Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - #TicTacTuesday - Lewan Penalty History, Film Review & Titans Talk

Episode Date: November 12, 2019

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Welcome to the Locked on Titans podcast. I'm your host, Tyler Rowland. Titans fans, I am still lit from that victory. I have watched the game like four times already. Watched it while I was waiting on my food today. Watched it twice last night. Just such a good victory. Such a fun, entertaining football game.

Just want to soak it in and I'm really happy that that's the game that we got before the bye so that we didn't have to come off a loss and we can just enjoy this victory for an extra week and dive into things a little bit more. So I want to do that today. In our first segment, we are going to talk about Taylor LeJuan and his insistence on getting penalties. I just want to give you guys an idea of how bad it truly is and how serious of an issue this needs to be when you're paying this guy so much money. So we're going to jump into that, and I'm going to give you guys his post-game audio, what he had to say about his penalties, so you have an idea of what he's saying. He is holding himself accountable, but with the information that I have amassed throughout his career, it's still just completely unacceptable.

I'm honestly frustrated by it myself. You can probably hear it in my tone, but I'm sure you guys are too. So we're going to talk about that in our first segment. In our second segment, we are going to do another Tic Tac Tuesday, and I'm going to break down some runs in the second half that I think demonstrate how well the offensive line was playing. These guys have been crushed for most of the year due to the sacks and the penalties and the issues that this offensive had. So we need to make sure that, you know, like Roger Saffold said on Twitter, I'll talk about that in that segment, but we need to

appreciate these offensive linemen when they do play well. And they have played pretty well a lot of the time this season, surprisingly, despite some of the sack numbers. So we're going to jump into that in our second segment. In our third segment, we are going to do Titans talk as we typically do on Tuesdays. I want you guys to hear Mike Vrabel's day after press conference. There's a lot of good nuggets in there after the coach gets an opportunity to look at the film and see his takeaways after he's had a chance to kind of decompress and look at the game from a real coach's angle and watching the tape and everything like that. So we are going to get into all of that today with you guys.

Really excited. What a win. Whoo! Man, I'm still excited. Let's get it. Your Tennessee Titans lead story. What if I told you the Titans paid a left tackle $80 million just to commit penalties? Okay, that is a little facetious, but Taylor LeJuan has been absolutely killing the Titans

with his penalties this year and quite frankly throughout his entire career. On one drive against the Chiefs in the third quarter, LeJuan had a holding call and an unnecessary roughness call that single-handedly derailed a Titans offensive drive. This isn't the first time this has happened this season. I want to play you some audio from Taylor LeJuan after the game, a quick clip to give you what his thoughts are on his penalties. know that you guys need to know that no one needs to call me out or anything because I got it boys I am completely screwing the team with the amount of penalties I've had in these last what six games it's crazy it's it's it's horrible I cannot get penalties I'm sorry there's no need to ask about it because I know I'm an absolute liability when it comes to penalties first I do want to say it's good that he's personally taking accountability and acknowledging that it's an issue firsthand.

That's great. But at some point, what else is he going to do? It's so obvious that he killed that drive and has been making these mistakes. Let me give you some numbers to put into context why his acceptance of the issue and accountability still kind of rings hollow to me. Because it's been an issue throughout his entire career, and he would have been able to do something about it now if he truly cared about cleaning up this issue. So just in this season alone, Taylor LeJuan has nine penalties on the year.

He missed four games. He's tied for second in the NFL in penalties, and he missed four of the Titans' 10 games. It's hard to believe. It's very hard to believe he's cost the Titans 69 yards in penalties on the season. So if we want to look a little bit deeper into that, he's had 49 penalties in his career. penalties in his career. So we're looking at nine this year, eight last year, seven and 17, 12 in 2016, where he had tons of issues that we could go back and look at. Seven in 2015,

six in 2014, his rookie season. I mean, these aren't just holding false start and things like that. He's had serious issues here. If we look at his, even his fines, I mean, obviously the suspension for PEDs shows a lack of judgment that we could also attribute to the penalties. He lost $3,900,000 during his four game suspension. He lost $10,000 in 2018 for getting in a fight with Josh Norman. $13,000 in 2018 for unsportsmanlike conduct against the Jags. Another $26,000 in 2018 for verbally abusing an official against the Jets. $2016, $30,000 for swatting an official's hand against the Packers, 2014 $8,000 for an unnecessary roughness face mask against the New Orleans Saints. I mean, up and down his history, he's been known as a fake tough guy. The incidents he's had on Twitter, the run-ins with

different teams, obviously some people who play for the teams that the Titans go against don't seem to be a huge fan of Taylor at this point it wouldn't be as big of an issue if the Titans didn't give him an 80 million dollar five-year contract with 50 million dollars guaranteed to be one of the best left tackles in the NFL at this point throughout his career with the penalties and the way he's still hurting this team even as a veteran and one of the highest paid players in the league, it's just unacceptable. We have to see a change. I'm not certain exactly what you do though, because the reality is, is Taylor LeJuan was blocking his tail off for a lot of that football game.

And for most of the time when he's not committing penalties, he's doing a pretty good job against some of the most athletic guys in the league. So you're kind of stuck in between wanting to do something about it, but losing his talent. A lot of people were shouting for Dennis Kelly to come in. Guys, that's a clear drop off in talent. Taylor LeJuan is as good as he's paid for, but he just has to clean up the penalties. At this point, if it doesn't happen, the Titans may need to look to get out of his contract, which they can do after next season. That seems like a drastic jump here, but clearly the penalties are hurting this team, and he's

one of the worst in the league at it. That's about all we can say about Taylor and his issues with penalties, though. It's best for everyone if he's able to clean that up, and a lot of it are just mental mistakes. We saw with A.J. Brown kind of getting in his face. That's a video that I put on Twitter. I've had someone reach out and say they couldn't find it. I'll relink it. A.J. Brown kind of gets in Taylor LeJuan's face after that unsportsmanlike conduct

and lets him know how dumb of a penalty it really was. So if his teammates are starting to be fed up, especially a rookie on the team who's already fed up with that nonsense, hopefully that'll be the impetus for him to make finally a change that we haven't seen him make throughout his career. So that's going to do it for our first segment. We are going to jump into our Tic Tac Tuesday, talk about some of the offensive line work that was able to get Derrick Henry going in the second half and push the Tennessee Titans

to a victory. So we'll jump into that next. Tic Tac Tuesday. So we are back Titans fans. Let's step into the film room, cover some X's and O's. As always, please go to my Twitter account at TicTacTitans and follow me there. I will be posting the visuals of these plays to go along with my audio breakdowns here on Tuesday so that you guys have that to go along with the podcast. I can kind of show you what I'm seeing using the coach's film when it becomes available. I want to make sure that what we do this week is we show some love to the big boys up front, the O-line. Everybody had a pretty solid game. Whenever your running back rushes for nearly 200 yards,

clearly they were moving bodies out there. So a lot of the offensive line, as I mentioned in our first segment, a lot of the offensive line have taken heat this season for their performance with the sacks that they gave up early on in the year, which I don't think was completely on them, and that's why we saw a change at quarterback. I would say majority of those issues were actually on the timing of the plays and not getting the ball out of the quarterback's hands and things like that.

But this offensive line, while not being the absolute best in the league, they are not anywhere close to the worst in the league, and that's a fact. They take a lot of the of the blame and often they should uh for some of the struggles with this offense but i don't think they should take as much blame as some other parties when it comes to play calling and quarterback play and drop passes and things like that i think this offensive line has actually been pretty stout so i want to showcase that in this game against the Chiefs the offensive line dominating up front is what allowed this offense to get

things going and I want to show that in the run game so we're going to do four plays as we always do I'm going to give you three Derrick Henry runs that I thought really showcased what this offensive line has the ability to do in this zone blocking scheme and there's even one power play in there I like to show you guys you know as many different looks as I can to show you what the Titans are scheming up and the type of plays they're running so we'll give you two zone plays we'll give you a power play where Saffold's pulling I really enjoy that one and then as a as the fourth one I want to throw in the offensive line does a great job but I also want to showcase just a great individual effort and physicality and toughness for you guys as well. So let's jump into play one. Play one, we are going to be in

the third quarter. The Titans are down 19 to 13. This is after the missed extra point from Butker. Right now, if you're a Titans fan like me, you're watching this game, you're thinking, oh, the Chiefs came out of halftime, put a touchdown up on the Titans, and here we go. Are we going to be able to score? But the Titans being able to answer totally changed the tenor of the second half and set the stage for the comeback and the performance that the Titans were about to put on against this really solid Kansas City Chiefs team. So, play one. The Titans are on their own 31-yard line. It is second and five. They're in an I formation with Jonu Smith in it, tight end to the left. This is a classic inside zone run to Derrick Henry with a fullback in the backfield. What the

offensive line wants to do right here is fire out to the left. So, they're going to take a step with their left foot towards the left Derek Henry's going to get the handoff going right at the gap in between Roger Saffold and Taylor LeJuan is kind of where he's looking well in this zone blocking scheme that the Titans got from Matt LaFleur and Sean McVay in the west coast you know zone run scheme in this zone run scheme that Arthur Smith has continued on basically these guys are shooting out with their left foot and just looking for the guy in front of them. In the zone in front of them,

each offensive lineman has a particular zone where they're looking for a man to get their hands on. And once they find that man in their zone, all they want to do is wash him to the left and then allow Derrick Henry to kind of pick where the spot is. And a lot of times what you'll see is the Titans don't block the defensive linemen on the opposite side of the run. So on Jack Conklin's side in this particular case, because Derrick Henry should be able to cut back and now they get an advantage in the run game because they don't have to block that guy.

That's how these read options work. These RPOs you hear about that the whole point is to leave a defender unblocked and use your decision to beat him. So here, Derrick Henry's decision and whether he cuts back, whether he continues to the left side, that's what kind of eliminates this defender out of the play. And since you don't have to block him, that's a huge advantage for the offense. So we see that here, and that's the principles of the zone blocking scheme I guess if we want to get down to the nitty-gritty but what we see here is and who I really want to highlight is Taylor LaJuan sets a great edge with his man with the help of Johnnie Smith kicks out Frank Clark number 55 and just sets a nice edge right there so Derrick Henry has a good idea of of where his

you know hole to the furthest hole to the left could possibly be. But the other four linemen do a great job of washing all the Chiefs defensive linemen down to the left towards Taylor, which opens up a massive hole on the back side. Now, I want to highlight Jack Conklin specifically on this play because what he does is he gets up to the second level and hits a linebacker for the Chiefs who overcorrected. He overflowed too aggressively to the left side where the run was initially looking to go. Derrick Henry cuts back, and when 59 tries to get back in position where Derrick Henry is cutting back to, Jack Conklin is there to continue to wash him down. Conklin pushes him about 10 yards past the line of scrimmage, and I'm fully convinced that if Conklin doesn't continue his effort there

and continue pushing 59 away from Derrick Henry, that 59 may be able to recover as Henry cuts and possibly get an extra hand on him and get Henry down. So great play by Jack Conklin, great play by Taylor LeJuan to seal his man out and create the edge, and a great play by the interior offensive lineman of the Titans to wash their man down. 68-yard touchdown run. Titans take the lead 20-19 with five minutes left in the third quarter, and this game felt incredibly different. For play two, we are going to jump into the fourth quarter. The Titans are now down 29-20. They are on their own

15-yard line looking to get a score to change the momentum of the game again. Derrick Henry is in single-back formation, so he's back in the backfield. No fullback in front of him. The Titans have Jonu Smith and Mecole Pruitt to the right with A.J. Brown. They have one wide receiver to the left. Where do you think the Titans are going to run the ball? To the left side, of course. So in this zone blocking scheme, it requires a lot of reach blocks. That means you're going to have a guy on, let's say you were standing in front of somebody and somebody was on

your left shoulder. You would have to take a step with your left foot and get in front of that person, seal them off. That's what Ben Jones does here. And he does a fantastic job of doing it. And that opens up the hole to the left side because he's able to get in front of his man and prevent him from getting in front of Derrick Henry. Taylor LeJuan, an absolutely great job. We crushed Taylor LeJuan in the first segment with the penalties, and that's a fact, but I mentioned this on Twitter, at Tic Tac Titans on Sunday. Taylor LeJuan blocked his tail off after he got those penalties on that drive that killed that drive. He was fantastic setting the edge,

and I said something about it in the first play. I'm going to say it here. He set the edge for this play. If Taylor LeJuan gets beat on this play, this play is blown up immediately. Same on the next one. So remember that when we talk about his penalties, when we talk about all

the antics Taylor Juan is still a damn good offensive tackle the last person I want to highlight on this one besides Ben Jones and Taylor LeJuan is Roger Saffold he had that tweet and I'll talk about it at some point this week but basically he was saying the Titans fan base sucks because whether we win lose draw doesn't matter doesn't matter. They just kill him. He's the most hated guy on Titans Twitter. All we do is criticize him. Just enjoy a win, to paraphrase what he had to say. And he may be right, but he's had a lot of reason to be criticized this year.

But man, this is the type of athleticism and play that the Titans signed him for and paid him big money for in the offseason. So he jumps out. There's no man in his zone. So he's going to climb up to the second level. Nate Davis has a body on a linebacker, but that linebacker is going to be able to make the play because Davis doesn't have a good angle. Saffold comes up to the second level and puts a nice shoulder into that linebacker, which just finally puts the finishing touch on a beautiful lane for Derrick Henry to get through. Henry is a beast, man.

Just an absolute beast. So he carries some Chiefs for a few yards and gets the Titans down to the one-yard line. Speaking of the one-yard line, we will jump to play three. The Titans come out in the same exact formation here on the one yard line they just leave the same personnel out there Johnnie Smith, Nicole Pruitt, Tajay Sharp are to your right with A.J. Brown to your left by himself Derek Henry in the backfield by himself Titans on the half yard mark here and I mean what do you think they're gonna do run to the left now what's confusing

about this is the Chiefs are in a terrible defensive alignment for dealing with what's obvious the Titans are going to do I remember watching the game live and I'm literally pointing to the left side run there run there like it's so obvious they have a guy lined up over Ben Jones at the center and then they have a guy lined up over Taylor LeJuan. They have nobody over Saffold, and they have what looks to be a safety or a linebacker about five yards deep in the end zone lined up over Ben Jones in the middle. So they're committing tons of personnel to the other side where there's a bunch with Pruitt, Smith, and Sharp.

But with the Titans' obvious decision to run left where their more talented offensive linemen are, why would the Chiefs leave that side so open? So just a gaping hole to start, but the Titans' offensive line does their job as well. Roger Saffold and Ben Jones double-team the nose tackle, just absolutely wash him down to the right, not even an issue. Tannehill hands it off to Henry who goes towards

the left which the Titans should do all the time and where Henry has had most of his success in his career and this is what I wanted to mention Taylor LeJuan didn't dominate right here on this rep this isn't Taylor LeJuan's best rep he got pushed into the backfield about two yards but having his man Chris, I do believe it is for the Chiefs, who's an excellent defensive lineman who caused the fumble. He is so aggressive up the field that coming up the field two or three yards puts him out of position. So Taylor kind of allows him to do that. So not Taylor's best rep, but he gets the job done, and it's a touchdown for the Titans. So, the Titans right now are at 29-27. As we know, the Chiefs do end up getting a field goal to make it 32-27, so we will

jump to that last sequence right now for play four. The Titans offensive line did give up four sacks in this game, but generally speaking, they held up very well in pass protection against the Kansas City Chiefs defense with some really talented pass rushers. Frank Clark off the edge, Chris Jones in the interior, Emmanuel Ogba has the ability to go in between both, although he did leave in the second half with an injury during this game, but I thought the Titans offensive line held up very well in pass protection, but that is not the point of this segment. We are talking about these hog mollies in the run game. So the Titans have just scored what proved to be the game-winning touchdown on a throw to Adam Humphreys. Rejoice. What an incredible moment for Titans fans. But what's even more important is that they secure the two-point conversion and make sure that a field goal will still only get you to overtime. If the Titans don't get this two-point conversion, and make sure that a field goal will still only get you to overtime.

If the Titans don't get this two-point conversion and are only up by one, even though there's only 23 seconds left, that will definitely give the Chiefs dynamic offense with two timeouts, hope that they can go down and score or go down and get in position to still win this game. So getting this two-point conversion for momentum's sake and for the mental purposes of the game is very important, and a great call, a great call by Arthur Smith. The Titans had been feeding Derrick Henry non-stop off the left side, non-stop off the left side, and what I like most about this play is the Titans are in a shotgun with Derrick Henry on the right side. They have A.J. Brown and Adam Humphreys out wide to the left. They have Tajay Sharp in the slot and Jonu Smith far out wide to the right. Smith comes in motion and gets on the inside of Sharp. What makes this play is that Arthur Smith has a designed pass route concept built into the play.

Daniel Sorensen is a safety for the Chiefs, and he is playing against Jonu Smith in the slot. Jonu Smith and Tajay Sharp run passing routes here, and Jonu Smith runs a flat route out towards the pylon, towards the end zone. That confuses Daniel Sorensen here on this play. So what happens is the Titans run a read option with Derrick Henry. When they do that, the Chiefs, understandably, defensive line bites hard and crashes into the middle. Conklin waits for the left side defensive end to do so and then just washes him down to the left side. And just as he does that, Ryan Tannehill pulls the ball out

and uses his athleticism, as he was a wide receiver in his freshman year at Texas A&M that he is an athletic guy compared to most NFL quarterbacks he pulls the ball in a great decision but what makes the play is Tannehill would get stopped by Sorensen here but Sorensen sees John Smith breaking out to the flat as he's sim you know simulating a passing route and Sorensen gets confused at the very last second and decides to go with Johnnie Smith towards the flat. That opens up just a little bit of a lane for Ryan Tannehill, and he busts through it. Listen, I enjoyed the physicality and the toughness that Marcus showed,

but that was a lot of the reason why the Marcus stands out there. The people who are saying he should be in no matter what and Tannehill should have never came in. Those people and if there are people still out there who feel that way, they feel that way because of the toughness and the physicality and putting their bodies on the line. That's what Marcus was able to do and that's why people are so tied to him. Well, how can you not love what Ryan Tannehill did here? Getting this two point conversion is so important as I explained earlier. He lowers his shoulder, drives through a defensive back, and gets into the end zone. The team is clearly pumped up. Tannehill kind of flexes on the Chiefs defender as he gets up from scoring. It's just everything you could want from your

quarterback. What a drive by Tannehill. What a day. 3-1 is the starter, and that's something that we're going to talk about more tomorrow. So that's going to cover all four of our plays. As I said, I'm going to be posting the visuals that go along with these on Twitter at TicTacTitan, so please follow me there if you aren't already. That is going to do it for our second segment, and that is this week's TicTac Tuesday. In our third segment, we are going to do Titans Talk. I love the day after press conference from Mike Rabel, so I'm going to play that for you guys and make sure that you're all caught up to date with everything from the Chiefs game. And then after Titans Talk, and I play that for you, I'll give you guys a little look at what we're going to do on Wednesday.

With no game this week, there will be no crossover Wednesday, so obviously we're going to switch the schedule up a little bit. And I have something that I think is pretty exciting for you guys. Before we jump into Titans Talk, I do want to remind you that Peloton is offering a limited time offer. Get $100 off accessories when you purchase the Peloton bike and get a great cardio workout at home. Go to 1peloton.com and use promo code LOCKED to get started. Long day at work? Tough day at school? Stuck at the office? Treat yourself to a meal you deserve and have your favorite restaurants come to you with DoorDash. Your sweatpants are on for the day, but you're sick of microwave leftovers and frozen pizza?

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I'm going to play you some clips from Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Vrabel's day after press conference, courtesy of TitansOnline.com. Hope you guys enjoy. Again, you guys have heard me talk about defensively being able to defend the quarterback as he runs or extends plays, whether it's to throw the football down the field or to gain yards when guys are turning and running in man coverage. It's deflating. You don't necessarily practice that. I mean, there's, you know, rush lanes, and when those guys get covered up

or there's areas and spaces and guys turn and run, and especially in long yardage situations or in two-minute drills. So there's designed quarterback runs, and there's ones where they extend the play. I think the ones you can practice are the ones that are designed, and the ones that are hard are the ones that quarterbacks in this league or in any league, college, extend plays with their feet. And then certainly his ability, Ryan's ability to be physical, to get the first down and to get the two-point conversion

was really cool to see. I think that we've put a lot of time into it. We put a lot of work into it. It's a focal point going back to April and training camp, get a lot of reps added on Friday. Hopefully we can get down there more and continue to score. But that's been something that's been real positive for us.

Where I think that if it was outside of two minutes, you probably would have had a little bit more decision. A field goal, if they would have made it, would have kept it a one-score game. The three timeouts, really that was it. It was the fact that the field goal would have kept it a one-score game. The three timeouts, really that was it. It was the fact that it was the field goal would have kept it a one score game. Really, that's probably a different story. If stopping them in three plays and a field goal makes it a two possession game

in that field position, you gotta bang it out of there and hope that somehow you get the ball back with, you know, a minute 20 and no timeouts and the ability still to win with a touchdown. So I think that that's all it really was, was, you know, where are we at on the field? Again, I guess we're just kind of hoping for a huge play there, penalty somewhere down the field, and then holding them to just the field goal. And our guys, I think the field goal block unit has put some pressure on teams lately,

and I think they snapped it quicker than they probably had wanted to. And it forced them into a mistake. And we blocked an extra point last week. Dane and Josh are excited about that unit and their role on that unit. On the missed extra point, Isaiah Mack attacks the back side guard, shows up, gets penetration. The guy kind of throws him into the backfield. I don't know if the, you know, I don't know if Butker saw him, but I know that he was,

you know, playing with the type of effort that we expect. And it was what some people would consider a meaningless extra point. But I thought that there was great effort there there and that unit's been good for us. What's the thinking on that? You know, we're trying to get it down there, probably a little farther, you know. Seeing where some of the kicks had landed into the wind in that situation, you know, you want it to be down there a little further. So we weren't going to be able to kick a touchback. And, you know, just want to kick it down there a little further,

kick it a little harder. No, I mean, I think that the wind was a large factor. I mean, I think going that way, there was returnable balls on both sides. And I think if you look coming the other way, we were able to put them a little deeper into the end zone and certainly so was their kicker. But they just got to try to get it down there and kick it a little harder down there. Under two, under two, Jimmy. Yeah, so I'd look like a moron and then you guys would be asking me what dumb ass challenge under

two minutes. Doesn't matter whether they're going to let him play under two minutes and let the guy up. I don't know. It's not going to matter. You mean just with the defensive linemen, the tackles and not the – Yeah, I mean, it was just how we wanted to match up against their 11 and 12 personnel defenses. You know, as far as however we wanted to treat Kelsey,

if you treat him as a receiver, more of a receiving tight end. I guess it just allows you when you play a four down front, because I would consider that a four down front and just lump all the four defensive linemen together. It just brings you an extra DB into the game from where our base stuff was. Every week you kind of decide – I'm sorry, John. Every week you kind of go in there and we decide how we're going to treat this tight end based on his ability, his skill set, and do you look at it more as a receiving tight end

or would you look at it more as a you know a blocking tight end and that's how we make the decision it's just what you have to do every week i think to um to win the game and again everybody understands starting with me and the team um that that's that's not where you want to play that team you know you don't want to sit there and trade touchdowns with them and make it a 55-51 game. You go back and you look at the games that this that that Chiefs team has lost. The other team was running the ball 40 times controlling it for 38 or 40 minutes and so when you try to come up with those keys and talk to the players about the plan, ending drives on third down defensively. Sometimes it doesn't go that way.

And we've always said, hey, we all want to start fast, Teresa. But when we don't, we don't quit and walk into the tunnel. We've got to find ways to win. So the biggest thing was that when they did have success moving the football, and I think the five field goal attempts was a huge part of keeping that thing close and giving us a chance at the end of the game. So, when we had to get some stops, we did. And we can play better.

There's a lot of things that we can do, that we have to do and we must do to improve. But that was a huge emphasis to be able to force them to kick field goals. And I thought Arthur gave the guys a heck of an opportunity. They were playing two man, which allowed for the scramble, which allowed for the nod to Furk, you know, and then, you know, the middle field's wide open

and same thing to hump. So it was run, nod, nod, and great plays by the two slot guys. You know, when we know when they play that, that it's tough sledding for the guys on the outside. Safeties are high and wide, but we felt like we had a really good matchup in there with furk and who's done that same thing he did against the jets last year same exact route same exact

coverage um and so uh you know then we we flipped it over and got it to hump on the next play that is going to do it for titans talk So we just heard from Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Vrabel. In our second segment, we did our Tic Tac Tuesday, stepped into the film room and covered some X's and O's. As always, I'm going to be posting my visuals on Twitter at Tic Tac Titans so that you guys can match that up with this podcast. And then we talked about Taylor Juan's issues with penalties in our first segment. So really enjoyable show. A little bit on the longer side. I do think that the film room breakdowns are probably the most fun,

and they're definitely informative for you guys who don't have the ability to rewatch the game a million times on Game Pass and things like that. So hope you guys enjoyed that. I had a great time recording. Like I said earlier, in Wednesday's show, because we don't have a crossover Wednesday segment with no game this weekend, I'm going to have a guest on for the first time that isn't a crossover Wednesday guest to talk about Ryan Tannehill. So that's what Wednesday's episode

is going to focus on is his emergence as the starting quarterback and everything that's meant to this Titans offense and to this team since he took over. So we're going to have a Ryan Tannehill, Ryan Tanne-thrill focused Wednesday. So really excited to do that for you guys. Really excited to bring on a guest. Hopefully you do enjoy that. It might be someone we bring on a little bit more in the future so you don't just hear me droning over and over all day long. Either way, had a blast recording this show. Hope you guys enjoyed it as well. I am your host, Tyler Rowland, and this was Locked on Titans.