If Derrick Henry is healthy.
And if he's Derek Henry,
I feel very badly for the Bengals defense if that's the case.
Well, it just yeah, I mean, come on. It's a game changer.
Like we talked a little bit yesterday. We're talking about,
you know, an era where it's not going to be easy for running
backs to get in the Hall of Fame. Like we got guy here,
that's going to be in the Hall of Fame for sure.
He's one of the greatest running backs in the history of
football already in my opinion. He is. It's such a rare
combination of size and speed and the ability.
Leti to carry the workload, you know, Smash It Up in there for
four or five yards when there was only a yard to get be
gained or, oh,
you know, hey, it looks like he's gonna get six yards off
tackle and all the sudden, he runs her 70-yard touchdown. And
then I think you add that on top of the fact that, oh, no,
that scares the death that of any defense. And of course,
it's going to scare the Bangles.
And now, if you got a healthy AJ Brown and a somewhat healthy
Julio Jones on the outside, that's where the Titans become
dangerous. I think, you know, there's it's no fluke
the That they got to an AFC Championship game.
Then o lost a home, wild-card game last year against
the Ravens. Okay, and here they are back because this formula is
tried and trued and they have the right pieces on
the offensive side of the ball
that make it work for them.
So now you're running the ball, you're doing that Tannehill,
the numbers. Bear it out. My I bear, is it out throwing
the ball, deep down the field. He is one of the been one of
the best quarterbacks in football
over the last few years, since he's taken over the Tennessee,
Titans organization there. And you add that again with
the Derrick Henry running. And now you go. Oh wait, he kept it,
off play action. And here
goes AJ, Brown on a 60-yard post. They become a different
football team. It goes a little bit different Beyond. Oh
ground-and-pound. And we're going to play, you know, Mike
Vrabel defense of football to where now they become a little
more explosive on the offensive side of the ball and
they can be scary that way.
That graphic. We just had up was amazing to me at the very
top six and two with Henry
six and three without I would have never picked six and three
without. Yeah, the morning that we were talking about
the Derrick Henry foot surgery.
I would have said, three and six not six and three I am, you
know, I'm
I get it. I get it. I was one that I will say that I did not
expect to fall off. I think people here at NBC will vouch
for me.
There's too many Pete. This team is good. This is where
we're getting into.
We have disrespected, the Titans too much here. I don't
know if they're going to win this weekend. I don't know, but
I know they're good enough and worthy enough to be.
We should put them in the Super Bowl conversation.
We should when I first filled out my little bracket for
the Super Bowl, you know, Anakin my thoughts have changed a little
bit here, but when the playoffs first came out, I kind of put
Tennessee in
the Super Bowl. I thought they're going to get there
and I will see I don't know. This is just going to be
a tough match up their defense there. Past events had some
issues and now you got Joe Barone those weapons coming
into town, but I think it speaks again to the rest of
the football team to your point in what you're saying here.
You know, it's a good offensive line. The quarterbacks good,
the backup running backs are good,
the receivers, when they're healthier good, the tight ends
are good. It's a great deal, Ein. They got some good pieces
in the secondary and got some good linebackers. There's not
a like, glaring glaring weak spot with the team.
But if there is a weak spot, like I talked about, it's
a past events. And you got a guy. Coming in this week. That's
a magician and got some weapons and you better watch out and
that's where it could be scary for them on, Saturday
afternoon.
Neither outcome of that. Game will surprise me. Neither.
I right. Exactly right. Agreed agreed. Because I could see,
I could see.
The Titans just stepping into something. They never expected
with Joe burrow, continuing to ascend and Joe Barbaro finding
next level of performance with Jamar, Chase,
with Joe Mixon with Katie Higgins with Tyler Boyd,
I could see that and you never know when CJ was almost gonna
chip in a touchdown here at their me,
right? Plenty of openings for him with all these other guys.
It won't surprise me, but also won't surprise me. If we see
Derrick Henry with 225
steamrolling the Cincinnati defense and making it
impossible for Joe borrow. I really do think that the Titans
they'd be wise to do the keep Joe burrow on the sidelines,
drinking Gatorade thing. Slow it down, grind it out, even
though you're
the better team. The year the one seed and you wouldn't think
the one seed would need to slow play the game and
reduce the number of possessions.
You kind of got to think about doing that with Joe borrowed.
I would agree with that.
Listen. I'm a fan of that and no matter what no matter who's
on the other side line, you know, there was somebody this
weekend who said it and I might have been our game on Sunday
night. Like I think Mike Tomlin maybe said it, I'll it was
Chris Collinsworth may be referring to. I can't remember
exactly where they were like, hey, the best defense is our on
the sideline a lot.
They are there on the sidelines a lot because Usually that
means the, the offense is, hey, we got a three and out. Now,
the offense is going on a ball, controlled long drive. And now
you get to come out and be fresh and the other offense is
out of rhythm
and, you know, your energy and your ready to go and
the defensive side of the ball. Yeah, I think there is
an aspect of that that I think that's the way the Titans want
to play no matter. What does it matter who comes to town? But
I think it definitely holds true in the AFC
with Borough Mahomes and Alan
you go. I think we want to play that game here all the way
through the AFC playoffs here and get to the Super Bowl and
We'll figure out who were playing there to figure this
out. But I think that's the way Vrabel wants to play Vrabel.
His DNA is first three, Super Bowls New England, Patriots
football
and that's what they did. It was. Let's run the ball. Brady
will be efficient and he'll be caught you and we need them and
our defense can shut down the Peyton Manning's and of
the world and do all that. And that's how we're going to play
football and I think that's how he's trying to coach his
football team right now.