 Mike, coming off of yesterday, what's the challenge now with five of the next seven on the road? Oh, Teresa, I would have no idea how many we have on the road. I know we have the next one on the road, but the challenge is the same. The challenge is the same whether you win or you lose. You have to regroup, figure out what you did good, what you did bad, and try to eliminate the things that get you beat, and that's what we're going to do. The challenge is getting ready for another opponent, an excellent opponent on the road on Monday night. I'll tell you what were the main things that got you beat yesterday? Well you look at the run defense, things that we, when we are playing the game well and we are operating how I think we should operate, we're running the football, we're stopping the run, our quarterbacks efficient, we affect their quarterback. Neither of those two things did we win those matchups, won the turnover matchup, but I felt like we did well enough in some of these critical situations, especially at the end of the game to put ourselves in a position, but that in the end really was what got us, was just not being able to control the football, and then the X plays that we gave up. X plays on defense, and we still need to try to make sure that we're finishing some drives off. Third down wasn't good enough, 2-3 in outs to start the second half. It seemed like as soon as you got the completion to Phillips you were satisfied with the field position for the field goal, and more concerned with moving horizontally than vertically. Couldn't you have used more yards there? Well we could always use more yards. I'm comfortable, and I've gone into saying this that at the 25 yard line, I've told the team this that we're going to kick the field goal. Now we were 26-27, I wanted to be very clear what hash we wanted it on, I explained that last night. I'm not disappointed in how that situation happened, I'm disappointed that a guy that we have a lot of confidence in missed, Randy's disappointed, but he's made a lot of big kicks for us. It's a situation that we've actually covered in the summer, had 18 seconds on the clock, had no timeouts, Randy wanted it on the right hash, so we put it on the right hash, got lined up, calmly clocked the ball, and then unfortunately missed the kick. After you were out of bounds, are guys milling around too much there? No, again that was me just being very clear on where we wanted the football. Was it the left hash, was it the right hash, it's this game winner, we want to make sure that everybody's on the same page, that was my decision. How much does that change week to week? It does, I think it actually changes sometimes during the game based on the wind and based on how he feels, which direction we're headed, so there was actually a conversation, and I wanted to make sure that there wasn't any indecision in what we were telling Ryan where we wanted the football. Jake, the third and short failures in general in the second half, common threads there, how disappointing was that for you? Well that's something that we've been really good at and that we're going to continue to be really good at, that was disappointing, we had done well enough on first and second down to eliminate some of those third and extra longs that we were just, are hard to pick up and protect and all those different things, so we'll have to make sure that we're giving these guys a great plan, we're giving the quarterback plenty of options for the looks that we're thinking that we may see or not see and be better. The one, I thought we did a fantastic job with the man coverage early in the game, with Bobby in the backfield and Ryan progressed through and they kind of dropped Don Trell and then we started seeing some more zone probably because of that, and I think that we just have to make sure that we're adjusting to some of those things that happened through the course of the game. A committee approach or collective approach as a receiver court as opposed to like one dominant guy, like how much stress does that put on you as a play caller, Coach Down and Coach Kelly as people who go into making the offense too? Well I don't think, I mean I think we all have everybody in this building, I think we have, you know, there's stress involved in everybody's job, whether you're a player, a coach, a trainer, just to try to get the players ready to go out there and understand what's going on and we have confidence in everybody out there, so we have some certain plays where you may want a guy at one position but other than that, just like Cody went in there the other day and we threw a boot to him that gained 18 or however many yards it did down there in the red zone, so I thought he did a nice job, thought he kept both feet in bounds and whatever that is that the guy's numbers called then we'll go out and make it work. Mike, I know with so many teams focusing on Derrick Henry, does it become more important like for some of us in the United States? They focused on Derrick since, you know, the last three years or whatever that may be, that's not the, nothing's changed there, you know, we left a lot of meat on the bone running the football, that's okay. Do you need more touches from Woods and Hooper or do they have to earn more touches? Well, I've been through this and I've tried to explain it as best as I can to the team specifically. If you're a receiver or you're a tight end or you're, you know, maybe not a running back but if you're out in the route like all you can focus on is that you get open and then the quarterback has to determine like where he goes with the football and, you know, we always watch and we say, oh, that guy's open on the right. Well, the read and the progression starts over here and it's a yes, no, and you only have so much time. You can't start here and then think, oh, I'm going to come back as pressures come in or, you know, that's the thing I think we lose sight of. So, yeah, we want everybody that's open to get the football. And, you know, is Ryan going to say, yeah, I probably should have, to rip the sit to Hoop, you know, down there in the high red? Probably, but, you know, I thought we were efficient in the play pass game. You know, we had some of those X plays. We're going to continue to work with trailing, about continuing to run and not, you know, continue to his speed down the field as he's trying to locate the ball. I think that came up. But, I mean, our young guys played good, man. Like, these guys, they went out there, we had some rookies that started. I mean, that's the most production that we've had from young guys. Trailing caught the ball well. He blocked, you know, we'll start maybe seeing if he can make somebody miss an open field instead of trying to run him over. But, you know, we'll try to get, you know, the quarterback to get the guy of the ball that's open, you know, the guy to get him the ball when he's open. How would you say the protection was yesterday? Because no sacks allowed, petite for rare seemed to be very engaging and locking up his guy and didn't seem to need a whole lot of extra help. Even with Swain and Hoop the time, you know, Jeff did a nice job on some of the defensive ends that we had him blocking in the play pass, which we know can be, you know, hit or miss. So I thought the protection was good. There was some, you know, always a couple of times where, you know, they run a game where there was some leakage. But overall, I thought it was, it was good. You know, there was some good pockets, some very good pockets. You know, our sack came on a boot that Ryan didn't gain any yards on. So all in all, I think that it was, you know, did some positive things up front. Well, I think that there's always, you know, there's three ways that you can get to the ball under, over or through. And as Zach has shown in the past that, you know, he can do all three of those. That's why he's such an intriguing player. So, you know, I mean, I think one thing to look at is where the ball is, where the blocker is, you know, there's some times where if the ball is, you know, further away from the blocker that you can dip and avoid and try to, you know, beat him. So those are decisions just like with Derrick, with running the football. You know, you have to, you know, coach him up and hope that they make the right decision to make the right read, whether he's going to slip underneath the block or, you know, take it on and try to shed. On the meat of the ball left on the running game, how much of that was left by Derrick himself? I think probably some, you know, some, there was, again, we're all in it out there. And we have to have a play design. Sometimes Derrick bounces, makes a huge play. Sometimes he sticks it up inside and, you know, gets a couple dirty yards. So we've always trusted him with the football to go. And that's why I tell those guys to finish longer than the guy with the ball. And sometimes we've seen him break it out and make magic happen. And sometimes it's a, you know, one or two yard game. So that's what we've entrusted him to do. And that's why he's our running back. And that's why we, you know, rely heavily on him. The two-pointer version where guys in the right spot just didn't make a play or did you get out of that? No, I think we had a couple guys there. You know, we had a couple guys there and, say, Quan made a play. I think those three was held in that play way. I think that there's a lot of things that, I think they had 12 men on the field when we punted the football, too. But that's beside the point. Probably every play was different, but the consistency and the run defense, was it more mis-tackling? Probably more. We had, you know, double digits, you know, some of the fits. You know, making sure that, you know, we go, you know, that there's an edge, that there's a wall and that you're swarming. And so sometimes when they get some pullers over the edge, you have secondary players that then become force players, right? So that we have to, you know, make sure that we're forcing it and that we're, you know, getting the right guys at the right angles. Mike, on Woods, on Woods and Hooper, again, you mentioned how, you know, they, as past catchers, you can't really control when you're getting the ball. But in terms of, even though they didn't really get the ball, were you pleased with kind of what they were doing away from the ball blocking, were you encouraged in that regard in terms of them doing their job to get open and block and doing all that? Yeah, I mean, again, we lost the game. So nobody really played well enough or coached well enough. And that's how we want to approach it. Everybody, I would say, that was involved in the game, did some of those things that were really positive and then some of the things that we just need to correct and make sure that we fix, whether it's, you know, how we're running around, how we're blocking, how we're taking on blocks. You know, just, it's a big week for us and we're going to use the extra day, hopefully, to try to take care of some fundamentals and look at some things that come up and try to be very specific. Josh, I mean, you've had disappointing losses and faced a big opponent coming off of it. Every loss is disappointing. Every loss is disappointing. I mean, we put a lot into it, you know, and we've done that to other teams. And I guess that's why it hurts and it's frustrating and disappointing and a million different things. But, you know, walk in and talk to the team and tell them, you know, this is, you know, we got off to the start. We wanted, this is what we were doing well. Came out, you know, second half, sky kick. You know, we start backed up. We go three and out to start and, you know, just really never did enough in the second half to take control of the momentum, you know, proud of the way that we fought. You know, unfortunately, just came up short. You guys have responded well in these situations, though. I mean, and I'm glad, and I'm proud of that. I'm proud of the players that they understand. I think they keep everything in perspective. I think they do do a good job of keeping things in perspective. So I'm going to try to do that and help them. Henry of trailing his ability to create separation last night. Is that something that popped on the tape, maybe more so than it did in the pre-season games or some of the other times you've seen him in game action? Um, I think he did, you know, some things really well. You know, he had some things that he needs to get corrected. But when we asked him to block, he went in there and he was willing to talk to you about his efforts on the kickoff return and how much those coaches wanted him in that phase. Now, he got a holding penalty, but it was also against, you know, probably their best special teams player. And he stood in there and he didn't back down. He didn't flinch. I got set, hit him, tried to block him, and just, you know, I tugged. So the separation, I just hope that he continues to try to develop and catch the ball and find ways to help us. How do you measure if your guy's gotten up front at mirroring the hand to pass us down and how much did that help you? That will always help us. You know, I think Jeff will probably be kicking himself. He tried to do it, but he jumped. And Daniel Jones was able to, you know, put it in there on one of the third downs. But he was trying. Jeff was clearly chasing him and kind of went to match the hand and left his feet a little bit. But Strong came up with a big one at a huge point. Third down, you know, we just didn't have enough attempts, whether that was at the line of scrimmage or, you know, with the ball carrier. Weaver's solid play in preseason seemed to carry over in two sacks. How did you do setting the edge in the run game? There was, again, there was a couple of really nice ones where he got two blockers, some of those pullers over the edge. And then there was another one where, you know, he could have been better. And he knows that and, you know, we'll try to explain it to him and show him. But he did well, not good enough for us to win collectively. But, you know, I think that he continues to work and I think he's trying to take advantage of the opportunity. He's excited to be out there. He's into it in any place. Is that aspect of the game sometimes more difficult for a guy whose strong suit is rushing the passer or a lot of edge guys? Well, I think there's just some patience that's involved with it. You know, whether that be he or Danico, you know, the defensive players, you always want to make a bunch of plays, right? We just ask you that you make the ones that you're supposed to make. Because there has to be some sort of responsibility. There has to be some sort of semblance to order and what's going on. And so, you know, I think that there is a fine line of winning, you know, we talked about exact Cunningham running around a block or when you just get rid of somebody soon instead of waiting and then losing a speed battle to a very good back. Mike, this team was 6-1 last year and games decided by three or fewer points. Is that kind of a toughness or mentality that has to be relearned year to year? Or is there any kind of carryover that maybe you can try to tap into? There may be some carryover. I mean, it's just understanding the situations, right? We were pretty confident that they scored, that they were going to go for two being on the road. A lot of different factors. The way that the game was going left us enough time. Our offense went back, we missed the kick at the end. We have been good. I'm proud of the fact that we have been good in one-score games. Not so good yesterday, but we just have to do a better job of coming out of that second half and taking control of the game again and not making it to the point where it comes down to a few plays there at the end. Does AJ Moore cost you anything from a personal standpoint yesterday? Well, he's a solid, very solid special teams contributor, continuing to build a role on defense. But his passion, his speed, and what we were doing. I thought our special teams units, you know, Trey Avery, what it did was give Trey Avery an opportunity. Another young guy had one tackle, two assists, never played L5 on a kickoff team in his life, ran in there, ran down the middle field, hit the off for Turner, and made a tackle. So that's usually what happens is one guy that's not available and somebody else is. And we like when they take advantage of the opportunity. For your nickel package featuring Ugo Amati, is there something you like more about him as opposed to having a query bump inside and Farley filling at the outside corner spot? Well, there's a lot of banging around that goes in there. Amati's done it much more in this league than Roger. So just trying not to overload him inside, outside, run game. There's different run fits that are associated in there. It's really a modified linebacker. And Roger, just right now, it's not that he doesn't want to go in there and mix it up, because he tackled well at times yesterday and tried to tackle physically. But I think it just, right now, we're working him on third down in there. Mike, what is the most of an indictment on Farley himself as it is just trying to? Oh, no. It's just first and second down. When we go nickel or when we go with substituted defense, it's first and second down just trying to get a guy in there at the nickel that's done it. And that's it. How rare is it, Mike, when you see a rookie in the target share that he did in his first NFL game? And is that kind of a sign of the trust that Ryan already has in him? He's got a lot of trust. He saw a great punt return, a great effort from him, a lot of great efforts from other guys out there. And then it didn't come without, it wasn't perfect, because then we muffed one. But Kyle is a competitor. He's got a knack for getting open. And so Ryan was able to find him a couple of times yesterday. Some of the balls he caught on punt return, I got to believe you don't want him catching some of those inside the 10, inside the five the way he did. Well, inside the five, you're starting to get a little bit dicey. But that eight yard line is usually probably the break point just because the punters are so good to be able to pin you inside the five yard line. So just making good decisions down there and obviously hoping that we can keep that a strength and just clean up the ball security. The play inside the 10, the first half, Mike, run fate to Derrick. Does that ball just need to be right to Derrick quickly? We'll allow him to turn it over. Yeah, I'm not going to get through the scheme of it. But I would say that everybody involved has to be better and just make sure that we're firm and solid on where we want to go with the ball and how we want that route to get there. We're going to run defense Mike last week or yesterday. You said that we need to re-evaluate what we're doing since that was the number one key we had. How do you go about doing that? Specifically, if it was the number one key and it ended up the way it was? Well, every week is different. Every week is different. This may be a different running scheme. They showed a few things in their first week that Buffalo hadn't shown last week or last year. We'll figure out what the scheme is and try to come up with ways to defend it. It really just came down to the X-place, the explosive gains that really changed momentum, changed his field position. You've got to make them earn everything in this league. You just can't give them big plays. How long does it have been in your tenure that the number one key that you guys have come up so short in the number one thing you've talked about down the week? Well, there's been a couple of times. I can't go back. Me can check with stretch. But I'm sure there's been some times like we needed to do something and didn't do it. You can go out there and you could have 80% of the snaps be for three yards or less and then give up a couple of big plays, which is what we did. And add the quarterback scramble into that and a jet sweep into that. So if the quarterback runs for 15 yards, the end of a two-minute drill that we end up stopping them on, it's going to go into a rushing. But at the end of the day, it was just some of those big plays. How big a challenge do you have a week from the night and the past games against them help you a little bit in preparation? Well, I'm sure it would help a little bit every year is different. It's an excellent defense. I put a lot of pressure on the other night. Very sound. They're good tacklers. You just watch that game. They tackled very well. Offensively, they were able to break tackles. The quarterback is very good. A lot of respect for Josh and what he does and the command that he has, his toughness, his physicality, and not only that, but just his arm talent. It's a huge challenge on the road. Mike, what has Jeff Swame done to earn the role on offense that he has led the Titans in SNAPs yesterday? He's the best blocking Titan that we have.