 As the two-time AFC South Champion, get it done again. Coming up on this week's Titans All Access. Hey, your Titans are AFC South champs yet again. But the men in two-tone blue aren't quite done. Find out what they'll need to do in order to lock up the AFC's number one seed. Sunday's win had a little bit of everything, and Coach Mack breaks it all down in this week's Beneath the Surface. Plus, Nick Westbrook Akina is one of an NFL record number of players the Titans have used this season, and is getting used to fans knowing who he is. It's time to celebrate a little bit. Take a little victory lap. It's an AFC South Champion edition of Titans All Access that starts right now. The monster, Derek. This is Titans All Access from the Bet MGM Studio. I'm Mike Keith, and you're at the home of the two-time defending AFC South Champion, Tennessee Titans. And we are so excited as we're going to talk ball with General Manager John Robinson. But first of all, congratulations on your second straight division crown. For the whole organization, what does it mean? Yeah, Mike, it's just so special. There's so many different parts of the organization. Everybody certainly sees the players and the coaches, but there's so many people that are involved with the football team and the organization. We're all blessed to work for Miss Amy, but there's a lot of hard work put in by a lot of different departments, a lot of long hours, and to see the football team go out and execute and play the way we play to come up with wins here and there and stack enough together to win the division again. It's just a really special moment for us. Multiple teams from Sundays 34-3 went over Miami. Start with number one, team defense. Yeah, I think that was one of the keys going in was get the call, get lined up, adjust to what they're going to do. They had a lot of different wrinkles in Miami. It was good. I thought that there were different players that stepped up throughout the course of the game, whether it was Danico and Jeffrey pressuring from the inside, Harold and Bud coming off the edge, Cunningham, Evans making some huge tackles. KB made a couple, they popped a couple runs on us and KB stepped up and got them on the ground. A couple of key PVUs from Fulton and Rabbit, and big interception by Long there at the end. But overall, team defense was really on point Sunday. Okay, so that's one theme. How about another one? Offensive efficiency. Yeah, that was huge for us to kind of get in the rhythm. We started a little slow, had a couple of three announced to start there, but we kind of found a rhythm, started to run the football. I thought the line did a good job of getting on their guy, staying on their guy. I thought the receivers and the tight ends all blocked well. Running backs, they found creases, they got downhill, they pressed the hole, we were able to push the pile some and then we had to throw the ball, set up to play action. Ryan did a great job putting the ball in good spots. Line had a good firm pocket, tight ends had a couple of big touchdown catches for us. But it was really efficient, you know, after that first couple of drives, we got into it, we got into that rhythm. John, what do you have to do better against the Texans this Sunday than you did when you played them back on November 21st? Yeah, I think that's a pretty simple, Mike. Take care of the football. You know, I think that, you know, we did a lot of good things in that game. Unfortunately, we turned the football over. You know, we've got to do an outstanding job of taking care of the football, securing it offensively and defensively. We keep preaching, you know, and we had four fumbles into Miami game. Came up with one, continued to try to get the ball away from, you know, from our opponent, try to steal a possession to get it back to our offense. John, congratulations on the win against Miami. Good luck this weekend in Houston. Thanks, Mike. Tighten up. I know. All right, tighten up indeed. When we come back, Amy Wells was down on the sideline during all of the sleep and the rain and everything in the win over Miami. She'll tell us about that, and we'll have more about what the day was like when Titans All Access continues. Welcome you to the Bet MGM Studio, and as promised, Amy Wells is here. Welcome back. Hey, thank you. It's good to be here. Okay, so you see we're in the Bet MGM Studio, but I can do something magic that also applies. How about this? For you, AFC South Champions. It looks so much better. That is what should always be up there. Isn't that nice? It's tremendous. Sundays went over Miami 34-3, featured a lot of different elements, including the weather and an incredible atmosphere. Oh my gosh, Titans fans showed up in a huge way. It was freezing cold. It was pouring down rain. They didn't care. It was so much fun to watch this fan base get that win and really be involved in the game. It was awesome. Excellent atmosphere overall, and it leads us straight into something special, the sounds of the game in the win over the Miami Dolphins. The year 2022 couldn't get here quick enough in a world where the Titans are just one win away from clinching a second straight AFC South Division title. Miami has won seven in a row, and if that streak can reach nine, they make the playoffs. Tennessee, on the other hand, captures the AFC South with a win today. This is a big game. Hey, listen, man. We got another opportunity, baby, to take over again, man. Two years in a row. Division title coming up, baby. Let's get it. Miami, be in the visiting team. You'll make it long. What's your call? That's just a call. Tell, tell, tell. Titans win the toss and let to defer, and they are taking the strong north wind at their backs. The whistle has blown. Let's play football. Kick comes down field. Lensy from the one to the five, to the 10, to the 15. He's hit and taken down at the 17-yard line on an outstanding tackle by Chris Jackson. Eye formation for Tennessee. Play fake. He throws. Man is wide up. Free. Wave. Bullocks kick is up, and it is good. Seven-nothing Titans. One-twenty-four remaining first quarter. Play fake. Tuck him by low and loses the ball. It's rolling free. The Titans are trying to get on it. It's tight. With Elijah. Molden. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Big time stop, baby. Nice job. Very quick. Nice job. Twenty-three-yard field goal. Bullocks kick is up, and his kick is good. Titans are going to run Foreman to the right. Foreman to the 15. Foreman to the 10. Foreman to the five. Yes! Foreman to the end zone. That day, Foreman. Powering you about two more, then. Two more. Two more. It's third down at long. Two up. Hit. Three. With it even doesn't. Second down at 11. Play fake. Daniel rolling to the right. Throwing down this year. Bullocks kick is on the way. Two 58 remaining. Titans 27. Dolphins three. They went in the same place. Over and over again. We got to make them pay for it. Tuck him by low. Fires down the middle. Up in the air. The ball is intercepted by the Titan. Intercepted under deflection by Long. And he is ruled down at that point where he made the interception. 11. Two minutes to go in the game. Titans at the Miami 39 yard line. Woodside heads to Hill. He's got room. 30. 20. 10. That's a sweep. Good day for the Tennessee Titans. Your final score. Tennessee 34. Miami three. As the two-time defendant. AFC South champions. Get it done. Again. Y'all know what time it is, man. AFC South. Hey man, listen. You tried to tell y'all. We got a big opportunity, man. We'll change some things right here, baby. Just know that it's coming. The boys are AFC South champions two times in a row. Back to back. Man, that was an awesome atmosphere. Oh my gosh. I'm getting emotional just watching that and reliving it. Back to back AFC South titles for the Titans. And if you're Nick Westbrook, Akina, you've never known any different. Two years in the league. Two division crowns. When Titans All Access returns, NWI sits down. To be this week's Nissan Insiders. Stay with us. Welcome back to Titans All Access from the Bette MGM studio here at Nissan Stadium. The Tennessee Titans have used a record number of players in the 2021 season. That's right. 89 to be exact. And one of the guys that the team has relied most heavily on is Nick Westbrook, Akina. So of course we had to make him today's Nissan Insider. Here's Mike Keith with the man that we like to call NWI. As I've read about you and I'm trying to figure out who your hero is, it seems like it comes down to one name and that's Amy Nickle. Is that right? Yes. Tell us who Amy Nickle is. Amy Nickle is my mom. She had me when she was, you know, pretty young. And I feel like she did everything she could to get me to, you know, this position right here. You know, she worked her tail off, working two jobs, trying to go through college while having me. She just kind of kept everything under wraps to make my experience as a child as good as it can be. And I'm so thankful for her and love her so much for it. So mom is the reason that Nick isn't afraid to cover a kick or catch an onside kick or block somebody or do anything that he's asked to do on the field because you saw your mom do this as you grew up. Yeah, exactly. She did whatever she could or whatever she had to do for me to be able to, you know, live a happy life. And so I feel like, you know, there's nothing that I can't do or no challenge that I can't overcome because she's done it before. There are high school players right now who want to be Nick Westbrook Akina. Yeah. Does that freak you out? It is a little different. But they see you and they, you know, they want to emulate what you're doing, whether it's catching a pass or throwing a block for Derek Henry or recovering the onside kick to put away the Saints or whatever it takes. Yeah. I guess that's kind of something different, you know, growing up, you always think about the big name players, you know, making the big one handed catches, the game wing touchdowns. I guess it's kind of cool that guys, you know, younger players can think, oh, no, I want to be the guy that's doing the dirty work, you know, to help the team win. All right. I want to back up for just a second and ask you the one thing that some people don't know the answer to and that is you're Nick Westbrook in Indiana. You're now Nick Westbrook Akina. Some people don't know why you've added the Akina. Would you mind explaining the story? Yeah. So Akina is my biological dad's last name and that side of the family, that whole last name. And so I was able to reconnect with them, you know, being able to put that name on the jersey for them. I felt like it would be a really cool, meaningful way to try to connect with them and have them, you know, see their name, you know, in a prime time position in the spotlight and show them that, you know, they can do big things too. Awesome. All right, let's talk special teams. If I'm walking into the special teams meeting, I want you to tell me what's expected of me. If I play on Titan's special teams, what am I in for? What is expected? I mean, it's kind of like what we talked about before. It's, you know, you got to do whatever it takes, accept your role, you know, whatever it takes to help the team win and understanding the importance of special teams. Just have an alpha dog mentality. You know, that's something we always talk about, is being the guy that's going to win your one-on-one matchup against, you know, their best special team player and turn the tide in the game in a special teams aspect and, you know, play complementary football. Who is your special teams hero in the Titan special teams room? Right now? I mean, there's a bunch. I remember coming in last year, watching a bunch of film, you know, at Gunner and kickoff, Dane was making plays all over the place. But then, you know, another aspect is, you know, having Matthias, you know, a veteran who's been on in the league for a while and made his mark on special teams, same with Nick Zubnar. You know, just having those guys in that experience on the field is really comforting for me. It gives me that confidence knowing that they're around me as well to allow me just to play free and try to make plays. Coming up after the break, Coach Mack reviews some of the top plays from the Titans victory over the Miami Dolphins. You don't want to miss this, guys. Stick around. Welcome back to the Bed MGM Studio in Titans All Access. With Amy Wells, I'm Mike Keith. Still reveling a little bit, and the Titans 34-3 went over the Miami Dolphins. But to really understand how the Titans were able to do it, you have to go deeper. Yes, and there's no better person to analyze the, really, the depth of that win than Coach Mack, Dave McGinnis. So let's go beneath the surface with Coach Mack while the rest of us revel more than a little bit. This is Coach Mack. We're going beneath the surface powered by Microsoft Surface. All right, we're in the first quarter here, 11-44, 3rd and 10th. What you're going to see here, this is a zone coverage, and it's going to be a four-man rush, but this is a picture-perfect example of what we call a cage rush. The Titans are sweetening this four-man rush up a little bit because they're going to run a game inside. DeNico Autry, left tackle, watch the right tackle, collapse the pocket pack. DeNico Autry steps up into it, collapses, and then wraps around. And as he wraps around, because the cage rush is so perfectly set, the zone coverage on 3rd and 10th has taken away all throwing possibilities. And then DeNico Autry makes a big sack, huge play in this ballgame. Now what you're going to look at is 2nd and 10th. Now, watch the Titans bogey their front, line up in a four-man front, shift down from the left to the right, and they've completely confused the quarterback. Watch what happens here as they do this, and then Molen is playing this corner at the slot up to the top of the left. This is a slot pressure. You can see him coming after the line is shift, and as they start to it again. Doesn't he not quite sure what he's seeing now because the front and the coverage has changed on him from pre-snap to post-snap. He goes to throw, and now we've got an icy wet day at Nissan Stadium. Ball completely slips out of his hand. Watch everybody race to the football. Big scrum for the football, but Molen, the one that was coming off the pressure from the slot, ends up with the football. Big, big takeaway for the Titans in this instance. We're now moving on to the 2nd quarter. Titans have been hammering away in a very stout Miami defensive front all day. This is a really great job by the offensive line. Watch the right side get complete knocked back on the left side of the Miami defense, and then watch the 2nd level. Watch him climb to the 2nd level. Take a look at what Forman does in the backfield. As he starts, he takes a little dip to the left to set up the blocks at the 2nd level and then hits the hole extremely hard. Watch the receiver throw a key block downfield. This is a 21-yard touchdown run. 17-3 now, Titans. We're now moving to the 4th quarter. Titans now have been running the football so well that now Miami is really, really trying to gear down to stop the run. This is a three-layer bootleg action going to the offensive right. It's blocked very, very well. Watch the right side of the offensive line completely cave down all the contained elements. Tannehill has now got great depth. He's got great vision. And look at the three layers of the receivers he has to throw to and to choose from. The motion man has come across, going behind the line of scrimmage. He's the first layer, 2nd layer deep, 3rd layer. Well, Firkshire is wide open, Miami completely confused, but the Titans have all set this up by a great run game and now the play action pass is working to perfection. Final play we're going to look at here is the 4th quarter. The Miami Dolphins are in a must-throw situation. Tua drops back. First of all, zone coverage. The two outside receivers are covered. Watch your two inside elements here on defense. Take a great directional delivery key. This is textbook right here and then a very athletic interception by David Long. This is the race to the football by everybody. This is another takeaway for a big, big Titans win, now on to bigger things with the Texans game next week. The Titans are heading to Houston in week 18 and they've got something to play for. Do you know what that is, Mike? Yeah, the number one seed in the conference. And do you know what that gets, the Tennessee Titans? Two home games after a buy. Exactly. Mike Keith is going to have the keys to getting that buy when we come back. I'm on it. Welcome back to Titans All Access. And it's time for the greatest part of the show, Mike Keith's Keys, presented by VisitMyrtleBeach.com. Mike Keith, where are you going if we get a buy week? I think we might go to Myrtle Beach. I think we should. VisitMyrtleBeach.com doesn't know it, but you're going to put us all up. Everybody on the crew. We're all coming. We'll be there. January and Myrtle Beach? Sounds great. Good stuff. All right, but what really sounds great is key number one and that's taking care of the football. The reason the Titans lost to the Texans on November 21 was simply turnovers. As a matter of fact, the Titans this year and their 11 wins overall plus 11 in turnover ratio in the five games they've lost minus 14 in turnover ratio. When the Titans take care of the ball, they don't lose. When they don't, they do. Take care of the ball Sunday in Houston. All right, what's the second key? Pressure Davis Mills. Rookie quarterback. Didn't play in the first game against the Titans on November 21. Has 13 touchdown passes. Has 10 interceptions. Has also lost a fumble and been sacked 29 times. The Titans need to get the heat on the kid. I like that. All right, what's the third and final key? When the running game. Rex Burkhead has been running the football well as of late for the Texans. Don't let it happen on the other side for the Titans. Foreman, Hildiard, McNichols and Tannehill have been running well. Keep it going. You've got to win the running game on Sunday to win the number one overall seed in the AFC. And a trip to Myrtle Beach. That'd be great during the five-week game. The Titans and the Texans this Sunday kickoff set for noon central time. Amy Wells, Rhett, Brian, have Titans count down on your favorite Titans radio station beginning at 11 a.m. Central. We hope you'll join us. For Amy Wells, I'm Mike Keith. Thanks for being with us for this edition of Titans All Access and we'll see you next time.