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Speaker 1: forty seven with Titans Radio's Amy Wells and Rhet Brian.
Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith, glad to have you with us on
Speaker 1: this winning Monday in Middle Tennessee. Titans are nine and
Speaker 1: four and back on track and Amy Wells, the Titans
Speaker 1: looked like the Titans once again. They did, and it
Speaker 1: felt really good. It felt like seeing an old friend
Speaker 1: you hadn't seen in a couple of weeks. It was
Speaker 1: really just an exciting day at Nissan Stadium to see
Speaker 1: the team look the way that we all have expected
Speaker 1: it to look now, a lot of good things. So
Speaker 1: fun to watch the defense have the day that they
Speaker 1: had and to do it all against Jacksonville, which is
Speaker 1: just kind of fun given the history between the two teams,
Speaker 1: but also for the implications that it has for the
Speaker 1: Titans within the division, within the AFC. A lot of
Speaker 1: good things happen on Sunday. You said it best at
Speaker 1: the end of the broadcast, Mike. It's something that they
Speaker 1: not only needed, but they had to do to keep
Speaker 1: things in where they're trying to go to finish this
Speaker 1: season and to get into the playoffs. And I'm with
Speaker 1: Amy to see the defense do this in a suffocating fashion.
Speaker 1: I mean, coach day McGinnis is right. Pitching a shutout
Speaker 1: in the NFL, it's impressive. I don't care who you're playing.
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen very often. Three years ago this week
Speaker 1: was the last one against the Giants, you know, a
Speaker 1: seventeen to nothing affair back then, and yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was impressive to see. And you know, outside the
Speaker 1: protection of the quarterback, there wasn't a whole lot to
Speaker 1: take away that was bad in this It played a
Speaker 1: very clean game. And again I'm with Amy. Anytime you
Speaker 1: can do it against Jacksonville makes it extra fun. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get right to it. OTP four D means the
Speaker 1: OTP four downs. First down. Your play that turned the game.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say Ryan Tannehill's touched at the end
Speaker 1: of the third quarter for a couple different reasons. It
Speaker 1: was such a long drive. It was five plus minutes,
Speaker 1: so the Titans just had control of the game in
Speaker 1: so many different ways in that moment, especially clockwise. It
Speaker 1: put the Titans up three scores, and it created a
Speaker 1: hill that was not only mathematically difficult for the Jags
Speaker 1: to climb at that point in the game, but also
Speaker 1: mentally really seemed like it took a toll at that time.
Speaker 1: In the subsequent drive that the Jags had, they had
Speaker 1: two penalties and then ended up throwing an interception that
Speaker 1: was Jayon Brown's interception. So it just felt like the
Speaker 1: Jags were kind of shook in that moment, and it
Speaker 1: felt like one of the final nails in the coffin
Speaker 1: for the Titans. I'm going with Ryan Tannehill, but with
Speaker 1: a different play. Mine's eleven thirty six left in first quarter.
Speaker 1: It's third and seven. Ryan Hill scampers for seventeen yards,
Speaker 1: Andrew Wingard has an unnecessary roughness penalty to add fifteen more.
Speaker 1: It made it a thirty two yard play. Three plays later,
Speaker 1: there's a touchdown. They're up seven to nothing. Right there.
Speaker 1: I knew from that moment right there, this is the
Speaker 1: kind of day that the Titans were going to have.
Speaker 1: And to finish for me, it's Harold Landry's sack which
Speaker 1: ended Jacksonville's first possession of the game. Jacksonville's down seven
Speaker 1: to nothing already. Denico Autry has a sack earlier in
Speaker 1: the possession. The Titans came with just an avalanche, if
Speaker 1: you will, of people up the middle. Landry's the one
Speaker 1: who got there that ended the drive, And it told me,
Speaker 1: that's the way this is gonna be all day. We're coming,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get after you. We're gonna make your life miserable.
Speaker 1: And those sorts of plays early in the game seemed
Speaker 1: to take their toll on Trevor Lawrence and affect him
Speaker 1: later in the game. His first interception was a ball
Speaker 1: that should have been caught. His second interception he got
Speaker 1: tricked by Jayon Brown, his third interception he threw it
Speaker 1: up for grabs because he didn't want to take a sack.
Speaker 1: And his fourth interception he made a throw down the
Speaker 1: middle he should have never made because he was not
Speaker 1: going to stand there and hold the football. No quarterback
Speaker 1: who has ever lived likes to be hit, and when
Speaker 1: he got hit early in that ball game, the way
Speaker 1: that he did it affected him for the rest of
Speaker 1: the day, in my opinion. Second down, your stat that
Speaker 1: tells the story. The suffocating defense is told to me
Speaker 1: by one thing. Eight total rushes from the Jacksonville Jaguars
Speaker 1: for eight total rushing yards. And to put that in context,
Speaker 1: in week five October the tenth and Jacksonville they ran
Speaker 1: for one hundred and ninety eight as a team, and
Speaker 1: obviously as the score got separated, they had to go
Speaker 1: away from some of that. But that's impressive. I look
Speaker 1: at it differently. That's mine too, but for a different reason.
Speaker 1: What are you doing. You've got a rookie quarterback, you
Speaker 1: run it eight times and they were never that far behind.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like they were behind fifty two to nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean it was ten to nothing until late in
Speaker 1: the third quarter. You ran the ball eight times. I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody in the history of football could win
Speaker 1: a game running it eight times. I don't think there's
Speaker 1: a statistical possibility in this day and age that if
Speaker 1: you have eight carries you could win a game. What
Speaker 1: are you doing? Not a very balanced off? I mean,
Speaker 1: it gives you no chance at ballots. You're essentially saying
Speaker 1: we're gonna put it on this kid and a bunch
Speaker 1: of receivers who are solid, but there's not a game
Speaker 1: breaker in terms of the long speed that you talk about.
Speaker 1: You ran it eight times. This is your rookie, first
Speaker 1: round pick, he's your franchise, and you didn't even run
Speaker 1: it with Carlos Hide that. We know James Robinson was
Speaker 1: dinged up. We know he's dinged up, but they decided
Speaker 1: to play him anyway. I mean, he's good enough to play.
Speaker 1: Hand him the ball, right. He gained one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty nine yards on eighteen carries the first game. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna try to run it some Nope, that one
Speaker 1: to me. If you see that staff, if I handed
Speaker 1: you the piece of paper and it said eight rushes,
Speaker 1: you knew they lost. Yep, there's no chance you win
Speaker 1: that game. So sorry, I'm piggybacking. But for a different reason.
Speaker 1: It was great though. I mean, that was a fantastic piggyback.
Speaker 1: Mine is a little less passion evoking. Mine is what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Mine was takeaways, just because we've been
Speaker 1: talking about it so much. When the Tennessee Titans are
Speaker 1: successful nine times out of ten, they are on the
Speaker 1: positive side of the turnover ratio they were on Sunday,
Speaker 1: four takeaways is incredible. Four interceptions is just wild, especially
Speaker 1: when two of them come from inside linebackers. It's great
Speaker 1: like that means that everybody's eating and it's just a
Speaker 1: great overall performance and what we had been missing from
Speaker 1: this Titans team for the last couple weeks. Teams who
Speaker 1: win the turnover battle in twenty twenty one in the
Speaker 1: NFL win eighty one percent of the time. Yeah, A
Speaker 1: Moni Hooker dropped a fifth one and caught a six
Speaker 1: one out of bounds, and Rashaun Evans had a strip
Speaker 1: that they blew dead because of forward progress that the
Speaker 1: Titans also recovered, so they were certainly working it the
Speaker 1: right way. All right. Third down your area that the
Speaker 1: Titans have to get fixed. Ryan Tannehill cannot cannot, cannot
Speaker 1: be sacked as many times as he was. For sacks
Speaker 1: is for too many in my opinion, especially at this
Speaker 1: point in the season. A. It means you're not getting
Speaker 1: anything accomplished in that possession. B. It's not great for
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill, who needs to remain healthy for the remainder
Speaker 1: of this season. If the Titans are going to do something,
Speaker 1: it's something that needs to be fixed by the offensive line.
Speaker 1: They need to protect better. It's something that needs to
Speaker 1: be fixed by the tight ends and the wide receivers
Speaker 1: who need to get open and put themselves in position
Speaker 1: to make plays. Everybody is responsible for it. It needs
Speaker 1: to be fixed. For me, it goes hand in hand
Speaker 1: with that. If he doesn't have enough time to throw,
Speaker 1: it's hard to do this. I still need more explosive
Speaker 1: plays out of the offense. They had two yesterday, one
Speaker 1: that I've already mentioned that was aided by a penalty
Speaker 1: that technically made it a an explosive play. They need
Speaker 1: more of that. They've had trouble with that since Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry left with injury. I think as they get the
Speaker 1: aj Browns of the world back, and they've getten, you know,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones is back, I think that will have a
Speaker 1: chance to grow. But that's the one thing. They need
Speaker 1: more explosive plays to push the ball down the field.
Speaker 1: Got to do a better job in the punting game
Speaker 1: of flipping the field. Brett Kerrent didn't have a good
Speaker 1: day overall. The Titans didn't do great in punt returns yesterday.
Speaker 1: The overall nets were just not good enough for the Titans.
Speaker 1: You've got to get more out of that, especially when
Speaker 1: you're playing the style of football that they are right now,
Speaker 1: where you don't think they're gonna regularly score forty points
Speaker 1: at this moment, you hope they score twenty four. You'd
Speaker 1: like to get back into the thirties. You're not quite
Speaker 1: as explosive as you were. If you have to line
Speaker 1: up in punt you'd like to have a forty three
Speaker 1: forty four. Our neat to be able to flip the field,
Speaker 1: and the Titans did not do that well enough yesterday.
Speaker 1: Didn't hurt them, will hurt them on Sunday against the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers if they don't take care of that. The
Speaker 1: same thing with protecting Ryan Tannehill. The Steelers have a
Speaker 1: better pass rush than the Jags do, undoubtedly, and you're
Speaker 1: going to need to make some big plays. Steeler defense
Speaker 1: has some issues, but they are still very capable of
Speaker 1: taking the ball away and sacking the quarterback. Making big
Speaker 1: things happen. You need to hit some chunks on them.
Speaker 1: So I think all three of those areas are areas
Speaker 1: where the Titans need to improve before Sunday. Before we
Speaker 1: talk about fourth down, let's remind you the OTP for
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Speaker 1: nineteen forty seven. Fourth down is one thing that you
Speaker 1: noticed and want to share. You know, it was so
Speaker 1: much fun watching the It's defense have the day that
Speaker 1: they had. It felt like such a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 1: And it was fun to be on the sidelines because
Speaker 1: everyone was enjoying that success and enjoying some of the
Speaker 1: big places that they were able to make. At one point,
Speaker 1: Jayon Brown came over to me on the sidelines. He
Speaker 1: put his arm around me and he goes, maybe I'm exhausted,
Speaker 1: And I said, you're playing a football game. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: that would be tiring. He goes, Nah, man, from all
Speaker 1: this celebrating like that is hard work, celebrating every time
Speaker 1: over and over again. He was like, I am just pooped,
Speaker 1: And that is to me so funny that the thing
Speaker 1: that really wore out Jayon Brown was getting up for
Speaker 1: his guys and running over to celebrate and all the
Speaker 1: choreography was really taxing on my Brown. Yeah, it's horrible,
Speaker 1: a real problems. Very fun for me. It is some
Speaker 1: of the same sentiment, and it's just being able to
Speaker 1: put yourself in a place where you have your opponent
Speaker 1: down twenty ton and you're able to substitute your veterans
Speaker 1: out to get them some rest. And to see those
Speaker 1: veterans route the young guys and the substitute players from
Speaker 1: the sideline to encourage them to keep going and watch
Speaker 1: them finish and pitch a shot out. It's good for
Speaker 1: team chemistry for me. It's a perfect return for Julio Jones.
Speaker 1: He played in the first half, He caught four passes,
Speaker 1: He made a couple of nice plays for the offense.
Speaker 1: The defense was clearly aware of him. Everywhere he went.
Speaker 1: They were reacting to him, which helps the other receivers.
Speaker 1: And then he basically didn't have to play in the
Speaker 1: second half. I would guess he played less than ten
Speaker 1: snaps in the second half. Maybe yeah, not many, certainly good. Good.
Speaker 1: Get him ready for Pittsburgh, get him ready for San Francisco,
Speaker 1: get him ready for Miami, get him ready for Houston.
Speaker 1: Continue to ramp him up down the stretch. Watching him
Speaker 1: in practice last week, watching him in warmups. Watching him
Speaker 1: in the game yesterday, it looked more were in, more
Speaker 1: like Julio Jones that we wanted to see. It's still
Speaker 1: been more than six months since he's been here and
Speaker 1: he doesn't have his first Titans touchdown. It needs to
Speaker 1: change Sunday in Pittsburgh. That's the type of game where
Speaker 1: you need Julio Jones. But I thought yesterday was absolutely perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, you're looking at me like I have more
Speaker 1: to say, But that was fantastic. Well thank you. Oh
Speaker 1: you're right though, Mike. It was idealic with that because
Speaker 1: he's still coming back from this thing. You got him
Speaker 1: some reps, you got him worked in, and he had
Speaker 1: the luxury have been able to just enjoy himself. How
Speaker 1: much confidence has he got to take into this week
Speaker 1: knowing he's come off a game that he finished what
Speaker 1: he was supposed to do, so that he can do
Speaker 1: it again on Sunday. He can do it again this
Speaker 1: Sunday and do it again during the course of this week.
Speaker 1: I think one of the biggest factors for the Titans
Speaker 1: team is because they got guys back, and because the
Speaker 1: guys who had been playing got some rest during the bye.
Speaker 1: They practiced last week and they could stack practice practiced. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't have to substitute a walkthrough for a practice
Speaker 1: because you know, they looked like guys out of some
Speaker 1: sort of you know, war where they had to walk
Speaker 1: around with canes and whatever because they just couldn't move
Speaker 1: or they didn't have enough bodies. That was some of
Speaker 1: what practices had looked like just turning into walkthroughs. Last week,
Speaker 1: they actually practiced because they could they had enough healthy bodies,
Speaker 1: and so I think that's a big factor for this
Speaker 1: team this week going into Pittsburgh. Well done everyone. That
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