Tennessee Titans Morning Links: Deflating Parity Edition

by August West on Oct 15, 2009 8:39 AM CDT in Linkage Comment 12 comments

Raise your hand if your complete and utter lack of production is killing your team... not you Tony Brown!

If you're expecting a repentant, remorseful Jevon Kearse after he stormed out of the locker room Sunday night, then you'll be disappointed. Kearse had this to say:

"First of all, I wanted to go hang out with my family and friends that I had in town. And second of all, I didn’t think one person not on the sideline was going to make a difference in this game," Kearse said.

Kearse made no promises that such a thing wouldn’t happen again if he were deactivated.

"It depends on how I’m feeling. It depends on how I’m feeling right now," Kearse said. "I kind of knew it was going to happen throughout the week or whatever. But once it happened, I mean there was nothing I could do. I wanted to go hang out with my family and friends I had in town, and that’s what I did."

Kind of dickish, no?

The only person who may have been more surprised by Jevon's deactivation may be the man who replaced him, William Hayes

After reading this headline, I'm left to wonder if the writer was seriously afraid that the Patriots might not notice that the third leading rusher in the NFL on our roster?

Follow us through the jump to find out what's going wrong with parity in the NFL...

Interesting article on how parity in the NFL may be leaning towards ineptitude, with us leading the argument that a lot of teams are unexplainably bad this year. Looking at the teams who are struggling they all seem to have one of two things going on: new coach or QB problems.

It's going to become the question of the decade for us because choosing the wrong path would be disastrous: do we rebuild or reload?

Philly fans are still hatin' on Kearse.

Injury update: Finny still isn't practicing.

Best picture I've seen all year... it's even better if you hate his slow, floating passes.

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Unload Kearse

Not the first (nor probably the last) suggestion of dealing Kearse to the Broncos I’ve seen.

See ya, asshole.

by TNTitans on Oct 15, 2009 8:53 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I don't know, it's a little harsh to call him a dick.

As fans, we forget the business side of the game – and the head games that are played on the players. Will they play or not? Is it a punishment? He says that he sort of knew all week? Why didn’t he know for sure? Likewise, will KVB and KB be resigned? Who knows, since it is a business.

Think about this – if you treat your players as faceless cogs in a machine that are interchangable and disposable, how can you expect commitment from them? Cause they are paid to be loyal and root for the team? What a joke.

by FaninEcuador on Oct 15, 2009 9:10 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Well

If the guy were getting paid $7/hr to work at Taco Bell, I’d not expect him to be very local to the franchise.

But the guy is making 6 MILLION DOLLARS, so yeah, I don’t think it’s too much for him to be loyal to his teammates.

And as a fan who has season tickets, I can ASSURE you that I do not forget about the “business side” of the game come springtime.

by TNTitans on Oct 15, 2009 9:13 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

+1 - Best Response Nominee - MCM Hall of Fame

Bring Back Vince Young!

by pigskinpundits.com on Oct 15, 2009 10:12 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

THEN REC IT.

Official MCM Hater!

Retire #9!

by gramsey712 on Oct 15, 2009 10:22 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Instead of looking at the negative why don't we applaud the fact that there is a worthy successor

The draft class of William Hayes, Jason Jones, and Chris Johnson was one hell of a class!

by Titanfan on Oct 15, 2009 10:50 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Loyalty is earned

As is respect.

I don’t recall Kearse ever having done this before. Looks like the team is imploding.

by Rustmeister on Oct 15, 2009 9:57 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I remember how excited Kearse was when he was signed

And he has always been a team player before. But I agree, the team is in chaos right now.

To use the Taco Bell example above, I wouldn’t expect loyalty to be given or received from the minimum wage guy. But since Kearse is a veteran player that has always been a team guy, and to be treated like a scrub is probably what pissed him off.

by FaninEcuador on Oct 15, 2009 1:14 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

You can rationalize all you want

But the guy decided that his time was more important than the team.

That’s not the kind of player that I want to cheer for and, were I the coach, it wouldn’t be the kind of player that I’d want on my team. Period.

by TNTitans on Oct 15, 2009 1:47 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I concur.

Official MCM Hater!

Retire #9!

by gramsey712 on Oct 15, 2009 1:54 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's not like he has been here his whole career

He bailed on the Titans for a bigger paycheck. I can’t blame him for that, but it’s not like he’s been here through thick and then. He left…then came back when nobody else wanted him anymore. He didnt come back b/c he loves the Titans or b/c of loyalty. He came back b/c he had no where else to go.

by DonFrancisco on Oct 15, 2009 8:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

i wished he wouldve handled it differently, but he was shafted by the team and took a reasonable human reaction. this team has slapped too many vets in the face and its starting to backfire on them

by mattd97 on Oct 15, 2009 3:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs