Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Locked on Titans: Reacting to a playoff win over the Chiefs

Episode Date: January 7, 2018

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome in to a very special edition of Locked On Titans, celebrating the Titans' win over the Chiefs. I am Jimmy Morris, joined as always by Terry Lambert. Terry, how are you? I am dumbfounded. I don't know what to think. I did not see that coming. Yeah, it was crazy. We'll get into all that. Before we get started, one, Terry and I write for musicstudyofmiracles.com. Cover the Titans there for SB Nation. that out we'll have you know everything you want to know about this game next week's game all that stuff so check that out subscribe to the podcast
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Starting point is 00:00:50 So if you like this show, if you want to hear about the other teams, they're in the playoffs, NFL draft, if you're an NBA guy, any of that stuff, you can check all that stuff out. So search those out as well. All right, so Titans win a playoff game. It's been a really long time since we've been able to say that. I've been running musicmiracles.com since 2006, and this is the first Titans playoff win I've ever gotten to cover. This is the third playoff game, but they lost the first two.
Starting point is 00:01:17 So wild, wild game. You know, so many ups and downs. Like so many Titans games this year. Get off to a really slow start. Dig yourself a hole. But say what you want about this team. Say what you want about Mike Malarkey. They never stop battling.
Starting point is 00:01:38 They never give up. And you can tell these guys love playing for him. And there was no quit in that sideline. Even down 14, there was no hanging their heads. I mean, they played this from the opening whistle to the last whistle, and I think that says something about the guys on this team and about Mike Malarkey as a coach. Yeah, I think the biggest development today was the run game, obviously. We've talked about it all season long.
Starting point is 00:02:06 The Titans could just get this run game going. They could really be something. And you saw that in the second half especially, running out of the shotgun, running some no-huddle stuff. Derrick Henry was an absolute hoss tonight. Message received. He called himself soft a couple days ago. He comes out and just runs over the Chiefs.
Starting point is 00:02:27 191 yards from scrimmage. Just a fantastic performance by him. Fantastic performance by this offensive line, blowing open holes for him. Gutsy, gutsy performance at the end for Marcus Mariota. Not the prettiest game statistically for him. Again, we've kind of said that. He's not going to have pretty games in this system.
Starting point is 00:02:47 But this was how the Titans were supposed to win all along, playing lights-out defense, which we saw in the second half. It was a shutout in the second half. Running the football, controlling the game physically, that's Titans football right there. And you asked me this question, and so I will pose it to you here on the show. Was that
Starting point is 00:03:08 Derrick Henry being better, the offensive line being better, or the Chiefs being bad against the run? I'm going to say some sort of combination. I don't think you can ignore how bad the Chiefs have been against the run. So we need to keep that in mind.
Starting point is 00:03:23 And that was one of our matchups for the Titans that they had to exploit. But at the same time it was good to see it because they've had plus matchups before. They've been in good situations against San Francisco, against Indy to run the ball and they haven't.
Starting point is 00:03:39 So it was just good to see the Titans finally do it. I thought they did some different things tonight. They ran a lot more from shotgun, it seemed. I don't have the numbers in front of me. But no huddle stuff. It seemed to open some things up, seemed to make things easier for Derrick Henry. Yeah, and one quick note.
Starting point is 00:03:59 You'll probably be listening to this on Monday morning. We're recording it Saturday night right after the game. So just keep that in mind. We just wanted to kind of jump on it and knock this out while we're while it's fresh on our mind so just just keep that in mind as you hear us refer to tonight and that kind of stuff uh we're recording saturday night after the game yeah i mean derrick henry look we have we talked a lot this week about uh the way that he ran against jacksonville he talked about how he ran how he didn't feel good about the game against jacksonville i know terry you had these concerns about henry coming out of college about how he didn't run to his size he could get tripped up easily you know it was it was tough for him to get up to full speed
Starting point is 00:04:33 now we know what he can do once he gets to full speed but you know it was it was kind of tough for him to get there i thought today he made tonight he made a concerted effort to stay going forward he still he still bounce runs when he was able to bounce them, but he wasn't trying to bounce everything. He was hitting the holes when they were there. He was getting positive yards. He was dragging guys with him when he got hit at the second level and that kind of stuff.
Starting point is 00:04:56 And that's what they need him to do. That's what this team has needed out of its run game all year long, and it hasn't gotten it uh you know for pretty much any game consistently throughout the course of a game and you said earlier this is they've had they've had a lot of positive you know matchups as far as the numbers are concerned in the run game and they haven't been able to take advantage of them they did that tonight obviously you know it's a great time to go ahead and do that first round of playoffs playoffs. But, I mean, I did think that Derrick Henry looked like he was making a conscious effort to move forward, to hit holes, to run guys over when he got to the second level.
Starting point is 00:05:33 And I didn't think we saw that from him last week. So we'll take that. And, look, I mean, I think that you probably head into next season with him as the guy that is somewhat of the feature back. And we've talked about how we think that they're going to bring in a guy that can they can help in the passing game some. But, you know, I thought tonight he kind of eased some of the concerns of him being able to be a guy that you can count on in your running. And you can kind of build your run game around. Now, again, he needs a compliment and all that stuff, and we've talked about that,
Starting point is 00:06:06 and we'll get into that at some point later down the road. But I thought tonight he made me feel better about his prospects going forward. I will say, and I said it on Twitter during the game, he got Marcus Mariota killed on one play. And we've been killing the staff all year long about not getting derrick henry out there but we saw tonight again that he still has some issues in in the in the protection game when when he's out there to block um let you know let's a guy like derrick donson come free i mean marcus mariotta like he'll fill that hit probably until next year um So, I mean, there are still some issues there, but he didn't appear to go the wrong way on any run plays tonight, so that was good.
Starting point is 00:06:49 So I'm just glad that this week he seemed better prepared overall for being the guy. It just looked like he had some issues with that last week. Ran with an attitude, too. Finished. He didn't dance. I think I only saw him bounce just really two or three runs to the outside. So when the hole was there, he
Starting point is 00:07:09 hit it. So again, I think he got the message. I think tonight you kind of saw him stake his claim as I'm the leader of this backfield now. So we're pretty sure DeMarco Murray isn't going to be back. We're pretty sure the Titans are going to draft someone
Starting point is 00:07:25 or bring somebody else in. But this is Derrick Henry's job going forward. This is what he was drafted to do. And finally, finally, we get a flash of Belkow, Derrick Henry. And, man, it was beautiful to watch. Just polar opposite from last week. And, again, that is a much worse run defense than he faced last week. Let's be clear about that.
Starting point is 00:07:49 So I don't want to say that he's going to do that every game. It's not going to happen. There's still going to be frustrations. But it was just really good to see the Titans winning the line of scrimmage once again. I don't think they've done that since. I really can't tell you. Yeah, and i was here to tell you like when when derrick henry last week during the week was saying i ran soft and it wasn't even like i mean malarkey addressed it a little bit in the in the press
Starting point is 00:08:17 conference on monday but you know derrick henry looked like he he had done a an honest self evaluation and said look this is something that I've got to fix. When guys are willing to do stuff like that, they're going to make improvements. You want to hear that from a guy. You love to hear it from a guy. So many times, when you heard Terry Hrabisky say later in the week that he thought Derrick Henry ran pretty well. Derrick Henry didn't run well last week. He looked terrible.
Starting point is 00:08:40 And Derrick Henry said he looked terrible. So just good to see him be able to evaluate himself in that way and then come back and make improvements. And like you said, yes, it's able to get back on the practice field. Here's what I hope, though. If he is able to go, and I think if he's able to go, he can still have a role for this team this year. I think if it's third and eight, you probably want DeMarco Murray out there. Now, Henry Sheldon, he can catch the ball and get up the field. Some people say he can't do that, which I just think is ridiculous. But, again, with the protection issue so if if it's if you're in these obvious long down passing situations then
Starting point is 00:09:31 i think if demarco murray is healthy enough to be out there for that i think you absolutely have him active and let him play that role but they should not give him carries if they give him anything any more than like really one carry i think it's ridiculous derrick henry has shown that he is the better back right now yeah and man i just i can't see him playing still uh he's really banged up you know you go back to that video you saw last week of him walking around the end zone uh so he's been ruled out on back-to-back Fridays. I'm sure Malarkey will beg for him to play and plead for him to play. And, again, he has value.
Starting point is 00:10:15 It's just I'd be really scared to bring him back into this mix with Malarkey and Rubisky calling the shots because I love to give him carries. So I would just hate to see Murray eat up some of Derrick Henry's touches. Yeah, like I said, that's my concern is that if he's active, they're going to try to either give him back the number one job or at least give it like a 50-50 split, and that would just be ridiculous. I mean, we saw tonight what Henry can do. And that's what they need. That's what this team needs to be going forward because they've got some issues,
Starting point is 00:10:50 I think, on the outside with their receivers. So moving to the passing game real quick, it was good to see Marcus Mariota. I mean, he played well for the most part tonight. They're the one pick. And part of that was a great play by Marcus Peters. I mean, he is on cory davis he drops him like mid-routing and goes back and jumps the route to delaney so cory davis could have run his route out more fully um you know you could see that when you saw the the up high view
Starting point is 00:11:17 that davis didn't finish his route and terry and i were talking about before we came on that's been an issue for pretty much all the receivers on this team at times this year i don't i don't know what it is i don't know why but a lot of times it seems like they don't they don't finish their routes um there were still so many times tonight where marcus mario throws the ball to a guy and there's like three receivers standing there within like five yards of each other um which i just i don't yeah i don't understand it like i don't i really like i can't comprehend this offense again i just it blows my mind how bad it is um so there was still some of that but listen marcus mariotta put this team on his back in this game him and derrick henry both obviously derrick henry shouldered a big part of the load but in the passing game uh when mariotota had to make plays with his legs, he did.
Starting point is 00:12:07 You saw him out there running the no-huddle some. I mean, just how comfortable he looks in that. He's checking plays with the line. I mean, he's doing all that kind of stuff. I mean, obviously, you know, the freak touchdown pass he threw at himself. I mean, you're not ever going to see that again. But, like, I don't know. I just feel better. I feel, I feel, I feel better.
Starting point is 00:12:25 I feel a lot better about Marcus Mario than I did a month ago because I think we've seen glimpses of what he can do. And, you know, there were reports last week that a lot of the veterans on the team, guys, like on the defense, like Arakpo and Wesley Woodyard, I think were two that Paul Karski mentioned specifically, that they went to Marcus last week and said, look, go win these games for us. You have that ability.
Starting point is 00:12:47 Go out there and do it. And he looks like a different guy. He's been a lot more willing to run. He doesn't slide when he gets out of the pocket. I mean, a couple times he could have gone down, and he tried to get four for the extra yard. You don't necessarily love that in the regular season. But in the playoffs, when all of this is on the line,
Starting point is 00:13:04 I like to see that spirit from him, and my confidence level in him has always been pretty high. It took a little bit of a dip throughout the course of the season, but I'm almost back to where I was pre-injury last year. I mean, he just looks like he is out there in the control. I'm sure there's still a bad throw. I mean, a few bad throws. He had Corey Davis later in the game and just, like, threw a bullet
Starting point is 00:13:27 when he could have floated it and let Davis run under it. I mean, you see some different stuff like that. But he has restored my confidence in him, and I think in the right system that I think you're going to see him flourish. The last two weeks he's been a stone-cold killer at the end of the game. The stats aren't pretty again. It's just not going to happen here. But when the Titans absolutely had to have a play today,
Starting point is 00:13:54 you saw him scrambling. You saw him throw the freak pass to himself, just making a play. Just to ice the game. You saw him out throwing a lead block for Derek Henry. What quarterback does that? They don't make him like Marcus Mariota, and I'm very glad he's our quarterback right now. You're still seeing the frustrations with this offense, though.
Starting point is 00:14:20 You're still seeing it in the passing game. Like you said, having two receivers in the same spot should never happen. They get three at times. Yeah, and it seems to happen two, three, four, five times a game. And, you know, that's where you're seeing these interceptions come from. You saw the pick today. He was trying to force it into Delaney Walker. So you've got two receivers there, and Corey Davis might have screwed up.
Starting point is 00:14:46 We were talking about that. Still, at this point, it's on the coaching staff. How many times are you going to make the same mistakes? How many times are you going to blame the receivers before you take some blame on yourself? At some point, the message isn't getting through. So it's on the staff to clean that up. I'm tired of hearing about it. I'm tired of hearing about it.
Starting point is 00:15:06 I'm tired of hearing about receivers making mistakes or being in the wrong spot. Either something is too hard or they're making something too difficult. I don't really – that's my main frustration with this offense. It just seems like they make things so hard, and it doesn't have to be. Yeah, absolutely. A stat that Clay Travis just tweeted, and I probably would fact-check this because sometimes his stats are a little shaky,
Starting point is 00:15:34 but 7-for-7 Titans were on third down the second half of that game. That's unbelievable. In that atmosphere, in the playoffs, I mean, that's, you know, and you don't get that unless your quarterback is out there, you know, dealing. And that's what Marcus was doing. And like you said, I mean, he has been. He's been a closer these last two weeks.
Starting point is 00:15:52 And he's done that all year. I mean, for the most part this year, minus really, I guess really the trip out west, minus those couple of games, when he's had the ball in his hands at the end of games, they've come back and won in one game i mean he hasn't he hasn't really lacked that um but it's just it's it's good to see it looks like he's playing with confidence and he's back to i still think he's staring down receivers a little bit now you know part of that could be if there are three guys going to the same spot where else you're going to look but um i still i still think we saw a little bit of that tonight but he looks more comfortable breaking contain in the pocket that kind of stuff like i thought at times this year he kind of
Starting point is 00:16:31 stared down the rush and then took too long to decide what he wanted to do he wasn't doing that tonight i mean he was back there if it wasn't there he was moving um still with his eyes up looking downfield i know that's one of the criticisms i saw somebody write about him this week was that he doesn't when he when he the pocket, he's not looking to extend the play and still throw, that he's just looking to run at that point. I thought tonight he did a good job of still looking to throw on those plays. I mean, obviously that's what you saw on the play where he threw a touchdown to himself.
Starting point is 00:17:00 That's what you saw. There was another big play to Delaney Walker over the middle where he kind of did that same thing, broke out, throw it back there i think there's one to john who as well so um you know he just he looks he looks different than he has all year and listen we've said really from the beginning of this season like if mario is playing well this team has a chance to to win games okay now i don't know who the opponent is next next week yet, so obviously we'll be keeping an eye on that. Obviously, it's going to be better competition on both sides of the ball than what the Titans
Starting point is 00:17:30 saw tonight. But if Marcus Mariota is playing well, you can at least give them a little bit of a chance because you just saw tonight, he's special. He can make things happen, especially when the chips are down. That was the whole thing. Remember in the middle of the season when we were all down and we were just writing this team off? It was because Marcus wasn't playing well.
Starting point is 00:17:52 Now that we're kind of seeing the glimpses back, we're seeing some no-huddle stuff, I'm kind of getting back to the, all right, bring on anybody mode. So it begins and ends with Marcus. As long as he's playing well, this team can hang with anybody. Okay, maybe not anybody quite yet. I don't know that they can go to Foxborough and win. I don't know that they can go to Pittsburgh and win.
Starting point is 00:18:16 But I think they could give both teams a pretty good game if Marcus is on. And maybe even more important than that, theans are just built to run the football if they can do what they did tonight even a fraction of that if they can control the game physically from the line of scrimmage uh then i'm not going to count them out of any ball game yeah absolutely and like you said that's what we've been that's what we've been waiting for that's what we thought we were getting at the beginning of this year i mean we knew there were going to be questions about this team but we thought man they Marcus Margo, they got an offense, you know, things are going to be okay.
Starting point is 00:18:48 And that was what was so disheartening in the middle of the year. All right, so coming over here in just a sec, we'll talk about the defense and kind of what their night looked like. All right, so, you know, we spent all this time talking about the offense, and there's a lot, obviously, to say about them. But this defense, man, they stepped up in the second half, and they have really been – they haven't gotten enough credit for what they've done this year. Now, obviously, they've had some rough games, no doubt about that.
Starting point is 00:19:17 But for the most part, they have kept the Titans in pretty much every game, have given them a chance to win, stood up in a couple of tough places tonight. You know, and they got some help, too. I mean, I think Tyreek Hill dropped like six passes. They had a big one to Tyreek Hill at the beginning of the game that he dropped. But, you know, they hung around. Even when, you know, Titans were down as much as they were, they kept them in the game.
Starting point is 00:19:45 They kept getting off the field, getting the ball back to the offense. You can't say enough about just the job I think that Dick LeBeau has done with his team and the job that he's done to dial up pressure at the right time. Early on in this game, there was a lot of three-man rushes, which were frustrating me a little bit. But late in the game, they were able to get pressure. Alex Smith struggles when he's pressured. I mean, that was the thing people talked about all week.
Starting point is 00:20:12 So, you know, the defense once again came to play. It was kind of a rough first half, but they didn't give up anything in the second half. And, you know, without that, the Titans wouldn't have had an opportunity to come back. Game changed when Kelsey left. Sure. Their offense changed.
Starting point is 00:20:27 I think, I don't know, he's such a mismatch that the Titans really had to account for him. So when he left the game, things got a lot easier. But, honestly, I thought they went away from Kareem Hunt, and that was a guy that I pointed to that said, hey, this guy's going to kill us. So I was really interested to see their, you know, they attacked the edges. They attacked with those wide receiver screens. You know, I didn't, I was not a fan of how Kansas City attacked this game plan. So Chiefs fans are probably upset, very rightfully upset tonight
Starting point is 00:21:03 about how Andy Reid went about things. So I thought the Chiefs kind of beat themselves. There's no reason that they should have been shut out in the second half. So things were going well with Hunt, and I'm not sure why they went away from him. But hats off to the defense. Adjustments were made, just like we've seen all year with Dick LeBeau. We questioned him at points throughout this year,
Starting point is 00:21:28 but there's no denying that this defense carried this team over the last month. So that was good to see. That was unexpected. But, you know, they're the reason the Titans are advancing in the playoffs. Yeah, and you can't say enough about the adjustments that he has made um throughout the year in game and that's been one of the criticisms we had of the offense right you don't see that from them um but the defense has continued to make adjustments in game they've done it they've done a great job with that and yeah i mean you said it before um you know that
Starting point is 00:22:03 jonathan cyprian earned his contract tonight because he was the one that knocked Travis Scott out of the game. And listen, you hate to see that. It's always a scary thing when you see a guy get up and he can't stand up all the way. That was a thing. And you hate it for a guy that's such a big part of their offense to go out like that in a playoff game. But you know what?
Starting point is 00:22:24 They came to play. They stood up when they had to um and you know i don't know i mean i think we we've talked a lot about you know what they still need they need a pass rusher uh you probably need another cornerback but we're ty smith that dude is good yeah right i mean like where's he been all year um it seems like maybe they should have run him out there before they did and you know he he kind of i guess he he kind of leapfrogged bryce mccain on the depth chart it seems like when uh when when leshawn sims went down but i mean he was the guy that at one point you know they tried a deep shot to tyreek hill and ty smith's running step for step with him um you know he he's made some plays, and so it's always good to find a guy like that.
Starting point is 00:23:08 Him and Eric Walden. Eric Walden is a guy that was late into the offseason signing, a guy that had a big year last year, but it had kind of some tough years before that, and a lot of people pointed to his numbers last year where basically, I remember a pro football focus guy telling me that basically there was no way he could sustain his success from last year because the percentage of his pressures that resulted in sacks was unsustainable.
Starting point is 00:23:35 And, yeah, he didn't have the same sack numbers this year that he had last year. But when you have a team that has Derek Morgan, Brian Arakpo, and that's it on the edge, and guys, you know, Derek Morgan missed a couple of games with an injury. So, I mean, you know, guys that have had some injuries throughout their career and are getting up in years, they had to have another guy that could come in and play, and it was pretty clear that Kevin Dodd couldn't do that. So, great signing from John Robinson to bring Eric Walden in. And you saw him making plays tonight.
Starting point is 00:24:04 You saw him running guys down. Been a valuable part of this team and a guy that I would hope that they would be able to bring back next year. Again, you don't want him, I'm not saying we want him to be one of the, you know, one of the stars on the edge or whatever, but it would be good to have him back in kind of a similar role to what we've seen this year. Yeah, totally agree. That was a guy that the Titans absolutely had to have.
Starting point is 00:24:28 They made me a nervous wreck waiting as long as they did to sign that third rusher because that meant you were going to rely heavily on Kevin Dodd, and that would have not ended well at all for anybody. So, yeah, going back to the secondary, I'm pleasantly surprised Tyreek Hill did not torch the Titans tonight. I was fully prepared for that. You saw it in the first drive. You saw him get behind Adore Jackson.
Starting point is 00:24:53 Luckily, he dropped it. The throw was a little off. He couldn't adjust to it. But Tyreek Hill did nothing down the field tonight, and I was really, really concerned about that. So Adore Jackson probably needs to chill a little bit. He's got to get his head on straight. He's making some daring plays in the punt return game,
Starting point is 00:25:13 and it almost ended up costing the Titans. It's kind of shocking that it didn't. Kansas City missed a field goal off that muffed punt. But that would have been the difference in the game. So that's one thing that the Titans have to clean up going forward. Yeah, and you're absolutely right about that. And, again, we've kind of had this conversation a couple different points this year. It's so weird that we're talking about Dory Jackson being behind his special teams play,
Starting point is 00:25:40 being behind his corner play. You know, I need some issues tonight. But, I mean, I think we all thought, look, we're getting a dynamic return, man, and it'll take maybe, you know, half a year, a year, whatever, for him to get up to speed as a corner. But he's going to come in and make an impact in the return game right away. And he's had issues with that all year, not catching punts that he should absolutely catch.
Starting point is 00:26:01 And, yeah, I mean, that could have been a killer right there if they don't miss that field goal. A punt, he's absolutely got a fair catch. I don't understand what – because it was so bad. When I saw it live, I was like, did the guy – you need to give him the chance to catch the ball. But then they go back and show it, and it was obvious. I mean, Adore Jackson just couldn't – barely got to the ball and then dropped it, and the guy was right there on top of him.
Starting point is 00:26:26 There's no reason not to fair catch that ball. So, yeah, you've got to see some of that stuff. And, again, like you said, you're lucky that that's not something that costs you the game there because in the playoffs, typically, especially with a team that plays with this small of a margin of error, you can't overcome those types of mistakes. But, you know, all in all, the secondary, I mean, I don't know. Like, the defense has been so much better this year than I thought they would be. And not to say they haven't had their issues,
Starting point is 00:26:58 and not to say that whoever the Titans play next week, whether it be the Patriots or the Steelers, whoever it is is going to terrify me just because I'm not sure what, you know. I mean, we saw like in the Pittsburgh game, especially when they went to that short passing game, the Titans were done. They had no answers for it. But, you know, we thought coming into the year, look, this is going to be a team that's going to have to score 30 points a game to win. And, you know, they haven't done that all year.
Starting point is 00:27:21 All that to say we knew the defense was going to have issues. done that all year. All that to say, we knew the defense was going to have issues. And so hopefully they've, you know, gelled enough that they can you know, again, just keep a game close next week. Give Marcus Mariota and Derek Henry a chance to get to the fourth quarter, and we've seen
Starting point is 00:27:36 how well that works out. Yeah. I totally agree. Who would you rather get? Would you rather get Pittsburgh and Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell, or would you rather get Tom Brady and the Patriots? That's the million-dollar question. I'm not sure there's a good answer there. Both teams are outstanding, obviously.
Starting point is 00:27:55 But me and you were talking earlier. I mean, I think I prefer the Patriots. Yeah, and this is the kind of thing that, you know, we're going to have this conversation now. It's going to come back to bite us, right? When I tweeted tight drop hill during the fourth quarter, I was like, great. They're going to hit a 60-yard bomb to him, and I'm going to have Chiefs fans killing me. But yeah, I mean right now we saw the issues that the Titans had against the Steelers.
Starting point is 00:28:24 And now I'm not sure of Antonio. They've said that they think Antonio Brown will be back. But, I mean, obviously without Antonio Brown, I think I'd rather get the Steelers. But, yeah, I mean, I don't know. Honestly, the Steelers' offense at home scares me more right now than the Patriots does. And, again, that's probably a really dumb statement,
Starting point is 00:28:43 the fact that the Patriots have Tom Brady and just the history there and the home atmosphere and all that stuff. But I don't know. I just – I feel like the Titans might have a better chance against the Patriots, but I don't know. I don't know. Neither answer I don't think is good, and I'm not going to feel good going into either game. But bottom line is, man, it's just awesome to be talking about football for another week. We're going to keep doing this podcast throughout the offseason,
Starting point is 00:29:11 but the longer we can extend before we have to start talking about mock drafts and free agency and the draft and all that kind of stuff, the longer we can wait before that happens, the better it is. And like I said, it's been a long time since we've been able to have these conversations about the Titans. And, you know, it's been a long time since they've just been in the playoffs. We're certainly talking about a playoff win. I mean, you've got to go back to, what, was it 2004? Something like that.
Starting point is 00:29:36 I think Terry was like 12. So, you know, like it's just good to be here, and we'll just watch next week and enjoy. And, hey, you never know what can happen. I mean, you get in the playoffs, and enjoy. And, hey, you never know what can happen. I mean, you get in the playoffs, you get a quarterback playing hot, you never know what can happen. I was 11, actually. There you go. So, no, it's great to see.
Starting point is 00:29:53 You know, we talked about playoff experience, and we kind of just assumed one and done, and that's on us. But playoff experience, you get a playoff win experience. That's a big deal, Big deal for this franchise. Big deal for Marcus Mariota. You know, he's 1-0 in the postseason. You know, you see so many of these quarterbacks that are great through the regular season that can't win a postseason game.
Starting point is 00:30:15 Marcus has already got that monkey off his back. So that's a big deal to me. Like I said throughout this whole podcast, the bigger deal to me is this run game. It's got me so excited. I'm pumped for whoever they get next week. I'm pumped to see if they can continue the success on the ground. Absolutely. So that will pretty much do it for us tonight, Terry,
Starting point is 00:30:36 unless there's anything else that we need to hit on. No, we'll go ahead and post this tonight. So we'll be back on Tuesday to preview whoever the Titans get. Yeah, yeah. So we'll have a lot more, obviously, at that point to talk about. And we'll also talk a little bit about Mike Malarkey and his job and stuff because there have been reports on that, but we'll kind of save that for another day. But just some interesting stuff that he said postgame.
Starting point is 00:31:01 So check us out on Tuesday. We'll talk a little bit about that. Like I said from the beginning, musemiracles.com. Terry and I write for that. So check us out on Tuesday. We'll talk a little bit about that. Like I said from the beginning, musicofmiracles.com. Terry and I write for that. You can follow us on Twitter. I'm at jmorrismcm. Terry is at tlambertfb.
Starting point is 00:31:14 Subscribe to the podcast. We're going to be, we'll have three more episodes this week heading into next week's game. So check us out there and we will talk to you next week. So for Terry, this is Jimmy saying, or talk to you later on this week. For Terry, this is Jimmy saying – or talk to you later on this week.
Starting point is 00:31:25 For Terry, this is Jimmy saying thanks for listening to Locked on Titans. And go Titans. And a playoff win, it feels really good.

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