NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Heading into season four, Harold Landry remains a one-trick pass rusher: Speed around the corner is his thing.

So his new position coach came up with an interesting new tactic to force the development of moves beyond that.

Landry is not allowed to use the speed rush at practice.

Harold Landry, Tennessee Titans

Pool photo: Mark Humphrey, AP

“I took his fastball away,” Ryan Crow said. “He’s a speed-dip guy, I think everyone that watches his film throughout the league realizes he’s a speed-dip guy so I think the conversation with him was, you can’t use that in camp, you’ve got to find something else, make some new mistakes, learn some other moves, try them, see if they work and try to create that second and third pitch."

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