 Sometimes you touch a pass, sometimes you intercept the ball, sometimes you make a bunch of tackles, and sometimes you don't. Hey, but we won the game. We're never going to apologize for winning, sticking together. Defense helps the job when he got down in the red zone and on the goal line. Team on three. One, two, three. Coach of the Tennessee Titans, I'm Mike Keith, welcoming you to the Mike Vrables show. Titans three and two after a win at Jacksonville, 37-19. You said it. Team win. And I think about a guy like Marcus Johnson coming off injured reserve, stepping forward and helping. Chris Jackson on the goal line. Several guys whose names maybe you don't know quite as well, stepped forward and were a part of this victory. Yeah, Joe Jones. We talked about him on special teams and kickoff coverage. That's what it's about. We've got a lot of guys that are active that are going to be ready to play. That guy goes down. Caleb Farley jumped in there when Christian Fulton wasn't available and on and on and on. And that's what I appreciate about this football team is there's a lot of ways to get it done. And sometimes it's going to be pretty and sometimes it's not going to be so pretty, but they know how to win and I appreciate that about it. It's also the names you know that came through for the Titans. Let's head to Mike Vrables six pack and look at six offensive plays. Start off with the returnie. Great to have AJ Brown back. Yeah, it's absolutely great to have him back and his contributions that he made here. I thought this was a well designed play, you know, out of 13 personnel catch and run. You know, just need to get the big fella down there finishing and trying to get one block that that'll get him in the end zone. But but I thought that there was some action going on across the middle for AJ to kind of get lost in the trash a little bit and to come out on the other side and, you know, you see, see Derek down there. That's that's we got to be able to finish longer than the guy with the ball. And, you know, we'll make sure that happens next time. All right. That was the last play of the first quarter. And so we go to the first play of the second quarter and, you know, how about Derek Henry? Why not? Here we go. Yeah, I thought that this was a good downhill run. There's Kari leading him in there. Kendall Lamb, you know, getting his guy blocked on a goal line reporting is eligible. And, you know, that's as close to a walk in as you can get there. I like to make Derek make it a little bit more emphatic so that we know that we're in there. It's kind of just standing there and nobody really knows what's going on. But that was that was an easy run on the goal line. He knew he knew. I don't think anybody else did. I'm like, did he get in Derek Henry with seven touchdowns now on the season like this one in the second quarter. Titans at the 14 yard line of the Jaguars trying to finish your drive. Tana Hill finds the open man and man is he open? Well, we got out there, we got set. You know, the protection needs to be better on that one. But but Ryan to his credit can can avoid and give some ground, find a guy uncovered. They had a little bit of, you know, man free. They were playing man free right there. There was a man, man free. There was a man totally free. And that happened to be proof. So proof was in the right place at the right time and Ryan was able to keep his eyes down field and find him. Keeps coming through in big spots. Does Michael Pruitt second half Titans leading 2413 first drive. They get something going right away. Derek Henry just 31 yards in the first half. Here's a little flip play for 13. Yeah, I thought that this was a good design, a little misdirection. And you know, you see quiz out there in front getting some blocks and, you know, just, you know, have mixing up, you know, changing it up and getting getting him on the edge, you know, it's not easy. But, you know, I felt like just our persistence, you know, was able to get some, some of those 10 and 12 yard runs there late in the game. All right. So that's the 13 yarder on the flip play to get down to the nine yard line on that drive. Derek Henry seven carries 42 yards and another touchdown that you'll see now. And man, this is a hole straight ahead. No fair dodging. You know, they went to, they went to split safety and there's a good block by Ben and Corey on the backside there. And, you know, great do so on the front side up to the linebacker. And, you know, if we see split safety, you know, we've got to lick our chops and we got to get downhill. And that's what getting downhill looks like right there. It's 31 19. The Titans get a couple of big fourth quarter stops and then put it away with a short drive. And it's Derek Henry, Derek Henry, Derek Henry. How about three touchdowns on the day? That's it straight ahead. No fair dodging. And then he get back behind Ben and, you know, the guys are excited celebrating touchdowns. And as always, you know, there's Ben Jones right there in the middle of it lays it out there every single day. And, you know, he was a game captain for us on Sunday. So that was great to see for his efforts. And, you know, those guys up front get they get excited when the big fella scores touchdowns. 29 carries 130 yards, three touchdowns for the Uli bulldozer in his homecoming. He continues to play well against the Jaguars and quite frankly against everybody else. He leads the NFL in rushing with 640 yards. Don't worry. We did not forget the defense. A special three pack of defensive plays when we come back. It's way too much offense. You cannot ignore the defense. We had to look long and hard for some of these though. No, we didn't. They did some good things defensively. Third play of the ball game. Great play. This is fantastic. More of this. More. More of this right here. More of this we're going to shot from 74 different angles. Here we go. Love it. Dan Arnold is the receiver. You know, just enough pressure to get him step up and trying to check it down and get off the field. You know, maybe go punt and, you know, Elijah triggers and, you know, we just got to quit celebrating and go block and Kevin runs hard and takes care of the football. And, you know, I think that's a great way to start every game. I think we should script that in every game. And, you know, third and long quarterback sees coverage and steps up and just trying to get it checked down. And, you know, one of those bang bang catch, you know, control two steps, football move and ball out. And, you know, the big thing there is clear recovery and not, you know, let them make a call. And I felt like that was what we did and it was great to see. Well, a couple of things impressive there. First of all, even if he catches it, it holds it because of the pressure. They're not going to get a first down. You're going to get off the field. Then Molden steps in in a situation where you wanted him to be physical. He comes in, he does it. And then Byrd has the presence of mind to not only recover, but get up and get north and south. Yep. Finish to the, you know, I mean, to the recovery of the ball. Don't worry about the whistle or anything like that. And, you know, some really good running right there. Just get north and south, make a couple cuts, protect the football and, you know, end up in the end zone. How about some Harold Landry love? Love to. Let's have some right here. Landry leading the team in sacks, trying to do it for the third year in a row. He has two of them on Sunday. Let's watch this one. Well, it was a big play here on third and one. And, you know, really good coverage out there on the edge. They're looking for the double slants. And, you know, we jumped, David Long jumped in front of the one and made him, you know, pull it back. And when that happens, you know, the pressure's got to get there. So you can see him staring it down. Doesn't want to throw an interception. And then there's Harold winning, getting some push in the middle there with Danico. And we just got to get the football one of these times. And I know that Harold's going to get it out of there. And, you know, David's excited for him. The guys are celebrating. And, you know, those third and one stops, fourth and one stops, those are huge. They're hard to come by in any league. That's good defense. It is. It's great defense. And I just want to make sure that, you know, that everybody knows David was out there doing his job in a corner and a safety were tight there. So he couldn't just, you know, rip a slant in there on third and one. Harold is relentless. He plays hard. He does play hard. All right. So let's take a look at relentless fourth and goal at the one. 31 19. The Jaguars going to try to get it in here with the big back. Carlos Hyde. No, just want to mention though, Kevin Byrd's effort on the play before was the quarterback draw. He kind of came out of the post ran around quarterback change direction. But then on this, you know, we just, we lined up, we put our cleats in the ground and, you know, it starts with here. Tart getting the penetration, chasing him outside. Chris Jackson replacing when his guy blocked and, you know, making a great tackle, not diving at a big back, but taking a big backup high. And then everybody comes and, you know, there's a lot of cool shots of this and guys are running and guys are excited. And, you know, you just, you don't stop teams that much on the six inch line. You live for that. Look at that. Yeah, that's really some cool shots there. Guys being excited and getting into it. I know the defense hasn't been perfect, but there are more good signs than last year. Are you really optimistic about this group growing? No, I am. I just, you know, there was just a lot of technique and fundamental things that I think that have to be better. You know, we're just not giving people things. And there is a lot of good things. I just, you know, we had some penalties there that cost us a third down. There's a penalty that gave them a first couple of penalties that gave them a first down. And there's a lot of missed tackles that have to get cleaned up, but there's a lot of good things in there on third down in the red zone. So I'm real excited. All right. Are you ready for Delta Dental? Let's go. He's in a good mood because he's just seen a goal line stand. He's been red hot at the Delta Dental. Can you guess this Titan? Let's see if he stays on the hot street. Can we see this week's contestant, please? Hmm. Interesting. How are we feeling? Fair to Midland. Fair to Midland. Well, you get a break here. So let's take that break. A pause for the cause, so to speak, on the Mike Vrable show. Delta Dental, can you guess this Titan? Let's see if the head coach can. quizzical looks during the break. I'm not real confident about this one, Mike. He's not feeling great. The Delta Dental, can you guess this Titan, Mike Vrable? I think Delta Dental is going to win. I think they're going to win this week. I think that is Jeremy McNichols. Jeremy McNichols. That's an interesting guess. I would go with Marcus Johnson. Marcus Johnson, obvious choice. He had a good game. I was going to say Nate Davis, so I wouldn't have had. No, I knew it wasn't Nate Davis. Okay, so let's talk about Marcus Johnson for a second. Marcus Johnson is a guy that the Titans pick up right before the playoff game last year. You re-signed him in the off-season. It's a really good camp and then gets hurt. Yeah, frustrating camp. He did do some really cool things. He was only here for a short time, but we all thought he had a really nice skill set and had a good off-season, had a really good camp and put himself in a position to try to help this football team and unfortunately he got hurt. He took a lot of reps. There was a lot of guys out and he was always out there and that's why he probably got better. It's why he gained the trust of the quarterback. And so now we brought him back and he practiced last week and then we were able to bring him up this week and started and had some big conversions on third down, had a couple of catch-and-runs and really had a good game for us. He had a couple of nice blocks. He's built a little bit like A.J. Brown. He's 6'1", he's roughly 210 pounds. Ran 4-3-9 coming out of Texas. He's got some wheels. Yeah, he's different than A.J. He's not as big. A.J. is a much thicker player, just a stronger player. I think Marcus runs really good routes. He's a good route runner and I was encouraged. Three catches, 52 yards for Marcus Johnson in the ballgame. Certainly going to be able to help the Titans more as the year goes on, excited to have him and several guys stepping up and doing good things. Chester Rodgers is another one who's played awfully well. Absolutely and he's helped us in a return game and not only the returning them, but going up and catching these bad punts that some of these guys have sometimes. All right, so when we come back to the Titans' files, Taylor LeWine is your narrator talking about his favorite player on the roster. See who number 77 tells us about him. Taylor LeWine can talk and he can certainly talk about a variety of things, but in this Titans' Files edition with Amy Wells, Taylor LeWine takes the time to talk about his favorite Titan, somebody that he's played with for several years. Ask any Titans player who the top three leaders on this team are and you will be shocked if Senator Ben Jones isn't mentioned on every man's list. Now in his tenth season overall and his sixth with the Tennessee Titans, Jones has appeared in over 150 games with more than 130 career starts. How can we illustrate Ben Jones' impact on the organization? When asked about his offensive linemen teammate, Taylor LeWine had no problem being totally serious. Ben Jones is glue. That's really what this guy is. I remember sitting in Arizona that was in Paradise Valley and I got a DM from this random Instagram and it was Ben Jones saying he's excited to play with me and he can't wait to work together and I didn't know what to think of it, you know, because being early in the league I didn't know who really Ben was. From there, Ben's been a guy that keeps the camaraderie in an offensive line room so strong. He is a guy that obviously produces on the field but in the locker room when you're with him, he takes guys that are from inner city, from the country, from all over different parts of the country and brings us all together in such a good way. He's hard-working, he's a humble guy, he's a guy that sits in the background and maybe doesn't get enough credit that he deserves and I think this team, when it's all said and done, are gonna be really appreciative of what he's done for this team and even when he retires he might still be around, that's how good of a football mind he is. Taylor LeWine describes Ben Jones and what he means to the Titans perfectly but don't overlook the fact that Jones is really good at what he does as a center. The leadership stuff doesn't work if you can't back it up with your play but Ben Jones' biggest strength may be his temperament. I think Ben Jones is a good football player because it's a level of consistency that he's been able to obtain that's very difficult to do. When you have a guy like Ben day in and day out the same guy, whether he's on the field or in the locker room, you're gonna get Ben Jones. I think that's overlooked a lot in the NFL. Everyone loves really flashy stuff and, you know, polls that blow up guys and all these different things at the off-to-line category. Ben goes in, he plays every single snap of every game. He plays every game. He will be hurt, he'll be injured, he'll keep going. He puts the same product in the field every single time. He doesn't come in super high or super low any day. I mean, obviously when you're in camp, days hurt more than others. That's just how it works. But Ben has an unmeasurable ability to, you know, compartmentalize those things and just go back to work every single day. Ben Jones is not young anymore. Embattling injuries is not new for him. But he loves to play the game, loves to compete, and to spend time with the guys. The offensive linemen, yes, but you will constantly see Jones with skill players and defensive players too. The craft of being an NFL offensive lineman is a point of pride to Ben Jones, a point not lost on Taylor Leone. You can see the way he holds pride and making his family prideful of what he does. It's not just the way he plays the game. It's the way he handles himself off the field. And yeah, we're more in the meeting room. Ben jokes, it's fun, but he knows when to tail it back. He knows like he does a good job of not just being the jokester all the time. He's very professional at the same time. For able to show final segment, we're going to talk about the Buffalo game in a second, but Taylor Leone talking about Ben Jones, a favorite player of a lot of tightness. Yeah, I would say of a lot of the coaches and, you know, a lot of the players and his inspiration. But, you know, those guys have been together, you know, probably five years on the offensive line. And that's a lot of time to be teammates together. And, you know, they were together before we got here as a coaching staff. And, you know, I know that Ben has been the glue in that room and they have very different personalities. But, and that's what makes everybody unique. And they played a lot of football for us, a lot of winning football for us, those two guys. All right, let's talk about winning football against the Bills. Six days from now, Monday night football at Nissan Stadium. Keys to the game brought to you by Nissan. And let's talk about fundamentally sound defense. You're talking about tackling better first of all? Yeah, taking on blocks. You know what I mean? Like you watch a defensive player. You should have your hands inside. You should have separation. You know, we should be able to shed, you know, those things that we work on. You know, we just can't, you know, we can't let them lag here once we get into the season. Communication, tackling, staying on our feet, not diving, playing with good leverage, playing square and pass coverage. And, you know, those are things that are critical and that we're going to focus on this week. Nissan key number two is about protecting the ball. Yeah, and that's huge every week. But this defense, I think that they forced upwards of 15 turnovers. I mean, I think it's something ridiculous. However many, they had four last couple of nights ago and five before that. And I mean, they just, they attack, they put pressure on the quarterback and they get it out, you know, they intercept it, they hammer it out. So that'll be critical, our ability to take care of the football. Yeah, Buffalo plus 11 in turnover ratio. Nissan key number three, return game. Yeah, you know, I mean, I think we get some opportunities to return to football. You know, we've been putting a lot of work in the kickoff return. We didn't get any opportunities this past weekend and, you know, pretty confident that we will. And, you know, in the punt game, hopefully we can make them punt more than the two times we did last week. But we've had a lot of confidence in that punt return unit as well to get check going. Cannot wait for Monday night football. It never gets old. We're a long way from there, but I know we'll be excited and really wanting to get out of there on a big stage and play well. Against a team you will have now seen four years in a row. Yeah, and a huge challenge. You know, it's a good football team. They're talented and well coached. All right. So we'll let you know that Titans Radio will have it on 104-5 of the zone in Nashville and our Titans radio stations around the region. We're on the air at six o'clock with Titans Countdown. Kickoff is set for 7.15. Titans in the Bills, six days from now on Monday night football. For Mike Grable and Mike Keith, thanks for joining us for the Mike Grable Show.