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Speaker 1: over there and start asking some questions. Figured we just
Speaker 1: start with some of the overall takeaways from the game
Speaker 1: in Nashville. Um, it was sort of a hard game
Speaker 1: to interpret at times of where man, lots of mistakes
Speaker 1: that happened, but then you're still have a lead, you know,
Speaker 1: late in the third, which based on how things have gone,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's sort of encouraging and not. It
Speaker 1: was just sort of a hard game to to figure out.
Speaker 1: And then you have the fumble at the end that
Speaker 1: turned into not a fumble, and I felt like it
Speaker 1: could have led a very different storyline. How how that
Speaker 1: if that had gone differently minutes? Yeah, that's kind of
Speaker 1: handy in the end of a football game. I've heard
Speaker 1: to be ahead there, so just how how have you
Speaker 1: now that you've got a chance to look back at
Speaker 1: a little bit. Um, diagnosed what all pros cons good
Speaker 1: bad happened in that game. You know, during the game.
Speaker 1: The thing that struck me in the first half was
Speaker 1: that every time it seemed like we were grabbing the
Speaker 1: momentum in some way, we gave it right back. It
Speaker 1: was really an air filled and um first half and
Speaker 1: uh first half full of momentum swings. As an example,
Speaker 1: very first possession, you get the big past inference calling
Speaker 1: Mike Evans part of his huge day. You got a
Speaker 1: first and goal right away, and then you don't get
Speaker 1: the ball in the end zone. So momentum momentum swinging back.
Speaker 1: First drive for Tennessee. The defense looks phenomenal. Jpp as
Speaker 1: a sack on the very first play of the season
Speaker 1: for him again it feels like, okay, we're taking control here.
Speaker 1: The next six plays after the punt were essentially all negative.
Speaker 1: It was like penalty, penalty, penalty, uh, turnover, penalty, touchdown.
Speaker 1: And that kept happening throughout the first half, and it
Speaker 1: started to feel like, man, this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: long day. And then I will say, and I know
Speaker 1: I can't see quite what the comments are, but I'm
Speaker 1: suspecting they're not going to be very very today, happy today.
Speaker 1: And I get that. So nobody's gonna want to hear
Speaker 1: me say that the word encouraging, I'm sure, but it
Speaker 1: was encouraging to me that they did come back from that.
Speaker 1: All those issues in the first half, some of themselves inflicted.
Speaker 1: Some of them just bad luck, you know, some of
Speaker 1: them good play by Tennessee. The touchdown right before the
Speaker 1: half on a nice drive. Mike Evans had to make
Speaker 1: an amazing play to get us down there, and then
Speaker 1: he scored the touchdown on a really nice play by
Speaker 1: Jamis and then to get another touchdown right after the half.
Speaker 1: That was a nice job of coming back. And it
Speaker 1: was a bit surprising at that point when the defense
Speaker 1: which had given up very little, uh the two touchdowns
Speaker 1: the Tennessee scored where drives up like four and five yards,
Speaker 1: they had given up very little. They gave up two
Speaker 1: extended drives that were ten points. And that was a
Speaker 1: bit surprising at the time. And that's what has to change, right,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody has to make a play in those situations,
Speaker 1: especially on third down, which is what Bruce arians was
Speaker 1: talking about. You just we gave up a couple of
Speaker 1: or downs that we have to not do and stop
Speaker 1: that drive. But even then you're down by four and
Speaker 1: you still have a shot. And then the great play
Speaker 1: by Devin White on the fake field goal and what
Speaker 1: could have been a touchdown but wasn't, and then of
Speaker 1: course the fourth down play that didn't work, and so
Speaker 1: you end up at the end of that game. I
Speaker 1: think I think the team felt worse at the end
Speaker 1: of that game than any other game this year except
Speaker 1: maybe the Giants, and probably worse because things have accumulated
Speaker 1: since the Giants game just left you one and two.
Speaker 1: This game leads you two and five. So a lot
Speaker 1: of emotional swings in that game, and and again at
Speaker 1: the end, it felt like really one other than the
Speaker 1: Giants game. It's the number one game that got away.
Speaker 1: But you at the end, you're like, how did we
Speaker 1: not win that game? Yeah, that's a great point. Um,
Speaker 1: I know we we're probably gonna get a million questions
Speaker 1: related to this topic, so we'll start. David asked, why
Speaker 1: was there not more of a push for help in
Speaker 1: the trade deadline? Well, again, it's the same, it's the
Speaker 1: same answer as always. I know, it seems like the
Speaker 1: trade deadline and the week before, you know, there was
Speaker 1: a couple of deals made, There was a lot of activity,
Speaker 1: but overall there really wasn't how many teams actually went
Speaker 1: out and got something that helps them because there's not
Speaker 1: a whole lot of that available usually, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: a couple of guys got receivers, a couple of teams
Speaker 1: got receivers. Yet to be seen if mohammedan new is
Speaker 1: going to be a different s Maaker in New England
Speaker 1: or or Emmanuel Sanders in San Francisco. Uh, you know what,
Speaker 1: they are sure they would have liked to tackle a
Speaker 1: you know, some offensive line help. Um, a cornerback who
Speaker 1: got one of those you know, a key till he
Speaker 1: was traded, but he's on injured reserve and he was
Speaker 1: basically it looked like a salary dump. So the reason
Speaker 1: that there wasn't a lot done is because there's usually
Speaker 1: not a lot done. Yeah, that's a great point, goodline,
Speaker 1: especially not something substantive that helps a team that's two
Speaker 1: and five suddenly become a team that wins every week. Right. Um.
Speaker 1: I saw a few people asking about Brashad Perriman and
Speaker 1: if that would have been someone that maybe could have
Speaker 1: been either you know, traded or um just the idea
Speaker 1: of what his value is. Trade talks or e you
Speaker 1: when you're like, okay, I think we should trade Bushad
Speaker 1: Perriman for X. Well, you gotta get something to agree
Speaker 1: with you, right, Um, So all we had. There were
Speaker 1: also a few people asking just about his value um
Speaker 1: to the team moving forward. And I've also seen a
Speaker 1: couple of people asking if, um, there's a chance that
Speaker 1: you could move like an O j Ra cam into
Speaker 1: that more of a true receiver spot. I think there's
Speaker 1: some valid um validiting to that. You. The point is,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that person knows that are two starting receivers,
Speaker 1: Mike Evans and Chris Godwin are the most productive duo
Speaker 1: of receivers in the NFL, and it's not particularly close. Um,
Speaker 1: and those guys are producing off the charts. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's amazing to me to think that Mike Evans is
Speaker 1: still on pace for about fifty yards when so is
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin. You would think that would be a little
Speaker 1: given take there, but I guess the give and take
Speaker 1: has come with everybody else there. If you look at
Speaker 1: all of the people that have played third receiver for us,
Speaker 1: their combined output is very very small, Uh, and and
Speaker 1: I agree we have two tight ends at least maybe
Speaker 1: even three with Tanner Hudson who can do something and
Speaker 1: create mismatches in the passing game. And so yeah, what
Speaker 1: you're basically talking about is playing instead of playing is
Speaker 1: so much eleven personnel as we've been playing, playing more
Speaker 1: twelve personnel. Uh. And then yeah, you could flex, ub,
Speaker 1: you could push, and they do. They can put Cam
Speaker 1: or or o g Out in a slot and create mismatches.
Speaker 1: And the good thing about that also is when you
Speaker 1: when you do go out there in twelve, defense usually
Speaker 1: responds with more of a base package than going to Nickel.
Speaker 1: So you're you're gonna have o J or Cam in
Speaker 1: the slot, and what does he what do they match
Speaker 1: up with him? It's usually a safety or linebacker. And
Speaker 1: that's of course they don't want to match him up
Speaker 1: with the quarterback is of the size problem. But match
Speaker 1: them up certain safeties and certain linebackers are gonna have
Speaker 1: issues with the speed. Right. So yeah, I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of validity and that and hopefully o J
Speaker 1: comes back quickly from his um hamstring injury. I know
Speaker 1: Cam was a bit beating up at the end of
Speaker 1: that game. So if those guys are available, like, I
Speaker 1: definitely think there's a lot of validity in that. Okay,
Speaker 1: and round that same position with Gene asked, what is
Speaker 1: the status on Tanner Hudson. Um. I guess he's just
Speaker 1: sort of meaning the role that he could play moving
Speaker 1: forward or how we felt. That was his first game
Speaker 1: actually being active this season because o J was out.
Speaker 1: I think every game they're going to go into it
Speaker 1: with the intention of having three active tight ends. We
Speaker 1: have four on the roster, and there's gonna be three. Uh.
Speaker 1: Tanner was obviously active, and he's a pass catching tied in.
Speaker 1: You remember from the preseason, he had an enormously good preseason,
Speaker 1: tons of numbers and a lot of really like acrobatic catches,
Speaker 1: I mean, really showed off some amazing hands. But the
Speaker 1: storyline along the same time was he's still developing as
Speaker 1: a blocker, same thing that they've said about Cam throughout
Speaker 1: his career. Um, so he's more likely to be your
Speaker 1: replacement for O J when he's hurt. Right, Uh, You're
Speaker 1: gonna keep Antonio Claire up because they love his blocking
Speaker 1: and you need a guy like that for a lot
Speaker 1: of your two and three tighten sets, and then you
Speaker 1: have O. J. And Cam who are both good and
Speaker 1: proven pass catchers. So as long as those guys are healthy,
Speaker 1: Tanner sort of just waiting his turn, right, But I
Speaker 1: do like him. I do like his potential. I was
Speaker 1: sad he didn't get that one touchdowns, especially he's from
Speaker 1: Tennessee and his whole family was there would be it
Speaker 1: was a it was a tough catch. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think you're expected to make that catch, but maybe he
Speaker 1: would have. Um Nick said, looking at this first half
Speaker 1: of the season and the mistakes that have been happening,
Speaker 1: what do you think is the biggest issue that needs
Speaker 1: to be corrected, either for this season or for next year. Well,
Speaker 1: the biggest issue just simply by the numbers. Obviously the
Speaker 1: past defense hasn't been good enough, although it was quite
Speaker 1: a bit better. I think in this last game, if
Speaker 1: you look at what the receivers for Tennessee did, it
Speaker 1: was about fifty yards. We didn't seem to have an answer.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if his breakdowns or mismatches or what.
Speaker 1: For their two tight ends, they koind of for about
Speaker 1: a d twenty of their two forty yards, right, um
Speaker 1: you know, the biggest issue for this team obviously is
Speaker 1: the turnovers. But that's not as simple as saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: next year we have to have a few returnovers and
Speaker 1: there's It's not like they don't already know a lot
Speaker 1: of different things go into it. I mean, take one
Speaker 1: of the turnovers, the first fumble that went off James's
Speaker 1: face mask on the snap. Coach makes a point of
Speaker 1: telling us afterwards, and it seemed prettybvious actually watching it
Speaker 1: that really that wasn't Jameis fault ause the snap came
Speaker 1: too early, so then you think, well that was Then
Speaker 1: that means it was the center's fault. Range in his
Speaker 1: fault because he snapped early. Well, Harold Goodwin on one
Speaker 1: of the radio shows on Money, he was with you,
Speaker 1: so you know, he explained that when it's loud in
Speaker 1: a visiting stadium, you often have a system where the
Speaker 1: guy next to him, who's a guard who can look
Speaker 1: back and get the signal from the quarterback right taps
Speaker 1: him and then that tells him okay, in a second,
Speaker 1: I snapped the ball. But didn't Harold say that he
Speaker 1: was whoever was and Ali? Yeah, he said that it
Speaker 1: was Ali. That Ali was trying to communicate something else
Speaker 1: because essentially Jamis had asked to change who was going
Speaker 1: to be on the mic, and you know some of
Speaker 1: these matchups for blocking, and Ali was trying to convey
Speaker 1: that to Jens, trying to get his attention, and in
Speaker 1: doing that, tapped him in a too similar way to
Speaker 1: the hey, snap the ball right now. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just one of those sort of things. So yeah, one
Speaker 1: of the things that you blame. You say, Okay, that
Speaker 1: was a turnover you shouldn't have in an easy touchdown
Speaker 1: for them, But that's kind of a flukey thing, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Okay, Ali knows maybe next time to
Speaker 1: try to tap them in a different way, but that's
Speaker 1: not really like a problem you have to fix or
Speaker 1: the last touchdown at the end of the game. Coach
Speaker 1: Coach Arian said after the game that the routes, the
Speaker 1: route wasn't run right and uh and Dave Moore, who
Speaker 1: was on her broadcast on the radio, was explaining that
Speaker 1: when it's when it's covered to like that, that route
Speaker 1: is supposed to cut more in like post and didn't.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that makes a lot harder to identify what
Speaker 1: all is going on that it's Yeah, if it's a
Speaker 1: different reason for every turnover. It's hard to fix, but
Speaker 1: but I think there are things decision making, better protection,
Speaker 1: all that goes into Yeah, Michael said, do you think
Speaker 1: it is more personnel or scheme that is causing the
Speaker 1: secondary problems? Uh. I don't think it's scheme, but it
Speaker 1: could be failure to execute the scheme. UM. In the
Speaker 1: last before the last game, because we haven't talked to
Speaker 1: him yet, Todd Todd Bowles was talking about what they
Speaker 1: were trying to clean up in the secondary because you know,
Speaker 1: Carolina game wasn't great and UM and he said the
Speaker 1: word communications settle times. So I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of times when, especially if you're in zones or whatever
Speaker 1: you're you're trying to communicate with each other. There was
Speaker 1: a play the first touchdown for UM Tennessee in this
Speaker 1: last game was really really easy. You know, you see
Speaker 1: a struggle on all these first and gold plays from
Speaker 1: the four and then they just do this really nice
Speaker 1: easy play to the tight end and they're like, well
Speaker 1: that was off the easy, but well there was a
Speaker 1: breakdown and communication on that and he essentially didn't get
Speaker 1: covered right. So it doesn't really matter what the scheme
Speaker 1: is if they're not getting right. Um, I think it's jammir.
Speaker 1: I hope I'm saying that right. Um said, well, do
Speaker 1: you ever see Ronald Jones is getting more than twenty
Speaker 1: touches in a game? Well, twenties a lot. By the way,
Speaker 1: just so you know, I think Derrick Henry you would
Speaker 1: call him a bell cow back, right, he gets about
Speaker 1: twenty three touches a game Chris Carson for Seattle. I
Speaker 1: was just looking at his numbers. He gets about twenty
Speaker 1: three touches of game, So twenty touches a game is
Speaker 1: a primary running back. I don't Ronald Jones isn't close
Speaker 1: to twenty touches a game yet, so let's get to
Speaker 1: twenty feet. But yes, I can see him getting I
Speaker 1: thought there were several carries in the Tennessee game where
Speaker 1: he looked really sharp. The running game never really quite
Speaker 1: got going. I think we ended up with a hundred
Speaker 1: six yards, but fifty three of those were Jamus scrambling.
Speaker 1: But she did a good job, by the way, Um, yes,
Speaker 1: I can see Ronald Jones his share of touches getting higher. Okay.
Speaker 1: Dennis asked, do you see Earl Watford taking over the
Speaker 1: starting position? And then we also had a couple other
Speaker 1: people just ask about the old line overall and how
Speaker 1: we feel like they're playing. Yeah, no, I wouldn't think so,
Speaker 1: because I thought they were pretty happy with Alex Kappa
Speaker 1: before he got hurt. So when Alice can return, um,
Speaker 1: I think he'll go right back in there. But it's
Speaker 1: nice to have Rol Watford, who has been solid in
Speaker 1: his in his place. Um. The old line, you know,
Speaker 1: ups and downs. There's been times this year when I
Speaker 1: think they played really well. I wouldn't say we've had
Speaker 1: the performance of one of the best lines in the
Speaker 1: league or anything, but it hasn't been a disaster. Yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: We also had a few different people asking about the
Speaker 1: play calling overall, and do you see how much Bruce
Speaker 1: is or isn't involved, And then just overall how the
Speaker 1: offensive play calling seems to have gone. You know, when
Speaker 1: when Bruce talks about some place that went wrong, and
Speaker 1: sometimes and all coaches say this, they'll come down to execution.
Speaker 1: You know, there wasn't really necessarily anything wrong with that
Speaker 1: play call. It is just we didn't execute it very well.
Speaker 1: And then there's a few times when he'll say I
Speaker 1: should have vetoed it. So you know, Byron left, which
Speaker 1: is making the calls, but obviously Bruce is on the helmet,
Speaker 1: and you go, yeah, you know, I don't think we
Speaker 1: should do that. And I'm sure the fact that he
Speaker 1: has said on several occasions I probably should have vetoed
Speaker 1: that play means there are times when he vetos plays
Speaker 1: so um he's involved in the offense, but Byron is
Speaker 1: still a play caller. I mean, the offensive output as
Speaker 1: a whole has not been terrible, and I understand there
Speaker 1: are moments like the fourth and one carry that was
Speaker 1: so critical at the end of the game that we
Speaker 1: didn't get where people are going to second guess play
Speaker 1: calls and you're you're that's what you do as a fan.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with that. That's part of the process.
Speaker 1: That's part of the enjoyment. You know, you know that
Speaker 1: guy shouldn't have done that, they should have done this, whatever,
Speaker 1: And that's part of being a fan. I get it.
Speaker 1: I'm personally not a huge believer in second guessing play
Speaker 1: calls because I think generally you're doing it because it
Speaker 1: just didn't work. My point would be the opposite of
Speaker 1: that would be saying, oh, that was a terrible play call,
Speaker 1: but it worked. Often do you hear that. You never
Speaker 1: hear that, You only hear the opposite, that was a
Speaker 1: terrible call because it didn't work. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. There there have to be times
Speaker 1: when coaches make bad calls. And maybe that fourth on
Speaker 1: one call was a bad call. I don't know. But
Speaker 1: most of the time it really just it's a play
Speaker 1: that didn't work, so therefore it looks like a bad call.
Speaker 1: And take that fourth in one run. I know how
Speaker 1: I react to it emotionally on the moment. I don't
Speaker 1: like it, and I think part of that is because
Speaker 1: it's such a quick thing. Okay, you know this play
Speaker 1: is absolutely critical. If we don't get it, we're losing
Speaker 1: the game. You know that. So he's like, we have
Speaker 1: to make this play and then it's snap handoff, tackle done,
Speaker 1: and you're like, that's it. If it had been something
Speaker 1: like Jamis rolls out, he's got two levels, he's maybe
Speaker 1: he can run for it. Then as the play is developing,
Speaker 1: you're thinking, well, if something breaks down, maybe something else
Speaker 1: can happen. But that play could blow up to it
Speaker 1: took a little bit longer, and now you're thinking, maybe
Speaker 1: we had a shot. But all comes down to that
Speaker 1: fourth and according to Bruce, the fourth and one play
Speaker 1: didn't work because there was miss block on the back side. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: if you do that roll up play I was just
Speaker 1: talking about, it could not work because the Titan was
Speaker 1: supposed to release in this direction and he went too
Speaker 1: deep or something. You know what I'm saying. But I
Speaker 1: understand because it just happened so fast and then it's
Speaker 1: over and you're like, well, we had to have that
Speaker 1: and we ran straight into the line and nothing happened. Yeah, understandable. Yea,
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