This is the OTP four D presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. They've been serving members and protecting their health for seventy five years. Learned about our Tennessee roots at FBHP dot com with Amy Wells and Rehett Brian. I'm Mike Keith. Let's jump right in first down. Your play that turned the game on Sunday as the Titans fell to Jacksonville thirty six to twenty two. Mike Keith, it was in the second quarter. It's Derrick Henry's fumble on
that sixteen yard run. It was an incredibly physical run. He was really throwing his shoulder into the Jags to try and get some extra yarded he was really fighting for whatever he could get and he just loses track of football. He fumbled it. I mean, that's all you can say about. It's recovered by the Jags. It set the Jags up for a score right before half. It stops a ton of momentum that the Titans had, and frankly, the Titans were never really able to recover from that.
For me, I'm going a little later. I'm going fifteen seconds left in the first half. It's second and one and Trevor Lawrence throws to Zay Jones. It was originally to be called incomplete, it went under review. It would end up being a really nice catch by Zay Jones as his right foot was about a quarter of an inch from the white stripe that would denote being out of bound. So it is a touchdown. They go up twenty to fourteen. They get the ball back first and
the second half score right there. They never look back to your point, Amy, I'm going back even further. First drive, Titans go right down the field, score a touchdown. Ten play, seventy six yards, five fifty one off the clock. Jacksonville gets the ball back Trevor Lawrence incomplete pass, nice play by Kevin Byard et n with a five yard run. And then Trevor Lawrence a pass to Ingram broken up by Jeffrey Simmons. He hit his arm and the pass flutters to the ground. Three and out. The Titans get
the football back. So here comes mine and on third and six, Ryan Tannehill sacked by Trevan Walker, fumble and it's recovered by Duan Smoot and then Jacksonville goes in and scores a touchdown. So not only do you lose all the momentum of a great offensive series and a great defensive series. You give the ball back to the Jaguars at their twenty yard line, in their personal house of horrors where everything has started wrong, and then you don't get off the field at the point that that
game became seven to seven. The magic wore off whatever Tennessee had in the series and in the recent wind streak at Nissan Stadium. Inexcusable to give up a strip sack in that situation on probably a lot of people's parts. I don't know everything that goes with the play, but the fact of the matter is that was seven free point two of the other turnovers they had to drive a long way to get Now you touched on at Amy.
They wasted a chance. The play you're talking about should have had you go in at the half up twenty one thirteen, and the play you talk about red instead put the Jags up twenty to fourteen. It was a fourteen point swing. I think there were several key moments in this thing. If the Titans are up at halftime, totally different game. You walk in and you say, m two turnovers, We've overcome them. It's our day. We're doing
our thing. Instead, everything was magnified, and then Jacksonville goes out, has two great drives in the third quarter, you get six plays of offense, six plays in the third quarter. You're right, every mistake is then magnified because there's nothing the Titans can do at that point. You are pigeonholed. There's one way that you can behave going forward because you're playing catchup, and all mistakes that happen either before or after those moments, all of a sudden, are a
much bigger issue. All right, second down, Red Brian's going first. It is the stat that grabbed your attention, Derrick Henry ninety six yards in the first quarter, But the stat that really stands out as one hundred and twenty one yards to end the game. That tells me a lot happened from that first quarter on and to your point on the broadcast yesterday, second and third quarters ended up being disastrous. Well, and I'll take it a step further.
My stat is six carries and that is six carries for Derrick Henry after the first quarter, eleven carries in the first quarter, six afterwards. Why A you didn't have the football that much and b you fell behind when you got behind twenty seven to fourteen, and especially when you got behind thirty three to fourteen, it's over. You're having to go into a set that you're just not used to running at first. And it's like I said, you grabbed that lead even at fourteen seven. You're going
to be able to keep doing your thing. If you go into the second half twenty one thirteen, You're going to be able to keep doing your thing. You're going to be able to stay with it. They were pushing them. There were some holes there. Yes, there were some ones in twos and I get that, but there were holes at different times. For the first time in weeks since Kansas City, the Titans pushed the other team some in the run game. They needed more than six carries from
Derrick Henry in the last three quarters. Mine is back to what I always go with. It's penalties. The Titans have five penalties for fifty yards. They all came in the second half. I think that is not a coincidence that they all came in the second half. As the wheels were coming off for this Titans team, as things were getting more out of hand, you started to see those mental mistakes. You started to see some things break
down a little bit. You cannot cannot, cannot do that, and it's frustrating to see those mistakes, as we've been saying, continue to be magnified by something that. I mean, five penalties in a game overall is not that big of a deal when so many other things are going wrong. That's something you can control, and the Titans just didn't. Okay.
So I worked for a guy by in the name of John Ward at the University of Tennessee for twelve years, and John Ward used to look at the stats in football and basketball, and if he saw a broad difference in numbers, he would always tell you that he would expect it to even up. In a big hurry. At halftime, Jacksonville had four penalties for thirty yards. The Titans had not been penalized. They did have one that was that
was picked up because Jacksonville scored a touchdown. But it ends up when the game is completed, it ends up nine for seventy and five for fifty. So in the second half, Jacksonville five for forty, Tennessee five for fifty. Do you believe John Ward's logic? Yes, he did it long enough well. His contention was the officials always had an idea that they needed. I don't know, Mike, I'll give you one honorable mention and on stat that stood out, and this is telling about the special team's phase of
this and especially in the return game. Did you look at that the total return yardage not including kickoffs four yards? Yes, yeah, the Titans just didn't didn't get anything done in that area whatsoever. It must though. They didn't let Agnew get started, so it was outside of the one he returned for a touchdown that was called back from a statistical standpoint, an official standpoint, they didn't let him get started. But
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down area where the Titans must improve from yesterday. Segment may take a minute. Yeah, there are many many areas where I think some improvement could be good. Minus turnovers. You gotta win the turnover battle if you're going to win a ball game, all right, let me stop you right there. Though. That was so wacky because this team only had eleven turnovers in twelve games. Yeah, they don't do that. They did they just well they hit you right, they didn't, but they I mean, that just doesn't happen.
They had the turnovers in the Buffalo game. But the thing about those turnovers is they occurred when the game was already like twenty four to seven. I mean, everybody was talking about, well the turnovers beat him. No it didn't. I mean they were already way behind when they started turning the ball over. This was so out of character for a vayball team. I mean it just doesn't happen. And they are in a takeaway drought right now. Well, and that's the bigger issue in my mind. I mean,
things are going to happen. They just are, especially when you get in a position where you got to throw the ball more. And yes, we know that you're going to turn the ball over. Sometimes you gotta gotta gotta create some of these turnovers. You've got to get the ball out in some way, punch it out, kick it out, do whatever you need to do, take it away, intercept it. I don't care, but the defense needs to start getting some of these takeaways. Well, and some of it it's
just breaks. Yeah, I mean because Rhett, when Simmons hit Lawrence's arm on the one the one pass, the third offensive play of the game for Jacksonville, that ball's got to go to a titan, right, I mean, it just it just happened. With all the tip drills we see them do every day, average science. Yesterday was Murphy's law. Right, whenever you believe in you know, I mean, you're football wise. It's just it's got a land right in a guy's arms running the other way, right, and instead it just
goes over everybody's head. And I mean it's great because it was third down and they had to punt. But I remember thinking when I saw how he affected that throw, Jeff did such a good job. Just like the touchdown at the end of the first half. If Roger McCrary gets two more inches off the ground, he picks that pass. How about Rashad Weaver, Yes, he dropped a sure pick. Yeah, and he knows it right. It was just one of those days. But it can't continue on. It needs to improve.
Ret For me, I have something they need to improve on that would take care of a lot of these issues we're talking about, and that is they have to mike win the line of scrimmage. Four sacks giving up given up by this offensive line. That's ten in the last two games. If you shore that up, you can take away some of those turnover problems and be more efficient in the offensive line and for the offense as a whole. And then by the same token, effect the
line of scrimmage on defense. And you had no force turnovers yesterday, and to Drought you just mentioned, you start getting some things like that, you start getting back in the win column. Line of scrimmage has to be taken care of. I'm gonna go with something very specific. I'm gonna say the defense has to bat down more passes. Just to what we're talking about, balls coming out fast. You know, that's what was happening yesterday. Now he did, he did drop and take some shots, and the Titan's
got no pressure on Lawrence when he did that. But in those balls that are coming out quickly, and we're going to see it again from Justin Herbert. I mean Justin Herberts through fifty one passes in the game last night, completed thirty nine for over three hundred and fifty yards. So his yards per attempt was not fabulous. Ball's coming out and so you've got to get in lanes and knock it down. You may not be able to get
to the quarterback on those plays, I get it. You may not be able to pick off passes in those situations. Maybe you can, that would be great, but you've got to bat the ball, whether you're in the defensive line, whether you're a linebacker a defensive back. You know, Bayard made a few good plays on Ingram. I think he had three pass breakups. They've got to get their hands
on balls all over and knock them down. At some point one of them has to bounce up in the air, fly up in the air, hang up in the air, whatever, and be intercepted. It has to happen, Yeah, I mean you would hope, you would think, but I don't know. It feels like it might never happen again. Well it will. Fourth down, You're player of the game, Ritt Bryan for the second straight OTP four D. It's check a conquo. He accounted for eight of the twenty two points in
this six catches for forty five yards. The young man is emerging right before our very eyes. The two point play was incredible. I mean he you know, he just said, look, I had to secure the ball, and so he secured it to the front of his helmet and rolled in for the two. Can my player of the game be Mike Vrabel? Really? Can he? I'd be interested to know why. I was impressed by him both yesterday and also today
in his press conference. But during the game, the level at which he communicated with his team when it was an infuriating game, I'm sure, especially for the person who put together what the keys to this game are and was watching his team just struggle to perform the way that he needed it to the way that he was talking to his players, and I see him every week during the game, the way that he was coaching, the way that he was breaking things down for He wasn't
losing his mind, he wasn't losing his cool, He wasn't overly frustrated or angry. He was very sensible, He was very concise in the way that he was talking to people. He did a good job of giving notes and then getting out of their way and letting them work. He just I was so impressed by the way that he was moving about the sidelines and the way that he
was interacting with his players. And then he addressed it today in his press conference about how there are a lot of different ways that you can get your message across to players, and he was asked about whether he yells and gets frustrated and kind of takes out his frustrations on his team, and he was talking about how he is really intentional with the way that he delivers a message and that there's a lot of different ways
to do it. And as soon as he said that, I remembered him on the sidelines yesterday, and what I was noticing was that intentionality was that commitment to not losing his mind and not being overly frustrated even when bad things happen. He's walking up and down the sidelines telling guys to burn it and keep going. I was just so impressed by that, because you know that he had to be just losing his mind like the rest of us. You know, that's a good point. He's my
player of the game. And I think it's interesting because that mindset, even though virtually everything had gone wrong for his team, that mindset is what allowed them to have first intent at the Jacksonville twenty with two forty one to go. That didn't work out. But let's just say a Jacksonville defensive back falls down, Racy McMath catches the touchdown. Then all of a sudden, it's thirty six twenty nine
with too something to go. You maybe don't even have to on sidekick, and you're in a position there where or you do and you get it. You're in a position there where you may not lose this game. My point is this, by acting how he acts, not blowing a gasket, I think that's what gave the team a chance to still be competing at the end. Now he can blow a gasket. Oh sure, I have witnessed it.
For anyone listening to the otp Ot people, I promise you if you think that it's all you know, playing the still string guitar and everybody hugging and it's all wonderful all the time, No it's not. He can get with it when he needs to, but he picks the right situation because he knows, having been a player, that when you're down, the last thing you need to do is have somebody absolutely wear you out. That's gonna put
him in the tank and then you have no chance. Now, if there's going to be wearing out, it'll be in the meeting room, it'll be on the practice field, but it won't be forever and ever. He doesn't do it every single day. He picks his spots. He picks his spots. And that's why the Titans never feel like they are completely out of a ball game. Never are they in a position where you're like, well, nope, it's done, shows over,
we're done. It just doesn't happen because this team continues to play, and if for no other reason, they continue to play for him, because I think there is a respect and an understanding and I think the lot of that is the way that he interacts with his team even in times of stress and in times of just what have to be incredible frustration. My player the game is Austin Hooper. Five catches sixty eight yards in the last six weeks. He might be the Titans most valuable
player over that period of time. He's now second on the team in receptions with thirty two. He's up to three hundred forty seven yards, receiving nearly eleven yards a catch. He scored two touchdowns on the year. But Austin Hooper is a guy they can continually rely on to pick up first downs, to make a guy miss, He's making some plays. The biggest problem for the Tennessee Titans at this moment in time is they don't have enough guys
making plays. They just don't. And Hooper is making plays when he gets his hands on the ball, the twenty four yard catch and run, those sorts of things that they have guys that can make plays, They're just not making enough of them right now. And we talk about the luck part of this having to do with maybe a ball bounces to you one time or something happens, but at some point, somebody just has to win, right and somebody just has to win. Nick Westbrook a kine
in the end zone one. That's what they needed to have happened, because I don't know they would get the ball in otherwise. I mean, they were so snake bit on the day. It was like, you're you're sitting there watching this Rett and you're thinking, in your mind, they're not going to get this in. This is how bad this day is. Mike Rabel talks about you got to win,
and he means those one on one battles too. You know, I felt bad for Racy McMath because here he has not been on a football field since late August, and he's clearly knocking the rust off and I wanted so badly for him to catch that touchdown so he can kind of explode the rust off, not just knock it
off right well, and he'll get more chances. I mean, he absolutely will, because he's worked his rear end off to get back to the point where he could actually get out there and make some plays if they get Burks back. And I respect how Rabel is handling the Burks thing with a concussion because people are asking him, is there a chance he can practice to their chance. He doesn't want to say anything because he in no way wants it to be interpreted that he's sending a
player a message or an expectation about a head injury. Right,
I totally respect that. Now, maybe private least thinking yeah, he can get back out through this week, but publicly, he doesn't want to say anything because he wants the player to feel like he can go at his own pace with a head injury, that he can tell the truth and that he can feel better, and that he can be ready to go at his own moment, just like today announcing that Dontrelle Hilliard is already out this week, so people won't be asking all week about Dontrelle Hilliard,
and it's people's jobs to ask. I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is Vrabel takes that off the player immediately, which if my son's playing for him, that's what I want. Yeah, because the head thing is nothing to play with. Nope. Now, if Burkes can go and you have Woods, Westbrook, Akeena Burkes, Racy McMath, Chris Conley's kind of an interesting guy because he's doing some better things. And then if you get Phillips back, and I just keep holding out hope that
maybe Kyle Phillips can rejoin. Could you actually have a full compliment of receivers and don't forget Chicken Hooper? Well that's it. I mean, the tight end position has improved dramatically um and especially in recent weeks. But oh gosh, could this be? I don't know. I'm not I'm not knocking on I'm not knocking on things or holding my breath or speaking in to exist. I burned my lucky socks last night. Well that's probably good, and they did
not work. They're going, wow, Yeah, we need something new that's lucky. I'm looking for anything, just Rubret's head. Okay, I hope that works. I tried listening to Casey in the Sunshine Band before I came into the stadium yesterday. Oh you went back because Rhett who played at halftime of the nineteen ninety nine AFC Championship game in Jacksonville Casey and the Sunshine Band. I was looking for Carmen. Now Casey, he's done. Harry Casey. Harry Casey, Yeah, all right, Harry.
Time has not been kind to Harry Kings, but he was kind of us one Sunday in Jackson in early two thousand. January twenty third, I'm superstitious. I'm looking for anything right now. I love it. I love that you're superstitious. It makes the less of the rest of us seem a little less crazy. Yeah, it's very You know what, we need a gift, Mike Keith, Amy Fox New Stevie Wondersocks.
Since he's superstitious, that's pretty good. By the way, I want to let you know that if you have a question for us on the OTP, we would love to hear from you. Amy Wells. Where would they send such a question an otp Q. If you will otp q's head on over to Tennessee Titans dot com slash otp Q. You can also send them to me via the Twitter machine at Titans. Amy, I'll get them there too. And it's a m I E. Sure is like the pure
Prairie League song. That's a song I was named after much There it is there, it is so that does it for this edition of the OTP And it is presented by your great friends at Farm Bureau Health Plans. Visit them at FBHP dot com for Reet Bryan and Amy Wells. Mike Keith reminds you this has been the OTP four d