{"id":3857,"date":"2013-05-31T23:55:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T03:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2013-05-31T23:55:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T03:55:56","slug":"bernard-pollard-brings-intensity-to-titans-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/05\/31\/bernard-pollard-brings-intensity-to-titans-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Pollard brings intensity to Titans practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3853\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3853\" alt=\"bernardpollard\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/bernardpollard.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/bernardpollard.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/bernardpollard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/bernardpollard-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bernard Pollard was signed by the Tennessee Titans to bring some intensity to their defense. On Friday the veteran safety got a little carried away.<\/p>\n<p>Pollard intensely yelled out defensive calls and threw a football at the back of tight end Craig Stevens at one point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tempers flare,&#8221; Pollard said, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/titans\/2013\/05\/31\/bernard-pollard-apologizes-to-teammate\/2377921\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>. &#8220;For y&#8217;all in the media, you see a guy do something like that and you want to say, &#8216;He&#8217;s crazy&#8217; or &#8216;He&#8217;s a thug&#8217; or this and that. But when you are playing a violent game like this you have to have an edge. You have to have a switch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pollard is known for his sometimes rough play but is trying to foster good team spirit with the Titans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What you didn&#8217;t know is I went over and apologized to (Stevens) for throwing the football at him,&#8221; Pollard said. &#8220;But there&#8217;s nothing wrong with playing with a passion. This is a violent game, and we know this is a performance-based business.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Pollard was signed by the Tennessee Titans to bring some intensity to their defense. On Friday the veteran safety got a little carried away. Pollard intensely yelled out defensive calls and threw a football at the back of tight end Craig Stevens at one point. &#8220;Tempers flare,&#8221; Pollard said, via USA Today. &#8220;For y&#8217;all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[309,58],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-3857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bernard-pollard","9":"tag-tennessee-titans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}