WEBVTT - The OTP | Covering 4 Downs from Week 14 vs. the Jaguars 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:12.959 This is the OTP four D presented by Farm Bureau 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:16.640 Health Plans. They've been serving members and protecting their health 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.800 for seventy five years. Learned about our Tennessee roots at 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:23.840 FBHP dot com with Amy Wells and Rehett Brian. I'm 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:28.360 Mike Keith. Let's jump right in first down. Your play 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.840 that turned the game on Sunday as the Titans fell 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:35.479 to Jacksonville thirty six to twenty two. Mike Keith, it 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:39.199 was in the second quarter. It's Derrick Henry's fumble on 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.840 that sixteen yard run. It was an incredibly physical run. 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.680 He was really throwing his shoulder into the Jags to 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:47.920 try and get some extra yarded he was really fighting 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.720 for whatever he could get and he just loses track 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:53.960 of football. He fumbled it. I mean, that's all you 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:58.000 can say about. It's recovered by the Jags. It set 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.760 the Jags up for a score right before half. It 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.320 stops a ton of momentum that the Titans had, and frankly, 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.680 the Titans were never really able to recover from that. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.240 For me, I'm going a little later. I'm going fifteen 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.240 seconds left in the first half. It's second and one 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:17.119 and Trevor Lawrence throws to Zay Jones. It was originally 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.160 to be called incomplete, it went under review. It would 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.320 end up being a really nice catch by Zay Jones 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.320 as his right foot was about a quarter of an 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:30.480 inch from the white stripe that would denote being out 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:32.720 of bound. So it is a touchdown. They go up 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.320 twenty to fourteen. They get the ball back first and 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.280 the second half score right there. They never look back 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.680 to your point, Amy, I'm going back even further. First drive, 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.720 Titans go right down the field, score a touchdown. Ten play, 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:49.280 seventy six yards, five fifty one off the clock. Jacksonville 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.480 gets the ball back Trevor Lawrence incomplete pass, nice play 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.520 by Kevin Byard et n with a five yard run. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.720 And then Trevor Lawrence a pass to Ingram broken up 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.440 by Jeffrey Simmons. He hit his arm and the pass 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.480 flutters to the ground. Three and out. The Titans get 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.600 the football back. So here comes mine and on third 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:11.680 and six, Ryan Tannehill sacked by Trevan Walker, fumble and 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.359 it's recovered by Duan Smoot and then Jacksonville goes in 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:19.800 and scores a touchdown. So not only do you lose 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.440 all the momentum of a great offensive series and a 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.600 great defensive series. You give the ball back to the 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.600 Jaguars at their twenty yard line, in their personal house 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.120 of horrors where everything has started wrong, and then you 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.959 don't get off the field at the point that that 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:40.520 game became seven to seven. The magic wore off whatever 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:45.040 Tennessee had in the series and in the recent wind 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:49.639 streak at Nissan Stadium. Inexcusable to give up a strip 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.400 sack in that situation on probably a lot of people's parts. 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.880 I don't know everything that goes with the play, but 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.120 the fact of the matter is that was seven free 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.519 point two of the other turnovers they had to drive 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.000 a long way to get Now you touched on at Amy. 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.680 They wasted a chance. The play you're talking about should 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:10.519 have had you go in at the half up twenty 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.720 one thirteen, and the play you talk about red instead 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.280 put the Jags up twenty to fourteen. It was a 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.880 fourteen point swing. I think there were several key moments 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.520 in this thing. If the Titans are up at halftime, 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.079 totally different game. You walk in and you say, m 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.760 two turnovers, We've overcome them. It's our day. We're doing 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:34.920 our thing. Instead, everything was magnified, and then Jacksonville goes out, 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.119 has two great drives in the third quarter, you get 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:42.640 six plays of offense, six plays in the third quarter. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:50.480 You're right, every mistake is then magnified because there's nothing 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.720 the Titans can do at that point. You are pigeonholed. 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.080 There's one way that you can behave going forward because 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:00.080 you're playing catchup, and all mistakes that happen either before 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.760 or after those moments, all of a sudden, are a 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:06.560 much bigger issue. All right, second down, Red Brian's going first. 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.680 It is the stat that grabbed your attention, Derrick Henry 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.400 ninety six yards in the first quarter, But the stat 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.360 that really stands out as one hundred and twenty one 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.039 yards to end the game. That tells me a lot 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.599 happened from that first quarter on and to your point 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.760 on the broadcast yesterday, second and third quarters ended up 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.760 being disastrous. Well, and I'll take it a step further. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:33.160 My stat is six carries and that is six carries 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.440 for Derrick Henry after the first quarter, eleven carries in 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:40.160 the first quarter, six afterwards. Why A you didn't have 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:44.080 the football that much and b you fell behind when 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.960 you got behind twenty seven to fourteen, and especially when 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.599 you got behind thirty three to fourteen, it's over. You're 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.200 having to go into a set that you're just not 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.120 used to running at first. And it's like I said, 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.400 you grabbed that lead even at fourteen seven. You're going 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.640 to be able to keep doing your thing. If you 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:03.960 go into the second half twenty one thirteen, You're going 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:05.680 to be able to keep doing your thing. You're going 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.800 to be able to stay with it. They were pushing them. 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.559 There were some holes there. Yes, there were some ones 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.240 in twos and I get that, but there were holes 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.400 at different times. For the first time in weeks since 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.839 Kansas City, the Titans pushed the other team some in 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.920 the run game. They needed more than six carries from 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:27.000 Derrick Henry in the last three quarters. Mine is back 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.279 to what I always go with. It's penalties. The Titans 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.080 have five penalties for fifty yards. They all came in 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.680 the second half. I think that is not a coincidence 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.640 that they all came in the second half. As the 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.119 wheels were coming off for this Titans team, as things 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.279 were getting more out of hand, you started to see 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.720 those mental mistakes. You started to see some things break 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.479 down a little bit. You cannot cannot, cannot do that, 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:55.800 and it's frustrating to see those mistakes, as we've been saying, 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.320 continue to be magnified by something that. I mean, five 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.719 penalties in a game overall is not that big of 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.000 a deal when so many other things are going wrong. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.640 That's something you can control, and the Titans just didn't. Okay. 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:08.240 So I worked for a guy by in the name 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.920 of John Ward at the University of Tennessee for twelve years, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.000 and John Ward used to look at the stats in 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.919 football and basketball, and if he saw a broad difference 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.159 in numbers, he would always tell you that he would 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.520 expect it to even up. In a big hurry. At halftime, 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.720 Jacksonville had four penalties for thirty yards. The Titans had 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.159 not been penalized. They did have one that was that 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:36.000 was picked up because Jacksonville scored a touchdown. But it 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.560 ends up when the game is completed, it ends up 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.000 nine for seventy and five for fifty. So in the 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:46.880 second half, Jacksonville five for forty, Tennessee five for fifty. 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:52.240 Do you believe John Ward's logic? Yes, he did it 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:56.040 long enough well. His contention was the officials always had 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.440 an idea that they needed. I don't know, Mike, I'll 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.279 give you one honorable mention and on stat that stood out, 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.440 and this is telling about the special team's phase of 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.680 this and especially in the return game. Did you look 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:12.600 at that the total return yardage not including kickoffs four yards? Yes, yeah, 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.160 the Titans just didn't didn't get anything done in that 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:20.080 area whatsoever. It must though. They didn't let Agnew get started, 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.080 so it was outside of the one he returned for 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:26.320 a touchdown that was called back from a statistical standpoint, 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:30.000 an official standpoint, they didn't let him get started. But 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.000 just not a good day overall. 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Third 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:36.640 down area where the Titans must improve from yesterday. Segment 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:41.040 may take a minute. Yeah, there are many many areas 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.040 where I think some improvement could be good. Minus turnovers. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.199 You gotta win the turnover battle if you're going to 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.280 win a ball game, all right, let me stop you 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:52.600 right there. Though. That was so wacky because this team 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:57.640 only had eleven turnovers in twelve games. Yeah, they don't 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.480 do that. They did they just well they hit you right, 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:03.120 they didn't, but they I mean, that just doesn't happen. 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.160 They had the turnovers in the Buffalo game. But the 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.839 thing about those turnovers is they occurred when the game 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.840 was already like twenty four to seven. I mean, everybody 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.320 was talking about, well the turnovers beat him. No it didn't. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.800 I mean they were already way behind when they started 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.680 turning the ball over. This was so out of character 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.120 for a vayball team. I mean it just doesn't happen. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.480 And they are in a takeaway drought right now. Well, 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.640 and that's the bigger issue in my mind. I mean, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.000 things are going to happen. They just are, especially when 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:35.400 you get in a position where you got to throw 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.760 the ball more. And yes, we know that you're going 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.280 to turn the ball over. Sometimes you gotta gotta gotta 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.280 create some of these turnovers. You've got to get the 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.120 ball out in some way, punch it out, kick it out, 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.560 do whatever you need to do, take it away, intercept it. 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.920 I don't care, but the defense needs to start getting 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.520 some of these takeaways. Well, and some of it it's 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:59.880 just breaks. Yeah, I mean because Rhett, when Simmons hit 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:04.000 Lawrence's arm on the one the one pass, the third 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.800 offensive play of the game for Jacksonville, that ball's got 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.080 to go to a titan, right, I mean, it just 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.400 it just happened. With all the tip drills we see 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:19.960 them do every day, average science. Yesterday was Murphy's law. Right, 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.160 whenever you believe in you know, I mean, you're football wise. 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.480 It's just it's got a land right in a guy's 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.520 arms running the other way, right, and instead it just 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.280 goes over everybody's head. And I mean it's great because 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.520 it was third down and they had to punt. But 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.040 I remember thinking when I saw how he affected that throw, 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.319 Jeff did such a good job. Just like the touchdown 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.239 at the end of the first half. If Roger McCrary 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:49.520 gets two more inches off the ground, he picks that pass. 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.600 How about Rashad Weaver, Yes, he dropped a sure pick. Yeah, 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.920 and he knows it right. It was just one of 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.400 those days. But it can't continue on. It needs to improve. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.400 Ret For me, I have something they need to improve 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:04.920 on that would take care of a lot of these 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.480 issues we're talking about, and that is they have to 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.760 mike win the line of scrimmage. Four sacks giving up 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.160 given up by this offensive line. That's ten in the 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.280 last two games. If you shore that up, you can 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:21.839 take away some of those turnover problems and be more 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.679 efficient in the offensive line and for the offense as 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.680 a whole. And then by the same token, effect the 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.280 line of scrimmage on defense. And you had no force 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.480 turnovers yesterday, and to Drought you just mentioned, you start 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.400 getting some things like that, you start getting back in 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.000 the win column. Line of scrimmage has to be taken 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.600 care of. I'm gonna go with something very specific. I'm 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.920 gonna say the defense has to bat down more passes. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.520 Just to what we're talking about, balls coming out fast. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.560 You know, that's what was happening yesterday. Now he did, 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.640 he did drop and take some shots, and the Titan's 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.240 got no pressure on Lawrence when he did that. But 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.640 in those balls that are coming out quickly, and we're 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.880 going to see it again from Justin Herbert. I mean 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.959 Justin Herberts through fifty one passes in the game last night, 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.480 completed thirty nine for over three hundred and fifty yards. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.600 So his yards per attempt was not fabulous. Ball's coming 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:16.360 out and so you've got to get in lanes and 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.200 knock it down. You may not be able to get 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.760 to the quarterback on those plays, I get it. You 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.760 may not be able to pick off passes in those situations. 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.360 Maybe you can, that would be great, but you've got 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.839 to bat the ball, whether you're in the defensive line, 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.600 whether you're a linebacker a defensive back. You know, Bayard 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.720 made a few good plays on Ingram. I think he 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.160 had three pass breakups. They've got to get their hands 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.959 on balls all over and knock them down. At some 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.880 point one of them has to bounce up in the air, 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.800 fly up in the air, hang up in the air, whatever, 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.720 and be intercepted. It has to happen, Yeah, I mean 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:56.240 you would hope, you would think, but I don't know. 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.880 It feels like it might never happen again. Well it will. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:03.040 Fourth down, You're player of the game, Ritt Bryan for 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.959 the second straight OTP four D. It's check a conquo. 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.000 He accounted for eight of the twenty two points in 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.280 this six catches for forty five yards. The young man 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.520 is emerging right before our very eyes. The two point 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:21.120 play was incredible. I mean he you know, he just said, look, 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.440 I had to secure the ball, and so he secured 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.760 it to the front of his helmet and rolled in 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.760 for the two. Can my player of the game be 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:33.600 Mike Vrabel? Really? Can he? I'd be interested to know why. 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.480 I was impressed by him both yesterday and also today 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:42.600 in his press conference. But during the game, the level 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:47.560 at which he communicated with his team when it was 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:51.240 an infuriating game, I'm sure, especially for the person who 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.680 put together what the keys to this game are and 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.320 was watching his team just struggle to perform the way 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.840 that he needed it to the way that he was 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:04.160 talking to his players, and I see him every week 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.880 during the game, the way that he was coaching, the 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.640 way that he was breaking things down for He wasn't 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.440 losing his mind, he wasn't losing his cool, He wasn't 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.800 overly frustrated or angry. He was very sensible, He was 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.400 very concise in the way that he was talking to people. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.160 He did a good job of giving notes and then 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:23.960 getting out of their way and letting them work. He 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.000 just I was so impressed by the way that he 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.680 was moving about the sidelines and the way that he 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.160 was interacting with his players. And then he addressed it 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.680 today in his press conference about how there are a 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.920 lot of different ways that you can get your message 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:40.240 across to players, and he was asked about whether he 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.120 yells and gets frustrated and kind of takes out his 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.440 frustrations on his team, and he was talking about how 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:48.960 he is really intentional with the way that he delivers 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.960 a message and that there's a lot of different ways 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.600 to do it. And as soon as he said that, 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.200 I remembered him on the sidelines yesterday, and what I 0:15:56.280 --> 0:16:00.800 was noticing was that intentionality was that commitment to not 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:04.200 losing his mind and not being overly frustrated even when 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.880 bad things happen. He's walking up and down the sidelines 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.920 telling guys to burn it and keep going. I was 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:13.320 just so impressed by that, because you know that he 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.440 had to be just losing his mind like the rest 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.880 of us. You know, that's a good point. He's my 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.560 player of the game. And I think it's interesting because 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:27.320 that mindset, even though virtually everything had gone wrong for 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:30.480 his team, that mindset is what allowed them to have 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.120 first intent at the Jacksonville twenty with two forty one 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.680 to go. That didn't work out. But let's just say 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:42.680 a Jacksonville defensive back falls down, Racy McMath catches the touchdown. 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.760 Then all of a sudden, it's thirty six twenty nine 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:51.680 with too something to go. You maybe don't even have 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.960 to on sidekick, and you're in a position there where 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.560 or you do and you get it. You're in a 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:02.600 position there where you may not lose this game. My 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:07.399 point is this, by acting how he acts, not blowing 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.119 a gasket, I think that's what gave the team a 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:15.119 chance to still be competing at the end. Now he 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.159 can blow a gasket. Oh sure, I have witnessed it. 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:22.280 For anyone listening to the otp Ot people, I promise 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:26.480 you if you think that it's all you know, playing 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:31.400 the still string guitar and everybody hugging and it's all 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.640 wonderful all the time, No it's not. He can get 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.600 with it when he needs to, but he picks the 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:42.040 right situation because he knows, having been a player, that 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.240 when you're down, the last thing you need to do 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:50.120 is have somebody absolutely wear you out. That's gonna put 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.200 him in the tank and then you have no chance. Now, 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.879 if there's going to be wearing out, it'll be in 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.880 the meeting room, it'll be on the practice field, but 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.359 it won't be forever and ever. He doesn't do it 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.760 every single day. He picks his spots. He picks his spots. 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.880 And that's why the Titans never feel like they are 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:13.040 completely out of a ball game. Never are they in 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.720 a position where you're like, well, nope, it's done, shows over, 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:19.639 we're done. It just doesn't happen because this team continues 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.680 to play, and if for no other reason, they continue 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.280 to play for him, because I think there is a 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.840 respect and an understanding and I think the lot of 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.200 that is the way that he interacts with his team 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.600 even in times of stress and in times of just 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.240 what have to be incredible frustration. My player the game 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.159 is Austin Hooper. Five catches sixty eight yards in the 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.200 last six weeks. He might be the Titans most valuable 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.919 player over that period of time. He's now second on 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.800 the team in receptions with thirty two. He's up to 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:52.280 three hundred forty seven yards, receiving nearly eleven yards a catch. 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:56.480 He scored two touchdowns on the year. But Austin Hooper 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.920 is a guy they can continually rely on to pick 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.840 up first downs, to make a guy miss, He's making 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.000 some plays. The biggest problem for the Tennessee Titans at 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.480 this moment in time is they don't have enough guys 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:15.240 making plays. They just don't. And Hooper is making plays 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.359 when he gets his hands on the ball, the twenty 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.560 four yard catch and run, those sorts of things that 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.359 they have guys that can make plays, They're just not 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.800 making enough of them right now. And we talk about 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:31.119 the luck part of this having to do with maybe 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:33.720 a ball bounces to you one time or something happens, 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:38.520 but at some point, somebody just has to win, right 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:42.440 and somebody just has to win. Nick Westbrook a kine 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.560 in the end zone one. That's what they needed to 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:47.480 have happened, because I don't know they would get the 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.400 ball in otherwise. I mean, they were so snake bit 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:53.360 on the day. It was like, you're you're sitting there 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.520 watching this Rett and you're thinking, in your mind, they're 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:58.800 not going to get this in. This is how bad 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.760 this day is. Mike Rabel talks about you got to win, 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.040 and he means those one on one battles too. You know, 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.960 I felt bad for Racy McMath because here he has 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:13.800 not been on a football field since late August, and 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:17.239 he's clearly knocking the rust off and I wanted so 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:19.959 badly for him to catch that touchdown so he can 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:23.639 kind of explode the rust off, not just knock it 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.040 off right well, and he'll get more chances. I mean, 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:28.680 he absolutely will, because he's worked his rear end off 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.320 to get back to the point where he could actually 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:34.120 get out there and make some plays if they get 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:38.000 Burks back. And I respect how Rabel is handling the 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:42.320 Burks thing with a concussion because people are asking him, 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.400 is there a chance he can practice to their chance. 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:48.160 He doesn't want to say anything because he in no 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:51.359 way wants it to be interpreted that he's sending a 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:55.680 player a message or an expectation about a head injury. Right, 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:59.880 I totally respect that. Now, maybe private least thinking yeah, 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.000 he can get back out through this week, but publicly, 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:04.800 he doesn't want to say anything because he wants the 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:07.680 player to feel like he can go at his own 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:09.639 pace with a head injury, that he can tell the 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:12.679 truth and that he can feel better, and that he 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:14.840 can be ready to go at his own moment, just 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:18.480 like today announcing that Dontrelle Hilliard is already out this week, 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.360 so people won't be asking all week about Dontrelle Hilliard, 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.440 and it's people's jobs to ask. I'm not saying that. 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:30.560 What I'm saying is Vrabel takes that off the player immediately, 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:36.680 which if my son's playing for him, that's what I want. Yeah, 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.520 because the head thing is nothing to play with. Nope. Now, 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:45.480 if Burkes can go and you have Woods, Westbrook, Akeena Burkes, 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:49.919 Racy McMath, Chris Conley's kind of an interesting guy because 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:52.640 he's doing some better things. And then if you get 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:55.679 Phillips back, and I just keep holding out hope that 0:21:55.840 --> 0:22:00.280 maybe Kyle Phillips can rejoin. Could you actually have a 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:03.720 full compliment of receivers and don't forget Chicken Hooper? Well 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:07.000 that's it. I mean, the tight end position has improved 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:13.879 dramatically um and especially in recent weeks. But oh gosh, 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:17.080 could this be? I don't know. I'm not I'm not 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:19.679 knocking on I'm not knocking on things or holding my 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:23.880 breath or speaking in to exist. I burned my lucky 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:27.320 socks last night. Well that's probably good, and they did 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:30.640 not work. They're going, wow, Yeah, we need something new 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:36.320