 Oh, we're back at Nissan State. Oh, yeah. Wait for the boy to be signed to the game. That's how it feels. Diache! Forbid! To your Tennessee Titans, I'm Mike Keith welcoming you to the Mike Frable Show. Titans are nine and four after Sunday's 20-0 win over Jacksonville. The nothing-on-the-second part of it, the big part of the story. A shutout for the defense. Hard to do in the NFL. It is hard to do. And a lot of credit goes to the players and the coaching staff. It was a fantastic performance. Everybody that played, I felt like, understood the game plan. Played with a great speed and energy. They tackled really well. A lot of turnovers. All the good stuff that goes in with playing great defense. All right, Mike Frable's six-pack. All defense in this segment of the show. Let's jump right in. First defensive play. How about a little Danico Autry? That's it right there. You see the quarterback go and wanting to throw it. Rashawn Evans did a nice job of going in there and matching that spot route. Danico getting in there, making the inside move. React in and they called him down right there. I thought it would have been grounding. But anyways, it goes with the coverage helping to rush. That's a great way to start there as a first defensive play. All right, good to have Rashawn Evans back in the lineup. Led the Titans with six tackles. Here's his first to the game for lost yardage on James Robinson. Yeah, here a little misdirection. You know, you get the flasher coming across. And you know, Rashawn runs through, Harold sets the edge. Really nowhere for him to go. That's what we tell these guys, man, let's set the edge, build a wall. And if you can run through it, then run through it and go make a tackle. So that was a huge play there. Two plays later. How about a little more sacking of the quarterback? An avalanche of Titans coming from the inside, including Harold Landon. There were all kind of guys coming. And really liked the call here. Love the execution. Could have been a number of guys there to Nico, Jeff, Harold. So it was a well called well timed pressure. Call that meeting at the quarterback. That's it. Roll call at the ball. Roll call at the ball. Second quarter, third and eight situation for the Jacksonville Jaguars. They're on the move a little bit. They try to sneak Carlos, hide through. No, thank you. Well, third and eight right around plus territory midfield. You don't really expect to run here in a national football league, but you know, they try to slip one in. But there's Jeff knocking his guy back three yards with hands in his chest. Everybody else swarming. And you know, that's how you don't really think about them running the football right there. But you react to it. You play good defense. And Nico Sheds there makes tackle. Forced to punt. Moving to the third quarter. Jacksonville trying a little bit of a trick. Kevin Byrd is not biting. Yeah. A little trickeration here. Chanel back to Lawrence. And you know, just a great job by Kevin in the middle of field to see the entire field. See that a guy was free. Come make a legal hit. Great contact below the football. Didn't hit him in the head or neck. And was able to dislodge the football. And you know, just a really nice play, you know, just keep having a great year for us. Next play. How about the first of the takeaways all day? Rashad Evans with a gift. Yeah, we'll take it. You know, he's in the middle there playing a little spy and kind of bounces off their Chanel's hands. And you know, Rashad's able to get it. He's got to get going in the right direction and see if we can get some return yards. Got to turn it up more. That's it. He just got to get going in the right direction. There you go. He was headed south. We needed to be going north. Second interception of the season for Rashad Evans. When we come back, how about a second six pack of plays from the Titans defense in the shutout. Thus making it a 12 pack. We'll do it when the Mike Brayble show continues after this. It's another six pack of defensive plays from Sunday's shutout went over Jacksonville. It's time to start the run on takeaways. Let's keep an eye on Jay on Brownwright. A little bonus sixer. Here we go. We get a little pressure. Jay on gets blocked, pops out of there. We practiced it all week and looked so great on Wednesday. Started to look better at the end of the week and just well executed. That was another well-timed call and better executed. Good catch. Great catch going back. That's where you got to be. The guys are trying to get their hands up. Jay on gets out back into the throwing lane. It was well timed and well called and well executed. Speaking of good catches, Christian Fulton on this deep ball. This is the third interception of the ball game. Pass rush gets there and Fulton retreats. Yep, the old Hail Mary full grace. Quarterback going to his right, just lobbing it up there. Christian really had to battle that receiver for that ball. Thank goodness he came down with it. You said it on the post game though. That was a play the Titans were not making earlier in the year. Those are the ones that the Jets hit us on. That was really cool to see him be able to stay back there and go make a play on the football. Those are the ones that they hit for some big chunks earlier in the year. Let's take a look at another Christian Fulton play here. This is a pass break up, but really a pretty effort on his part. Mirroring the receiver. Staying square, not opening it up, not retreating, but standing his ground and then being able to disrupt the route, the timing and obviously stab through the pocket. Jay on there, trying to recover the loose ball, play to the recovery of the ball, all those things that we talk about. Just a really nice job. It's good to have Christian back and get him playing with some confidence. You have had some kind words for Derek Roberson in the last couple of games with his performance. He had a really nice sack in the ball game for a minus 20. He did. He had some other good moves. He had a good play on kickoff coverage. I went down there again and see the pocket collapsing and I'm sure Jeff was working hard enough that Jeff deserved one from yesterday, but sometimes that's how it goes. Jeff created, I think, two sacks yesterday and would have certainly loved to get one of those, but as long as somebody in the Titans uniform is getting sacks, we're happy. Roberson has a sack and a half in the last two games for the Titans and has played very well against the run as well. All right, fourth and final takeaway. One of the newer Titans, the veteran from Chattanooga, Buster Screams. Just a really cool play here. They got a three-level route breaking in and Buster starts in the slot and works his way back, gets some depth, doesn't bite up and they're trying to hit that end cut in there behind them and great catch. This was really cool to see. He's done just a great job for us coming in there, playing inside, playing outside. He's a great teammate. I love coaching him. I know everybody loves having him around. All right, so when you're going to finish the shutout, it's going to be done by the backups and the starters are on the sidelines urging them on. You've got to get off the field right here on fourth down. Yep, and so we go over there. Dane, unfortunately misses the tackle. Guys are swarming. Elijah's in there chewing on his ankle and biting his ankle and then Farley comes in and cleans him up. These guys are excited. I mean, you see Jeff, you see Rashon, you see Jayon coming in there, just not letting them get any cheap garbage yards there at the end. That's a 245-pound back right there. Ogun Bawali is a big guy. He is, and we tackled really well yesterday. There was a lot of good clips of our tackling. I think our coaches had our team for one miss tackle. That's unbelievable. When a team gets a shutout, it often adds confidence to a defense. It certainly adds excitement as you've gone back to practice this week. Yeah, I think just playing well and playing together, communicating, that's what breeds confidence. I don't want to just sit there and say, we only have confidence when we shut them out because you can play really great defense and score some scores in this league, but it's all the things that lead to that. Playing with great technique and fundamentals and effort and swarming to the football. Does Mike Vrable have confidence as we go to the Delta Dental Can You Guess This Tighten? Yeah, we're on a roll here. We're on a roll. Let's take a look before we go to break the reveal. Can You Guess This Tighten? Looks like he's off of the show Yellowstone maybe. Or Alaska to the last frontier. There we go. There it is. We'll see if you can guess who this tighten is and see if Mike Vrable can guess who this tighten is. Sponsored by Delta Dental when the Mike Vrable show returns after this. Delta Dental says, can you guess this tighten? What they really want to know is can head coach Mike Vrable guess this tighten on the Mike Vrable show? Let's take another look before we need the head coach's gift. I think we're sticking with the old line. David Quessenberry. David Quessenberry is the guess and it is Jeff Swain. Tighten. It's Jeff Swain. That was my second guess. Off of Yellowstone. Kind of does. Jeff Swain, important guy to the offense has caught a lot of balls in recent weeks. Good blocker. Yeah, I mean it's he plays a lot of roles for us. He plays on the last scrimmage. He doesn't play off. He plays in the backfield. You know, unfortunately I know he'd like to have that one. Get him a touchdown there the other day. But, you know, just a lot of dirty work. He knows a lot of positions. He's a smart player. And that's not easy duty. You know, going in there and wrestling with sometimes 280-pound defensive ends in this league. So, Jeff's been a consistent player for us kind of represents what you want guys on this team to be. Selfless, tough, available, dependable all of those things. Yeah, I mean, I think he also is making some corrections and some detail and some techniques and pointed that out to the team and the coaching staff about something that him and I had talked about just on a particular block that I thought could help him. And it actually showed up in the game and just tried to point those things out to the players taking the details and making corrections and fixing. Tight ends very involved in the ball game on Sunday. Yeah, you know, a lot of action and, you know, fur cuts and some catches and, you know, pro helps us out in a lot of different ways. And, you know, Swain, we only got three of them so they all have roles and they all play. When we come back, Amy Wells in the Titans files as she goes off the field for a Titans fan favorite who also happens to be a hometown boy made good. That's next to the Mike Gravel show. Welcome back to the Mike Gravel show. When you talk about heroes off the field to Titans fans you talk about the visor and I'm not talking about Steve Spurrier. He's great but our visor is somebody that Titans fans have been relying on for over 20 years and for the last seven he's actually worked for the organization. The best part of his story, he's living a dream because he's so much filmated. In this week's Titans files, Amy Wells goes off the field to introduce you to the person known as the visor. You'll recognize him quickly. We've seen so many players step up and play well with Jeffers Simmons or Kevin Byer here later. When the Titans signed Jim Wyatt to become the senior writer editor for the Tennessee Titans in 2015 it might have been the first big move that Amy Adams team since almost the day that the team moved to Nashville so his credibility was unmatched with the Titans fan base. Jim's presence makes TennesseeTitans.com the first stop for Titans fans every day of the year. A lot of these fans that I've known since I started covering the team back in 1999 and a lot of times I'll tell people I remembered when you first started at the Tennessee and that's been a big part of it. I appreciate people to read. I appreciate about this team because they're what kind of makes us go. I'm trying to give people a look on what happens on the practice field so practice observations news of the day, feature stories try to work ahead and a lot of days it ends up being three, four things a day you try to crank out. Jim Wyatt's work ethic on behalf of the fans is no joke. He never stops ever. He writes three or more stories a day. He does interviews with radio shows, podcasts and TV shows. Jim has a love for his job and a humility that makes him never forget who he works for. I don't consider myself the best rider out there, but I've always been willing to work. There are a lot of other people that are smarter who do a great job and now my job is to try to outwork them as much as I can and to try to tell stories about the team and try to pump out as much information about the team as possible. And it all starts with a pencil. Jim Wyatt is famous for the many pencils that he has on him at press conferences and interview sessions. Every picture of Jim shows him with multiple pencils clinging to his ever present visor. For Jim, it's like when he started school in the 1970s. Pencils are practical. When you're making a mistake and you can erase it easy a lot of times I keep a file on my notebook or what's going on day to day instead of having to start on a whole new page every day I can use the eraser to update it. I keep it on the visor because you always know where it is. You don't have any blemish on your pants that I used to get from time to time and I usually have a couple of them because you never know when you're going to run out of lead. When we're out in public with Jim Wyatt Titans fans treat him like a rock star. They love his stories. They love his twice weekly mail bags. They love him on Twitter. And they like the special touches that he gives them each week. Kind of like the now famous Bridges report. In seven seasons with the Titans Jim's Bridges report has become an instant classic. When I started working with the team I'd get heads up on what the uniform combinations were going to be. It was uniform and I think the first couple of times I said tights were blue jersey white pants and I think I said blue jersey white trousers you know blue jersey white Bridges. I went through a long list of different descriptions for pants and the Bridges took off. It's funny how people look forward to that you know some new fans or fans that are following the team. Elsewhere they see Bridges sometimes and they still man who uses the word Bridges. Jim Wyatt uses the word Bridges along with thousands of other words that he provides for the Titans fans every single week. He works for the Titans fans. Jim's connection to the Titans fan base comes naturally because Jim Wyatt embodies local boy makes good. It means a lot. I grew up in Nashville when I went to Father Ryan High School. I went to grade school here. I'm one of five. All brothers and sisters grew up here in Nashville and I never dreamed we'd have an NFL team. I covered high school sports when I first started working for the Tennessee and when I got out of college I loved that. When the news came that the team was coming I continued to work high school then got an opportunity to cover you know the NFL and it's been a dream you know career for me. You know being a Nashville you know my dad 83 years old season tickets got so many friends that are passionate Titans fans. I just have such great pride in this city and such great pride in being able to work for the NFL team in this city. The Tennessee Titans been a dream for me. People always wonder is Jim Wyatt that good at his job? The answer is yes. People always wonder is Jim Wyatt that good a guy? The answer is yes. Certainly very proud that he's part of the Titans team and that he makes Tennessee Titans dot com so special every single day. When we come back it's time for the Nissan Keys to victory. The head coach will be right here next. The coach is back for the Nissan Keys here on the Mike Brable show. Titans on their way to play the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday at Heinz Field. Key number one is be the more physical team offensively. Yeah as you go into Heinz Field anytime you play the Pittsburgh Steelers your offense better be physical. Your offense better be physical because if they're not they're going to feast on you. They're going to put their hands in your chest and try to knock you back and shed and be physical tacklers. DBS are aggressive and so we just our mindset is that we have to be aggressive and physical on offense. Key number two in this Nissan run down is about the Titans defense and that's limit the run of the game. Yeah well they're going to call a lot of runs but they may end up throwing the football off the look that Ben sees and what he's coached to do so if you're not lined up and if it's it's option football you know but it's just a run pass option and so if you're not lined up and you're not taking care of your responsibility you know that's where the quarterback is going to pull it and he's going to throw it and so it's critical that we get lined up we take care of that success. Something you did well on Sunday people in the right places. Yeah I mean I think that that needs to continue they just do it a lot more they're going to do it a lot more frequency. Alright if you watch the Mike Vrabel show you have seen this key before number three penalty free aggression on special teams what does that mean? That means we have to play full tilt to the football we have to finish longer than the guy with the ball but we can't block guys in the back you know I'm chasing a guy back into the returner man turn up get to the second level let's chat whoever is returning make a miss and let's see if we can get a block on a second level not grabbing guys at the point of attack and getting holding calls that puts you inside a ten yard line. Yeah change of field position it's huge we saw the New England a difference you know here the other day is just being able to play special teams without penalties. Overall tough place to play got to have a mindset just got to go get it yeah you have to have a mindset you have to prepare you have to take care of football you know and hopefully be able to force them into some turnovers and like we've always said special teams are going to have to make a player too for you. Good luck on Sunday. Thanks. Alright Titans and the Pittsburgh Steelers coming your way Sunday from Hinesfield kickoff set for noon we'll have it for you here locally on 104.5 the zone we hope you'll tune in for the head coach Mike Vrabel I'm Mike Keith thanks for joining us and we'll see you next time.