Tennessee Titans Morning Links: Crazy Legs Über Alles Edition
by August West on Sep 17, 2008 8:58 AM CDT
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The Texans will come into LP field with a heavy heart and a worried mind Sunday. This is one of the times when sports will one day help rally Houston together, but with no power or potable water and dwindling relief supplies, now is really the time for these guys to be focusing on taking care of their own. My heart goes out to them for having to leave to play a game.
Hall of Fame Titan/Oiler Bruce Matthews, who famously never missed a game due to injury, tore a tendon in his quadriceps while cleaning up from the damage and devastation caused by Hurricane Ike.
Gary Estwick reminds us that though our WRs stink, there isn't much else out there.
Whether you say it's Collins, Dinger or both, the Titans are a much better team in the red-zone this year. It's also nice to know that as Alge gets more in rhythm with the passing game we could become even better in this area.
Because defense wins championships, but rarely beauty pageants, ESPN guys put us at no. 9 in their composite Power Rankings.
Paul Kuharsky devotes an entire mailbag column to Vince Young and the coverage surrounding the situation. I'm hoping people will read the following exchange and realize that the reports that Vince was 'suicidal' were not as clean or airtight as most media clowns would like them to have us believe:
Unknown from New Rochelle writes: Regarding the Vince Young situation, I am just wondering how something as confidential as a conversation between a therapist and a patient became public information. Surely, somone has breached something and this, in my mind, is shameful...!
Paul Kuharsky: Police reports are public information and according to the report, which we know had at least two factual errors in it, Jeff Fisher relayed information to police that someone had relayed to him.
In the video on the right side of the page, Terry Bradshaw gives Vince Young the best advice I've heard over the past week and a half. Few QBs were hammered and insulted like Terry was and yet went on to win Super Bowls, so I take his comments on this with more weight than just about anyone else around the game.
SI scribe Bucky Brooks picks Crazy Legs as the current leader for rookie of the year. He also gives props to Cortland Finnegan (I'm so happy we got him signed to that extension before he stepped it up even further this year), Albert Haynesworth and Jeff Fisher.
If you have anything you'd like to pass along for the next day's links, email me at mcmaugustwest@gmail.com
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Things just went from bad worse for the Colts
Per NFL.com, Bob Sanders could miss between 4-6 weeks. Since people are jumping to conclusions about the end of VY’s career, how about this one…is this the end of the line for the Colt’s dominance in the AFC South?
Yes.
Without Sanders, they are not at all good against the run (see also: Peterson, Adrian & First Half Dominance). This is a problem when you have to play Chicago once and Jax and TN twice. Manning is still a great player, but even he was barely adequate against one of the worst secondaries in the League (Vikings). Against better coached and more well-balanced teams, they are gonna get hammered.
It really sucks for them to have to play Jacksonville in a week where they have neither Sanders nor J. Saturday. I predict that the 0-2 Jags move to 1-2 and “make a statement”.
DannoE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
Go Titans!
BTW, reading that VY piece from Kuharsky (and the other stuff in the Tennessean)...
…it is clear that the media guys do not like VY. At all.
DannoE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
Go Titans!
He certainly wasn't making friends by refusing to talk to the press after all of his worst games...
now that his image has taken a beating I guess guys feel a little more OK taking shots at him.
Michael Roos doesn't eat pitas because NOTHING BREAKS THE POCKET ON HIS WATCH!!!
by August West on Sep 17, 2008 10:59 AM CDT up reply actions
Manning was "barely adequate" on Sunday?
I’m guessing you didn’t watch the game then, which makes sense since the Titans game was on at the same time.
Manning was dropping back behind 4 backup OL, and Ryan Diem. The Vikings D-Line, which is one of the best in the league, was teeing off on every play, since they knew the Colts could not run the ball (19 carries, 25 yards). The ability of your secondary doesn’t mean much when you have less than 2 seconds to get rid of the ball.
All Manning did was lead his team back from 15 down, throw for 311 yards, and threw some absolutely perfect passes. The Vikings were 109-0 all time when leading by at least 15 points in the 2nd half. I guess all it took was a “barely adequate” performance to snap that streak.
And the Colts haven’t been very good against the run for 5 years now (15th, 32nd, 16th, 24th, 20th). They’ve won at least 12 games each of those years. Why would it be any different this year?
I meant that Manning, as Superman, was barely enough for them to win the game.
He was basically all by himself out there.
I obviously could have been a little clearer with that.
DannoE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
Go Titans!
As for the difference, I think that is speaking for itself.
DannoE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
Go Titans!
I'm not following
If it is Sanders, he missed 12 games in ’06, and that season turned out ok for the Colts.
Sure it is a blow, but the Colts have handled worse, while still winning games.
From the outside looking in, you guys were a lot deeper 2 years ago than today.
It’s not just Sanders, it’s the Sanders injury piled on top of all the others.
Michael Roos doesn't eat pitas because NOTHING BREAKS THE POCKET ON HIS WATCH!!!
by August West on Sep 17, 2008 12:18 PM CDT up reply actions
There are definitely more injuries this season than 2006
I’d agree with that. Plus add in the whole Ed Johnson thing, which makes matters worse.
Trying to think back, CB was definitely deeper, as Jackson and Hayden were Nickel and Dime backs in ’06. DL is about the same, but our starting DT were much better than with Brock and Booger, with little behind them.
The OL is obviously decimated this season, but looking up. They haven’t said anything on Ugoh yet, and Saturday may play this week, as he practiced all last week.
I think the majority feeling is as long as we can tread water until November (or that Monday night game right before November), we’ll be getting a lot of these guys back, and the Colts will start looking like the Colts again. The bye week comes at a great time for us next week.
They can still be in the hunt as long as they don't drop too many games...
…before J. Saturday gets back. It seems like his loss is worse than the loss of Sanders. The problem will come if the loss of Sanders—on top of Saturday—allows every team in the AFC South to go a game up on the Colts. Every team in the division keys on the run, even Indy, so that makes the losses on both sides of the ball that much more critical.
DannoE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
Go Titans!
They can't get too far behind
The Titans will more than likely pull away from the rest of the AFC South with these upcoming games if Indy can’t get healthy quick
by Michaeltastic on Sep 17, 2008 3:21 PM CDT up reply actions
It will take 12 wins to win the AFC South
And right now, I cannot say the Titans won’t do that. They’ve played very well so far, and 12 wins is definitely possible. The Monday night game in Nashville will be very important.
The two games that are different for the Titans (NYJ and KC) are much nicer games than both the Colts (NE and SD) and the Jaguars (BUF and DEN), so the Titans have a built-in advantage already.
yeah
Titans got a schedule bump from the fact that those two games are decided based on division rank (3rd last year despite being 10-6) and not record.
Oh I meant on offense...
because the 2006 Colts were an abomination on D until Sanders got back … just ask the Jaguars.
Michael Roos doesn't eat pitas because NOTHING BREAKS THE POCKET ON HIS WATCH!!!
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