Wednesday Morning Tennessee Titans Linkage
In case you missed it yesterday, Joe Horn is interested in playing for the Titans, but the Titans aren't interested in having him.
"At this point, I don’t think we would have any interest," Reinfeldt said of Horn, who was released by the Atlanta Falcons.
Jim Wyatt's report on the morning special teams practice.
The Tennessean mentions that August's boy Kyle Vanden Bosch cut his body fat to 5% in the offseason, and that gramsey's boy Michael Griffin was laying the wood at Tuesday's afternoon practice.
"You don’t want no cheap shots if nobody sees you coming," Griffin said, "but if I feel like you see me coming the whole way, it’s an even battle."
KVB is also giving back this season. He is donating $1,000 for every sack to his foundation to raise money to help find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis. Fans can make a donation at KVB93.com.
Terry McCormick suggests that the offense will look better when they have time to game-plan for opponents. While I don't doubt that is true, I don't think it is a good excuse for the offense looking as bad as it did. The defenses the Titans are facing are not game-planning for them either. I don't understand why someone cannot just step forward and say that Vince Young played bad on Friday night.
Finally, because you can never have enough fantasy football games, I have created a Pick'em League and a Survival Football League for the readers of this site. To sign up just go to the Yahoo! Fantasy Sports page, click join a private group, enter league #31482 for the picks and #9797 for survival. The password for both leagues is gotitans. Also, if you are interested in playing in one of the MCM fantasy football leagues let me know.
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The Raiders blitzed A LOT in that game. So much so that Fisher had to...
…put a back in the backfield for extra protection. But he still refused to change the gameplan in order to attempt to take advantage of the blitz. Clearly, he didn’t mind giving up some opportunities for the chance to see how his receivers would do in man-coverage. He was looking for them to make adjustments to their hot-reads as per the base Offense, but they couldn’t or didn’t do it.
That said, he certainly could have mandidated a change to the reads or a change to the offensive look (i.e. “done something scheme-wise to take advantage of the blitz”), but he did not. He chose to stay very strictly vanilla.
Anyway, that’s the subtext, which, of course, explains everything he’s been saying all along, not that the reporters have understood it—to the exasperation of everyone. But for us here:
1. It’s a simple fix because the “correction” is a change to the WRs hot-read. He shouldn’t have to tell them again, but apparently he does.
2. This also explains—at least in part—why VY is holding the ball so long and getting so much pressure. First off, pressure from the blitz, even when it’s picked up. Secondly, Vince is looking for the receivers to make a break, but they’re not making the right reads. So then he has to look to his check-down.
3. One can argue that all that blitzing is, in fact, game planning on the part of the Raiders. Certainly, it’s not the norm to blitz on the first three defensive plays from scrimage in the pre-season.
None of which excuses VY’s play. He was off-target a lot, especially as the first half went on. Still, one can imagine that it wasn’t a fun night for him. Trying to get into a rhythm and knowing that he’s basically got one hand tied behind his back. You could actually watch his form and confidence breaking down as the half progressed.
DannoE
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Go Titans!
by DannoE on
Aug 20, 2008 7:04 AM CDT
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The Patriots ...
… did that to us a lot in preseason last year.
It’s like they don’t want Vince to get in a rhythm or something….
by Rustmeister on
Aug 20, 2008 7:23 AM CDT
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Hey Jimmy I'd like to be in one of the Fantasy Leagues
by nvemvp23 on
Aug 20, 2008 11:47 AM CDT
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For what it's worth, I got the email but don't have time.
Thanks though. I really appreciate the invite.
DannoE
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Go Titans!
by DannoE on
Aug 20, 2008 12:44 PM CDT
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