Tuesday Morning Football Outsiders Reading
by Jimmy on Sep 15, 2009 9:03 AM CDT
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PrintSince August is tied up this morning, I figured I would give you a couple of Titans' centered articles on Football Outsiders to read while waiting for your regularly scheduled morning links.
The first article is basically a running conversation between some of the FO guys while watching the Titans vs. Steelers game. My favorite line from the conversation:
Vince Verhei: Jeff Fisher and Mike Tomlin have my permission to coach forever. Both teams have been tenacious on every play. The sequence before Pittsburgh's field goal, when they lined up for a play on fourth down, had me way too excited. Tennessee showed great discipline and preparation, not coming close to jumping offside. And then Pittsburgh takes delay of game rather waste a timeout when they were going to kick a field goal anyway. I think 80 percent of coaches would have taken a timeout there.
I couldn't agree with him more.
The second article comes from Mike Kurtz and Tom Gower and talks about the over/unders for AFC teams. Gower, who also writes for Total Titans, has this gem in his paragraph:
The offense is poised to be better, if only by the subtraction of Justin McCareins and a receiving corps that could be as good as the 20th best in the NFL, which would be the best it's been since at least 2004.
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They’re going to need something to work in the receiving game, because the only question Justin Gage is the answer to is “who is the most mediocre no. one wide receiver in the NFL,”
Has he watched the Raiders play? For that matter, in this offense, I’m taking Justin Gage over any of the starting Bears receivers.
Agreed SuperHorn
I know he isn’t great, but Gage seems much improved and played fairly well, except for the two drops that are debatable as drops, against Pittsburgh, especially considering all the attention was focused on him.
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by T--Rac's Posse on Sep 15, 2009 9:54 AM CDT up reply actions
He's a very good possession receiver.
The Titans seem to understand this. With that in mind, let’s all get off his back for not being something that he’s never claimed to be.
DannoE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
I think most of MIke’s critique of Gage comes from watching Gage with the Bears, when he was hyped well beyond his actual abilities. Still, let’s not pretend he’s much beyond “definitely useful, even if miscast as a #1.”
He reminds me a little of Wayne Chrebet.
I don’t know what Chrebet looked like, but Gage is the same type of player. Only instead of sending him over the middle, the Titans seem content to send him up the sideline. Still… he’s the guys who’s gonna run to the sticks, turn, and grab the 1st Down. And then if some idiot misses a tackle, Gage might run a few yards. That type of play defines nearly all of his scoring in the past two years.
DannoE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
you can have your owner....
but i’ll take that coach back. Fish is the MAN… and it’s a shame he don’t have a ring. blame your evil ass owner… he’s a curse all into himself.
"If you're an asshole, you're gonna come back as a cockroach or a worm or a fuckin' anal bead, okay? If you're a man and you act heroic, you'll come back as an eagle. You'll come back as a dragon."
if your city weren't so stupid
he would still be there. if you want the ginormous public and private revenue engine also known as the nfl in your town, you got to pay the piper. houston decided to play hardball and nashville took advantage. so instead of paying for a new stadium for the team you had, you decided to pay for a stadium for an expansion team that sucks. brilliant!
The Dual Threat, Official Enforcer/Stat Geek of MCM.
I'll agree
that Fisher’s defenses are tenacious, but his offenses . . . not so much. He just doesn’t seem to demand the same type of intensity on offense. Fisher is all about defense. It’s his ‘Buddy Ryan’ training. He even plays offense defensively. It’s like it’s a play not to lose mentality and ‘safely grind it out’ on offense. I wish he had the same attacking mentality on offense.
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