NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Trevor Siemian took his first snaps in the red practice jersey of a Titans quarterback and while it was hard for observers, and Mike Vrabel, to offer too much of a one-day review, it looked like the average sort of first day for an experienced guy working in a new place with new people.

(Photo: George Walker, The Tennessean via pool.)

"After one day it's going to be hard to give you the State of the Union on him," Vrabel said. "But he's played in games and he's functioned pretty well for just having a couple Zoom meetings (Wednesday) and a quick meeting (Thursday) morning)."

The experienced Siemian is obviously better than rookie seventh-rounder Cole McDonald was, a guy the Titans made a quick decision to toss to the scrap heap. Now we’ll see over the next few weeks if Siemian passes Logan Woodside, who has no game experience but two seasons of work with the Tennessee coaches, for the job as Ryan Tannehill’s primary backup.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Mike Vrabel pulled out the old suggestion box line this week.

Derrick Henry had a limited practice, finishing with side conditioning and he fielded a question about it.

(Photo: George Walker, Tennessean via pool.)

“Let me know if you got any suggestions,” he said. “It’s on (John Streicher)’s desk, the suggestion box.”

Per your request, Mike, my entries…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A.J. Brown was a rookie unknown at the start. Ryan Tannehill didn’t start until Week 7. Corey Davis had a toe issue pop up somewhere along the way. And slow-starting Adam Humphries missed the final four regular-season games and the first two playoff contests because of a bad ankle.

As good as the Titans passing game was in 2019, it was rare that everything was functioning together.

(Photo: Mark Humphrey, AP via pool.)

So 2020’s optimism comes in part because Tannehill’s is the guy from the absolute beginning, Brown’s established as a fierce firebrand. Davis just came off PUP and looks back in form. Humphries is moving great, running the sort of precise routes the Titans signed him for a year ago.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Take Nate Davis into the sun for a practice and he’s a faucet with the spigot turned all the way on.

He could be assigned a practice-field patch to water.

“I would definitely say the crown is mine,” Davis said. “It’ll be the first period and I’m already soaked like I just jumped in a pool.”

Recovery takes quite a while. He drinks as much as he can, but it’s really impossible for him to take in as much as he loses. So his cool-down features an IV that helps offset his daily practice weight loss. Monday for the 6-foot-3, 314-pound guard, that was 13 pounds.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Titans saw Darryton Evans fumble twice and dropped the ball too much on Sunday.

Still, for the second day in a row in an unpadded practice, things were even at best and probably leaned toward the offense.

(Rashard Davis beats Tye Smith. Photo: Mark Humphrey AP via pool.)

This is a highly unusual development for the Titans historically. In recent years it’s been about new coordinators trying to get their offense up to speed and a quarterback constantly revising things and attempting to put a big-offseason theme into practice.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Welcome to the first mailbag of camp, on a Titans' off-day after the first day the media got to see.

Hope you've read my observations of that and this will tide you over. until Sunday afternoon.

Let's hit it like Derrick Henry hit this heavy ball.

What does Kalif’s game lack? What would he have to do to be a WR2

— Tres Winn (@TresWinn) August 15, 2020

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Mike Vrabel blew his stack at least a few times during the first training camp practice the media watched.

He said it was nothing.

“Who seemed unhappy?” he asked. “No, that's football practice. There's some good, there's some bad and we got to eliminate the stuff that gets you beat – interceptions or balls on the ground, quarterback-center exchange.”

(One outsider’s recommendation: Don’t ask out of a play if you’re a young unknown.)

(Photo: George Walker/Tennessean via pool.)

It was your basic early practice with some very pretty moments – Kalif Raymond winning deep up the right side after winning quickly against Johnathan Joseph -- and some that rated as less so – Malcolm Butler cursed himself repeatedly after reading Ryan Tannehill’s first throw of one-on-ones, slipping inside A.J. Brown’s crossing route and then dropping an interception. (See photo.)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Assistant coaches outside of the guys slotted in the coordinator talking slots Zoomed with reporters Thursday, so the day before our first view of the Titans on the field a lot of subject matter was covered.

Without talking what I thought were some of the bigger storylines being worked on, I thought I’d offer you snippets from everyone with a bit of what it left me thinking. My Zoom photography was poor as I bounced between two, and at one point three screens, so you will not be quizzed later on what the new guys look like. We will save that for a bit later.