 go, man, I love my mind. That's a different kind of bling. May weather, I'm kind of spring. Muhammad and his prime, that's a different kind of sting. I put it over time. I'm like, I just can't hold me down. On this edition of Titans All Access, we have a lot of football to cover. I mean a lot of football. Coach Mack takes us beneath the surface to show how the J on Big Jeff connection combines for a major takeaway. And John Robinson lays out why this weekend's many buy for the Titans is so important. This show is packed. So let's do this thing. Titans All Access starts now. The monster, Derek. We welcome you to Titans All Access. With Amy Wells, I'm Mike Keith. And this is maybe the most wonderful week of the year because we have not one Titans game to talk about, but two, because of Thursday night football. Absolutely, I love the shows where we can literally cram as much football as possible into one show. This should be a 90 minute show. Agreed. But it's only gonna be a 30 minute show. And the Titans have played two games. They played a Thursday night game with Indianapolis, but we began with a Sunday win over the Chicago Bears. So let's start there and look at the key moments from the victory over Chicago. It's time for Titans football. Mike Keith and Dave McGinnis are set to bring you every play of Tennessee and Chicago from Nissan Stadium in Asheville. So the Tennessee Titans will have a different look today. Even though they look different, they may have some different people in uniform. They have to play together as one. Fold, gives it inside Montgomery. Stacked up, driven back, pushed, driven, stop. No, sir, Reed. The catch rating is tackling to 45, round 50, 45, 40, 35. Deep dig across the middle, perfect throw. What a great run after catch by A.J. Brown. Gonna put it down at the 30. It's a 40 yard attempt left half. Snap, set, kick. Kowski is true from 40 and the Titans draw first blood for 22 remaining first quarter. Tannehill takes the snap. Looks, fires deep downfield, going for Brown. He caught it at the 10, at the five. He stretched the ball, touched down. And the Titans have a 40 yard TD. Play fake fold, feeling heat. And then I think Laurel Mergison might've cleaned it up. What a job by the Titans defense. 0 of 8 on third downs. The Chicago Bears at halftime. Tennessee 10, Chicago nothing. Folds tries to screen it. Montgomery on the right side, big Jeff is there. The ball comes loose. The Titans pick it up. 50, 40, 30, 20. Got it, complete Camiller. He lost the balls for him, that's a touchdown. Jimmy Graham has it. 24 to 17, 64 seconds to go. The last time the Titans gave up an onside kick against the Chicago Bears November 27, 2016. If the Titans recover it, the game is over as the Bears cannot stop the clock. It looks like he's going to do a drop kick. Santos with a drop kick, the Titans have covered it with a final score of Tennessee 24, Chicago 17. And the Titans get it done again. Play fake, throws in the flat, Foreman. Touchdown, the Ante Foreman. Looking under pressure. Sacked! Taken down by DeKwan Jones. They hand off Janu around left end. Reverse action to Peter. So that was a lot of football. Some good, some not quite as good, but a lot of football nonetheless. Absolutely it was. And there's still a lot of football left to come this season. Yeah, just remember we're going to see the Colts again in two weeks. We owe them one. One up there last time. That's true. So we'll see, but there's a lot to talk about. A lot more to come on this edition of Titans All Access. When we come back, a visit with Roger Saffold, one of the more interesting guys on the Tennessee Titans roster. The left guard is our Nissan Insider, and that is up next. It's hard to believe, but maybe the most interesting man on the Tennessee Titans roster is left guard Roger Saffold. Do you have, Amy Wells, a most interesting Roger Saffold fact? Well, Roger Saffold owns an e-sports team that's like very successful. That's pretty cool. That's very cool. There's a lot more to this guy than meets the eye, but it all starts with football and with family, even though he's interested in so many different things. Professional athletes have to deal with failure. You think about baseball players, if you're a 300 hitter, that means you don't get a hit seven out of 10 times. You've got to deal with the failure. As an offensive lineman, you have to do that at certain instances too. How hard is it to learn how to deal with adversity, to deal with failure and put it in the right place so that you can build on it towards succeeding? The big thing about being an offensive lineman is that none of your stats are good. So you never want to have any stats against your name. But the only thing that you can do is to try to work on what you can control and what you can control is your work ethic, the way that you learn in the classroom, the way that you work with your teammates. And you put all that energy of being nervous, of having doubts, and you put all that into some constructors, and then eventually things will end up turning out your way. It took me some time to kind of get into the flow with this team, and it just didn't bother me. I was really just at the point like if everything's gonna work out in due time, everything's gonna work out in due time, even though I had that slow start being able to be an alternate for the Provo, be able to make some quality changes up front and with the offense in general, I just give it all to the work ethic. This summer you lost your dad, and you talked about that. People deal with loss very differently. Some people don't bring it up. You talked about it very publicly. Why has that meant something to you to be able to discuss losing your dad so openly entering this season? I think it's because when you hold on to things like that, they can cause a lot more harm than good. I feel like I need to be able to open up, be more transparent. If I could be transparent with my teammates and my community, and it's gonna make things a lot easier for me. I've got tremendous support from these guys, and I also really care about the team. So when I think about those guys and the way that they supported me through my toughest time in my life, I want people to know about the type of guys that these guys are. It's just all about what I can do for the team. Roger Saffold is an interesting guy. I enjoyed that chat. Oh, absolutely. He's just so cool. He is cool. He's cool. Hope some of that sort of rubbed off. It didn't. When we come back, another guy who's really cool, John Robinson talks about strategic planning towards this mini-bye. Maybe really important to this beat up Titans football team. Oh, absolutely. Because as we've said, there's a lot more football to come. And rest is important. We'll talk about the rest of the season when Titans All Access continues. That was kind of cool. Back in the Bet MGM studio, Titans All Access continues with the Farm Bureau Scouting Report. General Manager John Robinson is here, but there's no game this weekend because the Titans played on Thursday night. So, John, because you had your bye weekend so early in the season, does this mini-bye weekend become even a little more important for the Titans as you look down the stretch? Yeah, Mike. I mean, I think certainly it'll give the players a chance to allow their bodies to heal up a couple extra days after the Thursday night game. And the coach has a chance to kind of catch their breath before we start preparations for Baltimore. So we'll go through that schedule and make sure we've built in enough time that everybody can kind of recharge and reset for the second half of the season here. Okay, so from a football standpoint, how do you handle the weekend and really the early part of next week? Yeah, you know, Coach Vrable, he'll set the schedule with the staff, but the players, you know, we have to remain in the COVID testing. So that'll be a daily occurrence that, you know, that everybody will still have to do. You know, but we'll start to get an early look on Baltimore and game planning for those guys. But also, again, like I said, take some time and kind of recharge, reintroduce ourselves to our families, spend a little bit of time with them before we get back going on football. You touched on the football staff a little bit, but that also would include the scouting staff, the personnel staff. What sorts of things are you aiming towards this weekend into the early part of next week? Well, I hope to catch up on some college games. I've been able to watch some as they've come in, you know, mainly the SEC games are starting to hit our database and go through those prospects and start to evaluate those prospects. But, you know, probably catch up on that over the weekend and then, like I said, turn the page and get ready for the Ravens. All right, let's talk a little football. I want to talk about your quarterback, Ryan Tannehill. What have you been most impressed with with Ryan Tannehill through the first nine games of this season? Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, he's really built up on what he did at the end of last season, the 2019 season, made some really impressive throws this year. Down the field, short to intermediate, timing throws. The leadership continues to, you know, stand out, not just for the offense, but for the entire football team, the command that he has, the respect that he has of his teammates, and he's making plays for us, you know, certainly with his arm, but with his legs, too, because he can get out of the pocket, he can scramble and he can hurt you on the move. Derek Henry has been the number one or the number two rusher in the NFL all this year, led the league in rushing a year ago. What is it about Derek Henry that allows him to be so consistent, seemingly weekend week out? Yeah, I think, I think he's a really resilient player. I think he welcomes the fact when teams walk an extra player down into the box to try to stop him. I think he takes that as a challenge and he knows he's got the respect to that defense and he keeps plugging and he keeps playing and he can bang away in two or three yards or four or five yards here or there and then you never know when the big one's gonna break and he's gonna rattle off a 20, 25 or as we've seen a couple of 99 yarders and just impactful plays that really change the scope of the game. I know in the John Robinson scouting report brought to you by Farm Bureau Insurance next week on Titans All Access, we'll dive deeply into the Baltimore Ravens but can you give us a little peek, a little overview of what you think of the Raven so far? Yeah, I mean, they've still got, they've got playmakers on both sides of the ball. You know, it starts on offense with Jackson their quarterback, just an electric player can beat you with his arm, can take off and scramble and design runs and make plays. They've got a good backfield, got talented receivers and tight ends. Defensively coached Martindale still on that side of the ball. He's mixing stuff up, he's cooking things up. Rookie linebacker, Queens playing really, really good for him. They got good corners and Humphrey and they've got guys that can hurt you on both sides of the football. All right, as they played the Patriots this weekend, game's gonna be on TV. I just wondered, how do you watch that? Do you sit and watch the game like a fan or do you wait for the tape to come in? How do you do it? No, I mean, I'll watch it live as it's going. I won't have a big bowl of popcorn and a 48 ounce soda beside me but you're watching those live games and seeing if you can pick up anything from the TV copies, that's something we do internally anyway. But then you get to the all 22 and try to break down and see if you can see any skeins or tendencies that might help us. John, hope you get a chance to catch your breath this weekend. I know you'll stay connected to ball, as you always do. Thanks for the time, the Scouting Report brought to you by Farm Bureau Insurance. Thanks, Mike, appreciate you. Jayon Brown and Jeffrey Simmons combined for a takeaway in the Pittsburgh game. They did it again against Chicago. Dave McGinnis explains how when Titans All Access continued. This is Coach Mack, welcome to Beneath the Surface, powered by Microsoft Surface. Today we're gonna look at three key plays of the Titans defense against the Chicago Bears that really generated a good feeling for the defense against the Bears. It also was very, very important for the Titans defense to create turnovers in this ball game. Let's take a look at some of these plays. First play we're gonna look at here, then the second quarter, 3-50, first and 10 at the minus 39. You can see that the Bears are in 12 personnel. That's two Titans, two Wides, one back. The two wide receivers are in what we call a flop formation on the right side of the defense, the part of the field. The Tennessee Titans are in man-to-man defense. Watch them shift this five-man front down to a solid look, covering the guards in the center with the outside. We're in man-to-man. Jayon Brown has the tight end man-to-man. As they bump across in motion, he now has the tight end man-to-man and then he executes what we call an ad blitz. Watch this ad blitz. His man blocks, so he adds to the pressure upfront and creates a big sack. This is a very good play, both fundamentally and physically, by Jayon Brown and the Tennessee Titans defense with an ad blitz for a big sack. Second play we're looking at is 3-13. Ball's on the 30 yard line, 5-15, third quarter. Titans are ahead, 10 to nothing now at this point. This is now 11 personnel, three wides, one tight, one back. You're going to look at a flash screen. This is a flare screen on this down in distance by the Chicago Bears. Watch how well big Jeffrey Simmons and the entire defensive front execute what we call running out of the stack. Watch them run out of the stack as soon as they recognize this ball is thrown laterally. Tremendous play by Jeffrey Simmons to get out there and knock the ball out of Montgomery's hand and then brand new addition, Desmond King, to the Titans defense. He scoops and scores. This is a huge, huge play at this point in the ball game. It's great effort, running out of the stack, pursue and then very alert play by new addition, Desmond King, scoop and score, touchdown Titans. The final play is first in 10 balls on the 34 yard line, 353 in the fourth quarter. Titans are now ahead 24 to 10. This is again 11 personnel. We've got all the wide splits on the outside. The ball is completed inside. Now the Titans have deployed themselves into a zone coverage on this down a distance. Watch the zone coverage unfold. Here's a pressure. They are now in zone coverage. Very, very sharp play by Jayon Brown. Watch him trigger. Watch him trigger on this zone throw that's thrown underneath, short of the sticks. He triggers and then watch the club punch. Watch him punch this out. Watch him club and punch this ball out with his left hand. Recovery for the Tennessee Titans defense. Another big, huge play with the turnover. Tennessee Titans, really nice day defensively, added to a big win for the Tennessee Titans to push them to six and two on the season over the Chicago Bears. Want to get a question in for the OTP crew? Send us your OTP queue. Just go to TennesseeTitans.com slash OTP queue and ask your question. When Mike, Amy, Coach Mack and Jim convene for the OTP, they'll give you an answer. That address again to submit your questions is TennesseeTitans.com slash OTP queue. On the next Titans All Access. Jayon Brown is getting old? No, he's not. But 5-5 is taking a leadership role in the expanding Titans defense and he'll talk about it in the Nissan Insider. John Robinson has the Farm Bureau Insurance Scouting Report on the Baltimore Ravens and it's time to learn what Get Loud is all about. As you hear the backstory of the Titans' new theme, all that and more on the next Titans All Access. This is normally where we do the keys to the game and Amy asked me my three keys and obviously there's no ballgame this weekend because we played two in five days and so the real key right now is just rest. Catch your breath because remember, the Titans were supposed to have their buy weekend, the last full weekend in October and that got moved up and so now this mini buy becomes even more important and let's take stock. The Titans are six and three. They're two and one in the division. They're still tied atop the division with Indianapolis with seven games to play. So you kind of have to say, okay, there are things we need to fix but we're still not in bad shape. Absolutely, there are a lot of good things going for this Titans team right now and now they have a couple days to rest, recover, heal their bodies and hopefully get some guys who've been dealing with some injuries back on the field against the Baltimore Ravens. That is all really good. And you covered the sidelines for this particular game against the Colts. A lot of guys dinged up need this time off. A lot of guys dinged up and a lot of guys clearly playing through injuries. So to be able to have some time to get their bodies back on track and be playing closer to 100%, this time of year nobody on a football team is playing at 100% health. But to get closer to that mark, feel a little bit stronger, a little bit better can be very helpful. And maybe the Titans get some reinforcements back like Adory Jackson. Adory Jackson, how great would that be? Not only for the Titans secondary but for the defense as a whole. Adory Jackson is on the active roster now. He has come off injured reserve. Obviously he didn't play against the Colts but the hope is maybe some of this extra work will give him time to be ready for the final seven games of the year. Offensively too, Derek Henry keeps on rolling. Another 100 yard game for him. He's knocking on the door of 1,000 yards. Once again, he is the part of this team that just remains so consistent. Absolutely. And you can tell that he works to maintain that high level. He works to keep his body right. He works to continue to improve when he's on the field. His consistency is almost amazing. The fact that he's able to perform time after time after time. He just keeps grinding at it. That's a mature player and I'm glad he's on our team. And what about going to Baltimore? The last time we were there in January, the Titans won a divisional round. Playoff game, very exciting performance. Certainly the Ravens will remember that. Yeah, I think the Ravens might be playing for something just a little bit. They'll say all week long that they don't care about the game and the Titans will say all week long. It's just another game. It's not for either team. Are you going to watch them on Sunday night against the Patriots? Well, of course I am. Yeah, I'm going to watch all the football on Sunday night or on Sunday during the day. But yeah, I'm going to watch that game. I'm going to be scouting. I'm going to be scouting that one too. John Robinson says he won't have a bowl of popcorn, but he'll be watching it as well. I love that. All right, so what's your number one key to the minibuy weekend? Rest. It's a recovery. Yep. I got to get leaves up. I got to get all the leaves up. That's my girl. No, I'm resting. That's my key. I'll text you. You text me. I'll tell you how it's going. I'll take pictures. Great. For Amy Wells, I'm Mike Keith. Thanks for joining us for Titans All Access, and we'll see you next time.