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It 6 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: is Tuesday, September twentieth, the day after the Titans forty 7 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: one to seven loss at Buffalo, dropping the team to 8 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: oo and two for the first time in ten years. 9 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: First down is usually the play that turned the game, 10 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 1: but I took some liberties with this, and so I 11 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: want to talk about the play that I think turned 12 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:53,520 Speaker 1: the game, because it was the Buffalo touchdown on fourth 13 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: down at the Titans four yard line with a minute 14 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: to go in the first half. The Titans had got 15 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: the Bills to fourth down. Who was fourth and one 16 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 1: at the four. Josh Allen takes the snap, rolls to 17 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: his left. He wants to throw to Isaiah McKenzie, who's 18 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:15,399 Speaker 1: covered the Titans have defended it well, and then on 19 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: the other side of the end zone, he appears to 20 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: be throwing to Dawson Knox as a sort of last 21 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: second option. And then out of nowhere flashes the Pro 22 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: Bowl wide receivers to find Diggs, who steps in front 23 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: of Knox and Farley and everybody else and catches a 24 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: touchdown pass extra point good. Suddenly a three point game 25 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: is a ten point game, and it just feels totally different. 26 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: At that moment in time, the game has changed. Amy Wells, 27 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: you were on the sideline for that play, did you 28 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: notice the Titans sideline deflate? You know those moments where 29 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: you can almost feel the energy being sucked out of 30 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: something like a balloon that deflates really quickly. That's kind 31 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: of the way it felt. It felt very disappointing, given 32 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: as you just laid out the drive for the most 33 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 1: part for the Titans, it almost felt like they were 34 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: on the verge of doing something really good. Having a 35 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: moment that kind of shifted momentum in the way of 36 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. Even more so, it felt like the 37 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 1: team had just kind of slammed into a brick wall. 38 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: And then going into the half, obviously the game is 39 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,519 Speaker 1: not out of control by any stretch of the imagination. 40 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: The score had not run away, But when they came 41 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 1: out then on the other side of that half also 42 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: weren't able to get anything done. You could just tell 43 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: this wasn't going to be great. So I'm glad you 44 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: took the liberties because I think we would have all 45 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: agreed that that was the play that changed the game. 46 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,519 Speaker 1: And I'm going to take a different approach in terms 47 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 1: of how this one particular play could be a backbreaker 48 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: for a team. And I'd go into an example from 49 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: the other side of it when the Titans have been 50 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: advantageous in that spot. And I thought about Week seven 51 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: last year at Nissan Stadium against the Kansas City Chiefs. 52 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 1: They're up seven and nothing. It's midway through the first quarter. 53 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and company are moving right along and there 54 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: is a fumble forced by Bud Dupree at the fifty 55 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: yard line that forces them to punt. Ten plays later, 56 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: the Titans are up fourteen to nothing. Now, that was 57 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: on a coach's challenge that coach Mike rabel one on 58 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: a catch situation between Ryan Tannehill on a forty six 59 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: yard play to AJ Brown. But there it is, right there, 60 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: All of a sudden, it's fourteen to nothing and you're going, well, Red, 61 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: that's the Kansas City Chiefs. They can climb back into anything. 62 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: They didn't that day. That was the first game and 63 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes's career that he didn't throw a touchdown in 64 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: a game. It's twenty seven to three was the final 65 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: and they just kept putting the hammer down. It kind 66 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 1: of felt like that at High Mark Stadium. Well, and 67 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: I'll take it a step from that example with the Chiefs. 68 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: They were not playing good football at that point. They 69 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: were not. They were three and four when they left Nashville. 70 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: And when you're not playing good football and you're hanging 71 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 1: in and you're hanging in and you're hanging in, and 72 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: then they break you with a play that looks like 73 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: you've defended it. I mean, he wanted to go to 74 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 1: his left all the way. That was the design of 75 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: the play. Two Titans are standing there and you're saying, hey, 76 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 1: they've done it, and then he just throws it back 77 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: across the field and you're like, who is he throwing 78 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: it too? Now? Maybe they get an interference call. Dawson 79 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 1: Knox looked like he was being grabbed. Maybe they get 80 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,919 Speaker 1: that call. I don't know, But out of nowhere, flashes 81 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: digs to almost intercept the ball in front of his 82 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: own teammate and then you're like, wow, that just happened. 83 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 1: The Titans are not playing good football right now, and 84 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: it was a moment that it felt like it broke them. 85 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: I said on Tight Radio to Dave McGinnis. I said 86 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 1: before we went back on the air, the same thing. 87 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 1: This drive to begin the second half is huge because 88 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: there's a real sense in this building that if you 89 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: don't make something happen right here, you may get run 90 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: out of here. And that's unfortunately what happened. That's what 91 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: happened in your Kansas City example, because they were not 92 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: playing well at that moment in time, and that's what 93 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: happened to the Titans last night in Buffalo. There's always 94 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,359 Speaker 1: that moment, that disheartening moment where they almost melt. But 95 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: when you're playing well or you're playing with confidence, sometimes 96 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: you can bounce back and you're like, Okay, that happens. 97 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: I mean, short memory, let's go to the next play. 98 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: Another Kansas City example. Titans get up in the AFC 99 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: Championship Game three years ago ten nothing, weren't they up? 100 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: Seventeen seven? Kansas City's like yeah, and they just kept 101 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: going and eventually they win thirty five twenty four when 102 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: you're rolling and they had been down twenty four to 103 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: nothing in Houston the week before. That's right, but they're like, oh, 104 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: you know, okay, but if if you don't have it, 105 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 1: if you don't have something to hang your hat on 106 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: at this moment, you know that we're gonna run the ball, 107 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: or we're gonna pass the ball, or we're gonna play 108 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 1: great defense or something. If you don't have something like 109 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: that to grab a holt of, as we like to 110 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 1: say in East Tennessee, you're in trouble. And that was 111 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: the moment last night, which I think was not only 112 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: an indicator that the Bills were going to go on 113 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 1: and win after the Titans had played pretty good ball 114 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: for twenty nine minutes, done a pretty nice job, but 115 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,159 Speaker 1: that was the indicator that it wasn't going to happen. 116 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: It was also the indicator of where the Titans are 117 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 1: at this moment in time. Doesn't mean it last forever, 118 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 1: but right now they're just not playing well. The Titans 119 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 1: were trying to get a spark to catch it to 120 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: start a fire, and nothing they could do, no matter 121 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: what it was, for better, for worse, there wasn't a 122 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: single thing they could do to get something to catch, 123 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: and that is so frustrating, and it's a real tangible 124 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: thing that you can feel just within the sidelines. Yeah, 125 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: there was no oxygen for that fire. You're exactly right, 126 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: because whether it was the excellent play of the Buffalo 127 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: Bills in three phases or all of those people at 128 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: Highmark Stadium that were ready for the party, and they 129 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: lit it after those after that play right there, and 130 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: they were already going. That just seemed to take them 131 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: to another level because they were frustrated. They were a 132 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: frustrated fan base, they were a frustrated team. The Titans 133 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: had stopped him on third down and fourth down, they'd 134 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: had the fourth down play where they jumped off sides 135 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: and ended up having to kick the field goal. It 136 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: was it looked like about to happen again. And I mean, 137 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: if you go in at halftime ten to seven, you're 138 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: starting to puff up your chest a little bit and say, hey, 139 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: we're the Tennessee Titans. We've handled these guys the last 140 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: two years. Here we come. Maybe that happens, maybe it doesn't, 141 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: but you surely have a heck of a lot better 142 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: chance than you had after that play went down. Yep. 143 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: You want to go into the half with something to 144 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: feel good about, not something to feel frustrated about. It 145 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: to me, the Titans have only made one of those 146 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: plays all years so far, the hooker interception in the 147 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: end zone against the Giants. Here's the other thing. I 148 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: took some time and watched back the juggling interception that 149 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: he made. He caught that ball last night. He caught 150 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,679 Speaker 1: that ball. We didn't see a good replay of it, rat, 151 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: but he caught the ball. I had someone messaged me, 152 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:34,559 Speaker 1: and obviously we got nine million things going on to 153 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: the broadcast, and I glanced at it and I read 154 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 1: it when we got on the bus to go to 155 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: the airport, and I'm like, well, I'm interested to see that. 156 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: So to hear you say that, it validates what this 157 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: person was telling me. It's like he got that ball. 158 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: They did not focus on it on TV, apparently because 159 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: we were seeing a TV feed, But in watching it back, 160 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: he got both feet down and he was in control 161 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,319 Speaker 1: of the ball. He nearly made the exact same play 162 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: as last week last night, And boy, what would that 163 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:08,559 Speaker 1: have meant for the Titans if and that's where you 164 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: are when you're not winning that's where you and butts 165 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 1: are candy and nuts. When you are winning, you're saying 166 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: to the other people, tough, break the stocking for your 167 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 1: bad luck. And the Titans have been on both sides 168 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: of that, and the stockings are hung by the champions 169 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,719 Speaker 1: care and they're full of goodies. That's right, all right. 170 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 1: Second down the stat that grabbed your attention, Rhet Bryan, 171 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: you go first. I think it's the Derek Henry stat 172 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: line of thirteen carries, twenty five yards, one touchdown. Mike. 173 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: I went back and looked at his career stats. It's 174 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: the lowest rushing performance for him since the day that 175 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens blanked the Titans at Nissan Stadium twenty 176 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: one and nothing in twenty eighteen, before he was really 177 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:51,959 Speaker 1: the full time starter. And he's had one other game, 178 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: the Denver game where Marcus Mariota was benched incomes Tannehill 179 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. But you know, it just spoke to 180 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,679 Speaker 1: the running troubles. And I'm not saying Derek Henry. I'm 181 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: saying all eleven guys in that process. Can I say 182 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: something strange? Yeah, I thought he ran better in Buffalo 183 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: than he did in the season opener against the Giants. No, 184 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 1: I would agree, even though the stats don't show it. 185 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 1: The touchdown run he had on the fourth and one 186 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: was classic Derrick Henry. He had nowhere to run, right, 187 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: I mean, he's catching pitches and they're guys waiting for 188 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: him right there. I mean, the outside runs were absolutely 189 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: non existent at times, but I thought he looked like 190 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: he was more focused on running harder. And listen, we've 191 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: seen plenty of six carry twelve yards starts for him 192 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: end up being twenty six carries for one seventy five 193 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 1: and two scores, three scores, but they could never get 194 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 1: it to that point to where he could get anything going. 195 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: To your point, and I would agree with what you're 196 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: saying because in Week one against the Giants, it's not 197 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 1: that he was going through the motions, but I think 198 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: there was a more deliberate intent of carrying the ball. 199 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 1: Against the Buffalo Bills on Monday night, Yeah, all right, Amy, 200 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: The stat that grabbed your attention, So the Tennessee Titans 201 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: had one hundred and eighty seven yards of total offense. 202 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: Seventy five of those yards came in the first drive 203 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: of the game. That's forty percent of the yardage that 204 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: they had for the entirety of the football game came 205 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: in that first drive. That is crazy to me. When 206 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:31,839 Speaker 1: we talk about trying to catch something, trying to start 207 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 1: a fire, I mean, that was their shot right there, 208 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: and they just really couldn't get anything to catch to 209 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: generate the momentum that you have to get to get 210 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: an offense rolling. They just couldn't get that traction. Titans 211 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: so far through two games are converting thirty percent of 212 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: their third down tries on off It's wild, Well, you're 213 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: not gonna win anything doing that. Nope, because you're not 214 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: staying on the field, you're not winning field position, you're 215 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: not winning for your defense. There is nothing that you're 216 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 1: doing there. And here's the thing. They've scored on their 217 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 1: first possession in each of their first two games, so 218 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: they've been able to do something that They had a 219 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 1: forty five yard drive against the Giants after the punt 220 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,839 Speaker 1: returned by Phillips, and then they had the seventy five 221 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: yard drive that you mentioned. But outside of that, they 222 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:22,439 Speaker 1: have one touchdown drive and they haven't had a lot 223 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 1: of other massive scoring opportunities either in terms of moving 224 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 1: the football. But I mean the whole thing. The thirty percent. 225 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 1: I mean, that's back to where they were when the 226 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: offense was not clicking. You know, they got into forty 227 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: four percent, forty six percent when Tannehill came in for 228 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 1: the remainder of twenty nineteen fifty percent. It makes such 229 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: a massive difference when you're going to play the complementary 230 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: style of football that they talk about, if you're going 231 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: to do it and listen, teams win championships with complementary style. 232 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,319 Speaker 1: Teams win championships throwing fifty times a game. Teams win 233 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 1: championships running ton and playing defense. It's done all different 234 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: sorts of ways. But whatever you decide you're gonna do, 235 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 1: you have to do it well. And right now the 236 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 1: Titans are not doing that. That third down stat is 237 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 1: the one that really sticks out to me. Am, I 238 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: missing anything. Did you have a second favorite? Oh? Favorite 239 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: is such a strong word, all right, So this one 240 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 1: may take a second third down area where the Titans 241 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 1: must improve from last night. Amy, what I went with 242 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,839 Speaker 1: may not be the most important thing, but it's one 243 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 1: of the things because I want to acknowledge that there 244 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: were a lot of personnel issues last night, A lot 245 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 1: of injuries for this Titans team, and that contributes to 246 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: a lot of different areas because they were across the board, 247 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: and so I want to acknowledge the fact that some 248 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: things went sideways because a lot of people were hurt 249 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 1: in that ball game. Right, penalties no, no injury. Penalties 250 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: are mistakes that are made regardless of who's on the field, 251 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 1: and they hurt the team when you have that few 252 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: yards when you're not being super successful, you can't spot 253 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: the other team eighty seven yards, which is what the 254 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans did with nine penalties for eighty seven yards. 255 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: Those are the stupid things that you can control when 256 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 1: there are some uncontrollable factors. And it's so frustrating to 257 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: watch the team commit penalties like that because you know 258 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: that that is something that drives Mike Vrabel craze. That's fair, 259 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: and I think that's a good one. And they're right now. 260 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: They're averaging in the two games and this is just 261 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: in the last three halves because remember first half of 262 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 1: the Giants they didn't have a penalty none. They are 263 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: averaging eight penalties for seventy yards per game, and so 264 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: that's not you know, that's not given you a great 265 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: shot because you shoot yourself in the foot when you're 266 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: only averaging two hundred and seventy three yards of total offense. 267 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: If you're averaging four hundred and something yards of total offense, whatever, whoop, right? 268 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: I mean? But again, every mistake is magnified. I think 269 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: that's what stands out to penalties are good when ret 270 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: Brian yours. You guys are a lot smarter than I am, 271 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 1: so you're going to pick up There is a theme 272 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 1: here and I'm staying with the run game. Run game 273 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: efficiency is something that this is the way this team 274 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: is built and the way it's supposed to run as 275 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: outside his own running schemes. And we've seen ninety three 276 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: yards as a team rushing in Week one against the Giants, 277 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: that regrets to eighty yards as a team to a 278 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: very good Buffalo Bills team Monday Night. That's a place 279 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: that's got to get better. And it's my hope that 280 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: the get well is coming soon. Sunday against the Raiders, 281 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: who gave up one hundred and forty three yards on 282 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: the ground to the Arizona Cardinals and that loss in overtime, 283 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: that has to be better for me. It's the defense 284 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: allowing points. The defense has given up sixty two points 285 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: in two weeks now. Seven of them came on an 286 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: interception return. And there are turnovers that factor in, and 287 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 1: that's part of the equation, but it goes the other 288 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: way too. I mean, the Titans scored points off turnovers 289 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: last week against the Giants. Bottom line is, I think 290 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: the expectation was this defense would be more dominant than 291 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 1: it has been in the first two weeks. I know 292 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: their issues in the secondary. I know that you're without 293 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 1: Elijah Molden in the slot and so you play Ugo 294 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: Amadi there and then you're without Ugo Amadi and so 295 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: then you have to bring in somebody else. They were 296 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 1: in a six defensive back defense a lot of time 297 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: in the second half because they didn't have any other 298 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: personnel groups that they had enough people to work with 299 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: that they had repped. And so, yeah, that does happen, 300 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: and you're right, you can't ignore that. But this defense 301 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: needs to be giving up less than twenty points a game, 302 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 1: especially because I think we understood if you were logical 303 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: that early in the season with some of these changes 304 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: on offense, it was probably gonna take a minute. Yeah, 305 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: I said that throughout the preseason, I felt like the 306 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: defense would probably have to carry the offense for a 307 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 1: little while as you got used to new tight ends, 308 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: new receivers, rookies, couple new starters in the offensive line. 309 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 1: I didn't think they'd come out like a house of fire. 310 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: So my feeling was the defense kind of gets you home. 311 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 1: They're allowing four hundred four yards and thirty one points 312 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: in two games, and that's got to be better going 313 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: forward to give this team a chance to improve. And 314 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's what it comes down to. 315 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 1: This ball club has got to improve and improve quickly 316 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: as they get ready to play the Las Vegas Raiders 317 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: on Sunday at Nissan Stadium. Kickoff his noon Central time. 318 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: We're on the air Amy and Reet with Titans Countdown 319 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:42,400 Speaker 1: at eleven am Central. So fourth down is slightly different 320 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,120 Speaker 1: for me. Fourth down on this edition of the OTP 321 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:48,439 Speaker 1: four D presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. Instead of 322 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 1: the player of the game from last night, who must 323 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 1: be the player of the game Sunday against Las Vegas 324 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: for the Titans to improve and go to one and two, 325 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,160 Speaker 1: Rhett gets to go first. Do you know what I'm 326 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 1: gonna say? Here, there's a theme. There's a theme. He's 327 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 1: gonna take mine. Well, what is yours? Mine's Derrick Henry. Yeah, 328 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 1: that's mine too. I just you know, you have to 329 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 1: be talking to Derrick Henry like you do when you 330 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: when we have Titans Radio's locker room report in your 331 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: postgame interviews. He's got to be the guy. He's got 332 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 1: to be whatever those numbers are. He's got to be 333 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 1: the better back with some decent numbers. And if he's 334 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,360 Speaker 1: had a good day with the other ten guys out 335 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 1: there making that happen, then the Titans will be one 336 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: and two in this deal, and it'll be the Vegas 337 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: Raiders who will be sent back west with the O 338 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: and three record. I say Derrick Henry as well. But 339 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 1: because if Derrick Henry is able to be the man 340 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: the way that we've seen him be in the past, 341 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: it means that a lot of other things went well 342 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 1: on offense as well. So Derrick Henry having a big 343 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:51,440 Speaker 1: day is indicative of the offensive line doing a little 344 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: bit better at blocking for him. You have to assume 345 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 1: that there will have been a little bit more in 346 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: the way of receivers getting involved in the game. Derrick 347 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 1: Henry being the guy and putting up the numbers that 348 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 1: we all need him to have to see the Titans 349 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,479 Speaker 1: have a commanding victory means that everything else has to 350 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 1: go right on that offense. So I say Derrick Henry too. 351 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,199 Speaker 1: For a different reason, I'd say Ryan Tannehill because I 352 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: think he needs a bounce back game. He did throw 353 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 1: the two picks last night. I get that those came 354 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: after the score was already twenty four to seven, which 355 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 1: is kind of a part of well, the four turnovers 356 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 1: really killed him. Well, yeah, it made the score what 357 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 1: it was, but the game was already out of hand, 358 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: in control for the Buffalo Bills by the time the 359 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 1: punt was fumbled, and you know, every Malik willis fumbled 360 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: and everything else happened. I think Tannehill needs to be 361 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: in control. I think he needs to operate the offense efficiently. 362 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 1: I think we need to see the kind of performance 363 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: we saw against the Giants, only just a little better. 364 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,919 Speaker 1: Because you're figuring, you know, whatever the status of Luan, 365 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: we'll have to wait and see on that. Then you're 366 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 1: gonna need some help. And if your secondary has some 367 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 1: issues with injury, which is what we're fearing, right now, 368 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: until we see an injury report and see the team 369 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: you're afraid of that, then you're probably gonna have to 370 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: go score a little bit. So they're gonna have to 371 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: be efficient, they're gonna have to be penalty free. He's 372 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: gonna have to check him into good plays. And when 373 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: he gets chances to make big plays in the passing game, 374 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: he's not only going to make a good throw. He's 375 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: got to make a great decision and he's got to 376 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,159 Speaker 1: make it quickly. And Mike, I'd like to see him 377 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: more involved in the run part of it. I would. 378 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 1: I'd like to hear you call a finger roll touchdown well, 379 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: and he can do that, And I think there's some 380 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 1: things there that if that starts to be a threat 381 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 1: and people have to defend against it. What they're doing 382 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: right now to the Titans running game is and this 383 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 1: is not football terminology so much as you know, like 384 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: coach Mack would give, This is just Layman's terms. They're 385 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: just penning their ears and coming back because they're not 386 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: afraid anything will happen badly to them if they come 387 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,159 Speaker 1: as hard as they can in terms of rushing the 388 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: passer or going after Derrick Henry if they don't fear 389 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: any ramification at that point. If he were to go 390 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,199 Speaker 1: out the back door on a bootleg and pick up 391 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 1: fifteen yards, then all of a sudden they have to stop. 392 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: If they could hit a screen pass, then all of 393 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,920 Speaker 1: a sudden it would slow him down. If Henry could 394 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: could bust one on a blitz situation and go the distance, 395 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 1: that would slow it down. I think one of the 396 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 1: more frustrating things for Titans fans right now is there 397 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: are these things we know they can do if they're 398 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 1: playing up to potential, that are not wildly I'm not 399 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: asking for anybody to hit five home runs in a game. 400 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,919 Speaker 1: I'm saying, do the things we've seen you do in 401 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 1: the past and listen. I think that trailing burks is 402 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 1: something else. I think he I think they've hit on 403 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: trailing burks, and I think he's going to be a 404 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,400 Speaker 1: good player. You know, Woods caught four passes last night. 405 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,080 Speaker 1: There are things that are there that I think they 406 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 1: can get more of, and they've just got to execute that. 407 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,920 Speaker 1: You've got to get some traction, you've got to get 408 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: some momentum. You've got to get to a place where 409 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 1: your wheels stick to the ground and you can move forward. 410 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,200 Speaker 1: It goes back to the play that we're talking about 411 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,440 Speaker 1: where Buffalo scored the touchdown with a minute ago. Because 412 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,919 Speaker 1: they didn't have any traction. You felt like, if you 413 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 1: were there at high Mark Stadium, you felt like you 414 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: had just fallen off the cliff. And it was only 415 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,400 Speaker 1: a ten point game, yep, but you felt like, unless 416 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 1: something happens on the first drive of the second half, 417 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 1: they are done. And unfortunately they were. Mike, you hit 418 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: the nail on the head a minute ago, and I 419 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 1: think you're exactly right. The Buffalo Bills were not scared 420 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,719 Speaker 1: of Derek Henry. They're like, nah, not this time. And 421 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: they've got to change that narrative going forward. They've got 422 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,680 Speaker 1: to be able to with all the things you mentioned 423 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: with a trailing Burks, with a Ryan Tannehill, with a 424 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 1: Robert Woods, getting the tight ends involved, whatever it is, 425 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: they'd have to go, oh wait a minute, we got 426 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,880 Speaker 1: to do a little extra game plan right, And I mean, 427 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 1: I think there are some opportunities there, but right now 428 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: it Amy said it well, with no traction, they have 429 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 1: nothing to hang their hat on. They can't say at 430 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: the moment where it goes badly. We're gonna do this 431 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 1: and this is how we're going to get through it. 432 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: There's no going back to what we do because we 433 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: don't know what we do. That's what Rabel said today. 434 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,119 Speaker 1: That's what that was an interesting comment from him in 435 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:34,360 Speaker 1: the press conference where he said, we're going to simplify 436 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: some things and basically, and I'm paraphrasing, he said, we're 437 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 1: going to do what we do. And that tells me 438 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: he thinks they've gotten a little too broad conceptually, maybe 439 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball, and they're going to 440 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: try to win a game with just basic Titan football 441 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 1: as that traction, as that thing to hang there out physical. Well, 442 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,879 Speaker 1: i mean, let's face it, if we're doing this next 443 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: Monday and they're one and two, okay, I mean we 444 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 1: move on, you know. That's the thing. If we're doing 445 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 1: this next Monday and they're oh and three, it is 446 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 1: a vastly different discussion. Well, yeah, because we sat and 447 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 1: watched at Dinner and Buffalo all the things that the 448 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: NFC teams did to the AFC teams and helping things out. 449 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 1: It's a wide open deal. It's a wide open deal. 450 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: Fifteen more weeks, we know all the stuff about the division, 451 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 1: and I understand why Rabel's not talking to his team 452 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: about that. Listen, the Titans just need to be worried 453 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,879 Speaker 1: about the Titans right now. They don't need to be 454 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,400 Speaker 1: worried about what's happening in Indianapolis or Houston or Jacksonville. 455 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: We can talk about it. I don't think anybody's gonna 456 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: run and hide in this division. So if you can 457 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: get yourself back on track and stack wins and then 458 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:50,639 Speaker 1: keep improving, then it will take a very different narrative. 459 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: Because the NFL season is four parts. It's really that 460 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:59,400 Speaker 1: September early October. Then you get into that meat part 461 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:03,199 Speaker 1: with that October November, and then you come down the 462 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,879 Speaker 1: stretch that Thanksgiving on forward until the end of the 463 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 1: regular season, and then you've got the playoffs. And look 464 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 1: what Cincinnati did last year. They lost seven games, but 465 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,639 Speaker 1: they got in the playoffs and they got hot, should 466 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: have won the Super Bowl. And the Titans three years 467 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 1: ago have to fight their way into the playoffs. They 468 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 1: lost seven games, but they got hot, and they were 469 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,439 Speaker 1: in a position at Kansas City where had they been 470 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: able to finish a couple of things off, they might 471 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 1: have been going on to play the Super Bowl. You've 472 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 1: got to play those parts of the season. And now 473 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,119 Speaker 1: what Titans fans have to hope, in my opinion, is 474 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:41,640 Speaker 1: this team has got to really make dramatic improvement as 475 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 1: this first section ends moving to the second part, because 476 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 1: if you don't, then you're in a spiral that it 477 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,320 Speaker 1: is so hard to get out of. And because of 478 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: the loss last night, and I mean, if it'd been 479 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 1: twenty four to twenty one, you'd still be o in two. 480 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: But we'd be lying if we said it didn't feel 481 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 1: differently because it was forty one seven. It felt like 482 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: an overwhelming loss a little bit because it was yeah, 483 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 1: but it felt bigger than even the week prior, where 484 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,199 Speaker 1: it was a surprising loss in week one. But I 485 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 1: mean you were right there. This felt bigger in week two. 486 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: And I think that if the Titans can just get 487 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 1: something going, they can get a win. And we've seen 488 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: this team take off before. We've seen them start making 489 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 1: that improvement week after week after week grow into what 490 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 1: is the most exciting part of the season. I think 491 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 1: when you get to those meaty games, those ones that 492 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 1: are starting to build to that playoff time, if they 493 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:48,360 Speaker 1: can just just get something going. That's when the conversation changed, Well, 494 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 1: it needs to start this week against a good AFC 495 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: team at home Sunday noon for the first time. You're 496 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: getting to do the regular thing. You have a short 497 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 1: week to prepare, but it's a ten am game for 498 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 1: Las Vegas. So I mean, I think there's some I 499 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: think the disadvantages equal out. I don't think the Titans 500 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:10,640 Speaker 1: are going to be any more tired, and I don't 501 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,720 Speaker 1: think the Raiders are going to be any more confused 502 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 1: that their body clock is getting them up in that way. No, 503 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,479 Speaker 1: but I feel and I'm so glad you brought that up. 504 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of a noon Central Sunday kick 505 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: at home. I mean, it's that's just good. Look, primetime 506 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,159 Speaker 1: games are great and all that. That just feels like 507 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 1: Sunday football to me. It does, and it's what this 508 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,359 Speaker 1: team was sort of built on in the Verbel era. 509 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: It's why he sets up his practices during the week 510 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 1: like he does, because he practices at that time. I 511 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 1: mean he is and listen, that's not why they lost 512 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 1: the first two games. Don't get me wrong, I'm not 513 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,880 Speaker 1: saying that, but I do think a rhythm which they 514 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: will take for the next three weeks into their by 515 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 1: going dandy going to Washington after playing Las Vegas on Sunday. 516 00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,679 Speaker 1: I think a rhythm is a good thing for this 517 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:04,400 Speaker 1: club right now because they need something to get them 518 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 1: started the same way. Yeah, because if you can knock 519 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 1: out a couple of those with wins and get to 520 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,919 Speaker 1: the bye week, then you may be able to pivot. 521 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 1: Like you're talking about the chatter, I look at it 522 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 1: like a chapters of the book, and you're right. That 523 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 1: first chapter is going through that early part of October. 524 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 1: If that's a bad chapter, the rest of the book 525 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 1: may not be great. But if it's a continuing battling, scratching, clawing, 526 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 1: you've got a win or two in there, and there's 527 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,400 Speaker 1: more to read in that book. I'm ready to move 528 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 1: on to the Raiders. Okay, I've had enough enough of this. 529 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: Farm Bureau of Health Plans is someone we never have 530 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 1: enough of. Farm Bureau Health Plans is for those who 531 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 1: make plans for everything except themselves. 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Was it 542 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 1: Tanner his favorite kid? Yeah? I think so. So we're 543 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing them, looking forward to seeing you. 544 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: We want to have you as part of the crowd. 545 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: Jim Wyatt is going to join the show now, very 546 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: fired up about that ten thirty on Sunday mornings live 547 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 1: on WSMB four. It's called Titans Game Day and it's 548 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: in the Wesley Mortgage Club. Four Red Bryan and four 549 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 1: Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith, thanking you for joining us 550 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: for the OTP four D Welcome the big show. 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