WEBVTT - The OTP | Week 14 with Brian Callahan 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:16.880 This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.319 When it's game day for your health coverage, trust Farm 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.520 Bureau Health Plans to draw up a winning play for you. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:28.720 They've been backing Tennesseeans for nearly eighty years, so please 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.120 to now be joined by Titans head coach Brian Callahan. 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:37.400 Titans fall in Washington by account of forty two to nineteen. So, Brian, 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.080 after you got on the plane and you're sitting there 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.360 watching the tape of Sunday's loss, was there anything on 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:49.520 that tape at all that surprised you? 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.480 No, man, I think surprise is maybe the wrong word. 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:54.440 Okay, give me a better one. 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.960 There was. There was some things that I that I 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:05.840 was disappointed by just overall execution. Part of it was 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:09.800 was left a little to be desired, obviously, but yeah, 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.120 it was. It was a game that we we I 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:14.920 didn't think at any point. I don't think our team 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:17.920 felt at any point that should have looked the way 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:19.679 it did by the end of it. That was a 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.120 team that I thought we could compete with, and uh, 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.960 you know in the second half we did. And and 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:26.959 when you just you just take the second half alone, 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.520 and and and how we played there was much better 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.679 than how we played to start the game, and it 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.440 was more just an avalanche of things that just sort 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.479 of it just spiral and it happened sometimes like that. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.039 But it was disappointing to see it just sort of 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.560 get out of hand before we even really had a 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.720 chance to start playing. That was That was the disappointing part. 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.880 There was some things that were positive, you know, I 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:55.040 think Will's kind of stacked another positive performance together. I 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.640 thought he did some nice things. I think Daryl Worley 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:59.760 coming off coming off the street a couple of weeks 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.080 ago and having seventeen tackles and playing nickel and safety 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.280 was pretty impressive. But you know, overall, just too many, 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.480 too many mistakes early on in a game and got 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.560 away from us quickly and could couldn't climb out of it. 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:16.359 Which your message to the team much different on Monday 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.880 than it was immediately after the game on Sunday. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:23.600 No, it was exactly the same and probably maybe maybe 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.480 even a little bit more strongly worded today than it 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.600 was yesterday, just because of you know, you watch the 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.240 things and it just we do too many things over 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:33.800 the course of a game that put us in position 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.080 to lose and not win. And that's one of the 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.919 things I've stressed since since I've gotten here, is that 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.880 you have to do things a particular way to give 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.480 yourself a chance to win the game. And too many 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.720 times this year we've done those things where we've not 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.240 given ourselves a chance to win the game. When you 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:55.840 have penalties the way we've had penalties and controllable penalties 0:02:55.840 --> 0:03:01.080 that are that are focus related and execution related, and 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.239 then you have turnovers those are Those are two very 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:10.799 very glaring statistics that over the history of football would 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:12.400 tell you that the more of those you have, the 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.760 worsh off your team is going to be and the 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.200 more games are gonna lose. And right now we're in 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.560 a bad spot in all those places. So I have 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.120 to find a way to do that a lot better. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.440 What specifically did the tape show about why the Titans 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.280 had difficulty stopping the Commander's run game. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.600 There's there's a there's I'll give credit where credit is due. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.640 They do a nice job with the run game there 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.520 in Washington. I think Jaye Daniels ads an element to 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:42.680 their run game that's not standard. It's a lot like 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.440 Little Guy A Little Baltimore. There's just some things about 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.240 the quarterback run game that you don't see a lot 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.920 in the NFL. But there are some teams that do 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.560 some of it, but they do it particularly well. They 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.720 they've they use some of their gap schemes that were 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.040 that we misfit on some of the runs. You know, 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.080 we didn't fit the gaps right. And when you're and 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:01.960 you're in some of these kind of one back run games, 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.440 the the term usually hear is kind of one back, 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.640 one one one back, one gap, and when you're out 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:11.720 of one of those gaps, that's where thirty yard runs 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.480 come in, you know. And we just and and it's 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.720 everybody has to do their job at the right spot 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.480 at the right time and in order to knock the 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.719 run out which we've done a very very good job 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.760 of for most of the year. And that that one, 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.159 that one caught us a couple of times early in 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.719 the game. And uh, you know, then the score of 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.880 the game allowed them to continue to run the ball 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.200 at a rate that isn't necessarily normal for the course 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:34.600 of the game. But they got up big enough and 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.599 they could just keep handing it off and keep running 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:36.880 the ball. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.039 So let's pull it that thread a little bit more. 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:43.240 Was there anything that the Commanders did or didn't do 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.640 in their running game that surprised you? 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.400 No, those are all they all the things that they've 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.479 done were schemes that they'd shown on tape and and 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:54.040 there wasn't anything, you know, earth shattering about how they 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.240 came into the game and they just executed at a 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.360 high level, and we didn't, you know, and they we 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.919 we put ourselves in some spots where we had to 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.720 get one more guy in the fit and we had 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.880 to make a tackle, and then we didn't do those things. 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.760 And that's usually what happens in a game like that 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.440 when it gets away, and then again they can they 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.920 continued to run the ball, uh when they were up 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.760 some scores and allowed for some production on the ground 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.440 that I think, you know, ten nine out of ten 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.320 weeks probably doesn't look like that, but but it did. 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:27.320 On Sunday, the Commanders were four or four converting third 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:31.520 and ones, four of five converting third and twos. Now, 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.719 before you get into the why of them being able 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.720 to convert at such a high level, I mean, you 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.000 have third and one or third and two, you've you've 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.240 got a good percentage of conversion. It is just the 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:47.120 overall number of chances they had on third and short 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:48.240 the real problem. 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.800 Yes, and that's that's one of the things that we 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.360 that every offense in the league preaches, and we certainly 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.320 preach the same, is that you want to be in 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.440 as third and manageable as possible. And you know, they 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.600 would they they'd find a way to get four or 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.320 five yards and two different plays, and all of a 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.159 sudden it was third and two and it felt like 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:06.520 and every time I looked up, I'm like, what is 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.240 it third and one again? And then you know they're like, yep, 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.800 third and one again. I'm like, okay, well, it's feels 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.720 like it's a lot. And it was. I mean, they 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.440 were inside a third and five I think, what seven 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.960 or eight time? I mean maybe, I mean. And so 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.200 they did a great job of how we termin to 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.040 staying on schedule on the early downs and giving yourself 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.320 very third and manageables where you can still even run 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.600 the ball and feel good about it. And you know, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.360 we didn't give ourselves. You know, the old adage in 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.160 the NFL is that you had you have to earn 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.560 the right to rush the passer. You know, and we 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.400 didn't earn the right to rush the passer because we 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.880 didn't we didn't knock the run out well enough to 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.320 put them in spots where they had to throw the football. 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.160 It wasn't enough opportunities for that. And that's a that's 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.720 a big part of playing successful offensive football is being manageable, 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.080 and the good defenses keep you out of those spots 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.200 and make you have to drop back and throw or 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.200 hold the ball or whatever it may be in the 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.960 third and eight, nine, ten, eleven range. And we didn't 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.400 do enough to get them in those spots where over 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:02.839 the last handful of weeks we've done that. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:07.800 You mentioned Daryl Worley credited with seventeen tackles in the game. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:12.440 The last time a Titan was credited with seventeen tackles 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.840 in a game September twenty third, twenty twelve, a Keem 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.560 Airs Wow against Detroit. 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:20.320 I remember, a. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:28.080 Yeah. And the last time somebody had more Michael Griffin 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:34.600 eighteen tackles the previous week against San Diego September sixteenth, 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:40.880 twenty twelve. When a defensive back has that many tackles, 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:42.240 is that is that. 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.400 That means the balls in the secondary more than you 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.240 want it to be. The other part of that, too, 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.800 is that actually Wary played both positions. He played safety 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.040 for the majority of the beginning of the game, and 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:56.120 then when Roger got knocked out, he moved in a nickel, 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.960 So that shows his versatility. You know, when you're in 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:00.600 a next when you're a nickel, you're gonna have way 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.160 more action in the run game and tackling. So that's 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.680 probably where most of those ended up stacking up. He 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.360 probably had a pretty normal safety number game, but the 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.440 nickel reps I think picked that number up for him 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.760 as the game went along. But really a credit to him. 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.520 He's only been here for two or three weeks and 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.120 to be able to jump in and play safety and 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.440 then go play nickel in the same game as pretty impressive. So, 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.320 you know, happy that we have him, and he did 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.280 a nice job shown up for us and two different 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:24.320 roles where we needed him. 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.560 Why has he been able to be so productive here 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.280 in this defense specifically, Well, he. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.200 Played it in Baltimore, you know, that's part of it. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.319 There's some familiarity with the scheme into an art and 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.959 and what's asked of him, and that was one of 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:38.760 the reasons why signing him when we did and we 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.800 needed some depth and some pieces. Was was a part 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.800 of bringing him in is that he could probably function 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:44.880 pretty quickly and didn't have to get up to speed, 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.600 if you will. He already had most of the things 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.240 down pat and so you see that from him. And 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:51.600 on top of that, he's played a lot of football. 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.400 You know, he's played corner in the league, he's played 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.560 safety in the league. He's he's sort of done everything, 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:57.839 and and you see that from him when you when 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.079 you when he goes and plays like that. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.360 Let's flip over to offense a little bit. You mentioned 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.120 earlier that it felt like this team could never actually 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.200 play because of the deficit that started so early in 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.560 the game. Does it also make it hard for you 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.920 to evaluate the performance of the offense because they never 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.280 could just play yes and. 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.520 No, I mean yes and the terms like yes because 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.720 it became a drop back passing game, which we didn't 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.319 want to do obviously, and that's but there's things that 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.960 evaluate within that. And then but there's we didn't never 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.160 really get to like get to them the plan. You know, 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.000 we kind of got knocked out of it so fast 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.440 that we didn't have a chance to actually do some 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.240 of the things that that we liked in the game plan, 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.839 especially in the run game, in the play actions, and 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:38.120 you know, we looked up and it was like we 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:39.959 had run ten plays on offense, which is again is 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:43.360 partly our fault offensively, we didn't convert. You know, I 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.120 think two third downs there we don't convert, and then 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:46.880 we turn the ball over on the third series, and 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.640 then that was that. And there's twenty one nothing, twenty 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.400 eight nothing before even I mean, I feel like I 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.160 hadn't even gotten into the opening plays yet and then 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.720 we're in that spot. So that was disappointing that we 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.640 couldn't see what the game plan was going to look like. 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:01.800 But but there's also plenty of things to evaluate from 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.960 how we did play and the things we did in 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:05.520 the passing game over the course of the game. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.240 Take it further with will Levis, how do you evaluate 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.000 him and consider him to have stacked another good performance 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.720 when the game was just so out of out of 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:17.760 hand so quickly. 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.080 He kept fighting in there, you know, that was one 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:21.599 of the things. He kept finding ways to move the 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.200 team and we you know, we score a touchdown at 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:25.400 the at the end of the half. In the two 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.000 minute drill, we come out and we put ourselves into 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.200 two field goal spots. Again, those are those are moments 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.680 though that have we gotten touchdowns in those spots? You know, 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:35.440 maybe we got a whole different second half on our hands, 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.520 you know, instead of kicking two field goals in those drives. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:39.960 But there was a lot of good things. I mean, 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.600 there's it's the most probably dropped back passing that he's 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.640 been put through in a course of a game. And 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:48.920 didn't you know, we dropped some balls, which was disappointing. 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.000 And you know, the protection's hard when you're just dropping 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.319 back and you know you got to get guys out 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.160 in the pattern, and so we had some protection issues 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.360 as well. But just to see the way he fought, 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.760 he found complete, he's playing on time, He created a 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.400 couple of plays. Still working on that part is you know, 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.680 the feel in the pocket and getting out and creating 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.480 more when you have opportunities. But I just I thought 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.640 it was another solid game for him just doing the 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.679 things that you just want to see a quarterback do. 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.480 Wasn't a winning effort overall, But just if you're just 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:24.080 talking evaluation of growth, I think there was more of 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:24.800 that again this. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.080 Week thirty nine drop backs, only two sacks for a 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.160 total of minus two yards. That would tell us on paper, 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.040 the offensive lines protection was pretty good. 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.320 It was it was okay, it was okay, it was 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:38.440 you know, I think We'll did a good job a 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.320 couple of times. One of the things we've been talking 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.600 about is the early down sacks. You know, that's why 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.800 some of the sack totals are high in some of 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.880 these games. And it's just about just throw the ball 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.360 away and let us live for second and ten, not 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.080 second and seventeen. And he did that two or three times. 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:53.560 You know, he threw the ball away a few times, 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.640 and so it's going to hurt his completion percentage, but 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.480 it's going to help our offense overall. And just to 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.320 see that happen, I think, what two or three times 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.040 he just threw it away. It's like, great, that's good. 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.040 That's good's that's growth. And so it helped us not 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.600 take four or five more sacks in the game because 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.600 he just threw two or three of them away. And 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:14.960 that's great. It's what we're hoping for. And he's learning 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.040 every game he goes out there, you know, more and 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.280 more about how to efficiently play the position, and then 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.960 making some big throws and making some big plays when 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:22.280 he had to. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.840 Hey Titans fans, with a Kroger Boost membership, You'll score 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.520 big with double fuel, points, free delivery, and lots more. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:35.280 Go to Kroger dot com slash Boost for details. Kroger 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.160 Official grocer of the Tennessee Titans. 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.840 Tighten Up Holm is at the forefront of all that 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.120 we do. It's why we're so committed to caring for 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:49.040 the places and spaces in which we work and live. Ashley, 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.600 the official furniture provider of the Tennessee Titans. We continue 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.480 with Titans head coach Brian Callahan. So let's now turn 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.920 to this week's opponent, the Jacksonville Jaguars. 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.280 Their quarterback Truck Lawrence, suffered a concussion in Sunday's game 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.559 against Houston, So yet again, the Tennessee Titans are not 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.679 sure what quarterback they're going to be seeing on Sunday 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.240 in the event that he can't go against the Titans. 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.520 Mac Jones came in and played pretty well against Houston Texans. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.840 All things considered, what does mac Jones bring to the 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:20.760 Jags offense? 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.200 Maybe he's a first round pick. You know, he played 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.840 quite a bit of football over over his first couple 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:28.920 of years. And you see that. You see a guy 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.280 he's got some skills and some talent, and he's played 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.440 good college football. He had some good you know, he's 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.800 had a really good what first year I think in 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.480 New England. There's just there's some things about him that 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.600 you know that he's not a throwaway. He's not just 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:44.640 you know, he's not some bum off the street like 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:49.200 Mac can play football, and they got good weapons there, 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.240 they got good talent in Jacksonville, and they haven't put 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.040 theirs together for whatever reason. But the records similar to ours, 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.079 probably for a lot of the same reasons that ours 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.720 is not great either, And so we're gonna have to 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.280 We're gonna have to fight like hell to be able 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.400 to go try to get a win at home here 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:10.719 against a divisional opponent. And Mac is certainly he's respectable. 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:12.840 I mean, we should be respectful of his ability to 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.560 move the team and score touchdowns because he's done that before. 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.160 Rookie first round pick Brian Thomas has also been playing 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.720 great lately. On Sunday, he added four more catches for 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.880 seventy six yards and a touchdown and that includes a 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.520 fifty six yard reception. What is he doing so well 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.240 that's allowing him to have such a strong rookie season. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.360 Yeah, you could. You see he was prepared and ready 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.680 when he came in. And you know, guy that we 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.320 looked in the draft as well, and in one of 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.280 those guys like this guy's going to be a good player. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.960 And guy has all the requisite skills set. He can run, 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.200 he can catch, he's strong, he's fast, and then they've 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.280 put him in positions to let him showcase those skills 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.800 and he continues to make the plays when when he's 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:57.520 been called upon. So good player, come on, really strong 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.440 for a rookie receiver, I think he's up there with 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.920 rookie players for sure in terms of production. Got her 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:04.600 hands full with him. I mean, he's he's proven that 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:08.240 he's capable of being a upper echelon receiver in the league. 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.720 Does he essentially and I mean Brian Thomas, does he 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:16.080 essentially play the role that Calvin Ridley did for Jacksonville 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:16.720 a year ago? 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.160 There's probably some similarities, you know, without without really studying 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.720 all of it, there's also probably things that he does 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.720 this different style player than than Calvin is, So I'm 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.200 sure they use him differently, route treewise and maybe some 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.000 things they try to do for him than they did 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.840 with Calvin. I'm not saying it's dramatically different, but there's 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.240 probably some differences because they're both different style players. 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.960 It's turned to defense. How about Trayvon Walker. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.360 Would love to and mean, he's had a great year 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.520 three and he had another sack on Sunday, So why 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.640 is he becoming such a problem for opposing offenses? 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:54.080 Well, I think edge rushers in general, very few come 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.040 in and make immediate, big time impacts. You know, you 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.640 look over over time, it takes him two or three years. 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.680 Because college they're usually just bigger, faster, and stronger than 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.680 the competition and they let that win form. When you 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.880 get up here, you realize that you have to have 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.400 rush plans and rush counters, and you have to you 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.400 see all different styles of tackles, and you see all 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.640 different styles of good players, and you have to develop 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:19.640 a repertoire and a pass rush toolbox, if you will. 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.040 And so I think what you're seeing is the benefit 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.760 of playing over over time, now that you're starting to 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.320 see him come into his own and I would say, 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.040 usually that year three four for pass rushers is when 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.560 they tend to really show up because they've gotten the 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.120 experience behind them and they understand how to play the 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.960 game and how to rush over over time, you know, 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.360 as opposed to just running fast and being big and strong. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.760 Ryan Nielsen is the defensive coordinator. He's just come over 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:48.640 from Atlanta. How would you characterize the Jags defensive style 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.120 since we haven't seen him yet this year? Yeah, they 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:51.400 got it. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.600 They got an aggressive style and the secondary they'll press. 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.640 They like to play a lot of you know, you 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.240 call it man coverage if you will. It's got a 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.000 very loose term, but they do a lot of things 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.440 where they're they're trying to challenge receivers and and they 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.680 got good talent on defense. I mean, they played pretty 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:11.040 good yesterday against Houston as well. And those that collection 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.680 of players, the rushers and then the scheme is one 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.639 that going into the year, I felt like was going 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.920 to be a really good pairing between him and that 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.080 scheme and the players that they had there. And so 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.320 I think they've had ups and downs, just like everybody 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:25.920 does during the year. But there's a lot of things 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:32.200 about the aggressiveness of the scheme, the coverage aggressiveness that 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:33.960 that is good and it's it's hard to play against. 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:35.399 I mean, we had a hard time playing against them 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.520 in Atlanta, you know, a couple years, even in the preseason, 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:42.280 just the aggressiveness of the scheme. So I think it's 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.320 a pretty good pairing. And again they've had their ups 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.360 and downs too, but they got talent. It's a it's 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:46.919 a good scheme. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.000 So Sunday is might cause my cleats for the Tennessee Titans. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:52.840 Why do players love that game so much? 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:53.440 Oh? 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:55.840 Some of these guys do so much work out in 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.040 the community, and they have things that they're very passionate 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:03.800 about causes, foundations, charities that really mean something to them, 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:05.439 and it's just a chance to be able to highlight 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:06.720 the work that they do. I think it's a great 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.600 initiative that the league does, and it allows guys to 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.640 show a little bit of their personality and then show 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.560 the things that they support and what's important to them. 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:16.520 And they do a nice job of highlighting all the 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.399 things these guys do and the impact that they make 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.360 in communities, and I think it's really cool. I love 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:23.960 seeing all the stuff that they do to wherever their 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:25.919 heart is and what they support. I think it's pretty awesome. 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.280 It's December now, and a lot of things happen in December. 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.800 One of those things is some tweaks and changes to 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.920 the practice schedule or practice routine. Sometimes, are you going 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.000 to be switching anything up this week given that your 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.800 defense specifically was on the field for over forty minutes 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.040