Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Tennessee Titans Will Levis is BETTER than QB Matchups, Toughest Stretch & Best Games to Attend

Episode Date: May 20, 2024

The Tennessee Titans have some tough matchups on this year's schedule, but Will Levis has a great chance to be the best quarterback on the field in quite a few games and that gives the Titans a great chance to win. Also, the Titans have a very difficult stretch in the final seven weeks of the year and they will have to win certain games if they hope to stay afloat. Finally, which games will you be attending? Tyler plots out the three games he is planning on going to this season.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!Yahoo FinanceFor comprehensive financial news and analysis, visit the brand behind every great investor. Yahoofinance.com eBay MotorsFor parts that fit, head to eBay Motors and look for the green check. Stay in the game with eBay Guaranteed Fit at eBayMotors.com. Let’s ride. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNFL for $20 off your first purchase. Terms Apply. FanDuelFanDuel, America’s Number One Sportsbook. Right now, NEW customers get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS with any winning GUARANTEED That’s A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS – with any winning FIVE DOLLAR BET! Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started. 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) Follow the show on Facebook @LockedOnTitansPod Subscribe to the Locked On Titans YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/LockedOnTitans/videos  

I think that Will Levis is better than most of the quarterbacks on the Tennessee Titans schedule. I'll explain on today's edition of the Locked on Titans podcast. 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 edition of the Locked On Titans Podcast is brought to you by GameTime. Download the GameTime app, create an account, use the code LOCKEDONNFL for $20 off your

first purchase. Terms apply. We got a lot to discuss on today's show. I'm still breaking down the Tennessee Titans 2024 schedule. We looked at my record prediction. We looked at the X Factor games, the must wins. Now I want to talk about the quarterback matchups on the schedule because I think that Will Levis is better than most of the quarterbacks

on the Titans schedule, and I'm going to go through all of them to prove my point. Plus, we'll talk about how the Tennessee Titans navigate the toughest stretch of their schedule, and then finally, I'll talk about the games that I am excited to attend, and I'm excited to hear what games you guys plan on going to as well. Before we get into all of it, thank you for making the Locked on Titans podcast your first listen each and every day. Remember, Monday through Friday, Tennessee Titans content all year round, always for free.

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And we'll have a preview of full team OTAs to cap off the week. So excited for all that. team OTAs to cap off the week. So excited for all of that. Will Levis. Seems like the momentum nationally is starting to shift a little bit on Will Levis. I saw all the stuff, you know, FanDuel, one of our big sponsors has Will Levis ranked below these rookie quarterbacks like Bo Nix and Michael Penix. And there are a lot of people out there who just want to crap on Will Levis

and not give him his due for what he produced and what he showed last year in the circumstances he was in last year. But now, like I said, the tide is starting to turn a little bit. Some of these national voices are starting to say, hey, I think the Titans can be, you know, an improved team. Hey, I think the Titans are kind of a sleeper. Hey, I think Will Levis can have a big leap in year two. Shout out to my guy Marcus Mosher from Locked On Cowboys. He works for

Pro Football Focus and he put out an article basically saying Will Levis was his number one breakout second year QB. So the vibes around Will Levis are starting to turn a little bit. And I think that while it would be fair to rank him low amongst the quarterbacks, if you're doing it right now, you could do that. I think we're going to see a much improved Will Levis this year. So this is my projection. Again, I'm projecting how Will Levis will look in year two.

But you start to go through the list. Chicago week one. I think Will Levis will be better than Caleb Williams in that game. Jets in week two. Aaron Rodgers probably better, but Aaron Rodgers at 40. Will Levis could be better than 40-year-old Aaron Rodgers. I absolutely think that's the case. So I think Will Levis is better than Caleb Williams right now. He could be better than Aaron Rodgers. I absolutely think that's the case. So I think Will Levis is better than Caleb Williams right now. He could be better than Aaron Rodgers as well. Jordan Love, that is a tough one. I think Jordan Love's a good player, but I think what we saw from Jordan Love last year and how people talk

about Jordan Love now, that's how people could be talking about Will Levis this time next year. So I think that we could look back and be like, hey, Will Levis, Jordan Love, who's actually better there? I think that's an interesting one. So I'm not going to say that Will Levis is better than Jordan Love, but I think that Will Levis could be on Jordan Love's level immediately with the better offensive line coaching, better offensive line talent, much better wide receiver talent, much better offensive coaching. I think Will Levis could be right there. Miami in week four, I think Will Levis is better than Tua right now. Tua is

one of the most overrated players in the entire NFL. The Dolphins are going to pay him $250 million and it is going to be an obvious real-time mistake, just like the Daniel Jones contract. It's like, what are you doing for these barely above average, if average at all quarterbacks? I don't get it. So I think Will Levis is better than Tua and he already beat Tua in a game. Indianapolis, look, Anthony Richardson could be great. Sure. But I think Will Levis is better at football right now, right now. Anthony Richardson is more flashy. He can run. He scores the rushing touchdowns in the red zone. Blah, blah, blah.

But I think Will Levis is a better passer of the football. I think Will Levis has good athleticism as well that he didn't show a lot last year because he was banged up. So I think Will Levis is better than Anthony Richardson. Now, Josh Allen in week seven? No. I think Josh Allen is the second or third best quarterback in the entire NFL. Detroit, Jared

Goff just got $270 million or whatever. $217 million, I think is what it was. I think Will Levis would be just as good as Jared Goff. I mean, does that make me crazy? Like, it's Jared Goff. He's got great protection on the offensive line,

plays all his games indoors, has great offensive coaching with Ben Johnson. I don't think Jared Goff is significantly better than who he was in LA. He's just in a better situation. So, like Jordan Love, I don't know that Will Levis is better than Jared Goff, but I think this time next year, you could have Will Levis in the same exact tier as Jordan Love and Jared Goff.

I don't think that's crazy. And then you go from there, New England. I don't care who New England has at quarterback. Will Levis is better. Jacoby Brissett, Drake May. Will Levis is better than them. The Chargers, yeah, I'm riding with Justin Herbert on that one. I'm not gonna, not gonna, like with Josh Allen, I'm not gonna fight that battle on you. I think Justin Herbert

is a better player. But after that, Minnesota, Darnold or McCarthy, I would take Will Levis over both those guys easy. That's not even a question to me. That's not even like a debatable situation. CJ Stroud, I think Stroud is a better player than Will Levis. Yes, I do. So can't really say much to you there. Washington, I'm taking Will Levis over Jaden Daniels. That's not difficult to me at all. Jacksonville, I know that everyone would go with Trevor Lawrence right now,

but I think, again, by this time next year, I think we can look at Will Levis and be like, he's better than Trevor Lawrence, or at least in the same grouping. So I don't think that's a significant advantage there. Since I'll give Joe Burrow, healthy Joe Burrow is my number two quarterback in the NFL. I think when everyone is healthy,

Joe Burrow is the second best quarterback in the NFL. Josh Allen, three. Lamar Jackson, four. It's probably what I would go with right now. And then we're back to Indy, Jacksonville. Again, I think Will Levis can outplay both those quarterbacks, can be better than both those quarterbacks. And then you have Houston again.

So, I mean, the only games where it's a slam dunk that the other quarterback is better than Will Levis, this projected version of Will Levis, Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, C.J. Stroud, Joe Burrow. I mean, Jordan Love, Jared Goff. Good quarterbacks. Could be right there. But the point I'm trying to make here is,

I don't think the Titans are going to be outclassed in a lot of these games playing against a team with a significantly better quarterback. That's only going to happen a couple of times. And if that's the case, that means that the Titans can win any of these games. They can be in any of these games because they're not completely outclassed

at the quarterback position, which they have been in a lot of games over the past two years. So, I think that bodes well for the Titans. Again, there's only about four or five quarterbacks that I think are significantly better or are confirmed to be better than Will Levis. I think Levis is going to take a big jump,

and I think he's going to be just as good, if not better, than a lot of these quarterbacks that everybody's kind of oogling over right now. Remember, this stuff changes year to year all the time. You think a quarterback's this, he ends up being that. But a lot of stuff goes into it. So I think Will Levis is going to make a big improvement. I think the Titans are going to have a quarterback advantage

in quite a few of these games as well. But with that being said, let's talk about the toughest stretch that the Tennessee Titans have in their schedule. And it's that finale with all the division opponents. So we'll talk about navigating that now. I want to let you guys know that today's episode is brought to you by GameTime. GameTime is the best place to buy tickets. I already bought some NFL tickets, some Titans tickets on GameTime for the week three matchup against the Green Bay Packers. Look, there are no better website, no better app out there than game time because of the

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a brutal part for the Titans. They need to be playing their absolute best football when they go through this stretch, or it could just completely dismantle their season. But it's not the only tough stretch in the season as well. Before I get into it, I do want to thank you guys again for making the Locked on Titans podcast your first listen each and every day. Remember, Monday through Friday, Tennessee Titans content all year round, always for free.

Make sure you get subscribed, stay subscribed. It's your team every day. But the stretch in the middle of the season, out of the bye, home against Indy, at Buffalo, at Detroit, obviously some difficult games. At Buffalo, at Detroit,

that's a back-to-back stretch that's tough. But that's only a couple of games. And the Titans have a home game against Indy coming out of the bye. Before that two-game stretch the Titans have a home game against Indy coming out of the bye before that two game stretch they have a home game against New England after that stretch so that makes that makes the stretch

not as difficult you know what I mean it's not as hard on the Titans to navigate that with two good bookends that they should be able to win the week 12 stretch to the end of the season, though, that's tough. That is a tough stretch. You start with an away game at Houston.

Again, I think the Titans are likely to lose that game. I put that down as a loss in my record prediction. On the road, a better roster, good coaches, the revenge factor from the rivalry in the jerseys and all that stuff. I just think it's a tough environment. It's a tough matchup. First division game since the week six home game against Indy.

So it's been five, know, five, six weeks since you played in one of those tough, knock down, drag them out, division games. So I think that's a tough way to start that stretch. And again, ton of division games. And five division games in this last stretch. So, you're going to play these teams a lot in a short period of time.

To start off with that game, it makes it tough. Alright? I just think it makes it tough. Now, you do get the away game against the Commanders in Week 13 after that. And I put that down as a must win. We talked about that on yesterday's show. My everydayers remember. That was a must win

game. So that's a bit of a reprieve. Alright? But because of where that game is situated, the pressure is on because the Titans cannot afford to lose that game. So while it may be a winnable game, again, Jaden Daniels, week 13, he's going to have his bearings about him. Cliff Kingsbury is the OC.

He's going to know what they do well, what they don't do well. He's going to have his answers to certain things. So it's not like you're playing them early in the year and they don't really know what they're going to be. They're going to know who they are by week 13. And you're going on the road after a tough road game against Houston, on the road back-to-back weeks against a team that knows who they are at that point.

Now, I still think the Titans are a much better team than Washington. So they should, they should win that game. No doubt. But, it makes it tougher.

So it looks like it's a break for the Titans. But at that point, it's still going to be a tough game. So, again, the most difficult patch, even the easiest or second easiest game, I would say the second easiest game the Titans have all year, is still right in a spot that makes it even tougher.

And then you come home, and you play Jacksonville for the first time all year. Who knows where these teams are going to be at then. All right. And that's, again, division games are always tougher than the regular games. Always tougher. So, I hope the Titans win that game.

But two tough road games, back-to-back, come back home. There's an opportunity to kind of let down. It's not exactly the same, but I would compare it to the NBA. You see teams go on long road trips. Obviously, I'm a Lakers fan. Talked about them a lot. They have the Grammy trip in February every year where the Grammys happen and the Lakers have to leave

and go on a long road trip. The first game back, sometimes they let down. Sometimes they're not quite as ready. Finally got back home, kind of relaxed a little bit, and you're not necessarily ready to play. So, I don't think that's as magnified

with NFL because, you know, the games aren't multiple times a week. It's just one per week. So, that kind of helps deal with that. But again, two road games back-to-back. Could be tough games, especially that Houston game. You get back home, are you ready to play? That'll be interesting to see here.

And then Week 15 against Cincinnati. If Cincinnati stays healthy all year, they could be one of the best teams in the NFL. Cincinnati is a Super Bowl contender if they're healthy. So that's going to be a tough game and you add in all the emotions involved with the holdovers from the Bengals that are now on the Titans. Brian Callahan, Cole Anderson even. And the way that the Bengals are going to feel about playing Brian Callahan. There's going to be

a lot riding on that. So it may be a home game, but still a very difficult game against a team that I think is going to be excellent. I think the Bengals win their division this year. I picked Baltimore last year. I picked the Bengals this year. I think the Bengals stay healthy. They're going to be a great team. That's going to be such a test for the Titans mixed in with all these division games that are inherently harder than regular games. And then, I mean, on the road against Indy, on the road against Jacksonville in back-to-back weeks,

another back-to-back away game situation where you're playing your division rivals who you've already played, who you've already seen, who know you now. The Titans won't get that benefit of, oh, we've never seen the Brian Callahan offense before. We've never seen the Denard Wilson defense before. They're going to get that benefit in some of these early games.

Not the second one. And they're both on the road. So, Houston is the best team in my division, in the division in my opinion. You get to play them. Your first game against them has to be on the road. So even though it's new Brian Callahan, new Denard Wilson, you're on the road against the best team in the division.

Then, you get these games in Week 16 and 17 where you're on the road against these division rivals and they've already seen your new offense and new defense. So just tough games. Think about that. Indy, Jacksonville, Houston to end the season. Now that gives the Titans the opportunity to make up ground if they lose ground early in the year.

But man, that's a tough finish. And then again, after those two back-to-back weeks, you got Houston, you're at home. But Houston might be the best team in the division. So that's a tough stretch. Very difficult. So here's how it looks. The Titans have to beat Washington on the road in week 13. They got to win that game. They got to beat Jacksonville at home in week 14. They have to. They got to do it if they want to make the playoffs. They have to split those two road games,

one against Indy, one against Jacksonville in 16-17. They got to split one of those. And then they got to beat Houston at home in Week 18. If they can beat Washington and beat Jacksonville and then split those two road games and then beat Houston, that is four wins in the final 1, 2, three, four, five, six, seven. Four wins in the final seven weeks.

And I think they could be in a great spot to still make the playoffs. But it's going to be a big ass. That's a tough stretch of games to finish the year. Hopefully the Titans are playing their best football at that time. But now I just want to have some fun and talk about the games that I plan to go to. Because there are some fun games to attend and I already got tickets to a few of them. So excited to talk about that with you guys.

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at the end for the Titans and how many games they need to win to survive that patch. Now I want to talk about the games that I'll be attending this year because I'm very excited to go to a couple more Titans games this year. I'm going to try to make that a thing. I haven't been to a ton of games in my lifetime. I've been to, I think, like seven Titans games in my life. So excited to go to more here throughout the next few years.

And now that I'm not writing during the games, I can actually go to games. So that'll be very fun. But with that being said, do want to thank you guys again for making the Locked on Titans podcast your first listen each and every day, Monday through Friday, Tennessee

Titans content all year round, always for free. Make sure you get subscribed. Stay subscribed. It's your team every day, but the games I'm going to. Confirmed. Bought my tickets. I will be at the home game week three against the Green Bay Packers. So very

excited to go watch that game. Number one, obviously the Titans aspect. It's going to be early in the year. Hopefully everyone's healthy. Get to watch the Titans. I've never seen Will Levis in person because I was writing for Sports Illustrated last year and I had to write five, six articles during the games. Can't go to the games and do that. So excited to go see the new team, the new squad. Not only that, but Green Bay is a fun team. Green Bay is a good team. You know what I mean? So that'll be a fun game worth watching

with good players on both sides. Also, little family element for me. I'll be taking my dad to that game. My dad will be 64 years old. He has been a Green Bay Packers fan since 1966. 1966. Cool, pretty cool. A couple years ago for Christmas,

I bought him ownership in the Packers, which will be passed down to me after. Obviously, ownership in the Packers isn't like, you know, most normal places where you buy ownership or buy stock. It's really just a crowdsource money for the Packers since they're a publicly owned team, but it's just cool. It's a novelty. It's like buying a jersey and getting it signed and hanging it up in your man cave. You know what I mean? Like, it's just cool. All right. It's just cool. And my dad really liked it. So that was fun. Also, fun thing. A lot of you guys probably don't know about, but there are specific people online who like to try to trash me and say, I'm a Packers fan and I shouldn't like

the Titans and all of this Titan stuff I have and all these Titans games I go to and all the hours and hours on hours on hours that I've spent talking about the Titans, loving the Titans, researching the Titans, even before I had a podcast. I've been a fan of the Titans since 1999, but all that's fake. I'm a Packers fan. This is for you. This is more ammo for you. So my dad's been a Packers fan since 1966.

He wanted me to be a Packers fan. He took me to Packers games when I was five, six years old. We always went to Cincinnati to watch the Packers and Bengals. I had, you know, Packers stuff. Brett Favre is like the reason I love football, watching Brett Favre play. But when I was eight years old, me and my brother decided we want to be Titans fans. We like the Titans. I don't want to be a Packers fan. That's not the team I want to root for.

I want to root for the Titans. So it will be cool to go. I've never been to a Packers game since that moment when I decided to change teams. We didn't have a lot of money growing up. Wasn't really an option to go to a lot of sporting events for me. So it'll be cool. I don't think my dad's gone to a Packers game in 30 years. You know what I mean?

So, it'll be sweet to go see that game with my dad, knowing the history that we've had between those teams and everything in my family that's involved with that. It's just going to be such a cool game to go see. I can't wait. And hopefully some of you guys are there. Maybe we can meet up. Maybe I can meet some of you guys during the game.

That'd be great. The last few games that I went to, I definitely ran into people who listened to the show. And it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. The next game that I'm going to will be the Bengals game in week 15 in Nashville. And I won't be going with my family on that one.

I'll be going with my friends. So I'm from southwestern Ohio. I wouldn't quite say I'm in Cincinnati, but I'm in southwestern Ohio. And obviously, there are a ton of Bengals fans where I'm at. It is the jungle where I'm at. Okay. Especially after Joe Burrow showed up and they made the Superbowl run. Now everybody in their brother, mother, sister, lover, cousin, friend is a Bengals fan. Loves Joe Burrow, all that. So I got a ton of friends in my close. I got a big group of friends like that I've known since high school. My, my big

group of friends, my group chat. I'm sure a lot of you guys recognize that. But that are Bengals fans. Huge Bengals fans. So I am excited to get a big group together. Go down to Nashville. Party with my friends. Watch that Bengals game. And with all the connections between the Titans and the Bengals now.

Not just the playoff games. The sort of rivalry. But with the Brian Callahan stuff and all that. And then with my friends being Bengals fans, the best Titans game I ever went to ever was 2017 Bengals Titans. I went with me and my brother, who are Titans fans, and then two of my best friends, who are Bengals fans. And we, I mean, I was young.

I wasn't engaged. I didn't have a lot of responsibilities. I wasn't even doing the show at the time. We partied down at Nashville, went to the game, and DeMarco Murray did that duck underneath, stretched the ball out over the goal line to win at the buzzer. I was so hyped, I, like, fainted in my seat because I was yelling so loud,

which I'm sure isn't a shock to any of you. But that was a great game. So magic happens when the Titans and Bengals play. And I can't wait to go down there with all my buddies and their wives and my girl and have a great time in Nashville and watch that game. And then finally, if the Titans win that game against Cincy and if the Titans record is good, then I'm going to drive two hours over to

Indianapolis and check out the Titans Colts game in Indy and be a strong voice for him there and support him there. Now, if the Titans don't do so well and things aren't going so well, I'll probably save my money on that one. You know, it's for work so I can do different things to help myself out financially. But at the end of the day, I want to go see good football. So if the Titans win that game in Cincy and they're doing well and they're in the playoff hunt, I'll probably be charged up and ready to go over to Indianapolis

to watch that game. So very excited for those three matchups. Definitely going to the first two. Hopefully going to the third one at the Titans. Don't let me down. You know what I mean? But let me know down below

what games you want to go to. Even if you can't go to the games, let me know which games you would want to go to if you could. But with that being said, that is going to do it for me, folks. I will be back tomorrow answering your mailbag questions. Finally. I know that it took a little bit, but I'll get on it.

I promise. But with that being said, as always, I am your host, Tyler Rowland, and this was Locked on Titans.