{"id":533262,"date":"2025-11-17T21:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/533262\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:59:14","slug":"hot-topics-from-titans-interim-hc-mike-mccoys-monday-presser-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/533262\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Topics From Titans Interim HC Mike McCoy&#8217;s Monday Presser\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE \u2013 Titans interim coach Mike McCoy held a press conference on Monday, one day after the team&#8217;s 16-13 loss to the Houston Texans.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans return to action this Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks at Nissan Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at some of the hot topics from today&#8217;s presser:<\/p>\n<p>-McCoy led off his presser expressing sympathy for receiver Calvin Ridley, who broke his fibula in Sunday&#8217;s game. &#8220;It&#8217;s the tough part of the business,&#8221; McCoy said. &#8220;Knowing what the game means to him, this is a tough one. He&#8217;d worked so hard to get back. I truly want to thank him for everything. \u2026 He was crushed obviously. He works his tail off \u2026 and it&#8217;s such an honor for him to be a captain. It sucks that Calvin got injured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-McCoy gave no other injury updates on Monday. After the game on Sunday, he indicated receiver Elic Ayomanor left with a hamstring injury and Chimere Dike suffered a chest contusion.<\/p>\n<p>-McCoy said the Titans will monitor the health of the team&#8217;s receivers while deciding who will play on Sunday. &#8220;It will be by committee,&#8221; McCoy said. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to work through it, it&#8217;s Monday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-McCoy was asked about receiver Xavier Restrepo, who is on the team&#8217;s practice squad, and whether he&#8217;s an option. McCoy noted Restrepo has been involved in the kicking game more recently, which is important, but he did not commit to him being called up in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>-McCoy said he thought quarterback Cam Ward had a solid performance on Sunday, when he completed 24-of-37 passes for 194 yards and a touchdown while also running three times for 33 yards. Ward also lost the football when he was sacked. &#8220;There&#8217;s a couple of plays where he would tell you, if you asked him, there&#8217;s a couple of plays you&#8217;d like to have back,&#8221; McCoy said of Ward. &#8220;But I think he played well. \u2026 Overall, I think he played well, happy with the way he played.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-The Titans managed just 58 rushing yards on the day, including Ward&#8217;s 33. Tony Pollard had 10 carries for 22 yards, while Tyjae Spears gained just three yards on four carries. &#8220;We can&#8217;t run the ball like that,&#8221; McCoy said. &#8220;That was not good yesterday. \u2026 Obviously you&#8217;d like to run it more, but we didn&#8217;t have the success you want to. We have to run the ball and execute better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-The Titans committed nine penalties for 62 yards in Sunday&#8217;s game, including five false starts. Right tackle JC Latham was guilty if three false starts himself. &#8220;You can&#8217;t have five false starts in a game,&#8221; McCoy said. &#8220;We definitely have to clean it up. It&#8217;s unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-The Texans converted a third and 16 with a 17-yard pass from quarterback Davis Mills to Nico Collins on their game-winning drive. McCoy said &#8220;we have to drop with more depth&#8221; on the play to force the Texans to throw the ball underneath. Only that didn&#8217;t happen, and the Texans continued the drive that resulted in a field goal as time expired. &#8220;(Mills) made a phenomenal throw,&#8221; McCoy said. &#8220;But we can&#8217;t allow him to make that throw.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE \u2013 Titans interim coach Mike McCoy held a press conference on Monday, one day after the team&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[83517,7,786,8900,82357,6,1018,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-533262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-2025-11-16-postgame-stories-texans-at-titans","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","11":"tag-hot-topics","12":"tag-houston-texans-at-tennessee-titans-2025-reg-11","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-team-football-news","15":"tag-tennessee","16":"tag-tennessee-titans","17":"tag-tennesseetitans","18":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115567287829638966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}