Titans Talk | Week 1 Jets vs. Titans

0:00We welcome you to Titans talk with Ramon and Red on 105 the zone Tuesday night. Six o'clock on your flagship home for Titans radio 105 the zone. I'm rep Ryan. He's Ramon Foster. He and I both will be in booth seven this weekend as the Titans host the New York Jets in week one of the regular season Ramon. We are finally here. No more, I guess hypothetical storylines. We we have kind of tackled the spring summer training and now we're past spring training. I all love it every facet of it fall training whatever. It's official. This is week one. Red I'm excited. The juices are flowing. We get more football starting Wednesday. We get some Thursday. Look college on Friday Saturday and Sunday. Man, let's go. Hmm. That sounds like heaven man. It's our thing. It's our thing right by the way coverage Sunday right here on the zone begins at nine with a heavily company countdown to kick off. Titans countdown is at 11 with all of our crew and then Taters are as a Ramon Foster taken

1:02from there with an official 1203 kick off. It is week one. So we'll take your questions and phone calls tonight and we ask you when we ask you to engage what's the one thing that you're most excited to see on Sunday? Could be anything pertaining to the Titans in this week one match up. We'll take your phone calls and questions 6157371045. And that's what Eric's done just like he did all the time Tuesday nights on six clock during the season. Eric, good evening, sir. Tighten up. How are you? I'm doing great. I hope you guys had a fantastic Labor Day holiday. Same to you. Eric, sir, you called him or brother? Yeah, yeah. Oh, definitely one thing. I'm definitely look forward to this Sunday. It's just the first home game and just the excitement of the fans and everything. And I know you guys also going to talk about this in half time to half time. Chirp is to Chris Johnson. I'm certainly looking forward to that because I know that's going to be a real emotional thing. But the one thing Ramona wanted to ask you is, what do you think is the one major key

2:06for a Titan Zature this Sunday? It could be anything. It could be where this Cam Newton off of the blind, running the ball to be sent. I mean, just what would you say is the one major thing you think is going to help with the Titan Zature? And also do you see the Titans like maybe opening up the playbook like with some trick plays or anything like that? Yes, it's always just playing. You talk to y'all take care of them. Talk to you soon. Go Titans and tighten up. All right. Tighten up, Eric. Thank you, sir. Appreciate that. So what is it? What do you think? Let me write down the second question so I can have that ready to go to. It's this for me. Game one, not a whole lot of tight. Preseason for both squas is probably as vanilla as you can ask it to be. And if coaches are, I feel like more close to the vest and almost any other in preseason. They'll do all they want to in practice, even in open practices with fans, but they will not do it inside of a stadium. With that being said, man, it's taking care of the ball. You don't want to go too far outside of yourself. You don't want to get too risky in week one.

3:06You want to just somewhat dive into it with the understanding that this matters now. But I think the one thing that that this Titans team has to do is get turned over and not turn the ball over, especially when you got a team that I feel like we're going to go through some of the ends and outs of this as well, Rhett. But I feel like two teams that are more similar than they are like and listen to some of their content that comes out of the New York, New Jersey land that they are in. They feel the same way about us, the Titans as we feel about them. They don't feel like Aaron Glinn's in a bad situation. They feel like he's got more experience on the job as a head coach right now in his first 10 year than what Robbosala does. And those are the things I feel like when you have two attacking defenses and the jets will be an attacking defense. You got to take care of the ball. Do not get outside of yourself offensively or defensively, especially defensively giving up a big play. So Eric, for me, it's been in the plus side of turnovers. Ball security. Ball security.

4:07And then the other part is he asked a question as far as the playbook goes. What they, what they dive into it. I think Coach Davis mentality is going to be fine to shot when it's appropriate. I don't think this is going to be a college style offense to where it's just zipping and zapping in a lot of motions and endarounds and reverses and double passes and stuff like that. That first week, so many unknowns, as I said before, is a fill out version of it too. A fill out phase of the game where you try to, okay, what are they doing? What are they presenting? And then you somewhat adjust your script and game plan for what you feel like you're a group of front is capable of doing. They can move the line of scrimmage. Get some run. They're going to stick to it. I personally have said it soon as they will got here and just looking at the makeup of the teams and what this team looked like offensively. This will be a move the line of scrimmage type of group up front. They want to run and establish the ground game. At that point, they're at your disposal. If read and here's the biggest part, if you're capable of loosening that jets defense up, you answered a couple of things that I was going to ask you about.

5:10New occasion challenges in week one, first quarter adjustments, physicality factor, how much uncertainty because you haven't shown anything, but vanilla things. But I'd liken it to Olympic style Greco-Roman wrestlers like Nuckelock and they size each other up and that tug of war kind of power to see who's got them. And I feel like, because you got your first 15 scripted and then you kind of just see what works off of that, what didn't work off of that. You know, people talk about half time adjustments. I feel like in week one, it's first quarter adjustment. Right. If I can be honest with the adjustments happen all game blown. Yes, they did. The margin of talent on either team, either the best team to Super Bowl win or the 32nd team in the league, it's small still. And the end game adjustments happen from series to series. You go to the salt line and with those Microsoft tablets, what did you see? Show it before in my day, right? It was the printed off paper. The old facts paper. Yeah. So get the papers. Where is the playbook at? But now they think they have the Microsoft tablets. What did you see in this look? Do you like this play?

6:11We need to do more of this coach coach this worked or let's say have a guy miss the block or got miss the path. We need to go back to that. Hordeback walks now. Fellas how you fill it up front? What did you like? What we don't like? Can you beat him? Are you good one on one? There'll be situations where the guys getting beat off the edge. Coach, you might want to have a tight end chip or have the running back looking see before he goes out into the flat. Those adjustments are constant. It's not just a halftime thing, but red especially in week one game one opener at home. It's a fill out, but you have a set of plays in what you want to determine the pace of it. Your execution and how you go about it depends upon the players penalties, those sudden changes type of moments of what you're allowed to do with the rest of the playbook of trust me. So you can't just go out and play in the ground. Coach, Coach, I'm sure he will and can't but gladly, gleefully do those. And I think you bring up a very valid point as just the introduction of technology over the last handful of years, being able to have people upstairs that can do cut ups pretty

7:16much live and have that ready for you in real times. I mean, when I think about it, I can tell me, roles of facts paper I've seen used. It seems arcade now when you think about it. But yeah, that's super important. And you're right. Adjustments happen throughout the four quarters of a ball game. Let's go back to the phone 615-737-1045. Amber is in wind. Chester wants to talk about Tennessee Titans. Hello, you're on Titans talk with Ramon and Red. What's up? Hi guys. I have a question for you. I'm so excited to be on the show. So knowing that Kim Lord has had five coaches in the last four years, do you guys think she's going to have a sophomore slump? That's a valid question, Amber. Thank you for calling. Appreciate it. So far, more slump is a lot of times as do the guys getting outside of themselves, getting off script or you never know those slumps maybe and let's go Jaden Daniel situation right at injuries was a part of it. Whether that was him taking better care of himself outside of the pocket or whatever the

8:18case may have been, you look at it statistically. I mean, Caleb Williams didn't have a great statistical number as far as his completion percentage, but he had a up year. They won a whole lot of games. They learned he had game winning drives as well. Just looking at the season that cam had last year, I feel like that was a slump. You know, I feel like it's, it's only up from here and I won't use the old phrase. It can't get any worse because it always can. But I feel like this group up front, the skill players that have been brought in offensively and just having a coach that understands the flow. I'm not saying coach Calla Handin understand the flow of the games, but that was his first time been a head coach last play called. It was been both of those guys numerous times having a plan and telling your players, this is what we're doing. Other part that plays into cam or anybody else having to solve more slump is getting your players to believe in you as a coach. We knew in certain times this player is not dumb. They understand this coach knows what he's doing, this coach doesn't know what he's doing. I got to start improvising if cam trusts coach, Dave in the plan and his guys around him. I don't know if there is a slump.

9:20I think there's gradual improvement over time is what you'll say. I'm slow on the slump side. I am too. And I'll say this, players know when a coach is fully, you know what? And they're not being, they're not leveling with them. That's where the reverse buy-in happens. That's where it's like, man, he's, you know, blowing sunshine up my skirt here. Like what's going on? I will say this. For me, I think the earmark of no slump is just a minute details, making something happen on first and second down so that you're not in third and a mile because of a pre-snap penalty because there was a misdessignment. Whatever it was, all those things so many times last year, among third and seven, third and nine, third and 14, third and 23, third and manageable is the key to this stuff. And if you can get that early, that's the Tony Pollard's and the Taj A Spears and

10:22you know, hitting Wondail Robinson on a shorter thing or the gunner helm of it and Tarnel Tate and, you know, just kind of prying the lid off that box. Yeah. The other side or two to get, you know, the finish off Amber's question about Cam and a sophomore slump, Amber and Titan's nature. I legit know, no, if you can have almost a worse introduction to the NFL than what he did last year, one, three games. Let's start like that slumpish. You average about 16.7 points per game. That's bad. You look at the idea that your coach got fired. That's bad. You look at the fact that he also had 55 sacks on it and say, that's bad. The amount of fumbles just lost. If Cam's wired the way that we think he is, all of that that I just named right there, you don't fight against it. You understand it and you grow from it. That's the part where I'm adding and saying, I expect the sophomore to step in the right direction, even if it's incremental. Will and I were talking this morning on Ramona Will and I had a bowl prediction at the Titans

11:22to get up between 30 and 40 sacks. League average is 40. Okay. There was 55 on that young man left. 55 last year. The most in the league was the Raiders at 64. You are balancing this offense by saying, hey, look, we want to be in the 30 to 40 sacks range. Take care of the ball. No fumbles in the huddle or whatever case may be in the pocket, I may. That's a step in the right direction. I'm going to tell you another thing. Just numbers pointing to no slump to answer Amber's question. First nine starts for Cam. 57.6 percent completion percentage. Act 4.2 times per game passes touchdowns to interceptions. Five passing touchdowns. Six picks pass rating 72.1. His last eight starts 62.4 percent completion percentage. Sacked two times per game just to tick over that 10 touchdowns to one interception. Passer rating 90. And that was because they went back to an emphasis on running the football, which is just

12:30such key in this. Hey, listen, we're going to go ahead and take the first break here because throughout the season in the last regular season of currently on stadium, Titans alum Titans legends will join us as the sideline reporter. And the first one up for this first regular season outing is the miracle man, Dr. Kevin Dyson. Dr. Dyson will join us on Titans football. Titans talk I should say with Ramon and Rhett right here on your home for the Titans and the vaults one, oh four, five the zone. We welcome you back to Titans talk with Ramon and Rhett on one, oh four, five the zone where this Sunday, it's the real deal week one of the national football league schedule for your Tennessee Titans as they host the New York, a New York, a New York, a science. They're going to play them in week three. The New York Jets at these on stadium Sunday. And it is the first regular season game of the last regular season in currently on stadium as New Nissan Stadium is set to open next year.

13:33And as I mentioned in this first segment, we have lots of great Titans alum Titans legends that will be patrolling the sidelines and helping us out as a sideline reporter during games. And the first one is the miracle man, Dr. Kevin Dyson who joined us now on Titans talk with Ramon and Rhett. And Dyson, it's great to hear you. Thank you for joining us tonight. And now we just want to ask you what are you looking forward to the most from the sidelines on Sunday? Man, just a unique perspective. You know, I've coached before. I've obviously been a player before. And I've been in a studio as an analyst and a color commentary, but I've never been on the sideline doing that similar analytical watching the game, getting perspective from the sidelines as a spectator, but also working it as a sideline reporter. So I'm excited to get into the groove of that and just learning how that works. And it's a new experience for myself and excited for the new challenge.

14:35Kevin Dyson with us right now. This is Dyson. And the other side I have to ask you about man is the game. How was that first game from you from your perspective? Offensively, you play in the trenches and also at the line. I mean, out wide as well. Offensively, how did you guys kind of script that out? You prepared for it? Was it touching goal for Y receivers? Because I feel like O'Line D line don't have a choice, but the run-its of one another. Man, how did you go about the preparation for week one? Well, I think in our era, man, it was a little different how the preseason was handled. That's why I did think there was value in the preseason and what we did things from a physicality standpoint. I always love the conditioning of preseason. Now, I was advocate to reduce those games. I don't think we needed it for for sure. But I did appreciate banging heads a little bit as you mentioned, banging bodies, getting used to that. I also enjoy like getting playing full two quarters, going to have time coming down, getting a

15:36series and being able to say, OK, I'm ready to go. And I think that is crucial. I think for especially how the NFL is done now, protecting the bodies, protecting the players. The first few games, you can see a lot of mistakes, mishaps happening because of conditioning, because of the lack of physicality they have in practice compared to just even 10, 15, 20 years ago. And you see broken tackles, guys forming up, like they used to things of that nature. So I've always been one to say you've got a condition for what you want to be successful at. And it's harder these days because of which understandably you've got to protect the players. No doubt about it. It's like this first game, and people view it differently. I was a, I got to perform because I mean, it's the first game of the season. I'm tired of hitting my teammates and training camp. I'm trying to prove that I still belong in this league. A lot of things go across your mind, but this one, this upcoming weekend, man, has to have some weight to it.

16:37New head coach, Caminist, second gear man, and last, last season inside of Nissan Stadium, but also at halftime, man, Chris Johnson, CJ2K also, you know, goes into the ring of honor as well. Do you overplay this underplay it or just kind of play it the same as you usually would with a sense of pride? You know what, man, as competitive athletes, competitive people, you cannot help but to think about the narrative, right? You can't help but to sit there and think, man, I want to beat this franchise who gave up on me who didn't give me the fair opportunity to write the ship and do what I feel like I'm capable of. I want to show you just what you're missing, how capable I am. From a player's perspective, you know, aside from those that may have been with him or been through that, you know, there's not much to it. Then we prepare for whoever that is before. But I say all that to say, it's just like anything else. Yeah, it's going to mean something, but you know, it's a long season.

17:40This is one of 17. So as much as, yeah, I want to win and I hope we do win this game. Regardless of the outcome, I have to move on. I can't dwell on it. It'll be nice to win and I can say I beat my former team, but that means nothing if you go out and lose the other 16 games, right? Yeah. So it's one of those things where, yeah, you're my father and the competitor in you wants to win and just wants to, you know, show them like this is what you messed up on and you should have kept me around. But at the end of the day, I still got 16 games to get right and get this team and this franchise to where I believe we can get to and what I believe my skill says a head coach can get us to. Dice man, you bring it up and I think a lot of people struggle with those type of statements coming from players sometime because fans have a passion. I'm like any other. And the idea that you move on to the next one doesn't sit well because you talk a lot of trash, you know what I'm saying on social media, there's a sense of pride in the wins and losses, but you're right. At what point did you condition yourself to whether you got beat on a rep, right?

18:43And we all get beat from time to time, whether you lost a game, the understanding that is always the next one. Did it take you a while to kind of inherit that mindset? You know, I mean, okay, I go back to my rookie year in a film and I've always been a super competitive. I was that kid that would be in tears after a loss when I was a kid, right? I was like, I hate it losing and that just I would be embarrassed and I, you know, somebody talked to me and said, okay, I'm going to show you. I was that kid. And then you get in a fail and I remember me and Samarro and Kenny Holmes were sitting together on the plane coming back from I want to say Seattle, but I can't remember who the fight was now. And at that point, I think we were like four and four or something like that. And Samarri said to me, he said, man, I've already lost as many games in my pro career than I did my whole college career. And I was just like, I was dumbfounded by like that because that, you know, Florida State back then, you know, they were rocking the road and we're undefeated or one lot of seasons.

19:44And I just hit me and I was thinking, dang, we still got a lot of season left to go. There's possibly a week of losing a lot more. You know what I mean? Because that's just how the league is. So I'd say that to for this to say, man, one thing you have to understand in a failure is you have to be able to compartmentalize your wins and your losses, your successes, your failures in a short period of time. You're going to have to let it go because you can't get to how I can't get to low. If you dwell on the mistakes and I've done this, I beat myself up over a drop pass for like I let a city down, all the different things. But if you don't get over that quickly, it's going to, it's going to compound and then you get yourself into a slump. And if you, if you don't get over your successes quickly, you're going to, you're going to look forward, look past and miss out on a preparation moment. And so you have to just compartmentalize the whole thing and stay in a moment and go on to the next one because guess what? There's going to be another franchise. I don't care what the record has been in the past five years. There's still professional athletes and still competitive and still try to win football games, whether they're on something in your sixth and your undefeated.

20:46It's still a matter of you have to go out there and perform and beat that team. I know analytics and people like to say, but this team is trash, but really there's no trash teams in the field. It's just not jelly. It's not the right combination. It might not be the right head coach for the player. It might not be the right G for the makeup of a coaching staff and people are trying to find that synergy that works and maps out and it makes them successful. That in the day, it is all your best athletes that play football coming together. 1500 jobs or so. And there's only so many of those and everybody is trying to get that Holy Grill, which is the Lombardy trophy at the end of the year. Nice with you also having cult footballs and the small skill guys is what I call you all. Okay. I like it always say we're big skill. You know what I'm saying? We're skill, too. But there's a lot of pressure that goes into you guys' abilities. Being able to get open, being able to be on the same page, you just said a second goal

21:49with the quarterback getting out of the break, right? He fence against the offense has taken advantage of it. I'm setting all this up to say the carnell side of it, right? How? How does he approach this as a newbie to it? With top five pressure attached to him, if you're his OG in the locker room, oh guys, what's something called it, but I call it original. Okay. How do you approach him into preparation, into weak ones and not force it and overthink production and just say, be you. What do you say to him? How do you guide them? I tell you like somebody told me, man, they drafted you for a skill set. You develop those skill sets and know it's good enough because they wouldn't have drafted you anything yet. And I think he just got to recognize that and have confidence in that. Understanding going to be some bumps and bruises, some piece of values to the rest of this season and the long season. You know, your body's going to be tied to T, but the dream is this is your job. You can do some of the things you'll have to worry about getting them go to class.

22:52You don't have to worry about state study hall. You don't have to worry about some of these. This is your job and it's all about you taking care of your best. And I think for him, it's just a matter of weathering, you know, like I said just a minute ago, the good moments and the bad moments and how you navigate those. There's a lot of expectation of pressure comes being a first round pick, especially a top five top 10 pick. There's some expectations. And he's going to have to taper those depending on the outcome. There's going to be potentially a receiver that drafted after him. They're just seemingly getting the ball a lot more and they're going to say, well, what's wrong with him? Why is that getting the ball? Well, the offense and the scheme and the the veterans on this team might not warrant him being the main guy. So right now he might be the three, the third option as far as receiving. And he's got to take advantage of those those opportunities and not get too caught up in the whispers behind him and outside and everybody else. And even now, even on social media and people worried about his productivity as just that

23:54development getting better each week, because if you're not focusing on you, you're focusing on the. Still weather's dice. You got to do a dead spot. I think you're trying to focus on the mental. No doubt about it. You went out on us a little bit right there, but I think we got the end part of it, man. This is finished and mentally and being engaged with it. I'm with you, but pressure is real, but when you get this point, man, people will tell you that's a privilege and everybody wants that dice. Exactly. It's only five or six those on each roster. So there's a lot of that about, but two, two hundred of those job is something like that. So it's it's a unique fraternity, man, a unique opportunity and just be appreciative of it every day. You get the opportunity to wake up and do it again. Dr. Kevin Dyson is with us here on Titans talk with Ramon and red on one, four, five,

24:56his own. That answer that he gave in the car and he'll take question. Listen, being a fly on the wall and we back during the early parts of rookie mini camp, that stuff. I was in the forum in front of the rookie class and I asked this so that carnell take it here and talking about a guy in Dr. Dyson who was taken ahead of Randy Moss and how big a deal that was and the pressure that you put on yourself and the pressure that you have as, you know, a franchise player in the league and that. And of course, carnell was intently listening and taking notes and all that because he knows what he's up against in this. I want to ask you, Dr. Dyson, what, what matchup is it that you are looking forward to from your sideline purview? What's the one that checks the box for you? Well, I saw it from the obvious. The head coach is being both being defensive-minded guys. I'm sure if we talked about Sala and his experience over there and him wanting to win, but you

25:56got to think about the guy that replaced him who's now there and wants to be successful and didn't have a good rookie campaign in the head coach here in Glenn. So I still believe one of the best corners ever played against and how much he would like to win this game too because he knows the narrative is going to be. And the title of the game is going to be about Sala being a former jet coach and beating his team that let him go. I said, but aside from that, I think the offensive line is going to be a fun one to watch. You've heard of their defensive line. I think the judges have shown that even when Sala was there defensively, they've been, they've been pretty good over the last several years with the new guy starting an offensive line protecting Ken Ward. How you saying they're carbon? I think you've been from Nando, Carmona. Yeah, starting as a rookie in a line where we gave up 55 sacks last year that obviously going into the offseason was one of those points of emphasis and how you can protect your

26:58franchise quarterback. So that component, that competition between their front session and our front seven is going to be interesting to watch. It's not just for the jet game, but the season going forward. I think this offensive line has to be able to hold up. You know, there's only one best offensive line in the national football league. One year might be the Eagles. One year might have been the Rams or what have you knows. But at the end of the day, you got to have be serviceable protecting your quarterback, great running lanes, give them to the second level for your team to be successful. And I've said this before and it's cliche and coach Matt will tell you football starts in the trenches. As Ron was just talking about the little guys in the edges, all I can be wide open, get my best of all day long. And if Ron gives up that sack, it didn't matter. You know what I mean? I could cook whatever corner Charles Davis, champ baby, any of them, it didn't matter. If my left tackle, my right guard gave up the sack. So it starts up there and with the rookie starting and some of these other guys that are coming in fransky and the likes man is going to be real.

27:59And see how they hold up not just for game one, but going for the season. Guys, I kind of want to ask you that. So you mentioned the trenches. We talked in our first segment. We had Eric call in, of course, ask a question. But what do you think, you know, the fill out phase of the game would be? And I'm like, it's just that. It'd probably be running, trying to establish a line of scrimmage. If you establish a line of scrimmage and you can get four yards of pop, it opens up everything. And those moments, man, when you're watching the old line and quarterback and running backs trying to get it together, the tight ends, how is that on the outside for you guys? Are you running off? You know what I'm saying? The corner backs and safety is like you should. How do you stay engaged with that side of the run game trying to get itself together? Well, I'm all from the last one. I'm all from the last one from the era. I'm coming from the era where, look, in our division with Jamal Lewis, Eddie George, Corey Dillon, and Jerome Betis. Everybody, 250 plus. But you know you had to strap up because you're going to be blocking, right?

29:02And so that was the era of football I was in. Now we're in more than 11 personnel, smaller running backs and thrown the ball around a little bit more than when I was playing in the league. And so with that, though, you're seeing this recycled a philosophy with you got to get more deep of the head coach. Remember, there was this big run on offensive-minded head coaches getting guys on the college game, bringing their philosophy to it. And it seems to be kind of almost like a new trend of you're bringing some more defensive-minded guys in here that are having success stopping some of these offenses and what can they do. With that, a lot of times, and we've seen it even with Rabel's here, there's a level of, I don't think the server-diffing ball, but there's a level of clock management, play management, field possession, time possession, that they just have a different sense of the game than maybe an offensive coach would, as far as their tolerance and risk level.

30:02And I think when you got two deep-diffed-minded coaches, what young rofters specifically to tie with, like one of the youngest rofters now, like managing the field, managing the game, managing the moment, becomes even more crucial. And those opportunities, you help a young quarterback. If you are managing the game well, if your defense is playing well, if you're not always behind the change, if you're always above the clock and things in that nature, I think, man, so this game in itself, I think, especially early on, early September, first game of season, conditioning is, you know, we've been doing two days, but it's still a different conditioning, playing four quarters of football game, it's also part of that process. It's just how you are able to manage all those external distractions like that and be successful. We didn't talk enough about it, we still be in an 1100 yard rusher or better, and how vital that component of this game can help this offense specifically

31:08as you're trying to get your legs underneath you and be successful offense. That is Dr. Kevin Dyson, you will hear him Sunday on Titans Radio on the sidelines. We've never had a doctor on the sidelines of Titans Radio and there's first time for everything, and I'm glad it's you, Doc. But he will join us as a part of the Titans Radio broadcast crew. We bring you coverage of Titans and Jets week one from Nissan Stadium this Sunday. Doc Dyson, it is great to hear your voice, great to talk to you, and we will talk very soon, sir. Appreciate you joining us. Absolutely, man, man. I'm looking forward to it, man. You have a great job. You're always, and I'll see you all Sunday. All right. Thank you, sir. That is the miracle, man. The doctor. Doc Dyson. He brings up a real good point at the end. I know we're about to head to break. Well, he's just, he brings more perspective, I think, on the outlook of it, too. Just of the mindset, like, what tone are you setting for the first month of the season? Like, I think we put so much into the start of the season. We saw a team last year in anyapolis.

32:08Well, we're cooking first, seven, ten games of the season, then just plummeted. I mean, the start is awesome, but teams want to be ascending when you hit late October, November, December. Now, some January football, too. Because of what Kevin Dyson outlined there in a truncated, shortened preseason schedule, padded practices, all of those things, the byproduct is it gets wonky in the first quarter. I mean, week one is, I say it every year, week one's a liar. Who are you going to prove? Like, if the Titans come out and they take care of business on Sunday, prove everybody else wrong that week one wasn't a lie. Well, that's what Dr. Dyson was saying. It is, and you mentioned the first quarter. How about the first four games? Yeah, you know, like, there's a lot that goes into it. As far as just context of what's a good start, what's not a good start of the season? All right, when we continue more of Titans talk with Ramon and Rhett, and we're going to bring back the feature we started last week, a little truth serum.

33:09True true or false questions, rapid fire for Ramon, falsar, and we'll dig through some of the numbers that we're looking forward to in these matchups in Titans versus Jets. That is all ahead on Titans talk with Ramon and Rhett right here on 105 the zone. Turnovers and try to stay, you know, playing clean. Right. So, Geno Smith through 16 interceptions against four of few rushers last season. The most by any quarterback in a single season since sand howled it with the commanders in 2023. Now, different team, different offensive line. Yeah, but that's still something to just kind of take note of. Mm hmm. The Jets offense allowed the fifth highest pressure rate in the NFL last season. 38.2% with pressure rates surpassing 40% under Justin Fields and Tyrod Tader from weeks one through 13. And the reason I frame it that way is Jeffrey Simmons led the NFL in interior defensive lineman with pressure rate at 14.8% all year long in 2025.

34:13Both he and John Franklin Myers, their combined numbers in 2025 18 and a half sacks 23 tackles for loss 103 pressures 36 37 quarterback hits and a consistent pressure rate of 12.9%. Because the tackles for this Jets offensive line with Olufashnu being one of them and the Nigerian connection on the other end those bookends. Yeah, I'm pretty good, but the middle is the question mark and Dylan Parham might be the point of entry no doubt left guard. I'm with you there. It was a four year guy with the Vegas Raiders last year. Memphis guy. Yeah, Memphis guy. Yeah, and he's coming home. So he's going to have some family tickets in the stand and everything. Man, and you want to place water today. You won't Jeff over him. You you won't all parties attacking where you think the week link is. I feel like if you get Gino and he's mobile enough, but if you get him off the spot, you have the ability to create some chaos on the back end for the secondary. My firm believe that Russian coverage always works together. If I get home, I need y'all to do your job on the back end.

35:15Or there's only so long secondary week in cover. Help us get home and and that's where. Having Jeff having the season that he did last year, one of the highest paid D. Laren lineman in the league and NFL history. If he's got one and a half guys, a two guys committed to him, Jermaine Johnson go hunt, right? John Franklin Myers go hunt. Go hunt. Jacob Martin go hunt. I mean, even even your linebackers for that case, right? We've seen James Williams beat at the edge of rush off the edge of have a coach, Solo want to implore blitzes or dog blitzes. What if case you might want to be create that chaos for Gino, get him back to that old version of him. But I do think in all of this, it will start. It will start with being able to stop the run. Pretty solid is a unique individual. I don't want to necessarily call him a unicorn. But when you look at what he's capable of in the run game in the passing game, I think you have to be very keen on making sure that you can get him stopped and and and create some chaos in the back field for a guy like him.

36:17Yeah, his yards before contact last year was was way up there as he was, you know, getting met by guys in the hole. Yeah, let's go to the Tony Pollard of it all because I think that's the other part of this and you've mentioned it through the hour. Dr. Dyson's mentioned it through the hour. You get Tony Pollard and Tajay Spears cranked up in this thing. Tony Pollard. Here's one for you. The Jets defense in 2025 allowed the second most fantasy points, 470.1. The second most rush yard, what rush yards after contact 1481 and the fifth most explosive runs 48 to running backs in 2025 over the final eight weeks. They allowed nine different running backs to score 16 plus fantasy points and I listen. I'm excited. I had fantasy draft the other night and let's go. But in the real world, there's some real numbers in there that if you can make some things happen at first and second down, getting third manageable. It's going to be huge because that was a massive problem last couple of years. Absolutely. I say more of the same. Rensen repeat.

37:18If we need more of that in the state of my, I know Aaron Glana took over. Play call and duties for the defense. No matter. Like attack it that exact same way like this game will be in established on the ground. Like you said, Tony Pollard and Taj A. Spirits to me, I think had probably wanted a better training camp. So all 90 guys in training camp. You saw the explosiveness in the joint practices. You saw it in the games somewhat to and we were talking this morning. Everybody's conversations get Taj A Spirits healthy to the season. He's not going to woo it. We got a few more days. But he's he's there at this point right now. And the multiple sets that he can be in with this deep. I mean with this offense man, hopefully pays dividends. I'm not sure what you're going to see Eric. I know you said, hey, what kind of eccentric things will. Well, Coach, Dave will do the best out of the run. And I know he's got a deep playbook. All right. Truth serum. True or false. The jet sleeve Nashville wishing they had run the football some more true or false. The Titans will generate at least three quarterback sacks in week one.

38:25Oh, I like that too. True or false. Sunday's most impactful player won't be a quarterback. True. I think that to the very good possibility in our last few moments here. I'm going to end it with this one last question with Ramon Foster on Titans talk with Ramon and Rhett Ramon fill in the blank. If we're sitting here next week talking about a Titans victory. The biggest reason will be blank defense of pressure. Up front. They feel very high about their offensive line. Don't roll the first game. That crowd should be rocking us out of Nissan stadium on Sunday. Crowd noise. Um, indecision from them as far as getting off the ball and making Geno C ghost the way Sam Dono used to. That's how. And it's going to be warm. I think about 94. I think about the most important thing. Um, it's going to be one of the warmer games at Nissan stadium. And so that's always a factor in this and, you know, I think the Titans are prepared for that part of it because Robert solid.

39:28Man, he ran a rough camp for those boys. Yeah, he did. I know they felt that we saw it. Um, not many people saw them do every day. We did for the most part. And it was physical. He challenged him. It wasn't just the physical side of it as well. And so that's the way the pace of offense went to in defense. Those guys running from drill to drill being getting in and out. And he gave them halftimes and stuff like that where they cooled off. But it was worth watching the the trenches go to work the secondary everybody pre practice post practice. There's been a lot of sweat equity out there at the field. Man, the practice field. And I'm, I'm hopefully. We're all going to see that payoff this Sunday. Yes, and I hope that you're right. We remind you Tennessee cranks up. The first regular season home game, the home opener at Nissan Stadium against the jets this Sunday coverage starts at nine o'clock. We're on the air at 11 with Titans countdown kick off at 12.03. Officially with that man Ramon Foster and Taylor Zarser Titans and jets this Sunday right here on the zone. Thanks to Ross Johnson for producing tonight for Ramon Foster. I'm Brad Brian. Thank you for listening to Titans talk with Ramon and Rhett. The Mike Keith show is next on the zone.