 Welcome to the bet MGM studio and the Mike Vrable show presented by seat geek with the head coach I'm Mike Keith glad to have you with us as it is as we like to say around here It is Jacksonville week and as I've started preparing for Jacksonville I have been sort of taken by the fact that they have not turned over very much since we saw them at the end of the 2022 season. No, I mean that's that's the team that they put together. They've added some guys through the draft But a talented roster, you know, I mean a good defense. It's a good front very good front And then they force you to block them So, you know, we know the weapons and the speed that they have on offense, but you know Right now it's gonna be an unbelievable challenge for us to prepare for these guys to improve and go down there and win Does it make it easier to prepare being that the personnel has not turned over as much? No, I mean just because you know, I mean you have to go out and execute you have to you have to block them You have to tackle in space you have to try to You know confuse or disguise the quarterback as much as you can you have to Try to win the pre snap matchups and you know all those things that are gonna be critical to to our Our success. All right, let's take a look at the seat geek six pack Mike Vrable six pack of plays From the game on Sunday in Tampa right off the bat a little trickery direct snap Well, I mean one it starts with everybody else blocking. You know, you see Nick West broke out on the edge You see, you know Chris Moore and chig and Hubbard everybody's pushing and I felt like you know Maybe we could have made a cut here, you know block the corner a little bit better But really cool 15-yard play well well designed and well executed So outstanding run by this direction, you know a little bit misdirection and again, we got one guy and Okay, that's probably the bare minimum that we could have got on that All right, so 15 yard gain in the first quarter by number two actually from the first quarter as well Really nice game up the middle to get Baker Bayfield Yeah, and I think what you saw there was at the beginning there Jeffrey flashing and then tier able to overlap You're gonna see it here from the sideline Jeff's able to to get into the pocket force the quarterback to slide over here does a nice job of overlapping and You know just continue to try to hit these guys and hit them hard enough to get the ball out and and try to get the Football because that's the target and that's the guy that we can get it off of right there with one hand And so then after the sack on the very next play the Titans get a takeaway Roger McCrary back for the first time in three games Well, we forced them, you know, we forced them behind the chains Changed it up. You see Danico trying to get his hand up mixed in a little zone coverage. Roger's able to you know Go help Aziz, you know, we see him running through the middle. We got to do a better job of blocking You know, we got to block the intended receiver. I guess stop direct and traffic and looking back for the ball and then go block You know, we got five offensive linemen. We're trying to tackle us and those are opportunities for us to to go score And you're gonna see, you know, the receiver comes back and gets involved and you know There's a money trying to block but we can do a better job getting there getting a return right here, which is a great play Huge momentum, but let's try to go score. You want more than 17. Yeah, 18 I think we caught it minus one in the end zone. Mm-hmm. Good stuff. All right, tier tart had a nice ball game We've seen his sack. How about a play here in the run game? Yeah I mean, this is you know, it's tough sledding here when you've got to hear, you know in a shade and Trying to you know, you could see him just being able to penetrate and you know, if they're not gonna double them or block down on them, you know, he's gonna win that matchup every time and I thought he was much more productive and you know more along the lines of what we were looking for from Impactfulness and his disruption and was able to penetrate was able to play with his hands and shed and you know Hopefully we'll get more of that this week play number five in the six pack six pack presented by seat geek is a herald Landry sack late in the ball game. Yeah, just able to turn the corner there and get a good get off And you know, you can see him trying to go for the football and you know, we're gonna get him out I promise you we're gonna keep raking at him and keep getting them out Harold Landry now up to five sacks on the season. All right our final play in the six pack We'll let us showing some real athleticism. You see the arm and you see a nice play here by Kyle Phillips getting some blocks There you go. One of my favorite plays from the game. This is late in the game and you know our Again, it didn't look great, but what you saw where it were guys Flying down the field getting a lead block there you get the alignment out you get them finishing you get Ruppie there finishing you get Kyle run through the smoke and this is a really cool picture We got a build on this we have to build on this we have to make this our hallmark here guys pushing piles and Finishing and helping guys, you'll gain some yards Yeah, Phillips did a nice job on a couple of runs in the ball game three catches 61 yards Yeah, and then again, I know you'd like to have the one back Well would like to have it in a you know, maybe take a little bit of steam off of it But you know Kyle started to show up and you know be available The one I think that you were referring to was will broke contain extended outside the pocket and Through off-platform and was able to find Kyle there at the sidelines for another good game Good stuff from the Titans in that game on Sunday in those six plays that we saw they just want more of them this week Is the team goes back to Florida to play against the Jacksonville Jaguars when we come back? It's time to go to the Vrabel straighter and take a look Yeah, we're gonna head right over and take a look at another play coach will break it down for us The Mike Vrabel show presented by seat geek continues The Mike Vrabel show presented by seat geek from the bet MGM studio Mike Vrabel and the Vrabel straighter Here we are ready to see. Yeah, there it is. That's it the Vrabel straighter. It's on TV right now All right We're gonna show a play from late in the third quarter It was a very interesting design on a screen to Tajie Spears and some really good efforts overall on this play Well again, I think when you get it when you can keep it in third and manageable third and four like you mentioned Okay, so what we started out We've got quads. So one the first thing the quarterback can do is he can check back here if he likes to match up You know, we've get it give us an indicator. We've got the running back out here at number one So as you can start to see there's Tajie Here's the linebacker that's starting to go and adjust Okay, what that could tell the quarterback is we think that we have a good idea that it's gonna be man coverage of some Sort with the linebacker going to track the running back at this point in time You're gonna see will start to bring him in kind of acting like what we would call Home and and bring him back in here and run a player or be in protection But as it goes and it plays out You're gonna see Tajie kind of stop get set up where you would set up behind you see so many perimeter and bubble screens and then Chig and Chris and Nick are doing a great job of blocking man on Blocking man on blocking man on and then ultimately what we are is we're left with the post safety, you know, so Great job here again Converting the third down to a first down also given us a good game But everybody's accounted for except for the free safety and you can see that this thing gets started And again the more that we do these things the more we're gonna be able to stretch and cut and ultimately, you know Try to crease one again the more times that we can get Tajie out there in space with guys blocking Then we feel like that's an advantage for us So this is a design that we've seen before but never really seen before from the Titans with the four guys like that in that way How much of it is the design to get Tajie more touch? Yeah, I mean, it's just something that we feel like that's a strength to his it's also You know something else that we've built off of and brought him back in and home them back in to try to get whether It's a formation indicator or whatever it may be in the final 30 seconds right here What would it have taken for will to choose to go to DeAndre this linebacker probably back here in the middle? I think my guess is without having so he vacates well then you get a lot of space But you know, here's your post safety that's leaning over Hopkins so sometimes when you You know feature a player on third down with like we do DeAndre You start to get the attention and then now some things are opened up on the other side of field 13 yard gain It's pretty play. Yeah, and it's fairly easy. You know, we don't have to protect a lot But it helps when you're in third and four third and six or less. Yes good stuff more coming up Including the epic western spotlight a trip to Minnesota with the Monty Hooker It's next on the Mike Rabel show presented by Seat Geek Welcome back to the Mike Rabel show presented by Seat Geek Titan safety a Monty Hooker never forgets where he's from That's why he travels back to Park Center High School in Minneapolis Each summer to host a football camp that is about more than just football. It's really about family Not just the people you're related to but the family you develop in high school athletics that family that lasts a lifetime A Monty Hooker let us go back to Park Center High School with him and the day was filled with special memories Especially the admiration that a Monty has for his older brother Quentin who was mr. Basketball in Minnesota in 2013 and Still plays professionally overseas We learned that a Monty Hooker will always be a hero at Park Center High School And we're sharing that day with you tonight in the epic western spotlight So when you came out here as a freshman How nervous were you? pretty nervous because I Was playing against guys that my brother's great, you know my brother's friends and my dad was like alright You know they're those are big boys. You're playing with some grown men like they're seniors, but My freshman year I started that corner as a freshman and played the whole year You know you weren't intimidated when you came in as a rookie with us So did it come from that experience that you had had that you had some confidence from a right? I think it did. I think being going through what I did here and then going to the pros and playing against older guys I think I just turned 21 so I'm playing against guys that are in their 30s and 20s And I'm just a little kid that left early in college. So I think it definitely prepared me With my mentality what did the camp mean to you? It meant a lot. I know that's something that if I was a kid and that happened I'll be definitely at that camp and that would be a big deal for me So I try to give back to the same thing that you know, I think I would like when I was a kid Did they ask you a lot of good questions? They asked me a lot of you know, the usual questions. How big is Derek Henry? Is he really fast like that and you know just the regular stuff, but yeah, they asked me great questions Those right there. I think those are the hookers right there. That's is that your parents. That's my parents All right, let's we gotta go over and say hello. Yeah, we've got everybody here That's it. What's up, bash? What's up, bro? Get them nuts. Nice to see you. How are you? How you doing? It's good to see you bash. It's a Xavier right here. How you doing? What's up, bro? You doing good, man? It was the thing So we found you over here. Oh, yeah, looking good Yeah, that's it. So you grew up here. Yeah, my sister's she's about nine years older than me So I've been in here since I was six five years old running on these mats. No kid. Yeah. Yeah. Oh How you doing? Bring back any memories. Yeah. I mean some funny memories Yeah, this is memories right here. This is my brother's he built this We're not in Minneapolis that often. So we get to see the Quentin Cooker side. All right It's a legend right there from what you've said though That means as much to you as pictures of you here, right? Yeah, I mean because he's your hero He's the inspiration like he's the one that set the whole tone for For the whole the whole my whole career. Honestly, are you our old football locker used to be downstairs, right? It's a new one. It's a new one. Okay. Oh, yeah Yeah Looking good. Let's just move Well, no matter where you go, how much money you make how fancy the pros are right? This is still really where you're from. Exactly. Everybody on the team. This is where you're from is a locker room like this Yep, and a friday night. All right, fine. I like all your friends Yeah, it's the best. You can't beat it honestly. Yeah, I really can't because at the time you're just a kid you're just having fun and It's a kid's game and sometimes you forget about it being a kid's game when you get to this level And you got to remember like about where you came from or what you wanted when you're there No, it feels great if you got a lot of flashback feeling even the smell of the school You know brings me back to the time when I was here and honestly can't beat it. I mean, it's just amazing Imani explaining as we went through the cafeteria that he can still smell the chicken sandwiches They love chicken sandwich. They said it wasn't exactly like a chick-fil-a chicken sandwich, but it was close It was it was the high point of high school. That's that's a guy who's rooted in a lot of good stuff Imani hook it is and you can see that the family and his parents and his brother and everything He talked about his sister, you know and he brought him to that high school You know, he's been been been great here for us and and really have enjoyed You know getting to know him and his family and and kind of you know his journey and You know, he's really continued to help us and he has to help us and he's got to lead us and he's got to you know It's been been playing good football. He's got to continue to do that It was a really cool piece to see him go back and and visit his high school He's still just 25 years old. He just turned 25. It feels like he's been here forever feel old. Yeah, well But he was young when he came out. Correct. Yeah, you know, and so he's continued to get better He's continued to add and you know plays a lot of spots for us and and knows a lot of a lot of our defense Jack mummert and also max walsh. Great job on that piece as always. Yeah, great job on that piece for minneapolis Really fun to see that to have a chance to go there and experience that with a matty hooker We've got more of the mike for able show coming up Right after this presented by seat We're in the bed mgm studio with the mike for able show presented by seat geek and it's time now For kids ask coach rabel The kids ask coach rabel kid this week is gowan Please hit the music best part of the show. It is Hi, casual. My name is gowan and I have a question for you. What coach inspired you to be coaching the tensi tines? Let's go try and sign up So you know i'm going that was when he finally brought some juice. He was kind of getting into it a little bit um Had had a lot of really cool, um Um You know experiences with coaches, you know, I think my the first coach I ever knew was my dad You know, he was a basketball coach growing up um You know loved working You know under under you know played under bill romeo cronell You know, I've taught a learned a lot from luke fickle and bill o bryan and jim haycock and just a lot of people in Ohio state and you try to formulate all these things um You know into what your style is and how you want to you know present to the team and how you want to teach and Things that you believe in so you know, there's no there's no perfect answer You know, it's about believing in something and most importantly getting the players to believe in in that message and that uh in that style So that's what we're going to continue to try to do you were I mean, I don't want to say you were fully formed as a coach when you got here But you were a lot further along than any first coach. I've first time coach. I've ever been around Why do you think that was well? I thought I had some some really good experiences, you know Coached with an interim head coach at Ohio State through a tough year and learned a lot coached with derby meyer for him I know how it stayed for two years and learned a lot, you know learned Learned me, you know some things that how I want to do them and maybe how I don't want to do them and then You know, we were we were had some good years in houston and and learned a lot down there and You know always try to continue to to prepare and is you know, you're never You know finished you're always trying to to improve and figure out ways to to reach players and You know, we're we're really trying to focus on improvement right now That's that's critical for us and if we can improve we'll win All right, we've got the Nissan keys to success up next Want to hear those as the titans prepare to go to jacksonville the mic for a bull show continues After this Titan's headed to jacksonville this weekend to take on the jaguars. It's time for mike variables nissan keys to success Key number one execute with better details. I'm interested to know what that means. Well All the plays that we've shown right we we get up here. We show some highlights We get a mabella straighter variable straighter, whatever we want to call it And and there's a design to the play right, but there's also The the details and and the details are just going to help the player Execute better right whether that's landmark Technique understanding. Hey if this happens we need to adjust to this and again That's their ability to bring the picture to life If we can just fix and clean up a few details I think we're going to have more positive plays like the ones that we showed Earlier and that's something that I keep harping on and and we keep coaching and we'll keep teaching And we'll keep explaining them and we're going to keep getting more of them and execute them on sunday key number two is improve Communication specifically where are you talking about on the field just on the field itself? Yeah, like why not help the guy next day if you know something and you have some information about cadence or you know something that you see Then communicate like okay. Here's a linebacker walking in or here's a game. Let's try to execute that Whatever it may be Let's try to Talk to the guy next to you to help him do his job to remind him about the quarterbacks cadence and the hard count And if you hear something You know echo it and relay it and then key number three is play complementary football first 20 minutes of the game and in Tampa you were on that we did we just couldn't couldn't convert there at 41 yard line missed a field goal and then You know give up a play so that's how close things are and taking control of the football game We were able to do it You know, we got to get back to work and find a way to do it on sunday. Go get this one. Yeah, let's let's go get it We know these people. Let's go get it. Why not remind you that kickoff is set for 1202 Central time this sunday from what is now known as everbank stadium again Change back to the old stadium name Titans in the Jags this sunday from jacksonville for mike verbel I'm mike keith. Thanks for joining us for the mike verbel show