 It's a week-to-week league focus on this week and everything that we can do and then you know figure out where we go after that You know we've had flashes of it, but we haven't been consistent You know so that's gonna be the work that we have to put in as being consistent being able to play our type of ball weekend and week out Welcome to the bet MGM studio and the Mike Vrable show presented by seat geek. I'm Mike Keith And this is coach Dave McGinnis due to the fact that it is an unusual week with the team leaving early for London Coach Vrable preparing the team. They actually had a practice today Starting to get some work in as you as you try to prepare the team will leave late Thursday and land Sixish London time on Friday morning. Well, they knew that they knew this was coming up So they had things prepared for this week and that's part of it Mike Vrable has always been very very good at altered schedules And so this was scheduled out and so you know the analysts and everybody was putting together Some of the things watching Baltimore film have a lot of things prepared for the coaches So when they come back in they can go to work immediately And so he's getting that the players familiar with the Ravens today Baltimore is already there They arrived yesterday the Titans choosing to arrive first thing Friday morning Do you sense any any advantage or or any thought about that in A different way. I've been over there six different times Mike And I've traveled six different ways to Sunday getting over there, you know, we left like we're leaving on Thursday left and spent the whole week One game flew to Detroit played a game and then flew from Detroit over there, you know from the West Coast, so I Like it like this. I like it like we're doing like this And I'm sure John Horbaugh is doing it the other way because he tried this last time and got got run out of town He got drilled. Yeah, but the Titans the last time we were over there against the Chargers played very very well Just make a two-point play, right? So I like this a lot better and it takes it takes a lot of planning But as you well know, there's there's things that we are doing all of us that are going to prepare our sleep patterns and Our food intake and all of that type of thing before we get on the plane All right, let's take a look at the six pack this week presented by seat geek right off the bat The Titans get a completion to Trayvon West go his first catch of the year Well, and what was as nice about this? This was a three layered route three layered route 21 yards and it came off a play-action three layered route There's two other routes behind him that are dragging other coverage And so this was a nice play to Trayvon and a big first down So Ryan Tannehill with the fake with the roll left and with the throw to West go the 270-pound tight end for 21 yards on the Titans first scoring drive nice block downfield to there by the way Nice block downfield indeed Let's take a look at the second sack of the year for Roger McCrary the Titans only sack in Indianapolis Okay, we've got it We've got a nickel blitz McCrary's on the nickel blitz gets hold of a big big man And the thing that I like what McCrary did here instead of trying to dive at him He wrapped him he wrapped him around the trunk up high waiting for people to come in This was a this was a big moment in the ball game And this was a big big play Roger McCrary is a very very versatile Defensive back and him coming from the slot over there. You can see they completely fooled their protection This was a nice play by Roger and a big big play for us loss of 17 on the play forced Indianapolis to kick a field goal Third play in the sequence here for us Ryan Tannehill with the screen to Derek Henry watch this block Look at brew brew is downfield and I mean that is what I call a tater wagon shot a what a tater wagon tater wagon Yeah, you ever seen a potato wagon coming down a street with the wheels rattling because it's loaded That's tater wagon shot. That's a tater wagon. Anyway, it was a great great block and then the screen was very very well set up and Again when you when you when your passing game downfield is working then your screen game becomes very very much in play This is a nice nice job and the block downfield again. We talk about brew This is a really really good job by him hustling downfield always hustling Aaron Brewer Into the first half nice play by Sean Murphy butting on a fourth and won inside the Titans 5 To save points now fourth and one and this is a big big play first of all We've got nice pressure. We've got hands two hands up and then what what happens here is We have got two two hands up to distract the quarterback here And then what we get right here this play. This is a fourth down play right here This surprised me Mike It surprised us in the booth that he was going for it But the Titans were ready for it got some hands up caused the throw to be low and outside All right, let's take a look now at Tajé Spears first career touchdown It comes from 19 yards out in the third quarter really a nice play design as a deceptive in the backfield fake one way Pitch it to Tajé. Tajé Spears is just a football player. And that's the best thing I can say He is a football player not only with the ball in his hand Mike But as we're gonna see later on in this show also when he doesn't have the ball in his hands But once you get the ball to this guy and he's got a little bit of room to navigate you've got problems He got off the tater wagon and took it into the ends of Chigit Kaka with a good block out in front And Tajé Spears with the first of what we all hope would be many touchdowns for the rookie from Tulane last one Here's another good effort by Sean Murphy bunting to hold the Colts to a field goal on a third and nine This is a big combat catcher in pitman here that he's going against Sean Murphy bunting Dave in just enough room Didn't want to let the ball go over his head. This is a strong strong tackle This is one of the better combat catchers in the league and when I say that it's physical at the point of a point of catch Great job by Sean Murphy bunting by himself Forcing him back and not letting them convert Sean Murphy bunting has continued to improve throughout the course of the year coach. So he absolutely has and he's a very very competitive player You can see here. He's got great length You can match him up against the bigger receivers and he's been a nice addition to this squad coming up on the Mike Vrables show presented by a seat geek It's time for film study as we take a look at why Deandre Hopkins is making such a difference in this offense Two plays that'll give you proof coming up next on the Mike Vrables show Welcome back to the bet MGM studio and the Mike Vrables show time for film study coach Mack filling in for Coach Vrables tonight. We're gonna take a look at Deandre Hopkins and why he is so effective for the Titans It's because they can use him in so many different ways and they do Certainly did Sunday on the way to eight catches for 140 yards Let's first take a look at a third down play a third and sixth play coach Mack Let's take a look at this play right here. I'm gonna stop it just to show you. We're talking about Hopkins. This is this is hop Here he is right here now what this has done to the defense all of a sudden you can see people trying to figure out How are we going to line up to this and I want you to do this Mike keep an eye over here on This player right here Tajie Spears. That's Tajie Spears and you would say well Mack He's not very close to him, but let's watch what they're going to do by putting him in here He's got a chance to run now They're gonna run complimentary routes out here what they're gonna do They're gonna take they're gonna take jig and take him in through here They're gonna do here to clear out over here to draw this safety's eyes over here to this side And then they're gonna work on these two linebackers back here behind the ball That's who they're working on for this throw. Let's take a look at it Coming out of the backfield Deandre Hopkins. Here comes. Here comes hop. Look at the move now watch watch what he did Watch what he did. Let's we'll back this up just a little bit here. Now. I want you to watch He is reading. He is reading these two people right here. He's reading them on this zone defense So wherever they go, he's gonna go away from it. Let's let it roll. Let's go. Nice. There's your first down All right, coach, let's go ahead and take a look at the second play if we could okay We can the deep shot you're talking about Tajie Spears throwing that block right there Maybe just one little second. Let it roll one time here. Let's take a look watch Tajie Spears come in here and Throw a block there. He's trying to push the defender off of it. There we go. And then he he flops All right, let's take a look at the second play. This is a deep shot on second and ten deep shot second and ten This is a diamond formation as Mike Keith calls it. This is a diamond formation that draws just like a diamond that looks perfect Thank you. Okay, then here's what he's gonna do. This is a transcontinental This is a TRC clear across a field from numbers to numbers off of play action. Watch the protection They're going to turn the line this way These two are going to come over here for max protection because it takes a while for this route to develop You ready Mike? Let's go coach. Let's go all the way through a Lot of time for Tana here a lot of time great throw great separation. This is the beauty of hop This is the beauty of hop what we see versatile And if you're gonna throw it to him if he's open throw it to him if he's not open throw it to him anyway Good stuff Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is where we will play coming up on Sunday We've got an inside look for you the epic western spotlight is next on the Mike Vrabel show presented by seat The Mike Vrabel show presented by seat geek from the bet MGM studio This week's epic western spotlight is to put you in the know About where the Titans will play on Sunday in London. It's known as Tottenham Hotspur Stadium But the big thing is it is one of the most unique and innovative buildings in the entire world Here's a look at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with some explanation on the front end Let's start with this It's important to note that when Europeans mentioned soccer They say football when they refer to American football They'll just say the NFL and when they say something about a pitch They're talking about a playing field. Keep all that in mind as we go Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is the home of the Premier League soccer team Their nickname is the Spurs so locals refer to the stadium as Spurs Stadium That's what we'll call it since we're the home team this week It seats 63,000 and it took 10 years to build from the time that it was first discussed Until the time it opened in 2019 Why because Spurs Stadium is the first of its kind in the world as it was designed for both Premier League soccer And NFL games in mind John Babs is the longtime stadium director for the Tottenham Hotspur football club So we have a chairman called Daniel Levy and a very active board of directors who wanted to create The best NFL experience that we could possibly provide So we went all over America. We visited countless stadiums in America Decided that what we wanted to do was if we're going to do this We're going to do it properly We want to enter into a real partnership with the NFL Put down a purpose built artificial pitch The only way to put down an artificial pitch and not Not hurt our turf pitch was to be able to move the turf pitch out of the stadium So we can then lay a purpose built artificial pitch for all the NFL sports Again a quick clarification for our audience The football pitch is the field for the soccer team The NFL pitch is the field for the NFL and Spurs Stadium has both We have three sections which are about 33 meters wide each by 110 meters long They're effectively three large trains. They run on tracks. They're electric motors And they I think each one weighs about 3000 tons each Takes us about 25 minutes to roll them out of the stadium on the on earth And the atmosphere for NFL games in Tottenham is outstanding by design We close the majority of the roads early so we can get a An extended fan zone around the outside of the stadium We have a lot of attractions outside We encourage people to come in early and really enjoy the day When they're in here the stadium works actually probably better for the NFL games And it does our own football games because when we hold football games We have some legislation which stops people drinking alcohol in view of the pitch For the NFL that legislation isn't in place. You try to really maximize the space itself Really proud of it They should be really proud of it outstanding facility It is the official home of the NFL in london through 2029 because of that design the other thing to coach it has a 65 meter Bar The longest bar in all of europe and it has a brewery that is attached To the stadium. There are a lot of things that go with the stadium You can you can do climbs and different things, but it has a 65 meter long Bar. I've coached games in wimbly. I've coached games in twickingham This is impressive. Oh, this is impressive and i'm going to go look at the bar. I'm too. Okay. Good. We'll go together We'll go together. We could certainly do that But uh, the titans excited to play there again to repeat the titans are the home team Which is something that's very exciting a lot of people are going over from this part of the world Weather forecast right now is mid 50s with a possibility of a little light rain that can certainly change I'm told bring a raincoat bring layers Because it could be kind of windy last time we were over there was very hot They call that a soft rain over there. A soft rain. That's a soft rain. We'll be fine. Is that right? Yeah, we'll be good How do you know that? I've been over there a lot quite a bit more coming up including kids ask coach mack questions Yeah, not just for frable for coach mack That's next on the mike verbal show presented by seat geek from the bet mgm studio The mike verbal show presented by seat geek from the bet mgm studio Coach dave mcginnis is sitting in For mike verbal tonight on what is an unusual week for the titans as the team will be leaving for london on thursday We come to the point in the show that mike verbal likes the best. This is kids ask coach verbal, but for you Especially designed as the permanent fill-in host of the show Kids ask coach mack. Let's hit it, please What was your favorite player on the tennessee titans when you were coaching them tighten up savannah First of all great question and savannah tighten up Keith bullock. Keith bullock was your favorite. Keith bullock was my favorite. Of course i'm partial to linebackers, but keith keith bullock I coached hall of fame linebackers. Keith bullock would fit in with that group not only a really good football player But he was a great titan and a great human being savannah. So if you can get a keith bullock jersey get one I think he may be going to london. I hear he should be as well. He should anywhere the titans are bullock should All right, so let me ask you this Who is your favorite titan who was not one of your linebackers when you were coaching cj2k? chris jotson cj2k cj2k was He was really a delight to be around in the building He really was and then he was really a lot of fun to be around when that ball was in his hand So cj2k he's going to be back. We've got homecoming coming up in just a couple of weeks Can't wait very excited about the list of players coming back for homecoming for the atlanta game When the team puts on the oilers uniforms and yes, it's it. I mean it's going to be a fantastic weekend We are so excited but sing cj back with lendell white At bow scafe and vence young and seeing all those guys together They kind of run the whole show and you had a strong just such a great job with our alumni. It's outstanding All right, when we come back it's time for coach max Keys to success the nissan keys to success. That's up next on the mike rabble show Mike rabble show presented by seat geek is ready to move into the keys portion of our program The nissan keys to success coach dav mcginnis you say key number one is play great run defense Against lamar jacks you're gonna have to plus one it plus one it with mobile quarterbacks And with you plus one it everybody's gotta be gap solid You hear mike rabble talk all the time about setting an edge and building a wall when you're playing plus one Somebody's responsible for the quarterback on scheduled runs which this guy is gonna do So what we have to be able to do mike We have to be able to play gap sound defense across that wall No cracks in the wall against this guy why is jackson such a great runner? Well because he's got speed and also he's got some moves to him He's got some wiggle and he can eat up stripes really really quick And he's very very instinctive as far as about especially on those option plays Reading where he should go all right Key number two in the nissan keys to success listing eliminate explosive plays on defense Well, we've talked about we talked about jackson running. Let's talk about him throwing He's throwing the ball better than I've ever seen him throw and I've watched him his whole career He's throwing the ball really well last week his receivers dropped nine passes mike We can't count on that we've got to knock the passes out of their hands But he is throwing the ball and this this new offense that he's in is very well suited to what he can do Off of play action and he's also throwing from the cylinder. So explosive plays We cannot let the ball go over our head or we cannot afford miss tackles on the perimeter Has to be like Cincinnati where the longest play you give up is 17 yards. It has to be exactly like that. All right So the final key is about the titans offense and that's Touchdowns in the red zone and this has been a huge problem for this ball club so far in 2023 on the road Especially even though this is technically a home game Well, and this is coming straight from the head coach because I listen to what the head coach says because it's important And this is important We're moving the ball down in the red zone But you've got to score touchdowns in the red zone and the national football league It's hard to move the ball But once you get in the red zone, you've got to manufacture a touchdown somehow You can kick a field goal every once in a while, but you can't lean on it We need to score touchdowns in the red zone in london. Yeah Nick folk right now 13 field goals. He's kicked just seven extra points. You'd like to have that reversed reverse it mike Reverse it. All right. So you ready to go to london Mike Keith As soon as this came out that they said we're going to london. I'm ready I mean, I've already got so many people set up over there Want to meet you that we're going to have a great time at the admiralty I think is the name of the place and is it bet? No, it's admiralty. Admiralty. I think is where we're going That's the official titans hangout in trefalgar square coach, and I will be there saturday night and the 65 meter bar And the 65 meter bar will also be on the radio, of course on sunday morning kickoff time is 8 30 central And we're on the air with titans countdown on 1045 the zone at all our great titans radio stations at 7 30 am central so breakfast with the titans from tautanum hudspur stadium. Good job tonight coach This is so much fun. Thanks for having me. All right. Thanks for watching the mike bravel show presented by seed