 It took everything they had as the Titans come to the mile-high city and for the first time in 33 years get it done again In the 52nd meeting between these rivals Jacksonville comes to Nashville and sees the Titans get it done again Titans trailed here today 24 to 12 and yet They decide to pick themselves up dust themselves off and go win a game to get to three and oh We welcome you to the Mike Vrable show presented by Coca Cola I'm Mike Keith joined by the head coach of the Tennessee Titans Mike Vrable as the Titans come off a surprise by weekend Caused by the COVID outbreak on the football team Titans still stand three and oh and Mike as we see this new week Dawn we certainly hope things are going better for the Titans first and foremost Let me ask you about the health of the players and the staff Hopefully everybody is bouncing back Yeah, I think they are and I appreciate you asking That's always our first concern is the health and safety of our players and their family and our staff and their families For the most part, I think everybody's doing well Improving and hopefully we can continue to to put this thing behind us Mike outside of the the concern for the health of the players and the staff What has been the biggest challenge in all of this for you as the head coach? Well, just making sure that We're doing everything that we can to continue the protocols and in the safety in which we You know address this this issue of COVID and a pandemic and make sure that we can operate and do our jobs and function But keep them safe and healthy That's we have to continue to do that when we enter back into the building and make sure that that we take the approach that That every person that we come in contact with is infected and take that Seriously and make sure that what happened here doesn't happen again all of your meetings from here will be virtual So how will you form a practice day? Knowing that you certainly go on the field together, but that you can't meet in person. How will that shape your plan? Well, we'll always have a schedule that's got the players best interests in mind And so, you know, there's gonna be a lot required of them and asked of them as far as coming over and testing Point of care test to be able to come into the building The number of people that are permitted in the weight room at any given point at a training room and being mindful of the cafeteria And so We are You know, we're working through that schedule And you're gonna do what's best for the players and then try to make sure that they're engaged and stimulated Through the zoo meetings virtually Titans head coach Mike Vrable the Mike Vrable show when we come back It's your Coca-Cola six pack six of the guys who've stuck out in the Titans 3 and 0 start We'll talk about those players with the head coach Next stay with us Mike Vrable show presented by Coca-Cola continues with The six pack Mike Vrable six pack usually we have six plays But to start off with here because there was no game this past weekend We're gonna talk about six players who played key roles in helping the Titans start 3 and 0 and Mike We've got to start off with your quarterback Ryan Tannehill who already has six touchdown passes Well, let's hope he can continue to improve on that. I feel like he's taking care of football It's been efficient. I know he'd like to have some throws back, but you know for the most part I think he's got us headed in the right direction He hits the throw to Adam Humphries one of four touchdown passes against Jacksonville Maybe the biggest step forward in the past game at Minnesota was being able to hit the deep shots once again Which was a key down the stretch last year. Yeah, that was something we were able to move the ball down the field And you know, we had a lot of catch-and-run plays last year that moved down and made it look big You know me hit one against Oakland, but you know that we have to be able to do that We have to be able to hit the ball and throw the ball over people's head at times And that was something that was great to see whenever we were in Minnesota Alright, let's talk about one of the receivers making things happen for Ryan Tannehill Tight end John Oosmith who has continued his outstanding play from the end of 2019 he certainly has You know, there's players that work hard, but I don't think anybody worked harder than John Oosmith He's right up there at the top always looking to improve So, you know, he's he's got a really good skill set. He can run He's been able to go up and attack the ball Use his catch radius as you can see there. He's not letting the ball get into his body Even when he's contested catches. I think that that's something that he built a lot of confidence with Towards the end of last year as well Why is he one of the most effective red zone targets at tight end in the NFL, Mike? Well, I mean, I think he you know, those are qualities that we talk about with his size and his speed To be able to to run routes and get open against the corners or safeties. Excuse me linebackers And then again, you see that those tight windows and some of those throws down there those catches You're going to see him go and frame the football and go and attack it wherever the football is We go from number 81 to number 84. How about a little Corey Davis so far in 2020? Yeah, we just got to keep moving and progressing, you know started off Really well in in Denver and then just got to keep up that consistency You know has helped us well and again, we need him in a run game and and there he is in the play-action pass game We've got to put that ball away and then not switch it here in traffic Those are things we're going to continue to harp on We've taken care of the football which has allowed us to even when we're not at our best When these games The next man didn't play this weekend and yet he's still the third leading rusher in the national football league I'm talking about Derek Henry Well, he knows that we're going to lean on him heavily It's good to see him getting the end zone here the last time we played And I know that we're going to start we're going to start breaking some and You know, he's been running well for us and we have to do a better job of blocking and and he can improve everywhere But you know, we're going to count on him and lean on him heavily Let's turn to defense now and let's talk about another Alabama man linebacker Reshawn Evans who had the big fumble recovery and return against Minnesota Well, that's uh You know what we had a little situation early in Denver He entered the he exited the game early But uh, he has been active. He loves this team. He loves his defense and you know, we got to play better defensively But we've been able to get some turnovers and you know, you run into the ball Good things happen and reshawn plays a great effort and a great toughness I know you respect dave mcginnis's opinion. He feels like your safety kenny vicaro Is maybe one of your underrated heroes so far in the 2020 season Tell me what you think about kenny's play to this point. Well, he throws his body around and You know, again, we we all can can improve but uh kenny's throwing his body around and and he he does a lot for us when we ask him to blitz and You know, we ask him to cover and he's down in there and run support. So You know, just that's the versatility that we that we like and and again, I love his attitude I love his preparation and and what he brings to it each and every day You mentioned the versatility the fact that he and kevin byrd played together as such a pair Has given your defense an added element as well Well, they got a lot of comfort with each other They they communicate they can just look at each other and use eye contact and hand signals To be able to communicate and and and run our defense. So the more familiarity that everybody has I think the better that that will all be That's the six pack presented by coca-cola. We'll tell you the wrackly roofing tough titan comes up later in the show That's going to be malkin butler. But up next it's delta dentals. Guess the titan as we continue on. Oh, yeah As we continue on the mic rabble show presented by coca-cola Delta dental can you guess this titan? The mic rabble show presented by coca-cola the delta dental segment one. I think you're going to hit this time I think I could handle this one uh I remember the hat I do i'm going to go with steven gaskowski steven gaskowski is correct Looks like i mean this is what this game has gotten to you have to Show them to me a second time for me to actually hit them Well talking about steven is probably better than the game itself because you're talking about the afc special teams player Of the month what a comeback from his start and what a performance against minnesota Absolutely well documented how he started this season Not what any of us had envisioned or wanted But uh being a professional uh and being the type of player that he is he got it corrected And and we also helped him out a little bit. I think I think we protected better and Got that stuff cleaned up um And then really single-handedly won that minnesota game, you know making three kicks over 50 yards um You know we needed him we had to have him and he came through Your former teammate too is that fun coaching a former teammate like that? Yeah, I mean, I don't really coach steven much. It's like I don't coach kern or brit, you know I mean bow like though those guys are specialists and You know, what am I going to tell brett kern on how to kick the ball 50 yards on the sideline like It it's out of my control and those guys handle it very well um You know, I used to anytime that the kickers miss I always walk over there I said, well, is it a bad snapper a bad hole? You know, I just always looking to try to break the Break the ice a little bit because you know, it's never the kicker's fault So you're either going to blame it on the snapper the hole That's usually my go-to line All right. Well, let's keep steven involved in the program here as we're going to do the bridge stone clutch performance Play of the first three games and it's actually a sequence of plays at the end of the first half against jacksonville They kick off after scoring and joshua kaloo makes a play on what was supposed to be A little line drive squib kick Yeah, they're trying to take some time off there and they try to squib it josh was able to get in front of it Knock it down get in front of it like a shortstop had plenty of time over there and make the play Covered up. We had, uh, you know enough time to go into down down timeout mode. We had a timeout left Uh, we got the ball in the middle Anthony furks or went down a good protection good throw Went down down called timeout and then uh, steven was able there to uh to knock it through for what would be Three huge points in that game In a game you won by three points. That's the type of complementary football You always want to see out of in that case your offense and your special teams Well, we just need more of it, you know, I mean it starts with, you know, the defense did get a stop they they forced Uh jacksonville to to kick a field goal, you know in that two minute drive Jacksonville tried the hard squib. So, you know, in my mind we erased the three points that they were able to put up there And uh, it was in in effect complimentary After the break, we'll have the wrackly roofing tough titan As we're going to talk to one of the toughest malcom butler and you'll hear the comments from the head coach on number 21 This is the mike drabelshow presented by coca-cola You see what you're made of when you go through something tough And yeah, it's been a tough year But tennesseeans are built for this Great pass down through generations We look for it We like it that way Is back baby tennessee tough Pleasure joining us for the mike drabelshow presented by coca-cola Malcolm butler is a veteran player on this football team. He plays the corner back position and mike drabelshow He is uh a guy you like to watch played because he plays the game the way you want to see it played all the time Malcolm like most of us isn't perfect But he plays with an effort and a toughness and a competitive spirit You know that i admire as a coach He's never going to give up. He's going to try to compete And he does that and so he's a great uh mentor to All our players but especially those young db's You know fulton and jackson certainly look to him right off the bat, don't they? Well, I think they can emulate his effort, you know that if you make a mistake do it go on a hundred miles an hour Uh, you never beat on a play unless you give up and uh, you know, they're dbs They're gonna people are going to complete some passes on them. You know, you you hope that they're challenging and uh You know, we get we're going to start winning some more of these balls in the in Second half of the season as we we finish here and move past this by week He's the pride of vicksburg, mississippi He is a two-time pro bowler and he is a titan starter at cornerback This week. He's the wrackly roofing tough titan Malcolm butler and butler is hurting butler Holding his wrist or his hand Is writhing in pain and the titan training staff is going to have to come get him Let me ask you about that injury based on the fact that you missed the second half of the year You've never been hurt like that before in your career. Had you no, sir. That was the first time Ever, you know, missed the game or you know, I had a major injury. So it was a lot of adversity But I'm back now ready to roll. So I want to know when you got hurt last year I mean your grades through the first eight games had been fantastically high and everybody was talking about Malcolm butlers on his way to another pro bowl Were you playing the best football of your career when you got injured last year? I believe so. Yes, sir I know I was you know, I had an off year the year before that and I wanted to prove to my teammates myself And and my coaches in the city of nashville I thank god that I got another opportunity to do it this year. It's coming Cousins under pressure fires downfield for jefferson. It's batted away Nice job with the left hand by butler Cousins throws downfield for thielen and it is batted away again butler at the last minute Gets in there and saves a touchdown as it looked like thielen had a score That's two great plays by butler back to back. How can the defense be better in 2020 than it was in 2019? Just take it up a notch But you can't live off last year. Nothing in the past is going to help you so communication Believing in each other working hard practicing hard studying the film studying your opponents And you know just doing whatever it takes to win. You're 30 now So you've done this for a while. You've seen it when you see a young guy come in What's the most important thing you can get across to him quickly to help him Be an important part of the secondary right away Just being a pro and you know, you come in here first round He got high expectations and just communicate what your team makes you hear the play football and that's That's all you could do be a good teammate play football respect your elders and uh Chris is a pretty cool quiet guy We are so glad you're back and back at it playing great ball when you were dinged up last year An important part of this team Malcolm Butler. Thanks for joining us. Yes, sir. Thank you Time for Mike Vrapel's Nissan keys to success against the 4 and 0 buffalo bills You want to start with special teams because they have a pro bowl return man in Andre Roberts? Yeah, this is uh, this is a guy that's done it for a long time He's leading the league and punt returns and kickoff returns So it's going to be critical that we handle him That we're putting the ball well that we're getting great coverage out of our gunners It's averaging over 12 yards of punt return And up to 34 yards of kickoff return So he's obviously going to be a key to the game on special teams for us Key number two for the Tennessee Titans is be efficient on offense and that means no negative plays Well, we can't sit there and play second and 10 second and 12 A third of buffalo's plays against them are for no gain or for negative yardage and uh We just can't play the game behind the chains And so if we can stay efficient on first the second down, you know, we will be where we need to be And then you say eliminate x plays on defense. What does that mean, Mike? Well, it's those runs over 15 and passes over 20 That change field position change momentum There's been too many of them in the first three games that we've played You know, there's too much good defense in there to to be overshadowed by 10 or 12 plays a game That amount to 250 yards that that's not going to be good enough and it's not good enough. There's too many good snaps in there You know for us to to be able to build around if we can just eliminate these explosive gains Is it a bigger challenge because josh allen is the quarterback on the other side on sunday? Well, it's always a big challenge and and he's he's a guy that can keep plays alive He's had a few of them himself run the football He keeps plays alive. He's he's more comfortable completing the deep ball this year Seems like Stefan digs has become Somebody that that will go down and get the ball down field and completed a few of them So this is going to be a challenge for us Because it's the next challenge with the bills How exciting will it be for this team to get back on the field at nissan stadium sunday? I think they'll be ready to play. I think by the time the game day rolls around these guys will be excited and ready to go Well, mike we look forward to it for certain. Remember the titans in the bills sunday at nissan stadium kickoff Is set for 1202. We invite you to listen to all of it on our flagship station in nashville It's titans radio 1045 the zone. We're on the air with titans countdown beginning at 11 a.m We hope you'll join us for all of it for the head coach mike frable. Mike key says thanks for watching the mike frable show presented by coca-cola