Recapping Titans 17, Colts 20 | MCA Titans Podcast

[@WuTitanClan]

Thanks for showing up even when the Titans don’t😢

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

We got you forever 💕

[@davidjenkins1494]

Appreciate your composure Justin. I know it’s hard.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Graver is a true pro!

[@davidjenkins1494]

We’re going through changes. May take some (painful) time. Titan up!

[@truehype]

This is the best way to look at it overall and this may soon be water under the bridge one way or the other.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

We certainly hope so.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Love the positive outlook!

[@josephlindsey3745]

Thank you for your response. Have a wonderful day.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Likewise!

[@ckisko]

Justin, don't shave until we get a win. This is the way.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Hahahaha! Walking around looking like James Harden...

[@davidjenkins1494]

Pollard is amazing. He runs into these huge piles and comes out the other end!

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Outstanding player!

[@matthewjohnson9413]

We have a bad quarterback. Our bad quarterback makes the coach call bad plays. The bad plays give more chances for their offense to be on the field. I know Mason Rudolph isn't a starter in the NFL. But benching Levis is the move here.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Certainly feels like Brian Callahan called plays scared today. He's scared of his QB.

[@CrynamiteAgain]

Mason Rudolph more than deserves to be a starter in this league. He’s better than at least 10 starters in this league. Watch film retard

[@jakeaslandogdu4152]

I wonder if we will click at all this season Also a small note Last 2 pressers after games Cally' try to get Dhop the ball more INT next game when targeting Cally' try and get Rid the ball more INT next game when targeting It seems like we target the players rather than the field

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Doesn't feel like the offense is going to click this season.

[@rosalindwalker67]

We need mason Rudolph asap

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Wonder if Callahan will consider!

[@cybersqueak1287]

Ridley sounded like he was ready to be traded after the game

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

He was understandably frustrated!

[@gusjoe1381]

Even with some of the mistakes defensively and questionable officiating, the Titans should have won this game EASY. Coach Cally deserves all the blame on this one with his atrocious play calling in the 2nd half. The OL for once looked respectable in both pass protection and run game. At this point, if you don't trust Levis to run your offense, just let him learn on the sidelines and let Mason finish the season. If I was Calvin Ridley, I would throw a tamper tantrum just to get the ball early in the 1st quarter...not at the end of games when your Qb has NO confidence in himself. I got exactly what I expected of Levis playing scared and just expecting Pollard to be a 2nd coming of Henry, which he's not... The Defense did their part even with the penalties and missed plays. Yes Murray and Sneed have seen much better week but the defense overall gave PLENTY of opportunities for the Titans to score. If it wasn't for the INT by Hooker, not even sure we score 10 pts... Awful Awful loss...Feels like week one but for different reasons...

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Levis was bad and the play calling was bad. This offense can't do anything right.

[@rosalindwalker67]

Rudolph the titans reindeer he led us to victory🎵🎶. All the other players all called will trash. But Rudolph stepped in and gave the titans joy🎶🎵

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Oh boy 😂

[@rosalindwalker67]

@@MusicCityAudiblePodcast like my song about trash will and good titan reindeer

[@DaddyByr]

@ Justin or Justin A big deal was made about how Callahan is a planner, how he tailors his offense to his players, etc. etc. Why does it seem like the exact opposite with Levis? Quick, rhythmic passing isn’t his forte. Seems like the offense just isn’t explosive, but that’s where Levis would thrive (kinda). Is it first job jitters for Callahan or is Levis just THAT bad?

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Truthfully, I'd (Melo) place like 90% of the issues on Levis. He's simply not executing. Watch the tape and he's 2nd guessing his reads, he's almost always late and generally makes bad decisions. He hasn't exactly had success throwing the deep ball either.

[@DaddyByr]

@@MusicCityAudiblePodcast cheers Melo

[@neilh6798]

I wonder if there is just too much change on the offensive side of the ball. One thing is for certain, Levis hasn’t looked fearless this year, and he certainly was last year. I still think there is a QB in there. My concern is there is a lack of trust/honesty between both QB and HC/playcaller. I am convinced this is the issue. Levis can make throws, he did last year, therefore something else is the issue.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Tough to explain his regression.

[@nate_whitehead]

Do you remember the Ken Whisenhunt era? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Oh, it was awful.

[@IllogikAvantGarde]

Man, is there any quarterback worth a top 3 pick in this upcoming draft? Do we trade back? Do we take the BPA? I hope we go with the best edge in the draft, this is not fun.

[@atlas6157]

Give me Tre Harris from Ole Miss because DHop is certain to be traded I’m afraid

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

The edge class isn't very good either. Either fall in love with a QB or trade back.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Tre Harris has been some! Maybe a 2nd round pick.

[@Titansfan81]

Man, I this lost sux, but we need pass rush. QB play is getting better. Levis is way down the blame chart this time.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Levis and the offense were terrible. Pass rush won't get better until they add a better edge rusher in the offseason.

[@Titansfan81]

​@MusicCityAudiblePodcast I respectfully disagree. We need patience here. QBs need time to develop. I again re assert, we need a more dominant pass rush. These WRs need to catch the ball when thrown and the play calling needs to be better. Want to blame someone.. blame the play calling. Blame the refs.

[@JustinM_NFL]

They're going to continue being patient, but it's certainly trending in the wrong direction. ​@@Titansfan81

[@CrynamiteAgain]

Ya Levis is just the reason the offense looks the way it does but sure he’s not blame. You’re right, that was a good interception in the 4th quarter, I mistook it for a horrible play

[@atlas6157]

I just don’t know how anybody can place an ounce of blame on Levis today. He didn’t call 100 run plays or punt on 4&1 or not call a QB sneak in addition to all the other bad playcalls. This is on Callahan, and every week with his playcalling has gotten worse. Levis is the obvious scapegoat at this point, but Callahan is on the fast track to be one and done.

[@diegonaranjo2425]

Please put Levis on IR

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Not sure that's going to happen!

[@theevilbeard]

Gravedigger, I disagree with your assessment on the Brownlee interception. The Colts got called for illegal contact/PA on a throw toward Hopkins earlier in the game. It was very similar in what was called. Would I prefer they weren't called? Yes. But they called both of them, so I can't complain, I think it was pretty consistent both ways. The miss on Hopkins is the only really bad call I felt over the course of the game.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Boy, that miss on Hopkins was soooo bad. They certainly didn't miss anything on the Titans! We appreciate your insight!

[@comeonmaaan4288]

Multiple teams will be fighting over a flawed QB class. Titans, Giants, Browns, Panthers, Raiders. Rams snd Saints could both be looking to upgrade, as well. Will be a tough "competition" for the top pick.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Indeed.. not a very good class on paper.

[@bridgelaurie9490]

I agree with sticking with Levis and everything you say usually hit the “qb elevates” schtick is so tired. Content creators and fans cried that about Tannehill and now they would cut their arm off to have a qb play like that back. Mahomes isn’t elevating his team, Andy Reid is. Purdy isn’t elevating shit, Kyle S is. Maybe once or twice a season Stafford appears to elevate his awful OL but mostly McVay..oh surprise they are 1-4 too. Love doesn’t elevate, LaFluer does we saw that first hand with Willis. Your qb is only as good as his OL, OC and weapons. You can have one bad group and maybe get by but not usually I.e the Rams. The OL was better yesterday but who was bad this time? Cally and Wr room. This isn’t to say Levis is the answer but that it won’t matter who the qb is until everything else is fixed just like when I was saying this about Tannehill and everyone said “Levis can move in the pocket he can help the bad OL bla bla bla”. It just isn’t the case unfortunately.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Think there's a pretty good chance Will Levis isn't the QB next season.

[@bridgelaurie9490]

@@MusicCityAudiblePodcastI agree 100% but this will be the same result with whoever is next if the OL,OC and Wr room isn’t better

[@flow685]

31 points from Mason Rudolf and that amount of points wins this game.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Mason Rudolph gives the Titans a better chance to win *right now*, but he's not the long term answer.

[@redstwok1123]

Mason did that in 3 quarters. No INTs. Intelligent QB knows what it takes to WIN a game.

[@flow685]

@@MusicCityAudiblePodcast I disagree!! You don’t put in the NFL player who loses you the game every time you get on the field. Titans turning into the Browns. Already talking about QB’s next year when this season isn’t even over. You only got a 46% chance of a first round quarterback taking you to the playoffs. Yeah good luck with that!!

[@atlas6157]

We have 5 games of evidence that Brian Callahan is not a good playcaller. By a very wide margin, Levis’s pass attempts are on 3rd down, a majority of the time. That is not fair to ANY quarterback to have to be perfect on every third down to sustain a drive, least of all a quarterback like Levis. No QB can get in to any kind of rhythm when you’re passing almost exclusively on 3rd down in most situations and even then it’s usually a pass behind the line of scrimmage. Then when the game is on the line, Callahan suddenly expects him to be able to play hero ball and throw for 20+ yard gains. That’s not even mentioning how late these calls seem to be coming in. Callahan has been nothing short of “horrid” for the majority of his playcalls on the season, and Ridley and others have every right to be frustrated and while Levis cannot be excused for boneheaded mistakes, he also can’t be fairly evaluated with the playcalling the way it is. Every 3rd down, which is the obvious passing down, behind THIS line, that’s usually the one attempt Levis gets on a drive, and the pressure to be perfect has to be immense. Levis may very well not be the answer and it’s certainly trending that way, but Callahan’s playcalling would do NO quarterback any favors, especially a rookie.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Callahan called his worst game of the season on Sunday.

[@redstwok1123]

Mason Rudolph IS the QB of future.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

No he is not lol

[@redstwok1123]

@@MusicCityAudiblePodcast Based on what? Mason's career results are improving dramatically every year. Several other QBs that entered into 5th year are blossoming. He's been accurate, and intelligent about how to WIN games. Mediocre offenses under his control have done well above their averages. Steelers had their best points since Ben, and Titans scored the most in 1000 days. These are not coincidences.

[@SayItAintSo4real]

​​​@@MusicCityAudiblePodcasthe would have won the game on Sunday. And he would have won the first game of the season. And the 2nd. And possibly the 3rd, although Malik was whooping arse with his Packers. Levis is too stupid throwing multiple pick-sixes every game but last Sunday's. Last Sunday was just as pathetic though. And the idiot broke an elder's leg on the sidelines and didn't even have the decency to at least acknowledge to the injured man what he had done. It takes 2 seconds to say "I'm sorry." Fucker didn't even acknowledge him & his spill after the game. Levis is a smarty pants conceited wannabe that's had his BS handed to him practically every game. Put Mason in! Sit the other guy, Levis out before he hurts someone else with his boneheaded plays.

[@davidjenkins1494]

Nick Folk is still perfect 😀

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Bright side 😂

[@josephallen3334]

Brian Callahan is a bad head football coach. Today was the first time that thought crept into my head and I’m convinced it’s true.

[@briangrover7748]

I know the team is going through transition but we can't scheme up something to beat the Colts. Brian Callahan might want to give up being both OC and Head Coach. I tired of investing this team and getting bad football. THE COLTS defense is last in the league smh. The refs need to be re trained as well. They were horrible.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

He definitely called plays scared today.. his worst game for sure.. before today, I've (Melo) generally liked his play calling and the design of the offense.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Titans couldn't take advantage of a AWFUL Colts defense..

[@CrynamiteAgain]

lol there’s no way you think the coach is the problem. Maybe it’s that QB that is completely incapable

[@josephallen3334]

@@CrynamiteAgain I do think he’s part of the problem. I didn’t say Will Levis is good, he isn’t and hasn’t been, but neither was Brian Callahan today and in my opinion has been underwhelming as a HC to date. Both things can be true.

[@josephlindsey3745]

Is Callahan using his offensive players the wrong way or is the quarterback just really bad or both

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

I think it's largely on the QB.

[@PetulantPuffbird]

Obviously qb play was subpar and the defensive penalties brought the colts back in the game, but the offensive playcalling was once again atrocious and not nfl caliber in my opinion

[@PetulantPuffbird]

And while I do agree with the points from the last segment, I cannot be convinced that gameplanning that conservatively at 1-3 versus one of the worst secondaries in the league is the way to go

[@cybersqueak1287]

Cally seems like he's in over his head for sure

[@JustinM_NFL]

​@@PetulantPuffbirdI feel like Brian Callahan called plays afraid of his QB today. Tough to blame him tbh.

[@JustinM_NFL]

​@@cybersqueak1287he's scared of his QB, IMO.

[@PetulantPuffbird]

@@JustinM_NFL I definitely don’t disagree, I am really curious about the coming week and how things change

[@midnighttornado22]

I say let's do Jameis Winston mode. Go for broke, 50/50 TD/INT. Maximum chaos. 13-4 #titanup 😂

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Would be more entertaining than this 😂

[@nathanfrench3161]

Levis is laughing at all of us thinking this is bottom. He’s about to say “hold my beer”

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Getting worse every week!

[@TxBigDog]

Hang in there - you could be Cowboys fans who have an owner that will never win and a family that will inherit the team and never win

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

It could always be worse!

[@Gigan101KAWR]

I hate to say it...but I am supremely concerned about Callahan's ability as a head coach and even more so as an offensive "guru". Time management and overall operational issues, bad challenge, throwing tantrums, discipline issues across the team, and more than anything losing 3 more than winnable games. I hate giving up on coaches too soon, and I preach patience more than most, but I think this train is off the rails and heading to a chasm. His offense is conservative (sometimes worse than what we saw w/ Vrabel), the play calling is often suspect, every returning playmaker on offense has regressed, and Will Levis looks like the worst QB in the league. I just don't see the appeal. He doesn't do the bread and butter HC stuff well, his offense sucks, his team can't win winnable games, and he just looks like a guy who has no clue what he is doing. I hate being this way, I feel like a hypocrite, but I am all the way out of Callahan. If he can't win a game BEFORE at Texans in Week 12 then he will be fired, and I love the idea of getting a look at Dennard at HC. Sadly, I am also out on Levis. This season is definitely over. I think they should be fire selling anyone on the team who they do not see as a Titan in 2025. Sheesh man, it's bleak. We are at a risk of losing the most games in the Titans era imo. Not what we wanted out of this season but it is what it is... Titan Up I guess lol

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

I am totally out on Levis personally. I've actually liked the design of Callahan's offense and generally like the play calling up until Sunday when he definitely called plays scared. - Melo

[@gtownwr]

a terrible draft to have a high pick

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

The Titans way!

[@courtneytyree-jones8563]

Agreed! We always get the short end of the QB stick

[@Dstew0064]

Fans still making excuses for Levis 😏

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Meh, not really..

[@stevekaser2891]

These games aren't fair. Colts used a real quarterback while Titans use Levis. What is even worse, they had 2 weeks to prepare. This is pathetic. They would have used Rudolph if they had ANY intentions of winning...

[@JustinM_NFL]

Will Levis and the offense were quite terrible today.

[@GlasgowStud]

Looked like Levis wasn't reading the defense, sticking with whatever route he was hoping to see. Is that him not trusting his eyes after so many interceptions...or the coach telling him to keep it simple. I'd bet both. Confidence gone, can't see how he gets it back with no trust from his coach.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

He's definitely not trusting his eyes. It's been a problem all season long that's only getting bigger.

[@Fakewhack-st8fl]

Didn't watch. Thought I'd check in and say it was a great Sunday lol Levis terrible.. refs reffing. Cally dickless... who'd have guessed it. Let's pray someone trades up big to grab our position in the draft. It's the only way this franchise can turn it around. The Houston way!

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Trading the pick in 2025 could definitely be an option!

[@blackbandit33]

This guy could not hit 100 yards passing against statistically the worst secondary in the NFL. Levis and Callahan are in over their heads... New stadium coming lost all its hype

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Season certainly isn't trending in the right direction.

[@flow685]

The team revolves around the quarterbacks and will Levis is just terrible.

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Levis has been terrible, no doubt.

[@Youmybun]

And we love it...🤣🤣🤣.🤘💯🔥

[@MusicCityAudiblePodcast]

Boooo

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