Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - TITANS SQUAD SHOW: Titans EMBARRASSED by Texans, Cam Ward STRUGGLES, Callahan's job ON LIFE SUPPORT

Episode Date: September 29, 2025

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I'm Julian Minnensohn, and come on, Titans fans. This is a safe space. You can let it out. And I'm Brad Hopkins, and rearranging the chairs on the Titanic never stopped it from sinking. 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 Show. I'm Julian Minnesone, along with Brad Hopkins, two-time

pro bowler. Tough day in Titan land today as they fall to the Houston Texans on the road, 26 to nothing. And as a result, the Titans fall to 0 and 4 on the season. Obviously, a lot to get into with this matchup. We want to welcome you here with us. Make sure to like, comment, subscribe, all that fun stuff. And listen to us wherever you get your podcast that's here on YouTube live. And, of course, Spotify, Apple Music, wherever you get the audio, we are here for you, Titans fans. Because I know you are looking for some therapy on this particular Sunday. Bhop, I'm going to start right off the back because there's a lot to get to, even though the Titans didn't give us a lot to talk about.

Well, a lot to talk about in the negative side, I should say. What was your initial reaction from today? Well, first off, I have an issue with the Titans because, They're actually putting my mom's health at risk. She's a diehard Titans fan since we moved here from Houston and just listening to her today, the frustration, how upset she actually was. I thought they were getting her heart back. I promise you, I did.

Not Mama Hopkins. Yes, Mama Hopkins was not happy. And she's looking at me like, you know, what are the answers, you know? So, you know, I'm listening to Brian Callahan talk about how they prepared during the week. honestly, the games are won during the week. It's the preparation that you put into it, right? It's getting things down so that way you execute the plays on Sunday. That's what the week is designed to do.

And if you listen to Brian and Company, they were excited about the opportunity to go on the road first of three and to start out in a place that they've had some success before, you know, in Houston, right? The last time they won the game was there last year. Right. And for the longest time during the game, it was back and forth. six to nothing at half neither team had been in the red zone saw two field goals by the houston texans two missed field goals by the titans but yet this was a game still to be had by

either side right and then it just slowly started disappearing the 20 points unanswered in the four quarter by the by the texans pretty much cemented the deal right but i'm just thinking about going back to what they were talking about execution and the willingness to fight is what brian Callahan talked about in his post-game press conference, the fact that he doesn't feel that he's lost the locker room, that these guys still believed in themselves. And I honestly agree with him. That's the only thing I can go by. For when you got off the plane in Houston, you thought you had a chance to win. This was a team that was struggling just as much as you were. They hadn't won a game yet either. Matter of fact, they hadn't even had a rushing touchdown until today.

So the struggle was real for a team that had more expectation on it within this division than the Titans did. So there's enough blame to go all way around. Both sides of the football, you can say that they need to get healthy, missing a few key players. J.C. Latham on the right side, he'll be definitely welcomed back. Tajey Spears may come in and add a different element to that offense than what Tony Powell was doing. But Tony Pollard had a couple of explosive chunk plays today that I thought really made the difference if they could have gotten more of that, right? But the Titans really couldn't get into a rhythm today. They really couldn't stay on the field long enough time of possession was an issue i think the texans had the ball 20 more minutes than the titans did and those ultimately created the issues that we saw obviously when you can't convert third down uh i think that that's obvious going to be an issue it lent to them the time of possession lent to them the number of plays i think at 46 total plays 45 total plays that's not enough to win a ball game especially on the road so there's a lot there to unpack julian but that's that was my first thoughts my initial reaction and let me know because i'm going to play a little bit of

devil's advocate here with you. At the start of the season, B-Hop, I don't, I think the realistic fan would say that they were going to be 0 and 4 at this point, most likely, right? But I'm looking at the schedule and I'm like, and the way they're playing, they're not giving me confidence that they can win any game right now, the way that things are going. You mentioned no rhythm, no consistency to put those drives together. I mean, Cam said it after the, in the post-game press conference, in the quotes circling around. We are cheeks, is what he said, for lack of a better turn. They didn't even get in the red zone today. I mean, and Callahan talked about it, and I want to get your take on this, because he said, and well, and Cam said it as well,

that it's coming down to execution and not the plan. He thinks the plan is good enough and that the players are just not executing. But from what you're seeing, your perspective, as a former player behalf, how much is it the execution of the players versus the actual plan and that Callahan and the rest of the coaching staff is putting into place because, you know, I got to tell you at some point, you know, I know the roster isn't the greatest roster in the world, but they're not getting the most out of this roster at the moment. Yeah. I mean, 100% it's about execution.

You know, I'm not sure what Titans fans were expecting with a new play caller, but that's what you got. Bow Hardigree, the quarterback coach for the Titans was the one that actually had the play calling in his hands. It wasn't Brian Callahan putting that offense in position. But what do we see? Zero points in 11 yards. Like you mentioned, never made it into the red zone. The Titans converted only two third downs today. Two, 46th place. The Texans had 65, 93 passing yards for the Titans, 224 passing yards for the Texas. 82 rushing yards for the Texans. The Texans held the ball 20 more minutes to the Titans.

So at the end of the day, the things that they are practicing during the week, the things that they felt confident, were going to work when they looked at the tape for the last three weeks and saw this Texans team that were struggling. There were some things that they put together that they thought they could take advantage, right? It didn't happen. So while we're talking about Brian, you know, sure, you know, losing a locker room or even like him getting testy with one of the, you know, guys with Paul Karski, yeah. I see I wouldn't even go there. I wouldn't even go mention his name. Typically, you know. Yeah. But the point was it will always come down to execution. You've heard me. say this a million times. Every play that's called is designed to win. It's designed to get into

the end zone. Now, what happens after the ball is snapped? Execution or the defense making a play? If the defense doesn't make a play and the off and the play is executed like it's supposed to, what happens? They score. But something in there happens either break down an execution or somehow the defense makes a play, which obviously they're going to do. That's a defense for a reason. I mean, and the offense would be exhausted if every single thing that they ran scored a touchdown. That's just not reality. But by design, the plays are made to do that. But there's always going to be something that breaks down in the play.

And unfortunately, for the Titans, things broke down more than they actually were able to be put together today. And that's the thing that I think maybe got misconstrued throughout the week when Callahan gave up the play calling. It's not like the offense change. It's still his offense. It's still his playbook. There was just going to be a different tree. trigger man for it. I will say, at least from a game operation standpoint, because that was the reason

Callahan gave up the plague calling was to focus on game management. There wasn't any issues it seemed on that. And you know, but you know the, I guess the part that's so frustrating about this Bhoff is the penalties were down this week. They only had four penalties. The sacks were down this week. There was only two sacks. And it seemed like that despite all that, then there's other things.

that then pop up where it feels like you're hitting your lowest of low for the season so far. Yeah, I mean, they've got two great pass rushers in Danil Hunter and Will Anderson. Now, Danil had a couple of sacks, but like you mentioned, this is a team that to this point has given up 17 sacks in four weeks. But that wasn't a problem today, you know, not as much as they had been in the past. We didn't see them shooting themselves in the foot, creating the sins that they talked about in the regular beginning of the season, right? We didn't see a whole bunch of that.

Just it was, you know, two of seven for your favorite receiver, Elyette, Iyer Manor. You know, two of three for Calvin Ridley. We saw a couple of plays where, you know, he really made a difference in that offense, but I think three targets is just not enough for a guy that's supposed to be one of your best players. And when you go back to what was stated by the teams, the players and coaches alike, they said what? We have to get the best out of our best players. And that didn't happen today.

Ligerious need was a liability today. let's just be honest don't even get me started on that guy man and here's another guy that was highly compensated you know dan moore another highly compensated guy gave up a sack you know just at the wrong time it's never a good time to give up a sack trust me i know yeah but in instance you're trying to mount something of a comeback or trying to get some momentum and you just you know you step on your beep and it's just one of those things that you just you know you have to overcome come, but there was just too much of that. And there was too little offensive output.

Now, I saw a couple of times where Jeffrey Simmons was disruptive, you know, getting the sack, getting in the back field. Hell, Cody Barton had a sack today if it wasn't called back for Ligerius's holding call. So there was some plays that were made on both sides of the football, but just too few and too far in between the two. I wanted to mention Jeffrey Simmons because earlier in the week, we heard him say, the best players need to play like the best players.

Well, he seemed to be the only best player that showed up like a best because there were times where he was the best player on the field. You could see, though, defensively, though they kept them in the game for a majority of this Bhop, you could just sense that it was going to break at some point. And you mentioned the time of possession. When you can't move the chains offensively, you're going to get your defense gassed and worn down.

And it seems like they finally broke kind of at the end, despite them making plays at least early on and keeping them in the game. Yeah, they were in this ball game. six to six enough and two field goals. There wasn't a touchdown score in the first half. As a matter of fact, the Texans didn't even get into the red zone until the very last play of the third quarter. So it just went to show you that this was a defensive struggle back and forth. It really wasn't a whole bunch of offensive output by either offense. But then when it came down to it at the end of the day, the Texans were able to wear down the Titans defense, put together drives that kept them on the field, and then start putting touchdowns on the board. As a matter of fact, I think there were two. and two for two once they did finally get into the red zone. Once they were starting able to move the football, then we started to see them feel better, feel stronger about

their momentum and what they're able to do in the ball game. So the Texans or the Titans never really had that opportunity. They never really found that chemistry, that rhythm that they need to have those big best players that you mentioned be a part of the game

plan, right? There was just not that many opportunities because of you know, them only complete two third downs. Excuse me, sorry about that. Bless you, Titans got you sick, huh? One more. I always sneezing twos.

Don't worry, viewers. He's just allergic to bad football. That's it. That's all it is. I'm not going to go there with you, but either way, I see what you're saying. And that's the frustrating part, right? Because you're figuring at some point in time, put this way, the Texans were just relishing at this opportunity to play a game against a team that was struggling as much as they were.

And now maybe the pundits did have the Titans not winning a game up until week four or five or whatever. And they were right. We've gone up against a couple of teams that were in the playoffs last year, a couple of teams that are playing extraordinarily low right now. I think the Colts are on their way to maybe even getting the W out there against the Matthew Stafford-led Los Angeles Rams, another team we lost to, which lends to what? It lends to how good these teams actually are that we played to this point. But this team today, was a team that in the first half showed you they're beatable. And as a matter of

fact, if the Titans were able to take full advantage of the momentum that they had in that first half, they would have gotten their first W today, but it didn't bounce their way. Yeah, and you mentioned that, Bhop, but then I'm looking at teams like the Saints today. They competed, right? Teams like, you know, teams like the Giants

who snuck out a win with a guy Jackson Dart getting his first start. How come it just doesn't seem like, at least that the Titans are I don't know. I know you mentioned they were kind of in the game at the start of it, but it just didn't feel like that they had a real legitimate shot, even with being in the game to me. It all comes down to the details, the little things. We saw them make explosive plays, and then we saw them nullified. We saw them, you know, in the run game, give Tony Pollard like,

what, 80 yards or something like that on the ground? Yeah, he had some spurts there. Yeah, Exactly. Ehrlich had one that was thrown behind him that maybe he could have caught, but it was a tip. It ended up being an interception and ended up turning into a touchdown. So those little things are the things that make the difference in every single ballgame. The team that makes the fewest amount of mistakes has the best chance to win. Very rarely, can you overcome those issues and all of a sudden come out the winner?

It just doesn't happen that way. And we've seen the Titans all but too often in the first four weeks of the season, commit those mistakes that end up costing them momentum, end up costing them ball games. You know, so when you start to see Calvin Ridley take over a ball game, when you start to see Legerius Sneed getting turnovers and giving the ball back to the offense, when you start seeing more sack productivity and pressure from the best players up front, whether that's Jeffrey Simmons or, you know, maybe at some point in time when we get Tavondry sweat back in the line up, Arden Key and Sebastian Joseph Day can get into the backfield and start creating

havoc, right? But there was just too many times that we saw, you know, Cam, I'm not going to say he was under duress a lot today because I will say the offensive line did pass protect better today than we've seen over the past few weeks. They just weren't consistent. And that's the only thing I'm going to say about that. Yeah, and it just certainly led to another tough day, 26 to nothing to the Texans. We're going to break down Cam Ward's performance. I know Behov just talked about it there. Make sure you keep your comments coming. And on the other side of the break, we'll talk about him. We'll talk about Brian Callahan. And other things that you do. guys see on the background here, if you live with us on YouTube, things that are giving us

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But obviously, a lot of the comments, as we're seeing on the chat here, are about Cam Ford. I don't know how many fans maybe are turning on the young man or the rookie. But what did you make of his performance today? Because it seemed like to me that he, this is probably his toughest game as a team. tighten so far and you're you're muted bhock your mic I had to explain to my mom who brandon Allen was because she looks at me at some point in time to point during the game and she says who's cam wards back up I'm just not impressed oh no I said mom it's Brandon Allen and I'm not sure that he he's going to be able to do better with the circumstances or with what we have right now

So I just went to show, I just basically brought that up because I can see from a family standpoint some of the frustration. Hassani in the chat, he says he disagrees with some of the things I said respectfully, and I appreciate you saying that. There might be something to that as far as the coaching and getting this team ready to play, right? But the thing is, how many plays do you think that the Titans have called over the past week? Different plays. I would probably say maybe 100, 100 different plays. Yes. what works simple question so i've given you a hundred different options but there isn't one thing that

you can say this team can hang its hat on that actually works so at what point in time if i've given you so many options to work with and nothing seems to be sticking consistently at the end of the day is it me giving you more options or is it you not making those options that i've given you work so it is a tandem. I got to put you in the best position that I possibly can. And that was, that's what Brian was talking about at the podium. It's my job to put this team in the best position that I can to allow them to have be successful. That's the, that's the job of any coach, because coaches don't play. That's the difficult part about being a coach. The coach might have the game plan in mind. They might have all the, the perfect things for every scenario, but they're not the ones that

are actually going out there on the field and executing the things that they call. So at some point, their responsibility stops. Now, if I've given you a ton of different options and you're not making any of them work to be able to be the identity of this team, at some point in time, it's got to rely on the jimmies and Joe's. So it is a combination of both, but I haven't seen them doing so many different things wide-skilled. Is everything questionable that a coach does during a game? Sure, especially if it don't work, you know, because revision is history. I mean, good God. You know what I mean? It's like, it's 100% isn't it? Because if I go back and say, man, I sure was I could have done that. Well, guess what you're right if it didn't work? So, you know, you'll never be wrong in that instance. But when I call something, when we're working on something during the week and it's working during the week, what stops it from working on Sunday? It's either execution or the defense saw it coming like the double pass that was going to throw back to Cam Ward. And Will Anderson were standing right there. saying yeah go ahead i dare you throw it because he saw that which i didn't like on as a first down

call by the way exact well that that could be true too but i think it is a combination you know what i'm saying now cam at the end of the day we had so much excitement about him because of what we saw in the preseason because of what we saw you know in in just the way that he handled his responsibility of being the first pick of the draft and being one of the the faces if not the face of this franchise but he's still a rookie and there are not many rookies that can come in in day one and kick the door in and I started establishing themselves as quote unquote the dude Peyton Manning won one game his rookie year when he went to the Colts one and I'm sure that there are a lot of Colts fans that weren't happy with what happened with him

either but guess what the guy went on to have a Hall of Fame career so while we would like to see him establish while we would like to see him perform at the level that doesn't make you feel that he's a rookie. At the end of the day, reality is what it is. He's a first-year player that's still learning the nuances of playing at the highest level. And at some point in time, I think that, you know, with what we've seen so far, he'll limit the mistakes, he'll get more fluid and comfortable with what they're asking him to do. And he'll start making the plays that, you know, it will be necessary,

not missing dudes, you know, 10 yards away. You know, going through a progression that allows you to be efficient, get the ball out of your hands fast enough but then again it's also a compliment of things receivers getting themselves open getting separation a line that gives them time to block and cam making the right reads all of these things have to work together for the play to be successful if one part of that breaks down just one part it's least likely to happen yeah i mean you kind of knew that they were going to be growing pains obviously throughout the entire season being a rookie Cam Ward being in his rookie year.

I wanted to talk about some of the, I guess you mentioned him being a rookie this season. You had some accuracy issues today, it seemed like. You know, the one to IOM manner that ricocheted off his hands for the interception. There were a couple outroutes of Chig and Tyler, I think it was, that he just missed him. It was just mistrows. At what point do you say, yes, he's a rookie,

but we got to take the training rules off. he's got to play back okay so let's go back to ryan tannan hill ryan at some point in time led this team to the playoffs am i right at some point during his career okay so he wasn't half bad right then we start to see issues happen up front then all of a sudden ryannehill becomes a liability those issues never were fixed when they took will levis with the first pick of the second second round when he came in and he struggled handsomely we start to see cam ward the same issues that both will levis who's the boy that we got from pittsburg right uh rudolph oh mason rudolph yeah mason rudolph same thing him and will were we're trading off starts but neither one of them got

separation from the other because they're all dealing with the same stuff so in other words the qb position is still dealing with the same issues going all the way back before they decided to part ways with ryan tally hill which i still think they're paying him actually so it just shows you that there are some things that need to be fixed still we need to have an established number one receiver a dude that actually scares defenses unfortunately cams or calvin's not playing like that guy he's not playing like the guy that was in atlanta or was in jacksonville or that gave so much potential and promise does he have the ability of course he does i think he's still a very talented player but is he playing like that no uh uh uh i you manner i mean a guy that's a

rookie, not even a high pick, as a matter of fact, has really got to come out of nowhere to be Cam's favorite target at this point. Chica Conquo, I think he had like one catch on three targets today, not a lot of high volume productivity. So we're not seeing much from the players that are asked to help Cam Ward be the best version of himself. You know, so I think that it's a combination of things. Cam can play better, but just like Brian, just like Jeff, just like some of the other players that were on this team mentioned the better players the best players are not playing at their best and that makes a difference um you know one thing you mentioned it earlier was that uh tony pollard did have some decent chunk plays in in spots um i mean he had his first run of the

season crazy to think his first run of the season over 10 yards came in this game in week four um but then there were other questionable decisions and some of the play calls what did you make of Bo Hart agrees calling the game. Because everybody made such a big deal about, okay, we're switching from Callahan to Bo Hard degree now. I thought it was aggressive early on. You know, we started to see them take some chances, especially when you know that protection hasn't been at its best.

You know, we saw some, you know, some attempts at double passes. We saw them even attempt to really get the run game engaged until down and distance kind of takes that away from you. And you really needing to start coming up with those explosive plays downfield that give you an option, right? But I thought, for the most part, what was different? There wasn't.

Maybe it's because, like you said, this is still Brian Callahan's offense. But is Brian Callahan's offense so bad that they can't find one thing that works? You know what I mean? So I put it this way. If you put Cam Ward behind, say, the Philadelphia Eagles offensive line or who's got another Detroit Lions? They've got another great offensive line. And what I mean by that is not just in past protection keeping Cam healthy and upright.

but also establishing the balance of the offense in the run game. When you're able to basically deal with third and very manageable down in distances because you're establishing yourself up front, then you'll start to see, you know, Cam Ward look a lot better than he is if he's just dropping back to pass and then you're just waiting for that two, three and a half seconds to go by before he either needs to get rid of the ball or starts running with it. So that's what I prescribe to the RPO stuff because Cam,

definitely has the ability to run the football. And what it does is it keeps defense's honest. You're not going to rush a quarterback that you know can run by you. And I think that ultimately we need to start making that a threat in this offense. I think Cam can be accurate enough to make plays downfield when given time, right? But also, receivers need to come up with catches. They need to get themselves open and not be in such a contested catch situation as well. And the defense needs to give as many opportunities as they possibly can by getting turn over.

And I think in the very beginning, like in the first game or two, we saw a couple of turnovers by the defense, giving Cam as many opportunities as he could use to get back in a ballgame. But offensively, they just weren't in succinct. They weren't succinct enough to basically take advantage of the things that the defense was giving. And when they have moved the pocket this season, Cam obviously seems comfortable. It's one of the things Brian Callahan talked about this week is when Cam gets out of the

pocket or a plate breaks down, he's constantly keeping his eyes down field, just like the Alec Iow Manor touchdown that he threw in the home opener. And just like today with that first scrimmage that Cam had, he bombed one downfield to Iow Manor after he, I think it was Will Anderson. He escaped the sack from. Right in his face. Yeah, skip, remember he even got the skip step or something like that and then pointed the direction that he wanted ELEC to go to and then made the completion, right? So it shows you that if he was designed to do some of those things, how much more effective would he be? You know what I'm saying if I were sitting there faking the dive and then holding on to that ball to see what the pass rush does and they take advantage of some of those lanes that the pass rush naturally creates

when they're trying to sack me, then you're keeping them honest. And then when they start really slowing down that pass rush and you've got more time in the pocket because they're really not sure with what you're going to do with it, then you can get some more of the explosive plays or even some of the slant stuff that, you know, some of these receivers can give you as far as an option. So I just think that maybe that is part of the play calling that doesn't get called. Maybe we need to start looking more realistically at what this team's, what some of their strengths are. You know what I mean? And I think that one of the strengths that we're not tapping into is Cam Ward's legs. I think that we could use more of that, if anything, just to give him

more time to let other plays develop. Just my thoughts. Yeah, certainly something he did well in college to every stop. That was something dynamic that he could bring to the table. That's for sure. Just to recap it there, Cam, 10 of 26, 10, or 93 yards, technically, one interception. The Titans fail to get 200 yards of offense today, which is just not going to get it done. On the other side of the break, we're going to talk about Brian Callahan, the future with him. I know that's going to be a hot top of conversation this week, and maybe here in the next few hours are coming days if what the Titans decided to do with their head coach there. So stay with us on the Titans Squad Show.

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Yeah. We need the Titans to have some sort of confidence like that, too, man. Hey, man, I just read them. I just read them. It's what I do. It's good stuff. So we go to Brian Callahan now talking about somebody who needs some confidence as a head coach. The Titans are 0 and 4 this season.

Brian Callahan now on a 10-game losing streak as head coach of the Titans. Of course, the big question is, do they, don't they? But my question to you, B. Hop, is what will it change do, if anything? Will it change do anything? Because it's still the same roster. Do you think that the players don't like Brian Callahan? And I'm being kind of facetious when I ask a question because I think I'm an answer. But don't you think that they would do all that they could, not only for Brian Callahan, but for themselves, if they could?

Sure. Well, in other words, what or who is going to automatically make them play and perform and execute better than they are right now? Is it going to be somebody else to come in there and do that? And if that's the case, what was Brian Callahan doing or saying that we weren't a part of that made them just not function at full capacity for this dude? I took some notes from the post-game press conference. Players and coaches, this is what Brian said, players and coaches haven't found a way to win a game.

Couldn't possess the ball. Can't give up a second and 23. Not playing well and not fighting are two different things. Don't see effort issues. No one is coming to save you. I show up and do my job. We try to put ourselves in a position to win. Leading is hard right now.

All I know is what I see every day in practice. We had our best week of practice, and that's what makes this frustrating. And finally, we're not playing well enough. executing well enough to win what did he say in those statements that was false not one thing he was kind of being a master of the i even getting stating the obvious because all of those things are what contributed to the titans not winning today so at the end of the day what is the new face going to do he already gave up the play calling he said y'all want to blame me for not putting cammore in the best position well guess what bo you do it and what did beau produce today no points in

and 11 drives. 45 plays in total. Like you mentioned earlier, less than 200 yards of offense. So is someone that's outside of the facility right now going to come in and all of a sudden turn this thing around? You're still dealing with the same dudes that you're asking to call those plays, that you're calling those plays. So at the end of the day, it comes down to this giant mirror that needs to be in the locker room. And every single one of those dudes that's in it needs to look at themselves. and that's coaches and players alike, and you need to ask yourself, what are we doing to help

this team? Or what are we doing that's not helping this team? And when you come up with those answers, that's when things change. At the end of the day, no John Gruden, no name somebody out that it's on the street right now that's not a part of a team. It's going to come in here and all of a sudden turn around the Titans and make them a better team than what we've seen through the first four weeks. I see, wait, Hassani said John Gruden, as soon as you said John Gruden, yeah, that's hilarious. Hasani said, bring back Jeff Fisher. I love Jeff more than anybody else on this thing called.

So I, you know, I don't know that Jeff has the minerals, y'all might put Jeff in the ground dealing with all this frustrating stuff, you know? They might have a heart attack coming back and trying to make this team win. So I don't know. And, oh, there's another, cash mula. He said there's no aura in the locker room. That's a fact. Do these guys enjoy coming to work? Do these guys enjoy working together?

Is there chemistry in that locker room that still makes them want to fight? Like what we heard at the very beginning of the season, when Big Jeff and Cam Moore were monkeying around with each other and hanging out and goofing and fishing and all the stuff? Where are those moments? Where's the camaraderie? Where's the cohesion? It doesn't exist.

And I get it. When you're losing ball games, when the national, when the media is talking about calling for your head coach's job and all the things that are going right for this franchise, it's easy to then start saying, you know what, man, this sucks and I don't want to be a part of it. But somebody in there has to say, you know what, fellas, enough's enough.

We're not playing like a competent team. We're not playing like we're one of 31 franchises on the entire planet, which makes us unique, which makes us elite. not everybody can do what we're doing but we're acting like anybody can by having no confidence and no direction for what we're trying to accomplish you know this past week they seemed a little bit laxed um at least when talking to them throughout the locker room and at first i thought you know maybe they're thinking hey it's early there's still a lot of time to correct this stuff um but

now it might like hindsight's 2020 of course i i look at it as like a oh well here we go again we're in the same place as we were when we were last year when we had a losing streak to end the season. I mean, my thing with it, Bhop is, like I said, last show that we had. You talk about culture changers and aura changers in the locker room, as somebody said on the comments. Those have been all the rookies this season. And I think that's, though it's great for Mike Borgonzi, the guy picking them, that's also kind of a problem that they're the guys that are bringing along the vets not the other way around. Yeah, but at the end of the day, you would expect them to have those growing pains that rookies have.

As a matter of fact, when I started when I was a rookie, and I was not even close to the player that I was in, say, year 10, 11, or 12. So what we're starting to see is those players that are rookies that are put in that position, gaining the on-the-job experience that will lend to them being the dudes later on. You know what I'm saying? When we look back and see Borgonzi and Chad and Brian's draft picks and they're now like Peter Skoransky. Yeah. You know, now look, I think Peter might have been a, who was the guy that was here before Mike Borganzi?

I can't. Oh, Rand, Rand, yeah. He was a Rand pick. I think Peter might have been a ran pick. But either way, when you start to see those guys grow in those positions, and become better, it was going back to what they learned when they struggled that made them as good as they are. So we got a bunch of dudes that are in line to be studs. Now, the difference is, are we going to hold on to them, right, AJ Brown? Are we going to hold on to them? Name another player

that's now balling out someplace else when we actually, uh, well, the dolphins aren't doing that good right now because they've yet to win a game. Well, they could possibly beat the Jets, but they're We see what's your boy that was here last year that was that really that led the team in receiving and it's now down in in Miami. Can't remember his name. Oh, Nick Westbrook-A-Kina. Yeah, Westbrook-Kina. Here's a guy that was making plays enough, but we didn't keep him.

You know what I'm saying? Not to say that he was going to be the dude this year, but if you think about the strides that he made to improve this offense when he was here, I mean, I would imagine that he's just even better if he was that guy not being buried behind Jalen Waddle. and Tyreek Hill. You know what I'm saying? Maybe he still is that dude. Imagine him still being here with Calvin and maybe and Elek being a guy.

So once you do develop this talent, now it's about keeping it. It's assessing and finding the talent. It's developing the talent. And then it's keeping the talent. And right now that talent is developing because these young players are now put in roles that are making them this guy, you know? Can't say D.Hop assigned it because D. was already established before he got here.

You know what I mean? So, you know, we're talking about young guys that are not put in that position. But you know what? I'm glad, Son, you brought up DeHop. Because what did DeHop bring? DeHop brought levity. DeHop brought, hey, working with younger players and making sure he tried to instill the confidence in these guys.

Not only by going out there making plays when he was asked to do it, you know, when he could, but also just being, you know, somewhat of a lean-on guy, like, you know, the old dude, the locker room. Sometimes it's not his physical appearance that makes a difference. It's his mental appearance. Like, you know, what am I doing wrong, D.Hop? Let young receivers come to you and have him be the coach on the field in essence, you know? So they aren't missing players like that that do make a difference.

I want to go back to that the cashmoola comment of the no aura in the locker room, right? The no aura in the locker room comment there from him. And you mentioned Sneed earlier. You had to know this comments during the week we're going to backfire. I mean, come on. And of course it comes on that second and 30. you know, where he gives it the 37-yard bomb to Collins. And it's like, dude, what do you do it?

As soon as he said it in the locker room this, I'm like, dude, what are you doing? Your own three. The last thing you need, especially a Texan's offense that was struggling, is to give some sort of bulletin board stuff. And then, of course, one of the biggest defensive plays of the game, when you're supposed to get off the field, that's not supposed to happen. It happens. You know, it's, you know, they say excuses are like, right?

right and everybody's got one and that ultimately is what it sounds like but then again you really can't say anything unless you're doing everything you can to put this team in a position to win you know i mean so if you're struggling keep your mouth shut you know because you're different anybody else at this point but the one biggest difference is what the zero behind your name and it does put more pressure on a guy because they wouldn't compensate you like that if they didn't feel a certain way about you if they didn't feel that you were a guy that could lead this team if you were not the best at your position first off you wouldn't be on the field if that were the case let alone somebody spending some free agent dollars on you to get you here you know so it's just

you know sometimes and and i will say i'm not blaming the media but sometimes we fall into this trap of answering questions that the media asks us without having the smarts to understand exactly the direction because nobody has ever asked the question that there wasn't already an answer to it, they just want to hear you say it or not say it. This is the way it goes. And if you're not savvy enough to understand exactly how this game was played, then you fall into these traps. Paul tried to get Brian a day, didn't he?

Brian said, I know what you're trying to do, Paul. And I'm not answering that ish. You even cussed. You know it's bad at Brian Callahan's cussing because he's a nice guy. He doesn't usually have it. Somebody called for Buddy Ryan type stuff. I saw that in the comments, yeah. Buddy had us fighting every day in practice.

And I mean every day in practice. Because Buddy didn't even know your name as a player. You were 72, 72, butthole. Hey, 72, butthole. I promise you, I'm not even exaggerating, except he didn't say butthole. And he was the guy that actually pulled his defense off the field in the middle practice

because he said he'd seen enough. He called our offense the Chuck and Duck when we were the running shoe. So divisive is exactly what he was. But I don't know if you want that kind of personality, but you probably do want somebody that is just like, you know what? You know, I'm not saying they want a Brian Kelly. You know what I mean?

Brian was going off, you know, this weekend. You know, looking at his Bruins doing stuff or not doing stuff. You know what I'm saying? So while you want that balance, you know, a guy that can get in your face because what that does is it makes players more accountable. You know, because one, It's one thing to not want to disappoint a guy that you care a lot about that you want to see successful, right? But it's another thing when you know that if you don't do the right things, man, he's going to jerk or not in your chain.

You know what I'm saying? He's going to get in your face, and you just don't want that. You know what I mean? So you got to find that balance. You know who has that balance? Big Red in Kansas City. Andy Reed was getting in Travis Kelsey's, but wasn't it? Yes, yes.

But guess what? There's love there. he knows that's what it takes to jolt to give that guy a jump star he knows what it takes to much of those different guys even chest bump Travis you know but i wouldn't expect Travis to like two-hand jack big red to the ground because they have an appreciation of respect and a love for each other right but it is okay to express those things mike munchak was my position coach for i'll say three-fourths of my playing career and every now and then when i came to the sideline and things weren't going the way we

maybe they will get into it you know what I mean but I also had a respect and a love for him not only because he was my coach because he was my teammate as well right when I first came into the league but it's okay to have these moments where you need to come to an understanding about what your job is as a coach and about what your job is as a player and you need to make those two responsibilities work at the end of the day real quick for somebody in the chat AMT, Chris asked what Sneed said. It was during the week, Sneed said who when asked about Nico Collins. Actually, that was yours truly asked him, what do you think about Nico Collins?

He said who. And then after the game today, I don't know if people have seen it on Twitter. He said, well, yeah, Nico is a great player. So I guess he knows who he is now, that's for sure. You didn't know who Nico Collins was. He knew he was. Yeah, yeah. I like the how Tony Oden, you know, he's trying to pull out some excuse said,

hey, yeah, no, we like nameless, faceless opponents. That's kind of was. It wasn't egging him on. That's what he said earlier in this week, the cornerbacks coach for the Titans. Valiant effort to try to help your boy out, I guess. But anyways, make sure to keep your comments coming. We're going to take a few of your guys' question

in our final segment here and the other side of the break. We'll do our best to answer them for you because I'm sure you got a lot of questions in Titansland right now. Make sure to stick with us in the Titans Squad show when we return. All right. NFL season is here. FanDuel has an offer you don't want to miss. Right now, new customers can bet just $5 and get $300 in bonus bets if you win. That's right. Pick a bet, put down five bucks. And if it hits, you'll unlock $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. It makes watching football even more exciting when you've got a little something riding on the action. That's for sure. So what are you waiting for? Visit fanduel.com to download the FanDuel app today and get started. All right. So we are going to be taking some viewer comments and concerns. Comments and concerns. Yeah, I should say that as much. Real quick, before we do that, Bhop, this section is, or this segment, I should say, is called two-tone blues. So if there is one thing right now with the Titans that's giving you the two-tone blues, more than anything, what is it? The sigh says it all.

I watch the game from the snap, okay? That means I watched the game like I used to watch film, you know, during the week. And that's the offensive line. It's not all their fault, but I wanted better tackle play. If you're going to spend the kind of money that you spend on 75, let's make it worth the money. J.C. is hurt. I thought that, you know, he was having a good beginning to the season. But now he's missed a couple of games straight.

And they've got Udo. I can't even pronounce his first name. Yeah, Ali Udo, yes. And you got Ali that's in there, put it this way. There are reasons why you have tight ends blocking on that right side. Yeah. Got to give him help. Yeah.

Because how much more expansive could this offense be if you didn't have to protect him on that right side? So I want more from that because that's one less option that Cam has to throw to. if you think about it if you got to have this dude in protecting and then sure get out into the flat i mean hell he could have been running a skinny post or something that took the defense with him he could be running something slaughtered just sit down on the dig route and come back to the ball and have can be an i can't use him as an option but he's in protection now he's the six because it takes six dudes to block up front so to me that's where it's always going to start is that the only answer of course

not because if we saw receivers that were just blowing the top off of defenses or getting themselves away from the defenders and making himself available for Cam when he's ready to get rid of the football, then that wouldn't be an option. Cam's got to find them. They've got to get themselves open, and he needs time to be able to deliver an accurate ball. So it all is a combination of things, but I want an offensive line, bro, that just takes over. I want an offensive line that just there's no question. I want you to lean and grind that defense into the ground. So in that way, my playbook is so much more expensive. I can. do so many different things because everything is working.

I want the ground game to win first. And that might sound a lot, boring football, two yards in a cloud of dust. But you know it wins football games? Two yards in a cloud of dust. Because if you convert first downs, if you're running on this defense, then that means that most of the things that you're starting to look at in your playbook are going to work. It's just the way it works.

You know what I'm saying? Because do you think that, do you think that Cam Ward is more likely to complete a third in two or a third and 12? yeah and that's been the issue all year yeah a massive difference in the two and it's whether it's been from sacks and a loss of downs or penalties that then negate momentum and then create a longer distance to convert now it's an issue but if i'm dealing with stuff that all of a sudden through the first two downs gets me something that's manageable in the third and i'm able to stay on in other words here here's the thing if the titans won the time of possession i guarantee you they win a game

think about that yeah if you win time of possession how do you win time of possession by staying on the field moving the chains by running more plays offensively than your opponent and if i'm doing that you're less likely to lose because you're winning all of these situations you're wearing down the defense until the titans win time of possession and run more plays than their opposition we're going to continue to see them struggle not to mention the defense stay fresher unlike today would it seem like by the end that they were... On the thousand percent. Yeah.

I'm glad you brought that up because think about this. If we're putting points on that need to be answered by the other offense, that means that they're in passing situations that they're trying to catch up in the ball game, right? And that allows the defense to pin its ears back. This team could be way more effective applying pressure if they weren't getting gashed because everything seems to be working against us and working against an offense that, like, today, held the ball for 20 more minutes. They held them off for 38 minutes, bro.

38 minutes and ran 65 plays. That's the difference. 38 minutes to just under 22 for the Titans. Now, AMT, Chrissy, this isn't exactly a question, but it will lead into a question. Cameron Ward is a rookie doing with what he can, what he got, no elite receiver, horrible all-line and running for his life with a new system.

He's already had two systems, which I will say it's not two new systems. It is just two new play callers. It is the same Brian Callahan system. But if you're the Titans, this is your most important asset that you have. And the growth of Cam Ward, the development of Cam Ward, that was priority number one this season. And whatever you do with the head coach, that is going to hit his development and what you do with his development is going to be part of that determination. Now, if you are Cam Ward Bihop, this is the question here, how do you develop with seemingly so many issues kind of around you?

And I'm not saying Cam Ward is exempt from all of the. is he could play better too but how do you develop the way that you want him a rookie qb to develop when there are so many issues well if you expect cam ward to look like steve young in his first year you're going to be sadly disappointed it's just a reality so i would want to lessen some of the responsibility for me running this offense and spread the love you know i mean get tony and julius and even chig because he's like a giant fullback, you know what I'm saying? Get them involved in balancing out this offense. Take some of the pressure off of yourself. And you also be an extension of the run game

itself. You know what I mean? So, but I will say this, some of the best offenses that we've seen as of lately have really invested in winning the trenches. So I would suspect that while we're talking about getting the Jackson Smith and jigbuzz and, you know, some of these other, you know, highly touted wide receivers and such. Sorry. You need to get more involved with getting big bodies up front that you can, that you can draft and develop, okay? Think of where they went with Peter.

Imagine if we got four more Peters. Now you're talking about Peter being mentioned as one of the best offensive line, best offensive linemen in the game. He's been great this season. Right. And this is for a team that has yet to win a game. What if we have four more of them? those dudes or even three more of those guys.

You know what I mean? As a matter of fact, Lord Cushingberry wasn't bad. Kevin Zylis is not bad. He had a penalty today, but they only had like a couple of penalties that were actually accepted. So I'm not, you know, go to poo-poo the veterans. But when you'd have no death and when you've got just a couple of guys that you've actually spent draft equity on, at the end of the day, what are you developing? Guys that are available, good teams don't give up good offensive linemen. Look at your boy Smith, Trey Smith from Kansas City. They didn't let his butt out the door, did they?

They said, no, we're going to pay him to stay here. And we see the teams that are constantly in the playoff situation. They keep the core unit of guys up front. If you're a good offensive alignment, there's no way they're going to let you out of the building. And that's exactly what your point, a couple shows ago that you made about the Dan Moore thing. If they really wanted him, they'd keep him. Well, put this way, yeah, right. The Steelers, would he be starting right now for the Steelers, wouldn't he?

But the Steelers said, yeah, we're okay. you can go ahead and have an Aaron Rogers won the first international game in Ireland today with seemingly maybe a better offensive line. So if a dude is available, he's available for a reason unless he's playing so well that he's just super expensive and there's just no way in the world that we're going to put the bill for this cat because we just can't afford it. There's other things that we need to be able to address other than that. But you got to win up front because that's where football is won and lost. Football is not one on deep routes. Football is not one on quarterback play. Quarter football is one in the trenches, defensively and offensively. If you think

I'm lying, look what happened to the Chiefs last year when Patrick Mahomes was running for his life. And you can probably say that Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback in today's game, right? Did he look like that against the Eagles front four? That never blitzed. That just rushed four. No, he didn't. So it's about winning up front. That's the biggest difference. And as a matter of fact, what was the Kansas City Chief's biggest liability last year in their offense, especially when it came to the playoffs, O line. So they got beating the Super Bowl. Yeah. Exactly. So it just goes to show you. If you don't win up front, you barely have a chance to win. You mentioned establishing the run game with Tony. One bit, I guess, of positive news is that Tajay Spearser, the high ankle sprain and the injured reserve. He was put on IR. He is eligible to return by week five. which would be next week against the Arizona Cardinals. So we'll see if the Titans can do it then.

Hassani will end on this one. He just says, thank you, Bhop, providing the therapy for Titans fans that they needed during this time at 0.4. Of course, we might be in for a busy week, depending what happens with the head coach. The Titans fall to 0 and 4 following the 26 to nothing loss to the Texans. They'll look to regroup this week with that matchup against the Cardinals. next Sunday, just after a 3 o'clock kick central time.

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