Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - TITANS SQUAD SHOW: Brian Callahan's BLAZING HOT SEAT, Titans MUST AVOID another divisional disaster

Episode Date: September 23, 2025

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I'm Julian Minnesone, and the Titans are ticking on the Texans. Seems like the perfect game to get back on track. I'm Tyler Rowland, and I'm here to tell you that the offensive line should give you more hope than you may realize. I'm Brad Hopkins, and I didn't even see that iceberg that we hit. I mean, I didn't know we were on the Titanic. Titan up. It's the Titans squad. Everything Tennessee Titans every week. covering all the big hits and game-changing plays from the heart of Music City the way only the locked-on podcast network can squad up the titan squad show starts now

and welcome to the titan squad shows you heard off the top right there i'm julian minneson joined by my friends brad hopkins and tyler roland got a jam-pack show a lot to talk about when it comes to the tennessee titans for you today A lot to get to. Of course, the Titans falling to 0 and 3 on the year following the loss of the Colts on Sunday. Just wanted to remind you that today's episode is brought to you by Fandul. Right now, new customers can bet just $5. And if your bet wins, you'll get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. Okay, fellas, so the sky seems to be falling in Music City right now as the Titans are falling to 0 and 3.

I wanted to start off this episode with the Titan up and tighten down, even though or maybe more tightened down things to talk about than tighten up. But we'll start with tighten up. And I know, Tyler, you kind of teased it off the top there. What are some of the things that maybe you're a positive about, even despite the O'N3 start right now? Look, we've got to look at the left side of the offensive line. I was as critical of the Dan Moore signing as anyone.

We talked about it in the last squad show. You're taking a major risk. But Dan Moore was excellent in that game against the Colts. And look, that matches up with the scouting report. Against average to below average edge rushers, Dan Moore is going to win. Against great edge rushers, Dan Moore is going to lose. But the Titans are going to have a major problem on their hands if that isn't true. And Dan Moore loses against average to below average guys too.

But he stepped up, he bowed his neck. He had a great game against the Indianapolis Colts. And Peter Skoronsky right now is the best pass blocking guard. It might be the best guard in the NFL through three weeks. And that's with all of the other crap that's happening on the offensive line. I know that it's hard for some fans to maybe process that, that two Titans offensive linemen are playing good football or that one of the Titans offensive linemen is maybe the best in the NFL right now.

Like, how can that be possible with the production of the overall group? But I think looking at the performance of Peter Skoronsky through three games, looking at what Dan Moore was able to do last week, and then looking at J.C. Latham potentially getting back this week. Lloyd Cushingberry's coming back from a serious injury. It's not like, you know, he's 150 pounds or whatever. that's a 300-pound man coming off an Achilles tear. That's tough right there.

So I think Cushingberry stands to get better, only logically. I think the Titans are going to get their starters back on the right side of the offensive line with Latham, most importantly. And then with Skoronsky at the level he's at and Dan Moore showing that he can be a good, positive player in some games. I think that's incredibly encouraging for Titans fans. And right now, you're right. The sky has fallen chicken little.

But I think this offensive line is going to be massively improved at some point. point during the season, and I think it happened sooner rather than later. Yeah, I want to start by saying, you know, talking about people you know who are struggling is hard, you know. So my approach in talking about the issues that exists is simply stating the matters without conjecture. It's okay to say a team has too many penalties. You know, these are facts and facts are a stubborn thing. It's okay to ask how prepared you are during the week. You know, the question gets answered at the end of the week. You know, the Titans have played well at times, but long enough, but not long enough, basically, to put together a complete

game on both sides of the football. And it's not like this team is playing lights out on one side and carrying the other. I mean, hell, Jonathan Taylor had ran for 102 yards and three touchdowns. And we were talking about Michael Pittman Jr. and him saying, hey, we were like, they don't want to play today. I mean, that's a sign that they saw. Obviously, Daniel Jones, his comments, when you hear that, that sense that they try and, you try and take advantage of that, you know, when they're doing stuff like that. So positives, you know, Cam, led the Titans on a 13-play drive, 73 yards. Obviously, Tony Piler capped it off with a one-yard touchdown run.

They have another 16-play drive for 77 yards. And, like, Ayamaran has his second touchdown of the season. And the Titans only had eight penalties. I know it sounds crazy, but only eight at this point from what they started out in the first couple of weeks. That's a bright spot. We're going down. We're going down.

13, 10, 8. Right, exactly. The coach only had 32 more passing yards, but they outrushed the Titans, 137 yards to 86 yards. now two and two in the red zone i'll take that need to get more red zone opportunities but the colts are only two and four in the red zone and the titans only had one turnover that's that's a bright spot so you know they also held the ball for uh two minutes and 30 seconds more than the colts did and uh i like the fact that once again we have an emerging receiver that no one's talking about in alec a manner and it seems like he might be the guy that has the best chemistry with cam ward

right now we'll see if now they can engage the superstars to play alongside of those guys guys that we're now starting to find those diamonds in the rough. Yeah, I was just going to say building off of that Bhop, at least if there's a tighten up, it seems like the Mike Borgonzi draft class is promising, right? Cam Ward obviously has all the talent in the world from what it seems. Iommatter's been your most consistent receiver in that connection with Cam Ward seems to be working out. And then, of course, Jim Dike has been a revelation in the return game. I don't know if you guys feel the same way. And while it's great to have a draft class that does look promising and making impact plays. Doesn't it feel like the rookies are kind of leading the vets along instead of

the other way around? I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy to think about that, but it should be the vets leading the rookies. And it seems like all the impact or most of the more memorable impact plays have come from a rookie this season. What do you guys think? I have a great example of that. And it's not maybe from the season. It's from the interviews. The fans were booing mercifully during halftime and the players were asked about it and Jeffrey Simmons said you know don't boo the fans shouldn't boo us blah blah blah and then Cam Ward said yeah I mean we're not putting a good product on the field they they have a right to boo you know we need to play better and I think one of those answers is the right answer and one of

them's the wrong answer and the right answer came from a rookie and the wrong answer came from a vet who's been on this team longer than anybody else except Amani Hooker so I think you're 100% right about that and I would go back to say that the Titans culture with this draft. They told us, I'm not making it up. They told us over and over and over again. We want culture fits. We need to, you know, fix the locker room. We need to have players leading. Brian Callahan said it. We need players not just leading by example. We need players to bring other guys along with them. So I think if you put a couple of things, I love connecting dots. That's what one of my favorite things to do. If you look at what they told us, they told us, hey, we need a better culture. We need more leadership in the locker room.

Well, that probably means that the veterans you had in the locker room maybe weren't the best leaders. And we've seen Paul Kaharski talk about how Jeffrey Simmons handles things. He's attacked, you know, media people on the sideline and have to be escort out of practice. I just don't think the Titans have a lot of great veteran leaders. I think we're seeing that play out. And I think the reason they drafted some of these rookies is because they are good leaders and they're going to be the leaders of the future when the Titans don't really have some. So maybe I'm connecting too much.

Maybe I'm looking too deep into it. But that's kind of my read there. It's not a surprise based on what they told us all offseason. Yeah, there are no outstanding, extraordinary veterans that basically warrant the kind of leadership in the locker room that they would inherit. You know what I'm saying? They're not like guys that have been on this franchise for years and have all of a sudden just stepped into those roles because of them putting the time in being a part of this team.

They've had to come in, you know, from different places. And who they brought in just aren't those megawatt personalities. is all of a sudden say, I'm commanding the locker room. This is my locker room. What they have done is drafted guys like that. So those young players that you're mentioning, Julian, they're just naturally in those positions because that's what the Titans have acquired in talent,

you know, to be in those positions. You know, name someone that's outspoken other than Jeffrey Simmons as a veteran. It just isn't. So the fact that you have young players that at some point are trying to take that leadership role, it's just natural you think about it because of how the Titans have compiled this team with a lot of young players that even through injury have had to see the field sooner than later so it doesn't surprise me that you don't have a guy that's been on this team for 10 11 12 years and all of a sudden this is his locker room and rookies have to get in and fall in line with that you know what template what veteran left cam ward the template on how to leave this team there really wasn't one you know so he had to kind of make one now what they did do is drag up a guy with a personality to be able to handle those measures.

And that was because of his background, having to come such a long distance to get where he's at right now, kind of like, you know, he took the long way home for sure to get to the national football league. He could be the first big of the draft. But I think it was that it was that tail in itself that put him in a position of being a leader. But there wasn't somebody that handed him the keys to the throne, basically. You know what I'm saying the keys of the car or whatever to the throne. So I don't think it's a surprise that you see young guys that are the more.

outspoken than veterans at this point. And I'm not taking a shot of Jeffrey Simmons, but Jeffrey Simmons shouldn't be the voice of your franchise. When the last time you've seen an interior defensive line will be the spokesperson for a team? It just don't happen. You know, I mean, so I'm not saying that he, you know, he isn't qualified to do it because he's been on the team

probably one of the longer tenured veterans. But it's just, you know, that voice that you want to hear that represents and speaks for everybody is supposed to be the quarterback, right? Well, it just happens to be that ours is a rookie. What are you guys as far as tightened down right now? If you could pick one thing. Still only got two sacks, giving up 15 sacks. I mean, that's not the balance ratio for a good team.

Jeffrey Simmons and Amani Hooker have each gotten the quarterbacks this season, but they're 0 and 3, haven't lost the last nine straight, going back to the last season. Three touchdowns through three games, that's not very productive. It's not very productive offense. Two through the air, obviously, we've got the one on the ground. Cam has a 71.1.4 passer rating. And he's ranked 24th in passing for those QBs that have played at least three games.

And the team's best tackler is Cody Barton, and he's ranked 56th in total tackles so far this season. So when you look at Hooker and Simmons that are tied for 53rd or tied with 53 other players for 49th in sacks, that's not a good measure. So they need to improve on those statistics alone. I'll drill down on an individual level. I mean, Calvin Ridley has been awful. And, you know, I went back through the tape yesterday, trying to see, okay, is he getting open, and the offense is just unhealthy,

and there's pressure on Cam, maybe Cam's missing some guys, doing things like that, but Ridley got absolutely locked up by Chavarius Ward, and there was a route on the sideline, on the right sideline, where he ran a go route. And he was open. He was open, Cam Ward over through the pass. But just from watching the tape last year,

I went back and watched the game against Detroit where Calvin Ridley had his best game of the season last year and he is just not moving at the same speed that he moved last year. So I don't know if he's secretly banged up or his heart's not in it. He's stopping some routes early. There was a throw Cam Ward through to him on the sideline

on a comeback route towards the sideline and I thought Calvin Ridley shut down his route early thinking he wasn't going to get the ball and then he turned around and the ball was on his back shoulder and I think he could make a play on it and he just didn't. There's just something about Calvin and maybe it's something behind the scenes,

maybe it's something in his personal life. We can't know about any of that. But he just doesn't seem mentally locked in. He's not beating man coverage. He doesn't look as fast as he did. I can't personally explain why, but he is just not playing at the level that he was even playing at last year

when you would think he would be more energized to play well. Let me take a stab at that. I think it really comes down to chemistry and understanding exactly what Cam needs from you and Cam understanding what Calvin is running. Sure, there's a design. designed routes that they're supposed to run and they're supposed to be positions that they're supposed to be on the field so cam knows where to go with the football but in essence i think that

they need time which obviously is not a luxury for them to to have the same chemistry why does calvin not know where calvin why does calvin not know where cam's going with the football because they're not on the same page and calvin doesn't run full speed because he's thinking he's not comfortable and fluid with what they're doing it's not like they've been doing this for like two or three years to say hey like when you look at patrick mohomes and travis kelsey those two could probably run routes with their eyes closed and put the ball in the same place where it should be for Travis to make a catch with their eyes closed because they have that kind of chemistry. They have that kind of understanding that rapport with one another that allows

them to function that way. This is still a work in progress between these two, Calvin Ridley and and Cam Ward. Now, maybe Cam's having more chemistry or better chemistry with Elick argumenter because he's literally got more reps than he has with Calvin Ridley. That's just a fact. So that's why you see that connection being more fluid because I think that while Ellick is thinking, he still has more of an understanding of who Cam is and where he's going with the football than Calvin does at this point.

Calvin can't move full speed unless he's completely comfortable with the plays that they're running and the chemistry with his quarterback. And they're just not there yet. And to your point, Brad, you know, obviously the rookies coming in together. So there's more time throughout an offseason with Alec than it was with Calvin Ridley, that's for sure.

As far as tightened down for me, it's one thing to lose games, fellas, but it's another thing to just completely show up unprepared and not ready to play. You know, I mean, imagine if on this show we said, you know what, for the first two segments, we're going to give it our all, but then the third and fourth segment, we're going to phone it in. I'd understand why viewers and listeners would be upset with us. And the same reason I'd understand why fans are booing. You know, this, it goes back to the undiscipline, unprepared, not ready to go.

And then you have, like you mentioned at the top, players from other teams saying, yeah, they look like they weren't ready to play. And then you have players in your own locker room saying, yeah, we came out flat. I mean, you're 0 and 2 playing a divisional opponent. And a win gets you a game back of the division, and it's still early. How do you just, I just don't understand why this team continuously shows up unprepared, unready to play and you know it's when you're oh and three oh and two going into last weekend there's not a lot to be excited about and it takes a unique person with a different kind of energy

despite the circumstances to get this team saying hey look you know hey we can do this because their confidence has been shattered at this point you know and it's not that the fans don't have a right to to state the obvious like this team isn't playing well but when you don't have the support of the fan base when you when you just basically have questions that are just surrounding this team. It's just hard for these guys to say, hey, look, the sun will come out tomorrow. There will be a brighter day. It takes a unique personality, someone to see through all these clouds and say, hey, man,

we're almost there, you know, because there's nothing really to be excited about for fans or for players alike or for coaches for that matter. But there has to be some sort of breakthrough. There has to be some seminal moment where this team rallies around itself, discovers an identity. In my opinion, fellas, they've got three weeks to do it. They got three weeks to do it because they're on the road for three straight games, which means they don't have the pressure of playing in front of fans that just booed their butt off the field last Sunday. You know what I mean? So there's opportunity for them to get things together, for them to, you know, kind of circle the

wagons in essence. I know we've heard that analogy so often, but that's true. You know, when you're out man, when you're out gunned, when they're just, when the enemy is coming and they're surrounding you, the only way to defend yourself is to circle those wagons, man, because that's the best line of defense. So they need to be at that point for a long time now. But they have to generate some sort of enthusiasm, some sort of excitement, some sort of, you know, just a will to want to do it. And it's hard. I've been in those situations before, you know, where you're just like, you're thinking, man, this just really sucks and I don't want to be here. Think about how those guys feel driving into the facility every day. Oh, my God. I actually just don't.

questions about why we suck. I've got to, you know, try and stare at this playbook and figure out what it is that I need to do to make this team better. They're not playing collectively as a team. And it's hard. It creates division. But the only way that they can actually get together and do something productive is to unify themselves. Now, what is it that's going to do that? I don't know. I'm not answering the question. I'm just asking the question. Brad, I think the answer to that question is leadership. You really struck a nerve with me in a good way when you said, you know, the sun will come up. There was a phrase that my dad always told me growing up. I lost a game. I had a bad day at school. You know, this and that. He said, the sun will

rise tomorrow. The sun will rise tomorrow. And I would like to think that I've carried that attitude into my life. And that propels me forward with a positive attitude at all times because the sun will rise tomorrow. But the question is in this sport, do you have somebody who will inspire that feeling? And, you know, I know, I know we're going to talk about Brian Callahan in death. And, here in just a moment. But watching that game last night with the Detroit Lions, they get whooped in week one against the Packers, and the world's coming to an end,

and they lost their coordinators, blah, blah, blah. And you could see Dan Campbell in that locker room saying, I effing, love you guys, what a win. We did it, stay the course, blah, blah, blah, and go back and look at Dan Campbell's record as a head coach of the Detroit Lions at the beginning. It was bad. It was bad, but he inspired them.

He led them through that darkness and made them believe that coming to work wasn't a waste of time. And I got to be honest with you as, you know, here's a softball for you, Julian, but I don't know that Brian Callahan inspires that kind of confidence in a locker room. I don't know if he has the cachet and the pelts on the wall to inspire the guys to get through these tough times. Maybe he does and we'll see it. You're right. The next three weeks, three game road trip, that's a test. But I just don't know if that's there. and what they need, what you're describing that they need,

I just don't know if that's on the menu right now. Might be the best thing for this team to be away from Nissan Stadium for a little bit, at least in the immediate while they figure things out. You know, Luke Skywalker had to go to Dagobaugh to become a Jedi. So there's that whole thing right there. All right, guys. So on the other side of the break, Tyler teased it a little bit. We're going to talk Brian Callahan.

What the Titans need to do with him in the head coaching situation. I know a lot of fans are voicing their opinions on that. That's when the Titans Squad show returns. Keep here. All right. Caffeine just got a flavor upgrade. Five-hour energy shots delivered, tasty caffeine in 17 bowl of flavors. Each two-ounce shot packs the caffeine of a premium 12-ounce cup of coffee plus B vitamins and nutrition with zero sugar and zero crashes.

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get your favorites, the favorites you love, or be bold and try something new and store online with www.5hourerenergy.com on Amazon today. All right, fellas. So as we talked about it in the first segment, Titans are boot off the field. Brian Callahan, obviously, they're calling for his job right now. It seems like the hot seat is hotter than it's ever been, 3 and 17, dating back to last season. If you are the front office right now, what are you looking at right now?

What are you saying about the head coaching situation and what you can potentially do here? I mean, one of the legitimate options, fire Brian Callahan. than what? Will that make them more consistent up front? Will that create more pressure on the quarterback? What they need to do is they need to get healthy as fast as they can. The right side of the O line wasn't them on the field last Sunday. It wasn't. Latham and Zitler are dealing with stuff at this point, and they don't have the depth in the backfield that they wanted to have heading into this season. Taj Spears will be back soon enough, hopefully. Tevander's sweat hasn't been in the lineup. His absence makes life harder for the D-line. So, and also they got to

make the plays that are there on both sides of the football. You know, getting QBs to the ground, catching big plays downfield, sustaining blocks that give runners lanes. Coaches have to find what works and exploit it until teams force them to change. You know, what can they do well, you know, to sustain drives and create momentum?

You know, there's some indication in those two long drives that I mentioned earlier that the Titans had in the second half, that there are some things that they do well, but is the answer, cancel culture? listen I understand that but I think I think more than anything one of the things that's hurting this team is game management decisions you know that sequence at the end of half time where they Brian Callahan just can't decide whether he wants to go for it on fourth down or kick a field goal and the Colts call time out and then you got to call a time out because you still can't decide and then you still take a delay a game because you're taking forever to make the decision and it goes back to something we talked about the couple of weeks of not getting the play call in. Brian Callahan admitted I need to get the play call in faster to Cam Ward. So is he just paralysis by analysis and he just can't make a decision in time? He just can't do it. You know what I mean? I think one of the things that's hurting this

team the most is something that's easily correctable and it's having a coach who is more confident whether it works or it doesn't work. Make the decision and go with it. You know, like that's what I really want. It's collective though. It's collective. They have headsets on for a reason. Because they're communicating with each other. It's not like the rest of the coaching staff is just standing around there and they're all looking at Brian. Like, what are you going to do? He's having dialogue with his assistance. You know, what are you seeing up in the booth? What are you seeing from your position? What are you seeing from here? Now, that level of communication has to be sped up. It's in that way it's more efficient because we see coaches mouthing on the mouthpiece is what?

You know, what are the situations? What's the scenario? What do we need to be doing here? Because they're asking questions of the group that he's put together to help him coach he's not doing it exclusively he's doing it with the assistance of all of his guys now how long is it taking him to get the message to get the answer and then give it to who needs to hear it you know that also that timeline needs to be sped up because while he's sitting there asking his defensive coordinator what do you think do we need to blitz or asking his offensive coordinator or you know just what are you seeing that i need to call you see i'm saying of course down the distance those kind of things that they're like conventional wisdom of what you would do in those situations, right?

But when you start looking at momentum and how to gain it, you know, he's listening to counsel from the guys he hired to help him do the job. So it's not like he's the only voice that's being, that's being heard out there. He's listening to his assistants. He's listening to his players sometimes, in essence. There's a lot of dialogue going on. And sometimes if you're just not a guy that's done that consistently or for long periods of time, you are leaning on more of those guys versus you're just taking the bull by the horns

and doing it yourself. You see what I'm saying? So I do agree with that, but I would just say this, that I think the best way to make any decision, whether you're a CEO of a Fortune 500 business, whether you're a head coach of a football team. Yeah, you do need to collect information from smart people, you know, like Caesar, you know, the parliament. I agree that that is the smartest way to make, not just unilaterally, we're doing this. I make, but at the end of the day, the buck has to stop somewhere. And you do, as Brian Callahan, you've got to be the guy who collects that information and ultimately says, all right, everybody had their say,

this is what we're doing. And I just think that he's a, I don't know if afraid is the right word, but he's just not willing to do that. At some point, you're the head coach. Yes, that's information. Yes, my players, my assistants, but they are all looking to you to make the final decision. And I just think that he is just incapable at this time of just making the decision. He's taking in too much information then. And he needs to just be like, all right, I get it. You said this. You said that. But we're doing this. Whether it works, it doesn't work. This is what we are doing. And I think the players can feel that he doesn't have the ability to just put his foot down and say, this is what we're going with. This is what we're doing. And at the end of the day, he hired all these people. So if the answer is, all of these people are giving me bad information or too much information, well, you hired them. So I agree with you that it's not all on him and it's a collective. Like we talked about with the play calling last week. Like it's not like Brian Callahan's just like, it's my play calling. I'm making every call. Like, he does do it.

But at some point, the buck has to stop with somebody. And when you're the head coach, it's you. And I just feel like he's too bogged down in all the nonsense to make good in-game decisions. And that is a very correctable thing that isn't get better players, scheme up this. Well, it's a very simple, make concise decisions during the game, and he has not done it through three weeks.

So that's what I, you're not wrong. But I don't think that my point's wrong either. You know what I mean? It's not wrong. I will say there's one thing I've noticed. I've had a number of occasions to sit down and talk with Brian one-on-one. And every time I've left those conversations, you know what I said? God, he's a nice guy. He is a nice guy. He's a nice to be a leader. He's too nice to be a leader. He's too nice to be a leader. He's too nice to be a fault. He needs to be a ick sometimes. You know what I'm saying? He needs to be a guy to be like, you know, what the? Like, here's one example. Remember when Will Love us, I was trying to. off the ball out of bounds. He threw the pick. And he's looking at it. I'm like, what the fuck are you doing? It's like, I want a little more of that because I want the players to be concerned about, I don't want to draw the ire of Brian Callahan because right now he's such a sweet guy.

You know what I mean? And a lot of times that works in communicating because guys will play hard for people that they love. I will say that. But you've got also be able to have the fear in some of your players. I'm not saying like be scared of them, but, you know, we knew that Jeff Fisher, you know, he could be wound tight sometimes. And if stuff wasn't going the way that it was supposed to go, he wasn't scared to get in your face and not only challenge you, but like,

you know, yell at you some. You know, so I'm not saying he doesn't do those things. But whenever I left interactions with him, I'd always say, man, you know,

he's just such a nice guy. Just, you know, sometimes I just wanted to be a little scruffy. I wanted to come pissed off. You know what I mean? I want someone to ask, hey,

what's wrong with Brian? You see what I'm saying? Yeah. Most of the time, he's like, you know, go ahead, Brad. Sorry.

No, that's what I was saying. Yeah, go ahead. Julian, I know you want to jump in, but I just want to say this. My guy, Nick Lombardi on Twitter who does some Titans content, he went back and found some blog stuff from after Bill Callahan was fired from Nebraska.

And when you read through what fans in Nebraska were saying about Bill Callahan and why he was ousted, some of it is eerily similar to what we're talking about with Brian Callahan. And I think the reality is some people's personalities are just not meant to be in the

top chair like Brian Callahan is the mad scientist. Put him in a dark room alone and he's going to tinker and he's going to blah blah blah blah and he's going to all right well I found this crazy answer but Brian Callahan isn't the CEO at the end of the table to say all right thanks for that information mad scientist this is what's best for the company like at the end of the day he's a nice guy he's a very very intelligent transparent smart guy but I think he's more of the information gatherer to hey Brian go do this research project for me and bring back the results and then I'll make the decision on what we need to do based on those results. And that's what he did in Cincinnati.

He wasn't the play caller. He wasn't the head coach. He was a tinkerer in the background to figure out, how can we adjust the offense? How can we call different plays? Oh, you know, running out a shotgun isn't working. Let's go a little more under-centered. That was his role in Cincinnati,

and he helped them adjust their offense throughout the season. But that guy, that tinkerer, that mad scientist, isn't always fit to be the CEO of the company and make the big over-the-tree-tops. decisions. So I know that that's a little squirly of an analogy, but I really do think that Brian Callahan is the mad scientist who works best alone in the dark to get your answers. He's not the CEO who's at the press conference saying, this is what we're doing and inspiring confidence in the shareholders. And that's what the Titans are missing right now.

And I don't think that, I just don't think that he has that in him. That's just where I'm at. Some people, we've talked about it, some people are just better as coordinators than they are as head coaches. It's just a matter of fact. I mean, you take the press conference that he took that he said yesterday how hey i i believe in this team i believe in myself but the decision making at the end of the first half would lend itself to believe otherwise so does the question then does something need to change from an operation standpoint because i know people are asking well do you do you give up the play calling then do you give it to somebody else um so you can focus more on on that decision making stuff and be concrete yeah but then then what what is his role is he is he a macro or

a micromanager is he somebody that like um what code oh p carroll p carroll is a thousand years old and this guy be going over here looking at the offensive line and he goes over and checks out the running backs and he goes over and looks at the dbs and he's looking at special teams you know i just don't see brian having his hands in all those other things to not be in his role someone that's calling the plays i think that he is more specifically designed to deal with the quarterbacks to deal with their output, you know, and then everything else has been delegated. So, yeah, I'm just not sure.

And hold on a second. Tyler, why's it got to be a dark row, bro? Can I got to get a window or something? I mean, let's be like Frankenstein. But the point is, I think that, you know, sometimes, you know, what did that guy say in one of those war movies? I'm best served in the rear with the gear. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Sometimes, I'm not saying that he can't. be a head coach. It's just right now I think that making those adjustments to be a good head coach has shown to be more of a daunting task than maybe he would even admit at this point. And unfortunately, man, as a head coach of the national football league, you don't have a huge timetable to figure it out. And that's unfortunately. And you're at the speed of light, you're supposed to get in there and change this team around. And this is a team that pick first in the draft. And they pick first for a reason. You know, so you have to. get rid of all those reasons that made you eligible for the first pick. And there's not a lot of time to be able to do that. Heavy is the head, right? Heavy is the head that wears the crown. This is the burden of leadership is you get the criticism.

When decisions are wrong, you get blamed. You know, and here's the analogy I would use. I grew up on Colin Cowherd. That was my favorite media guy when I was a kid that kind of inspired me to want to do this stuff. And he's great with analogies. And I'd like to think that I have some good ones too. taking play calling duties away from Brian Callahan.

You guys ever worked in a kitchen? Maybe not. I've worked in a lot of kitchens in my life. Long down silver, bro. Hey, my first job ever was a KFC long John Silver's combo dog. So I know all about that. But imagine if you were working the burger station of a fast food restaurant. You had the fry station.

You got the chicken station. You got the expediter who puts it all together and puts it out the window. You know what I mean? And they came over to you and said, hey, you know, you're not making the burgers very well, but how about you just put the pickles on the sandwiches? Well, if you're just putting pickles on the sandwiches, why don't I just replace you entirely with someone

who's going to make the burgers and put the pickles on the sandwiches? Like, you're right, he doesn't do enough outside of the offensive side of the ball. He lets Dernard Wilson do whatever he wants on defense. He lets Bones Fossil do whatever he wants on special teams. Brian Callahan doesn't do enough to justify him keeping his job if he is not calling plays. So, again, I just, I hate that idea. I hate when people act like that's a thing.

Him, I think he's just beat down and downtrodden. So he's like, yeah, we're considering everything. Like, sure, I might make a change. You know what I mean? Like, he's just down on his luck and trying to give people answers to get off his back a little bit, you know, but it just doesn't make any sense

to allow him to continue to run the burger station if all you want him to do is put pickles on the sandwich. Just fire him if you're going to take away. that from them it doesn't make any sense to me the one thing that can't happen can't lose the locker room and uh at the end of the half sequence you lose trust in the guys then you're done so um there is our segment on brian countland on the other side we're going to talk about somebody who maybe fans are maybe a little bit more positive about and that's of course quarterback cam ward what we like from him and what we hope to see from him when he goes on his first longer NFL

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kind of set the tone for how the day was going to go against Indianapolis. What did you make of Cam Ward's performance and particularly how he bounced back after that? you know i was looking at the comments and uh chad kuba said it um a while ago he said give me the best offensive line in football and i don't care who my quarterback or running back is those are facts i mean it's it's probably the least talked about position unless they're screwing up but it's probably the most important position because it is what dictates how a guy does his job if you think about it when cam has time in the pocket is he an accurate thrower yes when cam has time in the pocket can he find the ways to exploit a defense sure it also works

conversely in the run game being a balance of that if they're winning up front then guess who else is winning tony pollard's winning uh julius chestnuts winning i think taji spears when he gets healthy he'll be winning but if you don't have the big bodies up front now admittedly health has been an issue you know we even have loy cushionberry in the lineup j c latham's not in the lineup. Kevin Ziley wasn't in line. So you had almost two thirds of the offensive line that were in there. And not every one of those players that was filling in is a starter in the national football league. And guess who knows that? The teams are playing. So at the end of the day, we're asking about Cam Worst performance. Cam is as only good as Cam is only as good as

the guys around him. Does he have the intangibles to be a good quarterback? Of course. That's why he was taken first in the draft because he was the best quarterback available. And I don't think there's been a question about that because we've seen some brilliant play by this young man when he has time but if you put any quarterback back there with no time even the great patrick mahomes himself why didn't he win last year's super bowl because his line sucked period and why did julian hertz win the super bowl jalen hurts because he had a great offensive line so it really comes down to those big bodies up front that mash and protect mash and protect it's as simple as that football is not a very complex sport

until you make it a complex sport. And this is really about balling this thing up and hitting the guy in the mouth as many times as he'll take it until he quits. That's what it comes down to. And we just don't have those jimmies and joes consistently in the lineup. I love that Brad is like, it's all about the offensive line.

We're the important ones. Get us and you win. But they're kind of right. That's your stuff with thing, bro. Hey, I'm with you there. I will say this, though. while Cam Ward is going to be somewhat a product of his environment

Cam Ward can also help his environment he can plant a couple trees you know what I mean there were some situations I would say the last two sacks and everybody wants to dog on the offensive line well go back through all the sacks about half of the sacks are Cam Ward holding the ball too long

Tony Pollard Gunner Helm missing their assignments only like half of the 15 sacks are actually an offensive lineman's fault if you go back and look through it And in this game, two of the three sacks are Cam Ward holding on to the ball too long. One of the first sacks or the third sack of the game. Elyke-o Manor's running a drag route. It's third and eight or whatever.

He's five yards deep. You get him the ball quickly. He may make a guy miss, get a first down. The second sack, you know, Cam Ward's just waiting, and he could hit Chick-a-conquo short on a two-man concept on the right side of the field. But he's waiting for Calvin Ridley on the deep dig because he's big game hunting because they're down so much. And he's trying to make a play that's a little bit better than a five-yard

because we talked about those long drives they went on. But the reason that they were able to go on those long drives is because the Colts were dropping back and they're like, we're not going to give you any explosive play. Sure, take your five, six yards at a time. Perfectly fine with that. Those are why those drives were so long and they made some plays and stuff

because that's what the Colts were allowing at the time. So I think if you go back through, this was Cam Ward's worst game of the three. The pick six is a critical massive error that you can't make. And then there were some of the sacks that he took that, quite frankly, weren't on the offensive line. It was Cam holding the ball too long.

Now, the best part about it is, even with it being his worst performance, it was still an incredible performance. The hit to Calvin Ridley for 27 yards where he drills home the hook route. The hit the Elicio Manor on the sideline. Some of those play action, smooth where he's play action,

and he's rolling out left and dumping it off the guys for big plays. in that pass home for a touchdown to I.O. Manor in the red zone. Like, we saw the velocity, we saw the playmaking. It wasn't a terrible game for Cam Ward. But I would say some of the things that he made mistakes on are things that rookies are going to deal with. So it's not a terrible, you know, it's his worst game.

But the mistakes that he's making aren't incomprehensible. Oh, no, this guy is not very good. It's, hey, you got to speed up, you got to learn to when to just take your profit. And most rookie quarterbacks are going to have to learn those lessons at the NFL level. And also real quick, Julian, there is a combination of things because if the quarterback feels he has somewhere to go with the football, he's not going to stand back there and hold it because he likes holding the football. He's going to get rid of it. So receivers got to get separation. They have to make themselves available for a catch.

The offense is lying to give him enough time in the pocket to throw it. And those have to work in tandem. So it isn't, you know, sure, I'm being tongue and cheek and saying that it's all about, you know, up front. But there is an offense with 11 dudes on there for a reason. You know, Cam has to be smart enough to see where he's going with the football, deliver an accurate pass. Receivers have got to make themselves available to get that pass. Offensive line has to give him enough time.

So it's got to be a connection, a conglomeration of things to allow him to do it. And, you know, there has been time where he's seemingly had enough time to throw, right? You know, navigating the pocket in some instances. We saw Daniel Jones do a terrific job of navigating the pocket and throwing for first downs when the pass rush did get there at some points, creating that kind of pressure. but for the most part you know there there's got to be somewhere that he feels confident to go with the football some big play type potential that you know most defenses are starting to recognize and say hey look this is where cam wants to go with the football because i mean if you look at the pick six itself it was very predictable what cam was going to do he went one two three oh here's the running back oh shoot there's a linebacker standing there you see what i'm saying so it's like they knew what his progression was going to be and how he was going to try and get the football out of his hands quickly he was Remember in preseason, I don't think he was holding the ball for two seconds. Even without pressure, the dude was like one, two, three, that back foot hit and bang, he was going somewhere with it.

You know what I mean? But nowadays, when you start having a game plan, when you start looking at how defenses are trying to confuse you and hide things and do these things that make you make those time mistakes, now they, you know, it's a different kind of situation. This is why they say offensive linemen are the smartest position group. Brad just dropped a conglomeration on us in the middle of that one. There's the offensive line brain for you. And I can spell it, too. Come. We just got one of the funniest comments I've seen.

Somebody with a Cam Ward burner, as their name on YouTube, said my pick six was scripted. That is hilarious. Make sure you guys keep the comments coming because we'll answer to your questions throughout the show. But yeah, that's what this year is about, right, for Cam Ward. It's about inevitably they were going to be growing pains. They're going to be mistakes. You're going to throw them out there.

He's seeing things he hasn't seen in his career. He's playing against some of the biggest, strongest, fastest defenders that you can ever face. One thing I forgot to mention in the last segment when we talk about Callahan, because I guess it relates to Cam Ward, too. He is obviously this organization's best, most important asset that you have. And the Callahan decision, whatever you decide to do with him is, of course, going to impact Cam Ward. What's going to benefit his development and his growth? Is it going to be keeping Callahan and fighting through the pain and growing pains and seeing what he can make of it? or is it going to be starting over and starting fresh with somebody new?

I will say this, to the fans who have some hesitation about maybe getting a new head coach and starting something new, Cam has had different offensive coordinators and a different head coach each of his years in college, and he was still able to put up massive numbers and still able to win everywhere he's going. I know that's not the NFL level, but if you do have to start off with a new head coach somewhere next season or even halfway through the year, let's say, Bones Fossil takes over the interim job if Callahan does get fired, then you have at least that in your back pocket that Cam Ward has been able to do, have some success with out ahead or with a different guy

at the helm, each of his years in college. You know, let me say this. If there was an immediate fix to what's going on with the Tennessee Titans and you felt that some new coach could come in and I'll start implementing that, I would hope that Brian Callahan is smart enough to try and do some research and find out what those answers are like what would a different dude do in these circumstances maybe start asking player or asking your peers around lee hey man you see how we are oh and three um can we get a cup of coffee i need to talk with you about some of the things that you would do to make make changes in the situation versus just floundering in your own mistakes or still trying to figure out on your own and coming up with no answers so i'm thinking that there was an immediate

fix that there was something that was so obvious to someone that could come in and all of a sudden make this team three and over the next few weeks, why wouldn't you do the most that you could to try and find out what those answers are? I don't think that they that easily exist. It's not just like floating out there in the universe to answer those questions. I think it's a lot of different things that need to be addressed. And it might take them time to be able to figure out that, which obviously we've already stated they don't have, you know, to be able to get it together. So I just don't think that the answer is basically outside of this building, in essence. I think that the answers exist within the building. They just have to do more

communicating. They have to have more time with each other to understand what those things are and start working towards some sort of consistency. I just don't see someone that's not familiar with any of the players, any of the coaches, any of the system that's in, and it's going to come in midstream and all students start just making wide-scale changes that they all of a sudden respond to and start winning. If it were that easy, then why is the guy at home? Why is the guy available to be a head coach in the first place?

He should already have his own team somewhere if he's that good to be able to do it. I just have two quick things, one on what Julian said and one on what you said. One, Julian, I think that at the end of the day, Cam Ward can get through any changes, but as I've said on this show before,

I have a lot of relationship history. I've had a lot of dating and a lot of failed dating as well. And I will tell you this, stand with the, oh, hey, listen, I didn't find the one for me until I was in my 30s. So listen, I'm not afraid to admit that my 20s was a disaster, a graveyard of dating in my 20s. But the point is, staying with the wrong person too long can be just as damaging as leaving too early.

So, yeah, we want continuity for Cam, and Cam wants continuity and blah, blah, blah, but bad continuity can be just as bad as patience as well. You know what I mean? So you got to, and I would just say this, I don't think the answer may be outside the building, but if Bones Fossil can be the interim head coach or Mike McCoy, a former NFL head coach, can be the interim head coach, and the Titans can get better decision-making and in-game management on Sundays, I think that would give a significant boost to this team's chances to win.

I don't think it makes them a playoff team. we're not going to see the Ryan Tannahill run to the playoffs like we saw in 2019, but this football team has a win right now if they have a better head coach. They would have beaten Denver after forcing four turnovers if they had better in-game management and in-game decisions. Maybe you guys don't agree with that, but I firmly do believe that this team has a significant better chance to win on Sundays with a better head coach making better in-game decisions

and managing situations better. I don't think the answer is outside right now, but I think that a guy like Bones Fossil or a former NFL head coach like Mike McCoy, I think those guys would make better in-game decisions better than Brian Callahan's disaster before halftime, better than the management decisions we saw before halftime against the Broncos.

I think those situations are direct examples of how this team would benefit from a better head coach. And I think the answers could be inside the building in John Fossil or in Mike McCoy as the interim head coach And does it make the Titans a playoff team? No, but I think they're a much better football team than what we see because the coach is not making good in-game management decisions. And that's just my opinion.

Real quick, we got some irony. I mean, when you're young and things aren't going your way, a lot of times you look to your dad to kind of help you figure some stuff out, right? Yeah. Didn't Ryan's dad have a head coaching job in the league? He did. But he's going to, if they fire Callahan, he's going to go with him. Like, there's no way he's going to say.

I'm just saying, I'm asking questions. Remember I'll talk about asking questions? True. Hey, Dad, what should we do? You know what I'm saying? Hey, Dad, how can you change the flat tire? That kind of stuff, you know? So I don't know.

This is an observation. Relationship advice from Tyler Rowland. You can't get anywhere else here in the Titan Squat Show. Okay, make sure you keep your comments and viewer questions coming in. We're going to answer them as many as we can on the other side of the break here, the Titan Squat Show. And I'll also take a brief look at the matchup against the Houston, Texas. this week in the Titans squad show returns.

All right, fellas. Titans open up a three straight road games with a matchup against the Texans on Sunday. Obviously, Houston also 0 and 3, both at the bottom of the division. Something's going to give this weekend, given how important this game usually is to ownership, given the history of the Titans of Houston and all that stuff.

The rivalry. this seems kind of like the perfect game to try to figure things out. I mean, last year, the only divisional game you won was this one in Houston. And Houston's not exactly setting the world on fire right now, certainly struggling a little bit to start the year. How do you see this one, at least in from an early bird's eye view playing out? You know, the Texans, like you just mentioned, they're obviously struggling to get their first win as well. the Titans are on the row for the next three weeks, which obviously, like we mentioned earlier,

could be the best thing after this weekend's response from the fans. The pressure is on the Texans guys to beat a team that is yet to win a game, and they're at home. C.J. Stroud has the same amount of touchdowns that Cam has, too. Stroud has only thrown for 93 more yards, basically. Tony Pollitt has rushed for more yards than Nick Chubb. Will Anderson has more sacks himself than the Titans' entire defense. that's something to be concerned about but for the most part this is one of those situations guys

where the titans ironically enough can just take a deep breath and go no one expects us to win this game so where does the pressure come we're going on the road down to play a team that we've had some pretty good success against and they are struggling and guess what their fan base is just as disappointed in them as ours is of us But the only long difference is the Houston Texans were supposed to win the division. That's the difference. No one picked the Titans to win the division. So who has more pressure squarely on their shoulders?

Ding-dang Texans. And I would break out the oil or uniforms and run through that tunnel and be like, you know, hey, it doesn't matter. We're both o'n three right now. The only guy coming out of this ring is the winner. And we'll see what happens. So there's a lot going on there. weekend. It's going to tell us a lot to say the least. Somebody's going to get right. I mean, this is a get right. Somebody's going to get right. I love that. Like somebody has to win the game.

You know what I mean? So like, and I look at the big, the Titans pass rush has not been good, but the Texans offensive line is stinky. And it's like by design. Why would you trade a top five left tackle when your offensive line isn't good and think that you're going to sign Cam Robinson and he's going to be an answer? You're going to draft a rookie and he's going to be an immediate answer. So I think that the offensive line of the Texans allows the Titans pass rush to be better than they actually are because the Colts have one of the best offensive lines in the entire NFL. Of course it's going to be hard to get pressure on that with a bad pass rush group. But this Texans offensive line is one of the worst.

So it could allow the Titans pass rush maybe to have more success than they've had. But on the other side, the Titans offensive line, I said they're going to get better sooner than later. But I don't think it's this week because Will Anderson, DeNeil Hunter, that defense, they are absolutely nasty. So it's all about to me which bad unit or which unit that has underperformed for the Titans so far, the pass rush or the offensive line, which of those can have a good game?

Because if they both have a good game at the same time, the Titans are going to win this game. But if they don't, if only one has a good game or neither has a good game, then they're in trouble. I think this is a big answer game for the trenches. Can the Titans offensive line? Hopefully they get J.C. Latham back. I think Blake Hans can hold on at guard even if Kevin Zitler isn't ready to go. I think he can be all right.

And the problem with the Texans is their edges are really good. So if you get J.C. Latham back and you have Dan Moore coming off a pretty good game and they can do a decent job. The Titans should be able to have some success and then the Titans' defense should be even better than they've been recently because they're not... The Denver Broncos have a really good offensive line. the Indianapolis Colts have an even better offensive line.

The Texans don't, so that could allow the defense to get some pressure on the quarterback more than they have. Stroud is mobile enough, but he's not an overly mobile quarterback. This isn't, you know, he isn't as mobile as Bo Nix or as mobile as Kyler Murray or Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen, you know what I mean? Stroud ain't going to beat you like that. So this is a big opportunity for the Titans pass rush to finally have a good game.

And if they do that, I think it trickles down, and then the Titans' offensive line is really the big. question that you got to look at. I'm with you there, Tyler, a largely new Houston Texans offensive line. They allowed eight sacks so far this season. That number needs to get well in the double digits after this game if the Titans are to come away with a win and steal one over there in Houston. Somebody in the chat asked a question about the offensive line. I can't seem to find it right now. But what they said basically was, is if Zitler, how much more improved will this offensive line be once Zitler and Latham ultimately return and maybe fix some of those problems that

even if they're not healthy this week against the Texans. Tyler mentioned how much of a problem it could be with the pass rushers that they have, but for the long term of the season. You know, actually there was two questions. Somebody asked also why Bill Callahan's offensive lines are playing better. Tyler, you on Twitter put up one of the plays, and it was a run that looked like a cutback, but the running back was on the right side of Cam Ward

and he led the handoff like it was going to the back side but it was a front side run they're blocking to the front side that was a very telling play right there in itself because I saw way more guys in the box to block than there were blockers to block them which means that there's going to be some guys that are free but when you look at it with eight men in the box then you should have been able to check to a run to a pass play you see what I'm saying because you had all these guys down in the box you had extra you had the safety was down in the box the linebackers were hovering above at the line of scrimmage and what I saw was Dan Moore basically holding ground a little bit before he got into no man's land and didn't block anybody and then the guy that he originally was blocking came down on the line of scrimmage and made the tackle for a tackle for loss it's those little things right there that they're playing distancing

combobulated. So I bring that full circle to say, what if Zytler does get in? Are those issues going to go away? The only way that those go away is by having time to work together. So they're still going to be working out kinks, even when the starters do get back in there, right? But you have to do it. All three of us were talking about our golf game at the beginning before the show started, right? Well, lack thereof. What do we say lends to being a good golfer? You got to go do it. You got to put the time in repetitiously to be able to. able to do it. And when you've got injuries, when you have guys that haven't played collectively together, then your game's going to look clunky. Just like if you only went golfing once a month

or once every other couple of months or whatever, it don't work that way. So these guys still need time, even though when they do get healthy to be able to put things together and play a complete game. I need those runs to hit quicker too. I am so sick of the slow developing run place. That's what I'm saying. That's the play you were talking about. They got to hit quicker. Chim D.K. coming in orbit motion and then we're doing a fake and then we're turning it into a reverse and Callahan struggled with those slow developing runs last time. And the reason that 51 was able to get down the line of scrimmage and get to it is because it took so long on the footwork for Tony Pollard in the backfield for that run to hit. We need to hit that right away

and then 51 won't even be able to chase from the backside. You know what I mean? I wasn't right, Tyler. Something wasn't right. Like I said, Ken stepping to his right to hand the ball off to Tony Pollard, but the play was going to the right. Why is he cutting back? at the handoff it was just because then he ended up going to the front side in the first foot anyway we're countering to the front side we're running counter back to the side it was so weird i was like you know what slow hitting i'm like i think it was just wrong either yeah either the quarterback was on the either the running back was on the wrong side yeah get him the handoff and he's already going to his right with the flow of the blocking he can cut back on his own but he was

on the right already and he handed the ball but he's going to his left it was like such a weird thing made no sense for the tackle to squeeze down and cover the B gap and allow the C gap in when the running back is on the right side of the quarterback. And Brad, I see this stuff and I know that maybe the players are making mistakes we can't know, but I see coaching because it's a pattern now. Consistently, there are missed assignments. Guys don't know where they're going. Think back to Denver where they run a wide receiver screen and nobody turns around to catch the screen. You know what I mean? Like they're just, if you look at each individual example, you could say, oh, maybe the player made a mistake. But I say this.

all the time. If every student fails the test, the teacher failed. If every student failed the test, it's the teacher that failed. And at some point, these missed mistakes, these strange looking plays that look like they're not set up correctly, at some point, each individual

play, you could say is a player, but the pattern has to be on coaching. And that's probably a great place to get towards the close of the show, as we just still have so many questions about the coaching. Absolutely. I tell you this, one one way to get back in the front office. is particularly this front office is to beat Houston on the road.

So we'll see if they can do that. Titans got a road game against Houston on Sunday. We'll see you then. But for now, I'm Julian Minneson. That's Tyler Rowland. And of course, Brad Hopkins. We'll see you guys on game day.