Tennessee Titans Morning Links: I Just Can't Stop Messing My Mind Up Edition
by August West on Jan 15, 2010 8:54 AM CST
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The Sporting News, despite being enough of a dump to give Mike Florio a paycheck, had the insight and cojones to name Vince Young the 2009 Comeback Player of the Year yesterday. I know at one point VY had a low, low feeling around him, but he just kept on movin'... just like Supergrass (who have to rank pretty high on any list of overlooked bands from the 90's). I've been missing my Friday Jams, people.
Follow us through the jump if you dare...
Former Titans GM Floyd Reese is on the verge of landing the Seattle Seahawks job, according to Jason La Canfora of nfl.com. It'll be an interesting situation to keep an eye on as nobody knows how much control Reese will have over personnel; I mean he's basically being picked by head coach Pete Carrol, rather than the other way around.
Terry McCormick goes word count be damned in this profile piece for the City Paper's alternative/sister publication, The Nashville Scene. He covers the roller coaster ride 2009 was for the rookies, who were understandably completely unequipped to deal with an NFL season that was so volatile. I mean they got drafted by a 13 win team, then had no idea if their coach would survive the season at one point.
Long-time Titans running back coach Sherman Smith, who has been the O-coordinator for the Jim Zorn regime in D.C., will be looking for work as Mike Shanahan informed him yesterday that he's being replaced by his son, Kyle Shanahan.
In other 'former Jeff Fisher employee news', Norm Chow has spurned USC's offer and will stay at UCLA.
Since there ain't much happening in the Titans' stratosphere today, cheer yourself up with some LOLs from KSK, which leads with a tremendous Spaceballs reference.
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Supergrass is G!!
I think I liked Floyd better as a TV anaylist than I did as a GM…you know August, all this stuff is really interesting and everything….but, all I can think of right now is the draft…but I’m sure you guys are probably tired of talking about it…still…I would love to know who your 1st, 2nd & 3rd picks would be.
I don't think that's fair to Reese.
I mean, he was not a bad GM by any standard. He had an opinion with some serious merit: he picked the players, and Fisher should—at times—alter the scheme to fit those players, especially if those players were real potential stand-outs. He was also very good at finding diamonds in the rough in the later rounds, and he had a reasonable amount of success in the upper rounds. Moreover, Fisher and the coaching staff had PLENTY of say in some of the high-profile disasters. *cough*Chris Henry*cough*
And yes, Reese allowed the Salary Cap to blow up, but at least he spent all the money that he had to work with. And then, too, one wonders at the orders that he had. He was trying to hold a championship-caliber team together. His strategy—holding it together to give Fisher the maximum number of chances to actually win with it—would not have been a problem if Fisher had succeeded in actually winning it all in either 2000 or 2001.
DannoE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
And BTW, kudos to both Norm Chow and David Cutcliffe.
Those guys both showed courage and personal integrity this week.
DannoE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
Cutcliffe showed the same integrity that cost him his job at Ole Miss
He is a little too loyal to his sub-par assistants.
But that is good, cause I didn’t want him anyway.
Official MCM Hater!
Retire #9!
Why not?
He was the best available candidate. Having been turned down by both Cutcliffe and the coach at Air Force, the Vols are in for a serious hurtin’ now. If it was me, at this point, I’d bite the bullet, fire my AD, and go on my hands and knees to Fulmer.
DannoE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
Come on Danno
Calhoun wasn’t leaving Air Force at this point. He is an Air Force alum (although I would have loved him).
Cutcliffe is Fulmer 2.0, with worse assistants, and that is OK if you are happy with 7 and 5, 7 and 5, 7 and 5, 8 and 4, 10-2 OMG!!!!!111, 7 and 5.
And all this is Jeff Fisher’s fault. If he would have just taken that USC job, both of my teams would have been in better shape.
Official MCM Hater!
Retire #9!
That's what you were getting with Kiffin, too, only with more lip.
Besides, what was Calhoun gonna do? Put in the triple-option? Ugh. I mean, it’s fine, it’s even fine for a big school, but it’s not what you want at the university that was once known as Receiver U, that created Peyton Manning, Travis Henry, etc, ad naseum. C’mon.
Cutcliffe is a real coach with a real resume. As it is, you’re looking to take another chance, and that IS NOT GOOD.
DannoE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
calhoun
has nfl experience. he’s only doing the triple option because that’s the best way for undermanned airforce teams to be successful. also because it was the system in place when he got there.
The Dual Threat, Official Enforcer/Stat Geek of MCM.
Hey gramsey, speaking of Ole Miss...
what do think of drafting Greg Hardy?
by titansfan4ever on Jan 15, 2010 10:16 AM CST up reply actions
I honestly don't know anything about him. I was unable to watch the UT/Ole Miss game this year.
Thank goodness.
Official MCM Hater!
Retire #9!
I watched it.
Only one player stood out, and he was a RB.
DannoE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
Honestly... he might have been Superman.
DannoE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
With a name like Dexter...
you know he learned how to run fast.
by titansfan4ever on Jan 15, 2010 10:34 AM CST up reply actions
At 6'5" & 250lbs...if he's got the kind of speed I think he has...
he’s gonna really put pressure on opposing QBs. I’m tired of QBs picking our secondary apart (which is sayin much, I realize :-(
by titansfan4ever on Jan 15, 2010 10:23 AM CST up reply actions
Question is....
how do you think he’ll do in Seattle?
by titansfan4ever on Jan 15, 2010 10:09 AM CST up reply actions
I think Reese will do FINE in Seattle.
It’s an open question how well Pete Carrol will do, but I think that Floyd Reese is definitely a Top-50% GM in the League, and I have little doubt that he can successfully provide the team with quality players for their roster. Matter of fact, I thought Reese would have been an IDEAL hire for the Lions last year, and in fact, it’s indicative of that franchise’s problems that they DIDN’T go get a proven GM to help them fix their team.
DannoE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
Yeah, I guess it's nowhere but up for Seattle...
they’ve been doormats for the last several years.
by titansfan4ever on Jan 15, 2010 10:14 AM CST up reply actions
I think Reese will bomb, but more because of what you said
Even if he does a good job, Pete Carroll will doom him.
T-Rac's Posse - T-Rac is one boss raccoon.
My personal Tribute to Air McNair
by T--Rac's Posse on Jan 15, 2010 10:59 AM CST up reply actions
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