Tennessee Titans Morning Links: Chicken Little Edition
by August West on Jul 12, 2010 10:51 AM CDT
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David Boclair calls out the Titans fans who have sounded more and more like Chicken Little over the past month by detailing similar episodes from Titans/Oilers past. Some of the highlights are Blaine Bishop holding out through training camp in 1997, Brad Hopkins and Samari Rolle getting arrested in 2005, starting DT Josh Evans missing all of 2000 and starting CB Denard Walker missing 4 games during the 1999 Super Bowl run. These things happen, and sometimes they can be over come. Of course, it's pertinent to remember that 1997 and 2005 we went a combined sub-.500... which won't cut it this year.
The darling of last year's preseason, punter A.J. Trapasso, was cut by the UFL's Hartford Colonials, who went 0-6 last year in a league I'd forgotten existed. Ouch.
Follow us through the jump for the table scraps that pass as news in the NFL circa mid-July...
And here's story number 2,531 on Kerry Collins wanting to be a country music singer and songwriter.
PFW has a truly depressing read on what might happen to the NFL should the economy tank even further and spiral into a full-on depression.
Terrell Owens is still on the market, and he was on 104.5 the Zone's 3 Hour Lunch show to talk about why. I thought this comment was hilarious, considering the antics he pulled when we played the Bills last year:
"And I think a perfect example is what I did last year – or didn’t do – in Buffalo. There was definitely a lot of opportunity for me to fly off the handle with the way things went…but I stay composed."
A Carroll Country Times staff writer did a column on the first Ravens game he saw, which happened to be in 2001 while he was wearing a Steve McNair jersey.
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Re: Boclair.
He needs to shut the hell up.
How the hell do any of those situations compare to our best player threatening a hold out and our starting freaking quarterback getting into a bitch ass slap fight in a strip club CUZ A SOONER DISRESPECTED THE HORNS!!!!!!! when our team sucks ass already.
I will answer my own question. It doesn’t.
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by gramsey712 on Jul 12, 2010 11:00 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Wow.
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"What if I was Peyton Manning?"- CJ to the ref after they picked up a personal foul flag for a late hit on him.
Yeah, the whole tone of that article really pissed me off.
If you can’t see the difference in Samari Rolle getting arrested and Chris Johnson holding out….well I don’t understand how you have that job.
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Blaine held out through actual training camp in '97
and was good enough to make the Pro Bowl… just sayin’
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by August West on Jul 12, 2010 11:08 AM CDT up reply actions
So you are saying Blaine Bishop had as much impact on our team in his era
As CJ does now?
Boy, the CJ lovers are gonna be all over you.
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the safeties
were key to the playoff success. Marcus Robertson goes down vs. Jax and the Titans lose the Superbowl – in part to the big TD pass Warner made in the 4th Q.
didn't say that
I said that Bishop held out further than CJ2K has, and he still played at an elite level. Why couldn’t CJ do the same? I don’t think he’s getting soft or lazy, and he sure isn’t going to forget how to run the ball by missing a few months of practice reps…
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by August West on Jul 12, 2010 12:13 PM CDT up reply actions
We were 8 and 8 in 1997.
Wish is the same as we were with CJ rushing for over 2000 yards last year.
Maybe it is an omen…
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or a sign that all of this offseason mess doesn't really matter.
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by August West on Jul 12, 2010 12:24 PM CDT up reply actions
It may not
But I still think that starting quarterback getting in a strip club slap fight + best player not working out and practicing with team =/= bounce back year.
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the cj thing is meaningless
as long as he is working out wherever he is, it’s all good.
the vince thing is more concerning because he’s a qb and we need him to actually be getting better, more mature, becoming a better leader, etc.
cj just needs to stay the course. also, running back isn’t exactly a thinking man’s position: run fast to wherever the defense isn’t. it’s not like OTA’s are gonna change his regular season performance much, or he’s gonna forget how to be the best rb in the league.
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New offensive line blocking for Javon Ringer =/=
new offensive line blocking for CJ.
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It should be against the law
for a strip club slap fight to be between two guys.
by numbertenox on Jul 12, 2010 12:37 PM CDT up reply actions
what about the team bonding while helping the city dig out from the flood of the century?
or the defensive coordinator maybe improving in his second year? Hell, we didn’t really have any embarrassing legal issues last offseason and look where that got us.
I have concerns with the roster, not the June headlines.
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by August West on Jul 12, 2010 12:37 PM CDT up reply actions
I have concerns with the roster as well
1. Our best player is not in camp and “bonding”
2. Our starting quarterback does not seem to be mature enough to not want to fight someone for putting down his college.
How can you seriously just shrug those off?
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Last year was same Oline as year before.
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CJ attended all OTAs last year anyway
He didn’t miss any practices.
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I think CJ skipped the voluntary OTAs last year
but made all of the training camp sessions… of course, he also rehabbed at the Titans facility for like 2 months after the season that offseason.
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G-Ram is right
CJ was here for all of the on field work.
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"What if I was Peyton Manning?"- CJ to the ref after they picked up a personal foul flag for a late hit on him.
CJ missed some of the owrkouts last year
see here… I’m trying to find a link that says exactly how much (the Tennessean story is a dead link), because the offseason workout time line was different last year due to the HOF Bowl.
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He missed workouts, but not on the field practices
Right?
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I"m trying to get a defenitve answer
but searching for any iteration of Chris Johnson + offseason yields 200,000 stories about the past few months…
I thought he missed several OTAs last year, but I could be wrong.
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I'm not shrugging them off
just trying to talk you out of the bomb shelter.
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by August West on Jul 12, 2010 12:48 PM CDT up reply actions
To be fair
I am much more worried about our quarterback situation than CJ.
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+1.
Only I wouldn’t use the word “worried”. I would say concerned. Because after all that crap we all posted about him maturing and finally accepting his role as the leader of this team…and then he goes and does some stupid-a$$ thing like that. I’m shaking my head & shrugging my shoulders at the same time (don’t even know what you call that move?)….And, BTW…just out of curiousity…I’d like to poll the MCMers…Has ANYONE?? ever had anything GOOD happen to them in a “strip joint”?
by titansfan4ever on Jul 12, 2010 1:26 PM CDT up reply actions
I have.
But this is a family blog.
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Well, I’d really like to know what it was…cuz I KNOW you didn’t get lucky…nobody ever gets lucky…it’s all a big tease.
by titansfan4ever on Jul 12, 2010 1:48 PM CDT up reply actions
It depends on where you are
I was in the Marine Corps for 13 years. I have been to strip clubs all over this fine world of ours.
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Well THAT’S certainly something to be proud of….:-)….and BTW, thank you for your service, sir!!
by titansfan4ever on Jul 12, 2010 1:51 PM CDT up reply actions
Re:
2. Our starting quarterback does not seem to be mature enough to not want to fight someone for putting down his college.
Everything is about context. And, while there is no excuse for Vince being there in the first place, or attack someone, he’s been pretty clear that the “upside down horns” wasn’t what caused him to go after the guy. It’s just been portrayed that way. When you consider that any prominent Longhorn athlete probably sees that sign 300 times a year, it raises an eyebrow that showing the symbol alone would cause him to fly off the handle. I think there was more to it.
Well, that may be
But my context is this:
Unless he is physically attacked and has to defend himself, I don’t want the starting quarterback of my favorite team throwing hands at anyone. Ever.
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That's fine.
For whatever reason, I find the distinction important between:
a) Vince got in a fight at a strip club. (Ugh. Still sounds awful.)
and
b) Vince got into a fight at a strip club because someone flashed the upside down Horns.
The first one doesn’t sound good. But, many been in a situation where, if provoked, could have resulted in a fight. He is human, and while it was a terrible decision, it’s at least something you can identify with. Whereas the second description sounds horribly immature, and is not something I, as an adult Longhorn graduate, can identify with.
90s
Emmitt Smith held out through the first 2 games of the season and the Cowboys won the Super Bowl that year.
Not sure if it was the same season, but it was at least the same nucleus of players – and Irvin was caught with plenty of drugs. (plus all sorts of other happenings)
What does that have to do with the Titans?
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oilertitan must have taken
a blow to the head by a piece of falling sky and forgotten which team we are talking about
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Where the hell have you been?
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work
also, saving my shit storms for when something actually happens
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN "WHEN SOMETHING ACTUALLY HAPPENS???????????????"
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ooooh
right. ’cause the 1997 team is exactly the same as this one. how many players still remain from it? none?
and i would hazard a guess that very few coaches remain, too.
and that team was filled with players who are in the Hall of Fame
How man HOF players do you think are on this team.? There is no comparison……iI like the positive attitude though
by pragmaticjack on Jul 12, 2010 3:42 PM CDT up reply actions
Trapasso's fake punt was one of the all time greatest
although you’d never pull that out in the regular season
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Just remember
No matter how bad you may feel about this offseason’s string of incidents, they would still be very hard pressed to start out the gate as poorly as they did last season.
Even if CJ had drowned in the flood trying to rescue a stash of pot Vince Young sold him and had hidden in his locker along with compromising pics he’d had made of Fisher with Bud Adam’s niece, they still probably couldn’t start out as awfully as they did last year.
We have a worse roster than we did this time last year.
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Worse is too harsh
But I would argue not markedly improved
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Don't disagree with that too much
But, they still would have a hard time starting that crappy:
The return game should not be as much of a debacle. Whoever they put in opposite Finnegan will be an improvement, and Finnegan is now going to be on the best receiver always, and we won’t have the Kerry starting flat issue to get over. Of course how Vince does out of the gate remains to be seen, but I’m optimistic he hasn’t lost ground despite the knuckle-headed brief regression he had this Summer.
I think it is about equal
Unless Derrick Morgan turns out to be a stud. The return game only directly cost us 1 game, so give us that game and we still don’t make the playoffs.
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Last season has no effect on this season 0-0
I believe we will go 9-7 and only make playoffs if the Colts have a bad season. The Ravens win the North. The Jets will win the East. The Chargers win the East & the Texans win our South for the first time. I’m sure all are shocked that the Colts are not designated for once. So we have to compete with the Colts (or Texans), Dolphins, Patriots, & Bengals with only 2 wild-card spots. It’s going to be tough to make the wildcard at 9-7. We must win 10 games minimum to make it.
Our D will improve & explode by week 11. We are def under-rated. Where is the future spirit?
by titanwarrior1 on Jul 13, 2010 11:48 AM CDT up reply actions
gramsey only thing we lost
is KVB, and he was horrible last year… HORRIBLE.
We will not have to see Kevin Mawae get bullied anymore, Leroy can handle his own. ( although his blitz pickups may very well be a key )
We have much better returners than we did this time last year.
and Tye Hill > Nick Harper, anyday. ( Any of our rookies now, > Nick Harper ).
I think we have improved a little bit….
WILSONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
REAL SOVIET DAMAGE!!!!!
by SouthTexasTitan on Jul 14, 2010 3:28 PM CDT up reply actions
school kept me out of all of this11!!!!!!!!!!
damn you education!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
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by SouthTexasTitan on Jul 12, 2010 2:40 PM CDT reply actions
You really should quit school
so you can be more involved here.
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but i get to play video games for homework then evaluate em.
as much as i love this blog………………… i was always thinkin of makin a small side scroller with all the mediators here as the main characters haha
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by SouthTexasTitan on Jul 12, 2010 2:50 PM CDT up reply actions
Sounds like you should stay in school then
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haha trying, the power of mcm is strong
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by SouthTexasTitan on Jul 12, 2010 3:12 PM CDT up reply actions
Instant MCM Hero status
If you make MCM: The Video Game.
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I ll throw it around
no promises but i’ll see what i can put together
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by SouthTexasTitan on Jul 12, 2010 3:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Evil Boss at end of game
Big Blue Shoe
I’m an early bird and a night owl. So I’m wise and I have worms.
BOOM! You've been pharmacisted!
by DonFrancisco on Jul 12, 2010 3:48 PM CDT up reply actions
you read my mind
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by SouthTexasTitan on Jul 12, 2010 3:52 PM CDT up reply actions
I need smash to make the title page though
haha
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by SouthTexasTitan on Jul 12, 2010 3:26 PM CDT up reply actions
TO didn't make that touchdown there!
He wasn’t focused enough and stepped out at like the 2
JUZ SAYIN’!!!!
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