 As Tennessee prepares to play in Jacksonville, what could Mike Vrabel say to get his team's attention? You're in the last quarter of the season. You are in the hunt to win this division. This is a division game against a team that's 1-11, has zero to lose but has everything to gain by derailing the Titans today. The Titans have come to Jacksonville and played a very dominant game and won very impressively. Big division win. Hey, we got another game at home next week and we got to lock back in, get focused man. How come to the Mike Vrabel show presented by Coca-Cola from the Bet MGM studio? With the head coach, I'm Mike Keith, glad to have you with us and glad to be back from Jacksonville with a victory. Lots of Titans fans made the trip down. We were on the plane coming and going with lots of Titans fans to see this win. It was Titan football at its best. When they're doing what they do, Coach Mike Vrabel and company are playing complimentary football. We bring in the head coach and congratulations on the victory. You talk a lot about complimentary football. Can you give a quick explanation of what you want to see in that way? I think it's when each unit is building off each other and feeding off each other has the ability to lift the other unit up or take advantage of a play that they may create. Turnover results in a score. A punt inside the ten yard line results in a three and out and great field position that we turn into points. Being able to stop them at the end of the half and get the ball back and use our timeouts, taking the ball and scoring coming out of the second half and getting a stop. Those are all things that we talk about and the players understand that. I want to show you some examples of complimentary football in tonight's six pack that we begin. Right off the bat, Jacksonville takes the ball. They have a nice drive going. They try a 53 yard field goal with Altric Rosas, who is a really good kicker, but in this instance, the Titans get the better of him, Mike. Well, the entire day, you know, we went out and we warmed up and the field was soft. It was soft and slick. It didn't have much grip to it. You can see him here with a long kick. It goes down. We also got good push and we want to make sure we're staying away from this ball. We're not going to go and do anything silly and try to pick it up and return it. You know, that's a big momentum change and we had an opportunity to come back and we're going to see here and score some points off of it. So Nick Dazubnar, really smart staying away from the football. Titans take over at the 43 yard line and drive down for a touchdown, which we'll see later on. And take a seven to nothing lead. And then after the defense gets a big stop following a turnover, it's seven to three. Derek Henry for 22. Derek Henry for eight. Derek Henry for five. Derek Henry for four. And then Derek Henry for 36, Mike. Yeah, it was just, you know, I felt like we were starting to lean on him. I felt we were coming off the ball. We were finishing. A lot of scrimmage was going the other way. You know, you, you see a good job there. Good operation. You know, the shift, the motion, moving Corey over, you know, they're moving guys and then we snap it and we're able to get Derek there on a post safety. And, you know, usually he's going to win a lot of those matchups. Titans take a 14 to three lead at that moment with 44 seconds left in the half. And then a fabulous job by the defense, a three and out forcing a punt. Nice punt return for the Titans. They started their own 37. Let's take it home from there, Mike. Absolutely. Ryan, you know, plants and throws and Corey's able to get into this route and push the corner off and they're playing a little soft. And, you know, that that play took four seconds. So we're sitting there with five seconds with two timeouts and we go with the down, down timeout. And now you can throw it anywhere you want because you're in a timeout situation. You've got a quarterback who knows where to go with it and a tight end who knows what to do. Yeah, Ryan catches throws John who gets inside and, you know, here we are everybody. If you see this from the coaches copy, there's a lot of guys calling timeout. You know, are we right there? You can see everybody signaling and we're all one tune and we're all seeing it through the same set eyes. So the Titans started at their own 37 and now after John Smith's catch, they're all the way to the 35 of the Jaguars. They've used a total two seconds remain on the clock and they have set up this Stephen Gaskowski who is money from outside of 50. Well, it was right down the middle. You see, you know, when he puts a good swing on it, you know, a confident swing, you know, that had plenty of distance. You know, I talked to him about his footing. He said, hey, coach, I feel good. I'm fine. And, you know, that was, it was a great kick. Stephen Gaskowski, good from 53. So you get it in the final 44 seconds of the half, the Tennessee Titans tally 10 points and it goes from a seven to three game to a 17 to three game. Tennessee would go down and score in the first possession of the second half in just two minutes and 36 seconds. Suddenly it's 24 to three and the nail in the coffin ends up being a defensive play from a guy who had an outstanding day, Malcolm Butler. Yep, absolutely. You know, that's great recognition here, staying on top of the post, not letting them get a big play. And we got to do a better job putting the football away and trying to block, set a direct in traffic. But, you know, some of these DBs, they all think that they're returners and, you know, Harold gets into the middle of the pocket and enforces a throw. So, you know, that's just good complimentary football. And even by the defense, you know, Harold's coming up in the middle of the pocket on play action and enforces the quarterback to get rid of the football. Complimentary football at its best for the Titans all day long. The offense sets up the defense that sets up the special teams and on and on and on, a primary example getting the Titans to nine and four on the season. Later on, the Mike Vrabel show presented by Coca-Cola will have the wrackly roofing tough Titan. But coming up next, it's the Bridgestone performance play of the game. And it was something else. It came early, gave the Titans a lead. They would never relinquish. Stay with us. We're in the Bet MGM studio. This is the Mike Vrabel show presented by Coca-Cola. And it's time for our Bridgestone performance clutch play of the game. You might have noticed we left this one out in the first segment because it was pretty. It's a handoff to Henry. No, it's a return to sender coach. You love that return to center. You caught me off guard and you said, hey, you're going to run that return to center play. I said, man, what are you talking about? And so, you know, Ryan takes it up and down. You can see the great protection in the middle of pocket. That's really the key to our passing game is that great protection in the middle of pocket. And then, you know, AJ goes up there, holds the guy off body control and makes a heck of a play. AJ Brown tipping it to himself for a score on the day seven catches for 112 yards. You wanted to come with that early in the ball game. You came with the fake punt shortly after that, sort of telling your team, hey, we're here to go get this thing. It wouldn't be aggressive. You know, we work those things in practice. And, you know, when they look good in practice, you have confidence running them in the game. And, you know, Monty did a great job. The entire punt team did. I wish we could have gone down and turned that into points. But we had wrapped the play there offensively and just felt like something that we could do to take advantage of what we've done. Love that Bridgestone performance clutch play of the game from AJ Brown on the flea flicker or return to center. Whatever you call it. I'm from Tennessee. That's Elvis Presley, man. You're going to say return to center. Anyway, all right, time now for something we can all agree on. The Delta Dental, guess the Titan. We can, you're hot. You're rolling. You got this. We got a lot more coming up from the Bet MGM studio. The Mike Vrable show presented by Coca Cola. Can you guess this Titan? Mike Vrable is the only person who that question really matters to. Can you guess this Titan presented by Delta Dental? We will find out. I have not been around this player for long, but I do think that if you look in the eyes, I think that that's Desmond King. Desmond King. He's a winner. Desmond King the second is the right. Well done, sir. Desmond King. I mean, what a blessing it's been to get this guy in the football team with the trade that you made with the Chargers. First of all, you've needed him with all the injuries you've had in the secondary and he really fits Titan football. I mean, he's a scrapper. He gets after it. We saw him do it Sunday in Jacksonville again. He just keeps coming. Even if a play doesn't go his way, he's back for more on the next play. Yeah, and that's what you have to do. We just have to continue to build that communication and build our knowledge of our system. There's a lot of stuff in there that guys have had a lot of time practicing and Des hasn't been with us. So there's still some things that come up that we have to work through. But he's been in there. He's been tough. He blitzes for us and works in a slot. So that's tough duty and he's come in and he's been up for the challenge. AJ Brown, seven catches, 112 yards in a touchdown, keeps making things happen for you. Fans love to talk about him because he's a big play sort of guy. He's a different sort of player than the Titans have had in a long, long time. What does it mean to have this guy on your football team as the head coach? He's got a great attitude. He loves football. He loves coming to work. It's hard building relationships with everybody on the team, especially now with where we are with the space that we're keeping and the virtual setting that we're doing a lot of these meetings over. But I think we all continue to build a relationship with AJ. He does with Ryan. He does with his position coach, Rob Moore. Rob does a great job with both he and Corey and the young guys that are with them. He's a fun guy to coach. He continues to improve and has high expectations for himself. And I know that he'd like to complete to get that eighth catch, the one there on third down to keep that drive going. So we're going to have to fix some of those things. You set it up perfectly though. AJ Brown is this week's Rackley Roofing Tough Titan. And he's more than a great receiver. He's a great teammate. You'll see as Amy Wells visits with number 11. Jim Henry, Pitchback Tannehill. Throw right side going for Brown in the end zone. One hand. Touchdown Titans. Oh, man. Oh, that's crazy. Arthur won. AJ, it seems like when this offense is working the way that it's supposed to, you guys are having a lot of fun. What do you like about playing in this particular style of offense? It's both a blow. It's body side, body side. They come in knockouts. These are on a deep bottom. Me or Corey or Derek just imposing it on everybody and then on the court. During the touchdown, I think the first touchdown Derek scored me and Corey like running side by side like that. We knew it was coming and we started pointing at each other. It's definitely fine. We see him doing his thing because he gives us a lot of energy and momentum. It seems like Arthur Smith is really skilled at finding ways to utilize everybody's individual skill set. Why do you like playing in that style of offense so much? I feel like you have to. I feel like you've got to have something here and there. Keep the defenders on their toes. He's definitely doing a good job this year. We believe him. We trust him. We call our number and we try to make a play for him. You had over 100 receiving yards on Sunday. That makes eight in your career. Do you expect to have more than 100 receiving yards every time you play? I feel like I'm out there long enough to have 100 yards. Regardless of how many opportunities I get, how many targets I get, I just try to make the most. I'm not seeing one man at the end of the game. Most of the time I don't even check because that stuff doesn't matter. I'm really trying to keep winning. That's all the thing that matters. Get to the playoffs man and that's what it's about. Your Instagram handle is 1k always open. So I guess I have to ask, has the expectation always been to have 1,000 yards? The nickname comes from high school and it just kind of just followed me. It just kind of correlates with getting 1,000 yards every year. If Corey Davis is also able to hit that 1,000 yard mark, what would it mean to you to be able to do that with a teammate? No, he's definitely going to do it. It'll mean a lot man. He goes to show you how hard a worker he is, the time we put in. A lot of people are probably going to think like we're really trying to get wins. They bring it to us like we got to get a 1k, we got to get 1k yards. We're really just trying to get the win and make these plays and let the chips fall where they make. There's three games left in the regular season. How hard is it for you to focus on the task at hand and not peek into what the possibilities could be like in January and beyond? To me that's kind of easy because like I said earlier, it's week to week. If you don't show up, you will come out and get hit in the mouth and you will lose. It's the NFL. This is not a video game where you can come back. You play bad in the first half and you come back in the fourth quarter. You have to come to play every game. So we just got to lock back in and focus on our new opponent this week. AJ, thank you so much for being our rackly roofing tough Titan. Guys, we're going to take a quick break, but when we come back, we're going to talk about one of the Titans' biggest off-season challenges. That was making Nissan Stadium safe for fans. Check out how we do it on the other side of the spring. As we return to the Mike Grapple Show presented by Coca-Cola, it's time to go inside the Titans presented by Xfinity. And one of the most important things that happened in this 2020 season had nothing to do with football. And that was getting you, the Titans fans, back here to Nissan Stadium. Because we wanted you to have that NFL experience that you've always loved here in 20-plus years, but also to feel safe with your family and friends. How did it happen? A lot of people put in a lot of work to make you feel safe at a game. My name is Jenny Needham. My everyday role with the Titans is Stadium Events Manager. But my 2020 role has adapted a little bit to be the Stadium Infectious Control Officer, or ICO, to focus on all of our health and safety for our staff and fans. We handle things like all of the proper COVID-19 testing for our staff, as well as for some of the key roles that are on the field for our coaches, the staff that helps them support the game day experience. We honestly do a little bit of everything when it pertains to being in the Events Department, being in the Guest Services Department, because every aspect of an event day touches something else. And it's in the little details of the things that I'm always looking for and preparing for on a game day. For this year on game days, you know, I pretty much go around and I'm kind of a mask enforcement police. I walk around trying to make sure everybody's trying to follow the rules of the stadium with saying six feet apart wearing your mask. In March, the Safe Stadium plans started to come to fruition when the stadium started working on all the elements that would keep our staff and fans safe for events at Nissan Stadium. We landed on sort of creating this task force, a group of people that were coming together to really start generating concrete ideas and processes and procedures to make sure that we are making the stadium as safe as possible. So today is game day and on the service level we go through all the protocols and processes for getting the visiting team and the home team in in a safe manner over onto the service level to the locker rooms before we kick off the game. These basically over sized sneeze guards which protects the fan and also the concessionaire behind it. It promotes safety. We've got our six foot marks for people to walk up and maintain social distancing. This year has taught us so much about the fan experience and what we want to continue to do to grow that in years to come. One of those things would be seeing the fan experience at a granular level to be able to go back to step one. What is it like to come into a stadium and experience a game day in the best way with safety and health as a priority? I think the most positive thing we've done with this is we've worked well with the health department. They've been here at every event and they've helped us improve our practices but they've also been overly happy with what we were doing here. While it is a Titans game day in COVID, you're still having the best time ever. One of the most impressive things the Titans have done this year is to continue to cultivate community for the fans and staff around the football season in a year of 2021. There's not a lot of exciting things to come in the news. What I think is also going to be positive around here is that with our safe practices we've had other stadiums in the arena come by here and just watch what we're doing because with health department's approval, Bridge Zone Arena and the sounds have been watching what we're doing and they're going to follow pretty much our protocols. So it's going to be good for the entertainment of Nashville to follow our safe stadium practices. Welcome back to the Mike Vrable Show presented by Coca-Cola from the Bet MGM Studio. Time now for the Nissan Keys to Success Against Detroit. Let's start with turnovers, Mike. You've got to win there. Yeah, we've got to be better with football. We put one on the ground there and we've got to get some more of these defensively. The fans are minus two but the offense, their offense has been really good with it. It's going to be a challenge for us to get turnovers. I think they've only fumbled the ball four times and we're going to have to try to find ways to strip it out of there and take care of it on offense. Red zone defense, key number two. Yeah, I think that that's just something that we're going to have to stand up to these guys. They're top 10 in the league and we're going to have to get some stops down there. It's hard to think that they're not going to get down there and you can see the difference that it makes when you force teams to kick field goals. And for the offense, continue doing what you've done all year and that's finished drives in the end zone. Yep, these third downs are getting to be huge. Keeping them on our terms, that third and short, third and five or less and when you can do that and you can get into those drives and convert third downs that it gives you opportunities to go down there and score points. Let's meet back here next Tuesday and talk about a 10 and four football team. I would love that, Mike. Sounds good. For Mike Vrabo, I'm Mike Keith. Thanks for joining us and reminding you, you can listen to us this Sunday on 104.5 The Zone. Titan's radio coverage begins with Titan's countdown. Have a great night, everybody.