WEBVTT - The OTP | Pregame - Week 17 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.960 This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.880 Farm Bureau Health Plans is for those who make plans 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:24.680 for everything except themselves. We make it easy and affordable 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.960 for Tennessee and who don't have a group or employer plan. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:32.920 Visit FBHP dot com to learn more. With Amy Wells, 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.760 I'm Mike Keith coach. Dave McGinnis is in the Snickers 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:36.680 hot seat. 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:41.640 Welnakers hot seat. Welcome, Thanks, Thanks, I like being here. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:43.040 Did you have a marvelous Christmas? 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.680 Great Christmas, marvelous Christmas. Hope everybody listening to OTP had 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.720 a great Christmas? I know you two? Did I know 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.720 Amy had a did not have Santa Claus in her 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:57.080 house because outdoors one of her daughters doesn't want Santa 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:57.640 in the house. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:00:58.280 Is that right? 0:00:58.440 --> 0:00:59.080 That is true. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.600 We didn't leave cookie for Santa. We didn't want to 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.000 create the illusion that he was welcome inside that house. 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:06.160 The presence outside. 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.920 Please leave all gifts outside, they really do, Yes, Santa 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:14.120 Santa was not We didn't want Santa to enter the home, so. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.479 He left his gifts out. What do you we well, 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:18.400 my daughter, Okay. 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:26.960 Livy, Livy didn't love doesn't love the idea, I know, so, yeah, 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.919 she she is nervous about the whole concept of Santa. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.080 She doesn't love it. She doesn't think that having him 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.840 in her house is something that she likes. And so 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.680 we left the presence outside. 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:42.240 Can I stop a minute. 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:43.360 We didn't let them enter. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.440 Can't stop a minute. It's not anything she doesn't like. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:47.360 She doesn't yike it. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:51.960 She doesn't yike it. Yeah, she doesn't. And so but 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:53.720 it was fine. She likes the gifts. 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.760 She's very appreciative to Santa and really glad that he 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.440 is back at home for three hundred and sixty four days. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:03.200 But don't come in my house. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.080 She has asked me nine hundred times in the last 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.120 twenty four hours. Is Santa back at the North Pole 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:13.000 with missus Claus? Yes, yes he is. She needs to 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:14.880 know where he is at all times. 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.239 So everybody had a different kind of Christmas. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.240 Ours is a little more suspicious at my house, but 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:24.880 magical nonetheless. 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:24.520 So great, all right. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.520 So that branks us. 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:31.200 To topic number one on the OTP pre game. Should 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.680 the NFL keep playing Christmas games when Christmas falls on 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:37.840 a Tuesday or Wednesday? 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:43.880 Coach deph for me, Yes, absolutely, yes, absolutely, yes, the 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:48.840 whole Netflix thing I thought was okay, but no matter 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.480 when they play, people are going to watch. But I 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.640 watched both of them with a huge house full of people, 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.920 both of them back to back within So my aunts 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:01.519 is yes. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.919 Okay, So you think even on a Wednesday, and you 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.080 like how they did it where they had the teams 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:10.040 who were going to play on Christmas play on Saturday, 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.080 so they had an extra day, And. 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.040 I absolutely did. I mean I wouldn't you know, if 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.200 I were coaching a team, I would not be against 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.200 playing on Christmas. We've done it. 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.760 Before here right, Oh yeah, but not on Wednesday. No, No, 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:27.880 But I'm saying that's my question is just the league 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:33.720 is it worth playing on Christmas Day if the game 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.520 if Christmas falls on what will be a Tuesday in 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.160 a few years and a Wednesday again in six years. 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.240 Yes? Absolutely, Yes. Lebron James didn't like it, but I 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:45.280 having no problem. 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.040 Lebron James is fifty five years old. That's different. 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:53.680 So now those teams that played the Ravens, Chiefs, whoever, 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:58.280 they now have an extended that's kind of nice. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.200 They have sit worth it well. 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.280 But they and they played early as well. They played 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.040 on Saturday, So it's not even as bad as going 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.400 Sunday to third. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.920 So they played Saturday to and then to Wednesday WEDESDA. 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.160 Now they get all that time off. 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.440 Yeah, that kind of it's it's tough on the front end, 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.640 but the recovery on the back end, especially in December, 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:22.119 that's not bad. 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.000 It means Houston's going to come in here with a 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:24.679 lot of rest. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:26.440 Yeah, that's not great for us. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:30.160 But but nothing to play for That is kind of hoon. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:31.839 Houston is the four Seeds. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:33.520 Yeah, there's Seeds decided. 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:35.360 Yeah, that is kind of nice. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:39.360 That will be fascinating to see how Demiko Ryans chooses 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.240 to play this with a football team that is not 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:46.520 playing well against the game that your owners want to 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:51.360 win more than any other, especially because the Titans beat 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:55.160 you on November twenty fourth, and the Titans are going 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:59.400 to dress as the Oilers for that game. Yeah, so 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.080 what is used to do? And they have this extra 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.920 time to stew in their own juices about. 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.880 Oh, that's a great analogy. It's a perfect analogy. 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:12.880 Mike, I'm with you asking the question. 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.680 But they're stewing in their own juices because they've lost 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:17.200 three in a row. 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.480 They've lost three in a row, and I mean, listen, and. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:20.719 That's some juice you don't want to be in. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.240 Well, here's the other thing too, This is the one 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:28.320 you want more than any other, and now you're playing 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:29.839 it and it doesn't matter. 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.159 Yeah, and you have to have your players healthy because 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:39.159 you've lost three, right, you've got a secured spot. But 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:43.080 now the only thing that makes the season successful is 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:44.400 you got to win that first playoff game. 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.120 That's exactly right. I mean in reality. I mean when 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:52.719 Bill O'Brien was the coach and Cal McNair was the owner, Yep, 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.360 he sat people and Bill O'Brien I think just said, listen, 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.080 we want to do well in the playoffs. So the 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:01.960 the thing we can't have happen is we can't have 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.120 our quarterback get hurt. We can't have you know, DeAndre 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.800 Hopkins get hurt, or Andre Johnson get hurt or any 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:08.680 of those players. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.680 No, because it's the NFL tournament's wan and done. Oh yeah, 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.240 so you've got to be as ready as you can be. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:20.160 I am interested in this conversation because it takes the 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:24.080 football motivation part of it almost out of it. And 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:29.160 there's the ego motivation. There's the bragging rights most who. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:35.080 Who can go and say, listen, this is what because 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.560 now you got to win this game well, but or 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:42.200 or say listen, we've got to be smart here because 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.040 if we and I mean Jeff Fisher got this business 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.560 in two thousand and eight, I'll never forget it. We 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:51.360 go to play Indianapolis, we've won the division, yep, we 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:56.360 don't need the game, and he sets everybody, including Chris Johnson, 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.960 and then we lose the first playoff game to Baltimore. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:03.880 So people can back to that and said, there is 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:09.279 no way that you should, in any way, shape or 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.000 form have not played your starters in that last game 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.720 because you had the week off. Now Houston doesn't have 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.320 the week off. But everybody got on Jeff Fisher about it, 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:22.360 and Jeff's point was and it was so spot on. 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.280 He goes, okay, fine, whatever, let's let's say you're right. 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.160 If we play Indianapolis in a meaningless game and I 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:34.680 get Chris Johnson hurt, Yeah, how dumb am I? Especially 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.560 because we saw how that game with Baltimore in the 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.480 playoffs turned. When Chris Johnson did get hurt. 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:45.720 Was on CJ two k's high ankle spring right, inal right. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:50.080 But if that had not happened, But say it had 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.120 happened in the regular season finale and you had not 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.440 had him, and then you'd have lost the game. You'd 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.280 have felt like a complete idiot. 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:58.040 Right, See. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.000 What people need to understand that. I can tell you 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:07.160 from a coach's perspective, you're not afraid to put him 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.480 out there, but you also put them out there with 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.480 the fact that they're going to be going one hundred 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.040 miles an hour when they're out there, because that's the 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.360 only way that you can play this game. It's violent 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:21.360 and it can be unintentional. But if somebody's injured, it 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:26.320 doesn't matter that you were playing that game and didn't 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.680 have to win it. If they get injured, their injury matters. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:30.119 Sure. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.280 Yeah, so that's what he's up again. 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.640 But on the flip side, if you're Demiko, what if 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:36.760 you think they need to play? 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.040 Yeah, you need to get this team all win. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.400 Well, but remember they don't have the week off. They 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.480 will play week one of the playoffs. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:45.880 Yeah, they're going back to back. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.880 They're going back to back. They will have had eleven 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.640 days off coming into this game. I think he's got 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:55.960 an interesting decision to make from that standpoint. But if 0:08:56.040 --> 0:09:00.640 he decides that he doesn't want to play them, which 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:06.160 is totally reasonable and he's a good coach, then how 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:07.600 hard is it going to be to sell that. 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:14.440 Against because you'll love guys coming off of the Tennessee oilers. 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.600 Here's the other part that caveat the conundrum. 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:21.920 The Titans have already beaten him one. Well, that's it. 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.240 If you had beaten him on November twenty fourth, I 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.640 think I think it's it's a no cell. You don't 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:29.559 have to sell it at all. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.200 And that's that's the other caveat to this. 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:33.480 Right. 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:36.280 We'll find out. 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.440 But do you, like, do you agree with coach Mack 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.360 that the NFL should continue to play Christmas games when 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.240 Christmas falls on Tuesday or Wednesday? 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:45.320 Yeah? I think so. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.520 I mean I think for the league, I mean, they 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:55.360 made a good chunk of change off of those fifty million. 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:55.640 Seventy five per game. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:56.040 Yeah. 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.880 Who is the best person on the Netflix telecasts? 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:00.560 Oh? 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.680 Because they had I mean they had eight hundred people 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:06.439 that they trust everybody. 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:11.280 Yeah, they've had every person. I really liked Laura Rutledge 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.440 and the mccordy's I thought that that was a really good, 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.560 good parent, caring like they all three of them worked 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:18.319 really well together. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.920 I thought that was good. I thought Noah Eagle did 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:21.560 a great job. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:22.120 He's good. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.480 I thought he did a really good job. 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.800 He was a topic of conversation at our house just 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:29.080 because of how good he was. 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.640 We've always thought he was good though, right, Yeah, well, 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.800 I mean twenty eight now I. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:36.120 Think, yeah, something like that. 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:37.320 I mean, he's the real thing. 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:38.640 He didn't act like twenty eight. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.840 No, not, Well, he's like his dad. I mean he's 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:47.040 like his dad. Clearly he has had some advantages because 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.240 of who his dad is. But the bottom line is 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.440 it's what you do with the advantage. Yeah, and it's 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.839 I don't think there's anybody who sees him and goes, well, 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.320 he doesn't belong. Yeah, you're like and he The first 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.559 thing you say is you go, he's twenty eight. Yeah. 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.160 When I listened to him to a game, I'm not 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:07.800 distracted by him, yep. 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.120 Which he just does a game. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:12.000 Which is his dad. 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:13.520 Straight, that's his dad too. 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:17.760 I mean that's what you do say that I'm pretty distracted. No, 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:18.560 you're not distracted. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.600 You'll distract believe you're both you move a lot, move 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:22.880 a lot. 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.680 I'm pretty close to you. I'm not distracted. I'm with 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:28.319 you all right. 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:33.760 Topic too. This is a coach mac question. Titans and 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:37.120 the Jaguars will play for the second time in three weeks. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.080 When you play a team that quickly back to back 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.440 as a coach, what do you have to change? 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.199 The first thing you do, if you lost the game, 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.679 you go back and you pull it apart and find 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:54.080 out where we lost it. This one's a pretty easy one. 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.800 You find out where you lost it. You didn't score 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:58.320 when you got down in the red zone because you 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:02.120 move the football right, ended up kicking. So you parse 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.560 that what happened on the first, second and third down 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.920 that made us have to kick field goals in the 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.600 low red zone. The next thing you pull apart, you 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:16.280 pull apart the second half where Brian Thomas Junior was 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.160 a non factor in the first half and then all 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.120 of a sudden he was all they had in the 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:26.280 second half. You look at that and say, we've got 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:30.000 to do something to start from game from the start 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.240 of the game to keep him out of it. The 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.400 third part of it is you look at what's been 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:38.160 given you issues that the opponent is looking at on tape. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.280 You've got to get the run fixed. You got to 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.920 get the run defense fixed. That's what you do. You 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.560 look at what's happened to you. You look at what 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.719 they're looking at. They will go back and look at 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.760 the game and say, we were able to stop them 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:55.079 in the low red zone. So let's see what they 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.480 present us down there, and then they're going to feed 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.559 the ball. Brian Thomas Jr. You know that that's getting 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.480 ready to happen, and you have got to be able 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.800 to solidify your run defense because Tank Bixby is their 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.000 running back now at the end is a third down back. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.040 So that's what you got to do, all right. 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.160 So that takes us to topic three, and that is 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:21.000 something that happened on the Brian Callahan Show on Monday 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.600 night that we did. We had Jeff Logoman on and 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.040 one of my favorite he's fantastic. I mean, they between 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:33.040 Frank Frangie, Tony Boselli and Jeff Logoman, great group that 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:37.600 Jaguars have a great broadcast, no question. So when Amy 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:41.280 and I had him on, we mentioned that Brian Thomas 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:46.000 Junior was not involved in the first half of the 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.760 Titans Jags game. On December eighth, and he informed us 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:57.359 that he was to be involved, and that mac Jones 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:01.680 apparently checked to other things things, and so in the 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:06.319 first half of the game, Brian Thomas Junior two targets, 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:07.080 no catches. 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:08.640 That's not involved. 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:14.800 Okay. At halftime, apparently Brian Thomas Junior was going to 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.000 be part of the game plan because mac Jones was 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:22.840 told don't check. Yeah, no more checking. Ten targets in 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.720 the second half of the game, eight catches, eighty six yards. 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:34.080 There it is, okay. And then against the Jets fourteen targets, 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:38.160 ten catches, one hundred five yards, two touchdowns. Against the 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:43.640 Raiders last weekend, thirteen targets, nine catches, one thirty two 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:49.000 and a sixty two yard touchdown. So since mac Jones, 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:54.800 according to Jeff Loghman, was told don't check, Brian Thomas 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.760 Junior has thirty seven the last two and a half games. 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.560 Brian Thomas Junior thirty seven targets. 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:02.400 Yep. 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.280 On those thirty seven targets, twenty seven catches, three hundred 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.200 and twenty three yards in three touchdowns. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:10.720 You think mac Jones's got the memo. 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.880 I don't think there's any question. But my question is 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.400 how often does that happen in the NFL that you 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:23.240 that back from your coaching days or from what you 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.440 know of the league, that you put something in a 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.640 game plan and it doesn't go the way you want 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.560 it to because of a player decision. Let's call it 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.520 and you come in and go listen, that's just we're 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:37.280 going to do this. 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:43.840 I've seen it. Of course, it depends on the quarterback. Okay, 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.720 it mostly happens with veteran quarterbacks. Okay, okay, that's number one. 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:52.680 I've experienced it. But I've also experienced it because not 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:58.280 only mac Jones was told, but the play caller was told. 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:03.120 I've experienced that at I've seen the head coach with 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.760 a play caller at halftime when it wasn't quite going right, 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.160 come up with a play sheet and say, look, I'm 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.400 thinking of doing this and give me that thing. Here's 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.680 what you're doing. You're going upstairs. I'm calling this thing. 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:19.680 So it happens, ye, Well, it seems like it was 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:20.600 a good decision. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.720 However, here's here's the here's the bad decision. Not doing 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:26.440 it in the first half. 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:30.400 Well, we we thought it was a great but Mike, 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.800 you remember doing the game we were a little bit like, 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:35.640 why are you not throwing to that guy? 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:39.120 Why is that? Because that guy's really good? He is, 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.040 and we we went you know, it. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:47.080 Just wasn't there, guys, two targets, said he only had 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:47.800 two targets. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:48.480 Two targets. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:49.040 Wasn't there? 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.880 And then the second half thing about three straight plays, 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:57.280 it's it's like, Okay, we're gonna make this so obvious 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.800 to our own people that this is what we're doing. 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.800 We're gonna throw to him on the next three plays, 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.080 whether he's open or not. If it's first and one, 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.680 we're throwing the ball because. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:13.040 I need you to get the picture. 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.639 Yes, we need everyone on the same page. 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.840 And that's what happened. So anyway, that's what the Titans 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.800 need to be ready for from the jump. 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.399 From the jump, I mean, the guy's averaging eight targets 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:31.280 a half since that game. That's wild, and that might 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.600 be low. I mean they may throw to him twenty 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:35.360 times on Sunday, and let. 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.919 Me tell you, because of what's where they are and 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.240 what they he's their best weapon. 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.840 Oh god, yeah, he's really good to Is he even 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:46.600 a little better than you thought he would be? 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:46.920 Yes? 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.520 Yeah, Because everybody's like Melik Neighbors, Milik Neighbors coming out 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:51.040 of LSU. 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.040 Well, see the thing on this guy was Mike notrupt. 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.280 But you know that's how deep we do the draft. Sure, 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.679 everybody thought this guy's really good, but he's just a 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.840 linear dude. In other words, this is the guy that 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.000 you can use with somebody that has got all the 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:07.080 nuance route running and you can just you can run 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.200 him through the defense and you know he'll be able 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.119 to make the combat kit. He's really good at the 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:16.639 nuanced routes and I mean he's better quicker than I 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:17.320 thought he would be. 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:21.879 Well, what's funny is he was taking twenty third in 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.960 the first round. Remember Justin Jefferson went twenty second exactly, 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.560 and people were kind of like, well, he's a really 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.680 good athlete, but is he a really good receive? That's it, 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.159 and that's what it feels like. That's what Brian Thomas 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:36.200 Junior was too. 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.880 That's it. That that was exactly it because everybody loved 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.800 the package. Is it just is it nuanced enough, early 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.200 enough and clearly it is. Wow, Yeah, he's all right 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.280 unless you just get him two targets that it doesn't 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.320 work so well, looks great, for your opponent. 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:53.560 It's fantastic. 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:55.320 I don't think that's gonna happen again. 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:56.600 Guys, not gonna happen. 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:57.840 I don't get that feeling. 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:03.160 No Titans fans With a Kroger Boost membership, you'll score 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.880 big with double fuel points, free delivery, and lots more. 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:11.600 Go to Kroger dot com slash boost for details. Kroger 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.520 Official grocer of the Tennessee Titans. 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:18.200 Tighten Up. Holme is at the forefront of all that 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:21.439 we do. 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What's 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.520 going on with the Titans defense in December? 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.359 The first thing, when you're coaching defense and people can 0:19:56.440 --> 0:20:00.399 run the ball on you, that makes everything on ravel 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.119 because now what has to happen, whether you want to 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.159 or not, you need to start borrowing from the back end, okay, 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:09.320 to get up there and help it. Now, when you 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:12.640 do that and you put yourself in single high defense 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.040 all the time, single high defense is the easiest deal. 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:19.280 That's a safety in the middle with people down, everybody 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:22.760 else down. That's the easiest defense in the world. For 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:26.879 quarterbacks to read single high. You know, it's why everybody 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:29.600 starts out. They start out in a shell with too 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:31.920 deep and then morph into whatever you want to do. 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:35.280 But if you're having trouble stopping the run that the 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:37.240 Titans have had two out of the last you know, 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:41.080 the Washington game particularly and the Indianapolis game, and you 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:43.320 have to start borrowing people to bring it down there. 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:49.080 Then when you're calling defenses, it puts everything caddywompus. I mean, 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:51.440 now all of a sudden, all of a sudden, you're 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:57.399 on your left foot defensively. And plus those eight gaps 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:02.440 haven't changed in the history of foot I watched practice 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:06.239 every day. I watched them practice against this RPO and 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.840 some But you've got to be specific assignment sound. If 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.400 you're not or if you're late at the second level 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:15.040 where they're running gap schemes which they're doing now with 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:17.720