 With the win, the Titans are the AFC South Champions. Watson under pressure, fires down Field. Pass intercepted. Right here, right now, up for grass. Field here, field here. Welcome to the Bet MGM Studio and the Mike Vrabel Show presented by Coca-Cola. I'm Mike Keith. We are in the playoffs now. And when we jump into playoff time, we get a pinch hitter. And a pinch hitter deluxe at that. General Manager John Robinson sits in for Mike Vrabel. Thank you for doing this. And congratulations to you on being the 2020 AFC South Champions. Thanks, Mike. Really proud of the football team. And I certainly do not mind pinch hitting this time of the year for coach so he can prepare for our playoff opponent. It gives me great joy to sit in for him. That means we're still playing football in January. That means we're all busy, no doubt. Back up for just a second. It's been 48 hours. What was that locker room like as you handed out the hats and the T-shirts and had the moment of celebration after what was such an emotional win? Well, I continue to encourage mask wearing, Mike, with the COVID protocols. It was a ton of excitement. You know, there's a lot of hard work that's gone into this season. That goes into every season. A lot of guys that have stepped up, you know, who've been backups before and kind of gotten elevated into, you know, to starting roles and guys that we've counted on and our, you know, premium players and guys that have been starters here for a long time. Just that feeling of team and excitement for winning our division was, it was really, really, really cool to see. Titans won it with a 41 to 38 victory at Houston. Let's take a look at some of the big plays. And one of the early wins came from the defense, John, and second year safety, Amani Hooker. You know, we kind of had a simulated pressure here and we played man coverage behind it. And, you know, you can see David Long getting a little pressure there. And Hooker did a great job of kind of spying out of there and reading Watson's eyes, anticipating the throw, getting himself in position, breaking on it and getting a huge turnover for us there early on in the game. Hooker finishes the season tied with Malcolm Butler for the team lead with four interceptions. Game tied at three as we go to the second quarter. First play of the second quarter. How about King Henry to the house? Yeah, you know, just, you know, we've seen this, we've seen him do this many times. It's an inside zone play where we were able to get a hat on a hat upfront with the linemen. Swain really did a really good job on the right side there with Dennis Kelly to push up there and get the linebacker knocked out of there. Great vision by Derek. You can see AJ flash in there and kind of shield off one of the safeties. And then once he gets into open field, we've all seen it before. He's a tough man to catch once he turns the jets on. Later in the second quarter, John Robinson mentioning AJ Brown, he has a touchdown, a four yard reception from Ryan Tannehill. Yeah, you know, this play, we had, we had kind of a look over there to the right. You can see Pru, it's open in the flat and it, you know, they kind of put a linebacker over there that dirtied up the picture a little bit for Ryan, but the protection held up. Ryan did a great job of sliding to his right. AJ did a good job of kind of setting his route down and then accelerating across finding an open zone. And then Ryan with great vision, you know, in a, you know, shortened field there down there on the five to slide, get in position, spot AJ and deliver the football to him for a touchdown. Third quarter, the Titans get help from other receivers on a touchdown drive. A couple of big third down conversions. Ryan Tannehill goes to one of his favorite third down targets, Anthony Firkser. It's really a three step pass here where, you know, Ryan, as soon as his back foot on that third step hits, he's letting it rip. Firkser does a great job of knowing where the sticks are. They're playing a stick coverage, if you will. You can see three defenders closing quickly. Firkser does a great job of finding the hole in the zone there. He anticipates the throw. Ryan snaps it off and it was a huge conversion for us. Later in the third quarter, let's go back to Derek Henry. This run covering 45 yards. Yeah, more of an outside zone play here. Really gets downhill. Great kick out block there by Swain, as you can see. And we always tell Derek on some of these runs, you've got to account for one guy. You know, you're going to have to throw that stiff arm, which you can see. He throws it twice. The guy kind of leaks off a dentist scarlet there. He knocks him off. And then there's the guy he's got to account for the safety. He's stiff arms him and rumbles down, throws another elbow to knock that guy off and almost gets in. The Texan scored 20 straight points in the ballgame to take a 35-31 lead with 10-14 to go. The Titans go on a 19 play, 75-yard drive that culminates with Mr. Tannehill taking it in. Yeah, they were really key on Derek down there. It's kind of a zone read play. It was a zone read keeper. You can see I think they have six or seven guys committed to the middle of the formation there. He reads it and does just enough to keep Lonnie Johnson 32 there for Houston kind of frozen and giving him enough space to bounce it out to the outside and go in for the touchdown. And then the game winner. The last play of the game tied at 38. The rookie from Miami of Ohio, Sam Sloman from 37. Yeah, the bank shot heard round the world here. You know, I don't, this isn't how we practice it during the week, but it was a great snap. It was a great hold. He hit one right before that. When Coach Cornell called a timeout, it went right down the middle. And he was trying to overcompensate for whatever reason. He got in his head a little bit, but God bless him. He kind of steadied himself. The protection was good. And he banged it off that right upright and it went through. Sam Sloman was a guy you had your eye on even pre-COVID last March at Miami of Ohio, right? Yeah, he was a guy that we spent some time with in the pre-draft process, you know, trying to get to know him, study to him. You know, I had a good career there at Miami of Ohio and, you know, he ended up out in LA with the Rams. And, you know, that situation didn't work out for him. And we talked all week about second chances and Sloman was a guy that got a second chance here with us. Got called up because of Steven's situation and went out and won the game for us. Titan's doing their homework and Sam Sloman comes through in the clutch, helping the team to the AFC South Championship with that game-winning field goal. We'll hear from him later with Amy Wells and our rackly roofing tough Titan. But coming up, our Bridgestone clutch performance play of the game. Let's go deep with Arthur Juan. That's next. From the Bet MGM studio, John Robinson in for Mike Brable on the Mike Brable Show presented by Coca-Cola. Time now for the Bridgestone clutch performance play of the game. 18 seconds remaining. Are we going to take a knee and go to overtime or are we going to take a shot? We're taking a shot, John. Yeah, I mean, it's 18 ticks left. We had some time outs there and they were playing coverage. I talked to Arthur about it after the game and, you know, he had a feeling they were going to play a certain coverage and, you know, we thought if the protection held up long enough, Mike could get back set up and launch it, which the protection did hold up. He steps up in the pocket, you know, the middle of the field's open and he kind of throws it to a spot and AJ hits the jets and throws his hands up and hauls in a huge, huge game-changing play force there and gave us enough time at the end to run one more play and then kick the field goal. That's a great throw, John. Yeah, it wasn't bad, Mike. I didn't hate it. It was a trust throw for Ryan. It was an accurate throw and you could see AJ, you know, I saw it live. He knew the ball was coming and he kind of hit another gear there and went to track it down. Isn't that one of the most special things about AJ, the fact that in those big situations, he wants the ball badly? Yeah, I mean, I think that's the competitor that he is. You know, he believes in his ability to go make a play and he's made a lot for us. You know, he's strong with the ball in his hands. He can break tackles and as we just saw with that play, he's got speed to stretch the field and hit the home run. Set it up for the field goal and he won the ballgame on Sunday in Houston. Time now for Delta dentals. Can you guess this Titan? Mike Vrable has been on a roll. How will John Robinson do? I don't think you've ever missed one when you've been filling in. Yeah, I don't know. It's always tough. It could be a challenge on this one. You're going to have a break, so just take a long look. When we come back, we'll have the answer to the Delta dental. Can you guess this Titan? Who is he? You'll learn more in the Rackley Roofing. Tough Titan on the Mike Vrable show. Can John Robinson guess this Titan? There's pressure brought to you by Delta Dental on the Mike Vrable show presented by Coca-Cola from the Bet MGM studio. John Robinson, I've bought you time. Do you know? You know what, I think I've got it, Mike. I feel pretty good about it. I'm going to go Michael Pruitt. Oh, Michael Pruitt. It's Harold Landry. Mmm. Swing and a miss. Swing and a miss. Harold Landry's season. This guy played a ton of football for you on defense. Almost never came off the field. I mean, he really had a good game. Mike, whether it was dropping out into coverage, banging some of those inside routes, rerouting guys, coming in on stunts, setting the edge in the run game. You know, I had a couple of pressures for us out of sack. You know, just continues to play a high percentage of plays for us and be productive. Harold Landry going to be one of the key players for the Titans going into the playoffs. One of the key players from Sunday, of course, was the man who hit the game winner, Sam Sloman. He is this week's Rackley Roofing Tough Titan. And standing by with number two is Amy Wells. Sam, just for starters, I think we just have to say wow. You started the week on the practice squad. Then you're getting ready for one of the biggest games of your career, of anybody's career, really. And a colossal moment. How do you get your mind right for something like that? Well, you know, I was just, I was really thankful just for the opportunity, the chance to, you know, it's a second chance. And I've been working on things on the practice squad, working on my form, working on getting better. And, you know, I just, they tell me I'm going to go to practice and, you know, just prepare like it's any other game. It was kind of a crazy week but I was able to settle down and, you know, prepare pretty well. Leading up to this week, your practice squad experience was a little bit different than what we're used to, what the norm is. Talk a little bit about what your routine has been like. Me and Trevor and Matt, the practice squad Hunter and Snapper. Three of us, we virtually meet. We go on to practice for special teams in our team meeting. And while often some defense for our meetings, the three of us would come in and we'd work. So we've actually got a pretty good operation that the three of us have. We've been working really hard, really well together. It's been pretty cool to get to know those guys really well and, you know, they're a great guy. So it was a little different but I was having a good time with it for sure. As a kicker, there's always going to be a moment when the game is on the line and you have to perform. What do you do to stay calm and ready for moments like that? I really treat it like every kick is the same. I haven't had a kick last play of the game in a situation like this, but I've had tons of kicks in every kind of situation. Brett and Matt have done a great job just keeping everything routine for me. After that kick went through, there was a huge moment of celebration and you don't really know a lot of people on this team. You just haven't spent a lot of time with them. Was that strange at all? Not really. They've done a great job all week getting to know me. They've been really excited for me for every opportunity and it was really cool before the game just talking to guys and during the game everybody. They were excited for me for the opportunity and it was just awesome after the game. It felt like I'd been here for a long time so it was a really, really cool feeling. We've got to wrap this thing up but I've got to ask, I know in college you wore the number 79 which is not a traditional kicker number. Tell me a little bit about that. The number I was given when I got to college. I didn't really like that first but I ended up loving it and I still think it's really cool and unique number for a kicker. Sam Sloman, thank you for being our Rackley Roofing Tough Titan. We're going to take a break but when we come back we're going to talk about not just being strong but being Nashville strong, being 6-1-5 strong. Butch Speardin's here to talk with Mike Keith about how you can help those affected by the recent tragedy in Nashville. Stick around. We need two yards to keep this game moving on. You see what you're made of when you go through something tough. Steady rainfall. And yeah, it's been a tough year. But Tennesseans are built for this. Grid passed down through generations. We look for it. We like it that way. Tennessee Tough. Welcome back to the Bet MGM Studio and the Mike Vrable Show presented by Coca-Cola. This weekend Nashville will be one of six cities to host NFL playoff games. And that makes the president and CEO of the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp. Very proud. Butch Speardin joins us on the Mike Vrable Show. It is a special time, one that you envisioned when you helped fight for pro football back in the 90s, that this city takes center stage as part of Wild Card Weekend. In spite of everything we've been through in the last year, couldn't be happier to kick off 2021 with a home playoff game. So congrats, thanks. Let's keep it moving. Let's keep it moving indeed. And something else I know that you have been very proud of is the way our community has stepped forward in the wake of the Christmas morning bombing. It has been inspirational to see the way that people have pulled together on behalf of Nashville. Inspirational is the exact right word. It makes you proud to live here. It makes you proud to be involved in the community. First responders, police in particular. Unbelievable job. And community rallying around the victims. So Nashville's a pretty special place and proud to live here. Butch, so many people have asked the question and I know they've asked it to you. I want to ask it here on the Mike Vrable Show. What's the best way people can help the residents, the businesses, the people affected by the Christmas morning bomb? So there are three opportunities to provide assistance. The United Way has started a community foundation that's a fund. And then our charitable foundation Music City Inc. has set up a fund. And we have always found that trying to get immediate assistance into the victims' hands, it's the hardest thing to do. So we try to cut away the red tape and we've already reached out to probably a hundred individuals that have lost their jobs and we will provide Visa gift cards if you will put cash directly into their hands as soon as possible. I would expect that we will do a good chunk, hopefully 50 to $100,000 this week that we will give out. And this is going to take a while to make all this right, not just with the buildings and with Second Avenue, but for these people. If people have the opportunity now, they think, oh they've already got enough. No, they need to keep giving and they need to stay involved, don't they? Well said. When you realize dozens of people lost everything they own in terms of their residents and their belongings. And then there's another group of people that have lost their employment. And it was already tough sledding for waitstaff, for example. So I talked to Spaghetti Factory. They have 35 employees who are instantly out of work and that's just a small example we estimate there's probably 1,000 people that make their living on Second Avenue. So we got to try to find all of them and find the residents and literally lift them up. So this is going to go on for a while and yet we could use the help. Titans have been great. Let me say a shout out to Will Compton. He texts me, I think probably Saturday and said, how can we help? And then he's put the word out and Burke Nahill reached out. He said, how can we help? So Titans have already been a great partner and you guys do so much for the community already. I can't say thank you enough. Butch Spirit and president and CEO of the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp. Thanks for your time. Appreciate you being with us on the Mike Frable show. Remind everybody if you want to donate, go to TennesseeTitans.com slash 615 strong and chip in for our community. Let's be 615 strong together. When we come back the keys to winning a playoff game against Baltimore on the Mike Frable show presented by Coca Cola Nissan Keys to success right now against Baltimore on Sunday. John Robinson sitting in for Mike Frable. Let's start with the first one. Sustained drives and finish with touchdowns. John, yeah, Mike, we talk about it all the time offensively is getting into that first drive, getting into the drive. Get the first first down, stay on track and then get down to the red zone and finish with touchdowns and that'll be key for Sunday affect and tackle the Ravens playmakers. They've got a bunch of them, John. Yeah, they do. I mean, they're leading the league and rushing. They got a bunch of guys that can run the football. They got fast guys that run and catch. We'll have to affect these guys, not let them make yards and tackle them when we get a chance. And your final key is keep the win one game mentality. What does that mean to you, John? You know, now that we're in the tournament, it's a single elimination tournament. So if you want to keep playing, you got to keep winning. And if we if we attack this game against the Ravens, focus solely on that. Don't worry about your next opponent where it may be, who it may be on the Ravens, put all our efforts into that and go out and play our style. Then then you can continue to build and keep winning. John, thanks for sitting in for Mike Vrable. I hope we're doing it again next week. I'm looking forward to it, Mike. All right, kickoff Sunday at 1205 at Nissan Stadium. Titans Radio hits the air on 104.5 the zone at 11. We hope you'll join us. Thanks for being with us. Tighten up. Tighten up!