Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Tennessee Titans Will Levis ON A HOT STREAK, Commanders Stumbles & Keys to Victory in Week 13

Starting point is 00:00:00 The Tennessee Titans are trying to start a hot streak while the Washington Commanders are trying to end a cold streak. Who will prevail? We'll discuss on this Crossover Thursday from the Locked On Podcast Network. You are locked on NFL Crossover, part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Your team every day. Welcome in to another Crossover Thursday. It's week 13. Locked On Titans, Locked On Commanders.

Starting point is 00:00:35 I am host of Locked On Titans, Tyler Rowland, here with the host of Locked On Commanders, David Harrison. Going to be breaking down this matchup with the biggest storylines for each team, some of the keys to victory for the teams in this game. Thank you for making Locked on Titans and Locked on Commanders your first listen each and every day. Do want to let you know that today's crossover Thursday is presented by PrizePix. Download the PrizePix app. Use the code LOCKEDONNFL to win $50 instantly when you play your first $5 lineup.

Starting point is 00:01:06 Of course, we're going to start with some of the big storylines in this game and the Tennessee Titans coming off their best win of the season, a 32 to 27 upset over the Houston Texans. Obviously, I'm in the trenches every day with the Tennessee Titans, David, but what kind of questions might you have right now about the Tennessee Titans football team between two teams that really don't see each other very often? Yeah, man. I mean, I think, I think first and foremost, right, you have to ask the question. Everybody always says you are what your record says you are, but I feel like this Tennessee Titans is team is not your, your average three win team. So, you know, how much does that three

Starting point is 00:01:44 win record demonstrate who the Titans are and how much does that three-win record demonstrate who the Titans are and how much does it actually leave to be discovered for Commanders fans who haven't seen the Titans play? Well, quite honestly, I know a lot of Titans fans will disagree with me, but I don't think the record is that far off of who they are.

Starting point is 00:01:59 I think the Titans would maybe be four and seven. That Chicago Bears game in week one, they were up 17. Levis does some really crazy stuff. The play that everyone probably remembers where he's basically fallen to his knees and he throws the ball to the sideline and it goes for a pick six.

Starting point is 00:02:14 The Titans get a punt blocked in that game. Like that game in particular, I would say that the Tennessee Titans should have won. But the Jets game, they lost by seven. They got smoked by the Packers. Maybe if Brian Callahan plays Mason Rudolph instead of a Hurt Will Levis in week six, the Titans beat the Colts,

Starting point is 00:02:32 but I really don't think it's that far off because the Titans have some serious, serious issues that aren't just hidden. The right tackle situation, they're lacking some explosiveness at wide receiver right now, even though their number two wide receiver NWI is having a good season. And on defense, the pass rush, very inconsistent. And because of that, they haven't really had a lot of turnovers in most games. But on the other side of things, you know, they make plays. The defense is very good.

Starting point is 00:03:02 And the offense, now that Will Levis is healthy and kind of calmed down from that early season stretch where it was a meme every single week and making some of the dumbest plays that you've ever seen at any level of football, quite honestly, now that they're just playing like normal football, they're a much better football team than they were early in the year in a lot of circumstances. So I think while the record is not as good as it should be, in my opinion, it's also not super far off from who they are as a team. But a lot of that may not matter going down the backstretch of this season in these final weeks of the year because Will Levis is playing such better football

Starting point is 00:03:41 and a young offensive line and a young offense with a lot of new pieces, including head coach Brian Callahan. Brian Callahan is a rookie head coach, and I think there are struggles that come with that. It's not like Dan Quinn, where he's a retread coach and he's done this before and he knows how I want to change things and what works and what doesn't. Brian Callahan's figuring out everything on the fly for being a first. He wasn't even the play caller in Cincinnati. So not only is he developing as an offensive coordinator who's calling plays for the first time at the NFL level, he's developing as a head coach and how you want to handle guys in all phases of the football team.

Starting point is 00:04:17 So it's so much new with the Tennessee Titans and the issues that I talked about. It was only logical that they would have a slow start, and I predicted a slow start, maybe not quite as slow as it was for the Titans, but now they're definitely hitting their stride. And I think the second half of the season, Tennessee Titans are going to be very much different from the early season version of the Titans, but they still got to go out and prove it with wins. So we'll see what happens here. Yeah, absolutely. And I know that Will Levis, you know, one in two in the last three games, absolutely. And I know that we'll love us, you

Starting point is 00:04:45 know, one in two in the last three games, right? Certainly not the way you want to go, but I know we'll love us has been playing better football over the last few games. So can you talk about kind of where he's gotten better, why that's happened and how much of that is just, we'll love is growing into his NFL, you know, legs and how much of that is the coaching staff helping out the young quarterback? Well, I think the coaching staff is definitely helping out the young quarterback, but it's not so much with the play calling or, you know, with the design. They're helping out Will Levis with philosophically behind the scenes what you need to do. Brian Callahan talked about it at Wednesday's press conference that they've told Will Levis

Starting point is 00:05:20 like you don't need to worry so much about making the magic plays. You know, Levis wants to play hero ball. He wants to hold the ball. He wants to drive it down the field. He never wants to play to end. He wants to avoid a sack. He wants to make a crazy flip and get it to a running back. And sometimes you just have to take your medicine to get better.

Starting point is 00:05:38 And shout out to David being sick and, you know, taking his medicine and making this show happen. I really appreciate that. But, you know, it's funny how, this show happen. I really appreciate that. But, you know, it's funny how, and Brian Callahan laughed about this in the press conference, that once Will Levis stopped trying to do so much and just took what was there with the defense, then all of a sudden the magic plays did happen. It's like doing just a little bit less makes a little bit more. And I think that over the last three games, we've seen Will Levis complete 67% of his passes, 748 passing yards, five touchdowns against three, you could say top 10 defenses. They're all top 11

Starting point is 00:06:13 in DVOA on defense with the Chargers, the Vikings, and then the Texans. So he's played basically the best three game stretch of his entire career against some of the very best defenses in the NFL. And hopefully that measured, calm, poised approach continues for Will Levison. Look, he had to pick six against the Texans. That was a terrible throw and terrible decision. Sometimes he locks on to things and just doesn't see things correctly. He still takes a ton of sacks. His pressure to sack rate.

Starting point is 00:06:47 If you get pressure on Levis, you're basically going to sack him because he doesn't get rid of the ball quick enough. He doesn't know how to evade that pressure. The pocket presence is not good, which is like a stark contrast to Jaden Daniels. You know what I mean? He's very natural in the pocket and has great instincts. But overall, you know, there are things to build off of.

Starting point is 00:07:04 And again, he is playing his best football. And I think a lot of it has to do with his mentality and how the coaches are telling him you know just to play more calmly that's more important than anything they're doing schematically on the field yeah it was real interesting watching Will Levis on tape because it's almost like he not not just wants to set his feet he almost wants to plant his feet sometimes in the pocket, and it definitely leads to a much longer process from decision to throw and leads to some hits and some sacks, like you were saying. On the defensive side of things, though, where's the Tennessee Titans' defensive strength at? Well, the strength is the defensive line. There's a saying in

Starting point is 00:07:38 Tennessee, you do not run on the Tennessee Titans. Last week, a good run game in the Houston Texans. Joe Mixon's been great this year. 14 carries for 22 yards. The Titans aren't going to let you run the football. You got to beat them in the pass game. And with the quarterback run game, quite honestly, the Titans have struggled a little bit with mobile quarterbacks who can get out and run, and that's a concern for me.

Starting point is 00:07:58 But the Titans defensive line, led by all-world player Jeffrey Simmons and then rookie Tavondre Sweat. You just don't run on the Titans. It doesn't happen very often, and that's really the strength of the defense because they got a lot of backups in the secondary with a lot of injuries in the secondary, but then again, the Titans have the number one pass defense in the NFL, but again, I think a lot of that is built upon the fact that

Starting point is 00:08:21 they stop the run. You're in a lot of third and long situations, and it makes it easier for the defensive backfield to kind of hold things down. But we're going to turn the page, look at the Washington Commanders side of things as well. They're on a three-game losing streak. What's causing that? How can they get out of it?

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Starting point is 00:10:19 And David, I hyped you up there at the end, but it's for good reason. You do some excellent, excellent work covering the commanders, and that's why you're the perfect person to ask the question, why are the commanders on a three-game losing streak? Yeah, it's been a very interesting kind of regression for the Washington commanders. So there's a thing, and I have a background in animal training, right,

Starting point is 00:10:41 and really in any type of training. There's something called spontaneous recovery. It's when you're working on a certain skill and you're working towards developing a preferred response or preferred behavior to a command or a signal or whatever and you're making progress progress progress and then all of a sudden boom you're right back to where you started for a day or so and then you pick back up on that progress that's essentially what we're seeing with the Washington Commanders in a sense where earlier in the season fans and even even team even team members, Jeremy Reeves, after that Hail Mary against the Chicago Bears to win that game miraculously, was extremely emotional in the locker room. And he looked at a bunch of us in the media and he said, you guys know, this team last year, this team two years ago, this team three years ago doesn't win this game.

Starting point is 00:11:20 This team is different and now we're kind of seeing situations where the the washington teams of old are doing you know the some of the habits are returning what i mean by that is not playing complimentary football and look every team in the nfl understands the importance of playing complimentary football but that's the opposite of what washington is doing right now look at just last week uh anytime the defense stood up the offense couldn't do anything with it i mean you get three possessions in dallas territory in the first half to start the game and you produce three points a punt and an interception right you can't you can't do that then offensively they come out in the second half run right down the field go right down the field on the dallas cowboys put a touchdown on the board first touchdown of the game

Starting point is 00:12:01 take a lead and now you're kind of thinking like, okay, here we go. Defense gives a touchdown right back, right? Like, I mean, 86 yard, you know, 86 yard touchdown pass, kickoff return for a touchdown. Like it just, it's, it's, if the offense did well, the special teams or the defense failed, if the special teams or defense did well, the offense failed. And that's just, that's, that's honestly, that's old school Washington football for the last 20 years

Starting point is 00:12:25 or so and it's not a good thing to see I think the positive is this is not the same old Washington team you know what I mean and they have the people in the building they need to kick those habits to the curb well I think one of the big things that stands out to a lot of people on kind of a more zoomed in level is the the Cliff Cliff per se with Cliff Kingsbury and kind of the second half of the season struggles that his offenses have had going back to college football quite honestly not even just his NFL time is there anything specific that you're noticing and I asked this question David when in reality I've watched you talk about this so I know that you have some of these answers. What are some of the specific things that you're noticing on offense that maybe you

Starting point is 00:13:10 would like them to change going forward or that they're not doing enough of that may have contributed to the offense sliding back a little bit? Yeah, I mean, you know, it all starts with Jane Daniels, right? At the end of the day. And it's, you know, the very last episode I did a lockdown commanders before this, when we kind of went really deep into this and, and's not on jayden daniels in my opinion because he's a rookie quarterback anytime you have a rookie quarterback it's imperative that you have the right coaching staff in place and you have coaches to understand how am i going to

Starting point is 00:13:35 maximize this rookie while also trying to develop him behind the scenes understanding that real development doesn't take place until really after the end of the season when players have time to decompress and kind of look back at everything that happened and really process those lessons. Jaden Daniels is a middle-of-the-pocket to right-side-of-the-pocket player. He does not like to go to the left side. He doesn't like to throw to the left. He doesn't like to roll to the left.

Starting point is 00:13:58 In the first nine weeks of the season, it took the NFL a little while to really pick up on that, which is a little bit surprising, to be quite honest with you with you there's a lot of talented defensive coordinators out there but it really started with the chicago bears and that's actually week eight so i should say it took seven weeks uh so so the eighth week is when the chicago bears really became the first team that if you go back on tape you start watching there's an overload to the left side of the defense that's the right side of the offense and what they're doing is they're trying to pressure jayden daniels up the middle but they're also trying to contain him on the right side of the defense that's the right side of the offense and what they're doing is they're trying to pressure jayden daniels up the middle but they're also trying to contain him on the right side of the offensive formation and not allow him to get out and scramble or if he does roll out to

Starting point is 00:14:32 try to make a pass and stay alive as a passer make him incredibly uncomfortable and what that's doing is putting more pressure on a rookie quarterback which is leading to some inaccuracies it's leading to some some slow processes and you notice in the last three or so games during this losing streak that he's holding the ball longer in the pocket, not overall. His time to throw average is actually, say, rather consistent. In fact, week 11, the game against the Philadelphia Eagles was actually his shortest time to throw average of the season. So he's not holding the ball longer, but he's holding it in the pocket longer.

Starting point is 00:15:04 He's not getting out of the pocket, which is where he does a lot of his damage. Wow. That is such an interesting nugget that honestly, it would have been hard to, to notice that necessarily for me watching the tape, but I'm certain that Denard Wilson has noticed that now on the defensive side of the ball I don't really know a lot I mean the commanders aren't in the AFC it's not a team that the Titans play often you know they change coaches with Dan Quinn so they're doing different stuff on defense I know Jonathan Allen has been out for the season and he's a great player but what is Washington doing I know that they've had their struggles and you look at like DVOA and stuff like that.

Starting point is 00:15:45 They're towards the bottom of the league, but they've also had some good moments. What is good and bad about this commander's defense? So what's bad about them is their run defense. Their run defense is near the bottom of the league and pretty much has been the entirety of the season. Their pass rush is better than their run defense certainly is, and sometimes those kind of things kind of go hand-in-hand. Guys who can win at the line of scrimmage are typically good in run defense or good in pass rushing, but this team really

Starting point is 00:16:11 knows how to, one, get after the quarterback, but also to take advantage of quarterbacks to hold the ball. You mentioned Will Levis holding the ball a little bit. That's something that, you know, the Washington Bears defense is certainly going to be salivating over. However, they're also salivating over that against the Dallas Cowboys with a banged-up offensive line in Cooper Rush and came away with a very disappointing sack performance and just disappointing performance all over. So it's really, again, going to go back to some of that game planning.

Starting point is 00:16:38 I think the secondary, what you're looking for there, is a unit that's getting better and potentially could get better this weekend and marshall latimore is active he practiced on wednesday first time he's practiced with this team since he's been traded he's gonna be back against the titans i'm a titan and i know how this works hasn't played since the trade he'll be back to take on calvin ridley 100 well the thing about it is too it's not that he was just out there practicing like in the stretch line where he's out there practicing doing tip drills, like launching himself into the air to get a ball at the high point.

Starting point is 00:17:08 And again, when you're dealing with a hamstring injury, typically guys with hamstring injuries don't do that unless they're pretty confident with their hamstring. So, yeah, I think there's a good chance, you know, you know, speaking to this on crossover Thursday, you can't guarantee anything. But I think there's a pretty good chance you see Marshawn Lattimore out there and he's known as one of the most aggressive guys in the league so if Will Levis comes out with a game plan behind him of get the ball out quickly to avoid this pass rush Marshawn Lattimore is going to love it because Marshawn Lattimore is going to see him like we just talked about kind of overly plant to get ready to throw and that that long you know plant to release time is going to bite Will Levis you know in the rear and I know we've seen some pick sixes come off of that uh you know that behavior alone so that's something that he's got to work on going forward but you know can he fix it for week 13 typically you don't expect that kind of thing the Washington

Starting point is 00:17:51 Mariners defense secondary uh pass defense rather if you look at the stats right and this is why and you know this Tyler but like for for fans out there like you stat scout this is why it can be dangerous because you look at it you go man the secondary what are you talking about there's a 20th ranks deep pass defense in yards per play so they're not that good we have to understand that early in the season they were 32nd they were 32nd by a good amount so the fact that they've kind of incrementally worked themselves up coming into last week's game instead i was cowboys they were 21st in the league in yards per pass uh this this week they're 20th so like they're getting better and they're one of the better teams in preventing explosives, which of course, you know,

Starting point is 00:18:26 with Westbrook Akina and Calvin Ridley, you know, Will Levis is going to love to try to hit those explosives and even chick who I never even heard of until last week. You know what I mean? So, so obviously they would love to hit some of those explosives against this commander's defense. Not saying it can't happen because, you know, obviously it can, but they've been really good at preventing those types of things. Well, it'll be very interesting to watch because

Starting point is 00:18:47 I know the commanders love their cover three. They've also played a surprising amount of cover one, you know, like cover one man, which, you know, Dan Quinn, you think of like the old school Legion of boom cover three Seattle style defense. So that was interesting to see, uh, for Titans fans, I would say related to the Detroit lions game where the Lions played a ton of man coverage and cover one. And I will say in that game, Calvin Ridley went crazy. So getting Marshawn, Marshawn Lattimore back, it'll be interesting to see what kind of a matchup that turns into. But with that being said, we are going to kind of look to guess what might happen in

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Starting point is 00:21:25 We'll check out the Locked On NFL podcast. But with that being said, we do got to look into kind of some predictions. I don't want to say necessarily predicting what's going to happen, but some things that need to happen for both of these teams. As the away team, David, I will kick us off. Before, happy Thanksgiving to everybody. This is a Thursday show. Want to make sure that we say that everybody who celebrates out there.

Starting point is 00:21:48 Hope you have a happy and relaxing Thanksgiving. Before the Titans for me, you have to run the football. You talked about it that the commanders have not been a great run defense. And I think the Titans already with the way their offense is set up. Everything is predicated on the run game. I think the Titans are going to have to be a little bit different in the run game than they were last week against the Texans. Something I broke down on my Tic Tac Titans film channel on Wednesday, the way the Titans attack the aggressiveness. I think the commanders are

Starting point is 00:22:19 going to be a much more disciplined defensive line and you're going to get yourself in trouble if you don't run the football to get yourself in trouble if you don't run the football and put yourself in those third and long situations where the commanders can clamp down with their tight man coverage and get the pass rushers loose. So the Titans absolutely have to run the football here and honestly they've been pretty good at running the football this year so that might be a good matchup for the Titans. I also think stopping Terry McLaurin is going to be clear. Now, David, I don't mean to be disrespectful to some of the other options that the commanders have, like, you know, Daimi Brown or Zach Ertz.

Starting point is 00:22:53 But the reality is I don't think that the commanders have a great set of skill position players outside of Terry McLaurin. So if you let Terry McLaurin beat you, you are absolutely going to lose. Now, you may still lose, even with Terry McLaurin going off, not going off, but you give yourself a much better chance of winning if you hold Terry McLaurin down

Starting point is 00:23:15 and force sort of the other guys to do it. I don't want to completely neglect Jaden Daniels here either. So my third key to victory other than slowing down terry mclaurin and running the football my third key to victory here is containing jayden daniels the titans have really struggled with mobility at the quarterback position whether it be drake may um whether it be josh allen running around like even justin her Herbert was able to make some play. Sam Darnold, who's not a super mobile quarterback. He looked like Michael Vick and Joe Burrow the way he was navigating in the

Starting point is 00:23:51 pocket. I know that's a weird to use those two names at the same time, but if you know ball, you know, Joe Burrow is a Jedi in the pocket moving around, but the Titans have really struggled with mobility. They've really struggled with quarterbacks to actually finish their sack opportunities and get them to the ground. Jaden Daniels is by far the best mobile threat that the Titans have faced at the quarterback position. I'm taking the over on Jaden Daniels rushing yards

Starting point is 00:24:14 in this game. I think he's going to give the Titans fits and if they allow that to beat them, they have no chance to win the game. So run the football, contain Terry McLaurin, contain Jane Daniels in the run game, and the Titans should have a good shot to get their second win in a row. Yeah, no, I mean, I think, you know, if they can do those three things, you're absolutely correct. They can certainly make this thing more of a game than most people would have thought it would be a month ago, right? You go back to like October 25th and say, oh, this Titans game here in three or four weeks, how's that going to go? And everybody's like, ah, the Commanders are going to get that one. No problem.

Starting point is 00:24:46 Now the way that things are going, however, that's not the case. And one of those things that's happening is that the Washington Commanders offense is leaving the defense out there, or Washington Commanders offense is not giving the defense enough of a break and leaving the defense out there far too long because they're losing the time of possession battle. And Tyler, the Washington Commanders are one in four in games this year where they're losing the time of possession battle and tyler washington bears are one and four in games this year where they're losing the time of possession battle and obviously time of possession correlated to wins it's kind of a no dust stack connection right

Starting point is 00:25:12 but there's the difference between teams that that want to win the time of possession to win games and there's teams that need to win the time of possession to win games this team needs to win the time of possession that one win chicago bears which they should have lost right like in the grand scheme of everything without a tyreek steven Chicago bears, which they should have lost, right? Like in the grand scheme of everything without a Tyreek Stevenson on the field, they should have lost that game. So really the team should be Oh, and five and two in games where they don't win the time of possession

Starting point is 00:25:32 battle. And the way that you do that, if you're the defense, because we've gone weeks, you know, weeks now where we're kind of saying, okay, offense needs to string together drives.

Starting point is 00:25:40 How can we get the offense to get more first downs and do all this other stuff? And yeah, that's absolutely so important, but from a a content standpoint now i need to tell listeners this defense needs to force three and outs that's what needs to happen is this defense now has to kind of say not only is it our job to keep the score as low as possible for as long as possible it's our job to now get ourselves off the field and and obviously you want to do that anyway but give ourselves the break that we need is probably the better way uh to say that but the Tennessee Titans I mean

Starting point is 00:26:08 I know they're not ranked really high in like first downs per game I think against Minnesota Vikings they only had 11 first downs but at the same time they've only gone three and out like six times uh over the past three games so this isn't a team that goes three and out all that often so the Washington Bears need to come out here and maybe get four three and outs in this one game alone so that if this offense still needs some time to kind of make things happen, they can have their time to rest on the sideline while that's all happening. The next one is get Jayden Daniels right. You want to stop Terry McLaurin.

Starting point is 00:26:36 Right now the Washington Commanders are doing a lot of that on their own by lining him up on the left side of the formation, and Jayden Daniels is throwing about 70% of his passes to the right side of the formation. Now, it doesn't mean Terry can't run from the left to of the formation and jane daniels is throwing about 70 of his passes to the right side of the formation now doesn't mean terry can't run from the left to the right right but uh there's there's a big deficiency in how this quarterback likes to play what side of the field he likes to execute on and where his number one receiver is a lot need to see cliff kingsbury get that correct and that's part of getting jane daniels right because guess what terry mcclernand is running past an overloaded left side of the defense

Starting point is 00:27:05 and Jane Daniels can throw over that blitz or over that overloaded rush, maybe things are going to go a little bit better. You force that defense to back off a little bit. Then it opens up the field a little bit more for guys like Noah Brown, Zach Gertz, so on and so forth. Then finally, get Ben Sinnott used in more of a Kyle Juszczyk role. Ben Sinnott, rookie tight end when he was drafted out of Kansas State. Adam Peters, who came from the San Francisco 49ers, said this is our Kyle Juszczyk.

Starting point is 00:27:28 That's what we see in Ben Sinnott. Well, guess what? When you've seen Ben Sinnott have the opportunities to get his Juszczyk on, he's done really well. Go back to that rushing touchdown that Jayden Daniels had against the Cowboys in the beginning of the second half. Kyle Juszczyk is the guy laying the lumber on a Dallas Cowboys defender to free Jayden Daniels up to get into that end zone, ironically, on the left side of the offensive formation. Do more of that. You mentioned the Los Angeles Chargers game, Tyler, and I actually studied that offense against the Titans defense specifically for this matchup.

Starting point is 00:27:56 So I'm really glad that we're on the same page there. And what did the Los Angeles Chargers do? Pretty much every time they ran between the tackles, definitely every time they ran between the guards, they used a fullback. And it was actually kind of funny to me because there was really no trickeration to it. If there was a fullback on the field, the charters were running between the tackles and they said, it's coming, stop it. And they didn't stop it at all. So that makes it even more difficult when you have bigger bodies coming at you. And you have Benson who, again, in the use check mold is also a receiver.

Starting point is 00:28:26 So if you go play action or if you do a chip release or whatever it is, you have a receiving option and Benson it as well. So you also mentioned the Detroit lions. That's actually, I'm really happy you did that too. Cause I actually watched the Detroit lions defense against the Tennessee Titans offense. That information that I got from there is actually becoming out in my Friday episode. So commanders fans will get, get to uh to do that but yeah we're clearly on the same page on

Starting point is 00:28:48 which teams kind of present some of the better options against the tennessee titans team and again the thing you want the detroit or the commanders do better than the troy lines did even though they were effective in some other areas is stop the explosive passes yeah 100 the titans did a good job of getting calvin ridley going with the man coverage because he's so fast it's just it's just difficult to stay with him one-on-one but will be very interesting to see that i think you're saying terry mcclure and getting across the field the titans run a lot of cover for man where they're manned on the outside and then their safeties are playing that exchange cover four over the middle to stop those crossing routes so this is going to be an excellent

Starting point is 00:29:22 schematic battle david one of the best crossovers I've done all year. It goes without saying, you know, ball. But with that being said, that's going to do it for us today on this crossover Thursday. Again, happy Thanksgiving to everybody out there if you celebrate. But I am Tyler Rowland, host of the Locked on Titans podcast for David Harrison from Locked on Commanders. Thank you so much for tuning in.

Starting point is 00:29:42 Everybody have a good Thanksgiving once again. Stay safe out there and make sure that you tune in on Friday and get ready for this excellent game coming on Sunday.

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