Tennessee Titans 24 Arizona Cardinals 10 Quick Recap

he looked awful

We finally have some more talent, plus he sucks. That drop was absolutely brutal. He and his one career catch should be moving onto a new career sometime soon…

and I’m really starting to like Tulloch. Can’t wait to see the D line when Morgan, Hayes, Ford, and Tony are all playing with these guys healthy

Our young players looks good. I’m really excited to see these guys in a real game. Britt, D. Williams, Hawk, Ringer + Blount on offense alone have me dreaming of high scoring games. It seems like its been a long time since we had young players that we can call up-and-comers.

the pass rush and run defense was good. Tulloch seems to be emerging as the leader of the defense replacing Bulluck.

When he said that the team accomplished a lot this week. But in this game the team did looked a lot better and in all very few penalties.

-I thought the d-line played great. Not a lot of sacks but great pressure. I wonder how good they’ll be when they are at full strength. At least we know we have tons of depth there.
-I’m really unimpressed by McCourty at CB. He wasn’t terrible but he just doesn’t seem like a starter in this league. Verner didn’t do anything spectacular, but he was solid.
-I thought Hope played great. There were some rumblings that maybe he lost a step last season but he looked quick to the ball tonight. Griffin on the other hand still doens’t look too good. I’m starting to worry that whatever is wrong with him is permanent.
-Vince Young played like Vince Young. He’s getting better through the air but still makes the occasional mistake. The throw off his back foot and his fumble off the pump-fake come to mind. He just got lucky with his mistakes tonight and they didn’t hurt the team.
-We have the best RB in football but you gotta love the depth behind him. None of those guys are CJ but it won’t hurt us too much if the unthinkable were to happen to CJ.
-Kenny Britt continues to disappoint. Damian Williams continues to impress. Nate Washington continues to not drop passes (for now). Paul Williams continues to suck.

I try not to overreact to preseason games but my optimism grew tonight. It’s still cautious optimism, but I feel like things are looking up. Not Super Bowl up, but the playoffs don’t seem so outrageous right now.

I wore my Titans hat and shirt. First, we had to act like we were watching our team lose – I pictured the Ravens and nearly lost my shit – threw my hat across the room, crumpled to the floor. Then, we had to act like our team was winning – I just pictured CJ running, and running, and running…

I’m a shoe-in.

You mentioned Jared Cook. I don’t follow your team, but as a USC fan I thought he’d be having much more of an impact by now. What’s holding him back? Did you guys break him or something? He was fine when he left here. I thought he’d be an elite pro receiving tight end.

Or did CJ look like a bobble head all night. I think the dude has a problem. Maybe I missed this from before but Ive never noticed it until now.

I think the guy has some kind of a tick.

Someone find some film from last night and its obvious what Im talking about.

I didnt have a clue. Ive never seen that special and never paid that close attention. After watching it…I can see why I sound like a fool. It was just completely new to me. Sorry

I’ll have a more detailed post up after I watch the game again (likely tomorrow), but here are my knee jerk reactions:

D-line play. Wow. If JJ can stay healthy, this defensive line can be as good as our 2007/2008 lines. It’s scary how good we can be if D-Morgan can make an impact day 1. We’re two deep at every position on the line, which will allow us to constantly wear out opposing offensive lines.

Blitzes. Cecil is finally finding his own as a defensive coordinator. Blitzes were coming from every position last night (LB, Safety, and CB). And, he was mixing some zone blitz in there as well…dropping our defensive linemen into coverage.

The Pistol. I’ve never liked this offensive formation, but innovation is always encouraging. As a side note, Baltimore seemed to do well out of this formation in their second preseason game with Troy Smith at QB.

Vince looked like an NFL quarterback. His throw on the slant route impressed me the most. For the first time since CJ’s been here, I felt more comfortable last night when we were passing than when we were running the ball.

Mariani and Williams are both capable returners. That’s a refreshing contrast from last year.

RB’s. Gado looked excellent. I still have issues with Ringer. He looks great when a predetermined hole is established, but he struggles when he has to find a hole in the zone and plant and go. IMO, he’s built for more of a man running scheme, and not the zone running attack that we use. Blount looked good and ran hard.

like he was going to hurl.
When they interviewed him, he was downplaying his crummy performance. Derrick Anderson was not as terrible as Leinart, but he did miss an easy TD.
 IT is a littlle premature to feel confident in the Titans judging from two pre-season games. The defense looked very good last night. The offense was able to put up points no matter who was under center. Remember this was the Arizona Cardinals last night, not the best the NFL has to offer.

i’ve been following MCM for a about 9 months and haven’t posted yet but i suppose no time better than the present I am wondering how James Joseph is doing in camp last he looked like he was getting up field and getting off blocks does he have a chance in DT rotation? with the way fisher likes to rotate multiple players there?

That is all.