WEBVTT - The OTP | Covering 4 Downs from Week 5 at the Commanders 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.360 What does this when mean to you at this moment 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.040 and to this football team. I made it means since 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.279 we got our asses kicked in Buffalo, we've won three 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:24.319 games in a row. Mike Vrabel from yesterday's post game, 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:29.160 with a very blunt comment on the significance of the Titans. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.960 Third when Welcome to the OTP four D presented by 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.840 Farm Bureau Health Plans plan on Farm Bureau of Health 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.720 Plans making it easy to get healthcare coverage you need 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:42.440 for less than you think. Visit FBHP dot com with 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:46.880 Amy Wells and Rhett Brian. I'm Mike Keith, Mike Vrabel, blunt, 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.159 not a lot of gray area with that guy trying 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.160 to get into the Nate Davis thing too yesterday about 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.320 so was this uh? It was this something a Sunday 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.760 morning or a Saturday because when we got the inactives 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.360 you have today morning, we were very surprised to see 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.640 Nate Davis on there, right, And all I got was 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:13.000 no surprise, it's nice try thanks for playing. Got some 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.039 serious head coach answers there, Yes, yes I did. He 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.720 was glad to win that ball game though at Washington, 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.440 no question, and to have it won in the dramatic fashion. 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.120 I mean, good Grace, I mean, what are you gonna do? 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.920 That's awesome. It was a little intense down there for 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.520 a while. What was your vantage point of the final 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.640 So the final play was in the corner of the 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.119 end zone, on the opposite side of the field from me, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.199 but I was on about the twenty or thirty yard 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:44.920 line just watching everything, I mean through my fingers. Essentially, 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.040 you knew the Titans were going to do something. You 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.040 just felt it in your bones that someone was going 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:54.960 to do something. And it was intense. I mean you 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.040 could on the Titans sideline you could hear a pin drop. 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.920 It was crazy. Mike. The interesting thing, of course, to 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.080 tell folks where we were yesterday. It's one of the 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:09.720 worst views in radio for yeah, I mean, it's just bad. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.440 And we actually were a little closer to the home 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.440 sideline and a little better angle than we were eight 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.880 years ago. But it's like calling a baseball game. I mean, 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.880 if there's home play right there and we're doing calling baseball, 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.440 it's perfect, but it's not. It's football. But that play 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.800 happened in front of us in our close corner, and 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.799 you know, seeing it digest against one thing but going 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.320 back and looking at it the film today, David Long, 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:38.320 it was so impressive because here comes Terry McLaurin and 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.480 he throws a vicious block on him, shucks him off, 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.600 and then he just goes right over and steps in 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.000 front of m kissing because McLaren's trying to pick him, Yes, 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.880 and he ain't having none of it, and he can 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:53.959 do that. There were some in the media up there 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.600 that pointed out, well, David Long made contact with Terry McLaren. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.320 Well he can because it's within five y'all. Yes, this 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:05.079 is short goal line play. And for him to just 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.079 pick the pick, so to speak, and then go over 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.760 and make the pick nice. I like, how you did that? Wow? 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.000 I mean that was a great play by So. Philip 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.880 Noel from our Titans radio team said something interesting last 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.840 night that he watched the tape and that Christian Fulton 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:24.120 was in really good position regardless, and he didn't believe 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.800 that McKissick would have scored had the ball even gotten 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.000 to him, and the ball had a downward trajectory anyway, 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.440 So it may have turned out well for the Titans 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.480 even had Long not made the fantastic play. Have you 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:38.920 seen the same thing. Yeah, I did notice that after 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.280 he had messaged us about that, and he's right. Christian Fulton. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.840 First of all, Christian Fulton, I think is really playing 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.280 some great ball for the Titans. But yeah, he was 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.680 well within range right there. All right, So before we 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.240 go to first down, I want to talk about Christian 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:56.840 Fulton for a second and a taxiim Yes, that was 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:01.640 something that you and I Amy were having conversations about 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:06.520 on Saturday when the new league policy came out, saying 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.560 that if you showed any form of a taxi, which 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.760 means more or less, I'm just going to generalize that 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:17.279 if you're not stable, if you wobble, if your head 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.039 you know, moves back and forth, if you're just not clear, 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.200 and it's apparent from the first moment, not if you 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.080 just get knocked down and you have a hard time 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:30.640 getting up, but if you are unstable, then you cannot 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.200 return to the ball game. We referenced this on Titan's 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.440 radio when Fulton came up and made that tackle and 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.039 didn't just bounce up immediately as they got him to 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:46.520 the sidelines. Did you notice a difference in the observation 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.040 process from what you had seen before when they thought 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:54.480 a guy might have a concussion. Absolutely, and the league 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:58.359 has always been, in what I have noticed, very thorough 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:02.440 in their evaluations. This is not a knock on how 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.680 it has been done in the past, but it was 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:10.200 incredibly thorough and attentive. So I noticed, like to the 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.960 point where they're asking the questions, you know that they 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.599 asked to kind of get an idea of your mental 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.320 clarity and that kind of thing. But they were listening 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.280 not only to his answers, but the way that he spoke, 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.640 which is part of that ataxia thing. They were making 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.640 him kind of do some walking and movement to establish 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.320 if he had that stability. There were a lot of 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.719 things that they were looking at, and there were more 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:39.000 people involved in the assessment than I typically would see. 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.800 How many would you say, would you just guess five? No, kid, Well, 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.200 you have to remember there's team doctors, then we have 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:53.160 the trainer, Todd Torselli. Then you have the independent neurological evaluator, right, 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.240 and then there's a couple other people who were kind 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.520 of because there was this new policy, you could tell 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.480 there were more people involved making sure they had everything correct. 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.520 I had spoken to one of our team doctors, the 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.240 day before, and he had mentioned the new policy and 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.960 how interesting it was going to be for that to 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.359 go into effect. So the fact that we had a 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.080 situation the next day where that was able to be 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.839 put into place, I think they all wanted to make 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.480 sure that they hit every mark that the league had 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.240 laid out. So there were probably a little bit more 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.440 people involved than there will be going forward now that 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.159 they've kind of got an idea of what this is 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.000 going to look like. But it was interesting to see 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.200 how many people were involved, how many people came out 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.600 to make sure that they were in agreement with what 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.320 the evaluation was of his mental clarity and his ability 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.400 to continue. It was a very interesting thing to watch, 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.559 and I kind of positioned myself in a way where 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.080 I could see and hear a little bit more than 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:55.800 I normally would if someone's being evaluated for a concussion, 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.960 because normally it's okay, they're in the protocol, will let 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.480 you know later, you know. But I was interested to 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.599 see what this was going to look like. I was 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.080 very impressed by it and just how many different facets 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.720 of his mental stability, I guess, and his kind of 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.440 health and wellness they were able to tick off in 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.960 a pretty quick amount of time. Ataxia is listed as 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:23.120 abnormality of balance, stability, motor coordination, or a dysfunctional speech 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:27.560 caused by a neurological issue. If a player shows any 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.400 hint of that rat he's not going back in the game. 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.200 Before if he showed that and then he sort of 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.400 got back to a normal baseline, he would be allowed 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.560 to go back in the game. That is reportedly what 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:44.040 happened with to a tongue of Iloa in Miami is 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.280 that he was wobbly, but that he sort of bounced 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.080 back to normal, and that was what everybody was so 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.400 upset about. It's like, how could you allow him to 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.480 go back in the game. What they've learned is that 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.520 was what the policy want, is that if he got 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.640 back to normal function and everything appeared to be back 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.600 to normal, then it was just a sort of a 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:08.240 temporary setback. Now, if you have a temporary setback, you 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.520 are not going back in that game. Well, Mike, first 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.440 of all, I thought you explained it very well on 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:17.280 the broadcast yesterday that this is went from a general 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:22.680 rule to more expansive into how everything is evaluated. And 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:26.040 I'm glad that you. Amy shared what you saw yesterday 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.680 in regards to Christian Fulton, because that is exactly what 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.440 we saw on the Thursday night football game that started 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.800 week five. When there is you know, the independent neurologists. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.760 He wears a red NFL hat for those or he 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.000 or she does, and then there was about the same 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.600 amount of people looking at a surface tablet at the 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:49.080 contact and then going into the protocol and trying to 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.360 figure all those things out. So it's much more detailed 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:56.640 now and looking for telltale signs that maybe just would 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.200 have been a kind of a glance over because it 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:03.240 was a more general, broad rule and now it's more finite. Absolutely, 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.520 I think that again everyone took this seriously before. We're 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:11.360 not saying that it wasn't taken seriously previously, but what 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.760 they were looking for the criteria was a little bit 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.000 more vague. I think. I think it left a little 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.040 bit more up to the discretion of the people who 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.760 were there and kind of determining, well, he's back to 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:25.360 a baseline, so that's fine. Now there's a little bit 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:30.239 more of a finite, rigid set of rules and criteria 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.280 that need to be hit. Well. I think it's just 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:39.040 more protection of the player automatically, rather than because you know, 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.560 the guys want to go back in the game. They're 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.680 the world's best competitors. Yeah, they absolutely want to go back. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:50.240 They're saying I'm fine. But now instead of making that assumption, 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.800 they're going the other way. They're saying, Nope, you wobbled 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.319 when you stood up, which Fulton didn't. Fulton got right up, 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.960 he walked off. He was not being assisted off the field. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:05.400 You could see, Okay, maybe he's not. And not every 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.120 hard hit, not every time you're shaking up on the play, 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.920 is it a concussion? But sometimes if it is, or 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:16.640 it has that evidence. Now instead of sort of giving 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.760 the benefit of the doubt to going back in the 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.920 benefit of the doubt, says you're out right. And that's 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.120 the difference. I think it's a good thing. I don't 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.680 think they were doing anything wrong beforehand. I don't think 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:31.959 they were trying to leave guys in games who were 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.800 punch drunk or no. They're just doing more. They're doing more, 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.600 and I think that's a good thing for everybody. And 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:41.880 I don't think anybody was doing anything intentionally wrong. I 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.080 don't think the medical people were trying to stretch it 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.720 out in different ways. But I think this is better 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.480 for everyone involved. And the other thing too, it's it 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.160 takes a lot of people with teams off the hook 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.840 because now if it's like this, I mean, if you 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.440 do what to a tongue of ioloa, did you you 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.640 know you're given it the you know, the Michael Spenks 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:07.600 wobble against you know, against Mike Tyson. You are not 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.200 going back in the game. And that's a good thing 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.800 because nobody has to make a decision. It's like, that's it, 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.120 You're out. Yeah, right, Nobody has to be the bad 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.559 guy and say I'm sorry, you can't play. There's no negotiation, 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.839 can't talk yourself back onto the field. That's exactly right. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.000 But I'm glad they gave Christian Fulton his helmet back 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.280 and sent him back out. Well, and I'm glad. We're 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.440 all glad. He's okay, yes, first and foremost, and he's 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.080 more than okay as a player, no doubt. All right, 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.920 first down and you cannot say the David Long interception. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.160 You can't on it. You just can't do it. Your 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.800 play that turned the game is Tennessee beat Washington twenty 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.120 one to seventy. You really can't say that point. How 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.920 could you not? I mean, that's gonna because that's the answer. 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.240 I mean, that is the answer. They won the game 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.080 because a guy went intercepted a pass at the one 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.120 yard line. But what you're saying, Mike is we give 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:59.959 the ot people more more, we do deeper. It's just better. Okay. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.200 So I wrote this down in game as it happened, 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.000 and you're not going to be surprised why I tell 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.040 you who it is because it's the Nick Westbrook a 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.480 Keene sixty two yard reception in the third quarter. And 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.920 I wrote it down as soon as it happened and 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.839 circled it and wrote play of the game because in 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.160 that moment, you felt all the momentum shift back to 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.400 the Tennessee Titans. I mean, listen, the Titans had had 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.959 two series where they went three and out. That was it. 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:31.800 You felt like, oh no, we can't get that traction again. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.079 Here we are in the third quarter of the game. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.960 We came back after the half, and the same story 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:38.640 that we've seen for the last couple of weeks is 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.920 happening again. He was able to make that play. It's 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.240 set up the Titans first second half score in two 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.920 weeks and all of this sudden you felt like those 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.920 wheels that were kind of spinning in the mud finally 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.079 caught on something, and the Titans offense was back in business. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.360 You could feel it on the sidelines, you could feel 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.439 it in the stadium. It projected that team forward, and 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.240 the Titans ended up getting the score. On the end 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.040 of that drive. They go up again and things feel 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.560 good for a change. So that was my play that 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.000 kind of turned the game. Now things got a little 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.880 shaky in other spots, but that was such a colossal 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:17.559 momentum shift that was like tangible, you could feel it, 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.160 and so that's my play that changed the game for me. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.320 It's the Ryan Stonehouse punt early on in the game 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.800 because if you look in context, that was ten twelve 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.679 left in the second quarter. The play before that, it 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.880 was third and twenty three. Ryan Tannehill has a sack 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.080 that's lost for thirteen yards, done by Jonathan Allen and 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.360 Deron Payne, and so they're deep in their own territory 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.640 in this and Ryan Stonehouse puts a sixty six yard punt. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.840 Then Holmes for Washington was called for offensive holding, so 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.520 now it's a seven yard penalty and Washington's at their 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.360 own fifteen It's what'd you say, a seventy three yard flint. 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.480 They ended up starting at their own eight yard line, 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:58.440 So the Titans punting just outside their own end zone 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.280 and Washington up starting just outside their own end zone. 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.240 At that point, they had a ten to seven lead. 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.720 That's the most important part of it. Washington had a 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:11.720 ten to seven lead, and whatever momentum was there in 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.839 the stadium was there's I was surprised how few people 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.720 were in attendance yesterday, right right it was. I don't 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:22.800 know that I've seen a stadium that empty during the 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.480 regular season, especially at a place like that. I mean, 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.920 that's a ninety year old franchise that began as the 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:32.760 Boston Braves. That's a franchise that's won multiple NFL championships, 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:37.440 what three Super Bowls. I mean, it's a special franchise. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:42.160 It is one of the hallmark NFL franchise. It's a 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.400 legacy franchise, a legacy franchise, and there is I think 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.760 between what's going on with the ownership and then I 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.760 think just years of bad ball. I think the name 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:55.080 change is a big deal to people just from the 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.640 standpoint that it's one more thing. Yeah, I don't think 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.280 it would be that big a deal if the owner 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.360 wasn't in as much trouble as he's in, and they 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.800 weren't having all that commotion, and if they'd won recently. 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.720 Washington really hasn't been a good team in the twenty 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.720 first century, and to put a mild lead the fan 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.160 base is interested, they're disinterested. I mean when we arrived 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.360 yesterday morning and it was what a forty five minute 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.200 ride from where we came, so we got there just 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:24.160 before ten o'clock Eastern. There was almost no tailgate, none, 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:29.160 and every person in the parking lot that we saw, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:33.120 none of them had on anything commanders, none of them, 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.800 and a lot of them waved at us like high neighbor. Yeah. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.040 I mean it was not one from a couple, but 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:40.920 I but I mean, you think about those East Coast 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.640 teams that are the legacy franchises, the Eagles and the 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.600 Giants and the Patriots and all these I mean, when 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:53.920 we go to those places, Buffalo, it's rough. You're gonna Pittsburgh, 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.520 you I mean, they're giving you the business man, and 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:00.240 there was just but at the moment you're talking about 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.000 ten to seven They've just thrown the seventy five yard 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.840 touchdown pass to danby Brown and they're getting the ball back, 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.280 and they figure to get the ball back in goodfield position, 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.680 and instead they started their own eight. Yeah, it tamped 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.680 it all down in a big way for me. The 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.160 play of the game was the touchdown before halftime and 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:23.360 the way Vrabel managed the clock, the great job that 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.600 he did. Because Washington's going to get the ball to 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.400 start the second half. Year down ten seven, you haven't 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.680 moved it well. You put together a really really nice 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.680 drive that takes off the last seven minutes of the half. 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.280 You punch it in again in the red zone, and 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.680 now you're up fourteen to ten, and anything they were 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.760 going to take into the locker room or bring out 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:44.920 of the locker room, it's sort of gone. I would 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.120 agree if I had gone first, I would have picked 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.000 the Westbrook a Kene catch as well, because at that 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.720 point the Titans couldn't drive the ball. But I think 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.920 to go back a little bit further, that touchdown right 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:59.040 before halftime was just huge, and what a job by 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.800 Derrick Henry to get both of those end yesterday. All right, 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:05.280 second down, reet, Brian, you go first, the stat that 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:07.880 grabbed your attention. Well, and I'm gonna go a little 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.000 outside the rules here because we're talking about stats within 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.520 the game. But I'm just looking at this stat right here. 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.120 Eighteen point six. You know what that is. That's how 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.200 many points per game that the Titans have allowed in 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.359 their last three contests, after giving up forty one to 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.600 Buffalo in Week two, fifty six total points, an average 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.960 of eighteen point six a game. That defense, even though 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:32.080 it's wounded, is doing more than it's part. Yeah, that 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.520 was a good rule. Rule bread. I thought he was 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.240 going to do yours and go like three different stat No, 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.080 I just kind of bigger, bigger picture, bigger picture. But 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.280 they gave up seventeen points yesterday, and so yeah, that 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.920 falls right in line. I mean they've they've done the job. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:47.919 You do that and you're gonna win some ball games. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.040 I mean, you're holding an opponent under twenty, you're gonna 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.119 win most ball games in this league. Absolutely. Mine is 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.520 third down defense by the old Tennessee Titans. One for eleven, 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:01.080 one for eleven, And it was in the very last 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.480 drive of the whole game. I mean it was at 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.679 the very very end when the Commanders got their first 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.399 third down conversion. So very proud of the Tennessee Titans 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.200 for being able to do that, because we all know 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.240 that when you can get an offense off the field, 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.480 you're stopping them from scoring points. Well, let's take all 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.639 of this further and I'm going to kind of piggyback 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.440 on what you've talked about. First of all, third down 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.440 defense a key, turnovers a key. The Titans taking care 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.640 of the football. What about Ryan Tannehill getting womped all 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:33.840 over the place yesterday, didn't fumble, did not fumble, which 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.480 other quarterbacks around the league had been fumbling quite a 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.840 bit in those situations. But they took care of the football. 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:43.119 Red hits on it, hold them to fewer points, do 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:44.920 a good job in the red zone, make them kick 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.480 field goals, or, as in the case of the last drive, 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.400 not score. The other thing for me that adds to that, though, 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.840 is the Titans continue to score touchdowns in the red zone. 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:56.760 They had two hundred and forty one total yards yesterday. 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.120 That's not good. No, that's not a lot. But they 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.679 scored twenty one points because every time they got in 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.480 the red zone they scored a touchdown. They are twelve 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.600 of thirteen in the red zone this year scoring touchdowns, 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.320 which is number one in the NFL. That's the biggest 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.840 reason they're three and two, because they did get to 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.960 twenty one points based on the fact that they used 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:19.679 what yards they had. Every time they moved the ball, 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:24.280 they scored and that was it. That was basically the story. Yeah, 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.359 it was all right. How about third down area where 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.720 the Titans must improve from yesterday's twenty one to seventeen 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.600 went over Washington. Ryan Tannehill cannot be sacked five times again. 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.719 We need to protect Ryan Tannehill. He will die now 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.160 if he keeps getting hit like this. I mean, it's 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.560 just it's a reality. You are more likely to get 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.480 injured when you're getting hit well, that's true. And you 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:50.199 got to protect your quarterback. He's where everything starts. You 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.239 gotta keep that guy upright, and so whatever needs to 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.080 be done. And it's a full offense problem. We've said 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.679 this in the past. It's not just the offensive line. 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:02.160 All eleven guys have to be working together for everything 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.000 to work on offense. I think a lot of it 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:07.040 was offensive line yesterday. I think so too, But everybody 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.640 needs to work together to solve this problem. But you 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:12.359 have to have to have to protect your quarterback. Well, right, 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:15.919 we talked about it and we expanded upon it with 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:19.120 coach both on and off the air, coach Dave McGinnis. 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.600 That is the fact of the matter is they're having 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:24.720 to do some things to help protection. So there's some 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.359 things they can't really run. Right, They're not going to 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.000 run a lot of straight drop back because they're not 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:33.600 able to protect quite as well as what they have been. Well, 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:37.879 guess what. Teams start to figure out what your adjustment is, 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.520 and then they start to adjust to your adjustment, right, 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:45.080 and then you've got dudes like Jonathan Allen and Ron 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:50.280 Payne and Montes Sweat and jam and Davis and you know, 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:53.600 on and on and on faobada, you know, guys like 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.919 that who are just beastly, yes who can beat you 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:01.080 one on one. And then they took advantage of that yesterday. Washington, 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:04.680 by the way, is no cupcake and they are going 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:08.600 to give people trouble as the year goes on because 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.680 they play that kind of defense as they figure out 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:13.879 their offense a little bit with all those weapons and 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:17.560 get Dotson back at wide receiver and see Brown take 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:19.800 off the way he did with the two touchdown catchers. 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:22.760 They're gonna beat some people. Not making any prediction about 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:25.159 what their record is, but that is not a bad 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:28.040 football team. They're one in four football team, but they 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:30.560 are not a bad football team. Now. They've got players, 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:33.520 and that's the thing is. I think that maybe goes 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:36.680 back to the fan base and being disinterested in Washington 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.840 because they've got all these top picks on defense and 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:42.159 they've got players everywhere. Well in Chase Young will be 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.960