 A missed high-five, a King's Runs, and a burger that's music to your ears. All of that and much more as another edition of Titans All Access starts now. But there he is, the Uly Bulldozer, Derek Henry, got Chris Moore, can he catch it? What a catch! Will Levist! What a big time throw! Big and ship! Another second! Up on a hooker! There's Hopkins making the catch! Welcome to the Bet MGM Studio and another edition of Titans All Access. I'm Mike Keith with my Titans Radio broadcast partner Dave McGinnis. Titans headed to Houston to play the Texans for the second time in two weeks. Coach Mack, how does that affect preparation? Well, you know the people. You know the people. You know the personnel. Now, they're going to have some different personnel than when we played them the first time. These sandwich games, especially sandwich division games, are always very, very interesting because you know these personnel very well. After having just played them, you know them even better. And so the things that you didn't do well, you try to emphasize how to get over the top of your opponent on that. The things they did well against you, how do you keep them from doing it this time? The Titans did not run the football well in the first matchup against the Texans, but last week against Seattle, 31 overall rushes for 162 yards. What did the Titans do better? Well, they were getting movement off the line of scrimmage. I mean, that's where a run game starts. You know, even with the great running backs in the league, they have to have help to get to that second and third step. We had that consistently, especially Mike, in the first three quarters of the last game. Alright, let's take a look at a couple of Derek Henry's best runs as we go beneath the surface powered by Microsoft. Here we go. This first one here, this is reduced split. They bring the motion in by the receiver. This is three by one. This is a true eight man front. This is really a nine man front because if you watch this person right here, he's going to be involved in the run front too. Here's the only guy. These two guys right here really have no bearing on this run because this is getting ready to be an outside zone with some combo blocks over here to this side. This is an outside zone. It's going to start here and it's going to break here, but the combo blocks are going to come in here. But this is a, this is a massive, always like doing this, Mike. This right here is a massive defensive wall. So what they've done is they're saying you're not going to run the ball into this defense. Let's see what happens here. As we get started, the thing that happens, first of all, you get a nice push. You get a nice push. You see where Derek comes up to the, and shoulders that, that scrum. And we'll see it right here as we get to the end zone. We feel, stop it, Mike, right there just about the time he hits the scrum. Here's what I'm talking about. The scrum is right here. This is the scrum. This is going to be the scrum right in here. I'll just stop it right there. This is pretty, this is pretty bunched up right here. Now, what you're looking for is initial push to get Derek Henry. You always hear me say in the broadcast booth, to a second or third step. Now they guide him to his third step, watch him use his shoulder to bunch through the scrum, and then he burst forward. This is really an excellent, excellent run against a loaded front. Good blocking by Chris Moore there. Traylin Burke's getting out there and helping Derek Henry for 12 yards on that play. Next play as we go to the second half, we're going to take a look at a completely different play. This is a completely different play. This is an eye formation. This is an eye formation with a tight end. Now what we're going to do with this tight end, we're going to bring this tight end across here in motion. And when the tight end comes in motion, what they're going to do, they're going to change their shades on the defensive line. They're going to shift their defensive front this way, and then we're going to run what's called a split dive. A split dive is to work against the eye control of the linebacker. The split dive is going to look like this. It's going to here and here. You split off of the eye formation. But out of this, then it's all up to the running backs vision. This is a vision run by the running back. Let's take a look at it, Mike. And Coach Mack, a lot of times you think, oh, the guy lined up at fullback has gone wrong, but that's what he's supposed to do. Split dive. You're working on the eye control of the linebackers behind the line of scrimmage. Once they start on this split dive, take and stop it right there. You see what happens with that split dive? It took the linebacker clear out here to the backside, but that's why I say it's a vision run for the running back because now what he's got to do, everything's balled up here, but he has to have vision to see this cutback lane. And Derek Henry does a great job of this. And we'll see it from the end zone also when we run. Gain of nine. Gain of nine yards, but watch the split dive. As soon as they start to split, stop it. See what the split does? The split right here holds one of the best linebackers in the league. Now, all of this is bunched up right here, but Derek Henry is looking now for the key block. He's looking for my cutback hole because he knows the split dive has taken this man out of the front. So watch Derek Henry. Watch what his eyes just take a look at his eyes right here and watch him when he cuts back. There it is right there. He cut a three hole skip back there to the backside for nine yards. Very well designed, but this is Derek Henry. Great vision and a great jump. This is a jump cut and a jump cut for a big tall back is really something special. Good stuff. Coach, I know you love to watch Derek Henry run almost as much as you love going to Bonnaroo. I love Bonnaroo. I'd like to go to Bonnaroo twice a year if they have it. I mean, any chance I get to go to Bonnaroo, I'd love it. Well, it's great every summer. They only have it once a year. Okay, that's disappointing. But 365 days a year virtually you can get a Bonnaroo burger at Jiffy Burger in Manchester. Wait a minute. How did I miss this trip? Well, you were busy doing Coach Matt's face. You didn't write and go ahead with the story. All right. So we took Brett Kern because he had just retired. He didn't have anything to do. On the way down there, he told us a great story about a famous sideline encounter that he didn't have with Jeffrey Simmons. NFL Films made it famous. He'll tell us the backstory in our Listen Up with Duncan segment coming up next on Titan's All Access. All officially at the 13 first in 10, Titans in the pistol. Three tight ends for the Titans all to the right. They roll Henry. He's going to throw it. Man is wide open. Touchdown! Titans, jig, a cock blow on the halfback pass. Derrick Henry, who throws it well, makes the play. Henry now eight of 10 passing in his career for 41 yards at five touchdowns. Welcome back to the Bed MGM Studio in Titans All Access. Our Follow Me Through Tennessee series has given me the chance to have great conversations with all my guests en route to the various restaurants across the state that we visited. For our last installment of the series, which we'll share later on this edition of Titans All Access, I invited former Titans punter Brett Kern to join me as we went to Jiffy Burger in Manchester. During the nearly 90 minute drive, I had to get his take on a moment that still makes me laugh to this day. It was following the Titans win in Week 17 over the Miami Dolphins in 2021. To say Jeffrey Simmons left Brett Kern hanging is an understatement. Learn what really happened in this week's Listen Up with Duncan. Hey, I wasn't asking. I was thinking about maybe Adam Strunk and Jeffrey Simmons getting that deal done in the past off season. I never doubted that deal was going to get done, but he did leave you hanging. On the sideline, you're waiting to give him a high five. When did that happen? What was that? It was pretty fun. I get that a lot. I don't even know. I'm trying to remember the game, honestly, but it was at a point where our defense was playing so well. And I remember talking to guys like, hey, I got a KV interception here. And I remember being like, I think, I think Jeff's getting sacked, right? You talk like that on the sidelines, like, you know, you try to pretend like you can, you know, call the player what's going to happen next. And I think big Jeff got a sack. So when he came off, everybody was celebrating, you know, hey, big Jeff, you know, once again, doing your thing. And I just remember being all excited. And I thought we made eye contact. Clearly we didn't. And I just put my hand up like, give me high five. And he just walked by me and I just, I just kept my hand out there. And Zub came over and he was laughing hysterically because he saw the whole thing happen. Zub came over and gave me the high five. And I had no idea that he was Mike either. I had no idea. And I went over to him and said what I said, like, dude, you better not leave me hanging again or it's a serious problem. Because, I mean, in all reality, me against big Jeff, what am I going to be able to do to Jeff? Right, right. It's not like you're going to pay him back in some evil way. In some evil way. In some evil way, right? I mean, the worst thing you can do, you take the smart plug out of his car or something like that, right? Or fill his car with peanuts or, you know, and so that's what I said to him. And then I don't know what it was, but the video came out after the game or this. And I remember thinking, oh my gosh, dude was mic'd up. They got this all on film. You can listen to my entire conversation with Brett Kern on the latest edition of the official Titans podcast known as the OTP. It's available wherever you get your podcasts. When Titans All Access continues, Amy Wells sits down with a Titans defensive back who has made a big jump from year one to year two. In last weekend's game at Nissan Stadium, the Titans made the decision to feature second year tight end, Chigacanquo. And it worked out very well. Acanquo tied his career high with six catches, which went for 63 yards. And his first touchdown of the season, Acanquo has 21 catches in the last five games. Featuring Chigacanquo is the decision of the week presented by Hughes and Coleman. Welcome back to Titans All Access. As a second round pick in 2022, cornerback Roger McCrary was the first Titans rookie to start in every single game since 2017. So going into his sophomore campaign, he spent some time recovering before reflecting on what he might need to do to take his career to the next level. His conversation with our Amy Wells is this week's Nissan Insider. And the first of the season for Roger McCrary, the takeaway on the Titan side of the field. So as an observer, someone who watched you throughout the entire season, never noticed any sort of drop off, pain, anything like that. Obviously, I'm sure that you were hurting a little bit. Never noticed any difference in your play though. How did you mentally get through that? When I say how mentally got through it, it was really just like talking to the vets, just asking them, like, what do y'all do when your body gets tired? Like, I know you're feeling this way. I'll talk to the hook. I'm like, I know you were feeling like this before, bro. Like, tell me what you did. And he was just telling me, like, still that he did, just ease, just work on your body. So it was just great because I feel like Titans, they brought the vets with, like, working on your body. And they brought in professional guys to work on your mentally. So I feel like it was great. What specifically have you been looking at when it comes to working on your body and making sure you're ready to go for another season? First, I had to start off with my diet. Me eating more healthy, that was the one thing. I had to let out some food. I know that just wasn't good for me because I can tell, like, I'm not running good. I'm not feeling right. I'm not feeling good. So I kind of tell the difference in that and more, like, being scratched, more flexible and stuff like that to work with my body and hand screens, you know. It was just seeing that, like, how the game go, the business, everybody. That was another thing I paid attention to the most was just working on my body, just getting my body ready for the next season. You're talking about your diet. What are some of the things you had to stop eating? Baked beans. Oh no, you gave them up. Yeah, that was sally. Sally, but I mean, baked beans is one, but, like, fried food, you know, I'm from the south. Like, we love, you know, our fried food and everything. It's just stuff like that and, like, more greens and stuff. I'm not good at cooking that much, really. So I got to find a private chef stuff like that. And I use some of the guy resources who have them type of own chefs and everything. So that was just great to have the guys in my back corner to ask for advice. Now that you've cut out the fried foods, you've cut out your beloved baked beans, are you noticing a difference? Well, it's definitely, I'm noticing a big difference. It just feels great that it's waking up early. You know, I'm not feeling a little lazy, a little slouching that thing. It's a big difference. And I try to tell, like, some of the rookie guys there now, just, like, focus on your body. Because that's the main thing. Because if you not focus on your body and you hurt, you can't get on the field. So I feel like that's your job. Your body is your job. You got to work on that. Watson looking to go deep, get sacked! A prairie glitzing in to get him. Where do you think you're noticing a difference in your two in terms of things you're more comfortable with or more confident in? I would say yes. Me just knowing the game, knowing what's going to be happening, you know. Knowing how everything's going to come at me now, it may feel more confident. It may be more of a vocal leader because I'm, like, quiet guy. I don't really say that much. So I'm kind of, like, understanding how everything goes, how it's just the words, like, what's coming at me, what's to prevent, and stuff like that. So paying attention to everything. I'm observing everything. So I feel great. Do you feel like you're able to pick up more off the field as well as on the field in terms of being a leader? Most definitely. I say I pick up more off the field than on the field. I feel like the more off the field stuff is way important and stuff on the field because that stuff you do every day on the field, like, we do that all our whole life. So I feel like a lot of people should pay attention more off the field because that's what makes you, like, a leader, like, more character and stuff like that. Some day can build you better as a person. Let's work. Let's work. Let me get a turn-over hook. Don't talk back! I told you! Turn-over! Is it true that you're looking to start a foundation around the Nashville area? Yes. I'm trying to start something. It's just, I just got to work my way out. Just start slow and build up to it because I don't like to rush anything. I just let everything fall in place. It's just leaving God's hand. When Titan's All Access continues, Brett Kern and I arrive in Manchester, ready to take on the Bonnaroo Burger at Jiffy Burger. Follow me through Tennessee is next. This is Stadium in 60, a quick update on the Titans' new stadium. Buy a PSL at Nissan Stadium now. Get credit towards a PSL in the new Titan Stadium. Titan's vice president of ticket sales Jim Rice explains. Anybody that has a PSL, you're going to get full value of whatever you paid for at the time. And then anybody that's buying now until we go on sale with the new building, all that money will transfer over towards a PSL in the new building as well. Yes, so if you paid three grand for your PSL, you're going to get $3,000 in credit for the new stadium, plus being a PSL holder, you're going to be towards the top of the list when we go on sale. So you're going to have first crack at the best seats in the house. For the latest news, visit titansnewstadium.com Manchester, Tennessee. This is Jiffy Burger. Legendary spot that you have to hit. My first time, Brett Kern's first time. They have the Bonnaroo Burger. Here we go. Right off the highway. Let's roll. Let's go. Come on. I'm Mike. That's your penny. David, nice to see you. Thank you. All right, he's working. I'm going to get out of here so you can see Brett Kern work. He's in a lot of certain ways. Yeah, he's doing a good job. Next up, we got a call in order for two hamburgers tonight. No, you're just there. You're ready to go. You want a burger? No, I just got that one, Brett. You want a Budweiser? Yeah. I want to know how you got Brett Kern in the kitchen to work. He walks in the door, and David Penn congratulates him. Yeah, I mean, there wasn't really an ass. He didn't ask. He told me. How did it become Jiffy Burger? In 1963, it sold at auction, and so these people bought it. And they had a contest at the newspaper. And so this lady came up with the name Jiffy Burger. And I don't know what they got her as a prize, but she wants some kind of a prize. And of course, she's been raised in it. My son Brian's been raised in it. The whole family's always been in the restaurant business. The original was my mom and dad. And then we bought the whole thing. And then after that, we just kept growing and growing. Nancy, are you allowed to talk? Or can you just not get a word in each one? It's hard to, it's hard to, but these two. I just stand here, big boy. But we all know that she's the boss. This is the Bonnaroofer. This is the same one. I didn't get cheese. You didn't get cheese? There's a really good chance that I clipped up that hamburger. Okay, so it's got an egg. Onion ring. Onion ring. Bacon, mayo. Bacon, mayo, cheese. Mm-hmm. And you get a free angioplasty with it, right? Yeah, that's unbelievable service. How did the Bonnaroo burgers come to be? Give us the backstory. Okay, so... That was Jeff Clayard. Jeff Clayard was one of the vice presidents of Bonnaroo. And of course, we met him in 2002. So we had this relationship with Bonnaroo from the very beginning. He was talking about a burger one day. He said, I'm going to come up with a Bonnaroo burger. I think Nancy and Tracey had talked to him. He's got like a metal pole bar in the middle building. It's 5,000 square foot that I told the Pickers that we got 5,000 square foot, but we've got 20,000 square foot of stuff in a 5,000. Just on the front of the building, there's 150 signs. He's got every gas pump. We got 65 gas all. So one of my favorite things is the old Coke refrigerator. We got 50 something Coke machines. So David Pennington has a lot of great memorabilia, but we're going to add something cool. A Game Warden Titans helmet to his collection to let him know that Jiffy Burger in Manchester is Brett Kern and Tennessee Titans approved. It's time now for my three keys presented by SeatGeek. Key number one, block them. Block them. Didn't happen that much. In the game against Houston on December 17th, especially when the Titans were trying to run the football, you got to have a better game against their defensive front. It's as simple as that. Key number two, get 22 to 20 plus. The Titans are a better football team. The more Derek Henry runs and coming off of a game where he ran well in 19 carries against Seattle, they need to get him 20 plus carries. He should be especially motivated after rushing for just nine yards in the game against Houston two weeks ago. And finally, knock them loose. The Titans have forced only 12 turnovers this year. The defense needs to help the offense by taking the ball away, maybe like they did against Houston a couple of weeks ago, taking the ball away and getting in the end zone. Time for a barrage of takeaways and Sunday at NRG Stadium would be perfect. Remind you to tune in this weekend as the Titans take on the Texans. Kickoff set for noon central time. Titans countdown gets you ready on Titans Radio at 11 a.m. Central. We hope you'll join us. That'll do it for this week's edition of Titans All Access. I'm Mike Keith. We'll see you next time.