Titans-Jaguars Postgame: Nothing works for an abysmal Tennessee team

Titans-Jaguars Postgame: Nothing works for an abysmal Tennessee team

What’s up sports here live the Titans game day live postgame show. What an abysmal performance I am uh you can ask Eastston about uh the things that I got off my chest before I hit the go live button. Don’t ask me just tell the people. I can’t I can’t do that. But this team is in a miserable spot. This franchise is wishing they could simulate the rest of the season like a video game and they look like they want to as well. This is going to be a miserable miserable postgame show because I am furious at everybody employed on the football side of the operations by the Tennessee Titans including the owner Amy Adam. Uh but we’re going to have a uh conversation about this 25-3 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars where the Jags go 25 unanswered points. could have scored more, but they didn’t care either. And the Jags now first place in the AFC South. Eston, how about that? East Freeze is with me. I’m Austin Stanley here live on the A to Z Sports uh game day postgame show. 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Be part of the solution to in littering. Nobody trash Tennessee.com. I have nothing nice to say. Nothing at all. Nothing. I hate watching this football team play and this team is so miserable. All I want to do and I gave up on this season a mini I don’t remember what week it was where East and I said I no longer care about the defense. I just want to watch them play offense. That was at some point in mid October. I don’t remember six weeks or so ago. Shamefully early on. Yes. I and they won’t even let us watch Cam Ward play football like the the the special teams today like the best thing this team has chronically killing opportunities for Cam Ward to do anything. Jim DK fumbles whoever the hell random like why are you trying to block punts? Nobody freaking cares. Like I because if the special teams doesn’t do things for this team, then nothing works. Nobody cares. That’s the devil’s advocate argument. Stop trying to block punts. Stop trying to fight the punter. Stop trying to run into people. Stop trying to Oh, no. Hang on. The punter needs to stop trying to fight people. Their punter is a mega Sorry. Can I say that? He is one. Yeah, sure. You did it. Whatever. But he’s an idiot, too. I look But like the How many times have we seen the defense just stop and then ruin it? Like it was 18-3. The Titans defense gets a stop and then okay, you punt it. You’re robpping the punter, whatever. And now it’s 25 to three because the Jags just march down your throats and just demoralize you in front of the teens of people watching. The Titans of the past couple of years have this unique ability. It was not every game, but it’s like I don’t know anecdotally half of them, more than half of them where you come away from the game having watched it and you go, “Man, another day of the defense not being disappointing and the offense being disappointing.” And then box score watchers will be like, “What are you talking about? They allowed 20 Jaguars scored 25 points today. The defense wasn’t exactly great out there either.” And it’s like, “No, no, no. Clearly, you didn’t watch the game because I know that 25 points were scored. That’s because the Titans offense was so inept that they hung the defense out to dry for 60 minutes. So, the fact that they only allowed 25 points if you watched the game was kind of impressive. Like, the defense actually did some things. The defense was holding up their end of the bargain for a lot of the game, not all of it. And the Jaguars offense is good. and the Titans are working with some questionable pieces on defense where, you know, there’s some things that are exposed, but that defensive performance was enough to stay stay in the game. Maybe not to win the game, but to be in the game. But the Titans were never in the game because of the offense and the defense because of their penalties. Penalties is a different thing. And the refs decided to make this game as miserable of a viewing experience as possible by having 20 combined accepted penalties in the first three quarters. I seem to be the punching bag in the comments. Jameson says, “Eston always has nice things to say. He’s the Titans cheerleader, so can’t wait for that.” I guess I I guess I’m not beating the allegations because I did I did start with some It’s I’m only pumping up the defense as a way to further crush the off. You’re trying to balance out my energy. I am the most negative I’ve probably been on this postgame show and you’re just trying to like keep the thing floating. And it’s also just a it’s it’s a glimpse into the way that the two of us as sports fans, sports watchers handle things very differently because I get this a lot from frustrated people in the comments. FU East, every week you smiling and smirking. This not the only person that you smile through the postgame show. I mean I I embody smiling through the pain. like it is it is clearly my coping mechanism for this Titans team. And as I said in the pregame show or the halftime show, whenever I said it earlier today, um I act unbothered because at this point I am unbothered because I just I am choosing to not have any expectations for this team. I am somebody that gets bothered by the Titans when they let me down. But they can’t let me down if I wasn’t holding them to any kind of standard to begin with. And that’s where we are. That’s where we are. I have I have no expectations for you people. I’m at the point where I personally feel disrespected by the effort that I sit through and watch and and take up, you know what, and that’s fair. That’s fair, man. Hours of my Sundays. I have to sit here and and watch this BS and watch them do dumb stuff. I don’t think And I’m going to say this. Well, you know what? Hey, that’s the difference, by the way. If I was just a fan and I was doing it just just for the love of the game, I would probably feel the same way. But guess what? You pay me to sit here and watch it. So, it hurts a little bit less. People are putting up their Christmas lights outside right now. Right. Right. Because I had somebody tell me that they went to Publix for the second half. They didn’t need a grocery trip. They just decided they were going to run for grocery. Anyways, I’m going to go join the the senior citizens and walk around the grocery store for There’s bingo going on down at the community center. Check that out. It’s pathetic. Like, I don’t think I’ve seen a collection of professional athletes that do more dumb stuff to self-inflict their team than this 2025 Titan squad. They do like constantly and it’s just a like Julius Chestnut’s trying to fight a long snapper or the what’s the purpose of this like just coming unraveled man unglued. The Tennessee Titans if Mike McCoy had any stones which we know he doesn’t because he’s Mike Macauard punting how many times on fourth and reachable down three touchdowns in the second half of that game. If Mike McCoy had any stones, he’d go full Fran Brown, Syracuse head coach, and make these jokers run win sprints in front of the dozens of fans that were there after the game across the field. No, that would be something. They they should that’s what they deserve. They all suck. Like they’re all miserable. They all blew today. Jeffrey Simmons had a couple of nice plays. Other than that, did dumb stuff. And and so MB says, “Why is Austin so mad if he’s not a Titans fan? He’s a lot more angry than I.” I just told you it’s because I had to sit here and waste six hours of my day. He feels disrespected. I I am personally disrespected by the time wasted that I have to do for this for the entire season. Yeah, it is uh this is supposed to be an entertainment product and I am so bored. I have Everybody should be Everybody should B-irds on Twitch Twitch thinks uh that they agree with me. They fans. Titans fans should feel completely disrespected by the effort put out there by this team and Amy Adam Strong started this whole thing. It’s her fault. It’s her fault. She created the the ridiculous situation that this roster is in, this coaching staff is in by nobody caring, everybody mailing it in, checking out, not giving a whoop on what penalty affects teams one way or the other. But because she fired the coach damn near September, I just got the notification that the Mike McCoy press conference has started. Uh do you think he will be as chipper and chummy this week as he was last? No, cuz that guy I don’t want to get I mean he had a real pep in his step last week for whatever reason. Now they did lose the game by uh a full touchdown, but uh he’s in a good mood last week. I’m curious to see what his mood is like this week. He and he’s the worst man. Like like and like all like I am so dramatically angry right now because it’s just I’ve just been sitting here in my office just like fuming at like why can’t they just do something entertaining like Cam Ward can’t set his feet to throw pass to save his life today. So let’s just jump into some uh you know some therapy sessions, some opinions and do what we do in all these postgame shows. Let’s uh get the one word machine revved up a little bit. What’s one word to describe this loss? 25-3 to the now first place Jags. What is one word to describe this loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars 25-3 with the final score. Uh but first want to tell everybody here about our great friends at T DOT. They are the Tennessee Department of Transportation. They’re doing what they can to in littering across our state. Nobody trashes Tennessee.com is the website. Millions and millions of dollars are spent every year trying to clean clean up our highways, our roadways, uh, and still like 80 something million pieces of litter up and down the interstates in our state. It’s pretty embarrassing because Tennessee is a gorgeous state. It is a beautiful state and we can all chip in and help out uh by joining the campaign to end littering across the state. If you have a son or daughter out there who’s in, you know, school, grade school age that needs some of that uh community service, some of that extracurricular activity, some good things to put on the resume, this is a great one. Uh T dot has it right there. Nobody trashes Tennessee.com is where to go. That’s nobody trashes Tennessee.com to end learning across the state. Uh so what do you see in here? Because by the way, I had somebody ask me the other day. They’re like, “Whenever you guys do tea dot reads, why do you always recommend parents send their kids to pick up track like like they’re criminals on the side of the street?” I’m like, “No, no, no, no. That’s not you. You need this when you’re in high school. It’s volunteer activity. It’s Yeah, colleges want you to have this on yours your uh Yeah. transcript.” So, it is a it’s a win-win there if you want to. I mean, I could be like, “Hey, I could say the demographic of people that watch NFL, you we are we are we we the demographic that we are in are the worst liters of everybody.” So that’s why we’re trying to tell everybody stop. Don’t stop. You may also be a parent of a kid that could use a little you know maybe could use a little uh community service as you know something constructive to do with their lives. But also you have a good time good kids can go pick up trash too is what we’re saying. That’s right. That’s right. All right. What are the one words you see here? Are you I am seeing impotent regression, poor, lost, cowardly, pitiful, hung over. Oh, they are they are they are suffering from the success of their touchdown loss to the Seahawks last week. They are hung over from that uh winning energy despite the loss. Numb dog something I can’t say. Thank you for uh self-censoring there. Terrorism. Ew. Abysmal. Vomit. Flabbergasted. Misery. Garbage. Repeat. Unwatchable. Indeed. Brutal. Stop me whenever you feel necessary. Barf. Feces. Undisiplined. Embarrassing. Demoralizing. Complacent. Whatever. Scummy. Trees. Tre. Treasonous. I don’t know why. What? has water taxied. Maybe that means he took the water taxi home a little earlier than he thought he might be. They offer it. Shout out National Water Taxi for offering the uh the second half the postal time ride back. Is that right? The early return. That’s Yes, they do. A shame. Oh, here’s a here’s a good one. Unprofessional. Oh, so what’s your one word, Austin? Because I have one I’ve had one since the fourth quarter. Oh, go for it then. because I have I mean I’ve already kind of used I’ve already mentioned my one word once on the show. I tweeted it out in the fourth quarter. My one word is bored. I am bored. I again this is supposed to be entertaining one way or another somehow someway. It’s supposed to be fun or frustrating or compelling. There’s this it’s supposed to evoke emotion in me the way that anything when I when I go to my television set and I turn it on to do literally anything to watch a movie or a TV show or play a video game. I am I’m doing so to feel something. And the only thing that I feel when I’m watching the Titans right now is you’re getting paid for this. You’re getting paid for this. You’re getting paid for this. You’re getting paid to sit here and do this. So numb, I guess, is another word for it. As somebody mentioned in the comments, that’s how I feel is I I have no expectations. I’m not let down because you can’t be let down if there’s nothing that I’m no standard I’m holding them to that I like, do I wish it was better? Yes. Do I see can I sit there sit here and see like here’s an area of optimism? I we all week we talk about it. I write about it. Here are the things that you’re hanging your hat on going forward. It’s not all lost forever in eternity. As much as it may feel that way in the moment, you may be compelled to just say that lazily there is a future for this team and it starts and ends with Cam Ward right now. Um and and one one bad Cam Ward game which you got today does not undo his entire rookie season. It doesn’t undo the good things that he did the previous two weeks. It’s as I said at the halftime show, progress is linear. We’ll talk more about him in a little bit, but I it was a bad day. That doesn’t define him as a player. It’s just whenever here’s really where we’re at is whenever Cam Ward doesn’t have a good day. It’s boring. Yeah, Cam has to be Cam Cam has to be an elevator or else the Titans are boring today. And he stunk today, guys. He did. And we will grade him uh in a few minutes. I do think it’s fair to say the entire offense stunk again. Yes. pending tape review, but I I refuse to believe that he saw the field that poorly. In other words, I refuse to believe that when he continued to pat the ball and pat the ball and move in the pocket and look around and scribble, I refuse to believe that every single time he was just missing the open guy. You know what I mean? I think that the Titans skill players got handled today. And that’s not on cam word. No, that’s uh No, no. I I think like they feel that and that’s just that’s the weird thing about like it’s almost they came out and they were effective right first drive man moving and then they should have gone for it on fourth and got a touchdown but you know this team’s got no guts no guts guts and I I’m annual quota on guts references in No we have not because we have five more games to go Um, I think math is Yeah. Yeah. More than a month worth. I My one word could be disrespectful because of what I kind of opened with, but I’ve already gone I’ve already gone through that spiel. And so I lifeless is this team. This team is lifeless. They have no They have no like fight like from like a mentality standpoint. And I think that starts with I think currently that’s a Mike McCoy thing. They just have an all shucks situation going on over there. It’s a great way of putting it. They are a very ash. Dang. Darn. Get him. Hey, y’all have fun today. Get him next time. Yeah. Again, what have I I’ll see if I can quiz you on this real quick off top of your head here. This is not fair for you to be in, but what two other jobs have I compared Mike McCoy to? See if you can just off the top of your head remember jobs in sports like jobs in life just yeah like summer camp director Bing there’s one there’s another one uh uh I don’t I don’t know gym teacher oh I was about to say something to do with the school. Yeah, like elementary school like gym teacher. And look, I I loved my I loved my elementary school. To say that’s a slight of gym teacher. No, I but I my gym teacher I coach we had he I great relationship there. Not a shot at him, but like the stereotypical like bad movie gym teacher is Mike McCoy. Not like the real life one, but he’s just an all shucks like okay here’s your orange slices type of guy. like he’s he’s just a a waste of time. Like it’s all that he is and it’s not personal, but he’s got no nothing about him is is going to inspire anybody. Like he’s cowardly, he’s soft, he just doesn’t handle things correctly. I saw somebody um said that he tried to take accountability in the postgame presser for lack of game awareness on the delay of game penalty that happened at the end of the the first half. Somebody in the comments said that he’s that he tried to do that was like painful to watch. Points for not denying the obvious, Mike. It’s just like thanks for realizing what we all realized in the moment. That’s great. And I cannot Hey guys, sorry I was talking to Bones and and missed that part of my job. Hey, my bad. Hey, it’s on me. Hand up. All right, Mike. I I cannot take any more of Mike Macauard football. It’s what worked last week. They did zero of every little bit of success. Success. the Tit progress, whatever you want to call it, the Titans have had since firing Brian Callahan feels to me, and this this is gonna maybe this is just Eastn Coping, I don’t know. But to me, it feels like it has all been despite the coaching staff. And anything that actually matters, any little step forward they’ve made, it feels to me like it’s primarily the players just getting better because they’re young and they have room a lot of room to get better with experience. Like there’s there’s nothing this season that has been more vindicating to me than I I sat there. They fired Callahan on a Monday. We spoke to uh Mike McCoy on that Tuesday and then on that Wednesday. Mhm. And on that Wednesday after the second time of having spoken to him in two days, second time ever having spoken to him as a media group. I sat there in the media room and I I I kind of was just like, “Oh no, I hate this guy. Like I’ve only talked to him twice. He stinks. This guy stinks. I’m already out. And I realized at that moment like I can’t say this very loudly because it sounds like the guy Yeah. who liked the guy that just got fired, right, is mad that the guy got fired. And I was mad that the guy got fired. I still think objectively it was dumb to fire him when he did. I don’t think that’s a an incred still think that’s right. But either way, it has been really nice that it didn’t take long for everybody to get on on that wagon of like, you know what, this guy does stink. It’s like, yeah, y’all say it. Y’all say it real loud and I’ll just nod in agreement because if I speak on this, I’m going to get myself in trouble. Uh, and it did not take but, you know, a week for everybody, even the the biggest haters of me, the biggest haters of Brian Callahan, whatever it is, to be like, ah, mistake. Titans made a big fat mistake with Mike McCoy. Speaking of Speaking of biggest haters, Scott Van Horn says, “I’m Austin’s biggest hater, yet I’m agreeing with everything today. It must be cold in hell.” I mean, I know I have my heat on today. I don’t know what you got going on, but Scott and I and I What does Ben mad like this though? Like, what is the big change up in the way that you’ve approached this post game? I’m just way more outwardly pissed. Like you should like the the text group that is between us two, JT and Ryan. There are like 12 texts from me before there’s a text from somebody else of just me venting in this double and triple and quadruple and quintuple texting us and you guys are just like I mean I’ve get there’s like some exclamation points. There’s a haha in their reaction, but it’s just me just like unloading on you guys. So, I’m going to go through what drove me the most crazy uh in this game and uh it’s going to continue to pile on Mike Macauard and then we will discuss Cam Ward’s grade two. But Eastston, first tell us all about Ber Carts before I tell you what drove me crazy and we ask you guys what drove you the craziest here in this game today. Bot Carts. Check them out. Life is short, so you need to buy a golf cart. You need to do it with our friends Berocarts. 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McCoy is bad, but Callahan was coaching more scared than he is.” I disagree with that. Uh because that is what drove me the craziest today uh is that the Titans get the ball to start the third quarter. They are down 18 to3 because of this dumb shenanigans at the end of the second quarter that gave the Jags three more points. So if they they they have to get points to start the third quarter. They have to get points if they want any chance of making this game watchable later. They have to get points to start to start the third quarter. They start the quarter off by getting a penalty on the kickoff return, which is great. They work themselves from third and 13 to fourth and one. You’re on your own 28 yard line, right? I don’t care. It’s fourth and one. You’re down by 15 points. You’re one and 10. The Jags are seven and four. Go for it. It’s fourth and one. Go for it. We just, God forbid you lose by 35 and not 28. God forbid. Over this, right? We just went over this last week. Last week, your cheeky ass Mike Macauard laughed. He said, “I thought about you guys when I went for it on fourth down. It worked.” Cam Ward is two and 0. Two and 0 on quarterback sneaks this year. And he is bad objectively at sneaking the quarterback at quarterback sneaks, but it works. So that’s not only what drove me the craziest because then you give up the 15 play 71 yard drive touchdown drive the Jags and make it 25 to three because you rough the punter when you got to stop and then here you are again in a fourth and seven situation down 22 points in the third quarter with three minutes left. Fourth and seven at the 45 yardd line and you punt. There is not enough time left in the game. There are literally not enough possessions for you to come back if you don’t go for it there. So that drove me the craziest. He basically ended the game. He said, “We’re just going to let the clock run out. This is a run the clock out situation.” And that drove me the craziest. Mike Macauard is awful. I said this weeks ago, fire the interim. I don’t care if it’s never happened before in the NFL. Make it happen. Fire the inter. He’s hurting this team. I There’s no doubt. Um, so there’s five games left to play and it’s just my my pause there is at what point have you got to lie in the bed that you made? Because they made this bed. You’re no you have five more games left for Cam Ward to to to show to do something to get reps and and Mike McCauard is continuously taking the ball out of your quarterback’s hands. He has nothing to gain. So you fire McCoy and you do what? Give it to Bones. No. Yes. You can’t give it to Bones. Yes, you can. You cannot. If you want to keep him, you cannot. Yes, you can because he’s a second interum. It’s no big deal. It is a big deal for him and for the next guy. It makes it weird next year if you Okay, give it to Nard Wilson. I’m in on that. I’m also in on giving it to somebody that you think is an upstart on the on the you know Luke Stalker. Somebody Jake just said Luke Stalker. It’s fine with me. Somebody who’s got some juice, some energy, some like fight, some something. You need to give it No. Yeah. you. It’s difficult because I think you need to give it to somebody that has a little bit of fight, has a little bit of juice, but you don’t expect to be back next year. And you just we’ve just named two of the people that I think are going to be back next year. Get Rex Ryan pull out. No, no, you at this point, you don’t bring Hey, you can’t bring you can’t bring somebody in from the outside at this point. No, I know. I know that. But in all seriousness, Mike, give it to Ty Tolbert. Give it to uh Frank Give it to Frank Bush. should have given to Frank Bush in the first place. It’s Mike McCoy is robbing Cam Ward. Robbing Amy Adams Shrunk and Mike Borggoni and Chad Brinker. Give it to Amy Adam Strunk. Make her come down, put the headset on, and coach the team. Actually, honestly, yeah, but she she’s not going to do that because she won’t even talk. But she Hey, you know what? Here, this is the deal. We will agree. No Amy Adam Strongunk head coach press conferences if she agrees to be the acting head coach the rest of the year. I just want to see it. I don’t even have to talk to her. I just want to see it. I want to see her out there squirm. That’s what I like. Anyways, hey, we’ll see y’all tomorrow. But yeah, no, Mike McCoy just cannot continue to he’s just driving it further into the ground. He is what he’s doing. Yeah. I just don’t know. I I don’t They’re not G. I’m with you. I know theory. They’re not gonna So, it’s like they should they should agreed. And I’m gonna keep calling for it. No, we’ve I mean, we’ve agreed on this for how long now? A month. Mhm. So, all right. So, what what uh what drove you the craziest in this game? Oh gosh. What drove me the craziest? That’s not the What drove me the craziest not named Mike McCoy should be the actual question because like Okay, you could I took Mauard so you can take Yeah. And McCoyy’s McCoy is like just flying by the seat of his pants, making it up as he goes is the other thing about him that we’ve not really touched on. But like he doesn’t seem to have any guiding principles besides just general conservatism, but also not conservatism in certain areas where he decides to be all look at me, I’m gung-ho. Like he just kind of flips a coin on the sideline and picks what he’s going to do. There doesn’t seem to be any kind of process. And God knows that there is some kind of process on any of it. He’s not going to tell us about it when we ask him about it after the game. Um, so besides that, the thing that drove me the craziest is probably the fact that I mean I think the fact that I’ve mentioned it more than once is indication that it’s driving me crazy that this skill position group just did absolutely nothing against a Jaguars defense that is no pushover by any means. It’s a good defense, but goodness gracious people, like can anybody get open? Can anybody make a play? Apparently not. I know Cam was quite bad today. Um, but I I have a strong feeling in my belly that when I watch this tape tomorrow, whenever I get around to really examining the offensive tape, I’m going to see a lot of guys not getting open, not capitalizing in certain situations, not like not doing their jobs. And I know that generally not catching the ball when the ball hits them in the hands on fourth down or that one. Yeah, we’re down atrocious on that front. Um, and I know that as a group, like they’re the worst in the league. Like, we’ve established this. It’s not like I have some grand expectations for them, but there are certain guys that I’d like to see more from. And and it like Gunnar Helm had a Gunnar Helm had a fine day today. I’m not actually mad at Gunnar, but like the receivers, either of the rookies that we’re hoping can be pieces for next year. Hello. We Anybody Anybody at home? Anybody home out there? uh Chica Conquo, you know, both of the running backs. I just there’s nobody that nobody made a play, I guess, is what I’m trying to say. Taj Taj tries every time he catches the ball. Just a lot of times he just gets immediately just suffocated whenever and like robbed and mugged as soon as he touches it. I just I don’t have I don’t have anything else to say about this team. I’m mad that skill players didn’t get open. Yeah. No, I think that’s a fair one. And then like uh Cheg dropped one on the sideline. Ell dropped the one on fourth down the slant that hit him right in the hands. It was a low throw which a low throw on a on an incutting route is really tough to catch because you’re running towards the football and that’s where your knees are like that is a hard but so but catch the damn ball like that’s you know catch it just give up after you catch it and just get the first down and so it’s just ridiculous to watch. And then, you know, I I laughed literally laughed out loud sitting here watching on TV uh when James Procha, all 165 pounds of him, tries to block for 240lb Gunner Helm on a tight end screen and gets blown up right into Gunner Helm who like slips on ice in a cartoon way going backwards for a loss of four. Like this this whole this whole franchise is a joke. They have been the laughingstock of the NFL now for two seasons. So, that drove me crazy. Agreed. Do we want to Do we want to grade Cam Ward? I want to do whatever’s next. Let’s keep going. All right, let’s grade Cam Ward here on the show grading Cam Ward. How do you grade Cam Ward’s performance? Uh, I know Jack’s in the comments somewhere. He’s got our history of grades for Cam Ward. Uh, but let me tell you guys about our friends at uh BTA Sports making smarter bets and focus on winning against the sports books. BTA is for us on our team. BTA Sports can help you out quite a bit. Uh they’ve we got two codes with BTA Sports. The link is right there in the Facebook title in the YouTube description. Uh the first code is for a 12-mon subscription. I got I got new something new for BTA. I’ll tell you tomorrow on Monday. Uh but uh 12 month subscription for 79 bucks or you can use at oz14 and you get a weekly subscription for $9.99. Both uh codes get you a 14-day free trial to make you a better sports better right there with BTA Sports. Um Eastston, what are you seeing from the chat from Cam Ward’s grade? And also if Jack has a has an has a recap for us, too. Uh he did and I saw it and then I forgot to start. He just pasted it again, I think. Oh, did he? Good. Okay. So, I’ll find that in a second as I scroll and I scroll and come on, get me to the new comments. So, from Jack, here we go. last week were the best grades we have seen from Oh, wait. That’s week one. Oh, here we go. Here’s the rest of it. Here we go. He’s breaking it up. Two parts. Uh, last week you gave Cam Ward a B. JT gave him a B+. That’s the best that we’ve seen from Cam Ward in terms of grading. It’s the best we’ve seen from him in terms of the whole season. Now, there was uh week five, which was the win. Uh you guys each gave him a B flat. Right. Right. So, those are the weeks. Um, I guess I’ll go to the comments now and see what the folks are saying for today. A Z minus is the first thing I see. That’s good. Oh, how about an F minus? F worst outing of the year. D minus. I for impotent. Tough. F. F minus. D plus. D minus. Wow, these are not great. Uh, A for ass. Z plus D minus. F and the rest of the team in coaching is an F minus. C because you have to grade Cam on a curve based on the surrounding cast. That’s the best I’ve seen so far. Well, you can, but that’s not a C. Not that. No turnovers, no help. C minus. Negative F and a lot of poop emojis. F minus. Uh F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F Wasing on Sacks instead of trying to avoid them. Okay. Well, uh you know, that’s the gist is pretty clear there. What’ you say, Austin? I’m trying to see what my lowest grade is. I gave him a D+ in week seven, which was the Patriots game. Yeah, that was bad because he had turnover yet. Uh, I have not. Uh, he was Okay, go for it. 24 of 38, 141 yards, no touchdowns, no interceptions, 63.2% completion percentage, a 70.2 rating, 3.7 yards per attempt. Almost 40 attempts and 141 yards is hard to do, folks. But he did it well. He had, by my account, 42 drop backs, three sacks, and then the one rush, one scramble. Yep, it’s an F. This is a flat out. Yes, this was this was bad. Now, yes, people are like correct. He did not have a turnover that directly resulted in points for the opponent like he’s had a couple times, but he was lost. Completely lost. He he was in like it looked like his mind was scrambling and his feet and eyes could not catch up. He was unwilling to to run again until the very very end. Completely unwilling to run. And he was doing that thing where he just dumps it down to his checkdowns way too late and sacrifices them to the safeties coming downhill to knock their heads off. And then sometimes he just flat out missed. Like there was there was a wheel route that uh Manor was open and he just wasn’t even close. He was just really off and looked like he had no idea how to maneuver the pocket. This was a flatout F. Uh revisiting the East and Freeze quarterback grading bylaws. I will point out that I cannot give him an F because he was not the reason the team lost the game. That is the rule for an F for me. He certainly wasn’t the reason they lost. U so I will give him a a flat D. It is not a D minus because I am suspicious of what he was actually looking at downfield. Perhaps tomorrow the tape will adjust this grade up or down depending on how much the coverage was making his day miserable, i.e. how much his skill position players were making his day miserable because they weren’t getting open. So, I’m going to give him a flat D, which also stinks. I have nothing to add to it. Yeah. Uh, somebody says, “Give me an update on Levis. Damn it. Go check out his Instagram.” That’s what Will Levis is up to. Got a new girlfriend. And he’s posting uh, you know, collabed, you know, pictures and content all the time. So, I’m pretty sure Will’s uh, having a pretty good time, actually. Seems like it. His life seems to be pretty good. Yeah, because he’s not having to watch this team for six hours on Sunday like anything with this team. In fact, yeah, I still think it was a really really weak decision on how they came to it. But, you know, that’s u pretty brutal there. Oh, what? Okay, I’m leaving. Have to go to the hospital. Austin is making sense. I must be sick. This guy really hates you, Austin. I this what and Eastston like what have I am I have I changed my opinion on anything today? I’m delivering it more. No, not at all. That’s what makes it funny more I don’t know the the descriptive adjective to use here. I’m delivering it more angry passionately angrier something but I this I’ve not said anything that I haven’t said before. You should tell them what they what they missed at the beginning of the show before we hit live. How much room think of four-letter words? All right, what else we got to talk about? Uh, let’s talk about Xavier Shrepo because I think that’s that it really does suck. But, uh, let me tell you guys about the Barrel Social Club. That’s where you should turn. 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And I don’t know what it is. Um he gets carded off 15 yard catch, foot gets caught in the turf it looked like as he got tackled and twisted. Uh and then you know he was in a lot of pain holding his ankle. Uh you know my first thought was Achilles but the replay said no it was a definitely a twist of something. Um now I don’t know if you noticed this Eastston but as the cart was going off I did see him like flex his you know how you can like flex your ankle. Mhm. I did see that. So, I don’t know if that means I saw from Paul Kaharski that um he was, you know, of course, off limits in the locker room because he got hurt and didn’t finish the game, but he was in the locker room putting his socks and shoes on when they were in there. So, that’s good. Yeah. I don’t know. I also saw him clearly distraught and, you know, shedding a tear on the card as they disappeared up the tunnel, which was a bummer. Man, this team can’t these poor Titans fans can’t even have like our fun side quests anymore. Like, we can’t even have the fun little mostly insignificant things. Those are being taken from us as well. And it stinks. Welcome back, Mason Kinsey. I guess for the next couple weeks or maybe the rest of the year, who knows? Not a doctor. Not going to speculate. But when you get carded off with an ankle, you know, I don’t that’s not you’re not really going to walk that one off, I don’t think. Well, not usually. So, I just got a text. Sorry, I’m smiling. Not because we’re talking about Xavier show injury. I’m smiling because I got a text from somebody that loves Mike Macau nickname and I guess they just heard it for the first time. I saw more usage of Mike McCauard on my Twitter timeline today. I think I saw usage of his actual name. I’m trying, man. I’m starting something. But yeah, hopefully this Xavier Shrepo situation is um is not as bad as it looked because I I do think look there are five games left. I and we talked about this uh in the pregame show. We’ll get to that in a second about his usage in this game because it took them almost three full quarters before getting him involved last week and there were some things that worked and so I wanted to see what would happen here and uh it didn’t really materialize at all. a lot of uh few snaps here. Uh all right, we got a couple other segments to get to here on our postgame show. Uh so we’ve graded Cam Ward. We we need to revisit our XGolf X Factors and we’ll give a shout out to XGolf, the home of indoor golf in Middle Tennessee. It is indoor golf season now. Uh so don’t think golf season just ends and you have to put your clubs up in the trunk or in the attic or anything when you bring down the Christmas lights. No, just keep them in the back of the car and go to XFolf and you can bring your own clubs and use their top-of-the-line golf simulators while having a great sports bar experience. Their winter leagues are opening now. Playaxgolf.com is a website. Four locations in Middle Tennessee. Uh Nashville, Murphy’sboro, Franklin, Herminage, playaxgolf.com. One of my X factors uh was the usage of Restrepo. And what did you think about that? I obviously EL was back so he wasn’t needed as much but yeah I don’t know I still expected more I don’t know where I’m at because you know I’m the EL manner guy um and we’re I mean we’re down tremendously I I think to some extent you know outside of I don’t want to discount what DK did as a receiver the past couple of weeks because he’s done some things but his shine as a rookie is like you know 90% % his return ability, which is fantastic. Um, but he and Ellivers, as rookies, I think we’ve kind of found their ceiling. I think we found it pretty early on in the year. Um, they just aren’t going to they aren’t difference makers yet. And I also I don’t I want to be careful because receiver is a position that is sneaky easy to get over our skis on because so many young receivers in recent draft classes have come in and be and have been immediately good and it’s kind of convinced us that like well you’re either good immediately or you stink and you just are a bust which is crazy talk because there are still a lot of receivers that JT and I talked about this last week on the on the morning show like the the top five fantasy receivers this year, which means the guys producing a bunch or catching the ball and running with the ball and whatnot are year three and year four guys. So, there’s still hope for these guys. It’s just this year, man, they are um they’re kind of concerning right now. And Alec chief amongst them like so all that is to say, this is a strepo question I’m answering. I understand why you feel like you got to get Alec and DK out there as much as possible and run them a bunch and you know go to tight end too which by the way takes you know takes a receiver off the field because you want to get Gunnar Helman there and Gunnar had a good day and you know was a pretty big part of the offense today and that’s a that’s a good thing and you want that but it means that you’re not going to get near strepo and so it’s kind of like a damned if you do damned if you don’t thing to me where if you’re getting Xavier more involved it means it’s at the expense of somebody who’s a lot more likely to be a part of your future plans in a ser like in a pretty significant way. So I just but at the same time I’d like to see more too. I’m with you if you ask me like do you want to see more of Xavier Rebo? I say yes of course. And you say okay how I don’t know if I have an answer for you to be honest. Well I think I said I can’t remember if it was postgame or if it was Monday that I I want to see Xavier Shreppo active for the rest of the games uh this season. And I agree on that front for sure. Yeah. And Brent has a good comment on Facebook. Unfortunately, the Rashpo got hurt as he has proven that he can get open and catch a football. True. Yeah, true. He has. And he’s had two of his catches get called back for penalties. Uh he had two catches today, right? Just the two. One. Just the one for 15. The first one that you’re probably thinking called back because he literally had a second catch, he got called. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But uh two catches in the two games call back for for penalties because you just you need somebody to it’s this is the most simple thing. The Titans need somebody to catch the football to get a first down so they can have more plays. That’s all they need. I just want to see more plays. Forget scoring points. Let’s just focus on getting first downs like this. strip it down to that because they they got three first downs on the opening drive of the game. They went the next like two and a half quarters and combined to get three first downs total and one of them was because of a holding penalty on the corner. Total bailout. Yeah. Yeah. which happens in those count. Like you get penalties, first downs penalty all the time, but that they can’t even get first downs because they can’t catch the ball consistently or make the throw or do they can’t make the throw, get open, and catch it all at the same time. They are a useless team who my faith in them somehow winning another game or two dwindles uh as we continue this death march to the sea. Um I still there’s still a pretty big part of me that thinks they’ll find a way because I mean when you step back you realize um they still haven’t we keep talking about how their schedule is so hard. So, they still haven’t played a team that’s not a playoff team since when? Because the Jaguars are first in the AFC South right now. The Seahawks obviously are a playoff team. The Texans are a playoff team as it stands. Uh before that, the Chargers are a playoff team. Before that, the Texans, right? Again, Patriots. Patriots are a playoff team. The last nonplayoff team they played was the Raiders. Uh yeah. Yeah. So, the week that Callahan got fired, week six. Yep. And it’s now week 13. So like this next week, you got Shadur coming to town and his head coach confirmed going to him. Oh, excuse me. The other way around, even worse, frankly, going to Shader Sanders. Shader Sanders is town and his head coaches confirmed that he’s going to start next week. And uh today they lost by a bunch to the 49ers. And uh I don’t think that’s going to be the same case next week against the Titans. I think that uh by far not even close by 700 country miles the best unit in next week’s game will be Cleveland’s defense and so that may be all that matters. I don’t know. All right, I’ve got one stat that I want to bring up that I just think is hilariously ironic. Uh real quick, shout out to Lipkin University sports analytics program. If you want to turn your passion for sports into a career, there’s a lot of different ways you can do that. If you want to be a media member, uh there’s no right or wrong. There’s no wrong way to get to this spot. Uh there’s many different ways. If you want to work for a team, work for a company. There are some wrong ways. I can point to some people online who are doing it the wrong way. No, but they still got there depend if you want to get there. There’s many different ways. You’ll build a hard ceiling for yourself. This is a whole this is a whole podcast that we’re is another day. Wherever you want to get to, Lips University can help you out. It’s an online grad program. So, if you want to get into sports and change up your career, you can do that uh while working whatever you got currently going on on your own time. If you’ve got somebody who’s an undergrad in college right now and like this might be something up their alley, uh send it to Lipkcom University. It’s a nationally recognized university here in Nashville, Tennessee, but uh they’re changing the game here with Lip University sport analytics program. My stat that is just so ironic, I can’t help it. Tony Pard, 10 carries, 60 yards, averages six per carry. What the heck did that come from? Hey, good day running the ball, TP. You know, good for him. I’ll just take it further. Uh, the team averaged 4.8 yards per carry. They averaged 3.7 yards per pass. It’s not how that’s supposed to work. And another thing that just made me angry is Cam’s just inability to want to to see the opportunity to run. Just use your legs, man. The Jaguars approached him defensively exactly the right way today. That’s something that we’ll kind of probably talk about the rest of the week. Um, but that that was the that was kind of the blueprint to bottling up the success that Cam Worth was finding the past couple of weeks. Uh, I wasn’t sure who or when it was going to come by. The Jaguars clearly capable of it and they’ve got a a better front than than folks think and uh, they did it very effectively. Josh Hines Allen had himself a day. Seven pressures, two sacks, I believe. Yeah, Titans offensive line was bad except for run blocking. They’re pretty good. Oh, all six of those runs, man. Killed it. 10 10 carries, 60 yards. Oh, excuse me. Cam had one for seven. Chim had one for one. Taj two for minus one. I just want to do something. I’m going to look at Taj Spears uh rushing yards the last three games. While you do that, I’ve got a fun fact that I almost forgot to mention. I checked this very quickly before the show, so I’m probably going to write it and I’ll verify it before I write it. Okay. But I believe the Titans now lead the NFL in halves without a touchdown this year. Now they have played 12 games, which means 24 halves. Austin, would you like to guess how many of those halves? Well, they were a touchdown in I think they’ve gone four games without a touchdown. So there’s eight four games without a touchdown, I think. So Oh, you mean four total games? I thought you meant like the last four games like No, I think Yeah, I see. I see. Uh, right. Yeah, I will say um, let’s go with 16 halves. 13 halves. 13 halves. Sorry, I kind of ruined the game for you. You did. We talked about this last time. Yeah, we didn’t. My bad. My bad. That’s all right. All right, we’ll flip it again. Still more than half of the halves. How many rushing yards do you think Taj Spears has the last three games? I don’t know. 40 six. See, that’s how you play the game. Austin, how many carries do you think that’s media training? How many carries do you think it’s taken Taj Spears to get six yards the last three games? A dozen. 15. Nine. Oh, I ruined the game. It’s okay. Six on nine carries. Nine carries or six yards. Bang. How many of those are positive? That’s what I’d want to know. The breakdown of how many of those went for positive yards. Well, his long was three. Oh, big chunk. Last So, last week he had three carries for four yards with a long of three. Today, he had two for minus one with a long of two. I mean the other one was minus three and then he had against Houston four carries for three yards along of one. Derek says only nine carries also a problem. No, not when it’s only getting six yards. Now when the other guy runs for 60 yards on 10 carries, the problem is not running him more than 10 times. Well, but you you couldn’t get first downs. That’s the whole thing. You You could have if you ran him. They should honestly they would have had twice as many yards today if they would just ran Tony Per every play. It’s unbelievable. It’s unbelievable. All right. Well, that’ll do it for us. Yep. Make sure you hit that like button. Like the show. We’ve got more of this Monday morning, five days a week this week after the holiday. Hope everybody did have a great Thanksgiving. Uh in all seriousness, couldn’t have been worse than this. Uh no, you’re right. This is the this everybody’s like, “All right, however good or bad your holiday was, welcome back to the work week after that.” Uh, just God, you know, like when you were a kid, like in school and you’re like, “Man, what a fun weekend. Oh, shoot. I got homework and it’s Sunday.” Oh, yeah. Yeah. That’s Titans every week. That’s right. Every week they get your mind right. That’s right. All right. Uh, Buck Rising Live from Prime Time coming up here shortly, I’m sure, on these same channels. Make sure you hit the like button. 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