 I think a lot of people don't take the Titans as serious. Intercepted to five, Zach! He's got a lot of more. Jeffrey Seven. Don't let no one in the world tell you the story. An intercepted fire. I'm going to fight back, but to the name. We write our story. I'm in control, yeah, I'll go for fame. Everybody count on us now. It's our side, don't know how to fade. It's about us. It ain't a group in the world that I weren't ready to go to war with tonight right now. They're our top team at ANC, and I feel like going forward, they're going to make some big moves. I really do. That's how you do that. On the road. Getting down it. I know. This ain't trying to prove. Nobody wrong with trying to prove ourselves right every single week. From Nissan Stadium, I am Lance Smith, and I am joined by a whole bunch of people that I love. We have got the Air Force and the Army in the house right here to my right in this chair. CJ, 2K is in the house. Good to see you. So what's up? We are safe tonight, CJ. Yeah. We've got the service in the house. Thank you guys for being here. This is an awesome show, an awesome game that we're prepping for, but we've got to talk about the game that was... First of all, when you watch the game, were you expecting that? What just happened in Los Angeles? Yeah, that was crazy, man. For our defense to step up the way they did, the two interceptions, the score is so quick. You know what I'm saying? The turnovers and stuff, it was crazy. All right, let's get into it. Let's get into the show and do what we do here on Titan Splits. Let's do some hot takes with CJ since we got the man here. And let's talk about it. This defense, it's so funny because it's like, how long has it been since we've had this kind of front line? And we were talking off camera. It's like, it goes back to, I think the van and Bosch days since we looked this vicious up front. Yeah, the van and Bosch days, the Keith Bullock, all those guys from, that was my rookie year last time I seen us have a defense like that, create so many turnovers and get to the quarterback like that. Saks galore, we had five total. And we're not, we're not blitzing. This is just the front four wreaking havoc. Jeffrey Simmons with three, the big man, big Jeff. I mean, it's just, it's interesting. You just as a Titans fan because it's like, we just haven't had this in so long. And then all of a sudden you just now can't wait to see the defense get back in the field to do some damage to what many consider to be one of the top offenses in the NFL. So talk to me through this from your perspective. Like what was the key to that? Just individual overpowering? Yeah, when you got a defensive line that can play like that and you don't have to blitz, you just sit back and let those guys go get the quarterback. You got the rest of the guys that can just sit back and get the interceptions. When you don't have to blitz the cornerbacks, the linebackers, we can drop back in coverage and let those guys up front do their job. Which is why we now have the greatest safety in the NFL. We always knew it. Kevin Byard is, doing magical things because we do have that pressure in front. We talked about it last year, last season we didn't have that pass, and so Kevin was asked to cover a lot and do a lot, and what has been able to do what he's doing this year? And he's talking about just proving ourselves right. He seems to be having a ball out there. Does he have that much freedom now? Yeah, he has that much freedom. He don't have to worry about going out there, stopping the run, or blitzing. Like we say, he can just sit back and watch the quarterback and make it the plays that he's been making on the ball. He seems to be communicating so well with everybody else back there, being the leader back there in the teamfits. I mean, how difficult is it to communicate things like that on the fly? I mean, talking football with you off camera and you throw out, you know, verbiage that I'm just trying to keep up with. How difficult of a job is that? It's difficult, but just like, I feel like he's the quarterback of the defense. Like, you know, you got your quarterback on the offense. They do everything, put everybody in the place they have to be in. And I feel like he's the quarterback on the defense. So he put everybody in the position that they need to be in to make the plays that we're making. You know, speaking of the defense doing things, you know, stepping up, even David Long with his interception. But again, from Jeffrey Simmons coming around and slinging Stafford around, making him look like Carson Wentz. We like this play. He does that every week. That'd be nice. Getting it done. Fine. It's really kind of remarkable. We'll see. Well, moving on. Let's, we love the defense. I can't wait to see what they're going to do for the rest of the season. It's comforting to know that we've got that. But we had the the running back by committee now that we don't have Derek Henry for seemingly the rest of the regular season. The old man, 36 year old Adrian Peterson getting the rock along with Foreman and McNichols. You were a Marquis running back. How difficult is it to share the load? It's definitely difficult, especially when you used to being a guy that get all the carries and you can get get the momentum and things like that. But, you know, sometimes like this day in age the NFL is going to run it back by committee offense. Anyways, so it's a good thing and it's a bad thing. Well, but talk to me though. I mean, I remember talking to me how how that were and are there advantages to it? Are you communicating? Definitely advantages because when he go in for a series or whatever, he can, he can tell me what he sees out there rather like and then when I'm on the sideline, I can tell him what I see from the sideline. So when I go in the game, you know, I'm taking his advice what he's seeing from being in there. You know what I'm saying then from what I see from the sideline. And then, you know, you get your break, you know what I'm saying, you're not as tired. And then when you got a bigger guy like Lindele, in my case, got a bigger guy, he go in there, he run hard and you know beat him up and I come in on the speed guy and I just run around him. Smashing dash, a little tenderizing. No, I get that. Is that is that hard for defenses though if they've been going up against got like that and all of a sudden here comes, you know, you got a game plan for two guys. And I'm not just one guy. You got a game plan for the power back coming out. Then you got a game plan for the speed back. So it's definitely make it more difficult on the defense. Yeah, well, you know, let's hope it's difficult for all defenses we face moving forward. Speaking of which just looking at the list here, the moving forward, first of all, going into this game, the playoff teams over the last four games from last season, handling our business. But now moving ahead, we have the easiest schedule in the NFL. We start to play the Texans twice, the Jaguars once, dolphins. We do have a couple of tough games, but the records combined 23 and 36. So we got a path. We're locking up this division. Is it it's how important though is it for the coaching staff to stress one game at a time? I mean to players sort of feel like it's definitely important because you know you look at it you say we got the Texans twice. We got Jacksonville but those divisional games. So anytime you play those games, they can beat you any Sunday and go either way when it's a divisional game. So yeah, no I mean hey we lost to the Jets. So you got to play. This game was certainly fun. I know I love watching us take out the rams in Los Angeles. Very well done. We got more Titans Blitz on the other side as we go to break. Here are some Nissan memorable moments stick around. What's going to take you to the who nearly came coming to you live from Nissan Stadium. Troops in the house as we celebrate Veterans Day our service game. This Sunday here at Nissan stadiums, we take on the Saints. We're going to pause the action from the X's nose a minute. It's one of my favorite segments that we do here on the program. Maybe we'll get you to do one of these segments. We ask our young talent to draw their favorite Titans players to see if our Titans could figure out who it is. And here is this week's vague van go. Check this out. I mean we got the one hearing. Oh man. Hold on. Oh man this one struggling. All right I see it's appears to be dreadlocks and a headband. This one might stump me here. All right you got the three days or a week or whatever you want to call them. Oh you kicking me out early? Nice. Coach is here. I'm out of here. Appreciate it. Go. Hey I'm going to go ahead and sit over there. Hey guys how are you? This is a really cool painting here. I love the powder blue. Great smile. Headband. Love the hearing. Iced out. AJ Brown. Julio has very similar hair to this. Just by the hair alone I got to go with Julio. We got the hair for sure which for me is a giveaway. I'll probably say that's Julio's gentleman. Headband, hoop earrings, smiling. Got the weeks going on. You gotta be me. And number two, Julio Jones. Julio Jones. Julio Jones. Everything. I better not see that on eBay. Great job. Great job. Listen. We've got some colors and some next rounds on you man. I try it out. I try it out. Yeah. I would love that. And C.J.2 K.Drew it. But you wouldn't be as good as Harper. Good job. Nice. All right. We got to play a little game this Sunday. Stick around more Titans Blitz on the other side. Trivia Gollet. Coming up. The Titans Blitz coming to you live from Nissan Stadium. I'm Lance Smith. We have veterans and troops in the house as we celebrate Veterans Day. Couple troops right here getting ready for our... Let's go ahead and roll it. Titans. Trivia Gollet. Are you intimidating yet? That's ridiculous. I'm talking to soldiers if they're scared of the scary music. This Titans Trivia Gollet is brought to you by our friends at Martin's Barbecue. This is very cool right here. Also fed our soldiers tonight. How was the food, guys? Very cool. Very nice. Martin's Barbecue. Joint's been serving West Tennessee's style, West Tennessee bus style barbecue for the good people of Nashville for 15 years. Visit Martin's in the north end zone right here at Nissan Stadium or stop by one of the locations around the city line at martinsbbqjoint.com. As always, tighten up. Are you guys ready? We got you some Martin's Barbecue stuff there and you're playing for a really nice Martin's Barbecue gift card at the end of this. Tim, to my right here, where are you from? Rhode Island, originally. Rhode Island, but you told me you are a life-long Titans fan. That's right. We were going to find out. Okay. And Wendler, you said you were a Titan. I'm going to put you to it, Tim and Wendler. Tim, I believe you won the Rock, Paper, Scissor to go first. No one cheated? Yeah, I cheated. He's honest. I love that. All right, here we go. But Tim wanted, he's got the first question. First question is to you. Here we go. Look to the big screen. What results from a quarterback being sacked in his own end zone? Is that a touch down, a safety? He even knows what to do. I don't know who originated that, but there we go. One point, not two points, ironically. To you, Wendler, your question is how many yards is a false start penalty? Is that two yards, ten yards, five yards, or 15 yards? That's five-yard penalty. False start, five-yard penalty. That is correct. Next question, Tim, who is the only first round draft pick university of Tennessee? First round draft pick, University of Tennessee, Justin Hunter, Ryan Tannehill, Kevin Dyson, or Albert Hainesworth? That would be Justin Hunter, Lance. Justin Hunter, not first rounder. We were looking for Albert Hainesworth. That's right, that's right. Albert Hainesworth. All right, to you, it's all tied up. It takes a little right here, Wendel. Who gets to call heads or tails for the coin toss at the start of every NFL game? Is that the home team captain, the referee, the visiting team captain, or the visiting head coach? Away team captain. Away team captain. You have taken the lead with that one. Tim, to you. To tie it up, before the AFC South division was formed in 2002, what was the name of the division in which the Titans played? The AFC Atlantic, NFC South, the UFC, or the AFC Central? Lance, that was the AFC Central. That was the old AFC Central. But I'm going to overrule that. There we go. We liked the game. Wendel, to you. What jersey number did Mike Vrable wear during his playing career with the Patriots? Tough question here. 18, 50, 67, or 95. What did Vrable wear with the Patriots? I'm going to say 50. You're going to say 50. I'm going to say you're correct. Three to you. Question to you, Tim. Which of the following Titans was a six-round NFL draft choice? Six-round NFL draft choice of the Titans. David Long Jr., a money hooker, Nate Davis, or Roger Saffel III. Six-round David Long Jr. David Long Jr., the score is all tied up. Final question, you each get to answer. So, Tim will stay with you here. Which family film was number one at the domestic bus office the week of the Music City miracle? This one's hard, Tim. The Muppets, Stuart Little, the Incredibles, or Space Jam? Music City miracle, number one at the box office. The Stuart Little. Going with Stuart Little. Wendell, what say you? Same answer? I'm going to go with Space Jam. Going to go with Space Jam. Did you love Space Jam? I did. Did you love Stuart Little? Immensely. I love this video. It's actually Stuart Little. I'm going to give you stuff and here is a $100 gift card to you, sir. Very well. You've got to teach your friends that. That's in CJ back with you. We've got a big game coming up here. Anise, we're finally back home, been on the road for a couple of weeks. Finally back home in here at Nissan Stadium this Sunday to take on the Saints. Something very cool, though, to remember as you're coming to the stadium on behalf of LG. This is fantastic. Everybody come to the game. We've partnered with LG. We want you to bring your gently used clothing. Go through your closet, pick things up. You don't want to wear anymore. Bring them to the game. Okay, LG will wash and donate them to local charities here in Nashville. And if you do that, you get a $10 voucher to concessions. You get a cool t-shirt. So if you bring a t-shirt, you get another one. If you're into just not losing things, we'll replace it. But we're going to take care of some local charities on behalf of, or with the help of LG. It's very cool. So let's just show the rest of the NFL why we have the best fans in the league. All right, game, Sunday, Saints, keys to this thing. My friend, CJ, you know this game better than anybody. What are the Titans need to do? I mean, I say air attack because we can't rely on not to say these guys can't run the ball, but that's not our game right now. Yeah, it's not our game right now, but we're going to have to find some type of way to get a running game going. And like I've been saying, we're going to have to find a way for our receivers to step up even more because we're going to have to change into a passing offense being that we lost our number one threat. Yeah, exactly. Julio Jones been sort of nursing, you know, a slight injury from earlier in the year off season. He's been still playing, though, getting through it. I mean, at what point is it playoffs but at what point do you kind of have to say, okay, well, I just got to I got to put it all out there. Yeah, at some point, but you them hamstring, I think it's the hamstring. Those injuries are tricky. They can go out at any time. And you never really can be yourself with that type of injury. So I feel like he's not set out enough. And I think it's coming around. I think, like right now it's it's due at that time. So you're going to have to do it like real soon. Yeah. Yeah, no, well, and I'm sure A.J. Brown is looking to get back in action. He's had some monster games going into this one. Had a couple of drops this game but he'll shake it off. We have faith. Yeah, he's been good this season. It's kind of the Derek Henry wide receivers out there. Thank you so much for being here. Good to see you again, sir. I want to thank this crowd, especially, hey, thank a veteran tomorrow. Without you guys, we wouldn't be playing this game or doing anything. So hats off to you. Thank you all for being here. Thanks for watching the show. As always, tighten up and let's get another