2009 Tennessee Titans Roster Review: Offensive Line
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by T--Rac's Posse on Feb 9, 2010 11:17 AM CST up reply actions
Really?
Care to explain how? We have Leroy Harris who is more than capable of handling his spot. And we can just re-sign mawae.
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by DonFrancisco on Feb 9, 2010 11:32 AM CST up reply actions
0h, man, this is my favorite post of the year
O-line is where I played, and trust me if you have never been there: blocking for a guy like Kerry vs blocking for a guy like Vince are two very, very different things.
The fact that this crew could do both so well is a testiment to their talent and abilities.
Great group!! No doubt!
by JimR on Feb 9, 2010 12:44 PM CST via mobile reply actions
serious question since i dont know
but how so?
"hey, quit reading these ridiculous words of wisdom and get back to work!"
I also
played Oline… actually this past year ( See Amarillo High Sandies 5A District (( Hardest District in the State of Texas, we finished 2nd to Odessa High )) ). I was the starting left guard… you can figure out who I am from there…
Protecting for a pocket passer is really not much more different than protecting for an agile Quarterback like Vince Young… ( Oline that is )
Trust your step… stay on your guy… and your blocking assignments.
Oline is where it’s at… I have so much respect for the way these guy’s play…. especially David Stewart.
This is just weird
I played my HS ball in West Texas, too (ain’t saying where except we were too small – 2A – to play Odessa).
I also played two years of college ball before transferring to UT where I did not play.
I respectfully disagree that protecting a pocket passer is the same as for a mobile, roll out scrambler.
A lot of it is because you have to put a lot more effort into keeping track of where the QB is behind you, knowing when to switch from pass blocking to run blocking, and the mix of plays is very different, requiring different skills.
Also, I was a Center, and there are usually more deep snaps with a scrambler.
And, you usually run a lot further per game with a scrambler, which tires out a poor old lineman. :-)
There’s a lot more, but I’m typing on an iPhone, and that’s all I can do now.
by JimR on Feb 9, 2010 3:13 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Ain't saying cause we were so small
It gets too personal
We were so small, there were only 19 of us on our traveling squad my senior year.
The Mean Nineteen!! :-)
by JimR on Feb 9, 2010 3:27 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
I played OLine too
and I agree with JimR here. When you know its a pass from the pocket, you know where the QB is supposed to be. From there you can push the guy to the outside of the play and whatnot and just worry about blocking the guy in front of you.
Now when you have a QB that runs from the pocket, you generally have no idea which way he goes. When the DLine then follows, you’d think it’d be good to let him go that way since the QB is supposed to be sitting pretty, but then he gets a good lane for the sack.
Too many times we got made look bad when the QB would get jitters in the pocket and just rollout when he wasn’t supposed to. The play calls for us to form a pocket, and you do your best to stay in position to make one and then later realizing the QB is 5 yards away and is getting tackled from who knows who.
Or maybe I was just a terrible lineman and was incapable of blocking.
Amen!
I shudder to think of the times when I embarrassed after blocking my guy right into the QB because he was nowhere near where I thought he was. It really makes you look bad.
by JimR on Feb 9, 2010 10:22 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
haha
whenever we did good, nobody noticed. however, whenever it was bad, we always get the blame. the downfall of playing Oline.
I think I got noticed once in a good way
It was my one claim to fame in HS. I was the center when we scored on a 57 yard quarterback sneak. I flattened the middle linebacker (and the safety was out of position.)
by JimR on Feb 10, 2010 6:50 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
Hey, this is off subject, but.....
what was your favorite SB commercial?
by titansfan4ever on Feb 10, 2010 12:01 PM CST up reply actions
Wow. That is out of blue!
Is this a trick question? Is there one of the commercials that dumb Texans are supposed to prefer? :-)
Seriously, I was rooting for the Homeaway ad (with Chevy Chase reprising his Vacation role) because the company is based here in Austin, and they were the local sentimental favorite. Plus, I actually got to see the refurbished “Truckster” on the street here one day.
Other than that, no one ad jumped out at me this year as better than the rest.
How about you?
by JimR on Feb 10, 2010 12:42 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Mine was the Doritos ad.
I liked both, but the one with the guy in the casket full of chips made me lol. The E-Trade ones were funny, too. I guess if the Titans had made it, I’d be talking more about the game. I was soooooo glad to be wrong, though, since I’d picked the Saints to win. The look on Peyton’s face when threw that pick in 4th qtr…….PRICELESS!!!!!!!
by titansfan4ever on Feb 10, 2010 12:56 PM CST up reply actions
should be “since I’d picked the Colts to win”
by titansfan4ever on Feb 10, 2010 12:59 PM CST up reply actions
Maybe I'm just mean
but I prefered the Doritos ads where 1) the old guy tased the young guy who jumped in front of him at the vending machine, and 2) the dog put the shock collar on his owner.
by JimR on Feb 10, 2010 1:08 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
You're just showing your sadistic side...
how about the Bud Light one where the guy’s girl is having a book club…or the one where guys start talking like synthesizers.
by titansfan4ever on Feb 10, 2010 1:13 PM CST up reply actions
So...........
how inane do you think this stale thread has to get before August gets it in gear and posts a fresh version of Morning links?
by JimR on Feb 10, 2010 1:12 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
How did you know...
that was my motive?
by titansfan4ever on Feb 10, 2010 1:14 PM CST up reply actions
We still have a long, long way to go
to create the worst thread ever! This isn’t even close to some of the doozies from the good old Kerry vs Vince days.
by JimR on Feb 10, 2010 2:07 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Yeah, those were the days.
Hey maybe we should start a new topic like "What was your favorite Titans/Oilers memory of all time?
by titansfan4ever on Feb 10, 2010 2:16 PM CST up reply actions
Let's start a rumor
that smash and gramsey are trying to get control of MCM from Jimmy and August in a radical coup d’état
by JimR on Feb 10, 2010 2:13 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
You don't have to "get" control when you already have control.
Official MCM Hater!
mARKEITH say GO TROGANS!
So, isn't that how people get around up there?
by titansfan4ever on Feb 11, 2010 2:03 PM CST up reply actions
Well, check out this exciting thread that me & JimR have going here!!
See what you’ve been missing.
by titansfan4ever on Feb 11, 2010 2:23 PM CST up reply actions
First...you are not.
Second….it is not G! (but your sarcasm is G!)
by titansfan4ever on Feb 11, 2010 3:43 PM CST up reply actions
BTW....
somebody tell smash that Claire Bennett CANNOT be killed!!!
by titansfan4ever on Feb 10, 2010 1:15 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah...that's right
it was her friend that died
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by Aditya T (smashville) on Feb 10, 2010 2:24 PM CST up reply actions
I didn't really want to correct you, but...
I ’ve always wanted to feel like SuperHorn :-)
by titansfan4ever on Feb 10, 2010 2:25 PM CST up reply actions
sorry guys,
life got in the way for everybody this morning, it seems. I’m working on getting something up soon.
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It's not a problem at all
We just got bored and started razzing you. If we were good citizens, we would have spent our time looking up links for you.
by JimR on Feb 10, 2010 2:18 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
He's kinda like the Genie in the Lamp....
you just rub him the wrong way and…..BOOM….there he is!!
by titansfan4ever on Feb 10, 2010 2:20 PM CST up reply actions
BTW....
did smash & gramsey carry off that radical coup thing?
by titansfan4ever on Feb 10, 2010 2:23 PM CST up reply actions
Well, we just heard from August, unless.......
gramsey got his password in the coup!!!
Then it’s kinda like a cyberspace version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers!
by JimR on Feb 10, 2010 2:29 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Yeah, when alleged "August" apologized...
I thought something was up????
by titansfan4ever on Feb 10, 2010 2:33 PM CST up reply actions
Come to think of it....
gramsey would NEVER have apologized.
by titansfan4ever on Feb 10, 2010 2:35 PM CST up reply actions
Don't you understand?!? It's all part of gramsey's
diabolical plot to make us believe that August is still really August. It’s all out of control. Run!!
by JimR on Feb 10, 2010 2:44 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
I think hal is behind it all...
have you noticed he’s been absent lately?
by titansfan4ever on Feb 10, 2010 3:11 PM CST up reply actions
OK. Serious question (for once)
Didn’t Hal move away and sort of disengage from MCM? I have been offline myself for a while, but I thought I saw a post to that effect a while back.
by JimR on Feb 10, 2010 3:23 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
He moved to Rhode Island...
now a serious ? for you…is it snowing up there yet? I’m @ Canyon Lake & they say it’s supposed to.
by titansfan4ever on Feb 10, 2010 3:45 PM CST up reply actions
Perfect timing on your question
My wife just called from the office with a weather update from all her co-workers who are at home: it was sleeting on the UT campus earlier, but it has quit now; light snow has just been reported at both Round Rock and the Salt Lick – so, basically both north and south of the city, but not in central Austin. Should I start a Fanpost with Austin weather updates? :-) Jimmy would probably ban me!
by JimR on Feb 10, 2010 5:31 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
So, did you ever get any snow at Canyon Lake
BTW how’s the lake level? Did you guys get hit as hard as us by the drought this summer?
by JimR on Feb 11, 2010 11:12 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
No snow day here!!!
and yes, we did get hit hard by the drought, but with all the rain we’ve had in the past 3-4 months, we’re back up to full pool :-)
by titansfan4ever on Feb 11, 2010 2:20 PM CST up reply actions
Odessa High?
Is that the same school where Claire Bennet was killed in Heroes?
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by Aditya T (smashville) on Feb 9, 2010 4:07 PM CST up reply actions
Don't follow Heroes, but
It’s the same HS that gets killed by Permian almost every year.
by JimR on Feb 9, 2010 4:13 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Not this year.
Odessa High > Permian
We also defeated them as well.
Odessa Permian is the school Friday Night Lights was written about.
For anyone on this board that hasn’t read that, do yourself a favor and pick it up. That book, and The Blind Side are must reads for any football fan.
I know lots of people who went to Permian
And, that book is true, true, true!
by JimR on Feb 9, 2010 5:10 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Upon further review
it would be interesting to know what the Titans O-line thinks about this question of is it really different blocking for Kerry and Vince. I thought a lot about your answer that it’s not that different, and while I didn’t change my own position, I’m not sure whether most linemen would agree with you or me. We need an “Ask a Titan” hotline. Part of the issue here is that Kerry and Vince are so different in their playing styles. I never played with a QB who was as stationary as Kerry nor one who was as mobile as Vince. They were all in a range somewhere well between those two.
by JimR on Feb 9, 2010 9:54 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
i played 5A in central texas where its really at
Living in san marcos a our school jumps up and down districts playing 5a in san antonio playing teams like Judson and switching back to austin schools like Westlake… No with due respect.. West texas has good football too.. But u have to say Football is better in the state of texas than any other state..sorry cali,florida and ohio..that’s just a fact
by TattedTI on Feb 9, 2010 9:57 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Absolutely
Drew Brees came out of Westlake HS
by JimR on Feb 9, 2010 10:14 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
my old roommate played on the same HS team with Michael and Marcus Griffin at Austin Bowie
they played QB and RB as well as defense and the one of the highlights of my roommate’s career was having Michael give him a concussion in practice.
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by T--Rac's Posse on Feb 11, 2010 10:25 AM CST up reply actions
I'd say Florida and Texas are tied for quality of high school football
T-Rac's Posse - T-Rac is one boss raccoon.
My personal Tribute to Air McNair
probably related. haha
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My personal Tribute to Air McNair
by T--Rac's Posse on Feb 11, 2010 10:25 AM CST up reply actions
But not the NFL, baby!!!
If all my ex-teams were from Texas, well you know I’d hang my hat in Tenn!!!
by titansfan4ever on Feb 11, 2010 2:17 PM CST up reply actions

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