Tennessee Titans Morning Links: Looking For A Cave With Sand Edition
by August West on Jun 30, 2010 10:11 AM CDT
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For those who don't want CJ2K to get more notoriety, don't read this Sporting News article. Also, don't visit the Powerade website to catch CJ2K's first national commercial campaign. Also, move into the nearest cave for a while... even better if it has a rock inside large enough for you to fit snugly under. If you live in a part of the country that doesn't have many caves, here's a handy chart for you via South Park. Why go through all this trouble? Because it's the only way to avoid in unstoppable freight train of attention that will be heaped upon the best running back in the NFL once fall rolls around and non-psychos (like ourselves) start paying attention to football again.
Sometimes it's hard to stay upbeat in the doldrums of the summer as bad news tends to pile up, but here's some relief for you: Jim Wyatt covers the best players of the OTAs. The list includes names we need to see like Vince Young, Jevon Ringer, Sen'Derrick Marks and Jason McCourty.
Lavelle Hawkins has transitioned from locker room clown to fastidious practice worker. Being buried on the depth chart was a big knock to the Hawk's confidence, but this offseason he's shown the coaches that he can be serious, and that he can be trusted. This is excellent news for a guy who mostly screwed himself with mental lapses, and team with a suddenly worrisome star WR.
Follow us through the jump for more in quality and quantity...
As camps get ready to open you'll see more and more of the guys off of the street to fill holes created by injuries and compete with the more middling guys on their roster. In anticipation of that, here's a list (via PFW) of all street free agents who have a reasonable shot of making a roster.
Paul K ranks the safety tandems in the AFC South, and the once mighty Titans duo of Hope and Griffin have slid down to third. I can stomach them being ranked below the Colts, but there's no way in hell the Texans deserve to be higher than our guys. I know Griffin and hope had a bad year in 2009, but their absurdly good play in 2008 should still be enough to keep them in the mix at the top of the heap.
Bravo to Deadspin for showing even a vet like me how you really write a headline that pops.
Matt Bowen wonders if the Redskins will make a play for stud Chargers WR, and vocal malcontent, Vincent Jackson.
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Can't blame the safeties only because of how bad our pass rush was last year
then again Griffin didn’t have to bite on every play action
REAL SOVIET DAMAGE!!!!!
by SouthTexasTitan on Jun 30, 2010 10:34 AM CDT reply actions
they were both awful against the run
I think Hope is about washed up
by joshuaboone on Jun 30, 2010 10:35 AM CDT up reply actions
lookin to the rookies more than i am Hope
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by SouthTexasTitan on Jun 30, 2010 11:17 AM CDT up reply actions
I don't know about a duo for the Texas safeties but....
Pollard was a beast and I’m believe he made pro bowl!
Double Checked on Bernard Pollard...
Yea, he was a beast last year 102 tackles 1.5sacks 1 force fumble and 4 interceptions not going to hate on that! He clearly outplayed our safteties single handed last year. As for Eugene Wilson he was garbage. Well I have faith in our safteties Griffin make me proud! No more Nick Harper to worry about!
I watched NFL replay the other day Titans Vs Dolphins tell me why dang near every catch was on Harper!
Thank god harper is gone
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by SouthTexasTitan on Jun 30, 2010 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions
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I LOVE it when you write one of your stream of consciousness posts. Lights up my day.
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by T--Rac's Posse on Jun 30, 2010 3:46 PM CDT up reply actions
if you read the article at the top
check the comments. wow, some serious hate for the guy. admittedly, he deserved some of it, but wow.
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Btw August
thanks for letting me use you as a reference on my paper
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by SouthTexasTitan on Jun 30, 2010 4:51 PM CDT up reply actions
I accept all credit...
provided it’s an A!
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I curious to see what Hawk does this year
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by SouthTexasTitan on Jun 30, 2010 4:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Calling Kenny Britt "Suddenly Worrisome" Is Unfair
The guy is a second year player who left college early and is having a bit of trouble adjusting to the NFL’s lack of structure during the offseason. It happens all the time. The problem is with Jeff Fisher having double standards and hanging certain players out to dry for minor issues while giving other players far more leeway on and off the field. All the nonsense that Fisher put up with from Adam Jones, Albert Haynesworth and LenDale White makes his treatment of Kenny Britt simply amazing. Britt gets stuck in the doghouse and tumbles down the depth chart and gets publicly humiliated because he showed up to the initial OTA out of shape and drops a couple of passes. But LenDale White was 40 pounds overweight his entire first 3 seasons in Nashville, half the time didn’t show up for the offseason program or workouts at all, publicly feuded with Fisher over what his target weight should be and when he should reach it, and Fisher never said a peep.
We shouldn’t question Britt right now. We should question Fisher, the guy who let Adam Jones, LenDale White and Albert Haynesworth spend years making him look like an empty suit, and the guy who twice gave Kerry Collins multi-million dollar contracts and a guaranteed starting job when not a single other NFL team wanted to give him the veteran minimum to be their third QB. Remember: Fisher traded Billy Volek to sign Kerry Collins. The people who don’t think that Vince Young will ever pan out … well blame Fisher for trading away your QB of the future because he thought that Collins would play any better for the Titans than he did for Carolina, New Orleans, New York or Oakland (where the guy basically just quit and took paychecks for two seasons).
So I can't hate Fisher and think Vince Young will never pan out?
Why do I have to pick one?
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I get what you're saying
but we need Britt to be a stud, and instead he’s dropping everything that hits his hands and having mental lapses. These are things that get you in ’Dinger’s doghouse… fast.
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And This Makes Him Different From The Other WRs How?
If dropping passes and having mental lapses get you in ’Dinger’s doghouse, then why aren’t Justin Gage and Nate Washington there too? Kenny Britt has the potential to be what Gage and Washington are not and will never be, which is an above average wide receiver that would get playing time for most NFL teams. Would Gage or Washington get on the field in Indianapolis? In Houston? Of course not. Those teams have fast guys who can run all the routes – even over the middle – AND catch the football. And Washington was the 5th option in Pittsburgh, behind WR Hines Ward (future Hall of Famer), WR Santonio Holmes (Pro Bowler), TE Heath Miller (Pro Bowler) and RB Willie Parker (Pro Bowler).
Britt led the Titans in receiving yards by a mile despite not even starting most of last season. Whatever problems that Britt has, not having the talent to start in the NFL isn’t one of them. We should be focusing on the Titans’ WRs for whom that IS a problem, which means Gage, Washington, Hawkins, Paul Williams etc. Instead of knocking Britt and justifying Jeff Fisher’s nonsense mishandling of WRs (why justify what Fisher has been failing at for 15 years?) we need to be talking about how Britt, Dominique Edison and Damian Williams need to get as many touches as possible.
don't doubt hawkins
Britt needs to be number 1, Williams potentiality our number 2, and we can talk about how many touches our WRs should get but at the end of the day its not going to change a damn thing
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by SouthTexasTitan on Jul 1, 2010 9:24 PM CDT up reply actions
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