about 10 days or so. But that's what I'm planning on right now, the 29th. There will be 12 people. It will be a typical lineup with one flex position.

It will be PPR, which is point per reception, if you aren't familiar with the terminology, the fantasy lingo there. The winner will get to join me in the offseason for an entire Locked on Titans podcast. You will be my co-host for a day. So I'll have you on for the entire episode, let you maybe decide a segment in the show, and you can just give your analysis and your thoughts on whatever happens to be the prominent stories of the day, of the episode.

So I think that'll be really fun. And I also think that maybe one segment a week, maybe on Friday to replace our Friday mailbag during the season, maybe on a Monday, maybe. Either way, I'll work that out, but might have a member of the league on who had an awesome performance. I will have a segment every week

where I give an update, a highlight of what's going on in the Locked On Titans Fantasy Football League. So it'll be a lot of fun throughout the season, and it'll be a good way for me and you guys to kind of connect even more, grow that relationship even more. It's really the best part about all of this is having an experience with all of you guys as we go through this wonderful thing called football. But that's the plan right now. There will be no buy-in. There will be no money.

I don't think that's the right way to do it. We're having fun here. I don't want to have the right way to do it. We're having fun here. I don't want to have people have to have money to be able to get into the league. All that I am asking is you go to rockauto.com, you make a purchase, and you put locked on in the how did you hear about us box. Send me that confirmation on Twitter at TicTacTitans, and you'll have an automatic entry into the league to face off against me in fantasy football with a chance to be a co-host for a day as the ultimate prize. Now,

what you've all been waiting for. Let's do the first four members out of the 11 spots. So after this, we'll have seven remaining spots, it's a first come first serve basis guys send me those rockauto.com confirmations i'll confirm that you're in and i'll announce it on the next available segment basically but i will keep track of who got in first so let's get into the first four members with a pseudo laptop drum roll. Random Sports Fan. I don't know your name because it's not on your Twitter anywhere, but you've been a very

loyal follower of me on Twitter at TicTacTitans. I really do appreciate going back and forth with you on things. Excited to have you in the league. That's Random Sports Fan. His at on Twitter is at ReigningRunnerUp. So you are confirmed.

You are in. Next, someone who is a frequent asker of questions in the Friday mailbag. We have Colin Light. Colin Light, you are the next confirmed member of the Locked on Titans Fantasy Football League. At Colin Light on Twitter. And then next we have Jeff McCullough. Jeff at JeffMcCullough3 on Twitter. Jeff is in the Locked on Titans Fantasy Football League.

And then finally, the last person who will be announced today. Remember, if you want to be announced next, send those confirmations from rockauto.com. And I understand you may not need anything from rockauto.com at this moment in time, but there are wiper blades and air fresheners and all kinds of small items that are worthy of a purchase. Just throw that locked on in the how did you hear about us box when you do it and send it to me. But the last person who will get their entry today is Kyle Robb, at Kyle F. Robb on Twitter. Kyle, you are the fourth confirmed member in the Locked on Titans Fantasy Football League. Obviously, I'm the fifth confirmed member, so maybe you're the fifth member.

Either way, it's all semantics at this point. But those are the four people who are confirmed in like I said I've gotten a lot of interest from a lot of different people but the official entry since there is no buy-in there is no money to get into the league just go ahead and make a purchase at rockauto.com throw locked on in the how did you hear about us box send that confirmation to me on twitter at TicTacTitans, and you will get your automatic entry into the Locked on Titans Fantasy Football League. So I'm really excited to undertake this adventure with you guys. Really excited to have a good fantasy football league to go to that we can discuss on the show. Like I said, just bring you guys and me that much closer together as we continue this journey called football that we love so much.

But that is going to do it for this Monday episode of the Locked on Titans podcast. We should be getting some major on-field work taking off soon here from the Titans, so should have some good things to talk about going forward. But that'll do it for today's show. As always, I am your host, Tyler Rowland, and this was Locked on Titans.