 MGM Studio, it's the Mike Gravel show presented by Seat Geek with the head coach, I'm Mike Keith, glad to have you with us as we start tracking towards Monday night football, which is next Monday in Miami, bit of an odd week preparing or a little different schedule? Well, yeah, I mean, you're probably just a little different schedule, but I mean, it'll allow us an opportunity to rest up and to get an extra day and, you know, we need all the time and a meeting that we can get and the ability to show our guys reps and plays and formations and motions and all the things that they're going to do on the night. The Titans make a roster move today, waving linebacker, Monty Rice. Mike, is there a Titans player on the current active roster or even the practice squad who has a chance to sort of jump into Monty Rice's space? Well, you know, we've had Otis with us, Otis Rice has been with us through training camp and has been active a little bit and then been on the practice squad working and really working hard, developing and so, you know, I think probably the first opportunity would go to him and then we'll see where things go from there. Alright, so as you wrap up the game on Sunday, final thoughts about the loss to the coach? You know, disappointed, disappointed that, you know, that we played well at times and just, you know, not well enough and just weren't able to finish it off and, you know, played complimentary but unfortunately, you know, mistakes on special teams, you know, and X plays and explosive games on defense, you know, and critical missed opportunities on offense really hurt, you know, penalties or, you know, the ability to go down there and keep the momentum and finish the game with a touchdown. It certainly wasn't hard to find Mike Vrable's six pack though. A lot of really good plays from this ball game for the Titans. Let's start with the touchdown right off the bat. It's Derrick Hinton. Yeah, just a great opportunity there for us to get into the drive and you could see right there at the beginning of that play, you know, Chris Moore coming in and sealing the support player, you see Jalen and Peter getting into it. So now when Derrick has, you know, has to come back and we want him to cut back and you can see that he doesn't have to lose ground and Derrick can not break stride and keep rolling. So to me, that's, you know, how we used to run the football around here and everybody doing our part and then Derrick, you know, beating that last guy to the end zone. Derrick missed the fourth quarter of the ball game put into, or put in checked for a concussion is the proper way to say it. What I was trying to say is he was not put into concussion protocol. Is he still tracking? Yeah, everything seems great and doing well. And we'll see again how he's feeling in the morning and move on from there. Good stuff. Unusual play next. Will Leviss has a problem and then causes a problem for someone else. Yeah, I don't want to see the quarterback, you know, his arm get hit as we're going to throw, but, you know, I appreciate our willingness to go play to the recovery of the football. As Blackman was starting to get up, he lost control of the football and then our will is there to recover it and, you know, a huge play. And again, I think that just goes to the competitiveness and the effort and he wasn't alone. There were other players that were doing that on offense and defense and finishing to the recovery of the football and then letting the officials sort it out. Guys respond to that when your quarterback plays that way. I think so. You know, I mean, I hope that we can all play that way. All right. Let's take a look at a deep pass. Will Leviss to D'Andre Hopkins. Yep. It's all going to start with a pocket and it wasn't the best pocket, but what you see there is a quarterback willing to turn around and stare the rusher in the face and deliver a good layered football right here to D'Andre in a seam and we're able to punch it in shortly thereafter. You know, 27-yard game took it down to the 5th Derrick Henry doing the honors right after that. Then let's take a look at some good red zone defense from the Titans to Nico Autry. You know, it was going to be a huge challenge and we played well. We stopped the run on early downs and then, you know, I thought the ability to get guys covered up in the end zone and as he started to extend the play, you know, guys start to uncover, but you could see we cage him in there and Jeffery does a great job of coming around, forcing him back into Nico, Arden and Harold did a great job of collapsing a pocket. Just a great example of team defense and getting a coverage sack and not only a coverage sack, but a turnover and then there's Elijah to recover it. Let's take a look at the two-point play for the Colts that ends up being two points for the Titans. Two big points and again, you defend every blade of grass and, you know, we've done that numerous times in the past years and, you know, the quarterback was under pressure and, you know, made a mistake or, you know, threw it blind and tip the running back, tipped it and right into hook and again, where guys are finishing and those are huge two points. Hundred yards. First time the Titans have done that since that rule change came into being. It's happened only a handful of times in the NFL. Which rule change were that at the two-point? Oh, I thought you meant that it couldn't be longer than 100. Did they add the distance in the end zone? They do add the distance in the end zone. I thought it used to just be 99 was the longest play. Did they change that too? There wasn't time. The 109 yards was the longest play on a fumble return by Ed Reid. There you go. That's the record. They ain't getting any more than that. They're not getting any further than that. I'm going to choke. All right, Gardner met you. You're going to get sacked right here. I do know that's going to happen. Yep. And again, here's another goal line sack and the stand on third down and, you know, the pressure and the coverage are trying to bunch us up and pick us. And, you know, I thought the players were prepared. I thought they executed and, you know, just it sucks to come up short. They put a lot into it and, you know, in all three phases and, you know, but certainly being able to defend the people down there and the way that we do gives us a lot of hope. And then Will Levis taking the Titans down the field late in the fourth quarter, he finds DeAndre Hopkins. Yeah, I'm curious to see that the view we have on this, but there's good arm angle. But, you know, you see the route craft here from Hop and they're working a combination coverage and you'll see it. So Hop starts up and, you know, they pass it off. And so he kind of looks at the outside guy and then, you know, breaks away. So, you know, both teams scored on this same play. And, you know, unfortunately, you know, we weren't able to stop them there at the end, but that's that's the same play that they used down there to score at the end. Going to go to the Vrables straighter next. But first, I want you to meet some of our Tennessee Titans. Mr. Football winners from earlier today, the award ceremony held in a luncheon at Neeson Stadium. Very special day. There were 10 of them. Let's meet three of them as we go to break on the Mike Vrables show presented by Seat Geek. Dawson White, quarterback safety. Isaiah Groves, running back. Rodriguez Jackson, prior receiver. From the Bet MGM Studio, the Mike Vrables show presented by Seat Geek. Time to go to the Vrables straighter. All right. Hey, some creative stuff you guys have been doing. Did some of it on Sunday? This was a pretty play. Yeah. And then let me just first say, you know, we don't want to sit there and make the whole offense, you know, gimmicky. You know, we want to make it sound. We want to make sure that it's it's building off of things that we've done and trying to show looks. And, you know, I think that there's a place for some of these plays and we've been able to hit some of them and some of them we haven't. But they've been able to get us some explosive gains and we have to try to continue to do that to move the football. And, you know, this is just out of a 21 personnel package here. You know, we see the tight end in the backfield, creating a full back look off of a run that will run, you know, numerous times here with this toss. Normally, Nick will come in here and crack, OK, and the full back will lead here. We get the puller around. And sometimes that'll be Derek or Tajé, whatever is going on there. And as we progress through, you know, being able to throw it back here behind the line of scrimmage backwards, pass allows them will now to extend and throw the pass. And it's not there. Throw it away. We've also hit hop right early in the season. Atlanta, we've had some of these plays, OK, whether it was, you know, the Chargers or anything else where, you know, he's been taken off and reading this post safety, keeping it high or bending and trying to eat up two players. You can see he eats up these two players. And now we get Nick Westbrook, a Kine out the back door for a twenty eight yard game. And it's just about marrying plays, marrying run plays. You know, the action that we'd like to try to get is, you know, can you get the end and kind of run and chase, right? Or they kind of check in and you'll see this from the end zone. You know, our ability to to try to manipulate these ends down here and slow them down from chasing. So now if they see the quarterback boot, always at a boot, are they going to throw it back to him? You know, what are they going to do and being able to slow them down a little bit? As you see, you know, here next time we boot out of here, we're probably going to get him, you know, to kind of check back and now we'll get a cutback line. So as you start to build things, you know, he's looking, obviously reading top down, don't think it's going to be hot. But then being able to build just somebody coming into his vision, not knowing how much long you're going to have to hold on to the football. When you run 42 times and run effectively, they're going to bite on this look to give you these opportunities. Yeah, you're going to get, you know, I mean, you're going to get backers here that are flying where Nick had gone in there earlier and maybe cracked one of these guys. Now you're getting them flying and then Nick can can get out the backdoor. Good stuff. We've got the we've got a lot more coming up. We've got good stuff. We've got good stuff. Maybe I'll learn how to talk on this edition of the Bike Vrable Show. Let's meet some more of our Mr. Football winners from earlier today. And Kieshaan Tottenham, quarterback Kelvin Perkins, Southland High School quarterback Bo Carter, athlete. Committed to the University of Tennessee. When we interviewed the Titans director of sports performance, Frank Perrino, earlier this season, he made constant reference to Lauren. Now, the staff here knew he was talking about, but most outside of Ascension St. Thomas Sports Park wouldn't automatically know. So in tonight's epic Western spotlight, we introduce you to Lauren, who is very important every day to the lives of the Tennessee Titans. Lauren Silvio is in her second season as the Titans nutrition coordinator. She quickly built respect around the Titans with her knowledge, her background, her ability and her professionalism. But she also occupies an important role to today's football players. These guys understand that nutrition is a major part of their preparation. I would say nutrition is a huge role. You know, one thing is I'm here as a resource for them. I can't, you know, have them do everything like I can tell them what to do and I can educate them on what to do. But they have to actually take that knowledge and use it themselves. Lauren Silvio earned her undergraduate degree at Alabama and a master's degree at LSU. After three years of internships, she was hired full time at LSU before handling nutrition at Auburn for six years. The Titans hired her prior to the 2022 season. The team quickly learned that multitasking may be her most impressive skill. A normal day sees Lauren Silvio never stop. I'll go in and work on anything I need to from like a meal plan standpoint or maybe talk with the chefs in the kitchen about what menus we're doing during the season. They'll come out for a snack prior to practice because we practice right in the middle of the day. And so it's kind of an interesting scheduling situation with food, making sure they're eating the right things before they go out to practice and then coming back in from practice and having another kind of lunch situation. So you want to make sure that you're telling them what to eat. It's not going to hurt their stomach before they go out and run, making sure that there are things they're going to have enough energy to go out there because sometimes they worry that if they eat too much in the mornings, they're not going to feel good at practice. But there's kind of that balance and helping each guy understand what they need to be doing from that standpoint. And then after practice, we'll come back in and have lunch. I'll be in there if they have any questions about stuff, what to put on their plate. During this past off season, she came up with a plan for every player. They talk goals, nutrition, staying consistent with the plan, et cetera. And Lauren Silvio is a constant presence. She isn't just in her office or in the cafeteria. She's at practice in meeting rooms on the sidelines during games on road trips. You name it. Yeah, it's a huge relationship building to be present at all times and in different spaces. So you sit in your office all day, they might be a little intimidated to come in and talk to you if they don't get to know you. If you're not in the meal room, if you're not at practice helping them, that's something that's really important to build those relationships and trust because nutrition can be a thing that people don't really want to talk about. It may be more fitting to call Lauren Silvio the Titans nutrition coach. Her trust and respect among Titans players seems to be growing by the day. As long as we can continue to emphasize nutrition, I think that's the most important thing. And I have great support from Coach Frable and Frank in the weight room and the athletic training staff as well. So being able to have all of those people kind of supporting nutrition and being able to help the guys is the ultimate goal. And I think that the more that I'm here, the more that we can implement new things and educate more and kind of find where we want to increase the nutrition's role. Lauren Silvio, important to this football team. Yeah, absolutely. She does a fantastic job. I love her energy, love her spirit. I love the fact that, you know, during practice, she's out there hustling and helping Todd and his staff and coordinates the meals and plans the meals. And, you know, we get these rookies and a lot of them don't have the same type of nutrition that the SEC schools or Big Ten schools or bigger schools had. And, you know, she teaches them how to go shopping and cook and make meals at home in the off season or during the season at night when maybe they're not here at work. So just a great role. And again, no job is too small for Lauren. And we appreciate what she does. Her first role is making sure that the players are healthy internally and that, you know, they're trying to eat the right things and have the right supplements and then anything else that she can do, she does. Kids Ask Coach Frable is up next. But before we go to break, let's meet our four other Mr. Football winners from earlier today. Jalen Mosley, wide receiver safety, Jackson Christian High School. I'm Mario Jefferson, wide receiver, University of Alabama. Cruz Law, linebacker, University of North Carolina. Owen Taylor, kicker punter. The Mike Rabel Show continues presented by Seat Geek. We are here in the Bet MGM studio and it's time for kids. Yeah, blah, blah, blah. Let's get to Jalissa. Let's go. Kids Ask Coach Rabel. Coach Rabel, my name is Jalissa. I'm 11 and my question is, is it difficult coaching all of those players at once? No, no, it's not difficult. You know what I mean? I think that it sometimes it is. I think that that's a fantastic question to be able to say. Is it difficult to coach all those players at once? And everybody's got a different personality. We've got different positions. We've got players from from different parts of the country. They're from different backgrounds. And I think that's what makes it amazing and also challenging at the same time is is that you're trying to build a team and you've got players that have been with you for a while. You've got some that are new. You've got some that, you know, just came here this past week or a couple of weeks ago and you're trying to combine all that and figure all that out. So it is challenging. It's rewarding. But at times it can, you know, be difficult and and trying to do all that and maintain that type of structure and culture that we want to build when we're not having success. And I know that that's why we're here. We're here to win. But it's amazingly rewarding. And I know that those are going to come sooner. Jalissa, that was a really good question. Is it OK if I say that? Yes, you can chime in. It was a really good question. Is it OK if I throw it a break now? Absolutely. All right. Back with Mike Vrable's Nissan Keys to Success. That's next on the Mike Vrable Show presented by Seatkey. Time for the Nissan Keys to Success on the Mike Vrable Show. Titans don't play until next Monday night at Miami. And so let's start with momentum and field position. How do special teams potentially create that? Yeah, by covering kicks, by protecting our punters. You know, I mean, we can't, you know, we can't put that stuff on tape. That's that's not acceptable. We know that we're going to make our kicks. We've done a decent job, you know, and kick off coverage. But that's how you send messages and you go down there and you rally around the guy, make a tackle. If you do what Tage does here and get us out past the 35 yard line. This is all part of it. And it's a great drive starter, there's great field position on the 36 yard line for us to go down there and score a touchdown. You hope to have a punter tomorrow? Yeah, yeah, we'll have a punter tomorrow. We just need to make sure we got one by Monday night. That's it. All right, fair enough. Defense has to be great with eyes and assignments. Why is that? Well, it's just everything before the snap. There's so many formations and motions that they're, you know, coming from every which way. And everybody has an assignment, right? Any defensive linemen, linebackers, everybody has to adjust to somebody. You know, this team will run the football. They have multiple run schemes, very, very effective at it. They average over five yards of carry, you know, and we know how explosive they can be down the field. Yeah, the crazy stat about the Miami Dolphins is they average 285 passing, but 143 rushing. I don't think most people would expect that. Yeah, I mean, they've been up in games, right? And so they've been able to run the football and, you know, they get a lot of split safety with as much passing and, you know, they've hit some runs. I got the third one. You're going to have to score points and you're going to have to drive the football. You're going to have to, you're going to have to consume the football, you know, to beat a team that this is, this explosive, you know, three and outs are going to put too much stress on our defense. And, you know, you look at Philadelphia, they had the ball for 37 minutes and Miami had it for 23. And, you know, that's got to be the formula. We have to be able to try to possess the football. Thanks for caring me tonight. Thanks, buddy. I appreciate it. Thanks. A little rough, tough night with the boys. Now we made it through. Next Monday night, 7.15, Titans at Miami. Next Tuesday night, the Mike Vrable Show. Thanks for joining us. Good night, everybody.