Tennessee Titans Morning Links: Well I Don't Dry Off My Dogs With A Flag Edition

by August West on Dec 22, 2008 8:33 AM CST in Linkage Comment 12 comments

You know that burgeoning quarterback controversy? Kerry spent yesterday crushin' it.

I'm spearheading the campaign to get Jason Jones starting next to big Albert in the playoffs. Anybody with me?

Some people (mainly old white men) aren't happy that LenDale, Kearse and Crazy Legs were using towels like towels. Yawn. It's not like they defaced Steely McBeam or anything...

More on towels.

Even more on towels.

If you're still upset about the towel thing, please send all complaints here.

We'll have more on the number of Steelers fans polluting the Cumberland later, but it's safe to say the Titans players were none to happy about it.

Michael Griffin has to be seen as a driving force of this defense, and one of the premier safeties in the NFL after upstaging the vaunted Polamalu yesterday and registering his 6th and 7th INTs.

Peter King is the only writer I've seen so far who really understands what our defense pulled off yesterday with Boom King and Albert on the sideline:

• No wonder Tennessee wins every year. The Titans have the best defensive depth in recent NFL history. No Albert Haynesworth till the playoffs? No Kyle Vanden Bosch till the playoffs? No worries! We'll just trot out a second-round pick from Eastern Michigan, Jason Jones, to get 3.5 sacks and force three fumbles in a game for AFC home-field advantage through the playoffs. We'll just start a free-agent from UCLA who didn't even play football in 2007, Dave Ball, for Vanden Bosch, rotate him with Jacob Ford, and get four quarterback hits out of them. And when Jevon Kearse, the left end, goes down early in the second half, we'll throw a fourth-round pick from Winston-Salem State, William Hayes, in the game, and he'll get a sack of Ben Roethlisberger, a forced fumble, and a fumble recovery.

Paul Kuharsky delivers the best non-MCM recap you'll read on yesterday's game, and here he explains those perplexing penalties that we couldn't get explained because of the sound problems.

Our fellas played a great game, but now it's time for Fisher to remind them that paving the road to the Super Bowl ain't the same thing as going down it.

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griffin had a monster game

he also downed a punt in the 5 that was huge for us….

by vancouverTITAN on Dec 22, 2008 9:35 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Good call! Griff is the best at downing those...

the Chicago game jumps to mind. Wish I could find a stat on that because it’s a huge advantage when we can start them backed in like that.

Where I was raised 2 + 2 = 3rd and 6.

by August West on Dec 22, 2008 10:02 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Hey August

Just wanted to say how much I love the Morning Links! Good Job! And Thanks!

by theologic on Dec 22, 2008 10:15 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Thank you very much theologic!

and remember, commenting is the best way – short of sending country ham – to show your appreciation!

Where I was raised 2 + 2 = 3rd and 6.

by August West on Dec 22, 2008 10:17 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Nnamdi Asomugha vs Andre Johnson

The Texans didn’t even throw Johnson a pass until after Asomugha left with a neck injury/concussion in the 4th quarter. He finished 2 for 19.

Asomugha is the best CB in the league.

Shonn Greene for Heisman
Doak Walker award winner
144 yards per game
6.2 yards per carry
08 TDs per game > 06 GPA

by shake n bake on Dec 22, 2008 10:52 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Hey, I never said he wasn't

but if Adrian Peterson only got 300 yards on 300 carries all year because teams were playing 11 in the box, would you still put him in the Pro Bowl?

Where I was raised 2 + 2 = 3rd and 6.

by August West on Dec 22, 2008 10:56 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Tackles and INTs are a horrible measure of a corner

if a CB had 200 tackles and 10 picks because teams threw at him 400 times because they got completions and TDs the vast majority of the time should the CB go to the Pro Bowl.

First and foremost a corners job isn’t to make tackles or even interceptions it’s to cover the WR. Again it’s like a great pass blocker, you can tell his greatness from the absence of production from the guy he’s going against. Andre Johnson went for 209 yards and a TD on a much better overall defense, against Asomugha he didn’t break 20 yards. Asomugha’s tremendous value is in the ~190 yards he prevented.

Shonn Greene for Heisman
Doak Walker award winner
144 yards per game
6.2 yards per carry
08 TDs per game > 06 GPA

by shake n bake on Dec 22, 2008 11:43 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

that's a good argument

I just didn’t care to research every DB and their common opponents, so I went by available measures. That being said, you’ve convinced me of Asomugha’s value over Reeves. I think you’re undervaluing INTs, which are game changing plays that flip the field most of the time (thereby helping offense, special teams and defense), but I’ll give you this one.

Where I was raised 2 + 2 = 3rd and 6.

by August West on Dec 22, 2008 12:54 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs