WEBVTT - The OTP | Covering Four Downs from Week 6 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:13.600 Alan tried to sneak he got nothing, or sewing to 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.720 pear at it. I got it. I did it. I 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:26.400 did it, yes, not yes, not yes, hell yes. Welcome 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:30.200 to the OTP four D presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:32.879 Let the experts at Farm Bureau Health Plans coach you 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.199 through it when you need the great healthcare coverage at 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.600 a price you can afford. They've been protecting Tennessee and 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.760 since nineteen forty seven. With Titans Radio's Amy Wells and 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:45.600 Rhett Brian, I'm Mike Keith. Four D pregame begins with 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.240 Coach Mack on what was, in essence, the final call 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:53.080 of the game he took over Amy. Oh my gosh, 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.400 I mean the Music City Miracle was good. This is 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:01.240 pretty great too. You can feel every emotion that he's 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:05.040 experiencing as he's experiencing it and the rest of Titans 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.160 fans were experienced. I don't think he got it. I 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.200 don't think he got it. Oh my gosh, he didn't 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.119 get it. Oh my gosh, there it is. I mean, 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:15.360 it was, That's exactly what every other Titans fan's brain 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.479 was doing at that moment. So great to hear Coach 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.360 mcnailed it. I've been fortunate enough to be present for 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:26.120 both of those calls, and they are similar, Mike, in 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:30.479 the terms of Pat Ryan, your color analystic partner all 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.679 those years ago, the former quarterback, the ball player. Well, 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.520 you have the coach and Dave McGinnis, and while they 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.760 don't completely understand delayed gratification or theater of the mind, 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:43.960 which is what a good play by play guy does, 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:46.840 the player or coaching them is like, yes, yes, there's 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:50.240 the definition right here. We definitely did. They stopped him. 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.200 It's not there this gub. This ball game is over, 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.960 and so there's this yen and this yang between the 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.280 two of you that is I love it, and it's 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.160 one of the more exhilarating calls on Titans Radio and 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.320 twenty plus years of games for what it meant in 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.720 the moment, for the stage that it was on, and 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.960 it captures a moment on this Titans team of a 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.600 Titans draft pick coming of age and truly affecting the 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.200 outcome of a big game in Jeffrey Simmons talking about 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.440 Big Jeff and what he did on the play. The 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.480 difficulty with the theater of the mind aspect is it's 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:27.840 changed dramatically because New York is now in the ear 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:32.120 of the official and there was no signal, There was 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.840 no signal from anybody initially about whether he had made 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.360 it or he had not made it, And I think 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.200 the officials were waiting to make sure after they had 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:45.720 been corrected the play before, they were waiting to hear 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.320 whether or not they didn't think he had it. Where 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.480 they were coming into market clearly showed he didn't have it, 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.080 but they wanted to make sure that they had it 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:59.560 right because on the third down run, initially they signaled 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.560 first down, and the New York group came in the 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.079 headset of the official and said, you've marked the ball wrong. 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.000 You've got to move it back. It's fourth down. That's 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.160 what Sean McDermott was complaining about after the game, And 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.200 you know what, I think, rightfully so, because if you're 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:19.160 the bills, with the clock and everything happening at that moment, 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.480 you've got to know what the situation is. If New 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.440 York's going to overturn a call without a full review, 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.239 you should stop playing that moment. You should walk over 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.440 and tell both coaches specifically what has happened and allow 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.560 them to set for that, So you know, that's one 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.560 of the changes we're having to make in our job 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.760 because New York is now doing that sort of the 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.280 sky judge from New York City, and it's made it 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.720 quite different. And I see, I didn't think McDermott was 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.480 whining in what he said. I think he's right. If 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.240 you think you've got a first down there, you're thinking 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:59.200 about something different play call wise than if it's fourth down. Well, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.080 and we saw that a little bit over the weekend. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.800 There were a couple games where in the final seconds 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.240 Steelers Seahawks is what comes to mind, where in the 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.200 final seconds of the game, the officials are trying to 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:13.480 figure everything out and it dramatically changes the strategy in 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.480 the scheme of how a coach approaches a situation. I'm 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.880 just glad that Mike Keith is the adult in the 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.000 room when it comes to the Titans radio calls, because 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.000 he has the presence to say, wait, there's no signal. 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.320 We all have to be cool here. I was on 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.720 the opposite side of the field from where the play 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.400 was happening. I was on the opposite end zone. I 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:36.120 reacted to Jeffrey Simmons' face, and I knew what was happening, 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.839 because Jeffrey Simmons knew what was happening. Is that the 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.680 adult thing to do, But it's what happens when the 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.040 defense comes running down the field after they've made a stop. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.919 That's ninety nine point nine percent correct. They know I 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.560 thought they had made the stop. It appeared we couldn't 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.039 tell from the initial look that Simmons had fallen on 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.960 him the way he did, had taken Hawkins back into 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.279 him and had fallen on top of him, But we 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.240 knew they didn't go anywhere, and that was what the 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:10.920 situation was. It was a great moment for Titans fans 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.280 and obviously a great moment for coach Mack. He got 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:17.159 a little excited. And you're right to frame it in 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.400 the way that you did, because that is the part 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:26.880 that inside two minutes, when the New York has it, 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:31.240 you cannot challenge and those things where it's literally in 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.520 skyhawk view, in the league's hands of this thing, well, 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.799 and they're not stopping it anymore to do the review 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.919 when they know in order to speed up play, when 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.479 they know they're gonna buzz him and say move the 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.360 ball back a half yard. What they're doing is they're saying, 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.159 we're not gonna go under the helmet. We see it, 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.400 and you know what, they were right when you saw 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.200 the look that New York had, the ball did not 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.839 reach the line to gain. It was absolutely the right call. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:03.840 But the confusion from the Bill's standpoint was they get 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.840 a first down signal, they think it's a first down 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.480 and then very quickly it's not. So that makes it 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.480 that's a different part of the NFL right now, right, 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.000 And it makes things complicated and it makes things hard. 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.359 And I understand. I think it's a valid complaint that 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.760 he has, but you don't really care. But I care 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:29.039 absolutely none. Well, I was very cautiously enjoying the moment 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.359 for coach mac because I know what he saw. He 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.360 knew what he saw. Jeffrey Simmons saw what he saw. 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.599 And of course I'm back there with Philip Noel and 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.839 we have a monitor on the side of the wall 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.640 there in the Titans radio booth, Boot seven, and when 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.000 we saw that replay, I'm like, because it didn't look 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.480 like he had forward progress. Man, it was clear he 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:52.400 got nowhere as nowhere. Jeffrey Simmons submarined in there, pushed 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:56.120 the guy back into him. It was a stone wall. 0:06:56.279 --> 0:07:00.560 It looks to me too like Naquan Jones is also 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.159 somebody who got some serious penetration. I'm very interested to 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.359 ask Mike Vrabel about that guy who played a pretty 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.480 good game rookie out of Michigan State who has started 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.680 to show up a little bit more. Titans didn't want 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.600 to let him go, so they activated him to the 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.600 roster even though he didn't play right away. They think 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.800 he has potential much like Tier Tart. And so, man, 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:25.400 if you're able to develop another undrafted defensive lineman who 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.960 can help you, Wow, that's a help to not only 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.600 your football team, but rent to your pocketbook. Any time 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.960 that you can get help from undrafted free agents. And 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.520 we've seen teams throughout the decades who went and got 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.680 the small school guy in a late round or got 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:44.760 really really lucky in evaluation and procurement and working with 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.760 a guy to polish him up to get it to 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.800 pay off. And you know, the Patriots have done that. 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.720 I mean there's several yeah, I mean they like write 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.000 the book on it. But so many teams have done 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.080 that through the years, and this is exciting to know 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.240 that that may be a possibility you are a veteran 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:03.600 team who doesn't have extra cap room. It's huge. It's 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:08.320 absolutely huge, especially because then if a draft pick doesn't 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:12.440 work out, which inevitably happens, then that guy basically takes 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.520 the draft picks place in your draft class. I mean, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.520 look at Nick Westbrookakina right now, what did he give 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.760 you on the last drive? What is he giving you 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.720 on special teams? This guy's twelve catches on the year. Yep. 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.120 He had three for twenty seven on the game winning 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:31.120 drive to go ahead. Yeah, when you couldn't get Julio 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.600 Jones because the hamstring flare up and golly. I mean, 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:38.360 and that's the thing that's amazing to me about a 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:42.600 Nick Westbrook Aquinas. The poor guy had moments last season 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.720 where it's like, gosh, he can't catch a cold. Now 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:49.080 he's reliable. He's reliable Nick Westbrookoquina, and he's special teams 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:53.160 Nick Westbrookakina. It's huge. Yep. Those guys become the foundation 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.559 of your team because it gives you something consistent, It 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.880 gives you depth, and it gives you some versatility. But 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.560 then it also gives you extra money to pay those 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.679 key pillars that you need to have. So teams are 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.240 built on those guys, and we don't talk about him enough. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.760 Nobody talks about him enough because they're not the big 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.000 stars all the time. But those are the people that 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.160 are holding your team together, and we don't talk about 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.079 him enough because they're the ones that do the real 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:23.480 dirty work. They get their hands dirty. Good player. Nick 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.800 Westbrook a keena I said right here on this show 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.839 on the OTP four D, I really believed he was 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:30.640 going to be a factor this year, and I still 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.880 believe it. I think he's I think he's going to 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.199 be a part of this football team going forward. Who 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.400 is a regular contributor, who who? And the fans know 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.280 him now? The ot people certainly know him all right. 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.280 First down, let's get right to it. Coach Mack's call 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.160 of the game was the highlight though, no question, no question. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:51.280 First down, your play that turned the game. Amy, You 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.760 can't say the Jeffrey Simmons play. I am going to 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.000 say the Jeffrey Simmons play, but I'm saying it from 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.480 the angle of a sideline reporter, Okay, if that makes sense, 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.959 from the angle of a thank you. I've been working 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.000 on this for a long time. The reason that that 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.079 was so important in my mind, besides the fact that 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.720 it was a call made by the Bills to go 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.920 for the fourth down instead of kicking the field goal 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.600 and sending it into overtime. I don't think the Tennessee 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.560 Titans would have won this game if it had gone 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.760 into overtime. I think that this would have been a 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:26.199 dramatically different situation for the Titans because had this game 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.800 gone into overtime, not only would there have been a 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.520 momentum swing towards the Bills, but there also would have 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.280 been a issue with the amount of bodies that the 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.520 Titans had. They couldn't catch a break when it came 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:42.240 to injuries, right, yes or no answer, Sean mcdermot's your coach, 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.360 you're a Bills fan. You kicked the field goal? Yes 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.600 or no? Yes you wanted to kick the field goal? Yes? Yes, 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.480 I want to Yes, I want to go to overtime 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.840 because I see where the Titans are injured. You're way 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:57.280 more healthier, I mean way more healthier. Although Jim Why 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:01.040 made the point the Titans had scored were done every 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:05.080 one of their final six possessions outside of the end 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.040 of the first half, where they basically ran out the 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.160 clock and the end of the game where they ran 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.840 out the clock, so I guess that's what he was thinking. 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:16.360 I still fall in your lane, however, that I kick 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.040 it right there, go to overtime and keep playing. The 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.120 only guy you didn't have was Dawson Knox, especially because 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:26.360 remember they're going into their by right. Yeah all right, 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.600 So Rhett, your play that turned the game. I go 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.520 back to six seven, eight minutes left in the third quarter, 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.240 fourth and two at the Buffalo twenty nine yard line, 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.920 Ryan Tannehill, it's a j Brown for a fourteen yard 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.120 game that led to Derreck Henry's second touchdown of the 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.560 night to get them right back out in front twenty 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.199 four to twenty three. That's where I thought, Okay, they 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.720 are going toe to toe. It's getting towards the eighth, ninth, 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.480 tenth round of a twelfth round, fifteen round heavyweight boxing match. 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.800 They can have a shot at this if they don't 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.560 shoot off their fingers and toes. To me, it was 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.800 the decision by Mike Vrabel early in the fourth quarter 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.080 to kick the field goal at thirty one twenty four. 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:05.800 I'm sure there were a lot of people. Good you 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.319 gotta go for it. You can Nope, he says, we 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.960 got nine forty five left in the game. We're kicking 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.120 the field goal right here. We're gonna get within four, 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.280 We're gonna be able to stop them, get it back, 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.480 and we're gonna go win thirty four to thirty one, which, 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:19.880 by the way, I'm gonna reveal that's what Dave McGinnis 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.240 was saying the whole end of the third quarter. He said, 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.160 we're gonna win this game thirty four to thirty one. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.760 And obviously he was. He was all in last night, 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.240 no doubt. But the point was Vrabel sat at the 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:35.559 adult table there he said, let's keep playing the game. 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.880 When the Titans are doing their thing under Mike Vrabel, 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:43.160 they keep playing the game. They don't end it. They 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.600 don't make the decision that puts it on the line. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.040 If you don't pick up a first down in that 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:51.920 situation and it's still thirty one twenty four, you've lost momentum, 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.880 you kicked the field goal, you say we're just gonna 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.520 keep going. I thought that was the decision. That's the 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.520 one that jumped out to me. Very good calling opinion 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:04.200 by Mike Frabel. Second down Rhet Brian, your stat that 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:08.880 tells the story. The Titans defense gave up four explosive plays, 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.240 but the Bill's longest play of the night was the 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.160 thirty one yarder to Emmanuel Sanders on Buffalo's final drive 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.040 that stalled out with a goal line stand. It's something 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.199 that they've been working on. I would like them to 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.680 continue to work on it. But I thought that was 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.840 marked improvement against a high powered offense that had been 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.840 averaging thirty five points a game in four straight wins. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.520 Ryan Tannehill was not sacked, which I think is a 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.520 colossal improvement from all of the rest of twenty twenty one. 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.560 It was the first game that he wasn't sacked, and 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:46.160 despite the loss of Taylor Lawe, the offensive line played 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.840 a game where they were able to keep their quarterback clean. 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.800 And for this Titans team, keeping Ryan Tannehill standing on 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.680 his feet and healthy is going to be a huge 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.920 part of this offense because you can actually run the 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.360 offense when your quarterback back is standing up. So I 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:05.280 think that that was a huge victory for this offense overall. 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.839 To me, it was rushing Titans twenty two rushes one 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:13.480 forty six and four touchdowns on the ground. Buffalo twenty 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.400 three rushes eighty two yards, no touchdowns on the ground. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.880 Their longest run was fourteen yards. They had been averaging 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:26.320 one forty per game rushing and two seventy passing one 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.920 forty rushing. Yes, they ended up throwing for three thirty 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.800 five in the game. Yes, Josh Allen did a really 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.120 nice job throwing three touchdown passes, but they could never 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:40.680 establish anything on the ground. And Josh Allen nine carries 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.440 for twenty six yards with a long of seven and 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.560 he doesn't get in the end zone. That's huge. Here's 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.920 a stat from Josh Allen when he has run for 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.800 a touchdown and thrown for a touchdown in a game, 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:56.680 they are eighteen and ozo. So that rushing touchdown is 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.920 once they get him going in the ground game. That 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.720 gives him that balance to their offense. The Titans gave 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.000 up a bunch of yards, and they gave up thirty 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.080 one points in the ball game, but they never broke 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.920 because they didn't give up the big plays. As you said, Rhett, 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:14.280 and the Titans were able to keep the Bills from 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.920 running the football through the entire course of the ball game, 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.520 and that's huge. Because we talked about it all week 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:23.320 about how he has designed runs for him. Now, second, 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.320 the team in rushing lean coming into this game. The 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:30.120 stat I like Josh Allens was six and oz in 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.120 primetime games. He's o and two in primetime games. Versus 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:37.560 the Tennessee Titans, third down your area that the Titans 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.360 have to get fixed. Rhett Bryan getting off the field 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.640 on third down allowed seven to thirteen to the Buffalo Bills. 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:47.120 They cannot do that on Sunday to the high powered 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.080 Kansas City Chiefs. Got to get off the field on 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.680 third down. That's simple. At one point, it was six 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.400 of eight in the second half for Buffalo. That's not 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.720 a good stat I'm pigging backing off of Rett a 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.120 little bit. They've got to tighten up overall because they 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.080 were allowed three hundred and thirty five passing yards. That's 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.400 a lot of passing yards. That's a lot of while 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:09.000 they controlled the explosive place, didn't have those big chunks. 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.320 I mean, they're still grinding it out on you. And 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.080 you've got to tighten that up before Patrick Mahomes comes 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.200 in here and starts slinging it all over the place. 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.640 Because we know that's what he's going to do, and 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:20.760 he's going to try and take advantage of any holes 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.120 that he sees. In this Titans defense, I think it's 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:27.040 tackling still, and I think it's tackling because they were 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.560 not good at Jacksonville overall. I think they were better 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.160 in the game against Buffalo. But to me, it stands 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.440 out because you're probably going to have more new guys 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.400 trying to do the tackling, especially smaller guys in the secondary. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.040 Caleb Farley could come up and hit you. Christian Fulton 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.520 has shown he will come up and hit you. Chris 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.880 Jackson at his size will come up and hit you. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.000 Not every guy who plays in a secondary can tackle. 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.320 And you're going to have more new guys filtering through 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:58.520 because of the injury situation overall on defense. So for 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.320 the Titans, I think it goes back to tackling because 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.400 these guys you got to get them on the ground. 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.920 You've got to get them on the ground in these 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.199 situations because run after the catch against Kansas City is 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:13.200 just beastly. They are phenomenal no matter who they have available. 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.719 They have plenty of speed, they have plenty of athleticism. Everywhere. 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.600 You've got to make the tackle. You cannot allow run 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.439 after the catch. Mike, to your point on the I 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.359 believe it was the fourteen yard run by Devin Motor 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:29.320 Singletary three miss tackles on that runs tackles, It should 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.000 have been a three yard game maybe, And Caleb had 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.040 missed one couple of plays before, so I was like, 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.280 that's for miss tackles already. And this was early on 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.879 in the ball game. Said fifteen ended up being the 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.840 total in the Jacksonville game. So listen. The guys on 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.199 the other side are big time pros. I get it. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.000 You're not gonna make every tackle, but you've got to 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.879 be as good as you possibly can be against the 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.439 Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs and teams of 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.879 that ilk Indianapolis. When you see him with t Y 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.520 Hilton back and with the way Jonathan Taylor has been 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:00.919 running it lately, I mean, it's an area where the 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.280 Titans have to get better. All right, fourth down one 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.280 thing that you noticed and wanted to share. We're gonna 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:11.439 let aby go first. This game felt like a big time, 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:16.280 prime time football game. The atmosphere at Nissan Stadium gave 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.280 me chills. It still gives me chills this morning. Absolutely 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:24.000 amazing from start to finish. The crowd. The crowd was crazy, 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.840 absolutely crazy in the best possible way. I don't think 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.240 they sat the whole game. I don't think they sat either. 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.200 It was the first time and I can't remember how 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:36.280 long I looked up into the upper upper deck and 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.600 I thought, oh, my goodness, every seat is full. It was. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.840 You could see it, you know, you could feel the energy. 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:47.000 It was so exciting. Having the lights the way that 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:49.720 they were programmed, so that every time there was some 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:51.680 sort of a break in the action, they could dim 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.760 the lights and they were flashing blue. It felt like 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.560 a major performance. It felt like a show. It felt 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:03.520 like what any person expects an NFL game in prime 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.280 time to feel like. It was crazy. It was so good, 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:11.040 and I was so proud of the Titans and of 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:15.919 Nashville again showing up in those big moments when everybody's 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.800 watching and being able to show what this team is 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.600 about and what this city can do, and how excited 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.000 they are about football. It was amazing. It was just 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.480 it was an epic game in a in a lot 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.239 of different ways, but the way that everybody showed up 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.720 for this game crazy. It was great the view from 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:37.760 the Titans radio booth in the closing minutes, you just 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.440 delivered the final call the Titans get it done again, 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.600 which was great, always great to hear and to see 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.719 you and Coach Day McGinnis waving and talking to the fans, 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.479 and Coach Max says to Philip Noel, and I was like, hey, 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.440 come up here, let's let's talk to these people. Wave 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.400 at him. Of course, you know, I'm making sure commercials 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:59.520 running or but I'm also I'm looking out the window 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:03.879 and I see first of all, Bills fans in shock, 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.000 and then the rest that are a lot of faces 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:09.040 you see every week, and they didn't want to leave. 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:12.879 And I loved that for them and was so happy 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:17.600 for them because so many times in recent history, especially 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:20.160 the last five ten years, the Titans may have put 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.960 something together to have a big moment like that and 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:27.000 fall short of that. And you said it best last 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:29.320 night in post game. The people in those seats that 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:32.320 are season ticket members last night, they'll be there on Sunday, 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.240 garanteed now. But I was so happy for them that 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.959 they got the show, they got what they wanted, and 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.280 they didn't want to leave, and It's a moment I 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.520 won't soon forget, and quite frankly, selfishly, I wish could 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:46.879 have lasted just a little longer. I've got two and 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:50.080 so I want to follow on your points about the crowd. 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.840 The thing that we see out of the booth is 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:56.160 when there are opposing fans in the area of the 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:59.720 Titans fans in front of us, we will occasionally see 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:03.240 people get into it with other people. We will occasionally 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:07.520 see arguments and nastiness. What I saw last night, for 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:09.240 the most part, does it looked like just a bunch 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:11.359 of people having a good time. It looked like the 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:13.760 Bills fans were having a good time and the Titans 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.159 fans were having a good time, and they were watching 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:20.200 Monday night football and they saw a great show. That 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:23.560 was the most lead changes on a Monday night football 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:27.160 game in thirteen years. Wow. I mean that was a 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:31.000