1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Four Van rush Garoppolo over the middle. It's picked up 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: and there was movement, would be a three players what 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: it is? The hell sentences? You're gonna throw a dep 4 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: J Burlo hello, Baroppolo surveying and Soulo touchs out's got 5 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: it coming down of final seconds, It'll be a forty 6 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: four yard attempt from Randy Bullock and he well, what 7 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: do you know? The Tennessee Titans, looking like a team 8 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: lost and out of ideas, come racing back on Thursday 9 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: Night Football thanks to a defining star performance from A. J. 10 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: Brown in the twenty seventeen win over the San Francisco 11 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: forty Niners. You know, it keeps their a f C 12 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: South title hopes alive when it looked like the cults 13 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: were edging in. And that right now is for another day. 14 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: This is Mark Sessler. I'm here with the grave digger 15 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: Titans fan, Justin Graver, And you know what I was concerned, 16 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,399 Speaker 1: Um that the night we have you guesting on this show, 17 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: that the Titans looked um putrid for it was. It 18 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: was just an incredibly ugly first half. And if you 19 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: know you're tracking Twitter on these Island games and Todd 20 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: downing um was essentially going to be sent out of 21 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: town in a box at some point. But look at 22 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: the whole team gathered around. This is sort of the 23 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: Titans and who they've been just with so many injuries. 24 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: But they got a J. Brown back tonight, and I 25 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: just thought that he heated up and looked more comfortable 26 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: as the game went on. Sixteen targets, a ton of 27 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: catches and yardage. Grave digger, you're a happy grave digger. 28 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: I think typically that profession um doesn't always attract happy people. 29 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: But you've seen tonight. I see a smile on your 30 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: face here Um on our stream yard. How you feeling? 31 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 1: What are you thinking? I feel great, a little pumped up. 32 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: I was celebrating around, running around, screaming a little bit. 33 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: But I mean, what can you say about a J. Brown? 34 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: I think I mentioned this on Maybe it was last 35 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,679 Speaker 1: Sunday Nights show that I thought a J. Brown, or 36 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: maybe it was a different show. I don't know. I 37 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 1: said it on a show recently, on so many shows 38 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: at this point that it's how I understand it's hard 39 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: to keep trying to keep tracking, but um that A J. 40 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: Brown might be more important to the Titans offense than 41 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: Derrick Henry Even, and I think that played out tonight 42 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: because the Titans had so much trouble manufacturing explosive plays 43 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 1: over the last few weeks, not to mention turning the 44 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: ball over, and they didn't turn the ball over tonight, 45 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 1: which is a huge way to help you win a 46 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: football game. Niners turning over twice and A J. Brown 47 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 1: the explosive plays. He had a twenty something yard catch 48 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: in the first half on a big third down. He 49 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 1: had that huge bomb down the field on the free 50 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 1: play on a third and twenty plus, And I felt 51 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,040 Speaker 1: like the Titans, because they had a J. Brown in 52 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: the field, we're constantly able to overcome those third and longs. 53 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: They were faced with so many third and longs, and 54 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: I think at one point um they said they were 55 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: like six of nine on third and long and then 56 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: they converted on that play to make it seven a 57 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: ten And it was just in an m v P 58 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: performance I think in this game from A J. Brown, 59 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: and that's why the Titans came out on top. You're 60 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: so right about the third and long attempts. At one point, 61 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 1: you know, when when the touchdown happened to A J. Brown, 62 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: they had at that point six conversions and third and 63 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: ten or longer, which is the most in a game 64 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: by any team this season. So you know, as as 65 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: much as they struggled, uh, they when they came to life. 66 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: I mean it really brought Ryan Tannehill um oxygen. I thought, 67 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: after just a tough month where you know, he's throw 68 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: into ghosts and the turnovers killed them. And when we 69 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: saw against I know it was the Jaguars, but when 70 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: they had a turnover free game, they were dominant. And tonight, 71 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: when they don't make those mistakes, when they weren't saddled 72 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: with those errors, uh, they were able to climb out 73 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: of the low start and fight their way back. I 74 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: also thought that the Niners. I mean, it's the kind 75 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: of game where you look back. If you're a Niners fan, 76 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: you think, look at number one. We we also um 77 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: have stars on our team, but we cannot go make 78 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: the mistakes that we had tonight. And so especially from 79 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: the quarterback position, it was the killer interception to Jack 80 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: Rabbit by by Graff Jimmy g You know, why why 81 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: why why am I struggling to say his last name? 82 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: I've never known him for like seven years. Here. I 83 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 1: mean that that was a killer turnover. Um, he had 84 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: the missed deep shot to Kyle U's check, which would 85 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: have been another score. He had a terrible interception to 86 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: open the third quarter. I mean we were texting during 87 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: this and it was just like points left on the 88 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: board and it led to you tweeting at halftime and 89 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 1: it wasn't I didn't think it was just a sunny 90 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: fan type of tweet. It was you could see this. 91 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 1: You could see this like not a game where the 92 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: Niners did not close the door. You said the Titans 93 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: will win this game, watch and bang you were dead on. 94 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: I mean, I think that the Niners come out of this, 95 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,160 Speaker 1: and I know that you know we're not going to 96 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: Trey Lance probably at this point. I know people are 97 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 1: taught king about even the Alex Smith to Kaepernick transition 98 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 1: on a playoff type season years ago. Um, that's possible. 99 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: I mean, anything is possible. But Jimmy g just when 100 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: you get this version of them, um, it's hard to overcome. 101 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: It's like it kind of left George Kid a lot 102 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: of the mix. I mean, Deebo Samuel had another to 103 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: watch him and a J. Brown go you know, punch 104 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: for punch. He had that huge catch that's set up 105 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 1: the touchdown to tie it late in the game. So 106 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: it's like these are two teams that in a way, 107 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 1: it's just like there's not a lot of margin for error. 108 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: But Jimmy g has floored them a couple of games 109 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 1: in the last month that leave them, I know, there's 110 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 1: still the six seed, but leave them wanting and wondering 111 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 1: what they're ceiling is when you're gonna get that kind 112 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: of quarterback play, I think they will only go as 113 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: far as he can take them, and as far as 114 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: Shanahan can scheme around his deficiencies. I thought the Niners 115 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: opening drive was brilliantly drawn up. They had a couple 116 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 1: of those bootleg plays that got players in space on 117 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: in the flat they it felt like, I'm not sure 118 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 1: if this is exactly true, but it felt like every 119 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: passing play on that first drive was off play action, 120 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,600 Speaker 1: which had the Titans defense all discombibulated and out of balance. 121 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 1: And then the Titans defense stepped up and after the 122 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: that scripted drive and the one right after it where 123 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: the Niners went all the way down the field and 124 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: through an interception in the end zone. From there, it 125 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 1: felt like the Titans defense got it together and kind 126 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: of understood how to stop at least slow down the 127 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: forty Niners playmakers, especially I mean Deebo Samuel had his 128 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: amazing game, but Kittle and auk Or and Jeff Wilson 129 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: too were pretty much taken out of the game. And 130 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 1: I think that the Titans defense did a really nice 131 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: job adjusting and and stopping those guys. Well, their defense 132 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: has just come up big in certain games here, and 133 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: it's it's like, I really think the journey that they've 134 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 1: been on and and and for you, for you as 135 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: a Titans supporter, I mean, it looked like things. It 136 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,280 Speaker 1: looked like a team just heading in the wrong direction 137 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: to anemic. Um. But now they've got the Dolphins and 138 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 1: the Texans, and by by the nature of sweeping the Cults, Um, 139 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: I mean, they've got wiggle room. They're gonna win this 140 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: division barring a disaster. I mean, I'm not convinced they're 141 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 1: a better team than the Cults right now on any level. Um. 142 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: But when you get these guys back, you start to remember, Uh. 143 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: And I don't like saying remember the Titans. That's extremely 144 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: I didn't even attempt to do that. That's that's it is, 145 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: but you recall what this team was when they were 146 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: I think the best team in the a f C 147 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 1: early in the season and and the Niners their final 148 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: two games against the Texans and the Rams, they're gonna 149 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: make the playoffs, barring I mean the Rams game will 150 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: be but even if they lose that, they've got the 151 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: tiebreaker over teams like the Vikings and others that are 152 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: sort of hanging around. So it's not a crisis. It's 153 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: just that I think that you find out, Yeah, the 154 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:36,559 Speaker 1: Niners drafted this quarterback for a reason, um Trey Lance, 155 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: and in his you know, other rookies are just playing. 156 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: They've not done that with him. And a flip side 157 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: I thought for Ryan Tannehill, I mean he you know, 158 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: he's such a great athlete that that great run that 159 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: he had down the stretch in the in late in 160 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: the game, UM mattered and he and you just remember that, 161 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: you know it was last year when you had a J. 162 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: Brown that he would take these shots where he would 163 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: get thundered titanically to the ground but complete that four 164 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 1: five yard passed down the field. And with a J. 165 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: Brown back, and then when you get Derrick Henry, it's 166 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: like you know what they did the job. I really 167 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: think that Mike Rabel has created a culture where they survived. 168 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: They survived these things and it came real close. This 169 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: was another example of Razor's edge. We've talked about it 170 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: with the Titans for a bunch, but you've got to 171 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: be feeling good um as a Titans supporter and analyst, 172 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: just to see how they escaped tonight. Yeah, and when 173 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: it was ten zero at halftime, I thought that was 174 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 1: such a huge bummer, like a deflating sequence for the Titans, 175 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: when it went from Deontay form and breaking one for 176 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: a long touchdown and then two flags on the play, 177 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: one on him for face masking which he didn't even 178 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 1: touch anyone's face mask, and a second penalty on the 179 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: Titans for a hold. That was a really not to 180 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: be biased as a fan, but I felt like his 181 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,959 Speaker 1: Jeff Swain's hands were inside the shoulder pads pretty tight, 182 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: and Greg Olsen even said so on the broadcast, and 183 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: yet the flag came out and the Titans to not 184 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: even come away with points from that drive was such 185 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: a bummer. But I felt encouraged by the fact that 186 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,839 Speaker 1: they showed the ability to at least make a play 187 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: like that even if it didn't count. And that's when 188 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: I felt that the Titans were going to come out 189 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: in the second half and get the ball to start 190 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: the half and possibly go win the game. That's why 191 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 1: I tweeted that. And we were texting a little bit 192 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: during the game, and I said, it feels like games 193 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: like this always flipped when it's like a ten zero 194 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: halftime game. The same thing happened earlier this week with 195 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: the Browns and the Raiders. Um, weren't the Browns up 196 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 1: ten nothing or fortunately nothing at halftime and then like 197 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: right in them, it's like like not going back into it. Yeah, 198 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: I mean they climbed back in. So I think you're 199 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: so right in these TNF games, we understand that they are. 200 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 1: There's a zany d n a um through throughout the 201 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,199 Speaker 1: bloodstream in these games. Um, but yeah, like the Niners 202 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,559 Speaker 1: should have been up twenty four nothing at one point. 203 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 1: It's like it had they done that, I think it 204 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: changes sort of everything that the Titans could hope to do. 205 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: But to have, you know, to have the advantage or 206 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 1: the disadvantage just to be ten points, it's like then 207 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: you have your best player, um becoming comfortable. It's like 208 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: they I think they noted, you know, correctly that he 209 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: didn't get to practice, and we don't, like we don't 210 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: really track that sometimes, but it's like, what was his 211 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 1: uh warm up over the week to get back into game, 212 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: you know, mentality and it's like you just saw him 213 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: becoming more comfortable in his own skin. Is the game 214 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: crept along? And then then then really it seemed like 215 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: the door was wide open for Tennessee. So a massive victory. 216 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: I have a question for you, how did you, um, 217 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:21,719 Speaker 1: how did you become a Titans fan? I don't know 218 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: if we've covered We've covered a lot of things about you, 219 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: um this more a mundane aspect of your existence at 220 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: the moment. What what's how did that happen? I wish 221 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: I had a more interesting answer. But when I was 222 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: really young, I grew up in Dallas. When I was 223 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: really really young, I was a Cowboys fans. The Titans 224 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 1: were still Houston Oilers. And when the Titans moved to 225 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: Nashville and became the Titans. For some reason, as like 226 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 1: an eight year old kid, I loved Eddie George. And 227 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: when I was nine, the Titans went to the Super 228 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 1: Bowl and they lost to the Rams by one yard, 229 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: and I just felt so much heartbreak for them losing 230 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 1: that Super Bowl, and I loved Eddie George and I 231 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 1: loved watching Steve McNair that I just decided I'm gonna 232 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: ride with this team because as why not, I don't know, 233 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: And here we are fifteen years later. I think that's 234 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,679 Speaker 1: a very pure origin story. I enjoyed that. I also 235 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: thought you were getting a little spicy tonight. I enjoyed 236 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,079 Speaker 1: this uh p f t. You know, you know, at 237 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: some point during the game when the Titans were, you know, 238 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 1: dealing with some issues put out Are the Titans frauds? 239 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: Question mark? Discuss? And then you just you know, you 240 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,079 Speaker 1: you quote tweeted them and just said when they were 241 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 1: coming back and starting to feel like total raging fire, yes, discuss. 242 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:31,960 Speaker 1: I like what you're doing tonight, You're you're feeling yourself 243 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:34,439 Speaker 1: a little bit. You deserve it. It's a huge win 244 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: for them. I mean, had they lost, I think that 245 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: you'd have to be questioning a lot of things about 246 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: the Earth right now. Yeah. Really, I do want to 247 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: say about the Niners that I think their defense, I mean, 248 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: the Titans have been pretty great on the ground the 249 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,120 Speaker 1: last few games, even without Derrick Henry, but the Niners 250 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: defensive front was really stout tonight. The Titans couldn't really 251 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 1: get much running game going. McNichols was their best rusher 252 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: seven carriers for thirty one yards. Tannehill was second on 253 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:02,079 Speaker 1: the team. And this is a team that's using three 254 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,079 Speaker 1: running backs now a lot Hilliard five for twenty form 255 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: and though only nine carries for nine carries for only 256 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:11,960 Speaker 1: seventeen yards, and that Niners front is so ferocious. Granted, 257 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 1: the Titans had a lot of backups in on the 258 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: offensive line, but their kryptonite is the cornerbacks, and that's 259 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: how Tennessee was finally able to get back in this game. 260 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: It felt like the first half it was a lot 261 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: of stuffed runs up the middle that led to all 262 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 1: those third and longs we talked about. But in the 263 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: second half they were throwing them ball more on early downs, 264 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: finding a J. Brown And I think the Niners are 265 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: gonna have to figure out how to overcome these weaknesses 266 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: in the secondary if they want to do anything in 267 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,319 Speaker 1: the playoffs this year. You are right about their deeds. 268 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 1: Their fifth and d v O A since Week ten, 269 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:42,839 Speaker 1: ninth against the past, and it's not looked like it's 270 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: sometimes but second against the run, behind only the Rams, 271 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 1: so that that has been a strength for them, you know, 272 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,199 Speaker 1: Arey Thomas. I think it's just had a rough rookie 273 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: season and a rough December. I thought he made some 274 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: place tonight. You know, you can still see with confidence 275 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: and if that, if that, if he can round into 276 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: shape over the next couple of weeks, it will be necessary. 277 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,239 Speaker 1: That will help a lot because they have been victimized. 278 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 1: I mean he specifically through the air, and I mean 279 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: I think tonight just like oh, by the way, when 280 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: you're gonna get a J. Brown turning into what he was, um, 281 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 1: you know, from the halftime, from half on, like no 282 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: one in the league stopping that, and we've seen examples 283 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 1: of it in the past. It's the kind of thing 284 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:19,319 Speaker 1: where if you're gonna get if you get three or 285 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:22,080 Speaker 1: four games like that from him in a row in January, 286 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 1: we have no idea where this team will end up. 287 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 1: I mean, it just it is an example that it's 288 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: a star it's a star led league, and they just 289 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 1: have been playing without those guys and and it hasn't 290 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:33,679 Speaker 1: been there. It hasn't to your point about him being 291 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 1: you know, as valuable, if not arguably more than Derrick 292 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 1: Henry inside that offense. I mean, we all get to 293 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: Derrick Henry is, but they have been able to run 294 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 1: the ball um yardage wise. It's just that I think 295 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: that when you're dealing with Derrick Henry, it's like it's 296 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: a little different than Foreman and the rest of the 297 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 1: cast of characters. Um. But but they have just been 298 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:53,839 Speaker 1: missing so much through the air. So this was a 299 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,679 Speaker 1: god send this evening, and they got just enough. It's 300 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: a huge win. UM. I don't know if we need to, 301 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,559 Speaker 1: you know, beat this dead horse anymore at this point, 302 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,439 Speaker 1: we've said it all. But is there anything else you'd 303 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: like to add about what you witnessed this evening? I 304 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: have confidence that the Titans could potentially win their next 305 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: two games and make a playoff run. With Derrick Henry 306 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 1: back as a Titan stand it feels pretty nice to 307 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: see this team finally kind of snap out of the 308 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: offensive funk they've been in for quite a while. So 309 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 1: felt good. Well, I'm glad for you. UM it keeps 310 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: your spirits high during this Christmas season. I think it's 311 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: probably gonna be Um the opposite how I'm how I'm 312 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: feeling after the Browns are like walloped by Aaron Rodgers 313 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: and the packers and like six degree a Green Bay, 314 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: uh skies. You know at eleven am Western time, Um, 315 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 1: on Christmas Day, you know it's that's the President. I'll 316 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 1: be opening. I suspect, but um, your president is shinier 317 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: and I'm happy for you. Fair and Greg should not 318 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: have locked against the Titans. Poor guy. I told them. 319 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: I tried to warn him, but he didn't. Well, he's 320 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: sort of out of the race. I think he's gonna 321 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: he's gonna do something evil with the locks um willing. 322 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: He's he's lost the power to take that part of 323 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 1: the show away from us. So too bad for him. 324 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: All right, anyway, all right, thanks everyone. Um, we've got 325 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: a lot coming up. We've got our Friday Network show tomorrow, 326 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: which airs at four am on the West Coast on Saturday, 327 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 1: so I know all sorts of young people will be 328 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 1: up at that time, and we've got our Sunday flagship 329 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: show as well. Grave Digg will be back in the 330 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: studio along with Tam Posey and the rest of the 331 00:15:26,560 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: crowd that night. Good evening. H. S.