Zach Mettenberger is going to do his best to make it hard for the Tennessee Titans to hand over the starting quarterback job to Marcus Mariota.

We’ve heard from a lot of people about Mettenberger, but we haven’t heard directly from last year’s sixth-round pick and the team’s incumbent quarterback.

ESPN’s Adam Caplan recently spoke to Mettenberger via text and shared the conversation.

“I don’t [know] what the mind-set is, but at the end of the day I can just control what I do and I’m extremely confident in myself, almost to a fault,” Mettenberger said. “But people who know me know I’m not going down without a fight to the death.”

via Paul Kuharsky of ESPN.com