 Kicks it high and short Gonna be fielded by Lorenzo Neal at the 25. Yeah gives it back to live check He throws it across the field to dice. He's got something on this edition of Titans all-access. He's got something He's got it. We've got one question for you Where were you Plus Titans quarterback Will Leavis reflects on his rookie season all of that and plenty more coming up as Titans all-access starts right now But there he is the newly bulldozer Derrick Henry Will Leavis what a big time throw Welcome to the bed MGM studio in the first Titans all-access of 2024 happy new year. I'm Mike Keith We're going to put our best foot forward in the new year with a very special story as an organization the Tennessee Titans aimed to win serve and entertain This week's listen up with Duncan focuses on the serve as the Titans recently partnered with make-a-wish middle Tennessee To grant Mason's wish Mason is a six-year-old from Nashville who was diagnosed with osteo sarcoma last April Before undergoing chemotherapy Mason had to have emergency heart surgery Mason wrapped up his sixth and final round of chemo on January 4th his wish To spend a couple of days with his favorite football team The Tennessee Titans So today we're granting the first part of Mason's wish and he really wanted a Titans experience and that's what we think of an effort today He knows exactly like the 23rd 24th or his Titans days I tried to get him to do like Disney or something else, but I was like no this is like Mason's Disney World This is like all he cares about Oh You know me him and his family and you know just sit down to have a conversation with him I think the biggest one him beat me like I think it was like 40 something to eat and Madden so you know He's pretty good at mad Yeah Still smile on these kids face especially like a kid like Mason who dealing with you know something way bigger than you know The problem that sometimes I could have and especially with the game football So I've just been able to be around him and see that smile on his face means a lot to me So every kid who goes through what Mason's going through finds a different reason to fight and a different reason to be inspired And for Mason, it's the Titans Wait Later in the show a special Nissan insider with quarterback will let us but when Titans all-access returns Dave McGinnis joins me to hit the way back machine for a very special beneath the surface powered by Microsoft Welcome back to the vet MGM studio and Titans all-access I'm joined by Titans radio's coach Dave McGinnis who's going to take us beneath the surface powered by Microsoft and With the 24th anniversary of the music City Miracle coming up on Monday Coach Mack is going to break down the most famous play in franchise history. Are you ready? I'm ready 24 years ago Wow hard to believe it really is the quality of this film is amazing No wonder my eyes are bad now 31 years watching tape like this in the National Football League before they ever got it fixed the deception of this is to get Everybody running this way to try to get all of these people here moving towards what it looks like is going to be a reverse Bruh, I joined Jeff Fisher staff a year after this Practice this every Saturday and about half the guys paid attention to it It's right at the end of practice as you watch this I want you to just watch how this deception works perfectly before we get to the play I want everybody to look right here. This is Byron Boston. Yes, David Boston's dad David Boston played for me was a great player in the league Byron Boston was the line judge See his hand right here sticking backwards This is the signal to say that this was a this was a lateral Byron Boston said he immediately saw that the thing Was a lateral and so here is the evidence right here for any Buffalo Bills fan watching. Okay, Mike Let's go and here's Kevin and there's and there's dice when your mark gets set go They set up a perfect wall the wall that they set up is abs this worked absolutely perfect Buffalo was completely confused what a throw by a white check. Well, what do you know? I mean look at this. It was so Frankie is Running to his right stops and throws back to the left. Here's the football So and he's wearing the big pads any George pad. He's played 59 minutes and 44 seconds He's tired and he throws this pass across the field and look how accurate that is Dyson right there Is able to step back and make the catch and look everybody from Buffalo's here and look at this Look at this perfect wall that the Titans have set up this right here is one of the most iconic plays in the National football league and here is Steve Christie and He's gonna be the only man left to try to make the tackle watch Terry killings get on here boom Watch him hit him again boom And Kevin Dyson to the house. That's a thing of beauty. Where were you? No, yeah, exactly when the music City Miracle play happened 24 years ago I was coaching Arizona the year before we had just beaten Dallas in the playoffs for the first Cardinal victory in a Playoff game in 51 years. I just built a big house all the house full of people because I knew everybody on each coaching staff new way new fish knew everybody and I Know if these people went nuts in the stands my living room was torn up Everybody was losing their mind everybody remembers where they were it's outstanding coach Mack Thank you coming up later on this edition of Titans all-access Will Leviss joins me to discuss his rookie season, but up next our final Titans at 25 presented by Bud Light And we ask Where were you during the music City Miracle? Actually someone special asks where were you? That's next on Titans all-access Kevin Dyson is deep with Ike bird Do the Titans have a miracle left in them in what has been a magical season to this point? Christie kicks it high and short Gonna be fielded by Lorenzo Neal at the 25. Yeah, give it you sit back to why check he throws it across the field to Dyson You know where I was during the music City Miracle got something. He's got something. He's got it. He's got it He's got it. My question is section 139 Roku Seats one through six. I was at a house with a bunch of my high school friends and we were watching the game We're actually like playing football outside in his yard. I was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We had a game against LSU. I was a camera man at the time on the field I was on my way to Bean station at Bean station's a little community over in East Tennessee But my wife and I were headed back to East Tennessee to see her mom and dad I had the best seat in the house between Mike Keith and Pat Ryan who was the color analyst at the time I watched the game laying in bed and the miracle happened and I knew that we had Monday night nitro and Buffalo I was at the 35 so I was sitting in the upper deck in the 300 level and I was walking down the long winding road of a ramp We had done a pre-game show and my general manager was kind enough to let us come watch the game in the suite I'm preparing for the post-game show making sure the commercials are ready making sure we're ready. I hear Mike Explained that Frank Whitecheck has gotten the pass and he's lateral in it and Then you're mesmerized. He catches the ball. I'm like our Neil Fair catch it. He didn't he catch it. I'm like, oh god. No, so he starts to Run a little bit and and I'm like just get down on the knee No, let that's let's get the ball back in nine chance so we can work his magic Then he has the Frank Whitecheck and Frank. Okay. I love Frank, but Frank is not going out running the body What is what are we doing here? Seriously and then all of a sudden I see him throw a nice beautiful lateral the Kevin Dyson and I see a wall of blue jerseys and Not one buffalo bill in sight and I'm like, oh That's interesting. Wow. This thing is really it's gonna happen. I said Steve watch this So we're gonna score three splits to the end zone Kevin's run down the sideline I'll be right behind them running screaming jumping up and down this pandemonium Oh the staining exploded going down the sideline. He looked at me. He's like We did it. It was awesome. It was one of my favorite memories of all time. It was the best feeling ever I'd agree with that Some people left the stadium and missed the Music City miracle. Did you know that the owner may have not have seen it? Our suite was next to a big double suite that big double suite belong to Bud Adams the owner of the Tennessee Titans with 16 seconds left Buffalo fix the field The stadiums suck right here Everybody in our suite everybody in the other suite or Putting stuff down and getting ready and they're heading to the doors and people are leaving and then they make the kick And it's a short kick Kevin Dyson wide open catches it for 75 yards and the place explodes it Everybody comes running back into the suites the last person in Mr. Bud Adams not in there when it happened Yeah, that's a good story here Pat say he's got something he's got something He's got something. I think he's got something and then Yolanda and I are just going crazy in the car So I can see the jumble trying to kick off and the fans are booing and yelling and they stopped And I was like okay, and then I spin around and I picked up Dyson about the 50 yard line There was a silence, you know when they reviewed the play Everybody got real quiet 70,000 people and then I remember I turned around real quick I knew that the referee is gonna say it was either good or bad, and he said it was good I got knocked down in the aisle so I'm on the concrete. It's wet. It's cold my knuckles were bleeding My clothes were stained and all of that just added to the moment and the feel Not only is the music City of America one of the most famous plays in NFL history It also changed this franchise this history and even the city's history for anybody who thought pro football might not work in The Mid-South or in the middle of Tennessee area it proved them wrong. I remember watching Strangers just hugging each other like people crying weeping You know looking out at the stands seeing the fans hugging and celebrating and some of them in tears No, I think it really put The Titans on the map music City miracle you really can't put a price tag on what that meant to the organization What it meant the to the fandom here in the area? I will be remembered as part of the music City of Miracle as long as football is played, but the play it isn't mine It's yours. It belongs to all of us Welcome back to the bet MGM studio and Titans all-access Very pleased to be joined for this week's Nissan insider Titans quarterback Will Levis will thanks for being on the show. Thanks for having me has any part of The entire last eight months including the football season gone as you would have expected it to Back when you got drafted. No, I mean I tried not to have any expectations You know, I had a mindset of not letting the circumstances and you know whether personal or a team or everything affected how I came into the building and worked every day, so You know, there's always gonna be those things that you can never expect and there's been a lot of those things happened But I feel like I've kept the right mindset to just be able to roll through them 61 Overall that Atlanta game couldn't have gone much better. Have you have you ever had a first start at any other level that went that well? No, I mean that was one of those games were just like all things were clicking and Everything in the game plan, you know the shots that we were dialing it up They were there and the balls were there and the guys were in the right spots And they made the catches and when all that clicks it's a beautiful thing Well, it was obvious that you checked yourself right after that game You knew every game wouldn't go that smoothly and you handled it that way What in your training led you to know to do that or did somebody else? Help to kind of make sure that you did that. Yeah, I think that there's been a lot of people throughout my Athletic career that have helped me just with my mental and with my emotions, especially I think when I was a younger more immature Player I would let bad things affect me. I'd let good things affect me You got to be able to keep in that neutral space that we talked about I mean, I gotta thank coaches here in this building for being those guys for me right now and coach London Of course Kelly and that we meet with every day in the quarterback room They do a good job on the sideline as well Just making sure that I'm getting back to neutral you talked about that in training camp So that you were working with mental coaching that you after practice You would do some things to let the bad plays go because that was something you wanted to get better about leading into your pro career Explain that and talk about what you've done with that mental sort of part of the game and the coaching and the training you get I think it's just reaffirming with myself that you know bad things are gonna happen and You turn on any game in the NFL bad things are gonna happen You know best the best team in the league is gonna have a three and out the best offense in the league is it's gonna have Turnovers and once you accept that and realize that it's just more about how you respond and how you're able to overcome those things You stop fretting about it. So the more ball I watched the more I understand the game the more I realized how small a mistake is in the scheme of things And the more I just mature I think I'm able to be able to handle those situations and move on from them better We knew here in Ascension St. Thomas Sports Park Even if we're not involved in the draft room and things like this We had a pretty big feeling that they would try to take you because the Titans really really liked Will Leavis What do you think they got right about you? That allowed them to push forward in that way make the connection and then put you in a position to be successful as a rookie I think they just saw my competitiveness my drive My spirit, but I'm glad that the the Titans were able to see kind of my true true me The tape speaks speaks for itself. Obviously they liked what I do as a player at the bare minimum Obviously, but I think they just saw through and realized who I am as a person They really got to know you. Is that fair to say for sure? Yeah, I mean they they checked all the boxes. They visited with me more than anybody else I had as many meetings with them As a lot of other teams combined, you know, so I knew that they were interested and they wanted to you know poke and prod and understand me at a deep level, which I thought was really great because They you know were taking me seriously and they wanted me to potentially be here as a guy that could lead this team They know coming who cares let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Good drive. Good drive We go get in there shy right quick. We don't get it tightened up. Let's go. Just keep one What would will levis of today? Tell the will levis of draft night when you're sitting in that green room That you wish That will levis would have known that night What would help him that he's not getting picked in the first round At least I could have would have saved me some stress some time. Maybe no, but um, that's good No, I would tell him to you know, just trust the process and that this is what was meant for you And despite it kind of feeling as screwy as it did when it when it did all happen that you know A couple months from now. You're gonna realize that you're in the right spot and That the people you're here because the people want you and they love you and um, that would have kept me out of use I definitely thought I had a Little bit jacked up mindset when it was first happened at that time but I was able to flip it there pretty soon after but um Could have gone or could have at least um gained a few hours of sleep that night if I was able to get my mind A little more clear. Well, we're thrilled. You're here. It is so much fun watching you play and titan's fans all over excited about the rest of this year We're not giving up anything but certainly excited about what's to come. We'll love us. Thank you so much for the time All right When titan's all access continues We've got a lot more as we get you ready for this weekend's game with jacksonville. Stay with us Hey titan's fans. It's matt more former tennessee titan jevon curse here. This is coach mack What's up everybody former titan keys bullock here former tennessee titan kevin dyson be sure to watch taste of tennessee The place the food the folks. This is a taste of tennessee. This is absolutely delicious exclusively on lg channels and lg oled tv's The decision of the week is presented by hues and colman The titan's decision to trade for kicker nick folk has proven to be an excellent decision The 39 year old folk has made 29 of 30 field goals including five from over 50 yards And folk recording a surprising 32 touch backs on kickoffs reliable steady and consistent Nick folk has been all of these things for the tennessee titans in 2023 That's why trading for folk was a great decision the decision of the week presented by hues and colman It's time for my three seat geek keys Let it rip jacksonville needs this game to win the a of c south the jaguars could be tight This is it for the titans 2023 season tennessee has zero reason to be tight let it rip and see what happens what why not Make the big plays is key number two For the last three weeks the titans have had big play opportunities on both offense and defense and fail to capitalize Those opportunities will come up again on sunday. So this time make those plays Not only will it give tennessee the best chance to win the game But it also gives the players who make them confidence and momentum heading into the off-seats Key number three start fast self-explanatory, right But it's week 18 and the titans season will be done around 315 central on sunday afternoon If tennessee falls behind early the season will likely end earlier That's just the way these sorts of games work But if the titans jump on the jags on sunday it all gets and likely stays Interesting get ahead early put the pressure on jacksonville and start 2024 with a win The titans host the jaguars at nissan stadium this sunday at noon central time Titans countdown starts on your favorite titans radio station at 11 a.m. Central. We hope you'll join us I'm mike keith thanking our fine staff and most of all thanking you for watching titans all access We'll see you next time later in 2024