 It's the most wonderful time of the year. And on this week's Titans All Access, we share with you some of our favorite things. There's no beastings or dog bites when it comes to the king. You won't want to miss our conversation with Derek Henry. Javon Curse loves the Titans fans, and Titans fans love the freak. And Jarell Casey talks about his favorite moments from his Titans career. All of this and so much more. As Titans All Access starts now. The monster, Derek Henry! Merry Christmas and welcome to the Bed-Im GM Studio and a special edition of Titans All Access. With Amy Wells, I'm Mike Keith. We're so glad you're with us, as this is Titans All Access's edition of our favorite things. And unlike every other favorite things episode, you all get nothing, but we're excited to share with you some of our favorite things, especially within the Tennessee Titans. Well, you get a great show. Yeah, you're welcome. You're welcome. No cars, but a great show. And as we talk ball presented by Duncan, one of our very favorite Titans of all time, number 99 himself, Jarell Casey. Absolutely. He retired over this past summer. It was so great to see him and honor the career that he had with the Titans. He's definitely one of our favorite players. Let's talk ball with Jarell Casey in this special edition of Titans All Access. One of the original insiders, Jarell Casey. It is so good to see you. What's up? What's up? It's been too long. Man, way too long. It has been too long. All right. So I got to get something on the table right now. Are you really going to school? Going back to school. Definitely wouldn't have thought I'd be doing it, but I made a promise to the wife and that I would do it. So when I left school, I was doing sociology. Okay. So I'm thinking if I'm going to finish sociology or go back and do broadcasting, I would love to get back into a little bit of broadcasting and doing that. The first thing I want to do is make sure I graduate from there. Well, they have a great broadcasting school there. Yes, they're the best. No more. They've put out a lot of great broadcasters. No more. What's the signature Jarell Casey play if you meet someone in school and they say, hey, weren't you an NFL player? If you told somebody, go look me up. What's the play you want them to see? I'll have to go back from the playoff game from the 2019 playoff game against Baltimore Ravens, trying to make every play possible to get to that next stepping stone to get to a super bowl. I'll have to say that Lamar Jackson played strip sack bubble. You don't get him at first. And you just, you will not stop. Just before that play, I believe I had missed the sack earlier right before that. And so I'm just like, there's no way you're going to let him, I'll show you in this game. You want this more than he do. And that was the whole mindset that I was going into that game. And so, you know, when you pull that ball back down and try to tuck in, do whatever he's going to do, I was like, oh, forget the sack. Go for that ball. And that's, you know, everything else was written in history. What is Jarell Casey most proud of in his career as a Titan? The biggest thing I'm proud of is just the work I did off the field. I think that's the biggest thing, because when you go out there, you put the work in on your own and you invest in going to community, meeting the people personally. That's when you know you're doing your job the right way. Have you ever stopped and considered how much Titans fans love you? I stopped them thinking about it all the time. It's nothing like it. A lot of times, guys, they don't recognize who you are because you got helmet on all the time. So when you're able to go out and community picture face out there, you're doing the work, so people's constantly being received. They start to recognize you outside of football. I think that's the best thing. Now, your name and number are in the record books and go down as part of the history as somebody who loves the game and loved it when it was a little kid. Is it mind-blowing? It's definitely mind-blowing. To be able to make a career out of that is definitely a blessing. I always tell my buddies in them, yeah, I'll make it to the NFL. I'll make it to the NFL. Yeah, every kid says that, but to actually get it done and to do it for 10-plus years to just think back on it like, shoot, I put a lot of work in to get to this position and get to this place. So it feels great to be able to say, you know, I'm ending it on my own time. And you can walk through this door anytime I want, you know. With your family, you're healthy, but you took the blessings and really made something out of it. And that's what it's all about. The Lord put you in positions to take advantage of, you know, if He blesses you for a reason and is up to you to take advantage of it. I'm glad they're changing lives. I'm glad they make something better for myself and make something better for me and my family. It's where, you know, now that mind has to start driving towards. We sure do love number 99, but you know who else we love, Mike Keith? The Freak. The Freak. We're gonna hear from him when we come back to this very special edition of Titans All Access. Our favorite things this weekend. The Freak. Welcome back to Titans All Access in the Bet MGM Studio. Mike Keith, Javon Curse means so much to so many people. What is one of your favorite Freak memories? Well, one of my favorite things about working for the Titans was actually April of 1999, sitting in the parking lot, hosting the first ever draft party for the Titans when we selected Javon Curse. It was the middle of April, but it was like 35 degrees, and yet everybody went nuts. When we drafted him, because he was an SEC player. He was nicknamed The Freak. Everyone knew we needed a pass rusher, and I just remember seeing Titans fans go crazy for the first time as Titans fans. That is my favorite memory of Javon Curse, even though there were so many throughout a playing career where he made a difference in so many people's lives. As a matter of fact, Javon Curse made a lot of people, Titans fans. All right, so when you come back, I know you look at things differently when you get over 40. It's hard to believe the Freak is over 40. But you look at things differently. Do you realize how many people became Titans fans because of Javon Curse? Do you realize how many young people had a picture taken with you on a Titans caravan, or you came to their school, the first game they ever you made the big play, the first game they ever went to see. Do you feel that? I don't. I mean, I don't feel it, but I get reminded of it. I don't run around like, oh man, I made that picture with my friend. I always say because of social media presence, people have that a way to reach out to you and let you know these things. I get messages, people tell me I started playing this position. I named my kid after you and all these things like that or whatever. I mean, it's very humbling. It's just a reminder like what I was out there in the field doing. It didn't go nothing when unnoticed. You have seen the Titans play some this year. Yes. What have been your overall thoughts about this 2021 Titans team? Personally, it reminds me of a lot of the things we started back in 1999, 2000, 2001. It's just, it's fun. It looks like it's fun playing football around here again, not just on one side of the ball, but on all aspects of the game. What do you mean by that? You got to get specific. You can't just throw that out there and just leave it hanging. What do you see that reminds you of those days? I mean, as far as they got guys making plays all over the place, I'm speaking as far as defense. Defense, personally, I mean, I'm not a defense extraordinaire, but I was a defensive end pretty good. Yeah, I did that a little bit. But I mean, as far as like defensive win championships and like they look like they're having fun in defense again. You got KB, he's picking things off. He's returning stuff. You got Simmons destroying stuff up the middle and then you got Landry's coming off the side coming off the end. It just looks fun. It looks like you can like plug like any one of my guys from my back in there and we can just get in there and do the same thing. When you watch Landry rush the passer, what do you see? I see he's coming to his own. Like I've been watching from day one. Of course, when they drafted him, they, everyone like reached out to me like, hey, what are you thinking about this kid? He's going to be the next you or what not. I'm like, I'm sure we can wait and see. We'll see like the proof is in the pudding. But then after these like past couple years, the guy, he has a motor and basically like that's basically how I played. Like I had my skill set. I had speed. I had get off. But on top of that, I just I was persistent. And that's what he does. Like he comes. He brings that intensity like all game. That's what he's doing on top of that. They're doing a pretty good job on the back end. The linebackers doing a good job of doing what they got to do in the DB's or holding things down. So that makes your job up front that much easier. And vice versa it works the same. If you're doing the job getting pressure and not giving the quarterback a lot of time and you can like not open up big holes for the run game, the back ends is going to work out. So tell me this what's it like to see a guy you played against in Mike Vrable as the head coach of your former team? What's what's that feel like? No, that's that's pretty awesome. It just shows like it just shows like where like like guys were into different things like say like I would never thought like certain guys that I played with would be in the coaching because I thought they were either just going to play or do something else and not just be done with whatever but like seeing someone like Vrable like he was he was on he was on a Super Bowl team like a dynasty he was on like on a dynasty and got a lot of coaching success under his hands by playing and coaching with Bill Belichick. And now it's just now he's just putting what he did he's putting it to use which as a player it makes you like follow that like wants to be more like more of a player be more like accountable for that person because you've seen that person this person one Super Bowl this person did he did he did the walk so now he's just not talking it like he now he just wants to just pass it on so someone like Mike Vrable this I see no other reason to just go out there and get this guy all you have. You would have like to have played for Mike Vrable. Definitely definitely. Why? It's just a I mean I think the first time I saw something I saw him get out in the drill with some of the football players whatever like a coach that does that like you gotta like let's let's go like let's go win this thing baby I got to sit down with the freak on defense coming up next on this special edition of Titans All Access Amy Wells sits down with the freak on offense the King Derek Henry certainly one of our favorite things about the Titans he's next on Titans All Access Welcome back to this special edition of Titans All Access as we focus on our favorite things and certainly Derek Henry is one of our favorite things because he's best running back in the NFL but it's also because the King is a better guy than he actually is football player and that's really saying something Amy Wells shows you why in this week's Nissan Insider you have won a Heisman you've been a pro bowler you've been all pro you've been offensive player of the year we're pretty much running out of awards to give Derek Henry do you have more personal goals beyond all of those awards I don't really try to think about like personal goals it's just like how can I be better you know as a player you know to help my team you know each and every week my mind says just work harder really I started doing two days in the off season and that's just my main focus how can I be better and if you know awards come after the season then they come but as long as I feel like I'm better and you know I made my teammates better and we were better as a team then I'm satisfied you're a dad you have a young daughter how has that changed you it's really like gosh treat to you watching her see her grow every day every day is something different about her when she learns something or she's growing I just love it watching her wake up it's like opening up a present every day and you know coming home to her when she runs up to me it's the best in the world and it's my motivation as well so everything I do you know it's all for her it's not about me anymore she she's my wife she's my reason what surprised you the most about fatherhood um you get a little soft especially to the girls they sock you up a little bit but I mean that just comes with it you got a baby girl so I mean that's how it is and that's how it is sometimes when guys become dads it changes the way that they are as a player a little bit they want to be a little more careful it changes the way they approach things do you feel like it's changed you as a football player at all or not necessarily I'm gonna say the same other thing changes me I'm gonna go harder that's all I did it's just motivated me to go harder than that's my mindset now your daughter's really young right now but as she watches you play and watches your career unfold what do you hope she takes away from watching her dad on the field just this hard work each and every day no shortcuts never getting complacent always staying hungry respectable but also you know being respected you know cared about my teammates care about the people around me want to be active in the community help those in need always thank god for everything that you have you can be here one day and go on the next and it was so funny because we finally got her jersey when she put her jersey on she was running around the house like she was in the football game that's awesome that's got to make you feel good she sees her dad knows what he does oh yeah definitely she have a little stiff arm she might have gave one to her her grandmother her mom going down the hallway it's genetic yeah exactly that was fantastic if you like Titans Radio more than likely you're a huge fan of coach Dave McGinnis when Titans All Access returns one of our favorite thing coach Mac as he celebrates 100 games on Titans Radio we'll show you after this welcome back to Titans All Access our special our favorite things holiday edition with Amy Wells I'm Mike Keith we are part of Titans Radio and very proud to be part of such but we know that you love coach Dave McGinnis when you listen to Titans Radio we know that he's probably the reason you listen to Titans Radio what do you love most about listening to coach Mac oh my gosh I love so many things about coach Mac but I think it's how informative he is while still being entertaining there's never a dull moment with coach Mac but he teaches you about what's happening on the field he explains it in a way where you were engaged you feel like you learn a little something but you also spend a lot of time laughing along the way which is just great that's why we love him coach Mac celebrating his 100th broadcast Thursday night as the Titans took on the San Francisco 49ers and it was reason to celebrate because coach Dave McGinnis is certainly one of our favorite things Dave McGinnis arrival with Titans Radio started with misinformation coach Mac have been with the Titans for eight seasons as an assistant coach and was immensely popular within the walls of St. Thomas Sports Park it just the reach of Titans Radio is immense when I was coaching here for eight years with Jeff Fisher you know I knew Titans Radio was big because I would do you know segments with Titans Radio as an assistant coach and as an assistant head coach but I had no idea the scope of it no one is more interesting or more fun than coach Mac there were tears when he departed after the 2011 season so when news hit that coach Mac was moving back to Nashville after leaving the Los Angeles Rams it made total sense to see if he would be interested in doing color commentary on Titans Radio just one problem the word that coach Mac was moving back to Nashville was well incorrect or just flat out wrong coach Mac planned to stay in Malibu that's what he told the Titans official as they visited on the phone it was going to be a short phone call right but when told that he was being offered a chance in the Titans Radio team coach Mac jumped in his truck and drove across the country to become a radio guy now that I'm not coaching I can do more with the public I can do more with the fans and I really enjoy that aspect of it and the rest as they say is history after three plus decades as an NFL coach with connections in every NFL city and with his west Texas wit wisdom and humor Dave McGinnis Mac has become a staple for Titans radio listeners over the last five seasons think my favorite moment or the playoff wins that we've done together on Titans Radio I really enjoyed those two wins at Baltimore and New England those were something special how much it means not only to the players and the coaches that are out there how much it means to the entire organization and the entire Titans fan base for 100 games now he has informed, entertained coached up and connected with Titans fans literally all over the world Coach Mac 100 games wow I can't believe you put up with Mike Keith that much I want to thank you personally for your path that you provide our organization our team our players our coaches to our fans you you keep it real you're honest and I value not only your professionalism but your friendship and I look forward to another hundred more I know how important a Titans organization is to you and how much you put in to what you do for us so thank you and congrats on a hundred and here's to a hundred more tighten up whether it is the Titans organization Titans radio sponsors and partners of the team or Titans fans the enjoyment of all things coach Mac is one of life's great Titans pleasures 100 games down for Dave Jim McGuinness and hopefully many more to come that was awesome Coach Mac we are certainly thankful for you and we know Titans radios listeners are too one of our very favorite things you know what else is everybody's favorite thing what's that Mike Keith's keys oh that's yes and they're coming back on the other side of this break but we don't have a game so it's my keys to a great Christmas celebration this ought to be good it ought to be good stay with welcome back to Titans all access Mike Keith and his keys are the best part of every show they just are thank you but there's no game there's no game there's no game so we had to come up with keys to something different these keys are presented by visit myrtle beach calm Mike Keith's keys to a great holiday celebration key number one position the TVs where people can see the football games sure you want to be with family and friends and it's exciting but you want to watch the game make sure that you position the TVs where people can be involved in a conversation but still see who's ahead these games mean a lot this weekend keep an eye on them position the TVs properly all right key number two salty snacks I think salty snacks are the most underrated part of a Christmas celebration if you have somebody who makes their own party mix that's absolutely the best but there are lots of sweets at Christmas time I'm all for that especially chocolate but I really like salty things salty snacks a key to a great holiday celebration you know I make my own party mix do you really I really do absolutely yep okay key number three key number three is just enjoy the weekend we're thankful for you you are one of our favorite things the fact that you tune into Titans all access every week the fact that you follow this ball club that you listen to the OTP that you listen to the Titans Amy coach Mack podcast for all you do we're thankful for you enjoy the weekend and let's win some more football games down the stretch you know Mike those might have been the greatest keys of the whole season salty snacks especially salty snacks really got me I mean that's an underrated part of any holiday celebration but especially a very sweet one like Christmas well I've been living a long time yeah so I know that's really good we hope you've enjoyed the special edition of Titans all access our favorite things thank you so much for joining us for Amy Wells I'm Mike Keith and we'll see you next time it's the little things that make a difference like taking time to connect with family helping the new team member feel welcome and looking out for other this season there's something small that makes a big difference flu vaccines protect the ones we love make a difference get your flu vaccine today learn more at tn.gov slash health slash fight flu