Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - BREAKING: BRIAN CALLAHAN FIRED BY TENNESSEE TITANS, INTERIM HEAD COACH OPTIONS & MUST HELP CAM WARD

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

The Tennessee Titans have FIRED head coach Brian Callahan after a disastrous start to his second season and it is something that needed to happen. Callahan was hurting the football team and most impor...tantly Cam Ward. Now with Callahan gone, the Titans can focus on actually making some improvements and hopefully that will happen with Jon Bones Fassell as the interim head coach. However, we could see Mike McCoy, as a former head coach, take over that spot to keep everyone else in their current roles. No matter what happens, everything going forward has to be about helping Cam Ward, who has been struggling even more in recent weeks. Subscribe to the TicTacTitans Film Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@TicTacTitans TicTacTitans Merchandise: https://dixons-dream.square.site/shop/tictactitans-gear/C3AAPNWXSXA6SBYG3USV2I7R?page=1&limit=30&sort_by=category_order&sort_order=asc Follow Tyler on Twitter @TicTacTitans Follow the show on Facebook @LockedOnTitansPod Subscribe to the Locked On Titans YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/LockedOnTitans/videos Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Mint MobileReady to say yes to saying no?Make the switch at https://MintMobile.com/LOCKEDONNFL Upfront payment of $45 required (equivalent to $15/mo). Limited-time new customer offer for first 3 months only. Speeds may slow above 35GB on Unlimited plan. Taxes and fees extra. See Mint Mobile for details.BetterhelpThis episode is sponsored by Betterhelp. Our listeners get 10% off their first month at https://BetterHelp.com/lockedon. BILTTurn your rent into rewards and start earning points around your neighborhood by going to https://joinbilt.com/lockedonnfl.Supply HouseJoin the free TradeMaster program today and score serious perks like priority shipping, lower prices, and a dedicated support line. Visit https://SupplyHouse.com to sign up for free and use promo code SHNFL5 for 5% off your first order. PelotonLet yourself run, lift, flex, and push forward. Explore the new Peloton Cross Training Tread+ today at https://www.onepeloton.com.RugietReady to level up your confidence in the bedroom? Head to https://www.rugiet.com and use promo code LOCKEDONNFL for 15% off your first order.PrizePicksDownload the PrizePicks app today and use code LOCKEDONNFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup.Click Here: https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/LOCKEDONNFLGametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNFL for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime.FanDuelRight now, new customers can bet just FIVE dollars and if your bet wins—you’ll get THREE HUNDRED dollars in bonus bets to use across the app.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Boom! The Tennessee Titans have fired Brian Callahan in the move that we've all been waiting for. But what happens next? We'll discuss on today's emergency edition of Locked-on Titans. You are Locked-on Titans, your daily Tennessee Titans podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome to the Locked-on Titans podcast. I am your host, Tyler Rowland Titans fans. Today's emergency edition of the Locked-on Titans podcast is brought to you by Fandul. Right now, new customers can bet just $5.
Starting point is 00:00:42 And if your bet wins, you'll get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. Brian Callahan is fired. The Tennessee Titans have finally made the move that we have all been waiting on firing a terrible one of the worst, maybe the worst head coach in NFL history. We're going to talk about why this needed to happen right now, why I warned you that the Titans would do it this week,
Starting point is 00:01:07 just a couple of weeks ago. We'll talk about what's going to happen next, who's going to be the interim head coach, who are the head coaching candidates who should be the next head coach for the Tennessee Titans. Plus, this is all about helping Cam Ward because you have fans out there turning on Cam Ward when it's obvious that this team is completely,
Starting point is 00:01:26 completely lost and it's not the rookie quarterback's fault. Before we get into all of the madness, do want to thank you for making Locked on Titans, your first listen each and every day. Remember, Monday through Friday, Tennessee Titans content all year round, always for free. You're not going to beat that anywhere else. Make sure that you get subscribed, stay subscribed.
Starting point is 00:01:46 It's your team every day here on the Locked on Titans podcast. But with that being said, folks, this is a move that absolutely had to happen. Brian Callahan was maybe 3.000. the worst head coach that I have ever seen at any level of football in my entire life. I mean, ultimately, he ends up going 3 and 19 in his career. And I saw a stat from Tehran Davenport from ESPN. The Tennessee Titans offense has scored the least amount of points
Starting point is 00:02:15 through six weeks of any team since 1989. When you are an offensive-minded head coach and your offense and your rookie quarterback are absolutely despicable. And what's funny is this news came out right after I got done going through the film of Week 6's loss to the Las Vegas Raiders. And I could not believe the incompetence that I saw all over the tape on the offensive side of the ball. The offensive line has no idea what they're doing. The wide receivers are running the wrong routes. No one is open.
Starting point is 00:02:46 The quarterback has no answers for pressure. And listen, you don't want to believe me. You don't want to buy into what I'm saying. Think about Kurt Warner, who was on Twitter on Monday morning talking about Cam Ward is just throwing the ball at the ground at some point because he has no answers for the pressure. No one's open. You have a Hall of Fame quarterback. You have former NFL quarterbacks all over the place like Dan Orlowski and Kurt Benkirk and all these different people saying exactly what I'm trying to tell you to. The offense was a disgrace. There was nothing that they could do. There was no one open for Cam Ward. The offensive line doesn't know what they're doing. The wide receivers don't know what they're doing. And then think about the in-game decision-making that we had to sit through
Starting point is 00:03:25 for the first month of the season. Think back to the Denver game before halftime where you got a wide receiver screen and nobody turns around to catch it. Think about all of the pre-half-time time management decisions that got botched here. Brian Callahan not only had no idea what he was doing schematically on offense, but he also had no idea how to lead a football team. And I think the most damning thing that happened was Jeffrey Simmons and Cam Ward,
Starting point is 00:03:51 the two leaders of the football team both said in their press conferences after the game we are our worst week of practice all year this week how do you come off your only win of the year when the team should be as energized and as fired up and as motivated as they've been all season since the beginning of the year and you have your worst week of practice you have your worst day of practice all season on the Thursday practice how is that even possible so once again the team had tuned out, Brian Callahan. You spent all all season, all season. Talking about penalties, talking about playing clean. Talking about not turning over the ball.
Starting point is 00:04:32 And then the team has no idea what they're doing. They commit a million penalties to start the season. There's turnovers galore. Everything that Brian Callahan had to say all, all season long. Completely ignored by his players. Completely ignored. So I said it on yesterday's show. I don't know what else the Tennessee Titans needed to see,
Starting point is 00:04:54 a team that made the garbage, terrible Las Vegas Raiders look like an all-pro world beating team. Completely unacceptable. This had to absolutely happen right now. And again, just like I said yesterday after the game, if that isn't enough to fire Brian Callahan, then what could you possibly be waiting for? What could you possibly be looking for?
Starting point is 00:05:18 And listen, we're still waiting for all the dominoes to fall here. I am going to continuously check updates throughout the show. We don't know who the interim head coach is going to be right now. We don't know whether Bill Callahan's going to walk. We don't know whether Nick Holes is going to go to. And quite frankly, I don't care. I don't care who stays. I don't care who goes.
Starting point is 00:05:43 Because pretty much every single person on this coaching staff outside of Bones Fossil is somebody I don't even care if they have them on the team next year. I don't care if they're on and quite honestly watching Cody Barton stand 10 yards
Starting point is 00:05:58 behind the line to gain and watch the Titans' cornerbacks and defensive backs be 15 yards deep on 3rd and 3rd and 4 I don't care if DeNard Wilson stays either. I simply do not care. The Titans
Starting point is 00:06:14 absolutely had to make this move. This team is lost, it's directionless, they have the worst coaching that I've ever seen at the NFL level in my life. And as I told you guys a couple of weeks ago, Mike Vrable is coming to town this week. And if you think, if you think that the Tennessee Titans are going to let Mike Vrable absolutely stomp the Titans in Nissan Stadium and then fire Brian Callahan making it clear that Mike Vrable made you do that, You're insane You're insane They needed to do it now
Starting point is 00:06:51 And I went over the stats Just a couple of weeks ago About how teams improve After they fire a terrible head coach midseason And that's what this season was all about This season was about seeing the Titans improve No they weren't going to win a bunch of games No they weren't going to do this and that
Starting point is 00:07:10 blah blah blah They weren't going to compete for the playoffs If you were a logical Titans fan You knew that this team wasn't going to compete compete for the playoffs. But what we needed to see was this team improve and more importantly, we needed to see Cam Ward look like he could be the future. And that's why after yesterday's game, I said the worst thing that could happen for Brian Callahan is for Cam Ward to look terrible.
Starting point is 00:07:30 And you already had the fan base turning on Cam Ward for some reason. When it's clear he had the worst head coach in the entire NFL. So to me, I said it a couple of weeks ago, I said there's a secret reason. there's a secret reason why the Titans are going to wait to fire Brian Callahan and it's so that they could get that head coach fired bump and performance as the New England Patriots are coming to town
Starting point is 00:07:59 I literally prepped you guys for this exact moment that they would wait until this game this week so that they could get that bump in performance against Mike Vrable and again if Mike Vrable whoops Brian Callahan and you fire Brian Callahan And after that, now it makes you look like Mike Vrable made you do it.
Starting point is 00:08:19 And that looks even worse for Amy Adams-strunk the owner. So, again, we have been begging for this moment. We have been pleading for this moment. We finally get it. Ding-dong, the Wicked Witch is dead. Brian Callahan is absolutely out of here. He absolutely needed to be. And they picked the perfect week to try to capitalize on firing the head coach.
Starting point is 00:08:40 And quite frankly, I'm seeing some of you guys say it. are more people. There are more people who need to be fired. Get Nick holes as far away from my football team as you possibly can. What does this dude do? What exactly would you say that you do here? Absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. So, I think this is a great move by the Titans. It needed to happen. But the question is, what happens now? What comes next? Who are the Titans' interim head coach options? Who are the Titans actual? head coach options. Moving forward, we got a lot to discuss and it sounds like based on the reporting coming out now, the Titans don't necessarily have a plan for who's
Starting point is 00:09:22 going to be their interim head coach. So I'm going to tell them, they're listening because it sounds like some weeks that they are, I'm going to tell you exactly what your options need to be for the interim head coach and the actual head coach going forward. Do want to let you guys know that today's episode is brought to you by Bill. Nobody likes paying rent, but if you must, you might as well get something for it. That's where built comes in. B-I-L-T. Bill is changing the game by turning your rent payment into real rewards you can actually use.
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Starting point is 00:12:33 Finally, we get the worst coach in Tennessee Titans history removed from the building. next though who should be the interim head coach who should be the next head coach for the team quite honestly I think the titans have a ton of options I think they have a ton of options out there that they can go for number one hiring an interim head coach from your current staff
Starting point is 00:12:57 I think we talked about the options but John Bones Fossil the Titans special teams coordinator in my opinion if they pick an interim head coach from this coaching staff that is the number one option that they should go with John Bones Fossil. Number one, special teams coordinator is not as busy during the game as the defensive or the offensive coordinator. So I think that John Bones Fossil has the bandwidth available to do both interim head coaching and special teams coordination.
Starting point is 00:13:27 Not only that but if you pay attention to the sidelines during games you can see that Bones Fossil used to go up and talk to Brian Callahan a ton during the game and I think that it's to iron out some of these in-game decisions. making these situational football decisions that need to be made. So to me, Bones Fossil was already advising and coaching Brian Callahan on in-game management decisions. Let him do that and control the special teams. You leave DeNard Wilson as the defensive coordinator. You leave Bo Hardegree as the offensive play caller and maybe make him offensive coordinator as well when you get rid of Nick Holes. Also, we know that, well we don't know yet, but I would imagine that Bill Callahan is going to
Starting point is 00:14:10 to leave with his son, and sure, get out of here. See ya, don't care. Look at the offensive line. Obviously, that didn't work. So, make Scott Fuchs, the assistant offensive line coach, make him the actual offensive line coach, that's fine. I think that's the best option that the Titans have right now if they go for an interim head coach actually on their coaching staff.
Starting point is 00:14:31 But I also think that Mike McCoy is an option. Mike McCoy used to be a head coach in the NFL. He coached for the San Diego Chargers. Yes, that's how long ago it was. They were the San Diego Chargers when Mike McCoy was their head coach But if you make Mike McCoy the interim head coach you can leave everybody else in their current duties Without adding more to their plate so I think that makes a ton of sense but let me say this I don't think that it's impossible that the Titans may go get an interim head coach from outside the building
Starting point is 00:15:03 Maybe a guy like Mike McCoy maybe a guy like and I saw pro football talk report this maybe a guy like Eddie George. The Colts had done this recently. We've seen this happen in different places where you bring in a former player just to lead the locker room, lead the guys, let all the other coaches do what they're doing, just bringing a guy to lead and make decisions. Why not give Eddie George a shot? On an interim basis, why not? I don't think that that's insane at all. I really am open to anything for the Titans right now. It cannot possibly be worse. It cannot possibly be worse. It cannot possibly be worse. So why not?
Starting point is 00:15:42 Why not bring Mike McCarty in from doing the Pat McAfee show every week and give him a trial run as the Titans interim head coach before you do your whole entire process? Why not bring Eddie George? Hey, what about my guy Brad Hopkins from the Titans squad show? Let's bring him in and see if he can run this team. Brad's probably laughing right now. There's no way that he would want to do that.
Starting point is 00:16:03 But I'm just saying, the Titans need something to galvanize the locker room. And that's why I like Bones Fossil as the best interim option because he is an energetic guy who players love. Give him the opportunity to inspire this football team and motivate this football team. Again, I think Mike McCarthy would be a really solid interim head coach option because I think he's a solid option to be the head coach going forward. But I think a guy like Eddie George,
Starting point is 00:16:35 I know he's got his own responsibilities right now, but hey, why not? Why not? But let's do this too because we can't just focus on the interim head coach. Right now a lot of people are wanting who is going to be the next real head coach for the Tennessee Titans and I'm going to tell you
Starting point is 00:16:53 I don't think that that decision is going to be made until January. The Titans need to go through a full thorough process here and that's going to include interviewing people who are currently coordinators for their teams. So that list to me starts with Joe Brady. Joe Brady
Starting point is 00:17:09 who's the offensive coordinator of the Buffalo Bills. The Titans I still believe and I'm going to continue to feel this way. The Titans need an offensive-minded head coach and the reason for that is if you get a defensive-minded head coach
Starting point is 00:17:25 you're going to have to cycle through look at Damico Ryan's in Houston right now. He is a very good head coach and a very good defensive play caller but he can't get his offensive coordinator right so he's not right and he's ultimately going to lose his job in Houston because he can't get the offensive coordinator right.
Starting point is 00:17:44 And even if you get the offensive coordinator right and you're a defensive-minded head coach, you're going to lose that offensive coordinator because he's going to get hired as a head coach and then you've got to continue to go through, go through, go through, go through, and keep finding them. And that sets back your young quarterback too. I want a young, it doesn't even have to be young.
Starting point is 00:18:04 I want an offensive head coach to pair with Cam Ward for the rest of his career. We will find good defensive coordinators. We will find good defensive coordinators. I want an offensive head coach still. To this day, to this day, I want an offensive head coach, and you're never going to bully me off of it.
Starting point is 00:18:23 But Joe Brady has made Buffalo's offense look incredible. All right? He's been a guy bubbling under the surface for a few years now. I think Joe Brady would be an excellent option. Quite frankly, I think Cliff Kingsbury would be an excellent option as well. Now, does Cliff Kingsbury have the ability to lead the locker room? That's the question with Cliff Kingsbury. But look at what he did for Jaden Daniels last year.
Starting point is 00:18:48 Look at what he's doing for Jaden Daniels in the run game right now. You're mad that there isn't enough play action. You're mad that there isn't enough RPO. You're mad that there isn't enough movement in the pocket for Cam Ward. Why not go get Cliff Kingsbury, who led the Cardinals to an 11 and 5 season, who led Jaden Daniels to the best rookie quarterback season of all time last year. Why not? At minimum, at minimum, these guys need interviews.
Starting point is 00:19:13 I also think that Mike McCarthy, who I mentioned before, would be a good option. Mike McCarthy had three straight 12-win seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. Mike McCarthy won a Super Bowl with the Green Bay Packers. Mike McCarthy is a professional head coach that can lead a locker room and get this team back to being a professional football team. He may be a boring option, but the Titans need boring right now. If the Titans were just a regular old boring team like all these other teams, they would not be the worst team in the NFL.
Starting point is 00:19:47 The Titans need a professional football coach who knows what he's doing, who knows how to run a program, who knows how to lead a team. And Mike McCarthy not only does know how to do those things, but he is an offensive-minded head coach. who could get the best out of Cam Ward early in his career. Again, he's not the flashiest name. He's not Joe Brady and Cliff Kingsbury and these guys, but he makes a ton of sense.
Starting point is 00:20:13 What about a guy like Kirk Cignetti from Indiana from the college ranks? He could make some sense after what he's doing with Indiana right now. That would be more of a risky move in my opinion. But nonetheless, an option. You want to go to defense. A guy like Vance Joseph, a retread coach who's the defensive coordinator from the Denver Broncos, that should be a name that gets consideration. Jesse Minter, the defensive coordinator from the Los Angeles Chargers right now.
Starting point is 00:20:40 He's a hot name as well. I think those are all options. Some of you guys want Dernard Wilson. I do not think that Dernard Wilson has earned the right to be considered as a head coaching candidate for the Titans. Simply don't buy that. Glizzard, the guy who's running the Tampa Bay Buccaneers offense right now is another option.
Starting point is 00:21:06 But here's what I want to say. Right now, I don't think the Titans need to get a first-time head coach. I don't think that a first-year head coach, a rookie head coach, is what the Titans need right now. I think the Titans need someone who's done it before, who has experience, and run a professional program.
Starting point is 00:21:29 And that's why I think Mike McCarthy makes a ton of sense for this team. He does. And there are ties to Green Bay with Chad Brinker that make a lot of sense. So, now, some options that I don't make, or I don't think make any sense at all.
Starting point is 00:21:50 Number one, John Grin. Gruden's out of the game, folks. He's got ongoing litigation against the NFL, it's not going to be John Gruden. Let that go. It's not going to happen. Also, I see some people that's in the chat saying Josh McDaniels, not a chance.
Starting point is 00:22:08 Josh McDaniels is a disgrace as a head coach. What are we talking about there? I'm sorry, like, no offense, guys, but not a chance I want Josh McDaniels anywhere near my franchise. Get them out of here. No way. Under Mike Vrable's thumb, sure. But Josh McDaniels is not a head coach in the NFL.
Starting point is 00:22:27 how many times do we got to see this? We saw it in Denver, we saw it in Vegas, we saw the way he did the Colts. Josh McDaniel is not a head coach in the NFL. So, again, I don't think that this decision is going to happen until after the season is over.
Starting point is 00:22:47 But those are the options that I think come to the top of my mind right now as logical ones for the Titans. But with that being said, no matter who the Tennessee Titans hire, They have to get the best out of Cam Ward and that has not been even remotely true through the first six weeks of this season.
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Starting point is 00:24:24 Titans fans. Let's cap off today's emergency edition of the Locked on Titans podcast. We talked about Brian Callahan and the big news. Finally, Brian Callahan is fired. I said yesterday, what else do you need to see? Like, come on now. It's time to do it.
Starting point is 00:24:40 Not only that, but we talked about the options that make sense for the Tennessee Titans, Joe Brady, Cliff Kingsbury, Mike McCarthy, Jesse Minter, maybe Vance Joseph could be an option as well. in there if you want to go with a defensive head coach Brian Flores as a guy who I should have mentioned
Starting point is 00:24:58 who I think would be an option if you're looking for a defensive-minded head coach but regardless whoever the next coach is needs to get the best out of Cam Ward and after watching the tape and diving into some of the numbers from the game it just absolutely blows my mind
Starting point is 00:25:16 how the Tennessee Titans failed Cam Ward consistently play action rate we have talked for weeks and weeks and weeks about how good Cam Ward has been in play action. The Titans ran play action 13% against the Raiders. How do you see Cam Ward having his most success throughout the year in play action? And then actively decide to do it less.
Starting point is 00:25:42 Cam Ward was great, under center. When the defense didn't absolutely know it was going to be a pass. And what the Titans do, run 13 plays from under center. Cam Ward, good at the RPO's in college. One, two RPO's at maximum each game every week. And I honestly don't even think that they're true RPO's from watching the tape. I think what we're actually seeing is predetermined RPO looks, where it's like, hey, we're going to have an RPO look
Starting point is 00:26:16 where you could hit the wide receiver screen or you can hand it off. But actually the play is a handoff every single time. or actually the play is a wide receiver screen every single time. Which isn't a true RPO at all that allows Cam Ward to read the defense. So many times on the tape, not only this week that I just reviewed, but the weeks before, there is no one open. Guys are running the wrong routes.
Starting point is 00:26:45 The spacing of those routes are despicable and bad. You have two guys right next to each other that makes it easy for the defense to see. We've talked about how the Titans are keeping seven guys in to block, and they can't even block. They can't even protect Cam Ward even though they're leaving seven guys in. And then you only have three guys out in routes going against seven defenders. No one's going to be open.
Starting point is 00:27:12 Disgrace. And that's just the shortcomings of the offense. Not to mention all the time management, in-game decision. decision-making fumbles and stumbles and bumbles that Brian Callahan showed us over the first six weeks. And my big problem here is all of this comes back to, Brian Callahan was unwilling to mold his system to his players. A complete unwillingness to change. And that is the mark of a bad coach.
Starting point is 00:27:47 At the pee-wee level, middle school, high school, college, pro, any sport. The mark of a good coach is being able to take your system, your personal football philosophy and bend it and mold it to what your players do well. Because if you have a system that doesn't cater to your players' strengths and talents, you will fail. No matter how good your players are or no matter how good your system is, you will fail. And Brian Callahan refused to change his system,
Starting point is 00:28:28 whether it be last year for Will Levis, whether it be this year for Cam Ward. He refused to incorporate what Cam Ward did well in college. What would make him comfortable? What would give him easy outs to find easy answers and gain chemistry and consistency? He refused to do it.
Starting point is 00:28:50 At every turn, he refused to do it. every turn he refused and quite honestly we all owe Will Levis an apology I'm not here saying oh well Will Levis would do this and do that of you but Will Levis was clearly better with Tim Kelly and Mike Vrable than he was with Brian Callahan and that's because Brian Callahan tried to make him Joe Montana in the West Coast quick passing offense that's not who Will Levis was that's not who Cam Ward it is. So, to me,
Starting point is 00:29:25 whether you're talking about managing the football team, being a leader, putting your players in a position to win, inspiring your players, Brian Callahan was a disaster at all of that stuff. But the thing that he was supposed to be good at
Starting point is 00:29:41 is adjusting his offense, changing his offense, adapting his offense to his players and what they do well. And he did the opposite of that this year. So, it had to happen, and whoever the Titans bring in next, they better, they better be somebody who can get the best out of Cam Ward. That's all that matters.
Starting point is 00:30:05 The rest of the roster is awful. We know that. So, all that matters going forward is getting the best out of Cam Ward. And that's why I am hyper-focused, hyper-focused. on an offensive-minded head coach. I think that's exactly what needs to happen. But that's going to do it for me today, folks. As always, I am your host, Tyler Rowland,
Starting point is 00:30:31 and this was Locked on Titans.

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