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Speaker 1: Mike Keith along with Titans radios Amy Wells and Rhett Brian.

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Speaker 1: Sort of a dark Monday. We haven't been through this

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Speaker 1: in a while. It is not welcome. I don't like it.

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Speaker 1: I was used to the wind streak. But you're right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we've had some years where this

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Speaker 1: would be a lot of Mondays like this, and I'm

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Speaker 1: glad that there's not that many. But yeah, it's much

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Speaker 1: different than what we've done in the last six weeks.

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Speaker 1: It's a little easier to shake out of the dark place, though,

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Speaker 1: when you realize that we haven't had to do this

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Speaker 1: a lot. It's easier to shake it off and move on.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's see how well you shake it off, Amy,

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Speaker 1: because you're starting first down. Your play that turned the

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Speaker 1: game yesterday in the Titans loss to the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: twenty two to thirteen. It's got to be the third quarter.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Texans started the second half with the ball.

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Speaker 1: They put together a substantial drive, but the Titans were

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Speaker 1: finally able to get the stop get him off the field.

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Speaker 1: I mean the Texans burned what seven minutes off the

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Speaker 1: clock in that first drive, but they're punting the ball.

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Speaker 1: Chester Rogers goes to catch it and I couldn't one

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Speaker 1: the opposite side of the field, but essentially he muffs it.

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Speaker 1: That's what happened. Well, he was trying to block the

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Speaker 1: guy who was there to down the ball, and while

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Speaker 1: he was trying to do that, he got lost and

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Speaker 1: the ball hit him in the ankle. Yeah, so it

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Speaker 1: hits his foot, which you know counts as him touching

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Speaker 1: the ball. So then it's recovered by Houston on the

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Speaker 1: Titans five yard line. So the Texans have possession of

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Speaker 1: the ball, they're right by the end zone. They're able

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Speaker 1: to two plays later going and score. They make it

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Speaker 1: nineteen to nothing. So it's a three score game and

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Speaker 1: the Titans just any win that could have been in

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Speaker 1: their sales was just sucked right out of it. That

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Speaker 1: was actually going to be my number one choice as well.

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Speaker 1: For this reason, if you get the football back at

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Speaker 1: that point twelve nothing, even at your own six seven

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Speaker 1: yard line, then you're in a position at that point

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Speaker 1: where you can still really run the ball. You can

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Speaker 1: run your whole offense. The Titans were running the ball

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Speaker 1: pretty well, you have options. They ran the ball in

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Speaker 1: the first half sixteen times for eighty three yards, and

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Speaker 1: then if you're running the ball, you could do play pass.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly you're down nineteen to nothing, and now the run

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Speaker 1: game because of how the possessions have gone and how

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Speaker 1: much time they've taken off the clock, and you're down

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Speaker 1: three scores. Suddenly the run game, outside of an occasional handoff,

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Speaker 1: is off the table, and you've got to drop back

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Speaker 1: and throw almost every down, which is not what the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans do, particularly with the group of receivers that

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Speaker 1: they had available. And it's pouring down rain right, None

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Speaker 1: of those things are conducive to having to throw the

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Speaker 1: many bad things that kind of all came out of

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Speaker 1: that one just bad thing that happened, and it made

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Speaker 1: things an uphill climb for the Titans going forward. All right,

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Speaker 1: So while I think of my second choice for my

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Speaker 1: play that turned the game, we go to rhet Bryan,

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Speaker 1: are you having to go to a second choice again?

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Speaker 1: But I want to confirm the timeline of this. I

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Speaker 1: took rhets and now he's fact checking to make sure. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: mine comes. Was seven fifty three left in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: since you took the first one. But I think we're

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Speaker 1: all right? Is that you know that was the obvious one.

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Speaker 1: But seven fifty three left in the fourth quarter, the

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Speaker 1: Titans are knocking on the door and Dontrell Hilliard fumbles,

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Speaker 1: it's recovered by Anthony Ferster in the end zone, and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's a nineteen thirteen game with

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Speaker 1: seven just a little over seven and a half minutes

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Speaker 1: know they've had a million turnovers, maybe they have a chance.

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Speaker 1: So you know, if you're looking at it from a

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Speaker 1: positive angle, that's what I would pick. But the Chester

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Speaker 1: Rogers with the punt on the left ankle, yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: where it's at. The KMU Gruge hill eighty two yard

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Speaker 1: whole flow of the game dead. It not only eventually

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Speaker 1: gave them three points on the eighty two yard interception return,

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Speaker 1: but it was momentum. Every one of these moments was momentum.

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Speaker 1: I could cite the fourth and two penalty on the

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Speaker 1: first series at their thirty five yard line. The Titans

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Speaker 1: jump offsides and now have to punt instead of going

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Speaker 1: on fourth and two, which statistically shows they would have

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Speaker 1: made it if you follow the stats, and if they had,

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Speaker 1: take the lead with a touchdown, it's a different day. Tennessee. Never,

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Speaker 1: at any point in the game was able to gain

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Speaker 1: any momentum from a moment, everything that was going to

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Speaker 1: go the Texans way did. Yeah, you're right, it's a

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Speaker 1: Murphy's Law game. It gave them belief, and it gave

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Speaker 1: them interest, and more importantly, it gave the Texans the

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Speaker 1: which they wanted to play it. Mike Vrabel sang on

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Speaker 1: his Prescount's earlier today, their longest pass was thirteen yards.

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Speaker 1: You weren't going to get a lot of pass rush

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Speaker 1: on Tyride Taylor when he's not holding the ball, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's just what it came down to. I mean,

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Speaker 1: But to the Texans credit, they made the game what

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Speaker 1: is no surprise, but the wheels on Ryan Tannehill in

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Speaker 1: pursuit after gruge Hill picks him off, that was that

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Speaker 1: was something else. I mean, he hit a gear right there. Now.

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Speaker 1: No, no no, no, no, I don't. I was glad Hilliard

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Speaker 1: ended up making that tackle. Ye all right, So second

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Speaker 1: down your staff that tells the story, so yours won't

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Speaker 1: get taken. Rep. Brian you get to go first. It's

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Speaker 1: fifty two pass attempts by the quarterback and in the rain.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I heard Mike Vrabel talk to you about

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Speaker 1: it in post game on Titan's radio, and he's right,

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Speaker 1: because that tells you where things went sideways, the separation

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Speaker 1: since this is the decent day that you've had without

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Speaker 1: and you just you know, in the conditions that they are,

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Speaker 1: it just didn't work out. He took mine, he did, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: which is fine, right? Passes ever for Tannehill, right, I

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Speaker 1: believe that's right. Yes. And the Titans are not built,

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Speaker 1: especially at this moment, to drop back and throw it

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Speaker 1: every down. No, they're not, especially when you have a

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Speaker 1: you don't have Julio Jones, you don't have so many

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Speaker 1: of your targets who are consistent targets. And it's pouring

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Speaker 1: down rain. I don't think that we can overseell how

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Speaker 1: terrible the conditions were, especially to be passing the ball

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Speaker 1: like that, so I think that, yeah, that is ultimately

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Speaker 1: the stat that tells the story. But I will also

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Speaker 1: throw in that the Titans having four hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: total yards says to me that there is a shining

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Speaker 1: light in all of this. It's yeah, shining light, beaking

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Speaker 1: for it. It's not that they couldn't do anything. They

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Speaker 1: just couldn't complete the drives. Right, It's not that they

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Speaker 1: weren't moving the ball. It's not that they weren't making

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Speaker 1: plays necessarily or being productive. They just weren't finishing. It's

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Speaker 1: like the Jets game. It's the exact same thing. And

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Speaker 1: I hate to say that because that was just such

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Speaker 1: a they didn't move the ball, Yeah, and they and

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Speaker 1: they ran the ball. Yeah, it's not that they were ineffective.

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Speaker 1: They ran the ball in the first half. You know,

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Speaker 1: they had some some sort of some rhythm for a

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Speaker 1: change in the run game. But you know, once it

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Speaker 1: nothing you can do. Mine zero takeaways. I mean the

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Speaker 1: other team had five takeaways. If you get one one

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Speaker 1: and they tipped several passes. One takeaway might have turned

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Speaker 1: the majority of the Tannehill picks and the problems came

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Speaker 1: later in the ball game. You know, they were already

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Speaker 1: down the stretch. You might not be going through all that.

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Speaker 1: This defense has to get takeaways, and they've been doing it.

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Speaker 1: That's the stat that tells the story to me yesterday

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Speaker 1: is the defense didn't have any takeaways against the team

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Speaker 1: that has had some issues with takeaways. Would they have

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Speaker 1: four turnovers against Miambi before the boys? All? Right? Third

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Speaker 1: down your area that the Titan have to get fixed.

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Speaker 1: Amy's first, Well, Mike Keith, that's a great transition because

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Speaker 1: mine was the turnovers and both the ones that you're

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Speaker 1: I mean, Ryan Tannehill has got and the offense overall,

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Speaker 1: it's not just on him, but they have to figure

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Speaker 1: out a way to not have four interceptions in a

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Speaker 1: ball game. I mean, that's just it's too many, it's

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Speaker 1: too much. Same with fumbles. I mean, only one was

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Speaker 1: recovered by the Texans. But ball security is a really

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Speaker 1: big deal. You've got to maintain possession of the ball.

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Speaker 1: I mean, minus the one that kind of squeaked forward

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Speaker 1: a happy accident. But other than that, you've got to

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Speaker 1: Ben Jones saved you at one point a sack fumble. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you've got to maintain possession of the ball.

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Speaker 1: You've got to keep it safe, and that needs to

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Speaker 1: be a priority for the Titans going forward. But on

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Speaker 1: the other side, the defense needs to be creating those turnovers.

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Speaker 1: That's a way that they can contribute. It's a way

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Speaker 1: help the Titans kind of dig out of the hole

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Speaker 1: that they've kind of gotten themselves into. On off. Very easily.

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Speaker 1: The Titans could have had eight turnovers in the ball

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Speaker 1: game right, very easily. And that goes back to my point.

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Speaker 1: The Titans weren't ever really close to taking the ball

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Speaker 1: away from the Texans. That I mean, that just can't happen. Nope,

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Speaker 1: it's something it needs to be fixed. So I'm reiterating

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Speaker 1: second down rhet let's go back to third down, your

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Speaker 1: area that the Titans have to get fixed well. And

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Speaker 1: it piggybacks off of Amy's turnovers because you had those

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