 The difference between this league and our team is we got Derek Henry. Okay? Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. I have a confidence. We block him on goal. This week's Titans All Access is fit for a king. To Henry, 25-20, 15, outside of the 10, put some move on to the 5, Stifbar dives over the pylon. That was a man-sized run by the man. That's what I'm talking about. Here's what it's like to run for more than 200 yards as Derek Henry becomes the franchise's total touchdown leader. Number 75 for the king. Plus quarterback Ryan Tannehill's leadership has grown since taking over in 2019. Here from number 17 in a special two-part Nissan Insider. And the Titans face a tough challenge on Sunday night football against the Kansas City Chiefs. Here from general manager John Robinson on what it's going to take to get the job done. And advantage opportunity, man, right now. The franchise record for touchdowns for the king. Mitchell had the head and the Titans have recovered. Set every seven touchdowns. Tight power bound, a little finger roll. Intercepted. Andrew Adams, intercepted. Fulton with the interception. Welcome to the Bet MGM Studio and the home of the AFC South leading Tennessee Titans. Welcome to Titans All Access. With Amy Wells, I'm Mike Keith and that is indeed the truth. The Tennessee Titans are 3-0 in AFC South games. 5-2 overall and headed for a big time showdown Sunday night football in Kansas City. But first, Amy, we have to hit on the historic win over the Texans. Mike, I think historic is the best word for it. What with Derek Henry doing what he did. Another 200-yard rushing game. Another two touchdowns against the Texans. And you know, he set a couple of records. Well, the record that he really set, the organization's career record for touchdown scored with 75 passing Eddie George, who had a very nice message for him after the game. Best of all for us, the king was wired for sound. So without further ado, here's the record setter, Derek Henry. Give it to Henry on the left side to the 30, to the 35, to the 40, to the 45, to the 50, to the 45, to the 40, to the 35. And he is tackled inside the 35-yard line by Nelson. Oh, my leg. Attack him. Give him a vertical. They got him to stop their feet. It is your opportunity, man. Right now. Don't think too much. Don't get far ahead of yourself. One plan at a time, bro. Play with confidence. We block him on goal. Give it to Henry, 25-20, 15, outside to the 10, put some move on to the five. Stifard dives over the high line. That was a man man. That's what I'm talking about. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. You know what I'm saying? We all got each other. I got y'all back. Y'all got my back. I'm proud to be y'all teammate with family, bro. 75 for the king. And Tennessee has searched 10 in front. There we go. I appreciate y'all. Real talk. Real talk, bro. I appreciate y'all. I appreciate y'all, bro. I appreciate y'all, man. I appreciate y'all. Staying tall through adversity. Every time, bro. That's what we do. We sit together, bro, for show. You learn and keep growing, bro. Keep running. What a kind of time. Get down. Hey, keep running that thing, bro. You're the future, bro. Keep doing this. I love the way you run. Real. Keep doing this. That love. That love, bro. I see you in a couple of weeks. It was. But you know what else is awesome? What? The Titans defensive performance against the Texans rookie running back. Oh, yes. The Titans stymied it. Damian Pierce. So guess what we got? What? Dave McGinnis beneath the surface looking at the run games of both teams on Sunday in Houston. Hey, guys. Coach Mike here with this week's Beneath the Surface powered by Microsoft Surface beginning now. Today we're going to look at the run game from both the Titans and the Texans. Texans are in 21 personnel. The Titans are in a five man front with a two high look in the back end. Jeffery Simmons is on the three technique on the right side. He just forklifts the left guard into Pierce the running back and essentially makes the tackle with Kenyan Green's backside. Total physical domination in the run game. This was to continue all day for the Titans against the running attack of the Houston Texans. Titans are in 12 personnel, three by one initially. Texans are in an eight man front as they were the entire afternoon trying to stop Derek Henry. Number two Woods goes in motion. Number 85 Chig comes across in a nice crunch block, excellent block back by Jones on the shade. Davis nice combo up to the second level. Henry has an excellent vision on the rollback makes number 32 miss classic stiff arm on number 36 and is caught initially in the secondary by Nelson for a 41 yard game. 11 personnel. Titan number 81 Hooper goes in motion to form two by two. Henry offset to running backs right side. Inside zone handoff read option look holds the defensive end. Malik Willis makes the proper read as a quarterback off of number 97 gives it to Henry. Excellent blocks by Brewer to T for air on the second level linebacker. Henry runs through the arm tackle of number 97 makes a tremendous Okie dope move on the safety and then excellent blocks downfield by Conley and Westbrook a Kinney and then classic Derek Henry stiff arm and one of the better touchdown runs you're going to see by Derek Henry for six points. Titans on a four man front with two high safeties outside zone to the close side watch but do pre and Kevin Strong build a solid wall on the front side and big Jeff now playing a shade technique completely destroys the down block by number 64 gets four and a half yards deep in the backfield bringing back tries reverse field bad bad decision David Long cleans it up for a seven yard loss again Titans were dominated on defense against the run game all afternoon. This TD is number 75 for Derek Henry setting a Oilers Titans record passing Eddie George for the all time TD record number 75 is in Dylan Radins as an extra tight end on goal line offense. Texans are in all up defensive front on the goal line. Swain goes in motion. This is total domination by the entire Titans offensive front for this record setting touchdown look and see Toro in the end zone in the space suit saying Houston we have a problem. Still to come on Titans all access. I'm talking ball with Titans general manager John Robertson. That's nice but I'm talking with quarterback Ryan Tannehill and we're talking about his leadership style so stick around for that. How do you get to do that? Don't worry about Mike. Welcome back to the bet MGM studio and Titans all access since Ryan Tannehill took over as the Titans starting quarterback in October of 2019. A lot of things have stuck out one thing in particular his leadership skills. My partner Amy Wells had a chance to sit down with Ryan Tannehill to talk about leadership among other things in part one of this week's Nissan Insider. So Ryan I saw you in the game against Washington and you were hit a lot. That's just kind of what happened that game. But I was struck by the fact that I've seen other quarterbacks having a similar type of day start to get pretty frustrated and get really angry either with themselves or with their teammates. That never happened for you. You were always positive. You were always encouraging the other guys on the sideline. Is that something that you've had to work at as a leader or is that just kind of your disposition as a player as a person as a leader? I think it's just knowing who you're working with. Some guys they respond better to you kind of getting on them and being kind of hard on them. And some guys don't respond to that well at all. They'll actually shut down and go the other way. So just knowing who you're working with and how guys respond and what they need. Is that a skill set that you've had to work on over your career? Yeah, no doubt. It's something that you're constantly working to build those relationships, to build those relationships, grow as a leader in everything you do. And part of that is building those relationships, understanding guys and how they function, what makes them tick, how they respond to certain types of coaching or encouragement or praise. And just using that to help motivate. You also have to have an understanding of the guys you're playing with, how they respond best to different coaching or conversations. You have to have an understanding of the circumstances this team is experiencing as a whole. That's a lot mentally to have on your plate. How do you balance all of that? There's a lot that goes into it. It's something that's gotten a little bit easier over time. There's being in a lot of different situations over the course of 11 years now. Experiencing a lot of different coaches, a lot of different players, situations. And so at this point in my career, it's not too much as new in that regard. Obviously new people, but as far as situations and things you go through over the course of the season, I've been through most things so far at this point. So you learn from all those experiences you had in the past and you're able to use that learning experience and the next time it comes up, you know how to handle it. You mentioned you're in year 11. Not only does that make you one of the veteran guys on the team, it makes you one of the older guys in the room, just in the locker room. Does that help you at all be in a leadership position being an older guy? Maybe it does. I still feel young though. I guess I'm probably one of the older guys in the locker room but I feel young, most days that is. You know, I still love coming to work. I love being around the guys in the locker room and all the different personalities and everything that goes along with it. So yeah, maybe one of the older guys but I still feel young and no doubt they keep me young. November football is just different. When Titans All Access returns, Amy Wells talks with Ryan Tannehill about that and a lot more. Stay tuned. It's next. As we continue Titans All Access, we move to the Hughes and Coleman decision of the week which I chose because I wanted to talk about the decision to select Malik Willis in the third round of the 2022 NFL draft. Shocked people. John Robinson trading up to number 86 to take the young man and he has been really something since he came in here six months ago. He absolutely has. He has really been determined to learn this role, learn it the correct way and we've seen marked improvement from rookie minicamp and OTAs to getting the start finally as a professional quarterback. So I think we've seen him grow and I think that he has really invested in this team in doing it the correct way and you've got to like that. One of the reasons John Robinson took Malik Willis is because he wanted him to learn under Ryan Tannehill. Tannehill is that veteran presence and as you sat down and talked to him and got into a variety of things, what you learned from your talk with Tannehill that maybe we didn't know? I was just blown away by the amount of poise that he has and the amount of comfort that he has here with the Tennessee Titans organization. This is truly his home. This is his place where he feels very comfortable and I think he has brought all of the experiences from his entire career in the National Football League and it's made him the player that he is today and I'm very glad that the Titans are reaping the benefits of that. Yeah, he's a guy who's 36 and 18 as the Titans start in quarterback and as the weather gets cooler, it seems like Ryan Tannehill gets better. He's ready for November football as he mentions in part two of our Nissan Insider. As we approach the change in seasons, is there a change in football as well? November, December time, does the actual football that you're experiencing on the field change a little bit? Maybe a little bit. Kind of as a slow, gradual thing as the season goes on. I think, as you've seen, teams that can play physical football into January, late in the season, into the playoffs and run the ball well and play physical defense, typically over the course of history, have done well as the season goes on. Do you have to adjust the way that you prepare throughout the week to accommodate for maybe more physical games on Sundays? I mean, as the season goes on, just more things come up in your body, right? You're dealing with more things. Things can kind of start to stack up if you let them. So you want to make sure you stay on top of your recovery, stay on top of any treatment and the injuries that pop up throughout the season. It's pretty much constantly something. So just being able to heal from those things. On a national level, the conversation around Ryan Tannehill this year has been more and more about the swag that you seem to have this year. Is that a confidence maybe that people are seeing? Or is there something extra going on in Ryan Tannehill in season 11? Yeah, I'm confident in my abilities, confident in the guys around me. And that allows you to go play confidence when you believe the guys around you are going to be doing their job, whether it's getting open or blocking in front of you, whatever the case may be. When you trust the guys around you, you're able to go out and have fun and play loose. And I think when we all can do that collectively, we've got our best. Seems like this locker room is incredibly close. The culture here seems to be the strongest that I've personally seen it in a very long time. Yeah, no doubt. It's something we put a lot of thought and attention into. And, you know, as the season goes on, it just intensifies, right? You get closer, you go through these experiences. Those situations where, you know, you're in an emotional situation, high stress situation, and you're able to collectively as a group come away with a win. It just brings you so much closer together. So you start stacking those things up over the course of the season, and, yeah, no doubt about it, it really brings the locker room together. Does it help that you seem to be so calm and even-keeled throughout the highs and lows of not just a game, but a season as a whole? I try to be consistent each and every day, you know, coming in, whether we're coming off a great game or a tough game, just coming in, trying to push myself, push the guys around me, and get ready to go each and every week, because it doesn't matter what you did last week, it's all about what you're going to do this week. That's a great job with that Ryan Tannehill interview. You know, he's an easy guy to talk to. He's a very cool dude. So because you've been on for two segments by yourself, it's just me in the next segment. Oh, really? No, it's just that worked out. John Robinson's Talking Ball, next on Titans All Access. It's time for Talking Ball with John Robinson, presented by Duncan on Titans All Access. We spent a lot of time on this show talking about Derek Henry and another 200-yard rushing performance, and we should. But right now, let's talk offensive line and what a challenge it's been. Two new starters from last year. After two games, a new left tackle. Nate Davis misses two games. This group has had to sort of battle to put it all together, but they certainly have battled and the run blocking was outstanding in Houston. What jumped out on the tape? Those guys, they've really worked hard. That position group specifically takes time for those guys to kind of gel together. The offensive line coaches, Keith Carter, Sully Haas, they've all worked with those guys. They've worked with them after practice on the techniques that we teach, but I thought those guys played really hard in that game. I'm really proud of the strides that they made and we're going to need those guys to continue to kind of come together as we go around the stretch here. You were pleased with your draft class to contribute. Did you expect them to contribute as much as they have, not even halfway through the season? Yeah, those guys have all made strides at their own individual positions and gotten better. Some have played more than others. Some have been really good on special teams for us, but it takes some time for those guys to kind of acclimate themselves to our culture stylistically the way that we want to play football, but I'm really proud of the strides that they've made and hopefully they can continue to build on those and go through the season here. Titans have always been known for run defense in the game against the Giants, not so good. Since then, seemingly better week by week, what's keyed it? Well, I think that that was a priority for us after that game. That's something that we really wanted to hang our hat on was to be strong against the run. It starts up front with the line and the linebackers. Those guys getting knocked back at the line of scrimmage, keying on the blocks, the linebackers seeing it triggering quickly, and it's gotten better week after week and continues to be a priority for us. Sunday night football, Titans taking on the Kansas City Chiefs, they are five and two. Anything different about the Chiefs from years past? I mean, the staff is intact. Mahomes is still back there. It's an explosive offense. They've still got Kelsey. The line is intact. They've added some weapons in Juju Smith's Schuster and Valdez scantling in the offseason. It's still a pretty, you know, the same tandem of backs with McKinnon and Edwards-Hilaire. The rookie Pacheco is running really good form as well. Defensively, it's an attacking front, you know, with Chris Jones, who's a perennial Pro Bowl player in the middle. The two backers, Gay and Bolton are playing really well and they've got some experience in the secondary. They picked up Justin Reed in free agency from the Houston Texans who we know in one Thornhill returns back there. So experience on defense and really talkin' ball. Always enjoy Mike. Presented by Duncan every week. John Robinson on Titans All Access. When we come back, we've got your Titans game ticket. As Amy Wells returns, stay tuned. Titans fans, are you ready for Sunday night football? Woo! Yes, Sunday night football. Titans headed to Kansas City to take on the Chief's 720 central time kick. It's time for your Titans game ticket to get you ready. Are you ready, Amy? I'm fired up and just like in last week's show, I've got to start this week with an alert. An alert. Yep, an alert because kick off for Sunday night's game is not at noon. Instead, the Titans and Chiefs are part of NBC's Sunday night football and thus the game will kick off at 720 p.m. Only makes sense that Sunday night football would be on Sunday night. I just want to make sure it's crystal clear. Not at noon, 720 p.m. The Chiefs are leading the AFC West with a 5-in-2 record. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes is still doing Patrick Mahomes things. He's thrown 176 times for 2,159 yards, 20 touchdowns and 5 interceptions. He's got a ton of weapons including tight end Travis Kelsey who has almost 600 yards and 7 touchdowns in 2022 alone. Running back Clyde Edward C. Blair has 6 touchdowns 3 rushing and 3 receiving and on defense the Chiefs have tallied 508 total tackles, 19 sacks 29 tackles for loss 3 interceptions and 5 fumble recoveries. Big challenge for the Titans. Sunday night football from Kansas City again for the third time in the segment. Sunday night. Yes Sunday night. 720 central time kick. Titans Radio is on the air with this young lady Amy Wells and her partner Rhett Bryan. 6 o'clock central time. Titans countdown on Titans radio stations throughout the region. They're 50 of them. Surely you can find one to tune in. We hope you will. Big game. The biggest game of the week. The Titans are involved. We'll talk all about it next week on Titans All Access but for now we are done. For Amy Wells I'm Mike Keith. Thanks for joining us and we'll see you next time.