Tennessee Titans Delanie Walker indirectly tells Bernard Pollard he is wrong

Tennessee Titans TE Delanie Walker clears the air for the few people who needed it clarified.

If you read my article on this when it came out, you really don’t have to have this explained to you because the Tennessee Titans tight end was pretty clear when the quote first popped up.

However, in the words of Bernard Pollard himself I want Titans fans to hear it from “YOUR leader” what he was saying in that quote.

Again, this really wouldn’t even be a story if Pollard didn’t try to make it about selling the team, firing the coaches and front office people or whatever else he has been pushing for. I’m sure he has a reason for wanting those things, but this was not the quote to use to back that argument up.

While I completely disagree with the point he was trying to make, Pollard has the right to his opinion on the Tennessee Titans franchise. However, taking a quote out of context or trying to add meaning to it that wasn’t there isn’t the way to go about it.

Delanie Walker is an awesome guy, you can see it on the field and you can hear it when he talks. If there is a voice in the locker room that you want to be louder than his, you would have to make a strong argument because I just don’t see who it could be.

So, when he says things like this about the culture of football in general it can be easy to make it Titans specific. The thing is, you have to remember that Walker came into the league as a 6th round pick and worked his tail off as a special teams player and a role player on offense for 7 years before leaving San Francisco and joining the Tennessee Titans.

Since then all he has done is become one of the best balanced tight ends in the NFL and consistently show that when he is on the field there are few in the NFL like him. So when he says that people used to get more outraged at slow starts he means it because he saw it first hand back in his early years.

Between Mike Vrabel, Delanie Walker, Cameron Wake, and Wesley Woodyard, I think the Tennessee Titans have about as much of an “old school” mentality as you can find in the NFL these days. So if that is what you wanted when you saw that clip, understand that there are few teams in the NFL who have been built to reflect that more than the one that Amy Adams Strunk and Jon Robinson have built in Nashville.