Tennessee Titans Morning Links: Big Potential Creates Big Expectations Edition

put up more of a fight than their offense did…

…make up a game on the Colts, and that could be hard to do given the non-conference schedule. I don’t know that I believe the Dolphins can really help us here, although I suppose if the Colts’ Run-D doesn’t put something together, there’s always a chance. After all, I gave the Jags NO CHANCE AT ALL against the Colts. I think the Fins are a bit better than that.

BTW, if you guys didn’t pay any attention to the Giants vs. Skins game, it was pretty good one. Similar to the Titans/Steelers, really, in that the Gianst were the MUCH better team in the first half but couldn’t put the points on the board to reflect it. However, they did great work vs. Haynesworth and really wore him down.

Second half, however, was a different story. Big Al had a MUCH better second half, almost single-handedly stopping the Giants’ running attack in its tracks. Really, if the Skins had a better Offense, they’d have been able to win that game.

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I don’t want this blog turning into the Tennessean’s comment section. Both teams are 0-1, and one of them will be 0-2 Sunday night. No news in the fact that we think that will be the Texans, and you think it will be the Titans. Let’s get back to the on the field discussion.

i think the jets defense is going to be in the top tier of elite defenses this season. it would be unwise to underestimate the texans based upon the goose egg the jets fed them. andre johnson is still alive, and if schaub gets time, you can’t cover him for long.
the jets being an under dog was foolish in the first place. if rex ryan is there, and they have pro bowl talent at every level of the defense, it’s going to be a good defense.

if we have nate and cook back at full speed, the offense should look A LOT better this week (though 300+ yards on pittsburgh ain’t bad). it’s easy to feel bad about 10 points, especially when you leave 6 on the board, but the steelers are the steelers and many teams will look a lot worse against that defense this season than the titans did on thursday. if bo is still gimpy, i hope they won’t hesitate to rest him and throw cook into the fire. alge and stevens can handle the blocking fine. i can’t wait to see what this kid looks like in a real game against 1st teamers.

in my opinion, if we can hold White and Johnson, we will be fine. the biggest matchups, in my opinion, break down like this:
*AJ vs you guy’s corner
*O-Line vs D-Line (ours)
*D-Line vs O-Line (yours)
if we can get pressure on Collins, should give the secondary some help, which looked suspect this week.

But does anyone have an info on what Volek did to piss off Coach Fish back in the day? I was just curious about this the other day and figured someone here would know something more about it.

Cutler had a rough game, but it’s obvious that Vandy star Earl Bennett is going to become a favorite target.

Vernon Davis attitude thing is long gone… He’s a team captain based on his work ethic and leadership now.