Tennessee Titans Morning Links: The Freak Knows What We Are Edition

by August West on Nov 10, 2008 8:59 AM CST in Linkage Comment 8 comments

9-0! 9-0! 9-0! 9-0! 9-0! 9-0! 9-0! 9-0! 9-0! 9-0! 9-0! 9-0! 9-0! 9-0! 9-0!!!!!!!!!

So when exactly does Kerry move from 'game manager' to game 'winner'?

Kerry sliced those Bears so ruthlessly I expect him to get a special commendation from Stephen Colbert anytime now...

Team depth, schematic variety and more wins, oh my!

I'd like to officially welcome Brandon Jones to the season.

Don Banks nails why yesterday's win was a revelation and a frightening sign for everyone we face from here on out:

If they're paying attention, the other 31 NFL teams realize that 9-0 and "Uh-oh'' are now the operative words when it comes to describing the Tennessee Titans.

Because now what? How do you stop a Titans team that just proved it doesn't have to run the ball to win a ballgame? What should be made of a Tennessee team that can go nowhere on the ground, and still win a big game on the road with its passing game? That's the sobering dilemma that the rest of the league now faces in the wake of Tennessee's 21-14 win over the Chicago Bears on Sunday at Soldier Field.

Chicago loving AOL blogger Matt Snyder eats some crow after predicting his Bears would end our streak.

We can add Matt Ufford of WIth Leather and Kissing Suzy Kolber to the Ahmard Hall man-crush list... too bad my boy struggled so mightily Sunday. (Big Hat tip to UrbanDad for passing this link along... sorry I left that our earlier.)

Peter King still absurdly has the non-perfect Giants ahead of us in his clown rankings, but at least he did make one notable observation about the hottest team in football right now:

2. I think Cortland Finnegan is as chippy a player on defense as Hines Ward is on offense. I said chippy, not dirty. They're not dirty players. They're edgy, physical players

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in all fairness...

i think peter king has it right. the giants looked damn good last night against the eagles. it seems like they can run at will and manning is looking alot more consistent this year than he was previous seasons. they have a much tougher schedule and they are the superbowl champions. i think its looking like we’re on a collision course with them at any rate. one thing though, the titans are improving every week and winning games with our so called “weaknesses”. defensively, there’s no comparison, not even the so-called number 1 defensive steelers….

by vancouverTITAN on Nov 10, 2008 10:46 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

That is true. And yes, the Bears undoubtedly suffered from having Rex in there. But...

… the Titans were missing: KVB, Nick Harper for most of the game, and Big Albert for most of the game. No one seems to have noticed this, but Big Al had the flu or something yesterday, so that yesterday was the magnificent D-Line of Kearse, Brown, Vickerson/Jones, and Ball/Ford. Plus Bullock played hurt.

Bottom line: for a real apples-to-apples comparison, we need to get some IV fluids into Haynesworth—it was amazing that he played all of 20 snaps yesterday—and get KVB back. And then, I think the Titans will be ready to play the Giants. Or the Ravens for that matter, who suddenly look dangerous as all Hell again. Anyway, I don’t know that either of those games will be easy, but I think they are both coming in the immediate future, and I think that they are both winable, provided that the Titans actually play a complete game.

DannoE

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
Go Titans!

by DannoE on Nov 10, 2008 11:40 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

PK will always put the big market team first if he can get away with it

You think he wants the SI brass to send him to Nashville or NY for a story? He’s padding his own mattress with that one.

The PAIN TRAIN is comin baby!

by BigW on Nov 10, 2008 1:02 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

But we've got like 50 million Starbucks locations.

What more does he want?

by hartley on Nov 10, 2008 3:38 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

HAH!

Good point!

Maybe we need more hotels with built-in workout facilities and eliptical machines……..

The PAIN TRAIN is comin baby!

by BigW on Nov 10, 2008 4:00 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Comment of the day right there...

well played, hartley.

Michael Roos doesn't eat pitas because NOTHING BREAKS THE POCKET ON HIS WATCH!!!

by August West on Nov 10, 2008 4:48 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I am ecstatic how the passing game came to life when the running

game was dead in the water. The O line held up superbly and gave Collins all the time he needed to find the open receiver. Collins played his best game of the year. Clearly he was more than just a game manager yesterday. It is nice to know you can count on him when needed. The defense was magnificent like usual. It was real unfortunate Hall fumbled it at the goal line. That was one of those moments of adversity that you like to see a team overcome and it happened.
Overall a terrific game and I will be watching this one a few times this week to enjoy it even more.
Even with a non complete team playing it was a heck of a win.

I am a humble fan, a great humble fan.

by Joy Kat on Nov 10, 2008 12:53 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Can you imagine?

How good our team will be when we have all our key starters healthy and we play up to our full ability in all phases of the game? I think we’ll see an even better team come playoff time.

by theologic on Nov 10, 2008 1:28 PM CST reply actions 0 recs