Speaker 1: What does this when mean to you at this moment
Speaker 1: and to this football team. I made it means since
Speaker 1: we got our asses kicked in Buffalo, we've won three
Speaker 1: games in a row. Mike Vrabel from yesterday's post game,
Speaker 1: with a very blunt comment on the significance of the Titans.
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Speaker 1: Amy Wells and Rhett Brian. I'm Mike Keith, Mike Vrabel, blunt,
Speaker 1: not a lot of gray area with that guy trying
Speaker 1: to get into the Nate Davis thing too yesterday about
Speaker 1: so was this uh? It was this something a Sunday
Speaker 1: morning or a Saturday because when we got the inactives
Speaker 1: you have today morning, we were very surprised to see
Speaker 1: Nate Davis on there, right, And all I got was
Speaker 1: no surprise, it's nice try thanks for playing. Got some
Speaker 1: serious head coach answers there, Yes, yes I did. He
Speaker 1: was glad to win that ball game though at Washington,
Speaker 1: no question, and to have it won in the dramatic fashion.
Speaker 1: I mean, good Grace, I mean, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: That's awesome. It was a little intense down there for
Speaker 1: a while. What was your vantage point of the final
Speaker 1: So the final play was in the corner of the
Speaker 1: end zone, on the opposite side of the field from me,
Speaker 1: but I was on about the twenty or thirty yard
Speaker 1: line just watching everything, I mean through my fingers. Essentially,
Speaker 1: you knew the Titans were going to do something. You
Speaker 1: just felt it in your bones that someone was going
Speaker 1: to do something. And it was intense. I mean you
Speaker 1: could on the Titans sideline you could hear a pin drop.
Speaker 1: It was crazy. Mike. The interesting thing, of course, to
Speaker 1: tell folks where we were yesterday. It's one of the
Speaker 1: worst views in radio for yeah, I mean, it's just bad.
Speaker 1: And we actually were a little closer to the home
Speaker 1: sideline and a little better angle than we were eight
Speaker 1: years ago. But it's like calling a baseball game. I mean,
Speaker 1: if there's home play right there and we're doing calling baseball,
Speaker 1: it's perfect, but it's not. It's football. But that play
Speaker 1: happened in front of us in our close corner, and
Speaker 1: you know, seeing it digest against one thing but going
Speaker 1: back and looking at it the film today, David Long,
Speaker 1: it was so impressive because here comes Terry McLaurin and
Speaker 1: he throws a vicious block on him, shucks him off,
Speaker 1: and then he just goes right over and steps in
Speaker 1: front of m kissing because McLaren's trying to pick him, Yes,
Speaker 1: and he ain't having none of it, and he can
Speaker 1: do that. There were some in the media up there
Speaker 1: that pointed out, well, David Long made contact with Terry McLaren.
Speaker 1: Well he can because it's within five y'all. Yes, this
Speaker 1: is short goal line play. And for him to just
Speaker 1: pick the pick, so to speak, and then go over
Speaker 1: and make the pick nice. I like, how you did that? Wow?
Speaker 1: I mean that was a great play by So. Philip
Speaker 1: Noel from our Titans radio team said something interesting last
Speaker 1: night that he watched the tape and that Christian Fulton
Speaker 1: was in really good position regardless, and he didn't believe
Speaker 1: that McKissick would have scored had the ball even gotten
Speaker 1: to him, and the ball had a downward trajectory anyway,
Speaker 1: So it may have turned out well for the Titans
Speaker 1: even had Long not made the fantastic play. Have you
Speaker 1: seen the same thing. Yeah, I did notice that after
Speaker 1: he had messaged us about that, and he's right. Christian Fulton.
Speaker 1: First of all, Christian Fulton, I think is really playing
Speaker 1: some great ball for the Titans. But yeah, he was
Speaker 1: well within range right there. All right, So before we
Speaker 1: go to first down, I want to talk about Christian
Speaker 1: Fulton for a second and a taxiim Yes, that was
Speaker 1: something that you and I Amy were having conversations about
Speaker 1: on Saturday when the new league policy came out, saying
Speaker 1: that if you showed any form of a taxi, which
Speaker 1: means more or less, I'm just going to generalize that
Speaker 1: if you're not stable, if you wobble, if your head
Speaker 1: you know, moves back and forth, if you're just not clear,
Speaker 1: and it's apparent from the first moment, not if you
Speaker 1: just get knocked down and you have a hard time
Speaker 1: getting up, but if you are unstable, then you cannot
Speaker 1: return to the ball game. We referenced this on Titan's
Speaker 1: radio when Fulton came up and made that tackle and
Speaker 1: didn't just bounce up immediately as they got him to
Speaker 1: the sidelines. Did you notice a difference in the observation
Speaker 1: process from what you had seen before when they thought
Speaker 1: a guy might have a concussion. Absolutely, and the league
Speaker 1: has always been, in what I have noticed, very thorough
Speaker 1: in their evaluations. This is not a knock on how
Speaker 1: it has been done in the past, but it was
Speaker 1: incredibly thorough and attentive. So I noticed, like to the
Speaker 1: point where they're asking the questions, you know that they
Speaker 1: asked to kind of get an idea of your mental
Speaker 1: clarity and that kind of thing. But they were listening
Speaker 1: not only to his answers, but the way that he spoke,
Speaker 1: which is part of that ataxia thing. They were making
Speaker 1: him kind of do some walking and movement to establish
Speaker 1: if he had that stability. There were a lot of
Speaker 1: things that they were looking at, and there were more
Speaker 1: people involved in the assessment than I typically would see.
Speaker 1: How many would you say, would you just guess five? No, kid, Well,
Speaker 1: you have to remember there's team doctors, then we have
Speaker 1: the trainer, Todd Torselli. Then you have the independent neurological evaluator, right,
Speaker 1: and then there's a couple other people who were kind
Speaker 1: of because there was this new policy, you could tell
Speaker 1: there were more people involved making sure they had everything correct.
Speaker 1: I had spoken to one of our team doctors, the
Speaker 1: day before, and he had mentioned the new policy and
Speaker 1: how interesting it was going to be for that to
Speaker 1: go into effect. So the fact that we had a
Speaker 1: situation the next day where that was able to be
Speaker 1: put into place, I think they all wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure that they hit every mark that the league had
Speaker 1: laid out. So there were probably a little bit more
Speaker 1: people involved than there will be going forward now that
Speaker 1: they've kind of got an idea of what this is
Speaker 1: going to look like. But it was interesting to see
Speaker 1: how many people were involved, how many people came out
Speaker 1: to make sure that they were in agreement with what
Speaker 1: the evaluation was of his mental clarity and his ability
Speaker 1: to continue. It was a very interesting thing to watch,
Speaker 1: and I kind of positioned myself in a way where
Speaker 1: I could see and hear a little bit more than
Speaker 1: I normally would if someone's being evaluated for a concussion,
Speaker 1: because normally it's okay, they're in the protocol, will let
Speaker 1: you know later, you know. But I was interested to
Speaker 1: see what this was going to look like. I was
Speaker 1: very impressed by it and just how many different facets
Speaker 1: of his mental stability, I guess, and his kind of
Speaker 1: health and wellness they were able to tick off in
Speaker 1: a pretty quick amount of time. Ataxia is listed as
Speaker 1: abnormality of balance, stability, motor coordination, or a dysfunctional speech
Speaker 1: caused by a neurological issue. If a player shows any
Speaker 1: hint of that rat he's not going back in the game.
Speaker 1: Before if he showed that and then he sort of
Speaker 1: got back to a normal baseline, he would be allowed
Speaker 1: to go back in the game. That is reportedly what
Speaker 1: happened with to a tongue of Iloa in Miami is
Speaker 1: that he was wobbly, but that he sort of bounced
Speaker 1: back to normal, and that was what everybody was so
Speaker 1: upset about. It's like, how could you allow him to
Speaker 1: go back in the game. What they've learned is that
Speaker 1: was what the policy want, is that if he got
Speaker 1: back to normal function and everything appeared to be back
Speaker 1: to normal, then it was just a sort of a
Speaker 1: temporary setback. Now, if you have a temporary setback, you
Speaker 1: are not going back in that game. Well, Mike, first
Speaker 1: of all, I thought you explained it very well on
Speaker 1: the broadcast yesterday that this is went from a general
Speaker 1: rule to more expansive into how everything is evaluated. And
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you. Amy shared what you saw yesterday
Speaker 1: in regards to Christian Fulton, because that is exactly what
Speaker 1: we saw on the Thursday night football game that started
Speaker 1: week five. When there is you know, the independent neurologists.
Speaker 1: He wears a red NFL hat for those or he
Speaker 1: or she does, and then there was about the same
Speaker 1: amount of people looking at a surface tablet at the
Speaker 1: contact and then going into the protocol and trying to
Speaker 1: figure all those things out. So it's much more detailed
Speaker 1: now and looking for telltale signs that maybe just would
Speaker 1: have been a kind of a glance over because it
Speaker 1: was a more general, broad rule and now it's more finite. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I think that again everyone took this seriously before. We're
Speaker 1: not saying that it wasn't taken seriously previously, but what
Speaker 1: they were looking for the criteria was a little bit
Speaker 1: more vague. I think. I think it left a little
Speaker 1: bit more up to the discretion of the people who
Speaker 1: were there and kind of determining, well, he's back to
Speaker 1: a baseline, so that's fine. Now there's a little bit
Speaker 1: more of a finite, rigid set of rules and criteria
Speaker 1: that need to be hit. Well. I think it's just
Speaker 1: more protection of the player automatically, rather than because you know,
Speaker 1: the guys want to go back in the game. They're
Speaker 1: the world's best competitors. Yeah, they absolutely want to go back.
Speaker 1: They're saying I'm fine. But now instead of making that assumption,
Speaker 1: they're going the other way. They're saying, Nope, you wobbled
Speaker 1: when you stood up, which Fulton didn't. Fulton got right up,
Speaker 1: he walked off. He was not being assisted off the field.
Speaker 1: You could see, Okay, maybe he's not. And not every
Speaker 1: hard hit, not every time you're shaking up on the play,
Speaker 1: is it a concussion? But sometimes if it is, or
Speaker 1: it has that evidence. Now instead of sort of giving
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt to going back in the
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt, says you're out right. And that's
Speaker 1: the difference. I think it's a good thing. I don't
Speaker 1: think they were doing anything wrong beforehand. I don't think
Speaker 1: they were trying to leave guys in games who were
Speaker 1: punch drunk or no. They're just doing more. They're doing more,
Speaker 1: and I think that's a good thing for everybody. And
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody was doing anything intentionally wrong. I
Speaker 1: don't think the medical people were trying to stretch it
Speaker 1: out in different ways. But I think this is better
Speaker 1: for everyone involved. And the other thing too, it's it
Speaker 1: takes a lot of people with teams off the hook
Speaker 1: because now if it's like this, I mean, if you
Speaker 1: do what to a tongue of ioloa, did you you
Speaker 1: know you're given it the you know, the Michael Spenks
Speaker 1: wobble against you know, against Mike Tyson. You are not
Speaker 1: going back in the game. And that's a good thing
Speaker 1: because nobody has to make a decision. It's like, that's it,
Speaker 1: You're out. Yeah, right, Nobody has to be the bad
Speaker 1: guy and say I'm sorry, you can't play. There's no negotiation,
Speaker 1: can't talk yourself back onto the field. That's exactly right.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad they gave Christian Fulton his helmet back
Speaker 1: and sent him back out. Well, and I'm glad. We're
Speaker 1: all glad. He's okay, yes, first and foremost, and he's
Speaker 1: more than okay as a player, no doubt. All right,
Speaker 1: first down and you cannot say the David Long interception.
Speaker 1: You can't on it. You just can't do it. Your
Speaker 1: play that turned the game is Tennessee beat Washington twenty
Speaker 1: one to seventy. You really can't say that point. How
Speaker 1: could you not? I mean, that's gonna because that's the answer.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is the answer. They won the game
Speaker 1: because a guy went intercepted a pass at the one
Speaker 1: yard line. But what you're saying, Mike is we give
Speaker 1: the ot people more more, we do deeper. It's just better. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I wrote this down in game as it happened,
Speaker 1: and you're not going to be surprised why I tell
Speaker 1: you who it is because it's the Nick Westbrook a
Speaker 1: Keene sixty two yard reception in the third quarter. And
Speaker 1: I wrote it down as soon as it happened and
Speaker 1: circled it and wrote play of the game because in
Speaker 1: that moment, you felt all the momentum shift back to
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. I mean, listen, the Titans had had
Speaker 1: two series where they went three and out. That was it.
Speaker 1: You felt like, oh no, we can't get that traction again.
Speaker 1: Here we are in the third quarter of the game.
Speaker 1: We came back after the half, and the same story
Speaker 1: that we've seen for the last couple of weeks is
Speaker 1: happening again. He was able to make that play. It's
Speaker 1: set up the Titans first second half score in two
Speaker 1: weeks and all of this sudden you felt like those
Speaker 1: wheels that were kind of spinning in the mud finally
Speaker 1: caught on something, and the Titans offense was back in business.
Speaker 1: You could feel it on the sidelines, you could feel
Speaker 1: it in the stadium. It projected that team forward, and
Speaker 1: the Titans ended up getting the score. On the end
Speaker 1: of that drive. They go up again and things feel
Speaker 1: good for a change. So that was my play that
Speaker 1: kind of turned the game. Now things got a little
Speaker 1: shaky in other spots, but that was such a colossal
Speaker 1: momentum shift that was like tangible, you could feel it,
Speaker 1: and so that's my play that changed the game for me.
Speaker 1: It's the Ryan Stonehouse punt early on in the game
Speaker 1: because if you look in context, that was ten twelve
Speaker 1: left in the second quarter. The play before that, it
Speaker 1: was third and twenty three. Ryan Tannehill has a sack
Speaker 1: that's lost for thirteen yards, done by Jonathan Allen and
Speaker 1: Deron Payne, and so they're deep in their own territory
Speaker 1: in this and Ryan Stonehouse puts a sixty six yard punt.
Speaker 1: Then Holmes for Washington was called for offensive holding, so
Speaker 1: now it's a seven yard penalty and Washington's at their
Speaker 1: own fifteen It's what'd you say, a seventy three yard flint.
Speaker 1: They ended up starting at their own eight yard line,
Speaker 1: So the Titans punting just outside their own end zone
Speaker 1: and Washington up starting just outside their own end zone.
Speaker 1: At that point, they had a ten to seven lead.
Speaker 1: That's the most important part of it. Washington had a
Speaker 1: ten to seven lead, and whatever momentum was there in
Speaker 1: the stadium was there's I was surprised how few people
Speaker 1: were in attendance yesterday, right right it was. I don't
Speaker 1: know that I've seen a stadium that empty during the
Speaker 1: regular season, especially at a place like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a ninety year old franchise that began as the
Speaker 1: Boston Braves. That's a franchise that's won multiple NFL championships,
Speaker 1: what three Super Bowls. I mean, it's a special franchise.
Speaker 1: It is one of the hallmark NFL franchise. It's a
Speaker 1: legacy franchise, a legacy franchise, and there is I think
Speaker 1: between what's going on with the ownership and then I
Speaker 1: think just years of bad ball. I think the name
Speaker 1: change is a big deal to people just from the
Speaker 1: standpoint that it's one more thing. Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: it would be that big a deal if the owner
Speaker 1: wasn't in as much trouble as he's in, and they
Speaker 1: weren't having all that commotion, and if they'd won recently.
Speaker 1: Washington really hasn't been a good team in the twenty
Speaker 1: first century, and to put a mild lead the fan
Speaker 1: base is interested, they're disinterested. I mean when we arrived
Speaker 1: yesterday morning and it was what a forty five minute
Speaker 1: ride from where we came, so we got there just
Speaker 1: before ten o'clock Eastern. There was almost no tailgate, none,
Speaker 1: and every person in the parking lot that we saw,
Speaker 1: none of them had on anything commanders, none of them,
Speaker 1: and a lot of them waved at us like high neighbor. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean it was not one from a couple, but
Speaker 1: I but I mean, you think about those East Coast
Speaker 1: teams that are the legacy franchises, the Eagles and the
Speaker 1: Giants and the Patriots and all these I mean, when
Speaker 1: we go to those places, Buffalo, it's rough. You're gonna Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: you I mean, they're giving you the business man, and
Speaker 1: there was just but at the moment you're talking about
Speaker 1: ten to seven They've just thrown the seventy five yard
Speaker 1: touchdown pass to danby Brown and they're getting the ball back,
Speaker 1: and they figure to get the ball back in goodfield position,
Speaker 1: and instead they started their own eight. Yeah, it tamped
Speaker 1: it all down in a big way for me. The
Speaker 1: play of the game was the touchdown before halftime and
Speaker 1: the way Vrabel managed the clock, the great job that
Speaker 1: he did. Because Washington's going to get the ball to
Speaker 1: start the second half. Year down ten seven, you haven't
Speaker 1: moved it well. You put together a really really nice
Speaker 1: drive that takes off the last seven minutes of the half.
Speaker 1: You punch it in again in the red zone, and
Speaker 1: now you're up fourteen to ten, and anything they were
Speaker 1: going to take into the locker room or bring out
Speaker 1: of the locker room, it's sort of gone. I would
Speaker 1: agree if I had gone first, I would have picked
Speaker 1: the Westbrook a Kene catch as well, because at that
Speaker 1: point the Titans couldn't drive the ball. But I think
Speaker 1: to go back a little bit further, that touchdown right
Speaker 1: before halftime was just huge, and what a job by
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry to get both of those end yesterday. All right,
Speaker 1: second down, reet, Brian, you go first, the stat that
Speaker 1: grabbed your attention. Well, and I'm gonna go a little
Speaker 1: outside the rules here because we're talking about stats within
Speaker 1: the game. But I'm just looking at this stat right here.
Speaker 1: Eighteen point six. You know what that is. That's how
Speaker 1: many points per game that the Titans have allowed in
Speaker 1: their last three contests, after giving up forty one to
Speaker 1: Buffalo in Week two, fifty six total points, an average
Speaker 1: of eighteen point six a game. That defense, even though
Speaker 1: it's wounded, is doing more than it's part. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was a good rule. Rule bread. I thought he was
Speaker 1: going to do yours and go like three different stat No,
Speaker 1: I just kind of bigger, bigger picture, bigger picture. But
Speaker 1: they gave up seventeen points yesterday, and so yeah, that
Speaker 1: falls right in line. I mean they've they've done the job.
Speaker 1: You do that and you're gonna win some ball games.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're holding an opponent under twenty, you're gonna
Speaker 1: win most ball games in this league. Absolutely. Mine is
Speaker 1: third down defense by the old Tennessee Titans. One for eleven,
Speaker 1: one for eleven, And it was in the very last
Speaker 1: drive of the whole game. I mean it was at
Speaker 1: the very very end when the Commanders got their first
Speaker 1: third down conversion. So very proud of the Tennessee Titans
Speaker 1: for being able to do that, because we all know
Speaker 1: that when you can get an offense off the field,
Speaker 1: you're stopping them from scoring points. Well, let's take all
Speaker 1: of this further and I'm going to kind of piggyback
Speaker 1: on what you've talked about. First of all, third down
Speaker 1: defense a key, turnovers a key. The Titans taking care
Speaker 1: of the football. What about Ryan Tannehill getting womped all
Speaker 1: over the place yesterday, didn't fumble, did not fumble, which
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks around the league had been fumbling quite a
Speaker 1: bit in those situations. But they took care of the football.
Speaker 1: Red hits on it, hold them to fewer points, do
Speaker 1: a good job in the red zone, make them kick
Speaker 1: field goals, or, as in the case of the last drive,
Speaker 1: not score. The other thing for me that adds to that, though,
Speaker 1: is the Titans continue to score touchdowns in the red zone.
Speaker 1: They had two hundred and forty one total yards yesterday.
Speaker 1: That's not good. No, that's not a lot. But they
Speaker 1: scored twenty one points because every time they got in
Speaker 1: the red zone they scored a touchdown. They are twelve
Speaker 1: of thirteen in the red zone this year scoring touchdowns,
Speaker 1: which is number one in the NFL. That's the biggest
Speaker 1: reason they're three and two, because they did get to
Speaker 1: twenty one points based on the fact that they used
Speaker 1: what yards they had. Every time they moved the ball,
Speaker 1: they scored and that was it. That was basically the story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was all right. How about third down area where
Speaker 1: the Titans must improve from yesterday's twenty one to seventeen
Speaker 1: went over Washington. Ryan Tannehill cannot be sacked five times again.
Speaker 1: We need to protect Ryan Tannehill. He will die now
Speaker 1: if he keeps getting hit like this. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just it's a reality. You are more likely to get
Speaker 1: injured when you're getting hit well, that's true. And you
Speaker 1: got to protect your quarterback. He's where everything starts. You
Speaker 1: gotta keep that guy upright, and so whatever needs to
Speaker 1: be done. And it's a full offense problem. We've said
Speaker 1: this in the past. It's not just the offensive line.
Speaker 1: All eleven guys have to be working together for everything
Speaker 1: to work on offense. I think a lot of it
Speaker 1: was offensive line yesterday. I think so too, But everybody
Speaker 1: needs to work together to solve this problem. But you
Speaker 1: have to have to have to protect your quarterback. Well, right,
Speaker 1: we talked about it and we expanded upon it with
Speaker 1: coach both on and off the air, coach Dave McGinnis.
Speaker 1: That is the fact of the matter is they're having
Speaker 1: to do some things to help protection. So there's some
Speaker 1: things they can't really run. Right, They're not going to
Speaker 1: run a lot of straight drop back because they're not
Speaker 1: able to protect quite as well as what they have been. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what. Teams start to figure out what your adjustment is,
Speaker 1: and then they start to adjust to your adjustment, right,
Speaker 1: and then you've got dudes like Jonathan Allen and Ron
Speaker 1: Payne and Montes Sweat and jam and Davis and you know,
Speaker 1: on and on and on faobada, you know, guys like
Speaker 1: that who are just beastly, yes who can beat you
Speaker 1: one on one. And then they took advantage of that yesterday. Washington,
Speaker 1: by the way, is no cupcake and they are going
Speaker 1: to give people trouble as the year goes on because
Speaker 1: they play that kind of defense as they figure out
Speaker 1: their offense a little bit with all those weapons and
Speaker 1: get Dotson back at wide receiver and see Brown take
Speaker 1: off the way he did with the two touchdown catchers.
Speaker 1: They're gonna beat some people. Not making any prediction about
Speaker 1: what their record is, but that is not a bad
Speaker 1: football team. They're one in four football team, but they
Speaker 1: are not a bad football team. Now. They've got players,
Speaker 1: and that's the thing is. I think that maybe goes
Speaker 1: back to the fan base and being disinterested in Washington
Speaker 1: because they've got all these top picks on defense and
Speaker 1: they've got players everywhere. Well in Chase Young will be
Speaker 1: back at some point two on defense, and he's the
Speaker 1: best defensive lineman they have. Yes, all right, Ret Brian,
Speaker 1: We're on third down, still area where the Titans must
Speaker 1: improve from yesterday. This is gonna sound silly because a
Speaker 1: lot of people are going for it more on fourth down.
Speaker 1: But the fourth down defense they have number one. Titans
Speaker 1: have the number one third down defense in the NFL
Speaker 1: right now, but they have the worst fourth down defense.
Speaker 1: I think it's been seven out of nine completed attempts
Speaker 1: on fourth down. And you know, listen again, part of
Speaker 1: it is the byproduct of the NFL and where we
Speaker 1: are today because somebody people go forward on fourth down
Speaker 1: and it's just a crapshoot sometimes, but I think that's
Speaker 1: one place where you can clean up a little bit.
Speaker 1: For me, it's two hundred and forty one yards of
Speaker 1: total offense. I mean, I know it was great. I
Speaker 1: just said they scored twenty one points. But listen, they've
Speaker 1: got to do better than that. Got to move football.
Speaker 1: They've got to move the football, and they've got I
Speaker 1: mean as they go forward, and in essence what we've
Speaker 1: seen now, Titans are three and two, Colts are two
Speaker 1: two and one, Jaguars are two and three, the Texans
Speaker 1: are one three and one. We're really starting all over.
Speaker 1: I mean, in essence, this is kind of where everybody
Speaker 1: thought we would be, the Titans and the Colts would
Speaker 1: be at the top, and the Jaguars would be third
Speaker 1: and the Texans would be fourth. But everybody's completely bunched up.
Speaker 1: I mean you look at the numbers. Houston can win
Speaker 1: the division. Yeah, I mean they are. They are so
Speaker 1: not out of it right now, which means you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to take what you're doing going forward and improve
Speaker 1: upon it. The Titans are going to have to be
Speaker 1: able to put up more numbers on offense. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't drop passes that would give you first downs,
Speaker 1: you can't get the penalties, and some of the penalties
Speaker 1: were I mean, they were oddly called. I mean it was.
Speaker 1: It was very such a nice way to say that,
Speaker 1: it really is, because I'm thinking of the Jeffrey Simmons
Speaker 1: was on defense. But that's a bad I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a bad call. That's just a bad call. When an
Speaker 1: official is over fifty yards away from the play and
Speaker 1: can see something, he or think he sees something, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, some of it just didn't make a
Speaker 1: lot of sense. When the umpire throws holding, Okay, when
Speaker 1: the referee throws holding, I got it. But when guys
Speaker 1: from way on the other side of the field, that's
Speaker 1: what always gets me administratively, I just don't. Yeah, I don't. Anyway,
Speaker 1: offense has got to get better. They got to gain
Speaker 1: more yards. They got to score more points. They need
Speaker 1: to get not only over three hundred yards per game,
Speaker 1: closer to three hundred and fifty yards per game, but
Speaker 1: they've got to get into the upper twenties and scoring.
Speaker 1: If they're gonna make a run, they've got to start
Speaker 1: scoring more points. I think what will help them is
Speaker 1: as some guys come back. The defense will get better,
Speaker 1: I really do. I mean you think about who's not
Speaker 1: out there right now and who they're going to get
Speaker 1: back in the next month, and they can improve a lot.
Speaker 1: But the offense, regardless of the defense plays lights out,
Speaker 1: the offense has got to do more. All right, fourth down,
Speaker 1: your player of the game, Rett Brian gets to go first.
Speaker 1: But I know who this is gonna be. Yeah, me too,
Speaker 1: it's mine too, So go ahead, you go first, your first.
Speaker 1: It's Big Jeff. Yes, it's been you know, we talked
Speaker 1: privately and even on the air, off the air that
Speaker 1: Big Jeff needed a Big Jeff type of game, and
Speaker 1: he did. One and a half sacks, quarterback pressures, had
Speaker 1: five tackles, had one downfield on Terry McLaurin that would
Speaker 1: have been a busted play and first might have been
Speaker 1: a touchdown right and a twenty three yards down the
Speaker 1: field and a PBu and he gave their the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Now they didn't, you know, batter. You know, Carson wentz
Speaker 1: with regularity like you know what Ryan Tannehill went through yesterday,
Speaker 1: But they made his life difficult by the way. So
Speaker 1: the pressure stat that's done in the press box when
Speaker 1: they grade the film. That's the what they called the
Speaker 1: official pressure stat seven quarterback pressure from the coaches film
Speaker 1: from the coaches, Wow, is what he was given credit for. Seven. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: He had a big Jeff day. That's the great way
Speaker 1: to say. He got tackled more than once too. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean they could have called holding. Maybe that guy's
Speaker 1: sixty yards away could have seen that. Am I wrong?
Speaker 1: Here's the other way too. Does anybody else think the
Speaker 1: ball where Christian Fulton was called for past interference, which
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it was anyway, watching it back, he
Speaker 1: and they're they're fighting. Ball was uncatchable. It was not
Speaker 1: even a little bit catchable. No, you were one hundred
Speaker 1: correct nor crazy. You're right if they called holding, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if the ball is uncatchable or not, but
Speaker 1: it passed interference. It has to be. It has to
Speaker 1: be a catchable ball. Yeah, Amy, Well, No, I mean
Speaker 1: I because my player was big Jeff as well. I
Speaker 1: mean such a dominant player. And just I talked to
Speaker 1: him after the game for Titans Radio, and man, he
Speaker 1: is just so fired up about this team. He's so
Speaker 1: fired up about the defense. He is just he's kind
Speaker 1: of the heart and soul of the Titans defense right now.
Speaker 1: And I'm just so excited that he's part of this team.
Speaker 1: And it made me laugh that he was so annoyed,
Speaker 1: not that David Long Junior got the interception, but that
Speaker 1: he ran it back as far as he did. He's like, listen, bro,
Speaker 1: I'm tired. That was exhausting. Quit making me run so far.
Speaker 1: I played eighty seven percent of the snaps again, and
Speaker 1: he just wanted them to get down right, stop running right.
Speaker 1: I thought it was great, but yeah, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: playing the majority of the game and at a high
Speaker 1: level every single snap. It's amazing. It's unbelievable. He's amazing.
Speaker 1: I could have voted for him. You could certainly vote
Speaker 1: for David Long with the eleven tackles in the interception.
Speaker 1: I'm going in a different direction though, Ryan Tannehill. Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill's numbers were pedestrian. What he's fifteen of twenty five,
Speaker 1: one eighty one and a touchdown. That's correct. But he
Speaker 1: got hammered several times, sacked five times, but never lost
Speaker 1: the football. Never really. I can't remember him coming close
Speaker 1: to throwing an interception and just piloting the ship, getting
Speaker 1: them down there being cognizant of everything, finishing drives with touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That was winning quarterback play on a day where you
Speaker 1: absolutely had to have it. That was Ryan Tannehill at
Speaker 1: his best. And something that struck me yesterday. I have
Speaker 1: a lot of sideline reporters thoughts today apparently, but something
Speaker 1: that struck me yesterday was even with the amount of
Speaker 1: times that he was getting hit and kind of the
Speaker 1: beating that he took, he never came over and was
Speaker 1: frustrated with the offensive line. He never came over and
Speaker 1: had like a moment or was yelling and screaming trying
Speaker 1: to get guys. And I mean, you have to imagine
Speaker 1: that there were some parts of that game that he
Speaker 1: was not having like the most fun he's ever had
Speaker 1: in his life, but he never lost his cool. He
Speaker 1: would come over and he'd make corrections, he would explain
Speaker 1: things that maybe needed to be different or what he
Speaker 1: was seeing, but he always had something positive and encouraging
Speaker 1: on the back end of that. He was so much
Speaker 1: a leader to me in that moment where he could
Speaker 1: take the hits, he'd take the shots. All right, let's
Speaker 1: course correct again. Okay, let's course correct again. I was
Speaker 1: so impressed by his demeanor because if I was him,
Speaker 1: I would have gotten mad and mean because that did
Speaker 1: not look fun sometimes getting hit. He took a beating, yeah,
Speaker 1: and yet he kept getting up and he kept running
Speaker 1: the show. And it's what it means to have a guy.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people undersell having a guy now.
Speaker 1: Heem Heinz said it after the Titans Indianapolis game, and
Speaker 1: I thought it was a great comment. He said, he said,
Speaker 1: the biggest advantage the Titans have is they've had the
Speaker 1: same quarterback for four years. We got a new guy
Speaker 1: every year, and so we got to get used to him.
Speaker 1: He's got to get used to us. And there are
Speaker 1: nuances to it. There's things that everyone just knows together
Speaker 1: because they've been playing together and having that impact. And
Speaker 1: I just thought that was a great illustration of what
Speaker 1: is the best thing about Ryan Tannehill, which we knew
Speaker 1: from the start, is he's tough. He is a tough,
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Speaker 1: end Amy Wells, where were you when they decided that
Speaker 1: we were gonna play one more play? We're on the field. Oh,
Speaker 1: I was in the middle of the field. Jeffrey Simmons
Speaker 1: is doing a jersey swap and so he's got like
Speaker 1: a full arts and craft situation going on. There's like
Speaker 1: the multiple sharpies involved. They've got everything laid out. They're
Speaker 1: like down on their hands, and he loves Manta Sweat
Speaker 1: and that's who he swapped with. Yes, that's one of
Speaker 1: his best friends. You know. They came out in the
Speaker 1: same draft class, and it was it was a whole
Speaker 1: like experience. I've never seen someone lay it out as
Speaker 1: intricately as they had. No but like what if it
Speaker 1: was available the bedazzler. It was intense and so they've
Speaker 1: got all this stuff laid out. I'm standing there waiting
Speaker 1: to do an interview. It's great that I hadn't started
Speaker 1: doing that interview for Titans Radio because they would have
Speaker 1: had to just play around me. I mean, I'm not moving,
Speaker 1: but they so. Our PR guy Dwight Spradling comes over
Speaker 1: and says, hey, I'm not sure if this is real,
Speaker 1: but don't let anybody leave the field. Okay, So I'm
Speaker 1: kind of like, what is this gonna be? So then
Speaker 1: they come over the loudspeakers and they're saying, all right,
Speaker 1: everybody needs to clear the field. Yeah. Everyone just kind
Speaker 1: of looks around. Coaches scramble like rats, trying to just
Speaker 1: find enough players to put on the field. They're running
Speaker 1: up and down the sidelines. We're all clearing the field.
Speaker 1: The equipment guys are very confused because they're shortened to
Speaker 1: pack everything up, so they're confused about what's going on.
Speaker 1: And I look back and I see Jeffrey Simmons just
Speaker 1: like scooping up all of his stuff and just walking
Speaker 1: to the sidelines. It was one of the weirder things
Speaker 1: that I've experienced on the field in my time in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. It was just very confusing. But
Speaker 1: then I start thinking, am I gonna get in trouble
Speaker 1: for being out on the field. I mean, I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to be here, but like, shoot, I better get out
Speaker 1: of here, so I start running real fast. It was weird.
Speaker 1: It was very weird. The whole situation was odd. Would
Speaker 1: you agree with the bizarre moments? Yes? Titans win twenty
Speaker 1: one seventeen at Washington, and uh, that's going to wrap
Speaker 1: it up. We've talked enough here for Reet Bryan and
Speaker 1: Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith. Thank you for participating, for
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