 You're good out here like a little rain. I versed the bills too hard. No teams going at it on an NFL Sunday. You don't get no better than that. We can't nobody escape. That was executed as well as you could do it. This is just been a war, a football war. Glad to have you with us on this Tuesday evening for the Mike Vrable show with the head coach. I'm Mike Keith. We're glad you're joining us as we talk Titans football tonight. Titans fall to the builds on Sunday by a final score of 14 to seven. And coach, when you led us through the week, when we had our production meeting, when you did everything for this show and for other shows, you laid out exactly what kind of game this would be. It was that predictable. And unfortunately for the Titans, just not enough plays to pull you through in the ball. Sure, not enough in the end. It didn't do a good enough job coaching or playing. You know, we did do some things well. You know, we punted the ball well, taken away. Roberts was a huge key on special teams. We did that through our coverage units and also obviously from our punting. When you talk about offense, we weren't able to fight through the fringe. We weren't able to stay on track and then therefore not able to score enough points down there in the red zone. Devensively, I felt like we stopped the run up until that four minute period at the end of the game where we knew they had to run and they knew they were going to run. And that's where we gave up the bulk of our rushing yardage. And we talked about the red zone that they didn't get down there much, but when they did, they were successful. And that really carried over to the other day. As we take a look at the six pack, Mike Vrables six pack from Sunday's game, we see the only touchdown of the first half to begin. It came at the end of a 60 yard drive. And the bottom line is the Bills own field position and took advantage of it with this touchdown. Well, I just got to keep your eyes on your man. You know, and that's really what it comes down to. They're down there first and 10 and, you know, they play fake it. Slip the big tight end out, Lee Smith there. And we lost our eyes and we lost our man. Smith's second catch of the year, his first for a touchdown. Bills would lead seven to nothing at halftime, but the Titans did have a couple of outstanding individual efforts in the first half. One came from Corey Davis with a nice effort on a completion where Marcus Mariota actually was roughed. Well, we got into the drive. This was a two minute drive. They were getting the ball at the second half and we said, hey, we got to go down there, find a way to score points and not give them any time to do anything with the football. This is one of those plays we got into the drive with some good plays. One of this with here Corey breaking a tackle. Marcus standing in there, taking the hit to the knee there, but we have to do more. We have to have more of these plays. We have to string more positive plays together. Seven nothing in the third quarter and the Titans defense gets the team going with an outstanding team play to create a take away. I've talked about it halftime. If we're able to get a turnover, if we can somehow create a turnover, force a turnover that I'm confident and we're confident that our offense is gonna go in there and score. You saw Reggie get into the pocket, Jarrell come back around, force him out. Here comes Harold with his hand up, which we've been coaching, trying to get done. He lightly tips the ball there and Kevin's able to come up with a huge interception. And the big thing there is he didn't rough the passer. Like they're waiting for you to rough them right there. Nice job by Byrd making the catch. Setting up what turns out to be the Titans only touchdown of the day. After Marcus Mariota's touchdown run is wiped out by review, Derrick Henry finishes the drive. Yeah, you get down there, it's gritty. You know what I mean? You see Phillips jumping again. But again, that's the third and half a yard to go. It's tough sledding down there, but big fella's able to create his own hole there and get across the end zone. Titans are trying to take the lead for the first time in the game early in the fourth quarter. Marcus Mariota throws an apparent touchdown pass, but unfortunately it's wiped off. Well, this is one thing we love about Marcus his ability to extend plays keeps his eyes downfield. And you know, unfortunately that's just what they saw. And when it's that close, we have to continue to do things that don't put it in their hands. And whether that's with penalties or close plays, we have to do everything we can do as players and coaches to not let them decide it. Nice job, Howard, by AJ Brown finding a way to free himself on that point. You know what I mean? He's a tall Marcus. He's a big target. You know, sometimes when the quarterback starts scrambling, everybody takes off that way. AJ throttled down and was able to give Marcus an outlet. And this ends up being the game winner, the drive for the Buffalo Bills. Second touchdown pass for Allen as he throws it to Duke Williams, just called up from the practice squad and Buffalo gets the points that give them the victory. Yeah, third and three. You know, they got the big tight end in there. So, you know, you can maybe get a run you know, they play, play action passes. And again, you know, you got to keep your eyes on your man. They go in there, fake a crack and slip them out. So, you know, we have to be better down there. We have to be much better down there than Red Zone defensively. When the Mike Frable show returns, we've got the Bridgestone Clutch performance of the game and the Geico Gladiator of the game. Stay with us more coming up. Mike Frable show continues. Time for the Bridgestone Clutch performance of the game. Second and 10 late in the third quarter. Titans at their own 22. A beautiful screen pass, Mike Frable. It was well executed. You know, John New sells it, makes a great catch. And you can see the big fella getting out there in the open field. We just got to continue to finish longer than the guy with the ball and hopefully great things will happen. But that's something we have to be able to do is we got to get John New the ball and allow him to run. He's got great speed. And you can see that was a well designed and then obviously well executed play by the entire offense. It takes all 11 to get that play going. 57 yards for the young tight end. Jadu Smith, our Bridgestone Clutch performance play of the game. As we move to our Gladiator of the game brought to you by Geico, we're going to visit with Rashawn Evans. Wow. Guy who had 10 tackles in the ball game continues to make things happen. He does and I think that this is a fitting description because he plays like a Gladiator. I mean, he plays hard. He throws his body around and he continues to improve and I'm excited every day that I get the opportunity to coach him, to work with him because each week you see him doing something a little better or fixing something that maybe came up the week before. And so really just excited about where he's headed. Let's hear from number 54. Rashawn Evans, linebacker from Alabama in this week's Geico Gladiator of the game. Tuesday is the day off for Titans players. Rashawn Evans, it is not a total day off for a lot of NFL players. What is your Tuesday like? I would say mine would just be irregular, just getting up in the morning, cooking me some good breakfast, scrambling a couple of eggs, getting some waffles going on the little thing. And you know, after that show, I'm really just probably getting some treatment here. And then right after that, man, really just relaxing, maybe catching a movie on Netflix. And that's probably my day. So you do try to get away from football just a little bit, but not totally. You know, I always had a model of too much of anything is it can be bad for you. So I try to, you know, balance those things out. So when I do come back into these doors, you know, I'm fresh and I'm ready to go. 10 tackles in the game against Buffalo. Disappointing loss. How hard is it to get over it? You know, a loss is something that hurts. But at the same time, you really want something like that, not to linger on during the week. You know, you kind of have to have short-term memory and be able to, you know, kind of put that to a side and really look at the things that you've been doing good at and continue to do those things. And the things that you've been bad at, you know, try to diminish those things so that when you go into this next week, you know, you're playing a lot better. Where has Rishan Evans improved the most in year two? Every bit of my game, whether it's, you know, me being a better leader, me being able to read run plays, be able to, you know, recognize formations in the office. I feel like just the fact that I'm more comfortable, you know, having that one year up under my belt, I just have a whole, just understanding how to, you know, really, really get my whole routine down on how to approach a game. The opponent this week, the Denver Broncos, love to run the football. They love to run it with Phillip Lindsey and with Royce Freeman. They're coming downhill. Is this a game for a linebacker that you embrace the challenge? Oh, no doubt. I mean, I'm one of as many run plays as I can get. That's, I mean, that's probably my favorite part of the game and, you know, the opportunity that we face now as a defense, another challenge, another good offense that can, you know, spread it out, make plays and, you know, for us to go out and have a, really have our backs against the wall type mentality, going away, going into a different climate as well. You know, it's another challenge that we're looking forward to. Rashon Evans, great stuff. Thanks for the time. Normally, Amy Wells does our gladiator of the game interviews, but this week, Amy gives us something different, an incredible inside look at how the Tennessee Titans travel as a team. It's next, and you don't want to miss it when the Mike Vrable Show returns. Welcome back to the Mike Vrable Show. Brent Akers has been with the Tennessee Titans for over 20 years and has now risen to the post of director of team operations. One of the areas that Brent is in charge of, team travel. It takes a special talent to coordinate team travel, but Brent would tell you that team travel is less about him and more about his team of people. Amy Wells traveled with the Titans operations team on a recent road trip to give you an inside look at how these guys moved the Titans for road games. And Amy learned that it all starts in Brent Akers office. Titans. Okay. Hi, Titans. Hi, Susan. Hello. Any good team knows the importance of a good plan. For the Tennessee Titans, the game plan is the key to success both on the field and off. The vision of what coach wants done is really the most important thing. That means tending to every need, both big and small. We'll have a call with the bus company. We've got buses here. We've got buses in Nashville. They'll have to reposition everything because one, two stairs and they go on L2 and L4. Who's letting who in gates? What kind of foods on the plane? Who's servicing that? Where that aircraft is coming from? Where that aircraft is right now? Room numbers and how many people and what we need in each space. Who kind of has to be on call ready to go overnight? Oh, it's vegan pancakes. So it's every piece that's gonna touch the team. We're working through the whole plan for the season. It's not just one game. It never stops. My goodness, it never stops. For Chris Matussek and Max Curtis, the key is having a great team. Led by Brent Akers and anchored by Luke Morrow, this team of four operates like a well-oiled machine. If we didn't have good relationships, I think it'd be extremely difficult. It has to be an apartment that works together. It's just making sure we communicate with each other. So whether that's tagging everyone on an email, you get random texts and just make sure you're sharing all that because there's always changes going on. Chris goes to the airport early, meets the bus company and gets all that stage while I'm here at the hotel to make sure that when the team gets here, they will get off the bus, walk in, and they have their room key there. And sometimes it changes an hour before the team shows up. And so just kind of staying on top of that as much as possible. We're finalizing some of those details. As soon as I get that, I'll get it to you. For the Titans operations crew, the devil is in the details. So when faced with arranging the travel for an entire football team for an entire season, the planning starts early. Six months before the first game of the season, the ops team hits the road. So you'll go to a site visit. Brent does most of our forgotten site, go to anywhere from two to 10 hotels depending on what's going on, how frequent we've been in the city. Properties change, people change. So it's great to go in the city at that point in time when there's not a lot of pressure, just to build a relationship. Those relationships are the secret to the ops crew playbook. Building a relationship with the people in this city is huge. Same way with them, same way with the police officers, people in the hotel. If we need something and we need help, that's the only people we know, and they're the ones who gotta make it work for us. The way our department works, it's everything to us. I need to know what can walk into that middle room and if something goes on, a coach needs something, I can call him, Mike, hey bro, I need this. And here it comes, or the bus company, we gotta make an extra stop or we gotta go somewhere else. It's just those relationships, that's the only way you can do this job. The ultimate goal for this crew is simple. Limit distractions, respect the routine, don't mess with the superstitions. And our job right is to make sure that the things that the players, coaches, personnel, staff, ownership, don't have to worry about so they're able to do their job or the things that we try to minimize the mistakes. And that starts on the airplane. So there's pre-departure meals at the airplane, there's food on board the airplane for the team. We're very superstitious kinda in what we do, just to make sure we have the exact same thing at every single meal, every single time in every single city. Accommodating the needs of approximately 155 Titans players, coaches, and support staff is a tall order. But this team of four is up for the challenge. You learn how to fix problems along the way. Chris has done it for 15, 20 years, Brent's done it for almost 25 now. I think it's just the willingness to do whatever it takes, like wake up at four o'clock in the morning to meet a truck with equipment coming from Nashville to make sure that it gets the right place, whatever it takes to help the team to end up winning a football game. You get obsessed with it. It's just who you are, what you do. You know, it's just something that you get entwined with or being with the team. You go back and tell your kid self that you work for the Tennessee Titans and he's fired up. The Titans operations team. Those guys are fantastic. I mean, you don't even notice them because nothing goes wrong. You know what I mean? It's just like they're all locked in. Brent, Chris, Maxie, Luke, anything that any player or coach or anyone on the trip or anybody here in our day to day, just work environment, need something. These guys are there. It's never, let me see. It's always, we'll make it work. And I appreciate them. I know the organization appreciates them. The team appreciates them. Good guys, proud of them. Great guys. Yeah, proud to have them as part of our team. Now time for our Delta Dental of Tennessee team to join in with the Guess the Titan feature. Mike Grable gets a look at this. It's like two hours old. A baby's like two hours old. Yes. I know who that is. He thinks he knows who it is. I know who that is. All right, well, don't say yet. Don't say. I won't. We need to go to break. And then we're back to see if coach really knows. He's one for three on the season. Are you two for three? Two for three. The Tennessee Titans have never scored 50 points in a game, but they have scored the unusual number of 47 four times and they scored 48 once. That happened on Monday night football, an October Monday night in Green Bay in the otherwise forgettable season of 2004. The Titans got two first quarter touchdown runs from Chris Brown on a night that saw Brown rush for 148 yards. Steve McNair threw two touchdown passes. Overall, the Titans totaled 456 yards of offense and the Titans defense brilliant six total takeaways, including three interceptions of Brett Barre. Those in attendance at Lambeau Field were in shock as the Titans blasted the Packers 48 to 27, the entire football world watches as the Titans scored the most points during their time in Tennessee. Now, the dental of Tennessee brings, can you guess this Titan to Mike Vrable on the Mike Vrable show? It's his show, so he gets to guess. Probably the easiest one we've had thus far, but that is Jarell Casey. Jarell Casey, is it Jarell Casey? Close, plays right next to him. It's his younger brother, Dayquan Jones. Dayquan Jones coming off another good ball game for the Titans. He is just very consistent. He was the coach's choice for captain this past week. He got a lot of, I don't wanna say a lot, but he got numerous votes to be a team captain this year and wanted to recognize him as a captain this past week, continues to play physical, plays hard and does a great job of impacting the game inside. Dayquan Jones credited with three tackles and a quarterback sack in this past Sunday's game. When the Mike Vrable show returns, it's time for the coaches' keys to success in the Mile High City. Stay tuned for that. Rocco's the opponent. We're headed to Denver to play them. Time for Mike Vrable's keys to success. These guys like to run the football, so what do you gotta do? You gotta stop the run. Yeah, you gotta stop the run. You really do. They got two-headed monster, Lindsay Freeman. Their average in 25 carries a game combined. They both have a very unique skill set, but they're also throwing it to them eight other times. So these guys are gonna count for 33 touches on average. It'd be important that we stop them and know where they're at. All right, so the other thing for the Titans is they've gotta handle what is always a wild, almost college-like environment in Denver. Well, it is. I mean, they've got a loud fan base out there, Mile High, got the air, all that good stuff, but they're loud. You're gonna have to go out there and what you do is if you're able to sustain plays and pick up third downs, that gets a little quieter. So we've done, at times, a good job on the road, and so that'll have to continue this week. I want you to explain the third point. You say stay on track. What do you mean? We have to continue to sustain positive plays. We can't have a play for seven yards and then an incompletion or a play for seven yards and a sack or a tackle for loss. We have to continue to gain efficient yardage continuously. And when we did that in the game, we moved the football down in the red zone. And when we did it, obviously we ended up punting. It's too hard to pick up third and nines and tens, and so if we can stay on track, be efficient in consecutive plays. We have a much better chance to move the football. We're on the air at 230 from Empower Field at Mile High. We hope you'll join us on Titan's radio. For Mike Vrable, Mike Keats says good night everybody.