Titans disastrous loss in Cam Ward’s debut vs Broncos can only be pointed at one person
What’s up AD Sports Live on a Monday. Gonna have a wild show because the Titans had a wild season opener and a loss to the Denver Broncos. 20 to 10 was the 20 to 12 was the final score in Denver. We’ll talk a lot uh about what went wrong, who to blame. Uh and the biggest reasons why the Titans lost to the Broncos in a game where they were eight and a half point underdogs. But uh the game was on a platter for the Titans who take and win with the Broncos mistakes. the Titans mistakes were worse. Zack, you and I are here to break it all down. We’ll talk about what ruined Cam Ward’s debut the most. We’ll hear from Brian Callahan and his postgame press conference a few times throughout the show. Then we’ll talk about Cam Wards, his debut as a whole. Uh and we’re going to have all Titans all conversation this morning. So, uh welcome in. Hope you uh you know kept your blood pressure uh okay yesterday watching that Titans game because I’m guessing a lot of the fan base did not uh because that was as frustrating and maddening uh as last week one was uh you know again a lot of deja vu there. But Zach, welcome in. Uh let’s have a great start to this season reaction. Here we go. Off and rolling on a Monday. Yep. Here we are uh Monday morning. this is, you know, probably disappointing to Titans fans and we’ll talk about it and we’ll uh I’m curious to see what the chat has to say. Uh because I’m sure that they have plenty of words to to dive into. We’re going to have a great show today on this Monday morning. We’ve got uh a lot to get to, a lot to unpack, and a lot to discuss. We are broadcasting live on three different platforms, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch. Got you locked in right there. We will tweet out link bylink, segment by segment on our Twitterx handle, a tozports. Make sure you follow there. 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And Windonation, buy two windows and you get two free and make no payments for two years at windowation.com. So, Zach, uh 20 to 12 was the final. Uh the Titans covered uh but they had a lot of opportunity to win that game. four turnovers by the Denver Broncos, only six points off of those turnovers by the Titans offense. The Titans had a turnover Tony Pard fumble after one of the interceptions of Bo Knicks. Uh but Cam Ward could barely get anything done. Offensive line had him get sacked six times for loss of 50 yards and the Titans had just about as many penalty yards as they did total offensive yards. So, uh, JT and I were on a postgame show for over an hour, uh, last night after this game. So, I’ve said a lot of things, so I will let you react and your initial reaction here publicly about the Titans 0 and one start to the 2025 campaign. Well, look, I feel the same way that every I mean, outside I I bet you people aren’t rooting for the Broncos besides Bronco fans. I think they were intrigued about Cam Ward’s debut. It was an afternoon game. the the Lions Green Bay game was out of hand, right? So, I think all eyes were on the Titans. They may not watch it from start to finish and saw the halftime fiasco and all of the drops and the offensive line play, but we know why the Titans lost yesterday, and it is pretty simple. They did something that they never did last year, and that was take the football away. Give their offense better opportunity. Love or hate Will Levis, he was put in a lot of tough spots with a lot of yards to go to get to the end zone. The Tennessee Titans yesterday set their offense up for success and they failed them. I I I I don’t want to get too deep into this because it’s week one. It is what it is. But I do want to rehash a little bit of what was said on Friday of what you said about Brian Callahan and the job that he is completely and utterly safe. No doubt about it. Games like yesterday are the reason why you should not say that. Well, Zach, again, let me just say this because I think there’s a difference from what I said Friday and from what I think about Brian Keller as a head coach. What I said on Friday was an organizational uh path, right? He’s not getting fired. That’s what you said. Yes. That I that the Titans the Titans believe Brian Callahan’s bosses, which include Mike Borggoni, Chad Brinker, Burke Nihill to an extent kind of, and Amy Adam Shrunk. All those four people are the four people above Brian Callahan. They believe the worst thing that could happen to Cam Ward is for a new head coach going into year two. So what does that not mean? That does not involve my opinion about Brian Callahan as a head coach. Well, you said he’s not going to get fired this year. Right. Right. Be not because of my opinion about him as a coach, because of what I’ve heard about the organization. And what I’m saying is games like yesterday are reasons why you should not say it. And Zach, I am telling and so Major Keith says, “Yes, Zack, hold Austin accountable.” This is off to a flaming start because there’s a reason why I do a postgame show, Zach. And when you come up here, you probably don’t listen to the postgame show because you’re doing other things on your Sunday. I did listen to some of the post some of it. Some of it, but not all of it because it was over an hour. Over an hour halftime show where I was whipping Callahan’s ass for how bad he was. You should. That’s fine. He deserves that. So, let me just let me just make sure to keep that clear. Why you cannot say things like that when when the Titans organization is saying continuity continuity continuity continuity continuity and when not firing him last January is saying you got to commit to him for at least two years for this rookie quarterback. That’s a different thing from me evaluating him as a head coach. He was awful. I understand that. I that’s not taking away. My whole point Friday was we shouldn’t say things like that because what organizations say is a lot different than what they do. And that’s what history shows us. And I think yesterday Brian Callahan put his team in a position to lose, not win. And that’s how your ass gets fired, especially with bad teams. Opportunity, opportunity, opportunity. Penalties. I mean, the list go drops. The list goes on and on and on. This looked like a three-win team that the Titans were, but they had so much opportunity to be 1 and 0. And I think that’s what upsets and ticks off Titans fans on the road against a talented defense and a really good head coach. Shawn Peyton is a Super Bowl winning head coach, like it or not. You have to try to out coach coaches like that. And you cannot do what Brian Callahan did to his team. So that you asked me how I feel about it. That’s how I feel about the game. All right. Well, there was also an opportunity where Shawn Payeyton, Super Bowl winning head coach, did some dumb stuff that Brian Callahan did, too, because also willing to throw the challenge flag, though. Yeah. Good lord, man. I mean, I I Brian uh Shawn Payeyton is the kid that reminds the teacher of the homework last night in front of everybody, but it’s like, dude, we get it, man. You’re annoying as hell. But but uh Shawn Payeyton also allowed the Titans to get the ball back so early. Remember the uh when they were throwing the ball uh for no freaking reason and taking no time off the clock late in that game to get the Titans right back. It was So Shawn Payeyton also football coaches do dumb stuff, right? And it happens every week. One did more than the other, right? But a Super Bowl winning head coach who’s had decades of experience did dumb stuff yesterday and his team got away with it because the other team did more dumb stuff. So, uh, let’s go ahead and hear from Brian Calling before this continues to get further off the rails. Here was how he opened his postgame press conference in Denver last night. Well, the end of the day, didn’t make enough plays to put ourselves in position to win at the end. I thought our team played with great effort. Uh we had opportunities to keep this game with the ball with a chance to go win it. Even at the end, it was still an eight-point game. Didn’t make enough plays. You know, going two of 14 on third down is going to is going to make it hard. 13 penalties for 130 yards or whatever. Also going to not going to win many games doing that. So, that was disappointing. Um you know, couldn’t get much rhythm on offense. Our third downs were I think felt like we were in third and 10 plus almost the whole game. So, hard to get a rhythm going offensively. And then when we did have opportunities, we had some drops and some things that happened that uh didn’t allow us to sort of keep going. Couldn’t get any rhythm offensively at all. Defensively, I thought we played pretty good for most of the game, but the, you know, some of the same things, some of those third down penalties were critical. Um, thought we held them in check pretty good in the first half and then, you know, it got away from us because offensively we weren’t holding the ball well enough, uh, sustaining any drives and put those guys in some spots that was challenging. So despite all that um you know got the ball back with an in an eight-point game in the fourth quarter on the road against a really good football team. So um disappointed we couldn’t find a way to win the entire offse talking about mitigating the sins when you have a day like today. Is that discouraging you? Yeah, I’m just disappointed. I’m disappointed in that. Um I didn’t obviously foresee that being the reason that would make the game really challenging. So yeah, disappointed. I thought we’d we would be better than we were and we weren’t. So, we got some things to clean up and we got to get ready to go for the next one. So, there’s Brian Callahan East Freeze asking that question about the sins uh which was the entire off focus. It’s self-inflicted negatives. That’s what sins stands for for the Titans. So, uh any initial reaction to that or we want to go ahead and jump into our first question of the day. Well, there’s a lot of coach speak there. I I I wish Brian Callahan would have had more accountability. Okay, let me let me pause you again. So, this is the initial again, this is Monday morning, initial postgame press conference. There’s always more accountability and more detail and context on the press conference on Monday, which is at 12:30 today, than there is initially directly after the game. Right. I understand that. But in games like yesterday, there were so many mistakes that the head coach influenced that I think there that’s what I’m saying is there needed to be more accountability yesterday because of how the game played out. Yes, of course you’re going to say we need to watch the tape. I’ve got to go back and diagnose it. Of course, right? But we all know, I mean, you get the stat sheet, you you see the penalties, you see 131 yards worth of penalties and you see the total offense, you see the third downs, you see the lack of challenges, you see the the the penalty calls and the offensive line struggles, you see the drops, you see the miscues. I mean, I just went through five things of why they lost and I I just didn’t feel like that was taken because that’s how the game went. Everybody and their mother can react to that after the game. Even if you’re the head coach, that was also the first 90 seconds of a 12minute press conference, right? There was there was more to I listen to the press conference. I I’m I’m stay I’m stating what my opinion is on the first press conference. Okay. So, let’s go ahead and uh ask the audience a question to get everybody involved here. Uh because a lot of people in here on this Monday morning. What’s the biggest reason why the Titans lost to the Broncos? What’s the biggest reason why the Titans lost to the Denver Broncos uh last night in Denver to get to an 0 and1 start uh again this season? So, uh, Zach, I’ll send you the chat, but first tell everybody about our great partners at Barton Drury Insurance Group. Yeah, Barton Drury Insurance Group. I’ve been using Barton Drury Insurance Group for a number of years. Customized solutions for all your insurance needs and they’ll take care of you. I mean, that is that is guaranteed when it comes to Barton jury insurance. Not only personal, I have it for my auto and my home. Also for businesses, we have it for our company. 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And you can get the app with a 14-day free trial and a full season pass uh for just 99 bucks uh and a 14-day free trial. So, use our code at Z Sports for that, excuse me, that’s code at oz at oz for that 14-day free trial and the $99 season pass to become a better sports better and fantasy player overall. Zack, a lot of comments. I can imagine have come in uh about the question, what’s the biggest reason why the Titans lost to the Broncos 20 to2? Uh I’ll send you to the chat, then you and I will take our shots at the question, too. Well, let’s start with 11 penalties for 131 yards. Uh that include defensive penalties, uh pass interference calls, uh it include holding on, uh you know, the offensive line, it include a ton of different things for for that. hard to win with 131 yards worth of penalties. Caleb coming in hot right there. Uh Callahan, uh Brian Callahan not being conservative at the right times and overaggressive at the wrong times, especially on the road against an AFC opponent in game one. Callahan coming in from Big 10. Jeff should have never been hired, like I said. So that’s Jeff is kind of going back to I do think it’s ridiculous that because Brian Callahan was one of the most soughtafter interview candidates in that cycle like so yeah yeah that’s big or massive hindsight there Jeff because it’s not like he wasn’t getting interviews for a while. Uh Apple Pie says coaching same as last year offensive line play. Ben, you bring that up and that was why I said I asked one of my three questions on Friday after my hibernation period over the summer was how do you grade the offensive line to start the season? We got a lot of B’s. Uh I was in the C category. They played like uh D I would say yesterday uh at times or S. Uh let’s see. Brandon says six points on four turnovers. That’s glaring. The offense is the reason from Zack P. offense from Rooney. Uh third down penalties that also hurt. Bad play calling. Callie’s play calling and drops. Offensive play calling from TK. Lack of touchdowns from Mason. Yeah, hard to find touchdowns yesterday. Alex says drops, penalties from Deborah, penalties from Scott, offensive line from A Jensen, run from Marshall. Cali was the issue from Corey. Drop balls from Jake. coaching from 2324 Mamba. Callahan’s lack of coaching ability. Bozo the clown Callahan was a liability from Darren. Coaching from Peter. Callahan’s inability to adjust to his play calling, penalties and drops, plain and simple. Offensive line from Kyle. I mean, you you have a theme here and they’re all very similar because that is the list of why they lost. Now, what is the most important reason on why they lost? What is the biggest factor on why they lost? Austin, what is yours? Uh, mine is the uh the theme of the off season is limiting the sins, the self-inflicted negatives that the Titans were trying to coach out of their players uh throughout all of the spring and the summer. They did the whole campy thing where they split up uh their roster into teams where they get points uh for good things, they get points taken away for bad things. And the sins, what are sins? Sins are pre- snap penalties, missed assignments, drops, sacks allowed. Uh and there’s one more thing, too. Uh maybe post snap penalties as well or postplay penalties. Uh uh so holding defensive pass interference is the other one too. So there’s six. Those are the sins that were identified by Brian Callahan and his coaching staff for their uh players this summer. Uh and they failed at every aspect of that. There were holds, uh there were pre- snap penalties, there were postplay penalties, uh there were drops, and there were uh missed assignments. And so, and that includes the head coach. The head the head coach was a center as well. I put Jeffrey Simmons and Calvin Ridley on the graphic for a reason because I do think those two were probably the biggest sinners. And maybe that’s a new segment that we’ll do. Who’s the biggest center of the Titans game when every time they lose because they’ve done this to themselves. When you create an acronym like sins and then you keep doing them, we’re going to use it against you. And so Jeffrey Simmons, two penalties on himself for a total of 20 yards. Both were on third downs. Both gave the Broncos another set of downs and new life. and both cost the Titans points or an opportunity at more points, too. So, Jeffrey Simmons is a captain, five-time captain. Calvin Ridley is also a captain this year and Calvin Ridley had a couple drops uh was not very good overall. So, but look, there’s a lot more centers than than just those two guys. Uh James Williams ruins a really solid punt return from Jim DK with an unsportsmanlike after the after the play. Ammani Hooker not wrapping up when you throw your shoulder into a defender on third down at the sticks to allow the guy to get a first down. The sins are the biggest reason why. And the 13 penalties for 131 yards when you only had 134 yards of total offense net that is egregious. Uh and so I think the sins are the biggest reason even more than the coaches are also I already said this Brian Call’s a part of that. Uh, but still I I think the sins are the biggest reason why the Titans lost that game. Well, the biggest sinner was the head coach. And let me just say this right. Let me just say this because I do think if we take a step back, I think we’re very heated because like last year’s week one, the Titans go on the road with a new starting quarterback and some hope, so to speak. And they’re underdogs on the road against a team that’s got a lot of expectations. They’re underdogs every time they go on the road. Hold on. But okay, I understand. But like they were the they were tied with the Cowboys to being the biggest underdog in week one, right? That’s my point. Eight and a half points. We were not like we expected, right? Didn’t everybody probably expected the Titans to lose this game? I predicted 2717 Broncos. the I think the the reason why people are so furious today is because of the missed opportunities because the Titans played well enough in areas to win the game and kept shooting themselves in the foot as the Broncos were also turning the gun on themselves on their own foot too. Well, the spread goes out the window when you’re in the game. It’s the NFL. If you watch the NFL, bad teams can beat good teams. Underdogs can win. You saw last night the best game of the year. So far, the Bills were down and out until Dererick Henry fumbled the football and that came crashing down and all of a sudden that you blinked twice and the Bills could a game-winning field goal. Anything can happen. So the spread and you I heard that a lot on Twitter. The spread doesn’t matter when you’re in the game and you get four take a help your offense. I agree. The So So that’s why I say the the spread does not matter. What I the biggest center is the head coach. You in the NFL and in football in general, the biggest center cannot be the head coach or the quarterback. You will learn you will lose 95% of the time. There’s a 5% of a a Music City miracle. That doesn’t matter that other other positions can help you win. But if your head coach and or your quarterback is your biggest center, you will lose. And yesterday, Brian Callahan, his inexperience as head coach came out because as a head coach, you have to do a lot of things. You’re responsible, right? You are the man in charge. You have to set the tone. You have to be the leader, the torchbearer that the team follows. You have to hold people accountable. You have to hold your team accountable. And he did not do that throughout the course. And as I said, it it showcased his inexperience a as a in-game head coach, whether it’s calling plays and managing the game, whether it is organizing and making sure things are set up correctly for your team to win. And this is where I want to start because this is egregious. That would be in a word that I would use for this situation. 47 seconds left. It’s 63 right before half. You’re on your own sevenyd line. Okay. You pass the ball three times. You almost get a safety. You can go into the house. It takes an average, let’s say, five to seven seconds to run a play. You’re going to be running the ball three times. It’s a 40 second play clock. Your ass is in the locker room. That’s it. It’s 6 to3. It’s not nine 9 to 10. It’s not 1516. It’s not 33. It is 6 to3 and you have the lead. And he chose not to do that. And it does not take a genius or a head coach that gets paid millions of dollars to know if you are an eight and a half point underdog against the spread that you need the lead. You don’t need to do dumb to hurt that hurts the team. I’ll take one out of Rabel, right? Who got who had his own problems yesterday against Gino and the boys who I said the Raiders are going to be better than one thinks. Everybody was high on the Patriots. Anyway, let’s hear what Brian Callahan says about end of half. Yeah, I was trying to be aggressive and see if I can get the ball moved out from underneath there and um we kind of got in a little bit of rhythm. So, I was trying to take advantage of of some momentum potentially and it didn’t really work out in our favor in that point. Worst case scenario. Absolutely. It is. Yeah. Yeah. That was that was um yeah, it’s a wild swing in the end of the first half that that I was you know tough to overcome those when you when you put yourself in that spot and again trying to be aggressive see if we can get the ball moving back forward the other way a little bit and um didn’t really work out for us. This all right Austin you know how I said earlier in the show and this is where my explanation comes in. I want Brian Callahan to take more accountability in that press conference. I understand the nuance of reaction and context and tape. I’ve heard it. I’ve seen a million press conferences in my life. I know how they work. All I wanted him to say is we should have ran the ball three times and gotten out of half. I I wanted him to just admit that. That’s not a bad thing to admit. That’s not a bad thing. You run the ball three times and you get to half. That’s what you do. You don’t drop back. You don’t be aggressive. You’re the worst team in the NFL and you have the lead on the road in week one. You know how conservative he was when running the ball on third down just to get points. What happened? Yeah. You go from that to this. And Jim DK, who we talked about on Friday, look, I I was pretty proud of myself of the the the summer of hiatus coming in and asking some pretty pertinent questions that came to fruition on week one of the season. Those were the guys that impact. Fimi Fimmy got some pressures. It was great, right? Yeah. But you cannot put your young quarterback in that situation backed up when you have the lead. Just say it and move on. That’s something you can’t admit. So I I agree with you and that’s what I was blowing my lid at halftime on our halftime show. If you want to go watch me just feel like I’m losing control of my entire uh emotions, you can go back and watch the halftime show uh when there was the shortest weather delay ever. Thank goodness. um during halftime. But so there is something that I’ve learned this morning and something that I saw on Twitter uh this morning that makes me I’m not changing my opinion. The end of half se play calling sequence was so stupid and unnecessary from Brian Callahan. And could you imagine if Tim DK did not get them in range for Joey Sly three and they’re down 10 to six and not have the ability to go up 12 to 10 to start the third quarter after the Bon Knicks interception too. But there is something that that I learned this morning and something else that I saw. So, two things that I’ve got to add on to this conversation to take it to like the next level of these things. So, we’ll do that here in a second. But first, let me tell you guys about our new partners at Windonation. Windonation.com is the website. They have an incredible an incredible offer. This is the best offer, most popular offer of their entire year because in this month of September, we’re already eight days into it now. 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So Will Bowling said this morning on 1045, Will Bowling’s the also the Titans radio sideline reporter for away games this year. He said that Joey Sly’s leg changes changed yesterday the way that Brian Callahan approached things because in pregame warm-ups, Eastston texted JT and I and said that Joey Sly hit a 68 yard field goal with plenty of leg left. Will added that the Denver Broncos fans were cheering on Joey Sly in pregame because of how impressive his pregame performance was. And he was good in the game, too. So, if So, if you’re sitting there with 47 seconds left, the Titans had timeouts uh as well. How can you be aggressive to maybe go put yourself in a spot to kick a 60 plus yard field goal? Now, that is what Brian C. Look, I’m not saying I agree with it, Zach. This is a what I learned from what Will Bowling said, who was on the sidelines yesterday. So that is the that is the mindset which I disagree with. Now the other thing that I saw on Twitter, somebody posted a sc a play of the uh the second down play which was the dirted screen uh from Cam Ward to the right side. And do you want to react to that first part? Yeah, I I would saying you have 133 yards the entire game and you’re thinking that you’re going to go from the seven to the 50. I just the like with the lead that I Well, at that point they didn’t it was it’s ridiculous. You’re the worst offense in the league. You didn’t score a single touchdown yesterday. You didn’t really move the ball. You had drops beyond belief. Your offensive line was a swinging door and you think you’re going to go from your own seven to the 50 in 47 seconds. That’s called delusion, brother. It’s I So what I’m This is the first time I heard that. That’s great. That’s dandy. Uh that’s dumb in my opinion. Okay. Look, I I also think it’s dumb. Like I But it doesn’t it doesn’t change I again coaching decisions at the end of the first half. Dumb, right? I agree. So again, I’m just sharing information. I also think it’s I think that’s comical. How many times do I That’s delusional. If you think you can go from your own seven to the word Brian Callahan instead of you cuz you’re looks like you’re talking to me about that cuz I’m on your side with this. That’s fine. Brian Okay, there you go. General. Okay. Yes, Brian Callahan. Now, let’s go to one of the plays that went wrong. It was a screen play uh that was called the right side that Cam Ward had to throw it in the grass because all three uh pass catchers started blocking. Now, I saw this tweet because Brett Coleman, who’s a NFL film guy, tweeted out the play. He just said, “Kam Ward had to dirt this because all three guys blocked.” Haha. Was making fun of the Titans here. But let’s just look at this screenshot. There are two defenders outside the number. There are three Titans offensive players outside the number. There is nobody behind that second corner. if who I believe Chigonquo is the the player on the six-yd line who is my thought the intended target. If Chig does his correct assignment, I think that is a big play down the sideline. I think it’s a massive play. Now, does that help you get into field goal range? I don’t know. But I think it helps you get to the 20 yard line at minimum because you’ve got one guy line up to block the guy right past the zero and you have the middle offensive player. I can’t tell who exactly who that is. Uh is out there for the corner and you’ve got space and green grass and the safety at the in between the hashes is very far away and the uh other safety is down the box is out of position. That play has big play opportunity. So, as dumb as the philosophy was, sometimes coaches get screwed up by players doing dumb things, but at the same time, you can’t put your players in position to do dumb things as the head coach, right? So, there’s Joey Sly or that is not an excuse to be up by three versus down by one. But I I there was a there was a super chat from Amnesia I want to get to because I agree with Amnesia and I and I think that play that screenshot goes into Amnesia’s super chat. He says, “Y’all acting like we ain’t having a different conversation if the wide receivers could catch the ball. This game was dropped just like the ball was by the wide receivers.” If if Chig, who I am assuming, I don’t know for a fact, but if Chig or whoever was supposed to be the pass catcher on that screen does the right thing, catches the football, runs at the sideline for 15, 20 yards. We’re not thinking the same thing about Brian Callahan. Do you want me to say it now? And buts beers. I know, but like you you can’t you you this is the prototypical armchair Monday guy. It’s not though. It’s not It’s not wrong though because that’s what this game was. It was It was my Why? That’s why I say it was a bad team that played bad football. I’m in the middle of a sentence. The reason why I say the biggest reason why the Titans lost is because of the sins, these self-inflicted negatives is because drops, mis assignments, and the coach calling and having bad philosophy I think are all in play right here. drop passes in the fourth quarter, bad misassignment from whoever was supposed to catch that screen, ruined it, and then the coach shouldn’t have put his players in that situation. So, that’s why I think it’s more than just the coach. I think there’s there was a lot of bad football played and non-execution uh by the players out there, right? But the coach is the leader. the his response. I’m not disagreeing, but you have the other two are bad players and let’s call them what they are because you are paid a lot of money to catch the football to not do penalties to play with technique and within yourself and not get out of bounds in that sense. So dropped passes and the missed assignments, you’re also probably going to have that more likely in week one, right? So you’re probably going to get some of that one to two plays. You could I think for both sides. I think you could say that for every team in the NFL in week one. Probably you’re going to have a missed assignment at least once. But the head coach can’t do that. That’s why I put him singular at number one because he hurt their chances and that’s not what a head coach is paid to do. All right. So, um Rodney needs to ask how are they out there and they don’t know what they’re doing. Look, and this is this is what happens when you have a lot of young players playing young players. Yeah. Did Cam Ward miscommunicate? I don’t know. He was backed up in his own end zone in Denver. Maybe maybe he didn’t say something loud enough. Maybe one of those three guys obviously did not understand what their role was on that specific play. Now, was the play was the decision to call that play bad? Yes. Was that a bad play call? Like, no. It was bad execution and a bad decision to even call that play. But the point is is it doesn’t even get there. You you you’re in the locker room Gatorade. I agree with you. I agree with you. Brian Callahan’s at fault here, but the How many times did Mike Greyel talk about, “No, bad execution. Players got to execute.” And you’re like, “Yeah, players gota execute.” We all said, “Yeah, the bad bad football players not executing.” But Frabel was out there saying that with his chest, that’s what Rabbel does. He was defending. Frael’s in the locker room in that situation. And you and I both know that. Sure. We watched enough Mike Greyel games. His ass is in the locker room. thrown the ball three times. Mike Vrabel, how many times did Mike Vrabel stand behind a microphone and blame lack of player execution? A lot. A lot. The entire year of 2020 on Zoom. He was Yeah, the defensive scheme is not the problem. It’s He also took I I thought Mike Varel took a lot of accountability at times, too. So, for sure. And Brian Callahan has as well. Yeah, but that’s a singular circumstance that I feel did not uh the accountability was not there to my liking. That’s my opinion. So, I want to go to the next coaching fiasco because there’s not just one. Sean Payton’s over here throwing fireworks with red flags all game and Callahan. I don’t know who’s up in the box or what what the the signal was, but let’s talk about Alec Ioman’s elbow. And let’s talk about the rules or maybe lack thereof knowledge of the rules. This was Brian Callahan’s statement on why that was not challenged. A big play down the sidelines. Let’s hear from the coach. There a challenge on the matter play where they move out of bounds on the sideline and it looked like his elbow hit inbounds first on Yeah, you got to get a foot in bounds too. Uh which we didn’t have a clean look at whether his foot was down as well. An elbow doesn’t equal two feet. So, uh his foot would have had to come down as well. We didn’t have a clean look. So, the call from upstairs was that wasn’t worth challenging. Doesn’t help his case. No. doesn’t help what we’re saying. And I like I’ve said this, I like Brian Callahan as the person. I’ve met him a number of times. I think he’s smart. I think he’s savvy. I think he’s a good offensive mind. But Austin, what these do, this is really early in the season. It’s the earliest in the season. What this starts to do is have fans and sometimes front office members question if Brian Brian Callahan can do this job. He’s calling the plays. He’s interacting with the quarterback. He’s looking at the plays on the Microsoft surface during the game, but he’s also needs to manage the game as the head coach. Yeah. And things are getting lost along the way because we’ll state this for the show. What Brian Callahan said is incorrect. It’s factually wrong based on NFL rule. One elbow does equal two feet. If Alec Imanor’s elbow is in bounds, if it is the first thing that lands in bounds, he is inbounds. if he has control of the football. A lot can be questioned, but the one thing that cannot be questioned is the opportunity for the review to happen. And Brian Callahan, the head coach of the Tennessee Titans, did not afford his team that opportunity. And that ultimately hurt his team. So yeah, uh he was inaccurate in his statement. He was wrong because one elbow, one knee equals two feet. A hip equals two feet. Uh, anything besides your feet and your hands equal two feet. So, there’s that. Now, Darren says his elbow did look to be on the line, though. So, we’re not talking about that because I I I do not think they would have won the challenge. I do not think. We’ll never know. But, we’ll never know. But, I don’t think they would have won it. Uh, but the fact is that it doesn’t matter because Brian Callahan’s explanation of not throwing the flag was wrong. And that’s what this is what I don’t understand because Brian Callahan knows the rules. Brian Callahan is a smart football guy. Brian Callahan, does he know the rules? Yes, Zach. Who is his father? He’s grown up in football. Every day of his life, he’s been in football. But he just told us he didn’t. No, I I I get it. I get what you’re saying here, but like I know here’s what I think happened. I think whoever’s in the booth told him the wrong information in the middle of the heat of the game and he spewed that because I like I have to feel like my brain tells me that Brian Callahan, son of an former NFL head coach and an NFL coach lifer, knows the rules. He knows the rules, Zach. He’s He’s lived football his entire life. He didn’t know that rule. I think he knows the rule. I think he didn’t know that. Again, I I don’t I don’t It It befules me. But he he he literally We have evidence that he was wrong. I’m not disagreeing with that. He was wrong. I just It’s crazy to me. I don’t understand how he did not say the correct thing in that moment. This is the hard situation Brian Callahan was put in. He was a head coach of a bad team. He had to take over for Mike Frabel. They didn’t have Derrick Henry. It was a restructure, right? They were the worst team in the league last year. You’re probably the worst team in the league heading into this year, even though you have the number one pick and a brand new quarterback who we will talk about at the end of this show because Cam Ward is a separate entity in yesterday’s game than what Brian Callahan represents. The margin for error in the National Football League in which Brian and Bill Callahan know is razor Raone thin. Yep. You can’t not know a rule. Agreed. You can’t not afford your ability to challenge. You can’t go into halftime with the lead. Uh uh uh without the lead. You cannot do that. That is how you lose. You know what else you you can’t fumble the football. If you’re Derk Henry, you will lose. You saw that. Like you can’t do it. It is Razor Raone Finn and Brian Callahan. Unfortunately, and Titans fans and the chat understand this, they are witnessing with their own two eyes the mistakes that are costing their football team wins. Yeah, that will ultimately, that’s why I said on Friday, ultimately no one is safe. No one’s safe because you can’t make those decisions. He made a plethora of mistakes on Sunday and the Titans lost because of them. He doesn’t he doesn’t he not he’s not the goat. He’s not Mike Tomlin. He doesn’t get the pass of oh you’ve got all these wins. He doesn’t get Shawn P. Shawn Peyton can go for it on fourth and eight and Bo Knicks can throw it to the Pluto and they still win the game. I I I think Brian Kelly cannot I I Bo Nicks has problems. That guy’s that guy was bad bad yesterday, too. And kudos to the Titans. I mean, we’ve talked a lot of negative because they’ve lost the game. The and Jeffrey Simmons can’t make the I mean, Cody Barton, I know I I talked to Cody Barton. I know Cody Parton was sitting there saying and it takes a man to tell this to Jeff Simmons because you do you see the way Jeff Simmons hit Bo Nicks on that sack. There was no way any human could hold on to the ball. Jeff Simmons is is kind of like Derrick Henry. He is a megatron. He is not a human. He is just pure beef. Cody Barton sitting here bitching him out which he should have. That that could have cost opportunity. We all know how the game ended. But these razor thin, you can’t do that. Especially the captain. Calvin Ridley, the captain. Can’t drop those balls. That’s how you lose. We saw that last Thursday in the opener. CD Lamb is the captain. He’s the leader. He’s one of the best players on the team. You can’t drop those. And CD Lamb gets paid a lot more than Calvin Ridley. Calvin Ridley gets paid a lot more than Brian Callahan. Yeah. Uh, Charles says, “Speaking of Cody Barton, is that love affair coming into its senses now?” I mean, I think Cody Barton played well. Where what did Cody Barton do wrong yesterday, Charles? I mean, was he perfect? No, because nobody is. But Cody Barton was also the guy who made the stop on the play before Jeff shoved Cody Barton in the back to make the penalty happen. Yeah, Cody Barton made the stop. You could have said like that was one of the biggest plays of the game. That was Yeah, the like Cody Barton gave the Titans a chance to win the game. Charles Jeff Fimmons ruined it. Well, all right. Here’s here I I I want to get to a couple things before we get to Cam Ward. What do we think about snap count on uh Sneeed on Legious Sneeed? I I think it makes sense why they had it. I think I think I think nobody in the history of sports is ever going to manage a snap count, a pitch count, a load management minute situation in basketball. It’s never been handled correctly because you have to because it’s a good player usually when it’s happening, an important player. So, you’re going to want to play them early when it’s 000 or as close as as you’re guaranteed to be. But then you don’t know what’s going to happen late. So, you’re going to exhaust your your your limit earlier than you want every time, right? How many times did Zion Williams fat ass sit on the sideline with the Pelicans as the Pelicans are in like a really tight game in the fourth quarter because he hit his minutes because he helped them get to that close point, but they exhausted the limit. Legious Steve was good in his plays. Yes, I I thought so too. I thought the Titans run defense was great. Besides the RJ Harvey 50-yard run, right? If Spears and Nuts, you can’t take that away. But I thought they held tight. They held tough. That that was always going to be the Titans identity heading into this year, right? Because their pass rushers were young. I mean, Ardan Key isn’t, but that that was going to be a question. But their run defense I thought helped them continuously be in the game and then forcing Boone Knicks to make bad throws as a sophomore quarterback. They did that and it’s hard to hold Courtland Suth Sutton to anything, right? So I overall I was I think there was a lot of there are a lot of positives. the negatives override the positives because the negatives were from the most responsible people on your team, right? I mean, again, Cam’s a separate entity in this conversation, but Calvin Ridley, Jeffrey Simmons, and Brian Callahan helped you lose that game, and that’s a tough pill to swallow. You could argue Cam didn’t help you win, but I also think he put you in position. And look, I don’t give a lot of grace in anything ever. That’s just not my personality. I think you need to do your job. I think you need to, you know, get up early and stay stay late. I think that’s how you become successful. Cam Ward, I give him a little bit of grace on the road against a really good defense in his rookie debut. So those I don’t lump him into the reasons why. And then the offensive line, I mean, we talked about JC Laam goes out with a hip, which I also think is concerning, right? Yeah. Skansky with penalties. Dan Moore had a penalty. I mean, these are things that Zyler had a false start, right? Zler had a false start. I mean, these are the little things. And that also goes to a little bit of the coaching. We always, we’ve said this time and time again. Penalties are also on the coach too because that’s technique, that’s reminder, that’s expectation. Jarvis Bley Jr. flagged four times and and then after the game saying he’s going to be him. He’s not going to let that change how he plays. Um and he didn’t even ask the refs for any explanations. Jarvis Brownley Jr.’s got to grow up when it comes to how you manage your play. you are a um a cornerback who is a physical player. You’re a very talented player, Jarvis Brownley. You have a chance to be very good in this league, but you’ve got to be able to know how to play the game and work the refs and work with the refs and not just be stubborn because that’s not the way to do it. Uh Tony Pard fumble, absolutely all these things help. Uh Charles is continuing to to just bash Cody Barton saying he’s inconsistent. He’s a journeyman linebacker. Of course, he’s inconsistent. That’s the nature of being a journeyman linebacker. What do you expect him to be a pro bowler? I mean, come on. And I I actually I keep bringing this up, but I kind of compare Tony Pard’s fumble to Derrick Henry’s fumble last night is like it’s kind of out of the ordinary. It’s not I don’t fumbled a lot late last year, too. Well, I the hit on Tony Pard I thought was more on the defense. That’s how you’re taught how to create fumbles. And so doesn’t excuse it. You have to hold on to the ball. So there’s no excuse. But I don’t I don’t know. I don’t expect Tony Pard to have a fumbling issue. I’ll ask this Austin because we’re on running backs. What about Taj Spears? You think that that him not being available, do you think that hurt the Titans? Because Tony Per was stuffed at on first and 10 a lot in the second half. They they felt like well they all they were running the ball first down, right? Does Taj Spears give a switch up that really helps the Titans? Uh because we’ve seen Taj Spears and what he can do. Yeah, I mean he’s Taj is one of the best players in space when the ball’s in his hands that they have on the roster. He’s just consistently unavailable. So yeah, I mean you need Taj Spears to stay healthy. He’s a good playmaker. Yeah, I thought he would have opened up checkdowns or halfback passes out of the different something different than an off tackle or offguard run up the m middle for one yard no gain or a loss of one on first down because you saw that in the second half that was the play call. He didn’t do that at the end of the half. He wanted to throw the ball long to get uh you know Mr. sly an opportunity, but you know I that also I think um could have impacted. All right, let’s go ahead. We play the one-word game on the postgame show. Let’s play it again here, but just keep it isolated to Cam Ward. What is one word to describe Cam Ward’s debut? What is one word to describe Cam Ward’s debut as the Titans quarterback? We’ll get you all of your opinions and your one words on this one. Uh I’m I’m I’m hoping we get to avoid typical and expected. uh which are my two least favorite one-word answers from the audience every time we ask the question. But one word to describe Cam Ward’s debut real quick. 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All right, one word to describe Cam Ward’s rookie debut. Zack, uh there’s like 150 comments, so I’ll let you pick uh your favorite ones. Well, the first first comment which is unfortunate. Big Hank one word. It’s not two words. So, you know, let down is two words. It doesn’t count. It’s disqualified. And I like you, Big Hank, but that’s not how the rules work. So, it’s one word, not two words, five words, 10 words. Friday, we did a sentence. We don’t usually do that. Is one word. So, we digress. Uh I do see a lot of the same word. We’ll see. Uh, at least the same feeling. Zachary says, “Fustrating, inspiring from Busting Diamond, horrible from Omar, nicey from Eric, poised from Brandon, helpless from Josh, promising from Jameson.” Uh, so kind of polar opposites. It’s like, uh, did everybody watch the same game? Because based on these words, maybe not. encouraging, incomplete from Darius, uh, flabbergasted. Okay, Big Hank comes back and totally redeems himself. Flabbergasted is a great word and it is only one word. So, Big Hank, shout out to Big Hank. Uh, handcuffed from Tall Texan, relaxing from bearded uh, Kunu. Uh, coaching from Curtis, promising from Stephen, competent from Mark, potential from Ian, hopeful from Brian, rookie from Bobby, mid. I’ve seen a lot of mids. Uh, mixed from Bourke, hopeful, potential. You know why they’re using the word mid? Uh, why is that? because Cam Ward Cam Ward described the uh offense in the first week of training camp as mid. So, it’s a good call back on Cam using the Gen Z’s quarterback’s own terminology uh to describe him is great. Yeah. A couple more. Jerry’s encouraged Michael promising uh promising. I think we get a lot of me from Drayden, calm from Chris. I like that word because I I felt like you that is his demeanor in general. But when bullets are flying in your first NFL game on the road, I I thought he did hold his nerves at least of what we saw. But promising is the most used word uh from the chat. Austin, what is one word to describe Cam Ward’s NFL debut? These were a lot more positive than I was expecting. Um, I’m not I’m not I have not changed my opinion on Cam Ward’s ability or future or potential one bit based off this game. So, just Marcus Marota went and threw four touchdown passes in his first game. Yeah. As did all of us, right? And we saw what happened there. Um, so my one word is chaotic because that’s what I felt like it is. And you know, people saying calm, you know, cool. Like I I I know that’s Cam Ward’s emmo is how chill he is. And he displayed that on his first ever real third down. Third and 11 on your first series, your first game, and you’re sitting there against the Broncos defense coming after you. And he scrambles, moves up in the pocket, and just knows exactly where to go. He no look throws over to Tony Pard. races it off for uh the Tony Potter became the Titans leading receiver on the day that play one catch. He shouldn’t have but he did. But one catch for 29 yards. I did it. But so I I like Cam real quick on that play because I I was going to bring that play up. You know what I also loved about Cam Ward early in this game after that play and I I I’d like to ask him this. He wrote he ran up. I I don’t I don’t know if this was uh premeditated of, hey, we want to go with tempo, but I felt like he got his group to snap the ball fast because he didn’t know if it was a backwards pass, if it was over the line of scrimmage. He wanted to make sure and that also if if that was I liked that. I think they were going to go tempo after the first first down regardless because if you go back and watch again all of his preseason uh series whenever they went up tempo is when he had his most success and that’s you know but he was also close to the line of script. Yeah I mean I would say that because if it’s not the reality I think that was a predetermined going up tempo because they continued that throughout the early part of the game when they had some success. Uh, so look, but my but chaotic is is the word because the Broncos and Vance Joseph that is, you know, I quoted Dabau Sweeneying yesterday, the postgame show, uh, saying you could you could kind of use his his grading system on Clemson LSU. You know, you took the the AP exam on the first week of school. Uh, and you know, we got a 58, they got a 65 when he was talking about that. Like that’s kind of how it went. Like the Broncos weren’t very good, but they won. Uh, and the Broncos are maybe the toughest defensive test from a schematic standpoint and a talent standpoint that Cam Ward’s going to see all season long. And JC Leam got hurt. Uh, his receivers could not catch the ball consistently or create separation. I thought Riley Moss and Pat Certan too got away with so much contact uh that the Jar Jarsus Brownley was not I mean there were backtoback DPIs that went uncalled uh in that third quarter that were just pretty easy uh like Patan just just demolishing his shoulder into Calverly’s back on that low throw and the one that Alec I made on the sideline as well were pretty big DPI opportunities but it was just pure chaos for Cam bad coach coaching, bad offensive line play in front of him, minus Lloyd Kushenberry. He didn’t make great plays all the time. Uh he I thought needs I still think he needs to find more touch over the middle. I think he threw a hospital ball to Calvin Ridley. Uh I think he’s routinely throwing uh passes that Well, at that point in the game, like uh you’re calling the ambulance anyway. You’re trying to win the game. So No. Yeah, I know. But like that I I don’t I don’t but it’s but that’s that’s a consistent thing with him is he’s throwing passes that are accurate because they go to the place but they are really tough or uncatchable. So look I I like Cam Ward a ton. I think he is the guy. I think he will pull this off and and be the Titans future for however many years. So uh it was just a very chaotic debut. Uh it was a really tough scheduling uh draw to have the Broncos week one which we knew and I I thought at the end it became more difficult because they didn’t have the lead they were pinning their ears back and you obviously saw sacks and he took some sacks that were tough. Yeah. So, another number, uh, after JC Laam went out with a hip injury and Oludo came in at right tackle, Cam Ward was two for eight for 13 yards, sacked three times, and had an intentional grounding. Yeah, that’s that’s called running for your life or throwing for your life. I mean, that I I thought my one word was okay. I thought he was okay. I didn’t think he was great. I didn’t think he was horrible. I you saw some really good throws. You you know Cam Ward’s arm talent. When he was backed up, he had a dime and it was off his back back leg. You talk about footwork, whatever. But you can see it there. You can see the poise, the demeanor, and that in a debut on the road, I think has a lot of value to me. But he was okay because of all the things that we talked about. offensive line didn’t help him out, but uh some of the sacks and but wasn’t making terrible decisions, right? Bo Nicks was bad. You know, you talk about like what he represented. If Cam Ward would have played like Bo Nicks, we got a whole different slew of words in the chat and between you and I. So, I’ll go with okay. And you know what? Okay. Is okay. It’s it it’s that that’s it’s it is what it is. So, can he build on week two, three, four, five, and six? And can you win some of these games because you can eliminate the drops, the penalties, the the the coaching and improve? Then maybe if if you’re playing, I don’t know, the Arizona Cardinals, you win the game because you can eliminate all of that stuff. I think if you’re playing the Bills or the Ravens, you’re going to get beat anyway. What about the Rams? Are you kidding? We got that coming up. the the Rams Texans I didn’t watch any of that game yesterday as I was locked in CJ Strad was under duress and they and the Texans didn’t play well great well the Texans offensive line is on paper is worse than the Titans yeah and on paper you saw that uh Texans struggled on third down uh verse the Rams so the Titans uh Jordan says uh this kid’s changing protections when he has seconds to throw. Wide receivers dropped the damn thing. This isn’t about Ward, it’s about Katrash and his crappy decision make. Yeah, I mean, yes, Cam Ward, I think Cam Ward pre- snap is very good. I think sometimes he gets a little bit late in that clock and I don’t know if I Here’s the thing about Cam that I I simultaneously like and think that he needs to work on. Um, actually, I’ll I’ll tell you guys that here in a second, but Zach, first tell everybody about the Bone and Joint Institute. Yeah, Bone and Joint Institute is where you need to go. Don’t fumble on your recovery. They’re based here in Middle Tennessee. They’ve got satellite locations across Middle Tennessee in Franklin and uh Nolanville. I mean, they they’ve got you covered. That’s the best part about the Bone and Joint Institute. Don’t fumble on that recovery because if you have something that has bothered you in the past, go get it checked out. You can visit bone and jointn.org. They are comprehensive. That is one word. talk about one word that that the Bone and Joint Institute does because comprehensive from top to bottom. They’ve got a state-of-the-art rehab facility on the campus to help your recovery. They they’re just unbelievable. They’ve been a great partner of a Toz Sports and will continue to be. You can schedule your appointment by going to bone and jointn.org. BTA Sports, that’s what our show is powered by this football season. You can download the app on the link in our YouTube and Facebook description. Uh, get a $99 free pass with a 14-day free trial on the front of it when you use the code at oz to become a better sports better and fantasy football player this season. Download the BTA uh sports app with that code ATOZ. 14-day free trial, $99 season pass uh right there. All right. So, Jordan’s comment made me uh kind of think about this particular point that I had. says this kid’s Cam Ward out there changing production when he has seconds to throw the wide receivers dropped the damn thing. It’s not about Ward, it’s about Callahan. We get that. So, the thing that I simultaneously like about Cam Ward that he also has to to work on is he is so calm and collected and chill and under control that when the play clock is getting down five, four, three, Cam’s cool. He’s he’s just doing his thing. But I don’t think the other 10 guys are Well, that’s I think he’s got like So, while it’s not Cam’s problem, I think his teammates would be better off if Cam had a little bit more urgency early on, not speed up, not not rush, but just quicker quicker and more efficient. So, and I know you’re trying to make the defense show some stuff. So, you’re you’re naturally going to be late in the play clock more often than not because you want to have the best play called, but I think he is so calm, but not everybody’s that way. I think he is an outlier with how chill he is. Everybody’s talking about his his uh his heart rates at like nothing when he’s out there in like the the middle of the fourth quarter, but I think it’s just like I love it because it’s going to allow him to avoid the disastrous freakout mistake and not panic, but I think his teammates need a little bit more time from him. Well, if that doesn’t change, we’ll see how calm he is later in the year because they have to figure that out. And that does take time and it takes different situations on the road and at home. So, um, but you you you wish you would have scored and thrown three touchdowns and all that. That’s not how the game was probably going to go. The Broncos defense is good and you saw that and defense is great. It’s a tough It’s a tough task to start. It’s just disappointing where a team that should have probably not been in it was in it and played to the best of their abilities, but just a handful of mistakes by people that are paid not to make those mistakes lost them the game. Uh I want to get to the super chats. Yeah, we’ll just say on Monday. So, uh I will not be on the show a week from today, but uh because I’m traveling, but every Monday we’ll have these reaction shows. Make sure you lock in for pregame, halftime, and postgame. We’ve got those reaction shows during the games like we always had. And then on this Monday show, we decided we’re not going to do an end of show topic. We’d rather just talk more football and talk about the game um on these Mondays with with the chat and so forth. So, uh, we’re off to a good start overall of just football is back. Yeah. You just hope the Titans can can give some wins early in the season and they can, uh, learn from this. They they really have to learn from this disastrous like mental these are mental errors. So, let’s just say this because somebody asked us, do y’all still pick the Titans and win six games? Because on Friday, both of us pick six and 11, right? Yeah, because I guarantee we both had the Broncos game as one of the 11. Yes. Right. So, they were supposed to lose this game by more. I picked 2717. Now, you didn’t have the Colts looking like the Colts did. Yeah, the Jags game was weird. The Jags kind of looked the same. So, that is what it is. But the Texans start from behind, which is always good. Titans are probably not vying for the division unless something changes. I’m not worried about the division right now. Can you win? Can you beat I mean, if you beat Indianapolis at home, like that’s a that’s a big win. That’s a division win. Can you win three divisional games? You know, I think that’s kind of a goal there. More two. I think they can win three divisional games. I don’t I don’t think that, but Okay, that’s fine. Uh, all right. So, let’s go ahead and get to the super chats here. Shout out to Wilson County Hyundai. Make them a part of your new car buying process. They do great things in Lebanon to help you save money on the new car. Pain bone. uh and his family, his team run the show out there. So, check them out online at wilson countyhy.com. Uh first super chat to get to here. King Beast says, “Lock in like the show.” Thank you guys who do like the show. That goes a long way for us. It’s the easiest thing you could possibly do uh for us as a whole. Ann says, “Not knowing the rules is a fireball fence in reference to Brian Callahan’s um overall uh not knowing the elbow equals two feet rule.” I you know, I mean, fireable fence is tough. week one, you know, to start the season. But Ann is not wrong because this is an offensiveminded head coach, right? This is that that’s he’s the guru that’s been around Joe Burrow and Pton Manning and uh and Matthew Stafer like he blatantly got it wrong. Whether he didn’t know, he at least stated that he didn’t. So an is she’s she’s got something there. It should be a prerequisite to get the job. Well, and this would actually be a good this would be a good question to go around the league and ask in a press conference. How do you go about knowing the NFL rule book? Period. Leave it open. Yeah, that’s a that’s a question for the month of May probably or June. Right. Correct. But now we need to write this in our ledger and an answer I would like to know from Andy Reid because he’s been in the league for God knows how long and from Brian Callahan who’s been a coach for you know a cup of coffee. Yeah. But he’s been a in the league for a long time like and and and I would head co it’s different. I know but here’s also what I here’s also what I know too because Mike Vrabel knows all the rules right but Mike Vrabel in the middle of a game has John Striker in his headset telling him those type of things. That is John Striker’s job on game day is to say this is where you go for two. This is where you should punt or go for it. Yes, elbow is in. That equals two feet. Throw the red flag. That’s what that person’s job is. I don’t know who that is for for Brian Callahan right now. Life lesson. No, for sure. You You are who the people you surround yourself with. No doubt. No doubt. There’s life lesson. And that goes from if you’re in third grade or if you’re 53. It doesn’t matter. You are who you surround yourself with. It What car you’re in in high school at a party is who you surround yourself with. Who you’re asking, what should I do? I I’m on the field. I don’t have a good replay. What do you think? Do you think Stretch? Love or hate VBel? Stretch is there for Mike Vrabel. He’s willing to die for Mike Vrabel. And that those are the guys that you need in your headset to say, “Here’s the rule. I know the rule. this is what I would do. Then the coach makes the decision. Yeah. And so AJ says, uh, head coach should know the rule. Yes. I’m not saying that, but like in the middle of that situation, there’s a lot of stuff happening, right? Like we are on our couches with our TV, with a remote, with all of our replay angles. We get in no uh adrenaline. We’re just chilling, right? It’s easy for us. Like I think that’s the thing that’s mis that’s the biggest misconception of being on the sideline in a football game. You can’t see things. Austin, that’s why that’s why you’re paid to be the head coach. I Zach, I’m not making excuses, Zach. I I agree with that. I’m just giving the the extra stuff that we all don’t relate to because I who I’ve talked to about being coaches in the past. I’m not saying I’m making excuses. He should know the rule. But you’ve also had Mike Vrabel has that has John Striker in place for a reason. because he should because John Striker saved Rael’s ass probably more often than he wants to admit. He Well, not to rehash because I want to get some more super chats. I would be also very curious on how Chad Brinker and Mike Borggonzi feel that Brian Callahan coached week one. I would that that’s that’s a question I would really like to get answered because I think that would be telling because you know what would really piss those two off in the in the box or wherever they were watching the game in the stadium because if Chad Brinker and Mike Boronzi who do have replay watching in you know because they’re in the box if they did know one elbow equals two feet. Yeah. Uh Ben, I’m not making excuses. Uh I’m just saying extra context of what being a coach is that we all don’t understand that like there’s and and process, right? There are so many processes that the head coach and the leader of the football team has to put in place to make his job easier. Somebody earlier said Chris, I think it was said that Callahan, yeah, Chris Calli is struggling being a head coach and play caller. I agree. I think that’s a problem right now. But I also become too big of a problem because then change will happen, right? And and I think there’s layers to it, right? I think the first thing is he gives up play calling. But as he said at the end of the season last year, you know, you want to call plays, right? That’s what you want to do. But at some point that’s hurting yourself and the team and hold on. And Zach and he said if it gets to a point to where me calling plays is affecting my ability to be a head coach, then I will give up play call. So again, those are just the facts. Those are what has been stated uh publicly from Brian Callahan. So, all right, more super chats. TLG Callahan may understand the game of football, but I think he’s one of those people that loses some of his mental under pressure. Has the anti-lutch gene. Maybe, I don’t know. Those decisions will get bigger and bigger and bigger this season because he started out the year and the fans are now watching like Hawks. Yep. And the front office and the ownership group and people around the ownership group, they see what is said. They know the temperature of the fan base. They’re not oblivious. So, if this continues to happen, the fans, they will start sharpening their pitchforks because it will happen. Uh, Juan’s got a couple back toback. uh when a casual fan knows what to do in situations and knows the rules the coach does not that coach needs to be questioned heavily. That happens in every co and I said this in the postgame show at halftime yesterday and I tweeted it. I’ve said it as many different places as I can. Football coaches, highly paid football coaches constantly do dumb stuff that make no sense. So if you are going to stress out over that, you’re going to continue to stress out over that for the rest of your football viewing life. But year one and one game, coach Brian Callahan doesn’t get any benefit. I I know, Zach. What What did Billy Napier do with Florida? Just egregious. What did Deion Sanders do the week before? Egregious timeout management. Egregious. Shawn Peyton messed it up yesterday, but the Titans weren’t good enough to to to get him on it. Like, and he been doing it for decades. Well, and two very different situations. Dion ain’t going anywhere, and Billy Naper’s dead man walking. No, for sure. because Billy Apier’s got years and years of bad on his resume that DJ Lavway saved last November and so he should be gone soon if he’s Florida. Look at that schedule for a different topic. But again, like I’ we’ve named coaches Billy Napier who’s a fired man walking, Brian Callahan who’s coached now 18 games in his life, Deion Sanders, who’s not going anywhere, and Sean Peyton, who’s won a Super Bowl and coached for two decades. So all those guys have done dumb stuff, dumb stuff in game management in the last eight days. I want to ask you a question. Yes or no? And then we can move on to super chats. Do you think after yesterday that Brian Callahan’s head coaching seat got any degree hotter or did it stay the same? I I said uh yesterday that this is putting Brian Callahan’s bosses who have been open about continuity and him sticking around all off season for eight months. It makes them be in a terrible spot. So what’s your answer? Uh I think it is. So you’re asking is he on the hot seat? I I said, “Is Brian Callahan’s seat any degree hotter today or is it the same?” I mean, it slightly because it was not hot yesterday at this point. So, yes or no? That’s what I’m looking for. Yes, but it was not hot like Yeah, because I’m just making sure. It started as not hot. It was already It is hot in your opinion. I I thought it was already warm, but it was not. Well, factually it was not Zach. Like your opinion and in the facts are difference here. Different uh because your project your opinion is projection. It’s also projected not like time of we know different information Austin. So there is that. But you say yes it is whether it’s one degree or 100 degrees. It is a degree hotter. Yeah. Because of yesterday. All right. Yeah. Uh super chats. Uh Simmons needs to show up and play smart. Absolutely. There’s no doubt about that. Jeffrey Simmons has to stop doing that stuff. It’s crazy to me. And you eliminate that. Jeffrey Simmons has played a dynamic game, man. What would have happened if the Titans got the ball back a lot earlier if Jeff Simmons did not do that? Cody Barton stopped stood. I don’t know. Probably nothing, but that’s but still it’ been better uh more entertaining. Andre says more look like the next bad tackle move. Again, this is Dan Moore and this is what if you’ve been watching us, if you’ve been watching us all off seasonason, Zach, if you’ve been watching a Toz since Dan Moore signed, then you would know that Dan Moore is bad against the best. You said he was going to be fine, though. Friday, you sat there and told me about Dan Moore, Zack, for the whole season. I said he’d be fine for the whole Yeah, he’s he hasn’t been so far. Zack, it was the one game against the best defense you’re going to play. Again, you cut me off. If you’ve been watching us talk about Dan Moore the entire off seasonason, when he plays against the Supreme Elite edge rushers, he’s not good. He gets beat yesterday. He wasn’t good and got beat. So, if I’m going to ask this question, if I went down the schedule and looked at all the pass rushers out of the 17 games they’re going to play and they play 10 elite pass rushers, he’s okay to be bad for 10 games. I don’t think they have 10 elite pass rushers on the right side of the defense over the left tackle. That the whole point is they’ll put him on Dan Moore’s side. Now, if JC Lantham’s out, then they’re going to put him on the other side. But that that was a big concern uh heading into the season. Dan Moore and I I you want us to never talk about Dan Moore. I’m worried that every Monday we’re going to have this threeinut Dan Moore what what did he do thing and that is not going to be good with the amount of money that man’s being paid. So there’s that. Yeah. Uh I have not changed my stance. Thank you to um where’d it go to Darren in the chat who understands I did not change my stance on Dan Moore. Uh it was a Nick Bonito is the elite guy. Dan Moore was going to be fine. And I for the season I If you asked me specifically about week one against the Broncos, I said probably going to be gross. But he’s not off to a great start. I think that’s the point. Yeah. So, we’ll see if Jared Verse is on Dan Moore next week or if JC Leam’s gonna stay hurt, but Nick Bonito is a freaking animal out there. All right, last super chat and then we’ll end the show. You guys are acting like they got blown out, chilled. This wasn’t even supposed to be a close game at all. Week one with a young team takes time. Yes, but also no. Right. That’s kind of my take. Yes, they were supposed to get blown out, but they were given so many opportunities to win this game and could not do anything with it and unnecessarily screwed it up. Raise your thin. You got to win the games that you can win. And they could have won yesterday’s game and we weren’t expecting that. Yeah. Look, we we talked to I mean, just in all honesty, we talked to Burke Nyhill, the president of the Tennessee Titans a couple weeks ago, and we talked about the start of the season, like what that represents in the NFL is how you start and how you can win close games. The Titans are going to have another close game at the start of the season. Maybe the Rams, maybe it be the Colts, who knows? But those are the games that separate you from the three- win team to the seven- win team that we are talking about. Well, now you’re building something in year one after of Cam Ward, right? So, that I think is the disappointing part for fans is when you have it in your grasp. The spread does not matter in the fourth quarter. If you’re close, it comes down. I I’m setting betting aside. I’m saying in the fourth quarter, the spread doesn’t matter when the Titans are within striking range of a tie or a win when they were a nine and a half point dog, right? Like that all doesn’t matter anymore. And that is why I think fans are disappointed and how they lost, you know? Yeah. I mean, ask Bla Tiffen, the spread always matters. Uh Courtney says Cali needs to give up play calling just like Veabled as DC when he was here. It’s a topic to watch. We’re not there yet. It’s a topic to watch. It was It was week one. It was against the most complicated, aggressive, talented defense that they have on the schedule. Right. The Rams have a good defense. Not as good as the Broncos. No. I I mean, right. You It sets the tone. It’s It’s a batting donut. No kidding. it like I think they would have been way more prepared if this game was October 5th instead of September 7th. Yeah. Uh I mean and they had a chance to win or tie like and so like there’s good and there’s bad. It was ugly. There’s a lot of ugly. There’s a lot of bad. There was some good in there. The defense because the Broncos offense was gross, man. Bo Nick sucked. Yeah. Titans defense four takeaways, man. that there are some good how about special teams positives four field goals pretty good punting pretty good coverage got a big return from Jim got a fumble John Bones Fossil right all right guys that’s it for us on this Monday uh Titans are 0 and1 but they got a press conference coming up Brian Callahan will talk again in the media in about three hours at 12:30 we’ll have more content from that on a tozports.comtitans so make sure you check that out and make sure you hit that like button before you head out here today on Facebook and on YouTube. Goes a long way for us. We appreciate all that. Buck Rising is back from Denver. He will be live from on prime time tonight at 7 PM. So, make sure you catch Buck’s opinion and reaction to being in the building. Uh and then I’ll talk to you guys tomorrow morning. Appreciate as always. without you.
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26 comments
Where was Ridley? All the hype gone in one game
Cam and his parents, will always blame any problems on somebody else. At WSU, he took sacks and fumbled and the family blamed the offensive lineman.
Cam is going to be a media disaster, blaming type of player.
Ridley should be thanking Callahan right now for overshadowing his blunder
Brian is a moron. His decision making is devoid of logic
6:00
Austin. Take your L. And shave that gay 80s facial hair. Goober
6:51
You're so embarrassing Austin!!!!!!
7:15 woahhh aas kicker Austin!
7:32 YOU'RE WRONG AND YOU GIVE AWFUL OPINIONS. FREE EASTON
16:27 was he?
8:55 Hey!! They were bad too!!
9:07 I'm willing to bet you were that kid in school
13:21 That fake smile was dope
19:40 Jeff played great nerd. Blame the Callahans. It was play calling and O line play
22:20 THANK YOU. IT STARTS AT THE TOP AUSTIN
23:55 he did the same exact thing last year before halftime with Levis
For the first pick in the 2026 NFL Draft the Tennessee Titans select……
We’ve seen 18 games of him screwing over the team. I’m done no more to see fire him after the year. Hes not rookie head coach anymore
I said y'all should have drafted Carter, because I knew Callahan is a joke and he'll be fired in 5 weeks meaning Ward will start next season on his third OC and he'll be the next Mariota.
I WANT GRUDEN!!!
That game against Vrabel gonna be ugly and we'll have a new coach mid season…
Callahan doesn't know when to be aggressive and when not to be. Perfect example was that drive before halftime. I don't think they even threw a screen pass the entire game. The reason we lost was because of Callahan.
Zach kinda rude ngl lol
Offense was so bad, it put the defense in a no win situation.
I don't blame Ward. He had very little help.
And why did they have so many sins……discipline….why would a team be undisciplined….bad coaching is why
A headcoach cant make players better than they are. The recievers are trash. They killed how many drives?
The lose was because of bad coaching, and the penalties. So both the coach and players need fixing. Callahan doesn’t understand stand the rules elbow equals two feet feet .
The Titans and Broncos offenses both struggled ,because both the Titans and Broncos defenses are jacked.
Patient
Titans defense got worn down by our pathetic offense last year. This year is off to a similar start. I think we need to move off of Callahan before he negatively impacts Ward the same way he did Levis.
Callahan doesn’t hold himself to a high enough standard to ask anything of anyone else. Admitting you don’t know the rules in a press conference doesn’t help. He can’t be the coach of this team
Thank you Zach…..Head Coach was a mortal sinner
Who is this public defender . That is defending incompetence. He doesn't know the rules apparently! His own words!!!
I don’t fw Zach
Expected Broncos would win the way it happened though gross like it was total coaching failure.
Glad to see my guy Zach back!!
Zach, I’m sorry but you’re an a-hole 😅. I love your takes 🎯, but lay off the attacks on Austin. The guy is in the cockpit ✈️ all year steering the ship 🚢, while you parachute 🪂 after the Super Bowl taking a break and then don’t know shyt about “Mid” because you don’t even watch the show on your vacay the entire off season only to hop on the plane the Friday before the next season begins. You’re better than that Zach! Don’t be that guy…a-hole.