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Speaker 1: Mike Keith along with Titans radios Amy Wells and Rhett Brian.
Speaker 1: Sort of a dark Monday. We haven't been through this
Speaker 1: in a while. It is not welcome. I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I was used to the wind streak. But you're right.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we've had some years where this
Speaker 1: would be a lot of Mondays like this, and I'm
Speaker 1: glad that there's not that many. But yeah, it's much
Speaker 1: different than what we've done in the last six weeks.
Speaker 1: It's a little easier to shake out of the dark place, though,
Speaker 1: when you realize that we haven't had to do this
Speaker 1: a lot. It's easier to shake it off and move on.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's see how well you shake it off, Amy,
Speaker 1: because you're starting first down. Your play that turned the
Speaker 1: game yesterday in the Titans loss to the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: twenty two to thirteen. It's got to be the third quarter.
Speaker 1: You know, the Texans started the second half with the ball.
Speaker 1: They put together a substantial drive, but the Titans were
Speaker 1: finally able to get the stop get him off the field.
Speaker 1: I mean the Texans burned what seven minutes off the
Speaker 1: clock in that first drive, but they're punting the ball.
Speaker 1: Chester Rogers goes to catch it and I couldn't one
Speaker 1: hundred percent to see what happened because I was on
Speaker 1: the opposite side of the field, but essentially he muffs it.
Speaker 1: That's what happened. Well, he was trying to block the
Speaker 1: guy who was there to down the ball, and while
Speaker 1: he was trying to do that, he got lost and
Speaker 1: the ball hit him in the ankle. Yeah, so it
Speaker 1: hits his foot, which you know counts as him touching
Speaker 1: the ball. So then it's recovered by Houston on the
Speaker 1: Titans five yard line. So the Texans have possession of
Speaker 1: the ball, they're right by the end zone. They're able
Speaker 1: to two plays later going and score. They make it
Speaker 1: nineteen to nothing. So it's a three score game and
Speaker 1: the Titans just any win that could have been in
Speaker 1: their sales was just sucked right out of it. That
Speaker 1: was actually going to be my number one choice as well.
Speaker 1: For this reason, if you get the football back at
Speaker 1: that point twelve nothing, even at your own six seven
Speaker 1: yard line, then you're in a position at that point
Speaker 1: where you can still really run the ball. You can
Speaker 1: run your whole offense. The Titans were running the ball
Speaker 1: pretty well, you have options. They ran the ball in
Speaker 1: the first half sixteen times for eighty three yards, and
Speaker 1: then if you're running the ball, you could do play pass.
Speaker 1: Suddenly you're down nineteen to nothing, and now the run
Speaker 1: game because of how the possessions have gone and how
Speaker 1: much time they've taken off the clock, and you're down
Speaker 1: three scores. Suddenly the run game, outside of an occasional handoff,
Speaker 1: is off the table, and you've got to drop back
Speaker 1: and throw almost every down, which is not what the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans do, particularly with the group of receivers that
Speaker 1: they had available. And it's pouring down rain right, None
Speaker 1: of those things are conducive to having to throw the
Speaker 1: ball a bunch. So it was just there were so
Speaker 1: many bad things that kind of all came out of
Speaker 1: that one just bad thing that happened, and it made
Speaker 1: things an uphill climb for the Titans going forward. All right,
Speaker 1: So while I think of my second choice for my
Speaker 1: play that turned the game, we go to rhet Bryan,
Speaker 1: are you having to go to a second choice again?
Speaker 1: But I want to confirm the timeline of this. I
Speaker 1: took rhets and now he's fact checking to make sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mine comes. Was seven fifty three left in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: since you took the first one. But I think we're
Speaker 1: all right? Is that you know that was the obvious one.
Speaker 1: But seven fifty three left in the fourth quarter, the
Speaker 1: Titans are knocking on the door and Dontrell Hilliard fumbles,
Speaker 1: it's recovered by Anthony Ferster in the end zone, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's a nineteen thirteen game with
Speaker 1: seven just a little over seven and a half minutes
Speaker 1: left in the ball game, and you think, okay, you
Speaker 1: know they've had a million turnovers, maybe they have a chance.
Speaker 1: So you know, if you're looking at it from a
Speaker 1: positive angle, that's what I would pick. But the Chester
Speaker 1: Rogers with the punt on the left ankle, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: where it's at. The KMU Gruge hill eighty two yard
Speaker 1: interception is one that you have to say. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you're sitting there on the last play of the
Speaker 1: first quarter, third down in six at their eighteen, you're
Speaker 1: in the red zone where you the Titans have been
Speaker 1: awfully good this year, in complete pass, you're kicking a
Speaker 1: thirty six yard field goal. It's a tie game at
Speaker 1: that point, and then it's kind of game on. If
Speaker 1: it's three three. I think if at any point the
Speaker 1: Titans get that thing even, I think it changes the
Speaker 1: whole flow of the game dead. It not only eventually
Speaker 1: gave them three points on the eighty two yard interception return,
Speaker 1: but it was momentum. Every one of these moments was momentum.
Speaker 1: I could cite the fourth and two penalty on the
Speaker 1: first series at their thirty five yard line. The Titans
Speaker 1: jump offsides and now have to punt instead of going
Speaker 1: on fourth and two, which statistically shows they would have
Speaker 1: made it if you follow the stats, and if they had,
Speaker 1: if they go down and kick a field goal or
Speaker 1: take the lead with a touchdown, it's a different day. Tennessee. Never,
Speaker 1: at any point in the game was able to gain
Speaker 1: any momentum from a moment, everything that was going to
Speaker 1: go the Texans way did. Yeah, you're right, it's a
Speaker 1: Murphy's Law game. It gave them belief, and it gave
Speaker 1: them interest, and more importantly, it gave the Texans the
Speaker 1: ability to keep playing the game in the way in
Speaker 1: which they wanted to play it. Mike Vrabel sang on
Speaker 1: his Prescount's earlier today, their longest pass was thirteen yards.
Speaker 1: You weren't going to get a lot of pass rush
Speaker 1: on Tyride Taylor when he's not holding the ball, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just what it came down to. I mean,
Speaker 1: they weren't exactly throwing it wildly all over the field.
Speaker 1: But to the Texans credit, they made the game what
Speaker 1: they wanted it to be. And by the way, this
Speaker 1: is no surprise, but the wheels on Ryan Tannehill in
Speaker 1: pursuit after gruge Hill picks him off, that was that
Speaker 1: was something else. I mean, he hit a gear right there. Now.
Speaker 1: I was scared he's going to get hurt, but he
Speaker 1: closed in nicely. I don't want him making many time,
Speaker 1: No, no no, no, no, I don't. I was glad Hilliard
Speaker 1: ended up making that tackle. Ye all right, So second
Speaker 1: down your staff that tells the story, so yours won't
Speaker 1: get taken. Rep. Brian you get to go first. It's
Speaker 1: fifty two pass attempts by the quarterback and in the rain.
Speaker 1: I mean, I heard Mike Vrabel talk to you about
Speaker 1: it in post game on Titan's radio, and he's right,
Speaker 1: because that tells you where things went sideways, the separation
Speaker 1: of the score, the turnovers that created that, and that
Speaker 1: you had to do that, and you had to go
Speaker 1: away from a decent day of running the football, especially
Speaker 1: since this is the decent day that you've had without
Speaker 1: a Derrick Henry and you've had to do it by committee,
Speaker 1: and you just you know, in the conditions that they are,
Speaker 1: it just didn't work out. He took mine, he did, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is fine, right? Passes ever for Tannehill, right, I
Speaker 1: believe that's right. Yes. And the Titans are not built,
Speaker 1: especially at this moment, to drop back and throw it
Speaker 1: every down. No, they're not, especially when you have a
Speaker 1: j Brown not on the field, when you have Marcus Johnson,
Speaker 1: you don't have Julio Jones, you don't have so many
Speaker 1: of your targets who are consistent targets. And it's pouring
Speaker 1: down rain. I don't think that we can overseell how
Speaker 1: terrible the conditions were, especially to be passing the ball
Speaker 1: like that, so I think that, yeah, that is ultimately
Speaker 1: the stat that tells the story. But I will also
Speaker 1: throw in that the Titans having four hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: total yards says to me that there is a shining
Speaker 1: light in all of this. It's yeah, shining light, beaking
Speaker 1: of light in a dark storm. That's what I'm going
Speaker 1: for it. It's not that they couldn't do anything. They
Speaker 1: just couldn't complete the drives. Right, It's not that they
Speaker 1: weren't moving the ball. It's not that they weren't making
Speaker 1: plays necessarily or being productive. They just weren't finishing. It's
Speaker 1: like the Jets game. It's the exact same thing. And
Speaker 1: I hate to say that because that was just such
Speaker 1: a they didn't move the ball, Yeah, and they and
Speaker 1: they ran the ball. Yeah, it's not that they were ineffective.
Speaker 1: They ran the ball in the first half. You know,
Speaker 1: they had some some sort of some rhythm for a
Speaker 1: change in the run game. But you know, once it
Speaker 1: was nineteen, nothing that was out the window and there's
Speaker 1: nothing you can do. Mine zero takeaways. I mean the
Speaker 1: other team had five takeaways. If you get one one
Speaker 1: in the pouring down rain, if you knock somebody loose
Speaker 1: of the ball, or you tip a pass that's intercepted,
Speaker 1: and they tipped several passes. One takeaway might have turned
Speaker 1: that game around, because, I mean, let's think about it,
Speaker 1: the majority of the Tannehill picks and the problems came
Speaker 1: later in the ball game. You know, they were already
Speaker 1: behind nineteen to nothing when they had just turned the
Speaker 1: ball over two times. So if at any point you
Speaker 1: get one takeaway, you might not be throwing that much
Speaker 1: down the stretch. You might not be going through all that.
Speaker 1: This defense has to get takeaways, and they've been doing it.
Speaker 1: That's the stat that tells the story to me yesterday
Speaker 1: is the defense didn't have any takeaways against the team
Speaker 1: that has had some issues with takeaways. Would they have
Speaker 1: four turnovers against Miambi before the boys? All? Right? Third
Speaker 1: down your area that the Titan have to get fixed.
Speaker 1: Amy's first, Well, Mike Keith, that's a great transition because
Speaker 1: mine was the turnovers and both the ones that you're
Speaker 1: giving up and the ones that you need to create.
Speaker 1: I mean, Ryan Tannehill has got and the offense overall,
Speaker 1: it's not just on him, but they have to figure
Speaker 1: out a way to not have four interceptions in a
Speaker 1: ball game. I mean, that's just it's too many, it's
Speaker 1: too much. Same with fumbles. I mean, only one was
Speaker 1: recovered by the Texans. But ball security is a really
Speaker 1: big deal. You've got to maintain possession of the ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, minus the one that kind of squeaked forward
Speaker 1: and into the end zone for a touchdown. That was
Speaker 1: a happy accident. But other than that, you've got to
Speaker 1: Ben Jones saved you at one point a sack fumble. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got to maintain possession of the ball.
Speaker 1: You've got to keep it safe, and that needs to
Speaker 1: be a priority for the Titans going forward. But on
Speaker 1: the other side, the defense needs to be creating those turnovers.
Speaker 1: That's a way that they can contribute. It's a way
Speaker 1: that they can help in a way that they can
Speaker 1: help the Titans kind of dig out of the hole
Speaker 1: that they've kind of gotten themselves into. On off. Very easily.
Speaker 1: The Titans could have had eight turnovers in the ball
Speaker 1: game right, very easily. And that goes back to my point.
Speaker 1: The Titans weren't ever really close to taking the ball
Speaker 1: away from the Texans. That I mean, that just can't happen. Nope,
Speaker 1: it's something it needs to be fixed. So I'm reiterating
Speaker 1: second down rhet let's go back to third down, your
Speaker 1: area that the Titans have to get fixed well. And
Speaker 1: it piggybacks off of Amy's turnovers because you had those
Speaker 1: turnovers and they were in critical spots and that led
Speaker 1: to a score separation, but you still had a lack
Speaker 1: of explosive plays. You had one shot play to Nick
Speaker 1: Westbrook Aquina for forty six yards and that was later on.
Speaker 1: And but this is this is something that wasn't just
Speaker 1: a result of or what has happened in this game
Speaker 1: with the Texans. This number has started to dwindle since
Speaker 1: you lost Derek Henry. You've got to find a way
Speaker 1: to get shot plays back into this because you've got
Speaker 1: to be able to get chunk plays for new sets
Speaker 1: of downs like the jetskip they didn't get in the
Speaker 1: Jets game. It is a hard league. I don't care
Speaker 1: who the opponent is. It is a hard league to
Speaker 1: drive and drive and drive and drive. It's just hard
Speaker 1: to do. You need short fields and you need big plays,
Speaker 1: and you know, either to a punt return or a takeaway,
Speaker 1: you need something to happen that gives you easy scoring chances.
Speaker 1: It is a brutally hard league to do this. It
Speaker 1: just is because you have so many good players on
Speaker 1: the other side. I mean, if you're going eight and
Speaker 1: six and three and stead, eventually somebody's gonna get you,
Speaker 1: or a penalty's gonna get you, or something is going
Speaker 1: to happen. I think that's a really good point for me.
Speaker 1: The area that the Titans have to get fixed is
Speaker 1: don't get behind. Don't get behind you, and especially coming
Speaker 1: up in this game this week, they need to be
Speaker 1: able to stay right in the ball game to where
Speaker 1: they can play complementary football cliche. Fine, say what you will,
Speaker 1: but where this ball club is right to have a
Speaker 1: chance to win this game on Sunday, barring that the
Speaker 1: Patriots turn it over eight times or you have three
Speaker 1: kick returns for touchdowns, I'm saying, just a straight out
Speaker 1: normal game. The Titans, we're gonna have a hard time
Speaker 1: winning this football game if they can't keep it in
Speaker 1: check to where they can run the ball, to where
Speaker 1: they can take advantage of special teams, to where they
Speaker 1: can get off the field on third down, and all
Speaker 1: the other things we've been talking about. They can't fall
Speaker 1: behind right now, with the situation they're in. They could
Speaker 1: when aj and Julio and Derrick Henry were there, you
Speaker 1: could come back. This group is going to have a
Speaker 1: much harder time doing it because you just don't have
Speaker 1: the firepower to go win this game this week. They
Speaker 1: need to be even or at least within one score.
Speaker 1: Obviously ahead would be even better. All right, fourth down.
Speaker 1: One thing that you noticed and wanted to share, Rett Bryant.
Speaker 1: It goes back to the eighty two yard interception returned
Speaker 1: by Gruge Hill, and then we saw it again and
Speaker 1: again and again, and every time something like that took place,
Speaker 1: or Tyrod Taylor runs a touchdown, and you just sense
Speaker 1: the life breathed into the Texans. I mean, they're already
Speaker 1: and coming into this. The film didn't lie. They were
Speaker 1: playing for David Culley. They were playing with a purpose.
Speaker 1: They just couldn't get out of their own way. In
Speaker 1: some places. They saw a shot of energy every time
Speaker 1: one of those things happened, and it went exactly the
Speaker 1: way they wanted because of those things. Mine is I
Speaker 1: think you can tell that I spent the entire game
Speaker 1: standing in the rain because I have a lot of
Speaker 1: thoughts about it. I was very impressed by the Titans
Speaker 1: equipment staff and operations crew during the game, because you
Speaker 1: didn't get a lot of heads up. We knew it
Speaker 1: was probably going to rain that day, but it was drip, drip, drip,
Speaker 1: and the rains came down. Didn't have a lot of
Speaker 1: time to prepare and kind of get every one switched
Speaker 1: around to rain gear and different gloves and different cleats
Speaker 1: and all the things that people are kind of changing
Speaker 1: in the pouring down rain, and they were spot on
Speaker 1: the first couple of drips. Raincoats were coming out, and
Speaker 1: people were moving and things were being dried. They had
Speaker 1: towels that were constantly going in front of heaters. They
Speaker 1: were in constant motion for the entirety of the game,
Speaker 1: trying to give this team the best chance that they
Speaker 1: could to have everything that they need so they could
Speaker 1: play the game. I was very impressed by just how
Speaker 1: efficient they were in helping this team do everything that
Speaker 1: they could to play on the field. For me, it
Speaker 1: was Dontrelle hilliards one hundred forty seven total yards, and
Speaker 1: I wonder, in the disappointment of yesterday, if the Titans
Speaker 1: didn't find the element they had hoped to get from
Speaker 1: Darrington Evans and have not gotten the last two years
Speaker 1: because of injury. Dontrell hilliards an interesting dude. He's from
Speaker 1: Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He went to Scotlandville Magnet School in
Speaker 1: Baton Rouge and which is obviously a good high school,
Speaker 1: and then he went to two lane. It's kind of
Speaker 1: a record setting guy at two lane. He's run a
Speaker 1: four four two before, so he has really really good speed,
Speaker 1: like Darrington Evans, does more speed than some of the
Speaker 1: other backs who've played in that situation for the Titans
Speaker 1: at different times. He ran it well, he caught it
Speaker 1: and did things with it. His kickoff returns he had
Speaker 1: one that I thought he might break right there. I
Speaker 1: wonder if Dontrelle Hilliard, in spite of all the disappointment
Speaker 1: of yesterday, might have found himself a role with his
Speaker 1: football team. And I'm going to be interested to see
Speaker 1: if things developed for him, because they even when Henry
Speaker 1: was there, they were looking to add a speed element
Speaker 1: in the backfield, and again that was supposed to be
Speaker 1: Darrington Evans, and maybe in twenty twenty two it will be.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be right now. From Evans, So
Speaker 1: maybe this is the guy they have found to help
Speaker 1: him in this way. They've obviously got some decisions that
Speaker 1: they've got to make about a lot of roster spots
Speaker 1: going forward with more injuries on the horizon. Unfortunately, getting
Speaker 1: closer to that eighty four record feels like it's coming. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, because it feels like they're going to have
Speaker 1: to call up a wide receiver or I don't know,
Speaker 1: God Lee, it's just it's crazy. Yeah, how ironic is
Speaker 1: it that you're talking about Dontrell Hilliard like this, with
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty seven yards from scrimmage to the
Speaker 1: place where they're going to play in Foxborough. That's exactly
Speaker 1: a Patriots kind of move and finding someone who can
Speaker 1: do all of these, a multi tool player who can
Speaker 1: help pitch in well. Most of our ot people will
Speaker 1: remember the season opener Cleveland in twenty nineteen. There was
Speaker 1: a back that gave the Titans all kinds of trouble
Speaker 1: in the first half before leaving with a concussion. It
Speaker 1: was Dontrelle Hilliard Yep, yep, and he ran a punt back,
Speaker 1: he caught a couple of passes, he ran for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: They got him involved and the Titans didn't quite know
Speaker 1: what to do with him because he had a lot
Speaker 1: of speed. And then he was gone and the Titans
Speaker 1: took over the game and obviously blew him out in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. But it was Dontrell Hilliard who was
Speaker 1: that guy who made it very interesting in the early going.
Speaker 1: And now he played for Cleveland and Houston last year.
Speaker 1: He's come here. We'll see if he can work his
Speaker 1: way off the practice squad. We will find out I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's New England next and there's certainly going
Speaker 1: to be a lot to talk about with that. We
Speaker 1: look forward to hearing Mike Vrabel and what he has
Speaker 1: to say about that. We also look forward to letting
Speaker 1: you know that tomorrow night, Tuesday night, seven pm Central Time,
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Speaker 1: we will be streaming the finalist for the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one Tennessee Titans Mister Football Award winners. Always exciting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we'll get a great moment for these young men.
Speaker 1: So the three finalists will be named, will be cut
Speaker 1: from five to three tomorrow night. Those three will be
Speaker 1: invited to Nissan Stadium on December seventh for the Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans Mister Football Awards Luncheon, where we will announce the
Speaker 1: winners at noon Central Time. Again, that's on December seventh,
Speaker 1: but Tuesday night at seven. We stream it live at
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Speaker 1: I'm working on it for Amy Wells and Rhet Brian.
Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith. Thanks for joining us for the OTP
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