Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - #TicTacTuesday - Defensive Adjustments, Tannehill Extension & Titans Talk

Episode Date: December 10, 2019

Follow Tyler on Twitter @TicTacTitans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Locked On Titans podcast. I'm your host, Tyler Rowland. Titans fans, it is a tick-tack Tuesday. We are going to step into the film room, break down some X's and O's, and talk about the biggest part of the win in Oakland. Still coming down off that win. What a game. And how about the play of Ryan Tannehill? He has just continued to impress week in and week out. When you think maybe his hot streak might come to an end, he might show some cracks. He refuses, continues to ball out out there for the Tennessee Titans. So before we step into the film room, we are going to talk about the rumors that came out over the weekend about a possible extension for Ryan Tannehill and what that might look like.

I have some numbers to compare and some statistics to compare so we can maybe get an idea of what that extension might look like based on that report. After that, we will go ahead, dive into our film session, step into the film room for Tic Tac Tuesday, and break down the Titans halftime adjustments. So what I'm going to do as I always do is show you four plays. I'm going to show you two plays before halftime and then how the Titans adjusted with two plays after halftime that allowed the Tennessee Titans defense to not allow a single point from the Raiders in the second half. As always in our last segment on Tuesday, we are going to do Titans talk and I'm going to let you hear from head coach Mike Vrabel's day after press conference.

So, a jam-packed show, ready to jump into that with you guys. I want to remind you that I always marry up my breakdowns with some visuals on my Twitter account, so if you aren't already, please follow me on Twitter at TicTacTitans so you can catch the visual aspect of the plays we break down in our TicTac Tuesday segment. Excited to get into all of it with you guys. Let's get it. Your Tennessee Titans lead story. A report came out from Diana Russini on Sunday before the Titans played the Raiders in Oakland that indicated that inside the Titans organization, discussions have already begun about an extension to make Ryan Tannehill the quarterback of the future for the Tennessee Titans.

Multiple other sources since Sunday have kind of pushed that rumor forward and said they've been hearing the same things. And at this moment in time with the play of Tannehill out on the field, it does not seem unlikely. It seems reasonable that that's something that John Robinson, the scouting staff, and head coach Mike Rabel would be discussing. Especially after his performance in a 42-21 victory on the road against the Raiders. Ryan Tannehill was 21 for 27, threw for 391 yards, three touchdowns, 140.4 quarterback rating, and had no sacks. Now the sacks, that credit goes to the offensive line as well, but as we know, a lot of what

has to do with sacks is quarterback play. For the season, Ryan Tannehill is now completing 73% of his passes, 1,993 passing yards, 9.8 yards per attempt, which leads the league. He has 15 touchdowns, only 5 interceptions, and it's not just Ryan Tannehill who's benefiting from his own successes. It's the entire Titans offense. 15 touchdowns, only 5 interceptions, and it's not just Ryan Tannehill who's benefiting from his own successes. It's the entire Titans offense. Since he took over in week 7, the Titans offense has completely erupted.

The Titans are 2nd in the NFL since then in points per game at 31.4, and they have the 2nd most touchdowns in the NFL during that time. The only quarterbacks in NFL history to complete 75% of their passes and record a passer rating of over 130 for three consecutive games are Aaron Rodgers and now Ryan Tannehill. Another point of history for Ryan Tannehill at this moment in time is he joins Russell Wilson as the only quarterbacks in NFL history with two passing touchdowns and a quarterback rating of over 125 for four consecutive games. He has just played out of his mind.

Considering that, how do we get an idea of what Ryan Tannehill's potential contract extension would look like with the Titans? Well, what we will do is try to consult some other quarterbacks who had similar situations and signed similar extensions here recently. And to do that, we will use information from sportstrack.com, who does a great job of tracking all the financial information for the NFL. Looking at some potential comparisons for Ryan Tannehill. Kirk Cousins signed a three-year deal, $28 million per year when he was 29. Matthew Stafford signed a five-year deal for $27 million when he was 29. Alex Smith signed a four-year deal for $23.5 million per season at age 33.

And Nick Foles signed a four-year deal for $22 million a year at age 30. Tannehill is 31 at this moment in time, so he's kind of in the middle of all of those contracts. I would expect his numbers to come in in the middle of those contracts as well. A quarterback's salary cap hit on a franchise tag is right around $27 million per year. So I would expect Tannehill's contract to come underneath that as he's had a good year, but the average of the top five of the position doesn't really make sense either. Now, I would expect him to get a little bit higher than Nick Foles at the $22 million mark. So we can reasonably expect Ryan Tannehill to be between $23 million a year and $25 million a year going forward. I would expect a two to three year extension. If there is a third year, it'd probably be non-guaranteed money or have an

out for the Tennessee Titans there. His statistics compare pretty favorably to those four quarterbacks as well. Stafford and Cousins tend to be on the high end of passing yards above 4,000, something that Tannehill doesn't seem to be in the range to do, especially with limited games this year. So I would expect his contract to come in just a little bit below Cousins and Stafford because of the stats being just a little bit lower in general. One last thing to consider is even if the two sides are able to agree on terms financially, years, guaranteed money, all the different incentives that come along with negotiating a contract in the NFL, I do not and would suggest that you as Titans fans do not wait

for an extension during this season. As John Robinson has shown with the likes of Derrick Henry, Logan Ryan, Jack Conklin, and even Marcus Mariota at the beginning of the year, contract extensions for the Titans are done in the offseason. So I would not expect to see an extension until then. That is going to do it for our first segment though. Before we jump into the film room,

check out some X's and O's for our tick tack Tuesday segment. I do want to remind you guys, the original Casper mattress combines multiple supportive memory foams for a quality sleep service with the right amounts of both sink and bounce. Get a hundred dollars towards select mattresses by visiting casper.com slash locked NFL and using locked NFL at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. If you can't visit Casper right now, you can find this and all other offers from Locked On sponsors at lockedonpodcast.com slash offers.

Also, look out for Locked On Podcast Network stories on Google's new audio news experience, Your News Update. It's a seamless way to listen to the news assembled in the moment based on your interest, your location, and top headlines. Try it today on Google Assistant app by selecting your profile, then tapping News, News playlist format, your news update. Make sure you search Locked on Titans in your available sources and add Locked on Titans. Tick,Tack Tuesday. Titans fans, let's step into the film room and talk some X's and O's. What I want to highlight this week for you guys is the adjustments that the Titans made at halftime to counteract what the Raiders were doing on offense.

So it's no secret if you've been following the show or following me on Twitter at TicTacTitans that the Titans have been using a lot of disguised coverages and a lot of blitzes with Kenny Vaccaro as the middle linebacker blitzing up the middle or Logan Ryan, Kevin Byard coming off the slots on the outside on blitzes. Sometimes combining those, dropping linebackers into coverage and changing the coverage pre-snap to post-snap. I've been breaking down a lot of that in the past few weeks. The Titans are going to try to do some of those similar things here.

But what they're going to try to do is they're going to try to play man coverage against the Raiders. The reason that they wanted to do that is because with all of the carousel, with the cornerbacks being injured, having Ty Smith out there who was on practice squad, playing Kareem Orr, the signing of Tremaine Brock off waivers, and having him play. Since you were a little kid playing backyard football, you knew how to play man defense. Just guard your guy. Simple as that. Doesn't matter about complex scheme. Doesn't matter about brand new terminology that you've never heard before. None of that matters. Just, hey, play the guy in front of you and guard him. That's easy enough when you're brand new to the system or you haven't got a lot of reps with the first team, as in the

case of Ty Smith or Kareem Orr who were on practice squad. So, simple thing to do. Much more difficult to play a zone defense when you have to communicate with your teammates more and you're expected to be in a certain area. There's just a lot more that goes into it and you got to be a lot more in sync to play a good zone coverage. So, sounds like a decent plan for the Titans to come out and man. Well, the Raiders were ready for that. So, one way I want to demonstrate that is with two plays from the first half where the Titans tried to bring pressure but be in man coverage so for this play it's the first quarter two minutes and 36 seconds left a big third down and five with the Raiders on the 30 yard line 70 yards away from the end zone the Raiders are in a trips to the right with Tyrell Williams their most talented wide receiver as the inside guy they have tight end Darren Waller, who's an incredible player in a very difficult matchup.

We saw that on Sunday. All the way to the left side by himself on the formation, but in a tight split close to the offensive line. So the Raiders have tons of field to their left. What the Titans are going to do here is they're going to cover up all the offensive linemen like they've been prone to do a 50 front with Harold Landry and Reggie Gilbert on the outsides, Jayon Brown and Rashawn Evans over the guards, and Jarrell Casey over the center. They have Kevin Byard who's showing a man alignment against Darren Waller, Kenny Vaccaro

playing that middle linebacker spot that we've become accustomed to seeing him play in these passing downs. They have Ty Smith man-to-man on Tyrell Williams. They have Logan Ryan over the outside slot, and then we have Tremaine Brock all the way to the outside covering the boundary receiver of the trips on the right-hand side. So what the Raiders are going to do here and what they did a good job of in the first half is they're going to pick up the blitz. The Titans are going to blitz Kenny Vaccaro up the middle. They're going to drop Rashawn Evans and Jayon Brown a little bit.

They're more playing a lurk situation. If I can explain it better, it's more like a quarterback spy, but they're not really spying on Derek Carr for running. They're just looking to cover up any breaking routes over the middle that would be easy completions in third and five. One of them is assigned to the running back, but the running back stays in in protection and picks up Kenny Vaccaro coming on the blitz up the middle. So the Raiders pick this up really well, which means that the Titans cornerbacks have to cover one-on-one. Well, the reality is Ty Smith, and it's hard for him to win in this situation against a superior, a more talented player in Tyrell Williams,

wide receiver for the Raiders. Tyrell Williams runs a crossing route over the middle. Derek Carr, because the protection, picks up the blitz of Kenny Vaccaro, has time, and he finds Tyrell Williams for an easy 18-yard completion and a first down to keep their drive going. So in that situation, the Titans try to bring pressure to get the ball out of Derek Carr's hands on a third and short, third and manageable, but the Titans just don't have the horses out there to stay in one-on-one coverage with the Raiders wide receivers and that's an

easy completion for the Raiders, an easy beat for Tyrell Williams who has an easy catch get some extra yards after the catch as well before he's eventually taken down by Ty Smith and Imani Hooker so we are going to jump to our second play which has a similar concept going on as well now all of you guys are going to remember this play it is the second quarter there is about 10 minutes and 50 seconds left in the second quarter at this time. It is third and two at midfield. The Raiders will start with a pretty good formation. I like what they did here in terms of getting the type of matchups for their guys that they wanted. I like how the Raiders use their offensive personnel in

their formations to create advantageous matchups, I guess is what I'm trying to say. So, the Raiders are in shotgun here as well. They have Tyrell Williams by himself isolated on the left-hand side with Ty Smith on him. They have a trips formation a bunch to the other side. The Raiders did this a bunch in the first half and throughout the game. They got three of their wide receivers or their tight end and two wide receivers in a tight trip. So they make a triangle. They're all within a yard of each other. And what that does is that creates problems when you get man coverage. The Raiders knew that the Titans were going to come out in man coverage.

So when you have guys like that, they can all go different ways really quickly. The guy who's furthest outside can cut inside in between the two on the inside of him. The guy who is the inside the most can loop around the other two that are, you know, further outside. And it's hard for teams to communicate who's going to cover who in man coverage. You would think that the Titans come out, hey, Logan Ryan has this guy, Kevin Byard has this guy, but a lot of the times what defenses will do is they'll do like a matchup man. So Logan Ryan is on the inside of this Trips formation, the innermost Titans defender.

Kevin Byard is the outermost Titans defender. Then we have Tremaine Brock who is kind of splitting the difference between the two. And what they'll do is they'll say, hey, whoever breaks inside, Logan Ryan, you got him. Whoever breaks outside, Tremaine Brock, you got him. Kevin Byard, you're going to stay with Darren Waller where he goes no matter what. And as long as the team communicates properly

in that situation, then you're not going to get beat badly. But unfortunately, when you have someone like Tremaine Brock out there who's brand new to the team, you're going to see some of these situations and the Titans are going to get caught with their pants down. And it's exactly what happened here. It gave the Raiders an easy touchdown. So the Titans do bring a blitz from a linebacker on the opposite side of the bunch on the what would be the Raiders left-hand side Titans right-hand side Jayon Brown does come on a blitz so the Titans are bringing a

five-man pressure with the five defensive linemen and then Jayon Brown they have Rashawn Evans playing that kind of lurk coverage because anytime you got man across the board one of these linebackers is going to cover the running back well again the Raiders keep the running back in because the running back picks up Jayon Brown on his blitz so Rashawn Evans is kind of just lurking in the middle of the field for anything underneath you're going to have a Monty Hooker deep who is covering up you know anything super deep but he's just got the middle of the field well the Raiders run a great concept here they bring bring Darren Waller, who's on the outside, slanting over the middle. So Kevin Byard stays with him.

And they release Rico Gafford, who is at the tip of the bunch. So the guy on the line of scrimmage closest to the Titans. They send him up the field on a wheel route to the right-hand side. Unfortunately, Logan Ryan is expecting to stay with him. Unfortunately, Logan Ryan is expecting to stay with him. Tremaine Brock looks like he also is expecting to take Rico Gafford on his deep route. Well, right in the middle of the separation of the Raiders wide receivers and them getting into their route, Logan Ryan kind of realizes that no one is staying with the last man of the trips, and he stops covering Rico Gafford as he goes down the field and turns his hips to take the guy breaking inside.

Well, Tremaine Brock does the same thing but opposite. He initially is looking at Rico Gafford, thinks Logan Ryan is going to stay with him, thinks he miscommunicated, drops off Rico Gafford when he's the deeper guy, goes after the other guy, and both Logan Ryan and Tremaine Brock realize they've made a mistake. Derek Carr hits Rico Gafford for a 49-yard easy touchdown on a broken coverage, and these are sort of the issues that come with bringing pressure and then playing tight man coverage,

and we saw the Titans exposed multiple times in the first half trying to do that. Now, here is where the magic comes of Mike Vrabel and Dean Pease. Anybody watching the game would instantly be like, okay, you need to make an adjustment. But coaches are stubborn. They make a plan all week. They don't want to look weak or look like they don't have confidence in the plan that they set up. Well, this is smart from the Titans to make this adjustment. If they change the coverage here, now Derek Carr is going to see something different than he saw all first half. Now the Titans are going to have these miscommunications that we're seeing that leave them open for

blown coverages and blown up plays. And they're going to give their defensive backs easier reads and less kind of field to cover as well especially after taking a beating in the first half and being on the field quite a bit and dealing with the Raiders offense throughout so a smart adjustment by Dean Pease to go to zone coverage when he brings his pressure so let's jump into, and it'll be in the second half, of course, where the Titans defense allowed only 52 yards on the Raiders' first five drives and held the Raiders without a point. Let's talk about the third play.

11-18 left, third quarter. This is the Raiders' first drive out of halftime. It has been a back-and-forth scoring match, and the Raiders really have an opportunity here to go up 28 to 21 and at this point in time we can't count on either defense to stop either team so you got to think that the Raiders feel pretty good about their situation they're across half field they've been driving now basically doing the same thing they did all first half and they're looking from the 43 yard line to to possibly score but it is third and two so their primary focus is going to be get a first down.

Well, what we see here from the Titans is they show man. They're showing man coverage. The Raiders have another bunch formation set up. Basically the same exact formation they had on the last play we talked about. They have a bunch to the right-hand side. Tyrell Williams on the left-hand side by himself and a running back in the backfield. What happens here is the Titans do bring Rashawn Evans on a blitz up the middle. He loops around the defensive ends.

And what the Raiders try to do here is, same thing, out of that bunch formation, they're trying to create a nice matchup with man coverage. They're expecting to see man. Darren Waller is the inside most guy of the bunch. He basically takes an outside break of about five yards and then breaks right back into the middle. And the Raiders use the other two wide receivers in the bunch to kind of clear that out.

They run one underneath on a drag route, really, really close to the line of scrimmage to hopefully pull a Titans linebacker down that way. They run the other guy up the field vertically. So what you're doing is you're hoping to clear out a spot right in the middle of the field for Darren Waller as he breaks over the middle about five six yards from the line of scrimmage well Derek Carr is expecting to see man coverage here and that route and that route concept is a great man beater that's going to beat man coverage a lot of times especially with a talent like Darren Waller he's probably going to get separation and at least be able to use his big

six foot six frame to box out the defender and keep him on his back to secure a first down catch. But the Titans have changed and adjusted. They go to zone coverage. Derek Carr is not expecting zone coverage. So he takes the snap. He looks for what should be an easy completion to Darren Waller if the defense is playing man. He's not playing man.

So that takes away his first read. Kenny Vaccaro is basically right in front of Darren Waller. Jayon Brown is right on the other side, and Derek Carr has nowhere to go. He slightly panics. He looks for a second read, which is the drag route I talked about. By that time, the drag has gone so far to the other side of the formation that it is covered up as well,

and Derek Carr steps up in the pocket because the pressure of Jarrell Casey and Harold Landry around the edges is forcing him to step up. And he steps up right into the waiting arms of Jeffrey Simmons, who gets another sack on the season and does a classic Steve McNair celebration. So you've got to love every second of that. The Titans' adjustment there caused a split second of panic or confusion for Derek Carr. The zone coverage took away the primary read of the play and just a really good adjustment from the Titans defense that pays instant dividends on the first drive of the second half. final play, which demonstrates how perfect the adjustments that Dean Pease made at halftime.

Let's jump to four minutes and nine seconds left in the third quarter. The Raiders are now down by a touchdown, and the Titans need a really big stop here so they can score again and put the pressure on Oakland on the road. Here, the Raiders have a trips to their left side with Tyrell Williams in the inner slot, and on the right side, they have Darren Waller matched up and isolated. We've seen this throughout. Tyrell Williams, they want isolated on the inside. Darren Waller, they want isolated by himself on the opposite side, looking to get him a

decent matchup. So, the Raiders are in shotgun as they always are, and the Titans have the line of scrimmage completely covered with six guys this time. We have Harold Landry and Jarrell Casey on the right. David Long and Reggie Gilbert on the left, with Rashawn Evans and Jayon Brown in

the middle, in kind of the gaps on the opposite, on the other sides of the center. So, six people lined up here. What the Titans do is though, they drop all three linebackers. They drop David Long, they drop Rashawn Evans, and they drop Jayon Brown out. They blitz Logan Ryan off the right hand slot. Now, what the Raiders are looking for is to hit Tyrell Williams in the flat. They're expecting a blitz.

The Raiders are right, and they get a blitz from Logan Ryan off the slot. So, what you do when you get a blitz is you throw at the blitz. There's going to be a missing defender there because they blitzed. So, the Raiders run their two outside receivers on a vertical release because in reality, they're looking to eventually just block. This is kind of like a wide receiver screen that's telegraphed. It looks like regular routes, but they're really setting up the play to just get it out in the flat real quick to Tyrell Williams and convert this third and fourth.

But the Titans confuse the Raiders. They don't get the man coverage that they had seen in the first half. And Ty Smith is the outside cornerback on the side of the throw. Rather than drop him back into coverage, he is playing a flat zone. So his zone in this play is the flat. He turns his head inside because he's in zone coverage. He doesn't have to look at the wide receiver now. He gets to look at the quarterback.

So he flips his head towards the quarterback upon the snap, as he's supposed to do in zone coverage. He sees Derek Carr immediately turn and look at Tyrell Williams, who's going into the flat. He can see, I would imagine, with his peripheral vision, that his man, the outside receiver, is running straight at him, which as a cornerback, you've got to know that's probably going to be a block. He cuts in between Tyrell Williams and his man, who appears to be Zay Jones,

for the Raiders who made a number of mental mistakes yesterday. He cuts right in front of Zay Jones and is able to wrap up Tyrell Williams as soon as he gets the ball. It's obvious that the Raiders expected man coverage, so they thought that they would have a nice pick set up with the two outside receivers and Tyrell Williams can make a catch at the line of scrimmage and then get upfield for a first down. But the Titans switched to zone coverage, which meant there was a cornerback, Ty Smith

in this situation, sitting right there waiting for that route. The Raiders were not prepared for zone or they were not prepared for zone. They were expecting man. They got zone and the Titans were right there. That is coaching, folks. That is the coaches going at it. The players are on the field making the plays, but right there, Dean Pease beat John Gruden, and that's what happened in the second half, and anytime you go from scoring 21 in the first half to zero in the second half, it's because the other coach shut you down. Your scheme, your plays, your players, whatever you want to blame it on, completely confused out there from the Oakland Raiders in the second half. And once again, the Titans can win in the coaching

booth. Fantastic from Dean Pease. Fantastic from Mike Rabel. Those adjustments are what won the game. And we've seen that the whole season that the Titans coaches are willing to adjust on the fly. Really long Tic Tac Titans segment for you guys. I hope you enjoyed it. In our third segment, we are going to do Titans talk. I'm going to let you hear from head coach Mike Vrabel's day after press conference, as we always do on Tuesdays. As always, the audio is courtesy of titansonline.com.

Now, before we get into our third segment, I just want to let you know that if you're a Spotify listener, use Spotify Wrapped to show us your top Locked On podcasts for the year. Take a screenshot and tag us on Twitter at LockedOnLive and tag me, TicTacTitans, and we will share and retweet your picture. Titans Talk. Let's hear from Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Vrabel's day after press conference

and get his insights after he's had an opportunity to watch the film. As always, audio is courtesy of titansonline.com. Oh, there's always room. I mean, there's always room for improvement, coaching, playing, preparing the team, and then the team being prepared. That's what we do. We have to coach the actions and then the team being prepared, that's what we do. We have to coach the actions and not the result. It may have been a 91-yard touchdown play, but our quarterback got hit,

so we have to be able to try to fix and clean the middle of the pocket up so that that doesn't happen or, you know, something on defense. We might have gotten off the field on third down, but there was a guy open or, you know, that we, the quarterback scrambled and threw the ball away, but there was a guy open down the field that we have to just get cleaned up. And I'm just trying to use some examples of things that off the top of my head, we can continue to coach. Talking about maybe two different things, I think with Dane and Kalou,

you know, that's something that they just, whether they're getting into a rhythm and the snap counter and things like that, Jayon, you know, you don't see that very often. And, you know, that was a very instinctive play by Jayon. The fullback was offset. You know, I think that he had seen numerous times when we tried to show him that, you know, when they offset the fullback in those short yardage situations, they loved the fullback dive. That was something that was Oakland's bread and butter.

To make that possible, you know, we needed some knockback at the line of scrimmage, which we got. And then, you know, it was a fantastic, really fantastic play by Jayon. The catches were, I think, the catches were cool. I think the best thing was that he had some really nice blocks. I mean, he went up there and stuck it up in there and I think kept his feet moving on contact and the backer hit him in the hole and he was able to clear a path there for Derek. And so those, I think, are the things that I appreciate.

I think we thought that if we could get the ball in his hands. I mean, the catch down the sidelines was a really good back shoulder catch. He went up and high-pointed it. And then the catch and run on the boot. But Khalif's finishing, and he cuts it back in, gets a couple extra yards. Khalif's trying to go down there and get an extra block. Well, to run the football with a fullback in there that he's going to have to play well. I thought Prue, you know, played well when we asked him to cut off on a backside. That's not an easy challenge when those runs go away from him to be able to cut

those guys off. And, you know, some of those runs end up cutting back to him. So being able to do that without grabbing or tackling a guy, you know, I think is something that Prues really worked on. And then, you know, to be able to get him to catch up the seam was great. I mean, I think he has a great relationship with the players on the team. You know, that's part of the reason that I wanted to keep him here, you know, when I came because I felt like he wanted to just serve the players and help them improve and then transition into the role as coordinator.

I think he's, you know, I think you always realize what guys are comfortable doing. And, you know, as the flow of the game goes, I think that, you know, he's strung together, you know, some good calls. And, again, it's not always the call, but I think that having a rhythm and getting into a rhythm and allowing the players to eventually go out there and make the play, they're the ones that make it work. But I feel like we haven't tried to overload the players with just a bunch of new scheme stuff every single week and change stuff. We've added a few wrinkles, but there's been a lot of consistency. I think it's got to start probably with me,

talking to them on April 15th about you have to believe in this team. You have to believe in yourself. I think there's all different types of talented players in this league. There's some that are more so talented than others, but some guys really believe in themselves and what they can do. I think sometimes as coaches you have to explain sometimes to some players that, man, I got a lot of faith and confidence in you, and you need to have that same type of belief in yourself that we do as coaches.

And then some players you don't have to have that conversation with. They just naturally have it. But there's always some people or some players that you see a lot more in them than sometimes maybe they do themselves, and it's a daily process of getting that out of them. You know, I think Ryan's really done a pretty good job. I wouldn't like to hit the crossbar or hit the post on the one, but, you know, we'll keep working Ryan, and Ryan will keep working through,

and we've got big Ryan kicking off for us right now. So, you know, really just want to focus on Ryan and his process and his accuracy as it relates to making those kicks that we needed to make. Well, again, I think that, you know, we can't go out there and, you know, just hope and wish to win. You have to go out and make plays, perform. We've talked about playing with confidence, and whatever momentum that we had from yesterday I think is gone.

The momentum now will build Wednesday when we come back in here and we start to practice again. But the confidence can remain because we've done it, we've made plays. But you can't just say, well, the momentum's still there because, you know, we won in Oakland. The momentum starts back over on Wednesday and it builds throughout the week of practice. Well, he just keeps working. He keeps studying, you know, how different DBs play him. And, you know, he'll have a great challenge this week.

I know that Jonathan Joseph and Bradley Roby, those guys are veteran players, and it would be important for him to study them and figure out how they're playing him. Yeah, I mean, I think that, again, I'm happy that A.J.'s here. I'm happy that he continues to to help us and improve and run strong with the football and help us after the catch and he's got a great attitude he comes in here ready to work every day all right guys that was head coach Mike Vrabel in this week's Titans talk as I mentioned audio courtesy of titansonline.com that is going to do it for our

show we talked about Tannehill's possible extension in our first segment in our second extended long-winded tick-tack Tuesday we talked about the defensive adjustments that DNPs made at halftime I know I went incredibly long on that segment for you guys but those are my favorite things to do is actually talk chalk and talk ball learn about what the titans are actually doing on the football field schematically and i know that that's what you guys come for i want to make sure i deliver every week for you guys on that note in our third segment as i just mentioned we heard from head coach mike rabel i love to get his insights at least once a week. So great show,

jam-packed. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Tomorrow, we will be back for Crossover Wednesday when we break down the Titans versus the Texans with the hosts of Locked on Texans. So it should be a good time. I know you guys enjoy that episode and I have a great time recording it every week. So make sure you come back to us for that. If you haven't already, please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, wherever you stream your shows. You should be able to find us there. Follow me on Twitter at TicTacTitans as I always am posting the visuals to marry up with the audio breakdowns of the plays in our Tic Tac Titans segments.

So I hope to see you there and see you again tomorrow. As always, I am your host, Tyler Rowland, and this was Locked on Titans. Thank you.