Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Tennessee Titans Make NO Trades at NFL Deadline, Malik Willis Film Review & Defensive Stunts

Episode Date: November 1, 2022

The Tennessee Titans decided to stand pat on Tuesday and make no significant moves before the NFL Trade Deadline. Some fans are very upset and while understandable, Tyler thinks it was the right move for two reasons. Then, head in to the film room for a review of Malik Willis' performance on Sunday. Finally, Tyler goes over the defensive game plan and what the Titans did so well against the Houston Texans.#TicTacTuesday Film Thread: https://twitter.com/TicTacTitans/status/1587457314264596480?s=20&t=UPWfBhBwpNQBqKoJyuDA_wFollow Tyler on Twitter @TicTacTitansFollow the show on Facebook @LockedOnTitansPodSubscribe to the Locked On Titans YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/LockedOnTitans/videosSupport Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!LinkedInLinkedIn Jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONNFLBuilt BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!PrizePicksFirst time users can receive a 100% instant deposit match up to $100 with promo code LOCKEDON. That’s PrizePicks.com – promo code; LOCKEDONSimpliSafeWith Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There’s No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe.com/LockedOnNFL to learn more.BlueNileMake your moment sparkle with Blue Nile. Go to BlueNile.com and use code lockedon to save fifty dollars on your purchase of five-hundred dollars or more.BetterHelpThis episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at Betterhelp.com/LockedOn and get on your way to being your best self. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Locked on Titans podcast. I am your host, Tyler Rowland. Titans fans, the NFL trade deadline showed up and it passed, and the Tennessee Titans did not make any moves. I'm going to tell you why I actually agree with that decision. Then we're going to step into the film room as we always do on Wednesday. We're going to take a look at Malik Willis' NFL debut. What did I see on tape?

Then we'll talk about the defense and how the Titans defense used stunts up front to really take advantage of a porous Houston Texans offensive line. So taking a look at the trade deadline and what was on tape for the Titans in week eight on today's edition of the Locked On Titans podcast. Let's get it. You are Locked On Titans, your daily Tennessee Titans podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.

Titans fans, we saw 12 trades on NFL trade deadline day Tuesday. None of them were the Tennessee Titans. I actually agree with it. I'm going to explain why before I do want to let you know that today's episode of Locked on Titans is presented by PrizePix. PrizePix is daily fantasy made easy. You pick two to five players and if they score more or less than their

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including here on the Locked on Titans YouTube channel. Subscribe, smash the notification bell, and throw a thumbs up on the video right now to support the channel. It goes a long way, and I do appreciate it, you guys. But the Titans made no moves. Twelve deals on deadline day. None of them, including the Titans made no moves. 12 deals on deadline day. None of them including the Titans. No wide receiver.

No offensive lineman. Heck, nothing on defense. And the reality is, I know that a large portion of the fan base is upset. You look at it from the Titans' perspective. Derrick Henry looks like he's back to his regular self. His all-pro best running back in the league. Hall of Fame-worthy self. The Titans' defense, obviously, has been incredible in recent weeks

on this five-game winning streak. The Titans are 5-2. They're one of the top seeds in the AFC. And from a fan's perspective, I can see how you're saying, hey, time to go make a move to make the offense better and go all in on this team. Guys, I have to tell you, I just simply don't agree with that move. And really what it comes down to is two things. But before I get into the two things,

let's look at the 12 deals that were consummated on trade deadline day. You got the Broncos sending Bradley Chubb to the Dolphins. First round pick included there. Chase Claypool from the Steelers going to the Bears. A second round pick there. TJ Hawkinson tied in. Going to the Vikings. Calvin Ridley, although suspended for the season,

going to Jacksonville. Chase Edmonds, Jeff Wilson Jr., Zach Moss, Naheem Hines, some running backs being traded. We saw Zach Martin, a defensive lineman, be traded. Rashad Benton, Dean Marlow, William Jackson III, defensive backs be traded. Who on this list would even have made sense for the Titans? The only name on here that makes any sense at all with her too are Bradley Chubb and Chase Claypool.

A first-round pick for Bradley Chubb when you Claypool. A first round pick for Bradley Chubb when you have Harold Landry on a big contract coming back next year. Some of you guys out there think the Titans should keep Bud Dupree. If you're somebody who says keep Bud Dupree, you can't say trade a first round pick for Bradley Chubb. And what about all you guys that like Rashad Weaver?

I'm a Weaver fan. Honestly, next year, I would be happy with Landry and Weaver as the edge rushers for the Titans and save money by cutting Bud Dupree. I've been saying that all along. So out of the guys who actually got traded today, if you want to make up in your head that there are guys who the Titans could have traded for

who didn't get traded, then sure. But you don't know that those guys were really available and for a reasonable price. So out of the guys who did get traded, Bradley Chubb for a first round pick, I'm going to have to decline. Chase Claypool for a second round pick. Now, if you want to hit on that, then sure, go ahead. But for me, Chase Claypool was drafted in point in his career, one season away from needing to be paid, is worth the same right now as he was coming out of the draft with four years of team control and still had potential to be maybe better than what he's been?

I'm not giving a second-round pick for Chase Claypool. Not to mention, I don't want Chase Claypool on my team whatsoever. That was a non-starter for me while he's a big physical gifted guy. We saw him celebrate his own catch and let the time run out on the game. We saw him do that in a game. Not only that, he called himself a top three wide receiver in the NFL before the season. The guy's got zero awareness. I don't want him on my team, especially if I have to pay a second round pick

and then pay him in a year and a half. Christian Fulton was a second round pick. You guys want to sacrifice a potential Christian Fulton? The starting cornerbacks on this team are second round picks. Roger McCreary and Christian Fulton. You want to give up a potential starter with four years of team control for Chase Claypool? At the end of the day, guys,

it comes down to two things. Two things. Number one, what you feel like is the ceiling of the team this year. You think that adding a Jerry Judy, you think that adding a Chase Claypool would make the difference between what the Titans are going to be right now

versus what they could be with that player? I'm sorry, I don't see a big difference. Jerry Judy or Chase Claypool are not going to take this team from what they are right now to something incredibly better. They're not difference makers. They're not going to change the ceiling of the team.

If you think that they will and you think this team is so close to a Super Bowl that Jerry Judy or Chase Claypool will make the difference, then you're entitled to that opinion. But I think that's asinine. I think it's insane. I think it's insane. The other side of it is how much faith you have in J-Rob. If you're somebody who at this point thinks J-Rob needs fired, he's terrible, he's garbage, he's trash, he's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, well then of course you're like, hey, trade every pick in the entire cover. J-Rob sucks with them anyway.

But if you're logical and you look out on the field on every Sunday and you see Derrick Henry, Jeffrey Simmons, and Kevin Beyer, J-Rob draft picks, you see Ryan Tannehill, who J-Rob got for a fourth round swap. Everybody's right now like, oh God, we need Tannehill back so bad. Well, J-Rob got him for a ham sandwich.

Literally trading ham sandwiches, just with different cheese. And it's changed the Titans franchise. So, I see David Long, Amani Hooker, T. Air Tart, Nick Westbrook-Akina, Nate Davis, Nicholas Petit-Ferrer, Roger McCreary, Amani Hooker. I see literally all of these different, Rashad Weaver, Elijah Molden, who everybody's begging to come back. I see all of these difference makers, all the players that you guys love

every Sunday who J-Rob drafted. But I'm told every day that J-Rob's absolutely awful, and he's terrible at drafting, and we don't need any of the picks because of trade-em. But all the players that you guys like, and the reason that the Titans are 5-2 is because they have some good players. They have three players who are absolute all pros. Well, J-Rob drafted all those guys. So it really comes down to how good you think this team is this year.

And if you think Chase Claypool or Jerry Judy makes the difference between what they are right now and what they could be, I don't. And if you have faith in J-Rob and every single week, you just love all these players that J-Rob drafted. But yeah, J-Rob's terrible. So I think outside of two first round picks during COVID, J-Rob's been an incredible drafter.

Two first round picks during COVID. Other than that, J-Rob's been an incredible drafter and found contributing, productive, starting level players at all rounds and all phases of the draft. And then on the other side, this team has a five-game winning streak, but they played trash, guys.

The Commanders, the Colts twice, the Raiders, the Texans. Is this team making a deep run in the playoffs? And is Jerry Judy or Chase Claypool making the difference between a deep run in the playoffs or not? No. No, they aren't. So, it was a good thing that the Titans didn't send any picks away

for any of these players. And I see a lot of people say, well, our first round picks are bad all the time anyway. Well, none of the players other than Bradley Chubb went for a first round pick. So, are you giving up a first-round pick for second-round pick players just because the first-round picks aren't? It doesn't make any logical sense. So it's a good thing for the Titans' future

that the Titans didn't give up any draft assets and none of the players traded today would have made a difference for the Titans long-term except Bradley Chubb, and that's overkill anyways with all the resources dumped into edge rusher with Bud Dupree, Rashad Weaver, and Harold Landry. It was a good day for Titans fans, whether you guys want to see it for yourselves or not.

That's all I can say. But we're going to move forward. We're going to talk about Malik Willis and what I saw on tape from Malik in this game. Before we get into it, though, I do want to tell you guys about SimpliSafe. And look, I'm coming from the heart on this one. I am a SimpliSafe owner, SimpliSafe arms, my household. Home security is so important right now. And you really couldn't feel safer

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like SimpliSafe. Titans fans, it is a re-watch Wednesday edition of the Locked on Titans podcast. Now we had to talk about the trade deadline that passed, of course, to start. But now I want to dive into the film as we always do this day of the week. First, we're going to talk about Malik Willis, what I saw from him on the tape. We're going to cap off the show talking about the defense and how they just completely dominated Houston for 58 minutes of the game. But before we dive into Malik, do want to thank you guys for making the Locked on Titans podcast your first listen every day, Monday through Friday, free Tennessee Titans content all year round on all platforms, including the Locked on Titans

YouTube channel. Subscribe, smash the notification bell, and throw a thumbs up on the video right now. It goes a long way to help support the channel. Diving into Malik. So I kind of went, you know, there was only 10 throws, only 14 dropbacks, so it wasn't a ton to go through, admittedly, but

taking a look at what he was able to do, what he wasn't able to do. For me, what stood out the most is what stood out since preseason, the hesitancy to throw the ball early on the first drive. You guys might have seen this play circulating around Twitter. I know QB School did a good breakdown on it. I've seen some other people talk about it as well. When a rookie QB like that starts, people are going to be interested. But the very first drive

of the game, the Titans run their bread and butter play action pass. You've got one wide receiver on one side running the deep in. You've got another receiver on the other side either running the deep post or they're running out route. Well, on this play, it was a deep in and a deep out. You had Nick Westbrook-Akina coming across the middle on the deep end. You had Robert Woods on the other side of the field doing a deep out play action pass. Malik comes up from the play action fake, sticks his back foot in the ground. Boom, time to let it go over the middle. And the bread and butter play was wide open.

I mean, there was a deep post safety waiting up top that could have crashed down on it, but there was enough of a window to fit it in there if Malik lets it go. Now, let's say for benefit of the doubt reasons, I'm some guy, don't want to play Wednesday afternoon quarterback or whatever, but let's say that he was worried about the post safety up top, the free safety coming down and taking away the throw over the middle. Well, then you progress to the second route, which is the out route to Robert Woods. And if you look at it, the cornerback is playing zone coverage and the cornerback is literally facing inside towards the middle of the formation as Robert Woods is breaking outside. To put it more simply, Robert Woods was wide wide open so Malik has to either

let that ball go over the middle and hit the bread and butter play or he's got to get to the second progression and get the ball out to the other guy who's open his timing, speeding up his timing and Mike Rabel said it in his press conference we need him to get the ball out of his hands

they literally benched him in a preseason game because they didn't feel like he was getting the ball out of his hands he's got to just get the ball out of his hands. They literally benched him in a preseason game because they didn't feel like he was getting the ball out of his hands. He's got to just throw the ball. And these are the bread and butter plays, guys. These are the plays that the Titans think are always going to be there. And if he's not hitting those, it makes it tough. It makes it tough. Now you can't expect him to hit the third and 12 when the Titans are backed up and they want to run a more exotic route combination against a less predictable coverage. The Titans know what coverages they're getting on early downs. They know what plays are going to work, and Malik's got to hit the bread and butters. If he struggles with the other stuff, then so be

it, but he's got to hit the bread and butter. So the hesitancy on that very first drive was evident early. On the Cody Hollister interception, again, timing. Hollister was open for a second. Now it's Cody Hollister. I didn't think it was a great route. I didn't think he had a ton of separation compared at least to the previous play, but it was there and he waited too long. And then his brain like oh I gotta throw it and he threw it and it was behind so not only was it late it was behind time wise but it was behind accuracy wise as well and I think both of these things Malik knows that he's playing too slowly sadly so I think in his mind he's trying to go through things quickly. And when people say the game is slowed down, the game is very fast for Malik Willis right now. It just seems like he

seems unsettled. He seems uncomfortable. He seems like he's kind of, oh, you know what I mean? And he played at Liberty. You know, this is an NFL starting defense, even if it's the Texans, he played at Liberty. So I guess that does make sense. But what happens is when you're trying to play fast and you know that you have to speed up and your coaches want you to speed up, then you don't set your feet properly. You start to rush things with your mechanics and the inaccuracy comes in.

So that's it. Yeah. Tremaine Rogers said it. He's overthinking. Correct. He's trying to move too fast because he needs to move faster and it's too fast for him right now. And when you

start doing that, just the regular football stuff goes away. That's why we saw a couple where he could have ran, but he threw it out of bounds because he's just overthinking stuff and not just playing naturally. And the only thing that can cure that is reps. One thing that I will say is reps. One thing that I will say is I did like some of the designs that we saw after watching it on tape and looking at

it. I do think in the red zone where Malik almost scored and he ran to the one yard line and was out of bounds, the Titans scored the very next play. It was a fake read option, which kind of sucked the defense in. But then Derrick Henry went out as a lead blocker into a quarterback sweep. That's a good play design for Malik Willis. Also, that sprint right, it's not truly play action because there's no fake to the back, but Derrick Henry kind of acts like he's running an outside zone play, and then he goes into the flat. Malik Willis does kind of a quarterback sprint rollout to the right. He was able to dump it off. Easy throw to Derrick Henry. Henry turned around, got nine yards, yards after catch. That's the type of stuff that I like to see being schemed for Malik Willis.

But the last thing that I want to talk about here, he threw one pass in the second half. And the moment, in my opinion, that the coaching staff kind of gave up on giving him chances was the Chigaconquo miss late in the first half. So the Titans ultimately went down to score, but it was the Derrick Henry 29-yard touchdown run drive. It was the first play. The Titans come out in a three-tight end set. They run the play-action fake. Everybody blocks except Chigaconquo,

who is the furthest most right tight end. He's the most outside guy in the formation. His man commits to the run on the play action fake, and he's literally going up the field all by himself. There's a deep safety, but I mean, literally if you just dump the ball to him within three seconds, he's going to get it, probably make a move on the safety. At minimum, you got a 20-25 yard gain that gets you within the 10 yard line. At maximum, Chick makes a move, and he's able to score a touchdown

because he's one-on-one with the safety with literally nobody else. Malik holds the ball so long that by the time he throws the ball, Chick O'Connor goes out of bounds. Not only did he wait so long to throw it but by the time he threw it because by the time he saw it his feet were out of whack

he was like leaning over trying to set his feet throwing while moving sideways with his body I mean the mechanics just fell off completely so he was incredibly inaccurate incredibly late and after that play, you could tell in the play calling that the Titans just said, we're not even going to give

him a shot. We're not even going to try to fake them out. We're just running the ball nonstop. And I'm not going to lie to you guys. My, my Roland's rant that I had yesterday about Malik Willis and how we got to come to terms with Tannehill will be the starter next year. Malik Willis and how we got to come to terms with Tannehill will be the starter next year. And there is a chance that Malik Willis will never be ready, even in 2024. Like the things I saw yesterday kind of cement that that is a reality, even though it's been a reality since the draft with him maybe never being ready. That's just the reality of all drafted players. But now I know for sure that the Titans can't move on from Tannehill next year. And I am a little bit worried about 2024. With that, that Aconquo miss was really bad.

And the coaching staff at that point kind of moved on and said, doesn't matter what we see. We're just going to run the ball period nonstop. So a little concerning, but we will see what happens going forward. We're going to continue this rewatch Wednesday. I'm going to dive into what I saw from the Titans defense schematically. A lot of stunts up front attacking the interior offensive line of the Texans. Boy, it was beautiful. I'm going to break down that and some coverage stuff as well. Before we get into it though, I do want to tell you guys about our friends over at PrizePix. Guys, PrizePix makes daily fantasy literally as simple

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LOCKEDON at prizepix.com or on the PrizePix app for an instant deposit match up to $100. Titans fans, we are going to cap off today's rewatch Wednesday. We talked about the lack of activity from the Titans on the trade deadline. For me, for what I saw get traded on Tuesday, I didn't want to pay the price for any of those players. And I don't think any of those players, outside about two of them,

even helped the Titans anyways. We talked about Malik Willis and how the hesitancy and then the footwork leading to the inaccuracy is really something that I'm worried about going forward that he needs reps to overcome. Now we're going to dive into the defensive rewatch notes here. Before I get into it, I want to thank you guys again for making the Locked on Titans podcast your first listen every day, Monday through Friday, free Tennessee Titans content on all platforms. Make sure you subscribe all year round. I'm always here at your team every day, Monday through Friday, free Tennessee Titans content on all platforms. Make sure you subscribe all year round.

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show, dive into the film, tell you what I saw schematically. If you look in the description of the episode right now, you'll find a link to my Tic Tac Tuesday film thread on Twitter with all the film clips of what I'm describing. But on defense, I thought some interesting wrinkles, and I saw a little bit from the Titans on this note early in the season with Joe Sjobert when he was first brought onto the team. But seeing it against the Texans made sense

because the Texans, who didn't have a lot of their wide receivers, who are a run-first team anyway, wanted to load up, be a little bit heavy with the personnel, which means the Titans, who typically will play in nickel or big nickel, had to be in their base defense. Well, the Titans don't have a lot of pure edge rushers right now with Harold Landry being out and some of the churn that they've had with them early in the season.

So what the Titans did in this game, they put Dylan Cole at outside linebacker. With Zach Cunningham coming back to play middle linebacker, they have Dylan Cole playing outside linebacker so they can be in a base defense. They also used Demarcus Walker at some 3-4 outside linebacker and five-man fronts. So I really like to see that. And what the Titans liked to do last year with Harold Landry because his athletic skill set represents an incredible chess piece that you have the Titans so they could stay in base defense

but also counter three wide receiver sets against teams who like to run the ball out of three wide receiver. Excuse me. They would play a 4-3 and they would have Harold Landry as an outside linebacker be over top of the slot cornerback. Well, they did that a little bit with Dylan Cole in this one because they wanted to protect against the run game of the Houston Texans.

So I like seeing that little wrinkle. Cole was an overhang defender and also as an outside linebacker in a 3-4. I thought that was pretty cool. What really dominated the game, though, was the interior defensive line play from the Titans. Jeffrey Simmons, T. Air Tart, and it wasn't just in the run game. Of course, that was a factor, but getting all that pressure in the pass game, and it was all about interior stunts. There were numerous stunts during the day. I remember seeing one where Sam Okweanonu was playing as the defensive end,

and he flashed inside and basically set a basketball screen for Jeffrey Simmons, who was at defensive tackle and Simmons kind of looped around him. Just a two-man twist stunt. But what you're doing is, basically, they were trying to put the guard into conflict for the Texans. Number 64, whoever that was for the Texans, I apologize to your family, but that was brutal. Kenyon Green, number 59, the rookie guard for the Texans,

struggled in his own right, but 64 on the Texans. Woo boy. Oh, man. Really, really struggled dealing with anything. So the twist in the stunts up front from the Titans really got home. I do want to mention a cool coverage that I also saw from the Titans defense. So coverage-wise, the Titans the Titans defense. So coverage wise, the Titans played a ton of man coverage in this game, which is what I expected from my game plan Friday episode. Because without Nico Collins, other than Brandon Cooks, there's

nobody to be afraid of. And when you have Christian Fulton, okay, we'll do that. But when the Titans weren't in man coverage, which on third and long pure passing situations like that, they'll go to zone coverages just to keep it simple. But what the Titans did a couple of times is they ran either cover two where one of the safeties was paying extra attention to Brandon Cook's side or what they do is they'd run cover three and they'd

have Kevin Byard come down as that intermediate over the middle defender, but he would shade towards Brandon Cook's and basically watch Brandon Cook's from the get-go. So I really love that running traditional coverages like cover two and cover three, but doing it in a schemed up way to where you have one specific player who you trust, a la Kevin Byard, specifically look at Brandon Cooks. Kevin Byard had bad grades on pro football focus this week. And I think some of it was their lack of understanding of maybe what coverage the Titans were using. Maybe I'm wrong about that.

And they knew exactly what coverage the Titans were going with. And Kevin Byard didn't execute it properly. But it looked like, it almost looked like the Titans were running, you know, cover three, three under, cover two, three under. With that extra guy shading with Brandon Cooks or having a specific responsibility, whether it be a man coverage on a specific guy

or a specific zone or leaning or shading towards a specific guy. So I just liked how the Titans said, hey, we trust our defense to play zone coverage, a man down essentially with less than seven, so that we can dedicate a specific man to do a specific responsibility based on something that we're seeing on tape.

So I thought that was awesome. Personally, I enjoyed that. I do just want to mention, the Texans are a really bad football team. Like, I've been doing this for four seasons now. I've been breaking down tape and looking at football from, you know, kind of a micro view for longer than that. I've really been focused on the tape study the last four seasons.

I can't recall watching a team quite as bad as the Texans. I mean, they are a truly, really, really bad football team. Zero resistance up front against the run. I mean, I know that was obvious, but watching it on tape, it's embarrassing, really. When Derrick Henry ran in that touchdown from the one yard line, the cornerback, number 24, is literally sprinting backwards like it's a pass when it's an obvious run. I mean, he didn't want to do anything. He didn't want to do it. I mean, that kind of

stuff would just never work in the Titans locker room. I mean, as a person who loves football, it was disrespectful. The type of effort that the Texans gave out there, really, especially the defense.

So, not good. If you're a Texans fan or you wanted the Texans to maybe make some progress towards positivity this year, I guess getting rid of Jafar Easterby is good for them, but, boy, that's probably the worst football team I've ever watched on tape since I've been doing this for four seasons now. Oh, oh boy.

They were bad. Anyways, that's going to do it for today's edition of the Locked on Titans podcast. We went over the trade deadline. We went over Malik Willis' performance on tape, the defense's performances on tape, some wrinkles that I saw on defense. Hopefully you guys enjoy this type of content that you're going to get

every single day around here on the Locked on Titans podcast. But I'll be back with you tomorrow for Crossover Thursday. We're going to have one of the hosts of Locked on Chiefs on the show. I think Chris Clark will be the one joining us to break down what's going on with Kansas City. And then Friday will be my game plan episode where I break down what the Titans need to do on offense and defense to get this win against the Kansas City Chiefs. But that's going to do it for me today, folks.

As always, I am your host, Tyler Rowland, and this was Locked on Titans.