 I'm proud of y'all boys love y'all boys man I love the resiliency y'all showed we come up here and showed it today against these boys hey Titans on three one two three Titans From the bet MGM studio welcome to the Mike Vraples show presented by seat geek with the head coach I'm Mike Keith Titans knock off the Cincinnati Bengals twenty seven to three and generally everyone we saw in that open made a play it was it was basically everybody take your word for it I wasn't watching well it's getting ready you make me know I'm sorry I'm sorry so but anyway take a lot of work a lot of plays were made but but the point was it was up and down the roster too yeah and I think that's when you can kind of see that complimentary football guys get 10 snaps guys get 20 snaps 50 snaps that they're taking advantage of the snaps they get we had a lot of guys help us like you said and that's that's when I think things start to flow and we're not forcing it to one guy on offense or everybody on defense is contributing and there was a rhythm that your team got into and established offensively defensively special teams confidence goes up and things just start to flow with that momentum I think it does and you fuel off each other you fuel off each phase and you're able to get stops and you get a 20-yard punt return and they have a penalty get good field position you hit a play hit another play and you're able to to get into a rhythm of the overall football game right let's take a look at the Mike Vrapel six pack presented by Seat Geek three offense three defense this is the play that got the offense started midway through the second quarter Ryan Tannehill to Deandre Hoppes yeah great protection great double move with the line of scrimmage Ryan like the look was able to talk to hop signal hop and you know able to hit him on a huge conversion and we needed a conversion you know hops been there and I know that he wants like everybody else he wants you know some touchdowns he wants more catches but right now what what I've said is that he's been really instrumental in us moving the sticks and being there for Ryan four catches 63 yards for Deandre Hopkins two plays later a touchdown pass to Nick Westbrook Aquina well they brought pressure you know like they had shown in the red zone or when you first get into the red zone or if you give up a big play you know Ryan's able to get it out there Nick slides across and then really just a lot of just strength and commitment to get into the end zone they've got guys waiting there but this is just a good individual effort there by Ryan and by Nick being able to get the catch and be able to get into the end zone right there and then as you get later into the first half the defense continuing to build this is a third and ten play and it becomes obvious the defense is going to rally to the ball right here and not let Drew Sample pick this up well here we are we're thinking like oh man how many games he actually lost a yard and that's you know third and ten you see us getting back there out of the picture with the sticks you know you see the speed here coming guys swarming to the football running triggering so you guys getting out of there getting depth and he chips and releases and you're like well how close is it and it actually ended up losing a yard and then it's Derek Henry with his longest run of the year at 29 yard touch day a great individual effort but you see there Josh Wiley at the point of attack you see Nick Westbrook blocking you know Dylan's down there Dre's down there we need some more guys and then really just a fantastic individual effort here by Derek to take on the contact make a guy miss stiff arm the linebacker and then out run of DB's and that's pretty much what you see is what you get right there from Derek you see him make a guy miss you see him stiff arm a linebacker and secure the football and then you see him run away from DB so a lot going on right there in that 29 yard run so the defense for the Titans gave up just 136 yards in the last three quarters of the game last sequence for the Bengals really their last chance and the pass rush heats up Joe Burrow it's Arden Key well you get pressure in the middle of the pocket which allows him not to step up Arden's down there low I like that he doesn't put his helmet into the head gear but he's able to get the leg and kind of sweep it but again that was provided by the secondary and the push in the middle of the pocket sweep the leg sweep the leg sweep the leg okay a couple plays later literally their last chance and here's the pressure once again Harold Landry finishes off Joe Burrow on the last offensive snap yeah this looked like some speed and we try to get around the edge and then you know chase the ball and the quarterback and you know again you're not always going to get them but you can get up and you can chase and you know we'd like to see a Tomahawk and get that ball out but there was some certainly some speed and violence in there Harold Landry starting to get more active as we move forward yeah I think so I think yeah I think he's getting a little bit more comfortable and you know we're gonna play more guys you know we're gonna see Travis here later in the day and in this show and he's earned the right to play more and so is Weave and obviously Danico and Arden and Harold so you know we're gonna try to keep rolling guys through as much as we can stop the run and it allows us to earn the right to rush the passer okay I'm knocking on wood are you pleased with your depth on defense right now yeah I mean we've been able to play a lot of guys you know some guys stepped in there and secondary when we had to have it you know hook was down a week and Christian was down a week so we've had some guys play for us we've played a lot of guys up front but we just you know next week's a new challenge we continue to give love to both the offense and defense in our next segment we're gonna break down an offensive play and a defensive play the head coach at the telestrator the Mike Vrables show from the Bet MGM studio presented by Seat Geek continues right after this interested to see what the head coach has to say about two key plays in the ballgame and why they worked go to the telestrator the first one he calls himself young Peyton Manning now with his fourth career touchdown pass it's Derek Henry why does this work Mike okay well here we go we shift Ryan out we bring Derek into Wildcat Big Jeff shifts to the end of the line of scrimmage so building off a look that we ran last year against them or a couple years ago where we were able to get Derek into the end zone from this Wildcat look you're gonna see Cheddar Bob back there Wiley hiding back on the backstop Cheddar Bob yeah long story locker room stuff but we're overloaded down here okay so as Derek starts you see a lot of these guys start to flow in this direction I hope that's enough actually as we go to the video tape okay we're gonna let it roll and now you're gonna see as we pause it okay all these bodies crammed up in here looking for Derek and we're able to slip back in here actually it's gonna be caught right in there can I say something yeah really impressed with the patients he shows with this he loves these plays okay that's why we keep doing them but the sell of it is the fact that he doesn't get in a hurry right and he kind of looks down he hides the ball a little bit you know we kind of tell him like run it until you can't right and so obviously he's trying to sell it but you can see what happens you know we got all this space back here for us to kind of slip away so you know the next one is we're gonna get Ryan to come run a front pylon he's gonna bring it back and we're gonna get him right over here in the front pylon that'll be the next setup so you can see we're setting it up for next week alright that's good stuff Josh Wiley with the touchdown catch two catches in the ball game for him can we talk about the celebrate he hand the ball to Jeff like Jeff did something I said Jeff why'd you bully him for the ball he was I was going to celebrate and Josh handed me the ball so then Jeff spiked it well but isn't that respect though don't you think that's respect the rookie shows respect to Jeff that's his first touchdown he should have got the ball back though right he got to keep I don't know I didn't track it down okay so this is defense and let's see a little Travis Gibson here okay so obviously here four down front but you can see we even and Travis are in here they're rotating through it all starts with getting a good get off you can see these guys here on the edge getting a good get off can we talk about pastures continue to work your hands and your feet as you make way to the quarterback Travis is able to corner okay to quarterback still is on the top of his drop he's looking out here his receivers not quite into his route when he's ready to throw and then as he hitches right as he's able to hitch we'll take a look at this from the end zone okay as he hitches okay now we're able to Tom a hawk the ball out of there to me that's the most important thing about getting a sack is being able to get the football out okay you talk about working hands and feet the first meaningful contact here's weave with the speed of power you're going to see Travis work a rip and then try to corner here and that's the most important thing is that these guys are working together okay so as we've worked into the face of the quarterback okay he's just as much to work on getting this sack here the quarterback's looking he pumps and instead of him stepping up now we can turn bend and corner and we're able to get that football that's the most important thing that's the only reason we're doing it and then I want you to look right down here that's the guy that comes and ultimately recovers it okay run into the football is that thing squirts out okay not not big old cheer standing there one watching why everybody else is playing but guys that are running to the football well and Simons Simms helps get it out work on getting here to the action good stuff all right when we come back epic western spotlight the guys who help make the Titans big and strong and lady as well that's next on the Mike Vrable show presented by seeking welcome back to the Mike Vrable show it's time for tonight's epic western spotlight and we're going to introduce you to the Titans sports performance staff used to be known as strength and conditioning but it goes a little further than that now with how these players get ready with the help of this group which includes a young lady who joined the staff this summer as a matter of fact enjoy this week's epic western spotlight Frank Perino always has a plan the Titans fifth year director of sports performance isn't the only one it's the same for Brian Bell the assistant director of sports performance who's now in his sixth year Tyler Rouse who's in his second season and Haley Roberts an intern who was promoted to full-time during this past training camp Perino Bell Rouse and Roberts with the help of several other staffers have an individual plan for every single Titans player individual planning really is a waterfall or trickle-down effect where we start with body types linemen are one body type mids or one body type skills or one body type now we can split it up from their offensive and defensive linemen linebackers tight ends so then it becomes positional but some work is team-wide like pushing the sleds everyone on the Titans 2023 roster no matter the position was asked to do sled work this offseason Perino loved it because he felt there was tremendous carryover to football conditioning that's pretty similar to the energy systems used for football and there's total body strength involved in it there's teamwork involved in it you see we put our players on the sleds by position we intermingle offense the defensive guys on the sleds so it just is you know it was really coach Rebels idea that was really you know evolved into something great members of the sports performance staff may have areas of expertise but none in the group focuses on any one area and with good reason collaborative approach like there's not just one person doing one thing all the time like I've helped break down some of the GPS stuff whenever we're out of practice or the teams out of practice we'll be in here with the injured guys and we'll rotate who has which injured guy just so we can all have that real have a relationship with that specific athlete one Titans athlete does get more attention than the rest when it comes to his training Derek Henry he loves training and he does it rigorously so is it harder or easier to make a personal training plan for number 22 easier in the sense that he he he's a very hard worker he's obviously you know been doing it for a long time he trusts us when he's in here to help him you know which obviously makes things easier you know what I mean but at the end of the day works very hard and you know the whole saying hard work pays off I think you know the players have a respect and a trust for their sports performance staff because I know they want the best for me and I know they're gonna help me push to me to my potential as possible and just going to work and get work done and you know it'll pay off from once he gets to the field it's a staff with a lot of stability and a lot of know-how yeah I think it's it's great diversity in there all different backgrounds and knowledge and you know I love how they work and they rotate you know Frank coordinates that with me and Todd and you know it is about the players it always comes down to making sure and we talked about Derek there and he's got a zone plan and Derek doesn't practice every single day and so you know they've got to keep him conditioned but also you know try to take care of him for a long season and Tyler Rouse who is all part of that staff was a great schoolboy running back who was chasing Derek Henry for the high school record in both of their senior years he only rushed for 2,977 yes he was I showed the team one year and I said you know who is second to Derek and I said Tyler I said you know that is instead nobody I said Tyler stand up and the team about they died they didn't know that that was actually Tyler good stuff all right more coming up on the Mike Vrable show presented by Seat Geek from the Bette MGM studio stay with us as we continue on the Mike Vrable show coming to you from the Bette MGM studio it is time now for kids ask coach Vrable hit that zippy music or also known as my favorite part of the show yet there's zippy music with this there it is hi coach Vrable I'm Caitlin and I'm nine years old when you were a football player if you tackle Derek Henry would he fall forward or backward Caitlin I love that question we Derek and I talk about this probably four or five times a day at first he would go straight up and then I would run my feet and then he would eventually go backwards did you have any backs in the league I guess Brandon Jacobs was in the league at that time I hit Brandon Jacobs one time and I was on the ground and I looked up and I asked Bruce can I go tell me he fell and he goes if you hurry you could beat him off the ground we both fell yeah because I was like not really I was just seeing whatever at black and I was like did he fall and he's like yeah if you hurry you could beat him off the ground but there were more guys like that when you played Bettis Eddie yeah you know I mean and that's the thing about Derek is there aren't many like him today because high school and college don't really produce those kind of backs no you know I'm not you know he would you know he'd be a tight end he'd be a defensive end you know just looking at body types from you know high school or college but certainly has a unique skill set and one that we have to continue to use Caitlin might top the list right now she is winning that that was a really really good question Caitlin we've got more coming up we've got I hope she believes me do you think she would no probably not we've got Mike Vrabel's keys to success the Nissan keys coming up as we're headed to Indianapolis a lot to talk about stay with us Mike Vrabel show presented by seat geek we move now to the keys of the game which are presented by Nissan Titans on their way to Indianapolis and the first key I mean the keys have a sponsor but the Vrabel straighter doesn't have a sponsor we're going to get on okay we're working on I'll do better I promise all right stop the run the quarterback scripted and off schedule talking about I mean Anthony Richardson is big it is it's for real he's big he's fast he's strong with football in his hand I mean they use him all over the field and it's not all that it's not all quarterback run but it's certainly a large part of what they do we'll have to be ready for it we'll have to force him laterally and we'll have to get guys to the football and then when he's dropping back to throw if he likes the favorable look of the secondary and our rush lanes aren't sound you know he'll take off so he's making yards in a hurry all right so let's take a look at the second key this is for the Titans offense be efficient on first and second down when you look at our numbers Mike we're 55% on third and five or less okay so that's that we're doing okay if we can keep it in third and five or less 55% of the time we're extending that drive if we get outside of that bad thing start to happen and we're forced upon or the ball gets turned over or nothing good happens there so if we can stay efficient and be on schedule similar to what we did last week we'll have a chance all right then let's take a look at a special teams key to wrap up the Nissan Keys protect our specialists well they got grid gunners Tony Brown is down there he's rolling and he is fast they're going to rush they're going to put some pressure on us and so we need to be able to protect these guys you can see if we protect our kickers they've been they've been kicking a football well for us and if we can protect our returner they can take care of it I think really what it comes down to when you talk about Indy in all areas they have a lot of speed they do this is a fast football team you can see what you know they how they wanted to create this team with some veterans proven veterans and then some some young speed around it back in the AFC south that's it we're on the road we got to get one of these yeah got to play more consistently on the road yeah that would go without saying all right so we'll remind you that we've got Titans countdown coming up this Sunday 11am central from Lucas Oil Stadium on 104.5 the zone and all our great Titans radio stations by the way you can now hear us on the radio as well and then kickoff comes your way at noon central time Titans and the Colts who gets to three and two and takes the lead in the division for Mike Vrable I'm Mike Keith thanks for joining us for the Mike Vrable show presented by SeatGeek we'll see you next time