 After a full week of practice, getting ready for an opponent that might be the most complete team in the NFL. This is a huge challenge today for our Tennessee Titans. Intercepted by Kripschak! Fires ball banded way up in the air and intercepted! There it is! There it is! It's in and out there! 20! Welcome to the Mike Grable Show presented by Coca-Cola. I'm Mike Keith. The Titans are five in one as they began preparation today for Sunday's game with the Cincinnati Bengals. Coach Mike Vrable, this is the opportunity that you had with your football team today to kind of wrap up the Pittsburgh game. Take a look at the tape, make revisions and sort of review overall. What did you kind of point out as the key moments and the things that you want them to take away from this game? Well, we just we have to be more consistent. We do too many things well at times, but unfortunately it's not consistent enough to beat a team that that as good as the Pittsburgh Steelers. And so, you know, we'll have to improve. We'll have to get those things fixed in order us to have success going forward. Let's take a look at Mike Vrable's six pack of plays from the Pittsburgh game. Second quarter Titans down 14 to nothing needs something big to happen and Adam Humphries makes something big happen. Certainly does. You know, we get a bounce around there. We get a tip. Ryan's a little high, but you know, Humph's been a guy that's always been, you know, at the right place at the right times, made some huge catches for us. And we want to be a little cleaner than this, but you know, we'll take a little luck when we can get it. So that set up the Titans at the 22-yard line just a few plays later. It's third down and goal to go at the four. And this time, Corey Davis is going to make the catch. Yep. And Corey does a nice job stuttering, kind of creating some separation there in man coverage. I thought that that was a really good route, not just sprinting across the front line, but stuttering right there, giving them a little stick and being able to get across. And Ryan does a nice job looking them off and then coming back to them there. And the line did a nice job of allowing him to progress through there. Really good to have Corey Davis back in the lineup. Didn't have a lot of yards, but did have six catches and a couple of important ones in the ballgame like that touchdown. Yep, that touchdown. And then he had a couple, you know, he came up big there in the two minute at the end. We couldn't finish, but we did put ourselves in position to tie the football game there late. Who else had six catches? A.J. Brown. And the big one came in the third quarter to get Tennessee jumpstarted 73 yards, coach. Well, we talked about making sure that we kept the quarterback clean on the inside of the pocket. You know, there's a lot of timing, a lot of trust involved in that route right there. We did identify there was some space in there throughout the week with the play fake there. And, you know, Ryan comes out of there and rips it right past Williams's ear. And then you can see the play speed that A.J. has, you know, being able to get vertical and being able to split the safety. He has good overall speed, like if he ran a 40 yard dash, but you just said it, his play speed, it's almost like he's faster than his 40 time. He does play faster, I think, than what what people may say he ran at the combine. And there's a lot of players like that. And that's what that's what you're looking for throughout your roster is these guys that have play speed, they put pads and a helmet on and they go out there and they play a game and they just look like they're in a different speed than other players. Titans are down 27 to 17 at the end of three. They're on the move. They get to the one yard line fourth down. Titans go for it. Get a penalty. Stay with it. And Derek Henry over the top, old school, to get it in the end zone. Yeah, we went, sent the full back through, pulled the guard around and, you know, Derek, Derek was able to get in there pretty much untouched and, you know, just to, you know, just a huge drive, you know, converted some third downs, got down there, got to cause the penalty on fourth down. And then we were able to punch it in there. So the Titans get it to 27-24 at that point. The Steelers would get the football back with 10-13 remaining in the game and would keep it for over seven and a half minutes. Titans finally got off the field with a takeaway. Monty Hooker makes that play. Yeah, well, Jayon Brown makes the play really to start and then hooks in a good spot, running to the football, breaking on the football. But, you know, you see Jayon there and coverage down the middle of the field is able to disrupt it. And then there's Hook running to the football, giving us a chance to go down there late. But I thought that Jayon played well on coverage all day. Hooker's second interception of the year, the second interception of his career, gave the Titans a chance with 2-35. They were able to move down the field in advance. One of the big plays in the drive came on third down. It's another A.J. Brown catch. Yeah, they're not getting enough depth there. And he's able to kind of run a really good route. Ryan trusts them, throws it there on the sidelines. They're creating timing. And then you can see the corner there undercut. He does a good job at the top of the route. Gives him a little stick and before the safety can come over there and affect it. Is it just me or does he have an outstanding feel for the spacing to find that soft spot to get open? Yeah, I think you have to have spatial awareness. You have to understand what's going on around you. You know, we send him inside a lot and I think he does a nice job of knowing how far to go in there and how far not to go in there. And I think, you know, that route there was a good example of when to break it off and the timing with Ryan was critical. He and Ryan Tannehill certainly have a relationship and understand one another. But the thing that really sticks out about the Titans passing game is Ryan Tannehill will throw the ball to anybody, anybody who's eligible and open, he'll give him a chance to go make a play. I think that that's a key that we talked about that coming into the game defensively with Ben. And I think Ryan's the same way. I think he gives guys confidence to know like, hey, if I do my job and I get open, you know, I have a chance here to catch the ball. So turning the page to Cincinnati, that's the job right now coming off the Pittsburgh game. And obviously that's going to be a big challenge, coach. Well, it's a challenge every week, you know, whether you win or you lose. And, you know, we lost last week and we'll have to we'll have to improve and make corrections quickly to go up on the road. We haven't been on the road in a while against a good young, hungry football team. We're going to talk about the Cincinnati Bengals more coming up in the Mike Vrable show, but the Bridgestone clutch performance play of the game is on deck. That says we continue on the Mike Vrable show presented by Coca-Cola. Mike Vrable show presented by Coca-Cola continues with the Bridgestone clutch performance play of the game. Seems like Jeffrey Simmons makes one every single game, coach. Well, he's the you can see the size that he has his ability to jump up and, you know, we talked about trying to disrupt the football, you know, if it's coming out quick, you know, let's get our hands up and, you know, you can see that he does and when you tip balls, good things happen for the defense. Now, you've done this. You had 11 interceptions in your career. When you're where Jayon Brown is, how hard is it to concentrate enough to make sure that you get that catch? Well, I think it's a fine line between going up and high pointing it and going up and making sure that you catch it. Those two guys hooked up on one last year in the end zone against the Texans. Similar to that, Jeffrey batted it and Jayon went up and caught it. And, you know, sometimes on those plays, Mike, you get defenders that are, you know, going to tackle each other and dive, knock each other off before they get the ball. So I think we were fortunate there that we were able to get Jayon to get up and get that football. 98 and 55 combined on our Bridgestone performance play of the game. As we go to break, it's time for Delta dental guest, the Titan, and we'll give you a bit of a hint. He's a young guy who is contributing on defense and special teams. When the Mike Vrable show presented by Coca-Cola returns, we'll see if Mike can guess this tiny Titan in our Delta dental guest, the Titan. That is a younger version of a young Titan Delta dental. Can you guess the Titan? Mike Vrable, can you guess the Titan? Yeah, this is my favorite segment, Mike. I love Delta dental. I love the pressure that it puts on me to recognize our players 20 years ago. So I think that that's going to be Imani Hooker. Whoa. It's a pretty strong guess, I think. Wow, that's two in a row, Coach. This guy's improving Imani Hooker. You're asking more of him on the defense. He played a lot in the dime package a year ago, but you want more of him this year, second-year player out of Iowa doing a nice job for you. Yeah, and he needs to continue to improve like we all do, but I think he had a really good off-season, and we got to get him in there more and see what he can do for us. You know, it's funny because Jayon Brown is another player who made a big jump in his second year and now has continued to progress. He's not exactly old, but he's not as young a player as he once was. What does Jayon Brown mean to you and mean to this Titan's defense? Well, he's got a great versatility. He's got a great skill set. He's very good in coverage. He's rangy. He calls the plays and communicates with the defense. I've got high expectations for Jayon. Coach him hard. He takes the hard coaching. He played through some pain, which I appreciated. He wasn't at 100% throughout that game, and not many guys are, but, you know, it was something that he fought through and, you know, give him credit. He's Jayon Brown, and he's this week's rackly roofing tough Titan standing by with our Amy Wells. Jayon, thank you so much for taking some time to talk with us. I want to start off by talking about the Titans performance against the Pittsburgh Steelers. You had a crucial interception. Walk me through that play and what you were seeing. I've just got a good rush. I got his hands up when Ben threw the ball, tipped it up in the air. I've seen the ball up for a while, so I run up under it, secure the catch and just hold on to the ball. Obviously, it was a real tale of two halves. The first half, not exactly what the Titans wanted. The second half, a great performance by the Titans team. What happened at halftime to maybe change that mindset a little bit? We couldn't have played any worse in that first half, and let's go out and land it on the line. We got a bunch of guys that care in this locker room, and we can build off of that. Is that a real mindset that things can't get any worse, so we may as well pivot and try something new? It's definitely a real thing. Can't get off the field on third downs and giving up over 20 points in the first half. And coming in halftime, like, okay, we gotta break, get our minds right. Let's check each other, and let's get right, and go all with the mentality of, let's give it all we got. And when you do that, and generally care about the people next to you as players and coaches, at the end of the day, we had a fighting chance to win the game. It seems like there's no quit in this team. Is that the identity of the Tennessee Titans? 100%. We came back from games earlier in the season, in this pass game with the Steelers, we gave ourselves the same opportunity and just came up short. So we got to learn from that and not put ourselves in that position in the first place, but it's football, and you never know what's going to happen. How long does it really take to create brotherhood on a team? Our general manager and John put this team together and really good coaching from the coach, Vrable. And even though we have a different team from from last year, we went to the AFC Championship and came up short, bringing back a lot of a lot of key guys. It's a lot of playoff experience and getting that far last year, we know what it takes to get back to that point and we want more. Obviously, you never want to lose a game, but is this a good opportunity for this team to maybe take a moment, recalibrate, and get back on track with a lot of football left in the season? Never want to lose, never want to lose, but what a loss that that we just took. Definitely a learning lesson to see what we can do better, how we can do the good things even better, and ultimately become a better team and keep on improving. Jayon Brown, thank you for being this week's rackly roofing tough titan. Guys, there's still a lot of Mike Vrable show on the other side of this break. Stick around. You see what you're made of when you go through something tough. And yeah, it's been a tough year, but Tennesseans are built for this. Great pass down through generations. We look for it. We like it that way. Tennessee tough. The Mike Vrable show presented by Coca-Cola rolls on with a sweet steaks winner. I'm talking about Sarah Hawkins. Now think about this, you've got a chance to win a suite at Nissan Stadium for you and nine of your friends or your kids or your mom and your dad or your neighbor, whoever, but you get a chance to be a big timer. You see the Titans and the Steelers in a suite. Well, Sarah Hawkins took part in the sweet steaks last week. She went to Tennessee Titans.com and registered and she won a suite for Tennessee Pittsburgh. Look how she did. I was born and raised in Tennessee, so I've been a Titans fan since day one. You know, I'm a huge Alabama fan and I love me some Derek Henry. We wanted to do something really nice for our fans and give them an opportunity to watch this amazing matchup. So we did the Titans suite steaks where one lucky fan was chosen to invite nine of their friends to come watch the game from a luxury suite. I didn't think there was a chance that I would win at all. Sarah, our winner, is amazing. She filled out a form online on Tennessee Titans.com and submitted a photo of herself showing her team spirit. Friday night, I got a bunch of missed calls from a number. I was like, why do you keep calling me? So I answered, I was like, hello. And they're like, is this Sarah? Yes. And they're like, you won the sweet steaks. I was like, you've got to be kidding me. It's so important to constantly be letting our fans know that even though the football season is going on, it's in full swing. Our priority is always on them. It's always on making sure that when they come out to a game at Nissan Stadium, they're having a special experience. So to be able to kind of up the game a little bit and offer a more unique experience was something that was really important to us. We're so glad that we were able to put it together for such an exciting game. Oh my gosh, I couldn't have imagined winning something better than this. I mean, this has been an awesome experience. We're so grateful for the Titans organization to even do this for us. I mean, this is something that, you know, once in a lifetime experience. The Hawkins family had a big time as the sweet steaks went at Nissan Stadium. When the Mike Vrable show presented by Coca-Cola returns, it's the head coaches Nissan keys to success in Cincinnati. Stay with us. The Mike Vrable show presented by Coca-Cola continues with our Nissan keys to success against the Cincinnati Bengals. Let's start off with something that the Bengals do well. They are explosive in their passing game in particular. Mike Vrable, you've got to eliminate those explosive plays. What we do, they run, they get some vertical routes that start to bend over there and post safety defense. So a lot of these over routes, they're working the ball down the field. We're going to have to do a great job of eliminating those as well as in the run game. We've gotten better. We've gotten better. We haven't given up as many as we had, and we've got to continue to improve throughout the season. Mike Vrable's second Nissan key to success against Cincinnati is be sound on special teams. It's not trying to do too much. It's just doing your job, being sound, hunting the ball, making our kicks, protecting the field goal kicker, protecting the punter, catching the kicks, catching the punts. Just thought that was uncharacteristic of us last week, but let's just get back to being sound and seeing what that gets us. They have an outstanding returner and they have outstanding kickers too. Again, special teams are such a critical part of the game. It's not something that's a throwaway. You can see the difference in when it's done well and when it's done properly and when it's not. Alright, the final key. Run the dang ball. Period. That's what we are. That's who we are. And we feel like that's a way to control the football game. And we had some moments last week. Wasn't good enough. Wasn't consistent enough against a very good rush defense. Hoping we can get this thing back on track here as we go up to Cincinnati. And part of that too is you didn't have that many plays. You didn't have that many opportunities against Pittsburgh. If you could run early, more plays helps with that time of possession and getting it where you want it. If you can control the clock, control the ball, get first downs on the ground and get it in third and manage going convert. We weren't good enough on third down. So it's that game was one on third down by their offense and not good enough. It sets up your play action even better as well, right? Well, the more you can run it, the better you can, you know, you can fake it in there. And you know, we're going to have to continue to mix. We understand that that's our first and second down offense is being able to run a football and work play passes off of it and take our chances down the field sometimes. Mike, as always, thank you so much for joining us on the program. As we're going to try to go get a win so we can come back here with a victory show next week. We like victory shows. We sure do. We'll remind you that Titan's radio is on the air on 104.5 the zone at 11 a.m. Central time. Other Titans radio stations as well. Kickoff is set for 1202. The Titans and the Bengals this Sunday in Cincinnati. For the head coach, I'm Mike Keith, the Mike Grable show presented by Coca-Cola. Thanks for watching.