A Peak Inside Titans Headquarters On Draft Day

NASHVILLE - Phones around the National Football League's 32 teams likely ring regularly, with general managers discussing players and potential deals. Those calls and their intensity of them grow as the draft approaches.

Next week, those same phones will be at a season-long high as each team sets its final draft boards and finalizes its plan for every imaginable scenario.

On Wednesday, Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider shared that his club has received some "periphery" calls enquiring about the availability of his first-round pick, No.5 overall, for a trade.

“Kind of periphery stuff,” Schneider said, via Gregg Bell of The News Tribune. “That stuff really gets pretty intense, I’d say, next Tuesday and Wednesday. Those are really the two days that people kind of set up broad parameters for moving up, moving back at different spots. And you have to be really pliable once it starts, because if you move into other spots, or move up, you have to be ready to roll.”

While we in the audience have our opinions on what our team should do, either trade up, down, or draft player X, Y, or Z, we don't have to be ready to make that pick or switch instantly should there be a trade offer. That means these teams are spending extra time to be prepared for anything that might happen.

I've never been inside the actual draft room of the Tennessee Titans or any other franchise, but I have been inside the building. I will be again in seven days as the draft transpires inside St. Thomas Sports Park, and I can tell you there is tension about the place for those who work for the team.

Side Note: For those who might not know or have never visited the team headquarters, it has undergone a significant renovation where the entire facility has been transformed. The above aerial photo is of the old facility, with the below rendering of the new front.

Perhaps that tension could also be described as excitement or anticipation, but there is a different feel on day one of the draft than on any other visit to the place.

As just one of the many media who will be there for the draft's three-day run, we will be tucked away in the media center, where we will sit, conversate, speculate, eat, and watch the draft unfold. There will be lots of tweeting and social media interactions, with questions being answered, but like fans at home, we won't know until it happens.

We won't get a head-up on any trades or selections until they come across the television screens. Only then will we know, and shortly after the actual pick is made will join the newest Titans on a conference call to get their reactions to the events that are taking place.

It's a long three days, and by the end of round seven, it's tiring, but it's also some of the most fun of the non-game portion of an NFL season.

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