 least that they will respond the right way that we have a bunch of men in that locker room who care for each other and want to win. You know we find out what type of team we are, we have this type of adversity especially to start the year. I'm gonna make sure I come into the building tomorrow with a lot of energy, a lot of juice, a lot of positive energy because in the end of the day that's all we can do. Come in, watch the film, get coached, you know be critical of yourself. Be locked in this week each and every day. Ladies got a hold, you know, everybody accountable and we got to be leaders. I think you just you know come in with a growth mindset, want to be better. From what I've seen so far we have the right kind of guys in the locker room and I think believe we will make it happen. We're gonna find out what type of coach we have, what type of guys we have in this locker room and I know we have the right guys in the locker room. We'll find a way to make the corrections, come to practice this week, prepare and go out to Seattle and win one game. You know that's that's the mission in hand right now. We're not gonna sit here and mope around, keep our heads down. We're going to keep out and keep fighting and get ready for Seattle. Welcome to St. Thomas Sports Park and the bubble and this edition of the Mike Frable show for 2021 with the head coach. I'm Mike Keith and this place right here during COVID. It was really everything for this for this team. Wasn't it? Meetings, weight room, locker room, cafeteria, whatever we needed. Yeah, you did everything in here. Undoubtedly the Titans coming off a defeat. Obviously at the hands of the Arizona Cardinals, not happy with what happened in that performance Monday and Tuesday, not about the next opponent, but really about the Titans, right? We're never happy when we lose and we're disappointed. And the one thing that we do know is that we have to get back to work and we have to improve and we have to figure out, you know how we can respond and how we can get into games and start to compliment each other much sooner than than when we did. And there were glimpses of it, but far too few and far too often in between. Just the type of play where we can affect their quarterback and be efficient throwing the ball and run the football and turn the football over. Doing a nice job, you know, trying to create field position. They had a much better field position than we did. All those things that we believe are critical in winning football games that we just didn't do. Obviously one of the things most critical when you want to play complementary football is you need to win the turnover ratio. The Titans did not do that on Sunday against the Cardinals. So as you kind of get back to work, taking care of the football probably a point of emphasis. Well, it is every day. You know, we do every day we go out there and practice. It's something that we focus on and we'll have to continue to work on it. But you know, you can't get yourself into a situation where you have to drop back and throw the ball as many times as we did. You know, there's there's channel Jones. Obviously those things you're not going to be able to do anything about, you know, the quarterback may may have to just go down on the ground. But you know, he read that play perfectly. And you know, again, the receivers and everybody it's all about the line. And you know, if we throw it across the middle, we got to make sure that we catch it. You know, we volleyball it up in the air. That nothing good is going to come of it like we like we see here. But I'm confident, you know, and again, it's got to go back to our defense has to be able to create some turnovers as well. And you know, everybody is in charge of ball security. The offensive line, taking care of the pocket, the runners that when they have the football that they're taking care of it on the quarterback, you know, making great decisions. Speaking of runners, Titans have to run the football to it's it's a bread and butter part of who you are. Well, I think it's part of our fabric. It's what we believe in. It's it's who we have. I think we have the offensive group to be able to run it. You know, you see Derek and what we're capable of doing. You know, again, it just we had too many negative plays to start drives, got us behind on the chains and you know, there were positive plays, but just not enough of them. And so we have to string them together so that these plays can start to complement each other. The run game and a play action game can marry with each other. And we can start to to see the returns of what our offense will be and should be and has to be. And as we always say in these situations, you have to make plays, you did make some plays in the game. We're going to take a look at a few of them starting with a fake punt that tried to get the Titans going early in the ball game. Yeah, just look for a little momentum there. Matthias and Imani hooked up there, both of those guys in that safety room. You know, we I thought it was well practiced. It looked good all week and you know, came through there and tried to just give us a spark and a little bit of momentum. But you know, and then we got into the drive. This is a driver. We started making some some first downs and you know, I thought that was a well timed call there and well executed there by everybody involved to get the flea flicker to get us a shot. So the return to center for Chester Rogers for 39 yards to the 11 yard line. Third and goal at the one. Tana Hill calls his own number. Yeah, you know, it kind of came off script and they ran outside and you saw that it wasn't there to the flat. So, you know, Ryan to his credit, you know, turned it up and that's what it's going to be. It's sometimes these plays on all three phases. They're not going to be perfect. You know, guys are going to have to go out there, have the confidence and know what to do and be able to improvise. And you know, that that's what this game comes down to. You know, you can see us here now with, you know, forcing the quarterback to get a lot of guys in the drop. Kevin makes an interception. It's a great overall defensive play. You know, we got to try to get down to near numbers, but you know, we'll figure that out next time and it felt for the now we going and scored it felt complimentary for the first time. But unfortunately, it's 40 plays into the football game. Speaking of going into score, here's the touchdown to AJ Brown. Yeah, you know, I mean, you get a pocket. They pressure, but there's a pocket there that the quarterback can step up, you know, and he looks off the safety and this is those are the things that we're used to, you know, glimpses, going up, attacking a football, putting it out there where AJ can go and get it. But it just has to be more consistent and sooner. And here comes Jeffrey Simmons. Yeah, you know, it's another third down air where, you know, it's it's well executed. The forces him up into the pocket, you know, Jeff's looping around and we have good tight coverage. So it's all works together. Everybody complements each other. The key for the Titans. They need more of that against Seattle this Sunday. We'll talk about the Seattle Seahawks and the keys to victory coming up next as the Mike Vrapel show continues. Sunday, the Tennessee Titans travel the Seattle Lumen field to take on the Seattle Seahawks 325 kickoff. We're on the air on Titans radio at 230 with Rhett, Brian and Amy Wells and Titans countdown. Seattle one and oh impressive victory at Indian app. Yeah, they went on the road and they were incredibly efficient on offense. They didn't have that many snaps. They didn't possess it that long, but when they had it, they scored touchdowns. They hit big plays. They scored right before the end of the half on a on a deep shot to lock it. The defense played excellent. They played fast and really had control for most of that game. Let's talk about Mike Vrapel's Nissan keys to victory winning at Seattle. It is certainly an environment that gets your attention because of the noise. Well, that may end what the record's been. I mean, when you when you want to beat Seattle home, you have to go out there and you have to have clean operation and poise and you have to you have to execute. You have to execute early or the or they're just the hornet's nest is going to start stirring. So, you know, we have to be able to practice that and come out here and be ready to go when we get there early in the game on Sunday. All right. Key number two is about winning the turnover battle. Something that the Titans value always. We talked about it in the first six. Well, we always will. We know how important it is and we have to do a better job not only taking care of it, but we have to do a better job defensively and on special teams are trying to create those opportunities, you know, punching it out, tipping balls, the line of scrimmage, trying to find ways to get it off them and not just allow them to move the ball down the field without turnover. So that's going to be something that'll be critical here this week. Nissan key number three is affect the quarterback. How do you affect Russell Wilson? Well, you have to get guys into the pocket. You have to be able. You know, he he's an elite passer. You know, he can he could throw on the run. He can throw off platform and make all different kinds of throws. He's such an excellent deep ball thrower, you know, that will have to try to find ways to go and attack him and and still be sound and make sure that that we're good with our rush lanes and and not allowing him to to get out on the edge and have options. Those are the Nissan keys to victory at Seattle. Again, it's a 325 kick on Sunday. We've got more coming up with the head coach. The Mike Raples show. We all know the story about what happened in Waverly on August the 21st. 17 inches of rain fell in Humphreys County in just hours. Devastating flooding. 20 lives lost over 500 houses damaged. Many of them not able to be repaired. Businesses, schools, roads washed away. Millions of dollars worth of damage. Just catastrophic. That's the only way to put it for the Waverly High School football team. They suffered losses themselves. All of their gear, their practice field, their locker rooms, their game field, everything gone. Well, the Tennessee Titans have stepped in to help both Humphreys County and Waverly and the Waverly High School football team. A $50,000 donation was made from the Titans Foundation to help that effort in terms of cleanup and repair. Two different teams of Titans employees went to Humphreys County to assist and thousands of dollars worth of new gear was provided by the Titans and partners through the NFL so that the Waverly High School football team could go on with their season. And this Thursday they go on with their season as the home team at Nissan Stadium. That's right. As the guests of the Tennessee Titans, the Waverly Tigers will play host to the White House Blue Devils in a Region 6-3A battle, which is for first place. And we will actually broadcast it on 104-5 the zone as Titans radio becomes Tigers radio. But the big key in all of this is that we're going to raise money for Humphreys County and Waverly. Go to TennesseeTitans.com slash donate to Waverly and give money to the United Way of Humphreys County. Give whatever you can because, Coach, when you get down to it, this cleanup, this rebuild, everything Humphreys County and Waverly is going through right now. It's going to take a lot of money for a long time. Hopefully people will see this football game as drawing everybody to this community whoever wins or loses and will make an effort to give them money. And I think it puts everything in a perspective. You know, we lost a football game on Sunday. You know, they've lost friends and family members. They've lost homes and you know, I know that this community will rally behind them and I think it's going to be amazing to watch those kids go out there on Thursday night and play and I bet it's going to be a heck of a football game. Again, we'll be on the air at six o'clock with Tiger's Countdown. Rhett, Brian and Amy Wells as we'll have that great football game and remember go to TennesseeTitans.com slash donate to Waverly and give what you can to help define people of Humphreys County. Now we turn to a favorite part of our show. It's really Coach Vrable's favorite part. It is our Delta Dental. Guess the Titan feature. As we go to break, let's have our first look at the person that Coach Vrable will try to guess. Oh, that nice smile from Delta Dental. Oh, so we've changed. That's a good place to start. Now we've changed, huh? Now we're just going to do two. It looks like it's a little different. More coming up. Delta Dental, can you guess this Titan? Man, that is a nice smile. The people at Delta Dental have to be so pleased and you have a look at it. He's got an extra look at it here. Mike Vrable, can you guess this Titan? I think I can. This is a value Delta Dental customer. Yes, I can tell that. And it is Kevin Byrd. Wow. Kevin Byrd, he says, and then he gives it to David Letterman-Flip. Is he correct? Christian Fulton. You were in the secondary. Oh, for one. Oh, for one. It kind of fits Brad, though, because our new feature that we're very excited about actually is called the Titans Files. And the Titans Files for this edition of the program is actually about none other than Caleb Farley. Here's our Amy Wells with more. Made in North Carolina, population 3,500 has been branded as the biggest little football town in the world. The Made in Blue Devils have been a North Carolina 2A power for years. Caleb Farley was their quarterback, not because he was a pure passer, but because he was the fastest guy in the Tar Heel state. Recruiters came calling for Farley and the Speedster picked Virginia Tech. Now, Caleb Farley was not going to be a quarterback in college. Hokey head coach Justin Fuente saw him as either a defensive back or a wide receiver. With plenty of DBS on hand for 2017, Farley initially landed at wide out. Unfortunately, that lasted only 11 periods into the first practice of fall camp. Farley torn ACL and was done for the season. A double whammy came just five months later. He lost his mother Robin when breast cancer returned for a second time. Farley showed strength and resolve fighting through these struggles and it impressed Justin Fuente. In the spring of 2018, he knew that Farley could handle a football challenge. So Fuente called him into his office for a talk, a talk about moving to defense. I remember sitting here right at this desk. I'm at right now and talking to him about it again and he said, Coach, he said, I trust you and I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna do the best I can at DB. He goes, you know I've never tackled anybody before, right? Like this is a quarterback. Like this isn't even a guy that played both ways. This is the quarterback. So he's like, you know I've never tackled anybody. So there was a learning curve there, you know, for him and I think one of the things that's going to help him as he moves forward is he has struggled before. It's so often highlighted that Caleb Farley intercepted two passes in his first college game against Florida State, but 2018 overall was an up and down year for him on defense. The flashes however were there and with a year under his belt, Farley exploded in 2019 as one of the top cornerbacks in the country. His biggest gift, that speed that we mentioned earlier. Every new star that showed up at Blacksburg challenged him to a race and everyone was summarily dismissed having their doors blown off. He's got elite speed and I know the NFL is a fast game and I know there's a lot of guys that can run in the NFL, but he's got elite speed and we'll have elite speed at the next level. Let me take you back to the start of our story. Remember when we mentioned that Caleb Farley was a quarterback at Maiden High School? Justin Fuente believes that experience has installed him Farley some attributes that don't come with every defensive back. I think playing that position helps you the rest of your life, you know, from public speaking to leadership, to handling adversity, to receiving criticism, you know, the quarterback gets way too much credit when things go well and too much blame when things don't go well. I think all of that is good for us. Good for the Tennessee Titans as well. Caleb Farley hasn't had it easy and while a great athlete, he's not a finished product and he knows it. His willingness to learn, to trust and to believe along with that world-class speed, give him a chance to be a special player for years to come. He is an impressive athlete, Caleb Farley and it feels like he's really making progress all the time. The one thing I can tell you is I think he's gotten better since he's gotten here and he's been able to work and get healthier and continue to get that strength back that's required to play professional football. You know, he was down for so long and we knew that and we knew that there was going to you know, be some time that we'd have to have some patience and you know, he's working, he's getting a lot of great reps and hopefully we can continue to start working him in here to the games and you know, some of this work in practice can start to pay off. You said it just right, work. That's what we're going to talk about when we come back on this edition of the Mike Grapple Show. Putting in the work and a video that'll get you ready for the rest of the week and for Sunday's game at Seattle. Stay tuned for more. We are lucky that there are a lot of very talented Titans fans and one of those is filmmaker Jeff Venable. Jeff partnered with the Titans staff to put together a brand video that was memorable last year. Tennessee tough remember that? Well, this year's maybe even better. It's all about what the Titans are doing right now and that is putting in the work. What's good Tennessee? It's hard to say we're clocking in because we never stop. Let's go to work. We will too. We're headed to the Great Northwest on Sunday. Titans and Seahawks at 325. You can hear it on Titans Radio 1045 the zone in Nashville beginning with Titans countdown at 230. For head coach Mike Vrabel and our fine staff, I'm Mike Keith and we'll see you next time on the Mike Grapple Show.