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Speaker 1: good to have Brian Callahan join us at Ascension Saint

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Speaker 1: Thomas Sports Park. So let's start off with some specific

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Speaker 1: questions about Sunday's game with the Vikings. Amy take it.

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Speaker 2: Away, Coach Callahan, you wanted to see Will Levis make improvement,

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Speaker 2: make progress from the Chargers game to the Vikings game.

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Speaker 2: As the guy who runs this team's offense. Brian Callahan,

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Speaker 2: did you see that progress that you were looking for?

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Speaker 1: I did.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was a step in the right direction

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Speaker 3: from the week before, and that's what I was hoping

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Speaker 3: to see. Really difficult defense to play against Smack, a

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Speaker 3: lot of different things they do that are challenging for

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Speaker 3: and I thought Will executed that plan really well and

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Speaker 3: made some high level throws in the process. I thought

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Speaker 3: it was a really strong step. And then in his

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Speaker 2: What were some things you liked and some things you

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Speaker 2: didn't like about the way the secondary played against Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: I thought they did a really nice job against a

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Speaker 3: then obviously Justin. Jefferson's the arguably the best player at

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Speaker 3: You know, we're still it's got a couple of flags

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Speaker 3: in the back end, a little grabby at the top

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Speaker 3: But man, I thought they did a pretty pretty dang

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Speaker 3: good job of keeping that offense in check and making

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Speaker 3: some plays on the ball, and in some one on

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Speaker 3: one coverage situations they didn't They didn't get and get

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Speaker 3: going anything crazy in that receiver room, which is a

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Speaker 3: good room. And I do think Darrol Baker's done a

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Speaker 3: really nice job stepping in for us. I mean, just

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Speaker 2: Now, you mentioned Justin Jefferson, if I had told you

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Speaker 2: before the game that Justin Jefferson would be targeted eight

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Speaker 2: times and that he would make six catches for eighty

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Speaker 1: Would you've taken that absolutely?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a I think I might have said it

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Speaker 3: on the show last week that he's going to have

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's pretty much every game he has, and

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Speaker 3: so that will take that. If somebody said here, would

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Speaker 3: you sign up for this against Justin? I said absolutely,

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Speaker 3: I would sign up for that. Then that's a testament

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Speaker 3: to those guys in the secondary and the way they played.

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Speaker 1: Going back through the game box, the Titans had twenty

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Speaker 1: Eleven of your nineteen rushing plays came in the first quarter.

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Speaker 1: So while Minnesota has a good run defense, I just wondered,

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Speaker 3: It did at a certain point. One of the things

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Speaker 3: their front structure. They play every front you can play.

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Speaker 3: They play base people into your eleven personnel. They moved,

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Speaker 3: they pressure, they stunt, they move. It's just a really

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Speaker 3: it was a combination of both. I just felt like

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Speaker 2: Were trying to climb out of When Jack Gibbons was injured,

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Speaker 3: I thought he did a nice job you know, you

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Speaker 1: So does he become the green dot and he's calling

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Speaker 3: We'll see how that shakes out this week, you know.

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Speaker 3: But I think that we'll see how that shakes out.

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Speaker 1: Your defensive front end, particular, got after Sam Darnold, Jeffrey

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was real. It wasn't just statistical. It

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Speaker 1: So I wonder is there a coaching point that you

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Speaker 3: I think the biggest issue is just the discipline and

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Speaker 3: that's you know, usually when you're playing guys that can

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Speaker 1: Clearly you turned up your pass rush from the week before.

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Speaker 3: Though no doubt it was, and it helped that those

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Speaker 3: We felt like that was a matchup we should win

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Speaker 3: rush game and both and Jeff and Sweat really played

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Speaker 3: a nice game inside.

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Speaker 1: Titans head coach Brian Callahan. As you begin the week,

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Speaker 1: do you start off your preparation with a thought towards

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Speaker 1: what you'll do at right tackle for the Houston game.

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Speaker 3: You know, uh Leroy was hurt, so that's why he

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Speaker 3: was out in practice all week. And it's the same

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Speaker 3: So uh, you know, it'll be the same, same group

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Speaker 3: and hopefully we can improve some of the things that

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Speaker 3: gonna have to go win some matchups. Obviously playing a

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Speaker 3: They're Houston's really good on the defensive side, and then

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Speaker 3: they have been now for a year and a half

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Speaker 3: and there's sort of the engine of that team, and

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Speaker 3: they got really good players over there. So we got

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Speaker 1: Did Ia Prince do enough on Sunday against the Vikings

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Speaker 3: You know, he's still got he's got elevations from the

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Speaker 3: practice squad, and I thought there was some things that

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Speaker 3: it wasn't all all terrible, but those things that I

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Speaker 3: thought he did well enough just need more of it,

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Speaker 3: and so yeah, he'll certainly still be in the mix.

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Speaker 2: There were some young players that showed up on multiple

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think that's one of the things that keeps me

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Speaker 3: even though we don't have wins to tangibly show for it.

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Speaker 3: But we got a lot of players that have really

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Speaker 3: So there's a lot of really good things happening in

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Speaker 3: the development of our young players. In their performance is

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Speaker 1: We know, turnover ratio is a key statistic in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and it's been a problem for the Titans so far

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. A lesser known statu is sack ratio,

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Speaker 1: the number of times you sacked the opposing quarterback less

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Speaker 1: how many times your quarterback gets sacked. Titans right now

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Speaker 1: are minus thirteen in that If that ratio improves down

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Speaker 1: improvement that you need to see for this team to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolute, that's I think it probably goes into an

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Speaker 3: had too many negative plays and sacks are part of that.

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Speaker 3: And then you know, right now, I think we're second

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Speaker 2: There are people who like them even.

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Speaker 1: If I don't. Okay, So the Titans are fifty percent

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Speaker 1: you're being more successful on offense, what's a fair measure

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Speaker 1: you know that that would be a better place to be. Certainly,

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Speaker 3: So that I think that's probably the best way to

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Speaker 3: look at it is if you're if you're converting half

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Speaker 3: know you're having around fifty. You're doing okay in that spot.

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Speaker 2: these are easier numbers than what math you were just spewing.

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Speaker 2: It me the Titans have ten off defensive plays of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think we had. I think we

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Speaker 3: you're probably moving the ball at a pretty good rate

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Speaker 3: you get eight explosives, you win the game. It's notially

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Speaker 1: Is it crazy to think that? Once Will has hit

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a there's a confidence element to it and

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Speaker 3: And then he did a good job of that same

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Speaker 3: And anytime that you hit one or two of those,

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Speaker 1: Okay, random one to end. I got to read this, man,

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Speaker 1: are you surprised you've only thrown two challenge flags this

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Speaker 3: No, they're not really as commonplace as you might think,

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Speaker 3: there hasn't been a lot of opportunities to challenge a

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Speaker 1: After being a head coach for ten games, do you

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Speaker 3: If you're asking my just my very own personal opinion,

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Speaker 3: I don't see why not. I just think it's just

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Speaker 3: Why not just get it right? Why do we have

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Speaker 1: I just I help you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I certainly. I just think that there's a there's

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Speaker 3: I think that's what everybody wants, and I'm all for

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Speaker 1: You would have thrown more than two challenge flags if

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Speaker 1: probably probably so. As always, thank you so much. We

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me