00:00look i understand that i am in the bag for cam ward i understand i'm very biased i love the
00:05guy
00:06i love he's about the right stuff number one overall quarterback it's uh a lot of expectations
00:12heaped on him but man i i don't know like i think there's a difference between being a tough media
00:20and being like just i don't know man like they just feel like they're being very harsh on a guy
00:25he's 18 games into his career like i don't understand why there's been multiple interactions
00:31with him over the last three weeks i guess it's because he has a confidence about himself but it's
00:35not like he's out here uh moping about it like deshaun watson is people guess people expect me to
00:40throw for 500 he just is like i think i'm a good quarterback and i don't know this has drawn
00:45the
00:45ire of a lot of titans media you had the guy who got banned and then uh the longtime titans
00:51reporter
00:51yesterday paul kaharski got into it with uh with cam a little bit um i think you know i'm a
00:55very good
00:56quarterback you know i think i do a lot of things you know different that a lot of quarterbacks can't
00:59do um and it's also stuff that you know i have to get better at as as you know some
01:03things that i
01:03lack um that's a process that you take on each and every day um i have great coaches around me
01:08to
01:08continue to push me to that level that i want to play yet and when when you know the the
01:12tide turns
01:13you know i'm pretty sure you know it's gonna be a different story this question back have better
01:17results than you you're having say that again doesn't a very good nfl quarterback have better
01:22results than you have uh i think it comes with the game it comes with the defense you're playing it
01:27comes with you know what the the dc's philosophy is um and you know every game is not going to
01:33be a
01:33shootout every game is going to be a it could be a bad pass rate it could be a bad
01:37you know completion
01:37ratio um but it's all about the win and loss and you know we haven't done that and that's something
01:42that we only focus on is winning losing i mean all right so let me let me and and and
01:48and i've kind
01:48of alluded to this thought before would troy aikman or peyton manning make it in today's football
01:59because you remember their first years right yep like and and and no i i under that i'm getting
02:08there too vlad like that pop that maybe plays a role into it but for some reason now
02:19football or professional sports is the only profession in the world where there's no development
02:27and and that that that drives me crazy i've said that in every sport that you're taking eight
02:38taking in some cases basketball 18 to 22 year olds and demanding more of these young men than you
02:47would your own damn kid and so what i would say to you is is that i don't want to
02:55hear was that a fair
02:56question name another quarterback who had who get asked in the shouldn't a guy with your stats
03:02or got direct shouldn't you be better who would ask that well he's yeah he's rebutting oh you're
03:09calling yourself very good wouldn't the results be better i have that attitude like do you wait you
03:14think you could be the first pick in the draft say i'm an average quarterback what is he supposed to
03:19say you gotta have confidence in yourself we'll see but but he's also saying it under the guise of
03:27hey i know i'm not there yet i know there's a lot i need to improve on but i think
03:35i'm doing the right
03:36things and i'm a good quarterback he basically was very humble in saying that he wasn't like
03:44being cocky about it or anything like that he handled the question quite well right for some guy
03:54whoever how old he is to think i think that other people in that room should have got on him
04:03the players can't do it the organization can't do it but i think if you're in that profession
04:09you need to take a stand and say that's that's no too much i agree with you really right but
04:16we're
04:16in a different time right now i don't but the here it is we're in a different that doesn't make
04:21it okay vlad like just because oh times are different i can be however i want to be and
04:27you got to deal with it no i get it but i get it but no everybody look at listen
04:32and the thing about
04:33this and i call this the mahomes curse the success of these quarterbacks in their first five years
04:40especially if they're drafted in the first round and then they're in their rookie contract it it
04:45because they get successful or they have uh they have success early in their career they want them
04:51to be either in the super bowl or win a super bowl before they get that second big contract which
04:56and
04:56this is why cam because cam was the only quarterback from that year and shadour and we see the craziness
05:01that's going with shadour and the browns but cam was the only quarterback from that draft that was
05:06selected he was selected first and played so for unfortunately for him and i know this being a
05:14jet fan when you don't put the proper people to develop and you've been saying that a lot to
05:19develop these players especially quarterbacks all that pressure all those expectations if it's not um
05:25if if it's not um seen early they're gonna just get on their helmet and rip them apart and sometimes
05:34it
05:34it it it it it it just dwarfs the development of these quarterbacks and i feel bad for cam because
05:41one they're on his neck because of what happened with the reporter early on this in the summer and
05:46i don't think it was his fault i think it's the organization so that's the problem cam's got to
05:51take a lot of the fault because he's the face of the franchise of an organization who just got a
05:56lot of
05:56warts yeah you can't look you want the players to be professional
06:04while you don't have to be that did nothing there's nothing professional about that comment
06:10nothing no there's really not like i think so and so you're required if if if a player loses his
06:17mind because an unfair question was asked to him right they would say be a pro be a professional
06:23that's your job why can't we hold them accountable right no i'm tired of this i'm tired of this standard
06:29you can do whatever the hell you want because he can't do anything i just think the thing that's
06:35crazy is like if you were a guy who's covered the titans forever you've seen bad quarterbacks now for
06:40a while because they haven't had a lot of good ones since see mcderick they're outside of a brief run
06:43oh i broke it down yesterday to open dude after mcnerick they've had vy yep they had mariota
06:52their really last good quarterback was tanny hill tanny hill gave them like a good little
06:57little run with uh with vrabel and derrick henry being the best thing jake's locker
07:01you had i think that's the thing they were there with will levis recently will levis was terrible
07:09and you know i tweeted i say i like have titans fans like oh he showed more flat will levis
07:13show
07:13more flash i'm like he literally did not he has not shown more flash he was he was terrible but
07:19i
07:19don't understand why cam ward is being treated like he's three or four years into this thing
07:23it's week one of his second season but it's not even year two it's not even the middle of year
07:32two
07:32here's the other thing i can go to a number of these guys you're talking about
07:41and they all have one thing in common right a lot of them sat and watched for a year
07:48and we just dismissed that we dismissed that as it not helping in their development and everybody
07:59wants to throw the guy in there right with a situation that's not conducive to anybody having
08:07success and then complain when they don't have success you say patrick mahomes aaron rogers um
08:14you look at right those guys sat no you're right those guys sat okay when you look at okay
08:20here's a good example and they just don't and i always say this is why coaching and coordinators
08:25are important caleb williams had a mediocre rookie year last year was his second year though he wasn't
08:34accurate but you saw the progression of the team of the team he was able to develop because his team
08:42was
08:42good pick another pick another player and i'll tell you why and here's the problem here is jayden
08:48daniel's jayden daniel's successes rookie years expedited the progression of the commanders not one
08:55season but two right because of his successes rookie year those are anomalies right but anomalies
09:03stop making anomalies the norm but when they see that same thing with drake may was his second year
09:09uh bo nicks second year when they see these quarterbacks taking their teams to the postseason
09:15there when you have a young quarterback you're looking at it but here's the problem with and i
09:20know what you're going to say but look at the teams that i'm naming you're talking about a set
09:26identity you got coaches super bowl winning coaches you got a or super bowl uh uh or or
09:33gurus like champagne champagne's one of the best qb coach like mike grable forget about what he does
09:39you know outside the uh of the field he's a hell of a head coach right you understand here's the
09:44other
09:44thing when these guys were going into their second year or when jayden daniels was drafted
09:53we didn't talk as much about those quarterbacks even though we did but you know what they said about
10:00drake may he's gonna take a large leap because the team that they built around him they had so much
10:08money to spend they had so many draft picks their young players had stepped it up to where they were
10:14talking about the team not just saying oh the quarterback is gonna they basically said he's gonna
10:22be able to grow because of the team that they built around him so look for new england to take
10:26that
10:27next jump but i think that the thing that stands out about this is not necessarily okay
10:31comparing to other quarterbacks the thing that's crazy about this is like everybody should be under
10:37the realization the titans suck dude like that's the terrible roster and why is he what that that
10:42are beat writers for even if he had a even if even if they had something like that after
10:47two full years okay i think that's a crazy thing that's been brought to the kid
10:52in pre-season and after week one dude like that's why those are insane like nobody is dealing with
11:01that kind of heat you want to tell you why the media does that i'm gonna read this comment right
11:10here media are doing their job cam war looking like a bus with a capital b after 18 games how
11:18is
11:18that's why they do it because the people out there reading the crap are just as stupid as
11:25negativity sells guys i mean look the same thing happened with zach wilson in new york but and
11:30everybody was like oh they ripped the team for selecting him but you don't have the proper
11:36people the proper coordinators the proper core quarterback coach to help him progress then
11:41this is the result you're gonna have that's it and here's the other thing with cam remember
11:46so salat didn't select him that was he you know so this is salat's first year salat doesn't want
11:53to get fired again he takes buddies but he also but that's also like he had if he's coming back
11:57he's taking the job he knows what comes with it quarterback guess what if tennessee has a bad
12:01year this year and they have a number and they're in the top five guess what if he wants to
12:05save his
12:05job because i mean there's a chance he could get fired after his first year listen if he plays
12:09if cam ward plays like he played last week and he has a full year of that then fine i
12:15think
12:15then the criticism can be some without it you have two full years and you look like one of the
12:19worst quarterbacks elite there has to be something more than one cool throw a week i get it but i
12:23think it's an insane way to talk to a kid his his into the middle of his second year i'm
12:30like what do
12:31you think what do you think it's supposed to look like right now that's my problem and i feel like
12:37you're just i feel like they're trying to knock him down a peg for what boy out they took one
12:42listen the media is a team as well so when one of their fellow reporters get their credential
12:47taken away that's the thing that's weird like i don't know if it's because they're piggybacking
12:52off of oh that got that guy a lot of attention because this was this guy who was in the
12:56interaction
12:56that guy's been covering forever it's not no no that's not that's not a podcast guy that guy's
13:01been covering the titans for that's paul koharski he's like he's like the um you know i don't know
13:06he's he's been covering the he's been covering them forever but i don't understand okay and and
13:13for all the people that that think that that line of questioning or comment was okay
13:23what is the media trying to accomplish by going that route
13:29media well negative um negative reporting or negative headlines about the star quarterback
13:38will always garner a lot of traction even though even though and so nobody's going to react to
13:44the question they're not going to look at the question they're going to look at his response to
13:50the question so so basically so basically you're putting a whole bunch of men and women in a room
14:00with a 23 year old and they can just go at him however they want and and we all think
14:08that's okay
14:09no we don't and we're not no everybody just says it's acceptable but we no we don't but it could
14:18be
14:18also that we a little we might have a little bias towards cam as well but though over there i
14:23we
14:24don't know what's going on over there but hated me y'all would have hated me well because i've said
14:30to reporters i said you know what i just played a game for for three and a half hours i
14:36had to
14:37hurry up and take a shower and in 10 minutes y'all came in and started asking questions i said
14:43you had
14:44to you had a whole game to think of your questions and this is the question you came up with
14:49and you
14:49saying i'm bad i've said that like yeah come on titans press conferences are depressing yeah they
14:59don't put anybody in the mood nobody feels worse than the players though that's what i think nobody
15:04feels worse
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